capabilities which include missile defense cyber defense and tactical and strategic airlift so the paradox is that you will see a strengthened alliance as a result of the economic austerity. thank you thank you for being with us mr aston things here are just a reminder that me hurl macgill of chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the federation council of russia and anders fogh rasmussen nato secretary general who are joining us our spotlight today will be back with more first time comment on what's going on in.

i think -- are defense-based shows. i think you are right. >> that is in large part the innocence movement, proving to injuries that they have gotten it wrong time and time again. this innocence project is based in new york. 300 individuals exonerated on dna evidence. people are starting to wake up to the important role of criminal defense attorneys, but jonathan is right. that court tv, we cover cases where public defenders and criminal defense attorneys are in court. we do not choose the cases based on either or. we see fine lawyer ring from both. often, the best lawyers a vcr from the public defender's office. they do not know the difference. >,7ythey do not know if it is cg albie, one of the best lawyers we have ever put on tv. they do not know how a public defender differs from a criminal attorney. i am shocked that the public has a lack of understanding among the public defender does, how we should be resources. this is a critical reason why i am here today. >> what i heard jonathan to just is that public defender

cut $100 billion a year from defense. >> welcome to "this weekinn defense news."'m vago muradian. many military members believe in smart power. will arepublicann house agree. a top consultant on how companies can weather a leaner defense spending future. first the national debt reduction commission chaired by alan symptom and erskine bowles issued bombshell draft recommend sayings to save $400 billion annually starting in 2015, a quarter of which would come from defense spending by applying secretary gates planned efficiency savings to debt reduction instead of new weapons freezing military pay for three years, cutting weapons procurement by 15% and research and development by 10%. terminating programs like the v 22 off spray tilt rotor, marine fighting vehicle, army ground combat vehicle and fighting the joint stryker program. here is todd harrison for the renne ser for budgetary assessment and gordon adams from the simpson center. todd, what is the significance. >> what the commission did, the two cochairs came out with a draft report where they make a number of

capabilities which include missile defense cyber defense and tactical and strategic airlift so the paradox is that you will see a strengthened alliance as a result of the economic austerity. thank you thank you for being with us mr aston things here are just a reminder that me hurl my gal of chairman of the foreign affairs committee the federation council of russia and anders fogh rasmussen nato secretary general who are joining us our spotlight today will be back with more first on common fun of what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take care. wealthy british style. is not tied to the title. of the. market so why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on our. home.

dod has responsibility for, obviously, defense websites the defense of capacity. the department of homeland security for the civilian infrastructure and the federal government non-defense websites. but dod and nsa have such extraordinary to the belief that they can inform what -- extraordinary capabilities that they conform with -- inform what dhs does. it was a homeland security that have the comprehensive capability to unravel the puzzle, if you will. we need your help, and i appreciate your commitment to that, general. thank you for your service to the country. you are extraordinarily prepare for this assignment of the country as ask for you. general ham, i want to ask about the working group on don't ask don't tell. first, i appreciate that you've told us this morning that the report will be out by december 1, if possible, working with the esotery earlier to complete the work. -- working with the secretary earlier to complete the work for a want to ask about the table of contents. they're often focus on the leaks that have been surveyed -- there is in focus on

defense? this is one of these things that's been so politically off-limits for so long in american politics that it's almost impossible to believe that they put it down on paper -- or powerpoint, or whatever. here's defense spending under ronald reagan, up, up, up. here's defense spending under the first president bush, up a bit, down a bit, and then back up again. and during the clinton administration, defense spending went down a teeny bit, and then under george bush, up, up, up, and way up, and continued under president obama. more than half of this country's discretionary spending is this. more than half the discretionary spending, more than half of the things we are not stattorically required to spend but we get to decide about each year, more than half, a majority of what we spent. this is it, we as a country spent as much on defense as the rest of the world spends on defense combined. and yes, that includes china. but the republican secretary of all of that money, bob gates, who preside

