i was going to ask you if you are cynical, do you have very close friends? are they cynical? yes! i was out with bud the contractor and he is the most upbeat guy in the world. so whenever i get cynical about politics, i find an encouragement machine or a non-cynical people because if all you do is read news and listen to fox news you can slit wrist. >> hello, i have listened to the show for 18 years. >> i started in 2000. >> happiness took a turn last week. and i am thinking the aclu is representing people, but where is the money coming from in the case? are they paid when they file a suit on a constitutional issue? >> attorney fees are available at a number of issues depending on the statue and form they are sought. the aclu does receive attorney fees, but they receive donations as well. the alliance defending freedom is the aclu of believers and they have been fighting that case for years. chapman has been fighting that for years. get involved and let me tell you on march 25th of this year, in the hobby lobby case, and the woods case, they are the most important religious freedo

in the entirety of the ukraine but even more locally the ultra nationalist mobs which which they cynically made an attempt to ride the tiger of their violence into power are now in control of the streets so. i guess at this point must feel he has no alternative except to try to restore order to the country. and it's the rise of ultra nationalists that's leading to trouble in ukraine itself with the forefront of now in the capital of the autonomous region and that's where the local parliament has accepted the resignation of the region's prime minister and delivered a vote of no confidence to the cabinet the group already entered the parliament building as you go to now reports. over the night a group of pro russian activists got inside the local pollen here and raise that russian flag on top of it and now scores of their supporters have gathered in front of the parliament as well and they're saying that they're gravely concerned about what's been happening in kiev especially about more and more nationalist coming to power and they're saying the stand here to protect their national identity

are your very close friends cynical? yes, and just become this is to me. i was out last night with budget the contractor quite talk about him a racial all the time, and budgets of most of the guy in order to whenever i get that cynical about politics, i go find one of those encouragement machines are one of those non-cynical people because all you do is read politics and watch fox news, you can slit your proverbial wrists in this country. i'm telling you. >> i have listened to your chauffeur how long have you been doing that come almost -- 18 years spent i began the july 10, 2000. >> all right. happiness took a serious hit last few weeks ago when the cross was ordered to be dismantled. even though we have three months, or 100 days, to appeal that, i started thinking, or something else at work. there's got to be money involved to the aclu is representing some people but where is the money coming from? our they paid when you file a suit on a constitutional issue because it depends upon the kind of suit. attorneys fees are a failed at a number of circumstance

i don't mean to be so cynical. china's consumer prices, meanwhile, that rose about 2.5% and producer prices fell 1.6%. 8:30 a.m. in the u.s., import prices and 915 a.m., industrial production and capacity utilization and finally the university of michigan consumer confidence. that is actually a big deal. earnings before the bell. campbell soup. mm mm good. >> let's get to this quickly. lots to talk about especially on time warner cable and comcast bid futures are flat. 10 year yield floats above 2.7. the euro stronger again off of the better gdp data. out to 1.38.range stronger euro. let's go to foreign exchange. better thanvix, good? gold launches over 1300 a share. and, scarlet, chocolates at 10:00 a.m. after "bloomberg surveillance." coco is up today. >> are you going to buy scarlet hot cocoa for valentine's day? or the real deal? >> stop talking about it. just do it. >> see the cynicism? >> we are on a cynical tear, and must be dealing with ice day in and out. >> scarlet's husband got her a -- a zamboni for val

>> it is a cynical view but there's a lot of cynicism and the story. does he have any leverage left? he has moreple said leverage right before the trial. does he have anything left? change.lippers does not his leverage depends on the quality of the get out of jail card he's got. the government leverage has picked up. before he might have said show me evidence on a scale of one to 10. bases, hisheory leverage has not changed. the government has. >> let's assume that he does not have a get out of jail free card. where does that leave the government? as far as insider trading is concerned. it seems like we might be at the end of the line. >> i think insider trading will continue to be a priority for them. as far as steve cohen's own firm, i jumping there close to charging any more employees. i know they're looking at others. they were larger charge him but they have not. it only managed to charge his firm so far. of the things that puzzles me a little bit is the ease with which sac capital traders and managers have found other gainful employment. , look,

