what areome of the things the pentagon -- that you w would lie to see the pentagon start doing rightway in order to reduce its overhead, which a lot of folks, yourself included, have criticized as being poerous? >> i do think reducing bureaucracis somethi that not only secretary hagel agrees of people whoer have recently served in the obama pentagon agreeith, and it needs to happen. that is not going to solve our national deficit, but on the other hand, we have always talked in the military about the tail to tooth ratio. the tale has just gotten and i it adds burdens on the people who are on the tooth. the secretary has made a start on that. i think we could well look at additional authoritis to enable make changes with civilian and military folks, not just that the pentagon, but in the combatant commands as well. >> what sort of authority changes do you think you guys would be willing to grant? >> i don't know what we would be willing to d we've had several people make suggestions of early buyouts for some civilian folks and other ors to help shape the force she the personnel folks

the pentagon has constituents in each state. state has the national guard, programs that they want to protect. everyone has a constituency that can lock a lot of these programs from being cut going forward. not myways say -- program. not my national guard. it makes it hard to get this stuff through. currently ane appetite in congress to accept these kinds of changes that secretary hagel wants to see? guest: this is the big question. everyone in congress says that they would understand that everyone needs to tighten their belts, but what you heard from a lot of constituencies yesterday was -- not my program. not my national guard. not my bases. this is where you get to the paralysis. it is difficult to find the constituencies to make this stuff come together. tom, brooksville, florida, hi. caller: good morning. my question is made -- my question is the statement that was made to general mathis last year. he was commanding central command and he said that if you do not fund of the state department fully, i need to buy more ammunit

pentagon budget cuts. the defense secretary outlining his plans to downsize. >>> russia weighing in in the newly formed government in the ukraine. >> the pentagon is looking to shrink the army to preworld war ii level. getting rid of a complete unit of attack jets. lisa stark, what kind of levels are we talking about? >> chuck hagel said this is the first away things will look like after years of war. the smallest since world war ii, particularly land forces. the army up to 570 tow troops in the army the president promised to end the wars in afghanistan and iraq of course and reduces to levels back to 490,000. defense secretary hagel is talking about more cuts down to 440 to 450,000 in the army. he's not only talking about changing personnel, it is a change in weapons systems and a whole new way of doing business. here is what the secretary had to say. >> after iraq and afghanistan we are no longer sizing the military for long sessions. we must retain our edge over technical adversaries. the military must

. >>> and historic cuts at the pentagon, the new plan to shrink the military to numbers not seen before world war ii. >>> and the price you pay at the supermarket, from everything to milk to meat, why everything is on the rise right now. >>> and a comedy genius is gone from "ghostbusters," to "groundhog" day. animal house, caddy shack, to clark griswold chlt tonight, we remember the great harold ramis. nightly news begins now. >>> good evening, we begin tonight with two major health stories, both breaking late in the day. both of them concern women's health. in a moment, the story involving pregnant women and the active ingredient in pain relievers like tylenol. but first, the news tonight involving the prevention of ovarian cancer, in women that have a genetic mutation that increases their risk for this often fatal disease. and it concludes that these women should make a tough choice about the treatment, even earlier than many do now. we get more from dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: nicole armstrong credits her older sister, katrina, an award-winning special olympian, with saving her

>> i love hearing van jones say the pentagon is right.he "weekly standard" clip that and put that up online. honestly, if this were as serious as you all thing it is, shouldn't the president of the united states actually be spending political capital to do something about this? the democrats controlled the united states senate. cap and trade. why aren't they trying to bring that up for a vote. this is what i think is annoying, what's sort of infuriated newt and i would share his infuhr yags -- fury is the word, fuhr be this. this is just talk. this is nonsense. if this were as serious as you think, the president would be using capital he has to change u.s. policy and he's doing nothing. >> that's just wrong on the facts and you know it. he just talked about putting a billion dollars to try to do something about this. he did go before congress, the house actually passed a resolution, weren't able to get it through the senate. this president has done more -- he put $36 billion in the stimulus package trying to move the ball forward on green

he leaked the pentagon papers in 1971. helped to end the war in -- that helped to end the war in vietnam. >> i believe firmly that edward snowden is no more a traitor than i am or that i was, and i am not. >> today, daniel ellsberg versus stewart baker on spine -- hyena. all of that coming up here at -- coming up. now,me to democracy democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the massive storm that blanketed the east coast in up to 18 inches of snow is expected to ease today after four days. the storm was blamed for at least 18 deaths, mostly in traffic accidents in the south. in new york city, mayor bill de blasio faced criticism for a decision to keep the schools open. the mayor says he acted mindful that many parents rely on school for child care, and many low-income students rely on school for their lunch. >> we have made abundantly clear that we know the city is functioning and city agencies are doing their job, it is not something you do lightly. >> united nations envoy lakdar brahim met with top u.

