you have people serving our country in afghanistan or iraq than we have people who run family businessesr interests. what you want is a parliament where people can come and share their experience, and make some points. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i asked the prime minister this question before, and he did not answer them. how many jobs should an mp have? >> at the moment i am the member of parliament for west ox richer and the prime minister. to be honest, i do constituency work everyday. i would be misleading the house if i said -- spend more time on my constituency work than being prime minister. i think that is worth reflecting on. >> it has been so successful i want to come off for my right honorable friends and for members of the house could they set out the details of our long-term economy. >> honorable friends, the plan is about skills and about infrastructure and jobs and cutting taxes, but above all it is about livelihoods. it is about securing jobs and livelihoods for people across the country. and the fact that labour cannot talk about the economy any week is because we have cr

but even not in iraq or afghanistan-sized commitment still can commit thousands of troops for a long period of time. so it may not be the size of afghanistan or iraq so that's part of our challenge. secretary kerry, the -- one of the criticisms of the president's proposed aumf is it does not make clear that it is in fact this aumf and not the 2001 aumf that governs this conflict. if we passed a isil specific aumf would the administration have any objection to specifically saying that the isil aumf supersedes any authorization for the use of force in this engagement? >> senator, only if it was absolutely clear that there was no limitation whatsoever with respect to the other activities authorized by the 2001 aumf because that's the principle authorization with respect to al-qaeda and other efforts. so the president has made it clear that if the congress passes an authorization specifically that is what he will rely on with respect to isis. >> so there's no reason to have language that says -- >> as long as it's clear -- as long as it's clear it doesn't reach any of the other activities

if we have something like afghanistan or iraq occurs again, once we bump that cap, we are already issuing bonds. they are treasuries being bought by china instead of 85 million americans that bought them during world war ii. we are deficit spending. put a temporary tax in place that covers the war but has to go to a vote to the american people and once that war is over, the tax stops. >> we spend so much on defense. compare to what we are spending now compared to the height of the iraq and afghanistan war. >> i'm scratching my head hearing john and melissa talk like well, we need the money, but don't do the tax. we don't need the money, for crying out loud. we are spending, 20% is spent on defense. the pentagon budget is $600 billion. we are spending $10 billion more in inflation-adjusted money than in 2005 when fighting iraq and afghanistan. we are spending as much now as at the height of the cold war in 1985 when russia was spending $600 billion. you know what russia and china? they are spending less than half. do we need to spend this much money? do we need to spend more money than the

. >> basically that i just come out either from afghanistan or iraq and get all of you all. mike: internal affairs investigated the complaint suspended the officer without pay and notified the attorney general. >> in this scenario putting a gun to someone's head is unacceptable. mike: neighbors say while disturbing, these allegations are not shocking. >> i'm happy. they think they're above the law. they're cops. >> we could be sitting in front much our doorstep, they'll come around asking us questions like we're criminals. >> nobody should be afraid of the police. so -- and with everything that's gone on in our nation, there has to be some common sense in our policing. mike: the police department and state's attorney say they're working hard to maintain and build trust in the community. if convicted, officer santiago could get up to 25 years in prison. for that first degree assault charge, up to 10 years for the second degree assault charge. even more time in prison for other charges he's facing. reporting live in bowie, mike conneen, abc 7 news. mauree within the past year

students are exposed to a night-time round of gun fire, more tan an active duty soldiers in afghanistan or iraq. we are talking about a tidal wave of trauma, malnutrition, and it has a physical effect on these children over the course of their lives. >> thanks a lot. that's all for this edition of "inside story". we want you to talk about to your television. visit facebook page and give us your feed on what you here on the programme. we invite you to follow us on twitter. follow me or get in touch at ray suarez news. see us next time in washington. i'm ray suarez. >>> the red cross warns of what calls unbelievable destruction after cyclone pam plows through the south pacific. this is al jazerra. live from our head quarters in doha. also ahead on the program. help for nigeria as it fights boko haram. the government says foreign fighters are part of its campaign against the rebel group. >>> egypt launches a campaign to help boost its struggling economy and the pledges are pouring in. >> this is not murder, it's

