there are some things that can be done within the pentagon. i want to give credit to the current undersecretary for acquisition to try to get at changing some of these incentive structures. but he is constrained by all the laws and regulations, the thousands and thousands of pages on the books, governing how we do acquisitions. what is really needed is a zero basing of the system. to go back through with congress to really rewrite the system based on what we know works and doesn't work. >> why hasn't it been done up to now? >> i think it is a question of political will. the inefficiency isn't as costly. now that there are real budget constraints, every dollar wasted is a dollar that doesn't go to readiness or modernization. >> the inspector general for afghanistan was on here a couple months ago. i want to run a clip from him and get you to try to explain what he couldn't explain. >> we still don't have a central database of where we spent all the money. >> why not? >> that is a good question. the department of defense still can't give us all

the pentagon, i just heard -- the pentagon just conformed to fox news this isn't happening from the eastern side of ukraine. that disputed area where separatists who are russian supporters have been doing bad acts. that is not the case. the state department and the pentagon have just confirmed this is coming from russia. from vladimir putin's russia. now what? now what, europe, and your energy ties? now what, united kingdom and your money ties? now what, world, as a jet has been shot from the sky and 298 completely innocent people are dead. what now for vladimir putin? it's breaking news and it's next on fox news channel. (vo) you know that dream... where you're the hero? hey... you guys mind warming this fella up for me? i'm gonna go back down, i saw some recyclables. make it happen with verizon xlte. find a car service. we've doubled our 4g lte bandwidth in cities coast to coast. thanks! sure. we've got a spike in temperature. so save the day... don't worry, i got this... oh yeah, i see your spaceship's broken. with xlte on largest, most reliable network. get 50% off all new smartphones l

there are some things that can be done within the pentagon. i want to give credit to the current undersecretary for acquisition to try to get at changing some of these incentive structures. but he is constrained by all the laws and regulations, the thousands and thousands of pages on the books, governing how we do acquisitions. what is really needed is a zero basing of the system. to go back through with congress to really rewrite the system based on what we know works and doesn't work. >> why hasn't it been done up to now? >> i think it is a question of critical will. the inefficiency isn't as costly. now that there are real budget constraints, every dollar wasted is a dollar that doesn't go to readiness or modernization. >> the inspector general for afghanistan was on here a couple months ago. i want to run a clip from him and get you to try to explain what he couldn't explain. >> we still don't have a central database of where we spent all the money. >> why not? >> that is a good question. the department of defense still can't give us all t

this is what our pentagon reporter is hearing in the pentagon from sources not on the record. we don't have a lot of information at this stage of the game. there's a lot of ifs out there. we do not think separatists have that missile system under their control. what might be happening is that at first the separatist leader was taking credit for what he thought was the downing of another ukrainian cargo plane. we had one shot down on monday. when they found out it was a commercial jet, whoa, pull that post. nothing to take credit for here. in addition, one reason he may have been taking credit for it is to divert attention according to the official that barnes was talking to at the pentagon and divert attention that the missile system is under control of the russians. >> john bussey, "wall street journal." what do we know? 295 people are confirmed dead. many strapped to their seats in a field not far from the russian border and no one is now taking credit. our coverage of breaking news continues on fox news channel right after this. >>> some of the best video we've gotten yet t

that had raised concerns at the pentagon. as had reports that sophisticated russian surface-to-air missile systems had been flowing across from russia into this area of donetsk. reporters on the ground had seen a surface-to-air missile system known as a buchanon. buk. this is a sophisticated medium-range missile that can file up to 72,000 feet into the air. the malaysian plane that crashed and went down within the recent hours it, was flying at 33,000 feet, well within the range of this buk missile system. the russian rebel separatists in donetsk had been bragging in recent days, showing off they had this new missile system known as the buk. in fact on their social media page just moments ago we understand they claim to have shot again at a ukrainian transport plane at the about the same time this malaysian commercial jet disappeared. so all indications right now look as though it may have been a russian missile provided to the separatist its that may have brought down the malaysian flight within recent hours. >> jennifer, we

