what i do know is the comptroller of the department of defense has really made this a priority, getting the department to work towards the point where they are truly amicable in all financial dimensions. this is a huge endeavor. i think everybody understands that this is imperative. it is difficult to make hard choices about trade-offs and how to manage risk if you don't really know what you are spending on things. i think everybody agrees -- and to my knowledge, the department is working towards that goal. >> you always hear that we spend more on defense than all the rest of the countries in the world combined. is that true? >> it is true but i don't know how relevant a metric it is. the u.s. has such a unique leadership role to play in the world. we have a network of alliances. we are the architect and the underwriter of the international rules-based order. i don't want to say we are the world's policemen, but we have an unusual level of responsibility to try to prevent conflict, maintain stability and so forth. it is difficult to make because our responsibilities are so different. >>

what i do know is the comptroller of the department of defense has really made this a priority, gettinghe department to work towards the point where they are truly amicable in all financial dimensions. this is a huge endeavor. everybody understands that this is imperative. it is difficult to make hard choices about trade-offs and how to manage risk if you don't really know what you are spending on things. -- and everybody agrees to my knowledge, the department is working towards that goal. >> you always hear that we spend more on defense than all the rest of the countries in the world combined. is that true? >> it is true but i don't know how relevant a metric it is. the u.s. has such a unique leadership role to play in the world. we have a network of alliances. we are the architect and the underwriter of the international rules-based order. i don't want to say we are the world's policemen, but we have an unusual level of responsibility to try to prevent conflict, maine staying -- maintain stability and so forth. becausefficult to make our responsibilities are so different. ofwhat was y

today's hearing will examine as we know the efforts under way at the department of defense to improve financial management and to obtain a clean, unqualified audit of the books at the department of defense. i want to begin today's hearing by asking why our financial management at the department of defense and any other agency is important in the first place, but especially the department of defense. accurate and complete financial accounts give you are jetblue -- gave the agency leadership and congress the information that we need for effective management and planning. and i might add execution. clean audible financial statements also give us the information we need to hold agencies accountable. to look in every nook and cranny and ask, is it possible to get better results for less money? i talk to people all the time who say to me, i don't mind paying extra taxes, i just don't want you to waste my money. we waste money probably at every agency to some extent. we especially waste it in the department of defense. and you know that's true. i know that's true. so do our taxpayers. we can

that was the original done by the defense department, which is if you want people to help this, we can share things. so i thought why don't we see if it still works that way. so i put them online for everyone to read and oddly enough i got 18,000 comments in the first week for one chapter. and a lot of this had great stuff. one of the great colorful characters in this book, stewart brand, he interviewed the well, which is one of the only online services, this guy should the

some moron a came from a college and was put in his defense department for political reasons the way they used to do with the k.g.b. where they had so-called political officers who had no military experience to make certain that everyone complied with the politically correct looks ok let's say they said listen we'll in the helicopter why i don't know maybe they thought they could save some money on fuel. well what i want to know why maybe it was a dumb decision in either case somebody made that decision and somebody should go to jail. i think a lot of people who who believe that islamists are running the government would have to question why osama bin ladin was was killed in the first place that because that wouldn't really fall into the same logic but as i understand it right now everything that's out there is pretty much anecdotal is there any hard evidence that could lead anyone to believe this was anything more than than a tragic incident hard evidence sometimes evidence insists no hard evidence of effect that will tell you that you have to start with what you have and what we ha

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all in this helicopter or let's throw away the conspiracy theory let's ask this who are the defense department made this decision to put all of them in an old slow offline helicopter is a lot of combat zones why didn't i put them into three things strike malefactors who want to defense the foreign made this decision when the oval office made this decision these are the questions that have never been answered and i fire a congressman running a hearing i would to stop this no i got that answer because somebody did this let's say again no conspiracy it was just an idiot in the defense department some moron a came from a college i was put in his events the pardon for political reasons the way they used to do with the k.g.b. where they had so-called political officers who had no military experience to make certain that everyone complied with the politically correct looks ok let's say they said listen we'll in the helicopter why i don't know maybe they thought they could save some money on fuel. what i want to know why maybe it was a dumb decision in either case somebody made that decision and someb

