, real and something that will cause some pain but at same time we recognize defense has to play role in dealing with national deficit. >> brown: defense secretary leon panetta said the plan will shrink the number of army ground forces to 490,000 by 2017, down from a peak of 570,000 in 2010. also in the line of fire: two army brigades stationed in europe. and, the number of u.s. marines will be cut by 30,000 to 182,000 overall. in addition, the pentagon plans to delay production of at least 100 of the new, f-35 "lightning two" stealth attack planes. the air force, navy and marine corps had planned on replacing a portion of their aging aircraft fleets with those planes. at the same time, the plan aims to achieve president obama's goal of restructuring the military to make it smaller but stronger, more tech-savvy and more mobile. to that end, some parts of the military's budget will be beefed up with a new focus on commando forces like the one that killed osama bin laden and on cybersecurity. overall, panetta and army general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said they believe they've come

evidence, or threatening military security. >> at that end of october last year, 2010, the defense ministry and nationalurity department cooperated to obtain leads in the investigations. >> the defense ministry says that all should be cautious of china's intentions, even with the apparent warming of cross straight ties. taiwan officials say beijing has about 1900 missiles aimed at the island, just 100 miles away. the major-general is the highest-ranking military official to be charged with espionage activities. >> this has been quite a remarkable case, because he had been providing information in 2004, he was a major general since 2008 . hhe turned on information on apache sales made by boeing, and the optical cable network, which we built for them, was compromised by him. it was in bangkok that he gets recorded by t -- recruited by the prc. in what appears to be a love relationship, he recruits this woman, and his last job, as you can see, is military, electronic, and information department. he had intimate knowledge and privileged access to management systems, electronic codes, crucial military secret

so my viewpoint what we do overseas undermines our national defense and we have too many conservatives spend more money overseas you're going to get more defense, but i don't believe that. you get more militarism and a different foreign policy and they accept that reasoning domestically, you know, if the department of education isn't doing well, conservatives don't say, well, that's doubled as well and sometimes they do double, and the department of education, but that's not a conservative viewpoint. and just pumping more in, money, domestically and that's the way i'm consistent in, i look at that nationally and just sending over more foreign aid and invade another country that hasn't done harm to us, that doesn't give us more defense and people are catching on to this. >> i know, you've been asked this, but if you become president, what is the first thing you would do policy-wise? and people know, you say, you know, what your president and change, what would be the first thing you would do? >> one area where the president would have a commander-in-chief so you don't have to go looking

national defense isn't partisan matter, it's something that touches us all. we're just trying to be as honest and straightforward and analytical as we can so that we make this huge adjustment which is forced on us by the budget control act in the most sensible way so that has the least impact on our national defense. it's still a dangerous world. >> brown: thank you so much. >> thanks. >> warner: still to come on the "newshour": the republican battle in florida; running against congress; manufacturing's future in the u.s. and a conversation on austerity and politics. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: pirates in somalia threatened today to kill an american hostage, if the u.s. attempts to free him. the warning followed a navy seal raid that rescued another american and a dane, who had been held since october. the latest u.s. captive was abducted on saturday. his captors said today he's being moved frequently to discourage a new raid. one pirate said, "if they try again, we will all die together." in syria, governmen

this and i mean you would think you know the media hasn't been going after him it off for the national defense authorization act something that really is an erosion of our democracy of our rights here and yet when it comes to what's been going on or what was going on in the arab spring right when it came to tunisia to egypt our mainstream media was cheering for democracy forgetting about the fact that perhaps we may have supported some of these leaders for decades but suddenly we support the people so how do you you know counter the two things. well you know one of the ways that american exceptionalism is preserved is by constantly condemning other countries urging citizens in our country by saying oh look over there at the tyranny taking place in the middle east or in china or in russia or in a whole variety of other countries are verging our eyes what our own government is doing that's a very important tactic propagandistic leader of the us government uses to obscure its own acts and i can't even begin to tell you how often it is that whatever it is that the american media is condemning othe

