to talk about how people talk body it in the past at the pentagon and elsewhere. how close are you to ending that? >> this is a deeply ingrained culture. i think this is the second year we've been at this, and i think that people are beginning -- people in the department of defense are good citizens and literate citizens. they understand what we're facing. admiral mullen has said a huge national debt is a nation wool security problem. so the people in the department of difference understand that this issue has to be dealt with and that we have to do our part. >> lehrer: you don't think the pentagon should be put in the same category as the department of education or the department of state or whatever, that the pentagon should be a special category because of it's mission? >> i believe so. i think we have to do our part, and i think we have to expect serious scrutiny in terms of how we spend our mony and make sure we're not wasting taxpayer dollars, and make sure we're making smart decisions. but the united states faces a very complicateed and dangerous world. we

johnson attorney at the pentagon said i believe that of dr king. we're alive today he would recognize that we live in a complicated world and that our nation's military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the american people vulnerable to terrorist attack wait what that's funny because in addition to leading the civil rights movement dr martin luther king was one of the most outspoken critics of the vietnam war i think he shot a misquote that the king had put him inside of a war that he would have been again bear something strangely didn't trust in about a nation and a press that would praise you when you should be the balance could jam a car that will personally damn you when you say be. good brad vietnamese children his lessons are prominent in communities across the country but in particular and churches like this one in washington and although there are so many as one thing you need to hear time and time again martin luther king promoted peace his message was simply this either we learned to live together as brothers and sisters o

but robert gates made very clear that in the sage of austerity, even the pentagon has to tighten its of. the pentagon has to do its part to try to make sure that in the long run, it can maintain america's military power, and it can maintain a nimble force. because he is very cognizant of the fact that the nature of war is changing. some of the cuts he has proposed, for example, are meant to do with very cumbersome hardware programs that do not really necessarily held an army and the 21st century. so you have $70 billion in cuts and the $100 million in savings over the next five years. those savings will mean the pentagon will streamline and better use the money that it has at hand. >> at the moment, not much detail, perhaps inevitably, from how these cuts will really bite. >> well, you will see some of the details become very clear once congress comes out and gives its reaction to those proposed cuts. because congress, in the end, holds the strings to the purse. the defense department has the biggest share of discretionary spending in the government's budget, and of course, the congr

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rules the roost at the pentagon it's the big contractors it's the majors and the contract officers have an incestuous relationship with them there's a revolving door and they expect asian employment the level of oversight monitoring is very very little low and those contract officers like the big contractors they feel comfortable with them they want to keep them they distrust the new young entrepreneurial guys and that's a disaster for the taxpayers frankly now i probably did a horrible job of explaining the conflict of interest probably over simplified by saying that someone could be contracted to build a weapon and they're subsidiary was the one that was going to inspect the weapon can you can you go a little further into what types of conflicts of interest to really think well that actually is the prime concern we've got because we're talking about major defense weapon systems and it is it is entirely possible in fact it's likely be a major contractor would both be involved in webs doing research and development or assist writing software or at. figuring in building a hard equipment

of the pentagon or really. super sized businesses and being. that are small they don't care and when our oil bases there will be money. to the pentagon they're the only ones we consider something that's less than ten acres which is their way of life for babies or anything less than ten years anything that they don't value it ten million dollars or more they don't bother you know i guess at the end of the day is that really the number that even matters or is it just proving the point to us that this military industrial complex has gotten so completely out of hand that there is nobody out. out there in the knows how to rein it in or even put a finger on it. i would go for it when i was with the most. of the world. what more was understand me. and so shall we but no one really knows it's true so. well that's comforting that means we also have absolutely no idea how much money they're spending on a our empire of bases abroad hopefully someday we'll get the answer that question nick thanks so much for joining us so much trouble. so to come on tonigh

