second competition, the pentagon is trying to replace hundreds of these aircraft, tens of billions of dollars in business. neither one of the competitors like the terms the pentagon put out, 18-year fixed price contract and other details they don't like. one of them, northrup grumman said i'm not going to bid on it for sure. how will this play out? >> there will be acquisition strategy that involves competition. this is not an administration that will accede to either competitors' attempts to corner the buyer. as necessary they may have to redot acquisition strategy, but they will do it that gets competition on this program because they recognize the value at stake is going to require competition. >> there is a broader question here. given the issue of major competitions now, the fact that the pentagon acquisition process is not nearly as good as it should be, can a major acquisition happen without a tremendous amount of delay and in the end protest. the stakes are so high and the, jooshgs the skillset question for you, do they have the capability to be able to run something so big an

he was talking about politics or the world or what was happening in the pentagon. the conversations, the meetings were extremely businesslike and very focused. he did what he had to do and moved on. we are aware that jack stahl had a different relationship with colin powell where it they talked about things on a regular basis, far more detail and they were friends in a way that meant their relationship could be different from mine. >> you were in the course of putting your biggest military tips on to donald rumsfeld's table. did you feel this was possible for you to exercise some influence over the way he was approaching the iraq conflict? >> this was a two way process. there were a number of occasions where i said the mission of the united kingdom and government and we had some lively exchanges on occasion. >> in favor of the big contribution, this would give influence with the americans. can you point to areas in which you recall it gave influence in which we were able to change things in the way we wanted them changed? >> it didn't happen in this end. i am confi

he said it is greeted widely by everyone at the pentagon. this was a guy who was jumping over the other generals to get that started kramer wanted to be sure he praised hage before he got to that meeting. you can listen to the tapes and hear it for yourself. >> i would like to open it up to questions for anybody out there. yes, sir. >> almost exactly halfway the communism false send in the event that virtually no one with nonviolence that virtually no one predicted, and the u.s. military has essentially left in search of an opponent and it has been said all you have is a hatter then everything looks like it nail, so do you deal with the sudden vacuum of opposition to american power and the need sometimes of hasty and ill-conceived to find a use for the american military now that communism is off the table? >> what he is asking is, communism fell so quickly and we were left essentially without an enemy. >> i think it is a very important point the mixer and there was a meeting down the street here in 1991 comic dimension of 2045 different cons

>> you are right that there was some significant hesitation on the part of the pentagon. there was an example where the prime minister did persuade the president of the importance of this particular course of action. eventually there was such a resolution. from my point of view, i was anxious that we should get a resolution, because i knew how many european countries in particular could not legally under their systems send troops without that justification. we were looking in the aftermath to be able to draw down our forces in iraq. we cannot do that without other countries coming in. if they could not come in without a further a un security council resolution, we had a problem. so the further resolution was important in practice as well as legally, if i can put it that way. >> i know that i saw him in the course of art meetings. he was present at the meeting with donald rumsfeld were discussed these issues. when you say would instructions i gave him, he was our representative, but at that stage it was the office of pose conflict planning. ? he must of been sent there for

>> all we hear is the rumors coming out at the pentagon. we will wait and see what the budget is. i have a feeling it is going to be substantial, because we are involved in serious conflicts. we have people in afghanistan and iraq. we have people in coastal -- kosovo. it was not mentioned as much as it should be, but i am really proud of the young folks who are being deployed to haiti, for the work they will be doing. it will bring water and relief to a very sad country. the american military base will be there. i am very proud. >> do you have any sense of how long the commitment will be? >> it will change. right now, it is a rescue, 3 --, triage, and in the long- term, there will be reconstruction. if the american engineers could give advice, i am sure they will. >> you issued a statement on friday saying that a number of red flags were ignored. what is it about the culture in the the military that allowed these things to go unchecked? >> it is the coulter of not wanting to say unkind things. oer's or fitness reports -- so many of them say that the officer is outstanding. i think

and it was easier to get in the pentagon. i mean, the area was smaller.ere you look at whole buildings that have fallen, and you wonder will they ever find anybody in this building? when they come, they're going to have to make the decision pretty soon to clean up this rubble. if there isn't -- if they haven't found a body that's alive in there, you can only imagine that that body is going to wind up in a frontload mover and just dumped somewhere. and you hope that they'll be able to find those remains and bring some peace to some family. >> larry: thanks, david.

