in an unprecedented effort, navies around the world have nobody i will lied to fight piracy. but who are the enemy somali pirates? we found some hanging around the area of nairobi, kenya, dubbed little mogadishu. >> they go to a guy called milksucker. he says he's a pirate. he got that nickname because he started young. let's see how he grew up. the five-floor walk-up to him. >> milksucker didn't want to reveal his identity and spoke to me through a translator. >> at that time i was happy. >> but you are threatening people's lives, you are disrupting business, you are disrupting the ship. >> we can show the world that if somali has no central government it will take forever. >> he manned the lead boat bringing pirates to the big boats they commandeer. >> i was a young man and i was given that path. >> you get up-close to one of these ships to realize what the pirates are up against. you get a sense of the scale of these ships, and that's exactly what the pirates have to do, they have to scale these ships. but they do it again and again and again. >> this is the chemical tanke

that's actually why i joined the navy. at seymour johnson air force base when i was 9 years old i saw the blue angels fly. >> reporter: today jeff harper a crew chief on one of their fa-18 hornets. like those who fly them the team on the ground is hand picked and

especially those of the navy. he disagreed with the secretary of the navy on this. he disagreed with the secretary of defense on this. and then he demanded to see the president. we are back at it, once again. in those days it was a privilege to be a cno. that's one reason we're still on this implication, mike. and from that president eisenhower, was the secretary of navy and defense sitting there angry. burke goes on and on laying out the reasons for his position. and mike is getting redder and redder in the face. and finally, after some time, take slams his fist on the table and he says, will keep the draft, meeting over, burke coming you stay back. burke had one, but he got a falling out. he says, don't you ever create a situation where with you or to superiors in of them i overrule them and disgrace them. never again, sets burke. yes, sir. the draft remains. well, burke figured he had one match but he figured he was through. and he began to get these invitations does that come over to the white house for drinks, come over and have a little discussion. they develo

my son retired as commander as a navy seals. he served in 37 different countries, mostly they call a black operator. specially trained by the agency, my youngest son is a full serving colonel. >> one of my boys served and did not. my second son was in the peace corps and an educator, but he's good. third son served in the navy, made lieutenant, maybe not goest farsighted, in a profession. they are improving on the previous separation. >> my grandson just graduated from parris island. >> marines. my son, he went to the m. i am -- vmi. >> good school. >> it is. >> ladies and gentlemen, my guest in the studio is admiral jeremiah denton. we're discussing his book, "when hell was in session." and i want to tell you, folks, 30 percent of this book is brand-new. it deals with something that's very important to admiral denton. why don't you tell us about this new part of your book, "when hell was in session"? >> as you introduce the program, i encountered cultural and security shock when i came back and i appreciate your playing the nav

navy fleet at any time.e geographical surroundings -- saronic has its beautiful aspects of broad stretch of bluewater, framed by a crescent shaped shores. but this is an arid section of cuba and the hills that hug the coastline are rocky and dotted with scrub trees and bushes. the most compelling description of this tropical setting and its naval activity was written by navy officer casey mcintosh who could see the following word picture for the american mercury during his seven-month assignment to guantanamo bay in 1926. . . speak back-and-forth carrying seniors, on official visits. that is all we will hear between now and april, come on in gone, let's go. this is a talkative portrayal of a bustling but normal day between world war i end world war ii at this naval station it should suggest to the leader -- reader that imperialism viewed only as exploitation pails to capture certain essential qualities of guantanamo. as the following history of this unit military outpost will illustrate, guantanamo provides

what steps is the navy taking?hould some scenario develop in the pacific where a potential enemy's first step is to take out the eight or 12 oilers. does the fleet then fail to sail because one of the things that the congressman impressed upon is our need for energy dependence in the long-term. one of the ways we can achieve that is we know with a nuclear power surface combatant, each one can save about 10 million gallons of fuel per ship per year. you don't need that oiler. you lose that weak link. we passed legislation that said the next generation is going to be a nuclear power. what i don't see is the navy taking any steps to implement that. that's one thing. the 2nd thing is the short-term. you only have eight or 12 of this thing that is vital. what steps does the navy have as a back up. should a clever foe decide to take out the oilers. what's the back up plan and what are we doing in the short-term to increase the numbers so the worst case scenario doesn't happen? >> thank you. you bring up some provocative

