to be honest with you. i think it does make a difference. it s one thing to be in the military command. it s one thing to talk about defending the homeland. it s a totally nother thing to have felt that sacrifice personally. you see that. weight of a president is he has to order troops into combat, but you especially see that in the weight of somebody that lost somebody serving. and puts a different perspective on, you know, what sacrifice is, put ace different perspective on what freedom and what america means. i think that s a good perspective to come. you should listen to the whole speech he delivered. it s a powerful speech, congressman. you served in afghanistan. you served in iraq. i m sure you lost friends fighting for the united states in iraq and afghanistan. to hear general kelly speak as a gold star dad, as a gold star father, remembering obviously his own son who was killed in action in afghanistan and so many others who died in iraq and afghanistan and elsewhere, very po
we don t need to get in a yelling match. look. i want to correct the record on one other thing austan said. the first thick out of his mouth was is that the thoefd irs was a bush appointee. yes, he was appointed by george w. bush but let s set the record state. i was 2008. the commissioner came to the end of his tell. the commissioner can onto serve a number of years. senator max baucus, a democrat, said i will refuse to allow another appointee from bush who accepts another term. the bush administration said we re not inclined do that because the acting commissioner can only serve two months. we ll have to find two acting commissioners in order to have somebody serving in that position until the next president comes in. the bush administration reached an agreement with senator baucas that would pick a democrat technocrat from k street. so i appreciate your trying to
we don t need to get in a yelling match. look. i want to correct the record on one other thing austan said. the first thick out of his mouth was is that the thoefd irs was a bush appointee. yes, he was appointed by george w. bush but let s set the record state. i was 2008. the commissioner came to the end of his tell. the commissioner can onto serve a number of years. senator max baucus, a democrat, said i will refuse to allow another appointee from bush who accepts another term. the bush administration said we re not inclined do that because the acting commissioner can only serve two months. we ll have to find two acting commissioners in order to have somebody serving in that position until the next president comes in. the bush administration reached an agreement with senator baucas that would pick a democrat technocrat from k street. so i appreciate your trying to
back years talking about their role in killing americans. in exporting terrorism. he wouldn t acknowledge that the surge worked in iraq despite repeated questioning from mccain and others. something that is obvious to everybody. the problem with this, not just that he stumbled or he had a bad day, the problem is that we live in a dangerous world. right now, this is a serious position. in the past 48 hours we have had report about iran restarting and speeding up the nuclear program. we have had reports about al-qaeda reinvigorating its affiliates and we had talk about north carolina and another test. you have can t have somebody serving in this position who is so untestimony with even the basics of all of these issues and all the things he talked about. he ended up his testimony today by suggesting in what was really am is a sad move that he is not that power.
possibly deliberations and a verdict today. but that could be today or tomorrow. we ll just have to wait and see how things go. the defense has two more witnesses that we re aware of, one an overseas witness who we re not sure who that is, somebody serving in the military in iraq, possibly, possibly even one of the other navy seals who was acquitted in this case, maybe jonathan keefe. we re going to hear from an oral surge who will before that aba, the accused terrorist who says he was beaten up, may have caused the blood from his own lip from bite ago cancor sore. the officer in charge of the detention holding cell says he saw mccabe punch the prisoner in the stomach. so that is the key witness for the prosecution. back to you. martha: we will be coming that very closely. steve, thank you very much. bill: in the meantime, we mentioned the story out of virginia. new developments on the story of the tragger murder of yeardley love, her