defense department wanted to give us a computer that would change the world. builders have been told to build a robot that would survive a disaster, and this is the valkyrie from nasa. it's the longest in a long line of space robots. a japan-based company just bought by google has new motors that make faster and stronger. what are the challenges that are disaster recovery, nasa is looking for this technology forward for human space flight exploration. we feel there is a partnership between humans and robots. >> that makes a lot of season. i mean, these things are intimidated when i stand next to them. you're is 6'2", 300 pounds. it's a big thing. how do you keep people from going into shock when this thing comes looming through the smoke? >> that's a good question. we pride ourselves on the esthetic of the robot. we feel if this robot is coming to help you there has to be clear indications that the robot is coming toward you with soft stones and white in color like an ambulance. >> what ithe true idea of robotd humans working together. >> so interesting to hea

i suppose that's okay to have a friend at the department of defense. but is he capable of running the department of homeland security? on october 18 of this year, at the press conference announcing his nomination, mr. johnson said i love this country, i care about the safety of our people, i believe in public service and i remain loyal to you, mr. president." close quote. while at the department of defense, mr. johnson is credited with spearheading the president's effort to repeal the don't ask, don't tell law or policy. despite the fact that a poll of the combat unit showed it wasn't -- they didn't favor that. a report he produced dismissed these attitudes as laden with emotion and misperception. he was hailed as -- quote -- "a hero of don't ask, don't tell repeal by" the washington post "." i think that's the thing he has been given most credit for, being active in that issue. i'm not saying that's disqualifying. i'm just saying that's kind of what he spent his time doing at the department of defense. he wasn't dealing with how much aircraft carriers

in the way the defense department is. and i'm a very strong -- deep in my heart, i'm an insurance actuary, and i think we need clean eyeshade budget tiers who will make the state department's budget as bulletproof as the defense department's is. >> host: kori schake has worked at the national security council, at the state department. shears currently at the hoover institution. she's taught at west point, johns hopkins, the national defense university. how did you get interested in this line of work? [laughter] >> guest: i was a student of condi rice's here at stanford. [laughter] yeah, i had grand idea about writing my ph.d. on the renaissance as a latin american novel in the 1970s and what this dells us about the role of -- the tells us about the role of literature and art in repressive societies. and i did not do that. and congress -- condi rice is the reason i did not do that. >> host: one of the recommendations you have is for the state department to reconsider universal the city. >> yeah. so we have american embassi

. >> this is the defense department. >> i used to think president barack obama spreads the weather. he actually burns it. maybe this was his idea of green energy, burning american money. >> are you this articulate act the defense department budget? >> i do believe there's overspending in the defense department, but it works ch it actually works. >> the wall street journal had a great editorial that highlighted important statistics right. 4.5 million people have lost their health insurance due to obama care. if you believe the inflated numbers of hhs, 1.2 million have signed up. 800,000 and 365,000 respectively with medicaid enrollees involved. if that's the rate increasing, i encourage republicans to put pressure on kathleen sebelius to give that number. i believe as of january 1st, more will have lost their health insurance than those that gained. could you imagine if the outcome of the bill that was supposed to get everybody covered right -- adam levine only knows how to get models into bed. he's not going to get them into the exchanges. does the opposite of what intended. >> 8.4

the defense department signed the deal more than two years ago and pentagon officials defended the moveting a 2010 top secret study, which they said recommended the russian helicopter as the top choice. but the associated press has obtained excerpts of the study, which said the u.s. manufactured chinook helicopter was the, quote, most cost effective single platform type fleet for the afghan air force over a 20-year period. the russian deal sparking outrage in congress, as lawmakers pressed officials during defense department budget hearings in april. >> with all the tens of billions of dollars we put into afghanistan, this is a tough one to justify. >> reporter: the defense department says the afghan military already trains and uses the russian chopper, while the u.s. chinook would require retraining afghan forces. >> we are trying to provide them as much capability as possible, so that they can, in fact, take responsibility for security. >> reporter: a pentagon spokesman tells abc news the russian helicopter is the only one that could meet our immediate and near-term requirements in af

