we have another organization the defense department called dla, defense logistics agency. it for all intents and purposes provides all the military supply capability to our force services. it also functions as the logistics arm of fema there an interagency agreement that we established several years ago. dla provided over 9 million gallons of fuel to new york and was critical in resupplying fuel to a number of critical locations. talked about the corp of engineers. they were responsible for unwater -- unwatering the tunnels in new york. the logistics support that dla provided, 6 million meals, tons of other equipment, blankets, cots, the critical care capability that's need ford folks in those situations. we also provided temporary housing for some displaced people on military insta lations and we just recently did that for hfs for the unaccompanied children who came to the border we housed nearly 8,000 children over the last couple of months. i've gotten to this point without talking about any military people per se. what i've talked about is the agencies and the capabili

so what's happened is it's really an alliance between the department of defense, the military establishment and local police departments. what happened is when they made the military equipment available, supposedly during the era when the u.s. fought the war on terrorism and when the u.s. ramped up the war on drugs, so now what you saw is you saw tactical units, swat teams, military-type continge ents using the weaponry, it transformed the look of the police departments, not only in the big cities, but the smaller city like ferguson. >>> to iraq, and kurdish fighters in the north regained

yes, they realize this defense department in the state department thinks this is a serious threat. we have to take care of it. so here's the other issue, how do you do it? everyone's like, okay, boots on the ground, cut up the funding, don't -- it's come to me, all right, i think it's time to start droning the heck out of them, just comet the drone campaign, cut off the money. we talked about the money the other day. they steal 80,000 barrels a day from iraq alone. they have another 50,000 barrels of oil from syria. that's 120,000 barrels a day sold on the black market for half price. this is 5 million dollars a day, well-funded. what do you do? go after them and, i guess, by all means necessary. i hate that -- look, you got to drone it, and if you need boots on the ground, against it, but i guess maybe that's the best way to do it. >> what struck me today is that, again, the white house was on a different page than the pentagon or then one of the cabinet agencies. you have admiral pickering assess and monitor before they said it's a jv team, and we've seen this before even when it

she worked for three years as a legal advisor for the department of defense. a staunch democrat and a significant figure in the human rights movement she finds it hard to support the strike campaign waged by the white house thanks to drones i think that the increasing involvement of cia officials and civilian contractors in the use of drones is something that has given cause some real anxiety for for the professional military but if you want to know how the air force approves drone strikes in afghanistan they were they will be happy to tell you if you want to know how the cia approves drone strikes in yemen good luck they're not going to tell you anything so i think i think that members of the military are are in many cases somewhat uneasy at seeing the the military with its various checks and balances bypassed in favor of a far less accountable chain of command. war creates a legitimate right for soldiers to kill. this right was reinforced by democracies around the world through cautious rules set after world war two. self defense in front of imminent danger

the defense department says just in 2013 nearly $450 million worth of military equipment was given toaw enforcement. ferguson police only got a couple of humvees and a trailer but police departments throughout missouri which are assisting in ferguson got 20 mpaps and hundreds of rifles. often when they get the weapons the attitudes change. khan i did says having s.w.a.t. teams well trained in major cities is necessary. police in smaller towns sometimes without the proper training in how to use this military gear overreact when conducting my opinionor operations, like serving search warrants. >> they will drive up in an armored personnel carrier, raid a person's home, holding assault rifles, holding people at gunpoint, yelling at everyone to get on the floor. this is an extremely traumatic experience and we've seen over and over again situations like this, where people are traumatized and sometimes people are injured and killed. >> reporter: but current and former police say criminals have increasingly more fire power, and law enforcement can't afford to be outgunned. >> if people are

years in the19 defense department. i had a variety of roles including being a ctito in a defense organization. we have been engaged in this for a much longer time than i am willing to admit. one of the things that is certainly true in what we do at the department of homeland security is recognizing that cyber security is really an unbounded problem. gives usundedness the place for innovation. generally, they have been thought of as technical. i am proud of the many we have including the indicator exchange and mechanisms to automatically share threat indicators that puts into hands the people who can do something with it what they need. and get people out of the problem as much as possible. i am proud of so many of those things. innovations in other areas as well that we have really been pushing. there are innovations in how we deploy and how we capabilities. we talk about contests that cio's are in. it is true in the privates to in and it is absolutely true the public sector. you think of the realities that sequestrati