students are exposed to a night-time round of gun fire, more tan an active duty soldiers in afghanistan or iraq. we are talking about a tidal wave of trauma, malnutrition, and it has a physical effect on these children over the course of their lives. >> thanks a lot. that's all for this edition of "inside story". we want you to talk about to your television. visit facebook page and give us your feed on what you here on the programme. we invite you to follow us on twitter. follow me or get in touch at ray suarez news. see us next time in washington. i'm ray suarez. >> no other sport can kick off mass emotion in indonesia like football, even if the national team languishes near the bottom of world rankings. >> indonesians, they're really crazy. we can see their ranking in fifa is going down, going down, going down. but every game in the stadium, 80,000 people, 90,000 people. >> even local competitions turn smaller stadiums into cauldrons of passion, with crowd turnouts

students are exposed to a night-time round of gun fire, more tan an active duty soldiers in afghanistan or iraq. we are talking about a tidal wave of trauma, malnutrition, and it has a physical effect on these children over the course of their lives. >> thanks a lot. that's all for this edition of "inside story". we want you to talk about to your television. visit facebook page and give us your feed on what you here on the programme. we invite you to follow us on twitter. follow me or get in touch at ray suarez news. see us next time in washington. i'm ray suarez. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour i'm in doha and top stories. >> we don't know what happened to our family. >> reporter: president makes emotional appeal for the world to help his people. as talks resume on iran's nuclear program saudi arabia says it wants the same deal. could it be good-bye to bibi the last full day of

practicing doctors in the house, practicing dentist, people who take part serving our country in afghanistan or iraq, and we do have people who run family businesses or have other interests. what you want is a parliament and actually, where people can come and share their experiences and make some points. instead of just having a lot of trade union sponsors. >> thank you, mr. speaker. he was question before, he did not answer then. >> i would say at the moment, i am both the member of parliament from west oxfordshire, and i am the prime minister. i do constituency work every day. but i would me misleading the house if i said i spent more time on constituency work than on being prime minister. that is what we are reflecting on. >> being so successful i wonder if my right honorable friend, for the convenience of the house and particularly for members opposite, could set out the details of our long-term economic plan. >> the plan is about skills, infrastructure jobs, cutting taxes, but above all, it is about evils's livelihoods. it is about securing jobs and livelihoods for people across the country. a

students are exposed to a night-time round of gun fire, more tan an active duty soldiers in afghanistan or iraq. we are talking about a tidal wave of trauma, malnutrition, and it has a physical effect on these children over the course of their lives. >> thanks a lot. that's all for this edition of "inside story". we want you to talk about to your television. visit facebook page and give us your feed on what you here on the programme. we invite you to follow us on twitter. follow me or get in touch at ray suarez news. see us next time in washington. i'm ray suarez. >> on an "america tonight" special report: drugging america. >> marv and linda lost their son jason last august. >> i never thought he was going to die. >> the tomah va told them his death was caused by an aneurysm. >> despite the va's most serious warning, they found the nursing home residents with dementia received antiscottics. >> daddy, come on wake up. >> is not waking up. i'm like what the heck happened to my father. what happened, why is he not waking up.

. >> you should support the islamic causes whether we're talking about somalia or afghanistan or iraqear to the west that awlaki is a growing danger, infecting the minds of muslims everywhere. just months after the skype call, united states army major nidal hasan goes on a shooting rampage at his base in ft. hood, texas. hasan kills 13 fellow soldiers and calls awlaki his inspiration. they'd exchanged e-mails. the cleric turned terror leader takes credit. his website reads, "nidal hasan is a hero." >> we all knew that he had to be killed. >> that was clearly stated. >> just one month later -- >> breaking news. >> awlaki sends the so-called underpants bomber to blow up northwest flight 253 as it lands in detroit christmas day 2009. >> a passenger tried to detonate some kind of explosive. >> the plot is foiled, but cia agents now know there is no time to lose. anwar awlaki is waging a relentless bloody war against americans, more than ever, storm says, the cia is realizing they need him. >> america as a whole has turned into a nation of evil. >> awlaki must be eliminated. but storm says

again actually this is the 14th straight week -- you know, we have not had a casualty in either afghanistan or iraq>> americans. >> yeah, american casualties, that's right. >> what about the iraqis? >> well -- >> based on that, you say our policy is going great in the middle east? >> iraqis are pushing back against isil. they are. and they're doing it successfully. >> actually, the iranians are pushing back on isil. because barack obama withdrew all of our troops from iraq, and left a vacuum -- hold on hold on. because barack obama had a complete withdrawal of all american forces from iraq, the iranian revolutionary guard now refusing request for us to send ground troops, every military commander is telling us to send in ground troops. you know who is leading the fight in tikrit? the iranian biggest terrorist operation in the entire middle east comparable to al qaeda. these are the people who were behind every attack against the united states since 1970. ghani, a terrorist leader is doing our job on the ground in iraq. >> right. and going in bush and cheney had nothing to do with this -- >> we're g

