don t know what the that statistics really are i spent more than a year writing this book. my wife forensic psychiatrist. she is a doctor who specializes in dealing with the criminally mentally ill. she is the one who said you need to write this book. you used to be a journalist. you have credibility. you should write. this the more i read, the more i realize you had how serious an issue is t. is if you don t do the work and just watch seth rogan getting stoned, you think it s funny. steve: meanwhile, across the country, states, it seems like one by one are putting it on their ballots whether or not they should legalize it 10 states have legalized recreational marijuana. 33 have legalized medical marijuana. now, you are not here to take a stand on whether or not marijuana is right or not. you are just out to tell people look, it s dangerous? yes. listen, alcohol is dangerous, too. you drink too much bad things happen and get in car accidents and fights. alcohol is legal. we know alco
years as the gop savior, midwest, purple state governor, took on the unions. the hype was so big, people didn t take the time to look under the hood of what kind of candidate he was. within he was on that stage, whether he refused to take a stand on whether president obama was christian, thoat and other flip-flops. is trump withering out the bad candidates or candidates that would have risen if trump is not sucking the oxygen out of the room. while his hard money was drying up, you can coast on super pac dollars a little bit. why didn t he do it. it was a very adult decision. he calculated that probably over the long haul he wasn t going to be able to generate the kood of long dollars he needed in order to limp into iowa. he had said he was all in for iowa. why is trump coming under fire, trump slipping in the polls, carson somewhat blowing himself up with independent or moderate voters that exist, why
turn around a baseball team that is not winning, you change the coach. and i think that is where a lot of these politicians on capitol hill are looking. there needs to be a change on leadership and strong leadership that can be brought in. that can fight what appears to me and to all the sources i have talked to is this entrenched bureaucracy that has just turned this v.a. into something other than what it should be which is a highly efficient health delivery system for the men and women of this country who deserve it. it s also a centralized bureaucracy. and maybe that s part of the issue here, paul. i mean, we hear now from senators and congress people, republicans and democrats, shinseki has got to go. do you? does your organization take a stand on whether or not he should leave? we just sent this ig report to our members. we re a member-driven organization. we want to see where they stand, and make a thoughtful decision. our patience is running thin. every day there s any break
i believe the american people are leading the issue. that s a good thing. i think the questions are still very significant. i think the president did his best. it s been a complicated issue to clarify in a few minutes. i m re-assured the american people should take a stand on whether or not we should go in. john meacham. admiral blair, you spent a lot of time thinking of potentially rogue nations in the pacific and other places. to your mind, what do you make of the precedent question if there is not retaliatory action it might encourage other rogue states to use these kind of weapons? well, the best thing to do is to tike smart and tough action with rogue regimes. they watch each other. they learn from each other. you don t take action just for the sake of taking action. if it s ineffective or doesn t
stand on whether or not the u.s. should intervene in syria. i m going to tell you where i stand and why i believe as i do coming up. there s been one person who s been noticeably absent in this debate. there are only four leaders of congress. this person happens to be one of them. you have john boehner, nancy pelosi in the house. and in the senate, harry read and mitch mcconnell. three of them have told us where they stand, one has yet to tell us where they weigh-in. mitch mcconnell is remaining vague on the war talk. he seems torn between the mill tarristic instincts of your average republican lawmaker and the grassroots base who want no part in this. the junior senator sent him a not so sensitive letter. i went to 40 cities, i didn t meet one person who was for going into syria.