the assistant to ike's chief of staff, general alford grunther and in that capacity, general goodpastor organized nato and formulated policy in the political and military aims of the alliance. ike had long since come to trust the soldier-scholar who had graduated second in his class at west point, in his class of 1939. and so important that he become to the president as an adviser and as a policymaker that he was soon known as ike's alter ego. general goodpastor was successful, precisely because he never let his ego get in the way of his cyst. -- his duty, and when he preferred to stay in the background to entering the limelight, he was not afraid to challenge his boss when he believed it was the right thing to do. and during discussions over troop reductions in europe, which eisenhower adamantly wanted, general goodpastor made the point that it was not possible until the europeans possessed the ability to fill a gap that we ourselves had created. and at that point, ike's legendary temperature pet got the better of him, prompting general goodpastor to seek out secretary of state, john f

general montgomery, general differs. >> well, he had his hands full. i think he had a very difficult task balancing a number of rather large egos. and one of the challenges that he faced as supreme commander, you know, was balancing all that. and at the same time, you know, trying to stick to a strategy that he believed what's the right one. you know, we're still refighting the broad front, narrow front strategy of 1944, and i don't really expect that it's ever going to get resolved. i laid out the case for eisenhower, and why i thought he did what he did. and i think, again, that goes a long way to explaining how he worked with allies and with his subordinates, and if you want to sum up the broad front-nair pro front strategy, it's really -- it really comes down to something fairly simple, and that's this. there were american generals, bradley and patton, who thought that we can win the war by doing it our way. you had a british general, montgomery, who thought my way will probably win the war. and eisenhower's view was, we are allies. and we're going

i am focused on the comments made by general pillsbury. the secretary and the army are absolutely to be commanded for addressing some of the short- term needs with what may be intermediate term solutions but nonetheless, the actions to address staffing and training on the ground -- i want to get that on the record. the secretary has identified staffing as a priority and not an overnight solution and bringing in a qualified people. maybe we will talk more about that. out of those five general officers that were approved about a year ago, how many are on board? >> sir, dcc is headed by mr. parsons but the supporting commands are commanded by brigadier-general. two out of the five. >> it has been about a year. i will state that if the army chief of staff had a significant priority, absolute priority, and i realize this is a combat mission but this is 50% of the cost or more, i would recommend that that gets some pressure. that is an observation. i am very interested in obtaining, the commission obtaining a copy of your ex order? >> absolutely

marine general jim jones. i spoke with him a short time ago. general, welcome. >> thank you. it's good to be here. >> lehrer: thank you. on afghanistan, president karzai said today that foreigners, not afghans, were responsible for the vote fraud in the presidential elections last year. is that really true? >> well, i don't know the context of the president's remarks. i heard about them as you have, but to go back and revisit very briefly, there was an international election commission and a national one as well and they worked hand in hand together to go through the legality of the elections and i think president karzai deserves some credit for listening to the international election commission and following its advice and at the end of the day we had a common position that the afghan election was legitimate and we had a president-- president karzai-- who was reelected for a second term. so i think the international oversight was fair and honest and i think we have a legitimate government and a strong partner to deal with. >> lehrer: so the u.s. has no evidence that there we

the new law generating lots of talk.arlos dias is a syndicated radio host and entertainment reporter, first generation america, son of a cuban immigrant. he joins us from olveria street in downtown l.a. what are people saying there? >> you know, it's tough to find anyone who is in support of this bill, larry. it's got emotions running hot. you mentioned my father, who's a cuban immigrant. i talked to him just before i came on. he came to this country in 1962 from cuba as part of the peter pan program and became an american citizen in 1968. i asked him what he thought of the bill. and he told me, you know, he's a big baseball fan. he said what if i go to arizona to see the diamondbacks play and i go to the game and i forget my i.d.? i've been an american citizen for 42 years. yet i speak with a spanish accent and look very pspanish. what happens to me if i'm stopped without proof of identification on me? obviously, a lot of people are not too supportive of this. i talked to several people from h mera costa college. we tal

attorney general? >> the administration is in the process of reviewing a decision as to where khalid sheikh mohammed and his co-defendants should actually be tried. new york is not off the table as a place where they might be tried but we have taken to consideration the concerns that have been raised by local officials and by the community in new york city. we expect we will be in a position to make a determination i think in a number of weeks. >> thank you. finally, mr. attorney general, throughout my own state of wisconsin, and i assure all across the country, local law enforcement agencies speak about how vital the progress to their ability to keep our communities safe. it is a highly effective program that is proven to be one of the most cost-effective ways to fight crime. last year i joined the senators feinstein commonly he and others in introducing legislation to reauthorize the cops program and improvements to the administration of the program. can we count, mr. attorney general, on your suppor

