with one of the dads, heath mullens, trying to get all the kids in. he didn't make it to the room. and was thrown to the ground, pummeled by falling blocks and steel beams. >> he was hero to all of us. >> reporter: last night's storms, a dramatic end to our 11-day historic heat wave. in which more than 2500 records were shattered isn't just the past week. asphalt, heated over 100 degrees for several days, melted on the reagan national tarmac. a u.s. air jet just 30 minutes at the gate sinks into the tire ruts. back in fredericksburg, even though the building collapsed, with its roof flying nearly a football field and slamming into john bettis' house, remarkably, no one here died. >> sounds like a wild ride? >> it was. >> the house lifting up, moving two feet? >> moving two feet. >> that is john bettis' house in the background. here at the gym, this is some of the debris from that cinder block that fell on heath mullens, the man being called the hero. the good news, diane, he's in fair condition. >> and the cheerleaders were so young, david. are they confirming what brought down the

i certainly enjoyed being with him and admiral mullen.ou see the leadership and the sense of honor that all of our military leaders have shown. >> one other thing that stan mcchrystal said in that conversation that really drove home to me, because we have been focusing here on education nation, also in partnership with you at the aspen ideas festival, when asked what is the greatest threat facing the united states, is it al qaeda, his answer was our declining schools, our poor education. this fits exactly what the council on foreign relations study that mike mullen was part of, condi rice, that schools, poor education is now the greatest national security threat. >> the majority of kids are not coming out of high school able to go into the military. so that is a very specific national security threat. it gets even worse when you talk about the overall economy. i know nbc is doing the education nation, we're working with them on that. to me, almost every panel, not just national security panel but every panel, it comes back to k through 12

and it's not just my word you should take for it, as joint chiefs of staff chairman mullens said, the greatest threat to america is not china. it's not islamic radical fundamentalism, it's not russia. it is our debt. and the painful thing for me every week in washington is to know that and to know it's true and yet not see the political class in our country address the very real problems in front of us. and there's a great lesson for it. i write about it in a book called "the debt bomb" that was just issued this april, where we see the natural tension for career politicians to put their career and what's in the best interests of their career ahead of what is in the best interests of our nation. sooner rather than later, there will come a point in time when the confidence in our country by those who were loaning this money will erode. we won't be able to control that time, but one thing we know is that when it comes, it will come quickly. it's a scary thought. we see greece. we see europe. you saw this week spain and italy. and you see problems of debt, de-leveraging, for which they ha

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>> you'll have to ask admiral mullen. i really don't understand. i clearly had been supported throughout the chain of command. he walked in and did a complete reversal to what the command had previously supported, including the president. obviously he felt he knew better. but the reasons he list ready still a mystery to me. >> who's responsible, the secretary of the navy or the chief of naval operations or the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff on promotions for officers? >> boards along to the secretary of the navy. that's why we had civilian oversight, civilian control of the military. it is the secretary of the navy's actual promotion board. it is not the chief of naval operations and it is not the chairman. they can provide advice on it, but it is not their board. >> so in 2006 you say i want to talk to senator warner. had you spoken with him up until that point? >> absolutely not. i wanted to allow my chain of command as much opportunity and latitude as possible to resolve this issue out of the limelight of having to deal one-on-one with th

scottie pippin with chris mullen on hand.ron returning the favor, no luck for wilkins down the lane. i don't think the dominicans knew what hit them. james harden stokic got it to kevin durrant. up 40 points and still hustling as you will see here. russell westbrook and iguodala will take it. yeah the dream team. >>> and a record for the senior event. the open a 28, he finished 5- under 56. flipped it over to the young generation as the john deere classic. might be changes it to the george stricker invitational. three years has won it. look at this one from him. 665 four back of troy anderson who is the leader right now. >>> big news at the tour de france no one gets busted for doping and if it holds up we could have the first british winner at the tour de france. wiggins sporting the y ellowjersey following the 11th. >> that almost didn't seem fair. >> you will see a different outcome. there are teams that can compete. >> thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news, we'll see you the next time news breaks. >> the morning news

scottie pippin with chris mullen on hand.returning the favor, no luck for wilkins down the lane. i don't think the dominicans knew what hit them. james harden stokic got it to kevin durrant. up 40 points and still hustling as you will see here. russell westbrook and iguodala will take it. yeah the dream team. >>> and a record for the senior event. the open a 28, he finished 5- under 56. flipped it over to the young generation as the john deere classic. might be changes it to the george stricker invitational. three years has won it. look at this one from him. 665 four back of troy anderson who is the leader right now. >>> big news at the tour de france no one gets busted for doping and if it holds up we could have the first british winner at the tour de france. wiggins sporting the y ellowjersey following the 11th. >> that almost didn't seem fair. >> you will púwnw

