i guarantee you people s attention will be seized and sexual assault will be reduced dramatically. captain manning, why won t that work? well it s system that s been in place for 200 years now and it s not working. it doesn t work because the people, both the accused and the victims feel they are not getting justice. colonel jack, it s a perception issue within the ranks, that they think there s this inherent conflict and that s why they re hesitant a lot of times. will that be communicated down to that troop level, the privates and specialists within the military? you bet it will. listen, anything within the military unit that happens or fails to happen is the result of emphasis by the commander. if the commanders not just one commander, but all the commanders up the chain of command, including the president of united states the commander in chief. that s right. there s plenty of blame to go all the way up the chain of command if everybody in the chain of command empha
reid, and i d like to talk to you a little bit about the so-called empathy gap that some say republicans struggle with. you know, the argument from democrats we re willing to support this extension because we care so much about families that are unemployed right now that we re willing to do anything to help them, and republicans are trying to make it difficult. republicans would argue we re trying to pay for it. but the perception issue of the republican party, how do you confront that? listen, i voted to proceed to this bill because, in good faith, and i had an idea s and many other of my colleagues have ideas on how we can pay for this with $17 trillion in debt, i m the mother of two children, i not only have empathy for the struggling workers, and so i m willing to vote for short-term extension, but i also think that we can make sure that we don t burden, continue to burden our children and our country with $17 trillion in debt, and we can do both. and i believe that s really impo
damaging. jenna: senator brown, we got the sopranos reference out of the way. that will not be the last time we will hear about this. this is the perception issue juan brings up, rightfully so. getting back to the political question, what do you think is at stake for christie, three years ahead of the national election and his. he said he didn t know anything about it. he put out a very powerful statement. he is holding a press conference and will hold that person or people responsible. unlike president obama where we had the obama rollout, we ve had benghazi, irs scandal jenna: senator brown, if i could, i apologize. governor christie just stepped to the podium. let s take a listen. here to this office where i have been many times before, and i come out here today to apologize to the people of new jersey. i apologize to the people of fort lee. and i apologize to the members of the state legislature.
they have been very focused on al jazeera america. they re not hiding from the name al jazeera, but executives say we re doing an american network for american viewers. there s still the perception issue that they have to get over. a lot of people the first time they heard the name al jazeera was after 9/11 with the bin laden videos. during the iraq war, bush administration officials were always saying that al jazeera is playing propaganda for the enemy. so they have to get over that. a couple years ago there was a study that showed people looked at al jazeera english content branded as cnn international and didn t think it was as biased as when they had the al jazeera logo on it so they have to get over that obstacle. i think the bias question is a good one. for either one of you i wonder is there any example of al jazeera somewhere else in the world where they are producing this kind of unbiased news? i know many other places in the world they have been accused of bias. in fact in
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