he has been a highly visible leader of our marine corps. you might have seen him on the evening news while helping out on the gulf coast in the wake of the deep water horizon oil spill. he has traveled 715,000 during his tenure. he is also a world class photographer. a true renaissance man and a 75th secretary of the navy. [applause] >> admiral miller, thank you so much for that warm welcome. mr. president, my thanks for all you do as our commander in chief for our sailors and marines around the world every day. and all that the first lady does on behalf of those who served and those who love them. to our distinguished guests, to family, friends, faculty, and most importantly u.s. naval academy class of 2013, welcome to commissioning day. it is wonderful to be here and i cannot think of a more fitting location to graduate and to be commissioned here were so many memories of your class were formed and where the heroic deeds and battles of those who have gone before you are inscribed around us. for the midshipmen who are about to be commissio

marine corps, mr. speaker, but quite frankly, when they will not give connie and trish a little paragraph, like i have already said three times today, that clearly states they are not at fault, it's very disappointing, to say the least. mr. speaker, in closing, as i do on the floor when i think about all our men and women overseas in afghanistan and iraq that i'm going to ask god to please bless our men and women in uniform, to please bless the families of our men and women in uniform. i ask god in his loving arms to hold the families who've given a child dying for freedom in afghanistan and iraq. mr. speaker, i am going to ask at this time that god will touch the hearts of the united states marine corps to give john to the families of brow and brooks gruber. mr. speaker, i will ask god to please bless the house and senate to do what is right in the eyes of god for today and tomorrow. i will ask the president -- i will ask god to bless the president of the united states that he'll do what is right for

he has been a highly visible leader of our marine corps. might have seen him on the evening news while helping out on the gulf coast in the wake of the deep water horizon oil spill. he has traveled 715,000 during his tenure. he is also a world class photographer. a true renaissance man and the 75th secretary of the navy. [applause] >> admiral miller, thank you so much for that warm welcome. mr. president, my thanks for all you do as our commander in chief for our sailors and marines around the world every day. and all that the first lady does on behalf of those who served and those who love them. to our distinguished guests, to family, friends, faculty, and most importantly u.s. naval academy class of 2013, welcome to commissioning day. it is wonderful to be here, and i cannot think of a more fitting location to graduate and to be commissioned here where so many memories of your class were formed and where the heroic deeds and battles of those who have gone before you are inscribed around us. for the midshipmen who are about to be commissio

we greatly respect navy, marine corps and guard safety policy. cal fire has an aviation policy as well. we work cooperatively with the agencies here at the table to ensure when we are engaged in an aerial fire fighting event we are working within each other's policies. we have trained in a work around, we can do close air support with navy and marine corps aircraft, with the current system we have. would we like to improve upon it? absolutely. we have gone very high up in the organization to try and look at getting the r210 radio modified to the point where it can work on our vhf spectrums, that's one of our challenges we need to move forward with. but overall we're confident when we do call upon dod assets to integrate with civilian aircraft, the training regimen we put forth will keep aircrews safe and also have them be effective. there was a lot of questions from a political level as well as a public level. you've got aircraft sitting at north island, just launch them, get them in the fight. it was hard to explain to them that that's a very de

marine corps, to be here today. the format for today is that the general was before 10 or 15 minutes, summarizing some of his spot on some issues that i know our interest to you as well. then he and i will have a conversation here, and then we will turn to the crowd. we have c-span you are covering and some other tv. if i call on you in the course of that conversation, please be sure to identify yourself, wait for a microphone before doing that, and then we will proceed. general ams is a combat aviator from the great state of idaho where he attended college. he has been in the marine corps for here -- for his entire 35- year career. he is a senior member of that illustrious body, a top adviser to the president in all matters of national security, and of course the marine corps's top planning but jitter and so forth. he has had -- top planning .udgeteer in 2006 when he and general david petraeus teamed up to ride the counterinsurgency manual for the u.s. military. prior to that he had been instrumental in his role as

marine corps to be here today. the format for today is the general will speak for 10-50 minutes and summarize his thoughts on broad issues. then he and i will have a conversation and then we will turn to the crowd. whenve cspan covering so and if i call on you in the course of that conversation, be sure to identify yourself and wait for a microphone and then we will proceed. general ms is a combat aviator for the great state of idaho where he attended college. he has been in the marine corps for his entire 35 year career. is the longest serving service chief, the senior member of that illustrious body. his a top adviser to the president on all matters like national security and the marine corps' top planner, budgeteer, combat conceptualize your and so forth. he has had many jobs at different levels of development and different levels of command including in 2006 when he and general petraeus teamed up to write the counterinsurgency met manual. he had been instrumental as a combat aviator and they were fired in the e

