hagel's private e-mail account and the agency said it's declining to comment on its security.dy? >> scott mcfarlane. >>> new testimony today in the trial of the man who's accused of planting bombs at the boston marathon. today a carjacking victim took the stand at the trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev. he survived an encounter with the brothers three days after the marathon attacks. he says it was tsarnaev's older brother who jumped into his car and put a gun to his head. he said dzhokhar only jumped in the car later. that man was able to escape when the brothers stopped for gas. >>> next struggling to keep their homes, even pay their rent. how a dramatic spike in prices is impacting local families in the district. >>> it's a store owned by one of vie yep that's best known businessman but the sign bears the bad news. closed far month due to vandalism. see what's behind these doors. >>> at 6:30 vandalism at a local business caused more than $100,000 in damage and that business has been closed for weeks. they're still picking up the pieces. >> the local business community in that area

hagel. contacted by news4, a spokesman said of hagel, "he understood the need to keep two separate and to keep government business emails on his official e-mail and on some limited occasions an e-mail may have been sent to or from the wrong account." the pentagon spokesman also says ash karlter, chuck hagel's successor, also maintains separate personal and governmental e-mail accounts. we just put the white house spops to our story on nbcwashington.com.response to our story on nbcwashington. >>> iran's foreign minister says a letter from u.s. republican lawmakers suggest the united states is not trustworthy. 47 gop senators sent a letter warning that any nuclear deal with the obama administration could be scrapped once the president leaves office. the white house and senate democrats have denounced this letter accusing republicans of trying to sabotage the negotiations. iran's government called the letter unprecedented and undiplomatic. >>> kind of messy out there right now. all day, in fact

hagel ran the defense department until just last month. the white house declined to answer why or how often it sent official e-mails to hagel's gmail account. >>> the associated press is now suing the state department to release clinton's e-mails. joining us carrie dann. political writer for nbc news. mrs. clinton did speak. did she say enough are still people wanting to know more? >> unresolved questions certainly from the press conference she gave. reviews from editorial boards around the country were favorable for mrs. clinton. one question one phone out of convenience but a lot of people are asking you can have one telephone, or one device that has two e-mail accounts. many of us do. i get e-mails from friends on my blackberry but that's on separate account from my work account and i think a lot of people have that kwenchts on one -- >> on one single device. another question just is why should the american public trust that she has turned over the relevant e-mails and that the on deleted were relevant to her job at secretary of state?

what is that supposed to mean, kellyanne, chuck hagel, a guy who has two purple hearts and accused ofetting money from the north koreans, i remember reading about this, i know about it, i was very young, why is he going back to impugning people's patriotism as a tactic? that's what i don't like about cruz. your thoughts? >> i hope he's not -- i don't believe he's attacking the president's speech and he shouldn't. he shouldn't. let me make it very clear. scott walker and rudy giuliani's comment, you should never question any president's love for the country, period. i think ted cruz does best when he talks about the issue. i hope he wants to have a conversation about that. >> why is the president being accused of being under communist influence? >> i don't think he is. i think what cruz was trying to say -- i think he should have talked humorously about the harvard law school faculty and not involved the president in it. if he wants to have a big conversation -- >> chuck hagel took -- was it fair -- was it fair to say that chuck hagel, who fought in vietnam, won a couple purple hearts

hagel used two blackberries two more personal e-mail one for government e-mail. the i-team obtained this e-mail and it appears to include the private gmail address. a pentagon official tell us on some limited occasions an e-mail may have been sent to or from the wrong account. the white house declined to say why or how often it sent official e-mails to that gmail account. >>> a former star with the baltimore ravens is joining maryland's emotional debate over a right to die bill. o.j. brigetts has lou gehrig's disease. today he urged lawmakers in the state to reject the measure. david collins has our report. >> reporter: former ravens football star linebacker opposes legislation giving the terminally ill with six months to live the right to end their lives on their own terms. he was able to testify with the help of a computer. >> the days have been challenging, of course.y life so i have no right to negate my life. >> reporter: he played in the raven's first super bowl win, he joined the front office before being diagnosed with a.l.s. in 2007. >> with the use of n

