nixon held in the context of the pentagon papers leak. it was held at 3:30 p.m.on the 17th of june, 1971. mr. nixon both opened and closed the meeting. he opened by saying that a number of u.s. presidents, if you wanted to get something into the new york sometimes, the thing that you needed to do was to declare it top secret. he went through a whole litany of things that should be done by the government along the lines of what i've been talking about. he closed the meeting by saying -- and i quote, the president said that we have to win and a conviction of the public relations dispute. you know, it was richard nixon, not the material itself, that made the pentagon papers of the american political document. it was the administration's response to change but more simply a historical report into something that became an important artifact in american political history, something which led mr. nixon in a direction which ultimately destroyed his presidency and these are the kinds of issues that historians have to deal with and i submit to you there's no way that they

time now for tonight's tool time award and this time it's going to the pentagon we've discussed the f. thirty five program on the show it time and time again you know the most expensive defense program ever the one that's been riddled with problems and allays the jets have been grounded for everything from valve issues to parachute problems in the past few months and let's not forget to mention that the persistently faulty planes are hopelessly and absurdly over budget and last month the pentagon announced that it would postpone the production of one hundred seventy nine of its two thousand four hundred forty three after thirty five but they will eventually order of a goal to save fifteen point one billion dollars over the next five years following that announcement strongly also decided to delay their order of f. thirty five. and italy decided to cut its order from one hundred thirty one planes to ninety well after the pentagon announced the production postponement the head of lockheed martin have this to say about the announcement he said it will raise the overall average cost of th

pentagon oh i think it's fair to say that the n.s.a. under bush. is our private information this was the whole warrantless surveillance program that was sort of backdoor authorized rapturous actively. going to powers an eight am so yes it is not really have a great history here if you go back to the seventy's it's even worse so that's one concern another is kind of feature going to creeping featurism here is want one for is i mean what what happens once information sharing becomes a little less voluntary what happens if there are some legal incentives to share or do you really want the n.s.a. having that info about american citizens and how do you distinguish between cyber a quote unquote kara's someone who wants to bring harm to the united states and for example a protestor i mean what about like the anonymous protesters right there using the internet to make points heard. if you look at the history of american politics in the last few generations you had examples of the after going monitoring anti-war protesters martin luther king i mean this is

the first thing that happened where "the new york times" leaked and published the pentagon papers was that henry kissinger demanded to know whether he was on any of the distribution lists for any of these papers so that was by way of determining whether there was any proof that he could have had a role in this. a few years ago we got the telephone tapes of mr. nixon's conversations that day and we transcribed them and actually the stran scritranscripts are pn that book in the pentagon papers and the transcripts show pretty clearly that president nixon was prepared to let the pentagon papers go by, that this was something that he could use to his political advantage because it lambasted and implicated the concerns of democrats linden johnson, hubert humphrey, john kennedy. it was fine as far as he was concerned. alexander hague calling up mr. nixon and then henry kissinger who at first was also not determined to pursue this were the ones

but, first, the billion dollar accounting problem for the pentagon isn't prepared to handle. on this program just last week pentagon comptroller bob hale acknowledged that an accounting rule change set to take effect in 2013 could end up costing the pentagon billions if contractors are allowed to pass on more pension costs as allowable contract expenses. how significant is the problem? and how will the sale of excess military equipment hit defense contractors as they work to boost export sales of new equipment? joining us to answer questions is bill greenwold at the aerospace industry lo was the policy achieve at the pentagon during the obama administration as well as being a form lockheed martin executive. thanks for being here. >> thank you, vago, it's a pleasure. >> let's start out, what does the shift from cost accounting standards to general accounting standards means? >> this is one of the incredibly complex issues that i've had to deal with and so at the risk of simplifying, i'll give you kind of my view on this. the first issue is that there's what's called the aricea

