we're out of time thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on the matter lawrence korb from the public policy think tank in washington thank you for a politician hit the village has been acquitted of the charges of inciting hate and discrimination he faced five separate counts for his controversial speech he gave attacking is them and comparing it to naziism but the cool rules his comments fell within the boundaries of legitimate political debate member of the european parliament philip klein says told me earlier him a nazi that the verdict in the this trial is a victory for the freedom of expression. this is very important not just for here to do this but for freedom of speech in itself i think you cannot have a working democracy a functioning democracy if you don't have freedom of speech and certainly as a member of parliament of illness and everyone else should have the right to speak freely and openly on problems like mass immigration is a miser and multiculturalism you know we've always been told that multiculturalism and was going to be great and was going to solve a l

that i don't know he killed us all of a lot about a month ago during a dive in that's not big at lawrence korb senior fellow at the center for american progress. we are in the persian. gulf and. we have the of the earth safe get ready because the freedom. hi guys welcome michel ancel on the obama show we've heard our guests have to sound the topics now i want to hear from our audience so just go on to you seem to video respond to our twitter profile of the questions that we've host on you tube every monday and on thursday the show long responses we will be. for. a. few minutes. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture . the global war on drugs has failed with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world that's the conclusion of a new report released today from the global commission on drug policy and it's not like we haven't heard the same co

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to the plate and i can think of no better experts on defense spending than our two next guests lawrence korb is a senior fellow at the center for american progress and a senior advisor for the center of defense information and dr james carafano is a senior defense analyst with the heritage foundation gentlemen thank you so much for even trying to speak for me through with you dr karp on i'd like to start with you you know the cold war is over world war two is over the world's military situation has changed we have one of the most powerful military in the world and we spend quite a bit to ensure that it stays that way what's wrong with cutting the military budget in this time. well you said there's there wars going on the united states is the world's largest economy it's got global responsibilities not so sure why defense brings a problem and store glee the level of defense spending and its percentage economy so actually near historic post world war two los i'm not sure it's inappropriate certainly not because of our fiscal problems so we can take defense spending the cost but we may have con

say the plan is risky and are advising them much smaller reduction lawrence korb from the center for american progress think tank says the pullout should go ahead as planned because afghan insurgents don't threaten u.s. national security. the military always is against any type of withdrawal and they want to slow it down as much as they can president obama has all the things then just you know the advice of the military has got an economic situation needs to keep the support of the american people even our military commanders say there's no military solution you're going to have to negotiate with the taliban and i think this withdrawal more significant than our generals want sends a signal to the taliban that we're not occupiers that you know we're not going to stay there forever and it's a good time to talk to them because this is you know when you have the maximum amount of troops and by the end of this year worlds you know be down to only ninety thousand bergolla has to prevent afghanistan from being used as a launching pad for attacks on the united states and its allies and from

friending and does that mean that counter insurgency as a strategy is yet to discuss this with me as lawrence korb senior fellow at the center for american progress points thanks so much for being here going to be here before we get into some of these personalities who's going to be taken over let's talk about something that happened in kabul today there was a terrorist attack over the moment the numbers are very sketchy we don't know if there were two people or six militants that enter and started shooting we know there was a blast that went off at the intercontinental hotel now this is a place where mostly foreigners visit or reside this is a place where reportedly there may have been a meeting between afghan and western officials today so what does that tell you i mean is that really bad news that they got into kabul they went specifically to the internet continental well it tells you two things number one that the insurgents the taliban whatever you want to call them have switched their tactics because it's very hard for to undo against a nato force yourself over the last year particularly if

actually right here in the skies this need for its fine chairman of the american freedom agenda and lawrence korb senior fellow at the center for american progress gentlemen thank you both for being on the show tonight now larry i'm going to start with you because bruce you've been on the program before already nowhere in your head i know that prepares a sixty day window you think is this is beyond illegal from the get go a lot of i want to know what this think of the obama administration the explanation here that this isn't really that much of a war is that legit well i think they're talking about the original intent of the war powers act of what they went remember this was passed to vietnam where we had five hundred forty thousand people on the ground and basically they did make the point i would also make the point the u.n. approved a nato approved and if you remember if we're going we're joining there you go senator robert chaffed mr republican from ohio did not want us to join a date of course he felt that that would take away congruences the war powers role because under article five this i

lawrence korb is a former assistant secretary of defense. >> i think he's gotten credit for a lot more things then he really deserves. and he's going to leave his successor leon panetta with a lot of problems that have not been solved. first of all, it's going to be the budget, secretary gates did not cut the defense budget and he gives him a very difficult situation in afghanistan that is more difficult than it should have been if gates in his first years in office had sent the troops that were needed there to stabilize that particular situation. >> reporter: gates leaves office june 30, and today joined by departing joint chiefs chairman mike mullen gates held his final pentagon news conference. during a low-key and business- like appearance, the secretary was asked the same question about afghanistan that he answered with a blunt "no" about iraq four-and-a-half years ago: is the u.s. winning? >> i have learned a few things in four and a half years, and one of them is to try and stay away from loaded words li "winning" and "losing." what i will say is that i believe we are being succ