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Why Sen. Gillibrand’s bill to remove sex crimes from military chain of command doesn’t go far enough

Brett Erlich, Ana Kasparian and Jayar Jackson explore the bill introduced by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to change the way sex crimes are handled within the military.

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From the show: Will mitigating factors be enough to save Jodi Arias?

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Will retraining military officers on sexual assault be enough to significantly reduce rape in military?

Former Coast Guard servicemember Kori Cioca talks with guest host Mark Thompson, Ana Kasparian and Jayar Jackson about Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordering that all military recruiters and sexual assault prevention officers be retrained.

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From the show: Security scandals plague the Obama administration

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Thomas Pickering: Some Benghazi press reports were ‘close to Pulitzer Prize fiction’

"We investigated every lead, every question that came up in the press." —Thomas Pickering, co-chair of the Accountability and Review Board, on the board's report on Benghazi

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Richard Socarides on IRS–tea party scandal: ‘This is a disaster’

“A high crime or misdemeanor, as we know from the last time around this track, is whatever the House majority decides it is.” —Michael Tomasky

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John Fugelsang: Oliver North talks about a Benghazi cover-up — and irony hangs itself

"The levels of irony, mixed with a toxic cocktail of hypocrisy and ignorance and a hubris chaser, proved too much and led to irony hanging itself in grief." —John Fugelsang

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Cenk’s progressive power panel agrees the Obama administration lied about Benghazi

Cenk Uygur, David Sirota, Glenn Greenwald and Michael Hastings debate whether the Obama administration lied about the Benghazi attack not being an act of terrorism for political gain.

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Does the increase in reported sexual assaults prove the military is still male-dominated?

Cenk Uygur talks with Yahoo! News reporters Beth Fouhy, Aaron Task and Walter Shapiro about the rise in reported military sexual assaults and the recent arrest of Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, head of the Air Force's sexual assault prevention programs.

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From the show: Mark Sanford wins special election for U.S. House seat

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Susan Burke: If the military fails to prosecute sexual assault, there will be more rapes

"Currently the way the system works is very perpetrator centric, rather than victim centric." —Retired Air Force Staff Sgt. Colleen Bushnell

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