you just heard the pentagon defending the deal.le hours the top dog at the pentagon, the outgoing defense secretary, talked about the pressure he was under from the white house to release terror suspects from gitmo. of course that's what we got in exchange for bowe bergdahl we released those five top taliban generals. at the very same time that chuck hagel is saying that tonight a top democrat went on tv to underscore how some administration officials did not sign-off on this bergdahl swap deal. and the white house about an hour and a half ago sent out a note about the policy on the trades are under review. general jack keane four-star general and fox news military analyst. general, what do you think we are seeing tonight? >> well, i think we're seeing finally a public policy that we've had beginning to unravel where we have people trying to defend the indefensible. and admiral kirby who you had on here, reputation as a straight shooter, good guy. but he's defending bad policy. he knows it. you can see it in all of his body languag

sort of in the pentagon which help. i think that there was certainly public opinion was in their favor on this one a little bit. the republican party didn't win on a. i think it was one of those things they don't like it could go off the radar in many ways they did under the radar when you think about how we ended up with "don't ask, don't tell." i was new at covering washington but it was talk about something that consumed the first year of the clinton presidency. you could argue that was a bigger problem for him. >> host: and quite unexpectedly just a totally out of nowhere for bill clinton and set the table for what was a disastrous first 18 months for him. it was getting caught, of all things like you never come anyways public shocked you were caught up in that. he got caught up in it. for the president to so easily do but in hindsight it was weird, you know some other stuff i wrote over a five or six year period. the "don't ask, don't tell" chapter was two years ago and you're editing it and you're going back and l

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joining me is the pentagon's director and officer of enlisted personnel management, leading the pentagon'sffort to integrate women in combat or in -- combat. she became an officer and served as a combat engineer during two tors inn iraq before retiring in 2008. welcome aboard. you are charged with overseeing this process of creating gender-neutral standards across the force, which is a massive job even that there are so many occupational specialties in all the services that do have physical fitness requirements or physical requirements or strength requirements army, infantry, artillery being among them. how are you reviewing the standards to make sure they are job-related and not gender related? >> first i want to say we are on track towards meeting that generate first 2016 deadline you mentioned. -- january 1, 2016 deadline you mentioned. 90% of our occupatio are open for the assignment of men or women. when secretary panetta and chairman dempsey first decided to do away with the rule prohibiting the assignment of women to direct ground combat units, they established an interim milestone,

one pentagon source says, quote this is bad. the white house is quick to play it down. >> i can tell you this is something that we're obviously looking into and something we take seriously. however, just -- a note of caution to folks as they're covering this story. a significant difference between what is a large data breach and the hacking of a twitter account. >> still, the hackers were successful in posting the real addresses of the military leaders along with a threat wives and children, and a tweet including a photo showing the inside of a military office space. central command is of course based at mag gill air force base in florida and macs u.s. military operations the middle east and oversees americas wars. the hacks were online for 40 minutes or more before the pentagon got twitter to pull the plug and cams the same day is a president obama proposing new measures to protect people's privacy online. also, right now we're waiting to hear from the police commissioner in new york city, set to talk about new terror threats a

there will be no judge ams past on the pentagon for that. japan is a strong ally and a close friend. secretary hagel offered any support we can to help them. there has been no request for support. >> they mentioned the white house and threatens to turn america into a muslim providence. >> peter doocy>> log on to "fox & friends" facebook page for the show live #keep talking. >>> an update to the story we first brought you yesterday the pentagon denying bergdahl will be charged with desertion despite tony schafer telling us his attorneys already received that paperwork. the army saying this, quote the reporting from fox news on nbc and fox news is clearly false. there has been no actions on the sergeant berg call investigation. colonel saferchafer is sifting through the news he first wrote. >> i stand by all of the facts if you look at what kirby said in the pentagon they don't deny the material findings of what i said is in the report. they are being carolful how-- careful how they pars their words. my understanding is that bergdahl's lawyer

not popular, especially in the pentagon. the sequester and what the president has said about it. >> first of all the sequester is not something i proposed, it's something that congress has proposed. it will not happen. >> bob is the man who literally wrote the book about the budget battle. whose idea was the sequester? and did you ever think we'd actually get to this point? >> first, it was the white house. it was obama and jack lew and rob who went to harry reid and said this is the solution. but everyone has their fingerprints on this. >> so just in short, the sequester was supposed to be a backstop so they never got to that point so republicans and democrats could deal. well, they didn't, and they got to it. let's bring in our panel. tucker carlson, host of "fox and friends" weekend. and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. the president says he wants to get rid of the sequester that's popular with the military republicans are split on this, some of them like the cutting, but they don't like the harm to the military.