track and i expect it was national service and something that general us democrats still admiral mike mullen both talked about and then valerie jarrett picked it up and you can see it moving through the festival a series about the draft because i do believe doing what. if someone has to serve it should be everyone has to be at least in a position to be like it should not be left to the weakest part of a community. so let's add a ricks to the list and explain his plan he argues that there should be three options for men and women fresh out of high school number one they could do eighteen months of military service with low pay but with post service benefits like free college tuition number two they could opt to they could opt to not be deployed and instead they can perform office style tasks that are currently held by contractors for example doing paperwork money lawns driving generals around and other civilian tasks and if they are interested in servicing the army serving in the r.v. at all rick for pros that they do other low pay national service tasks for slightly longer jobs like teaching

also you have president obama coming out and saying you know he's guilty he broke the law michael mullen coming out and saying he has blood on his hands i mean these are high level officials already making pre-determined cases against private bradley manning so when you have these people kind of already shaping the narrative and you know exerting their outside influence on the case it is going to court going to influence the people involved and i think that's what people are really worried about here right abbie thanks so much for keeping us updated over there that was our t.v. correspondent abbi maher and. well it's no secret that this summer has been a scorcher across the u.s. one temperature record after another has been broken and states are searching for ways to beat the heat and the weather is actually causing a state of emergency and many places across the u.s. take a look at this right now the american agriculture industry is suffering from the worst drought since the nineteen fifties it's ruining crops now speculators are saying this could drive food prices through the roof but

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also you have president obama coming out and saying you know he's guilty he broke the law michael mullen coming out and saying he has blood on his hands i mean these are high level officials already making pre-determined cases against private bradley manning so when you have these people kind of already shaping the narrative and you know exerting their outside influence on the case it is going to court going to influence the people involved and i think that's what people are really worried about here right abbie thanks so much for keeping.

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this is admiral mike mullen, the former joint chiefs speaking a few days ago. >> if i o'm a 5-year-olde of the family of these major deply ploying units of t of the army whose average length of time of deployment is a year, i'm now 15 or 16 years old and my dad has been gone three, four or five times. and my whole conscious life from the time i was 5 and i started to figure out there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. the united states has never, never experienced that before. it's my belief that we have to have a military that is representative of our country, that does what the president of the uted states, the duly elected president of the united states says we do, and we go through that debate about whether we're going to intervene and send someone someplace to give his or her life specifically. that's who we are. i do worry that it's just please go off and fight our war, we don't want to be bothered and the whole country isn't in. >> the whole country isn't in. it turns out it's not just former chairman of the joint chiefs. a whole lot of the rest of

this is testimony from mike mullen, chairman of the joint chief of staff last fall.with impunity, serving as proxy of the government of pakistan, attacking the afghan troop and civilians as well as the u.s. soldiers. he goes on at some length talking about the specific attack, including september 13 against the u.s. embassy in kabul. sponsored by the isi intelligent services. other attacks result in injury for 77 u.s. soldiers. i have yet to hear an apology from the pakistani government for any of those things. they're on going. this sponsorship continues today. we have heard nothing. >> john: let's look at what secretary of state hillary clinton said. we are committed to working closely with pakistan and afghanistan to prevent this from happening again. the united states needs the cooperation of pakistan. pakistan needs the united states as well. president sardri was concerned with the relations framed the way they were that u.s. aid to pakistan which is valued in the billions of dollars might be at risk. why did the state department use that leverage to say you kno

i agree with admiral mullen who said we all need to share in this responsibility. i agree what my republicans said last year when we passed the budget control act, let's stick to an agreement and let the american people know when this congress comes together, we stick with it for the public good. and i thank the chairman and yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from california. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. ms. lee: on that, may i ask for a recorded vote, mr. chairman? the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, beamentbeament the gentlewoman from california will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> mr. chairman, i rise to engage chairman, mr. young, in a colloquy if he will so engage. the chair: the gentleman strikes the last word and he's recognized for five minutes. >> i commend you for putting together this bill to provide our war fighters with