the defense department is here to jump start robotics as they jump started the self-driving car.which led to google's self-driving car. google acquired eight different robotics companies, and one of them is shaft, the leader here. they acquired boston dynamics that is up credibly well-known and forms the basis of the competition here. i think it has to do with coming had of an injury that is just starting. some people believe that robotics could be the next internet and google is trying to get a foot hold right now. >> i'm not the only person who has shaft music going through their head. everything that you're seeing there how far away are we from this technology being able to actually help them to save lives and from national disasters. >> reporter: just how useful a robot could be for a spacewalk like the one taking part today. we're a long way away. this is like toddlers. it takes them as long as a half hour to walk up and turning a valve or mount a ladder. some of these guys are not even able to do it in a half hour. that said, a year from now when these trials continue it wi

competition gets another $1 million on top of an already $3 million investment per team from the defense department this agency that runs this competition is called defense advance research project agency, darpa. years ago they made a bet on a nuclear strike and that became the internet. one thing i'll note the spacewalk you cut away from is the kind of thing that these robots are trying to do. the idea is to keep humans out of harm's way. there are two designs to open valves and do the tasks that they're trying to solve right now. this competition is about solving that problem. >> how far is this technology that you're witnessing? how far is this technology from actually helping in real life disasters. >> reporter: this is the thing that makes the shaft robot so impressive. there are robots who can do specific tasks, pick and place, that's repetitive stuff is what a purposed built robot can do really well. the challenge is trying to do all these different task in one robot that is strong enough and safe enough to work along humans in a human environment. that's very hard to do. many of these rober

i do believe that there is overspending at the defense department, but it actually works.works. the "wall street journal" had a great editorial that highlighted important statistics right. 14.5 million people have lost their health insurance due to obama care. if you believe the inflated numbers of hhs, 1.2 million have signed up. 800,000 and 365,000 respectively with those medicaid enrollees involved. right? you look at this. if that's the anemic rate increasing, i encourage republicans to put pressure on kathleen sbe sebelius to give t number. i believe as of january 1st, more will have lost their health insurance than those that gained. could you imagine if the outcome of the bill that was supposed to get everybody covered. right? the only thing adam levine knows how to do is get models in bed. he's not going to get them into the exchanges. does the opposite of what it is, is that's what was intended? >> 8.4 million have lost their insurance. >> we don't know how many people. >> that many plans. >> the reason we know now because there's a certain amount of time insuranc

now with breaking defense and a deputy editor with raking defense area we're talking about defense department funding. you can join us by phone. what is breaking defense? guest: we were aol defense until the spring. aol spun us off and sold us to a different company called raking -- breaking media of new york. it only does trade publications. aol has a huge content media empire. we are now renamed and rebranded as breaking defense. it is all the same contributors. it is a website that is all about defense, obviously. it is very focused on the not -- beltway around washington dc and a little beyond. people in congress, people in the think tanks and lobbying groups. people in the defense industry. people in the policy levels of the military. who deal with legislative affairs. host: one of the headlines, the national defense authorization act, what does it mean? guest: 451 years, the congress is managed to pass the defense authorization bill. it was a three-step budget. it hasn't happened until three years until now. the authorization bill and then the appropriators who actually signed the check

from spending a lot of it seems to be ample and abundant president takes a look at how the defense department spends and wastes our money. the fact that the us government wastes huge amounts of money in ridiculous ways like it has money to burn is no big shocker but here's a pretty disgusting instance of it in two thousand and eight the defense department spent four hundred and eighty six million dollars to buy twenty italian maybe twenty propeller military transport aircraft called g. twenty two's to give to the ask an air force and five years later they're basically rusting camps of scrap metal the us bought the aircraft to help the ask and support their own military when we leave them to the mess over there but according to a letter by john south of the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction no one bothered to buy spare parts for the aircraft to help meet operational requirements he said another two hundred million dollars was needed in order to make sure these things could actually fly but no one bothered to think that through and it turns out the italian made planes are