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iraq and afghanistan. it's on an unprecedented level. the fbi still has purview over hostages. even if they only have three ajents at the embassy and iraq or 12 ajents or whatever, they don't have the ability that jsoc has, that any of our special operators or just big army big marine corps, whoever. i think there needs to be a buck stops here person. whoever has the resources to bear, that's the way we should go. you're right. this is an example of something. we need things to be done in a way that is law enforcement sensitive, but, in many cases we have the assets or the intelligence community has the assets or it involves homeland security. this gets to the point that i was making earlier. i have to take a view of security and looks beyond all of the instruments of national power and everything that's going to carry us into the future. and these kinds of operations are a perfect example of that. with e where you need all of those parts to come together. you're right. we do need a choreographer when that time comes to bring all of those pieces together. the times in which we live require it. >> there's a lot of frustration with the way t

we said three or four years ago if the wars in iraq and afghanistan ended then it would take us three or four years to recover our readiness because we were ready for ten years for a particular kind ever conflict, which you know better than most. and so we had to kind of recapture our credentials for other kinds of military missions to include high-end and sequestration, when it hit us last time, readiness tends to suffer a deeper impact because you have to go get the money where you can get it, and some cases you can't get it in man power, you can't shed it quickly enough. you can't shed excess infrastructure quickly enough. you sometimes can't terminate contracts because of the penalties involved. you end up taking more than you should out of readiness. so, yeah i do think readiness always suffers more than we think. >> thank you. mr. secretary, you know, i share the concerns of my colleagues and other defense officials in terms of the detriments of sequestration, but i also am interested in implications for money that is also spent in wasteful and inefficient ways. specifically, i'

locals estimate that eighty to ninety percent of men here have worked in iraq or afghanistan. >> if you have a regular job you might get 5000 rupees - that's $100 dollars for a month. but what the agents promise, you will get $800 dollars for a month. even i will think of moving there to get a job. >> we visited a small tea shop and word spread that we were looking to talk to people who had worked on bases. it turned out this man serving tea himself had been recruited for a job in afghanistan - with supreme, a contractor that supplies food and fuel to nato. >> whether they made it to afghanistan or not, everyone here had a story about how they had been cheated. this man, nagaraj, paid three thousand dollars to an agent for a job as a cook in afghanistan. but when he arrived at the base, he was told he would be working as a waiter for a much lower salary. >> at bagram, the largest us base in afghanistan, nagaraj worked for ecolog, the same company that ravi had told us about. ecolog is one of the most prominent subcontractors in afghanistan, working on both fluor and dyncorp contracts. >

we don't foresee having to conduct another campaign like iraq or afghanistan and that's the one thing that is ruled out in the formulation you describe. elsewhere, we have substantial flexibility under the president's formulation and i welcome that, because flexibility and widespread support are the two things that we need most. chairman, do you want to add anything to that? >> there's no term in our military tax on my that's enduring offensive. it's a statement of intent by the commander-in-chief. it does allow us to execute the campaign as it is currently designed. >> okay, thank you, i appreciate that. but maybe if you can for the record, provide it to us. i think it's important to define the provision of the request. if you can provide it in writing some clarity as to what the president means by enduring combat ground offensive operations. thank you. >> thank the gentleman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for joining us today and thank you for your service to our nation. we have heard a lot about how we are going to address future challenges in our military. obviously, a lot

it may not be the size of afghanistan or iraq, but that is our question. two final questions. secretary kerry, one of the questions the president proposes -- it does not make clear that this aumf would the administration have any objection, specifically, saying the isil aumf supersedes any use of military force in this engagement. >> senator, only if it was absolutely clear that there was no limitation whatsoever with respect to the other activities authorized by the 2001 aumf. regarding al qaeda and other efforts. the president has made it clear that if the congress passes an authorization, that is what you will rely on with respect to isis. >> there is no reason not to have language -- >> as long as it is clear it does not reach any activities as authorized by the 2001. >> finally, secretary carter, bo boko haram pledged allegiance to isis. >> the language of the proposed authorization anticipates, as i indicated, the possibility of other groups allying with isil. the aumf would cover such groups, if they also have the intent of threatening americans. so, both of those test