especially those of the navy. he disagreed with the secretary of the navy on this.agreed with the secretary of defense on this. he demanded to see the president. we are back at it once again. in those days it was a privilege as cno. in front of president eisenhower was the secretary of navy and defense sitting there angry. burke goes alon an on, laying ot the reasons for his decision and eisenhower is getting redder in the face. finally after some time he slams his fist on the table and says, we will keep the draft. meeting over, burke, you say [unintelligible] he says, don't you ever create a situation where your two superiors in front of them i overruled them and disgraced them. never again, burke. yes, sir. the draft remained. burke figured he won that but was through with eisenhower. he began to get these invitations, come over to the white house for drinks. come over to have another discussion. they developed this fast friendship. eisenhower was dying in gettysburg when burke was at the center. one of the last people he sent for to talk to. we mentioned earlier

that's actually why i joined the navy.our johnson air force base when i was 9 years old i saw the blue angels fly. >> reporter: today jeff harper a crew chief on one of their fa-18 hornets. like those who fly them the team on the ground is hand picked and they'll go over and even into every inch of the jets before they fly. >> i get up to the top of the jet and my crew chief says boss, this jet's ready to go, i know it is. and it's all about trust. >> reporter: the team's next hop is to fly a practice show and memorize critical ground reference points they'll need to safely perform their routine. flying this close together, much closer than in combat, is not dangerous, they say, just incredibly unforgiving. >> i place my head directly underneath here, and my head is, no kidding, about this close away from boss's aircraft when -- >> reporter: so you, the canopy of your airplane is from here to here? >> yep. >> reporter: not for the faint of heart, though at each show site selected civilians are invited to ride in a solo jet

speaker, eight years ago, i introduced a bill to rename the department of navy as the department of navy and marine corps. this bill passed the house for eight years in what's called the armed services bill. it's been supported by the former armed services chairman duncan hunter and is being supported by the current chairman of the armed services committee, ike skeleton.6 c13 committee, ike skelton. for eight years, the senate has said no to the marine corps that you do not deserve this reck nigs. i think this is very sad. this year i'm pleased to say to the house with the help of 362 house members who have joined me in legislation to rename this department to be known as the department of navy and marine corps and with the help of the chairman, ike skelton, we are hoping to send this bill to the senate and let the senate debate and think about the importance of honoring one fighting team. whenever we have held hearings on the armed services committee, the c.n.o. of the navy, an admiral and the commandant of marine corps are saying we are one fighting team ffment you are one fighting tea

pacific command with oversight of the needs of army, navy, air force, marine corps and coast guard families. as well as families of our civilian workers with pay com. i'm pleased to have her here as we. thank you, sir. i've now been in command of the united states pacific command for about three months. and although i may be new to pay com, i've commanded extensively in the asia-pacific region. consequently during my 36 years of service, i've developed a great respect for this part of the world. in that time i've come to believe that now more than ever it's vital to our national security interests and economic prosperity. in previous tours as now, the emergence of chine in and its military has ban reteen topic of decision in my interaction with regional leaders. of concern the most, reconciling china's declared desire tore a peaceful and stable environment for economic development with a

how many ships are roughly in our navy?>> in the pacific command i have access to 180 ships. >> overall? >> 283. >> according to the report a few months ago they have 260 ships as one component. i know that is just one component to look at. it shows the importance and significance of having some idea of the shipping plan they are undertaking. the 290 ships were accurate. i would like to ask you if the united states currently has a shipbuilding plan, not whether it is being modified. do we currently have a ship atbuilding plan for the united states of america as you know it from the department of defense? >> there is a plan as delineated by the program and the president's budget. >> are you aware that the department of defense was supposed to give the united states congress that shipbuilding plan when they submitted the budget so we could make the same comparison's the admiral talked about were significant in knowing what the chinese had that we were supposed to have a law submitted at the time the budget was submitted? >> i

the navy's sea lift command said it takes five days to get it in order to ship out. it will serve as a valuable resource as it can handle up to 1,000 patients with 12 operating rooms. there are light and limited care wards. they can make drinking water from seawater to the tune of 300,000 gallons per day. this should be valuable as drinking water is very hard to find in the areas of haiti hardest hit. 340 workers are in the country now. johns hopkins students are now all said to be ok and there is a survival story from the director of missions who happens to be from haiti. dr. rod martel just left his family there 10 days ago. and a baltimore county wife is relieved after getting a text message from her nuds haiti last night. -- husband in haiti last night. scot foos. >> i'm worried because my husband would put his life at risk. if he saw a baby or somebody needed him he would never walk away. >> as for the u.s.s. comfort it takes five days to get this ship ready for sail. >> new this morning, an education winner for the second year in a row. maryland is the top publ

