forces in afghanistan, general john al general, joined by acting defense undersecretary james miller. this week before the house armed services committee hereby said he plans to analyze security conditions in afghanistan after the last of the surge forces leave this fall before making any recommendations on further troop reductions. he is before the senate armed services committee this morning. we'll have live coverage of his testimony when it begins in about 15 minutes from now. until then, here's some of what the commander had to say this week during that house hearing. >> thank you, chairman. it is an honor to be with you here today. chairman, ranking members, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discussion our operations in afghanistan. it's a pleasure to be here with my friend dr. miller, the acting undersecretary of defense for policy and, chairman, i ask my verbal remarks bein terd into the record. >> without objection. so ordered. >> thank you, sir. let me begin by expressing my gratitude for all of you on committe

we have team coverage, lisa amin gulezian is live in pacifica, first we begin with john al stop -- alstonive in santa cruz. >> reporter: now we're waiting for a high surf advisory. a wet and tresh rouse days in the santa cruz mountains. car wrecks, trees down, and power out for several hours. highway 17 in the mountains is living up to its reputation as a trouble spot. before noon this minivan flipped on its side. the chp says slick roads and speed appear to be factors. the driver was not

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al -- i am thinking of qfc. >> i like qfc. >> nice and short and everybody likes fried chicken. >> obama no longa. >> long john-qaeda. appleby al-qaeda. >> qaeda hut. >> i hate you. i just did two awful ones. >> qaeda king. >> now are you piling on. >> greg, you mentioned bin laden's e mails show he was a fan of "red eye." in fact, i talked to a couple of intel sources, and they told me when gadan wrote to bin laden that fox news should die in anger bin laden responded that he agreed or quote, except for that show that comes on late at night with the tiny jew host and the midtime jew in the other room who is sometimes also hosting, and the sidekick of repullion. truly they are making me have the giggles and i love the videos with the kitties. and is bill gay? i can't decide. anyway, death to america. >> i think he was tweeting me. >> that sounds like somebody who really watches the show. >> clearly a big fan. >> i am shocked such intelligence could be leaked. >> i have sources, congressman. also interesting, his actual job title was senior fellow. >> oh, interesting. >> he had his czars, didn't he? >> brooklyn restaur

heavily armed police in a standoff with the suspect, claiming links to al qaeda. johnn joins us. this has the feel of a lone wolf. but ties to al qaeda's bad. >> there are a lot of reports that he trained with taliban in al qaeda across the border, inside pakistan. the killings that he has undertaken, obviously, number 1, directed against this jewish school. but the free french soldiers he killed, all american muslims, all apparently north african in dissent, i suppose that means algerian, so a very clear signal to muslims in france that you integrate into french society and become part of the society, at your peril. >> greta: also, it shows the danger of one person in al qaeda. you don't have to be part of a group of 19 people doing harm. you can do it as one. >> that as a mode of terrorism is a lot safer for al qaeda, send them out one by one. you can't trace them back. very effective technique. it has gotten france's attention? >> the oil sanctions. the united states announcing there will be exemptions to those who will be punished for getting oil from iran. >> anot

greg johnson, gayle meadows, al williams, karen johnson, john williams templeton. you have two minutes each for this part of the comments. >> first, i'd like to say thanks for the opportunity. by the way, my former live i was sciu. my name is greg johnson. i'm co-owner of larkis group which is the oldest bookstore in the nation. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. i saw the statistics that the secretary of the district released regarding the san francisco unified school district. 50% of out of school suspensions and 42% of in-school suspensions while we make up 11.9% of the entire population in the school district. yet only 4.3% of the students taking the s.a.t. are black. we wonder why more teachers in schools do not use our 50 years of experience and expertise and materials. we need to re-examine how the district is using resources to provide the instruction of our black youth today. so having said that, as a co-owner of marcus bookstore, we offer our services. we offer our expertise. by the way, i'm a product of san francisco unified school district. [cheers and

