tv Q A CSPAN January 9, 2011 8:00pm-9:00pm EST
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later on tomorrow, we will chat with the ceo of the center of education policy. beckett's underway ♪ >> this week, on "q&a," our guest is martha raddatz, cbs correspondent for abc news. >> martha raddatz, looking ahead at 2011 in the national security and foreign affairs area, what do you see? >> it is always for god so hard to predict. afghanistan, we have to keep an eye on them in july 2011 when the administration is talking about withdrawing troops in afghanistan. my prediction on that, and you can run this later and say i was
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wrong, but there will not be a 2011.icant drawdown i i think you will see a detailed plan on how to draw down the troops in the future. starting in july, 2011, they will say that we are one to withdraw this many. then there will be a scheduled withdrawal and a month. >> a couple of weeks ago, i thought of you when i saw this headline. it says that iraq wants the u.s. out. >> what maliki has said, i think all of us thought the rockies would say that we want to
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renegotiate this. we do need troops there after december, 2011. now they are saying we do not want troops there after 2011 to i think that is extraordinary. when you think about what the iraqis have in terms of an army, they do not really have much of an air force. they do not really have much of a medical evacuation. they do not have intelligence gathering in terms of drones and things like that. actually, what i think is going to happen there is they will say they want the troops out and the u.s. will worry about that and there will be some contracting or some behind-the-scenes consulting to help out the iraqis. i do not now have -- do not know how they will do it. >> you have been to iraq and 11 times. what is the total number of times you have been to iraq? >> 20. my opinion has changed.
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i definitely want to go back to iraq this year. in 2011, i definitely want to go back to yemen. i went to yemen on new year's eve. that was after the attempted christmas day bombing on an aircraft. i went to yemen. that was it important place to watch in 2011. we focused on afghanistan, pakistan and safe havens in pakistan. yemen has a lot. >> what about afghanistan? how many times have you been there? >> i carefully counted my trips to iraq, but i don't know about afghanistan. know that i had been there six times. it is difficult to get there. it takes a couple of days to get
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there and a couple of days to get back. it is a little harder to get in and out of afghanistan. >> how do you go? >> you go by commercial airline. i took a flight to do by 44 -- 2 dubai 414 hours. -- for 14 hours. it is all commercial. the airline, when you go into kabul, but also fly from frankfurt. they have the greatest in-flight magazine. it has advertisements for armored cars. it is very frank about what you are getting into. most glossy magazines say to tried this restaurant and avoid here and avoid their. -- avoid there.
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it has a richness in kabul. there are things about dogfighting and things that americans would not be seeing. >> there is a memorable report, an insurer, for you in may of 2010. let's watch. >> it is a very difficult war in afghanistan. martha raddatz who has reported from the ground there, she is the first reporter to fly on a combat jet in a combat zone. >> on a clear morning, one of the air force's top pilots make a final check of his f-15 and his fierce array of weapons. >> this is a two thousand pound gps guided weapon. it is almost the wake of the whole plane. >> a bomb that could take out a
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city block. >> are you ready? >> i am ready. we are part of a mission today and we quickly link up with other fighter jets. >> there is a weapon in sight. they want someone to keep is on that. >> of the air controller that is with the ground troops coordinate's with the fighter jets as we fly through surrounding mountain tops and the surrounding valley. after an hour, week link up with a fuel tanker traveling 200 knots. the boom is lowered to deliver gas. no sooner are the jet refueled then we hear a transmission. >> the f-15 got a call that and
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are pg has been fired at the french troops. -- and rpg has been fired at french troops. >> he asks the fighter jets to drop a 500 pound bomb, a gdu-38. >> [inaudible] >> we just need one more rpg. >> but 300 feet from the tree line where the enemy is attacking, a school is visible from the air. the f-15 crew knows what a 500 pound ball and will do. -- bomber will do. -- bomb will do.
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do they risk of injuring children in the school? this is an extremely low level attack using the powerful 20 millimeter machine gun. it is much less likely to hurt nearby civilians or property. >> you are clear. >> the lead fighter jet dives toward the tree line and destroys it with bullets. >> that is too close to that building. >> and the crews of the fighter jets seemed frustrated by the insistence of the french to drop a bomb. >> [inaudible] >> but the fighter jets agree to a second strafing run. the hostile fire stops. the french troops resumes their
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patrols and our jets returned to the airfield, prepared to take to the skies again the very next day. martha raddatz, abc news, afghanistan. >> what impact do you think the fact that you were there had on american pilots about dropping the bomb? >> everyone takes a risk when they have a reporter. we went through all kinds of training to go on a jet with cameras. these pilots and the weapons officers in the back are incredibly professional. they took a risk by not knowing what was going to happen. they have no idea what was one to happen up there. i think that there is some nervousness. you do not know what is going to happen. you do not know how you will respond. i think that they were professional. they were pretty candid on those tapes.