guest: all we can get are the rumors coming out of the pentagon. we will wait and see what it is. i have a feeling it will be substantial, because we are involved seriously in the conflict in afghanistan. we have people in iraq, even though we are redeploying from iraq. we have people in kosovo. and it was not mentioned as much as it should be, but i am really proud of the young folks now today being deployed to haiti for the work they are going to be doing, to bring order and relief to a very, very sad country. the american military face will be there to be of help to these folks. i am very proud. guest: any sense of how long that commitment will be in haiti? guest: it will change. right now it is a rescue, clean up. longer term, it will be in a sense of reconstruction. it is up to the haitians to do that. the american corps of engineers could be advised of them. guest: you issued a statement on friday saying that a number of red flags within the pentagon were ignored. what is it about the culture and the military that allowed these things to go unchecked? guest: it is the cultur

you cover at the pentagon. what do they see coming at unanimous >> they see an al qaeda that's developed -- that's decentralized. it's no longer only in pakistan. the leadership is in pakistan, they believe. but it's become a franchise. and the estimate from 200 to -- well, from several hundred to several thousand members of al qaeda. but right now, what they see is that the ideology is spreading. you don't have to be trained in pakistan anymore. you can be a smaller group that latches on to the ideology and be inspired by al qaeda through the internet and through their -- chris: so fort hood, doesn't necessarily have to get equipment or anything from over there. or even money. he just attacks. >> it's the adaptability. the fact that it is a franchise, that it's spread and they're adapting to our defenses. chris: the brainpower against us, not jufnt the occasional guy like nadal hasan who gets angry and starts shooting at people but these brilliant attacks, clever things like over detroit, like 9-11, where -- h

i learned later that the americans on a shelf in the pentagon had a plan for iraq. and i know -- and he learned later that donald rumsfeld was not at all happy with that plan. it was a very heavy plan. it involved large numbers of troops. i think up to half a million. and he had asked centcom to think again basically to take down that plan and look at it in quite a different way, which is what they were engaged upon. when the general went to tampa, june, 2002 -- i mean, i have a recollection that he persuaded the americans about the so-called northern option. certainly we had had -- >> we've heard that evidence too. >> we had had that discussion i know in the ministry of defense before he went. he was a very -- he was a very thoughtful, a very creative soldier. and he set out the kinds of options for an attack on iraq that, you know, any military man would consider. i think he went to tampa -- as i say my recollection was i have no specific knowledge of this. that he persuaded the americans that it was sensible to have a two-pronged attack. to divide the republican

the pentagon is having a problem with the signal from haiti. we will have this news conference live want to get under way. "the new york times"report that the united nations is agreeing to send an additional 3500 soldiers and police officers to haiti. we will have the news conference live until it starts today as election day in massachusetts pretty special senatorial election. spoke to a reporter on this morning's "washington journal per-quo ♪ c." all eyes on bay state ballot. what is the turnout strategy for both candidates today? guest: i think on the democratic side, martha coakley's supporters -- democrats tend to have an evanish on the ground on election day because they outnumber republicans but they are trying to stop this surge of brown that sort of dominated the race recent days. i think the turnout is going to be quite high. the secretary -- secretary of state says it should mirror a general election turnout. host: what is each candidate doing specifically to get out the vote? what do their turnout machines look like? guest: the demo

but the real support, the early support came from the office of civil defense at the pentagon, the assistant secretary for civil defense and was a founding partner of the law firm in washington. it's been a long kennedy democrat, long involved with hudson institute, was one of the main -- was the real first government contract that led to a long size of government contracts, work with the office of net assessment as well which herman kahn's friend andy marshall took over. and then the martin marietta corporation also gave hudson contract for work on air force. hudson in those days he came known -- can't believe kai-shek he did have assailed inside but he would bite the hand that fed us an overview the pentagon became upset with the famous vietnam study where hudson essentially presented to conclusions in the book at the side kahn favored that he thought the war could escalate and one and then the other side that thought it was time to think about beginning to pull out of vietnam which upset the pentagon, cost us money into a number of defense contractors that were not happy with conclusions

our pentagon correspondent barbara starr reports the u.s.already scouting potential new al qaeda targets. >> reporter: yemeni forces earlier this month on a raid against al qaeda just north of the capital of sanar. the military shouts, come out. it is better for you, do not be afraid. shots are fired, several suspects are finally captured. this was one of yemen's efforts to hit back at al qaeda, u.s. assistance with several recent strikes that may have killed some of these men is now openly acknowledged. >> these are yemeni armed forces. they will, of course, supported by american intelligence and by the training of the yemeni armed forces. >> what's next? the u.s. military and intelligence community are looking at everything they've got on al qaeda in yemen. strikes are expected to continue, and could involve u.s. missiles or aircraft sources. the u.s. and yemen aren't -- are looking for targets linked to the attack only northwest flight 253. but retaliation has not always worked. >> our target was terror. our mission was clear. there will

