saved would count but tell that to congress as money is spent on a missile defense program that the pentagon doesn't even want more of that later in the show. it's thursday march twenty eighth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our team. starting off this hour protest coming out of chicago in response to school shutdowns after announcing the closing of fifty four schools in the city the largest single closure in the history of the united states parents teachers and students took to the streets to voice their disapproval and this lee latest measure designed to help close a one billion dollars budget deficit artie's on the stasi a church is in chicago with more. record single school closure in u.s. history versus the people. chicago the third largest city in america plans to shut down fifty four public schools by autumn this year and makes us feel like we are not important to anybody and makes us so much harder for us to get an education thousands of protesters flooded onto the streets of the windy city to rally against this measure on wednesday one hundred sixty

that's right i mean i think mead's is exactly why the pentagon's budget has just exploded over the last decade as you point out this is a program that the military says it doesn't want that congress has overwhelmingly said they don't are interested in funding it anymore but here it is twenty thirteen we're going to be spending a couple hundred million dollars on it what it really gets down to is how to repeal interests and how the dysfunction that exists between congress and the pentagon can really keep these programs going for long after everyone agrees they should and i guess it's just so strange because this is a program that has got all these all this money these these missiles would go towards the partner defense and they're saying we don't need it but congress is still saying you need it and we're going to spend money on it is right and this is this is not the first time that congress has said we're going to spend money on weapons that you don't want the military routinely says there's weapons we don't want just this past year they once again said we don't need any more tanks cong

fights conflicts around the globe has changed dramatically we'll look at the evolving techniques the pentagon uses to wage war around the world. and the un is coming down on the u.s. for their drone attacks on pakistan we'll have a report from new york on what the united nations says about the drone strikes and why it violates pakistan's sovereignty. it's tuesday march nineteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. well ten years ago today the united states invaded iraq and on this anniversary about a dozen car bombs and suicide blast killed at least fifty people a deadly reminder that iraq remains a dangerous and unstable country when the bush administration launched this war there was no indication the war would last this long claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and cost as much as it has are to correspond mega lopez takes a look at the promises the bush administration made versus the way it actually played out. my fellow citizens at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free its people a

to find out what had happened in that attack and the pentagon lied for years saying that there was no video they couldn't answer they didn't know what has happened so by exposing this bradley manning again close peace gave our answers to these traumatized families that have been lied to repeatedly by the pentagon i think it's also interesting one other aspect around this is that he tried to give this information to other mainstream media outlets to begin with the washington post the new york times and the politico web site and he was dismissed and in fact in the washington post said that if this was if they were going to follow this information it would need to be that it is a senior level i.e. suppressed so what we're seeing is the old model did not respond to this amazingly brave push towards transparency to inform the american people what is done in the name so he went nearly the wrong place it is a publisher of sensitive information and i publishing such sensitive information it allows the citizens of the globe to realize what is done by governments and to hold their governments t

the pentagon says this only heightens the nuclear threat.g up we are going to have the latest news from the pentagon and a discussion with a former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. but first, we are awaiting a speech by one of the most outspoken critics of obama's health care law and momentarily he'll be addressing this year's conservative political action conference cpac as it's known. hello, everyone, glad you're with us, i'm gregg jarrett and welcome to america's news headquarters. >> thanks for joining us, i'm hell they are childress. and america's most influential conservatives, and speaking michele bachmann, take a look at her live there. in a few minutes the health care debate will take center stage with dr. ben carson, who is considered a trail blazer by some republicans, for his views. molly henneberg is there at cpac live with the latest, molly? >> reporter: good morning, heather, good morning, gregg. yes, dr. carson will speak after michele bachmann finishing at the podium. and scott walker as well as house spea

pentagon is taking north korea's threats very seriously. u.s.ilitar now beefing up a missile defense system after regime warned it is ready to wipe out washington. details straight ahead. an eyewitness testifying at high school football players accused of raping a passed out drunk girl during a night of big time partying. if you thought that jodi arias murder trial couldn't get weirder, wait until you see interrogation video that just surfaced. head stands. unless breaking news changes everything on studio "b". >> gregg: first. any minute we do expected the defense secretary to announce the pentagon's plan to in the growing nuclear threat of north korea. sources saying the defense is thet s tote deploy 14 ground missile interceptors at silos in california and alaska. pentagon halted the build-up you may recall back in 2009, but just one week ago north korea vowed to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the united states. obama administration officials telling fox news the rogue nation threat is evolving, that is their word. just yesterday