that was the original done by the defense department and the internet which is if you want people in different resource centers far away to help you save your work, we will have this internet. so we can share things. so i thought one night, well, why don't i see if it still works that way? so i took some of chapters in my book, early drafts of them, very early drafts and put them online for everybody to read. comment, tell me. oddly enough some of the people, i got 18,000 comments in the first week for one chapter. and a lot of it led to some good stuff, like stewart brand, one of the great, wonderful, colorful characters in this book. stuart graham was a who invented the catalog, the well which is one of the early online services. he invented, he helped do the mother of all demos. he was at the gracious so may different things. the electric kool-aid acid test. so he's been involved in sony things in the red old japanese said, here's who was there, who was at the homebrew computer club me. here's what we did when we started the well. able to all business on a. and other people said i

since 1995, the government accountability office has placed the department of defense business systems modernization efforts -- that is, its efforts to replace its existing information technology systems to improve how the department of defense is managed -- on its high-risk list every year. it's been on that list for many of the same reasons that ecss failed, including inadequate management controls, oversee how it acquires these large systems. according to the government accountability office, the department of defense -- quote -- "has not fully defined and established business systems modernization management controls." it further noted that these management controls are -- quote -- "vital to ensuring that d.o.d. can effectively and efficiently managemenefficientln undertaking with the size, complexity and significance of its business systems modernization and minimize the associated risks." i challenge the new deputy secretary of defense, who acts as the chief management officer, to work with the government accountability office to get the department of defense's business systems m

get rid of sequestration burden, that's where you really start to see problems come to the defense department. the 31% per year for military personnel is not that alarming to me, having watched this over the years, but there is an important factor that is hidden in a 31%. and that is its 31% in the period of relative growth. and now we're going to reach a period of stagnation or even decline, and at that point and you start wondering what happens to personnel. they will probably go a. when you're shrinking budgets the first thing that goes by the investment accounts. that's just kind of hard work. the second thing that goes is the readiness account because there's not much you can do about personal costs. they are fixed. basically the chickens have come home to roost on this issue. all-volunteer force now in place for 40 years as you mentioned. that means you have two copies of individuals who are retiring and a growing number of individuals are retiring. we have a much higher quality force today than we had in the early 1980s when they first started to address the issue of petty officer shor

speakers include officials from the labor and defense departments. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. losing the battle for talent will lead to diminished -- homelandair of the nga security and public safety committee. i now call this meeting to order. i'm honored to serve this year with governor rick snyder. rick snyder is unable to be with us today. i thank him very much for his work. i want to thank the governor of iowa who is stepping in today as the vice chair, a heartbeat away from the microphone here. able leader, an will take over and get us to the finish line. i would like to begin with administrative issues. books were sent ahead of this meeting. the proceedings of this committee are open to the press. please take a moment to ensure your cell phones are silenced or whatever. if not, if it is a really interesting call, share it with all of us. seated next to me is the legislative director. please see him if you need any copies of materials or assistance. today will focus on strengthening partnerships to provide meaningful and long-term em

we are delighted the f-35 has been cleared to fly by the department of defense. we are hopeful it may get here before the show ends. as you would expect, safety is paramount. we don't want to put undue pressure just to get it to appear at an air show. in answer to your direct queson, it s not shaken our confidence in the program. we have every confidence this aircraft wil be the fifth-generation aircraft everybody expects. the capability will have decades of service in the royal air force. we have full confidence inin the u.s. air force investigations. they have been very thorough looking at the engine. we remain confident in this aircraft's capability. >> the contract was to have been announced at this show. there was an expectation. when will we see it and what will it cover? >> where close to making our decision. we have approvals for the first squadron buy. we are close to the poioint whee we will be making an announcement. i cannot give you an exact timetable. there are issues to sort out. when dissipate making that order soon. weill be making -- we anticipa

sequestration burden, that's when you're really going to start to see problems come to the defense department. the 31% figure for military personnel is not that alarming to me, having watched this over the years, but there is an important factor that is, that is hidden in the 31%, and that is, it's 31% in a period of relative growth. and now we'll reach a period of stagnation or even decline. and at that point, you start wondering what happens to personnel costs, they're going to probably go up. when you have shrinking budgets, the first things that goes are the investment accounts. that's kind of how it worgs. the second things that goes is the readiness accounts, because there's not much you can do about personnel costs. and the chickens have come home to roost on this issue. an all-volunteer force now in force for 40 years, as uh yo mentioned, that means you have two cadres of individuals of retired and a growing number of individuals that have retired. you have a much higher quality force today than we had in the early 1980s, when they first started to address the issue of petty officer s

