bob gates to his counterpart, mike mullen to his, constant communication. the military was the best hope for transition in egypt and we will find out if it is not up to the task. >> although -- if it is up to the task. >> all those weapons say "made in the united states," colby. >> they are key to the transition. they can provide the stability. but the question is greater than egypt now. you can imagine in riyadh, kuwait, the gulf states, >> this week on "inside washington-- rif states, -- riyad, kuwait, gulf states, tel aviv. >> i think they're glad it turned out peacefully so far. one thing that strikes me about the whole experience, for three weeks or so these people have been in the streets. really you had one bloody day. given the number people down there, it is remarkable that more were not killed. this is our first glimpse of the egyptian people. we don't really know them. i think they have shown remarkable tenacity, smarts, patients. >> encourage. -- and that courage. >> and that courage, yes. we don't know what is going to happen. but this is basic

then you saw a visit by secretary of defense bob gates, and a visit by secretary of state hillary clinton, not just azerbaijan, but to the whole region. secretary gates delivered a letter from president obama. we seem to go from one extreme to another of ignoring azerbaijan and then smothering it and, and there needs to be a more moderate approach that i think does take into account the interests that charles identified, which is energy and, and economic security, but also democracy and human rights. the way i would describe it is, it's a three legged stool. we have interests in energy, we have interests in security, but we have equal interests in seeing azerbaijan develop in a more democratic fashion, respecting human rights, and i don't think we've seen that so far. >> considering that this region is already, as we mentioned in the beginning, a bit obscure to many americans, does going the pendulum approach also make it difficult for americans to see what u.s. interests are in the region? one minute it's energy, we need to become energy independent. another minute it's human rights or d

as secretary of defense bob gates told the senate armed services committee just yesterday, we cannot afford to make that mistake again. or consider iraq where the transition to a civilian-led mission is helping the pentagon save $45 billion. and the state department and usaid require an increase of only $4 billion to make sure that we are robustly engaged with the government and people of iraq. that is a good deal by any standard. so we are working with congress to insure that the civilian surge in afghanistan and pakistan receives the support it requires now and in years to come. now, i will not sugar coat the fact that the afghan government has, from time to time, disagreed with our policies, and there is no denying the challenges that our civilian efforts face in afghanistan. corruption remains a major problem. fighting fraud and waste is one of our highest priorities. a major focus of the civilian surge has been expanding our presence in the field, getting more experts out to provide hands-on leadership of our development projects. we have partnered with the military to put in pl

president obama, secretary of state hillary clinton, joint chiefs chairman and defense secretary bob gates have spent the last several days working the phones talking to their counterparts in egypt and across the country as the violence escalates on the streets of cairo. they're driving home the point that it's time for a peaceful transition of power and they're emphasizing that it needs to happen now not in september as the president is planning. >> well, now means yesterday. because when we said now, we meant yesterday. >> reporter: now as more shots are fired this morning the leaders of france, germany, britain, italy and spain are issuing a joint statement echoing the message that a political transition must start now. president obama is attending the national prayer service here in d.c. this hour and he is expected to speak soon. we'll be monitoring that to see if he makes any comments about the situation in egypt and have that for you during my next update in about an hour. for now live in washington d.c., allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we'll also be watching live video out

as secretary of defense bob gates told the senate armed services committee just yesterday, we cannot afford to make that mistake again. or consider iraq, where the transition to a civilian-led mission is helping that began -- the pentagon save $45 billion, and the state department and usaid require an increase of only $4 billion to make sure that we are robustly engaged with the government and people of iraq. that is a good deal by any standard. so we are working with congress to ensure that the civilian surge in afghanistan and pakistan receives the support it requires now and in years to come. i will not sugarcoat the fact that the afghan government has, from time to time, disagreed with our policies. and there is no denying the challenges our civilian efforts face in afghanistan. corruption remains a major problem. fighting fraud and waste is one of our highest priorities. a major focus of the civilian surge has been expanding our presence in the field, getting more experts out to provide hands-on leadership of our development projects. we have partnered with the military to put i

i would mention bob gates, secretary of defense. we worked together in the jimmy carter administration. i would also recommend -- recognize hillary clinton. we are not going to hear much about this looming crisis tonight. i hope we don't feel. it is going to give the things we put in place a chance to work and i am hopeful that come next year, 50 years after the cuban missile crisis that president obama will deal equally well with the crisis that he faces. thank you very much. [applause] are there questions? i hope so. >> i am a freshman. you enumerated many similarities between kennedy and obama but there seems to be one big difference how kennedy was deal with the cuban missile crisis. he had a specific enemy and representative who he could call up and send a letter and crucial of controlled the opposition. and in afghanistan and pakistan, how does that difference influence how obama can deal with this situation? >> wonderful point and right on the button. it is what makes the question of dealing with radical islam so difficult. t