just a few examples where i don't know a state kentucky eleven thousand civilians working for the pentagon are facing possible unpaid leave there the state of illinois can take would see a half a billion dollars in cuts to spending for law enforcement and crime prevention. in virginia ninety thousand civilian defense the department employees would also be for a lie. and it's not just the states it's not breaking news that we now live in a very interconnected world and that this manufactured storm created on capitol hill will most certainly cause ripples across the globe the i.m.f. confirms that they're saying there will be an impact on global growth economy start talking about how vulnerable european markets are one economist is writing this could further delay the european recovery recovery just long enough for something to go wrong in one country and send europe into a severe contraction and that would have a backlash in the west so pretty powerful for an artificial crisis the sequester may be a manufactured crisis but of erica's deficit problem is not it is very real the country is runn

have you seen the pentagon budget? i mean, there are lots of things that aring in that budget -- >> there's fat in the pentagon budget, but -- >> without hurting veterans and without hurting health care and without -- there are certainly things in every agency that can be streamlined. >> again, that is not a position that the republican party has had. >> that was obama's bet. that republicans wouldn't be willing to -- >> and they haven't. >> there's an acknowledgment that even the pentagon budget has a little bit of fat. >> nicole, that's what democrats have been saying for decades. there's something -- what's interesting, though, is that in the senate and to this point that you were making, alex, about let the senate do it, there were three -- in the sequester bill that tried to come to the floor mitch mcconnell literally filibustered all three. two were a republican bill. there was a kelly ayotte bill. there was a republican bill that would have given more discretion to the executives saying you could actually do wha

the pentagon will greatly impact u.s. efforts.reme court will release same-day audio over two same-sex marriage cases. they downtown same thing during south carolina and the case in 2000. >>> t.j. lane, the teen who shot teens at an ohio high school was sentenced to three life times. he wore a t-shirt with the world killer on it during the hearing. >>> passengers on a diverted flight from boston to atlanta got a special delivery last night. 30 pizzas were delivered to the hungry passengers as they sat on the tarmac in knoxville, tennessee. beats peanut. >>> michael bloomberg may be on to something when it comes to the debay over sugary drinks. worldwide, 180,000 obesity-related deaths are linked to sugary drinks. diabetes, cardiovascular december and cancer. >>> cyprus investors looking to the fed for answers. ben bernanke is expected to announce monetary policy unchanged. protests in a rejected bank depositor bailout failed. >> fedex, general miller and lennar will all report before the bell. adobe systems shot up in after hours

a lot of pentagon employees have to have a 60-day notice. it's going to be mid april and beyond. that's when we will start to see job losses, long lines at airports. that's when you're going to see some renewed pressure on members of congress to take a more serious look at what these cuts are doing. gwen: is there an incentive for the president and congress to get this figured out? they were hoping for a million in the beginning of these discussions? >> yeah, we've taken a deep breath partly out of exhaustion, political exhaustion from the fiscal cliff, this crisis, that crisis. and the sense that i get from talking to members of congress and both parties is that they would like to take a step back from that. you've seen some pretty ugly things happen. you know, this fiscal cliff ended up with this tax increase and the spending cuts that were supposed to be so terrible, there would be the incentive not to do them. but i do hear especially from republicans, they don't want a government closure. that did not work out well for them in the mid 1990's. so there is a pull-back. but the

jon: the pentagon has responded this morning, and let me read off of the computer what the pentagon spokesmand. he calls this a well-worn pattern of belacose trefpltsz says the rhetoric is too high and this doesn't help, we, meaning the pentagon are concerned about anything that might destabilize the korean peninsula. the north koreans are claiming that we are the provocators here because we have been flying b52's over south korea or maybe an international air space along the coast. >> it's very interesting because the last time we flew b52's over south korea was after the tree cut event in 1976. that really got the korean's attention. they know what the b52 is, it's an airplane that delivers nuclear weapons, and so i happen, personally to having seen it in the past and seeing it now i think that was a very appropriate response. look, the north koreans are a criminal state, their whole purpose for existence is to maintain the ruling elite. there is nothing in it for them to start a war. what they are trying to do is extort resources from china and the rest of the western nations and they use