so i don't know the total will be we did take a list from general odierno last year that -- where the iraqi side requested equipment, and we had a -- we had conducted a number of boards will get all of the equipment, determine what the costs and benefits are, that make recommendations back to the department so that the department of the army can decide what equipment to leave behind. >> , go ahead. >> dan de luce, afp. could you tell us how the -- how it's going with the northern route, how -- this deployment into afghanistan, as opposed to the route you were using for pakistan? what rate is that -- would piece is that being used that? >> ok, thanks. ausley -- the number a distribution network, as we call that, consists of five different routes that ustranscom has set up for us that involve both of the continent of europe as well as the continent of asia, to bring equipment and from outside as redundant means beyond the capability is we have in pakistan. the long list of those is about 5,000 miles long. and the good news is that because of the great team work by our partners we are no

general carelli as mr.general casey, secretary of gq, was asked me and ed harrington and others to make sure we go around and we talk on track and. another point, general casey asked me to go and talk to the division commanders and assistant division commanders in north carolina about three weeks after i came back from iraq. i did that. we now have division commanders talking about contracting. i don't think we would have had that four or five years ago. so, your point is well taken. we cannot miss this opportunity to make sure we push this forward, and we continue to fix contracting and never go backwards. i will work hard on that during my tenure, sir. >> i'm not worried about general casey or secretary mchugh or any of the other folks sitting there today. what i'm worried about is five years on now, seven years from now, 10 years from now when you have a new cast of characters and they say, harrington, or your successor, you're going to lose 50 spaces because i'm going to stand up a new stryker brigade.

however they take him to america in general clinton there are three general clinton's and the american revolution to american and one british and they are part of the connecticut troops who were given regular british army uniforms to where that were captured act see an unknown as the revco regimen. -- redcoats regiment. when he realizes he has been captured he swallows the silver bullet. he is observed in and day give him stuff to bring up the message and brings it up and shoves it down again. [laughter] at which time clinton the stars to lose his patience and says he will take the charter again and it will stay up or he will reach three bit through surgery at the end of a bayonet. he brings it up and is convicted and hong in kingston new york. but in some of you may have coats were you have a cloth over the button this was a fashion popular at the time of the american revolution on your overcoat were the buttons to match the cloth of the jacket. what was happening in philadelphia while the british were in occupation children could go in and out of the lines pretty much without being h

she said the heck with her attorney general she got a new statute bypassing her state's attorney general and announcing here she is suing the feds on behalf of arizona over health care. also last night. nevada's governor jim gibbons likewise said, heck with his attorney general and found a free lawyer to sue the feds. tonight there's more, another state, another announcement this time from missouri lt. governor peter kinder he joins us live. good evening, sir. >> thank you for having me, greta. >> greta: your governor does not want to sue the federal government over this health care and join the law sought in florida ornish chait his own. what are you going to do? >> i'm gonna be filing suit before the end of this month in federal court on behalf of missouri. a statutory obligation as chief advocate for our state many seniors going to be hurt perhaps among the worst this ill-conceiveed misbe gotten health care reform that will give state our state's budget, rob from medicare and hurt seniors that will cause practitioners to quit the practice of medicine and send millions of new people in

it is center-right-- via general mcclinton up to general. in telling him that howe was not coming up the hudson to help him. he is has gone to attack philadelphia. you can see the hidden center and again the actual letter as it went. at dead drops. a dead drop is where one party deposits a letter or a message in a location, we'd sit there and then another one comes along and picks it up. dead drops were used in trees in albany in paris and in pittsburgh, and in pittsburgh you have simon gertie, who is a british spy. he would come, pick up the message that was left by his brother in a tree outside of pittsburgh. the only problem is simon gertie could not read or write, which is a major handicap if you are a spy. [laughter] he would wind up having to get a friend of his to translate and tell him except we me what the message was. the only problem was that they friend was an american spy who then went back and told general brodhead all the information that was coming out of fort pitt going up to four detroit. this stuff is real. this is not hol

