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> # MCCAIN: In all candor, if I'd been President of the United States, I'd have ordered the plane landed at the nearest Air Force base, and I'd have been over here, ok? LA Times OLBERMANN: Ok... except on the morning Katrina made landfall, where was Senator McCain? Celebrating his own birthday with President Bush, right next to Air Force One on the ground in Arizona. No indication that amidst the merrymaking, Mr. McCain said anything to the President about maybe turning the plane around.

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2. > We're going through a process where you get a whole bunch of names, and ya...Well, basically, it's a Google. You just, you know, what you can find out now on t…

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3. > We need to go back to have a conversation about what to do: rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is.

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