i think we are kind of the least cynical people i know. we're really not all that cynical. do a happier movie, a movie with a happy ending. and grant goes you know, i read this book, and first of all, the story was amazing. i know a lot about world war ii and i did not know the story. >> i had not heard it either. >> and we read the book, and we said to sony -- listen, would you be interested in making this film? and sony and fox got together and said yes, sure. >> not many people can do that, though. >> we got a little lucky. >> the idea of making a war film, a world war ii film, is something that's because we grew up on these kinds of films. >> it is not "saving private ryan." we wanted to be those films like "kelly's heroes" or "the great escape" or -- we wanted to be -- it made room for, this film then, where you can really pack it with those stores like the old movies and get the kind of score that you can whistle when you walk out of the place -- >> a great story that lies on top of a world war conflict. >> sure. >> so that is what happened, that is exactly how -- >>

one reason they were worried about a lawsuit so should they have to pay for keeping her alive for a cynical reason like that absolutely the munis family can't afford this they should have to pay for health care they can't afford like i said texas did tort reform they said oh you know the republicans ran around so if we just kept you know make everybody's life worth a quarter million dollars and not one penny more in a matter how much damage a doctor does to somebody they may mutilate them for the rest of their lives in this budget in the thirty fifth person they're incompetent doctor still the most you can sue in the state of texas for a medical malpractise is two hundred fifty thousand dollars period they got that passed during the george i believe it was during the george w. bush governorship i know there's a huge price for it right around that time but that but this is so i don't understand why this is anything to do with the hospital being cautious about lawsuits well as it is if they will because i still don't want it so i want to pay what it's going to. come out of the hospital bill d

a cynic says, i already know who you are. one of the things that worries me is i did a call about this once where i came back. i was hired by upi, and spent two years in beirut. there was a reporter in the business section at that time. nathaniel was a wonderful, looks like a choir boy and he was a born-again christian and he loved to hear about the whole event. so we did have lunch and talk to him about israel. when i went off to beirut for the times, he said, i am going to pray for your safety. i said, i will appreciate that. two years later after i got out of her room alive -- beirut alive, he was one of the first people i called. i said, thank you. it was, i thought you were my good luck charm. and nathaniel nash was on ron brown's airplane when it slammed into a mountain in bosnia and he died in that crash. in my mind, because he was such a -- she was someone who taught me the difference between skepticism and cynicism and i kept that in my mind. >> we have got about a minute left, and i want to know whether deep down yo

i think it's mainly about the issue they can raise. >> so you're also cynical. don't you think -- >> no, this is my opinion. >> obviously political calculation plays in to politicians. but do they believe that? >> if he believes it, he's acting at least in part on old information. we talked about how we have to reduce our dependence on foreign energy. he's unaware that we've had a boom in this country and we're now the world's largest energy producer. the point on politics, wall street journal recently surveyed voters, dead last among the list of more than a dozen prirpities was climate change. people don't want this. >> tom stire, the hedge if you said billionaire, going to spend $5 million of his own money and raise another 50 to devote to this issue, help the democrats keep the senate. what do you make of that? >> what i make of it is it rejects how the environmental movement has changed. since its beginning in the middle 70s ta'70s or so, bag th people were trying to intake great the environment with humanity and the private sector. is this the environmental

some people i understand have surrendered to cynicism, cynicism about government, cynicism about america's future, cynicism about the ability for people themselves to shape their own lives and their destinies. but we cannot allow the pain of so many americans to overshadow that long history that we all share. there's a reason why american history does not look kindly upon cynics and naysayers, for even with all of its wrenching pain and savage problems, our collective past offers a resounding testimony to overcoming impossible challeng challenges, to righting terrible wrongs, and advancing deeper and deeper meaning to those very american words "liberty and justice for all." that's what our nation is. the oldest constitutional democracy, a country founded not that its people get special treatment because of divine rights of kings and queens but because everyone is valued. now, we didn't get there right away. even in our founding documents, were native americans are referred to as savages, african-americans as fractions of human beings and women not at all, we have made progress. and i know