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they are across the country, there are 587,000 of them, but we have the highest pentagon here and we are four more times liely to be a mega commuter. if you are not one yet you are not likely to become one. the census did the study in 2000 and the commute sounds terrible, no more people are doing it now in 2012 than in 2000. >> the percentage of worker whose took 90 minutes or longer to get to work was a long time one way, in the year 2000, it was between 2 percent and 3 percent of all workers which has stayed the same according to our most recent data. >> more good news for those who are not mega commuters: our commute times are not that bad compared to the rest of the country. the average one way commute in santa clara county in 2011 was 24.7 minutes. 27.8 minutes in oakland. in san francisco it was 29.6 minutes. doesn't sound too bad, all under 30 minutes. >> tonight is the night for the bay area light project as we were talking about earlier. you probably have seen the new light display on the bridge and we have been testing it for weeks. tonight, the full bay like spectacular is

hello,ii, cia. >>> are the white house and pentagon in sync on this matter? >> they may be but also seem to be intentionally unclear. the white house says we're not providing military aid. the pentagon says it's not training opposition fighters, which leaves open the possibility the military is training the jordans to train the syrian fighters or the cia is training syrian fighters in jordan. the white house doesn't comment on intelligence matters and jay carney offered little insight today. >> includes equipment, the other issues i don't have anything for you. >> couldles mean the u.s. is training opposition leaders on the working of democracy and inclusiveness. we don't know. >> shepard: the arab league took a step to help the opposition. >> the league recognized the leader of the opposition and authorized the league member states to support the rebels. now, just yesterday, opposition leader said he was stepping down and the state department was defending itself from critics who said he might not have quit if the u.s. had given the rebels more support. the

but it's the job of the pentagon and the president to reassure the public. that's what they attempted to do today. >> very quickly, to reassure the public is one thing but are you saying u.s. taxpayers are throwing away a billion dollars for a system that doesn't work? >> we spend $10 billion a year on missile defense. we spend about $250 billion over the last few decades. we still aren't anywhere close to a system that can actually protect the united states from a determined adversary. yes i'm saying we are wasting our money woochlt very a defense that works. it's called deterrence. if the north koreans or anybody else would dare attack us with a nuclear missile it would be the last thing that regime ever did. they would be wiped off the face of the earth. >> thanks very much for coming in. >> thank you, wolf. >>> up next the cnn exclusive, conservative senator rob portman tells our own dana bash about the very personal reasons that led to his stunning change of heart on the issue of gay marriage. and dramatic testimony in the trial of two high school footb

situation in guantanamo i was at a news conference with the defense secretary this thursday at the pentagon he never to my question i frankly don't know why i was right there in front of him raising my hand as everyone else as you know half of the men in guantanamo has been cleared for release many of them years ago yet they're still there locked up stuck in this limbo desperate and i was going to ask when they will let these men go one whether it would make any difference if somebody died in this ongoing hunger strike again i never got the chance to ask that question the pentagon has just requested almost two hundred million dollars to renovate the guantanamo prison that kind of investment may suggest that they're not planning to shutting down anytime soon at the beginning of the year the state department closed the office that was in charge of closing the prison i went to a state department briefing earlier this week again never got a chance to ask the question it's either they watch our t.v. or the media person they're just didn't take questions from anyone who is not attending to the br

i think that the pentagon could cooperate more in supporting us. i was talking about this earlier, you know, when i think back about the stories of jessica lynch and pat tillman. a good place would be to start about not lying about stories that happen. friendly fire, people die in from the fire accidents, and that's horrible, but when lies are told, it will not point disgrace is the owner of the soldiers that have died, but turns the public off from trusting the pentagon. it's a disservice to you and your fellow troops. but i think that beyond not lying, i think there needs to be more openness. this is not a personal complaint because the penness. this is not a personal complaint because the pentagon was very cooperative today, or i would say not uncooperative? [laughter] not hostile? they were pretty good. they let me in bed for a week with the medevac team. i think there's more opportunities for me to tell stories and talk to people. public information officers are very controlling, and i understand why, but that gets in the way of reporters tryi

the tricare system is the fastest-growing part of the pentagon budget.ricare spending has risen from 18 billion in 2001 to 56 billion today. this is largely the result of wartime decisions, including expanding tricare to include national guard and reserve, which it did not before because they made up 40% of the fighting force, keeping copays and enrollment fees extremely low so that the price for troops and retirees is a tiny fraction of the private sector cost. and during this time, the cost of private sector health insurance has skyrocketed, so the differential between getting health insurance in the tricare system versus in the private sector has gone from 3-1 to 9-1. so the number of people eligible for tricare who participating in the system has risen from 22% to 59% as a result of basic economics. in addition, the raw numbers of claims in the tricare system has risen extensively. for example, behavioral counseling, health counseling for troops and families rose by 65%. counseling for the children of troops has risen by 85%. medical visits from acti