the pentagon does repeat that as a concern. --guest: certainly, computer systems have been hacked via ron. it is a big issue. the f-35 plane like that is heavily based on technology and the country that is able to jam it, you could defeat the plane before it gets off the ground, essentially. i am not a technological expert, myself, but this is something the pentagon is certainly thinking about and learning about. it is a big concern. florida,ksonville, line four retired military. hello. caller: good morning, how are you. thank you. host: you are on, sir. -- how do question is you perceive this defense budget going after 2015 as far as regarding the reserve component? another big area, the guard in reserve is going to be reduced by about five percent. they are trying to reduce the number of helicopters in the gulf by eight percent. you have already have a lot of governors coming forward saying , they cannot cut this respond in emergencies. they have received awards in afghanistan and iraq. attacking the guard in reserve is also

the pentagon has constituents in each state.tate has the national guard, programs that they want to protect. everyone has a constituency that can lock a lot of these programs from being cut going forward. not myways say -- program. not my national guard. it makes it hard to get this stuff through. currently ane appetite in congress to accept these kinds of changes that secretary hagel wants to see? guest: this is the big question. everyone in congress says that they would understand that everyone needs to tighten their belts, but what you heard from a lot of constituencies yesterday was -- not my program. not my national guard. not my bases. this is where you get to the paralysis. it is difficult to find the constituencies to make this stuff come together. tom, brooksville, florida, hi. caller: good morning. my question is made -- my question is the statement that was made to general mathis last year. he was commanding central command and he said that if you do not fund of the state department fully, i need to buy more ammunitio

this is the first time the pentagon and congress will face off on that. think when it comes to the pay raises, that always is trouble. this is congress in a midterm year, they are talking about a 1% raise, not a cut to the raise, and i think the pentagon said, well, we'll freeze the generals and admirals. they are not cutting into those flag officers more than was projected, which also could have brought savings, for the navy side, you didn't mention the lcs ship, which was supposed to be future of the navy, and the pentagon is asking the navy to basically go back to the drawing board. that's good news for ship builders and planners -- >> right, but the bad news is for military bases that might be cut. i have to ask you very quickly, do you think under those circumstances this will make it through congress? >> i think chunks will, i think chunk won't. i think brak will not. the lcs buy -- the number of those ships is still to be determined. you have to give credit to the pentagon for putting a lot of items on the table when people thought the big ticket i

jane wells will be monitoring the pentagon for us live. we will also have reaction from a defense stock analyst. >>> in the meantime, let's take a look at the defense sector. seema mody is at the flash desk with more. a lot of those stocks have been very strong. >> they have. with the obama administration planning on shrinking the army to pre-world war ii levels and eliminating an entire class of air force attack jets, you would think defense dogs would be on the defensive but not even close. instead, stocks are soaring. lockheed martin, general dynamics, raytheon, rockwell collins, all trading at record highs. back to you, sue. >> thank you, seema. >>> as the u.s. prepares to slash defense spending, we are following that developing story in ukraine. our chief international correspondent michelle caruso-cabrera is live now in kiev amid kind of a quiet tension. russia's prime minister calling the ouster a mutiny. given the tensions, what's happening right now? >> reporter: well, like you said, a quiet tension. there are thousands of protest

as of this weekend, the pentagon must now buy american flags made in america.am inside the factories. happy to hear tonight. >> reporter: it was one of the first questions we asked. our made-in-america journey as we drove across this country wondering where all those american flags were made. so many of them without labels. viewers sending videos. this one from nebraska. their bunting made in china. one e-mail from florida who told us early on he knew of u.s. flags made in this country. perhaps you can highlight anan. >> we did. population, 11,000. we knew we were getting closer. flags on mailboxes, even the silos painted red, white, and blue. this time there was something different on the flags. labels. an american flag made in america. >> made by americans, for americans to fly by americans. >> reporter: all the way back to the civil wars, world wars i and that was their one flag. and that moment on the moon. >> one small step for man. >> reporter: saluting that flag on the moon. >> that was ours. >> very proud of it. >> very proud. >> reporter: and tonight t