we haven't even got an audit of the defense department. year after year after year we demand that an audit be conducted by the department of defense by a certain year, and it's never happened. and so we're not apologists. in fact, i believe that the chairman and ranking member have been zealous in their efforts to reduce waste and mismanagement and duplication in the armed services, in the defense department through their work on the armed services committee. but the morale of our men and women who are serving is being harmed, and it's not something that shows up in dollars and cents. but it does show up over time. i would ask the senator from michigan, it does show up over time in their willingness to remain in the military. i was recently down at fort campbell, kentucky, with the senator from tennessee, senator alexander, and we had an excellent briefing from the colonels and the generals, and the chief master sergeants of the united states army there. and unanimous, unanimous was their view that they believe that we in the congress of th

run by the defense department. 110 separate ones. it doesn't have anything to do with defending the country. they have 138 green energy programs, spending billions of dollars every year on it. that should be at the department of energy, not in the pentagon. it costs $50,000 a year to educate a child on a military base in this country., four anda half times what it cost to educate anybody anywhere else in this country. that doesn't have anything to do with defending the country either. why? so you got $67 billion. not one aspect of that was acted on in the defense authorization act. not that was taken out and let's have the military defend this country, not do all these other things that don't have anything to do with defending the country. and, oh by the way, as we move that $67 billion out, it's estimated we can save about $15 billion by overhead absorption by moving medical research to the n.i.h. where it belongs instead of the billions of dollars we spend at the pentagon on medical research that doesn't have anything to do with ex

we have also had the defense department and others screaming -- people in the other non- defense assessed -- department screaming about the cupboard is bare. the fact is, it is not true. congress is probably going to pass this bill. the house already has and the senate probably will today. but it shows you that congress does not have its eye on the ball. and we are not spending money in an appropriate way. we still provided money to study romance novels. we provided money to the state department so they could buy some votes by getting likes on facebook. we even helped nasa fund studies of congress. my contention is that had congress been focused on doing the job of setting priorities and cutting wasteful spending, we could have avoided the government shutdown and the budget deal that we are now considering that raises the -- which actually goes the government and raises the burden on the american taxpayer. my favorite program in this is the fact that the air force but $600 million worth of airplanes, and as soon as they were delivered they shipped them to the desert. and this is the same

set around a trillion dollars, and negates unpopular spending cuts that would have hit the defense department hard. >> this agreement does not solve all of the budget problems. it helps us address our readiness. >> some do not like the plan because it does not extend unemployment benefits. >> it is interesting to note that this is so unconscionable at the level of a moral. >> some have been blasting john boehner for backing the budget. he insists the plan takes giant steps in creating a smaller federal government. >> it is not everything i wanted. when groups criticize an agreement they have never seen, you begin to wonder how credible those actions are. >> at a time when washington is buried in dysfunction, some see it as the only option. >> it is the best compromise you can get in a divided government. it is nowhere close to what republicans would like to have. has tohis passes, it head to the democratically controlled senate. president obama says he supports the budget and his present form. >> while it appears the compromise has been reached on the budget, another piece of legislation appe

defense intelligence agency has numerous bilateral and multilateral intelligence relationships, defense department, ministers of defense, and, around the world. we have them in every region of the world. we have the capability to continue to push that and that is the guidance we are getting in our national security and military strategy, partnering and partnerships are critical to our own national security. intelligence must be ready for the new realities. the second megatrend i want to speak to briefly have to do with a connected populace. it is really important we understand this. today, they are growing up in a different world. when i say young, it is the millennium's in this world where they do not wear watches. a time -- tell time by a cell phone. i could go on and on describing how regions of the world have moved from no pair copper wire, which, unless you are used to an old dial-up phone, you do not even know what i'm talking about, to 4g and five g telecommunications networks around the world. the african continent has 47% of the global total communications market. they never really had th