sequestration burden, that's when you're really going to start to see problems come to the defense department. the 31% figure for military personnel is not that alarming to me, having watched this over the years, but there is an important factor that is, that is hidden in the 31%, and that is, it's 31% in a period of relative growth. and now we'll reach a period of stagnation or even decline. and at that point, you start wondering what happens to personnel costs, they're going to probably go up. when you have shrinking budgets, the first things that goes are the investment accounts. that's kind of how it worgs. the second things that goes is the readiness accounts, because there's not much you can do about personnel costs. and the chickens have come home to roost on this issue. an all-volunteer force now in force for 40 years, as uh yo mentioned, that means you have two cadres of individuals of retired and a growing number of individuals that have retired. you have a much higher quality force today than we had in the early 1980s, when they first started to address the issue of petty officer s

> the problem doesn't go away because we are still going to have needs of support both for department of defense and department of state. now they're starting to use third country nationals for base support operations in djibouti and other parts of africa as well. >> after almost away week, the men who controlled the crash site in eastern ukraine have allowed the investigators in, turned over the bodies and turned over the black boxes. can a compromised crash site still tell you what you need to know? it's the "inside story." >> hello, i'm ray suarez. when a special jetline

what democrats stonewalls of bill for the defense department?hey would glass that out where they stand a against the soldiers in the field by the way? where the standing against children? two ising believe that is the easiest way not the climactic battles we are supposed to have every three months with the debt ceiling. no. do it the way it is supposed to be done under the constitution with spending and revenue originated in the house. all of us can understand that we don't need 8 feet of regulation. >> even though the president cannot be impeached you will get publicity and everything is in the press and television and radio. you cannot buy this. >> we need to fundamental principles. obviously he is not going anywhere but beyond that we have joe biden he is a man of very little brain but also a hard core ideologue it turns out even stupid presidents can do damage. so the media will completely destroy its the same way they destroy that protesters what we need to focus on is winning back the hearts and minds of the american people. it is what the

and to that end we have done four things through the department of defense. we have added forces to protect our people. the safety of our citizens obviously is our highest priority. the department has met the request for the department of state as described in the war powers notifications. we transmitted the department of defense has sent what is called a fleet anti-terrorism security team, what we call a fast team, a crisis response element, and additional military assets and personnel to reinforce security both at our diplomatic facilities in baghdad and at the baghdad international airport. the secretary of defense has also ordered the am fib with us transport ship uss mesa verdi into the arabian gulf. the presence in the gulf is added to other naval ships including the uss george h.w. bush and provides the president additional options to protect american citizens and interests in iraq should he choose to use them. number two, we have vastly increased our intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance isr assets. at the request of the government of iraq, we s

of twenty ten it is the responsibility of the department of defense to keep track and monitor what happens to the weapons that they're shipping overseas and what specifically the reason this mess is ongoing right now is because the department of defense in the u.s. uses these two systems one of the tracking shipping and the other tracking they're receiving weapons on the ground and it turns out that these two systems are not even linked together these two databases are not linked to each other and require me manual use and putting in information for every single weapon and the result is that this report has discovered is that information often does not match there is duplicated information and that really the database is incomplete and just to give you some more numbers that this report this review has discovered is that around four hundred seventy thousand serial numbers recorded in just one of these systems over forty percent of the information is missing or is duplicated so you can imagine i mean obviously these are serious serious numbers and that they're basically saying that tens of

here anybody has experience is there a real concern for potential collaboration between the department of defense and private corporations such as facebook to manipulate the populace emotion i think that there is in general a concern with the department of finance partnering up with some private corporation i don't think in this case you know as you said it was debunked they've funded studies in the past and it is a study at the end of the. between you know cornell and facebook but yeah this is i think it's something pretty typical to see the part of the phone sort of harboring in a study it sounds like we're just all guinea pigs if we are going to be using facebook so that's all the time that we have there that was kevin coyer senior politics reporter for the daily dot daniel stuckey journalist for motherboard and kathleen mcclellan national security and human rights deputy director for the government accountability project thank you so much for your time everybody and that does it for now i am manila chancy a later. this is what we do we kill people and break things we can see something if simp