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number 56 defense. that penalty will be enforced on the kickoff. result of the play is a touchdown. >> al: rob gronkowski has a game to forget last week has a game to remember the rest of his life ton. three touchdowns. >> cris: confusion in that secondary of the pittsburgh steelers. once again, william gay the victim on this one. gay and polamalu just could not figure out which one was going to take which receiver and it cost them another touchdown. we have seen a lot of just mistakes -- there is oo another mistake, but mistakes in the secondary in coverage that is very aa atypical for this steelers team. >> al: graham who missed the last attempt just puts this one in. doubles the score, 36-18 new england. >> cris: not the first time tom brady has done this to this pittsburgh steelers. we have seen him in the past. this is just the style. but not everybody has a tom brady to play quarterback and you can't do this with every football team but you can just see the frustration level on the faces of these steelers defenders. they have no answer for wh

there is the inherent bias against us as a criminal defense lawyers.dded on top of that is the fact that we have this position of incompetence, somebody who is new that does not know what they're doing.db& and that our clients are probably guilty or there would have hired a real lawyer. it is amazing, considering those biases, that we speak to anybody in the press. why would we go to that source when our image has been so abused in? >> but how do we change if we do not go to the source? >> we have to, but you have to overcome that initial resistance. >> years ago i was involved in the case and one of the question was, what you think about prosecutors? wonderful. what about criminal defense lawyers? one person wrote just one word, sleazy. when i met him i said, we have never met, i did not take it personally. he said, oh, i meant it in a good way. [laughter] people don't appreciate how important jury selection is. judges often totally lose track of that because they want to move these cases. particularly in the immediate case, but in every case. >> one

says its peacekeepers were acting in self-defense. the haitian health ministry says cholera has killed over 1,000 people and infected nearly 17,000. haitians are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the government's response to the outbreak. a u.n. spokesperson indicated a political motivation for the pre-election protest, saying it may be an attempt to shift the focus of public discontent to the u.n. haiti's presidential election is scheduled for november 28th. >>> israel's deputy foreign minister says the country may suspend settlement construction in the occupied palestinian territories in a bid to resume stalled peace talks. israeli deputy foreign minister daniel ayalon, now visiting japan, spoke to nhk about the issue on tuesday. >> we may go for another moratorium of three months. we want to ensure that the palestinians will not make any more excuses. >> israel and the palestinian authority began their first direct peace talks in 20 months in september, but halted them a few weeks later, when israel resumed its settlement con

i came from a car rear as a criminal defense attorney.the bis filters into the programming, reporting, coverage of cases. most of the cases do not have a camera present. even when the camera is present, it cannot entirely help to filterbi

by all of the tight end and by all of the severeds and by the whole defense and by the whole defense. it was definitely a team win. >> andrea: you were especially animated tonight. whyo much emotion throughout the game? >> i'm always emotional! probably too emotional. i don't know. it gets me going. so keeps me focused. one way to play this game is with emotion. >> andrea: thanks for your time. >> hi, mom! >> andrea: jerod mayo what was the differenctonight whenyou got beaten up down the field by cleveland last week? how were you able to turn it around agait a solid pittsburgh offense? >>e came out being aggressive. i think the guys did a great job up front. >> andrea: five sacks against ben roethlisberger. why so much success getting to him tonight? we brought a little more pressure this week. struggling on third down a little bit. brought a little more pressure this week from different looks and had a great outcome. >> what difference do you think it makes to their offense not having hines ward in there? >> i mean, he is a huge emotional leader for them. . not only he is a great pla

secretary of state hillary clinton and secretary of defense robert gates say ratifying the new start to agreement is vital for the russia us reset processed as well as for world peace but with a republican majority in the house of representatives some skeptics say the goodwill feeling the reset process may be to rally out in washington do such fears water i hope they say director of the nixon center also others who asked the question. the u.s. leadership is trying hard to push through the new start treaty through the congress president obama has been meeting with republican leaders and he says they too want together treaty signed but inside the g.o.p. not everyone appears to be in agreement some republicans have held up the voting saying they still have questions about the treaty if no action is taken soon new hearings will be required to treat the wretched occasion for at least two years and with the new start treaty becoming the plank ship for the whole reset process would it be a blow to improving u.s. russian relations. loomis owners welcome to the show thank you thank you thank

i came from a car rear as a criminal defense attorney.the bis filters into the programming, reporting, coverage of cases. most of the cases do not have a camera present. even when the camera is present, it cannot entirely help to filter of bias. how many of you can sit at home and watch the robert blake trial from gavel-to-gavel, even if it is televised? when the camera is not present, you must rely on the boarding -- the reporting. i have had many instances where i was reporting on a trial and i will listen to my colleague on my right and left and wondered if they had been in the same courtroom that i was in. their sense of what happened in that room was very different from my own. i often feel that they're pro- prosecution bias is present. there is an assumption that they must have done something wrong or they would not have been charged in first place. maybe that