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there was no censorship at all. they did look on the tapes to see if there were classified information that we should not show. the pilots were not wanting to drop those bombs. i know that the french did not like hearing that. that was an incredibly dynamic situation. >> did you hear from the french? >> i did not. i know the u.s. military did. ntsy to the french look and se drop bombs. i saw how the weapons officers were responding to that and they were professional. >> there does not seem to be an issue for the french to drop it there. but it does for the americans. >> there was a directive about avoiding civilian casualties. in that situation, it was clear-
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cut. they have a checklist of what they have to do before they can drop bombs. there have been some complaints over the years from troops saying that we are to nancy to drop bombs -- to antsy to drop bombs. you cannot drop a bomb. other situations are more dynamic. u.s. forces are under fire and taking heavy fire and there is collateral damage which is a terrible word that the military uses when they accidentally kills somebody. that is when the situation gets difficult. >> this is in may. when did you get the idea to do this? >> i got it years ago. i had been asking for years and years. what is difficult about this is that i am not a weapons officer.
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i took the back seat of that aircraft. they do not want reporters flying around all the time because they have a job to do. i think they finally said it was worth it for people to see what they do every day. i worked up the chain over years and they said you could do it. six months before that, i had to do an orientation flight in south carolina. we did that. i had to go through physicals. i had to go through all sorts of training and glasses. . did compression class'es we had an ejection seats class. if i had to reject, i would be done for. i would not be able to do that. i have faith that it would not happen and it did not happen.
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it is an extraordinary story because i think you imagine what it is like in those fighter jets. it is so dynamic. it changes so quickly. i am a little bit claustrophobic and i thought i would be really claustrophobic. but you are not. i felt silly in a flight suit. you had to wear that. you had to do all the regulation things that they do to go up there. >> how many cameras were involved in this? >> that was my producer, who was the photographer. i shot the scene where we were refueling. we had a camera on me. we had a camera on the pilot. they were lipstick cameras. we had a camera shooting outside. i have a hand-held camera and one of the weapons officers in
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another jet had a camera as well. when the engagement started, all bets are off. when we were just flying and doing patrols, we shot great video. >> how many planes were involved? >> there were three jets. we were an extra jet. we could go around different areas and go back and forth and we basically fall all over the country. -- flew all over the country. >> how much video did you shoot? >> tons of video. we had three cameras put up in the jet that i was in. it took days to set up this jet with these cameras. you do not want to interfere with any of the things going on in the jet. for in mine and one in the other. -- we have four cameras in mine
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and one in the other. we had hours and hours of video. we were pretty judicious about shooting. i was up for five hours the first and five hours the second day. >> how much did the public see? >> i think that the public saw a very best. >>we did the world news story tt you just did. then we did another story about how we did it, which is about seven minutes and it is still on the web. the only thing the public did not see our hours and hours of waiting. it is like any job. those fighters are on a patrol and nothing is happening. when something happened -- the first time we went up for five hours, it was an amazing day. they did not have an engagement at all that first day. the public did not see the first day. they saw mostly the second day.