violating corps regulations.at this amendment does is make consistent across all government lands -- we've already done it everywhere else -- the corps land, which is "the" most visited, "the" most utilized lands that we have in the country. and it's straightforward. i -- i am very appreciative of the chairman of this committee for her cooperation in allowing this amendment. as a matter of fact, i'm so cooperative, i'm not going to offer the other one so that i can help move her bill forward. and i congratulate her on the bipartisan work that she's done on her committee. that she would do that. but i think this is a principled stand. the question is, is why should we not have the same policy everywhere, one? number two is, why can't -- why would we dare deny the rights that we give everywhere else on federally government-owned land? why would we do something different for the corps land? and i actually wouldn't even be offering this had the corps not proactively stated that what we passed didn't apply to them. we

the marine corps hasn't been below 171,000 since 1951. the marine corps has not. so no administration, note leadership when congress is taking the marine corps below 171. arguably a reason for that. i don't know that i would say that's the reason. i look at at the challenging times and probably the post-world war ii is the one i look at and go okay, we've got to get this right. for all of us in here, we have differing opinions about how much is enough and how much of the service than i do understand that. we are not going to get it exactly right, but what we can afford to do is the nation is get it exactly wrong. when i look at coming out of world war ii i would just ask everybody, take a deep drive people work our way through the budget, work our way through the force sizing a first or mathematics six months or a year. but let's forget about the lessons from that period of time. >> masks question over here in the third row. >> thank you, general for your comments. my question is more along the training and education line. cultural language and scales had training

and things are progressing well, as an example, web corp has hired eight since january 2012. but since we have it for the employees so we can do it from the (inaudible) side, thanks. >> thank you, ted. >> thank you, ted. web corp has really done a fantastic job, in stepping into the veteran's recruitment area and really making connections with the agencies in northern california and so there is an impact that is flowing far beyond the project coming out of this. in terms of apprenticeship programs and the web corp continues to work on the hiring hall and sit on the board of the hiring hall. and in terms of bringing at-risk adults into the construction trades, and is also working with city-built program where they also sit on the board for advisory board for city build. so they are deeply involved with both of those and fostering the programs in the city. in terms of our performance on the apprenticeship and the project, again, just mentioning the tracking elements that we worked to build into the software program for the workforce reporting these have really helped us turn th

we had a hearing about the marine corps this morning. yet, even as we're hearing these in hearings in the morning and afternoon, members coming to this floor and stand up and try to block a budget conference from even beginning. this is very, very serious. when we're talking about the readiness of our military who are facing challenges, we don't -- just pick up today's paper and read headlines about syria or north korea or iran as we are facing significant challenges, continuing challenges in afghanistan. to have members of this body block efforts to find compromise is a very chilling thing. let's be clear about what this is. this is not just an attack on the budget itself, because those who want to attack the budget voted against it in committee. those who didn't like the budget had a chance and voted against it on the floor. even in the event that a conference committee would produce a budget compromise, that compromise would come back and those who didn't like that budget would have a chance to vote against it again. that's how you at

all whole bunch of them fell -- fell inbunch of them the marine corps. i will be thinking about several of them today. host: the memorial, by the way, 32 foot high figures. raising a 60 foot bronze flagpole. the flight at the top of the pole flies at full mast 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. that is by presidential proclamation. the figures stand on the look above the granite base. the entire memorial is about 78 feet tall. up next is caroline from tennessee, the democrats line. caller: good morning. ajust love the way they put little flat on my father's grave good it makes me feel good that all of our veterans and fallen veterans will never be forgotten. i just hope that does not get cut out when we cut our budget because i think it is a beautiful remembrance of our veterans. host: talk of it about your father and his service. caller: i do not remember the battle, but he was in the navy during world war ii, and his ship was sunk outside of japan. he got a purple heart. we had the ceremony for him when he passed away. the war affected his life severely.

