i think leighton is right it is really much more representative of the absolute core of van gogh which sorrowful but always rejoicing. his favorite passage from the bible in which hive is a combination of sorrow, but out c of that sorrow comes great joy, i thinksc leighton's description of this painting is right on. >> and people talk about how he used to flee to the country, he found consolation in the country but also found loneliness in the country so he did have this ver conflicted attitude about the country. whenever he moved to the countri he lodged for the companionshipd of the city, and then when he moved no the city, and he couldn't find any friends think lodged, he lodged for the consolation of the country side so constantly bouncing back andt forth between the two so this captures both the loneliness, sort of that infinite horizon, o and the fact that there is nomu one there. >> rose: thank you very much. it is great to see both of you. congratulations. >> thank you. thank you so much. t >> funding for charlie rose has been provided by the coca-cola company, supporting this

host: we are joined by cedric leighton. secretary of defense until details on cutting the pentagon's budget. it sounds like a lot, but secretary leon panetta is starting the effort with $525 billion, a proposal veterans about 1% off of last year. put this in context. guest: 1% does not sound like a lot to a lot of people, but when you look at how resources are actually spend, they are over a bunch of different areas. basically, this leon panetta's budget is looking at a very different military, and they're trying to write such as the military for a new strategy. what we are dealing with is the -- right size the military for a new strategy. host: joined by colonel cedric leighton, u.s. air force retired. we will to phones a little different. if you are on the democratic line, -- since this segment if you are active or retired military, 202 -628-0184. before we die into the details, put into context historically where we were ranked -- rank. guest: in recent memory, it compares to the so-called peace dividend we thought we wo

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colonel leighton, thank you so much for getting up nice and early and joining us this morning.re. thanks for having me. >> any time. >> it is eight minutes past the hour. so the markets rose earlier loss tows close mixed by the end of business day yesterday. the dow was up 21 points while nasdaq and s&p 500 both closed flat. >> but that was yesterday. today is brand-new day. >> christine romans is in. if people didn't make money with those up and down arrows you have a story that may get to them. book about the richest people around. >> oh, yeah. this is interesting. that rich store write is soap interesting that -- the united states would account for more than half of all of the top 1% of the world. isn't that interesting? good does that mean we will have morocco pie wall streeters all over the world? >> everybody was leading with that. the jobs are going to be big. jobless claims and also adp private payroll report later on this morning. just a couple of hours. we are expect thing to show the jobs market is healing. i want you to really be focusing on jobs and how that's goin

we must like in the cost of labor so that france remains -- leighton -- lighten the cost of labor sorance remains a land of production. [applause] i want to tell you how absurd it would be to bet on services and not bet on industry. the industry is the fofront. if your indtry disappears, the services are going to follow suit. france must remain a land of production. how can france remained a land of production if the cost of labor is higher in france then it is next door in germany? of course, the question is not to bring our social model dn, it is the others who will increase their social model. our entire social model, our entire production system, is based on taxing labor. if we do not produce that, the cost of labor will make us run a huge risk, outsourcing will go on. in 15 years, france has lost half a million industrial jobs. fellow citizens, this is a reality. we must think about that. if we keep that way we will not have a single factory. the day we have no more factories, we will have no service either. the priority is to reduce the cost of labor. we cannot create deficit w

and retired colonel cederic leighton on how they might impact counter-terrorism. journal" on c-span. [applause] >> newt gingrich and mitt romney spoke at the hispanic leadership network, a group focused on engaging the hispanic community a conservative policy issues. jeb bush is a co-chair. the primary is next tuesday. we begin with former speaker gingrich. this is 25 minutes. >> thank you very much. we had a more modest group downstairs. i thought there would come up to see if the rest of you decide you would like to join us. we had folks from louisiana, texas, a number of other places for may council. i am thrilled. we have developed here in miami nine years ago. we have had a consistent effort to develop a nationwide approach to a center-right capability to talk about issues that matter to all of us. we have no boundaries. every ethnic group that comes to america has the right to pursue the american dream. it is very important -- i was thrilled when lionel and kathy came today. they get it. they understand. everybody in the latino community has aspirations that

and of former training director cedric leighton discusses pentagon reductions announced by leon panettaand how they might impact policy, weapons, and counterterrorism. "washington journal" live every day it's 7:00 a.m. eastern on c- span. >> next vice-president biden and president obama's remarks at the house democrats' annual retreat. in speeches by newt gingrich, mitt romney, and rick santorum. >> april 15, 2010, i arrived in paris. i walked into the hotel lobby. i met him for the first time and he looked at me and said, so you're the rolling stone died. i do not care about the article. i just want to be on the cover. >> he wrote about the u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan in the june 2010 edition of rolling stone. >> it is between you and lady gaga. it was just a joke, not knowing she would actually be on the cover. >> just put me and her in a heart-shaped tub. >> i thought this would be a different kind of general. >> as a result of the article, general mcchrystal had been fired. michael hastings continues the story and talks about his new book. sunday night on c-span. >> joe bide

i like to leighton -- like in the political party to the firefighting party.y are trained and ready to go and when a fire comes there at your house before you know it. when you have a little fire going, you may wonder why they bring six fire trucks to my house when i have a little fire going. it did not take all that. it is because they do not want to give the fire a fair chance. they do not want a fair fight. they want to stop the fire out. that is what we have to do as republicans. every time the opportunity comes up, we have to jump on it. we have to be ready, trained, organized. you cannot do that once the alarm sounds. you have to be organized in advance. if you go back to 2000, some of you will remember that in south carolina we started having our presidential primaries in 1980. we had a party chairman named dan ross. dan ross said way back then, we do not have enough republicans. a lot of our democrat friends are pretty conservative, but they think if they vote in a republican election they will wake up dead in the morning. we have to do something to le

cedric leighton discusses the pentagon reductions and how they might impact policy and counterterrorismhington journal" at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> next tuesday, a hearing by the senate select committee on intelligence. the committee holds its annual hearing on global threats to the united states. cia director david petraeus, and fbi director are scheduled to testify. we will have live coverage beginning tuesday at 10:00 on c- span and c-span radio. >> the road to the white house coverage takes you live to the candidate events in florida through the weekend, building up to tuesday's gop primary. >> by the end of my second term -- [applause] we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be american. by the end of 2020, we will have the first continuous propulsion system in space capable of getting to mars in a short time because i am sick of being told we have to be timid and i am sick of being told we have to use technology that is 50 years old. >> when the founders said the creator had endowed us with certain inalienable rights, they laid out a path for america that w