a couple of years ago, admiral michael mullen when he was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the greatest threat to our national security is our national debt. its stock to allow the people. do you agree that the growing national debt is a significant threat to our economic and financial security going forward? >> if left unaddressed, our long term fiscal deficits would damage the american economy. i agree if left unaddressed, that would be true. >> honey morgan jr. secretary treasurer under franklin roosevelt. he has often been quotes recently. he said, "we are spending more money than we have ever spent before and it does not work. i want to see this country prosperous, i want to see people get a job. we have never made good on our promises. i say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt." what's different between then and what is happening now in light of secretary's comment? >> good question and context. chairman greenspan and others have said this crisis was caused by a shock, a storm much larger

his national security team, with secretary gates, secretary clinton, chairman mullen, the vice chairman, tom donilon, denis mcdonough, and john brennan and others really did a fine job of digging down to find out the facts, to make their recommendations based on the facts, and, of course, the president gave me ample time to prepare once the concept was approved. but at the end of the day, make no mistake about it, it was the president of the united states that shouldered the the burden for this operation, that made the hard decisions, that was instrumental in the planning process, because i pitched every plan to him. so any indication that bill mccraven, you know, ordered this raid, led this raid was, you know, the key piece of this raid, is just patently false. >> but you're a navy s.e.a.l.. >> yes. >> and these men who went in there, navy s.e.a.l.s, they were taking orders from you directly. >> they were. >> you were speaking to all of them, you knew each one of them personally. here's just a technical question. did you rehearse it in advance? >> i'm not going to talk about the tactic

it's great if secretary gets it or general gets it or general dempsey or admiral mullen. it's great they all get it and it's a huge step forward from where we were ten years ago. the problem is though lieutenants and those sergeants and captains if they don't get it and mental health awareness and understanding how these issues affect the every day lays of their servicemen or women, if they don't get it or they are not trained on it since day one like they are used to use a rifle or train their body. >> rose: is there an emergency or mandate for a bit of information and awareness. on the one hand body armor itself and on the other hand people are living with stress they don't even know or they are too worried to talk about. >> i think we have to deal with the triage right now. we have to beef up the mental health. we need a national call to action. we need a president to the united states saying you need to come serve your country go work in the dod we have a shortage. these not enough professionals to meet the demand. then it's going back and teaching people how to under

in fact, at the time general mullen and others serving the military said their recommendation was notthe surge in fall of 2012. so he'll talk about afghanistan, where he disagrees with the president, but he supports a timeline for withdrawal. >> dan, one of the things i wanted to point out just to clear the record here is that one of those two u.s. attorneys was a bush administration, bush white house appointee. so he's a holdover from the bush white house. >> sure. >> in terms of your earlier point about it being a political appointee. we have prosecutors all over the country who are holdovers who don't necessarily get appointed and confirmed under this administration. no one questions their legitimacy as prosecutors. >> absolutely, andrea. however, in matters that are sensitive as this, and where the president of the united states and his top advisors have so much at stake, particularly so much at stake politically, we think it's wise to take advantage, for the government, for the administration to take advantage of the special counsel law and appoint someone independent from any ot

we heard from stan mcchrystal, mike mullen, lot of defense experts and also, lot of conversation, educationp on the role of arts and education coming up later this afternoon. here today, we will be talking to peter orzach, jillian tet, charlie cook, a whole lot more coming up next. and the head of the aspen institute and aspen ideas festival on "andrea mitchell reports." ♪ i'm consolidating my assets. i'm not paying hidden fees or high commissions. i'm making the most of my money. and seven-dollar trades are just the start. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. and i'm loving every minute of it. [ rodger riney ] at scottrade, we give you commission-free etfs, no-fee iras and more. come see why more investors are saying... i'm with scottrade. that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement plans, they pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. and save

admiral mike mullen, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, put it simply: our debt is our number-one national security threat. and yet, severe across-the-board cuts to the department of defense are not the way to address the security threat and they are not the way to achieve long-term fiscal responsibility. federal debt is a national security threat, to be sure, but so would be unilaterally cutting key funding to americans -- to america's men and women in uniform. realistically confronting the debt problem means addressing soaring entitlement costs which are growing at three times the rate of inflation, growing at three times the rate of our economic growth. we can't sustain that. realistically confronting the debt does not mean gambling with the resources our military needs to protect this nation and the skilled jobs necessary to supply today's advanced force. unless we act and act soon, $492 billion will be cut from defense spending beginning january 3, 2013. according to defense secretary leon panetta, the effect would be devastating, a meat ax. our secretary of defens

