admiral mullen, here is a picture of you guys yesterday.ges facing our vets. suicide. i left with hope. i left with optimism of what we can do if we come together with it. >> that sums it up well. there are challenges as hundreds of thousands transition out of the wars and back into the civilian work force. i think there are tremendous opportunities. this is an enormously talented group of people with skills that translate into businesses and opportunities here in the country. one of the things that, as i work this over the course of the last four years, it's an enormously complex problem. it's not one that gives way to easy solutions. what i was encourage by that robbin hood sponsors, leaders ad government leaders from jacksonville, augusta. i was encourage. with what i saw. >> tom, did you see the same thing? i had the coca-cola manager in my group. he believes they are the best candidates for the job. >> one of the reasons we organized the summit was to bring together in the same room and share the experiences of people like steve from c

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. >>> the next "iron chef" finalist seamus mullen dishes about his grandmother and favorite dish, sunday>> good morning. first, i give you a shot here. new york city camera looking right downtown, freedom tower right there officially the tallest building in new york city. i want to talk about what we've got coming up tomorrow because it is, of course, mother's day. just a couple of facts. mother's day first observed in west virginia in 1910. woodrow wilson made it a national holiday in 1914. the official flower, a carnation. it is said if your mom is living you wear a red carnation. if she's passed away you wear a white carnation. all moms are celebrated. the toughest weather today will be in portions of texas, now making its push into louisiana, into the mississippi valley. tomorrow on mother's day it's the southeast where we have problem. let's let mom sleep in. sleepy eye, minnesota, 74. candy town, ohio, 66. that's a quick look for all the moms out there, a closer look at the weather for your weekend. >>> it's that time. my shout out this morning and i'm headed to albany new york. th

and by april 21st of last year, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the time, admiral mike mullen, attend address rehearsal with a team of navy s.e.a.l.s at a mock compound they'd set up in the nevada desert. >> i met that night, every single member, on the night of the rehearsal, every single member that was on that mission, and i got to look each of them in the eye. they showed me in their execution of rehearsal and also in that steely eyed glare that they give you that they were ready to go. >> did they suspect anything when the chairman of the joint chiefs came to watch them practice and drill? >> i never asked that question. i certainly suspect that they did. >> when did they learn, exactly, what their mission was and who their target was? >> actually, you'd have to ask bill mccraven that. but they're not idiots. i mean, they knew, certainly, how critical this was. they knew who they were and who they were working with. >> reporter: one week after the rehearsal, the launch window opened up, a favorable forecast and a moonless night, essential for an attack by air. they knew i

what our values are. >> at roughly the same time and as we learn here for the first time, admiral mullenm the crashed stealth helicopter and how important that wreckage was to the united states. >> how much did you worry that it was going to end up in the wrong hands? >> a great deal. i called the general in pakistan. i felt obligated to let him know what happened. and part of that was about the helicopter. i said we need that back. >> a person in the military said 48 hours after that we expected pieces to be arriving in china for inspection. >> i'm not going to comment on that. >> i figured you wouldn't. >> president obama hadn't been able to say anything to his own family. near the end of the day he gets to check in with his wife and daughters. >> and the first lady, she's at dinner? >> she's at dinner and i let her know, you know, that i'm probably going to miss dinner because i've got a few other things going on tonight. it turns out we had a fairly important thing to announce. >> and then it came time to explain it to your young daughters. >> malia and sasha, i think, were too young

> he said don't bother trying to kill vice president biden, secretary of defense gates or admiral mullen. >> the documents show bin laden still hoped for another big attack in the u.s.. but he was frustrated that spinoff terrorist groups were not able to win public support and worried that poorly planned attacks were leaving too many innocent muslims dead. we have a link to those documents on abc7news.com. >>> this morning we are learning more about the california dairy cow that died of mad cow disease. investigators with the department of agriculture have tracked down two of the offspring one was stillborn the other was found in another state where it was euthanized and had its brain cells tested. the usda says those results are negative for mad cow but the agency did quarantine two dairies, standard procedure, one will be the one where the original cow was discovered and the other is not too far away both in the central valley. >>> meteorologist mike nicco, we had rain this morning, i got wet diving in. >> north bay had bulk, -- 4/100 mill valley. still out there and more on the way fo

one-year anniversary of the raid is a question we raised in our interview with retired admiral mike mullen, one of those in the picture we heard from earlier who back then was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. >> well, i worried about it just because it's a political season. and from my perspective, the president's support, the decision he made, and obviously, the result stand alone in terms of the kind of call presidents have to make, and he made it. i do worry a great deal that this time of year that somehow this gets spun into election politics. i can assure you that those individuals who risked their lives, the last thing in the world they want is to be spun into that. so i'm hoping that that doesn't happen. >> the former chairman of the joint chiefs went on to say the special operations forces that night were not thinking about politics. they were thinking about just the mission. >>> now to another milestone where it all started, the new world trade center building. the tower has taken a decade to rise from ground level at ground zero. today, it officially became the tallest buil