we should say, the pentagon and the nsa, not commenting on this.ing, they won't discuss their internal deliberations on this. >> a sensitive subject. thanks very much, for that. >>> take a quick look at the markets. the dow was up yesterday, pushing to near-record territory. up about 15 points today. the next big market mover could come thursday, that's when the head of the federal reserve, janet yellin addresses the senate banking committee here in washington. we'll be all over that. that's it for me. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." in the meantime, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right thousand. >>> wolf blitzer, thank you, as always. great to be with you. i'm brooke baldwin. a lot of news to get to today. we want that start with this direct threat from president obama. every single american troop could be out of afghanistan by the end of this year. and today the president called hamid karzai and for the very first time, we're told, that the president is

i'm talking about risk in the pentagon at issue is not the ability of the u.s.o prevail against many adversaries but how long it takes and at what cost, material financial and human. that does not mean however that we can ignore or rationalize the strategic consequences of flushing the resources available for national defense. if we don't like a strategy that results in additional funding is required to allow for a different set of trade-offs and lower levels of risk. for this budget plan we added the $115 billion above current law in order to have a reasonable opportunity to fulfill the president's strategic priorities albeit with higher risk for certain military missions. this brings me to the sequestration slated to return in current law and fy2016. as a result of the last few months of analysis we were able to identify with some decision with the post-sequestration military would look like a over the next decade. that means significantly fewer ships including at least one less aircraft, dropping the army down a bit further to 420,000 active-duty soldiers ,-c

still, the pentagon plans to buy as many as 100 f-35s a year by 2018. point of no return? >> bogdan: i don't see any scenario where we're walking back away from this program. >> martin: so the american taxpayer is going to buy this airplane? >> bogdan: i would tell you we're going to buy a lot of these airplanes. >> could this flying computer be hacked? go ask alice-- she's the digital brain of the f-35-- on 60minutesovertime.com. sponsored by pfizer. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic.

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"pentagon plans to shrink army to pre world war ii level." okay. here's what some of those cuts actually look like. this is the context behind these headlines. on the left there, see the military's current level. in the middle, the proposed level. on the right, 1940 levels. here are total numbers. so while it may be sure, technically accurate, these cuts will bring about the smallest force since before world war ii, the proposed force would still, it would still be far greater than the troop levels of 1940 and not actually in the big swing of things a huge reduction from current levels. joining us to unpack this further, larry korb, and a man who knows a thing or two about the pentagon for serving as assistant secretary of defense under president reagan. thanks for being with us. >> nice to be with you. >> walk us through this comparison. we see a lot of headlines about the decline in the force, but we also know we still spend far more than many other countries combined on our military. >> we spent more than the next 16 nations, biggest spenders in

material coming out of the pentagon. that material exposed really terrible, terrible official lies but the u.s. government. lies about the progress of the vietnam war, and that made that material so consequenceal because of that. in this case the material has, you know, provided a window onto like the scale of eavesdropping and all kinds of troubling things. certainly, some misstatements by officials, but i'm not sure they've exposed a wholesale cover-up and public lying over years and years the way the pentagon papers did. >> on the editorial page, "the times" editorialized saying that edward snowden should be considered for amnesty. you get involved with the editorials? >> i don't. i have no involvement. >> so you don't write editorials ever? >> i don't. i don't even know what the editorials are going to be the next day. there's a pretty strict -- we call it the chinese wall here between the opinion side of "the times" and the news side, and i'm on the news side. >> so do you agree or disagree with the editorial's opin

we're going to get to that in a minute, as well, with a pentagon spokesperson, but do they argue they are taking cuts seriously but there are still things worth investing in? >> absolutely, and i expect this will come up in the meeting between the president and speaker boehner and this is something democrats and the president feel there could be some bipartisan cooperation, whether it's between congress or some republican governors, because jobs, manufacturing, job training, early childhood education, these are issues that do well with more than just democrats, with independents and with republicans. so i expect that this is something that president obama thinks that, you know, he does need congress's help, he can do a little bit through executive action, he does need congress's help and hope this is maybe something he can work with republicans on. >> karen, i want to go back to you, we're looking at live shots here of a beautiful and snowy white house. it goes well with the snow. it's white on white, but i wanted to bring you in and talk about a little bit of the tax reform package i