that is the description of the navy and marine corps. here in congress, we have some complicated fiscal realities to balance our missions with our resources. we are going to have to make some tough decisions and be strategic in our thinking and planning. one of the things i get asked sometimes any hearings defended the budget is this the right time to be investing in things like this? and my response is lima we cannot afford not to now. with thenot do it now, spikes that come with these price shocks, we are not going to have the money to do the operations we need to. we will not have the money. this is absolutely an imperative now. and so those four priorities i talked about, people, platforms, partnerships are being used as a guide and how we make those decisions. ,he energy to fuel our ships fuel our basis lima is a scituate check -- basis, is a central challenge. it helps to guarantee our prevalence and guarantee our ability to respond and give the president flexibility and options to any crisis that may arise. and that spirit of adve

we said corps lantd. we did not specifically say that and we will get you the code where federal structures are excluded. mrs. boxer: if i could just say to my friend through the chair, fine, get me the code, but you said your amendment specifically excluded it, and it does not. i am-reaching now that part, but there is no question, there is no explicit prohibition here. you're getting to a circumstance where you have one federal law that says one thing and another federal law that says something else and we know where that leads, folks. that leads to court. so i think that my friend wanted to exclude being able to carry weapons near levees and dams, he ought to like the status quo because that's the status quo. the status quo is if you want to use a gun for hunting, fishing, recreation, fine. the corps already allows it. you just can't use it on critical infrastructure. he says that's his point. what's the problem? what's the problem? so i think as i discuss this with my friend, i don't see why his amend

and barry newman was a very energetic officer in the marine corps. he has gone over to afghanistan, i went over and saw him there, he was attached to the kabul police chief. i think he's going to have some interesting perspectives about working in the police department in a war zone. lieutenant commander patricia serrano, her assignments have been varied includes working as a immediate vaek core man, a legal clerk and a tqm instructor. she completed a 7-month deployment. captain mike napolitano is serving with the navy's expedition training group. while deployed in 2004, he spearheaded maritime patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as well as numerous theater cooperation efforts throughout the pacific and in 2009 captain napolitano reported as commanding officer of the expeditionary training group. this is a fabulous panel and i know you're going to appreciate what they have to say. rear admiral, i think you'll start. >> first of all on behalf of the chilean navy i would like to thank so much to san francisco fleet week, particul

and barry newman was a very energetic officer in the marine corps. he has gone over to afghanistan, i we ntover and saw him there, he was attached to the kabul police chief. i think he's going to have some interesting perspectives about working in the police department in a war zone. lieutenant commander patricia serrano, her assignments have been varied includes working as a immediate vaek core man, a legal clerk and a tqm instructor. she completed a 7-month deployment. captain mike napolitano is serving with the navy's expedition training group. while deployed in 2004, he spearheaded maritime patrol relief efforts toing the 2004 indian ocean tsunami, as

20% of the officer corps come from annapolis.that is something people are unaware of. even less at west point. in the marine corps, almost all of us go through ocs, dr. kenneth -- dr. kennedy school. then normal college, officer kennedy's school. if you make it through, and the rate is very high, you are an officer. just as if you spent four years at annapolis or west point. should you not do that? the answer. the majority of officers have gone through one of the other pipelines. or were they taught leadership? we have classes that are called leadership 101, leadership 102. can you be a good leader without a class called leadership? i shrugged my shoulders and rolled my eyes. of course it is. host: you have students taking these types of courses as well. guest: they do not like them. they think they are ridiculous of them -- not everyone of them -- -- the vast majority say it is a joke. an institution says we are a military institution, how will they justify the fact that they caused incidentally 428 times what other officer redu

. >>> a historic new policy from the peace corps becomes another step forward for equal rights.e're going to talk to the deputy director on that one. weigh in. we want to hear from you. does anthony weiner deserve a second chance in politics? log in on facebook or twitter. get involved. i think farmers care more about the land than probably anyone else. we've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make our living and that's how we can pass the land and water back to future generations. people should make up their own mind what's best for them. all i can say is it has worked well for us. >>> so we asked and you answered, does anthony weiner deserve a second chance? ryan davis writing -- i don't think so. we have plenty of qualified candidates who would rather disgrace themselves. carlos edwards has a different viewpoint. yes, he deserved a second chance. terry hunter writing -- everyone does, and so should he. keep the comments coming in. keep the conversation alive on twitter and facebook. >>> as the white hous

these goals drive the navy and marketing corp. strengthen our combat capability by using energy more efficiently but also by diversifying our sources of power. one of the big goals is that by no later than 2020 at least half of all energy used by the navy and marine corps afloat and ashore, will come from alternative fuel. to help us achieve that, we are trying in the department to develop the next generation of energy innovation and that is dropping advanced biofuels. exploring new ways to empower our ships and that is absolutely nothing new for the navy. we have got a long history and those of you who've heard me speak before have heard this but coal to oil and pioneer to nuclear so from the 1840s and 50's until today, the u.s. navy has lead in changing energies and we haven't done this because it's been the latest fad and we sure haven't done it because the new supply was cheaper. it's hard to be cheaper than free which is what the wind is. and just look today if the cost differences between a conventionally powered suband a nu