jobs in pentagon employees wanting golden parachutes will make it out of the pentagon they make a place for them on lucky boards and in their various offices around the country lockheed martin knows how to entice and seduce these people to get exactly what they want and i think the numbers that you have there just show it and it shows that they know that the money they're spending is subject. i but if i let's say you know you were northrop grumman or that you were boeing would you look at perhaps you know the budgets of some of these contracts and say hey it's not fair what you want to call your competitor out and say that really you're just paying to play or is that not profitable for that you know to take a little piece of pie that subcontracts north of. me will not give martin get something or do they just want the same practice to keep on going just in case they learn how to start winning well i mean the thing about that is that yes in one way they do kind of benefit somewhat when lockheed martin wins because they act to some contractors on those contracts but the moment they point

i wanted to speak a little bit more about nixon's response to the pentagon papers being the downfall. rather than the fact that if he just -- and would you talk about that a little more. >> the pentagon papers had a study, as a military analysis, as a strategic study were about decisions, that it all happened in or behind or before 1968. president johnson, kennedy, eisenhower, actually, and mostly democrats. fdr and truman. there was no content in the pentagon papers that called into question the victim leadership or his own kind of decisions. all right? he could have let this go by as an enormously certainly but a leak and treated it in a standard perspective. but he drew attention to the issue first with the attempt to suppress the document, which invoked first amendment disputes and freedom of the press issues that were guaranteed to be explosive in american society and moved the conversation up to the level of the united states supreme court where, in fact, it was found against him and, second, when he could not achieve what he wanted on the surface, he referred to subterrainian t

thirty five is a prime example it was approved by a gentleman of the pentagon named pete aldrich who right after he got done approving that standing and in so much twenty two spending which is another lockheed product that he went to work for lockheed martin on their payroll. well surprise surprise the revolving door played a part in the beginning of this after the five disaster and let's not forget the other project eric brought up the f. twenty two and other lockheed martin projects plagued with issues remember last fall when the entire fleet was grounded after they found antifreeze an oil fumes in the blood of the pilots sounds like a program that's on the road to success but it seems that in the pentagon lockheed martin can do no wrong and the f. thirty five project will march on a matter how long it takes and how much money it ends up costing and for that the pentagon is tonight's top time winner. all right joining me now for happy hour is lauren lyster host of the capital account and our t.v. producer jenny turtle thanks so much for being on the girls already they. have guys al

there was no content in the pentagon papers that called into question mr. nixon's leadership or his own kind of decisions, all right? he could have let this go by as an enormous leak, certainly, but a leak and treated it in a standard perspective. but he drew attention to the issue first with the attempt to suppress the document which invoked first amendment disputes and freedom of the press issues that were guaranteed to be explosive in american society and moved the conversation up to the level of the united states supreme court where, in fact, it was found against him, and, second, when he could not achieve what he wanted on the surface, he resorted to subterranean techniques, most particularly starting a plumbers unit within the white house which was actually the first how should i say, active move in the creation of the colossus of subterranean forces that acted throughout the watergate period and undermined his own leadership and presidency, ultimately forcing him to resign. so in a very real sense you can trace the downfall of richard nixon to the ac

so it was an eye for the pentagon's love of spending your tax dollars earned venice nights told time award and also stick around for happy hour reporter is outed by a competitor for being a super plus reports a dominic strauss kahn that loves luggage i'll explain and just know. you don't see a story at the scene so you think you understand it and then you know here's the part of it and realize that everything you say you don't know i'm sorry is a big. mystery . but in the aloneness so you know there's a real headline with none of the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and for what actually matters for those viewers and so that's like young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. . is the state english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to the u.s. . time now for tonight's tool time award and this time it's