afghanistan. >> or another iraq. >> after 2006, this is one of the 20th poorest countries in the world the ill illiteracy report the unemployment, as you said in your report, the houthis separation movement in the south also will try to recreate south yemen and abd rabbu mansour hadi, his palace was attacked today. >> has yemen seen an attack like this this brazen, two mosques two suicide bombers dozens of people killed? >> yes. we have seen that in october last year but it was claimed by al qaeda when they have a houthi demonstration in sanaa after they took over the capital. >> what was if relationship? >> there were 50 people killed. >> what's the relationship, because al qaeda and i.s.i.l. divorced. >> they did. >> but i.s.i.l. was too extreme for al qaeda. >> they didn't want to call the shiite expansion and i.s.i.l. also being attacked by iranian militias in tikrit, in lebanon. >> and is iran supporting the houthis? >> of course, it goes without saying there were some shifts confiscated and they went to court and there have also been reports that new shipments coming. it goes without saying, even i

and so it may not be the size of , afghanistan or iraq. that is part of our challenge. final questions. secretary kerry, one of the criticisms of the presidents's proposed amuf is that it does not make clear that it is this amuf and not that he doesn't want that the 2001 -- and not the 2001 amuf that governs this situation. the isil amuf precedes any other amuf? secretary of state john kerry: only if it was absolutely clear that there was no limitation whatsoever with respect to the other activities authorized by the 2001 amuf. that is the principal authorization with respect to al qaeda and other efforts. the president has made it clear, if the congress passes an authorization, that is what he will rely on with respect to isis. senator menendez: there is no reason -- secretary of state john kerry: as long as it is clear. senator menendez: over the weekend, boko haram declared allegiance to isil. would they be a target? >> it anticipates the possibility of other groups aligning with isil. the text says the amuf would cover such groups that associate with or fight alongs

to this day, brian we have no , treaty with iraq or afghanistan. could choose to pull our troops out tomorrow. there is no force of law or anything that would prevent it. our enemies judge us based on past performance. if they are in iraq they have , seen us leave in 1991. they believe we will leave again in the fight against isis. if they are in afghanistan they , saw us pull out when the soviets collapsed in 1989. they have heard us make noises about pulling out now. the taliban is waiting us out. enemy advances, we retreat. enemy retreats, we advance. brian: it that, you cite in the book that these wars cost us a couple of trillion dollars, not of it paid for, all borrowed. 7000 people have lost their lives. general bolger: 7000 military people. the 3000 civilian people we lost on 9/11. brian: is any of this worth it? general bolger: that is where we have to lay out the balance sheet. i would say what has been accomplished, a great deal of attrition against al qaeda. the terrorist networks that at us on 9/11. the old al qaeda with bin laden is n

there is one limit to that which is an afghanistan or iraq-like long ground campaign. that is not foreseen so the aumf does not request the authority to conduct that. dr. wenstrup: that does not explain why it is a good idea, but thank you for your answer. i yield back. >> it brings back to my mind the issue of gitmo. do you support the president's plan on the issue of gitmo? do you support the president's proposal to close it by the end of the year and transfer the terrorists back to u.s. prisons? sec. carter: thank you for that question. i don't think the president has a plan to close gitmo and return the detainees to this country by the end of the year because there is a law that prohibits that. the president does have the stated intention to close gitmo. i am in favor of the safe closure of guantanamo bay. rep. walorski: does that include the u.s. prison system? do you support them coming back to the u.s. prison system? sec. carter: there has to be some final disposition. that is an option available. just a moment. it is now forbidden by law to do that. rep. walork

to sustain an american forward in combat like afghanistan or iraq is $1 million a year.can finance, train and put effective afghan troops in the field as we do today for pennies on the dollar. so the efficiency of this i think is very, very important to underline. and i go back to what mr. gates and mr. megrue were saying along with mr. affleck, the cost here is minimal. you leverage the private sector and at the end of the day, the security is iceberg. the tiny tip that sticks up is the high end capability. so i think for those two reasons, taking money away from development and diplomacy and putting them into defense where we have strong levels of resources would be a significant mistake. senator graham: scott, would it be possible for you to have done all of the transformation in terms of the coffee business in creating disposable income without the government infrastructure that exists today? mr. ford: if you don't have that apparatus in place guys like me have no where to go. senator leahy: the chairman's mentioned the efforts that are going to be made to cut this b