we not just the defense department but u.s.overnment has kept congress informed of what we're doing. the president's filed, i think, four war powers resolution letters in response to -- because of what we're doing inside iraq. there's been a concerted effort to keep congress informed. joe? >> do you know if the pentagon have -- has enough information, a clear picture, about isis, isisç capabilities inside syri >> the way i would put it to you, joe, we have been watching isil for many months now. we recognize their development, their growth, increase in their capabilities hasn't happened overnight and it has happened regionally. they operate pretty much freely between iraq and syria. do we have perfect information about them and their capabilities? whether it's on the syrian side of the border or iraqi side, no, we don't. we're gaining knowledge because we have been flying more surveillance flights over the country since we wer the iraqi government to do so. and because we're in better and more frequent contact now with iraqi a

that was leaked by the defense department. israel is -- and israel is working out agreements with particular groups to go in and try to decapitate the heads of the nuclear program. also leaked by the defense department to the "washington post." not just israeli national security information that's being leaked. you know how we all knew that obama had this kill last. rand paul has been big on president obama has this kill list, hernandezs -- american citizens abroad. and regardless of the killing of al wall can i, he deserved to die. the possibility we now live in a country where the president can determine based on which side of the bed he woke up on, whether to hit somebody with a drone or trade them for five taliban terrorists should be frighten. bowe bergdahl, in friend to the united states accord doing most reports and yet he was an american citizen who had to be brought home in time for the president to quash the va scandal, at the cost of five top taliban officials. he was an american citizen and hat to be brought home.

the defense department is sort of trying to slough this off onto the department of homeland security and tries to slough it off to the defense department because nobody wants to pay for it. as peter said the electric power and utility companies are lobbying so there won't be increase, even a tiny one in the price of electricity. nobody, including the white house looks at all diligent or competent with respect to this. we have a system that's dysfunctional with respect to a threat of this kind. connell: we usualy saw thank you. in all seriousness, thank you for giving us the information. we're finally getting somewhere on the whole border crisis. but you never believe which border we're throwing money at. the details straight ahead. .border crisis. the thing is it's not our border. the state department is sending $435,000 to secure ukraine's border, build a fence over there. we have fox biz all-stars on the story, jarrod and susan join us. let's build a fence in ukraine? [ laughter ]. >> colin, funny, i live in texas, i'm close to governor rick perry's initiative to shore up borders a

. >> the federal policy he's talking about is the defense department's 1033 programme, moving surplus war equipment to america's local police departments. the programme started small. in the early '90s, it provided a million dollars to forces. this year the value is about $752 million, and $4.3 billion overall since 1997. the 1033 programme supplied police with everything from machine guns, helicopters, grenade launchers and heavy vehicles. st louis county law - those working in ferguson, are among 8,000 that received equipment through the defense department. now lawmakers from both sides are calling for the programme to be rained in. in an op ed republican senator rand paul called police militarization a serious problem: democratic representative hank johnson proposed new legislation to demilitarize police forces, saying:. >> his team would stop the pentagon giving automatic weapons, drones and other equipment. it will be introduced in september, too late to change the situation? ferguson. >> you have to wonder if officers see themselves as soldiers more than police officers. >> i do

. >> the federal policy he is talking about is the defense department's 1033 program. it moves surplus war equipment to america's local police departments. the program started small. in the early'90s, it surprise only about a million dollars worth of equipment to forces each year, but so far this year, the value is already about $752 million. and some 4.3 billion overall since 1997. the 1033 program has supplied police with everything from machineguns to helicopters, again aid launchers and heavy vehicles. st. louis county law enforcement agencies, those working in ferguson are among the more than 8,000 received equipment through the defense department. now, lawmakers from both sides are calling for the program to be reined in. in an op-ed, rand paul called police militarization a very serious problem. washington has insent advised local police precircumstances by using federal dollars build what are small armies where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most americans think of as law enforcement. democratic representative hank

the defense department is sort of trying to slough this off onto the department of homeland security and tries to slough it off to the defense department because nobody wants to pay for it. as peter said the electric power and utility companies are lobbying so there won't be increase, even a tiny one in the price of electricity. nobody, including the white house looks at all diligent or competent with respect to this. we have a system that's dysfunctional with respect to a threat of this kind. connell: we usualy saw thank you. in all seriousness, thank you for giving us the information. we're finally getting somewhere on the whole border crisis. but you never believe which border we're throwing money at. the details straight ahead. friday night, buddy. you are gonna need a wingman. and with my cash back, you are money. forget him. my airline miles will take your game worldwide. what i'm really looking for is -- i got two words for you -- re-wards. ♪ there's got to be better cards than this. [ male announcer ] there's a better way with creditcards.com. compare hundreds of cards from a

