dwight d. eisenhower and this is an individual who knew better than anyone the pain and agony of sending men into battle, and i think one of the most moving stories in the book is how in 1963, ike went back to normandy to meet walter cronkite and to recapture the day 20 years later. and he was getting ready to go out there to the american cemetery overlooking omaha beach. you know the scene, row after row of markers and crosses, and he told a cbs producer fred friendly you know, tomorrow i've got to go out there and speak to these families who lost sons and husbands and fathers at normandy. alladi who came out of the war with enough glory to carry me on to other things. and he was agitated, he was humbled. and somehow though in the morning when he did go back to those beaches this is what he said and written to capture it well. he said i devoutly hope that we will never again have to see scenes such as these. these young men gave us a chance and they bought time for us so that we could do bette

d. may i have a motion? >> second. >> all in favor of this proposal? any opposed? motion passes. thank you to staff and audience for your attention. meeting is adjourned. .. . >> all but comely absent with leave from america's historical memory. even when united states history was required as a subject in high school and colleges and many universities, textbooks and courses had very little to say about women, how they had contributed to the winning of world war i, world war ii, the wars in korea and vietnam. as the writing team of a nurse and a psychologist, co-author dr. evelyn monahan, we have a combined 50 years of experience with the department of veterans' affairs. now, you may be as surprised as we were to learn that the agency and the majority of it employees knew little, if anything, about the service of america's military women, any more than the average person on the street. this is, undoubtedly, the main cause that in 1989 the va published a bulletin for veterans' day that had

d. after they evaluated the experienced work with computers and her military occupational specialty in transportation. she said it was tough, we were dealing with hundreds of lives and if you make one tiny mistake someone might get hurt or killed the record of over 300 to 400 convoys and had no losses. i was relieved. it is not unusual to watch on tv and see the things of a female soldier marines, air man, sailor and coastguardsman intermingle with the military personnel serving in iraq and afghanistan. it is not unusual to hear the media speak now about our sons and daughters stationed in baghdad, kandahar, kuwait and other places hard to pronounce a map. these women have traveled from the united states to their stations can easily be expressed in hours in flight or miles flown that historical road women travel is another story. from 1913 to 1921, daniels was the secretary of the navy. daniels was a native of north carolina, had gone to law school and passed the bar in 1885. president w

d." that's the american peace mobilization, clergymen group. the communists would show up to say blessed are the peacemakers, all right? their blowing up -- they're blowing up churches and people especially on the religious left, the great book i said was there a particular group that was duped more than any other, and he said, yes, progressive pastors. they're the biggest suckers of them all. and the american peace mobilization is a good example of that. yeah. go ahead. oh, he needed a microphone. >> al milliken, am media. in your analysis, how effective as propaganda do you see the way hollywood through films have picked the communist influence particularly, i depress, in the u.s.? >> yeah, great question, it's scandalous. it's horrible. it's absolutely horrible. and i would say that hollywood, they are still dupes for the communists because in the grave, if communists are in the grave now and hollywood is still protecting them. protecting them as if they were never communist to begin

d. so i can't imagine how they move forward. but richard holbrooke's final words have got to be ringing in the ears of the obama administration. >> so, the strategy review that's being compiled will come out on thursday. what do you think will be in it? >> well, again, i think she's right. it's a very difficult position. and the trouble with ambassador holbrooke no longer with us is really diplomacy is at the heart of this. you can't win in afghanistan unless you win in pakistan. meaning you can't allow the militants to cross over the border at will and find sanct n sanctuary in pakistan. so far we don't know how it will go. on one hand pakistan allowed us to operate drone missions. on the other hand, it's unclear whether or not they're supporting the taliban. so it's a tough egg to crack. >> it is a tough egg to crack. and the question that will be asked or was asked in the meeting is are we better off in this war than we were last year? what do you think, matt? >> well, that's again a

d. i'm a young man. there are other transplant people out there that have di t different afflictions but are still the same. what's happening in arizona is completely wrong. >> douglas, we thank you for your time this evening and for being so forthright about it and we wish you the best of luck with it. >> thank you, keith, and thank you nbc. i appreciate it. >> more than welcome. that's december 14th, eight days since the republicans got the deal for taxes for the rich. mr. boehner, where are the jobs? i'm keith olbermann. good night and good luck. to discuss how and if anyone can fix the senate, he's rachel maddow. >>> thank you for staying for us for the next hour. i grew up in northern california, there's relatively speaking not very much weather. for my adult life i've lived on the east coast where there is lots of weather. doing everyday things like going to the grocery store have to be coordinated with the weather forecast. if you want to get your regular grocery shopping done, do

d. >> god bless you, keith. >> thank you. >>> that's december 13th, good night and good luck. here is rachel maddow. >> good evening, keith. thank you. >>> we begin tonight with some breaking news. ambassador richard holbrooke has died. ambassador holbrooke was one of the most accomplished diplomats in the modern history of our country. he was most famous for having brokered an end to the bosnian war. he most recently has served as the president's key diplomat for afghanistan and pakistan. president obama expressed his hopes for richard holbrooke's recovery today just before noon. >> richard holbrooke has been serving this nation with distinction for nearly 50 years, from a young foreign service officer in vietnam to the architect of the accords that ended the slaughter in the balkans, to advancing our regional efforts as our special representative to afghanistan and pakistan. and countless crisis and hotspots in between. he's simply one of the giants of american foreign policy. and as a

