how has that affected centcom a.o.r.? >> turkey, i have seen a positive impact because, in many ways, turkey is seen as a way for a nation to mature toward a more democratic approach. i have talked to many leaders there who have traveled to turkey to talk about about how they treated the kind of state the have created. they have been very helpful in trying to restraint assaad, but they have made very clear that what he is doing will not receive any kind of solace or support out of angora. it is a positive influence and they are the one nato nation that fights against an active insurgency in their own southeast corner. they are a nation that we work quietly with in a common cause. >> the next question is about command relationships. can you talk about special operations command and its relationship with centcom and how that is coordinated for individual strikes? >> any special operations command troops come under my command when they are in centcom. special operations command provides me maybe seals, army green berets, arm

from america's wementiest families and god bless them for their success, but not one red centcoming to help reduce the deficit while we are willing to cut title 1, education for the poorest children in america. it's too bad for those children and terrible for our country. for things not in the bill, like revenue, i urge my colleagues to think about our seniors and think about the 18 months and what that means in terms of confidence in ou society and what it means also to have the 50-50 in rms of defining the sfreng of america. we cannot -- the strength of america. we cannot, despite our reluctance to vote for this bill for some of us, allow seniors and veterans who are dependent on receiving their check from the government or their security over time, we cannot allow our seniors and veterans to be caught in the collateral damage on the assault of the middle clas that is being waged in this congress. this is no manifestation of making it harder for the future for the great middle class, which is -- and those who aspire to it, is the backbone of our democracy. if we are going to honor

how has that affected centcom a.o.r.? >> i think that turkey -- i have seen positive impacts because in many ways, turkey is seen as a way for a nation to mature toward a more democratic approach. i have talked to several leaders there who actually have traveled to turkey to talk to them about how they created the kind of state they have created. they also -- they have been very helpful in trying to restrain assad. not that they have been very clearly but they have been very clear that what he is doing will not receive any kind of solace or support out of angora. it is a positive influence that the turks have had. they are the one nato nation that fights against an active insurgency in their own southeast corner. they are also a nation that we work quietly with in a common cause. >> the next question relates to command relationships. could you talk a little bit about special operations command and its relationship with centcom and how that is coordinated for individual strikes? >> any special operations command troops com

. >>> what did president obama have in centcom with bill clinton, even john adams? they've all been criticized for taking vacations. that's an open question tonight. let me finish tonight with a very simple proposition, mine on how president obama can get congress to pass a jobs bill. i call it porking out. >>> we start with the president's jobs programs. jared bernstein, a former adviser to vice president joe biden, and howard fineman. gentlemen, let's talk about this speech now. do you have an inside -- first of all, you are an outsider now. do you know what the president will come out? >> i have some ideas, mostly from the outside. >> give us the inside first. >> the president will continue to talk about what he's talked about so far, extending the payroll tax holiday. that's important. that's already in the system. if you do that, and you absolutely should, it keeps your foot on the accelerator, to let that stuff expire, as it's schedule to do do at the end of the year, that takes your foot off. >> so he's going to get payroll taxes down, and he's going to make

r centcom commander -- several years after he was my marine expeditionary unit commander. i can go on and on here tonight, ladies and gentlemen brought them clearly violating a cardinal rule this evening, and that is to never talked to a group or knows more about a subject than i do. i think i will be in trouble when we get to the questions and answers. it is adding years to my life to be on the west coast rather than when i usually give talks, which are in washington, d.c. it is refreshing to be out here. i love the pacific ocean, i love the vibrancy of this city. when you think of the technological rushing ideas, technological and political that come out of california, there is an energy that you all are probably used to. it is a godsend when you come out here and feel it in the air. i am also happy not to be giving the stock in washington because i understand that 48 hours ago, washington actually buckled under the weight of its own bureaucracy. [laughter] [applause] in that regard, it will come as no surprise to a former secretary of defense that the pentagon actually

from america's wementiest families and god bless them for their success, but not one red centcoming to help reduce the deficit while we are willing to cut title 1, education for the poorest children in america. it's too bad for those children and terrible for our country. for things not in the bill, like revenue, i urge my colleagues to think about our seniors and think about the 18 months and what that means in terms of confidence in our society and what it means also to have the 50-50 in terms of defining the sfreng of america. we cannot -- the strength of america. we cannot, despite our reluctance to vote for this bill for some of us, allow seniors and veterans who are dependent on receiving their check from the government or their security over time, we cannot allow our seniors and veterans to be caught in the collateral damage on the assault of the middle class that is being waged in this congress. this is no manifestation of making it harder for the future for the great middle class, which is -- and those who aspire to it, is the backbone of our democracy. if we are going to h