the pentagon says hagel used two separate black bear risz one for personal the other for government e-maild told us on some limited occasions, an e-mail may have been sent to or from a wrong account. >>> another million dollar heist in france. we're hearing police still searching for 15 armed attackers after they say they hijacked a couple vans on a highway. they were able to steal millions of euros in jewels. nobody was hurt. they can find the vans they'renear where the attack happened all burnt up in a forest. still, though, this morning the jewels nowhere be found. >>> virginia's governor is headed cuba. he says the purpose is to discuss trade relations. this is one of five economic department trips planned by the governor. he says cuba offers a tremendous economic opportunity for virginia. >>> school kids in fauquier county will spend a full day in dallas class this friday and two other fridays because of all the snow days. the revisions mean there will be no half days until june. >>> students in stafford county public schools could soon see smaller class sizes and teachers could see a

here's this character accusing chuck hagel of taking 200k from the north koreans, accusing obama the president of the united states of being under communist influence because he went to harvard law, which, of course, where ted cruz went. this guy is bad news. his voting record is the most right wing we've ever had. what he's going to do to the republican party? he's not going to be the nominee probably. >> he's so low in the polls right now among republicans that he is desperate. his desperation is showing. >> isn't that scary? >> he's going right to the base. look at the array of hopefuls right now if mike huckabee doesn't get in, cruz has the religious right so-called all to himself. that's what he was going for. >> is he a guy, howard, who has nothing do lose? shoot away at the other guys, accuse them of being lefties and communists and you come out somehow on top. >> i think the key to his speech today was that clip but also the one where he says this is the anniversary of patrick henry's speech, "give me liberty or give me death." he didn't put death into his speech. no, i made

little's believe order belong to chuck hagel. he used two blackberry one for personal use and the other for government e hails. a pentagon official tells us on some limited occasions an e-mail may have been september tont to or from the wrong account. the white house declineded to answer why or how often it sent official e-mails to the g-mail account . >>> new developments on a man accused of threatening to shoot president obama in the name of isis. yesterday federal prosecutors filed a motion to restrict phone access for christopher cornell. he's been locked up in ohio since january. last week cornell made a surprise phone call from jail to a tv station. he was recorded saying if he had made to washington he would have tried to shoot the president. the fbi initially arrested cornell for an alleged plot to shoot up the u.s. capitol. >>> we have this new this morning out of south korea, the flight attendant harassed by a rea vp on how she was served nuts is suing the airline and the executive lawyers. the woman says she was verbal

carter has been on the job since last month after taking over for chuck hagel. he's already traveled overseas including one visit to the troops in afghanistan. >>> we learned today that our cold weather has any other put a freeze on hiring. job growth now at its strongest in more than a decade. the labor department says the economy added 295,000 new jobs in february, the 12th consecutive month the economy has gained more than 200,000 jobs. the unemployment rate fell from 5.7 to 5.5 percent. hiring improved in the manufacturing, construction, retail, finance and healthcare sectors. >> it is not exactly how you want your ski trip to go. a gondola gets stuck stranding passengers in the air. in a moment you'll hear how this happened. >> also ahead here tonight we have brand new details about how the injured harrison ford is really doing following the plane crash. we'll hear from the doctor who was on the scene right after that plane went down. kathy. >> more record cold tonight chris before milder air warms us back up. i'll have the numbers coming up. >> and expired

have a great weekend plant - - plant and with the anniversary in the capital for the weekend will be hagel about the t.a.r.p.. we did get to watch ram -- rahm emanuel burst out of the meeting of a fuzzy receiving their people inside would say it was going to the press on the blackberry. but we sat with him seven weeks before the election to decide we have to fix it going for word pro we have no option so we pass the t.a.r.p. going down in history as the most popular -- unpopular successful thing. democrats voted more than republicans. brought obama back said but john mccain refuses then obama becomes president and vico's south. in 2008 it was honored we thought there birthings but when obama becomes president and the advantages they used to not care so much. now that is a good thing. so this is the story of king solomon that a faction that says cut it. see if i care. but we have to be the ones to say no prepare you cannot do that. >> you are a liberal but one of the things you talk about in the book that is seen to date back to your experience in 1954 where you bring in mississippi part of

