i work with the service chiefs, with general dempsey. and we developed a strategy that said it is going to be leaner. it is going to be smaller. but it has to beage ill. it has to be adaptable. it has to be flexible. quickly deployable and it has to be technologically advanced. that's the kind of force we need for the future. >> schieffer: general, let me ask you this as a military man. you know, we've always said in the past we had to be ready to fight two ground wars at once. basically the strategy you outlined and that the secretary has outlined in this new policy envisions not happening again. are you concerned that... i mean, we all hope it doesn't happen again but there are no guarantees in this world. if it should happen again, what do we do? >> well, actually, i think it will happen again. i didn't... we didn't roll out a strategy that suggested that we wouldn't be able to do more than one thing at a time. in fact, we were pretty adamant that we must be able to do more than one thing at a time. by the way, not limit ourselves to

but joint chiefs chairman dempsey said sticking with the current strategy and the budget would be even riskier. the president pointed out with the cuts the u.s. will spend more on defense than the next ten countries combined. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> defense secretary leon panetta will be bob schieffer's guest this sunday on "face the nation" here on cbs. >>> the white house is planning a rule change that will allow some illegal immigrants to stay longer in the country. the rule change aims to limit the amount of time illegal immigrants would be separated from their relatives while they try took to obtain legal status. under the current law, a personal illegally has to return to their home country to obtain a visa. >>> the trial of former egyptian leader hosni mubarak resumes monday. yesterday, in an action that would have been unthinkable a year ago, prosecutors asked for the death penalty. they say mubarak bears full responsibility to the killing of protests during last year's uprising that eventually forced him out of office. >>> coming up on "the morning news" immi

and joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey cited the pacific as the future theater of competition if not conflict. >> all of the trends-- demographic trends, geopolitical trends, economic trends and military trends-- are shifting toward the pacific. >> reporter: dempsey is talking about the rise of china. that and the hard-earned lesson that the u.s. could not afford to fight two wars simultaneously in iraq and afghanistan are perhaps the biggest game changers of the past decade. you could say the new strategy is finally catching up with the real world according to defense secretary panetta, it adds up to a smaller army and marine corps and more air and sea power. >> it will be more agile, more flexible, ready to deploy quickly, innovative and technologically advanced. >> reporter: if that sounds familiar, it's because donald rumsfeld said much the same thing when he was defense secretary, before 9/11 changed the world. a smaller force comes with risks since it leaves less margin for error when the unexpected hits. but joint chiefs chairman dempsey said sticking with the current strategy

and you expressed concern about the danger of institutional, huberu in the pentagon. >> both dempsey panetta, admit they are accepting a lot of risk they think the new strategy can manage it, what is this new strategy? investment in special operations forces, cyber warfare capabilities, intelligent surveillance. >> unmanned aircraft. >> embracing next generation technology that is how they are hedging their bets i was in the pentagon on september 10th, 2001, when rums field gave a speech to pentagon employees saying, what i am going to invest in, special operations forces, cyber warfare and intelligent surveillance reconnaissance and leap ahead technologies, 24 hours later the enemy had a vote, it was all thrown out the window >> i would argue in the last 10 years we've refined all those capabilities, we've refined speck opens we have 65 isr or bits with unmanned aircraft we want to be able to surge so a lot of this -- >> they are so worried about it embedded in this budget are reversing points. not reflection points they can turn on a dime and spend a billion dollars, to -- >> right

and joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey cited the pacific as the future theater of competition, if not conflict. >> all of the trends, demographic trends, geo political trends, economic trends and military trends are shifting toward the pacific. >> reporter: dempsey is talking about the rise of china. that and the hard earned lesson the u.s. could could not afford to fight two wars simultaneously in iraq and afghanistan are perhaps the biggest game-changers of the past decade. you could say the new strategy is finally catching up with the real world according to defense secretary pa net a, it adds up to a smaller army and marine corps and more air and sea power. >> it will be more agile, more flexible, ready to deploy quickly, innovative, and technological advanced. >> reporter: if that sounds familiar, donald rumsfeld said much the same thing. it comes with risks and leaves less margin for error when the unexpected hits but dempsey said sticking with the current strategy and the budget would be even riskier. the president pointed out with the cuts the u.s. will spend more on defense t