running for reelection lost that year's election jerry ford jimmy carter george herbert bush al gore and john mccain each one's party had the white house when oil prices spiked as we went into the november election and each one watched in large part because of it a war when a war in iran now would make it a sixth time. normally a u.s. president gets political benefit from going to war especially before an election that george w. bush told his biographer mickey herskowitz back in one thousand nine hundred nine that if he was elected in two thousand he was going to start a war with iraq to get an up is freeze political capital to privatized social security and off the wall street and have a successful presidency but in this case a war with iran would be a catastrophe and a president obama gives in to the right wingers who are using our national security as an excuse to get into a war that will bring about another great depression in this country and he will have made one of the all time dumbest and most destructive blunders in american history we can't afford or ran and political propagandist l

john mccain, john kerry, al gore, bob dole. romney's negative rating is lower than theirs were at this time on the cusp of becoming their nominee. he's digging out of a bigger hole than even other candidates were at this point in time. primarily it's with independent voters. he has almost a two to one negative vote among independents. >> in the state of ohio, the big prize on tuesday. it's a great area for rick santorum you would think with the blue collar voters, ev evangelicals bordering his home state of pennsylvania. >> right. >> how big of a deal is it if he doesn't win ohio? >> it ends any path he would have to potentially becoming the nominee. it would end his candidacy. maybe he stays in the race but any idea he has of becoming the nominee would be over. that's good news for mitt romney. you don't have to win ohio to get to the nomination. rick santorum does have to win. another state i would be watching is tennessee where mitt romney was last night. he pulls an upset in tennessee. he combines ohio and tennessee. you wo

there was also -- of course, this was the age of john dillinger, the age of pretty boy floyd. as a matter of fact, a lot o al three of those, bonnie and clyde, john dillinger, and pretty boy floyd all lawnforcem year, in 1934. so people were really engaged in that story. probably simultaneously horrified but fascinated by these criminals in the great depression. in early 1934, they were implicated in a prison escape involving a former associate of clyde barrow's in texas, a man named raymond hamilton. they helped him escape from prison. and in the process of that, shot and killed a prison guard. so that's when really the net of law enforcement began to close around them, was after the murder of the prison guard early in 1934. so it was april of 1934 that collide barrow, we know, was in and around shreveport. as a matter of fact, there was a car that was stolen in shreveport from clyde barrow, he stole a car, and actually abandoned it in kansas. and his fingerprints proved that of course he had been in this area even before he was spotted here. we knew that they were in and about the vicinity. just a few days

. >>> al agente de policía john vásquez le faltaban menos de 2 años pa retirarse pero las balas asesinasemilia se pregunta, por qué le tenían que disparar a quemarropa, vásquez custodiaba un banco. >>> por qué lo matar a él, le disparaon de frente >>> la infernal balacera dejó heridas a 5 persona y pudieron ser más, porque los hampones dispararon sin advertencia. >>> dispararon como con una metralleta. >>> pos mnutos laolicía capturó una banda con armas de güerra. >>> se ha capturado a 7 delincuentes, 5 con una pistla ametralladora, y un vehículo. >>> la banda se llevó más de 10 mil dólas y demoró poco más de 1 minuto con 40 segundos. >>> las autoridades tuvieron que reportar otros operativos de seguridad. >>> gracias, andy,a violencia también reinó en una estación de metro en colombia donde los hinchas fueron atacas por bastonazos y bombas lacrimógenas a los fanáticos, hubo varios arrestados. >>> la violencia también llegó a santiago de chile, cuando una vez más los estudiantes salieron a exigir refomas de la educació la policía respondió con gases lacrimógenos. >>> un grupo de estudiant