massive cuts to the pentagon budget and a mamger downsizing of america's military.cell wei looks at the real reasons behind the changes. >> two weeks before yesterday's announcement of sweeping defense cuts, acting deputy secretary of defense christine fox gave a little noticed warning to the u.s. military, quote, american dominance on the seas and the skies and even in space can no longer be taken for granted going forward. now a cbo report documents how increases in other areas of domestic spending may be forcing deeper cuts to military spending. >> the defense cuts are balanced by increases in various programs in domestic spending. >> the cbo report finds mandatory spending which includes social security, medicare, medicaid, and more, is projected to raise $85 billion or 4% to $2.1 trillion this year. interest on the debt is worse. projected to increase 14% per year, almost quadrupling in dollar terms between 2014 and 2024. >> we're going to be spending more in interest in a couple years than we do on our national defense. >> the obama administration acknowledges

." >> the pentagon on monday outlined its budget for the next fiscal year. wednesday morning, acting defense second christine fox expanded on that budget, including planned cuts and the size of the area. this event from the american enterprise institute is 50 minutes. minutes. >> so, i want to thank all of you at american enterprise institute for the great work that you do when the opportunity to be with you today. as mckenzie said, secretary haeckel recently announced a number of recommendations and proposals that will be contained in the defense department fiscal year 2015 badges admission. it goes about pain that make in spending choices as having more losers than winners due to the fact that budgets are tight and could get even tighter is no way to win a popularity contest. in many respects, there is something in the package to set up just about everybody's alarm bells and on which meter. from my perspective and as i hope my remarks will make clear, the two categories of stakeholders most protected from these changes are people we should all feel the mos

we did reach out to the pentagon and prosecution and get statements and the pentagon has yet to get backtement and of course we will have the pentagon's side of the story whenever they do get back to us. tell me your best argument for why the charges should be dismissed? >> well the charges should be dismissed because it's pretty clear the decision-making in the case is being driven by politics and people at the pentagon as opposed to where it should be with the convening authority at fort bragg. this is a case that has always been a remarkably thin case in terms of the evidence. there are thousands and thousands of text messages and personal journals by the person who's accusing general sinclair of sexual assault. it demonstrates the consensual nature of their relationship. on top of that, in early january she perjured herself during a pretrial hearing. in that circumstance, in every experience i've had both as prosecutor and defense lawyer and everyone i've spoking to, the charges that are based solely on the testimony of that person should be dismissed. it's fairly logical and common

but the pentagon's toughest fight may be getting all the cuts past an armada of opponents. mike emanuel has tonight's top to story. >> with the united states planning to draw down almost all of its forces from afghanistan today, they have planned to slash the number of active duty forces. post-9/11, the army surged. it's now down to 520,000. the army expected to trim to 490,000, and today, secretary of defense chuck hagel announced plans to cut the force to between 440,000 and 450,000 soldiers in the coming years. >> we seek a highly ready and capable army, able to dominate any opponent across the full spectrum of operations. to achieve this, the army must accelerate the pace and increase the scale of its post-war draw down. >> pentagon officials acknowledge this reduced budget takes on, quote, additional risks. >> we're all willing to take risks, but none of us are willing to take a gamble, because at the end of the day, it's our soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guardsmen, america's sons and daughters who will face the challenges with the strategy and resources we develop

the pentagon served notice that it wants to downsize the u.s. army, to the smallest it's been since just before world war two. >> ifill: on the newshour online right now, j.k. rowling got the idea for "harry potter" while on a train. countless westerns, mysteries and hitchcock plots are inspired by rail travel. and now amtrak is catching on by offering writers a chance to get on board with a new residency program, it gives them a seat and a creative space to write their great american novel while traveling across the country. read about the project, on the rundown. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at the a- 10 warthog, a military aircraft seen as a guardian in the skies, that might be grounded by budget cuts. i'm judy woodruff >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill, we'll see you on-line and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us here at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160

let's go right to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. bret pointed out something, i wrote it down as well. president obama from the podium just a minute ago. there will be costs for any military intervention in ukraine. any idea what that means? >> well, it's varinteresting, eric, because we have been talking to pentagon officials all day about whether there was any contingency planning going on. we heard from the nato supreme ally commander yesterday from brussels, general breedlove, who said there were no contingency plans on the part of nato allies to do anything if russia were to move troops into the ukraine. that is a statement that vladimir putin would have taken, would have heard, and would have possibly taken as a green light, if you will, to move those forces. we're not clear at this point, and the pentagon is not confirming whether those forces that appear to have landed at the airport there about 2,000 troops, according to reports on the ground, whether they're russian troops, but they are seeing military activity, officials t