governor romney, as president, would you have signed the national defense act as written? >> yes, i would have, and i do believe it is appropriate to have in our nation the capacity to detain people who are threats to this country, who are members of al-qaeda. look, you have every right in this country to protest and to express your views on a wide range of issues but you don't have a right to join a group that is killed americans, and has declared war against america. that's treason. in this country we have a right to take those people and put them in jail. and i recognize, i recognize that in a setting where they are enemy combatants and on our own soil, that could be abused. there are lots of things i think this president does long but i don't think he will abuse this power and if i were president i would not abuse this power. i can also tell you in my view you have to choose people who you believe has sufficient character not to abuse the power of the presidential and not violate our constitutional principles. but people who joined al-qaeda are not entitled to rights of

paige: espionage does unauthorized transmittal of national defense information to a foreign nation or power or political faction with intent to aid that foreign power against the united states. to give you an example of law, law says you have to have authorized transmittal of national defense information to an individual not authorized to receive it. there's a case that took place the 1940's3 heimie had a huge impact in espionage. he was a german who had emigrated to the united states. they instructed him to go to the library in new york and obtained information on production, national defense information. he obtained technical books and rode up and passed it on. that was uncovered by the fbi. he was arrested in june, 1941 and charged with espionage. he was found guilty of espionage and foreign agents registration act and appealed. he was passing national defense information was getting from the public library. he was determined not to be guilty of espionage because the interpretation of law that you had to have national defense information that is protected. that is the nature of the

guest: the first obligation is national defense as a national government. we were attacked. the decision was made to go into iraq as part of the war on terror. we went in with our people putting their lives on the line. when something like that happens, you give them every dollar of support they need. it is about giving people in the field and putting their lives at risk the support they need to make sure they have what they need to fight the war effectively. the two are not related at all. alle's no relationship at to a stimulus package and fighting a war. you don't compare the two. host: our guest has been judd gregg, a supporter of mitt romney. thank you for your time. we'll speak with bill adair with an organization known as politifact.com or they take a look at ads to gauge their truthfulness. media descending to cover the primary. today we look at the first oftwo radio hosts. >> we are in radio row in downtown manchester. there are about 30 different radio shows that will be broadcasting in about three rooms. they are expecting candidates to show up. on the board they

the number one priority ron paul believes in is national defense. he doesn't believe federal government should be doing most of the things they are doing. he does think they should be providing for our national dpeens. once you say that you have to decide what is in our national defense. you have to decide where the money is going to be spent. >> back row. >> it comes across as misrepresented how can you change it? if it comes across as isolationist very 1800's. >> iran has been a big issue. he doesn't care if they get a nuclear weapon. that misrepresents his position. he doesn't want them to get a nuclear weapon. he does care. can we contain iran or go to war? >> the three previous heads of central command all say a preef preempted attack could have repercussions that could hurt us and israel. they said this week they need to quit saying it's an attack against israel. the cuban missile crisis did we invade we blockaded it but eventually we negotiated and took missiles out of turkey and italy in order for russia to take missiles out of cuba. sometim

one of the greatest successes has been that we have a strong national defense.ody is about to invade our country or attack us. people have to be convinced that bringing troops home is one way we have a -- [inaudible] if it is the desire to maintain an empire i will do my best to spare you from that goal. i do not think an empire serves the interests of the freedom of an individual america. [applause] >> i feel strongly that protecting our environment is an urgent issue. i was wondering how to the enforcement of property rights, [unintelligible] how would you determine to prosecute when that violation is made? >> most people get worried when you talk about free markets and property rights. there will not be in good and -- environmentalists for it if you look at a government that has the most extreme amount of government, they have been the worst protectors of the environment. if you look at private property, most people who own property have an interest in taking good care of it. that comes up with the subject of pollution. if you have a strict understanding of p

ana mowbray will now be much more difficult thanks to the passage of the national defense authorization act by congress it was signed into law by president obama on december thirty first now within our bill provisions that allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it considers to be a terrorism suspect without charge or trial and with this increased leniency no doubt increased space to hold those prisoners will be needed but the n.b.a. clearly you know there's a major roadblock in this passage really was the death knell for attempts to close guantanamo and i think was president obama will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law even applying it to american citizens no person and military uniform ever volunteer the rooms are listed on to the military for the purpose of taking action against american citizens it's to protect american citizens protecting american citizens the reason given for guantanamo bay in the first place but ten years later it is having the opposite effect still the once temporary solution now looking m