alone says an awful lot about the time we have spent together and certainly not just myself and bob gates, but so many in this room who work so closely with those of us in the pentagon. i would hope to leave several messages today but first of all one of them would he just to say thanks, thanks for what you do, thanks for what you do for our country and thanks for what you do for people around the world. certainly as someone that grew up in the navy, i was trained very early in ports around the world how important a country team was and actually it was a very well blended interagency team in whatever country i existed, and so came to have an understanding about that and certainly look at that at a much higher level and can't say enough about the importance of the team right now. as someone who has spent over four decades in the military, i am very fond of saying that you know we don't create policies, we execute policy. policy has the lead antiwar at the floor in that regard. obviously we have been going through some fairly significant challenges in the last few days. and it is very easy

it is recognized as a board for national security by bob gates, the only time in my experience i can remember the defense secretary consistently advocating for bigger development budget for the state department. because he believes it. we've seen in the present administration that the economic agencies all recognize that this is important to america's ability to increase exports and our economic standing in the world, to do this kind of investment. and we've made almost no progress in congress. in fact, the last election signaled a big move the other way. madeleine albright and sandy and i were just talking about being worried to preserve the development budget that we have. that is an irony of democratic politics. if you took a poll in u.s. the american people, and it has not changed in 30 years, how much of our budget we should spend on development assistance, they would say between 3% and 5%, no more. how much do you think it will spin? 10%, 15%, too much. what is the fact? we spend 1% or less. no matter how many times we say it, it does not register. so even though every member o

as secretary of defense bob gates told the senate armed services committee just yesterday, we cannotallenges our civilian efforts face in afghanistan. corruption remaining a major problem. fighting fraud and waste is one of our highest priorities. a major focus of the civilian serge is expanding our presence in the field, getting more experts out to provide leadership of our development projects. we partnered with the military to put in place stronger controls on contractors, and we are working with afghan institutions that we fund directly to help them improve add iting and accountability. as the military surge weakens the insur gents and pressures them to consider alternatives to armed resistance, the civilian surge creates economic and social incentives for participating in a peaceful society. together, the two efforts prepare the ground for a political process which history and experience tell us is the most effective way to end an insurgency, and that brings us to the third track. president obama's policy review emphasized, and i quote, "that our civilian and mir tear efforts --

i would mention bob gates, secretary of defense whom i know very well. we worked together in the jimmy carter administration. i would also recommend -- recognize secretary of state hillary clinton. so i think we are not going to hear much about this looming crisis tonight. i hope we don't. it's going to give the things we have put in place a chance to work, and i am hopeful that come next year, 50 years after the date -- or the cuban missile crisis that president obama will yield equally well with the crisis that he faces. thank you very much. [applause] >> are the questions? i hope so. >> i'm a freshman. you enumerative many other similarities between kennedy and obama. however, there seems to be one big difference how when kennedy was the with the cuban missile crisis, he had a specific enemy and representation -- representative of that enemy he could call up and sent a letter to khrushchev, and khrushchev controlled the opposition. and that's the difference in what obama is doing with in afghanistan and pakistan. how does that difference influence how

this afternoon, secretary clinton will join national security adviser tom done lynn and secretary bob gates at the white house for a meeting with israeli defense minister ehud barak. they will discuss a range of issues. i'm certain that egypt among them. and ambassador robert king, our special envoy for north korean human rights issues is in seoul today and met with national security adviser wu and members of the national assembly of various parties. they had valuable discussions on north korea human rights related issues. tomorrow he will also meet with the minister for unification. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> on egypt, before we get into the breadth, have you seen the interview mr. gate has done with pbs? >> i have not. i'm aware i think our friend and colleague margaret warner was there today. >> in that interview he's pretty angry about what he regards as interference in the u.s. -- u.s. trying -- the administration trying to dictate to the egyptian leadership how and when they should do this transition. do you -- what do you make of those comments? >> i haven't seen them so i'm relu

guest: bob gates got it right when he said that anybody wants a third military operation should have his head examined. iraq was the most unnecessary war of my lifetime. today, iran has more influence than we do. baghdad has less electricity than they did under hisaddam hussein. 65% of the american people are against it and most of our allies cannot wait to get out. host: good morning. caller: i wanted to ask what you think the impact of economic sanctions will be on muammar gaddafi's regime, i f any. it seems to me like a rather blunt instrument to use for regime that is already isolated. i can understand freezing assets, certainly, but closing of the country's and economic ties with the outside world is only going to impact the civilians, i would think. and i also want to agree with the previous caller that this is a no-win situation. intervention is an ugly prospect, but then, nonintervention makes the world -- apathetic.tic perc export isbya's main oil. if that to be cut off, saudi arabia which palms 8.5 million barrels could go up to 12 million and take up the slack. that would