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it was an amazing experience. >> in the end, how much did they have to say about what you could use? >> the only thing that they did it was -- there are often shots of altitude and where you are. they took that out for operational purposes. that is all they did is take out the parts that were classified the that they did not want to give away. it is not as if it was censored in any way. i know that they were nervous about how the french would feel with the pilots being so candid. other than that, they did nothing. some of the briefs that we were in when they were explaining what they were doing, we do not want to give anything away. >> in iraq and afghanistan, in
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all the time we have been there, we have lost 5874 people. the total casualty in this war is for 5848. -- is 45,000 zero hundred 40. -- 45,848. >> when we talked years ago about whether we were hopeful and you look at iraq today, i think he can go back and talk to a lot of people that say that we are happy that saddam hussein is gone. i know that we do not want to go over weapons of mass odestructin anymore. we largely ignored afghanistan for many years. you did not have the eye that
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you should have. that is probably why we are there in force. members of the bush administration would say that we had to transfer special forces and we have to transfer people from afghanistan to iraq over those years. they are asking themselves those questions as well. it is certainly fair to ask. i think there are still a lot of questions about afghanistan. the public does not think that the war is worth fighting. in iraq, you are still crossing your fingers. >> i am not saying it wasn't worth fighting. what did we get out of it? >> a relatively stable government in iraq. i think you have parts -- let me tell the good news. there are parts of afghanistan
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that you can look back and say that the days under taliban role, today, people are much happier. some people think that things are worse. they are in that stage of the war where they really do not know where they are going. take the statistics. say that things are going well in the south. people are much happier. if you have that many boots on the ground and you cannot hold an area, then we are really in trouble. the concern is what happens when those forces start moving out and that is what you have to look for. in 2006, it was the absolute worst time. >> how many american troops are in afghanistan right now? >> 48,000.
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they say that they are not combat troops. they are all, after -- they are all combat troops. i think that they feel pretty strongly about that. al qaeda in iraq probably moved into iraq because we were at war. >> how many trips to have in afghanistan? >> about 2500. that is probably as high we will go. >> this is a report with general campbell. >> martha raddatz is with the commander and the men and women trying so much to get that to happen. >> major-general john campbell from the 101st airborne division commands all forces in the volatile eastern part of afghanistan where the toll on his troops has been staggering. in july, just five weeks into his tour, he told us that 27 of
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his soldiers had been killed. he carried cards which each of their -- with each of their names on them. >> i have 76, right now. >> i lost another 45 from the 101st. >> the toll is especially personal for some. >> [inaudible] >> we later learned that his friend was a 32 year-old father of a young daughter. it seems that everyone in this combat unit, including this female has been in a fight. >> [inaudible] >> i think that people say that
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women are on the frontline. >today, after all this sacrifice and 30,000 additional troops, only 36% of the afghan people express confidence in u.s. forces. but we met this woman who told us that she was pessimistic about her future. today, she says that it is thanks to the u.s. that she has improved security. >> if the u.s. forces left, she said, we would be back to the wildest days. >the u.s. troops agree. everyone that we talked to, they see progress every day which they believe would ultimately lead to success. >> can we leave it -- can we win this war?
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>> the major general does not want to fool anyone. it will take time and it will take more sacrifice. martha raddatz, abc news, afghanistan. y sound cynical, but wouldn't this make a difference? are they on the spot on this? did they say anything to you when the microphones were off, positive or negative? >> i think that there is concern. i can describe as a jigsaw puzzle. at general campbell has a part of that puzzle and other people have parts of the puzzle and everybody is doing their part. every time you look at one of those pieces, there is some progress. they are doing what they should
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be doing. it is all about how that puzzle fits together. i know that richard holbrooke used to say that we have to stop these wars in afghanistan and he is right. you are fighting in the south. you are bringing takes to the south. that is not real counterinsurgency. yes, i think that there is concern about how all this fits together. in some places, there is an amazing article in the "atlantic monthly" recently. it talked about how the soldiers kept getting blown up by these larger and larger ieds. we have to go out tomorrow because we have to protect my brother. you read that article and you think, "what are they doing?