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the 2012 pentagon budget had the word "cyber" in it 12 times. the 2014 budget had the word "cyber"in it 147 times. a 12-fold increase in just in mention of the word. it's become a joke within the pentagon that because it is really the only part of the dod budget that is growing, sayinger security, if you want to get money for your project, slap the word cyber on it whether it has anything to do with cyber at all. in fact 0 couple of weeks ago the senior dod official who runs cybersecurity policy joked he was starting to see a lot of proposals for thinks like cyber tank crossing his desk. no such thing as a cyber tank. so government officials have really taken to talking -- publicly about are you vulnerabilities and the way our companies are being robbed by spies, which i true but i think they're -- there's a bit of a cynical application here playing the victim is a good way of focusing national attention and drumming up money for defense programs. but it tends to obscure the other side of the story, which is what this book is also about. we're p

the pentagon said to them you have a security problem therefore we have a security problem. we have to do something about this and if you want to continue being contractors for the department of defense you'll take our help. what begins at this point is something that i think epitomizes our current national approach to cyber security. the pentagon teamed up with these contractors in an information and intelligence sharing arrangement. the contractors agreed to report to the pentagon threats they were segue on their network, click when they had been breached. the pentagon agreed not to disclose that's publicly because companies could not like to say when they have had hackers in anywhere network in return the pentagon would provide these corporations with information that it was gathering from its own intelligence operations, effectively the fruit of espionage, that agencies like the nsa were gathering. so the partnership essentially sets up whereby private sector and public are coming together for the mutual purpose of defending these computer networks. the companies are ess

bill: jennifer griffin from the pentagon.a: we're joined by new hampshire senator, kelly ayote, republican and member of the house armed services committee. senator, good to have you with us today. >> good morning. martha: you listened to jennifer griffin's report today. what do you make of this situation? >> what i make of it, this was a bad deal to start with of course. these were five top commanders in the taliban, leaders of the taliban and i think many of us talked about, the danger of these individual re-engaging at the type. now we have one of those already communicating with the taliban that maybe the haqqani network was deadly form of the taliban that have killed so many of our troops. so here's where we are. i think this was a bad deal. the worries that i have is that as i understand this agreement with qatar, already we have one that is re-engaging but after may, there are no conditions and these individual can return to afghanistan. bear in mind because they were such top level officials they can leave from anywhe

for the pentagon to shut down the account. in the mean time centcom's you tube page had been hacked and now is shut down. now, leon and alison keep in mind that many of these retired generals targeted in the attacks still live in the washington area and today, a spokesperson for the fairfax county police told us that they began working immediately with their federal counterparts to quickly put into place new safety and security measures for these generals impacted and threatened but, of course, they declined to elaborate any further on those new security measures. reporting live in the newsroom rebecca cooper abc 7 not news. >> thank you. you can count on abc 7 to keep track of the investigation of this incident and any potential fallout from it. we'll bring you updates as soon as we learn the information right here. alison? >> leon a family is calling for change following the death of a 7-year-old boy who fell through the ice on friday night. abc 7 first brought you this story on friday evening when police officers jumped int

he wanted to be the quiet leader of the pentagon. not the senator anymore. he was -- he wanted to be that background guy. he said this, he thought it was john kerry's guy to be the voice of the -- of u.s. foreign policy abroad. this was part of a demilitarization of policy movement since the bush years. that's kind of what happened. i don't think any of the criticisms that hagel faced are going to go away because there were criticisms of the administration, like you said. so when ash carter comes in for his confirmation hearing, i think he'll pass 99-0. i think -- i don't think, we've been told that they'll use those hearings to go after obama on iraq, on iran deal o cuba now i'm sure is on the table. you name it, they'll go after him. they'll sneak up on him like a panther and really take the chance to hit obama any way they can just like usual. >> kevin, i'm reading through this article. here's what to expect in national security in 2015. i'm thinking somewhere in this article should be the idea that we don't know what to expect. national security always h

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that the pentagon's budget represents now has gone down significantly over the years, but if the pentagon does not get the money it needs where are you going to cut? >> we'll have to make some tough decisions obviously, if that's the case, you're right. g.d.p. spending on the military is hovering around 3%, low for our country historically. what we're concerned about in terms of cuts is the cuts that would come as a result of sequestration returning to be the law of the land. that would significantly put at risk our ability to defend the country in the manager we have been ordered to do that by the defense strategy the commander-in-chief handed down in 2012. what we said is that would have to be scrapped and be rewritten should sequestration return. >> your boss, chuck hagel made his formal farewell on wednesday. before that, he told national public radio that the stress and strain of 13 years of non-stop war is making it hard to hold on to some of the military's best and brightest. what are you doing to address that? is there anything you can do to address that? >> all the chiefs, all th

