women's health care decisions. i join my colleagues in urging the senate to stop using this legislation and others like it to advance an ideological agenda and help the women men and children who are being trafficked across talks

about his concerns that a number of south americans are heading to syria to fight with extremist groups. general kelly heads the u.s. southern command. this pentagon briefing is 25 minutes. >> to those of you that i know hello and good to see you all again and two friends hopefully we will have a great relationship right now. i just came from my hearing and

i appeared there with the northcom commander. topics were and i'm sure you all know this russia gitmo venezuela venezuela. they are always fascinated me talk about the network that leads from around the world into the western hemisphere and into the united states mostly right now through mexico so the network is always there and of interest to them. and a bright shiny object right now islamic terrorism and extremism so that came up as well and coordinate took naturally all of the questions. i did the best they could not to screw up any questions having to do with southcom. a half an an hour i guess a an hour i guess si here we go. c general one quick clarifications after sunday's earlier today in a question on

the islamic extremism. he said that you expect to interdict 20% of the drugs coming across versus 25 before? >> we are supposed to the collective is supposed to get 40%. that is somewhere in the past someone said if you took 40% of the cocaine flow that something would happen. i don't know why, wasn't here then and i don't know what is supposed to happen to 40%. it's a good number by we are at 15 or 20%. it's hard and dea and fbi but particularly dea and fbi do a very good job of doing the best they can to track the amounts that are produced that gets into the transit but it's a very decentralized production operation and i think you all know this but we get all of our cocaine from colombia. they just do her wrote things to fight that battle for us. they are number three and used to be number one in the world. number one is through a number

two is bolivia. pervais was terrific in terms of their cooperation with us and we help them go after the cocaine. the god zero cooperation of any kind from bolivia and that's too bad because we certainly would like to help them deal with the problem that they have. even though these countries are not user countries for the most part because the amount of money used for intimidation murder and death is lost or not michael and his cocaine moves up and heroin moves up into mexico is unbelievably violent and its impact of these countries terribly in terms of the legal justice system, police, violence against everybody women kids it's just really horrible. >> you made a comment earlier today about less than 100. you think people have gone from largely the caribbean to syria? can you give us a little bit

more depth on where they are coming from, what do you think they are doing and have you seen and indications that any have tried to come back and how bigger problem is this? >> like in our own country there is a small number reportedly that have gone to radicalize in one way or another in united states. much larger numbers in western europe upon to fight gone to fight in syria. i was expect they will get good while they are in serious good at killing and pick up some job skills in terms of explosives and beheadings in things like that. everyone is concerned of course if they come home because if they went over radicalize one would expect they will come back at least that radicalize. as they say with really good job skills they have picked up at the fight. do we have any indication right now of any scheme to attack the united states?

no but the smaller countries have i say you know we take for granted in the united states that we have a functioning legal justice system and the fbi and layers and layers of clean policemen and women. a lot of these countries just don't have that. so if these people return or when they return where we can monitor them check them more or less know when they might be coming back to the united states if they were from united states trinidad and jamaican places like that small numbers but they don't have the ability to track these folks. that is the first issue. the second issue under a couple of fellow recruiting point of view just like our country in western europe some get recruited or are radicalize off of the net. the home pages and whatnot but there are a couple of pretty radical mosques in the region. several places i've just

mentioned so that is how they do it but it certainly doesn't seem like a lot but the little countries that they come from with a total inability to deal with it is what the concern is. >> those two countries are mainly the ones -- the. >> jamaica a little bit venezuela's third mom and i think that's all of them. >> to follow up on a sir is the u.s. helping those countries to track those folks. we have pretty good tabs on americans that have gone over in case they do come back in and you're hearing you thought you said if and when those guys can come through coming right to the border we are talking about isis at the border. how real is that? >> these countries i'm talking about and in general the countries in the western hemisphere don't have nearly the ability to track people like we do with the fbi homeland security and databases on all