>> well, i hope it's the defense department that is going to take care of this. it's the only answer that makes any sense. it's the only answer that isis respects. i mean, remember in 2000 we had an attack on the u.s.s. warship the coal, a year before 9/11. and the clinton administration sent fbi agents into yemen to find the perpetrators instead of saying this is an act of war. you would think we learn our lesson on 9/11. the point here is the only response to this beheading which will be understood by isis is a vigorous air campaign against them supporting the troops on the ground, not american, there are boots on the ground, iraqis and kurdish, who just retook the mosul dam, who have succeeded in pushing back isis from the outskirts of kurdistan. that's the proper response. it's not sending a prosecutor over to gather evidence about the beheading. >> charles, good to see you. >>> joining me now for more, joe trippi, former presidential campaign manager and a fox news contributor. joe, good to see you. let me ask you this first. the president in addition to tak

the defense department team does not convene at a u.s.ilitary base or even at a government building. they meet instead at this houston location, the offices of kbr, subsidiary of the oil company, halliburton. part of the defense department's pre-war planning for iraq's oil takes place in a halliburton subsidiary office in texas. a detail not known to the public before now. >> the bush administration had lots of contacts in houston in the sophisticated executive suites of the major u.s. headquartered oil companies and they reached out there. >> the pentagon team that traveled to houston calls for rapidly increasing iraqi oil production soon after the invasion. they set an initial goal of bringing production up to 3.1 million barrels a day. 50% more than iraq was producing at the time. the long-term goal is to increase iraq's oil production to 5 million barrels a day, more than iraq has ever produced. while administration officials insist that increasing production is aimed at financing the reconstruction, and that oil proceeds will benefit

the government says it wants to close the secretary of defense and defense department are committed to the president's goal of closing guantanamo bay. why are there so many legal roadblocks for the remaining. states constitution doesn't apply to these proceedings the government has demonstrated that they have no respect for the attorney client relationship no you can't look inside that board no you can't see the police which is adjacent to the client so if the public what actually happened that heads would roll there are a lot of issues that are being handled at a higher above will join us as we seek answers to those issues and much more this is abby martin breaking the set a long time to go back. and i know. out. like. crap. like. i've been aren't. great by a bus. like. as in this morning and just see what. i'm directing and i'm fighting here going forward. and. i would rather as questions to keep building positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question. with this news like the controversy in fer

allow people to collaborate on research spirit that was the original author net done by the defense department and in the internet which is a gator research center and you want people at different research centers far away to help you shape your work or have this internet so that 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 the chapters in my book and early drafts of them, very early draft, and i just put them on line for everyone to read. and oddly enough some of the people, i got 18,000 comments in the first week with one chapter. and a lot of it led to some good stuff. one of the great, wonderful, colorful characters in this book, mr. brown is the guy who invented the well, one of the early on-line services. he invented -- he held to the mother of all demos which is when this guy shows a computer system for the first time. he was there at the creation of so many. the electric kool-aid. dropping acid. been involved in so many things. the home grown computer club meeting. here is what we did. took all of these notes on it. a

the government says it wants to close the secretary defense and defense department are committed to the president's goal of closing guantanamo bay. why are there so many legal roadblocks for the remaining. states constitution doesn't apply to these proceedings the government has demonstrated that they have no respect for the attorney client relationship no you can't look inside that board no you can't see the place which is adjacent to the client so you probably know what actually happened that had to be wrong there are a lot of issues that are being handled that are higher above all join us as we seek answers to those issues and much more this is abby martin. on. the scene. welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle true mind you were discussing the civil war in ukraine. ok i'd like to go back to atlanta jim i looked at very carefully at the the summit in minsk where the presidents of russia and ukraine met and looked at the transcript of the q. and a president putin had later did it like at two o'clock in the morning what's really quite interesting is tha

what happens is it's really an alliance between the department of defense, the military establishment, and local police departments. what happened is when they made the military equipment available during the era when the u.s. was fighting the war on terrorism and when it ramped up a war on drugs. you saw tactical units, swat teams, military-type continge ents, and so it's totally transformed the look of police departments, not only in the big cities, but a smaller si like ferguson. >> let's go to iraq, and kurdish fighters regained control of several towns east of mosul. the peshmerga, backed by u.s. air strikes are fighting to retake the mosul dam, iraq's largest. the u.s. military released a video of air strikes carried out against islamic state fighters. they seized the mosul dam, giving it control over water and electricity supplies. zeina khodr is on the front line with peshmerga forces and has this exclusive report. >> the peshmerga are on the offensive. they are embattled with the islamic state group. the kurdish forces are not fighting alone. the u.s. air force is covering th