general martin dempsey, he's the highest-ranking officer in the u.s. military, he will be visiting israel this week, and he's meeting with that country's top brass. the visit comes as u.s. concern is growing that israel is on the brink of taking military action against iran's nuclear facilities. reena ninan is live in jerusalem with the latest. reena? >> reporter: hi, ali. first, israeli officials said this delay was because of budget woes, but the truth is the delay could very well be because of using a pressure tactic maybe to threaten iran the use of force at a time that could be the most optimal to pressure them. it's likely the drill will be move today the summer of this year -- moved to the summer of this year. it's not completely off, but just slightly delayed. the last time israel and the u.s. held joint training drills was in 2009. this year is expected to be the largest drill that's ever taken place, some 3,000 american troops will come to israel and bring the american gear needed to practice defending israel against missile strikes. so are i

and i would suggest counseling, therapy, and programs to help him. >> mike dempsey has other reasons for wanting to keep paul in the juvenile system. >> the fact is, you can't put a 12-year-old child in that type of environment and expect them to have have a chance. you just can't do it and i think some of the offenders who sincerely want to do the right thing and help, yet there's a lot of predators that will eat the weakness up. they can get into terrible trouble very quickly. life and danger kind of trouble. >> it's different than what i always thought it would be. i wasn't expecting the razor wire. it sucks. you don't want to come here. >> there's a lot of hurt feelings dealing with these cases. i understand people out there are angry and they are hurt. somebody needs to pay for that. but not just one person. they don't need to throw this kid away either. kids don't just wake up one day and say, i'm going to kill somebody. >> a lot of people may think that this is a good place for them and lock them up and throw away the key but it's just not that simple. >> miles folsom learned

the changes announced today by leon panetta as he was joined by general dempsey it's in total cuttingbout $887 billion from defense spending. here's more everywhere today's event at the pentagon. >> one thing i was hoping you could better help me understand, you talk about hard choices and accepting some measure of risk but you also point out the ground forces will still be higher than ach nevin, there will still be aircraft carriers roughly at the same level. given that, what is the risk and where are the hard choices? >> want me to do it? >> yes, sir, please. >> look, the risks come with the fact that you know, we will have a smaller force. as we said, it's larger than we had prior to 9/11. but obviously, it will be a smaller force and when is you have a smaller force, there are risks associateded with that in terms of our capability to respond. we think we've dealt with those risks because the combination of the forces we have in place and the ability if we have to to mobilize quickly will give us the capability to deal with any threat. but nevertheless, there's a risk there. there

>> well, general dempsey made it clear there are a lot of mutual interests between the u.s.srael kind of saying they have a coordinated anybetween the two and that was a message that a lot of israel leaders continue to repeat throughout the visit. and they went to visit in the holocaust museum and in the guest book, we're making sure nothing like this happened again and meaning jews killed in the holocaust. as we enter the primary season, the north carolina primary, any overtur the white house makes towards israel is likely seen to be catering to the vote. >> live in jerusalem, thank you, very much. jamie. >> jamie: and all over south carolina, we've got our folks on the ground keeping an eye on everything and they're across the state to keep you informed. and this is in carl's car. carl cameron, campaign carl is it on the road under some nasty conditions, but he's going to get where he needs to go and he will bring, as will our others in the teams, more live coverage throughout today, and don't miss tonight. >> that's a nifty little camera there. [ male annouer ] juice drin