this is the 9th generation e-class.s is mercedes-benz. ♪ bill would do with respect to the medicaid program and a lot of the other services in the state of florida and many other states. the cost to my state len is billions that our taxpayers could not afford and assume to do something for the federal government that the government should be doing. there are court cases and precedents that say the -- the two together give us the opportunity to challenge this. we believe the u.s. supreme court will rule the entire health care bill out on the table today the president signed unconstitutional. >> greta: of the state attorneys general are many of them democrats? >> yes. buddy caldwell of louisiana. the rest are republicans. we have reason to believe there already will be two or three more democrats that join us. most of the state attorneys generals even those who have not yet filed a suit or joined ours understand the impact this has on their states and the problem with the individual right of choice with the individual. it

but the general and the specific. the sense, the transparency is part of our armament and also the more specific sense, that there are thing we do and must do in this war that maybe should or should not change the dynamic between government and the media. >> well, in my own view, certainly having the media on the battlefield with our troops is a huge plus for the american people. they have every right to seek even through that narrow prism what is truly happening, according to those youngsters, on the battlefield for america's values and they have the right to see that, touch it, as much as it's humanly possible and the only way you really can could that is through -- do that is through the media, so thank god we have journalists that want to accept that risk, first of all and you know as well as i that a number of them have given up their lives and taken that risk and others have been seriously maimed, just like our soldiers have been, so thank god for all of that. most of us who have become leaders in the military,

general phillips and mr. harrington, would you say it's about a two-week seal our course that you provide to potential cors? >> sir, the defense acquisition university offers a 40 hour online course. the army contracting command supplements that with additional training. >> how much? >> sir, i don't know exactly. >> is it a month? is it a your? >> it's anywhere from two to four days. >> so two weeks is about right. so you take someone who knows nothing about contracting and within two weeks they will be a cor, correct, more less? >> yes. >> why can't you find to do it. two weeks of training, that's all they need? >> cor is not a contracting officer. >> no, no. >> you talked about what, 75, give or take? whatever the number is it doesn't matter that it could be 1000 to two weeks in ukraine 1000 people. the army doesn't have enough people for that? >> those folks are working with caci working alongside us are seizing contracting officers. they are not trained as cors. >> is caci providing cors? >> sir, i'm not

it's not an option for our generation, and it's certainly not an option for future generations. >> there are many possible solutions to our fiscal problems. we will discuss some examples to illustrate the kinds of changes that should be considered. many combinations are possible, but what is critical is that we get started. >> the failure to make the choice now of how to pay for the government we want is to dump the choice on our kids who will have no choice. so one of the calculations we need to make is, is that okay? are we okay with that? >> this time, rather than talking about the problem, we're talking about solutions. >> you heard president obama say he will not pass our debt onto the next generation. we've heard the same in past decades from presidents ford and reagan. it seems every president says he's going to do something about it and then political realities gets in the way and that bill keeps getting pushed forward. >> and they seem so impassioned about it, don't they? every president believes this is the main thing, and make you believe. both parties, it doesn't make any dif

attorney- general -- with the u.n. secretary-general ban ki moon. >> excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentleman, i declare open the international donors conference towards a new future for haiti. it is my great pleasure to welcome all of you at the united nations  headquarts kdÑñrimportant event, which is d atgy mobilizing international support for thel needs ofc÷ haiti in an effort to lay the foundation for haiti's long-term recovery. brochurof the wreckage speaking] -- [speaking french] [speaking french] excellencies, four weeks, experts have been -- for weeks, experts have been assisting us with the disaster. in tandem, the prime minister along with the government has worked out a blueprint, a plan to guide haiti's recovery and could reconstruction. -- and reconstruction. he will present that vision in a moment, and i'm sure you will agree that it deserves our full and generous support. as a plan for action it is concrete, specific, and above all, ambitious. our goal is not just to rebuild. it is t

then you have the baby boomers and generation x. -- generation y., the millennials generation and another generation about the new silent generation about to enter the workforce or organizations so we have about six generations in the workforce. they were named because they were exceptionally different. you come from my generation and you are the son or daughter of the pressure their parents and they taught you about security, financial security, job security if you are a young person today maybe not so much, you are willing to take risks or moved and this manifests itself in many different ways and i mentioned in the book an incident of some 1i know who works for a major major fund company and she was tasked with coming up with the awards and incentives program for the company. so he decided he would pull all of the employees to say what do you want? if you do a good job and we are going to recognize you in this company what is it you want? what he found is the older generation said put it in my paycheck and the younger generation's i want a picture with a boss, certificate shaking hands