>> let's put it this way, pauchlt i don't know if you can possibly be too cynical about what john kerry was doing here. it's about politics and i think the closer we get to the november elections the more we're going to see the standard democratic play book which is to try to position republicans as in an awful light as opposed to what is undeniably good as the president did in his re-elect campaign. and the idea here is the climate change. you're trying to move voters, and in this case they're trying to move younger voters the way obama did in his reelection campaign. second of all, i would not doubt at all that john kerry is actually thinking of running in 2016. why would he say these things? to signal the funding base in the environmental movement which has got a lot of money now that he's on their side and he's in the game. >> so, kim, some people were saying maybe this was a way to get out ahead of a decision to approve the keystone xl pipeline and the secretary of state has to make a recommendation to the president. that secretary of state is john kerry. could this be a little juj

cynicism. important perspective one of the most non-churched cynical generations. for them to see this and see he was the son of god but he was also the son of man. he was human, like us. it causes us to ask the questions and investigate. you said, roma, who didn't know god, who was not a believer who really raise questions on who jesus was. and it raises so many important questions. >> one thing i would add, it is not preaching. he is telling the story and if people are impacted by it. they're impacted by it. caro carol? >> i believe that this film has the potential to really reach the secular as well as the christian audience. and that for christians it tells us about -- it reminds us that jesus, as he was leaving the earth he said that greater works than these will we do. and i believe in america sometimes and in parts of the world we act as if we are powerless. and we're not supposed to be powerless. one of us is supposed to be able to put 10,000 to flight. and we've lost sight of that. and

what a gift make mrs is what the money the message of that cynically up. if anyone can go. thus in the art of looking only trying to keep the last minute archives many said that the duties of the specs and it began not too many lines. whatever that the photos of it. whatever the door with a tale of the stomach bug that if they keep up with that it's okay the shed. it was indeed to express not to that bought as many men and in the wild mom and bad things did not begin the ten am on the ball is this info might make it. i'm a big east is a book for me i was nine and because the house but then again as well as on trust in the city this is added to the new danny looks the unique tight system of expenses paid the price of thumb was still fifty percent gift items and reading caught up on youtube however it did not get to the shop was a vegan said the combined debt of honor i don't want this to some of my dad that i didn't think it is a disposable digital books about the deal. he then says oh that will be tons of unlocking and bought our cozy beds available at sea the thing bouncin

know we still have the obama administration making a commitment to nato jonathan i'll just be the cynic that i always am i mean at least the defense industries make money off of this ok you got to upgrade got to upgrade you got to buy it from america you got to buy it from the certain suppliers here and the taxpayers pick it up here also that's a cynic but it's happening you know i mean that's obviously one of the graph nods for the continuation of nature they want to sell american higher tech weaponry aircraft submarines missiles all the rest of it to new countries new new markets expanding markets because most of these countries of course goulard previously on circuit equipment so there is a strong economic or political element behind this whole expansion of nato then those who are of that elite skateball top you know these elites in these new countries like that are very new in macedonia that are on the edge of nato lou recently joined nato so it's very very like the free trips to washington being treated. equals being being being given the high tech training and all the rest of it a

in the entirety of the ukraine but even more locally the ultra nationalist mobs which which the cynically made an attempt to ride the tiger of their violence into power or are now in control of the streets so. i guess at this point must feel he has no alternative except to try to restore order to the country meanwhile comments on the crisis have been coming in from high level ministers from nato countries for more on their reaction here's our correspondent you see coming off in. nato defense ministers expressing a lot of concern over ukraine as well as their perception of the kremlin's response the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen called on russia not to do anything that would quote escalate tension or create a misunderstanding he told a meeting of the nato ukraine commission in brussels to the latest developments in the crimea were quote dangerous and irresponsible also raising the alarm of the new german defense minister now she weighed in at her very first nato summit in brussels let's take a quick listen the situation in the ukraine particularly in crimea fills us with gre

tonight is a friend of west brom focused on the clock and no cut to the fullness of the cynical celebration during a game against west ham in december an oak that now faces at least a five match ban the focal club's major sponsor people to listen but ended its lucrative contract following the scandal did on i had to wait to go to the new cakes before machete and supports an elk a go at the valiant this month the uk they will suspend him from entering the country because of safety reasons. you don't mind has repeatedly being fined for hate speech in his makeshift wrongs several mccall authorities that he shot is leading him to cancel his nationwide toll. he's also under investigation for suspected fraud of the police seized six hundred and fifty thousand kia eyes and fifty thousand dollars in cash during a right. a number of tall french officials have criticized it online including interior minister my new balance too late for the comic a mechanic takes many of you don't lace fans have listed for two crops of themselves doing the cornell summit outside cynical to locals memorials and even de