it was going to be a white elephant for the navy.ng forced, actually, against his will to it lease it for very large sums to the war department. complicated story that will have the free market people shaking their heads. because it really was a crazy result. but from the mermac sinks all of the human ships. of course we all know the monitor came down. battles twisted in still. the standard version is the end of the story. but at that point, there was only one ship that would handle. if they had a simple mechanical break down, it would have been helpful. >> yeah. so secretary of war stanton said can you help. so he rushed to washington. he met with lincoln himself. and. and lincoln said what can you do. probably what'll happen is they won't risk the mermac against it. they will put in a port. that's what happened. lincoln said, how much are you going to charge? he said free. in a few days he had a ram, did various things to protect it from shot and shell. he wrought it down with extraordinary authority from lincoln to personally deci

he went to the army, navy, the coast guard and air force and they brought in people to help the principal partners. they had soldiers shot in some schools and a great boon to the student body, to the teachers. first lady hillary clinton had six trips to our schools. she brought her husband on two of them. senator kennedy and his staff or readers in our schools. industry chipped in, dynamics permitted their people to come over and become leaders in several of our schools and janet reno attorney general conducted monthly conflict resolution classes to help out. those positives notwithstanding in the spring of 9818 months after starting with pressure from my wife and several family members i resigned without monition from laws if you take another job like that we may not be together for our next anniversary. [laughter] that was 1998. as i sit on a slow learner but i'm not stupid. we celebrated our 61st anniversary last january. to last comments before closing. the district of columbia public schools have had ten superintendents', ceos, chancellors, what everyone to call them, in 20 years. i'

continue to, so we have an alternative to the capabilities on the airfield, and the united states navy has set up a logistics' field in guantanamo bay that supports the bigger ships in the region so that they act as lilly pats to support the efforts on shore. based on all those capabilities and the ones on char we now have 63 helicopters in the region and because we were uncertain when we were moving here what the capacity was to be able to move around the city and moved around the country those helicopters are providing airlift support 24 distributions of goods throughout port-au-prince and were required throughout the rest of the country. in addition to that we have moved on to the ground the second brigade of the 82nd airborne division. they are still in the process of closing, and they are providing humanitarian assistance to the people of haiti, and as well as supporting minister who is responsible for the overall security and stability within haiti as part of the united nations mission. they are the second of the 82nd in supporting those efforts in providing security for humanita

. >> i spen20 years in the navy. >> reporter: after retiring, olsen became a teacher with the help ofhe federal troops to teacher program. >> seeing the kids make progress, you know, to see the glow that they have is just incredible. sgoo good job. >> reporter: senators michael bennett, former superintendent of denver public schools and navy veteran john mccain are co sponsors of ability to expand the program. >> we have more returning veterans coming back. this is an opportunity to put them to work in our neighborhoods and our communities, educating our kids. it's a real renaldo wynn for everybody. >> reporter: the bill -- win/win for everybody. >> reporter: the big would increase funding from 30 to 50 million over a five-year period and reduce the years of required military service veterans need to be eligible from six to four. >> he's also one of my favorite teachers too. >> you got the 400... >> reporter: roosevelt dickerson worried 30 years in the military would make teaching tougher. >> when i worked in the mill trif, when i spoke, they moved. >> reporter: when it was suggested

he went to the army, the navy, the coast guard and the air force. and they brought in people to help the principal, my partners. they had soldiers show up at some of the schools and that had a great boom to the student body. to the teachers. that worked. first lady hillary clinton had six trips to our schools. she brought her husband on two of them. senator kennedy and his staff were readers in our schools. industry chipped in, general dynamics. permitted their people to come over and become readers in several of our schools. and janet reno, attorney general, conducted monthly conflict resolution classes. to help us out. those positives not withstanding, in the spring of 1998, 18 months after starting, with pressure from my wife, and several family members, i resigned with the admonition from louise that if you take another job like that, we may not be together for our next anniversary. that was in 1998. as i said, i'm a slow learner, but i'm not stupid. we celebrate our 61s 61st anniversary last january. two last comments of before closing. distric

the army-navy club in washington d.c. hosts this 50 minute event. [applause] >> thank you for having me here tonight. it is really an honor to be at the army-navy club, one of my favorite places to go. the library here is amazing. is one of the oldest libraries and washington d.c.. but the club and what i do is sort of intertwined. it

but he always felt that that time in the united states navy was a special time. i think about my father here today, because when i got sworn in on this very place, i talked about my father. i read something from his accommodation by his commanding officer in the united states navy. he said my father was earnest and cooperative and honest and cheerful, and he believed in teamwork. and i kind of thing that that is what we have got to do in illinois. we've got terrible challenges, the toughest we probably ever had in our lifetimes. we complete politics. we can call each other names. we can kind of avoid the problems. but that is not what our service members do when they get responsibilities. it certainly wasn't what my father did in law. he taught me always to work hard, to treat other people with dignity, don't call people names, be honest, be trustworthy. that to me is what illinois is all about. our state, the land of lincoln, the people of our state, they are the best of the best. with the pride of our nation. we can accomplish great things if we work together.