i was deputy commander for a general mckever -- general mccurtain in 2002 and 2003. and i commanded multinational division bad debt in 2005-06. -- more multinational division baghdad in 2005-06. i thought i would tell you first of all that our three main missions are sustaining those two current fight in afghanistan and iraq. that includes the responsible drawdown from iraq as well as the buildup of forces in afghanistan. the second main mission that we have is to be prepared to go to any of the other countries other than iraq or afghanistan if something should go wrong and we should have to conduct other operations. perhaps, in natural disaster all the way up to combat operations. and the third is building the partners capacity here in the region and centcom as we attend to make them stronger -- attempt to make them stronger, our allies, in the region. if you would like, i can just go to questions. or i can talk to some more about what we are doing. >> it looks like they would like to get writing to questions, general. >> i wonder if you could " -- clarify for us wh

secretary general. thank you for your leadership and your personal commitments to this international endeavor. president preval, to do and the members of your government, we thank you for your extraordinary work that you have done leading up to this point. to former president clinton, with whom i first went to hit the many years ago, about two months after we were married, thank you for taking on another assignment from the secretary general and to all of the countries and international institutions represented here, thank you. thank you for the immediate response to the overwhelming catastrophe that afflicted the haitian people and thank you for your continued commitment. we have had over 140 nations working to support the nation of haiti and delivered food, temporary shelter, and medical care to thousands of survivors. the emergency relief is only the beginning of what will be a long road to recovery as the secretary general just pointed out. one that will require global support. some people wonder wh

brigadier general h.r. mcmaster and retired general keene join law school professor bruce ackerman to talk about the conduct of the war and prisoner detention, held at the national constitution center in philadelphia, this is almost two hours. >> good evening. and welcome. i'm david eisner, i'm the president and chief executive officer of the national constitution center and it is our distinct on horto host the -- honor to host the fourth annual peter jennings project for journalists and the constitution. it's named for a man who prior to his passing in 2005 had made it his mission to bring constitutional conversations to his viewers hand readers. and moreover, he did it in such a way that was commensurate with his enthusiasm for what he felt for the historic human achievement represented by the u.s. constitution. it is to that unfinished mission that the peter jennings project for journalists and the constitution is dedicated. our journalists, mid career journalists come from 19 states, and nine countries.

the general talk about that more. -- the general will talk about that more. this shows the policy framework we used. >the first topic is the prevention of nuclear terrorism and nuclear proliferation. this review plays out additional steps that it will take to lead international efforts to bolster that regime as we look forward to compliance, the conference is a critical next step. as we conducted the review, we looked at what budgetary steps' were appropriate. other agencies have increased their funding. the president has committed to a global lockdown to secure all of honorable nuclear material within four years. -- all vulnerable to nuclear material within four years. part of the review looked at what types of investments are needed to have better capabilities to interject smuggled materials. we have increased investments and those areas, as well. we will also be sending up a joint task force for wdm elimination. disarming was a fundamental principle. this review started with and looked at how to implement the president possible of a world free of nuclear w

right here. >> i'd like to ask general mcmaster, and that also come back to general keane, whether you think that torture issue and the issue of how to conduct interrogations has really been resolved within the military. and the reason -- and resolve no matter which civilian administration of whatever party should be in power. and one of the reasons i ask this is, as you know, many people believe that there was political pressure from the civilian side involved in what came down and abu ghraib, the commander of guantÁnamo was deliberately transferred to commend at abu ghraib. he was never reprimanded. jeffrey miron i believe his name was. and there were many questions involved there, not the least of which is whether the individuals were finally imprisoned were simply scapegoats, or even the female commander, whether they, they were political pressures there that went beyond and around the commander. so how do you look at this now? and whether another administration that produced a doctrine, with the same question be brought up? and with the army know how to deal with it? and i'm trist

attorney general? >> the administration is in the process of reviewing a decision as to where khalid sheikh mohammed and his co-defendants should actually be tried. new york is not off the table as a place where they might be tried but we have taken to consideration the concerns that have been raised by local officials and by the community in new york city. we expect we will be in a position to make a determination i think in a number of weeks. >> thank you. finally, mr. attorney general, throughout my own state of wisconsin, and i assure all across the country, local law enforcement agencies speak about how vital the progress to their ability to keep our communities safe. it is a highly effective program that is proven to be one of the most cost-effective ways to fight crime. last year i joined the senators feinstein commonly he and others in introducing legislation to reauthorize the cops program and improvements to the administration of the program. can we count, mr. attorney general, on your suppor