>> pentagon at abc, i covered the white house three years. so pentagon 10 years. and i covered the pentagon before that, in 1993, yikes. >> and the secretaries of defense you have known? >> i think i knew secretary william perry well, and secretary gates. and aspen not as well. william collin, yes. we have been through a lot of secretaries of defense. >> secretary gates made a speech in abilene, kansas in the middle of 2010. >> the duke speech? >> no, this is the eisenhower library speech. there is a bunch of them. and i want to get you to interpret this. he said that -- almost a decade looking it was eluded that 17 levels of staff between him and a line officer. >> he goes on to say other things, why can't he do anything about this? >> i think frankly secretary gates more than anyone in my memory has made some changes in trying to work on things. changing the pentagon is -- you can't even imagine how it is to change the culture. i mean to change anything they do, to get through that red tape is just enormous. i think that people think they come in and make these

i don't get a statement of account from the pentagon. added in a statement of account from the department of energy. so you can cut the pentagon and i'm not going to do so you took away something that's owed me. but if you start messing with my social security, then i'm really going to feel the pain. by the way, do you know why it's that we? it's not that there really is an account with my name. is that franklin roosevelt in 1935 deliberately designed it that way. he said he knew, but let's make it look like an insurance policy and he said, and i quote, that's so no damn politician can ever take this away. and he was very bright and very effective. thank you very much. it's been wonderful. [applause] >> h. david reyes is the author of several books including the age of gold and the first american. which was a finalist for the two surprise in biography. is a history professor at the university of texas at for more information visit his website, hwbrands.com. >> hugh pope, where did you get the title "dining with al-qaeda" is because it wa

it was my first job in the pentagon, when i went to the pentagon in 1966, was to look over the c-130 nice that we inherited from that started the korean war. we were loaded up with over 1500 c-130s that we absolutely didn't need, just to keep on buying lockheed products that i've gone all the way through truman and eisenhower and down into kennedy. >> guest: congress would add every year many more than the pentagon. i did this study for the secretary of defense said we've got far more than we need. we need to fix up the ones we've got so they we've got so they can land on the fields because they were capable of doing it. we need to can a number of them because we have too many. shut down the production line with the troops we have left. he accepted that proposal and get totally skunked as they are today. even the air force funds against this airplane. they don't own it.su it's a waste of money and every year a few more sneak into the budget. that airplane when i arrived in 66 in today's dollars was costing about 2 million. it's now up to 100 million or more in today's dollars. this i

my first job in the pentagon when i arrived in the pentagon and 56 was to look over the c-130 we had inherited from the start in the korean war. we were loaded up with over 1500c130 is that we absolutely didn't need just to keep body and lockheed product that had gone all the way through first truman and eisenhower and on into kennedy. >> guest: congress would add every year many more than the pentagon. >> host: i did a study for the six regions that said we've got far more than we need we need to fix up the once we got so we can lay them on the fields because they were not very capable of doing that. we need to can the number of them because we have too many. shut down the production line and do something for the troops with the ones we have left. he accepted that proposal and got totally space in the congress because lockheed's lobbyists were there and as they are today. i mean, today even the air force lobbies against this air force, they don't want it. it's a waste of money.su every year a few more sneaking to the budget. that airplane when i arrived in 66 in today's dollars was

we begin tonight with our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. nave officials told nbc news that captain owen honors would be temporarily relieved of his command of the aircraft carrier enterprise as early as tomorrow pending the navy's investigation into those controversial videos. that means he would not be in command of the ship when it sails off to afghanistan in a couple of weeks. this is what landed captain honors in all this trouble. a series of raunchy videos laced with profanity and gay bashing. they were produced aboard the enterprise four to five years ago when he was the ship's executive officer's second in command. >> i guess we won't be showing this to the kids at home, will we? [ bleep ]>> reporter: not only did he condone the videos, he took center stage, appearing in one edited shot as three different people. in flip-flops and a shower cap, he plays to the camera, revealing both men and women supposedly showering together. >> [ bleep ] you. >> reporter: in another segment, hono

it was my first job in the pentagon when i arrived in the pentagon in 1956 was to look over the c-130 mess that we have inherited from that start in the korean war. we were loaded up with over 1500c130 is that we absolutely didn't need just, you know, to keep on buying lockheed products that have gone on all the way through first truman and then eisenhower and then on into kennedy. >> guest: congress would add every year many more than the pentagon. >> host: 56 and did the study of defense for the secretary that said we have got far more than we need. we need to fix the ones we got so they can land on the fields, they aren't very capable of doing it. we need to can a number of them because we have too many to be shut down the production line and really do something for the troops with the ones we have left. he accepted that proposal and got totally skunked in the congress because lockheed's lobbyists were there and watch as they are today. today even the air force lobbies against the year plan. they don't want it. it's just a waste of money, and every year a few more sneaking to the b