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what are they doing down there?" you do not quite know what the strategy is. you might have an overall strategy. i just completely finished obama is war. i have not revealed, -- obama's war. if you look at his speeches, he does not say that it is not counter insurgency. where is the connection between the two? there are a lot of questions that you have to ask about this war. >> you cannot go a day without seeing an article about it. >> the u.s. government is concerned about that. there are not a lot of options
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over there. anything in war, how far do you push them? are we happy with everything they've done? no. >> do we think they are doing another? no. -- doing enough? no. you have to be really careful about what you do with that. >> what is the end goal, you think? >> disrupt, dismantle, certainly destroy al qaeda. the one thing you have to listen to in afghanistan is to do not want to say that about the taliban. they do not say to defeat the television. the ft al qaeda, but do not defeat the taliban. -- defeat al qaeda, but do not defeat the tell them. the afghans need to take over. that will be a while. you cannot really defeat them. there is one which you need to listen to coming from the
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administration. it very -- very specific language from david petraeus. he and others have talked about successful counterinsurgencies taking 10 years. they have really just begun to fight. they got all the troops in there as of december 2010. general petraeus said that we are at the beginning of that clock. i do not think that president obama sees it that way. >> other than your reports from over there, where else do we get confirmation on a daily basis that you can trust? how many reporters are over there now? >> we actually have a reporter there most of the time. we have a producer over their most of the time. in a huge fan of a reporter from
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the "new york times." george packer has done some great stuff for "the new yorker ." another reporter for the "new york times" has done some great work. one great thing that he does -- i do this much less successfully than he does. he tells the story. you know these people. years and years of deployment after deployment. you want to tell the human story. talked-about the extraordinary number of casualties. that reporter really brings it home. i ran into him when i was in
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afghanistan. when you see these things, you cannot believe they are happening every day. people have no idea. it is extraordinary. >> how many years now with abc? >> this will be my 13th year with abc. >> and the job you had? the pentagon for how many years? >> the pentagon with abc -- i cover the white house for about three years -- i covered the white house for about three years. i started covering the pentagon in 1993. >> the secretary of defense that you really new? >> i knew secretary william perry. that was during the bosnia years. secretary gates. william cohen. we have been through a lot of secretaries of defense. >> secretary gates made a speech
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in kansas in the middle of 2010. this is the eisenhower library speech. i want to give you some lines and have you interpret them. he said, "secretary rooms filled lamented that there were 70 levels of staff between him and a line officer. the defense business board recently estimated that in some cases the gap between me and an action officer may be as high as 30 players. he goes on to say some other things. why can't he do anything about this. >> secretary gates has made some changes in trying to work on things like this. changing the pentagon -- you
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cannot even imagine how it is to change the culture, to change anything they do. people come in and say they will make these changes and a hit a brick wall. >> let me read some more. he said, "two decades after the end of the cold war led to steep cuts in u.s. forces in europe, our military still has more than 40 generals, admirals, were civilian equivalents based on the continent. yet we sold our allies over the boat in nato headquarters." >> i think he is getting rid of joint forces command. this is really terrible. i will not remember where this is. he is closing that down because they felt it was a redundant command. i think that small progress,
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even saying that is progress. >> department commission study but years ago to assess the black officer requirements of the services. the study identified 37 positions out of more than 3000 active and reserve billets -- >> he is pulling out his hair that he cannot get this done. the things that he have this -- he has done is progress. it is absurd. the red tape at the pentagon is absurd. the layers you have to go through. that is the part about connecting the dots. the dots are so far apart that you cannot possibly connect them.
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>> your time at the state department, how long? >> generally, i have had 1 foot in the state department in all these years. >> the time at the white house and under what presidents? >> president bush. about three years. starting in 2005. p that has to dof with your own education. >> i was speaking to some graduates in washington d.c.. of a read my biography and it sounded pretty impressive. -- they read my biography and it sounded pretty impressive. they asked how they could follow in my footsteps. i said it is too late. you would have to drop out of
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college, drink a lot of beer, and should a lot of cool. [laughter] i am honored to be here. in a bad example, but i am a very good example for making up for mistakes. learn from your mistakes. i managed to correct mine today. [laughter] i would -- [inaudible] >> a lot of people in this business -- i read somewhere where you were talking about --
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peter jennings did not graduate from college. brian williams did not drop out of college. >> it is a much harder way to go. it is stupid. i do not think it would work at all anymore. life experience is fantastic. i have so few hours to finish my degree and i dropped out. it was a stupid. i tried to see if i could possibly get my degree. they basically said that the requirements have changed and i would have to come back and take more classies. i said that this would not be happening. i asked if i could teach a few glasses. i did not mean to be arrogant. -- teach a few glasses. i did not need to be --
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one of the points that i really wanted to make with those kids is that they have to bridge between the civilians in the military. that is unique. the military has to stay in touch with the civilian world and the civilians have to stay in touch with the military. >> back to the university of utah. how many hours to to have left to do? >> i think i have 12 hours. now it has changed to two years. they were following those rules and saying the woman the teaches communications would be thrilled to have me in her class. i wrote a book. i did not want to bend the rules. that college degree is not going to be happening.
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>> there was a marriage in your family. >> my daughter, greta got married in april. she graduated from law school and is now a lawyer. she is at a firm in l.a.. she married my wonderful son-in- law, barry williams. they did not date in college. i am sure this is not an original line, but we gave her an unwritten -- and unlimited budget and she succeeded. >> your son, jake? >> he is a freshman at the university of michigan. i think we are paying tuition of their -- tuition there. he goes to the football games and basketball games. he is still npr.