-- dempsey. >> they've invested in capabilities which could, in fact, for a per of time block the strait of hormuz. we have invested in capabilities to ensure if that happens we can defeat that. >> reporter: but mideast scholar michael adler does not think military action is inevitable. >> the whole purpose of the diplomacy has been to avoid facing that horrible choice of living with iran with the bomb or bombing iran. the sanctions are designed to cause iran so much economic pain that they have no choice but to strike a deal on the nuclear program. >> reporter: at the same time iran is escalating its rhetoric, it is also suggesting that it may be willing to sit down and talk. but u.s. officials continue to believe that the only way to get iran to abandon its nuclear program, short of military action, is to squeeze its economy so tightly that it will have no choice. jeff. >> bill plante from the white house. bill, thank you. >> we turn now to campaign 2012 and the aftermath of this weekend's debate doubleheader. with just two days to go before the new hampshire primary, republican voters

so again, i want to thank secretary panetta, chairman dempsey, all the defense leaders are on this stage and some who are absent, for their leadership and their partnership throughout this process. our men and women in uniform give their very best to america every single day and in return, they deserve the very best from america. and i thank all of you for the commitment to the goal that we all share, keeping america strong and sick your in the 21st century and keeping our armed forces the very best in the world. and with that i will turn this discussion over to leon and to marty, who can explain more and take your questions. so, thank you very much. i understand this is the first time a president has done this. it is a pretty nice room. thank you, guys. >> that closes out the remarks by president obama explaining to all of us how they plan to make the military leernt next ten years. as he said, secretary of defense robert gates now coming up to the microphones to address the reporters in the room and we are going to listen to some of that as well. i want to remind that you we have msnbc

who is the chief information officer for public libraries in san francisco will take over for mary dempsey in march the change comes after a recent labor fights leading to layoffs and reduced hours at libraries and agreement made last week and restored library hours and rehired 65 staff >>the highly publicized royal white tigers exhibit at the navy pier is now closed. officials shut down a share yesterday after john kass of the chicago tribune informed them that the usda is in the process of revoking the shows of license organizers are accused of health and safety violations and mistreating the animals the show's owner said that the claims are not true navy pier paid $27,000 for the exhibit it was supposed to run until february 12th. a new wal-mart super store is open today in the west chatham neighborhood bringing hundreds of jobs to the area it came with a fight nancy loo is live with that story >>in west chatham many did not want to miss out on this morning's grand opening >>people are working i think it's a great thing >>the 157,000 wal-mart supercenter is its second here in chicago ..

well the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff army general martin dempsey is in israel today and no doubt the number one issue on the agenda was iran there are a few reports out now that show iran has actually abandoned any and all plans to develop nuclear weapons but there are also several reports that suggest at least that's not the case the question is how does the rest of the world react to what they think is going on to help me shed some light on all of this earlier i spoke to research director of the national iranian american council reza marashi i asked reza whether he thought iran is in fact in the process of building a nuclear weapon here's what he had to say. well i think it's important to consider what the consensus view or the consensus thoughts of the u.s. government is and in two thousand and seven and again in two thousand and eleven the national intelligence estimate of the united states of america which is a consensus document representing twenty seven intelligence agencies said that from two thousand and three onward they have a high level of confidence that the ir

i like this, derek dempsey from the been been in mccovey cove. kevin prince and that is tunnel vision. looking at his receiver all the way. hawthorne, 39 yards. 10-7 illini. how is that for a hole in the defense. illinois started the season 6-0. lost sick straight end with the win, 20-14 the final. pac-12 now 1-4 in the season,. >> our defense is pretty good and their defense is good. so we knew we had to score some points to try to keep them off of it. but unfortunately -- that's what we did, and lost. >> lone pac-12 win thanks to utah and the sun bowl. utah trailing georgia tech by seven, less than 2:00 to go. fourth and 14. touchdown, game goes to overtime. after a field goal, utah up. white into the end zone. game over, 30-27. utah. nice finish. that's your toyota sports report. >> thank you, kalin. we're wringing in the new year toddler style. >> some people didn't wait until the stroke of midnight to celebrate 201. -- 2012. they couldn't. it was past their bedtime. it's the balloon drop. the balloons drop when it became midnight in other ti