d. >> of course, a lot of democrats are wondering, please define the word fight. i tell you what, i hope he's right on this. i want to be wrong on this. i've never wanted to be so wrong on something in my life. this has to work. i think the republicans have hoodwinked the president on this one. i'm not saying the president's not smart. i'm just saying that he is really underestimating his political power. let these tax cuts, let this legislation expire. let's go fight them on an even playing field where there's nobody being held hostage, where there's no dictation coming from mitch mcconnell and the righties. let's find out who really cares about the middle class in this country. isn't being in the senate all about guts? i mean, i am shocked today. this game across my desk. this is a release from minnesota senator al franken. al franken. you know, the liberal talker from air america. hell, they even got him hoodwinked. he says this "a lot of people are unhappy that the president punted o

d. he hanged himself. it was the two-year anniversary of his father's arrest and the last day for victims of the ponzi scheme to file to get back part of the money. now, where does the investigation stand not just into the death, but where all of that money went and who knew about the ponzi scheme? >> well, that is pushing on, contessa. and federal investigators according to a "wall street journal" posted hours before mark madoff's death showing that there was a probe closer against mark madoff and younger brother, andrew, and even though he is no longer with us because of his suicide, they are focused on andrew, and what did mark know as well. remember, that mark madoff was the subject of several lawsuits including one worth $274,000 that also named his wife, ex-wife and his young children. those lawsuits will continue on along with the criminal investigation, so that does not stop. a lot of questions about really, what sent mark madoff over the edge. friends say he was distraught, and

d. the french is blurring with the base. it is not isolated. we've we have seen a particular amouna of uglinessin outpouring againsi president obama.ll it is important to pull back ant realize,ha though, that before there was obama derangements anw from there was a bush derangements syndrome. the to actually have many of the same characteristics. calling the president a tyrant,m the prist. well, the problem is whenever i am interviewing people for thisr book, people at protests holdinm signs comparing obama to hitlere i always say, what are youbout h saying?is what are you thinking? wl, invariably they say something i like, well, they started it. [laughter] they compared president bush toy hitler, and nobody complained.st i figured it is fair game.you and that is the problem.ll you know, john stuart at hiseste rally to restore sanity, one ofn his suggesteds signs, i really disagree with you, but i'mou, pretty sure you're not a not hitler.it and that is good advice for us l all.if and if

buckly stood up to the administration and claims dwight d. eisenhower was a soviet agent. that's my favorite. i'm sorry you think he's a spy, and then you're not welcome in our con conservative movement. he stood up. the problem is we don't see that today. i think because our political leaders are afraid. they recognize or fear that the fringe is blurring with the base e and if they stand up, they alienate their base and lose a primary. there's political resumÉs that add credibility to that fear, so what we need to do to restore some balance with backbone to our politics is stand up to the extremes on both sides. i really believe that's the only way that we will stop the cycle of insightment we're in before it getting ugh leer. that's not to clack that at any -- claim at any given time there's quality of extreme, but if you buy into the idea that only one party is to blame, you compound the problem, and that's what i'm concerned about. i care less about the parties, and more about the country. it's an attitude that's unfashionable these days. i mean, this is a rebellious

it was the great five-star general and president dwight d. eisenhower who once said, "go forth and protect in emergency only justice, fairness, and consideration and cooperation can finally leave men to the dawn of eternal peace." by repealing "don't ask, don't tell" today, we take a big step towards fostering justice, fairness, and consideration, and that real corporation president eisenhower spoke up. this fulfills an important campaign promise the president and i made and many here on this stage made and many of you fought for for a long time. repealing a policy that actually weakens our national security, diminishes our ability to have military readiness and violates the fundamental american principle of fairness and equality. that exact same set of principles that brave gay men and women will now be able to openly defend around the world. [applause] it is both morally and militarily simply the right thing to do. it is particularly important that this result was fully supported by those within the military who are charged with a blinding

d.c. caller: people have to stop repeating the drumbeat that republicans keep going, it will not be there for you. they say the same thing about social security. stop thinking about the drum beat. it is going to be here and the people need to do what ever it takes for it to stay. what they can do -- and i am absolutely against that privatizing -- if they want to privatize, the republicans want to privatize everything and i am not going to be into this privatizing medicare. what i think they need to do is stop the war on drugs, that stupid war on drugs but there are so many things that they could stop. they could stop the regular wars. but you are not going to stop medicare. most of the medicare is used during the last two weeks of life. what we need to do is pull the plug on grandma. and i am a grandma. and the last two weeks of life use than 60 percent as a total medicare patient. the other thing, these doctors are the biggest thieves, biggest pool of these left in america. host: aside

d. i should hope so. it's the very least they could do. we asked you at the top of the show what you're doing up at this hour. our producer rob has a couple answers. >> michael writes, up because i want to call dibs on scarlet johansson. >> yeah. did you hear about that? scar jo, like to call her scar jo, the coffee bean in l.a., that's a couple of good of good looking entities right there. i think they'll be fine. one more. >> sarah writes she started baking at 2:00 a.m. and got a little carried away. >> you started baking at 2:00 a.m. i think that's when you got a little carried away, sarah. >>> "morning joe" starts right now. >>> i guess my biggest failure was not getting re-elected. i learned two things. one is that you ought not to ever let american hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them. and i think another lesson i learned is i should have paid more attention to the organization of the democratic party. i was not only the leader of our nation, b

the action, the spirit of men, dwight d. eisenhower. >> we stand for freedom. that is our conviction for ourselves. that is our only commitment to others. john f. kennedy. >> ♪ free free ♪ >> give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause]

the action, the spirit of men, dwight d. eisenhower. >> we stand for freedom. that is our conviction for ourselves. that is our only commitment to others. john f. kennedy. >> ♪ free free ♪ >> give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause] >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can veri