they did change the oer's, in the navy they call them fitness reports, they did change them a few years back to make them more accurate and to make sure there was a better profile of all of the people in the platoon or company, brigade, whatever the case might be, across a spectrum, which they only had so many in a certain block. that was a step in the right direction. so often, the reports do not accurately reflect a person's competency or lack thereof. it is a very subjective thing. >> are officers trying to be too nice to each other? >> i think part of it is a natural tendency to not want to say unpleasant things and move along. on the other hand, i know there are cases -- i have made inquiries -- there are cases where oer's and fitness -- and fitness reports have accurately reflected the minimum standards of performance. >> roxana tiron of "the hill" newspaper. >> secretary gates mentioned on friday in his press conference that the military as a hard time self-reporting. things like the problem at fort hood. how did you change that kind of attitude? how do you informed whether or no

he tried to give it to the union navy. and the secretary of the navy said no.e didn't think the war would last that long, you're never been on this expensive show. it's going to be a white element for the navy. he said no. and so vanderbilts ended up being forced actually against his will to lease it for very large sums to the war department, complicated story that will have the free market people shaking their heads. because it really was a crazy result. but then the merrimack as he put it came out from the harbor thinks all these union chips and we know the monitor came down to union ironclad aldus to a fling himself in the standard version is the end of the story. at that point there was only one ship that could handle the merrimack and if the monitor had had the simple mechanical breakdown they would've been helpless. so secretary of war, stanton, telegraphed vanderbilt and said can you help? and so he rushed to washington, met with lincoln himself in the gazette, what can he do? about the do my largest steamship and they'll bring it down -- he said probabl

navy hospital ship "comfort" arrived off port-au- prince with 550 medical staff on board. and the first patients were transferred by helicopter for treatment. in washington, secretary of state hillary clinton said she's not satisfied with how fast things are moving, but understands the difficulties. there were so many challenges that had to be addressed all at once. the other way of looking at it is that it's really remarkable how much we've gotten done. >> ifill: >> ifill: for more, margaret warner spoke a short time ago with jason beaubien of "national public radio." he is in port-au-prince.áa- ason beaubien, welcome, thank you for being with us. tell us, first, about what this latest, biggest aftershock felt like this morning? >> this one really jolted. this is the most powerful aftershock we've had since the quake last week. it jolted the city awake. i went out on the streets right after that. many were sleeping on the streets and i talked to people sleeping on the pavement and they were saying they were praying to god that this was not going to be a quake like the one

sister ping had the guatemala navy on the payroll.so they will actually bring people and and and people will come overland through mexico. and there's all kinds of interesting interactions between snakehead and coyotes who were there kind of analog on the mexican border. >> we have time for maybe one more question. >> nothing? >> thank you very much. >> thank you all for coming out. [applause] >> patrick radden keefe is a fellow at the century foundation. he's the author of "chatter: dispatches from the secret world of global eavesdropping." to find out more visit patrickraddenkeefe.com. >> ladies and gentlemen, i am delighted to see you all here at the british embassy, and of course a special welcome to harold evans and tina brown. we in the embassy are delighted to be participating in the launch of harry's book, my paperchase. the book covers and i've started reading it, the book covers a huge amount of ground from harry's childhood in the north of england and for a time, you won't know this, you are living and ankles a few hundred

navy. >>> the district and virginia plan to ask for federal aid.ema should pick up 75% of the expenses for the first 48 hours of the storm, but as you know, the cleanup lasted much longer. maryland will not seek federal help. even though it has already spent its entire snow budget. >>> four u.s. service members have been killed in a roadside bombing in afghanistan. the explosion ahead happened yesterday in the country's southern region. the deaths are the first combat- related deaths for u.s. service members in the new year. >>> five virginia students detained in pakistan on allegations of terrorism are due in court today. pakistani prosecutors are expected to ask the judge to officially charge all five men with terrorism. the charge would carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. >>> new security measures regarding airline travel went into effect at midnight. the stricter rules stem from the attempted bombing of a flight on christmas day. janet choi has details. >> reporter: passengers departing pakistan are being patted down before heading to t