al assad. lester, back to you. >>> john demjanjuk died today. he was the retired u.s. autoworker convicted in germany last year of being a guard at a nazi death camp. an accessory to the murder of 28,000 people. ten years ago, demjanjuk was stripped of the u.s. citizenship, but he denied he was the guard known as ivan the terrible. the german court sentenced him to five years in prison. he was appealing his conviction and died in a nursing home in germany. demjanjuk was 91. >>> all this warm weather we have been having in much of the country made for a near perfect st. patrick's day. this was the scene in new york city as that city and others went green. it was new york's 251st st. patrick's day parade. hundreds of thousands of people came out to celebrate along fifth avenue. >>> in balmy chicago another tradition was upheld as the river was dyed green. >>> at an irish pub in washington, president obama got into the spirit as he enjoyed a glass of guinness. >>> and in ireland, more than half a million people turned out for that city's parade. one of dozens held in that

john, west central michigan is our destination... >>> al is back with tractor tales. where are we headed this week? >> west central michigan as our stock this week. this one is one for our collector and he's particular about this make and model. >> the first tractor right here behind me is the 1949 n. i've only had it a few years. when i bought the tractor there was little to no paint on this particular tractor which is true with most of them. i went through everything mechanically that needed done and gave it up fresh coat of paint. i think this was the property of one owner and upon his passing was put up for sale at auction. i use all of them for blowing purposes. you have to keep them running. they had half of the old v-8. they had the wheels all the way around and that was hard to come by with chloride in the tires, the rest are pretty bad. but everything is original on these. we try to get them out where they can be seen and draw attention. everyone has the memory of something similar. >> next week find out how new technology is connecting with old iron. >> i ha

mine in the civil rights movement and elected officials and others have spent a week in alabama john lewis, al sharpton. many. celebrating that great great effort to expand democracy through the voting rights act while at the same time you've got states across the nation who are enacting new laws to make it more difficult to vote. i ask the question and i ask the question why now. host: we're taking your calls. our first call for you comes from new jersey. democrats. you're on the "washington journal." caller: i keep hearing a lot about voter suppression issue in fact my grandfather went out to try to vote. he actually fought in world war ii and was unable to do so. my question though is what are we doing? where is our thurgood marshals? what are we doing in the legal system to try to address this? is it time to call out holder? what is the body politic that is responsible for ensuring that these kinds of things don't happen? it's one thing to talk about it but what are we doing as a country to make sure that this does not continue? we've got to stop this before the 2012 election. host: mark.

arias a veteran of democratic politics i harry reid al gore and john kerry. he has also worked extensively with an organization such as aclu and planned parenthood and he currently teaches at gw grab at school of political management. now they have turned their attention to "fox news" and more specifically the man who runs it, roger ailes. from his roots as a non-news television producer to a a nixon meteor adviser who according to one colleague operated at two. >> , tack and destroy, this tour chip of a network who has been accused of forgoing journalistic standards to become an unapologetic mouthpiece and political arm of the republican party of the republican right, ailes is the protagonist of the story. his unrivaled authority at "fox news" and the free reign that news corp. chairman rupert murdoch grants him as well as the network's reliance on the inflammatory language and unsubstantiated information among the subjects that david and ari explore in his well researched and extensively footnoted both. before he and, and in case you were wondering, going a

. - el fin de semana se estrena desde una batalla épica por salvar al mundo hasta un hombre que se queda sin palabras. en johnelícula este es una gente muy astuto y fluido de palabras, una de sus víctimas es un doctor, lo que no saben es que este doctor le dará una cucharada de su propia medicina ya que o mágico árbol aparece en el patio de su casa y con cada palabra que ya dice una hoja de este árbol cae al piso y en el momento en que el árbol se quede sin hojas ya morirá. desde el 15 al 18 marz usted tiene la oportunidad para escribirse ahora la ciudad y ganarse uno de los paquetes de viaje de entrada. - compartimos con ustedes que nuestra estación romántica 900 cumple un año al aire el próximo miércoles 14 marzo. por este motivo regalamos pasajes a fort lauderdale, para ganar tiene que escuchar la palabra del día en la radio y registrarse en holaciudad.com esto es todo por hoy en entre estrellas, más adelante nos vemos en el pronóstico del tiempo. >> sulema: llegó el turno de los deportes vamos con jimmy corrales. >> jimmy: buenas noches y bienvenidos al viernes deportivo. arrancamos en el área metropolita