look, the pentagon recognizes that they have a problem.ot that we are bringing a problem to them but rather that we are helping them to solve a problem that they have. secretary hagel came into office talking about taking care of the troops and that anyone who was qualified to do so should be allowed to serve their country. i know that mr. carter dr. carter shares those same values. what i hope we'll see happen though, is if for no other reason than simple collegiality that secretary hagel will announce and initiate a review of these policies prior to leaving office and get it off the table for his successor. mr. carter's got far more important things isis for example, to be concerned about. let's just get this done. >> this should not be an obstacle when we have real life or death obstacles out there. allison robbinsonrobinson very much appreciate your stance. all this month we've been looking at obstacles to transgender rights in different parts of life. one big area in academia. a few week ago we brought you the story of a transgender w

let's dig deeper with our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr.re you hearing from pentagon officials? >> reporter: good morning, carol. i just finished talking to a senior official here and he says their information, the u.s. military believes the situation in syria with isis-controlled territory has been fairly static since november but what the military is emphasizing is these airstrikes were never meant to solve the isis problem in syria. the pentagon to be clear, has been saying that right since the beginning. airstrikes are not the solution they say. the other part of the strategy of course is to arm the moderate syrian opposition get them up and running, get them fighting isis the assad regime dozens of other rebel groups. syria, a very complicated situation on the ground because unlike over in iraq you don't have any intelligence really from the ground. you're not working with a country that has asked you in there. the airstrikes that have been in syria, there have been a lot of them but it's not about taking territory back it's much more

joining us our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, nick payton walsh. he's the only western reporter in yemen. also joining us retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel james reese. barbara, first of all, tell us what the united states ambassador to yemen is now saying publicly about the number of isis troops he says the u.s. and his coalition partners have killed in recent months. >> this is a statistic the pentagon never wanted to come out in public. the ambassador now saying the coalition has killed an estimated more than 6,000 isis fighters since the air strikes began. that number actually endorsed by u.s. military sources who say it comes from classified estimates with each air strike that has happened there is a damage assessment how many vehicles how many check points how many enemy fighters killed. let's be clear, this is very rough estimate. even military officials tell me they cannot possibly be absolutely certain. none theless, the estimate is 6,000. why is this number now coming out through the u.s. ambassador secretary of state john kerry speaki

how does the pentagon buy its oil? >> the pentagon's fuel and centering spry chaiis the mostt integrated sply chain that the department has. it is factory to foxhole, to flight deck and fan tail, with the factories being those refine that takeke crude oil. depends on a single organization theefense logistics organization, to buy th fuel, using eststimates the services provide them in terms of consumption. then they buy it distribute it store it and put it plane-side, pier-side, dock-side wherever needed. >> what is the structure like though? there is a sense t that the low oil fuelrices now will translate into more immediate savings, but it is slightly more complicated than that, isn't i >> it is. it takes more time. the team at d.l. energy buys crueon contractsts from around thee world, and contracts that are set to an index that is measured byy plats. it is an energy newsletter that has had indexes for years. those indexes will drdrive the price lower. the price of fuel has dropped from $120 a barrel in that neighbor

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>> a pentagon correspondent the science and technology. was once educated to be electrical engineers alike could approach the pentagon story of the latest brazilian dollar jet aircraft with that political aspect of why it was being built. the times didn't big project with of the "star wars" project and we had the pulitzer for that. >> host: we're year to talk about your book "a field guide to radiation" where did you come out with that title? >> only tongue-in-cheek we cannot take them leica bird guide to identify them but so too have a complex topic of digestible bits in that is my hope for this subject. >> host: what is radiation >> and natural process something we are exposed to from many different sources in the simplest terms given off by a adams when they disintegrate or decay as they do naturally in creating technologies in and surrounded by it now with weapons in reactors it has become a part of our way of life. >> host:, its exposure before it is too much? >> there is the rub. in the amount is too much. radiation is not something

the pentagon is planning a major offensive to fight islamic state in iraq. the so-called mosul offensive while iran's influence grows in the region. fox news white house correspondent kevin corke with our report. >> reporter: with the death of saudi king abdullah and yemen careening into chaos facing uncertain futures. that's raising the specter of increasingly influential iran in the region. the obama administration could be looking at beginning stages of a mideast domino effect one that ends with tehran filling a power vacuum. as for yemen? >> you've got terrorists that thrive on chaos, and so that's part of why it is such a dangerous place, some people have called it the new afghanistan. meaning afghanistan back before 9/11. >> reporter: and now the end of an era for the saudis. the kingdom losing a monarch whose relationship with the u.s. was among the most cooperative of the region. king salman ascends to the saudi throne with plummeting oil revenues and attacks from jihadists. couple that with instability from lebanon, syria and iraq, to pakistan, afgh