talking about putting together a table top exercise and in came from some exercises from the marine corps and barry newman was a

the niche we have as the marine corps assets we have the ability to locate some of our resources like shock trauma platoons, that's what we do in combat and we have experience with that and that may be something that may be of benefit to this process. >> during the last panel, mr. cahen mentioned it's so important to understand the resources that his agency has versus the ones that the military has and he said at one point they started looking down in terms of typing, i have this, you have this, how are we going to respond and get the resources we need to deal with the incident. i'd like to hear from all of you what did you learn about what the other agencies' capabilities are and how did that open your eyes? >> yesterday we had a great opportunity to look at a variety of resources. in the midst of all the demonstrations that we had, we actually had an hour lecture on dsca, which is pretty incredible to get everything about dsca in one hour. it was a great effort by the folks who do that lecture. to show you how well i listened, i have some take away points on that. the first is that

marine corps. they will go on to serve four years in the marine corps. jennifer franciotti, wbal-tv 11 news. >> thank you. and iconic piece of ocean city is back in business. this is all that was left of the pier at the inlet. officials will hold a grand reopening of the pier. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. how will you be celebrating this memorial day weekend? you can share your response on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> i understand the mayor will cast the first line off the pier. 5:07. a landmark decision for the boy scouts of america. >> a bridge collapses in washington state. the latest on the rescu >> it appears no one was seriously hurt after a bridge suddenly collapsed, sending several vehicles 50 feet into the skagit river below. rescue crews believe they have found everybody that went into the river. authorities are questioning a commercial truck driver. the boy scouts of america voted to change their policy on admitting gay scouts. it remains in effect for adult leaders. process w

it just tells the corps to study the issue and come back with a recommendation. and i honestly believe that blocking federal investment in these projects will harm coastal communities. so i urge my colleagues to oppose this coburn amendment, and i know i speak for many, including senator lautenberg who actually brought this issue to my attention years ago. i would yield and note that the time has come to debate the coburn amendment, one minute aside. the presiding officer: morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of senate 601, which the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 601, a bill to provide for the conservation andvestmenanddevelopment of watd resources and so forth and for other purposes. mr. coburn: i call up amendment 8 a 15. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: mr. coburn proposes amendment 15. mr. coburn: i set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment 816. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: mr. coburn proposes amendment number 816. mr. coburn: i ask that th

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unites states marine corps. assistant commandant of the marine corps. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the vice admiral of the u.s. navy and the superintendent of the u.s. naval academy is escorting the president of the united states and the honorable governor of maryland and the secretary of the navy. [cheers] [band plays] plays]comes the chief" cheers]s and [cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, we invite all forecast to remain standing for our national anthem and the invocation. >> ♪ oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ♪ [cheers and applause] >> let us pray. have of the father, as we gather to graduate and commission our class of 2013, we ask you

not as a stalker, but as a member of the press corps. it was a big press corps, lots of people. the motorcade of us going and around and all these dignitaries in various events. at the end of the day, mrs. bush had a press conference at a hotel ballroom. the place was packed. i was taking notes for my humor column. when i thought it was all over, the photographer brought the press corps that had been with mrs. bush up on the stage. maybe two dozen of us. they put me right next to barbara rush, first lady of the united states, for this picture. this is a situation where i know in my mind to say nothing. i knew that in my mind. [laughter] your brain does not always tell the rest of your body what the plan is. there was kind of a quiet moment with these high-powered journalists and this room full of people. i planned to say nothing, but for some reason my mouth came open, and i said to barbara bush, first lady of the united states, who i had never met. i said, a shot at the same supermarket as your son jebb. [laughter] i swear to you. i did shop at the same supermarket but this was

and the visiting press corps.rday for some reason, the president took only one question and that is going to backfire because it makes the white house press corps more hostile. they broke from precedent. i don't understand why they're taking a bad situation and making it worse by making the white house press corps even more hostile, more suspicious and doing it in that way. i think for whatever reason mr. jay carney's job will be harder today than it would under normal circumstances. connell: the reporter did get up to ask the questions, squeezed in two subjects in one question knowing you are only going to be allowed to have one. what do you do? they you get the president and roll out a 60 minutes peace with steve cropper so many times or the president come into the green room and take questions himself on these issues where he is subject to being there for an extended period of time and taking all the questions? what is the strategy if carney has a difficult time it in terms figure out wherebeing there? the stor