a case like this they must be consulting the defense department. this is a war zone. the faa is charged with protect the lives of americans. the airlines have an obligation to do everything possible to protect the lives of their passengers. if something goes wrong it's their burden to show they did do everything to protect the lives of their passengers and that they did not take unnecessary risks they were aware of. dismissal came within one mile of the airport -- dismissal -- the missile came within one mile of the airport there must he and assessment as to whether there is a credible hamas hasthe airport. the airport is a target. it's a key part of their strategy to disable or attack that airport. unfortunately, they have with this airport out of commission at least .emporarily israel says it can protect itself. you would represent the families in terms of a crash. toyou find they are going err on the side of caution if they are in a situation that is risky? i sometimes you do, and sometimes they don't. are things go wrong you looking at a failure mode. when you loo

some answered and some didn't what can the department of defense take for aurks? and, say, and imtheir opportunity to get to refusal speed and carry on beyond that. you want to go first, please? >> senator, i'm somewhat familiar with the department of homeland security. one of the key elements is leadership. while the dod has leadership at the highest level, i think it's very important for the key tenants of accountability and audit readiness to go down to the second layer and become institutionalized. that's what the ek was as dhs where it wasn't only at the top levels but it was institutionalized as the components did all the heavy lifting. >> thank you. >> yes, i would agree with that. if the issue that i see is someone said this earlier this morning but driving accountability down oh through the ranks, i think there's no question that there's a commitment at the executive and leadership levels but i think making it apparent that readily accessible, believable numbers are important day-to-day in running a business operation or running a military unit. i think it

guest: it is almost entirely the traditional defense contractors. as the departmentof homeland theyity moved ahead, solicited five bids. they took it down to two. there were others involved. one of the companies that bid and made it further along was united airlines teaming with a more traditional defense company. it's not like they were all defense contractors. the vast majority were. yes. they do want to expand their business in this area. there was a gold after 9/11 where people thought homeland security was going to have an enormous budget. it has got to be a pretty big budget. it it never quite materialized. host: carl is calling from colorado. you say complex safety issues. the european airlines used to prevent people from tampering with their airliners. if a good offense is the best solution all the way around. i wasn't aware of what you were talking about. airlines have said we think the best way to deal with this is to go out in the field. we need to keep them of the hands of people who can use them against us. destiny is coming from texas. i think that is t

department of defense he joins us live there thank you so much for being with us know what do you think that the jihad this will do with the nuclear material they've seized. well depending upon his composition it's possible that the material could be used for making a dirty bomb at best it cannot be made into a nuclear weapon it's not that. it's been determined that it's not a. grade for a nuclear weapon but it certainly can be used to make a dirty bomb and it's and it's been known for for years that you can take. radio radio radioactive material and put it into a conventional weapon such as artillery shells and fired off and actually radiate an area and it's been my experience in working with border guards at the news because in years past that. even radioactive scrap metal can be ground up in use then and on one occasion i recall that drivers who drove the material through the checkpoints actually later died of radiation poisoning so the fact that they have a regulator is substance. and given the fact that these that the islamic state has some very pleased that they could probably put

was essential for us in the defense department. now's a time to look up and look around and get out of that foxhole, if you like, and look in at the problems and opportunities that are going to define america's future that takes you to other parts of the world like the asia-pacific. it takes you to new kinds of domains like cyberthat are changing the way force can be applied but also peaceful measures can be applied. and so we are, i think, at a pivotal time strategically speaking for this country. >> rose: but i thought that the idea of the pivot to asia took place several years ago, at least it was he nunc waited-- enunciated as a guiding principles of this government. >> i agree. and i think that this is a very important principles of the obama presidency. and it is one of those things that i think you need to look at in a-- in a long-term way. about half of the population of the country lives in the asia-pacific. half the population of the world, half the economic activity is there. and and great change os kur, most obviously t

that was the original done by the defense department, which is if you want people to help this, we can share things. so i thought why don't we see if it still works that way. so i put them online for everyone to read and oddly enough i got 18,000 comments in the first week for one chapter. and a lot of this had great stuff. one of the great colorful characters in this book, stewart brand, he interviewed the well, which is one of the only online services, this guy should the computer system for the first time and he was there at the creation of so many different things where they are involving this and he read the whole chapter and said here's what we did and he took all of these notes out. and another individual setters at the first meeting and it's like wikipedia. the wisdom of the crowd helps the crowd sourcing and so there's a lot of that in the book and he said here's what he said when he had this early version. >> and so so is it tough to write a book like this when we have the continual innovation? >> no, because there's a wonderful trajectory where there are a couple of themes.