al que parecen a tocar fondo. estancias buenas noches, el alcalde de john lee un plazo de 24 horas para qué renunciar a su cargo, jefencisco, esto ocurre la del reunión privada que se llevó a cabo ayer, ambos funcionarios por la tarde hoy precisamente este caso tomó un giro inesperado para muchos de sí sucedieron los hechos. que te prevé soy aún ser capaces el alguacil de san francisco. nunca electrómetro de copas de denunciar. así dejó claro sobre sus intenciones de no dejar el puesto de jefe de alguacil de san francisco a pesar del ultimátum que el alcalde para que renunciara. nerviosa que sin poderla de sus notas aclaró que no cree que la conducta de la cual cruz fisible pues perturbar que la ley. momentos después que se escuche sino que se declaró culpable por defensa ilegal. y que después de haber revisado los códigos de la ciudad y haber conducido su propio cese de la violencia y de haber consultado con expertos jurídicos consolidaciones suspender oficialmente por mal comportamiento, y nombró como jefa interina a vicky quien dijo de forma corta y escueta que sarajevo nombramiento y que servirá la sede de san fr

john yang in kansas. another of the nine states hit overnight. al roker is part of our team on the road covering this story tonight. he's also in harrisburg. al, i mentioned at the top, this is a real component here. you go to bed at 11:00 in late february in this part of the world, among the things you're thinking of, tornados isn't one of them. >> reporter: that's absolutely right, brian. this thing happened 4:52 central time in the morning. we are standing in front of what was a mini mall that just went up two years ago. as you see, it has been flattened. since 1950, there have been 15 leap year days, this is the worst one since 1952. the danger is not over yet. we have a potent brew going on right now, as a cold front makes its way to the east. we have currently tornado watches in effect until 10:00 a.m. eastern time, stretching from northern mississippi all the way up to just south of cleveland, and as far east as roanoke, virginia. we are not out of the woods yet for this area. we've got a very, very rough area coming in. warm air coming up fr

voodoo economics but ended up coalescing and becoming a ticket and we know that john edwards and al goreecame a ticket, excuse me. >> look at the ads and the percentage. i believe the negative ads this time around from the super pac, 7 e -- 75% are negative. >> the ads were still very, very vicious four years ago and yet, there was still plenty of time for the nominee to heal the party and, of course, we know barack obama. >> this is what i'm talking about, we disagree. let me know what you think about it. now the rest of the headlines and start with a fox news alert. iran agreeing to allow u.n. nuclear inspectors into one of its top secret military facilities. this is big news this morning and it's according to a statement released by the country's permanent envoy to the international atomic energy agency. iran granting one time access to its military base where it's believed to be conducting explosives tests in an attempt to develop the atomic bomb. last month, iran refused to allow those inspectors into that base. could it be because of this guy? iran's announcement comes hours after

>>reporter: al gore tried it, and john edwards tried it and john kerry tried it but they did not becomeresident. this is going to be the obama and biden campaign platform. a while back a blogger wrote, left wing, the naive republicans think the election will be about jobs when it is going to be about taxes. and taxes for them mean tax the rich and class warfare and you will see that stress increasingly. you saw it from vice president biden in toledo and you will see it day after day after day from the obama campaign. >>neil: is it your sense going forward there is a risk with that strategy. say wall street continues doing well with a strong day today we, only of all the fat cats, and company earnings are doing well, maybe having in to do with the president but he could say this is happening under my watch, so, the very privileged folks, he and the vice president are fond of bashing could put him right back not oval office. >>reporter: well, it depends how well republicans score with their arguments. so far to the degree the scores with voters, romney has been doing well with talks about