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-- he is still with npr. >> going into these war zones, it sounds like you have been overseas may be 20 times since we last talked. >> has my family relaxed about that? >> yes. >> jake is the one that still gets concerned. we had so many family of dense this year -- so many events this year. he is the quarterback on the football team and i wanted to make sure that i went to all of his games. he went off to college and i said i was going to afghanistan for a couple of days. he said that i could not go now because he just parted college. i think that jake gets concerned. i think about a lot. >> i mention that because we are going to show a four minute video of some work that you do
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with the woodruff foundation. bob woodruff of abc. you -- are you afraid that you get too close? what are you involved in the foundation? >> raising money for the wounded because i have no problem doing that. abc has no problem with me doing that. i care for the wounded. i do not believe people have to be objective about the board. we are a nation that has sent young men and women to war. what ever you feel about that war and whether we should still be there, we have to take care of those. i have a love/hate relationship with veterans day. we should think about them every day. >> how does bob woodruff doing? >> amazingly well.
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he made a son of a broadcast and was fantastic. -- a sunday broadcast and was fantastic. i cannot be around bob and not think about his injuries. he is a walking miracle. i tear up one i have not seen bob for a while. -- when i have not seen bob for a while. he survived that horrible incident. he would be the first to tell you that he has slight problems reaching for words. he is just a miracle. he has a fantastic attitude. the woman that runs the foundation, they are both amazing. >> when was the wounded? >> in 2005, just weeks after he was named co-anchor of the newscast.
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an explosion rocked his brain. here is part of what you did for the woodruff foundation. >> i thought i was dying. >> you have to sink or swim. >> they have given our nation so much and have had so much taken away. this is why the bob woodruff foundation created remind.org. to remind us all of the challenges that service members and their families face and to stand by them on the road to recovery. >> it has been a long and hard recovery. >> whether the bonds are physical, psychological or both -- >> it is hard to think. >> the foundation has been there to ensure that these men and women get the support that they are often reluctant to seek >>
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they think you are ok. -- reluctant to seek. >> they think you are okay, but you are not. >> college scholarships for the brain injured or paying for a place to sleep for visiting family members, the foundation, through generous donations, let's the injured know that we are it there to help them, he'll their wombs, enrich their lives and lessen the burden that they so bravely bear -- heal their wounds, enrich their lives and lessen the burden that they so bravely there. >in 2008, our wounded veterans receive more than two million dollars from the woodruff foundation. >> he gets down.
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don't give up. >> the foundation encourages cooperation between government and the private sector and has focused on grass roots organizations in towns and cities across america, encouraging communities to welcome the wounded back home and to take care of their own. >we built countless swimming pools, bought their peak the equipment for rehabilitation centers and reintegrated the wounded through education, retraining, retreats and much more. >> they come around and say that we are here. >> this is how america will heal its wounded. the bob woodruff foundation is doing its part, community by community, family by family. when a wounded father knows for
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their children are getting the care that they need, the road to recovery will be a lot smoother. >> [inaudible] i am just so overwhelmed. >> it is the lesson that bob woodruff learn from his own experiences. families heal together. american service members and their families are the only ones in this nation that had been asked to sacrifice. we thank you for remembering that sacrifice. >> do not be afraid to ask for help. >> we ask you to continue to help and remind others to do the same. >> people like that help you realize it will be ok. >> support our troops is no longer a slogan, is an action.
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you can take action at remind.org. >> what is the foundation do? >> the foundation find organizations that will help the wounded. whether that is a recreational programs or other programs to help them find apartments. the executive directorw weeds out those that will not help and she raises money that goes directly to these men and women who are -- who we are helping out. early on in the war, she she and other marine corps spouses would help marines that came back.
