it was carried live from john gens university in baltimore to an estimated audience of 60 million, the president sought to answer concerns of americans opposed to the escalation of the conflict as well as those who thought the united states was not doing enough to help south vietnam. titled "peace without conquest" he attempted to address why vietnam was worth the of sacrifice and laid out plans for economic development in vietnam. u.s. ella terry personnel went from about 23,000 in january of 1965 to over -- u.s. military personnel went from 23,000. >> this marks the second occasion on which johns hopkins has been privileged to welcome our chief executive of this campus. ladies and gentlemen, i present the president of the united states. [applause] president johnson: senator tidings, members of the congressional allegation, members of the faculty at john hopkins student body, my fellow americans, last week, 17 nations send their views to some two dozen countries having an interest in southeast asia. we are joining those 17 countries and stating our american policy tonight, which we be

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foreign minister fumio kishida and defense men minister gen nakatani met with john kerry and ash carter. they say the revisions are men to improve cooperation in the face of an increasingly complicated international security environment. the new guidelines say the two countries are securing their seamless and effective coordination under normal circumstances and in the event of contingencies. the guidelines call for bilateral cooperation if countries other than japan are attacked. this reflects japan's changed legislation over its right to collective self-defense. other areas of cooperation include international mine sweeping operations and response to ballistic missile launches. >> today we mark the establishment of japan's capacity to defend not just its own territory but also the united states and other partners as needed. this is an historic meeting and historic transition in the defense relationship between our countries. >> translator: we've reaffirmed that the senkaku islands are under japan's control and the u.s. government's commitment applies to the islands. the japan/u.s. sec

foreign minister fumio kishida and defense men minister gen nakatani met with john kerry and ash carterhe revisions are men to improve cooperation in the face of an increasingly complicated international security environment. the new guidelines say the two countries are securing their seamless andff

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john edwards and hud secretary, mike espy. >> prosecutors at the justice department often get it wrong. these charges are the latest mistakes. >> reporter: co-defendant, dr. solomon mel gen left without comment separately, saying the government may try to flip him. >> if that happens, the senator would be in very, very, very bad shape. >> reporter: the pressure for mel general to flip may be intense. one count describes how he treated patients with an injectable drug called luce seine 'tis against fda regulations, mel general would stretch the one vial per patient dosage to treat four patients, then bill medicare for four dosages. an audit found he had overbilled the government by almost $9 million. he denied it and went to menendez for help. menendez intervened at hhs, prompting a staff terror to write a deputy secretary "we have a bit of a situation with senator menendez. he wants to talk to someone today. i talked his office out of the secretary, but therefore, threw you under the bus." three years later and just days after melden wrote a $300,000 check to menendez's political action committee, hhs amended the overbilling complaint. menendez released on his own recogn

gen product. we've got to take a bit of a chill pill. people are more -- >> little sound bite. john> appreciate it. >>> coming up we asked you to tweet us the stories that you're buzzing about this morning. coming up next, the topics you want to hear about in our new segment keep squawking. ♪ >>> earlier we asked you to send us some stories that have you buzzing. now it's time for us to share some of them. the ones that you wanted us to talk about. rich tweeted us that bird flu is spreading and andrew's comment on squawk had me reading about the top turkey cities and states. and it's not clear. we know about minnesota, but there's a lot of claims. it points to a minnesota website on two towns claiming the title of turkey capital of the world. it's not scarsdale. you grew up in scarsdale. >> i did. >> washington, minnesota, hosts a king turkey day each fall. but the city of fuero texas also claims to be the nation's turkey capital and holds its own annual turkey festival. so there's a face-off called the great gobbler gallop pitting the birds against. this is not our fault. we just g