parties like top of the so i think it's a very cynical approach and i just keep a really mind of the world if they think they go. well speaking again about economic situation the country i mean economical lead looks like it's in dire straits now and speaking of the aid offered to the country from abroad do you think brussels can even afford to help ukraine i mean given the dire economic situation that the e.u. is in now. i suspect the brussels. washington. living in hopes that mr putin will have. the main bulk of the money in the short time will come from be original promises that were made by moscow to mr got to covert and which the russians themselves they are not necessarily going to stall for in fact they have said they will be reviewing the situation once the government in its place they haven't said what kind of government that will be they haven't indicated should be a government that is anyway favorable to the kremlin so it may be that mr putin will go on paying out. brussels to reflect on the situation after that while christina give been observing ukraine for a long time an

sound down you'd think this was about some kind of toilet exhibition i'm blown away and i'm pretty cynical and yet i've been blown away with the coverage of every toilet every you know you got to consider that in the olympics there are there's a fifteen year old girl who's flying through the air doing triple back flips and landing on ice and meanwhile they're talking about the thread count of her bed. to what extent. the success of the arab spring depends on the people in the region on the arabs and to what extent it still depends on the big power brokers hard she'll pursue that. the influence of the outside powers is getting stronger now because of the absence of a major country like egypt but i assure you the area will not be decided by iran over by turkey or by russia or by america or europe in the absence of very potent this region which is the art of will. live on the slopes it's valentine's day and the libyans and spectators alike palls to admire the darlings of the twenty fourteen points or games with an emphasis on selection topping the charts. three years on syria gas parent songs

the new club manhattan men's team decided to flee for the cynical and makes including the death sentences were commuted to life terms. by this appeal the radio. the decision has been criticized for his critique of hockey's most of the fun. sunday the day off in some key than being sucked up and get what you thought it's a dose of godhead to get the new critique is to come to me as some begun to that of the mekong barry at the city of peace of god go home he says the striking workers also protested against another decision of scotland to the finest him and sing in a statement said the assassination of rajiv gandhi was an attack on the story of india. love of god be the son of god see the end of the spunky vice president adam and steve said he was saddened by the decision. don't care every day the name. we have i'm not. aviation. the idea no changes to the coolest thing was to help him heal from the nineteen ninety four to nineteen eighty nine. she said that jack in the nineteen ninety one to the election campaign in common i do. seal the accused was sentenced to death and four others inclu

it's a little cynical. but i did. i connected. >> washington, cynical? i'm surprised. >> cynical.riumph for free market capitalism delivered by mary thompson. stick around. you have more work to do for us this evening. >>> secretary of defense chuck hagel announces his plans for big military cuts. we're talking about the fewest number of military members. announcer: where can an investor be a name and not a number? scottrade. ron: i'm never alone with scottrade. i can always call or stop by my local office. they're nearby and ready to help. so when i have questions, i can talk to someone who knows exactly how i trade. because i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. that's why i'm with scottrade. announcer: ranked highest in investor satisfaction with self-directed services by j.d. power and associates. in a we believe outshining the competition tomorrow quires challenging your business inside and out today. at cognizant, we help forward-looking companies run better and run different - to give your customers every reason to keep looking for you. so if you're ready to see opp

yeah you absolutely would i mean i've blown away and i'm pretty cynical and yet i've been blown away with the coverage of every toilet every you know you've got to consider that in the olympics there are there's a fifteen year old girl who's flying through the air doing triple back flips and landing on ice and meanwhile they're talking about the thread count of her bed sheets on her bed it it's amazing and what's interesting is the corporate media is generally over here in the u.s. is generally about ratings it's all about ratings celebrity crap and fear stories but in this rare case it's not about ratings no one wants to click on a story about a toilet but clearly there's some other you know dynamic which i think martin talked about quite well ok john i'm very pleased to have you on this program because you have a great sense of perspective you've been covering the olympics olympics since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when mexico city how different in your mind or not different in your mind is the coverage of the olympic games in russia in sochi this year from other olympic

that doesn't happen you know it's the most naive or cynical. legal argument i've ever heard that that money doesn't buy political influence in the various way and that the first amount for tax money right in the fourteenth amount to protect corporations and i thought we fought the civil war to free the slaves well any of that was about the large rich parties conversations with great minds of minnesota congressman keith ellison at this point. is the media lead us so we need to. either see bush and see to the other your party physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . i've got a quote for you. that's pretty tough. stay with substory. let's get this guy like you would smear about john stead of working for the people both issues the mainstream media are working for each other bridegrooms vision. of a good run it won't. work . i think. we're going to go digital the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open p

