mr. friedman, but not in this particular situation. he said assad should be shamed. i don't think he would be shamed. there is arming tak taking plac. but if you simply arm and say your policy is to shame, and you back off, deteriorating his capacity to deliver chemical weapons, then you open pandora's box of delivering chemical weapons and all those people being agod. on this occasion it's absolutely vital to send the message and deteriorate his capacity. >> we only have a short period of time. >> and we would have given him impunity with respect to any future use. >> all right, we are following obviously the thousand foreign affairs committee washington, d.c. on whether to authorize the use of military force against the augus august 21st attack in damascus. let's get back. >> i assume we discussed this one. >> we did discuss it, and what the president said was he felt very, very strongly that it was very important to us to be in our strongest posture. that the united states needed to speak with one voice. and you all asked for consultations. the president, we began

mr. friedman, the defense industry seems to have grown exponentially.s this a good thing or a bad thing and are we any safer? >> the size of the defense roughly doubled since september 11th, that's adjusting for inflation, and then it has fallen off a bit from that in this past year, where we had roughly an 8 or 9% drop. my own view is we spend far too much on defense. it enables us to get in trouble around the world instead of making us safer. it goes to big-ticket items designed mostly for fighting other countries, not really going after terrorists. >> is it a misnomer to look at the defense budget to say it has grown or not grown that much, when if you go up the -- [ technical difficulties ] -- that have now lined up to get their piece of the national security pie, it is not much larger than it was 12 years ago. >> i think doubling is much larger, but all of those defense contractors are feeding off of the defense budget. we're talking roughly $50 billion. the intelligence budget has doubled, but that's mostly within the defense budget. so if you loo

mr. friedman, started to get famous people buried at cathedral. washingtonn the cathedral is new. he approached edith about this. idea.kes the gould, told me that william howard taft's granddaughter told him that, when taft heard about this, he not let those bodysnatchers at the cathedral get me. -- presbyteryy in ian president is buried in a digital. -- cathedral. >> she developed kidney trouble in 1889. the wilson's decided to have no more children. she had been suffering from kidney disease for some time before she went to the white house. >> the diagnosis was brights disease. >> that is an archaic term for kidney disease. i was impressed that they diagnosed it in 1889. roosevelt's first wife also died of kidney disease and died quite early. woodrow and ellen had been married for quite a while. woodrow wilson became consumed with ellen's illness. >> consumes? not till the very end. it was kept secret from him. that was ellen's wish. >> everybody was in denial. i think she was hoping that she would get better. doctors were telling her that she would get better. i think the docto

mr. friedman wanted to get famous people buried in the cathedral so you do have gotten admiral dewey. this is when washington cathedral was still very new. he approached you to about this and she liked the idea. he wanted to make the cathedral washington's westminster abbey and i was told that william howard taft granddaughter told him that when taft heard about this he said don't let those bodysnatchers at the cathedral get me. i think this is wonderful. this presbyterian present -- president was buried in an episcopal cathedral. >> was she sick the entire time that she was in the white house for 13 months? >> as she was. you saw the pictures of her leaving princeton and even being in princeton. she had first developed kidney trouble in 1889 when her third child was born. decided at that time to have no more children. .hey used birth control she probably had been suffering from kidney disease for some time before she got to the white house, would be my guess. >> she was diagnosed with something called braces disease. the >> that is an archaic term for kidney disease. think they had a

mr. bruno and, i believe, dr. friedman. what did you do to them? consider yourself lucky. i could have had you both shot on sight for trespassing in violation of u.s. government property. sara! ahh! ahh! uhh! there you go. all right. sir. with all due respect, you have to listen to me. they came in peace. we cannot respond with violence. the future of earth depends on it. it is absolutely vital that they get home. they are home, dr. friedman. they are now in my custody. custody? you can't expect to keep them prisoner and get away with it. they have rights. they're illegal aliens on u.s. soil, without so much as a passport. the patriot act enables me to detain them for as long as is necessary. you can't keep this quiet. the world has the right to know that they exist. and you're going to be the one to blow the whistle, doctor? a failed astrophysicist fired by 3 universities for obsessing over ufos teams up with an ex-con in declaring that the government has captured two normal-looking kids and is holding them hostage inside a mountain that doesn't exist? it would be so much

mr. friedman wanted to get famous people buried in the cathedral so you do have gotten admiral dewey. this is when washington cathedral was still very new. he approached you to about this and she liked the idea. he wanted to make the cathedral washington's westminster abbey and i was told that william howard taft granddaughter told him that when taft heard about this he said don't let those bodysnatchers at the cathedral get me. i think this is wonderful. this presbyterian present -- president was buried in an episcopal cathedral. >> was she sick the entire time that she was in the white house for 13 months? >> as she was. you saw the pictures of her leaving princeton and even being in princeton. she had first developed kidney trouble in 1889 when her third child was born. the wilsons decided at that time to have no more children. they used birth control. she probably had been suffering from kidney disease for some time before she got to the white house, would be my guess. >> she was diagnosed with something called braces disease. the >> that is an archaic term for kidney disease. i d