there is one limit to that, which is an afghanistan or iraq-like long ground campaign. that is not foreseen so the aumf does not request the authority to conduct that. dr. wenstrup: that does not explain why it is a good idea, but thank you for your answer. i yelled back -- i yelled back -- i yield back. >> it brings back to my mind the issue of gitmo pr. do you support the president's plan on the issue of gitmo? do you support the president's proposal to close it by the end of the year and transfer the terrorists back to u.s. prisons? sec. carter: thank you for that question. i don't think the president has a plan to close gitmo and returned the detainees to this country by the end of the year because there is a law that prohibits that. the president does have the stated intention to close gitmo. i am in favor of the safe closure of guantanamo bay. rep. walorski: does that include the u.s. prison system? do you support them coming back to the u.s. prison system? sec. carter: there has to be some final disposition. that is an option available. just a moment. it is now f

that is the principle insurance against it turning into iraq or afghanistan. it's not what's needed here. speaking as secretary of defense and not a lawyer, it seems to be the logic that brought us here and i understand it. >> thank you. i do not question your sincerity when you say it isn't contemplated, i truly believe you that it isn't contemplated. i have to deal with words 15 years and now i have to explain my kids and their friends and their kids' kids that something i voted for him to thousand 15 still has is that war in 2030 in 30 different countries. ok? it is an ongoing threat and we need to keep the separation of powers, we need to vote on these things. the reason that we have to keep it precise is that i cannot vote for something that will enable war in libya, nigeria, yemen and all these places of 100,000 troops. there has to be some limitation. it is the politician and the next politician after you. thank you very much. >> thank you. i have one follow-up question for chairman dempsey and secretary carter. i feel like if you wanted to miss my last

iraq, afghanistan and pakistan. the investigators found the war has directly or indirectly killed around 1 million people in iraq, 220,000in afghanistan and 80,000 in pakistan a total , of around 1.3 million. we are joined now by two guests who worked on the report. hans von sponeck, former u.n. assistant secretary general and u.n. humanitarian coordinator for iraq, who in resigned his 2000, post in protest of the u.s.-led sanctions regime. he is the author of, "a different kind of war: the un sanctions regime in iraq." von sponeck is currently teaching at the university of marburg in germany. he joins us by democracy now! video stream. and dr. robert gould is with us from san francisco, he's the president of the san francisco bay area chapter of physicians for social responsibility. he wrote the foreword for the new international edition of the report, "body count: casualty figures after 10 years of the war on terror'." dr. robert gould, the figures laid out in this report say 1.3 million people have died in iraq, afghanistan, and in yemen. and it says that this could possibly be not in over estimate, it says it is the

government used in iraq or afghanistan. when i worked for dyncorp dyncorp is not a mercenary corporation. it's what i would call a military enterprise are. all the contractors that are armed or military enterprises. this comes from the 30 years war to a trade-in raise military military forces would not deploy them. they would use them to augment a standing national army, not to wage their own wars. that is actually what we saw in iraq and afghanistan. military enterprises shall not mercenaries. why was there such an turning to the contact? it wasn't just because they fill crucial gaps. they also did some things very well. they are generally cheaper. they can be better than government forces at certain tasks. they're good stability operations. they bring innovation. they have flexibility. they don't hold turf wars etc. but there are also concerns. obviously profit motive to killing is a serious concern. moral hazard lowers the barriers of entry too complex for policymakers could i do want to dwell on the slide. we can can di

from the experience with isil in syria and iraq to be completely out of afghanistan by the end of 2015. >> whether you think the two situations with comparable or not, clearly they have become conflated in people's minds. we think of iraq and afghanistan kind of in concert anyway. so the fact that there are many issues with isil in iraq certainly makes this administration a little more cautious about how badly things might go in afghanistan. >> douglas, please stand by because we're going to go to afghanistan now, where they are watching this speech closely as well, that's where we're joined by jennifer glasse our afghan reporter there in kabul. jennifer what is the sense in afghanistan about what they want to hear from the afghan president? >> reporter: afghans, del, really would like to see ashraf ghani move forward politically with his presidency. he was inaugurated six months ago, and he doesn't even have a cabinet. so many afghans are very frustrated with the slow pace of change here. so while i think some have been encouraged by the fact that the u.s. troop withdraw is slowing down, just as ghani is getting ready to speak to the joint ses