in the navy, they call them a fitness reports. the change them a few years back to make them more accurate and to make short that there was a better profile of all of the people in the platoon or company, brigade, what ever the case may be. in other words, they have only so many of a certain block in so many in another block. that was a step in the right direction. but so often the reports do not accurately reflect a person's competency or lack thereof. that is a very subjective thing. guest: do you have a sense why that in accuracy happened? our officers trying to be too nice to each other? guest: officers have a natural tendency not to want to say unpleasant things and move along. i know there are cases. i have made inquiries. there are cases where fitness reports have accurately reflected less than minimum standards of performance. guest: secretary gates mentioned on friday that the military has a hard time self-reporting of problems like the shooting at fort hood or forseen problems like that. how do change that kind of attitu

i see folks from across the services, army, navy, air force, marine corps, coast guard, public healthe. i see ncos, the backbone of our military. i see retirees, i see widows. i see family members who have survived the tragedy of suicide and who are truly our best experts from whom we must learn and for whom we must continue to support. please join me in thanking the suicide family survivors who are here to teach us this week. [applause] >> you know, a wise person once said, be kinder than necessary. for everyone we meet is fighting some sort of battle. i know i am. i know you are. those battles are not limited to the war zone. they take place on the home front. they involve struggles with injuries that are moral, physical, psychological, spiritual, seen and unseen. and they also lead to the potential for us to claim strength, no matter how adverse our experience has been. over the next few days, we have the opportunity to learn new and better ways of strengthening individuals and communities to build resilience, to maximize recovery and to foster integration at all levels. you know,

>> sometimes i have to stand up from navy yard to hear. >> reporter: the metro board debated the possibility of up to a 20-cent per ride emergency surcharge but the chairman vetoed the idea settling on 10 cents instead. >> ten cents is more than enough at we are looking at service reductions for this fiscal year. the estimate that we have is that it would produce $8 millio in four months. >> given the choices that we have, start cutting service or cut preventative maintenance, i felt the public ought to have the option of having a comparatively small fair increase that would deal with the problem between now and june 30th. >> i spend $30 to get back and forth. >> we are not getting the service that we should. there is a delay or something is down or interfering as far as traveling. >> reporter: metro is in big budget trouble. $40million is the shortfall that has to be made up. they will take the temperature on the surcharge idea and decide what to do january 28th. a face lift finally done on one of the district's busiest roadways. the city celebrated the completion of a $35 million construct

navy beats bucknell. >>> the wizards return to their home court tomorrow to host the hornets.le they would like to forget their p.r. nightmare after week there is one thing washington would like you to remember. they can win. the wi zardst upset or land dough at home on friday and sunday will attempt to accomplish winning back to back contests. they can't change the off the court issues at this moment but believe fans can appreciate what happens when the whistle blows. >> if we come out and play hard and we fight and compete, the crowd, the people will respond to that. and will respect that type of energy. >> and in the scenario tiger woods has come to know, adidas issued a statement that it would be evaluating its relationship with arenas based on his recent conduct and suspension. the company has been endorsing arenas since 2003. >>> finally, folks, another lesson about gambling is painful. texas lost to alabama. the president of the texas motor speedway has to fly the flag over talladega superspeedway all weekend in texas. the good news for him, nobody's really racing. >>>

back in the of the 19th beginning of the 20th century which of the exploring was done by the army and navy and just across the road here we have edolphus really, an arctic explorer, one of the earliest arctic explorers in the army signal corps expedition at the end of the 19th century. he went farther north than anybody had been at that time. it just on the road is the grave of john wesley powell, who explored the colorado river. he had one arm at the time. he lost his arm at shiloh in the civil war but he went on to be a great explorer and other great things. u.s. geological survey. in another part of arlington just over the hill or the arctic explorers. robert parry and his associate who claimed to reach the north pole in 1909 are here. so the point is arlington is more than just a military cemetery, it is a place for explorers, figures from history and many other things. >> we are on the hill overlooking this city to hear. what is this tomb on the mound overlooking the city? >> this is the city of la fond a french man who served in the american revolution. he stayed. he was commissioned

british taking of american sailors or sailors often from american ships in a person not into the british navy. that became the crucial issue that led to war. and it becomes a crucial issue because they can't tell a british sailor from an american sailor. and that aggravated the whole problem. americans now had an opportunity to realize an ideal world, put the broad-minded and tolerant principles of the enlightened into practice. to become a homogeneous compassionate and cosmopolitan people and to create the kind of free society in the illustrious culture that people, since the ancient greeks and romans had only yearned for. but i think in the end, little worked out as the founders, as we call them, expected. the society became much more democratic, much more populous than anyone had expected. so when the generations time, these americans experienced this greater transformation as we've ever had i think. and now, we have a certain age remember over the last 50 years, safer 1960, early 1960's to today have undergone a tremendous cultural transformation and anyone who's old enough to remember wh