you will meet some of those attorneys general tonight.irst, a different health care bill was signed last month. not at the white house, but in virginia. virginia governor mcdonnell signed into law that bars the federal government forcing virginians to buy health insurance. he on the record about his state's battle against the federal government. you also have been the attorney general so you knee job pretty well. did you consult with the attorney general when he made

phillips, general, excuse me, general phillips. this should be an easy one because when i was in iraq, you put four hours nonstop into educating me about the successful innovations there. one thing that hasn't been done is that logcap and most big army service contracts in the theater 10 to compete for one pays, sometimes too, but basically one. and then the rest are option years. and our experience of talking to contractor officers is that they just reflexively okay the option years, meaning there will be competition and less the contractor has screwed up courageously. we're not in our ninth rubberstamp option year for kbr. will you come in your post, increase the competition levels for the option years, woul whics supporters in the recommendation of considering option nonrenewal more serious than the current rubberstamping? >> sir, i would like to take a deeper look at that, but what i can promise you that we will do is we will work hard on competition across the board. many of the id iq contract to we put in place for jcc-i/a, i

lieutenant general james belpre is the commanding general of army materials. -- lt. general james pillsbury. patrick fit to gerald, director of to read -- a defense contract agencies. dcaa is working at the request of the contract management agency, dcma, to determine whether kbr is reducing its work force in iraq commensurate with the military drawdown. james loehrl is responsible for u.s. army contract. logcap 3 and 4 are under his jurisdiction. we have three witnesses representing kbr and address our concerns about the company's performance and the adequacy of government planning and oversight of their projects. douglas horne, guy lebeau, and we have at our witnesses to summarize their testimony in five minutes. we will allow for questions but given the length of my statement, i will be a little flexible. the full text of their statement will be entered into the hearing record and posted on the commission's website. we also ask that witnesses submit additional information that they can provide in response to any questions for the record within 15 business days fol

[laughter] >> go ahead. >> i have a question for general cartwright. can you walk us through a little bit on the practical steps that need to be taken at strategic command operationalize these new policy changes? hell is our operational plan for nuclear war fighting being changed such that general chilton can meet his requirements with fewer warheads on hand deployed? >> there will be -- once we have this distributed and everyone gets a chance to read it, once we have start signed and we have all the annexes and all the pieces so that we have an understanding of what the guidance is in some level of detail, then we will going to review from a policy perspective on guidance that would be appropriate under these new regimes, so to speak. that will then manifest itself in direction of attributes that stratcom would be as to ensure our part of the deterrence strategy and consistent with deterrence strategy when you start talking about proportionality and about targets and things like that. that will then lead us into in an evolution associated with what we

production of the next-generation malibu, and they're going to be bringing back more workers and a lot of workers were shed as they went through the bankruptcy process. we're starting to see those workers coming back. so, that's part of the announcement going on with mr. whitacre. we'll be talking to him in a matter of seconds. the interesting thing to keep in mind is that for general motors, this doesn't mean everything's clear. they have two things in the future -- getting back in the black, which probably will happen in the third quarter, early fourth quarter, and then going public. if they get a couple good quarters of financial performance under their belt, first quarter, second quarter, then they are likely to say to wall street and to the people who would be underwriting going public, look, we have the performance benchmarks here, we're ready to start going public. and that's what we have to see from this company over the next six months. once they go public, then you see the federal government getting the opportunity to sell shares of gm over time and make back more of the $50

by the way, the anti-generalizers at fox want you to know that generalizing is the least of the liberalsberals see just about everything through the prism of race. >> the left always paints christians as hate mongers. >> the far left does not wanted the u.s.a. to defeat terrorism. >> you know, i have said it before and i will say it again. go [bleep] yourselves. >> bill: joining us now from miami, bernie goldberg. does stewart have a point here? are we being hypocritical by generalizing about some people. >> i will just speak about me. he does. i am pleading guilty. and that's a sincere plea of guilty. i said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. but i will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that. i work with these liberal elites for 28 years at cbs news. and they were always throwing around the term white trash. by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to harvard. i'm not sure why that makes them trash. as far as the middle of the country is concerned, you know, this

he comes up to and tells them, take into general flynn. they take into general clinton. however, they take him to american general flynn. there are three general claims in the american revolution. two on the american side and one on the british. they are actually part of the troops who were given regular british army uniforms to wear that were captured at sea. they are known as the redcoat regiment. wayne taylor, the spy, who is carrying the message gets, realizes he is captured, he swallows the silver bullet. is observed. they give him harder image to bring up the message. he brings it up and shoves it back down again. [laughter] >> at which time an american general flynn is starting to lose his patience and tells him he will take it again began this time it will stay up or he will retrieve it through surgery at the end of a bayonet. so he brings it up. is convicted of the spine and hung at kingston, new york. buttons. some of you may have codes where you have a cloth over the button. this was a fashion that was popular at the time in the american revolution. on your ov