that kind of thing. and when you are in this part of the world to travel freely between countries. there are legal ways to do it but there are simply people who walk across borders as i described many times. the network that comes up through the isthmus in mexico and carries anything and everything on it again not to take any way from the homeland security men and women and fbi and their job but the amount of movement is what i think overwhelms our ability and the sophistication of the network to stop everything. so i think that they go back to some these countries that i've described is easy for them to move around. >> as far as your command? >> depending on what country does we share great deal of

either intelligence or information. we have worked out some ways as an example to share information with some of these countries that then interdict. so it's not technically intel but other countries that we share information with but i do some of that but our intelligence agencies and law enforcement is huge. we think of dea agents working the streets of boston or something like that but they are they have networks of people that they work with. in cartagena very cooperative police institutions that work with our dea and fbi and other countries like that. most countries are pretty much on our side in the drug fight and any stink at all of terrorism. >> sir this morning you said sequestration would eviscerate

your capacity. i was wondering first of all -- e. disarrayed. >> did i say that? >> i have eviscerate. >> is that right? >> what types are using broadly? >> we have from my point of view we have navy p. threes and we have the hsp threes that fly over the caribbean. we periodically get jstars, very few but jstars is a game-changer for us because they can see the entire caribbean well into the pacific. so jstars and we use b-52 sorties carrying centra packages and contract isr but we pay for and try to fill in the gaps that we don't do an awful lot of -- >> where would you lose the most capability and how would you

make up for that sequestration and is there concern except for jsoc. >> would lose at least 50% of isr we have now read we only have a fraction of what we need but we would lose certainly the p3's navp three's would be hit hard. dhs i know we would lose them but they would have to prioritize within their own agency to decide what they're going to keep doing and the coast guard cutters. right now the coast guard has doubled or the commitment is to double the number of cutters the bigger cutters but that only takes it to like five. if he was hit by sequestration he would have to make his own priorities. as he continued doing the drug fight a thousand miles from u.s. shores or does he focus more -- tony how are you doing? does he focus more closer in and that's a priority he would have to make.

and of course the contract isr has the money probably that would fall through pretty quickly too. ..

i am almost ashamed i am doing it because i am discriminating. they are trained capable ready. the 1st group they turned over in december ironically they were national guard prison guards. they could not understand, in the prisons we work in we work with muslim all the time. all sorts of case law that

allows exactly what we would be doing with the women. long story short we are restricted. this all happened around november. one of the military judges lifted the temporary order, but we still have one in the case of some other -- and i misspoke this morning. so then 15 soldiers in the normal equal opportunity process anyone for any reason if they feel they have been discriminated against can register an eeo complaint and 15 guards did that, seven or seven or eight men and the rest women the the governing document for us is the army regulation 600 _-dash 20. it requires investigation to try to settle the issue. we sent down a one star

because the judges are colonels and lieutenant colonels, we have to send an investigating officer that a senior. so so we sent one star navy admiral who did the investigation. we have the complaint and's informed and briefed, which is part of the process. the commander at gitmo signed off on it. it was found to be discriminatory. we hope that the 2nd judge lifts the order. but we don't know. >> what is the process going forward? >> i understand that there is an appeal process. this building i think. it is out of my hands if it goes to that. >> thank you.

what is your view at this moment on the 911 trial and the families thinking that this will never happen? that is my 1st question. >> i i wish i had not asked either one of those countries. most of you know this i don't run the commissions for my support them. they are run -- there is a commissions process, law, you know all of that. i no that they are frustrated. all i can tell you is once again my defenses, i am i am not a lawyer but a simple marine. i no right from wrong. i don't know with the complications are so i should not comment on the link the time commissioner taking because i do not know what the process is in the courtroom. the head prosecutor.