and we, not just the defense department, but the u.s. government has kept congress informed of what we're doing. the president's filed, i think, four war powers resolution letters in response to -- or because of what we're doing inside ike. so there's been a concerted effort to keep congress in facted. >> joe? >> do you know if the pentagon has enough information, a clear picture about isis capabilities inside syria? >> the way i would put it to you, joe, is we've been watching isil for many months now. we recognize that their development, their growth, the increase in their capabilities, it hasn't happened overnight. and it has happened regionally. they operate pretty much freely between iraq and syria. do we have perfect information about them and their capabilities whether it's on the syrian side of the border or iraqi side? no, we don't. we're gaining better knowledge in iraq because we have been flying more surveillance flights over the country since we were asked by the iraqi government to do so. and because we're in better and mor

so what's happened is it's really an alliance between the department of defense, the military establishment and local police departments. what happened is when they made the military equipment available, supposedly during the era when the u.s. fought the war on terrorism and when the u.s. ramped up the war on drugs, so now what you saw is you saw tactical units, swat teams, military-type continge ents using the weaponry, it transformed the look of the police departments, not only in the big cities, but the smaller city like ferguson. >>> to iraq, and kurdish fighters in the north regained control of several towns east of mosul from the islamic state. the peshmerga, backed by u.s. air strikes are fighting to retake the mosul dam as iraq's largest. now the u.s. military released this video of air strikes that it carried out against is fighters. islamic state group seized the dam, giving it control over water and electricity. zeina khodr is on the frontline with peshmerga force and has this exclusive report. >> the peshmerga are on the offensive. they are in battle with the u.s. lamb uk state

the government says it wants to close the secretary defense and defense department are committed to the president's goal of closing guantanamo bay. why are there so many legal row blocks for the remaining. states constitution doesn't apply to these proceedings the government has demonstrated that they have no respect for the attorney client really no you can't look inside that board you know you can't see the police which is adjacent to the client so if the public what actually happened that heads would roll there are a lot of issues that are being handled by the ira by will join us as we seek answers to those issues and much more this is abby martin breaking the set on the back. hello there i'm marinated this is boom bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up the f.c.c. is looking into mutual funds that look like hedge funds and call themselves all funds so what so what are these funds going to look into it ourselves coming up right out and then the latest addition to the boom bust team at the onset for she is on the show today she's bringing us

wreck are dead and to reduce 1% of the military cost of living was not conceived within the department of defense; is that right clicks to your knowledge were you ever consulted on this decision quick >> not to my knowledge. q-quebestimac do you technologys made by the budget committee without ever consulting the department of defense as to the impact of the readiness morale keeping our promise, etc.? >> to the best of my knowledge we were not consulted. >> i want to thank you especially for anticipating this issue because it is an issue of the rising personnel costs. we can come up with a recommendation that would take into consideration the views of the military and civilian leadership in the pentagon and hopefully arrive at a consensus radar next panel of witnesses today will be very adamant and understandably so about their concern about the effect of this action taken by the budget committee on the morale and readiness and the ability of us to keep our promise to the men and women who have served and are serving. so thank you mr. chairman for actually anticipating the fact that this issue ha

how many of those patients were enrolled by the department of defense? and how many from the veterans administration? >> mr. coffman, that's an important question. the actual entry of the data was primarily done by the department of defense. you heard mentioned that there was one person injured by va and that was to test this was to test this is the i wanted when the registry for a minute if i could. the registry is seated at the department of defense, and so it is set up to take information more directly from the department of defense for servicemembers who do receive eye injuries. okay, v-8 set up the architecture for the registry. and over 50% of it was used by the department of defense and older to enter their servicemembers and data into it. va has to go through a two-step process to enter the data into the registry. it's a typical with cancer registries and all kinds of registries of that sort that information is harvested from a particular medical record, placed in the repository and then entered into the registry. va has contracted human effort is