> he said don't bother trying to kill vice president biden, secretary of defense gates or admiral mullen. >> the documents show bin laden still hoped for another big attack in the u.s.. but he was frustrated that spinoff terrorist groups were not able to win public support and worried that poorly planned attacks were leaving too many innocent muslims dead. we have a link to those documents on abc7news.com. >>> this morning we are learning more about the california dairy cow that died of mad cow disease. investigators with the department of agriculture have tracked down two of the offspring one was stillborn the other was found in another state where it was euthanized and had its brain cells tested. the usda says those results are negative for mad cow but the agency did quarantine two dairies, standard procedure, one will be the one where the original cow was discovered and the other is not too far away both in the central valley. >>> meteorologist mike nicco, we had rain this morning, i got wet diving in. >> north bay had bulk, -- 4/100 mill valley. still out there and more on the way fo

kill obama or petraeus, not biden, gates, or mullen. but in a documentary airing tonight on the discovery channel, terrorism experts say al qaeda was incapable of such a plot, and bin laden bordered on delusional. >> bin laden still had a vision for al qaeda. he wanted them to go after the spectacular attack. >> but relentless air strikes by u.s. predator drones had taken out most of al qaeda's top leaders. al qaeda's central was in disarray and bin laden was losing his grip. in the documents, bin laden was alarmed at how al qaeda affiliates in places like iraq and yemen were killing more muslims than foreigners. and all of a sudden, people start to say, excuse me, we hate the americans and we still do. but we don't see you guys as a solution either because all you do is kill us. >> bin laden wrote, focus on the desired goal, killing americans. the affiliates ignored bin laden's orders. >> so damaged is al qaeda's image, that bin laden considered changing its name. >> despite its troubles, bin laden was still able to focus on how al qae

pentagon both secretaries of defense bob gates and leon panetta and chairs of the joint chiefs mike mullen and now marty dempsey have really been advocates for the idea that diplomacy and development could help prevent conflicts and rebuild shattered societies that would in turn lighten the load on our military. so together we're making sure our shoulders, diplomats and development experts are working more closely together. are listening to each other. are contributing to being part of a all hands on deck whole of government approach. and we're also trying to make sure we get our bureaucracies in washington trying to do the same. you know by next january when i will have traveled i guess a million miles or more, i will look back on this period as one that has been a great privilege and honor to serve. but i will also know that we have a lot of work to do. when i came into this office i knew that we were going to have to confront a lot of difficult problems. i'll just quickly mention a few, one, iran's nuclear activities. how are we going to confront what was a clear threat? how could we un

. >> mike mullen who was in the situation room the night bin laden was killed, the famous photograph you see to the left. tells nbc's brian williams that he is concerned about politicizing last year's raid. >> from my perspective, the president's support, decision that he made, obviously the result, stand alone in terms of the kind of call presidents have to make and he made it. i do worry a great deal this time that he either somehow gets spun into election politics. i can assure you that those individuals who risk their lives, the last thing in the world that they want is to be spun into that. so i'm hoping that that doesn't happen. >> you can watch brian's exclusive look inside the situation room, in a very special edition of "rock center" tomorrow night at 9:00 on nbc. brian talks to all the players in the room about what actually happened. >>> meanwhile, the obama administration opening up for the first time about the use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists in a speech to foreign policy experts yesterday in washington, the president's top counterterrorism adviser, john

of this campaign, and the rhetoric on, on the campaign trail its the question of what admiral mike mullen called overmilitarization, and lack o f diplomatic solutions we need. the discussion has baeen about the real power that requires diplomat uk solutiic solutions. is it just that on the campaign trail they speak to domestic politic thaerz n polit polit politics? or is there any hope that -- that a next -- presidency, whether it is obama, or, romney, can help shift that balance and get out of this overmilitarization cycle of u.s. foreign policy which relates to the congressional question that was raised as well given the budgeting challenges and where the congress goes? and just a final question about, a relate add summd assumption, no light between the two sides, its about the question of u.s. exceptionalism. and i think until we can get out of what i think is an outdated idea for today's world of u.s. exceptionalism, you know being the grounding for our u.s. foreign policy. we are going to be stuck in not having the right solution to the world's problems. its there any hope for gettin