as of yesterday we heard from the pentagon that this test was conducted without advance notification to the united states. what are china's intentions for employing a missile intercept system? once again we are left in the dark to question china's commitment to transparency and cooperation. more concerned, this test comes at a time of tension over our arms sales to taiwan. is this test intended as an aggressive signal? second, according to the latest u.s.-china economic and security commission report, i quote, there's been a marked increase in cyber intrusions originating in china targeting u.s. government and defense related computer systems. an activity that could potentially disrupt u.s. commercial and banking systems, as well as compromise sensitive defense and military data, and the chairman remarked about google and the problem that they are having and where we are moving in that direction. third, in march 2009, a chinese naval vessel behaved in an aggressive manner towards the u.s., and as impeccable. despite china's assertion of its rights within its maritime act dumb zone, t

>> i would point you to his spokesperson at the pentagon, chip. i believe the pentagon, as it should, plans for many different types of contingencies based on many, many types of scenarios. the track that the president has aggressively pursued in relating to iran deals with engagement in hopes that they will live up to the obligations internationally that they've signed on to be responsible for. we've gone through in here our asking them through the, aea -- iaea about the research reactor and making a proposal that would prove to the world that their intentions were peaceful. they declined that offer, and we are as we've discussed in the past many days working with our partners on next steps and not living up to those responsibilities. >> should we assume there are these kinds of contingency plans regarding forces with yemen? >> i'm not going to get into discussing details of the pentagon plan. >> over the past several weeks, even months, a number of administration officials have said they expected positive net job growth within the first quart ca

. >> certainly for the pentagon, when they spend more money than that on pencils and light bulbs.ut it's a 1200% increase. that's the first thing. and second it does not even take into account ancillary money being spent on things like black programs in areas nearby in places like djibouti. things are heating up in the arabian peninsula. it's not surprising when you consider the fact that one of al qaeda's biggest targets is saudi arabia. >> you really think that yemen has a lot in common with afghanistan? >> oh, sure the two countries are really remarkably similar in many respects. yemen is about the size of california. otherwise it looks a lot like afghanistan. impoverished, mountainous, lots of deserts, very, very tribal, and never successfully governed from a central location. yeah, looks a lot like afghanistan. >> that doesn't bode well, does it, jack? >> no, i'm afraid not. >> for more on the investigation into the christmas day plots, plus how some are questioning the worth of patdown searches at the airport, head to our website, which is, of course, msnbc.com. >>> official

nothing reported in the hov lane up to the pentagon. let's check on the weather. >> thank you so much. we do have a bit of a chill in the air. we have gusty winds that continue to howl. it feels like 10 in fairfax. it feels like 9 up in martinsburg. let's show you what is happening. you can see the moonlight overhead. a disturbance will drop on through and bring in the chance for a passing snow shower. nothing major. old maninter will be blowing along some wind. the wind chills will be in the teens and single dudigits this morning. it is a blustery outside. the wind chill will make it seem downright bidder. far to the west, in the page county and into west virginia, cold. the wind will not be as strong tonight. looking ahead to tomorrow, still a bit breezy. mid 30's. the week continues to go on and we will see more sunshine and milder air. chance of some snow on thursday and friday. will not hit 30 on sunday. back over to you. >> thank you. >>> a major milestone for the dvd. ben bernanke. figures for the financial crisis. jeremy hubbard

southern command and the pentagon. this is a half-hour. >> general frazier, it's colonel dave lupin at the pentagon. how do you hear me sir? >> lou -- loud and clear, good morning. >> we have you loud and clear here. good morning, privileged to reintroduce to you general dowling las fraser, the commander of u.s. southern command. he's joining us from miami to provide an operational update on our operation unify red spons in haiti. general, to you for opening statements, sir. >> ok, good morning. our relief efforts continue in support of the people of haiti, the government of haiti and the international effort that's ongoing. i guess i would characterize it as the situation improves day by day. the requirement is still enormous but that relief effort is continuing to flow in. from the united states perspective and the department of defense, we now have over 20,000 men and women in the theater supporting that effort, a little over 6,000 people on the ground in haiti but those numbers only reflect those men and women who