. >>> well in tonight's dempsey -- democracy 2012, texas governor and former front-runner rick perry has decided to drop out of the race. he announced the decision in front of a crowd in south carolina. >> i've come to the conclusion there is no viable path for me. therefore today i am suspending my campaign and endorsing newt gingrich for president of the united states. >> former house speaker news gingrich reacted saying he is honored to have perry's endorsement but that may not mean much. we'll tell you what the former speaker's second ex-wife had to say about him today. >>> but it was a good day for the santorum campaign. the des moines register is reporting rick santorum actually finished ahead of mitt romney by 34 votes in iowa. romney was declared the winner by eight votes but results from several precincts had gone missing, so it will be considered a tie. >>> all right. coming up, it's definitely a real whopper. a nine-pound burger fit for a ravens linebacker and it could be yours. find out how you can win this monster burger. >>> a michigan teacher is in hot water for how sh

overall, panetta and army general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said they believe they've come up with a well-rounded package. >> special operating forces can only be special if there is a conventional force that allows. we got to do this all in balance and i am confident we have done that. >> brown: but for republican presidential contenders, the prospect of such cuts is a bridge too far as they said again in recent days. >> i will reverse obama defense cuts. i believe a strong america must and will lead the future. i'll insist on military so powerful that no one would ever think of challenging it. >> defense budgets should not be politics, they shouldn't be a matter of playing games. they should be directly related to the amount of threat we have. >> brown: the hit to the pentagon could be even bigger down the road. up to $500 billion in additional defense cuts will automatically take effect next january, unless congress can agree on other ways to reduce the deficit. joining us now is deputy secretary of defense ashton carter who's been leading the budget review

in the 30-minute span devenny -- devenny dempsey got one more.us meeting between the giants and the 49ers. how much does that come into play tomorrow? >> not really a lot. different players are 100%. different players are dinged up this time of year. you might see some tendencies on those teams and some things you can expect, but a lot of things have changed between then and now. think it's going to be a tough defensive struggle. points will be at a premiere for both teams tomorrow, and let's hope that tomorrow night about this time we're talking about the 49ers heading to super bowl xlvi. >> thank you, joe. >> that is our report for tonight. thank you so much for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. we'll see you the next time news breaks. >> we'll join [ male announcer ] for some reason those five food groups sound a whole lot better when you put them in a taco shell instead of a pyramid. old el paso. when you gotta have mexican. fantastic! pro-gresso ] they fit! okay-y... okay??? i've been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans...fit. okay is

>> with school and counseling mandatory, superintendent mike dempsey also helps to give juvenile offenderson other than crime once they're released. >> we've been working on a program called future soldier program. essentially what it would do, it would identify offenders in our population who would qualify to be a future soldier. the idea is to be able to release them directly from the facility into the military service without there being any delay, without there being any community transition delay in place. >> patience is key for staff in order to turn troubled kids around. >> we had, for example, a couple offenders a while back, they would act like they was committing suicide and everything else. we went in on them and they're really not committing suicide, they're trying to hurt staff. you don't want to see it, but it does happen. >> the individuals who choose to work here and who stay, who stick it out through the difficult times of working with the adolescents are people that i say, if they can do this job, they can do any job. because this job will challenge everything about you.

dempsey says: "nobody has said, and nowhere in this document does it say we're not gonna fight land wars to walk away with the impression, or anyone to walk away with the impression that we're gonna niche ourselves to some point on the spectrum of conflict."panetta says: "but make no mistake. we will have the capability to confront and defeat more han one adversary at a time." the strategy calls for a reduced u-s presence in europe. britain's defense secretary met with panetta shortly after the briefing.hammond says: "i think it's also a bit of a wakeup call to many of the european nations that we are going to have to do more collectively, working with tte u.s.. but also more for ourselves in the future."(on cam tag) anticipating criticism from defense talks and political forums -- president obama went out of his way to emphasize -- that even with these cuts his defense budget will be larger than it was at the end of the bush administration -- and larger than the next ten country's combined. at the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news. 33 it's been a strangely warm winter all across the