elizabeth hanson, security officer and former policeman scott roberson and cia security officer and former navy seal, jeremy weiss. they have been gathered at forward operating base chapman on the afghan border to meet a spy. they thought he would provide information on top al qaeda and taliban leaders, today the taliban released video of the alleged bomber jordanian dr. umar farouk abdulmutallab with the head of the pakistan taliban. >> in a letter to the washington post today cia director leon panetta defended the agents for letting the man in, he said the individual was about to be searched by our security officers, a distance away from other intelligence personnel, when he set off his explosives. critics contend they trusted and risked too much. >> one of the officers killed had nearly 15 years experience doing nothing but al qaeda. he is referring to the base's station sheet, a member of the clandestine service, former agents tell me in loss is going to have a chilling effect on the risks that agents on the ground are allowed to fake jeff. >> glor: kimber dozier, thank you. since the attem

navy ships are on their way. >> local crews are pitching in to help. the american redross loaded up supplies to send to haiti this morning. there was a candlelight vigil last night. several groups have mobilized to raise money for relief efforts. >> a house panel is demanding documents about decisions made under timothy geithner. the have subpoenaed the federal reserve bank of new york. the government stepped in to rescue aig. >>> it is tim kaine's last speech as the virginia governor. he noted for jinnah landed five corporate headquarters during the worst economic slide in 70 years. he said no state can recommend. economic edge with a jammed highways. >> i believe the biggest challenge is the decades old gridlock. >> he called for more investments in higher education. his successor will be sworn in this saturday. >>> 5:16. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. we continue to fall this breakingtory in bethesda. >> we have a huge truck fire that is raging. >> you are looking live at montrose road over 270. this truckhas been burning for ov

the federal government can tax and spend and regulate the army navy air force marines and other things and interstate commerce, it can regulate interstate commerce but this is not a matter of interstate commerce. if this involved track it flow or something like that where that was an activity being conducted to the interstate commerce than there would be a different question. this is an instance where the federal government is requiring an individual to buy insurance they may not want and may not need and may not be able to afford and that is taking the federal government into a completely new area. senator orrin hatch and two other gentleman wrote a piece for "the wall street journal" recently that goes into that and three possible constitutional infirmities and that is one of them and i agreed with them and i can't remember his name, mr. kozlowski said a meeting i attended earlier and he's very well informed and anyway there is a lot of law that agrees with what they had in that. >> if the bill comes out does not contain this provision would be okay? >> which provision? >> the cornhu

navy warships. you think to yourself, now, what's the connection between being on the bridge of a fleet oiler or cruiser or a destroyer and being the principal military advisor to the president of the united states? i think it's this. that if you're on the bridge of a u.s. navy warship, you're a person in whom reposes ultimate responsibility and accountability. if you have a cross-eyed steersman who puts your ship into another vessel, if you run up on a sand bar, it's all your responsibility, you're held accountable for it. this high level of accountability and responsibility is the kind of virtue that someone like admiral mullen brings to this incredibly important office. the responsibilities are closal. i'm sure there are -- are colossal. i'm sure there are time when he thought to himself, i'm not sure i signed up for this cruise. he has been unique among recent chairmen of the joint chief of staff as being remarkably accessible to the public. we're thrilled to have him here and i'd like you to we

navy diver, was murdered.you would have thought that perhaps when four terrorists from an organization attacked officers at the leonardo davinci airport in rome and several people were killed and many more wounded that would have been a clue that someone was at war with us. it might have been a clue in an explosion at the nightclub in berlin frequented by american soldier, that two u.s. soldiers were killed and 191 individuals were wounded, including 41 u.s. soldiers, an they saw the evidence indicated libya was involved, that that would have been a clue. . in 1988, another abduction by hezbollah, backed by iran and hezbollah later claimed they killed colonel higgins. so who were alive back in the 1980's, after libya had sponsored terrorism, president reagan realized you got to deal with these people in a manner they understand. we sent planes to libya. they bombed his home and we didn't have any more trouble out of libya for a number of years. but if you come up to 1991, there were two car bombings that kille

and a navy and air force, plus the cia, coast guard, fbi, and marines. boy. it turned out that simply in order to be secure and protect our neighborhood, we needed an empire. i wonder what -- is someone here playing office music? it's terribly loud. but maybe it's only in my mind. i don't know. [laughter] >> i hear an awful lot of music. oh, well. [laughter] >> some of us who live in the mansion of arts and letters are a bit touchy about our relationship to our wealthy neighbors. bob, for example, he's a painter who lived down the hall from me. he refuses to bow to them when they pass him in the street. [laughter] >> but, you know, they buy his paintings just the same. for me though, it's my relationship with the poor people outside the neighborhood that i sometimes brew about in the middle of the night. so many of them are in agony that's a bit thought provoking. one evening last week, a friend and i went to a somewhere inexpensive restaurant. the waiters who served us was in such a state of agitation or anxiety about god knows what that he didn't even look