that had raised concerns at the pentagon.s had reports that sophisticated russian surface-to-air missile systems had been flowing across from russia into this area of donetsk. reporters on the ground had seen a surface-to-air missile system known as a buchanon. buk. this is a sophisticated medium-range missile that can file up to 72,000 feet into the air. the malaysian plane that crashed and went down within the recent hours it, was flying at 33,000 feet, well within the range of this buk missile system. the russian rebel separatists in donetsk had been bragging in recent days, showing off they had this new missile system known as the buk. in fact on their social media page just moments ago we understand they claim to have shot again at a ukrainian transport plane at the about the same time this malaysian commercial jet disappeared. so all indications right now look as though it may have been a russian missile provided to the separatist its that may have brought down the malaysian flight within recent hours. >> jennifer, we'r

and this is gate's estimate, of overheads in the pentagon. if this were a private company, we would be looking at the overheads which are -- 30% according to gates. i think they are even higher. which have not been scrutinized and particularly have not been scrutinized in the huge era of growth over the past decade. and just to kind of give you a little anecdote to think about this, i worked somewhat with ben cohen who is when from whben fr jerry's ice cream. he said we scrutinize every penny around logistics and rents and distribution and refrigeration and manufacturing and sales and marketing and finance but we never cut a flavor. we would never cut a flavor. in the military we are talking about cutting the flavor, cutting n strength and weapons systems. those are big and usy. it's easy to cut cherry garcia. but it's harder to go through the real pain and suffering of getting into the overheads. now what would be involved in actually getting into overhead? what's involved is -- i mean, two or three things, first of all, effectively restruct

and this is gates striestimate overheads in the pentagon. if this were a private company, we would be looking at the overheads which are -- 30% according to gates. i think they are even higher. which have not been scrutinized and particularly have not been scrutinized in the huge era of growth over the past decade. and just to kind of give you a little anecdote to think about this, i worked somewhat with ben cohen who is ben from ben & jerry's ice cream. in talking to ben about the sort of ultrasuccess there. he said the way we keep our costs low, we scrutinize every penny around logistics and rents and distribution and refrigeration and manufacturing and sales and marketing and finance, but we never cut a flavor. we would never cut a flavor. it seems to me in the military we are talking about cutting the flavor, cutting end strength, cutting weapons systems. we're sort of going there because those are big and easy. it's easy to cut cherry garcia. but it's harder to go through the real pain and suffering of getting into the overheads. now wh

. >> pelley: tonight we have the first look at a pentagon investigation into why so many american troopsstill unaccounted for in wars dating back to world war ii. the findings of this investigation haven't been seen until this report from chip reid. >> what does it mean to you to have your brother finally buried here. >> it took mickey beard decades of fighting the pentagon bureaucracy to get her older brother staff sergeant george winckler buried at arlington national cemetery. he was killed in the philippines in 19 4r5 but not laid to rest here until 2011. >> i couldn't get anybody to pay attention to me. they just said they didn't know what happened to him. >> the pentagon agencies responsible for identifying and bringing home america's war dead have long been criticized by frustrated families, and a draft report by the pentagon inspector general obtained by cbs news shows that criticism is well deserved. the report says dozens of former an current employees, most with the joint pow/mia command have filed complaints that paint a picture of long-term leadership and management problems

the military industrial complex has guaranteed the pentagon is heavily involved in many if not most of this country's major economic and political decisions but you might not know that the defense department's also have only interested in cultural and sociological aspects of the world too in fact in two thousand and eight the dio deal launched the minerva research initiative multimillion dollar program to quote improve d.o.d.'s basic understanding of the social cultural behavioral and global forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the u.s. but according to a recent article written by guardian journalist sofie's ahmed the pentagon is working in conjunction with a major us universities to militarize social science and prepare for global civil breakdown or enough is join me to discuss the minerva initiative and i started by asking about one particular. study that set out to discover why protesters don't become terrorists. this is a really interesting study because this is where they really did blur the boundaries a lot so that really the study was supposed to be

