joining me is retired admiral joe sestak, now a u.s. senatorial candidate. sir, it's good to have you here. as you know we remain a nation at war and service members risking their lives on a guarantee from the u.s. that their families will be taken care inform case they are killed in combat. the father of one of those that was lost this weekend, killed this weekend, telling nbc news, quote, if congress were trapped in a car that sunk down in a river, i would swim to the window, look at them all in the eye and say suck water. that's from randall patterson, whose son is going to be returned today to american soil. how dangerous is this whole situation for the morale of our troops, for the morale of american military families, seeing what these other families are having to live through. >> there's not a question what's happened here is demeaning. actually it's very disheartening because a number of these senators and congressmen and women who actually voted to send our service members to war are now denying them, their families the benefits that should accrue b