i really do agree with al and john that it would make the fmoc less accountable and subject to concerns about decisions being made by a majority. i would really suggest not going in this direction. if the desire is to shift the balance of power away from washington and new york, to where the other representatives, one way this could be done -- i am not drawing this out as something other than thinking through an issue -- would to be changing the voting position. they get to vote it under rules that were devised in 1942. these roles are anomalous. they provide the new york fed to vote every other year. it is not clear why those rules are still relevant rules in the modern economy that we have today. and it's a killer, if one wants to make sure there is broad representation of the american electorate's, it is not at all clear why a district like stan's francisco that has 20's are of the u.s. population -- 20 % of the population has less. there are anomalies that can be worked with. one possibility could be to include new york as a voting group so does not votes every meeting and to try to

john? >> speaker also said sorry, no al green, mr.he went on, he kept going and going, they were having a little bit of fun. >> the irish music not his comfort zone. that's okay. kate see you in a little bit. >>> coming up new exit poll information from illinois. gloria borger joins me to run the numbers. >>> plus the developments into the investigation of shooting of trayvon martin. i'll speak with the florida congresswoman who represents his district. >> no one has been arrested. it means he still has a permit and still have a gone. gun. to keep big winter jobs on track, at&t provided a mobile solution that lets everyone from field workers to accounting, initiate, bill, and track work in real time. you can't live under a dome in minnesota, that's why there's guys like me. [ male announcer ] it's a network of possibilities -- helping you do what you do... even better. ♪ ♪ home was an airport lounge and an ipad ♪ ♪ made sure his credit score did not go bad ♪ ♪ with a free-credit-score-dot-com ♪ ♪ app that he had ♪ downloaded it in the

john edwards was a client. edwards' lawyers say he denies the allegation. >>> bashar al assad's wife may be cut off from shopping after she spent lavishly for clothing and furniture as an attempt to increase pressure on his government to stop the crackdown on opposition protesters. >>> the state of mississippi executed william jerry mitchell by lethal injection for the brutal murder of a convenience store clerk in 1995. the third execution in mississippi, the 11th in the nation. >>> calling it an invasion of privacy, richard blumenthal is writing a bill stopping employers from asking for passwords. >>> a flight in arizona as the 800-pound, 45-foot-long-craft was carried to over 2700 feet in the air by a helicopter. it was released and flew on its own for about six seconds at a speed of 98 miles per hour. wow. >>> and now here's a look at wall street. the dow opens at 13,046 after losing 78 points yesterday. the s&p fell ten, the nasdaq lost 12. the nikkei dropped 115 points while in hong kong the hang seng sank 232. >>> a toll on markets here at home yesterday but there may be a silver lining. at least some temp

within the same coverage with john kerry and al gore. we have argued about this. can he overcome this? it is much more intense and it seemed much more solidified that he is weird and is -- does not connect with voters. he suffers from some of the same problems for some of the same reasons. >> also both those candidates came close but none of them actually won the popular vote. both those cabinets, -- candidates lost control of their public image. there were seen by voters in ways that would not be recognizable. if you look -- lose control of your public image, things that you think our strengths get played as witnesses. we have seen that with romney. probably what he is most proud of in his professional life is his business success. he thought that would be a big attributes. it is a subject of mockery. he cannot seem to get over it. he mentioned the other day that he knows professional football owners. you think he would have learned that lesson. you do get the sense that the criticisms are in his head. remember to not be rich. remember to be authentic. the more y