but you have said that the pentagon has this list of 50 or so people that they're going after. what, to kill? >> it is kill or capture. yes, it is a kill or capture list. i think that what they're finding from military officials that i've spoken with who are tracking this issue, is that the drug traffickers and insurgents in southern afghanistan are working so closely together that it's almost impossible to separate them. recent example was a raid in helmand in may when they uncovered a taliban command and control center in the middle of a poppy market -- an opium market and they found more than 90 tons of drugs, precursor chemicals and poppy seeds there under the taliban's control. so they really are working very closely together. i think there has to be more effort to try and interdict the major traffickers who are not -- and money launderers who are not in afghanistan, really the major players are in pakistan, they're in the uae. some of them move between iran and afghanistan. this is a regional issue and it needs a regional approach. >> are you getting, mr. costa, any luck

barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >>> let's talk now about the possible military strike.regory 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 likely to be much more effective in countering the al qaeda threat in yemen than direct action by u.s. military forces. >> as a former u.s. ambassador there, can you help our viewers explain to what it is like -- what is yemen? it seems to me, just a far away place that most people don't know about. >> reporter: well, yemen is a very rugged country. the population of about 22 million is widely dispersed.

but i think the pentagon's approach to this and i realize i've been out of the pentagon for a little bit. the pentagon's approach to this would be that there are forces that are available, if you look at that entirety of u.s. forces in korea, there are pieces of that that are available for global deployment. under the idea of strategic flexibility. but there are core pieces that are not. there are core pieces of u.s. forces to korea that are needed for the defense of korea. today, that has to do with the headquarters which forms the u.s. side of the combined forces command. in the future, that headquarters will form the u.s. supporting headquarters to the rok war fighter. so i think at that headquarters level you would never anticipate a deployment off the peninsula. but there are units under that. there are smaller units, whether they be an infantry battalion an engineer company, an explosive ordinance detachment that might be deployed for various missions around the world. so i think when you ask when will we apply this 100%, never is probably the answer. i do think, though, that t

that is in a briefing earlier today at the pentagon.ite house. president barack obama will make a statement to the press on the situation in haiti. it was reported that the president could finally reach the haitian president, telling the leader directly that his disaster-stricken country would receive national and international support. we will have the president live coming up at 1:00, eastern. also live at 1:00, at the brookings institution, they're holding a discussion on looking at the future for young palestinians. while we wait for the president, we will look at "washington journal." we want to know from you the best way to help haiti. our first phone call comes from crest on the independent line and wait and, ohio. caller: good morning. -- host: go ahead, we can hear you. caller: pat robertson was right. it did -- they did sell their souls to the devil. not that we should not help -- we should help. they went with the french -- now they're asking americans to save us. host: what part of history are you saying? caller: pat roberts

one national security advisor denied any problems with the pentagon. federal grand jury has been convened to investigate whether the now infamous white house party crashers salahi's made false statements to get in the dinner. the presence of a third party crasher at the dinner, newly discovered photos posted on line by guests identify the third party crashers as carlos allen, a man who himself may have ties to the salahis, no word if the they've been subpoenaed. they issued a statement saying if called to testify they would plead the fifth amendment. what was once the safest senate seat for democrats might not be so safe anymore. a new rasmussen poll shows tightening race in massachusetts with only two weeks for a special election to fill ted kennedy's seat. the latest poll has democrats martha coakley leading senator scott brown 50-41%. previously coakley had been leading by more than 20 points. the year is young, but can we expect some political slug fesses along the way? some washington heavy weights will be missing from at that battle. take a liste

the senators who have factories in their state were trying to get him to make more even though the pentagon didn't even want them. ultimately, they lost but they came close to winning. so it does show that the military advisor complex is alive and well. >> host: that is to. but from other side, what you're feeling, they have similar background, two old men with all their wisdom. but from the other side, mutual understanding, but they were children of their time, and they live in that role that was created by stalin and churchill with the iron curtain and all this cold war mentality. what you think really could reach agreement of some years or not? >> guest: well, they fail to really reach agreement on anything at camp david. they didn't have much time, perhaps they would have reached an agreement if they had been here longer. i think, and i wanted to ask you this question because many people have asked after reading the book, in the book i say that when khrushchev went home, things looked good. the relationship had improved. he cut his military budget. he invited ike to come to the soviet u

