soldiers doing that yet the same time there's a case where a young marine lance corporal near ferah out in southwestern afghanistan is with a small patrol and an afghan farmer comes up and says i would like permission to dig a ditch across this road to move water. he didn't want to be mistaken for an ied placer. the young marine looked at it a while and helped the farmer dig. you have three very different things happening each in that person's perspective and probably all the right things. they are trying to give afghanistan a chance. because the thing about afghanistan is it's a country that has been tornd, turned upside down, shredded and mutilated for about 34 years. in a country where the life expectancy is about 44, there aren't a lot of people who remember normal. >> jon: right. >> american service members are by nature problem solvers. they want to help things get better. that's what i saw. i saw this wonderful desire to reach in and fix it. it's frustrating. frightening, frustrating. >> jon: they are also, let's face facts the main idea of fighting forces is fighting. we place u

bring something to that leadership position or to that capability that you have, whether you're a lance corporal and sniper or whatever, somehow you perfected something which is necessary in that machine, in that organization. and what you realize in war and what i realize, of course, the book address, is that death is just random. they just pick you. on the day that i read about, they just picked his vehicle, not mine. it wasn't because my vehicle was scary and they were afraid to touch it. at it because they picked his, and now he is dead. and now his family is without a father. and they'll never have that. not like that. not the same. i saw him leave. i saw the family destroyed. but they didn't. that's my part of his disappearance. and my whole book really is my absolute abhorrence of disappearance. i want to preserve. i want to save. if it's memories, fine, memory. if it's stone, fine. that's why i became a stone mason when i was young. took me all these years to realize why i was working in stone. it's all part of the feeling and war was the same thing and the great betrayer, because you ju

corporate earnings better-than- expected. the start for futures, pretty quiet. a fan of disgraced lancerong, you can get your gear on the cheap. after confessing to cheating, products for him are on closeout. something selling for as little as a dollar 34 on ebay. cotton shirts that say live long and cheat strong are much more expensive. cracker barrel wants to bring its chicken and dumplings two dining rooms. it is reporting that the plans to expand and sell its food at grocery stores. similar moves by bob evans, boston market, tgi friday's, all started selling items in the frozen food aisle. diners are cutting back on going out during the recession. folks want to keep making the money. business news here in bloomberg headquarters in new york. all right, thank you. we appreciate it. it is 5:56 right now. >> coming up, health problems for burt reynolds. >> coming up, health problems for b[ male announcer ] pillsbury grands biscuits. delicious. but say i press a few out flat... add some beef sloppy joe sau.. and cheese fold it all and boom! i just me e an unbeatable unsloppy joe pillsbur

corporation. they wanted that money back from lance armstrong.acked and said he is at risk now for a lawsuit from them. >> i have to think the lawyers have thought about that. do not forget, dagen, it is always the client who gets to make the ultimate decision. yes, they paid money for defamation which was not true. his teammates who are now coming forward and saying, wait a second. dagen: i will back up, our lawyers part of the problem here? >> lawyers, part of the problem? [talking over each other] dagen: it is a stunning list of attorneys in this country. over the years, he had this legal entourage of people who aggressively went after anyone who accused him, even kind of pointed in his direction in terms of being a doper. >> once he made that first light on the record whether it was to a reporter, part of the responsibility of a lawyer and i know this sounds horrible is to protect their client in any way they can. in some ways that is pushing the story forward saying, it certainly was not his fault. that is part of what they are paid a lot of

lance armstrong"armstrong" airs and sunday night. >>> it's a $13 billion company and the world's largest retailer of organic grocery products, but the ceo of whole foods said his fellow corporate leaders should change the way they do business. >>> lance armstrong wasn't just a phenomenal cyclist in his own right he was the leader of a team that worked as a unit to win seven tour de france titles. as the top rider lance had a lot of power to force his teammates to cheat, but did he? here's what he said to oprah about that. >> were you the one in charge? >> well, i was -- i was the top rider. i was the leader of the team. i wasn't the manager, the general manager, the director, the da da da. >> but if someone was not doing something to your satisfaction, could you get them fired? >> it depends what they're doing. i mean, if you're asking me somebody on the team says i'm not going to dope -- >> yeah. >> -- and i say you're fired? >> yes. >> absolutely not. >> could you? >> could i? i guess i could have. but i never did. look, i was the leader of the team, and the leader of any team leads by example and there was never a direct order or a directive to say you have to do this if yo