the national defense authorization act with an amendment that says american citizens can get military detention without due process so the question is the legislative i guess rape on autopilot i want to bring him back back and dr paul craig roberts to answer that question i just gave a couple of examples dr roberts going back to hank paulson to bring back that history lesson to our viewers i know our viewers are very familiar with it and then looking at obama today and the kind of acts that he's signing it is the legislative rate at this point on autopilot. where you don't look the legislature is always the weakest element and it needs to be very defensive the scholars but for reasons that act and explained for years now the united states congress has just abrogated all of its powers and it has done nothing to hold the executive branch accountable when the executive branch behaved in criminal ways violating laws on the books and when the congress would have had the support of the people in holding the executive branch accountable so why have they. abrogated their power you know naomi

nation to rise up against a controversial national defense act and protect the american constitution. also online for your money well spent russia's defense ministry spends one million dollars to create its own computer games to promote patriotism among youngsters. and about her time at a time is daniel with the business but for now british police have been accused of crossing the line when it comes to upholding law and order by stopping and searching people they deem in any way suspicious those who are most often considered to be up to no good by authorities believe there's one reason behind it skin color are his either bennett reports. this is supposed to prevent terrorism police in britain have free rein to stop and search anyone they deem suspicious but what constitutes suspicious he's hugely controversial stopped a young black men and police still can't escape accusations of racism even from inside parliament. police will argue that it's because the people are typically looking for comfort sick so she could always backgrounds that starts to look very much like racial profiling is

nation to rise up against a controversial national defense act and protect the american constitution. and also money well spent russia's defense ministry pays a million dollars to create its own computer games to promote peace among youngsters those stories and plenty of others dot com. one of iran's top nuclear scientists has been killed in a car bombing in the capital tehran but stuff. reportedly supervised a department at the iranian enrichment plant he thought is a pointed the finger at israel. the u.s. here bomber ministration is denying any role in the death of money russian is the fourth atomic scientists to be killed in iran since two thousand and ten almost two years ago another physicist linked to the country's nuclear program died in a similar explosion tensions between iran and the west are growing rapidly as the us is already slapped around with more financial and oil sanctions and the e.u. plans to follow suit but russia urged europe not to aggravate the situation by following in america's footsteps talk to mass on them from the universal peace federation told me earlier

you mentioned we've done a lot of talking here on r t as well about the national defense authorization act and da one just like that we haven't really touched upon included in this legislation is a plan to allow for six national test sites where drones could fly through civil air space now obviously drones are here to stay but i want to get your thoughts on this notion that they'll now be sort of testing here in u.s. air space. well again this is just testing the public this is the rollout and this is to make sure they don't have any problems for the whole program gets in trouble so they can have absolute complete militarization of the sky with ground penetrating radar and infrared they've got ground penetrating radar in small units that can fly on small aircraft now that are unmanned that see black and white images of everything you're doing ten years ago they launched high altitude blimps that have ground penetrating radar that's already looking through our houses i mean this this is beyond anything that that the old soviet union had nazi germany communist china it is any other autho

governor romney, as president, would you have signed the national defense act as written? i would have, and i do believe it is appropriate to have in our nation the capacity to detain people who are threats to this country, who are members of al-qaeda. look, you have every right in this country to protest and to express your views on a wide range of issues but you don't have a right to join a group that is killed americans, and has declared war against america. that's treason. in this country we have a right to take those people and put them in jail. and i recognize, i recognize that in a setting where they are enemy combatants and on our own soil, that could be abused. there are lots of things i think this president does long but i don't think he will abuse this power and if i were president i would not abuse this power. i can also tell you in my view you have to choose people who you believe has sufficient character not to abuse the power of the presidential and not violate our constitutional principles. but people who joined al-qaeda are not entitled to rights of due pro

nation to rise up against a controversial national defense act protect the american constitution. also online for the moment money well spent russia's defense ministry pays one million dollars to create its own computer games to promote pictures of them among those stores available at all t.v. dot com. a u.s. drone attack has killed at least four islamic militants in pakistan the missiles which struck late last night hit an insurgent compound in north waziristan on the afghan border this comes just two months after an american air strike killed two dozen pakistani troops adding to the already tense relationship between washington and is a memo that the white house said the november attack was an error but pakistan rejected the families saying the strike was deliberate meanwhile pakistan's prime minister has fired his defense secretary as tensions between the government and the military grow chris woods a senior reporter at the bureau of investigative journalism at city university in london says islamabad's reliance on american aid means it will continue to tolerate drone attacks.