the pentagon has flunked its audit every year for 20 years. now the only department in government that continues to flaunt its financial audits -- flunk. itself to be an end-all to be all, they contribute to an enormous amount of frustration up and down and throughout the forces where people can't count stuff and i don't know what it's worth and some people were talking about before. i feel, and do all are the political expert, that a way to approach it that really has not been tried is to really seriously try and prove back on the overhead costs. >> that's an interesting point about reminding the dod is only agency that really doesn't, i don't even think they can be audited let alone pass. their books are so skewed. reuters wire service had a great series on that a few months ago that really was just jarring, even to the people who are tracking it. people in regional offices crossing things out and penciling things in. it was really eliminating. let me go ahead and open it up to a q. and a. what's the drill for them i guess? would anyone like

well, i think at the pentagon they are trying to find out what did happen. in other words, you get people who are experts systemsdefense systems and say what do you think, what does it look like, let's take a hook at the tapes here. the flight path, when people say it was shot down by a fighter aircraft, i don't think so, because if you were a pay lot and you saw the aircraft coming you would say something. and then to see what weapon it was, what is the origin of this, where did it come from. well there will be tapes of this happening that we can see from space. and also, politically. as we saw with the unforming gnat loss of the other airliner, the slights will send you some information. and that they would probably be tracking it on air control radar. we know it was about to cross into russian air space. this will show to the russians not just the united states, but the international community, hook, if you don't control these weapons we can't do business with you. we aren't going to fly to moscow any more, we aren't going to come anywhere near this place

the pentagon spokesman, our pentagon spokesman is saying he seen reports about a downed passenger jetine but doesn't have anymore information what may have caused the crash. we're relying very heavily on reports from inside ukraine as well as video from what reuters is describing, jon, as local activists. we're still trying to independently confirm, one, this is a plane crash. two, that the plane was indeed shot down. jon: malaysia airlines, again what are the chances, the same airline that lost flight 370, a ghost ship that still has not been recovered. now malaysian airlines flight 17 disappears. the airline confirms it has lost contact with that boeing 777. that is something that rarely happens in flights over land. in fact i'm not aware of it happening to this day, in a flight over land, that an airline loses contact with one of its vessels. 295 people on board. indications are it was some kind of a hostile act that brought this plane down. we do not know precisely what happened but we're certainly staying on top of it. we have our people at the pentagon. we have our people overse

he's been covering the pentagon since 2001. and he has formally served as a foreign editor and correspondent for the "chicago tribune." or ofs the co-authhor o "counterstrike, the untold story of our war against al qaeda." mason.left is linda she served 47 years with cbs news, ending her career in 2003 as a senior vice president for standards and specials. she was a pioneer in the industry, the first demo bs eveningn the c news with walter cronkite and broke ground on a number of fronts as a leader in the news business and the company executive during her career. it is a great panel of journalists. i think we will have a terrific discussion. i just want to remind everyone who is following this that you are welcome live tweet it. #lincoln150. we hope we can open this discussion to a wider collection of classes. thank new america foundation for being our host and hope that everybody who is here will enjoyed our discussion. >> it is really a pleasure for me to moderate this very distinct panel. questionn by taking a that was previ

the pentagon will no longer an increase. if we don't find some way to get rid of the sequestration burden that's where you will see problems come to the defense department. the 31% for military personnel is not that alarming to me having watched this over the years. but there is an important factor that's hidden in the 31%. that is it's 31% in a period of relative growth. now we're going to reach a period of stagnation and decline. at that point you wonder what happens to personnel cost, they will probably go up. >> the second thing that goes is the readiness accounts because there's not much you can do about personnel costs. they are relatively fixed. the chickens have come home to roost on this issue. that means you have two types of individuals that have retired and a growing number of individuals who have retired. we have a much higher quality force we have today then when they first started to address the issue of cat four individuals in the army. basically it means the people that scored lower on the army aptitude test