do we share information with the royal navy? yes. do you worry about that? do you worry about it?o do is geta balanced source of news. i listened to fox, too. but you have toç balance the source of news you get to get perspective. fox is not right to all the time. çand neither is bill o'reilly d neither are a lot of them, and neither is it the other side. here's what i do. i read "the washington post" and "the wall street journal." i can figure out which one is pulling my leg. i think you all need to do that, too. we have not given up any sovereignty with our agreement with interpol. we have gone to the point where we areç alienated, where our first judgment is to doubt rather than have confidence. we need to turn that around and we need to model confidence so we can develop confidence so our first thought is that they're going to do something right. basically what the federal government, their interaction with us, is your bill plea until you could prove yourself innocent. i'm talking about as to interact with a bureaucracy. will assume you're doing their right so you have to p

question wrangler from the program q i very good morning navy. and it was. she's question raglan. well happy new year to you both and thanks very much indeed for joining me this morning. and he's just have to clarify that we calling this a new decade. but officially. i mean a new decade well i think you have to be one really special. pedant to say that we are not in the by that logic you say that. here nine hundred ninety was and was not in the one nine hundred ninety s. which is it. i think we can cause a new decade. ok kentucky with that ok we've got that cleared up that's officials far as i'm concerned and. susie tell us about the north cease because still to me it sounds kind of a lot. courting the loss of like of the northeast. i know it's my favorite nickname for the decade that just passes the owns or is only a little of the button. numerical nickname but you have noted didn't really sort of fix and fill probably two thousand and eight that that quite interesting that it was applied retrospectively a so i guess a decade out to prove itself for those days and i would say. we

navy. >>> our region spent over $41 million dealing with last month's record snowstorm. now a request for uncle sam to pick up some of the tab. the district and virginia plan on asking for federal aid. fema should pick up 75% of expenses the first 48 hoursful storm. but as you know, cleanup lasted much longer. maryland will not seek federal help, even though already spent the entire snow budget. >>> five after the hour. time for living smart. jessica doyle is here, ready for first trading day of 2010. good morning. >> good morning. well, the new year brings a fresh start for folks and the same for wall street. a lot could ride on how stocks perform this month. historically speaking, first few trading days in january the strongest for stock performance. this is time when new money is added into retirement accounts. wall street journal reports whether people follow this pattern can be a sign of market's prospects the coming week, even for the year. if stocks rise in january, they often finish strongly. >>> ben bernanke out talking yesterday, specifically defending feds per

do we share information with the royal navy? yes. do you worry about that? do you worry about it?l i want you to do is gea balanced source of news. i listen to fox, too. butñr you have to balance the source of news that you get to give perspective. fox is not right all the time and neither is bill o'reilly and neither are a lot of them, but neither is the other side. here's what i do every day just so you will know. i read "the washington post" and in " the washington journal." i didn't think we have given up any sovereignty in our agreement with interpol. we have gone to the point where -- we were alienated -- where are first judgment is to doubt whether or not to have confidence. we need to turn that around. we need to do that by modeling confidence so that we can develop confidence so that your first thought is not that they're going to do something wrong, but that they are going to do something right. we have created that through the years with the federal government. the federal government's action with us is that you're guilty until you can prove yourself innocent. i am not

and whether we have the army with us, the marines, the air force, the navy, coast guard -- all of us working in that joint environment to ensure that we have the freedoms of this great nation and that we give freedom to nations all over this world. one thing is clear -- our service members know how to stick together and know how to work together as a team. in that joint environment, you may find obstacles on the battlefield that will impede may be our progress for just a little bit, or those pictures of war and what it looks like. and the reason i show these to the american people is not to glorify this but to say that these are the physical ones that our members come back with. these are the images that they come back with. and whether it is anxiety disorder, depression, hyper vigilance, all of this is clear that when you see these things on the battlefield, at times you bring them back home. and that is one thing that happens to all of us, where the shock and awe of the mission to the tranquillity of what it looks like in baghdad to what we were able to provide for me specifically