she also is in several senior executive positions in the department of defense. a veteran herself, she is a west point graduate, served in a variety of leadership positions during a distinguished 20-year career with the u.s. army. our next panelist is the director of the transition to veterans program office in the department of defense. dr. kelly leads the office in charge of implementing the transition assistance program to meet the needs of post-9/11 service members as a separate from active duty. dr. kelly also serves as the cochair for the senior steering group meeting transition assistant efforts for dod in coordination with five different federal agencies. and distinguished career in various offices of the department of defense and hold her doctorate in marriage and family from st. louis university. theie durham is director of eye what economic development authority and overseas economic development programs for the state including veterans related initiatives such as home-based i what -- iowa. she served as president of the siouxland chamber of commerce.

the usda has facilities elsewhere in the country as does the defense department.o universities often operate fairly high security labs, not to the level of the c.d.c.'s, but certainly secure, and they like to have their own material on hand to perform their research. >> sreenivasan: now that they've closed off these specific labs, are there different protocols the c.d.c. says it can put into place to prevent this from ever happening again? >> really what's an issue here is ensuring scientists follow the protocols already in place. the reports that congress has made public this week reveal that the c.d.c. workers were simply ignoring procedures that make a lot of common sense. for example, they were transferring anthrax between labs and zip lock bags. they were storing anthrax in unlocked refrigerators and unrestricted hallways. they lock the refrigerators. if they handle the anthrax a little more carefully, i believe the c.d.c. believes they can stop this thing from happening in the future. >> sreenivasan: seems like more of a culture problem, one of the things pe

>> washington does not have a do plan about what our defense department should do.of the joint chiefs of staff does. in the kind of get lost budget process. you did not see a discussion of what capacity we need to have and what the risks going forward are. now, our budget is locked in a place where if we were to get dragged in to what is going on or if the kinds of economic sanctions affect us at home, we do not have the flexibility in our military budget to adjust. >> is it nostalgic to think that we need someone such as the late howard baker or john stennis, do we need those southern senators that drove us forward? what we do need are the leaders. the people who show the leadership that reflects a vision. i don't think there is a vision that anyone understands and is backed up by a budget. we do not have the capacity in our budget to be flexible in the defense area because so many other parts of the budget are squeezing out. as we are drawing down defense spending, that is getting sucked up into other parts of the budget. >> within this conversation, q,ere is the

some way to get rid of the sequestration burden that's where you will see problems come to the defense department. the 31% for military personnel is not that alarming to me having watched this over the years. but there is an important factor that's hidden in the 31%. that is it's 31% in a period of relative growth. now we're going to reach a period of stagnation and decline. at that point you wonder what happens to personnel cost, they will probably go up. >> the second thing that goes is the readiness accounts because there's not much you can do about personnel costs. they are relatively fixed. the chickens have come home to roost on this issue. that means you have two types of individuals that have retired and a growing number of individuals who have retired. we have a much higher quality force we have today then when they first started to address the issue of cat four individuals in the army. basically it means the people that scored lower on the army aptitude tests were categorized as cat 4 by the army. >> today you have 98% are graduates. all of that means that you are going to have to pay a

defense department is investigating how the body of a child stow away got into the wheel well of an air force cargo plane. the discovery was made in germany on sunday. authorities say the cargo plane stopped in several african nation the and italy before arriving at the air base. american and germ man officials are working to determine the boy's age, identity and exactly where he got on that plane. >>> we're also learning of a local collection of a shipwreck found in ground zero. a new report based on the rings in the wood finds it was likely build in 1773 or soon after in a shipyard right here in philadelphia. it appears the ship was made from the same kind of white oak trees used to build parts of independence hall. >> a settlement in the class action between college players and ncaa will require testing for possible concussion related brain injuries. the ncaa will shell out $70 million to fund the program. the association will also prevent athletes who have sustained a concussion from returning to a game or practice that day. >> players are being returned to the game too early becaus

