unjustifiable, unwinnable wars. we have not want a war. we didn't win korean war vietnam war and we are pulling out of iraq and we didn't win that war. dead?e all these people host: that is tom in michigan. laura on twitter says -- marking memorial day with annual wreathlaying ceremony. we will have our cameras there at 11:00 a.m. eastern time here on c-span. in president touched down washington around 6:40 5 a.m. eastern time this morning after an unannounced trip to afghanistan where he visited with troops there. using the country for less than four hours, his fourth trip to afghanistan since becoming president. his second in the last two years. we will go to robert in illinois. robert, when did you serve? can you hear me? early 1972 until late 81. i was meant to make it a career but i ended up getting -- my career ended because of a physical disability that happened to me while i was serving. i was on my way to vietnam when my orders were changed. that was when nixon said he was pulling troops out. i stayed here in the states, but has f

. >> unwinnable battle against the wildfire driven by winds of up to 30 miles per hour, and fueled by lots of dry brush. it started late sunday afternoon and has so far blackened nearly 4,000 acres. >> once we get daylight and we can get out and on foot on the accurate number of homes lost we'll update our numbers accordingly. six was the number we were able to count before dark last night. >> reporter: fire officials confirmed that a life has been lost in the inferno. a 56-year-old man who was found in his trailer after he refused to heed evacuation warnings. >> it is initially started by a controlled burn. we do meet the drought requirement now but we've only met it for about three weeks. >> chief low harlow, says the rn is expected this week but it won't come today. >> we have hot spots flaring up but for the most part we do have control of this thing. three of the four sides are contained, the north side i'm not going to say is 100% contained yet. >> with ten fire departments battling the blaze, all emanuel could do is wait to get to his family. >> heartbroken. hopefully they can

. >> he revealed that the american government knew that it was unwinnable at the same time that theylling the population that they were winning it. >> stephen: we'll never know now. >> so that's the play book. >> stephen: we'll never know. we might have won if he hadn't said that. >> it's possible. >> stephen: it undermines the confidence of the american people in their own government, is that what you want? >> when they are doing things that deserve to have confidence in their actions undermined, yeah it is a good idea for that to be revealed. >> stephen: now this snowden fellow, okay. he fled to russia. does he feel more comfortable there? because it's a regime that is totally open and free? (laughter) was moredoor not accepting asylum. >> he didn't actually flee to russia. >> stephen: he fled and he's in russia. checkmate. dow want to spin this one. spin it-- spin it. >> he was on his way to latin america, heading through moscow when the u.s. government revoked his passport. >> stephen: it is easy, people get lost that way all the time. >> you just skip right over. >> stephen: the

charge cliff reid with murder and risk losing a potentially unwinnable case or leave sandy's case unresolvedhe late '90s, cliff reid had been charged briefly with sandy johnson's murder but prosecutors thought the case was too thin. >> there was absolutely nothing left to be done, so it was not going to improve. it was now or never. >> they chose now. >> we try hard cases and we're successful at it. >> after all, they did have reid's lies. a neighbor who saw him driving her car. a witness who saw reid cleaning his house the day after sandy disappeared. and most importantly, his obsession with her. cliff reid was arrested in montana. he was extradited to washington state and charged with second degree murder. shawn, who had last seen his mother when he was just 5, was now grown up, a medic in the army, when he heard the news from one of his mom's friends. >> blew me away. it's like reopening like a cut and rubbing salt in it. >> going to trial was a roll of the dice for both sides. prosecutors would have to win a difficult case with no forensic evidence. >> the biggest problem we had is cliff

resources to florida, there was some question on whether kerry was trying to hard, that ohio was unwinnableudden ohio bounced back to being a swing state again. there was this feeling it ever so closely was going to go the way of missouri and it was going to become where's ohio headed today and is it still because of its lack of population growth a state that is leaning republican or is it going to stick to its state emphasis? >> i want to point out when kerry ran in 2004, he did not have campaign operations in about half the counties here. you can't run a statewide race without a very active campaign in every county, you see no votes. that was in part why i think he lost in 2004. when you were talking about the cities, i'm here in cleveland today and at the peak of cleveland's population, there were about 2,000 people living in the downtown area. right now there's about 12,000. there's been a real revival in the downtown city. i say that with an asterisk because we have our areas not recovered from the foreclosure crisis. we're seeing an influx of couples and people who do not want lawn ca

for many americans, millenials, they represent economic meltdown, unwinnable bar. for jeb bush, it is impossible. you can't sister soulja your own brother. >> george bush sister souljaed his own dad. >> give him credit. the sister soulja, famous rap has to be retired. >> dark horse for the republicans is sister soulja. >> what about it? >> yes, he is the deeply -- it is interesting. this sort of amnesia around the bush legacy. part of it is because the republican party hasn't come to terms with anything. not anything in terms of policy. in terms of where they want the party to actually go. they haven't made amend with the ghosts of christmas past. >> the base has though. that's what's the most interesting thing to me about republican politics on foreign policy. it is still the case that all of the old think-tanks are operating. all bill crystals and dick cheneys on fox news. all the politics remained the same. the base has gone way in the other direction. how they feel about military interaction. >> the only war the tea party wants is against barack obama, mostly a

. >> when president obama took over we were in two wars, afghanistan, two unwinnable wars and the economy failing look at what he did. >> that was the president's campaign pledge platform. i'm not going to get us into wars i'm going to get us out of wars. isn't that the accomplishment according to ellen. >> he peaked in 2008 since he won the election. since then it's been hard for him. jen psaki provided mirth to a usually merciful press corps because even they agree he has presided over failure in syria. eclipse of america china in terms of economic growth huge energy deal between the russians and chinese which leaves the chinese, you know, importing all this energy from russia. making russia rich. empowering russia to keep control of ukraine even as president obama continues to weaken america through his own energy policies aimed at crushing the hydrocarbon industry. i mean, even the mainstream media can't swallow what she said. it's kind of humorous to think that actually apparently jen psaki was on the short list to replace jay carney. she could have been providing humor full time at

. >> residents have been fighting an unwinnable battle against a wildfire driven by 20-mile per hour winds and fueled by dry brush. it started late sunday afternoon and has blackened 4,000 acres. >> we have for sure lost six occupied structures, numerous out-buildings, abandoned vehicles and homes. >> a life has now also been lost in the inferno, a 56-year-old man found in his home after he refused to heed an evacuation order. this fire, it turns out, was started on purpose. >> it did start as a result of to controlled burn. with the windy conditions like they were, the fire spread. >> were controlled burns allowed today? >> we're not under a burn ban. >> part of a reason for no burn ban is a weather forecast walking for rain, but that won't come today. >> we've got enough resources in place i think we're in a goose position to get this knocked down. if the wind will cooperate with us just a little bit. >> 10 fire departments were battling the blaze. all emmanuel could do was wait to get to his family. >> heartbroken. hopefully they can get out with the evacuation. >> all but the nor