meese has left the military. last july his doctors have told him he wasn't even fit to work as a file clerk. with his fiancee, he has just moved to the mississippi coast. the humidity helped him with his con. jamie and thornton got married. daughter. >> this is definitely not what i thought our wif life was going o be. at 30, 35, it's affected us tremendously. a lot of people say this is our generation's agent orange. >> they want the military to acknowledge the harm done to its soldiers. >> my plan was to keep working and get a good job working. she doesn't have to do anything. and be a good man. but i have to erase that now. >> you are a good man. >> it's hard to accept that. >> for thousands of returning veterans, this is their reality. a reality they say is shaped by their exposure to the burn pits. and someone, they say, needs to step up and take responsibility. sheila macvicar al jazeera. >> for more i'm joined from baltimore by susan burke, the lead attorney in a lawsuit targeting kbr, the contractor to gi

ed meese got to know him longer than i did. i knew him earlier so i have seniority but only by a few weeks. [laughter] >> over to the far left. >> eni are the surviving colleagues. ed's title is that was really important because ed meese was there to really brainstorm for what we were going to do and made indispensable contribution to the success of reagan's administration at the end of the cold war. >> at angers for marriage foundation. what evidence of eisenhower's foreign policy influenced reagan's philosophy if any? >> the question is eisenhower's influence on reagan. as a relationship that nobody really understands. it got to be quite close. as i said after the 64 election eisenhower looked at the famous speech like a lot of us did and said here's somebody who makes sense. eisenhower wanted to rebuild the party and so he began to connect with a lot of people. he first asked his golf playing buddies in los angeles i haven't met romba tell me about him. we knew all of this because of the letters in the eisenhower library. he

we had meese olds in our youth.hen we asked our doctor about a shingles shot, he advised against it. >> i issue a correction, it is not measles to worry about but whether you have had chicken pox and the centers for disease control has found that 99 percent of the people over the age of 40 have had chicken pox so it is not that someone comes to the office and i check them for chicken pox or make sure they are exposed, if you are over 60 i want you to have the shingle vaccine if you are not immune compromised and don't have h.i.v. and are not pregnant -- well, that would be over impossible at 60 -- but listen to this, it works 50 percent of the time. the big pay off it decreases the risk of post problem two-thirds of the time, and the post problem is after you have shingles which is an outbreak of a rash that usually is a band line form with blisters and redness and it is following the nerves because the chicken pox was hiding all those years. if you had chicken pox you can get shingles. if you have not you will get

think, leland for me, there is a question that is raised on part of the news organizations that send meese people out or use their material. and that is, are we encouraging kind of reckless behavior? because at this point if you're operating and trying to report from a place like syria, you're taking a real, real risk and, i know that we've talked about how difficult it toys verify the stories that you're getting but there comes a point where you just have to say it is not safe and not only won't i go, i won't use material that puts fellow journalists in danger. we had one quarter of journalists killed were international reporters. and a lot of them were young -- leland: excellent point. to your point, only has to be one mistake, one wrong move and that's it. the stakes have become so high. two people who know that well, judith miller and also tom peter. appreciate you both joining us. thanks. >> thank you, leland. leland: molly? molly: another black teenager shot by police in a missouri town a few miles from ferguson, but the mayor of berkeley berke, missouri says the case of is not like

. >> this question give meese no pleasure, mr. cosby, but there have been serious allegations raised about you in recent days. you're shaking your head no. i'm in the news business. i have to ask the question. do you have any response to those charges? shaking your head no. >> that was a radio interview, but you were there to see his reaction and the reaction of his wife. what was it like? >> as soon as i began to say this question gives me no pleasure, he began to shake his head and even go like this. and even smile. we can call it a theatrical performance smile. i did not look at mrs. cosby. the question was just for him so i looked straight aheadp. >> and you say it was -- >> a bad imitation of bill cosby, but as soon as i began to say, i looked at him, i said, mr. cosby, this question gives me no pleasure, and he went -- >> do you wish that you had pressed further? >> at the time i asked the question, the story was in a different stage of development, so there wasn't quite the rich level of detail and the number of accusers th

but it was the street na meese new year which is sort of christmas, be easter, fourth of july, 30th of may, you name it all wrapped up in one. >> like the christmas trees garth brooks sang about in july. >> yes, probably. >> i did have one question for you, stan. and that is, the marine corps is very proud of the chosen reservoir campaign. that's really true lug and they teach this campaign to their officers in the -- in their basic school. and also they teach ga lipolee, as well. but did you find in your research the quality of the junior officers and the senior enlisted are what the marine corps says they were? you know, the marine corps have very proud of jos and keeping it all together. did you find this in your research, as well? >> i think the armed services have been very lucky that senior noncommissioned officers have been willing to stay as' career because they provide the bulwark of how one learns what to do in the armed services. i can't say the same is true with officers because there's a problem of age and grade. one of my lieutenants in korea was a special exception. he w