obviously a big deal, but something that happened shortly thereafter was a bill to fund the defense departmentssed. positiveovement in a direction if you are at the pentagon right now, but there are still major cuts in play and what you are seeing from the defense department is they want more, some type of leeway out of congress going forward. >> everyone was all excited about this budget agreement, republicans eating together with democrats, the fox sitting down with the hound, then one of the foxes came out and said well -- no, this is not a new era of cooperation, we will have a showdown over the debt ceiling again. >> take the budget disagreements off the table for two years, everyone has a high five, then you have the debt ceiling. house republicans control the house, not the senate and not the white house. they want leverage, a place where they can get some of their policy through. they feel that if they hold the debt ceiling hostage, the administration has to come to the table and give them something. president obama has made it clear that he will never negotiate over the debt ceiling a

that includes the defense department. but there are half a dozen very large growth opportunities that we are pursuing between now there has been outside third party market research studies that indicate maybe $80 plus millions -- billion, excuse me, in economic benefits. just in united states in the commercial application of uas. most of that will be small uas. and we think our proven history and leadership in that area could be a great growth tup for us. >> when can we expect to see an air environment drone be sold on on a commercial basis. yous are better techlogically so there could be tremendous opportunities in areas like africa and the middle east. >> i think there is going to be a huge opportunity in the united states but it will clearly be a global opportunity. our small uas are among the first, i think the only hand launched unmanned airplane that has faa type certification for commercial use and we're already engaged in that application in the arctic and alaska. we're working with multiple doctors in public serv

the defense department is always the largest number in this issue. >> okay.ut, however -- but healthcare.gov is on everybody's mind. >> not sure about the last part. >> excuse me. >> let's not argue the numbers yet. first let's talk about healthcare.gov. so $300 million for a website that doesn't work. but do you think we'll ever know how much it costs for the fixes. >> i bet it's tenfold. i bet it gets into a billion dollars. absolutely. the amount of hours they're spending. if you know anything about how much it costs for it, this could be multiples if not ten times what the 300 million was. that's originally what we paid the french canadian contractor. it's going to be higher than that. the waste book outlines $30 million, that's less than one penny on the dollar. we spend 3.5 trillion dollars a year. we could probably find 3$300 billion if we really tried. >> do you think washington is ignoring the easy stuff? or even when this budget that's going to pass tonight they're dealing with military retirees, people that didn't serve a full 20 years but are obli

today they are competing in a robot change for the defense department. or correspondent joins us. jacob ward is there. what can you tell us about this competition. >> it's an amazing conglomeration of all the greatest minds in robotics, it's the greatest challenge in the history of the field. it involves eight different tasks from climbing ladders to something as difficult as driving a truck, and a clear winner basically has been announce said. it's unofficial but we know who won. >> tell us about the robot. what are they doing? what kind of feats are they accomplishing? >> sure. so the test here is versatility. you are trying to design a robot that can work alongside human being in human environments. in fukushima, the disaster there, you needed to send in humans immediately. it would have been suicide to put people into that situation. instead they are trying to create robots that can be emergency responders, go into space. those tasks. the winner was a japanese team, made by a company called schaft, thee scored 27 points out of 32. many other agencies, including n.a.s.a. scored

why not the department of defense? so long as the accounting system is dysfunctional, audits will remain weak and ineffective, and the probability of rooting out much fraud and waste during sequestration is low and then still continuing to waste $100 million that we spend on the inspector general's office. and while i'm talking about the need for better audits, i would like to offer a word of encouragement to the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, general sopkow -- or john sopkow. he is the head of cega r. when they are cranking out aggressive hard-hitting audits -- and i commend cegar for doing that, set ago good example. the examples i am about to talk about for contracts deserve darts, not laurels. mr. president, i first came to the floor to speak on this subject november 14, 2012. at that point, i completed a preliminary view of seven red flags or potential problem areas that popped up on my era screen. since then, i have double checked the facts. i have confirmed my preliminary observations.