of the dead was an al qaeda operative, believed to have been behind the october 2000 attack on the navyarship cole in yemen that killed 17 sailors. even now, the u.s. is continuing to provide training, weapons and intelligence to the yemeni forces. but if president obama decides to strike back in retaliation for the botched attack on the northwest airlines flight, there will be a target list for him to approve. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >>> let's talk now about the possible military strike. gregory johnston is here with me. i'm also joined on the phone by a former u.s. ambassador to yemen. we'll get to you in a second. what should our viewers know about yemen. you say there are misconceptions that you need to clear up? >> well, the first thing is that the al qaeda threat is not simply to u.s. interests, but very much to yemeni interests as well. the people of yemen have suffered a great deal in terms of economic well being because of al qaeda's active if is there. so that's number one, i think the second thing is that -- based on that, actions by yemeni security forces are likel

navy ship is set to arrive as soon as possible wth 2,000 members of the marine corps on board ready to help out as the people of haiti struggle to help themselves. a rescued man giving the thumbs up but his story is rare. many thousands are still trapped and even more feared dead. u.s. coast guard aerials show streets filled with people trying to figure out their next move. do they leave their family members and begin a trek to safer ground with no real destination. although relief workers are starting to arrive, getting medical supplies into the neighborhoods is nearly impossible. there is a run on what gas remains which means there aren't enough vehicles with gas to retrieve first aid materials from the airport. the haiti ambassador to the u.s. says the situation is desperate. >> the hospital ship is a must for us now because some of our hospitals have been affected. >> reporter: the massive quake has left health care in the impoverished nation in even worse shape than before. doctors without borders has set up in parking lots able to offer first aid only. even the presidential pal h

former navy secretary he said, obama the president, doesn't get it. i don't think he has a clue. he said the president has ignored the 9/11 commission report. he said the president continues to totally ignore one of the important thrusts of the 9/11 recommendations. he said that obama has taken a lawyer-like politically correct approach to national security issues like terror watch lists and no-fly lists. is he right? is this president up to this job? >> frankly, i think both parties -- i think there's things that the 9/11 commission recommended -- remember when the report came out that should have been a higher priority in the previous administration. what i'm hopeful is that this avoided disaster, god forbid this would have happened and somebody would have called it a manmade incident. having avoided this terrorist disaster which it could have been, it has sharpened the focus got the president's attention and he stays on top of this for the balance of his administration. >> sean: this broke late this afternoon. i think it is an indicator -- we have a president who has given mir

the federal government can tax and can spend an can regulate army, navy, air force, marines, other thingsan regulate interstate commerce but this is not a matter of interstate commerce. if this involved traffic flow or something like that where that was an activity being conducted in the state commerce, then that would be a different question. this is an instance where the federal government is requiring an individual to buy insurance that they may not want and may not need and may not be able to afford. that is taking the federal government into a completely new area. senator orrin hatch and two other gentleman wrote a piece for "the wall street journal" that goes into that. i agree with them. one of them was at a meeting i attended earlier and he is very well informed. there is a lot of law that agrees with what they had in that. >> if the compromise bill that comes out does not contain this provision, you would be ok with that? >> which provision? >> the nebraska provision. >> that would end the effort that is signified by this letter. i am not saying that would end all levers that may

would also have a lot of army, air force, navy civilian international students.and it was really an eye-opening experience. in the course of putting together this course in teaching it, i came to the conclusion that we were not teaching them in many cases everything that we ought to be doing. and i had reached a similar conclusion about vietnam from working on that. if you look at the literature on the vietnam war, and many of these other wars, a lot of it more written for academics than for practitioners of counterinsurgency. i think there is an inordinate amount of strategy on abstracts and theories and i think a lot of times, far too much effort is spent on doing things like that finding terms. so i wanted to do something that was really great use to the practitioner. the thing that ultimately pushed me into stopping work on vietnam to do this book was the outbreak in violence in iraq after the armies in 2006. you probably remember seeing the images of dead corpses in baghdad street, dozens of them every night. american casualties going way up. so that was wha

[laughter] we see that army, navy, air force, marines, coast guard, active, guard and reserve, wherein for us and we are all one family and you always feel it when you're in a room full of wonderful spouses. and it's also great to see so many familiar faces, people that i've worked with over the course of the year, becky, deborah, mary, sandy and others. while the wives of the joint chiefs of staff, women who do so much for our military families into why am very proud to call my friends. in fact, we just had a few of you guys over for dinner last week. we at the joint chiefs, the combatant commanders and their spouses over for dinner a few weeks ago at the white house and it was a wonderful evening. very inspiring because we shared the evening for several wounded warriors, so it was wonderful to have you at my home and i'm happy that we're switching the tables today. now i know this is the joint armed forces officers wives club, but today i want to start by thanking you not simply because of who you are married to, but because of what you do every day. because in the spirit of servic