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. >> i'm joined by military analyst jack jacobs.d to see you. >> good morning. >> if lawmakers can't make this march 1st deadline, $43 billion or 8% will be slushed from the pentagon budget. they have used words like devastating, dire. are they right? how significant would this be? >> very serious indeed. these are across the board cuts. i mean, there's no intelligence or intelligent decisions made on what is going to be cut. so in addition to fact -- and there's plenty of fact -- you are going to cut ammunition, fuel, repair parts for aircraft, training time. >> let's look at other things. 800 million sif general furloughs, reduced western pacific navy operations by up to one-third. what concerns you the most? >> between army readiness, which is in dire straits as a result of these cuts, and moving a carrier battle group, another carrier battle group to the middle east. we are withdrawing under pressure of afghanistan and the worst situation would be not to be covered by aircraft. >> afghanistan might be part of the problem. a watc

both of those guys have been at the bottom of the pile, as jack jacobs calls it, like hagel and mccainyou just view war differently. but the lesson these two men took from vietnam seems to be so different. hagel took the questioning, the same thing patrick murphy feels, being lied to and knowing that anger that your friends died for what you believe to be a lie. mccain seems to have taken something different from it. >> we're all different. here is chuck hagel in vietnam back in '68 when he went in. he was an enlisted soldier and rose to sergeant. a noncommissioned officer with the infantry, a grunt as they used to say in vietnam. this is navy pilot john mccain with his squadron in 1965 before he was captured. hagel made reference to the vantage point an enlisted man has in war. >> i saw it from the bottom. i saw what happens. i saw the consequences and the suffering and the horror of war. so i did question a surge. i always ask the question, is this going to be worth the sacrifice, because there will be sacrifice. in the surge case in iraq, we lost almost 1,200 dead americans during t

let's bring in msnbc military analyst colonel jack jacobs, who is a recipient of the medal of honor. saw an incredibly disheartened report from the department of veteran affairs on suicide among veterans. 22 veterans per day or one every 65 minutes kills himself or herself. now, given the enormity of this crisis, are we doing enough? >> well, you can never do enough, and there are lots of reasons for it. i think -- >> but are we doing the bare minimum given these numbers? >> i think we're doing the bare minimum, but part of the problem is it is difficult to do anything after the fact. we ought to be doing more before the fact. i mean, one question that comes immediately to mind is, are all the people we're bringing into the services, are they capable of handling what it takes to be in the military? and then we discover after the fact that there were problems before and so on. we're in an environment in which we have an all-volunteer force. we need to do a better job at assessing time. we don't take just anybody. >> well, chris kyle was known as the most lethal sniper in american mili

i watched that part of the hearing with colonel jack jacobs and patrick murphy, the former pennsylvania congressman who served in iraq. both of them were at the bottom of the pile as he called it. you just view war differently. but the lesson that these two men took from vietnam are so different. hagel took the questioning, the same as patrick murphy did, fielded lied to. >> here's lindsey graham. badgering hagel. badgering is the word for it. whether the iranian revolutionary guard should be termed a terroristic organization. i think this is aimed directly at south carolina's right wing. let's listen. >> if there was a vote on the floor of the senate this afternoon to label the iranian revolutionary guard, the people who have killed our soldiers in iraq, some of the most vicious people to the people of iran themselves, if there were a vote tomorrow or this afternoon, would you still vote no? >> i would want to know from the president what they were doing again. >> i mean you read the paper, watch tv. do you very in doubt what they're doing? >> if you had a chance tomorrow, today, after

and i watched that hearing, that part of the hearing with colonel jack jacobs and pat murphy, the governor of pennsylvania who served in iraq. and both of those guys were at the bottom of the pile. and you view war differently. but the lesson that these two men took from vietnam seems to have been so different. hagel took the questioning, the same thing patrick murphy feels, being lied to and feeling anger for knowing you friends died for what you believe to be a lie. >> here's lindsay graham, badgering defense nominee hagel. about his whether the iranian revolutionary guard should be designated terrorist organization. i think this is aimed at south carolina's right wing. let's listen. >> if there was a vote on the floor of the senate this afternoon, to label the iranian revolutionary guard, the people who have killed our soldiers in iraq, some of the most vicious people to the people of iran themselves, if there were a vote tomorrow or this afternoon or after lunch, would you still vote no? >> well i would want to know from the president, what they were doing. but again -- >> i mean you r

they're saluting the medal and what it represents. >> jack jacobs is a much loved person in these partsg him when we see him. i want to thank him for his time. next weekend, my interview with best-selling author and bloomberg political columnist jonathan alter. next week the state of the union. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ breathes deeply ] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth! [ bop ] [ bop ] [ bop ] you can do that all you want, i don't like v8 juice. [ male announcer ] how about v8 v-fusion. a full serving of vegetables, a full serving of fruit. but what you taste is the fruit. so even you... could've had a v8. i'm here to pick up some cacti. it should be under stephens. the verizon share everything plan for small business. get a shareable pool of data... got enough joshua trees? ... on up to 25 devices. so you can spend less time... yea, th