not so much anymore, but defense department on steroids and state and aid on life sport support, you -- support, you may have a beautifully integrated plan at conception, but when it goes up to the hill to be resourced and you get a third of what you asked for on the civilian side and 110% on the military side, the plan doesn't look so integrated or coherent anymore. and then on a hollow force, i do hi there's a lot -- think there's a lot that needs to be done in the defense reform domain. reducing excess be overheld, taking down the 20% of infrastructure that our military leaders don't think they need anymore. truly overhauling our acquisition system to get more bang for the buck and addressing compensation, unsustainable compensation costs. you know, you have a force that's about 1.3 million today, about the size it was in 2001. that same force because of up sustainable o&m and be personnel costs costs twice as much as it did ten years ago. we cannot stay on that trajectory. so that's the first place i would go to battle a hollow force. >> okay. a lightning round. we have bill lynn

and from companies that do business with the defense department. the uncertainty and the cuts toe hurting their ability hire workers invest in future growth. i'm glad that this bill will prevent the upcoming round of sequestration and provide some certainty for the pentagon for the upcoming year. andetary of defense hagel secretary dempsey have expressed support for this bill, as have a number of college here in congress who have spent their last few years highlighting the impact of continued sequestration on national security. the increased investments we get from rolling back sequestration are fully replace of a smarter balanced mix of new revenue amorous possible spending cuts. responsible thing to do is to increase investments now weller economic recovery remains fragile and workers are fighting to get back on the job. this bill moves is in the direction of exactly that. we have cut our deficit in half over the last few years. this bill adds to the $2.5 withion done since 2011, an additional $23 billion in evenings over the next 10 years. the b

bob, it is a long way from the defense department $700 toilet or are things better or just as bad asver? >> they are probably as bad as ever, but of course we listed these things that grab our viewer as tension and -- viewers attention, of course obamacare had to be in there, but defense budget after defense budget for systems that nobody wants. the defense department is always the largest number in this issue. >> but healthcare.gov is -- >> i'm not sure about the last part. >> let's not argue the numbers. but eric, $300 million for a website that does not work, do you think we'll ever know how much it costs for the fixes they are trying to make to the website? >> i'll bet you it is ten-fold. i bet you it gets into the -- >> like a billion. >> absolutely. the samt of hours they are spending and if you know anything about i.t. and how much it costs, this could be multiples or ten times what the $300 million was. it was what we paid the french-canadian contractors. coburns out wliens the -- outlines the $300 million, but if you cut that out, you would still spent 99.92% of what you are

in time i don't know if after world war ii, the then it war department suddenly became the defense department, a complete reversal of roles. would you endorse a movement to restore the of link wage of four department versus defense department? [laughter] >> yes. >> i would like to second that. [laughter] >> i heard a story of an army brigade in the early occupation of iraq that instead of fighting the insurgents directly like reading houses in the middle of the night they work to improve the community, opening markets, making the streets clean to make life livable and let things the people be happy. i believe this may have been from david petraeus but eventually that unit was shifted out of the area of the neighbor heard they were patrolling and replaced with a unit of a conventional approach of kicking in doors in the middle of the night. i think we don't consider there are people of both sides of the gun. would you agree? what about society at war? >> let me focus on the first part. it is true. petraeus in the immediate occupation, i was not there. based on reporting come in rupert -- appea

that then secretary of defense leon panetta ordered a review of ethics training among military leaders and recommended earlier and reinforced ethics training. according to the department of defense that was the message delivered to the white house. but a year later with the case of alleged hazing in the navy now public as well as other scandals, there are questions whether anything in the military has really changed. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >> axelrod: later, the hero cops who saved the pilot of a crashed and burning plane, and a high tech competition to build a robot that could save human lives in a crisis. he he -- lives in a crisis. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits

national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon tonight with why the defense department of the way military families save money on food. good evening, jennifer. >> reporter: good evening, bret. defense department budget cutters say everything is on the table in light of more sequester cuts, including a plan to close all u.s. base commissaries where military families shop for food at reduced rates, saving thousands of dollars a year on their grocery bills. the entire budget for commissaries is $1.4 billion a year. 178 commissaries would close in the u.s., including alaska and hawaii. 70 commissaries overseas would be exempt, but these figures don't tell the whole story. 30% of the employees at the commissaries are military spouses, so there will likely be unemployment attached to eliminating this perk. and the director of the defense commissary agency says that they have already cut their budget by $700 million since 1993. the proposal has received mixed reviews. >> i definitely think it's a bad thing to take away the commissaries. that's a benefit that a lot of soldiers