. >> it will changes the pentagon. s secretary of defense chuck hagel is recommending steep budget cuts for the military, they include 13inging active duty troops to levels not seen since before world war ii. he says the reduction in troops is a trade-off for building up technological superiority. special operations forces and cyber resources but the proposal is drawing criticism that the drastic changes will hurt u.s. security. >> the assumption that's being made in the pentagon, it's almost laughable if it wasn't so serious is they don't believe that the united states will involve itself in a ground war of any consequence again. the fact of the matter is, those assumptions have been made after world war ii. korea, vietnam and the cold war and everyswing time, they have been proven wrong. here we are making that same assumption again. joining us from washington it kevin barron, the executive of defense one that focuses on u.s. defense and national security. he has covered the military, the pentagon, congress and polit

this comes as the pentagon has tried to reach out to counterparts in ukraine. take a listen to this q&a at the pentagon about that. >> we haven't been able to connect with anybody from the defense ministry there in ukraine. >> how many times have you tried? >> how long do you let it ring? >> do you have the right number? >> we've been trying pretty diligently here in the pentagon, been trying pretty diligently this whole work. >> how unusual is that for the secretary of defense not to have his call taken? >> i'd say pretty unusual. >> is there another case where at least this secretary has been unable to reach his counterpart like this? >> defense secretary's call not being picked up. let's bring in our panel. charles lane, opinion writer for the "washington post," nina easton, columnist for "fortune" magazine and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. chuck, what do you think? >> the last thing we've seen about our defense secretary's calls not being answered let alone returned tells you how frightened the military establishment in ukraine is of any kind of

pentagon is pumping up huge sums of money into africa in the hope its troops weapons and mercenaries will turn a land of conflict into a land of hope well as you can see here american military bases are spread all across the continent the biggest outpost for the u.s. in the horn of africa is in djibouti which now hosts more than four thousand military personnel and contractors also thousands of u.s. soldiers are reportedly preparing for missions as part of the pentagon's new strategy to train and advise regional forces. investigates what could be behind washington's military boost. hundreds of millions of american dollars are flowing into africa as the pentagon upset spending on the continent there's plenty of war materials here nigeria a case in point the west african nation is america's fourth largest supplier of crude oil accounting for eleven percent of all u.s. oil imports we have made it has a lot of investment and. they have invested so much in the oil sector and they need to protect that and that believes rafsanjani is the real reason for u.s. troop expansion in africa not to

and that's something that the pentagon has admitted it's asking itself. general martin demp see, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has wondered if the strain of war has had an effect on things and whether the military during war time maybe turned a bit of a blind eye towards character issues that it was so focused on whether commanders had tactical ability, were good at war fighting, but maybe they weren't paying as much attention to their ethical flaws. >> ifill: it sounds like the pentagon is moving away from the notion of these were all just one-offs and more toward the notion that maybe there's something systemic going on? >> well, that's right. they are questioning that. they don't know the answer. but clearly it isn't just one-offs. we're seeing a pattern again and again and again. a lot of it is personal misconduct, integrity issues, gambling, drinking, sleeping around and among, again, the top brass with this. people, their human frailties. there are always going to be people on who engage in this kind of conduct, but it's rare to hear so

on the pentagon to africa the u.s. military presence across the continent i mean accusations of oil gas and mineral resources those are the real motivation. for moscow. headlines that is up before we join in the life and. the lawyer russian pilot jailed in the u.s. as his client needs urgent medical help he was finally able to meet his client. who's pleased to see a doctor despite symptoms suggesting a heart attack could be imminent. it's been days that the russian citizen in a us jail is asking to examine his heart because he says he is experiencing severe chest pain and may have a heart attack any moment the attorney had a chance to see his client on sunday and we spoke with him earlier here's what he said you're shown go did appear sick to me his face was red hugh visibly had shortness of breath he would take pauses in our conversation compose himself he was having difficulty remembering the dates and the chronology of the different events that took place this week shortness of breath a burning sensation in the ches

