that is why for many parts of the military, secretary hegel chose to reduce capacity. forces.tity of in order to ensure those forces were properly trained and clearly superior in arms and equipment. i also know mckinsey and others have written about the need to pare back the overhead cost. the idea being that squeezing more savings out of that back office could obviate the need to shrink the military further. during last your skimmer, we took a hard look at the pentagon bureaucracy, office of the secretary of defense, joint staff, defense agencies, and feel that unity, and found that some reductions are necessary and some savings are possible. achieving savings in the military's proverbial tail take several years and produces significantly less in bankable savings that is commonly believed. the analysis shows that the od headquarters -- dod headquarters -- when all is said and done, and enterprise of the u.s. global reach requires a substantial administrative and support operation. these backend functions can certainly be done more efficiently with less duplication, fe

i spoke with secretary hegel. he also supports grandfathering. there is unanimous consent between motility -- military and civilian leadership that grandfathering has to be part of what we do going forward. >> when will the report come forward? >> february of 2015. >> senator graham. >> thanks for having this hearing. we have all recent consensus that we would like to undo what we consider to be an unfairness here. as far as timing, the sooner, the better. wicker widder -- senator thought no one would engage in sequestration, but here we are. the sooner we can go back to the status quo, the better. isould also like to say, it good to have a budget. you make mistakes in the budget process, but i am please with my colleagues. on, the wayis early the congress has responded to looking at this with an open mind, trying to fix it in a bipartisan way, i think this is a good thing. everybody makes mistakes. you really judge people by their is about the willingness to right wrongs, and we are on a good path. $6 million hopefully to set aside what we have

time in the future he does want to cut some wasteful and outdated weapons programs but as a whole hegel's budget proposal will keep the american military industrial complex alive and kicking in fact fat cat defense contractors couldn't be happier stock prices for northrop grumman and lockheed martin hit a fifty two week high yesterday after the pentagon's announcement because proposed by chuck hagel are a good start but we need to go even further. we need a military that is appropriate to the needs of our country not to the needs of defense contractors and the needs of members of congress who have defense plants in their districts we need to take most of the money we currently use to pay for wars and for weapons of war and spend it on that homeland that neo cons like dick cheney are always talking about consider this a recent study out of harvard university estimates by the time we're done paying for the last of the iraq and afghanistan war veterans and decades from now the final cost of bush's wars will be as high as six trillion dollars that's right six trillion dollars now what we coul

the pentagon tried to cut costs and today, pentagon chief chuck hegel will be talking about the country'sget. he is proposing to cut 70 to 80,000 active-duty members. coming up on the kron4 morning news, heavy rain is coming to the bay area. here's a look at the 34 cash rain on wednesday. give you a sneak peek of when the rain is going to roll land. erica has much more. >>erica: that's right the darya predicted is going to be gorgeous. it will sell like springtime throughout the bay. the rain is set to arrive by the middle of this week. stepping up the door though '30's and 40's. temperatures have a long way to go because we are talking about sixties and seventies into the after know. los gatos a high of 3680 are high in fremont. 72 expected an evergreen. temperatures naturally will be cooler along the coast line 30 60s expected there and 70 are high in napa. we do have a series of storms heading our way. it could see up to an ad for most a bus. not too long before storm number two approaches. in fact, we're talking when the conditions by friday. store no. 2 expected to be one of the stro

history, but i also taught about the continental traditions of the germans and the french -- kant, hegel, marx and so on -- and it was very interesting to see my victorians in contrast to the continental thinkers, the continental thinkers very often much more profound, more systematic, more ambitious as philosophers than the english but lacking in a kind of humane quality that i always found in the english. c-span: what was queen victoria like? >> guest: very upright, very proper, occasionally given to rather unusual bits of humor. she was capable of being rather witty on occasions, not very often but very occasionally. i don't want to exaggerate the influence of queen victoria, but nevertheless there is a very real sense in which she was a symbol of the age. she represented that kind of domestic virtues that the english regarded so highly, that the victorians regarded so highly, and she epitomized that and people at the time were very much aware of that. disraeli, for example, would comment upon that often. c-span: and who was he? >> guest: disraeli was a great, i think one of the great

>> that was the reason for appointing chuck hegel to do it.ppoint a republican to do it, give barack obama a little cover. he is basically from a policy perspective forcing a peace agreement. we got one after the cold war but the world was getting safer. now president obama shrinking down our military, about to go on a tour of europe, a number of trips planned, i was talking to ed henry and wonder what he will say? probably i am apologizing again but the issue is our government, the number one priority is national defence will is the welfare state should be left to the cities and states and localities. under barack obama is complete reversal. stuart: that is right. we have entitlement programs that are running away with the budget. our finances are squeezed so the president has the choice. where do you cut? where do you reform to give his answer is we cut the military. is the country ready for that? would the country if given a choice make that call? less welfare, more military? >> a great question and i will tell you why. free stuff is very s

. >> host: they told me there would be no hegel. [laughter] >> it translates to america much more easily. what we americans take for granted in assume is that it was the beginning of something brand new with the extension of a certain kind of anglo-american way of life where it is quite different in developed differently and burke with his speeches with their much more threats but the basic idea of deviations of it is it the english stadia. that his position and that burke articulates does not translate simply but plays the part. >> host: from the book book, correct me if i am wrong, as scientists today your dissertation was a slightly different title. i am not trying to imply but it is your fifth book? >> guest: forth. >> host: slacker. but it was in the dead of the past? >> the great love change with burke thomas paine and the meeting of past. >> host: so that looms very large and you touched on that a a little bit but can you talk a little bit? >> guest: that is where it ends as it goes through dramatic the interpretations questi

as we speak defense secretary hegel is unveiling a budget proposals that will shrink the army to its smallest size since before world war ii, eliminate the a can attack aircraft and cut several other programs. what do you think about secretary hazel's budget proposal? >> we have a meeting this morning and he went over those things. i am surprised and and you are here. i thought you would be over rivera listening to his speech. i have been talking about these cuts for several years now. there is no secret if you cut $1 trillion out of defense you will start cutting manpower, you will cut programs, these things are important. in the last few years we changed our strategy that stood as well since world war ii that we should be able to be equipped, ready to go, two major contingencies at a time. we have cut that back to fight one and hold one. maybe people have kind of not heard that speech the president gave where we cut our strategy back, then we switched another speech he gave to a pacific pivot to the pacific. .. but it can't be done. if we cut the whole military budget, if we cut th

is always hegel. i think it translates to america much more easily because in a funny way one of the things that we americans are the left and the right take for granted, some of the thinking about it too much is that the american revolution was the beginning of something brand-new. the american revolution was the stench and of a certain kind of anglo-american english way of life in thinking. it's quite different and it developed differently for a very long time in american life. burke in his speeches on american notes a couple of differences. the americans are much more alert to threats to their liberty, much more suspicious of government than the british were. but the basic idea of the relation to the individual, to the committee, it's rights is an english idea. the disposition toward society that burke articulates is useful to america. it's not simply translatable but i think it plays a part in what we think of as conservatism house of representatives so one last bit from an actual book. as i under