navy, the marine corps, had something that we really needed. it's called logistics expertise. and we recognized that and with the help of our fleet week association, with the help of our honorary chair, former secretary of state george scholtz, along with senator feinstein who started fleet week, we began to appreciate in addition to appreciating the men and women in uniform and the wonderful attributes of having fleet week and the blue angels and the parade of ships, we could also be working on something very important to this city. all across the world there are examples after example and i know the men and women and leadership of the uss macon know this after their tour of duty these past months, all over the world there are disasters and emergencies that we are responding to and that you have become the humanitarian assistance and the disaster relief that is absolutely needed. why not practice that here? and so two years ago we gathered with our own departments from the port of san francisco to our sheriff to our police and fire, led by our emergency management division, g

so news corp.'s revenue coming in stronger. news corp.'s earnings per share coming in a penny better than expected, but one cent less than where they were a year ago. now, maria, diving into those numbers, it looks like the cable network programming continues to be an area of strength. it's coming in stronger than wall street expected. ditto for filmed entertainment. filmed entertainment yielding higher revenue. and once again, with cable network programming, as we've seen with many of the other media networks, affiliate revenue continues to drive that growth. affiliate revenue up over 11% at the domestic channels and up 42% at the international cable channels. advertising is not growing as much. advertising the domestic channels, just up 2% in the quarter. that continues to be more moderate growth. but, maria, news corp., as with the other companies, the strength is coming from cable networks and also a bit from the studio. back over to you. >> julia, thank you so much. back with our panel here. nathan, i want to know how you're invested

news corp., groupon green mountain, tesla.all companies in different industries that are seeing to some degree pretty good growth. >> right across the board, the growth has been pretty strong, it really has. my only concern is, what happens when the fed stops? >> we don't think that's going to happen for another couple of years. you're just going to keep buying for two more years? >> stocks are going to be very careful, but we're going to be in this market. we think in this market, forget the daily and the trades, but at the end of the year, you'll be happy to be in this market. >> good to see you, as always. nice tie. we're going out near the high of the day. an awful lot of stock coming to be bought at this juncture. up 50 points on the dow. new all-time high for that and for the s&p. stand by for those earnings and the exclusive coming your way with coach k. and howard schultz of starbucks, that on the second hour of the "closing bell." i'll see you tomorrow. >>> and it is 4:00 on wall street, do you know where your money i

navy and marine corps, but to the international community. >> thank you. another hand? >> [inaudible] my experience with the haiti response. in this casey i was working at the deputy principal committee level and working at the white house. but it was really the first opportunity for this administration to work with a very complex response, and then recognizing for us the supported commander was usaid that normally isn't in the emergency response business. so, it was an educational process of how to move forces and yet support usaid and the role of the country team and port au prince. so, it was very informative there. and to back up when we had the first no fooling hurricane that worked its way up the entire gulf coast, the principal committee calls that were generated during the haiti response were then turned around and then bringing all of the governors into a conference call with the president to make sure that all their needs were being met in the advance of a hurricane arrival. so, we really had all of government, from local all the way up to the white house, ful

ella terry, this staff, peace corps. i wandered the senate policy level that could link up with the problem of students have now a student loan debt. it's so huge. so how can we incentivize so i myself was drafted. everyone who does serve to affect they got something that? >> that's a great question and there are ways. i would go to governor granholm's point. peace corps, americorps that are highly applied for programs. when i was direct or, we had 10,000 applications a 3500. i don't know that the 6500 others were handpicked in the atp peace corps volunteers, the wind gods name are we saying now? the americans want to go to the most desperate places on the planet to serve. the peace corps is 1% of 1% of the federal budget. military marching bands, which i'm a fan of a bigger part of the budget. so there is an imperative, americorps, the state each and every year have challenges. so i think your point of incentivizing what we see is a burgeoning interest of young american and those not so young wanted to get back in these

and we do that with much-heightened corps accountability. number eight, in a similar vein, we accelerate the nepa and project delivery process to ensure that projects are not endlessly held up by government bureaucracy and by tangles in red tape. again, it's exactly the same approach and agreement that i mentioned with regard to point number seven. we're not changing standards, lessening standard, lessening requirements. we are appropriately streamlining the process and saying, everybody works on deadlines, and the federal agencies involved have to work on and respect those deadlines as well. and if they miss them over and over and oh, they're going to be -- over and over and over, there are going to be meggive consequences. and that's an important reform element to this bill. number nine, as senator boxer mentioned, we provide an innovative financing mechanism for water resource projects as well as water and waste water infrastructure projects. it's called wifia because it's modeled on the tifia program on the transportation side. it is bas