we're going to go live to a pentagon briefing with navy rear admiral john kirby speaking at the pentagon about flight 17. let's listen in. >> and it is strange to think that it could be used by separatists without at least some measure of russian support and technical assistance. it's strange to think they could do this without some measure of russian support and assistance. >> do you have evidence of that? >> look, there's a lot that's going to be investigated, and i think we want to let investigators do their work. i don't have an indication now that a system was brought over, and we don't exactly know who is responsible for firing that missile or with what assistance. what i'm saying is that that system is fairly sophisticated. >> what is the level of their training and assistance? does it include russian forces going across the border into ukraine to work as advisers or trainers side by side with the separatists? >> well, there have been russian -- there's been incu incursions across the border by russian aircraft. so i think we have -- we don't have any reason to suspect they haven'

the pentagon acknowledged that the troop levels could rise. do you feel that the president and the pentagon really and the defense, i should say, department have been clear about the mission? >> i think they have, but i think they're seeing that the mission is much more difficult than they initially thought. >> where have we heard that before, right? >> we're going to see, okay, well, we have to secure this objective. that's going to take another 500. then there's another 500. pretty soon you're in there and involved in the operation. >> let's talk about isis. are you concerned at all that isis will get closer to baghdad and then risk the security and the airport? >> i don't think they're going to go into the city itself, but if you look where they've deployed, they're trying to consolidate their gains in the enclave that they've declared the islamic state. they've moved a little bit south of the city. they've come to the northwest of the city. whether they're going to actually try to go for the city now, i don't think they've got the strength

he's a civilian analyst at the pentagon with one of the nation's highest security clearances. his companion is tai shen kuo, a spy for the people's republic of china. bergersen knew a secret that the chinese desperately wanted to know, and neither man knows that what they're about to do is being recorded by two cameras the fbi has concealed in their car. >> let you have the money. >> oh, oh. are you sure that that's okay? >> yeah, it's fine. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm bob simon. in this edition, we turn our attention to some foreign intrigue. first, a story about a mysterious computer virus that struck an iranian nuclear plant. later, the report of how american agents hunted a notorious arms dealer. and finally, an account of a chinese-american spy trying to steal u.s. military secrets for china. we begin with the story of stuxnet, a computer virus considered to be the world's first destructive cyberweapon. it was launched several years ago against an iranian nuclear facility, almost certainly with some u.s. involvement. but as steve kroft reported in march of 2012,

it leaves the pentagon agencies unable to know who is actually missing.e secretary chuck hagel ordered a major shakeup. >> and what that means to families is, first, they will be communicated with clearly, directly, and it will be communications from one central location. that has not been the case. >> reporter: but many world war ii families believe they've been all but forgotten. >> they're probably waiting for all of us to go away. >> reporter: the government holds annual meetings for families killed in korea and vietnam and even pace for travel. but families like beard get none of that. while no one pushed to get dna samles from victims from korea and vietnam, they've collected less than 5% from families of ward war 2 m.i.a.s, making it harder to identify them. >> do you think your brother was treated like a hero from world war ii? >> no. >> what was he treated like? >> somebody who didn't come home, i guess. >> j.p.a.c. will make it right and bring the thousands of other heroes still missing back home. chip reid, cbs news, arlington national cemetery

and coalition forces in the midst of such overwhelming success however reporters at the pentagon began to hear rumors about friendly fire washington post pentagon correspondent barton gellman was the first journalist to thoroughly cover rumors about friendly fire so it took about six months after the war for us to find enough people find the data pieced together enough information from the public records and the spaces inside them that we could do the story and the story was stunning frankly. the army and marines agreed and the army up held it to the letter that they would tell no family. about a friendly fire casualty and until they could tell all of them in a synchronized matter that was intended to set up a press conference the next day so it was decreed that always felt five pm would be the time that thirty five casualty officers would show up on the doorsteps of thirty five next of kin and tell them that their loved ones had been killed by american forces and no one was to be told before that even if there was categorical evidence months before as there as there was in many cases.