number of years we were recognized that he was a whistleblower like daniel ellsberg revealed the pentagonpapers and he is someone who should be a hero because he really did an amazing i mean what i think we can never get our hands on the statement it's a public statement in court that should be a booklet that everybody growing up in my country ought to read because it shows the criminality of the country but it shows what an individual can do to expose. u.s. lawmakers have says hours left to avert a crisis they created thanks to bickering on capitol hill automatic budget cuts worth eighty five billion dollars are due to kick in later on friday when republicans and democrats have so far failed to agree an alternative to the so-called sequester and the looming impact on the economy could reach far beyond america's borders as our teams that had to can now explains. let me begin with where the sequester comes from for a long time congress has been in gridlock over what to cut paralyzed but everybody knows spending cuts are absolutely necessary to balance the budget at some point washington ca

number of years we were recognized that he was a whistleblower like daniel ellsberg revealed the pentagon papers and he is someone who should be a hero because he revealed american criminality across the world in a diplomatic a rose in march referring to as the collateral murder video our children were actually injured in an on in the iraq war logs i mean he really did an amazing i mean what i think we can never get our hands on the statement it's a comment statement in court that should be a booklet that everybody growing up in my country ought to read is it shows the criminality of the country but it shows what an individual can do to expose that. you came dependence upon to has been in the governing conservatives into third place in a key by election and that will democrats held the seat photon lights the ever growing support for those calling for britain to exit the e.u. south as a story. i have read. this tiny town in england south is helping to map out the shape of british politics as party scrambles to gauge the nation's political need eastley was swamped with politicians in a byel

board it's supposed to cut the defense funding by ten percent now a lot of people think that the pentagon'shumongous budget does need some serious trimming until now congress has been generally reluctant to do that in the pentagon's budget only grew but the sequester doesn't care what to cut so it's going to cut veterans support programs and other things that are going to hurt thousands of people in the military the cuts could also lead to the closing of hundreds of air control towers making it harder for planes to take off and land and reduce the number of border patrol agents would lead to delays at the ports of entry among other things also six hundred thousand women will lose assistance from the government's women infants and children program as a result of cuts to federal spending on local education ten thousand teachers and eight thousand other staff could lose their job again nationwide in this one the fact each and every state no except in no exception excuse me. just a few examples well i don't know let's take kentucky eleven thousand civilians working for the pentagon are facing p

during the time that the earth plane coming in to the pentagon.there was a young man who would come in and say to the vice president the plane is fifty miles a plane is thirty miles out when he got down to the plane is ten miles you know. the young man also said to the vice president do the orders still stand and then the vice president turned in. who has now come around and said. student have you heard do you think to the contrary ok so here he is saying the order still stands cheney's directing rizzo's obviously there was an order for something if it wasn't for a shoot down order what was it for well that's a great question and that's something that the american public would probably love to have answered but the problem is that testimony never actually made it inside the commission report so in normal minute it was actually asked about that later on i think some activists journal independent journalist asked him about it and he said that he wouldn't change anything he said in that testimony so so cheney during the testimony said it's the planes

at the same time no movement to and the weeks long strike has been seen at a high level with the pentagon completely ignoring the situation at its latest briefing artie's going to check out was there for us. not a word from defense secretary chuck hagel on the situation in guantanamo i was at a news conference with the defense secretary this thursday at the pentagon he never to my question i frankly don't know why i was right there in front of him raising my hand as everyone else as you know half of the many guantanamo has been cleared for release many of them years ago yet they're still there locked up stuck in this limbo desperate and i was going to ask when they will let these men go and whether it would make any difference if somebody died in this ongoing hunger strike again i never got the chance to ask that question the pentagon has just requested almost two hundred million dollars to renovate the guantanamo prison that kind of investment may suggest that they're not planning to shutting down anytime soon at the beginning of the year the state department closed the office that was i

the cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but what are your scenarios for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the da da replied just let a savior through and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos and look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three would warn the americans that if the regime would fall iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold. i mean it's the month since the guantanamo bay hunger strike began the still no sign of the crisis being resolved and some protesters are reportedly close to death sandeep a newco is a lawyer for one of the prisoners and is near camp delta she outlined her clients plight and says guards are resorting to harsh tactics to force the inmates to end their campaign. the first say that i saw him he was very we had not been able to sleep because he said said the camp authorities had lowered the temperature in much of the camp to very very frigid temperatures it's it app

number of years we were recognized that he was a whistleblower like daniel ellsberg revealed the pentagon papers and he is someone who should be a hero because he really did an amazing i mean what i think we can never get our hands on the statement it's a public statement in court that should be a booklet that everybody growing up in my country ought to read because it shows that criminality is a country but it shows what an individual can do to expose. now bradley manning's police statement contains some pretty powerful words which are being picked up by many around the world here are some of the most striking extracts from what he said as we see it here on our t.v. . he commented i should say on that infamous video from iraq that we just saw showing journalist and children attacked by an american helicopter helicopter crew he said he was sickened by their blood lust and said they were acting like children torturing that's one of the quotes were were focusing on with a magnifying glass revealing all this to the american public could spark debate on the u.s. military and foreign policy in