john mccain ahead. >>> another keeping them honest. bashar al assad not only has the power to stop the slaughter he's already promised to stop on more than one occasion and just recently as yesterday and no surprise he's not stopping. the killing and lies have gone on too long. >> again, i've asked the question, how many have to die, how many have to die before the united states will take a leadership role in trying to end the mass slaughter taking place in syria. the people of syria need to know that we in america are on their side. it matters to them. it matters to them to know that we are on their side and we are willing to assist him. >> to help speed the flow of weapons to opposition forces, today like every day, it was deadly dangerous to be a civilian in syria. reports show a sniper attack on protesters. the marchers got to the intersection and gunmen on the roof turned it into sniper. we don't know who are dead or wounded. at least 26 people were killed today all across syria. reports of 9,000 since the uprising began a year ago. shellin

john allen. the united states vital objectives in afghanistan remain to deny safe haven to al qaeda and to deny the taliban the ability to overthrow the afghan government. this administration is committed to meeting these core objectives and while we have faced and will face serious challenges, our strategy is succeeding. our counterterrorism efforts against al qaeda have been extremely successful. although the job is not finished there is no doubt that we have severely degraded al qaeda's capacity. as a result of the surge launched in 2009, we have broken and reversed the taliban's momentum. and the afghan national security forces are increasingly capable and increasingly in the lead. mr. chairman, our forces are performing extremely well as i saw first-hand in a trip to afghanistan that i took two weeks ago. we are well into a process of transition to ansf leadership as we agreed at the 2010 summit. in fact, today almost 50% of afghans live in areas that have begun the transition process to ansf lead. as you noted as an interim milestone at some point in 2013 the ansf will be in the lead for prov

after taking the troops into custody, al-qaeda militants paraded them through the streets of a small yemeni town. >>> arizona senator john mccain this morning is calling for the united states to lead an international effort to begin air strikes on syria. in syria the rebels there say they have not received any help or weapons from any country, not even their arab neighbors. saudi arabia in particular has advocated arming the rebels but there are concerns among some arab countries about the weapons falling into the wrong hands, such as elements of al- qaeda. >>> pg&e is working to are repair a gas leak in contra costa county. it happened at clayton road in concord. a resident reported anoder of natural gas this morning. some parents were concerned because there is a day care center in that neighborhood. pg&e discovered an underground gas leak. crews are working to repair it. >>> a grocery store in san mateo was forced to toss out thousands of pounds of food products this morning. the refrigeration system at the smart and final on south norfolk street stopped working. shoppers were greeted with a sign on the front door inf

ambassador john bolton was talking about al-qaeda. they may have struck again in yemen, killing an american when two american on motorcycles gunned down a teacher working at a language school. >> up next, in the battle for the g.o.p. nomination, the state of illinois. mitt romney cutting short a campaign stop in puerto rico to spend more time in the prairie state. romney feeling the pressure after losing mississippi and alabama to rival rick santorum. the latest real clear politics average shows romney leading in illinois with 37.7%. that's more than a six-point lead over santorum. here now to discuss what is at stake in illinois is washington times columnist charlie hoessele hurd. thanks for joining us. >> he cut it short, heading to illinois. is this a sign he's concerned. >> yeah, he's been concerned for weeks now. i think that's also a sign of a very organized campaign. he's run a very organized campaign. he's obviously had problems sort of putting it away the way i think he would like to, but he doesn't -- he's not taking anythin

al-assad. senator john mccain has been leading the charge. >> what doesn't make sense is to take unilateral action secretary of defense before i recommend that we put our sons and daughters in uniform in harm's way i've got to make very sure that we know what the mission is. i've got to make very sure that we know whether we can achieve that mission, at what price, and whether or not it will make matters better or worse. jenna: that was defense secretary leon panetta in response to senator john mccain asking how many more have to die, 10,000 more? 20,000 more? secretary panetta warned against the u.s. taking unilateral action. he said there are no simple answers, but left open the possibility of u.s. military action. senator mccain tried to shame secretary panetta into acting by making comparisons to bosnia when secretary panetta served in the clinton administration and decided act. the chairman of the joint chiefs general martin tkepl pea warned about how serious terrain is more complicated than that of libya. >> they have approximately 5 times more air -- more sophisticated air defense systems t