now to our national security correspondent, david martin at the pentagon. david, what do we know and not know? >> well, the pentagon officials are confident that a missile shot the plane down. what they don't know is what kind of missile where it was fired from and who fired it. >> pelley: david, what is the evidence it was, in fact, a missile? >> reporter: well there's evidence of a mid-air explosion simply because the debris was scattered over a large area. but on top of that, u.s. intelligence was able to detect the missile in flight and also a radar that was tracking the airliner and you add those three together and it comes up with a pretty convincing case that this was a shootdown. >> pelley: there is evidence, as you understand it, of a missile in flight? >> reporter: right indications of the track of the missile as it went up toward the airliner. >> pelley: why are the ukrainian rebels, the ones supported by russia the most likely suspects in this? >> reporter: well, i think everybody assumes, at least for now, that no one had a credible motive to s

. >> and a different job inside the pentagon. the tests you face to be a tour guide in the iconic building. >> and the heat is on in the bay area. no kidding. even warmer tomorrow. we'll have the forecast as we look live over the city. forecast is after a break. ,,,,,,,,,,,, crashed in poland today --killing eleven people. >>> a plane carrying parachutists crashed in poland today killing 11 people. the twin engine piper navajo had been airborne for only a few minutes when it crashed into an orchard and bus into flames. -- burst into flames. one person survived with critical injuries and investigators are looking into the possibility the plane was overloaded. experts said it was the worst passenger plane crash in poland in many years. >>> tonight we're seeing our first video of the purr popped leader of the militant ewe -- purported leader of the military group isis. a man is seen giving a sermon at a mosque in the iraqi city of moe sum l shul. that man -- moe shul. he's almost never seen in public and there are only a handful of

the pentagon has multitude of programs that are run in years. so all it says is for this one short period of time we have some financial controls. if you pass it. if you pass it. not on the statement of resources, but on the statement of activity. so it's a whole idea of an audit is to have an audit, to know what your holes are and your financial weaknesses, and your management weaknesses, so you can change things. now, let me give you an example of something who's done it right in the air force. general wolfens burger, responsible for $16 billion at the supply depots. three years ago she instituted continuous process improvement. most people in the pentagon don't even have any idea what that is. but it's how every other modern business combines their audit information with their management, so that they achieve savings. the general and her team have saved year to date in the last year about $680 million. and they did it because they actually know what they're doing, because they got good numbers. the question i asked after she made her presenta

few in the pentagon argue that the diplomatic outreach to russia worked. the general dempsey said russia is not stopping with ukraine. >> you have got a russian government that has made the conscious decision to use its military force inside of another sovereignty nation to achieve their objectives first time since 1939 that that is the case. >> 1939, a reference to the eve of world war ii and russian's invasion of poland. and chairman dempsey said the pentagon is dusting off plans of how to counter russia, plans they haven't looked at since the cold war. >> thank you for the update. >> taking you to capitol hill. law makers are considering 200 million in aid to help israel with the iron dome defense system. republicans might refuse to pass the measure after the democrats attached it to the immigration bill. >> this is a case where republicans say politics is intercepting foreign policy. we have talked about the iron dome and israel rocket defense system that intercepted a vast majority of hamas' rockets and saved lives. it is a joint product. those interc

and the pentagon and administration has long said this isis movement does threaten the u.s.u.s. citizens and u.s. interests there. so that would be one tick mark on the checklist. could the u.s. do it, though? would they have the intelligence to do it? we see these pictures of al baghdadi at a mosque in mosul last friday. the u.s. is not going to strike a holy site. the u.s. is not going to attack inside a mosque, not going to attack where there are large numbers of civilians. the problem would be, you might get the intelligence about where he is, but if he stays in places like mosques, if he is surrounded by civilians, that intelligence, you can't really act on it, because you can't go against that type of target, and baghdadi knows it. so this becomes very problematic. and perhaps the final challenge the pentagon is facing in looking at this, what do they accomplish by killing yet again another militant leader? do you really destroy a movement? all the years of going after al qaeda, around the world has shown that that movement has not been destroyed. so that will be anoth