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when you think about how on prepare this nation was for the number of wounded -- in 2004, i met her at bethesda hospital and she was looking for funds. i watched rene get money. when the wounded would come in, she would give them a check for the rest -- for their rent. you want members of your family to fly back there. if you have -- we can fly relatives back, but there are others that are not so lucky. how do you provide for child care for your own children? they will care for their children for the rest of their lives. the country does not do a whole
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lot of that. he have to raise funds privately. >> so, when you try to cover war and you have to rely on the military for access, and you see things that are not that good, how the report that? do you have to pull punches? >> i would have a -- the administration gets kickbacks all the time as a reporter. i go with general campbell because general campbell is honest. he probably gets heat for some of the things he says because he is just honest about things. i would think that probably not
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everyone wants to put so much focus on who has died or who has been wounded but there is not a time that that is not his focus. they have made progress, but look at the loss. i sense from you that that is something that i always look at. when i look at these young people that have been hurt or have post-traumatic stress disorder, you do not get that out of your mind. remembering a soldier that was 6 foot 4 inches when i saw him in march of 2009 and a few months later had both legs blown off and spent months at walter reed near-death because he had been evacuated in
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a situation where there was a dust storm and he had an infection. his family was by him every single day. he is an amazing story turret i worry about 10 years from now. -- he is an amazing story. i worry about 10 years from now. what will happen in 10 years when they cannot get a job or depression sets in. there are amazing stories that i worry about. >> if you were at the center of the geopolitical discussion about why afghanistan and what iraq, what would we hear that we do not hear in the news every day? why you should stay or what you should go? >> why do you think -- the relationship with pakistan. >> that is not my job to tell
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people why we should be there. >> what would you hear? what would i -- >> what would i here? you would probably hear people say that we should not be there. i hear that more than i ever heard it about iraq. because of iraq, people are more skeptical about afghanistan. because there were lessons learned in iraq, i think you would hear people ask what we are doing their. how could we possibly make that sacrifice? >> on a lighter note, here is some video from you and the former press secretary. >> the president has made it clear that he has these views.
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your cellphone. it was "ridin dirty." it is by shem didn't -- >> you said you were not particularly worried. >> we have had 25% of our staff cut. you have that in the news business all over. it is heartbreaking. it is also reality. the truth is, as we downsize, i think that we still have a very strong news division. i truly do. i am not just saying that because i am an employee of abc.
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you do the best job that you can. the reality -- people do not like to say that news is a business. have to survive on revenue. if advertisers are not buying time on these programs any more -- i am still optimistic. i still believe that people need news in out today i's different ways. there are not places to go for one half hour every night were you have all of the day's news. >> what has changed? you said that you were shooting your own video. >> i had to shoot that. i was the only one there. you travel with a three-person crew all the time.
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my producer, richard to which shoots a lot of our footage -- richard coolidge shoots a lot of our footage. that has changed. you have to concentrate even more on what you are doing. what richard might have done before as a producer, i probably have to do more of that because he is doing more camera work and producing. -- than producing. you are working even harder. we do not want our standards to go down. i do not want to be in a situation that i do not have back up in a breaking news of a .ent -- a news event news organizations all over have adjusted. when i look at layoffs at the " new york times," i see these
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reporters have been around they are someone you can't replace. you cannot respond -- cannot replace experience. you lost a lot of amazing people and "the post." all of these people that covered these beads forever -- these beats forever. >> where else do people go in this business when they do not have a job? >> son go back to local news. some go into public relations. some go into government. i think that is what you see to it the media has done a -- that is what you see. it is important to have experience in a professional media.
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things could turn around in a derogatory way. traditional media, people who try to be objective and try to give the news in a compelling way. this is what happened, and let me tell you about. i want to tell you about it in a way that you care about it. it is an objective presentation. >> how long do you want to keep making these trips? >> i can't imagine not doing them. i am not a great 10-year out planner. i want to do it as long as i can. i have been there a long time and i know abc thinks i and
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viable. -- i am a valuable. -- i am valuable. >> do you get any sense that the american people are less informed today because of the closing of all of the bureau's and newspapers and television? >> i think that news organizations have adapted. is it great that they are not doing as much about news? the public bears a responsibility there, too. they need to keep themselves informed. not just going to the top 10 searches. believe me, i go to our web site -- that should be your
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dessert. people should plan their days around a good meal of news. it is important that we, as a nation, stay informed. your viewers are staying informed all the time did it is important to teach your children that -- all the time. it is important to teach your children that. my son is 19-years old and it is important -- an important responsibility. the news plays up horrible stories and blood and people turn off the tv if those stories come out. fewer than 1% of americans are not affected personally. i want to tell people why this matters. i want to tell the affects of
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that war. i want to show that fewer than 1% of america what they are doing. i want to continue doing that as long as i can treat >> thank you, martha raddatz, we are out of time. -- as long as i can. >> thank you martha raddatz. we are out of time. >> for a dvd copy of this program call 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q&a.org. q&a programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >>
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