as of yesterday we heard of the pentagon that this was conducted without a danced on vacation to the u.s.. what are china's intentions for employing the missile intercept system? once again, we're left in the dark to question china's commitment to transparency and cooperation. mark concerning this test comes at a time of tension over arms sales to taiwan. is this test intended as an aggressive signal? second, according to the latest u.s. china and economic insecurity commission report, i close, there has been a marked increase in cyber intrusions originating in china and targeting u.s. government and defense related in computer systems. and activity that could potentially disrupt u.s. commercial and banking systems as well as compromise sensitive defense and military data and the chairman and remarked about google and the problem they're having and where we're moving in that direction. third appearing in march 2009 chinese naval muscle behaved in an aggressive m'aam toward the u.s. ms impeccable. despite china's assertion of its rise within its maritime exclusive economic zone, this

national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> pentagon officials release the findings of their investigation of the fort hood shootings. next week your chance to talk to the authors of "game change" they take your questions on the 2008 presidential campaign and the impact of the book on washington politics and policy on "washington journal" tuesday morning at 9:00 a.m. did you know one of the top free news apps for your iphone or i-touch is span radio. you can get quick and easy access to three streaming audio channels. span radio, c-span and pap 2. there is a tab with links to all of our podcasts. it all free and available from the app store. the defense department released its internal report on the fort hood shootings yesterday. the co-chairs of that review former army secretary togo west and retired admiral vernon clark spoke about their findings during a 45-minute briefing at the pentagon. >> good afternoon and thank you for joining us. earlier this morning secretary gates acknowledged the seat of the -- receipt of the independent re

the pentagon partnered with the state department.they send in district support teams, which are roughly a dozen guys, most of them foreign service officers. they are experts in government. the head of the district's support group is a guy named ron barkley. he chases down this of governor -- -- the subgovernor. they are inseparable. wherever the army goes, they go with them. as the army interact with local afghans, ludin is there putting an afghan face sending. iran barkley is there to babysit ludin and encourage him to ask like the mayor. >> the village eldger is going to collect the names of people who still need power. they need to take that list of names to the subgovernor when they pick up the generator tomorrow. >> it is time that we basically start from the bottom up, the village level, and work up towards government. we have been doing top-down from the central government down to the province. debt is working, but it is slow and there are a lot of hindrances at the provincial level to be able to get the money and the project

this pencil drawing appeared at least four times in pentagon and state department brochures but thislaser shooting into the skies did not exist. in effect, the soviet wanted to build such a laser, but after years of trying they had failed. so this is the state of our knowledge of gorbachev. what really was going on? what really was happening was quite different. within three months of taking office, all the top designers and constrict jurors in the military space program brought to gorbachev a colossal program. the new man and they put it on his desk the entire plan is listed in katayev's careful handwriting in his notebooks. this would build a soviet star wars. it was huge with two major umbrella programs, 137 projects of design and testing, 34 projects in scientific research, and 115 in fundamental science. and of course coming you can imagine the billions and billions of dollars that they were hoping to get from this. what did gorbachev to? well, if he was the old-school as our experts thoughts and as nsr cia told president reagan he probably would've built it, certainly brezhnev

and britain have ramped up training of forces and the pentagon is doubling the $70 million it already spend there is in aid. the top american commander of the region, general david petraeus, visited yemen's capital saturday to discuss ongoing cooperation. yemen has sent more forces into al qaeda target areas, but its its military is overstretched, fighting three wars against al qaeda, the arabian peninsula, a shiite rebelian in the north and a group in the south. combine that with upwards of 35% unemployment and an underaged population where half are uneducated and live on less than $2 a day, and you have what diplomats call a near failed state and a foot hold for islamic extremist movements. that's why republicans have criticized the return of guantanamo detainees to yemen. one of the problems on the ground is that the qua made any oig government ochl cuts deals with its enemies. on one of the reasons for the increased funding is to keep the pressure on the yemeni government to keep the pressure on america's enemies. kimberly dozier, cbss new, the white house. >>> those five measures

traveling northbound on 395, you slow from the pentagon over to the exit for the third street tunnel.he stalled car has been moved to the shoulder. back to you. >> thank you. >>> it is now 7:37 on this monday morning. coming up next, we have more on today's big story which is jim zorn out as the redskins head coach. we'll get the latest from dave ross who is still in san diego where zorn coached his final game yesterday. >>> as the college football bowl season moves into its final week. tonight, texas christian takes on boise state in the tostitos fiesta bowl. should be a got one. coverage starts at 7:30 here on fox 5. ode to the subway premium big hot pastrami sandwich. your name speaks volumes. big? check. hot pastrami? yes indeedie. and premium? no doubters here. with your piled high, piping hot n' tasty pastrami, pickles, spicy mustard and melted cheese, you've made us the kinda believers... that'd follow you blindly... like nearsighted bison on a flavor stampede. small price to pay for all that taste. try one today. subway. eat fresh. >>> multiple sewers are saying that jim zorn