there's a pentagon briefing. we'll go to that live. >> and that support has included arms, material and training. as we investigate who did this and why, this terrible tragedy underscores the need for russia to take immediate and concrete steps to deitescalate the crisi in ukraine. and i have one update on cape bray. the crew aboard cape bray continue their work to neutralize materials from the stockpile. as of this morning, the crew has neutralized just over 15% of the df, which is a sarin precursor. this amount has been verified by the international organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. >> he's no longer talking about the aircraft itself. actually, let's listen as he is taking questions. let's just see -- yeah, let's listen in. >> -- of russian heavy weapons across the border into ukraine and the president spoke about training, all of that. can you go through this and tell us the latest u.s. assessment, u.s. military assessment, of what the russians have been doing in transferring heavy weapons,

>> wolf, pentagon reporters had an update earlier today. been told by the spokesman the intelligence now indicates russia is preparing. the movement could be imminent, as soon as today, to send something called 220 millimeter multiple launch rocket systems into ukraine. these are some of russia's heaviest weapons. large projectile warheads. they can go about 20 miles or so. the sense is that russia is going to send perhaps half a dozen, a dozen systems into ukraine, try and get them over to the pro-russian separatists and get them to take back some of the territory they may be losing to the government forces which have really been on the move in the last couple of weeks. this would be another destabilizing escalation by putin according to pentagon officials. what they want to see, of course, is russia ratchet back. instead, russia is escalating. and they still see those russian artillery pieces on the border. there is also intelligence indicating that they have, indeed, been firing across the border from russia into ukraine. so another day,

they just said well, they didn't know what happened to him. >> the pentagon agencies responsible fors war dead have long been criticized by frustrated families, and a draft report by the pentagon inspector general obtained by cbs news shows that criticism is billion deserved. the report says dozens of former and current employees most with the joint pow/mia command or jpac have filed complaints that paint a picture of long-term management problems resulting in a hostile and dysfunctional work environment. there is no clearly defined mention,-- mission, no strategic plan and no single database that lifts all mias from past conflict, a lack of coordination, the report says, that leaves the pentz gone agencies unable to know who is actually missing. >> in february, defense secretary chuck hagel ordered a major shake-up. >> and what that means to families is first they will be communicated with clearly, directly and it will be communications from one central location that has not been the case. >> but many world war ii families believe they've been all but forgotten. >> they are probably

barbara starr joins me live from the pentagon. this is new information we're just learning.hat have you heard? >> good afternoon, anderson. reporters have just come from an upbeat briefing and we're told there is now new intelligence showing that russia is getting ready to transfer additional heavy weapons, if you will, into ukraine. we've known for last several days they keep sending weapons across the border, but what we are told is these are multiple launch rocket systems. so these are vehicles that tow rockets on top of them, crossing the border into ukraine. weapons with more powerful warheads, more kinetic kill capabilities, if you will, than what has been seen so far to date. we're told by the pentagon the intelligence indicates that this transfer of up to a dozen perhaps vehicles carrying these weapons could be imminent, could be as soon as today. a lot of questions, because people i think want to see the intelligence. they want to see the imagery, the satellite pictures, that show this is happening, that show russia is firing from across the border into ukraine. all

barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> and our thanks to barbara starr at the pentagon. in gaza, more than 225,000 palestinians are packed into shelters according to the united nations. most don't seem to be able to find clean water. gaza's only power plant has been destroyed in recent days and israel has indicated there are more phases to come in the conflict. karl penhaul has been talking to people. what are you hearing from them? >> well, jake, certainly people already saying that thing are going from bad to worse. there's a growing sense of foreboding here and, of course, they'd be crazy if they didn't want the war to end. one elderly man we talked to this afternoon as he was walking out with his grandkids said it's not emotions but simple logic that dictates enough is enough. another lady we spoke to said that there is no hope. she doesn't feel that there is any future right now. but that doesn't mean to say that people want to have peace at any price. they don't want to go back to the way things were three weeks ago before this war started. they wanted it to count

