suggest they would somehow lie to the senate and the president. all right. chris, thank you. we re hearing from the critics of this report raising questions about morality and what s the moral tradeoff for intelligence that could save lives. interrogation has been one of those gray areas of our national security and few know better than my next guest. charlie meek spent 15 months in iraq as an interrogator and full disclosure, charlie meek is my cousin. welcome back to the show. thank you so much. thanks for all of your time serving our country. i honor you for that. let s talk about when you were in iraq, you speak arabic. you looked at these detainees in the eyes. just tell me as an interrogator, what were you assigned to do? well, i was on a shift with general mcchrystal s task force 16 and our job was to dismantle
underdog status he played that big as well. kelly o donnell in our washington newsroom covering that. it was quite the debate of course. there s still a lot of talk inside of florida and crist circles and crist people are hoping to convince meek to get out. meek was pretty feisty. he seems like a guy that s not going anywhere. jobless numbers and the retail picture are setting the stage for wall street. becky quick co-host of squawk box and joins us with a quick preview before the opening bell and 23 1/2 hours before the friday jobs report. you hit it on the head. the job report tomorrow will be the biggie, the government monthly number. today another glimpse of how the economy is going and how the jobs is looking particularly in the jobless claims. weekley jobless claims dropped
a live and let live social moderate. that s tough as you see from the exchanges. kendrick meek who has been trailing tried to embrace the obama agenda. one of the things meek is trying to do is brush back criticism that a vote for him is in essence a vote for rubio because democrats seem to be split between crist and meek. meek has been fighting back on those perceptions and he appeared after the debate on msnbc, the last word with lawrence o donnell and addressed the whole issue of being this guy far back in the pack. let me tell you in the primary you had people down here writing my political obituary saying it s over. down ten points three weeks out. we won by 26 points. you got a sense from watching the debate that rubio had sort of the cool air of a guy who thinks he s doing well. and for crist who really needed to land a blow he made his points. all three seemed to have prepared zingers for the other. but it wasn t the kind of knockout punch that a cyst might have needed an
politics now and fight night in florida. a fiery debate between the three people who want to be u.s. senator, tea party fave marco rubio, independent charlie crist and charlie meek. i think it s fun to listen to the governor attack me for positions he himself held six months ago when he was trying to be the biggest conservative in the world. you haven t been drinking the kool-aid but too much tea. charlie crist stands on a wet paper box as it relates to the issues he stands for because you don t know where he is. kelly o donnell nbc s capitol hill correspondent. a busy woman these days. bring us up to date on where the polls stand in florida. how close is this race? one of the things that makes it so interesting is a three-way dynamic makes the debate and race harder to follow for rubio to behave like the front-runner he s become. charlie crist the current governor tried to straddle the middle by by painting himself as