structure our public defense, especially our contract systems. when i was doing research for the commission, i interviewed the public defender's office, and they were brought into the office. they were not elected. they were selected by the chief operating officer, whose main bottom line is economics, not justice, and they said, this is the budget you are going to be given. you either do the job with that budget, or we get someone else. are you willing to take the job? that was the condition and made bluntly. i happened to be on the panel. everybody was talking about stakeholders and how we wanted a team player. i think the culture makes the player. now you hire somebody that is going to be a team player. we need independents. i am not sure i would go with the reelection everywhere. in san francisco, you have got an intelligent electorate, but i think independence is very important. also, you have to be independent of the judges. we found they were intimately involved in selecting the people who would appear before them. we found 90% of public de

search through state clinton and secretary of defense gates to say i quote. part of the new start will advance critical national security objectives providing direct insight into russia's nuclear arsenal and creating a more stable predictable and copper to relationship between the world's two leading nuclear powers and quote how would you explain the the the republican opposition to it well except being except try to be nasty to democrats do they do they hear what clinton and gates and say well i think there are a number of specific concerns that republicans have been expressing and some of them are related directly to the treaty others are not related directly to the treaty but do relate to america's strategic posture. in terms of the treaty specifically number of russian sorry of republicans were very concerned about the reference in the preamble to the treaty to missile defense and even mentioned james woolsey the former cia director that that's one of the issues that he raised and a number of republicans have raised expressing concern that the administrat

, we're talking about the defense budget?budget. do you believe in miracles? sometimes, conservatives have this funny idea that the federal government can't do anything right. it's bloated, inefficient and wasteful expect for the military. somehow, the pentagon is exempt from the waits that other programs have swapped. the pentagon has enormous waste in it. they are motivated to create weapons programs that dwoent need and charge us more than they cost. do you think the politicians who love to give away pork to friends and supporters in their states don't do the same thing when it comes to defense contractors who give them huge campaign contributions? of course they put in a lot of pork in there so they can get the campaign contributions and defense contracts can get rich. another comical idea is that we should never cut defense spending especially in the middle of two wars. is there any number at which you would say, let's look to see if there's waste in there. how about if the budget was $100 billion. 200 billion. 500 billi

cut the defense budget. john mccain tells the tea party, don't tread on me. >> if you're serious about the budget, you have to look at the entire budget, military and domestic. >> i worry a lot about the rise of protectionism and isolationism in the republican party. >>> dude, where's my health insurance? a conservative congressman-elect, a physician from maryland outraged his federal government health care does not kick in for 30 days. this was his campaign platform. >> there is no constitutionally mandated role of no government health care. >>> obama 2011.{ use your executive powers, pleads the center for american progress. or if this was the cover of "cosmo" 30 fun things you can do without the house or senate. >>> bill maher is here. >> keith olbermann is right. >> i've liked bill since 1977. >> what defense spending really is is a giant welfare program. a jobs program for defense workers to build crap we don't need. >>> of course, there's that trip to mars. one way. go there and stay there. >> and in pr

secretaries of state and defense and they say u.s. missile defense plans that won't be affected but we are we missing something here. well they of course they have to say that because the not just the republicans but a significant section of the democrats would not vote for the treaty if they thought it ruled out the development of you know but. missile shields in the long run so clinton has got to you know try to turn a tightrope in which she says to the russians that this is not. in any way encourage the development of the defense of missile screen and tells the american audience that theoretical research and indeed development will go on it's there in a very difficult position they're talking to different audiences and they have to to some extent blur the issue or now let's let's talk about the end game here let's take this on to more of a global scale here consequences what will they be if the treaty is not ratified. well as as i said i mean it will very much on the credibility of the obama administration because i think most of t

fight its growing deficit but there's one area that's been able to dodge the cuts time and time again defense spending so i'll ask dr ivan eland if the u.s. will continue to turn a blind eye to our bloated military budgets then it's no secret that many look at socialism as if it were a scarlet letter that carries a negative stigma in the u.s. but many countries in latin america are on board as one student activist why he thinks socialism is seeing a resurgence twenty years after the fall of the berlin wall and we're going to ask you do people need either big god or big government to stay in control i'm going to speak with the reasons michael moore to hand about whether fiscal conservatism and social conservatism have to coexist and since it's friday we're going to treat you to some laughs so we can have the scoop on all the crazy stories making headlines this week from an s.t.d. test you can take on your phone to japanese holographs becoming rock stars comedy central blogger gonzalo cordova will give us his take at the end of the show but now to move on to city's top story. all the world lead