hundreds of millions of american dollars are flowing into africa as the pentagon upset spending on the continent there's plenty of war materials here nigeria a case in point the west african nation is america's fourth largest supplier of crude oil accounting for eleven percent of all u.s. oil imports we have made it has a lot of investment in that they have invested so much in the oil sector and they need to protect that and that believes rafsanjani is the real reason for u.s. troop expansion in africa not to bring democracy not to help the local populations but to protect american interests and justify the reasons for being here the governess in syria or to lead to you know the collapse of. you know accountability. and of course you know dubai is. different it's a shia kind of make up it's got crisis in the country snow for about it you know it it to me it in terms of american power and policy reasons to actually come into nigeria africa's dotted with u.s. bases and a growing constellation of small american drone outposts camp limone near north of somalia has been america's main facil

on the program the pentagon is pumping in cash to boost its military presence in africa the u.s. says by pouring in troops weapons and most in areas it intends to turn a land of conflict into a land of hope now a u.s. military bases are just about spread across the entire horn of africa drone bases are dotted across the region the biggest being in djibouti hosting over four thousand military personnel and contractors and thousands of u.s. soldiers are reportedly preparing for missions as part of the pentagon's new strategy to train and advise regional forces so now it takes a look at what could really be motivating america's newfound focus on africa the well the well known breadbasket of the world. hundreds of millions of american dollars are flowing into africa as the pentagon upset spending on the continent there's plenty of war materials here nigeria a case in point the west african nation is america's fourth largest supplier of crude oil accounting for eleven percent of all u.s. oil imports we have made a lot of investment in that they have invested so much in the oil sector

♪ >> we asked for your tweets about the pentagon's plan to cut black the military.e tweets. hill lil? >> better to have a large military and not need it than have one and not need it. >> cutting into the military budget is necessary but the growth in d.c. must come under a microscope. >> regarding military cuts you get what you paid for. >> that's fair. >> last, we have, what is the rope for this? not a good idea if it makes the u.s. vulnerable but some trimming where there's waste would be prudent. >> finding the waste always easy >> on this day in 1938, the entertainment up in "variety" reported that mgm studios bought the rights to turn the novel "wonderful wizard of oz" into a movie. judy garland was cast to play dorothy. mgm had a tougher time with other characters, recasting a few of them after production started. sill, o'the wizard of0s eye "is one of the most popular movies of off tile, fouled a home hollywood 76 years ago today. >> when news breaks out we'll break in, the dow had a great day. the s&p set another record. the dow a couple hundred points from

but today, pentagon proposed cutting that budget. sort of. by law, the size of the military and the military budget are both scheduled to shrink over the next few years and by a lot. congress already voted the army should shrink from 522,000 soldiers to 420,000. congress already voted that the marine corps should shrink from 190,000 marines to 175,000. that's already law. congress voted for that. scheduled to go into effect if nothing else happens. that's the sequester they voted for. what the military proposed today is reinstating some troops, holding on to 20,000, 30,000 more than congress voted to give them. money wise, it's the same deal. the military wants less of a cut. day want to add another $26 billion to their budget for next year. want to add over $100 billion to the year after that. over and above what congress voted to give them when they voted for the sequester. now, this got headlined today at the pentagon proposing huge new cuts to the military. what actually happened today is the pentagon fighting congress so they don't get c

we start with big cuts over at the pentagon. we're awaiting the arrival of the defense secretary, chuck hagel, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey. they'll be laying out the details of the new proposed pentagon budget and the cuts. you're looking at live pictures from the briefing room over there at the pentagon. once they come in, we'll go there, we'll hear what chuck hagel has to say. the "new york times" is reporting that under this new proposed budget, the u.s. army will be cut to a level not seen since before world war ii. that means a drop to around 450,000 active duty soldiers. but the new budget is also expected to protect critical programs like cyber warfare. the old strategy was to have enough military strength to fight two ground wars simultaneously. that's changed with new directives and now with a projected smaller fighting force. let's discuss what's going on as we await the defense secretary. joining us, general george joe, former nato ally commander. i assume you think this is sm