. >> the cia the pentagon and indeed the white house, believe that these predator attacks are the only way to go up against al qaeda and the taliban in these tribal areas of pakistan. >> reporter: the bomber was a jordanian doctor. in the video he sits next to the leader of the pakistani taliban. and says his suicide mission was in response to one specific drone attack that killed the former pakistani taliban leader. >> reporter: that is a new threat against the u.s. in afghanistan. and points to a dangerous partnership between the taliban and al qaeda. >> al qaeda will then provide its knowledge and resources to the pakistani taliban and the pakistani taliban will provide the manpower -- the footsoldiers as well as the logistical support on a regular basis to al qaeda. >> reporter: that collaboration between al qaeda and taliban on both sides of the border is what worries u.s. officials the most. they're asking for help from the pakistanis. until they get that help, american soldiers will be danger. david. >> nick, thank you. >>> we turn to robin wright now. robin, you heard the threa

we do expect the pentagon report on fort hood later this month.he white house also preparing a report, but we understand that they won't release theirs 'til after the defense department releases its report, gregg. >> live in washington, thanks. >>> some scary moments for passengers on two separate flights. one plane made an emergency landing due to an unruly passenger. the air tran san francisco bound flight landed in colorado springs. it turns out the plane was escorted by military fighters jets. cops say the passenger was intoxicated and apparently locked himself in the bathroom. >> the guy is just going off on the stewardess 'cause she's telling him you had too much to drink. but he has no shoes and no shirt on. >> they were pointing and yelling and even when we went to land, he wouldn't sit down. he stood up in the back of the plane. >> i was very upset. and i haven't flown in ten years. of course, it happens when i'm on the plane. >> in another incident, authorities charge add man with interfering with a flight to hawaii. he made threats on a

the stack of oreo cookies for the pentagon is gigantic. it's like this.then the stack for education, like his. green energy, that. health care, that. i think we american people could understand, you take some orders off of his pentagon stack and if you want to cut the budget and you read this tribute that through education green energy job, the things that we need it just seems to me that we, the people can make those decisions and the initiative process, although it's very flawed and california because the money game is to california, but organ has got better initiative process. and seems like democracy 2.0, we are ready for a. we, the people make better decisions on go to war are not going to war. we, the people make better decisions on single-payer. what are your thoughts regarding bring the people as the fourth check in our system of checks and balances? >> well, i totally agree but i would love to see it happen. the question is how do we make it happen? you and your family, involved in this for a long time and you've seen all the difficulties of real

we would for the pentagon all the time. -- we do with for the pentagon all the time. >> i do not work for the rand corporation. i want to add to what you say as a volunteer. i am lucky enough to be able to be a volunteer for this 25 years because i have a job at harvard. would you suggest is not at all self-serving. there is no critical feedback loop in foreign aid. we could easily develop that. if we could use rand or universities or other people who are trying to be part of the same -- part of the scene to improve the quality and not have a slipping back and saying haiti or rwanda -- prior to the genocide, it was called the switzerland of central africa. there is a book by a man that says how the aid to going in from fans in europe actually set the stage for the genocide. you will see that some will argue that. money served to weaken as food security. the good news is that you did not need to be a nuclear scientist to figure out that some of the rules of the road would be the ones you mentioned. gender equity. what are the ground rules on job creation for women in a grand even to do

in the 2006 qvr the pentagon odored china was as strategic crossroads that had the greatest potential to compete militarily with the united states. in its 2009 annual report to congress on china's military power, the department maintained that the pace and scope of china's military transformation continued to increase. fueled by the acquisition of advanced foreign weapons. also similar to years' past it noted that china continues to develop and field disruptive technologies. including those for access and area denial as well as nuclear cyber and space warfare. when we received the qdr i'll be looking closely at any changes to the department's assessment of china. my theory is we will downgrade the attempt it an attempt to justify last years end futch e cuts to key defense programs. if the conclusion is the same as it was in 2006, then i expect the president's budget to invest in the necessary capabilities to execute our contingency plans in asia. this is the type of strategic reassurance our allies need and is the key to stability in asiab a word to the members. we will be back in our