kill obama or petraeus, bin laden wrote, not biden, gates or mullen. but in a documentary on the discovery channel, terrorism experts say al qaeda was incapable of such a plot, and bin laden bordered on delusi delusional. >> bin laden still very much had a vision for al qaeda. he wanted al qaeda to go after the spectacular attack. >> reporter: but relentless air strikes by u.s. predator drones had taken out most of al qaeda's top leaders. al qaeda central was in disarray and bin laden was losing his grip. in the documents, bin 4r5den was alarmed at al qaeda affiliates in places like iraq and yemen, were killing more muslims than foreigners. >> all of a sudden people start to say, excuse me, we hate the americans, and we still do, but we don't see you guys as a solution, either, because all you do is kill us. >> reporter: bin laden wrote, focus on the desired goal, killing americans. the affiliates ignored bin laden's order. >> so damaged is al qaeda's image that bin laden even considered changing its name. >> reporter: despite his troubles, bin laden w

. >> our next speaker is juanita mullen. she was raised on an indian reservation and is a pioneer for american indian women in the u.s. air force. she served stateside tours during the gulf war in support of troops overseas, watching her husband deploy and caring for her children and family while serving. she herself was mobilized for deployment but was called back. she retired from the air force after 20 years and after a stint joined the center for women veterans and serves as the american indian veterans liaison for both centers. >> good afternoon. i'm a member, as you know, american indian, my tribe is seneca indians in new york state. i joined the military in 1980. when i first joined, a lot of people say, what might be a long time for a lot of people. when i joined the service, they did not have female uniforms. i had to wear male uniforms. they would always laugh at me because when i would go through an inspection line, my top pockets would be tucked in my pants. they would say how does that happen. i would go, well,

we have done well with mullen and carried. boston and miami just completed a good basketball game. he is up 99-96 lead in the contest. from there, miami consumes control. miami now leads the series two games to nothing, 115- 11, they win this evening. the giants, as we speak is 2-1 arizona. the oakland a's are the worst hitting team statistically in all of baseball. for two hours 16 minutes they did not score. the oakland a's have lost seven in a row and their now seven games under 500. friday are off to kansas city. manny ramirez was eligible to join the oakland a's today but remains in trouble a sacramento. cuff >>vern: seemingly, not a happy 40th birthday for manny ramirez. the sacramento crowd loved him. at his side, a touch of gray against his dreadlocks. his fifth game suspension for a second failed drug tests is now behind him. his approach was getting a sense of timing of the plague that produced 555 career home runs. ramirez did not seek with us today, opting to lead his bat do the talking for him. his bat was silence

responsible role in overcoming our debt and the spending crisis we face, which is no doubt as admiral mullen said the greatest threat to our national security, i am concerned that the size and scope of the budget cuts will expose our military forces to an unacceptable level of risk. and this risk is being assumed at the precise time we are asking our military leaders to plan for an increasingly difficult set of circumstances around the world against a widening array of risks and question marks in terms of things that are happening around the world right now. we cannot repeat the mistakes of history by cutting our forces so much that we are unprepared for future contingencies. our military and the american people deserve better, and it is my hope that today we can discuss these important issues. and i thank all of the witnesses for being here, and i want to thank the chair for holding this important hearing. >> senator ayotte. we will begin the testimony now. and first we will hear from general lloyd austin, vice chief of staff of the united states army. welcome, general austin. >> good morni

this campaign and the rhetoric on the campaign trail itself is this question of what admiral mike mullen has called overmilitarization of u.s. policy and lack of ability to really invest in and muster the diplomatic solutions that we need. the discussion here has been about the real problems that require diplomatic solutions that the world is facing. so part of that is it just that on the campaign trail they speak to domestic politics? they're not speaking to the realities of implementing u.s. foreign policy? or is there any hope that a next presidency whether it's obama or romney can help shift that balance and get out of this overmilitarization cycle of u.s. foreign policy which relates to the congressional question that was raised as well, given the budgeting challenges and where this congress goes. just a final question about a related assumption, one of the core assumptions that's -- you know, there's no light between the two sides. is about this question of u.s. exceptionalism. i think until we can get out of what i think is now an outdated idea for today's world of u.s. exceptiona