let me start off in this last segment with something that both defense secretary panetta and dempsey said. america is changing its strategy because the nature of warfare is changing. we are transitioning from afghanistan into a different future. nato in fact will be doing that in 2014 in transitioning to the future. as you look out there, what are the changes you see in warfare and what are the trends that you will have to start getting the alliance ready for? >> i think the main change to go away from the large, very large corporations. we still prepare for major operations in case there is a threat to the allies. but we go from this major operations in a member nation to things which are much more defused and more difficult to identify. when we counterterrorism and we start canceling -- all these individuals are there that can pull many strings military sometimes with quite bit of equipment we see now from nations have submarines. >> guided musicians. >> exactly. or we can pull the string and all this continues to be in sequentially. a new very difficult to progress where we get pr

. >> reporter: general democracy chairman of the joint chiefs of -- general dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs of staffs reiteratd it is not a blow to7 military strength. >> it has real bite among our leadership. this is not the strategy of a military in decline. >> reporter: president obama calls this a transition. he says the military budget grew at an extraordinary pace after 9/11. now things are different. >> the president: over the next 10 years, the growth in the defense budget will slow, but the fact of the matter is this, it will still grow. >> reporter: the president says he's ready for people to criticize the cuts as too severe. he says the defense budget is larger than the military budgets were roughly the next 10 -- >>> three airmen will be award the purple heart for injuries during deployment in afghanistan. the men are members of the 60th civil engineer squadron wounded by ied's during combat missions. >> in oakland occupy protest are back outside city hall after a run-in with police last night that sent several to jail. terry mcsweeney is there. a new plan today? >> repo

. >> reporter: general democracy chairman of the joint chiefs of -- general dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs of staffs reiteratd it is not a blow to7 military strength. >> it has real bite among our leadership. this is not the strategy of a military in decline. >> reporter: president obama calls this a transition. he says the military budget grew at an extraordinary pace after 9/11. now things are different. >> the president: over the next 10 years, the growth in the defense budget will slow, but the fact of the matter is this, it will still grow. >> reporter: the president says he's ready for people to criticize the cuts as too severe. he says the defense budget is larger than the military budgets were roughly the next 10 -- >>> three airmen will be award the purple heart for injuries during deployment in afghanistan. the men are members of the 60th civil engineer squadron wounded by ied's during combat missions. >> in oakland occupy protest are back outside city hall after a run-in with police last night that sent several to jail. terry mcsweeney is there. a new plan today? >> repo

face the nation defense secretary leon panetta and joint chiefs of staff chairman general martin dempsey in the latest tensions between the u.s. and iran, i am anthony mason in new york, thanks for putting up with this shaky voice and thanks for watching, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org a child wandering the >>> safe and sound. and all aloin. what police are doing to track down a child left wandering the streets at 3:00 in the morning. >>> on a nice warm january day, think about the worst. what to do, to keep your neighborhood safe from wildfires. and the homes firefighters say they might just let burn. >>> far from a done deal. even though it would save the state millions. the drive to regulate marijuana, just like alcohol. cbs 5 eyewitness news is next.

. >> reporter: jeremy has an advocate in laura dempsey, a lawyer and army wife who's held down five different jobs. but her mission now is to help military spouses get jobs. >> military spouses are at about 26%. there is i think a 42% wage gap between military spouses and the civilian population in general. and the more educated the spouse, the higher that wage gap becomes. >> reporter: under a new initiative started by the u.s. chamber of commerce, military spouses are now starting to be linked to major employers that advocates say will benefit both. >> it's not just the right thing to do. it's right for business, because military spouses and veterans alike make great employees. they're strong. they're resilient. they're adaptive. >> reporter: jeremy hillton is still adapting, getting his master's degree in legislative affairs from george washington university to hopefully return to the workforce when the time allows. >> our ability to focus, our ability to get things accomplished, i think most military spouses i know are pretty amazing people. >> reporter: amazing people, say advocates who

