general odierno has issued an order by contractors come down and staffing 5% per quarter. dcaa would tell you that that is about 3000 more than kbr needs. i do not believe that the army or a amc has responded to the audit report. is that your understanding? >> mr. commissioner, the army material command is and will always be in support of the war fighter. if in fact the requirement -- >> my question is, as the army or army material command responded to this report? if someone wrote me a report that said it would say b100 $93 million, i would agree. has the army responded? >> i don't know if we respond exactly to it. i know we take -- are taking actions to drawdown. >> you don't know if you have responded to it. mr. fitzgerald, has the army responded officially to this report? >> if you mean formally in writing, no. we have had conversations and they have expressed concern about certain aspects of the report but that have not responded formally. >> ok, they is army material command? >> yes, sir. >> since the army has not responded, would you do that here? >> the drawdown in

we listened to general odierno over there. when they recommend something we have to have awfully strong case to overturn their recommendations. i think what i am hearing -- >> i think i am hearing the default decision would be what ever the savings are, listen to the operational commander. >> not necessarily, if it is hundreds of millions of dollars savings we would be open to recommending approval of that, but like i said the staffer worked withbca. >> when will you have a decision and when will you have an army position come in? >> in the next couple of weeks. >> visit hundreds of millions of dollars in savings? -- is its hundreds of millions of dollars? >> no, it is not. in some cases it may cost us money. >> so that makes your decision a little bit different. what are the down sides of transitioning? s it thew theap out of contractors -- so what would be the down sides of transitioning? >> the contractor has to get trained and get going, so is turmoil. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. i wanted to start by saying i was

thanks for having general odierno on. i think he is a great leader and he and general petraeus are as good as we have ever had. >> chris: looking forward to talking to him. start with a report in the "new york times" today, defense secretary gates sent a top secret memo to the white house in january warning that the u.s. does not have an effective strategy to deal with iran as it makes steady progress toward the nuclear weapon. your reaction? >> i didn't need a secret memo from mr. gates to ascertain that. we do not have a coherent policy. i think that is pretty obvious. we keep threatening sanctions. we keep for well over a year now, in fact, including the previous administration, we keep threatening. and obviously, we have not done anything that would in any way be viewed effective. former secretary of state once told me my old marine drill instructor said never point a gun at somebody unless you're willing to pull the trigger. we have to be willing to pull the trigger on significant sanctions and then we have to make p

the total number -- what general odierno has requested. the total number, i do not have that with me. i do not know what the total will be. it will be after we finish some programs. we did take a total with general odierno last year when the iraqis requested equipment. we conducted a number of boards that look at the hot dogs that look at all of that equipment, determine what the costs and benefits are -- we conducted a number of boards that look at the goodman and determine what the cost and benefits are so we can decide what to leave behind. >> could you tell us how it is going with the northern route, with the supply into afghanistan as opposed to through afghanistaand pakistan and whats that being used at? >> the no. distribution network, as we call it, consists of five different routes that u.s. trans com has set up for us that involve both the content of europe and the continent of asia. it is redundant means beyond the capabilities of what we have in pakistan. the long list of those is about 5,000 miles long. the good news is that b

and again thanks for having general odierno on. he is a great leader and he and general petraeus are as great as we ever had. >> chris: looking forward to talking to him. i want to start with a report in the "new york times" today that secretary of defense gates sent a top secret memo to the white house in january warning that the u.s. does not have an effective strategy to deal with iran as it makes steady progress towards a nuclear weapon. your reaction? >> i didn't need a secret memo from mr. gates to as certain that. we do not have a coherent policy, i think that is pretty obvious. we keep threatening sanctions. we keep for well over a year now including the previous administration we keep threatening and obviously we have not done anything that would in any way be viewed effective. former secretary of state george schulz once told me, he said my old marine drill instructor said never point a gun at anybody unless you are willing to pull the trigger. we have to be willing to pull the trigger on significant sanctions and make pl