frank gaffney, former undersecretary of the united states defense department. dominic chu now, market ree action. >> tyler, what we have are varied market reactions all over the board. gold prices are moving higher as investors look for that safe haven-type trade. gold up about 1.3% on the day's trade. as a result of, that gold mining stocks are moving higher as well. you can see some of the names. these are more levered to the price of gold. on the commodities side, weak prices moving higher as well. you can see toward session highs up over 2%. and corn, same kind of reaction there as well. corn prices you can see they're now just down to flat. wheat, remember, is is key, kayla, because the usda estimates that about near 20% of world wheat production comes from either russia or the ukraine, so, again, those two combined together, if there is geopolitical risk, will manifest itself many times in those wheat prices, kayla. back to you. >> of course rippling effects in the commodities complex, in the stock market, volatility is up today. stocks have taken a hit.

and to that end we have done four things through the department of defense. we have added forces to protect our people. the safety of our citizens obviously is our highest priority. the department has met the request for the department of state as described in the war powers notifications. we transmitted the department of defense has sent what is called a fleet anti-terrorism security team, what we call a fast team, a crisis response element, and additional military assets and personnel to reinforce security both at our diplomatic facilities in baghdad and at the baghdad international airport. the secretary of defense has also ordered the am fib with us transport ship uss mesa verdi into the arabian gulf. the presence in the gulf is added to other naval ships including the uss george h.w. bush and provides the president additional options to protect american citizens and interests in iraq should he choose to use them. number two, we have vastly increased our intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance isr assets. at the request of the government of iraq, we s

my colleague got his hands on a letter from michael gilmore, the defense department's director of operationalting and evaluation, written to senator he expressedhere that the combat ship standards " continue to accept risk that the crew would need to abandon ship under circumstances that would not necessitate the action on other vessels." gilmore wrote to the senator to rebut the navy's contention that he is mistaking requirements. gilmore is standing by what he said. they are significantly different from those for other ships. ship is intended to operate in shallow waters. it is being built into versions by lockheed martin. it has come under a lot of courtney for price and performance. it has garnered the nickname from his critics. today's news comes after chuck hagel said in february that he was limiting purchases to 32 the 52, instead of originally planned. he was a navy to develop alternatives for a more survivable ship. those recommendations are expected by the end of this month. >> hang and for just a moment. i would to bring into the conversation robert levinson. robert, good to have y

they are consulting the intelligence department and defense department.his is a war zone now. , thethe legal standpoint faa is charged with protecting the lives of americans. from the legal standpoint, the airlines have an obligation to do everything possible to protect the lives of their passengers. if something goes wrong, it is their burden to show that they did do everything to protect the lives of their passengers. that they did not take unnecessary risks. that they were aware of -- that is the key. the fact that this missile came within one mile of the airport highlights the fact that they must be aware that this is a wrist. they must assess whether there is a credible threat to the airport. stated thatblicly the airport is a target. it is a key part of their strategy. they want to disable or attack that airport. havetunate, they functionally but this airport out of commission. done this by virtue of this attack. it was unsuccessful on the airport. israel says it can protect itself. >> you mentioned that you represent families in terms of a crash. d

and now the defense department. let me remind you that your full statements are included in the record and i will ask you to summarize them for about five minutes or so so the members of the committee can engage in a dialogue with you. we will start with you, mr. secretary. >> thank you for inviting us to discuss the situation in iraq with a focus on the u.s. response since mosul has been attacked several weeks. isis is al-qaeda. they may have changed their name and broken with senior al-qaeda leadership but it is al-qaeda in its doctrine, ambition and threat to u.s. interest. should there be questions about the intention of the group read watt the leader says and it is important to pay attention to what he says because we cannot risk of underestimating the goals and capacity of this administration. he talked about the death of bin laden and promised a response. he issues threats against the united states regularly promising a direct confrontation and he is seeking to lead the global jihad. isil is no longer a terro

the defense department is backing multi million dollar program to develop a brain implant that will help improve memory. , hope to have it completed in the next four years. researchers are trying to determine if meditating can help slow down the aging process. stress is believed to have damaging effects on specific dna sequences which are linked to beijing. noticeably long bundles who didn't. typically havdiabetes heart disease or alzheimer's strokes of all been linked to a shorter starting >> our celebration on friday. >> celebrity chef is here with an award >> celebrity chef is here with an award winning brewmaster.a1 im ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. it is 5:00 somewhere and it is friday. enhanced with ginger lemon grass. celebrity chef is here. he is the owner of a spot in san francisco. that is a pretty impressive as of may. he is joined by fifth generation master bre