a cynic says, i already know who you are. one of the things that worries me is i did a call about this -- column about this once where i came back. i was hired by upi, and spent two years in beirut. and the times hired me in the business section. there was a reporter in the business section at that time. nathaniel was a wonderful, looks like a choir boy and he was a born-again christian and he loved to hear about the whole event. -- the holy land. so we did have lunch and talk to him about israel. when i went off to beirut for the times, he said, i am going to pray for your safety. i said, i will appreciate that. two years later after i got out of beirut alive, he was one of the first people i called. i said, thank you. it was, i thought you were my good luck charm. and nathaniel nash was on ron brown's airplane when it slammed into a mountain in bosnia and he died in that crash. in my mind, because he was such he was someone who taught me the difference between skepticism and cynicism and i kept that in my mind. >> we have g

there are really cynical. we are the least cynical people i know. we should do a happier movie.nd grant was, i read this book. at first the ball, the story was amazing. -- first of all, the story was amazing. we read the book. we had interest in making the film. >> we like the idea -- >> not many people can do that. >> the idea of making a a war film, we grew up on these. >> we wanted to be where we could make room for the film and do the pack it with the stars like the old movies. i get the kind of score you can whistle. >> a great story. >> that's what happens. >> we brought all of the sony executives to my house. we put them out in a cabana and we acted out the entire script for them. we had so wide and they said you have the green light. >> you have to get the executives drunk. >> you had the script and then you cast the film. how did you go through the process of deciding? >> the truth is what we wrote to the script, world just about everybody. >> you saw them in mind as a particular character. >> we have cards. write on pieces of paper. as we were working on the characters

that it is used for cynical and political purposes a and it is not bad that we disagree but it is bad one side tries to shut up the other items have to tell you what your policies are wrong you are just not allowed to believe that because the constitution takes fat off the table. >> host: don't we be a unifying touch-tone such as the constitution and? we may be a unifying touchstone and i think that interesting way that constitution could be if we understood not as a legal document that a way to frame questions to provide us with a and emotional way so what other people could agree on it is appropriate to take the preamble that we the people are determined to form a more perfect union as a starting point. one way to think about this instead of thinking about the constitution as a legal document as a symphony or a pole or a work of art. one could be inspired one can even try to replicate the values but it would be very odd to say you were all praying. you don't obey the poem so is the great goddess like equal protection or due process are not things that we obey but inspire and when th

it is the most nonchurched cynical generation.son of man. was human like us. it causes them to ask the questions to investigate. it caused a reporter who wasn't a believer who investigate who jesus was. it raise the the most fundamental questions. >> you tell them the story and if people are i ampacted by it they are impacted by it. >> i comblooef this film has the ability to reach the sec secular audience. as christians it remind us jesus as he was leaving the earth he said greater works than these we do and i believe in america sometimes and in parts of the world we act as if we are powerless and we are not supposed to be powerless. one is supposed to be able to bring 10,000 to flight and we have lost sight of that. sean we are waiting for you in tennessee. >> i got picked out of new york in case you didn't hear. >> i am not a theologian so this is from the pew. i want to say thank you. we live in a society now where christians are being told who hide their faith and keep it quiet that we don't have a places in the marketplace.

. >> if you look at the films we have made, they have been really cynical.least cynical people i know. a happier movie. a movie with a happy ending. i read this book and the story was amazing. i did not know that this had happened. we read the book and when to sony and said this would be interesting to make this film. george clooney. on charlie rose. >> i hope this does well. >> it is a great story. this is not a sequel, it is a franchise or a blow them up kind of a movie. a great a-list cast. there is a lot right of this movie and hopefully it will do well. >> i am praying it is a great movie. look for george clooney with charlie rose. it is jobs day, this is bloomberg surveillance. >> i am scarlet fu with tom keene. here is some company news from the files a bloomberg west. shares of linkedin are down. analystmissed estimates. it is headed for a fifth deceleratingter of sales. advertising declined at the new york times. to two percent. the rate of new digital subscribers fell to 19%. u.s. senator jay rockefeller says he will pursue rules governing technolo