cnn, the pentagon. >>> and as barbara mentioned 12 planes not four. which was already told. why were commercial jets flying over this part of the eastern ukraine. and that situation may change after this. >> as soon as it was shot down, the tracking shows all of these airplanes diverting away. >> yes. hopeful it will stay that way. as thousands of gazans are left without shelter and how some are seeking refuge. what is benjamin netanyahu has to say about the civilians killed during this conflict. spokesperson: get a $1,000 turbocharged reward card with a new volkswagen turbo. why are we so obsessed with turbo? because we like giving you power, but we also like giving you fuel efficiency. like the sporty jetta. and the turbocharged passat tdi® clean diesel. okay... and the iconic beetle... and the powerful tiguan... okay you can't forget the cc... guys, this is going to take a while. avo: hurry in and you can get a $1,000 turbocharged reward card when you lease a new 2014 jetta se for $199 a month. amam rich. my social circle includes captains of industry, former secretaries

jim miklaszewski, our pentagon correspondent joining me from the pentagon. mik, what do we know about this terrible crash and what could have caused it? >> okay. and they still don't know it's a shoot-down, right? >> jim miklaszewski, i know you're check with your sources and are trying to find out what the american military officials know. what can you tell us right now about what they know? >> that's absolutely right. for several months now, the u.s. has had surveillance assets trained on this area as they watch the build-up, the drawdown and the rebuild-up of russian forces there on the border. so in short order, one could assume that the u.s. would be able to determine if, in fact, there was a missile fired at this malaysian airliner. and if, in fact, that's what brought it down and where it came from. at this point, they don't know. and just -- it could be, you know, the analysis. sometimes that takes a long time. it's impossible to say precisely. but it shouldn't be very long, if, in fact, they can narrow down the time frame which, of course, they have

(explosions) >> narrator: the pentagon's plan to send more than 100,000 troops home by the end of thesummer was now out of the question. >> narrator: in september 2003, the secretary of defense boarded a c-17 globemaster to go see iraq for himself. impatient, he kept asking all of the brass that traveled with him the same question. >> "when are you going to get this thing wrapped up?" is the phrase i heard rumsfeld use. "when are you going to get this thing wrapped up?" >> narrator: rumsfeld spent a couple of days looking around and realized his commanding general, ricardo sanchez, didn't know what was happening. >> they had absolutely no intelligence. sanchez said, "no intelligence." he said, "that's not a term of art." we had no intelligence on the enemy. we didn't know who we were fighting. we didn't know what resources they had. we had no strategy for fighting this enemy. and the demand from washington was for intelligence. >> narrator: sanchez, desperate, pushed his commanders hard. thousands of iraqis were swept up in raids that fall. >> it was their reality that, you know, we h

the pentagon says u.s. cannot confirm reports coming from ukrainian authorities that the plane may have been shot down. all of this comes 24 hours after 24 hours after president obama announced sanctions against russia. >> hi, alex. great to be here. >> i know it's a busy day. >> it is. >> let's get right to it. we know from the white house, the readout is that president putin mentioned the malaysian air flight crash on his call with the president. can you offer any more specifics on what the contents of that conversation was? >> reporter: i can't really offer additional content there. i can tell you this was happening very quickly this morning, as soon as news report emerged, we made the secretary aware, and i know the white house made the president aware and of course, we've been doing everything possible to determine whether american citizens were on board that plane since then. >> jen, i know earlier today you couldn't give conversation as to whether there were americanses onboard. do you have any updat

pentagon will never admit it.letter word, beep, we should take limited action and generals with no direct combat experience are making bad calls. powerful. mean while the iraqi ambassador to the u.s. says that further delay only benefits the terrorist who is now control 1/3 of iraq. pete, look how quickly this situation has just deteriorated. it is alarming what is happening. >> he is hesitates is lost. in this particular scenario the indecision of this white house and pentagon frankly is article goes on to say, full of some politically-oriented yes men who are inclined to support whatever the president wants to do or not want to do as opposed to give unbiased military advice. you have threat of now established, so-called, established islamic caliphate seeking to strike the united states of america. no matter what he said on campaign trail or how much you want to be over and done with iraq you have a national security imperative to care about what happens on the ground. the american military has a lot of assets to