here's this character hagel taking 200 case in the north koreans and being under communist influx because he went to harvard law. >> in a short time in the senate you developed a reputation as a guy who does not back down who will not compromise. >> that brings us to look who is talking. senator cruz is firing right back at those critics killing them bring it on. >> nothing like the warm embrace of the mainstream media. i think one of my favorite comments was the new york times said in the last day that cruz cannot be nominated because the washington elites hate him. i have to admit my immediate thought was holy cow, do i have to disemployees that to the federal el lexes differences? there are marked differences between me and barack obama. in his time in the senate he was a back bench ry. >> so it begins. here we go. >> the time is 11 after the top of the hour. brand new allegations about what the department of home land officials did for top democrats. >> they thought it was cranbury juice. a restaurant served alcohol to a toddler. >> that's not good. >> speaking of godlerses toddlers,

they hagel over how to approach nuclear negotiations with iran. however some foreign policy watchers say the u.s.-israeli relationship is too important to let wither. >> the relationship itself will recover from this. because as i mentioned earlier, this relationship is too big to fail. >> reporter: the israeli election is on march 17, the obama administration says it's policy has always been they don't want to meet with foreign leaders just before an election because they don't want to be seen as tipping the scales. >>> 77 million americans across 20 states now are right under a winter weather advisory or warning and snow weary boston guess what? it's bracing for yet more snow. cnn's john stater is watching for us. >> looking at it in print, it's got to help the psyche a little bit. accumulating snow power outages in the next 24 hours and no doubt travel disruptions, we'll talk all about it as cnn returns. 19 days, fred. e. so i can focus on what matters most. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. i

i spoke with secretary rumsfeld and secretary hagel, every one of them.nd to them i could give my honest opinion. they listened to what i said but they went their own way. brian lamb: quote we shared these roof awards with cadets at west point. general bolger: secretary gates sent to bank troop surge is into asia during his time -- sent two troop surges into asia during his time. i think the military has to give hard advice. the advice i did not give was to say, look, you have signed us up, americans have signed up for a multi-decade insurgency. are the american people ok with that? do you understand that we will have troops in iraq for decades? are we good with that? that discussion was never had. the cause it was never had, we do not know how long these commitments will last. in korea, it was understood that we would support south korea as long as it took because we signed a treaty. we have not signed a treaty with iraq and afghanistan and there is no effort to do so. that tells me we have not had that discussion. brian lamb: what do you think of michae

this is an e-mail that appears to include a private gm address believed to belong to chuck hagel.tagon says he used two separate blackberry, one for personal and the other for government e-mail. a spokesman says on some limited occasions, an e-mail may have been sent two or from the wrong account. >>> teams have three more days to sign up for the am simmer jobs program. the extra days come after a neat of confusion and complaints as about 2,000 students waited in the rain outside of apapplication deadline day. when the school closed at 7:00 p.m. the city dispatched a mobile command center on help take those applications. about 13,000 teens have already signed up. the program provides six weeks of summer employment. >>> there is a hiring deal at the new d.c. united stadium. the stadium will be built at buzzard point and will need 800 full and part-time workers to build and staff it. >>> leesburg town council will create the town's first ever diversity advisory commission. the council vote this had favord in favor of it that yesterday. it will work to improve community with minority