that's generally what the business -- that generally is what the business model is. make a profit by making people happy with what you get. so once again the conservative role -- the conservatives' perspective on the individual and on the business is not this idea of preferring businesses run the world. it's this idea that businesses -- especially small businesses, which have a vested interest in making a profit by pleasing you the consumer thereby having a vested interest in what you want, thereby having a vested interest new the individual, have a better perspective than the government when it comes to the financial sector. the other part of that is who employs people? well, the government just employed -- if i'm is not mistaken more than 1 million people this year. they went, i think, .5 million people more this year employed by the government. that's a lot of people. okay? even if it was 500,000 people employed by the government, that's a lot of people employed by one thing. by one entity. and the fact of the matter is, do we need all those jobs? do we need to be

attorney general.disappointed the administration put a low priority on security in the southern border. violence there is escalating exponentially. thousands of people have been killed just south of the border by drug cartels. arizona last week, arizona buried a very fine citizen, a rancher in kochi county. at the violence is spreading and yet, action that i have requested from you and from the secretary of homeland security is lacking. let me back up. i'm talking about operation streamline for which both the department of justice and the department of homeland security have the responsibility. last friday i visited the human sector of the border and heard the tremendous success that operation streamline has brought to that sector of the border. similar to the dell rio, texas sector. there is virtually no illegal immigration occurring there now. part of it is because of a dublin in some cases triple friends with adequate border patrol agents. part of it is a deterrent effect of operation shame on which

attorney general? >> the administration is in the process of reviewing a decision as to where khalid sheikh mohammed and his co-defendants should actually be tried. new york is not off the table as a place where they might be tried but we have taken to consideration the concerns that have been raised by local officials and by the community in new york city. we expect we will be in a position to make a determination i think in a number of weeks. >> thank you. finally, mr. attorney general, throughout my own state of wisconsin, and i assure all across the country, local law enforcement agencies speak about how vital the progress to their ability to keep our communities safe. it is a highly effective program that is proven to be one of the most cost-effective ways to fight crime. last year i joined the senators feinstein commonly he and others in introducing legislation to reauthorize the cops program and improvements to the administration of the program. can we count, mr. attorney general, on your suppor

are jobless benefits too generous?make enough money and you got savings -- >> too generous right now, 57%. i respectfully disagree with the majority. anyway, we're out of time. that went fast. >> we are. >> thanks for watching "squawk on the street." coming up on "street signs." >> we have the president. very excited about that. >> sounds good. see you tomorrow. >>> good morning, everyone. ce welcome to "the call." as i watch the big board here, up 16 points right now on the dow and pretty much flat on the s&p. better than expected earnings continue to pile in. the question now is whether there's more room in this market or whether it's already all been priced in. we're going to discuss it. larry? >> i'm larry kudlow. as congress closes in on financial regulation, we ask, should the banks be barred from trading derivatives. >> we'll discuss it, larry. i'm melissa francises. spirit ceo will talk about his plan to charge for carry-on luggage is our favorite topic. this is "the call" on cnbc. >>> another round of strong e

and i don't think we have more than a generation and there is not a plan be. let me leave you with a hopeful sign hiring of this will happen? consciousness can change sometimes just a little invention. some of you have traveled to venice or you go to where they make glass. in the 14th century they began producing year's mass production but this is a breakthrough before that people did not get a good idea of the casscells. you could see yourself in a piece of metal or at pond of water people did not spend that much time looking at themselves when they began to reproduce mirrors they provided them with the books it was a pastime to look at themselves. [laughter] not only because they thought looked at me but it was interesting to them. self reflection. the mayor's reflect we became introspective and dug down deep and created a more individual identity by becoming more of a self we can empathize with another. this is what is the difference between right and left where conservatives say that is just:for liberalism and the liberals say you care about individuals bu