i think it would be easier to get into the pentagon tank where they keep the secret war plans than it would be perhaps to get on the no-fly list. i'm just going to read a little of the language that this constitutes where somebody gets on it or not. must meet the reasonable suspicion stand stand or to review. reasonable suspicion requires articulate facts which takes together rational inferences warrants a determination that an individual is known or is suspected to be or is engaged in conduct constitutesing... on and on and on. i won't even finish it. how can anyone in the government know what that means? >> that's right. and there's another thing. when this father, a respected nigerian family, came forward and gave information and said, look, 4 i'm worried about my son. he said he's never going to see me again. he's gone to yemen. i believe he's fallen in with the wrong people. that ought to be bingo. you know, you had pakistani americans coming forward. that did result in a good result because we found the five youngsters or young men in pakistan. you've had 18 somali americans go

what does the pentagon expect over there this year? will we see some change in afghanistan?> there's no question that 30,000 more troops are going to make life miserable for the taliban but that's only one part of the strategy here. the other part is that the afghan government has to get its act together, cut down at least some of the... the police have to expand and get a whole lot better so that they can take over the fight. if you believe that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, then those are two very ify propositions. so if you look at the 30,000 troops and everything else that has to be accomplished you would have to say that the success of this strategy is by no means a sure thing. >> schieffer: nancy, is congress going to approve the funds to allow the president to carry out this? >> in the end they probably will. but it won't be the democrats... a majority of democrats who are supporting it. the president will probably get most of his support from republicans. one of his chief supporters is senator john mccain. a lot of democrats were hoping he would start

the virginia travel, you are good. 95, 66, nothing out of the norm to the pentagon. >> thank you. >>> 5:12. >> protecting your privacy while you surf the web. which websites are overhauling security. >> we will allow theatest details about the earthquake in >> you are watching abc 7's "good morning washington," with doug mckelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaff, weather, and lisa baden, traffic. this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> in our top stories, the death toll from the devastating earthquake could top 100,000. the first planes have arrived. more now on the way. there are makeshift clinics on the streets. 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 ka

secondly, several organizations, including the pentagon have worked to make it easier for dependents who move from one state to another to transfer into those school systems without going through a horrendous amount of work and red tape in order to get thirdly, states would give, and there have been many of them in recent years, that did in-state tuition to individuals who get transferred to focus on that aspect of education paren. there are programs focused on spouse education that each service has. how can we emphasize that and approved that? the foundation for a bright future is most often and education. -- and education. -- an education. it was dramatically different that was 10 years ago. throughout our discussions, including the family and where they said, and i call it a readiness issue. we need to be ready with our airplanes and with our ships and with their tanks, we need to be a certain level of training and readiness certainly in a world like we are in now. our units as well a healthy family unit is a readiness issue. one that is not degrades are ready mess. -- our readine

headlights out of newington up to the pentagon.g is open there. >> thank you. >>> james cameron could break his own box offi record. a surprise admission from a star. >> philip stewart has those stories and more. >> hello. we start at the box office. "avatar" is on a record-setting ce. it brought in more than $68 million domestically just this past weekend alone. that put it past the $1 billion mark world wide. it is only the fifth movie ever to earn $1 billion. the "sex and the city" movie trailer was released. one of the cast members is giving a revealing interview. samantha says she is so insecure if she could not even talk to a guy in a bar if she had to. she called the predatory behavior and that she doesn't consider herself a predator. if you watch the show, you know that this audit for her. we want to take a quick moment here to wish a special happy birthday to one of our own here. brian van de graaff. not only is it his birthday but it is tony's as well. >> my birthday does not exist at home because it is my son's birthday

>> i would point you to his spokesperson at the pentagon. i believe the pentagon plans for many different types of contingencies based on many, many different types of scenarios. the trap that the president has aggressively pursued related to iran deals with the engagement in hopes that they will live up to the obligations internationally that they have signed on to be responsible for. we have gone through are asking them about the research reactor and making a proposal that would prove to the world that their intentions were peaceful. they declined that offer. we are, as we have discussed in the past many days, working with our partners on the next steps in not letting up to those responsibilities. >> what are these kind of contingency plans? >> i will not get into discussing details of the plans. >> the number of administration officials have said that they expect positive net job growth within the first quarter of this year. >> i believe if you look at the numbers in terms of weekly unemployment claims, if you look at the trajectory, it w