for general dempsey, you want to under-fund the strike capability. what has changed in the last few years to prevent an adversary or the rest of the world from confusing one of these conventional missiles as a nuke? >> the technology, and therefore the trajectory that would be required to deliver it -- the speed at which they move, therefore you could lower the trajectory and avoid the confusion you are talking about in terms of the been mistaken there are issues beyond that, but fundamentally that is it. -- there are issues -- mistaken. there are issues beyond that, but fundamentally that is it. >> as we drawdown of force we have to look of the infrastructure supporting the remaining force, and the reality is we are going to have to be able to reduce that infrastructure. the best approach to reducing that infrastructure politically on capitol hill has been to work it through the brac process, and develop an approach to which we would submit recommendations, the commission would look if those recommendations, and make a complete presentation to the c

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even if briefly says joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey. >> they've invested in capabilities that could, in fact, for a period of time block the strait of hormuz. we've invested in cape ablts to ensure that if that happens, we can defeat that. >> michael adler does not think >> the whole purpose is to avoid facing that horrible choice of living with iran with the bomb or bombing iran. the sanctions are designed to cause iran so much economic pain that they have no choice but to strike a deal on the program. >> at the same time, iran is escalating the rhetoric, it's also suggesting that it may be willing to sit down and talk. u.s. officials continue to believe that the only way to get iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions short of military action is to squeeze it economy so tightly that it will have no choice. bill plant, cbs news, the white house. >>> attention walmart shoppers, you can get your taxes prepared there too. plus, a miracle rescue at sea after a private plane crashes off the bahamas. first, a preview of cbs evening news. >>> as campaign 2012's primary season kick

martin dempsey was born in new jersey.ad his college education at the -- west point and a graduate in 1974. after his first tours of europe -- beauty he was sent to do where he got an emmy in english literature. -- an m.a. in english literature. they had a child born at duke. welcome home. subsequently, after his career, martin dempsey went forward to assume command at every echelon of the armed services. he has served in war, and peace and served at home and abroad, most recently, his work, his leadership during the second iraq war led barry mccaffrey to refer to him as the best combat division commander of the he became the acting commander east. more recently, chief of staff of the army. he is now the chief of staff. he is the highest ranking officer in the armed forces in principal military adviser to the president, secretary of defense, and the national security council. we could think of other ways to describe his job. he has the well-being of the 1.4 million people on active duty in the armed services under his auth

fifty a time left to nowhere to the top is followed while from charlton in the london darby clint dempseythere with the country tony previous took his stock size to form a club joining them and also to travel to lead to this magical field michael failed to do there while elsewhere at our league one m.k. dons there's an all premier league tie at st james's park as newcastle faced blackburn one one there wigan are at swindon talking and third in the i really is welcome to jump in to maintain and run public shankar told that this was untrue but it does sometimes is as you just heard west brom are taking on cardiff three to hold the loans and aston villa will travel to bristol rovers in the late game. well meanwhile manchester city will be without ya and kolo toure the sunday's much anticipated cup clash at home to rivals manchester united ivory coast manager france was are we told the pair they must report to the nations try. in camp this weekend ahead of the africa cup of nations the coach has opted to follow fee for rules which allow call ups two weeks prior to the tournament this also mea

document said that released from the pentagon, if you look at the words in the transcript, general dempsey called i down participate, that means a second payment. secretary pineda called it the beginning, that means some bssteps, if you will, i think they are recognizes it's not the end of the game. it's a fight over the process for doing it. indicated is kind of the stakes of the process, game changers and strategy. >> if i can comment on the political environment in which we are operating going back to something that todd said, there are not a lot of surprises that what we are heard yesterday. it may be a great opportunity if you look at the broader strategic construct, can you cut program s that were sacred cows in the necessarily exist. i sacrifice something in their crisis to cut programs that may have been sacred and negative funding widgets have been built into funding programs and when it was was brought down to size or he left, because we have a fairly rapid transition of leaders, but i believe that there's a common understanding that we have to do something about pay and benefits