are >> some cynics might say that this is strictly a defensive move.think it has some defensive and offensive minded characteristics. these are two companies that -- jos. a bank and men's wearhouse that have been like a scorpions mating dance. scorpion's mating dance? andt's what happens when tw acquiring candidate tries to acquire the other. it will be one on top and the mating dance, one does not make it afterwards. there is only one survivor. --any rate >> how does eddie bauer fit into all this? >> what happens is, what has been a one-on-one match is now turning into a multidimensional chess game with jos. a bank bringing in golden gate capital -- they are the controlling owner of eddie bauer and supported bank with its $250 million equity participation relative to its efforts to acquire men's wearhouse. >> can you tell us a bit about eddie bauer? how is it been doing? -- how has it been doing? their challenge -- the spin this morning was that they are in a great turnaround. here is a company that is in chapter 11 five years ago. it is doing better

cynic i will save that for the moment and please -- >> i haven't read the book yet but i look forward to reading it. i don't know the ages of the women that you are referring to but in your research, did the idea come up with a conversation about the commercialization of space travel and would any of them ever consider the galactic would they do that themselves? to ask about going into space back in the six he sispa and lots of time with life magazine of course, if you have these articles about we are going to be putting up a couple of the astronaut had this sort of crackpot scheme and root beer stands when we colonized, so yes someone like a former tough marine said i would have gone up there in a heartbeat and the early pilot who ended up flying in the powder puff derby she would have been there in a moment but some of them are like are you kidding i want to stay down here with my feet on the ground and of course they all hope we will continue to explore and push the envelope as their husband used to say. i will just mention very deeply the red leather diary, my first book because i

there's a lot of cynicism. it leaves the washington bubble unpretushed. we need to injection new idea, new background, new agenda. and let's face it in, the next couple of years it's going take people of a lot of money. megabillionaires or billionaires to get on the ballot to basically though the new idea based on the experience before the american people to give them more voices annoys voices. we have the whole list of the 120, i proposed on the website nadeer.com. you threw ted gates in there and steve -- steve case and go on to take a look at the others. your argument by and large, if they know something about succeeding and money then maybe they're just the folks to deal with washington and money. >> yeah. the three criteria do these multibillionaires have enlightened background, have they given money to charity, or groups like doctors without borders. have they taken a stand on a controversial issue. it doesn't mean i agree with them or disagree. the main thing to use the great first amendment of free speech to blow open the tight two-parterre any is

uniqueness i think it's all the same thing in terms of are corporate america supporting i guess if i'm cynical buying out the public which is what people want google and everything else to do who is running their >>> okay. as far as the comment that your stuff is too expensive that was just in relationship to mr. warmer's pointing out that the staff argument says it's specialty goods. i think he was correct and i don't think it was an argument that it was too expensive. i used to live 2 blocks from there. i don't live there now but i go back there. it's rapidly turning into an apparel cosmetic restaurant row. that's what it's going to be in the future. as long as we allow that to continue. i think the neighborhood will be like people like me that don't want to go back there. it's a neighborhood commercial district and not a tourism district. >> commissioner fung? >>commissioner fung: i hope everyone appreciates how much thought goes into this one. they are difficult and they are addressed by situation. a lot of people have talked about how long they have been in san francisco and born and rais

politicians and society tends to be cynical about journalism. i see great courage going on for people servicing what the public needs to know b. >> journalists go towards danger when others move away. journalist have to get involved with all sides of the conflict to get the story. >> it takes a fearless journalist to kept up and say, "you know what, i'm determined to continue my profession, even though i might have to spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder." >> i came here in 2003. i came to cover the u.s.-led invasion. i got here about three weeks before the bombing campaign started, and i stayed for the next couple of years, working on and off. i came because i thought the war would be covered heavily in the western media from the position of embedded journalist. you know, if i was going to take any risk at all, i would rather take the risk of telling a story that wasn't being told, and i was concerned that the iraqi perspective was being neglected. so i came and stayed in baghdad and worked in baghdad, instead of with the u.s. mil

and amazingly, the more cynical version is not the bloody, sleazy inmoral one.t past the show's criminal cerrors, the plots are kind of similar. start with the proposition that both democratic and republican lawmakers in both real-life and the tv show believe these shows need to be reformed that not enough money is going in and not enough out. let me give you a minor spoiler alert. in the first few episodes of the netflix show, lawmakers actually passed a controversial reform. they raised the retirement age to 68. in the show, democrats have to do it on their own after republicans walk away right before a key vote. and here's the point here, the democrats do it on their own. >> now, this would be a good time for a frank underwood-like aside. please understand, regardless of the merits, it would be significant and very politically risky thing to do. >> order in the senate. >> you don't see president obama or vice president biden making such a big policy move, despite the claim that they make a political dancing partner. in fact, this week, in real-life washington