some are we lacking in training in some way? is there some shift where they are being a little more aggressive, or maybe we re just pointing these situations out a little more? what is it? well, what happens is the tactical side of the house in the police service overcomes the negotiation side, the surveillance side. so what executives have to do is they have to emphasize their negotiating elements and emphasize their surveillance elements. put as much energy into those two things as you do into the tactical operator side and you ll have a better balance. i would agree with the chief that just said the drug raids, minor drug raids it s used too many times on minor drug raids. i totally agree with that. i think it s overused in that. surveillance can get the person away safely. and you don t need to do a dope rescue. we don t rescue dope. norm, let me bring you back in here. you know as a police chief, it s protect and serve, but a lot of what police officers do is about pr, and
also, you may not know the story of the monford point marines. the men who integrated mat reenz yooms. welcome to the men and women serving us in uniform and thank you for being here and what you do. let s talk about three important deadlines that we are keeping an eye on today in this whole debt ceiling debate. a vote is scheduled this afternoon in the senate on majority leader harry reid s plan. that s the vote that was supposed to take place overnight but it was delayed in the evening. the second deadline is at 8:00 eastern time today. why that is important? because that is when the asian markets open. the u.s. stock market as you may know had its worst week last week in over a year. what happens today in asia could set the tone for what could be another rough week on wall street. also, the last deadline is tuesday, maybe the most important one. that is when the federal government says it does not have enough money to pay all of its country s bills and the country coul
never recommend it again, was necessary to give the public an opportunity to better understand the bill and then give hundreds of thousands of citizens a chance to express their voice. the fact is that dramatic parliamentary maneuver to strip collective bargaining from the bill shows the debate was never about fiscal responsibility, but was always about eliminating bargaining rights for workers. martha: you know, some say that they called your bluff basically last night, that the governor, scott walker, went a long way towards giving you guys a lot of concessions on the things you were arguing over in terms of collective bargaining and the raising of the cost of living and those accounts that were within the negotiating elements, and that, you know, push came to shove and they said you know what, if you guys aren t willing to talk on this, forget it, we re going to strip it out and have a vote. you re talking to one of the two people who was at the bargaining table and i have a quite