didn t go back to the job i was supposed to go back to. you have to understand that bonuses, and student loan repayments are given to high demand positions. i was in a high demand position at that time, and their arguments was is after two deployments, or because they deployed me i didn t go back to the job i was supposed to, and they had every right to take that student loan repayment back. the re-enlistment bonus i signed in february of 2007, i accepted a direct commission as an officer in march of 2008, giving me about a year and a month time frame. yeah. and they said because i accepted the direct commission as an officer i was no longer eligible for the re-enlistment bonus. oh, my gosh, even though you accepted the commission as an officer after the fact and after you and served another six years, yes i did, yeah. so when you got that letter where this totals up to $46,000, what that s correct. what did you think? well, it was heart wrenching. you read this, an
do voters in a broader sense remain open ben carson or do they start to have reservations? the hit pieces may do their work in the long run. chris, we ll be back to you in a bit. you bet. this morning the pokes who write the daily political note called this a welcome to the big leagues moment for dr. ben carson and the rest of the gop field arguing that tough vetting is part of the primary process. take a look back to march of 2008, senator barack obama was well on his way to clinching nomination before any reporter bothered to dig into the story of you may know this man now, reverend jeremiah wright and how the obamas had for years attended sermons by controversial pastor that featured calls for god to, quote, damn america and off-color stories about president clinton have sex in the oval office. i don t remember that one. plenty of others though. what about the fact that mr. obama said that the march on selma was what led to his conception, only problem. he was 3 years old when t
an interview. it was march of 2008. and he asked her specifically if she thought that barack obama was a muslim. she said, not that know of. i mean, please, the clintons started this first. ben carson, i do have to defend him a little bit. he did say he doesn t believe that sharia is consistent with the constitution of this country. while i agree, saying, all muslims, as the judge points out does open the door to a lot of criticism, sharia isn t, i m sorry. he is right. it is not in tradition with american values. and more people from the right and left should start to stand up and say it. kirsten? well, i disagree with the idea that trump doesn t have obligation to speak against certain, at least certain types of statements. so, if you are running to be president of the united states, then you re running to be president of all members of the united states which includes muslim-americans. if somebody says something, that could be interpreted to american, we need to get rid of musli
jonathan milakou shot at two recruiting centers in northern virginia. no one was injured. he also shoot at the pentagon. and in 2009 a military recruiting center in little rock arkansas killed one soldier and wounded another. a bomb exploded in front of a times square recruiting center back in march of 2008. the blast went off around 3:45 a.m., no injuries. the case was never solved. joining me right now to talk about military soft targets is former that i vi seal and former fbi special agent jonathan gilliam. good to see you, jonathan. always good to be with you, from ed. dhs has been warning of soft target attacks for years. a recruiting in 2009 as there have been others since. so in your view, what can be done to protect these locations in particular?
volunteers who even made this race possible. you all were the back bone of this race. and i will take you back five years to a conversation tiro and i had before we finally decided to get in the attorney general s race in march of 2008. we took the view, and remember what march of 2008 looked like for republicans. it was a grand time to get in a race. but we decided that first of all, we knew what kind of race we would run. the same first principles i m talking to you about tonight have animated every campaign we have ever run. the foundation starts as it always should with proper campaigns in america, with first principles. and we we understood, and we said it out loud, if there are