i also acknowledge the responsibility to understand the comments that admiral mullen gave us when he was chair of the joint chiefs of staff in which he recognized that a country that borrows 40% of its operating funds can no longer be a strong country. inevitably, the national debt is a national security issue. the way we got into this mess is that for five decades people on this side of the aisle and people on that side of the aisle have gone through the following exercise. whenever anybody brought up a reduction in spending, we had hearings about how bad that was and who it would hurt. and whenever anyone brought up an increase in revenues we had hearings about how bad that was and who it would hurt. so we made a series of decisions that you would never make in your fiduciary responsibilities. we made stovepipe decisions about those spending programs and those revenue increases in isolation. that's how you create a $17 trillion debt. how you get out of it is to do things that people do not like. i think most of you would agree that since nearly half of our budget -- i guess more th

admiral mike mullen, the retired joint chiefs of staff, while he was still chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said the greatest threat to this nation is its debt. we have done not one thing since january to address that problem. we're having spats over judges, we're having spats over all the small things, but the greatest imminent danger to our country we're doing nothing about. i believe we have less than two to five years to act, to make a significant change in our path. no one knows when this nation will cross the point of no return. and we may have already, but there is a point where we will lose control of our own destiny. it's coming. and the fact that the senate this year has had fewer votes than at any time since 1947 according to the congressional research service, why is that? because we have a political year. we don't want to take votes. we don't want to have to explain to our constituencies why we voted yea or nay on something. so the whole goal is to not vote. and ultimately, the whole goal is to not address the very pressing issues facing this country. what do you thin

we believe the mullen number is much higher. at least more than 27 weapons in the military bases and of course the number of the people. 1 million has been displayed in the country and more than half a million in the lebanon, jordan, turkey and in iraq. the regime of course explored in dusk this we start to no one is called the crisis management group. since the uprising start to the regime established what is the crisis management book and the leadership of the national security office. this is under the leadership of the baathist party but manly included in the national management group it's that of all of the security branch as along with the minister of defence minister interior and the deputy minister of defense. basically those ten or 12 people take decisions day-by-day who's giving the orders to the military groups were the security to go to the touch on all the demonstrations or a check of the areas and give orders to 18 people and was a big blow exploding within the security of course which left five of those leaders ha

the fact that we are not addressing, what mike mullen says is the greatest risk to our country, our debte fact we are not addressing that says that we do not deserve to be in washington. host: the book is "the debt bomb." a couple of sweets -- -- tweets -- guest: 10% to 15%, easy. i can show that to you, and so can anyone else in the military. in your area of responsibility, could you find -- if you had to reach a 10%? i never had anybody tell me know. -- me no. that is different in afghanistan right now. that is not true for our troops over there. stateside? you bet. host: felix tweets in -- guest: some variation of it may be. i voted for simpson-bowls because i thought we need to get action to the floor. the problem was it did not fix medicare. that is why they get no house republicans to vote for it. it had nothing to do with increased taxes. it had to do with what was in the package. it had to do with not fixing medicare. host: next call for center coburn, we have about seven minutes left with our guest. john, republican line. caller: i want to thank the senator for his service and f

there is more, september 11, 2011, admiral mullen testified before the senate armed services committee that, quote, with i.s.i. support our operatetives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack as well as our embassy. the truck bombing wounded 70 u.s. troops. he said the haqqani network acts as an arm of the pakistan's intelligence agency. what more do we need to hear? pakistan doesn't deserve american money. by the end of fiscal year, 2011, pakistan has 21.5 billion of american money since f.y. 2002. has america received its money's worth? the answer is no. i want to address a couple of arguments i have heard from the other side. first some say the money in this bill for pakistan is only to reimburse them for going after terrorists. they say we shouldn't take away that carrot. but since 2002, congress has already appropriated over $8 billion to the coalition support fund specifically for pakistan. and where i come from, if you try something that doesn't work, you don't continue to do it. we have been doing the same thing for over 10 years and it's time for a new strategy. more mon

more traction than i expected was national service, something that general stan mcchrystal, mike mulleneeing it move through the festival. the fact that people should be expected to do national service. you come out of the '60s with this notion of the draft and national service is something we flinch from. hey, from my father's generation, it was expected of everybody and it helped increase social mobility. >> i think this country needs a mission and someone needs to galvanize it. >> i also think that people need to be part of a common cause as opposed to thinking that you just begin your career just out for yourselves. >> i like it. >> what is the -- >> i love it. >> the most gala tare yan institution in this country? the military. where you meet people not where you're from. i meet you from new orleans. >> right. >> i meet you from omaha. do you think in terms of presidential legacies that one of the most enduring legacies any president could have would be to institute some form of national service? >> it's a missed opportunity. >> i heard the ideas a festival when mcchrystal talked a