gates met with president obama before christmas and agreed to keep running the pentagon. mr.ma asked gates to stay on the job shortly after winning the 2008 election. >>> we will find out what almost kept hillary clinton from taking the secretary of state job and republican party chairman michael steele is mad and he's not going to take it anymore. >>> living in one of the most trying of times since the great depression. government spending trillions of dollars and counting. a debt that will burden our children and grandchildren for years to come. >>> this is a fox news alert. you're looking at a map of london heathrow airport. we are getting news from our sister network, sky news, that armed guards went onto a plane. it had been taxiing down for dubai. they removed one suspect. he was cuffed, according to witnesses. there was bomb sniffing dogs put on that plane. it's an emritz airliner. we don't know the results of that search. however, the people on board the plane have been taken off the plane, another part of the airport. just happening. we're getting more news. this com

we have heard general stanley mcchrystal say he can't get anything out of the pentagon because it takes months and we are still operating on it. templar also, by spending so much time in the field, served as an inspirational force and many of the officers who testified -- talking to people. in most cases had a positive effect on him although there was the occasional slip up where the guerrillas ambushed government forces, temblor showed up and said you are a bunch of bastards and the interpreter translated this as his excellency informed you he knows that none of your mothers and fathers were married when you were born. then he continue you may be bastards' but you will find out that i can be a bigger one which was translated as is excellently does admit his father was also not married to his mother. as a result of his personnel changes and contagious spirit the government started collecting more intelligence, patrolling more aggressively, denying access to the population to live in the jungle. there was nothing edible in the jungle so school supplies became a big problem. by the time h

status of health care legislation and we will have an update on haitian relief efforts from the pentagon and members of the congressional black caucus. " the supreme court handed down a landmark ruling on campaign finance laws. and a 5-4 decision, the court ruled against a regulation that limits corporate spending on political activities. you can listen to oral arguments and read the majority and dissenting opinion on our website, c-span.org. we asked a reporter for details about the ruling. >> to a guses aaron blake of the hill newspaper. is this ruling a major change? >> i did not think there is any other way to read this white now. the initial reaction was that it was a split decision. this opens the floodgate for corporations to spend money like individuals can and the politics wrong irina. that was the big take away. we are waiting to see what finer details of it are. right now, it looks like a lot more money into politics that includes for corporations. depending on where you are standing, that is good or bad. >> which are existing politicians saying about the existing mccain-feing

you could read the pentagon review of the shootings by visiting our web site, c- span.org.len held a news briefing where they discussed the four could shootings and military operations to -- where they discussed the fort hood shootings and military operations to assist haiti. this is 40 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> good morning. i would like to start with a few comments about what is at the top of everyone's mind right now, the tragic situation in haiti. shortly after the devastating earthquake tuesday, the president directed that the full operational capacity of u.s. military be mobilized. i told the dod that this urgent mission represents the highest priority for u.s. military assets in this hemisphere. i will be monitoring the progress of our operations closely. wednesday, i told general frazier of southern command he should not hesitate to ask for whatever resources he needs, and we will do everything possible to provide those resources. the haitian people and those who are rushing to their assistance are uppermost in our thoughts

you probably saw that pentagon report that found basically one in 7 returned to terrorism including two terrorists who joined the al-qaeda group in yemen and plotted the christmas day attack. is that some of the best political ammunition that democrats have against republicans? >> they certainly can say the bush administration released a lot of these folks, too. i think ultimately to get some sort of inoculation against them administration has to come up what they are comfortable, a rationale to for detaining the suspects. whether it was the bush administration or obama. they have inherited this legal con number drum. >> gregg: he campaigned on the promise to build more international cooperation through diplomacy would ease the hatred of the united states and help for more effective anti-terrorism strategy. will republicans now argue that the recent events proved that strategy to be wrong? >> i think you already saw earlier -- in his approach to iran, you saw the republicans sort of raising the specter then candidate obama was being optimistic. it wouldn't surprise me to see if that was

gates met with president obama before christmas and agreed to keep running the pentagon. mr.b shortly after winning the 2008 election. >>> we will find out what almost kept hillary clinton from taking the secretary of state job and republican party chairman michael steele is mad and he's michael steele is mad and he's not going to take it anymore. my joints ache so bad, i wake up in pain every day. i want to know why. i want to know why my hair is falling out. how did this happen? how did this happen? a little pain in my knee. that's how it started. that's how it started, this rash on my face. now it's like my body is attacking me. i want answers. announcer: when you don't have the right answers, it may be time to ask your doctor the right question. could i have lupus? >>> this is a fox news alert. you're looking at a map of london heathrow airport. we are getting news from our sister network, sky news, that armed guards went onto a plane. it had been taxiing down for dubai. they removed one suspect. he was cuffed, according to witnesses. there was bomb sniffing dogs put on t