. >> our medal of honor recipient and military analyst colonel jack jacobs. s such ae moment. there were very few medal of honor recipients, and it's rare to have he is not there for himself but for all those that can't be there. that on that battlefield that day there were many acts of valor, and he represents them and represents all the men and women who sacrificed for us. it's an important day for the country and for the armed forces. it looks like it's a really important day for the individual, but all individuals feel the same way about it, that they are there representing all those men and women who can't be there. >> it says something of the nation. we don't honor our heroes often enough, but this is a tradition that goes back so many decades, so many wars, but to see someone who served in afghanistan, a war that we do not discuss enough. 60,000 troops still in the field even though we're drawing down. they are at risk every second, every minute of the day of the day and night, and here we're at least talking about the valor of one human being represent

this morning on "jansing & co.," decorated msnbc military analyst jack jacobs said that the cuts will hurt military readyingness. >> in addition to fact -- and there's plenty of fact -- you're also going to cut ammunition, fuel, repair parts for aircraft, flying hours, training time. >> and just moments ago, i had the opportunity to speak with navy secretary ray mabus who said this way of cutting is hurting our military. >> we just cannot run a military lurching from one crisis to another. we've got to have some certainty and i think the president has presented a very balanced plan that will require some compromise. >> joining me is lynn jenkins of kansas. congresswoman, it's great to have you with me. i understand you took part in the conference that was held at the top of the hour and at the same time democrats held their own briefing. congressman chris van hollen made quite an anolg about the cuts. take a listen. >> rearranging the cuts is like rearranging the jobs either way. >> what is the illustration and what that means? >> well, i don't think we are quarrelling with the amount

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>>> my conversation with that guy, colonel jack jacobs, one of the few recipients of the congressionale his story about what he did to be awarded his nation's highest military honor. you cannot turn away. it's remarkable what he did. >> he's extraordinary. he was on the show about two weeks ago and i sat there like that the whole time. he was great. >>> up next, our foot soldier. singing through the halls of the hospital. is efficiently absorbel continuous amounts. citracal slow release continuously releases calcium plus d with efficient absorption in one daily dose. citracal slow release. to compete on the global stage. what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry university, we're teaming up with companies like cisco to help make sure everyone is ready with the know-how we need for a new tomorrow. [ male announcer ] make sure america's ready. make sure you're ready. at devry.edu/knowhow. ♪ using cloud computing and mobile technology, verizon innovators have

in this week's office politics, congressional medal of honor recipient colonel jack jacobs, also a msnbcst familiar to many of you. on monday president obama is awarding another congressional medal of honor. it is the highest award bestowed on military personnel. and it got me thinking about what someone must do to be given such an honor. so i asked colonel jack. while he was typically modest about his experience, his is a story of bravery and selflessness in the face of mortal danger. >> well, if you ask any recipient about his action he won't talk about it. he'll tell you about everybody else's action. i think most recipients are like that. because most people who get recognized for combat action, whether it's medal of honor or anything else, all would rather talk about the other people who were brave on that day. but in a nutshell, i was an adviser to a vietnam ease infantry battalion. we had lost contact with the enemy about three days earlier. got some information about where they were located and mount add operation to get them. we didn't know they had a spy in the province chief h

and retired army colonel jack jacob sentence.recurser to a permanent show. let's start with chuck hagel, you have known him for a long time, and probably know him better than most. how surprised were you by his performance before the senators? >> well, they went after him. you know -- >> but he had to know it was coming. >> i guess he had to know it was coming. still, you are there in the spotlight, you trying to not get angry. you trying to keep your cool. it's not an easy thing to do. and they went after him pretty hard. i -- i do think that he is going to get confirmed and the big challenge is whether or not, you know, we can see congress in the executive branch work together and figure out where our military structure will go. it's not easy with the budget being what it is. and there's arguments that it should be substantially smaller and i disagree with that. >> john mccain is one of the senators that went after him at the hearings, accused hagel of being wrong tore the opposition of the surge. he pressed hagel. take a liste

. >> i want to bring in retired armiy colonel jack jacobs. should it be the president or someone else in the chain of command, a secret court similar to the one that deals with wire taps that the "new york times" talked with about today, who should approve it? >> i don't want to see the courts involved. they make enough trouble already. it's a military exercise and that means the military should be in on it, including all the way up to the president of the united states, who is currently the person that makes the decision that the strike will be launched. i would not like to see this, this authority delegated down to lower levels of the chain of command, i think that is a bad idea. >> why? >> the top of the food chain -- well, because as harry truman, the buck does stop there, the desk of the president of the united states and i would like to see the president retain the decision making capability and not get lazy and give it to some generals to decide. >> let's talk about john brennan for a second, it did not seem like he gave senators too m

the business section of "the new york times" is reporting that to shore up his support, jacob loo -- jackew met with 41 senators to respond to the 738 questions for the record. on tuesday, he is good to have a backup on capitol hill. also, a program note, we will be covering a house committee examined u.s. airways and american airlines' merger. that coverage is at 10:00 a.m.. a house committee judiciary subcommittee on regulatory reform will be looking into this murder and its impact on competition. here is a full-page ad taken out by american airlines in the washington post -- they are claiming that it will bring consumers more choice. a full-page ad in the washington post ahead of today's hearing. writing in the opinion section of the wall street journal, bob corker, republican of tennessee, a ranking republican on the foreign relations committee, and jim inhofe writing together, nuclear zero offers nothing worth having. they're talking about the president's plan to reduce the u.s. nuclear -- nuclear arsenal. in "the new york times" -- talks with iran to take place in iran -- in moscow.