i don't think it's just about the pentagon. the pentagon is the biggest bill payer in the sequestration. so there's a lot of attention being focused on it. host: we're talking about the bloomberg government posing new report on defense contracts spending where they found the top tender's 642012 defense contracts spending included eight democrats and two republicans. chris in jamaica, new york, independent. caller: my question concerned the outsourcing of contracts overseas. you covered how we breakdown the contracts across the united states. i was wondering what percentage of contracts are outsourced overseas? i know than it supports the economies overseas more than ours. i was just curious about that. also, you mentioned this morning about the f-35. are -- i spot the f-22 was going to be the last land jet -- manned jet aircraft moving forward. host: got it. guest: the outsourcing contracts overseas, a lot of the support for our bases overseas go to foreign companies. everything from picking up the trash at a base in germany is

number of years we were recognized that he was a whistleblower like daniel ellsberg revealed the pentagon papers and he is someone who should be a hero because he really did an amazing i mean what i think we can never get our hands on the statement it's a public statement in court that should be a booklet that everybody growing up in my country ought to read because it shows that criminality is a country but it shows what an individual can do to expose. u.k. independence party has beaten the governing conservatives into third place in a key byelection liberal democrats held the seat but the vote highlights the ever growing support for those calling for britain to exit the. story. and. this tiny town in england south is helping to map out the shape of british politics as party scrambles to gauge the nation's political need eastley was swarmed with politicians in a byelection festoon with case does placards balloons and even a few babies kiss well probably this is politics perhaps not best known for its high drama but here in eastley by election fever as the political candidates by those al

the pentagon says it will spend a billion dollars to ramp up america's missile defense. but will it work? here's chris lawrence. >> fred, the pentagon plans to spend up to a billion dollars to beef up its missile defense system, but the big question is, will these missiles actually work? if a nuclear missile is ever fired at the united states, this is the best hope to stop it. 30 interaccept sor missiles which will be launched from ground silos in alaska and california. now the pentagon is deploying up to 14 more. >> the reason that we're doing what we're doing, and the reason we're advancing our program here for homeland security is to not take any chances, is to stay ahead of the threat. >> reporter: north korea tested a long-range missile in december. it conducted its third nuclear test in february. and just this month, it threatened a preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. that caught the pentagon's attention. >> north korea's shrill public pronouncements underscore the need for the u.s. to continue to take prudent steps to defeat any future north korean icbm. >> repo

fights conflicts around the globe has changed dramatically look at the evolving techniques the pentagon uses to wage war around the world. and the un is coming down on the u.s. for their drone attacks in pakistan will have or import from new york on what the united nations says about the drone strikes and why a violates pakistan's sovereignty. it's tuesday march nineteenth a pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our. ten years ago today the united states invaded iraq and on this anniversary about a dozen car bombs and suicide blast killed at least fifty people a deadly reminder that iraq remains a dangerous and unstable country moments ago senator john mccain spoke at the american enterprise institute about the iraq war anniversary here's what he told our t.v. about why you rock isn't the state it's in today. i. want to get you into commentary as to what we can expect ten years later i don't really say that's right but all. that sort of transpired yesterday. fortunately for the. united states is no player since. he has. received letters received some strange don't

cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but i want to say your scenario is for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the d.o.d. replied just let us eva three him and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos and now look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three we did warn the americans that if the regime would fold iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold. in the egyptian capital protesters have gathered in front of the prosecutor general's office again today demanding his resignation voicing their anger against the muslim brotherhood on true's and carlos talk to now live father tell of the scene has there been a danger of violence there the crowds quiet to take it was the picture. here in the capital at the scene there's been no unusually quiet just hundreds of gabbett in front of the prosecutor's general office set off to the main opposition coalition an observation front called today's protest and they ar

we don't know why now or why today, but late today at the pentagon the defense secretary, chuck hagelade an announcement that sounded like something more from the height of the cold war than mid-march of 2013. the u.s. is bolstering nuclear missile defenses in alaska and japan because of the threat mostly from north korea but also from iran. and there are actually sources telling us tonight the u.s. is scrambling and going to this effort and expense -- roughly a billion dollars -- because they believe the north korean nuclear program is further along than they first thought, and their nuclear weapons, after all, are in the hands of an untested 28-year-old leader. it is where we begin tonight with our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski on assignment tonight in st. louis. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. with today's announcement about beefing up u.s. missile defenses, the obama