the pentagon for how many years? >> the pentagon with abc. i covered the white house for about three years. i started covering the pentagon in 1993. >> the secretary of defense that you really new? >> i knew secretary william perry. that was during the bosnia years. secretary gates. william cohen. we have been through a lot of secretaries of defense. >> secretary gates made a speech in kansas in the middle of 2010. this is the eisenhower library speech. i want to give you some lines and have you interpret them. he said, "secretary rooms filled lamented that there were 70 levels of staff between him and a line officer. the defense business board recently estimated that in some cases the gap between me and an action officer may be as high as 30 players. he goes on to say some other things. why can't he do anything about this. >> secretary gates has made some changes in trying to work on things like this. changing the pentagon -- you cannot even imagine how it is to change the culture, to change anything they do. people come in and say they will

it was my first job in the pentagon. when i arrived in the pentagon in 1966 was to look over the c-130 mess that we had inherited from that start in the korean war. we were loaded up with over 1500 c-130s that we absolutely didn't need. just, you know, to keep on buying lockheed products that had gone on all the way through first truman, then eisenhower, and on into kennedy. >> guest: yes. >> host: and secretary of defense -- >> guest: even recently. i mean, congress would add every year many more than the pentagon -- >> host: exactly. in be '66 i did a study for the secretary of defense that said we've got far more than we need. we need to fix up the ones we've got so they really can land on fields, we have too many. shut down the production hine and really do something for the troops with the ones we have left. he accepted that proposal. he got totally skunked in the congress because lockheed's lobbyists were there in congress, as they are today. i mean, today even the air force lobbies against this airplane. they don'

now, the pentagon is that that might not be enough.nexpected springtime defense by the taliban. spring because that is when the snow melts and the mountains with the fighters returning from their havens and pakistani. nato's current estimate is 25,000. they are fighting against 140,000 u.s./nato troops. and as many as 300 afghan soldiers. despite that, the taliban numbers is not changed with 3000 large- afghan shoulders. the u.s. spend $65 billion on the war. her nevertheless, the uso, wants to draw down u.s. forces by the end of this summer. with nearly 500 u.s. troops dead. >> and selective troop takeover. >> and with the taliban will be able to take their areas within the population. and that various will focus on. and one of the umbrella of security that we provided. we will to translate that. >> what the military build up its presence in afghanistan, here at home, but budget cuts at the pentagon. $78 billion will be cut in the next five years. according to defense secretary robert dietz said. it will shrink the mo military ground

we have caused any individual at any time to come to harm in the past four years. >> kroft: the pentagon they've gone through all of these documents and they found the names of 300 people. >> assange: well, that's new... new public information to us. it's possible that there are 300 names in the publicly released afghan material. we don't pretend that that process is absolutely perfect. we did hold back one in five documents for extra harm minimization review, and we also improved our process. so, when iraq came around, there was not even a single name in it. >> kroft: i mean, there have been reports of people quoting taliban leaders, saying that they had the names of these people and that they were going to take retribution. >> assange: the taliban is not a coherent outfit, but we don't say that it is absolutely impossible that anything we ever publish will... will ever result in harm. we cannot say that. >> kroft: there's a perception on the part of some people who believe that your agenda right now is anti-american. >> assange: not at all. in fact, our founding values are those of the

i don't get a statement of account from the pentagon. i don't get a statement of account from the department of energy. you can cut the pentagon and i will not feel as though you took something that is owed me. dms with my social security, i will feel the pain. you know why it is that way? not that there really is an account with my name on it. franklin roosevelt in 1935 deliberately designed it that way. let's make it look like an insurance policy and he said, quote, no politician can ever take this away. and he was right and effective. [applause] >> h.w. brands is the author of several books including the age of gold and the first american:the life and times of benjamin franklin which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in biography. he is a history professor at the university of texas. for more information visit his website, h.w. brands.com. booktv is on twitter. follow as for regular updates on our programming and news on nonfiction books and authors. twitter.com/booktv. here are the best-selling nonfiction titles from amazon.com a