doing whatever needs to be done. the families are very very frustrated. the other question is about closing gitmo. guantánamo naval base is usually useful as a facility to the united states. one of the big things, i have a mission, mass migration mass migration type scenarios which is often before. haitians that are trying to get somewhere else and the same thing with the cubans. the cubans. the coast guard saves their lives, generally brings them to gitmo and are under dhs authority. and they repatriate them or listen to the stories. at a certain time when that process gets overwhelmed in the last time i got

overwhelmed was the mid- 1990s 47000 haitians and who knows how many died from a us coast guard navy saved all of these lives move into guantánamo. the military then does not take responsibility but houses them, takes care of them. dhs is in charge. we construct camps, treat them right take care of them in the way that the un has guidelines for refugees and assist dhs and repatriate. it is a useful base. if you are talking about guantánamo in terms of detention off, i don't know. the pres. wants to close it and until that happens i we will take care of those prisoners in a dignified way that sees to their every need. >> and talking earlier about the situation with regard.

>> these are commission judges. >> okay. also this morning you mentioned some of the -- i think the words you used were pretty abusive behavior could you elaborate on that? what kind of abusive behavior are you talking about? >> if you don't know they know, they concoct a cocktail, usually feces, urine, sperm, vomit command turn it into a cocktail. with regard comes to say take the trash or move them -- each one of the detainees whether they are in the communal saying living as a group, or some

are an individual cells, but the cells, but the ones in the individual cells have to get recreation time, go up to the playground the backfield everyday. so so when they go to give food, take the trash, move them to the movies that splash. another thing, if they thing, if they can assault the guards physically, they will do that. that that is why we move them in a certain way. the. the apartment, the federal bureau of prisons has a guideline for this. the same the same way they move in this state prison, essentially the state prison of any state in the union. leavenworth there is a way to do this. and i we will not back off. the number one mission failure to me at guantánamo bay is one of my troops gets

killed or seriously injured. that is mission failure for me. and so we sometimes will have a detainee be cooperative. the 1st opportunity he gets he knees someone in the groin. i we will not back off from common procedures of movement from one point to another. that said, the folks that live in communal pots individual cells they go in and out of but they have a 22 hours a day where they can walk outside on their own car play soccer, read a book and it is very -- it is nothing like prison. it is everything like a detention facility that is will run. they go into their cells at night and then we have the preventive medicine people come in and make sure they

are cleaning the place up make sure the places sanitary enough to live in. randomly searched cells. so i don't know if i have answered your question, but that is usually from the detainees who are in single cells. if they are in a a communal setting, which is what we prefer because if they are on the golf course and we are the good guys and would like to see them at least in a a minimal setting in terms of restriction, but if they go after one of my guards or do something like assault the guard, then we will move them to a single cell for a time command that varies. >> i'm sorry. [inaudible question]

>> a bit about. the country was imploding. first of all what you think of these allegations that have been launched recently the us pilot. >> air force pilot. >> what is your understanding of what is going on there. the country has experienced crews before. >> i mean the 1st 1st thing i said venezuela it is really sad because they are sitting atop the largest oil reserves on the planet. they have nothing but fiscal potential. but over the years through a number of decisions made by the government that has all atrophy to the.now where you have an unbelievable inflation rate of 65, 75 80 percent.

anyone that lives there will tell you go into a store. now it has gotten to the. if someone is walking down the street you get in line because you don't know what is at the end but something must be. it might be bread milk, toilet paper. a critical item. that is where the place is economically. where the place is from a political.of view command obviously he is clamped down pretty well on the newspapers the media there are a fair number of being arrested and the opposition. i think the opposition has gone from being political opposition to an enemy. so real restrictions on them i don't know i don't know anyone who would want to take that mess over but it might be that we see whether

at the end of his term or whatever i would i would not say necessarily a coup, but there might be the same ruling party making arrangements to change leadership but i am not involved in any way, shape or form. and i probably would know if someone was. as far as the air force the use of force -- u.s. air force pilot this would be a question for the state department. i believe it was a us pilot. remember they come out of venezuela. a lot of people in cahoots with this whole thing. could not possibly operate. operate. those flights are making their way up the island chain. dominican republic. they were going