back to this issue, in terms of the amount of money that is proposed to be cut for the defense departmentwhat is that? aren't republicans part of the process, to? sequestration is something that both republicans and democrats agreed to in congress. talk about theto half trillion dollars in defense cuts that obama has orchestrated. with got to remember that it was president obama's idea. some of the republicans had signed onto sequestration because they felt that that was the only way that this administration is going to stop spending money. we're getting to the second year of sequestration and we don't really have any relief in sight. is a 10 year program. that wewith budget cuts have under president obama, we're looking at a cut of 100,000 ground troops. i got a brief from the house armed services committee recently and if sequestration goes a whole 10 years, we can expect to lose about 20% of our navy ships and 20% of our air force aircraft. we have 280 navy ships. in 10 years we would be down to only 230. host: how much were some of the recommended cuts that were made by then secretary

itould have hit the defense department big if it were across the board.you look at the economic figures, in the last few months, the economy does seem poised to take off if we do not do anything trible to it. this does provide a certain level of certainty. >> one of the details in the discretionary spending, a decrease of $967 billion over what would have happened if they hadd just stayed with the cuts n january. because of that, we will have an increase in discretionary spending. >> this s marks e lim of cuttinthe discretionary part of the budget. everyone understands that is not where the money is anyway. what we artalking about here is rnding errors, tens of billions of dollars, when trillions of dollars a at stake in the entitlements. weave a president unwilling to do anything about entitlements. i suspect as long as he is in office and pelosi is leing the democrats in-house,he said she would not allow social security or medicare to be touch. ,t the end of this presidency we willave to have national action on entitlements. this deal sets it up because

according to the defense department, it appears the helicopter engine failed. only one person survived the crash. officials say there were no reports of enemy fire at the time and it is the most deadly single incident if troops in afghanistan twins 2012. they were part of the nato led force. >> investigators want to know why there was a second fire at the same recycling plant in five weeks. the fire kurd after an explosion at the sims metal management yard. you can see the toxic smoke from the fire. our reporter, matt keller, joins us live. >> the fire is." you can see how hazy the sky is around sims metal management this midday with air quality officials measuring contaminants in the air and firefighters are still here with equipment and after battling the fire. >> it felt like deja vu at the sims metal management a four at the recycling plant was sparked before 1:00 o'clock a.m. this morning and the second fire in a little over five weeks and police blocked seaport boulevard to keep people out of the toxic smoke. hundreds of employees on the early shift at th

as some of the other institutions of the american government have to be for example the department of the defense would you agree with that oh no no i wouldn't agree with that at all look the central intelligence agency is overseen very closely by the u.s. congress our congress unlike parliaments around the world have complete insights into what the central intelligence agency is doing that's unique in the united states we have a level of transparency that exceeds any one in the world and so we have a very careful system constructed here of checks and balances and yes mr allen despite that extensive congressional oversight here alluded to it's not a secret that the cia is often referred to as the presidents agency and many american presidents in the past have used covered operations as this sort of gray middle ground tactic between diplomacy on one hand and military operations on the other hand given how substantially the scope of the cia operations has widened in these past decades do you think that the tools available to barack obama compared to his predecessors have expanded as well well no i

state department and defense department and congress are unwilling to let leading american weapons makers sell to adversaries around the world. i don't agree with pat's assessment that somehow nonstate actors are the biggest threat. i think the bigger threat is that drone proliferation has come to a point where it's really a matter of time before another power in the world, whether it's turkey or china or iran, uses or russia uses a drone for its own purposes. the very ugly precedent that the united states has set over the -- beginning with the george w. bush administration and escalated by the obama administration has been this use of drones for targeted killing campaigns. >> what potential adversary is big on drones? >> well, the chinese, the russians, the iranians are also believed to have a predator or reaper class drone. >> who has weaponnized drones? >> this is a great question. these programs are so seek active around the world like the u.s. program, it's really hard to pin it down. right now there are about 26 countries in the world that are believed to have reaper or predator cla

