they were just beating me on top of the head with a sock full of batteries. >> and this officer haskins was just one of the officers that was there, and he was one who probably got hurt the worst. >> my two officers tried to pull me back through. the three of them were on the backside and they were trying to pull me back out. a tug-of-war began. these guys would still be beating me on top the head, but finally the two officers pulled me through. >> haskins was not a target. none of those officers was a target. they was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. and they caught the rap. >> i reached around back like this and i felt something on my -- something wet on my back, when i brought it back around, it was blood. come to find out, i had gotten stabbed in the back at the tug-of-war at the door. so beat up at the time i didn't even notice it. >> brown received an additional two years in disciplinary detention for the assault on sergeant haskins. >> someday he'll probably have to earn the opportunity to get out of that unit. however, my question to him would be, what have you learned

my name is ronald haskins. i have been in washington for 25 years. are surge in the legislative branch and the executive branch and the think tank. all this experience led me to think that there's nothing new i could see in washington and i have to confess in the last year i have been surprise on several occasions not least in the past month or so and that is what we're here to talk about. the biggest surprise to me a long time is this committee and the way we dealt with our debt ceiling in the most recent iteration. i will give a brief description of the agreement which i will leave a lot out because it will take a long time to do the whole thing with all kinds of stuff that makes it difficult. i specialize in simplicity and that is what you going to get. after i described the deal we will turn to sarah binder, the expert on congress and legislative politics and she will talk about the history of supercommittees. it is said that there have been others like this one. whenever congress cannot make a decision or force itself to do the right thing they

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