as a journalist, how are you able to work with defense attorneys or public defenders to bring like to ordinary in justice salmon -- bring light to ordinary injustice? amy has written this book, and a cup of book award. -- it got a book award. [applause] how can defense attorneys or people who work in the system make that known and worked with journalists? >> i generally bring everybody out to lunch or to a bar or to both. journalists and police officers have this classic cold war, and there was even a cold war between defense attorneys and journalists -- certainly between prosecutors and reporters, and i find if i write a story they cannot just come back and say, this is wrong, and this is wrong. if they are faced with the fact i have busted my butt to get everything right and have gone to them and really tried hard to represent my view points, then they do not have an argument about going to a bar with maie. we have people whispering to us, and that is part of the dynamic, but i find once you develop a reputation for trying hard to understand all the things you people learn in hastin

spending and our defense obligations so our defense is cut back as drastically as the british defense obligations were cut back? guest: that refers to a period in 1962. people who worry about the weakening of the dollar or the chinese calling in our debt, that is the kind of thing you worry about the british left half of the world. and then the united states was there to take up the slack. and there is nobody to take up our slack. before we make drastic arsenic reductions in defense spending, let's figure out what our national and security interests are. then we can decide what to pay out for our commitments. what are the consequences? if we leave a place, that means it might go nuclear because the lack of our support. host: this op-ed was written in the washington examiner. your thoughts? guest: the real issue here is why can't we of 44% of gdp? there is nothing about -- the real issue here is why can't we afford 4% of gdp? there are things we can do to cut defense or reduce expenditures in the name of efficiency. what we should not do is simply say we are going to take a meat ax to

today, how would you cast for the role of a criminal defense attorney for television? >> i have had the pleasure of doing that twice. i created two series that nobody really watch. i have had the experience on two separate occasions, sitting with casting directors, trying to cast the role of defense lawyer. it is interesting, a defense lawyer can look american. kathy bates is playing one. jimmy smits is planning one. they focus group test television shows, like they do with new car models. the companies that do that work are the same month that two mock jury trials. so your audience is also a jury pool. a defense lawyer are all the ones that you would imagine if you were describing gregory peck. someone with high integrity, someone who will do anything it takes to win. they do not have an expectation of what they need to look like. but those qualities seem to be universal. those have not changed. those are the same qualities they were looking for when perry mason was popular. old, traditional values. it seems to me if afl-cio can buy ad time on dodger games, i do not u

defense mostly at the cost of social benefits. and investigation into a cause of our organ trafficking network raises concerns about the region becoming a breeding ground for gruesome crime. the u.s. is trying to revive the stalled middle east peace talks by enticing israel to freeze settlement construction in occupied palestinian territories washington's put twenty stealth fighter jets worth three billion dollars on the table and a pledge to fight any international resolutions against israel in exchange it wants the country to pull its construction in the west bank for three months with a promise not to ask them to prolong the freeze afterwards palestinians are criticizing the plan pointing out it will not apply to east jerusalem talk to her son there is the palestinian autonomy economics minister and chairman of the palestinian campaign against settlement products he says israel is just buying itself away around un regulations with this deal. i think we're talking about blackmailing israel blackmailing america and mailing the wo

all the defense many of these issues will be sorted out by themselves given the level of mutual trust between the two and russia will increase significantly should they have joint missile defense which of course russia will need not to compromise any of its existing. blog relationships such as to its. relationship with china russia will only become. as objectively as some of the world's most effective militarily countries blogs. choice key political analyst from macarthur foundation. republicans cold to slash spending across the board seems to have gone down well with voters in the us midterm elections where the economy in ruins politicians say there will be cuts in education and health care but there is one multibillion dollar area that they won't touch. with the u.s. debt in the trillions in the economy still. it's no surprise politicians in washington are calling for this solution it's across the board spending cuts and in fact it was the rallying cry for middle ground that cable channel talks john midterm election nightmare when you get right down to the details she really made he