he goes after chuck hagel with two purple hearts from vietnam, saying this guy is taking 200k from theorth korean communists. i don't think he's aware -- i'll be kind. i don't think he has any knowledge of the mccarthy period, because he imat a time him so blasantly. you mean he's deliberately -- >> i think he's deliberately usable inflammatory language all the time. >> what do you call it? >> i would call it opportunism. >> what's that say? what's the message? >> desperately wants to win. >> you're afraid to say it. >> he wants power. >> you're afraid to say it, aren't you? >> no, i'm -- >> anyway, cruz, the senator says the media paints him as a crazy guy with dynamite strapped to his chest. actually we do. he got that right. >> historically two character turs. we're either stupid or evil. >> or both. bush, dan quayle, dick cheney. by the way, stupid is better. if you're picking one or the other. stupid is better. >> than evil? >> yes. i take it as a bit of a backhanded compliment, that they have invented a third caricature. >> which is you're smart. you went to harvard and -- >> yea

current secretary of state, the former defense secretary, hand selected by president obama, chuck hagelxer. feinstein did not choose to vote on that. number of democrats overwhelmingly 95-0, snubbed bill clinton top, doing exact same thing when he was negotiating kyoto? it is exact same thing. this faux outrage by the white house nobody should be buying it. they have every right to do what they did. they're strengthening president's hand. should send them edible arrangement. >> you heard call them the enemy. trotting out cruise missiles and everything else while the deal is talked about leading up to the deadline later this month. we'll cover news on this. >>> new story we've been following all week long controversy at a university where a group of student leaders are trying to ban the american flag, calling it potential hate speech. violent threats that led to cancellation of a meeting. it was supposed to happen last night. remember we talked about this they had to call it off. >>> plus ladies can brawl like best of them. put 'em up. leading to season-ending suspensions now. is the pun

he served for some time as chief of staff to the former defense secretary chuck hagel.irs. this was his specialty in national security. he also previously served at the national security council at the white house and served on the obama/biden transition team. he is someone that is very well-known to president obama, has been a top aid in all of the positions over the years. he recently left the pentagon after being confirmed as ambassador to south korea. if you followed any of his social media, you saw that he was move -- he moved around seoul all the time, often with his basset hound on the street. right now, of course as you say, he is being treated. all indications are he will be okay. >> barbara, i want to show our viewers video. you can see he has been attacked. we don't necessarily believe attacked with a gun. but attacks with some sort of weapon. he clearly has been injured. there you see him with his hand to his face. we don't know the extent of the injuries. we do know according to government sources, he is being treated for those injuries right now. we have n

he wrote, hagel's nomination has been publicly celebrated by the iranian government. he said that about a vietnam veteran. it's a claim that was blatantly false. ted cruz played a major role in the 2013 government shutdown. the shutdown cost this economy our country $24 billion so he could grandstand. obamacare was still funded and people got their health insurance. cruz just wanted headlines to boost the ultraconservative support for his presidential run. let's see if he gets it. everything cruz has done in the senate has been to position himself for today. come on. the rest of you jump in. let's get going. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question -- will ted cruz be the first canadian born president of the united states? he was always questioning the legitimacy of barack obama. text "a" for yes. text "b" for no. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. let me bring in brett woodhouse and mercedes and barry lynn. barry, i'll go with you first, if i can here tonight. >> all right. >> the platform, isn't that a signal in itse

here's this character accusing chuck hagel from taking 200 k from the north koreans. >> your short time in the senate you've developed a reputation as a guy who does not back down who will not compromise. will you bring that brand of no compromise to the white house, if you're elected? >> how are you with that hard line conservative message going to appeal to moderates and independents? >> joining me now, texas senator and presidential candidate, ted cruz. scary, dangerous and slimy. "the guardian" declaring you are done. 48 hours after you have declared. tonight you say? >> well, look, there's nothing like the warm embrace of the mainstream media. and i have to say -- i think one of my favorite comments was "the new york times" said in the last day, that cruz cannot be dominated because the washington elites hate him. and i have to admit my immediate thought was holy cow, do i have to disclose that to the federal elections commission? >> i'm in. >> in any contribution? i can't think of a better summary of why i'm running. if you're looking for a candidate embraced by the washington pol

the national safety council, the former chair of the national transportation safety board, and bob hagel, who has covered aviation for nbc news for 25 years. thank you all for being here. bob, let me go to you first. you have reported on a lot of airline disasters. what similar are there to other crashes in this? >> immediately i think of flights where there's been some problem at full altitude like this one. that is so unusual, as you said but air france just a few years ago over the atlantic when it was a failure of the navigation equipment. twa 800 over long island. that was at 10,000 feet so pretty well up there when the center fuel tank exploded. there was a decompression of the private jet carrying the golfer payne stewart a number ofiers where everybody passed out and the plane flew over hat of the understand before it but in this case there's no evidence of anything like that but we're pretty early into it. i think what is important here is getting the recorders. they've got one and probably will find the other one, and then we should have some answers pretty quickly, is my guess