are in no way associated with the defense department, correct. >> that's correct, yes. we get most of our money from the national institutes of help. >> let's talk about the who decision to move forward on zmapp. we have heard a lot of complaints or demands for the serum in west africa. is it the right decision to move forward when we said it's unproven, untested. >> it's the right decision. the medications need to be given to the peep of west africa so that when people are infected with the virus, there's a better chance that they can survive. >> let's talk about how to get more of it. after all, the zmapp company involved says we are completely out of any more of this medication. isn't it possible to quickly ramp up the production of it? >> it is, but quickly could be a matter of weeks or months. this is a complicated medication. it involves actually what we call free monochrome bodies mixed in a cocktail. they have to be grown up. in this case in tobacco plants, and they don't grow overnight, and the drug has to be - the three compounds have to be purified mixed toge

the defense department supports this trend overall. while it would take you and me four to six weeks and unending documentation to get a passport your local police department need to fill out a one-page form for an armored vehicle. >> that's quite a scene. there are anger over these weapons but are they needed in certain situations? >> member of the truman project council says, yes. justice wineberg says those weapons must be used judiciously. take a listen. >> i think that the armored vehicles and heavy weapons serve a purpose. we know there are terrorists and gang threats that deserve to be addressed by some of these devices because, obviously, the police need to get into these denied areas. . but i think it's the deployment of these weapon systems and vehicles and those obviously trained in only those tracktics into a crowd control situation that's different. we're trained escalation of force which means the only time you point a weapon directly at someone is when you're ready to pull the trigger. and instead of that, weave se'v in f

nbc news, texas. >>> the department of defense responded tonight telling nbc news it is reviewing the survey and will help the department strengthen resources available to service members and for more on the issue of hunger in america we invite you to go to our website nbc news.com. up next here tonight in a trip built on outrage another remarkable gesture from pope francis. outrage. >>> tomorrow, the pope ends a trip to south korea. >> reporter: good morning evening, lester. in another remarkable gesture by pope francis on this trip to south korea, the pope opened the door to improved relations with china, north korea and other asian nations at odd with the vatican. speaking to a group of bishops the pope said bishops don't come to asia as conquerers trying to erase national identities, instead, the catholic church wants to walk together with these nations. entering into a dialogue with countries the vatican doesn't enjoy full relationships with could help everyone. he urged the young people to bring the wisdom of the faith to every aspect of their social life and in english, a langu

the defense department now says, an american-led rescue mission in iraq may no longer be needed. just a week ago, thousands of iraqis were trapped on a kurdish mountain ridge with no food or water... and surrounded by islamist militants from the group "i-sis." determined that most of those people managed to scramble to safety by themselves, thanks to the recent u.s. air strikes against "i-sis." the white house is repeating that american troops aren't there to fight. >> any u.s. military personnel anywhere in the world has the ability to protect himself. but the purpose and the mission is not to engage in combat. it's to make an assessment on a temporary basis about how we move that population often bound into a great place. >>president obama has said, american troops stand ready to help with *humanitarian missions, if they're needed. two of the people responsible for bringing red light cameras to chicago have been indicted in a two million dollar bribery scheme. former city manager john bills is charged, along with former c-e-o of redflex traffic systems karen finley. she is accu

the quality of communication both within transitioning servicemembers as well as between the department of defense and the department of veterans affairs in this process. first to address transit. while i understand timelines are improving we want to start off by making it clear that why this continuing improvements matters, i have virtually -- i'm quickly contacted by servicemembers were frustrated with the process. they did not know how long it's going to take, then, when they will get answers and they don't know when they can make plans for their future. i understand that the dod reports quite high satisfaction for servicemembers undergoing ides but it does not reflect the stores had recently been shared with me. i've also gotten the sense that the ides process may not be a top priority for the va because the va has chosen to place what seems to be fairly exclusive focus on eliminating backlog of claims. to the detriment of these transitioning servicemembers. so let's begin, the understanding that if this belief exists at va, it is not okay. these transitioning servicemembers have served in rec

he says it's the result of cuts in the defense department and other federal spending as a result of last year's sequestration. he says he will work with his advisers to come up with a plan for budget cuts. >> coming up at 6:00, the irs could be face a new scandal, the mistake that potentially exposed taxpayers to fraud and identity theft. >> i'm steve rudin in the belfort furniture weather center. daytime high temperatures today in the lower 80's. we'll crank up the heat and humidity for the weekend. and a chance of >> it's that time of year again, little league fever is kicking in. >> and we have to tell you about one player who is a little bit sharper than some of the rest. >> telling someone they throw like a girl has new meaning thanks to monet davis. she did it again. she used her 70-mile an hour fastball to earn a complete game shutout and lead the dragons to victory in the first round of the little league world series. she jumped out to an early 3-0 lead after this deep run homer was crushed in the first inning. she struck out eight and allowed just two hits over six innings. >> i