security in the national defense authorization act i also want to talk about where people are taking their money where their plan next so we will be right back with more weapons all alero but we are going to quickly go to that. all right it's time now for word of the day where we break down a financial term or concept for our very smart viewer but maybe not a financial expert and today it is fact tale now we talked about this a little last week when bill gross a founder of pimco wrote in his january note about the paranormal year that he believes is ahead and he mentioned that implosion and vine motile fat tailed outcomes are very new age and very two thousand and twelve ish and here c.e.o. mohamed el erian is writing about it today in the wall street journal the headline is investing in a fat tail world if we can bring it out just to show people what that looks like there it is investing in a fat tail world now it also makes sense to talk about this because this has everything to do with his paranormal world that our guest gonzalo lira is talking about why people are tryi

the number one priority ron paul believes in is national defense.doesn't believe federal government should be doing most of the things they are doing. he does think they should be providing for our national dpeens. once you say that you have to decide what is in our national defense. you have to decide where the money is going to be spent. >> back row. >> it comes across as misrepresented how can you change it? if it comes across as isolationist very 1800's. >> iran has been a big issue. he doesn't care if they get a nuclear weapon. that misrepresents his position. he doesn't want them to get a nuclear weapon. he does care. can we contain iran or go to war? >> the three previous heads of central command all say a preef preempted attack could have repercussions that could hurt us and israel. they said this week they need to quit saying it's an attack against israel. the cuban missile crisis did we invade we blockaded it but eventually we negotiated and took missiles out of turkey and italy in order for russia to take missiles out of cuba. sometimes c

engaging in illegal activity opponents call this censorship and as we discussed earlier the national defense authorization act obama recently signed into law allows the government to detain american citizens indefinitely so what's up with all these new laws and are we starting off two thousand and twelve with less freedoms well to answer just that i spoke to george hammond founder of survive and thrive t.v. and he told me why he's preparing for the worst case scenario take a listen. on the ground here we are just trying to get ready for armageddon i mean i was just talking to a kid yesterday at the coffee shop i think sixteen to twenty nine year olds are sick almost fifty percent unemployment. people just given up hope on finding work and the government is just continually enacting laws that make no sense whatsoever and you get to the point where you start giving up on the government and. i know this happened in russia where people just lost lost faith in the bureaucracy lost. in the leaders and i think we're getting to that point a lot of people a lot of my followers on my channel started t

nation to rise up against a national defense i. took huge. money well spent at defense ministry pays a one million dollars to create its own computer game to promote patriotism among. he is coming to you live from moscow three people have reportedly been killed by security forces across syria now the president has just spoken to supporters in damascus the second time in twenty four hours reiterating his dismissal of calls to step down but it is blaming the rest in the country on foreign funded terrorists promising to crush them with extreme prejudice the u.n. says damascus has stepped up its crackdown on protesters but assad claims no order was ever given to fire on civilians the president's pledge commitment to democratic reform promising a referendum on a new constitution by march. and soon after what some of syria's neighbors have their own take on the crisis turkey is one of a looming civil war and its troops are standing by for orders to intervene for if an author has details from istanbul. with the bloody status quo in the syrian crisis

fighting terrorism he least recently signed this new piece of legislation into law it's the national defense authorization act and this act allows for the indefinite detention of u.s. citizens and his justification when he signed this was quote ultimately i decided to sign this bill not only because of the critically important services it provides for our forces and their families and the national security programs it authorizes but also because the congress revised provisions i would otherwise have jeopardized the safety security and liberty of the american people so he is justified but he has said this a moment that he is very weary about some of the controversial things in the bells so. if there is such a controversial aspects of the bill why would he sign it and what are the greater implications of this. absolutely it's crazy he was force this law the apac law be in congress you have a bunch of people in congress which are decent buys by the overwhelming majority of the american population like congress' approval rate nowadays is what twelve ten twelve percent maximum they force this law