connections, cozying up to the politicians, getting the corporate sponsors backing them, being in so cozy with the federations, with the governing bodies, like lance. so it's completely disingenuous, and i think it's a way to make him distance himself from being this -- the leader. >> so when he says that this wasn't that sophisticated an operation, that it was professional, it was conservative, it wasn't the biggest doping operation in all of sport, he says east germany had a bigger doping operation. the olympics back in the '70s and '80s. i mean, it sounds like he's being disingenuous. i mean, it was a -- he had access to drugs that other people did not have access to. he had access to funds that others didn't. >> that's exactly right. the facts are out now. when you take a whole team and put them in a hotel room and put plastic wrap over the toilet so there are no microphones in there, so they can conceal that, and put tape over all the smoke detectors in the room and then you do transfusions for the whole team in the room, in the middle of the tour de france, i'd say that's reasonably sophisticated. and they always stayed ahead of the curve. e

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in so far as lance will be forgiven, we have to dissect the two groups. you have the cycling community and corporate and the like, but you have the cancer community are two questions. i don't think cancer victims and those who have the illness will have a problem forgiving. i have seen my own father holding the chemo tower and know the hope he can inspire. i distinguish them because it's difference between the professional athlete and the seven-time tour winner. olympic metalist and the like. those are two questions and you need to take a different approach. >> the dle sports agency out of washington. thank you. >> thanks, brooke. as the world watches armstrong's fall from grace, we are asking why do we cheat? the science and emotions behind it. we are talking to doctors and psychiatrists and a human lie detector. how can you spot a lie? don't miss the why we cheat special. president obama faces a lot of challenges in his second term. one of them centers around america's security. we will look at the threats next. lock your keys in the car, geico's emergency roadside assistance is there 24/7. oh dea

. >>> lance armstrong opens up about the fallout from his lies over doping. the cyclist reveals how corporaters reacted after realizing the level of his deceit. >>> plus, football star manti t'eo speaks out for the first time about the bizarre hoax involving his online girlfriend who apparently never existed. >>> we are learning much more this morning about the strange case of manti t'eo and his imaginary girlfriend. the former notre dame linebacker has finally broken his silence about it. te'o spoke off camera with espn saying that he was a victim and had no role at all in creating the hoax. susan kand yachty is at notre dame in -- candiotti is at notre dame in indiana following this story. what is te'o saying now? you have new information? >> reporter: it is quite the story, as you fight. again, manti t'eo saying that he was the victim in all of this. that he was taken in by a woman's voice. a woman that he came to know and who he believed was real, even though he never met her. a hoax so elaborate, he told espn off camera, that he even believed this were members of her family that he was s

lance armstrong in the sporting community. >>> from bitter rivals -- >> while i was working on those streets you were a corporate lawyer sittingthe board of walmart. >> you were practicing law and representing your contributor in his slum landlord business in inner city chicago. >> wow! >> to bffs? we'll take a closer look at a powerful and unlikely partnership now. çñ?wçm public thank you from president obama, but was it also an endorsement if she decides to run in 2016? in an interview on cbs' "60 minutes," the president had a lot of praise. >> i just wanted to have a chance to publicly say thank you, cause i think hillary will go down as one of the finest secretary of states we've had. >> the two also talked about their relationship, a close relationship despite being bitter rivals during the primary campaign. >> i consider hillary a strong friend. >> yeah. i mean, very warm, close. i think there's a sense of understanding that sometimes doesn't even take words, because we have similar views. >> i want to bring in david r h rothkov. wow! my take on this, i covered the campaign. i covered it to the bitter end. and there was

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corporate image. you feel -- was that money well spent that you left those on the air? just -- an ostrich that you have your head in the sand? >> listen to this lead -- "lancenot sorry that he doped. he's sorry that he got caught." >> that is true. that's what women say to men all the time, by the way. >> but you're not bitter. you're -- you live in new york. to find a man -- >> like the rihanna song. >> god almighty. >>> we've already been on that, why he slifs in new york -- >> he brought it up. you think i bring this up? >> she has to live in new york because that's where -- >> i'm single. >> it's willie sutton. that's where -- >> i got. i got it. that's wrts money is. >> that's where the men are. that's where the men with money are. >> hello. thinking here. >>> now to today's national forecast. eric fisher joins us from the weather channel. hey, eric. >> good morning. i don't want any trouble by the way this morning here. across the northeast, a winter storm, maybe not a blockbuster, but one that's going to cause issues for this morning as you get to the highways and biways. boston, my flying. heavier snow across rhode island, northeastern connecticut,