according to the admiral mike mullen, former chairman of the joint chiefs, using 300,000 barrels of oil every day, energy use per soldier creeps up every year. no one know the better than the department energy supplies are critical to combat troops and our national security. the defense sector to adopt domestically produced fuels for the security of our troops without these. secretary mavis outlined several goals to lead the navy towards a nor energy secure fleet. by 2015, reduce petroleum in the commercial fleet by 50%. by 2020 the navy produces 50% of the shore base energy requirements from alternative sources and 50% of total energy consumption will come from alternative sources. to ultimate realize the goal wes must scale up biofuel protection in the united states. one way to help, allow the department to engage in longer term contracts with biofuel producers. companies developed technologies meaning no new infrastructure or modifications are needed. the navy demonstrated that advanced biofuel, dropped and ready for fighter jets. in states lie mine in washington, north carolina, cal

the former chief of -- chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mullen, took a personal issue in veterans affairs and produce add white paper because he's an admiral so there has to be a naval thing in there somewhere. he made a really good point in the paper and i would suggest that you go online and read it and google it. you go to the web, you can instantly find over 400,000 websites of organizations that want to help veterans. so there is this enormous sea of goodwill. but even for people involved in the organizations, there is this question of what are we supposed to be doing and how long are we supposed to be doing it? for the rest of us who haven't given this thought but think we should be involved and how should we be involved and what should we do, it is a perilous journey and has the appearance of mt. everest on how to get started. having worked in veterans groups and started a very small nonprofit to bring attention to these issues in reaching out to veterans, one of the things that i discovered in looking at the long history of american veterans is one of the constant

i'm john mullen. >>> we're learning new information in the case of a missing boy who disappeared exactlyars ago today. i'm linda stow. who police have arrested and how police were tipped off. >>> new this morning, opposition to tell you about, a plan that talks about gambling in our state. >>> remembering fallen servicemembers. where you can pay your respects this memorial day weekend. that is coming up. today is friday, may 25th. good morning, maryland. want to thank you for joining us. >> absolutely. and, of course, it is memorial day weekend so you want to know about the weather and, of course, traffic. so many people are going to hit the roads. >> yes, me. >> you are? where are you going? >> i'm not going anywhere. >> i'm head to go the beach. i'm excited. >> you're going to the beach? >> spending the weekend with my family. i can't wait. it's going to be fun. you can come, bring the girls. >> let me tell you the weather for it because it is going to be pretty good this weekend, and we might see a couple of isolated showers or storms, but that's to be expected when it gets that hot o

mike mullen presented a briefing to about 200 special forces soldiers. at the end of the briefing during the question and answer time, a young chaplin, a captain by rank, asked admiral mullen, if this policy is repealed, will those of us who hold biblical views that homosexuality is a san still be protected to express those views? according to the witnesses at that briefing, admiral mullen pointed a finger at that chaplin and said, if you cannot get in line with this policy, reassign your commission. the the washington times reported a similar episode described by be debbie chief of staff of personnel. he was briefing several troops in germany. he said, unfortunately, we have a minority of servicemen who are still racist and bigoted. you will never be able to get rid of all of them. these people opposing this new policy will need to get with the program. they cannot, they need to get out. i am not an attorney and i did not play one on tv. i believe there is a legal term i have heard called a chilling effect. these words by admiral mullen and by the gener

and mullen is in the picture. so it's an interesting debate.e to look at his digital camera, check the time code, against the audio presentation that they were watching in the big screen. we also show what they were watching in that small room. we pan around to show the electronics and depict as best we can, including pictures of that night that have never been published. this is an hour we're enormously proud of, and really not to sound too lofty, it adds to the public record of what is known for this raid, the signature event of the last several years. >> no doubt about it. and a remarkable way. is this one of the highlights of your journalistic career? >> well, considering that there was -- there came a time when we knocked on the situation room door and you heard the electronic lock open, and as a civilian, to walk inside there, and then say to our cameras, come on in. 50 years it's been there. and no one has been able -- i give a walking tour of the inside of the place. to say nothing of having free reign of the white house hallways, being

