achieved additional operational capability and people freaked out especially considering that last week bob gatesannounced seventy eight billion dollars in defense cuts over the next five years so are these fears warranted or are we really a risk of starting a new arms race that america simply can't afford well joining me to discuss it is lawrence korb senior fellow at the center for american progress and a senior advisor to the center for defense information as well as dr james carafano senior defense analyst with the heritage foundation to them and thank you so much for being here i should be with you tell me first how gates taking a trip to china working towards mutual understanding and his proposed defense cuts last week do they really have anything to do with each other or are people just trying to beat the drums here well gates proposed seventy eight billion dollars in costs or put post increase of the defense budgets pledge budgets still going up and in fact in this decade even with the cuts proposed by you have gates if you control for inflation that's more than we spent in the first deca

well enough that if there is something i'd like to see, i will simply call them and say you know, bob gates and secretary clinton and others. i think that we are very, very tough on our president. i am going to make two separate statements here. juan bautista the president and general and on about our politics. i think we are tough on our presidents. the days that they are inaugurated the of the smartest human beings we have ever seen having your leader how did we every elected and i watched it happen over and over and over again. it is the loneliest job in the world. it doesn't get tougher than being president of the united states. i do think that the people that we egullet to that office are elected because they stood for office for the right reasons and they are trying to do the right thing and sometimes i disagree and sometimes i agree. but i will tell you something i think is going on in our politics quite apart from the administration and that is when you are seeing in the grass-roots movements and look, i am not one who agrees everything is being set for instance in the tea party. i

fact, i know them all well enough that if there's something that i'd like to say, i will say to bob gates and secretary clinton and others. i think that we are very, very tough. i'm going to make two separate statements here. one is about the presidency in general. what about our politics. i think what they are and i agree they're the smartest most amazing human beings have ever seen. and here later how did we ever elect him? and i've watched it happen over and over and over again. it's the loneliest job in the world. it doesn't get tougher than being president of the united states. i do think that people we elect in that office are we have stood up for the right reasons and are trying to do the right thing. and sometimes i disagree and sometimes i agree. but i'll play something that i think is going on in our politics quite apart from the administration and that is that what you're saying in this grassroots and i am not one who agrees with everything in a tea party. i mower pro-immigration and more pro-free trade. i would tell you what people are saying and the grassroots movement is the

i'm happy where i am and i'm doing everything i can to persuade bob gates to stay as long as he can where he is. >> secretary clinton, thanks so much for your time this morning. >> great to talk to you, erica. thank you. >> the battle over health care heats up again today. the house plans a vote on repealing the legislation. it fulfilled a campaign promise for republicans. begins a two-year effort to try to dismantle the law. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the latest for us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: chris, good morning. a day the house republicans have been waiting for for months. the day that get to vote to undo a law that they fiercely oppose. >> flexing their new political muscle, house republicans embarked on their repeal ert effort. >> we are already seeing premiums go up across the board and already hearing from thousands of employers across the country about dropping their employer sponsored health insurance. >> it will require all americans to get health insurance in 2014 and provide subsidies for those who can't afford it and young americans have kicked it to

it is worth noting that that incredible, wild man and profligate disefense spender bob gates, when askedabout the cuts proposed of 10% said, it would be catastrophic. that is the word used. as long as you have a secretary of defense taking that position and you still have the group that passed -- you could say that the coalition that passed start is what i would call a kind of center-right caucus coalition, because you had to put forward missile defense, and modernization, which is another question we did not factor in. i think you are not going to have a coalition in congress that will substantially cut the defense budget. >> alice? >> i'm not so sure. i think we will not know for a while how much the conversation has changed as a result of the fixation now, right fixation i think, on the dangers of looming debt. s-at i heard in the bowle simpson coalition was the bipartisanship that defense has to be part of cutting the budget. when you have a strong conservative like tom coburn and mike crapo and others joining with dick durbin to sign on to a proposal that you just read some have ael

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to close the military capability gap with the united states which is whatr, worries leaders like bob gates and those across the region. despite gains, china's soviet-style military remains inefficient, it has a larges thurm of strategic -- structural flaws, among them kind of a top-down cover your own butt culture that can impede change and progress. still, china's breathtakingican commercial rise suggests that it would be a significant mistake to assume that it won't get itsa military act together and, perhaps, sooner rather than later.as the chinese defense minister in the his statements has said thaa china will keep continuing to press ahead in advancing its military capabilities and that it is also going to respond to security challenges or threats by cutting off trade, cutting off trade, but also the supply of vital minerals, for example, rare earths as recently was the case with japan in the wake oftt the confrontation.utio the united states is beginning to respond accordingly, but it is doing so cautiously to play it neither too hot, nor too cold.ncem the most important announcement

gate bridge. really light ride across the span from marin to san francisco. >> less than a month after san as a woman with long buy perishables animal control is investigating another attack. bobyrd since it is attacked by two guards as he was walking his own docks in. he says he was not to the ground by a boxer and a lot written several times. he now has 10 stitches behind one ear. >> so i did like this to protect my boxer. the boxer was shaken my through. >> as lange on that lawn there after yelling all. luckily, the man hurt me. >> to the dogs came from backyard of this has down the street the honor had no comment, animal control sees the boxer ending what it says it's a dangerous dog attack investigation. a look to the forecast, another cold start as you head of the door louisa is keeping track. >> similar start to where we were yesterday, cold temperature off some below freezing, dense fog suddenly into the north bay, the out there. the afternoon rings lots of sunshine, dry, clearing the evening, cool as well. current temperatures, here's the cool spot of the north bay. below freezing at 31. fairfield about a degree above freezing in through livermore. thirties in places

bob decastro, that's incredible. >> our time is 8:5. >>> later today, a judge is expected to issue a major decision about the future of doyle drive. the southern approach to the golden gateridge is undergoing a $1 billion face- lift. also at the middle of a complex legal battle. some union leaders have gone to court to try too stop the process. they are angry about the use of a german company. they are also demanding that project goes out to local workers. >>> 8:36 is the time. sal-- i'm laughing. i shouldn't be laughing. it's a terrible situation at the grapevine. but also another terrible situation at the 680 and sal has listed a bunch of adjectives. >> well, people are upset. i've gotten a few emails and tweets from people talking about the 680. let's go to it. it's terrible, it's awful, it's wrested -- it's wretched. it's heinous. now, just in the last few m inutes, it's been opened up. chp will issue a special travel alert. they call it a sig-alert because they expect the traffic to be this way for a while. all of the side roads as steve mentioned. all of the side roads are j am- packed getting from walnut creek to san ramon. one more adjective. exyesable. my goodne