i do not want to over- generalized. but there is a general difference, i think, on the way women approach their work. >> jeff fischer who works on the stamford clinic with pam, and whenever started working with tom, there was a hard time getting female students to enroll inappropriate numbers in the clinics. even at the law school level, there seems to be a lot of self selection out of this practice stream. i do know how the statistics correlate with law review. but how much of it is itself selection? so selection -- self selection is free choice, which is fine. but if it is self selection because they do not think that it is a career path, that is a problem. women still have the babies. the difficulties of juggling working parents and working motherhood and raising children -- i brought my daughter here with me. this is how i do motherhood -- this is an enormous challenge. it is a hard one. people have to make their own choices. i am a big believer in finding the balance that is right for you. how much of that changes

let me begin by thanking the secretary for that generous introduction. i want to thank him and his wife ann for their dedication to the mission of the smithsonian. and i want to thank our host from the national museum of the american history, dr. brent glass and john rogers. thank you for making these museums such wonderful places for people of all ages to learn and to explore. and i have to also do my part in recognizing our very special guests, the students and the teachers from huntington high school who made the trip all the way from new york to be here. you all please stand so we can see you. [applause] now, there's a special reason i invited these students here. they sent me this book of beautifully designed inaugural gowns of their own creations and i had so much fun looking through the designs. you all are a very talented and beautiful and handsome group of people. and i'm so pleased to be able to share this special day with you. you make us proud. and thank you for the gift. and finally, i also want to thank all the board members, the staff, the

we begin this evening with a conversation with general david petraeus. he is the man who is in charge of the central command, which means he's in charge of the military effort in ffgz and pakistan. -- in afghanistan or pakistan. >> tell not be a hub to hub offensive, this is as much political as it is military and in fact, that's why it was so important that president kar zywent down to -- that president karzai went down to kandahar and met with 1,500 of the political notables and others and in fact, heard from them, some of them criticism of the afghan government, criticism of president karzai, president karzai in turn, all on the television camera pointed a finger at himself and said that indeed some of that does need to be addressed by the afghan government without question. >> charlie: two savvy reporters who just returned from afghanistan. dexter filkins of "the new york times" and greg jaffe of "the washington post." >> the whole thing is to make something that can outlast the american president and make it stable so it once again doesn't become a

thank you. >> general? >> sir, thank you for the opportunity. one of the lessons learned is that i will get the half dcaa and dcma and i appreciate sapna. i would like to clarify for you, mr. chairman, that while my words may not have said it, i do respect to the dcaa and dcma. it is a team effort as we move forward. i appreciate the effort. >> thank you. my time is limited and i did not get to the lessons learned. if i could ask you to give three or four examples of lessons learned, i think it will relate to the question i had. this is not an effort by asking to make that will go into a file. this will be helpful to me and i think some of the other staff and commissioners think so. we thank you all for your service. we know that this is an immense job we are asking and we realize you are under resources and are playing catch-up, frankly. we are in the new territory and we have to get this right. we will have a five minute break and then -- maybe six minutes, then we will start with our final panel. thank you very much. >> at 5:30 p.m. eastern,

after generation things change interest bonds to their surroundings. arguments over race in the human genome decided leaving us with some intriguing data about personal appearance. prevailing racial schemes now rest once again on concept of skin color. but widely recognizes the fact that not only are black people various shades of brown and yellow but so too are white people somewhat lighter and often with more pink or if they were in the sun a lot more red. [laughter] hence of the red scare as realized in the late 18th century when groups of skin color gradually shades into another's there were no clearly demarcated lines purpose of people who identify as black may have light skin and others. siblings with the same mother and father can display a range of skin colors and race may be about pigment but what makes people scan light or dark? skin color is a byproduct red to yellow and a dark brown to black in reaction to sunlight and the several genes interact to make people like your dark or red or brown or black and asian scholars were wiser than they k

the inspector general said it never went over 10%. i respect them more. so what i need to understand is we will have the contractors say they notified dod about the underutilization. we had a report saying there should be a requirement, but they did provide some notification. why wasn't the notification acted on? what makes it worse was that the contractor said, we are only at 10% utilization. >> at the time i believe the -- that you spoke about -- it was august 2008 -- >> we have two different reports. that is where you were under 10%. then we have the dcaa that basically said for a seven-month period, and that was exactly when? >> jerick 2009 through july 2009. >> -- january 2009. >> in may at 2009, correction, march of 2009 we had -- we have gone down by somewhere close to 46%. perhaps we have acted on that. i don't have the specifics. >> i don't like the word perhaps the and i don't think you would like it from someone else saying that. one of the things we don't want to do is get it cheap shots, and you all are trying to catch up. i look at you and t