>> well, admiral mike mullen was extremely close tht previous administration with the bush team. powell was a trusted figure as a chairman by both bush 41 and then clinton. we've had a number of remarkable people as the chairman and marty dempsey continues in that line. however, the difference is this guy's been out there on the front fighting these wars. literally, since he was a colonel. a lot of these guys start to remember peace keeping operations in the balkans. >> again, following general dempsey will be the secretary of defense, leon panetta. your observations. >> i've known leon for a long time. he was the white house chief of staff. i worked with a clinton administration and the omb director. he's an absolute world class public servant. an army veteran himself. and probably has less enemies than anyone i every met in public life. so he's able to provide reasonable arguments in the political spirit. he's going to be a great help in defense because of that. of course, he was the cia director prior to this job. >> let's join this ceremony live. ♪ ♪ gave proof through the ni

but i agree with admiral mullen.k, it is an unlawful order in the united states of america to shoot an unarmed person. mr. bin laden was resisting other going for a gun and he got what happens to what happens to everybody who does that in front of a seal 6 team operator. >> they have split seconds to make a decision. he could have been doing something as innocuous as going for a teddy bear that was rigged with an iud. but the deadly use of force doesn't change because it's bin laden. >> sean: listen, i think they made the right call under every scenario. it's their call, their lives. it's their fellowue know, members of seal team 6 that they have to protect. >> i just think, like we were talking about, presidents bush, when he stood on top of that pile of rubble at ground zero and said the people who knocked down these buildings are going to hear from us real as soon as. he's responsible for building this robust intelligence and special operations package that obama inherited. a lot of credit needs to go to joacialg

one of those advisors retired mike mullen. had thoughts on the way the politics are playing out in this issue and shared them with brian williams. >> i do worry a great deal that this time of year that somehow this gets spun into election politics. i can assure you that those individuals who risked their lives, the last thing in the world they would want is to be spun into that. i am hoping that that doesn't happen. >> you can see more of that interview tomorrow in our hour long special documentary inside the situation room at 9:00 eastern on your local nbc station. >>> for all the grief the obama campaign is getting for whether they are politicizing the issue. the campaign is up with an ad that they are calling swift bank account which is going to run beginning today in ohio, iowa and virginia. according to nbc's ad trackers the campaign has over $500,000 in ohio and iowa and also bought time in richmond. it's the third ad that is both a response ad and an attack which seems to tie romney to an outside group. in this case it'

. >> with al-malecki sobbing in the background one of his attorneys elizabeth mullens told the jury thathat happened in the des parking lot was an accident. >> he goes up on the median and runs over a tree. he looks out. noor. noor my baby is lying there. >> two vastly different accounts of what happened. who would the jury believe? >> the prosecution's first witness was charles cooper who worked at the welfare office and said he saw al-malecki rundown noor and amal and then drive off. standing in front of a blown up picture of the parking lot, cooper was questioned by stephanie low, record's cocounsel. >> can you tell us what you saw then? >> two females exited the building and then the screech of the tires and a cracking and breaking and then the lady hits the ground. >> then bystander tearily recounted how she rushed to noor's aid immediately after she was h hit. >> i pushed the hair out of her face and i held her hand. >> the defense then challenged the witnesses' recollection on cross-examination. >> i asked you a question about the vehicle being angled or not angled. do you recall

admiral mullen said this is a greater threat than terrorism. >> how do you stimulate the economy and have a fair tax system. we passed the bush tax codes and didn't cut spending to pay for it. it's easy to pass a tax cut, it's hard to pass a tax cut that you pay for. >> a lot of people in your party tend to believe that a tax cut just pays for itself. >> and sometimes it does. but the key is how do you create long term certainty and confidence so that the money that mark talked about sitting on the side actually gets invested and we create wealth. >> if you you create jobs without creating wealth, you haven't done anything for the economy, so you have to do it. and my worry even though i'm for let's have the free for all, let's have the debate, if you tax the people who are the job creators, you've actually hurt our growth and you've heard the rise in tax revenues that would come to the government. what we know in the reagan years is when take you away a lot of the deductions and things people have lobbied for and you flatten and broaden the base, what you have is significant increas

. >> hensley mullens is a pillar of multiple communities with the giants he's a teacher and mentor.me in curacao he's the same, running a baseball academy for kids, teaching them to be good players and good people. stuff that deserves some recognition and the hitting coach recently got it in most impressive fashion. when you've already got a nickname like bam-bam, a title seems unnecessary. but this one packs quite a punch. >> sir hensley mueller. >> consider the status from queen of the netherlands. translation, so it was decreed on queens day, april 30th, you might have noticed the big to-do in golden gate park with the really big windmi. >> celebrating with me being knighted and the queens day. >> he hails from the dutch caribbean island of curacao, not a traditional hotbed, though it's gaining steam with big leaguers like andruw jones and jansen representing and the group called the baseballs did did play a queens day concert in 2010 so there's that. >> nobody knows, curacao is getting mentioned more in international baseball. ♪ >> bam-bam has been one of the more laid back guys