is reading from budget cuts all across the board that is unless the pentagon gets its way more cuts to defense spending could put america risk we're told is that really the case going to break down all the budget madness and that. we must not allow iran to have a nuclear weapon if they do the world changes america will be at risk and someday nuclear weaponry will be used well it wouldn't be the first time that unfounded fears lead to conflict in the way american politicians are talking these days it certainly may not be the last but is all of this warmongering actually doing anyone any good director sean stone will tell us why we shouldn't fear iran. and it's a new chapter for the occupy wall street movement from taking on bankers to taking on lawmakers protestors are directing their scrutiny and slogans towards corporations going to bring you the latest from stays in nationwide protests. that evening happy to leave wednesday to you every twenty nine times seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy captain of you're watching our team well depends secretary leon panetta was back on capit

a pentagon spokesman will join us in a moment. right now our technical crews are working to set him up. well, no, he is not ready. communications are difficult here in the communication business. panetta told afghan officials the recent violence such as the incident last weekend in which the unemployment soldier is said to have gone on a deadly shooting spree will not deter the united states from carrying out its mission in afghanistan. but will the comments do anything to diffuse growing tension after high-profile scandals involving u.s. troops? and where are the american people on this issue? we know from surveys that before this shooting happened, where 16 people were killed by the american soldier, 54 percent of americans believe troops should come home now and the war is not working; it is not in the united statess' interest any longer. we won this in the early months and the taliban were getted and -- were defeated and the people were liberated. now the problem is internal. all of the humanitarian efforts the united states m

so when i see general -- i worked in the pentagon. i was a scientific adviser to the chief of naval operations so i'm highly sensitized to who says what. so when i see general james cartwright in front of the senate saying that if he -- he was actually asked by i forget the senator, but he was asked by a member of the committee if there was a crisis between the united states and north korea, what advice would he give the president of the united states about with regard to the ground based missile defense system? and he said, oh, i would tell the president that he could have complete confidence in the system. you could see the eyebrows raise in the senate -- among the senators. now, this guy is the second most senior member of our military. i worry -- i worked on nuclear war plans. i was at the ground zero level. i mean, i had a lot of access when i was in the pentagon and i was helping to integrate trident 1 into the force. so i know what goes on in these plans and it should make your hair stand on end. what these statements of a mili

our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski on duty from there tonight. jim, good evening. >> good evening, brian. another twist to the tragic story, villagers where the shooting took place are now claiming that the 16 civilians were gunned down in retaliation for an ied attack against american forces. they claim days before the massacre, american combat troops entered the village and threatened to kill every man and their children for that attack on the americans. but pentagon and military officials said there's no evidence of any ied attack around that time and no evidence the americans threatened retaliation. in fact, officials here at the pentagon suspect this is nothing more than propaganda. at the same time, we're told tonight those charges against the suspect, army staff sergeant robert bales, including 16 counts of murder, are expected at the end of this week. >> jim miklaszewski from the pentagon tonight. thanks, as always. >>> still ahead as "nightly news" continues, ahead of schedule, not always as nice as it looks, though. warm weather is trig

the pentagon cut -- is that going to be overturned? >> i do not know. i want to look at it. to me, it is not a one or the other. i have some concerns. how do you take a 50-year-old plane? that technology was 50 years old. -- kind of unmanned the direction we are going. i will not look at it based on whether it is done in my district are not. we have a subcommittee that will be looking at all those things in minute details and i will try to look at the overall -- i will not be involved in trying to force something because it is best for my district. i will be looking at the overall defense of our nation. what is the best way to make sure we have the best possible use -- i understand the defense needs to be on the table, just like everything else. why take 50% of the savings out of 20% of the budget? we need to get to where the real problem is. the defense department is not the problem. when you look at 487 billion and the potential of another 500 billion, and someone even go further. there are people who would like to see us eliminate defense, just along with everybody. >> we