rare that you have a build down that has in it built in, it was very important to chairman determine dempsey to have that ability to go back up. but is that a double edged sword in a certain sense. >> you were talking earlier about an industrial, about on the industrial base how that's going to reflect. >> i think it sets you up for real problem here in terms of how do you make decisions and actually think you can make them stick. congress still has to play in this process. this is what the president is proposing. this is the basis for that proposal. it will be laid out in front of the congress and then play the game as we always do. >> this does raise an obvious question, and the points they were going to make ten commitments to the war. we are going to maintain the defense industrial base. we will maintain -- we will maintain posture. >> how are you going get these. >> we have about 30 seconds left. the republican criticism has been blistering on this. what's the alternative to doing this plan at this point? >> to donald rums rumsfeld. >> and that makes -- that's really the hard part. >> i

the president secretary panetta our joint by joint chiefs chairman general dempsey and other pentagonficials. a. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everybody. the united united states of ames the greatest force for freedom and security that the world has ever known. and in no small measure, that's because we have built the best trained, best led, best equipped military in history. and as commander-in-chief i'm going to keep it that way. indeed, all of us on the stage, every single one of us, have a profound responsibility to every soldier, sailor, airman, marine and coast guard's men who put their life on the line for america. we owe them a strategy with well-defined goals, to only send them into harm's way when it's absolutely necessary, to give them the equipment and the support that they need to get the job done, and to care for them and their families when they come home. that is our solemn obligation. over the past three years that is what we have done. with continued to make historic investments in our military. our troops and their capabilities, our military families an

i want to thanks secretary panetta and general dempsey for their extraordinary leadership during thisant to thank you the service secretaries and chiefs, the combatant commanders in so many defense leaders, military and civilian, active, guard and reserve, for their contributions. many of us met repeatedly asking tough questions, challenging our own assumptions and making hard choices and we have come together today around an approach that will keep our nation safe and our military the finest that the world has ever known. this review also benefits from the contributions of leaders from across my national security team and from from the department of state, homeland security and veterans affairs as well as the intelligence community and this is critical because meeting the challenges of our time cannot be the work of our military alone or the united states alone. it requires all elements of our national power working together in concert with our allies and our partners. so i'm going to let leon and marty go into the details, but i just want to say that this effort reflects the guidanc

military and general dempsey is a close friend. he and our chief of staff will have serious discussions about all the options. what we hope very much is the u.s. will realize that time is running out. the clock is ticking. and action must be taken. if military action is necessary, we hope very much that the u.s. and the rest of the world will take it. as i said this is a threat to civilization as we know it, not just to israel. we welcome general dempsey and we hope very much these talks will produce an alliance which will make sure one way or another that iran does not pose the existential threat it does to israel and the rest of the world. >> the existing threat i know you believe, ambassador, thank you for being with us this sunday morning. >>> fox alert. two more bodies have been found aboard the shipwrecked cruise liner, costa concordia. you are looking at a live picture as the sun begins to set. the death toll stands at five. you have to think that is amazing considering the 4,000 onboard. coming up throughout this hour, we w

i want to thank secretary panetta and general dempsey for their extraordinary leadership during this process. i want to thank the service secretaries and chiefs, the combat tant commanders and so many defense leaders, military and civilian, active guard and reserve, for their contributions. many of us met repeatedly asking tough questions, challenging on assumptions and making hard choices. we've come together today around an approach that will keep our nation safe and our military the finest that the world has ever known. this review also benefits from the contributions of leaders from across my national security team, from the departments of state, homeland security, veterans affairs, as well as the intelligence community. this is critical because meeting the challenges of our time cannot be the work of our military alone or the united states alone. it requires all elements of our national power working together in concert with our allies and our partners. so i'm going to let leon and marty go into the details, but i just want to say that this effort reflects the guidance that i pe