s chief pentagon correspondent report of the all forty s. have been unable according to anonymous officials to find any link between manning in the sun and on tuesday c.n.n. reported that brig commander james avery hart was being investigated for putting manning on suicide watch without having the authority to do so yet three hours later c.n.n. polled that story now rather than answering any direct questions as to how the military can explain manning's treatment it seems as if the d.o.d. is a bit of a loss when it comes to coming up with a coherent message geoff morrell the pentagon's press secretary in fact skirted many questions in a press press briefing this week instead telling the press that they're hard at work building the case and that he admonishes journalist to proceed with caution so what exactly should they be cautious that of asking the difficult questions of the pentagon clearly doesn't know how to answer maybe they never expected all this media attention and a case where they're holding a man who has not been convicted of any

and the pentagon. where were you when that plane hit the pentagon? >> in washington. many of us live in virginia or maryland suburbs. i happen to live in virginia and was just getting in the usual line of motorists that every morning cross the 14th street bridge into washington, one of our more famous bridges. the pentagon at that point is to your left. and i write about listening as all the other motorists were to what was taking place in new york city. we have one tower hit, then another tower got hit. and upon the strike of the second tower, i looked up and noticed that a very bright orange and blue jet was taking off into this crystal blue sky that we had here in washington that day. it was just a beautiful day. and i thought to myself, how can this jet be taking off when the f.a.a., more than anybody, has to realize what's going on in new york city? and it was at that almost precise instant that over my left shoulder, in came this american airlines flight on its twisted path, obviously the terrorists aboard, and in my -- in fact, i felt the impact before i heard

. >>> the pentagon outlines the first steps with doing away with the don't ask don't tell policies. >>> and more than 500 calls in five hours. what may have happened to overload the emergency dispatch center here in the bay area. >>> good afternoon. i'm jeff ranieri. cold and foggy out here this afternoon. only 44 in concord, 54 in livermore and tonight, we'll be tracking not only the fog, but more cold air and big time changes for our weekend. we are tracking rainfall. we'll detail it for you coming up. yo >>> palo alto is the emergency dispatch center needed a detective to find the source of hurrica hundreds of phantom calls this month. dispatchers would answer and no one was there. more than 560, threatening to crowd out real emergencies. the culprit was not a person, but a case of troubled technology. the calls were traced to a verizon cell phone tower and then tracked to a mobile device, the kind installed in ford vehicles, which calls 911 if ths a crash. the problem has been solved, but why is device went haywire has not been answered. >>> the military's about to embark on a new

i believe that your book highlights some stories that i am aware of, the fitzgerald story in the pentagon, william proxmire, senator from wisconsin on remember well and so forth and other clashes between the military industrial complex and the pull of local branches of government. to give you a little background of the speech, my own book picks up about 65 hours after it was given coming and i would stress a somewhat different aspect of it by way of background and this has to do with a lurch citizenry "going home to glory" opens shortly after the speech is given when the eisenhowers are driving back in the winter chill the david john kennedy was a moderate president of the united states. these are remarkable times. in the year 2000, martin medhurst, texas a&m, a rhetoric professor, told teachers of rhetoric in the united states on the bills standing speeches delivered by americans in the 20th century. what were the? and on that list, dwight eisenhower's inaugural address stands 18 out of 100, but thousands and thousands of speeches given so, one of the top 20 speeches to be on that list,

the videos have turned into a major embarrassment here at the pentagon. it turns out the navy knew about the raunchy material four years ago but didn't take action against honors. officials told the ship to stop playing the videos but honors was promoted to command a nuclear powered aircraft carrier in may. some of the sailors are coming to his defense saying the skits were only meant to cheer up the crew. >> he didn't do it out of malice or cruelty . he did it to entertain the crew and boost morale. >> reporter: even though, the navy says the material was a lapse in judgment. >> our leaders must be above reproach and our sailors deserve nothing less. >> reporter: the enterprise is scheduled to deploy to the middle east later this month so with the new commander in charge, captain honors has been reassigned to administrative duties. preeti arla, for cbs news, the pentagon. >>> good intentions, bad choices. how delusional some of us really are about our diets. >>> and who wants to be a multimillionaire? the megasales under way for the massive mega millions