. >> reporter: outgoing secretary of defense chuck hagel acknowledging the taliban threat slightly uppingn troop commitment to 10,800. >> that deployment of 10,000 u.s. troops will ensure the whole thing doesn't collapse in flames. but i say probably. because it wouldn't be surprising if things went badly over the next two, three years that a larger deployment might be necessary. >> reporter: despite losing his son -- >> i wouldn't advise it again. if you carried out that policy universally, nothing would happen at all. >> reporter: not easy to say. even harder to pay the price. nic robertson, cnn, london. >> there is another scandal rocking the u.s. secret service. this time it involves one of the top agents protecting the president of the united states. bring us your baffling. bring us your audacious. we want your sticky notes, sketchbooks, and scribbles. let's pin 'em to the wall. kick 'em around. kick 'em around, see what happens. because we're in the how-do-i-get-this-startup- off-the-ground business. the taking-your-business- global-business. we're in the problem-solving business. 4

i have a question for you about the nuclear reviews that secretary hagel completed last year. one of the changes that reordered as you know is to elevate the global strike command from a three-star general to a four-star. the four-star general nominated has no strategic nuclear background. not making any comment on his qualification. i'm wondering what does this say about the shallow bench of general officers in the icbm field today and is it going to have the same impact that you had invented to elevate it to a four-star position. >> absolutely, yes. the strategic deterrent enterprise reviews we had in 2014 were important, important to me. because number one, it showed the importance of this particular area the importance of having a safe secure and effective strategic deterrence through that whole process. and quite frankly, it did everything from an internal external and bottom's up review. it is about leadership. and quite frankly i'm pretty proud of the leaders i have today and the leaders i'll have in the future associated with this part of our national security apparatu

he served as chief of staff to former defense secretary chuck hagel. he served in a number of positions working asia policy. this was his expertise. he had been so excited about going off and on his facebook page over the last several weeks after he arrived, some of the pictures heartwarming. he and his wife just had a baby. they have a newborn baby just several weeks old and he posted a lot of pictures of himself walking around seoul relatively alone with his rather large basset hound and many south korean children coming up to him and really likes to get out and about and i don't think you can emphasize the asia poets. is his expertise and very excited about being ambassador there. >> obviously whether or not he walk around. south korea was as well. >> reporter: the top u.s. military official in south korea briefed a short time ago about the incident. darrell right now in charge of running these u.s./south korean military drills. these are fairly routine exercises, but of course it has set off a lot of rhetoric in north korea which is claiming of cou

like hagel, there is some spirit over the last 100 years, striving china this way, okay.'s say you say that. i don't know how you prove it but how is that going to help you conduct a policy? it is like writing china off. that is what chinese nationalists say. there is something particularly chinese about the way they do things. this has been going on for 100 years or a thousand years and you can't fix it. david: we have to wrap but chinese are looking to 8% growth this year. do you come anywhere near it? >> not 8%. 7%. that is possible. asian economy, old asian tigers in the late '90s. they will revert to normal economic growth like a normal country. then the competition is over, because they match u.s. economic growth and the u.s. is fit to go. we got, the u.s. can bear higher interest rates. it will kill the renminbi. they are in a real struggle. they just lower lowered interest rates. 10% of the families control assets equal to currency reserves. if they move 1/3 of it the pressure on renminbi. david: last question always kills me. i think it will be short. thank you m