and general odierno believes that this does not threaten our ability to draw down our forces later in the year. obviously, we're very focused on the steps that need to be taken to ensure political investmenadt in iraq. >> the npr mentioned several times the transparency with their nuclear arms. >> obviously, proliferation will be a big part of that. obviously, whenever we get together with china, discussions about energy will be on the table. discussions about the global economic recovery and discussions about what the president has talked about in terms of a market-based currency will be there. we will know more the end of -- at the conclusion. >> robert, on karzai's statements,

armed forces in iraq, general ray odierno. general, thanks very much for joining us.tions for your success is what the vice president saying though, is there more to it, that the iraqis might be standing up on their own a bit here? >> yeah, i think there is a lot more to it. first off, it is fairly significant. the leader of al qaeda in iraq, the foreign leader abu al masri, the egyptian and abu omar al baghdadi, were both killed. that is significant. what made it more important was the cooperation between u.s. forces, between the iraqis, their intelligence collection, their ability to conduct this operation with our support. that's what we've been working towards here. so this is an indicator of their increased capability. >> general, we've heard it's one of the most, if not the most significant blows against al qaeda in iraq since we first got over there. you would rank this as significant as the killing of zarqawi? >> i do. obvious obviously, he was zarqawi's deputy and in charge since 2005. i believe it is as significant if not more so because of where we are now

upon those actions, i believe general odierno would make this decision is commensurate to drawing down. you talked about the tendency and the smart thing to do to give them responsibility while we are still there, to take over fob's. they still require services for our soldiers. the last point, we are working very diligently and understand the president's requirements of august 2010. until those dates are right there, it is still very fluid, but the planning is for 50,000 by august 10 and zero by december 2011. >> you referenced the political uncertainty now. there is an increase in violence in iraq and the possibility that the iraqi government would ask us to stay beyond the time we committed. what plans does amc have to continue contractor support beyond this deadline? >> as of right now we are planning -- like i said earlier, august 10 and december 11. we do not have plans because of the uncertainty, but we feel like the contracts we have are flexible enough to provide uninterrupted support, if necessary. >> one final question for you. does amc have a formal process to apply lessons

finally, if we were in iraq last month -- when we were in iraq, we talked to general odierno's staff, and he said he loves competition. i am not being sarcastic. this was his sincere feeling. he said the solution to the problem was to do this in a "smart way" otherwise kbr will get slammed with competition. will this make competition useful? at least make this more useful than it would be if none of these were available? >> i think what we need to do is follow the process along with the operational info we have a from the seniors in the theater and a decision based on that. >> thinking. my time has expired. -- thank you. >> i will end by allowing each of you to respond to any questions you wish we had asked but we did not and you are prepared to answer. any comments you have a based on what you could answer in view of others to make sure it is on the record. basically, when i am seeing and hearing is that we have this trifecta where we have kbr over its work force. we have the failure of a rock island to view the estimate to detect the over utilization and then we have the dcma and ot

and i'm still supporting that, and till i hear from operation commanders like general odierno, like generaltraeus, like stan mcchrystal. because they're operating that force in the field. and i left this army in 2003. so if there's something different happening out there, i want to hear them say. but as of right now i still supporting. >> can you take a crack at the? >> it's a policy decision, and our senior leaders are speaking and are looking at and are doing with the analysis so that they can provide their military advice as part of a policy decision. and the one thing our army is really good at i think is responding, you know, to whatever the policy is and doing the best job to implement it. i know there are some concerns in some corners of times about civil control of the military, is a military going to push back. i mean, i really don't see that as a problem. i think that whatever the decision is, that the military leadership will do its best to implement, implement that decision. and so i think as in all other policy issues that involve senior civilian leaders, consulted the military