. >> reporter: we now understand that centcom has assigned brigadier general jeffrey holt to investigatehis crash. there will be a separate crash investigation carried out by the army aviation board, um, and there may, in fact, be a third investigation carried out by special operations command. the president, as you mentioned, flew from washington from fort mcnair to dover to attend the ceremony. the press, however, there will be no media coverage of the return of the remains. those who were flown back from afghanistan came in two c-17 flights that landed between 10 and 10:30 eastern time. the ceremony will be several hours long, but the pentagon says that media were barred because, quote, due to the catastrophic nature of the crash, the remains of our fallen service members will be returned to the u.s. via dover air force base in unidentified status until they can be positively identified by the armed forces mortuary affairs office at dover. the remains and ashes were comingled, we understand, and 19 of the families did not give permission for the media to observe and record the ceremon

secretary of defense leon panetta, admiral mike mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs, the new head of centcomspecial operations command, but the pentagon is not allowing media coverage. this is their statement as to why, quote, due to the catastrophic nature of the crash the remains of our fallen service members will be returned to the u.s. via dover air force base in unidentified status until they can be positively identified by the armed forces mortgage area affairs office at dover. in fact we've learned the remains and ashes are comingled at this time and some of the families did not give the pentagon permission for the media to observe and record the ceremony. the afghans whose remains also arrived at dover will be sent back to afghanistan once they are identified. u.s. navy seal aaron vaughn from virginia is among those killed, a father of two who loved his family and serving the country, his widow remembers their life together: >> it's funny the things you remember. the smell of their skin. the way they walk. you know, just come in the door, put their keys down. just little things that

there's pentup command and as we come out of centcom, there are other deployments. and we won't be standing around with our hands in our pockets. and whether we're asking someone to leave their home base to train in alaska or fight in afghanistan or train the sri lankans, they're still a long ways from home and we're asking a lot of our families as well and trying to find the thousands of ways that it will take to deal with that. but we have a program to grow a little more and along the way we'll hopefully be able to reduce that pressure around the edges. >> and yet it's clear from the drawdown plans the president has in afghanistan, the fact that special operations forces will not be coming out during that drawdown that the demand on you in the future will be extraordinary. john brennan the other day was saying going forward we will be mindful that if our nation is threatened, our best offense would always be deploying large armies abroad but rather delivering targeted surgical pressure to the groups that threaten us. that's you. it's clear that the united states i

and applyingof craft door of the k medical experiments that wouldi create that alien looking her centcomeak to and write about and a fact check is what the atomic energy commission did during its tenure. and the reckless human experimentation and that they did. clinton put together a commission in the 1990's after one reporter revealed the atomic energy commission and had been experimenting and injecting retarded children with plutonium at a state school in massachusetts. everybody says scott who how horrible the people don't want toriblat's listen. a and they go on. i felt that i believe what my source told me and the reason is it was a matter ofd conscience.so of the other four engineers are dead. was he was very clear. if the discussion in sues as to whether or not it could fe go on, how long it went on for, that is an important all discussion and why i chose to write about it in my bookspan mike you're listening to the california radio program our guest is annie jacobsen detaining her book known as it "area 51". the question from the audience those areas are much less shocking so why

most devoted to centcom and operations in afghanistan so we had to find somebody to do that. third thing we had to figure out how to task it because i counted the other day 31 major government agencies including the president's office that was asking for an injury, so it needed to be privatized. finally, we needed to schedule it, the conflict with other things and make sure the global hawk is available. so the global hawk flew 20 missions and you can see here over 500 hours and thousands of images were tasked. i that you are hungry for some of imagery. unfortunately the global hawk is a spy plan similar to the you to so we ask the government what really is that every so i have to talk you through some of the things that we saw. first we parked it quite a bit over top of the nuclear reactors. one of the first as i said the president's office asked for imagery and a status update one of the things is what the status reactors, that is probably not a surprise, but what we were able to do is use the infrared camera on the global hawk to image and see what the temperatures were of

centcom i will disagree with john -- second, i will disagree with john -- no judge or justice considers himself a policy maker. every judge or justice interprets the text of the constitution using all of the sources i mentioned, starting with the original understanding, precedent, tradition, the social needs. there is a way to say that the constitution requires the judges make policy choices. the fourth amendment provides an unreasonable searches and seizures. every day -- in gramick preven -- prevents unreasonable searches and seizures. every day in " around the country, jges have to decide what is reasonable and unreasonable. they are making a policy choice. when the suit in court deals with individual liberties or discrimination, there is no absolute right or prohibition, but there is of the fundamental right, discrimination against racial minority -- the court has to decide is that there is a compelling governmental interest. is there an important government interest? what is compelling, important -- that is a policy choice the court has to make. i disagree with having john said wit

our centcom commander was my marine expeditionary unit commander. i could go on and on, but i am violating a cardinal rule, and that rule iso never talk to a group that knows more about a subject than i do. ihink i am going to be in trouble when we get to the questions and answers. i will also tell you it is adding years to my life to be on the west coast rather than in washington, d.c. it is refreshen to be out here. i love the pacific ocean, the vibrancy of the city. when you think of the technological, refreshening ideas that have come out of california, i will tell you it is a godsend when you comout here and feel it in the air. i am also happy not to be giving this talk in washington because i understand8 hours ago washington buckled under the weight of its own bureaucracy. it will come as no surprise to a former secretary of defense that the pentagon got more work done after th evacuation than before it was evacuated. but we should have anticipated that when we have energy stored up in opposing memos and it is suddenly released, is cracking ap