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introduction alone says a lot about the time wwe have spent together, and certainly not just myself and bob gates, but so many in this room who worked so closely with those of us in the pentagon. i would hope to leave the several messages today, but first of all, one of them would be just to say thanks. thanks for what you do, thanks for what you for our country, and thanks for what you do for people around the world. certainly, as someone who grew up in the navy, i was trained very early part of the world how important the country team was, and it was a very well blended interagency team in whatever country i existed. i came to have an understanding at a mucht and a look higher level and cannot say enough about the importance of the team right now. as someone who has spent over four decades and the military -- in the military, i am fond of saying we don't create policy, we execute policy. policy has the lead, and you are at the fore in that regard. obviously, we have been going through some fairly significant challenges in the last few days. it is very easy to see in that this relationship betwe

i mentioned general petraeus, i mentioned bob gates, we were together in the carter administration andize secretary hillary clinton. we're not going to hear much about this living crisis tonight. i hope we don't. it is going to give the things we have put in place a chance to work. i am hopeful that come next year cost 50 years after the cuban missile crisis, that president obama will deal equally well with the crisis he faces. thank you very much. [applause] >> are there questions? i hope so. >> i have a freshman. -- i am a freshman. you're elated many of the similarities between kennedy and obama. however, there seems to be one big difference. when kennedy was giving us the cuban missile crisis, he had a specific enemy and representative of that he could call up and sent a letter to khrushchev and khrushchev control the opposition. that is different from what obama is dealing with in afghanistan and pakistan. how does that difference influence how obama can deal with this situation? >> that is a wonderful point and it is right on the button. it is what makes the question of dealing w

as secretary of defense bob gates told the senate armed services committee just yesterday, we cannot afford to make that mistake again. or consider iraq, were the transition to a civilian-led mission is helping the pentagon save 45-billion dollars -- $45 billion, and the state department required an increase of only $4 billion to make sure that we're robustly engaged with the government and people of iraq. that is a good deal by any standard. so we are working with congress to ensure that the civilian surge in afghanistan and pakistan receive the support it requires now and in years to come. i will not sugarcoat the fact that the afghan government has, from time to time, disagreed with our policies. there is no denying the challenges that our civilian efforts face in afghanistan. corruption remains a major problem. fighting fraud and waste is one of our highest priorities. a major focus of the civilian search has been expanding our presence in the field, getting more experts out to provide hands-on leaderships of our development projects. we have partnered with the military to put in

bob, tell me something don't know. >> the search is on for a new secretary of defense. gates has agreed to stay on until july.ould like him to stay on forever. but they're trying to develop a case for, you know, who's most like gates? had experience in government, is calm, has some political experience in the white house, number one candidate? chris: exactly. >> leon panetta. chris: really? >> absolutely right. chris: head of intelligence. >> in '72 but it was until '83. chris: any chance for secretary clinton to move up to defense? >> there are chances. it's not decided but i think panetta, i think chuck hagel, former republican senator is on the list. chris: the thing with panetta has that's really important here is he's a budget cutter. he has a history of budget cutting and that's what the job is all about. chris: that's what we thought cap weinberger would do, remember, cap the knife. >> one othe big reasons i think been overlooked in egypt is the role corruption has played and particularly since the financial crash. people have said to me when time got really hard with unemployment spiking and food pric

bob redell. that story coming up. >> plus, crews getting ready to start work on the golden gate bridge. we'll tell you what they will be doing. >> a live look outside again, the south bay today, wednesday, february 23, on "today in the bay." >> good morning everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm brent cannon. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. let's get started with a look at that forecast with meteorologist christina loren. >> good morning to you. yes, we're watching the forecast very closely. when we talk about something that's going to make national news potentially, we really want to keep our eye on what's happening. i'm talking about the projection of snow in san francisco. i don't think we're going to see snow accumulate. what i do think, possibility for flurries in oakland and san francisco into this weekend. our next round of rain arrives as we head into tomorrow night. today, though, we're starting out chilly and we're going to get one more dry day. 39 in concord, 37 in livermore and 39 degrees in gilroy, along the peninsula more mild. let's find out if we have problems on the roadways

bob ] squak. >>> gorod morning to you, take live look at the golden gate bridge, the weather not a factor for driving weekend. rob is here with a look at the forecast. and this is the last of the nice. >> about 30 hours left. we're counting it down. as we go through this morning, it's chilly outside. ok at those numbers, 31 1 at gilroy. you can almost add 30 degrees to those temperatures by the time we get to the afternoon. sunshine for today, you can see the clouds offshore, high pressure should hold its ground for at least one more day today. that's why we should see 60s along the coast. heading to monterrey today, you should see low 70s. tomorrow things start to cool off, we'll see increasing clouds, increasing winds on monday with rain rolling back in and then maybe temperatures only in the 40s and 50s by the end of next week. so that's the reason why the timing for the weekend forecast pretty nice with what's coming ahead. >> 30 hours and counting. >>> this afternoon the egyptian community in san francisco will gather to remember the lives of those who died in the unrest in cairo. the human righ