. >> chuck hagel -- >> and jack reed with him as his wing man on that trip. >> foreign policy -- peopleget foreign policy was a differentiator in '07. the economy didn't become the big issue until the collapse in '08. -- >> being for or against the war in iraq. >> pure and simple. >> let's talk about this letter john kerry's outrage was really genuine, this was not a political moment. he went before the committee where he served for 28 years and said i -- when i sat in the other side of the table, i had never done anything like this. you got this letter signed by 47 republicans and john mccain now acknowledging, it may have been a mistake. >> i think you're seeing a whole bunch -- not really almost wonder did they not realize what they were signing on or how big of a deal this was going to be or how much it was going to be promoted? it is -- look let's look at the political mistake of the letter. you're now these 47 republicans, so now you own diplomacy failure, you get to own a piece of that. that's not on you. if you wanted to make a bipartisan case against the deal well you've partis

now, carter has been on the job since last month after taking over for chuck hagel.dy gone overseas, including a visit to troops in afghanistan. >> well, we've learned that this cold winter has not put the freeze on hiring. in fact, job growth is now the strongest it's been in more than a decade. the labor department says the us economy added 295,000 new jobs in february. it is the 12th straight month that the economy has gained more than 200,000 jobs. the unemployment rate fell from 5.7% to 5.5 percent. hiring improved in the manufacturing construction, retail, finance and healthcare sectors. but we're also learning the companies aren't always hiring for the long-term. >> braving freezing temperatures, for chance to enter job market, that's heating up. >> i'm optimistic. i know companies are hiring. >> last month, employers added 295,000 jobs, more than a zero economists expected, but these new hires are not always permanent positions. something understands since being laid off in 2011, the web designer has only been able to secure a series of temporary jobs, workin

here is this character accusing chuck hagel of taking 200 k from the north koreans.minis influence because he went to harvard law. >> a guy that does not act down. will not compromise. stuart: checking on the establishment. chris matthews compared him to joe mccarthy. what is up with that? >> it only took him 30 seconds to do it. ted cruz threatens left-wingers because he does not compromise. because he does not play games. the correlation is phenomenal. this is exactly what they did to ronald reagan. stuart: that put down is a form of senior of him. >> they will try to take him out. you would agree if ted cruz is so conservative, you would agree that barack obama is the single most liberal candidate. how many times was he called a liberal in the entire campaign? welcome ted cruz. everybody called to everything but a not see. stuart: was there anyone that took his candidacy seriously and presented it seriously? >> i was impressed by political and what they did. a very sober serious analysis. i am not too offended by what matt lauer said on nbc's. that will be the nic

brendan: the hagel of looked at this and discovered -- behavioral economists looked at this and discoveredrs saved and invested their entire life. does that stick with the? guest: you have to. you have to absolutely allocate your money to a diversified basket of investment or there is no way that you will achieve any investment goal over the long term. tom: i talked to many state lawyers who told me it is a disaster waiting to happen whether it is a debate over perpetuity trust or a revocable trusts. it all seems to be changing. how can the old people, or for that made her -- matter, the young people trust when laws are broken each and every day? guest: what are you referring to, tom? tom: i think there are a lot of trust questions that older people are having one they want to hand pot to millenial's. not about rbc capital markets but legal people in relation to wealth managers. guest: i've not seen those issues. what we have seen his older people being overwhelmed by the complexity of trust law. what do you need to do to leave your assets in a tax efficient way to individuals? my role for

i have all letter here from the admiral and the general from secretary hagel saying your concerns how we're investing in missile defense and a growing challenges you see in terms of capacity to invest at the current rate with the fiscal of fire between are in. so that present acquisition base strategy is sustainable in the current environment for the deployment of assets to meet the contingency to millions. now with the opportunity to develop the approach with regional defense priorities that is a more sustainable and cost-effective with other non kinetic means of defense. that is your letter general so how we can get the best value for the taxpayers i've always argued it is all they want approach and as has indicated can-do expand? to make the basis is we cannot to save the rate of the planet at that missile defense capability. we're overstressing the force and we're not meeting the requirements so in our mind we have to come up with a new concept to use the integrated defense capability that allows us to deal with the growing threat. the threat is growing. we want to study to come u