that spring troops were used against antiwar demonstrators at the pentagon. then in august soldiers at fort hood were told they would be sent to chicago where antiwar demonstrations are planned for the democratic party's national convention. we just come back from fighting the vietnamese not i want us to fight the americans . the night before the troops are supposed to leave there was a meeting of blood as they gathered up in a parking lot in the first armored division section and they were out there all night in a parking lot talking to you know an area like a rap session or rally why they were opposed to going to chicago where making it clear that it was a gentle south and is going to go on and how can i go and commit genocide on my people shoot my people and one hundred black jazz and the straight feel brothers came up and really started pointing on the end about you know discrimination and unfair treatment not getting the right in need it about what was happening with the war as the meeting stretched into the night fort hood's commanding general showed up

. >>> new reports say the pentagon budget could be slashed by about $100 billion in the coming days. defense secretary robert gates is expected to make the announcement thursday. one program said to be on the chopping block is the expeditionary fighting vehicle being developed for the marines. >>> deep water drilling in the gulf could start again in just a few weeks under a new plan by the white house that was suspended of course last year. the administration impoeszed a moratorium following the bp oil spill. now, the government says 13 companies can go back to a hand full of wells that were under exploration before that moratorium took effect. >>> a united airlines flight from chicago to frankfurt had to make an emergency landing in toronto last night. the boeing 777 carrying a full load of fuel managed to land safely without injuring anthe ey the emergency involved some electronic problems onboard that jet. >>> the water is still rising in northeast australia, where they are seeing some of the country's worst flooding in decades. and this morning, residents have a lot more to be wo

the videos have turned into a major embarrassment here in the pentagon.t turns out the navy knew about the raunchy video four years ago but didn't take action against honors. they told the ship to stop playing the videos but honors was promoted to command the nuclear powered aircraft carrier in may. some of the sailors who served on the environmentter price came to his defense saying the skits were only done to boost up the crew. >> he did it to boost up our month al. >> reporter: even some they say it was a lapse in judgment. >> our leaders must be above reproach and our sailors deserve nothing less. >> the environmentter prize is scheduled to deploy to the middle east later this month. so with the new commander in charge, captain honors has been reassigned to administrative duties. cbs news, the pentagon. >>> san francisco's outgoing mayor seems to steal the spotlight on the daily show. it's a bit on san francisco's fast food toy ban. take a look. >> it's a bad idea. we'll get into private business decisions. it is not the role for government to decide

the commanders of what the pentagon back then called desert storm, the first gulf war. the first major military effort of the post-vietnam era, over half a million americans served in the conflict, rappelling the iraqi invasion of kuwait with that u.s. coalition of 34 nations riding to victory. it's been 20 years. the war stopped short of taking baghdad, short of taking saddam hussein, and i asked former president bush about selling the war effort to the american people. >> this is the war historian washington post journalist rick atkinson. bush careened around looking for a rationale, trying to find his voice on the issue. he hopped from rationale to rationale. he wanted to make it appear as though this was not a blood-for-oil swap. there's the word "oil." mr. president, do you think americans would have responded if you'd said, look, here are the stakes, we've got a nation that runs on this black liquid. yes, this is for our vital strategic interests, if you want to call it oil, call it oil. >> i think that -- i think that was vitally important, but i don't think that

today the pentagon said a plan to implement the new law will be ready if seven days. then in early february the military begins a training program focusing on professionism and represent. some servicemen say the troops will have no problems adapting. >> really it's going to be treated as any other bureaucratic change. >> reporter: once the president and defense secretary certified the training is complete, it will be another 60 days before the military officially repeals don't ask don't tell. >> tonight the country's marking the 25th anniversary of the challenger disaster. while nasa today said fear of failure should not hold back the mission, the agency is also marking one of its darkest days. >> three, two, one and lift off. >> reporter: against the clear blue sky, triumpht turned to tragedy. >> i remember looking up and adulting telling children to oh stop that, stop it. >> reporter: but nasa knew something had gone terribly wrong. >> obviously a major malfunction. >> among the seven astronauts on board, the first teacher going into space calling the trip a field t