islamic is the pentagon and control? and would be much harder to cut this if the generals didn't want to do it as the chairman said? >> i wonder if the generals would think about chairman ryan, the commander in chief, but look, i have no doubt that chairman rye and like many before have plenty of discussions with the generals who have come in. i think that happens all the time and the generals go and it's part of the process. they go to the hill and they talk to the chairman and they say this is what we would like and particularly for my service they are not really in the business of cutting the year in the business of saying this is what i want to do. so i'm not sure, that to your question, which was i think the pentagon -- a big part of the strategy that we saw earlier this year is can the negotiations had and were basically they said we see this is coming down the pike but we want to make the decision we don't want the congress or someone else handing it a mandate so i think they are going to maintain that argument th

are saying wait a second how is it that every time to pentagon spoke when there was a republican in the white house what they saw was well these are just the facts these are just professional soldiers they're out here to be politicians but now all of a sudden when it's not a republican in the white house these guys are why didn't i meet let's face it we're going to i do believe something consistently or we're not i guess we're not yeah i it's weird see i don't really know and paul ryan suddenly became the expert and he doesn't really give any evidence to it but like i said ironic because i think that there are areas where you can actually call out our military officials for not telling the whole truth but this side this is kind of a weird way to start but one of the things that we do you know we talk about where the pentagon is heading for t.j. cle as we know that drones are here to stay right drone warfare is it's the way of the future and so what do you think about this news that we got this week that australia just might be willing to let the u.s. you know use their territory for

whether or not bales to this drug, the pentagon will not say., could it have led to the psychotic behavior? definitely. it says it on the drug label. we have seen it time and again, even with a special forces. >> give us examples, mark benjamin. >> i spent most of my time working with peace corps volunteers who also took this drug and had serious problems and very easily to special forces soldiers. i focus on that because to statistically they're unlikely to do things like commit suicide. they're relatively stable people. i found a series of special forces who took this drug and resorted to acts of violence, murder, and suicide. there was a typical pattern that emerged. in 2004, i concentrated on a very experienced special forces who was a very stable guy, took the drug during a tour and iran. he had severe mental problems. typically, when a person has a problem with this drug, it is relatively easy to figure out because typically what happens is they do not just have mental problems, the physical problems. they had a rash, gastrointestinal prob

ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker and this is i mean i guess and say he's not within the pentagon right this is from the diplomatic arm and the other week when it was the koran burning incident he signaled that this should not mean that anybody should rush for an exit out of afghanistan because we saw to fight al qaeda here is pretty much i going the same state. i understand that people are tired of this war after a decade and. you know i'm tired too i've been deployed to afghanistan pakistan and iraq. going on seven years now since nine eleven so. believe me i understand what feeling tired means but these are the stakes. if we decide to we're tired of it that we don't want to do it anymore well the taleban. isn't that tired and badly damaged it would be able to regenerate and if the taliban puts the country over again. bizarrely sure i get of logic error right i mean i think it's pretty obvious that we're not going to rid afghanistan of the taliban you know when you make a statement like that it sounds like that's saying we have to stay forever. yeah i have a lot of respect for a

the pentagon generals want to stay as long as possibly can as as you suggested well within the white house there's been great trepidation about the strategy there's been fears beginning it's just going to be a huge mess it's going to be a political mess or president obama as well as the tremendous cost it's going to cost in lives and and treasure so so again we're seeing that play out now i mean i was at the upcoming nato conference. in may where i think there will be it will be a significant difference in tone from the nato conference that i've attended in the past where that kind of really tried to say we're in this for the long haul and i think that's going to be different this time around. so this point do you think that it's become impossible i mean you know one of the things that you've written about for a long stoner in the last thing you write about is this media machine that we think coming from within the pentagon specifically from the top from the generals but do you think that it's going to be impossible for them to spin their way out of this war you know can they still k

