he was the smart power that helped us win the battle in ramadi. and whenever we have tough times i think i always push thank you with me. he would stick with me and we would find a solution and that gives me peace. what can we learn finally for, travis speed? to listen to occur to me and they are important when it's for americans to consider. first perhaps the most important lesson of his life is that one of the greatest form of patriotism for an american can be the ability to connect to other cultures, to be humble, to learn from them. and together with them to inspire each other to do great things on the world stage. and to them not just through our words what our actions and character and example. there's one more lesson that occurs to me. maybe, just maybe america should embrace islam on our own terms. what if america embraced islam? what if americans studied the feet carefully to understand the good as well as the evil of those who would prefer to the religion to evil in this? what americans got to the muslims intimately, sat down with their

military in ramadi, iraq, which was one journalist called it the most fucked up place on earth. reporters would scamper through the ruins of ramadi and say this reminds me of images of hiroshima and dresden and stalingrad. it had collapsed completely. the provincial capital of anbar province and basically the headquarters of the caliphate they were attempting to launch in iraq. right away three things were obvious to travis patriquin and his colleagues; they had to attack al-qaeda forces with firepower, and they also had to rebuild the shattered local iraqi police force and reach out to the remaining tribal sheikhs, a lot of whom had fled the horror of. and there weren't many left. and although he was only a junior officer, patriquin became the keeley yea son between the sheikhs and the movement that helped transform the war. i think travis patriquin is a symbol not only of the americans who served in iraq, but the americans who have died there and the many americans who have helped the iraqis try to build a new nation out of the horror of this war. perhaps the best way of under

again but up to today at an iraqi government compound in ramadi it's left up to seven policemen dead a group of suspected sunni insurgents attacked the majority of security headquarters resulting in a three hour standoff before the attackers were killed the gunman is said to have set of a car bomb near the compound to divert as many officers as possible ramadi previously held a strong al qaeda presence and it's been a hot spot for sectarian violence. this week the universe three of the world's most controversial prison guantanamo bay was marked by public protests on both sides of the atlantic demonstrators called on us president obama to want to his election pledge and shut down the jail that critics see a little chance of that happening because of the recently signed national defense authorization act allowing america america to detain anyone it deems hostile thomas willis a lawyer for several to attorneys in guantanamo believes that it's politics that held the bar back from closing. as promised. this is a political problem in a democracy when certain people are playing with fear th

killed including police officers after gunmen armed with explosives attacked a police compound in ramadi. there's also word this morning a car bomb has killed at least eight near the northern city. >>> police in romania used water cannons and tear gas to control rioters who protest government austerity measures. >> a demolition with a twist in england. a campbell soup factory was brought down sunday. campbell's left the daughter of an employee killed in a workplace accident years ago have the honor of lowering the boom. she says it gives her family closure. >>> and the first family took some time sunday to honor the first day of dr. martin luther king jr. president obama, first lady michelle and their daughters joined worshippers at a washington, d.c., baptist church. the civil rights icon would have turned 83 yesterday. >>> and now here's an early look at one of your top health headlines on msnbc.com. a new study says there's a bright side to hard times. traumatic life events can actually benefit you by teaching coping skills, establishing social support networks, and promoting new cell

killed, including police officers, after gunmen armed with explosives attacked a police compound in ramadi. there's also word this morning a car bomb has killed at least eight. >>> police in romania used water cannons and tear gas to control rioters in bukarest. >>> a camp bell's soup factory was brought down yesterday. a daughter of a factory worker who was killed years ago had the honor of bringing it down. >>> the first family took time sunday to honor the birthday of dr. martin luther king jr. president obama, michelle, and their daughters joined worshippers at a washington, d.c. baptist church. the civil rights icon would have turned 83 yesterday. >>> now here's an early look at one of your top health headlines on msnbc.com. a new study says there's a bright side to hard times. traumatic life events can benefit you by teaching coping skills, establishing social support networks, and promoting new cell growth if parts of the brain. researchers say it's like exercising to improve fitness dealing with adversity preparing you to become more resilient in the future. for more information on

i suppose theoretically he could knock off ramadi if all the conservative, particularly the social issue people, coalesce around him. at the moment that does not look like it is going to happen. if he got the nomination, obama would win quite easily. >> a few minutes ago, mark shields, who is in iowa for the caucuses, sat in front of a camera in new hampshire for us. i ask him what we learn from iowa. >> every vote as town, but beyond that, we learned that rick santorum, in his election night speech, was able to establish and narrative that had been lacking, that he was the proud product of not privilege or power, but the grandson of an italian immigrant coal miner who lived in a company town, in a shack. he drew a rather stark line between himself and the background of mitt romney without ever once naming romney. it was quite moving, too. >> if you are more interested in the campaign that can beat obama, mitt romney is your man, right? >> absolutely. his hole card remains collectability. his credentials, experience, background, and a cheat and electability. >> -- and achievements and el