when you have a bureaucratic struggle it is true is in every country that for example here the defense department doesn't want to lose out to the cia but i don't agree with what you said at first which is that the cia can pretty much do whatever it wants wants it cannot so if the u.s. congress passes a new law that seeks to cut back upon some of the things the national security agency is doing the n.s.a. is going to a bay the wall and do as the congress and the president direct and they're not going to be able to do what they want to do but on their own accord a bit but mr allen if the oversight is indeed so strict and so strong why do you think there is such an uproar. with regards to all these revelations not only among the ad general public but also among the members of congress and the white house itself president obama for one sad that he had no idea that german chancellor's phone was tapped so i think that shows that the control may not be as as strong as you are suggesting no we'll look we've got to do and we're always striving to have better oversight in the united states to have better c

left children in the cold, not going to school, making sure people are not eating and made the defense department not ready. >> some of the biggest stories to come out of congress had little to do with legislation and a lot to do with political point scoring. instead of taking up high priority issues. the party voted more than 40 times to repeal president obama's health care law, forcing a shutdown in october for 16 days. >> i do not green egs and ham, i do not like them, sam i m >> the upper chamber was not much better. their ted cruz held up legislation for a day to protest health care reform, reading at times from a book with dr seuss. >> there is no justification. if - when i got hired to do a job, i get fired when i don't do my job. the pay is cut. they don't suffer the consequences. it seems unlikely 2014 will be better. in 10 months the majority of congress will be up for election. politicians will focus not on legislative, but on campaigning to keep their seats. >> a flight from florida to cuba landed. nine passengers were booked on a small private charter to havana, visiting organic farm

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defense department. it's built attention for building animal-like robots. boston dynamics said as a member of the google team, it hopes to create even more advanced robots. google is planning to develop industrial robots. they include a venture business launch by the university of tokyo, some of these companies do make humanoid robots. >>> all right, that's going to do it for biz tonight. let's see how things are looking on the markets. >>> the leaders of iran and the united states have been making an effort to mend their sour ties, but iranian officials are protesting sanctions over their nuclear program. authorities said last thursday they would add more companies to a list of firms subject to the sanctions. officials in tehran say the agreement calls for the countries to ease some sanctions if iran suspends part of its nuclear program. iranian officials say foreign minister zarif protested the tightening of the sanctions. zarif said in an interview with "the washington post" he intends for talks to continue. catherine ashton said she'd discuss the issue

. >> i like technology but these drones belong in the defense department only.uld be controlling phem. i tell you why, i can think of nothing scarier than my entire suburban town full of these black suburban birds dropping packages off to the consumers. it needso be stopped before it gets started. >> jonas has never been this xi excited about something. do you disagree? you like these drones? >> i love them. these drones are not going to be armed, okay, they're not going to shoot anybody. they're also laws against the horseless carriage at the turn of the 20th century. oh, my god, we can't have these contraptions going all over town, they're going to killll people and children. this is the wave of the future. i love this. i want to order pizza from it as soon as we get one. >> i like that. bernard, are you going to be calling domino's too? >> i think it's a good idea for rural areas. for cities and suburbs, complete disaster. it's a huge pr attack for jeff bezos. he went on "60 minutes" right before cyber monday dropping this bomb. cyber monday sales for amazon,

is out on capitol hill lawmakers have been dragging their feet when it comes to funding the defense department but yesterday they announced an agreement so what's in the new n.b.a. and what's been left out details on that ahead and homelessness on the rise in new york the growing income inequality is forcing families out of their homes and as a result the big apple is seeing the most homeless children since the great depression more of these dire economic conditions coming up. and sheriff deputies charged with abuse in los angeles county eighteen sheriff deputies are being accused of abuse in local prisons now it looks like the jailers might end up being jailed themselves an in-depth look at this case later in.