and then, the pentagon chief has details on the debate between the justice department and pentagon concerning benefits for same-sex military spouses. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--] >> good morning. it's the "washington journal" more for march 24, 2012. louisiana hold its primary. make assure to check in on our website. that's at cspan.org for forcing and results. and -- forbes. and monday, the supreme court argues the health law for three days and you can hear same-day audio in the afternoon around 1:00 eastern. and washington tonight, it is the annual gridiron dinner. it is comprised of high ranking journalists. that takes place tonight. president obama weighed in on the shooting of travon martin at the rose garden. we want to get your thoughts on what he said, about the case and what impack it might have long term. and here's how you can do so this morning -- host: a variety of papers with the remarks made about the rose garden yesterday. this

and tough budget cuts for all it would seem except for the pentagon the military is defending its spending priorities warning that any more any more cuts could hurt national security troops or high we're going to break it down. and from occupying wall street to shutting down corporations new protests all across the country are targeting corporate influence of politics going to bring you the latest from today's nationwide actions . good evening it's wednesday february twenty ninth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy catherine and rushing party. well israel's prime minister cites off this week on a u.s. visit clouded by a deepening rift with washington which of course is worried about a potential israeli attack against iran's nuclear program and well israel says that it has not yet decided whether to strike but has signaled a readiness to do so a move that would have worldwide implications now while some have cautioned against a military confrontation with the country the position has significant support among a handful of u.s. lawmakers as well as republican white house hopefuls publi

world and reorganize state so that for example syria there's a map that exists pentagon map that exists showing that syria under the proposed changes would simply have no access any longer to the sea to the mediterranean which is rich in oil and gas is recent discoveries of confirmed but it's being financed the opposition so-called opposition inside syria is being financed and weaponized by saudi arabia by the emirates especially qatar the propaganda coming coming out of. syria and the qatari owned outlets is very one sided and it makes it appear to be a black and white situation which it is not at all it's interesting you mention cat so there of course only today all six out of the league state said they're going to close the damascus embassies because of the violence roy impacts that going to have on the new base than proposed by russia and the arab league what's the knock on effect going to be. well i don't think it's a constructive move the saudi agenda seems to be to pit sunni against the shiite and the other way the regime of bashar is is a division of the shiite branch of islam s

question gave me pause because each one of us remembers when the twin towers collapsed, when the pentagon was struck, and when the plane crashed in pennsylvania. and what i found through my reporting along with the fox specials unit is that every investigative threat e led back to an american, al awlaki. he is the leader of al qaeda 2.0, this new generation of american recruits. these are people who lemplg our technology against us. so whether they are e-mailing or blogging or skyping, they are kind of like the facebook friends from hell. and this could not be more topical, because what most americans don't realize is that there is a documented case of home grown terrorism in this country every two to three weeks. there have been more cases in the united states in the last two and a half years than we had in the first eight years after 9/11. just recently, we had a case in washington, d.c. a young man living in the united states illegally for 12 years was accused of being a suicide bomber and his target was the capitol building. an important important threshold has now been crossed. what'

david martin is breaking this story at the pentagon tonight. david? >> reporter: scott, this new in enformation is at odds with the initial version that he simply turned himself in. according to this new information when it was discovered he was missing from the base, a search party, complete with helicopters was sent looking for him and found him crawling through an orchard as if he were trying to sneak back on to the base un undetected. when he was taken into custody he invoked his right to remain silent silent and demanded a lawyer. now as you said, the u.s. command in kabul has announced there is probable cause to continue holding him while charges... while lawyers prepare charges against him. that is expected to take two weeks or less. when charges are brought, his name will be publicly released. it may seem like an open-and-shut case, but this could drag on for months if not years. army major nidal hassan killed 13 people in front of multiple witnesses when he opened fire at fort hood texas in november 2009. he was captured immediately but his c