i was in iraq november a year ago and i was there at the request of general odierno and ambassador crocker. we were doing an assessment, objective acidifies on their plans for how they were going to operate in the turnover. while i was calling about to the different cities and towns and military organizations and other government organizations, iraqi ministries i can across something that struck me more than anything else as i was sitting in general odierno's headquarters i told him i can close my eyes and listen to these briefs and i wouldn't know i was in the military headquarters. i said to monitor the policy and open up the recreational swimming pools. you have these groups that connect to the tribes to hear their issues and concerns to work with resolving their disputes. there were very few military things they had down pat. it was all of these things dealing with the economy and the social structure and the political structure in iraq, any kind of smile is a general petraeus start of all that. dave petraeus would say if we could do the military security peace if nobody else is improv

general odierno and investor who are confident. equipment is being redeployed, significant amount to afghanistan as well as back to the united states. the election represented a tide of nationalism and secularism over secretary in partisanship which is an important development. it's not with your who was the prime minister but it is clear the people of iraq and their votes did not increase secretarianism the increase a secular approach. one of the things pointed out by general odierno is that the withdrawal of american forces was a real success and gave confidence to iraqi security forces and they've been able to step up and it represents part of the strategy president obama announced when he was inaugurated which is to pull our forces out and begin to look at it withdraw and we hope and they are confident by september we will have 50,000 troops in iraq. we have to do more to secure the border and more to continue to degrade aqi sunni rebels that are not tied to al qaeda necessarily and in fact they might in the long run be more da

so i don't know the total will be we did take a list from general odierno last year that -- where the iraqi side requested equipment, and we had a -- we had conducted a number of boards will get all of the equipment, determine what the costs and benefits are, that make recommendations back to the department so that the department of the army can decide what equipment to leave behind. >> , go ahead. >> dan de luce, afp. could you tell us how the -- how it's going with the northern route, how -- this deployment into afghanistan, as opposed to the route you were using for pakistan? what rate is that -- would piece is that being used that? >> ok, thanks. ausley -- the number a distribution network, as we call that, consists of five different routes that ustranscom has set up for us that involve both of the continent of europe as well as the continent of asia, to bring equipment and from outside as redundant means beyond the capability is we have in pakistan. the long list of those is about 5,000 miles long. and the good news is that because of the great team work by our partners we are no

by operational commanders in the theater, one of them is mcchrystal in afghanistan, the other is odierno. they respond to a military command of bonnhoffer them in the name of general petraeus who responds to no four star in the military. he responds to the secretary of defense. so -- and that's appropriate. that's civilian control of the military. what you may know, may be surprised to know is the joint chiefs and the chairman have no operational oversight whatsoever of that theater. and i think we've gone too far to reno them. because for the reason that you stated, they're concerned about their service primarily by statute, but there is no statute that gives them some operational accountability for what is being done in terms of the war. and the chiefs themselves, as a result of goldwater-nichols have even less influence outside their service, because the principal military adviser is the president. i think most of us will look at this to include congressional leaders, think that we at solutions. com point we've got to readjust this and bring this back into a more appropriate role for

things started breaking up, and what general odierno did was, he said, "ok, from now on," and i thinkthere are over 20 checkpoints, when they go on patrols, they go in three. we went where saddam was caught. where they go, there are three. when they go into town, they go into towns where they are accepted, absolutely incredible, and the of the and i would say is we are making progress. -- the other thing i would say is we are making progress. a clipboard with a checklist on it. wherever you see a checklist, we are getting out of their regionthere. -- we are getting out of there. i think the momentum is back on our side. clearly, the biggest problem is governance. we met with the folks you are doing the civilian surge throughout that area, and it was truly, truly impressive about how the u.s. civilians and the iraqi civilians were working together and had the support of the military. you actually can see -- you know, this really could work. the of the thing i would say is if i took you in a helicopter -- the other thing i would say is this, if i took in a helicopter at about 500 feet,

