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Now, while we were all focused on the infighting at MSNBC and myself from Stephen Colbert,

I wonder what's going on at that other network that doesn't suspend or fire their employees

for backing political candidates, but instead goes ahead and hires the actual candidates

that's cutting out the middleman.

What's on their minds?

There's been a lot of focus on the president's trip to India and throughout Asia.

Big controversy is to what the real cost of the trip is.

It's going to cost about $200 million a day for this entourage to go.

About $200 million a day, 3,000 people, as much as a billion dollars for the trip.

Half a billion dollars, it's going to be somewhere around there.

Some people say that it is up to $2 billion dollars for 10 days.

Is that true?

I don't know.

And how many ships will be there?

34 warships, possibly.

I don't know.

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