pentagon officials caught off guard by the report say the disposals were ordered by david chu, the pentagonsonnel chief under defense secretary donald rumsfeld, a chu memo that did not specifically recommend the remains be taken to a landfill. an army sergeant who tried to rescue people at pentagon that day tells fox 5 how dealt with those he tried to save and what he thinks about the military's handling of victims' remains. >> to hear something like that is appalling, but i know that, you know, as military we take care of our own and that's why i don't understand how that could have happened. i made it a point to make sure that each person once we had possession of them were carried out with dignity because they died with honor and they were going out with honor. >> president obama called the handling of remains unacceptable. his defense secretary today ordered briefings within the next few weeks explaining past practices to families whose loved ones were affected. >>> now that michigan is in the books the republican presidential hopefuls are setting their sights on super tuesday. the marc

according to the pentagon's base structure report today these amount to seven hundred sixteen in forty eight countries more than two hundred fifty thousand soldiers stationed on these bases in addition to this the u.s. has a military presence in one hundred ten countries around the world. a year after his election barack obama approved the new administration's first military budget this amounts to six hundred eighteen billion dollars thirty billion more than bush's last defense budget and almost equalling the seven hundred eighty seven billion dollars set aside by the new administration for the economic crisis stimulus package why despite the crisis does the military budget keep growing a crises a military expansion related in some way. when we have different friends and stations or sometimes bands that come or even move we have talent night if we have people that want to show off their talent we have a stage. we've done all sorts of things here from a halloween party there's christmas parties there's other events that happened here at the center as well yeah they had they have softene

i do want to go first to the pentagoning to chris lawrence. kuwait? >> well, in terms of just moving the soldier to kuwait, they say it was based on one, the legal advice of some of the advisers to general allen, and two, the fact that they felt they did not have the facilities to hold a u.s. service member for any length of time. there was already a probable cause hearing, so to speak. it wasn't a full-blown hearing more like an assessment where they found they had reason to detain him longer. but very likely, his legal proceedings will probably last beyond his tour of duty. so at some point, you knew he was going to leave afghanistan if not be brought back here to the united states. >> also, chris, why is it that this particular soldier hasn't been identified yet? why don't we know his name? >> well, there's been -- we've been asking that same question for days now. that you know, even for minor crimes, if you're stopped in the street and arrested, you get a booking photo. that information is put out publicly almost immediately. why would su

soldier acted alone in what a senior pentagon official calls a mass murder. the scene was horrific. evidence, say military officials, of one soldier's rage. 16 civilians were killed when the american soldier went on a shooting rampage in a small village south of kandahar. the army staff sergeant left his remote outpost at about 1:00 a.m. and walked more than a mile to reach his target. then in a premeditated, methodical manner went door to door shooting his victims as they slept. among them, nine children, one only 2 years old. was this child the taliban, cried this woman, i have never seen a 2-year-old taliban. witnesses point to a blood-spattered wall and a charred floor where they say the soldier wrapped some of the children in a blanket and set them on fire. spent bullet cartridges were gathered for evidence. u.s. military officials now say an afghan soldier had reported the american had left the outpost. but by the time the army formed a search party, it was too late. at the u.n. today, secretary of state hillary clinton condemned the attack and promised justice. >> a full inve

i've briefed pentagon. absolutely, in fact, a copy of the book recently went to -- to the panetta family because i got families and they thought the secretary of defense might have seen this. it apparently didn't get to secretary gates. it needs to. i've not just written one. i've written -- beyond this, the pentagon apparently liked my work 'cause they came back and they asked me to be a part of the directed study on iran and i wrote the economic passages in that book, too. and i've been asked by the pentagon a couple of other times to do things. there are good people there, really good people. but they have for the most part know nothing about stock markets and economics and currencies. they are encouraging them to start thinking in those terms. yes, it's not a partisan issue. i wish the obama administration would pick it up and run through it. it's not through lack of trying. i briefed senator lieber man's staff and so democrat and republican. >> but kind of following up on that, can you comment on wheth