now with breaking defense and a deputy editor with raking defense area we're talking about defense departmentnding. you can join us by phone. what is breaking defense? were aol defense until the spring. aol spun us off and sold us to a different company called raking media of new york. it only does trade publications. aol has a huge content media empire. asnow renamed and rebranded breaking defense. contributors.e it is a website that is all about defense, obviously. it is very focused on the not hence within the beltway around washington dc and a little beyond. people in congress, people in the think tanks and lobbying groups. people in the defense industry. levelsin the policy of the military. , the one of the headlines national defense authorization act? what does it mean? guest: 451 years, the congress is managed to pass the defense authorization bill. it was a three-step budget. it hasn't happened until three years until now. the authorization bill and then the appropriators who actually signed the checks. most committees completely failed to pass an authorization bill it year after year

symbols of peace and joy. >> national security correspondent jennifer griffin explains why the defense department might get rid of the way military families save money on food. jennifer? >> heather, ainsley, the pentagon says no final decision has been made. defense cutter says more is on the table including a plan to close all u.s. based commissaries where they shop at reduced rate saving thousands on their grocery bills. it would affect 78 commissaries in the united states. they receive 1.4 billion in subsidies. but they don't tell the whole story. 30 percent of the employees are military spouses. there will likely be unemployment attached to eliminating this perk and the director of the defense commissary agency said they have already cut their budget by $700 million since 93. it has received mixed reviews. >> i think it is a bad thing to take away the commissary. it benefits a lot of soldiers and family members. >> i don't like it but the choices have to be made. it is this or say cutting retirement things like that, this is one of the least bad options. >> also on the chopping block ending a

in florida that is interesting as the defense research on the beach the research part of the defense department the united states is falling rather extensively his effort to bring robots up to a level where they can perform human tasks in difficult situations now the defense department is always saying it's like cinnamon to focus ema and they can open vowels and they can operate in high radiation environment. and you say haven't you know they can never tell people to another bar that my own. really what it's about. but if you look to keep the people make these robots keep naming them after warriors the one most advances call the doctor a decided life and death on the battlefield. and that's what these. that's what ultimately these robots are really about. that's why the defendant ratings soldier of the twenty first of it to this entry there is a whole it's not just this time just robots in the twenty first century right now. it's as good and even new generation of drones tours they call them unmanned combat air vehicles are going to be essentially fighter bombers with no pilot. in the idea that

defense secretary chuck hagel is replacing the general in charge of the defense department's sexual assault prevention and response office. general gary patton is stepping down amid new allegations he interfered with an internal investigation into patient abuses in a hospital in afghanistan. patton has been accused of blocking a navy nourishment cooperating in the investigation telling the nurse to stay in your lane. >>> according to a new study, the voluntarily cane beneath yellowstone national park is 2 1/2 times larger than previously thought. the volcano would supposedly erupt with a force. 2,000 times that of mt. st. helen. and this man delighted families and friends by proposing to the nurse he met while in the hospital. costello who suffered serious burns during the bombing wrote in a facebook post he now knows why he was involved in the tragedy saying, "it was to meet my best friend and the love of my life." congratulations to them. >>> now for your first look at business, we turn to cnbc. good morning. >> good morning. we start with our top news. president obama will meet with top

intelligence agency has numerous bilateral and multilateral intelligence relationships, you know, defense department, ministers of defense, you know, around the world. we have them in their region of the world. we have the capability to continue to push that, and that is the guidance we're getting in our national security strategy and national military strategy, partnering and partnerships are critical to our on national security. intelligence must be ready for these new realities. the second megatrend that i want to just talk to you briefly about has to do with this connected populace. this is really important that we understand this. the hang people of today, they're growing up in -- they are young. it is really the millenniums are in this world. they don't wear watches. they tell time by ourself on. you know, i can go on and on about describing how regions confidence of the world have moved from no pair copper wire, which, you know, unless you are used to an old style town you would not know what i am talking about to for she and some cases 5g telecommunication networks around the world. the afri