added section 1021 national defense authorization act of 2011. authority of the president, which is that people say would not effect it unfortunately is very unclear. now, those who argued on the floor of the house and the senate that civil liberties are in the united states, i don't think fully consider the implications and many of you so i'll be specific of subsection e. of 1021. because it says that the law should not be construed to affect existing law or authority relating to the united states citizens. but the reality is that current law on the scope of the president's authority to indefinitely detain is unsettled. it is not clear. so when you say it doesn't affect the, it doesn't affect the law that has not been clarified. and in fact, the u.s. government in the padilla case as well as the omar case as recent as 2009 claimed that the president had the authority to tame a suspected terrorist captured within the united states indefinitely without charge or trial. so, the claim of executive attention within the united states has not been test

[applause] so we can't have a stronger national defense if we do that. it's the prime responsibility of the federal government to have a strong national defense. actually, one of the things i can tell you is where we as our government has done a pretty darn good job. we have a military in a is superior to all the other militaries put together. we have more weapons and we're more capable and, believe me, nobody is going to invade us. and we're quite capable of taking care of ourself. but it doesn't mean that we should continue to spend money. i make a strong point that you should think about military spending being different than defense spending. if you spend money, say, in iraq fighting a war that was unnecessary, helping to put our government into debt of $4 trillion, which has happened with military spending over the last four years, if you do that that doesn't mean that we're stronger. that means in a we're financially weaker. and who knows, we may have more enemies now than ever because there's a lot of collateral damage that we like to dismiss. but

the guise of a new strategy to mask his divestment of our military and national defense. this strategy ensures american decline in exchange for more failed domestic programs. that from buck mckeon. >>> one place feeling the effects of the scaled back military presence is iraq where a string of bombings yesterday killed more than 73 people and wounded more than 100. bombers targeted shiite neighborhoods. it was the second major attack in iraq's capital since american troops left three weeks ago. the last attack coming late december when 63 died in coordinated bombings in the capital. >>> in egypt, prosecutors in the case against hosni mubarak are demanding the death penalty for the former egyptian president. mubarak who is facing trial for ordering the killings of some 800 protesters during last february's uprisings could be hanged if he is found guilty. however activists and relatives of the victims have expressed doubt that the 83-year-old would survive the lengthy appeals process. >>> and the labor department expected to deliver a bit of good news today when it releases

paige: espionage does unauthorized transmittal of national defense information to a foreign nation orwer or political faction with intent to aid that foreign power against the united states. to give you an example of law, law says you have to have authorized transmittal of national defense information to an individual not authorized to receive it. there's a case that took place the 1940's3 heimie had a huge impact in espionage. he was a german who had emigrated to the united states. they instructed him to go to the library in new york and obtained information on production, national defense information. he obtained technical books and rode up and passed it on. that was uncovered by the fbi. he was arrested in june, 1941 and charged with espionage. he was found guilty of espionage and foreign agents registration act and appealed. he was passing national defense information was getting from the public library. he was determined not to be guilty of espionage because the interpretation of law that you had to have national defense information that is protected. that is the nature of the in

paige: espionage does unauthorized transmittal of national defense information to a foreign nation or power or political faction with intent to aid that foreign power against the united states. to give you an example of law, law says you have to have authorized transmittal of national defense infmation to an individual not authorized to receive it. there's a case that took place the 1940's3 heimie had a hugempact in espionage. he was a german who had emigrated to the united states. they instructed him to go to the library in new york and obtained information on production, national defense information. obtained technical books and rode up and passed it on. that was uncovered by the fbi. he was arrested in june, 1941 and charged with espionage. he was found guilty of espionage and foreign agents registration act and appealed. he was passing national defense information was getting from the public library. he was determined not to be guilty of espionage because the interpretation of law that you had to have natnal defense information that is protected. that is thnature of the informatio