. ♪ >> the washington press corp meeting the president for the first of his weekly conferences.here are 234 of the elite journalism present. >> things are pretty dysfunctional on capitol hill. >> a rapid fire of questions and answers. >> do you have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through congress? >> the questions the president answers frankly. >> maybe i should pack up and go home. >> this is democracy in action. >> let's just step back for a second. >> the president also addressing the continued partisan stalemate. >> the sequester. >> this thing already happened. >> it is a ridiculous side show. >> damaging our economy, hurting our people. we need to lift it. >> no grand bargain anywhere in sight. >> does he have leverage left? you could see his exasperation. >> the sequester is stupid in name and practice. >> whether we can get it done or not, we'll see. >>> 100 years ago woodrow wilson held the first presidential press conference. 58 years ago, dwight eisenhower had the first televised presidential press conference. >> i think we're trying a new experiment this mo

should stand up russia cnet durand by confronting the revolutionary guard corps and is very good, which he says have attacked the u.s. and israel with impunity for the past 30 years. this is about or two minutes. >> host: "taking on iran" is the name of the bug. the author is abraham sofaer, a senior fellow at the hoover institution. dr. sofaer, is the current strategy of sanctions working against her in quite >> guest: resort near putting pressure economically, but it's hurting the people of iran more than it is hurting the iranian revolutionary guard corps and they are really our enemy, so the answer is no. >> host: in your book you spend time takenaka irg c. who are they? >> guest: they were created under the new iranian constitution in 1979 with the assignment of defending the islamic character of derating revolution. they have an enormous amount of asset responsibilities. they are very radical. they control many defense industries. they have their army, air force and navy. they control the missile program and they are under the ayatollah in charge of the nuclear program. they also

total from the entire american press corp. give it your best shot, guys. >> when did you first learn that the irs was targeting conservative political groups? do you feel that the irs betrayed the public a trust and what do you think the repercussions for these actions should be? >> jon: technically that was three questions. but obviously one general mill like toothpaste that includes fluoride and whitener, comes out of the same tube but provides triple protection. aquafresh. it's like brushing your teeth with a colourful zebra. (laughter) anyway, great job. we're on basic cable. we're trying to raise money. great job by that intrepid reporter getting an irs three-fer for the one question. >> and on benghazi-- . >> jon: holy [bleep] somebody just added tartar control! (laughter) >> jon: tartar control, because apparently this one doesn't control tartar. let's tartar run all over your mouth. >> from i was always told the whole point of toothpaste was to control tartar but in the world of aquafresh it is a bon is stripe. (laught

--ent in the marine corps kind of comical to let you know this -- i went into marine corps in 1963. my my reason for going in the marine corps at that time, i volunteered. i went into impress my girlfriend. when i went to the marine corps is out of san diego, i went through a deal where we were in the rifle range and we were told that if we -- the best shooting expert that we would have an opportunity to call home, and i did. to become one of vietnam plus pressure vietnam -- one of vietnam's first snipers. i had an illness and i had to spend almost two years here. saw money -- i saw so many of my brothers lose their lives over there. i'm saddened to think that we were told when we came home not even to wear our uniform. people knew you were military because of your haircut, but we wasn't even allowed to wear our uniforms when we got home. i got threatening letters from my friends at uc berkeley. i'm looking at all these people not coming home with these little problems and sadness to see how a person's body is being blown to bits. it is just sickening that men cannot hold themselves

news corp. will discuss the future of the media giant. the remaining publishing business which includes "the wall street journal" and "new york post" will keep the news corp. name. >>> disney is not the happiest place on earth. australia is. a new report finds the land down under is the happiest place to live. it ranks jobs and education. the u.s. came in sixth. >>> wall street looks to regain its footing amid comments by fed chairman ben bernanke about the bank's comic stimulus programs. investors get information on housing and consumer confidence. back to you. >> thanks, bertha. >>> now to some other business headlines. oil prices have fallen below $94 a barrel ahead of those data reports bertha mentioned. general electric says it's investing billions of dollars on fracking, oil and gas drilling. ge has spent about $15 billion over the past few years, buying up related companies and opening a new lab in oklahoma. >>> canadian drugmaker vallion pharmaceuticals says it will buy b bausch & lomb. >>> "the new york times" got a firsthand vie