defense department official said it's bad form to send a vessel to monitor the drills the country has been invited to. china's participating in rimpac for the fourth time. 25,000 troops from 22 countries are taking part in the exercise. >>> taiwanese authorities have hosted a group of foreign journalists at their largest naval base. analysts say they're stating china's claim. they took a tour of the base on monday. it's located in the southern city of cow shung, facing the south china sea. reporters watched a helicopter lower a submarine detector into the ocean. they also saw patrol frigate drills to handle a fire on board after an attack. crews in respective suits worked to put out a fire and rescue the injured. vice foreign minister xi says taiwanese are confident in their capability and believe they can contribute to peace and stability in the region. >>> japan's government has asked local leaders in the country's southwest for permission to station a fleet of controversial aircraft there. senior vice defense minister ryota takeda met on tuesday with govern the governor. he says th

the defense department officials said that israel did not cite an emergency in needing those munitions. >>> a teenager who calls palestine and the u.s. home, he will appear on capitol hill tomorrow. he is a teenager, the teenage boy attacked by israeli police following the death of his cousin in jerusalem earlier this month. the 15-year-old said he wants to speak on behalf of the palestinian community. we have the story. >> reporter: back home safe and sound, he leads a prayer at his house in tampa. his wounds have heeled now but the family said what happened on a trip to see relatives in jerusalem is still a painful memory. his young cousin was burned to death in what palestinians say was a revenge killing in the death of three israeli teenagers. his family said this video shows the teenager being brutally beaten. at one point he said he was blind folded and denied medical treatment. >> my ribs hurt a lot because i have a fractured rib. it hurts a lot. i have a lot of headaches. i'm always drowsy and my head hurts and i just feel like laying down and going right to sleep. >> reporter:

most of this country's major economic and political decisions but you might not know that the defense department's also heavily interested in cultural and sociological aspects of the world too in fact in two thousand and eight the d.o.d. launched the minerva research initiative multimillion dollar program to quote improve d.o.d.'s basic understanding of the social cultural behavioral global forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the u.s. but according to a recent article written by guardian journalist offering some men the pentagon is working in conjunction with major u.s. universities to militarize social science and prepare for global civil break down there enough is join me to discuss the minerva initiative and i started by asking him about one particular study that set out to discover why protesters don't become terrorists this is a really interesting study because this is where they really did blur the boundaries a lot so recently the study was supposed to be focused on looking at what ought what are the things that kind of stop surveillance who support so-called ra

. >>> and the defense department is funding research into brain implants to help retrieve memories.he first beneficiary may be wounded soldiers but eventually it could help anyone who suffers a traumatic brain injury or has alzheimer's and someday it could enhance brain performance in people without injuries sort of like a flash drive in the brain. >>> three people near orlando are facing charges for illegally feeding bears. one of them was photographed doing so in the same neighborhood where a woman was recently attacked by a bear. she suffered wounds that needed dozens of stitches. the woman claims a man among those charged has been feeding those bears for at least two years. >>> now some sports. major league baseball teams enter their final series before the all-star break today. >> and as for some of yesterday's games and other major sports issues, here are our guys at espn. >> good morning, america. welcome to our "sportscenter" set in los angeles. along with neil everett i'm stan verrett. while cleveland and miami both wait, lebron james wait, as well. no decision from him thu

huge.partment of defense, withou're right up there the department of defense in terms of numbers of people. so the question is what are we going to do. to you, at you, about we want you to go ahead andget all those nurses psycho therapists and experimental research and cut down the waiting lines and give the fantastic care, and then not give you a dime to do anything about it. fear. what i i have no fear about what you will do when you're in that position. i have a fear about what we will do as a congress to support you not just blather bromides of good feeling and good will sympathizing with the veterans no moneyputting out for you to do something. you cannot hire people without paying them. you not build stuff without paying for it. when you do you do, in our senate, where you can't put up any money for anything, because it considered, cobb possibly win your next election and it's against the constitution because the founding fathers would have never allowed it. you can feel good on that. ait sure isn't going to help veterans sopt what i pray is through our sue perfect chairman and throu