iraq and afghanistan veterans, the new folks in your caucus, feel that way too? >> i can tell you that those who have served in this post 9/11 conflict, whether in iraq or afghanistan, have a different perspective, and obviously it comes from our first-hand experience in being able to ask tough questions, not in a partisan way, but in a way that is informed by our experience and the experience of our brothers and sisters in uniform who are still being deployed and who are still serving overseas. we come out on different sides of these issues of when and where our troops should be serving in combat, about what our strategy must be to defeat our enemies, but the veterans who are part of this caucus, are asking these questions, not with partisan blinds on, but actually trying to see what's in the best interest of our country. >> i feel like the thing that i have seen in terms of veterans advocacy since 9/11, groups like iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, have been so supportive of the creation of this new caucus, i feel like they have been able to cut through. our current generation of veterans have been able to cut through partisan non-sense and get stuff done

that if we -- that pulling out of afghanistan or out of iraq or new problems in syria or iraq are somehow unforeseen and we can't plan for them. if we've been in this kind of period since world war ii, why is it that only now since 2012 has the state department started requesting oco funds? now, prior to that, i understand there were supplemental appropriations that went to state for various contingencies. but it's only since 2012 these oco funds have been requested. and in my view and i think the view all of us have is that the state department is becoming overly reliant on oco funding. you described these as temporary, as unforeseen and something we need to move away from, yet who seem to be overly reliant on them. do you want to comment on that? >> you're right. we are and it's because we can't get the budget increase we need to institutionalize it. put it in the budget. i mean, we're already asking for what i think is tantamount to -- if you take all of our foreign assistance because of the oco it's about a 14% increase. if you take our -- or an 8% increase. if you take the -- just th

isis thinking about how it would work for people like you whether we are talking about afghanistan, syria iraq or whatever one of the concerns is that it has more restrictions on isis than the current aumf has on al qaeda. some of these groups live side-by-side. so to me there is just a commonsense concern here that if you have got two different standards to go after two different terrorist groups how do you have the intelligence to know which is which and operationally you have to have a lawyer by your side to make every single decision. if it comes to be that way and this is a big if and again i'm not trying to -- but operationally with that not be a matter of concern? >> sir thanks for the question. and the commander on the ground would tell you he wants as much flexibility as he can get so any policy that provides commanders on the ground the flexibility to make decisions in a timely manner is something we would be in favor of. you are right, the insurgents and i can only speak for afghanistan but the insurgents inside of afghanistan in many cases feed off of each other and they are interrela

his election promise in 2008 was to withdraw from iraq or afghanistan. when it started in 2011, i think on the one hand it was a suppress. it made him intent on not going back to the region seeing that we have been sent out to this region. initially, he was very much concerned about actually having some sort of trying to support the nuclear issue, rather than having another confrontation with iran in syria, and i think that actually was because when the news broke out about the secret talks between the united states obama administration and iran in oman starting in 2012, 2013, i think that was why they were reluctant and tried to weaken iran and syria. he decided to have some sort of talk with iran. >> there has been a lack of international statesmanship when it comes to dealing with a problem in syria. that applies to the international diplomacy. we have seen three u.n. envoys kofi annan famously left the judge saying mission impossible we saw lack tar row homey, his efforts came to nothing. he doesn't seem to have made head way. they realise that this

i think we are looking at a generation of conflict, whether it's in afghanistan or pakistan or yemen and the saudi peninsula, or iraqsyria, or libya, or algeria or tune eeshia. i think there are so many parties that want to fight each other. it's tribal. it's ethnic. sectarian, and it's fueled by arab oil. >> you mentioned yemen. what led to the decay of yemen? i mean could the u.s. and allies have prevented this breakdown? and will yemen now of course become grounds for al qaeda and isis to fester? >> yemen has been the new franchise. it was the al qaeda franchise which was doing the most international activities. what we see now in yemen is the iranian backed -- the houthis, who are backed by iran. they are shiites. and the al qaeda sunni, and they are going at each other along with a lot of other tribes in yemen. as the former director of the cia told me the head of yemen, the president, whatever the title is, is not really a chief executive officer. he is like a juggler, he has all these fwhals the air, he has to keep this tribe happy that tribe happy. >> the iran going to be the head mess master juggler, they a