we'll introduce queyou to a 9/1 pentagon hero getting a new leash on life.ll have a look at how fairfax county school kids are helping to shape what millions of other students eat while away from home. but first, a reminder, next time you leave your car at a metro parking garage, a few extra seconds could keep you from being a victim of theft. metrotransity officers are out on patrol and they're looking for drivers who leave those hot items visible in their car, such as their laptop or cell phone as news 4's tracy wilkins reports, metro's parking garage crackdown holds you accountable. >> we're looking for broken glass on the ground. maybe the keyhole punched. >> a large portion of metro's crimes have been in the parking lot. specifically within and around vehicles. >> if a criminal sees it, they'll more than likely vandalize the car. >> metro police officers are on foot, on bikes and in vehicles patrolling their parking lots and garages, looking for what drivers often forget. >> the casing that they stick on the windows, the patrons should take those down b

from terror networks to the nuclear weapons program, secretary panetta is the person at the pentagonure that iran is not a threat to american national security. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming a great friend, the secretary of defense of the united states, leon panetta. ♪ [ applause ] >> thank you, michael for that very kind introduction. congratulations, on becoming aipac's new president and thank you, thank you for your life-long dedication to a strong u.s./israel relationship. it's my great honor to be here. and to be the first secretary of defense to address the aipac policy conference in more than 20 years. i come here as secretary is but more significantly i come here as a life long friend of israel. a few weeks ago, i had the opportunity to sit down with howard core and lee rose enberg at my office in the pentagon. they briefed me on how they saw the future of the u.s./israel relationship and together we discussed ways to strengthen, to enhance and to deepen the

look at all the headlights already, out of a woodbrige to the pentagon. everything relatively nice along 95. everything is working well for metro rail, marc rail, and vre. back to you. >> thank you. 5:19. trampled. the capitals lead to america must win a game of the season with buffalo turn into a loss. >> next "anderson," the suburban mother says she can talk to the dead. but is she for real? >> the los angeles dodgers have a new pirate with local ties. part of it involves magic johnson and a former nationals vice-president named stan. they are paying $2 billion, for the ballclub. so it is showtime again in the city of angels. the lady terrapins congratulations on a terrific season. they lost to notre dame. here is tim brant core. it's one of the biggest of the games in a long time last night. the capitals and the sabres. buffalo beat the capitals. washington had costly turnovers, careless moves. buffalo just kept pounding and scoring. second period, down three points. on the power play, look at this. ovechkin falls in the chase. a short-handed goal. 4-1

in moments, a pentagon spokesman joins us live. i'm harris falkner, this is the fox report. >> an american in uniform accused of going door-to-door, killing families in their homes in afghanistan. now, reactions coming in from topple military brass to the white house and in that war zone suspicious is reaching an all-time high and the hunt is on for votes and delegates in the south. after a race for the republican nomination, tonight, game on as a new round of political contests gets tighter and tougher. >> plus, star chase and it's dark out. and they always try to get away, hey, dude, you know how this is going to end. whoa, we'll let the rest of the tape roll. >> we begin tonight with a deeping this crisis in afghanistan. officials there saying, united states soldiers shot and killed 16 civilians, several of them women and children. afghan president karzai called it an intentional killing and assassination of innocent people and the white house and pentagon condemning the attack and leaders from both governments looking for answe

kind of a a weird way to start but one of the things that we do you know we talk about where the pentagon is heading for t.v. clee as we know that drones are here to stay right drone warfare is it's the way of the future and so what do you think about this news that we got this week that australia just might be willing to let the u.s. you know use their territory for drugs well i'm not shocked at all in fact what we have seen since president obama has taken office is that really this is the approach that we want to take in the first place you could go back several years now and again since senator obama can't became president obama we have seen more than a three hundred percent increase in terms of the use of drones and not just talking about afghanistan i'm talking about pakistan i'm talking about yemen any yemen in particular the incur. it's dramatic in the last really two years but we've also seen them in other places like somalia so we're seeing this massive increase i think what happens is that we've decided is it's easy it's nice and simple if we just simply send out a demand list a