wearing the "i can't breathe" shirts, which is what eric garner said when he was struggling with the meeseut and says it shows a great depth to them just beyond them being great ball players. he's supposed to be an impartial arbiter. >> he might as well wear the t-shirt himself to the justice department every day. he might as well just wear that because his comments obviously speak to his advocacy on behalf of the protesters. >> he's not allowed to do that. >> imagine if we had basketball players wearing "close the borders" shirts or "i stand for life" or "i love the police" or "obama get out" or whatever. pick your poison, whatever the statement. do you think he would ever jump in and say, you know, this is wonderful. these celebrities the really need to speak out. it's about their voices being heard. you know what he would say, you know, i don't comment on these things. he'd be very dismissive. but this is elevate lebron james as if lebron james needs to elevated any more in our national conversation. the kids in staten island and new york who are getting gunned down and killed or knifed

are meese men -- have they been involved in any violence at all, to your knowledge? >> absolutely none. and their whole purpose was to protect cuba from violence, both physical violence and economic violence. >> all right. we do know that people inside of cuba are very happy to have them back. there are actually murals and stamps being made for them there. they're on their way back. richard klugh, an attorney for the men, thank you for being here. >>> coming up, could president obama's major diplomatic move on cuba become an x-factor in 2016? we'll break down the response from the top potential presidential contenders. >>> i truly hope we can now get beyond these mutually belligerent policies. and i was very happy to hear what the president had to say today. it was particularly cool to be sitting next to the secretary of state as he was hearing about his job description for the next couple of months. in all seriousness, this is a game-changer. i'm caridee. i've had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most my life. but that hasn't stopped me from modeling. my doctor t

the meese are there. they're doing their job.rce and helping to protect and serve the community. essentially, they're assassinated. what can you do to prevent that? it's just very difficult that you know when he is traveling here. what has intentions were. do you know where he's going to be. in the event you know where he's going to be, do the police have time even, you know, to draw their firearms and to protect themselves? and so it's random acts of violence, specific targeted acts of violence. but when a person gauges in this type of random behavior, it's very difficult to guard for. there are a number of things we can point to. tend of the day, you have to ask yourself, how do you stop the madness and how do you stop this even if you have technology, even if you're on alert for it? it just makes no sense. >> i asked tom fennen with -- fuentes about this. the mayor was asking r asking for people to look at the tweets, look at the postings on social media. are there ways that people can look at this in real time and move on it

just as ed meese agreed with ronald reagan in july 1987 when he shield nicaraguan refugees from deportation and when he shielded polish nationals from deportation and in october 1987 when president reagan protected from deportation minor children of parents legalized in the 1986 immigration law. just as attorney general richard thornburgh agreed with george herbert walker bush in 1989 when he protected chinese nationals from deportation after tiananmen square. and in february of 1990 when president bush extended president reagan's family fairness policy to spouses and unmarried children, all undocumented at the time. and just as john ashcroft agreed with president george w. bush when he expedited naturalizeation for green cardholders who enlisted in the military in 2002. so this isn't a fundamental republican policy issue backed by history or by the facts. it is a modern-day extreme conservative issue driven by politics despite the facts, contrary to their own history. the fact is they don't agree with the president on just about anything. certainly not on immigration as proven on the state

but in new york overnight, meese say protesters attacked two officers on the brooklyn bridge as they were trying to arrest a man who threw a garbage can into the street. according to police, the group attempted to steal their portable radios and tear away their police identification jackets. listen. >> this is where we have to draw the line. we want to facilitate the protesters. people have a right to protest. we also have to balance their right to protest with the rights of the other 8 1/2 million new yorkers. if our cops are assaulted, that's where we have to drop the line. that's when arrests are being made. when there is property damage, we'll make arrests. >> she's individuals are not interested in lawful, orderly protest. they have their own agenda. part of that aagenda why that is demonstrated is to create physical violent conflicts in some cases with police officers and commit acts of property damage. >> this morning the two injured officers are recovering in the hospital. >> also breaking overnight, in oakland, california, at least 45 people were arrested. and there were sev

the lead on that was former attorney general ed meese who essentially took over part of that agenda. he was so engaged in it. and out of it came a lawsuit that's now known as crane versus napolitano. i have been defending this constitution along the way, whether the rest of the conference or the rest of the country actually knew it or not. and i think my record's pretty clear on that. but this amendment goes back to daca, and it shuts off the funding to implement or enforce daca, shuts off funding to the morton memos. and by the way, i offered an amendment june 6th of 2013 to the appropriations bill that passed the house of representatives with a vote of 224 to whatever it was. it enjoyed bipartisan support to the extent of three democrats joining 221 republicans on that vote. this house -- this congress has twice voted to defund daca, 2013 and then again in 2014 with the border bill that was discussed a moment ago. and so that's still not enough. the listing for theéhqúu presid executive edicts, his executive amnesty that he issued on november 20th is listed in my amendment, and it'

but somebody referred this morning to ed meese, former attorney general, who's been very concerned about overcriminalization, as we call it in the federal system, where there are thousands of ways that you can end up in a federal prison if somebody wants to put you there. and i remember our first meeting -- there was a form other congressman there. i said, you know, everything has become a federal crime. i always used to say the poster child for that is carjacking. carjacking is illegal anyway. you know? i said, why did that need to be a separate federal crime? the poor guy lowered his head and shook it, he said, made a great press release. and that's why a lot of things are federal crimes today, because they make great press releases for congressmen and for senators when something happens that gets their attention. so we need to look -- everybody, from all sides of the spectrum, those involved. law enforcement, those in the prosecutorial community and those interested in the issue, need to look not at punishing people or freeing people or this or that, but need to look at what works. an