it may not be the size of afghanistan or iraq. secretary kerry, one of the criticisms of the residence proposed amuf is that it does not make clear that it is this amuf and not that he doesn't want that the 2001 -- and not the 2001 amuf that governs this situation. the isil amuf precedes any other amuf? secretary of state john kerry: only if it was absolutely clear that there was no limitation whatsoever with respect to the other activities authorized by the 2001 amuf. that is the principal authorization with response to al qaeda. the president has made it clear if a congress passes -- senator menendez: there is no reason -- secretary of state john kerry: as long as it is clear. senator menendez: over the weekend, boko arouharam declared allegiance to isil. with a be a target -- would they be a target? secretary of state john kerry: thedefense secretary carter: the language indicates the possibility of other groups aligning with isil. the text says the amuf would cover such groups that associate with or fight alongside if they als

needs from the 2001 and 2003 authorizations in the wake of the afghanistan attacks -- or i should say prestaging the afghanistan war and the iraqey are now coming to congress. the day after the election president obama went before the press and announced he would be seeking approval of congress through a new outlined use of force. no american combat troops on the ground that phrase of course del is something that has been a subject of controversy. it has enough wiggle room in it and you will see a lot of close questioning on what that means. there are hawks on the republican side who have said we do need troops in iraq if we're going to turn back isil. their stunning lightning strike last summer across sections of western syria and eastern iraq. and now as the united states continues its training exercises with elements of the iraqi army and the iraqi army is going to be taking the lead in the spring offensive, but the principle goal to retake the second largest iraqi city of mosul, that will be a subject of close questioning as well. a lot of people will want to know what role are american troops going to be deployed. will tha

that's the principle insurance of it not turning into iraq or afghanistan. >> reporter: but skepticism cuts across party lines. >> basically a vote on war and peace and life and death. >> reporter: some worry the administration's request is too broad. >> i can't vote for something that's going to enable war in libya and nigeria and yemen and all these places with 100,000 treeps. >> reporter: secretary of state kerry fired back at a few of the 47 senate republicans who wrote iran in an attempt to scuttle a nuclear deal. >> the way we've proceeded with our negotiations in iran have impacted our trust level with these critical allies in this coalition. >> senator, that actually is flat wrong. >> reporter: kerry called the letter irresponsible. >> and a whole bunch of people are trying to give this a grade before the test has even been taken. >> reporter: many of the same republicans, though, find themselves on the president's side when it comes to authorizing the fight against isis. and right now it looks like that authorization may rise or fall on the votes of democrats. live convict tap

the problem of being abused as a child is as rough as the battleground in afghanistan or iraq. we must provide the safe haven andsand the therapy and the mental health help. i gave a graduation speech. she had dropped out of high school pregnant at the age of 15. she had come under the spell of a trafficker who took her in, made her a sex worker and she ended up having three additional children. she was almost lost for life. but finally some good person found her they brought her into the county school system, they found a way for her to go to the alternative school. she ended up graduating number one in her class and going to georgia institute of technology in atlanta. a life that was saved but only saved because people reached out to her. with he need need to encourage that and produce that. back in my home state of georgia in high hometown of roswell georgia, there's a guy by the name of dave mcleery. he's a rotarian who two years ago took this project on as a passion, to be a spokesman for those who are abused, trafficked and thrown into prostitution and pornography. he's m

totals from the so-called war on terror in three countries -- iraq, afghanistan, and pakistan, and the investigators found "the war has directly orndirectly killed around one million people in iraq, 220,000 people in afghanistan, and 80,000 in afghanistan -- pakistan. not included are further war zones such as yemen. the figures are approximately 10 times greater than decision-makers are aware. this is a conservative estimate, they wrote. they say the true tally could be over 2 million people. president obama says he continues to evaluate his approach to the israel-palestine conflict following benjamin netanyahu's rejection of a two state solution. u.s. officials might take steps including no longer vetoing resolutions critical of israel. speaking to reporters obama said a peace deal is unlikely while netanyahu is enough is. president obama: i will continue to do whatever i need to do to make sure that our friends in israel are safe. that is what i have done since i have an president, and that is not going to stop. so, the israeli people need to know that, but i am required to evaluate honestly how we manage israeli-palestinian r