more people willing to say okay, call me unpatriotic. what i'm doing is not unpatriotic. nevertheless i think that what you said is quite right. >> it's too late because mechanically the president can launch the invasion and then invasion and then it's up to everybody else to force them to come back spent and i think what i'm saying before about the economic issues, i think that becomes more relevant. one reason that i think, one reason that holds us back, one reason that it seems too late is that people have gotten jobs from it. et cetera, people gotten contracts from it. people gotten jobs from a. conflict resolution students can wear the largest graduate program in the country in conflict resolution, about 350 masters and doctoral students, and the question is what did he do when they get out? well, some of them go, as you might imagine, some of them work for government. some of them work for foreign governments. many of them work for ngos. many of them work for relief organizations, care or to develop and work. but more and more, it's the government that is offering t

>> it's unamerican, unpatriotic. >> reporter: a federal prosecutor now is investigating whether chase should face civil charges for violating the rights of those in harm's way. lisa myers, nbc news, washington. >>> and new health concerns are being raised tonight about diet soda and people who drink it every day. a new study has found what seems to be a connection between daily consumption of diet soda and heart attacks and strokes and a whole lot of people who drink a ton of it are about to sit up and take notice. our own tom costello with us tonight from washington. hey, tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. the study was done by researchers at the university of miami med center and columbia university. the question is whether there's something in diet soda, perhaps the sodium, that raises the risk of these events. the study followed more than 2500 new yorkers for more than nine years. the average age, 69. among those who drank diet soda every day, there was a 61% higher risk of heart attack and stroke compared to those who avoided diet sodas. >> i think this study is consisten

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so how can you expect them to listen to a stand-up comic who they see as being a nasty naysayer, unpatriotic person, you know? you know, comics-- was that enough words for you? could you shut up so i can get a word in edgewise? for crying out loud. gosh. you feel better now? yeah. all right, good. you're just talking so much. this is a show about listening, is what it is. [laughs] and yet you've probably, throughout your career, made fun of reagan and clinton and bush the first. see, but it's not making fun of, do you know what i mean? like, that's the error there's been. i'm not blindly making fun of, like-- "reagan's got a neck like a turkey. barbara bush looks like the quaker oat man." you know what i mean? like, that's nonsense. i'm not gonna attack anyone for the way they look. if i've got something to say about politics, i've got something to say about what i perceive to be the dissemination of disinformation or what feels like lies to me or clearly taking advantage of the american public. as i said last night, every time a politician says, "the american people are not stupid," they're

state should not try and regulate society like this performer say it's ridiculous to call them unpatriotic for singing popular russian numbers i don't know. if they span is an active in law in the whole world will laugh at georgia as it really is insanity. our. songs like this are synonymous with georgian restaurants if you want to hear them in my town to dine elsewhere because in georgia it looks like the show might be over tom watson. well time now for the business update here was yelling. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update and the london high court has suspended the b.p. rosner deal to the twenty fifth of february this is the date which the court has set for b.p. to go into arbitration proceedings regarding its assets what with ross next this comes after the russian owners of the joint venture team p b p filed a complaint seeking to stop the deal on grounds that it violates the team p p p shareholder agreement earlier the c.e.o. of the british company said we could include b.p. in their arctic project deal signed last month robert dudley also said he's confident the st

if you question it, you feel unpatriotic or accused of being unpatriotic. we have to put it all on the table. we are all in the same lifeboat together. host: the subcommittee for the appropriations panel, is there any work being done to get an audit of the pentagon? guest: yes, but i do not know specifically how much is done. there will be a lot more oversight. some of the classified information that you cannot talk about publicly is a concern. there is a lot that goes on behind the scene. host: george finishes his column by writing this. st. louis, missouri, independent line. the last phone call for the congressman. caller: i appreciate your candor on the last question. i want to ask you a question with regard to congressional spending in your salaries. one thing that really bothers me is we always talk about everyone else tied in the -- tying in the belt strings. but you do not hear congress talking about cutting their salaries to help lower the deficit. and the second comment with regard to social security and disability spending -- a lot of times we sit

we're still getting -- i'm still getting messages from people who think i am unpatriotic, treasonous son of a and i'm getting some from people who think that julian assange is the messiah and how did -- why don't treat him as such? >> we do not have anyone here from the state department. could shoot frame some of the issues for us legally -- could you frame for us some issues of the will was going on at this point, do you think? >> there was a lot of -- i have talked to a few people in government. there was a lot of crosscutting with political and legal considerations for the government to figure out what to do. this kind of happened over a long pull into of time. everybody knew this was coming and did not take steps until the summer. a firm of steps, at least. the problem was -- affirmative steps, please. there was no plot to response they could make to stop this. there was no feasible military response to make. no political response to make. the only tool the government was left was was some kind of legal response. there was pressure to do something about this. right now the justic

when anybody wanted to cut the military budget, cut back on this war effort, they were labeled unpatriotic -- this is not something we can do in a time of war. i am wondering if our chinese creditors are saying to us, you can't spend money wildly on war anymore. because somebody has obviously decided it is ok said late to start speaking truth. you can't spend on an unfunded war effort. for 10 years, everything in this war, the two wars of aggression, of occupation, have been funded through supplemental bills, bridge funds, an emergency spending. host: here is "the washington times" on the debate in the house. the bill includes significant reductions in domestic programs -- it would new york. charlie is a conservative. good morning. caller: as a conservative, i notice that the only spending liberals are opposed to it is spending to defend america. we owe $14 trillion. the you know how long it would take you in your normal speaking voice to account for one to $1 trip -- one trillion? host: how long? caller: over 30,000 years. and we all $14 trillion. host: as a conservative, what are you --

we are still getting, i'm so getting messages from people who think that i'm unpatriotic, treasonous of a and i'm getting some from people who think that julian assange is the messiah, and why, why did i not treat him as such. >> let's bring jack in. could you sort of frame some of the issues before us, both coming legally and if you like, ethically. what's going on in the government at this point do you think? >> there were a lot of crosscutting political -- isom and i talked to a few people in the current but it seems obvious there are a lot of crosscutting political and legal considerations for the government to try to figure out what to do. it just kind of happened over a long period of time, the government knew this was coming it didn't take any steps until last summer. of primitive steps at least it seemed. and the problem was that there was a much the government could do. there was no real technological response they could make to stop this and happen. there's no feasible military response that could make. no political response they could take. so the only tool the government