the congressman clay and i met with secretary of defense chuck hagel about surplus of military equipmentrtment report and people resigning as a result and i think that at some point you declare victory and then move on to another area or another issue because there are still issues out there. i'm not sure that -- to continue on this particular issue is going to result in anything different. i respect the young people that are doing it and in fact i'm thrilled that the young people are becoming socially conscious, but you have to say, okay we've won out and when that happens, you move on to another issue. >> congressman, we wish you the best. and the reward money stands at $3000 and you hope to get that up to $10,000 and we wish you luck to get that up to $7,000 more. >>> and we return to florida, the downed uh-60 downed off the coast and moments ago the officials at camp lejeune identified the marines killed. the mar sock marines killed in the crash were captain shaw from basking ridge, new jersey master sergeant saunders of williamsberg virginia staff sergeant bay wall from michigan, st

secretary carter, you and i had a nice conversation and i think secretary hagel talking about budgets and reducing them by 20%, but it all comes down to -- knowing where we are. i talked about contracts and the effectiveness of our national guard and i even asked a question tell me about the reserve and the guard, why do we have duplication? there is so much going on, are we allowing you to do everything you need to do to run a cost-effective military for our country? people in west virginia are willing to spend taxes and invest taxes into this country but they want to make sure they are getting a pretty good hang for their buck. -- bang for their buck. so how do we help you? we need to have an audit. we've been talking about that. making sure we are able to get that to market to do what we are supposed to do and get it there as quick as possible. secretary if you wanted to start with that in general. secretary carter: i think your constituents are very logical. there saying i am willing to pay for defense but i want to make sure every dollar is spent well. we need to pair our request

i think secretary hagel was trying to look at the budgets, reduce them by 20%. it comes down to the auditing, knowing where we are. i've talked about contracting, the effectiveness of the national guard and wide we have duplication? there is so much going on, are we allowing you to do everything you need to do to run an efficient military for our country? the people in west virginia are willing to spend taxes to the defense of this country. they would like to make sure they are getting pretty good rank for their buck and not just throwing it away. how do we do this? had we help you? we've got to have an audit. i know the chairman has been concerned about that. developing our arsenal, if you will, making sure we are able to get that to market as quick as possible. anybody on the panel and secretary, if you wanted to start with that? secretary carter: i think your constituents are very logical. i'm willing to pay for defense but i want to make sure every dollar is spent well. we need to pair our request for the funds to defend the country with the assurance we are

i have a letter both from odierno and admiral gren ert sent to secretary hagel november last year. indicating your concerns with essentially how much we are investing in missile defense and the growing changes you see in terms of capacity to continue to invest in missile defense at the current rate considering the fiscal environment that we're in. the letter state ours present acquisition-based strategy is unsustainable in the current fiscal environment and faces forward in lieu of the options to meet contingency demands. now is the opportunity to develop a long-term approach that addresses homeland missile defense and regional missile defense priorities. a holistic approach that is more sustainable and cost effective, incorporating left launch and other non kinetic means of the defense. this is from your letter general odierno. can you expand on this letter because i believe it's important. and addressing the various threats that face us. and as indicated in your letter could you expand please. >> so the basis of the letter was that we cannot sustain the rate of deployment of the

i have a letter here, both from general odierno and admiral green, sent to sect hagel last year indicating your concerns with how much we are investing in missile defense and the growing challenges both that you see in terms of our capacity to continue to invest in missile difference at the current rate considering the fiscal environment that we're in. the letter states our present acquisition based strategy is unsustainable, in the current fiscal environment, and favors forward deployment of axis in lieu of deterrence based options. now is the opportunity to develop a long-term approach that addresses homeland missile defense and regional missile defense priorities, holistic approach that is more sustainable and cost effective, incorporating less launch and other nonkinetic means of defense. from your letter general odierno. can you expand on this letter? i believe it's very important as we look at how to get the best value for the taxpayers' money. i've always argued that missile defense is one approach to address thing various threats that face us and as indicated in your letter could y