lewd videos made by a high- ranking naval officer send shock waves through the pentagon i'm katie couric. also tonight, it could be a new weapon in the battle against cancer. a test so sensitive it can detect a single cancer cell in the blood. they've just taken some of the toughest jobs in the country. america's newest governors inherit budgets in crisis. and can steve hartman make his son a star? it's up to you and youtube. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. the u.s.s. "enterprise" is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier set to deploy to the middle east later this month. but it's not clear if the ship's current commander will be at the helm when it sets sail. tonight he's under fire over a series of raunchy tapes he made several years ago that have now just become public. they were meant to entertain the "enterprise" crew but as bob orr reports, the navy brass is not amused. >> reporter: even as he was making the tapes four years ago, captain owen honors knew he was

over more than half of americans are against their country's border fears that plan cuts at the pentagon won't go ahead of big business gets its way. and pensioner poverty the traditional image of a happy retirement in the united kingdom is shattered by a report which says the elderly are suffering financially more than any other group . hello this is r t it's eight pm monday the tenth of january money was kevin owen and our top story tonight trapped by ice for almost two weeks now a refrigerator vessel stuck in frozen waters off russia's far east is being towed by two ice breakers tonight several other ships have been rescued from the same situation over the past few days that now leaves just one more with over three hundred crew aboard as the last to be freed sarah first following the operation. two icebreakers still working hard to free these remaining two ships that has been incredibly tough. i think the president of the macro not to say that at the remaining t.v.'s the refrigerator said and they voted to get that trying out to get it through the thin ice area but it's been tough goi

. >>> the pentagon has been >>> the pentagon has been quietly testing a new high tech unmanned plane, and abc's john hendren recently went deep into the mojave desert to get an exclusive first look. >> reporter: this is how aviation history is being made. slowly, silently lumbering into the stratosphere. an unmanned spy plane that will soar higher and stay up longer than anything in the air right now. the aircraft weighs about as much as a large suv, but in order to fly so high for so long, the wingspan has to be enormous. about half a football field. that way, though you can't see it, it can see you. like a satellite, but for a fraction of a cost. >> a large satellite, billion plus. >> reporter: so, we're talking to buy a plane like this, tens of millions as opposed to hundreds of millions? >> correct. >> reporter: the manufacturer gave us an exclusive look. during this test, the global observer flew at 6,000 feet. but on the job, it will fly at a stratosphere-skimming 65,000 feet. twice as high as mt. everest. and from there, it will be able to see 600 miles in every direction. enou

americans are against the country there are fears that cuts to the pentagon go ahead and big business gets its way. also. the traditional image of a happy retirement in the u.k. is shattered by. suffering financially more than any other group. and trading here in russia. the first time since the new year we'll be looking at what's likely to move the markets. in twenty minutes on business. around the world around the clock this is r.t. now trapped by ice for almost two weeks now a refrigerator stuck in frozen waters off russia's far east stop being towed by a pair of ice breakers several of the ships have been rescued from the same situation over the last few days that now leaves just one with three hundred crew as the last to be freed. is following the operation now joins us live and bring us up to date sara we've we've learned that nothing can be taken for granted in rescues such as these but tell me what's the progress. well they break a still working hard to free these remaining. that has been incredibly tough guy thing. because it is not the macro not to say this move at the remai

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more than half of americans are against the country's wards there are fears find the cuts at the pentagon one go ahead if big business gets its way. also pension up the traditional image of a happy retirement in the u.k. is a shattered by report which says the elderly. suffering financially more than any other group. as a whole the season draws to an end here in russia the first working day being on choose day we're looking at some of the factors that may be moving money in twenty eleven join me for more in twenty minutes time. around the world around the clock this is r.t. trapped by ice for almost two weeks now a refrigerator a vessel stuck in frozen waters off russia's far eastern coast is now being towed by a pair of ice breakers several other ships have been rescued from the same situation over the last few days that now leaves just one with over three hundred crew as the last to be freed. following the operation. two icebreakers still working hard to free these remaining two ships but it has been incredibly tough. because it is not the macro not to play the fool out at the remaining