killed including police officers after gunmen armed with explosives attacked a police compound in ramadi. >>> there is word this morning that a car bomb has killed at least eight near the northern city of mosul. >>> police used tear gas to control riotors in bucharest. >>> a demolition with a twist in england. a campbell soup factory was brought down sunday. campbell's left the daughter of an employee killed in a workplace accident years ago have the honor of lowering the boom. she says it gives her family closure. >>> and finally the first family took time sunday to hohn yort birthday of dr. martin luther king jr. president obama, first lady michelle and their daughters joined worshippers in washington, d.c. baptist church. the civil rights lead woehr have turned 83 yesterday. and u.s. markets are closed in observance of martin luther king jr. day. but here's a look at how they ended the week. the dow closed at 12,422 after losing 48 points on friday. the s&p 500 was down six points. the nasdaq fell 14. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei dropped 121 poi

already under a thousand three hundred thousand three hundred have the population of the state of ramadi three hundred thousand people in the country of iceland. that the people didn't really appreciate having all this debt dumped on them and the politicians didn't have the courage to say no to the banks toure's so they said well let's throw it out to the people and twice there were referendums where the people said no we don't want to pay back the banks hers or the. or the vulture bankers who had bought the banking assets at pennies on the dollar and now are trying to recover them out dollars on the dollar is that is that have a role they just not quite accurate because the referendum that you're talking about concerns the i say of accounts the accounts that they are something national bank loans bank and. opened in london in the netherlands so it was whether they would have the. last year was the british and the dutch of what it is. took it upon themselves to make the deposits of their nationals with this branch of the national bank of iceland. probably one of the banks of course priva

western iraqi city of ramadi has been rocked by car and suicide bombings.our car bombs went off at a mosque in a police building. two suicide bombers struck at the building. it's not known how many deaths they are from the attacks, a day after a suicide bomber killed 53 shiite pilgrims in southern iraq. also this morning, police desperately searching for two men who opened fire at a missouri shopping mall. hundreds were running for their lives. >> i was scared, i thought we were going to die and hoping that everyone was okay. and hoping that god was with everyone. >> alisyn: this all happened at independence mall in kansas city. and police say that the victims were a man and a woman who reportedly had gotten into a fight with the shooters earlier in the day and both are expected to make a recovery. an explosion in south korea, tears open a cargo ship, six men are missing, it happened far from the border with north korea and officials do not believe that the north was involved. it was carrying 80 tons of bunker oil and diesel fuel. no word of leakage. went f

they then what happened morning in the city of ramadi, west of baghdad. officials say a group of insurgents set off a car bomb killing one policewoman. the same group stormed the compound leading to a three- hour standoff with security forces. six more officers were killed in that battle. this is the first serious clash between iraqi forces and insurgents since american troops left the country last month. >>> and in romania, government officials met today to talk about this beak's violent protests that injured several people. police used tear-gas and flares yesterday against demonstrators who are rallying against the government's proposal for health care reform, public wage cuts and higher taxes. dozens were arrested. this is the fourth day of protests for the country. >>> the fx cable network is placing a big bet on actor charlie sheen. the president hasn't yet seen a script for sheen's new sitcom "anger management." john landgraf believes that sheen is getting his life back together everyday meltdown that got him fired from the show "two and a half men

iraqi police say an area near the predominantly sunni city of ramadi was the target of an attack andad of the united nations is telling syria's president to stop killing his own people. the demand from ban ki moon comes as the fact-finding mission nears its conclusion. more than 5,000 people have died since syria's anti-government uprising began last year. >>> at least 14 people were killed and 20 others injured today in the explosion in pakistan's njab province. the dead are shiite muslims that were observing a holy day. police are investigating the cause of the blast. >>> thank you so much for watching state of the union. i'm candy crowley in washington. can you find today's interviews as well as analysis, web exclusiveives, and much more at our website, cnn.com/sotu.

book some of which were pretty funny and basically at the end we won massachusetts as the group of ramadi was involved they were generous enough in the party to credit the us but we provided a difference. we registered several thousand absentee ballot college republicans whose votes of the end of the damage the difference and the three were the 4,000 victory in that state. so we went through that together after that. grover suggested to me to run for the national chair. he had some involvement with karl rove and others in the past and were friends with them. i'd just come out of california and went to brandeis and so grover was my campaign manager and then when mauney won in 1981 came as mike deacons executive director and stayed in that year before he went off to other. he returned with me. we reunited in the lobby he was the field director and then also found the americans for tax reform which was an immensely effective. we haven't been in touch much doing this. unfortunately for him he had tremendous scrutiny. people seemed to get mad at him over the tax thing and blamed him for the ki