odierno and others. i would point you to that. correct moving on to financial regulations -- >> meeting on beyond financial regulations. do think there will be support for sanctions on the run? >> i would point year -- would point you, first and foremost, iran continues to fail to live up to the important obligations that they signed onto years ago. i would point out dope -- i would point out of the zero, that -- i would point out of the -- i would point out that te report shows that they have trouble matching what they say and what they do. they continuously make pronouncements about a whole host of their programs which may or may not actually meet the facts of what they are capable of doing. that is not to say that we do not take the fact that they are not living up to their obligation seriously. that is why the president has taken the steps he has taken in putting together an international coalition to address this. >> in regards to regulatory reform, can you go into what is happening to the president

troops from iraq is on track according to general odierno, who expects the plan to go forward as scheduled-torn country and this army general telling fox news sunday, it is possible, even more men and women could be coming home this fall. >> our plans are intact, i feel comfortable with our plan, and unless something out -- unforeseen and disasterous happens i fully expect us to be at 50,000 by the first of september. >> juliet: coming up at the top of the hour you can see his full interview on "fox news sunday" with chris wallace. >> gregg: here's a little taste of what to expect when the troops come home. hundreds of new mexico soldiers back in a -- the good old u.s.a. and the men and women of the national guard serving one year overseas, in both iraq and afghanistan. and those soldiers getting a hero's welcome home, rushing into the arms of family and friends. >> juliet: i love seeing that. farmers markets and mom and pop shops and who doesn't feel good when we pump cash into those local businesses but you probably heard of the campaign, buy local campaigns. do they actually help our ta

odierno no way did i think prada shouldn't be treated with utmost seriousness and ultimately some of the sales associates were terminated for the peter the violated -- >> the guys there were terminated were told they were offered jobs. what did you do it the time? did you get back into the securities that the people bought them and were notified? >> i don't know specifically what was done. >> ticker look exhibit 28. these are december 1206 when the market race committee page four. delinquency behavior was flag in october of 06 for the for their review and analysis when recent securitization deals appeared to have more severe delinquency behavior than i experienced in past deals. the primary contributor to the increased the length of security caused by process issues including securitization of delinquent loans, seals and securitization of delinquent loans, loans not underwritten to standards, credit quality of loans and sell our services reporting faults delinquent payments status. what did you do about it? >> mr. chairman i wasn't a member of the market risk committee so i had not s

general qadeer no -- general odierno is leaving his post at the end of the summer. he plans to remain in iraq through the drawdown of combat forces through september, and then take over the joint forces command. his successor will be lieutenant-general austin, the staff director for the joint chiefs of staff. kyrgyzstan's president says he is going to resign if his security is guaranteed. he made the statement at a rally with about 5000 supporters. no immediate response from interim to the authorities to have said he would be arrested if he did not return to the capital. and finally, britain's labor and conservative parties have released their manifestos this week outlining their plans for the country's government -- government. this ahead of next month's parliamentary elections. and for the first time it will hold a u.s.-style to cut -- television debates. you can watch them at 9:00 p.m. eastern town -- eastern time. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> washington mutual, the largest u.s. bank to ever failed, engaged in fraudulent and deceptiv

and i have to say that general odierno himself has been an absolute advocate of competition. and his drawdown, that is being impacted. in the first competition the incumbent kbr one it. that's 46% of the incumbent may win it again. it doesn't matter who wins it. it matters the contracting strategy. i have spent my time and i don't apologize. commissioner schinasi, please. >> thank you. and thank you, gentlemen, for being here this morning. i want to start, mr. assad, with making a comment on your opening statement about making progress. and i think i would agree there aren't many areas under your leadership that your office has made a lot of progress. i will talk about the changes in the awards process that you're put in place, they to reduce you have for services. but i want to focus more on the other statement which was a long way to go. you can do only so much as the policy office. and my position has always been process is good but outcomes are better. in order to get different outcomes, we're going to need to talk about resources. some going to turn to, general fields, t