i have a letter from the gem and admiral greenert sent to secretary hagel november of last year indicating your concerns about how much we are investing in missile defense and the growing challenges that you both see in terms of our capacity to continue to invest in missile defense at the current rate considering the fiscal environment that we're in. the letter states our present acquisition-based strategy is unsustainable in the current fiscal environment and favors forward basis of assets to meet contingency demands. now is the opportunity to develop a long-term approach for homeland missile defense and regional missile defense priorities, a holistic approach that is sustainable and cost effective and incorporating launch and that is from your letter generalo deer know. i've argued that missile approach is only one of the threats that face us and as indicated in your letter could you expand on that, please? >> yes. so the basis of the letter that we cannot sustain the rate of deployments of the current missile defense capability that we have. we simply are overstressing the force. we don

i think secretary hagel was trying to look at the budgets, reducing them by 20% and everything. basically it comes down to the oddity. knowing where we are. and i talked about contracting want i've talked about the effectiveness of the national guard. i've even asked the question, tell me the difference between the reserve and the guard. why do we have duplication? there's no much going on here. are we allow growing do everything you need to do to run a very effective and efficient cost-effective military for our country? people in west virginia are willing to spend their taxes and invest nair texasstheir tax to the defense of this country. but they like to make sure they're getting a bang for their buck too, not just throwing a lot of it away. how do we do this? how do we help you? we've got to have an audit. i know the chairman has been very much concerned about that developing our arsenal, if you will, making sure we're able to get that to market, do what we're supposed to do and get it there as quick as possible. anybody on the panel -- and secretary, if you want to chart wi

i think secretary hagel was trying to look at the budget, reducing it by 20% but by the basically it really comes down to the oddity. knowing where we are. and i talked about contracting, i've talked about the effectiveness of our national guard. i even asked the question committee of its between the reserve and guard. why do we have duplication? there's so much going on are we allowing you to do everything you need to do to run a very effective and efficient and cost effective military for our country? people in west virginia are willing to spend their taxes, invest their taxes to the defense of this country. they would like to make sure they're getting pretty good bang for the buck, too. and not just throwing a lot of it away. how do we do this? how do we help you? we've got to have an audit. we been talking about that, and i know that chairman has been concerned about that. developing our arsenal if you will, making sure we're able to give it to market, do what we're supposed to to do and get it as quick as possible. so anybody on the panel second to come if you want to start with

i think secretary hagel was trying to look at the budgets, reduce them by 20%. it comes down to the auditing, knowing where we are. i've talked about contracting, the effectiveness of the national guard and wide we have duplication? there is so much going on, are we allowing you to do everything you need to do to run an efficient military for our country? the people in west virginia are willing to spend taxes to the defense of this country. they would like to make sure they are getting pretty good rank for their buck and not just throwing it away. how do we do this? had we help you? we've got to have an audit. i know the chairman has been concerned about that. developing our arsenal, if you will, making sure we are able to get that to market as quick as possible. anybody on the panel and secretary, if you wanted to start with that? secretary carter: i think your constituents are very logical. i'm willing to pay for defense but i want to make sure every dollar is spent well. we need to pair our request for the funds to defend the country with the assurance we are

we've always said -- and i remember when the former secretary of defense senator hagel at the time, became the secretary of the department of defense, when asked about our policy toward iran, he stumbled a little bit in his answer but ultimately said that containment was not our policy. our policy was to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon. but it appears now that the deal that's being negotiated on the president's behalf by secretary kerry would abandon that long-standing u.s. policy of preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon. instead, it would opt for a feeble 10-year containment plan. such an outcome would be both dangerous and unacceptable. so while i was glad to hear leader mcconnell announce yesterday that the senate will soon consider bipartisan legislation that will give congress the authority to approve any agreement that's reached by the administration, that was quickly replaced by confusion when i read that some of my democratic colleagues who've shown great courage in urging that congress have a role in approving any negotiated agreement between tehran and the whit