first get the my can right here. >> i'd like to ask general mcmaster and come back to general keane, whether you think the torture issue and the issue of how to conduct interrogations has really been resolved within the military? and the reason -- and resolved no matter which civilian administration of whatever party should be in power? one of the reasons i ask this is, as you know, many people believe that there was political pressure from the civilian side involved in what came down in abu ghraib. the commander of guantanamo was transferred to abu ghraib. there were many questions involved, not the least of which is whether the individuals who were finally imprisoned were simply escapeboat, and even the female commander, whether they -- there were hill cat pressure -- political pressures there. how due look at this now, and were there another administration that produced a doctrine, would the same questions be brought up or would the army know how to deal with it? i'm curious whether you really think the investigation that took place resolved who was responsible for the misdeeds at

[laughter] seriously, it is, what is it, fourth generation? four generations back? i told him he was a little better looking than me. [laughter] but all of us trace back to this experience of parents, grandparents, great-grandparents building this american dream, not having much to begin with. and that dream is shared by every illinoisan and every american -- the chance to make a good living, to raise a healthy and secure family, and most of all to give our kids opportunities that we did not have ourselves. now the truth is, is that sometimes it feels that that dream is slipping away. times are tough in quincy. times are tough all across america. we have gone through the worst economy since the great depression. even though our economy is growing again, even though our markets are climbing again and our businesses are finally beginning to create jobs again, there are a lot of folks who are not feeling that recovery in their own lives. i've heard their stories across the country. i have read it in the letters that i get each night. a lot of them are worried about whe

now, our perspective is that generally consumers should not be tracked on the internet unless they give their affirmative permission to be tracked. and that should apply to anybody who would track. it should apply to the internet service provider, it would apply to the search engine, it would apply to anybody who would be attracting your behavior on the internet. and i think it's a little bit like if the you walk into a grocery store today. you can give permission for them to keep track of what you buy and you join the club and you get a discount, or you can deny that permission. and that's the same thing that we should have on the internet, that same kind of rule, but it should apply to everybody. so if the consumer says, no, i don't want to be tracked, that applies to all the players, not to one, and you shouldn't have a situation where you have to do this method to get this player not to track and another method to have another player not to track. so i think looking at it from a consumer perspective you want to make sure that it's easy for the consumer, that the consumer feels secur

british general, the scottish general by the name of grant, his papers were found images become recently available. in there he identifies that robert rogers actually got hail to tell him that he was a spy and what the mission was, and hale should have kept his mouth shut. what he told rogers who was also an american spy and because he outed himself, he winds up giving himself hung. next question. >> can you comment on washington getting his troops out of brooklyn into manhattan and the clichÉ where they built up the fires and it seemed like army was still there? >> he also use that after, down in trenton where he had the fires built to deceive the british, that they were still in position, but at the battle of her quinn, he uses they leverage marble meant to get the troops across the east river back to manhattan and by the fact that the british were convinced that come morning, that they would have a victory over an american army that was ensconced on long island. and yeah, it was another one of his deceptions. as i said, for somebody who never told the truth, he certainly stretch stret

secretary general.ership and your personal commitments to this international endeavor. president preval, to do and the members of your government, we thank you for your extraordinary work that you have done leading up to this point. to former president clinton, with whom i first went to hit the many years ago, about two months after we were married, thank you for taking on another assignment from the secretary general and to all of the countries and international institutions represented here, thank you. thank you for the immediate response to the overwhelming catastrophe that afflicted the haitian people and thank you for your continued commitment. we have had over 140 nations working to support the nation of haiti and delivered food, temporary shelter, and medical care to thousands of survivors. the emergency relief is only the beginning of what will be a long road to recovery as the secretary general just pointed out. one that will require global support. some people wonder why haiti? why this great

general webster this is bryan of the pentagon. i take that you can hear us okay. >> i can hear you very good, thanks, bryan. >> thanks very much for joining this evening. this is lieutenant general william webster the commander of the army in kuwait. the firm has more than 50,000 military and civilians operating in 13 countries. general webster's area of responsibility is an area of more than 4.5 million square miles, or about 1.5 times the size of the continent of the divided states, so a big job. he took command in may of last year and right now is sustaining the two current combat operations supporting both the responsible drawdown in iraq as well as the buildup in afghanistan and the army. so general webster, think you for taking the time and i understand you are going to give a bit of an overview before you take some questions. so let me turn right over to you. >> thanks very much. this is my second tour of duty in the the third army. i was a deputy commander for general mckiernan backend 02 and 03 when we initially attack in