correspondent is live at the pentagon tonight. >> good evening. yemen has never been a paragon of stability but in the past 36 hours that country has gone from really dangerous to lawless and chaotic. here at the pentagon they admit they don't know what is exactly going on there, who if anyone is in charge. for that matter the true intentions of the iranian backed militia that appears to control the capitol. so far the u.s. embassy resemables secure. now combat aircraft and marines prepositioned who if necessary could evacuate americans. u.s. military has substantial resources. >> kurt risks in that part of the world and commander has resources and assets at his disposal. >> yemen's lands have long served as a breeding and training ground for al qaeda and now home for the most powerful branch. last year alone the u.s. carried out 23 drone strikes against terrorist targets with the help of yemen security forces and the obama administration considered its recently resigned president an ally in the fight against terror. >> many places around the worl

according to pentagon figures, the u.s.-led coalition carried out 34 strikes in iraq and syria over the weekend, 25 in syria and nine in iraq. also this weekend, islamic state fighters killed at least 24 members of the kurdish security forces in a surprise ambush in northern iraq. hundreds of fighters from both sides have died in fighting since the summer. hundreds of bodies remain strewn -- local authorities say militants opened fire after storming the town of baga and surrounding areas last week. they were shot dead and scores of homes burned to the ground. there is been no independent corroboration of the death toll which is said to be in the hundreds that to 2000. in a statement, and misty international said the attack looks as if it could be boko haram's deadliest act. q has released all 53 prisoners the pledge to free as part of the historic restoration of u.s. ties last month. the white house confirmed the prisoners' release over the weekend ahead of key talks on normalizing diplomatic relations in havana next week.

they have ordered the pentagon not to release the report, collect?> yes that is correct. >> and the white house is putting pressure on the pentagon not to punish bergdahl severely, which means that the report is going to say that he did something wrong? >> we've talked about this and yes, my sources have told me very clearly that it validated in greater detail the information that the ncis criminal investigative service did within months of his walking away from post. and bill, there is new information that came out of general dahl's investigation, some of which is very sensitive intelligence. with that said, that has been parsed out. the other report is now unclassified and says what i think most people expect it to say and there is a great deal of pressure. >> he deserted. but did he collaborate. and let's go over to colonel hunt. our constitution says that the military is not supposed to be political. all right. it is under the command of the president of the united states. but it is not to be used in a political way. i.e., the democrats can't tak

that came from the pentagon. our pentagon is asking estimate those changes.n that conversation is going to have to happen sooner or later of how we add us -- we just salaries -- host: and health care. guest: and i want to include health care under those costs. absolutely. we have to be got hundred this works we can have our economy respond the way we wanted to. host: james, a democratic color. good morning to you. james, you're on the air. james, one less call for you for congressman charlie dent. nope. west palm beach, florida. a republican. hi, dennis. caller: good morning. i just want to say that congressman that i'm not very happy with his comments here today. he made a comment that we want to more or less table the social value issues. so i'm just going to say a couple of things and then i will hang up really quick. what does it mean to be a moderate in the republican party? does that mean to throw aside all the social values? number two, what were the three legs that the -- that president reagan set for the republican party? i'm wondering if we can win

jennifer griffin has more from the pentagon. the pentagon seems to be downplaying this saying it was a major breach of

david martin at the pentagon for us. david, thank you so much. now on to the terror attacks in paris. today police said as many as six members of a terrorist cell may still be on the loose. one suspected accomplice is hayat boumediene, the girlfriend of the terrorist who attacked the jewish grocery store. before the attacks, she is believed to have traveled from paris to madrid to istanbul and then on to syria. holly williams is in istanbul tonight. holly? >> reporter: scott, there is no european no-fly list that would have prevented hayat boumediene traveling from paris via madrid and on to istanbul. if the french police had been looking for boumediene, that would have been flagged to the spanish, but they weren't when she left france before the attacks took place. surveillance cameras captured hayat boumediene entering turkey through an istanbul airport on the second of january, a week before her partner, amedy coulabli, killed four hostages in a kosher grocery store in paris. the turkish authorities said today that they were not warned about b

there are some smiles at the pentagon with oil trading at $45. ♪ >> congress has ordered the pentagoncosts. defense officials are looking at an unexpected windfall -- cheaper fuel. more on what could happen to all the cash. the pentagon spends more than anybody else on fuel. >> they are the biggest buyer of the refined products in the world. a huge fire on the open market. they do not buy crude. this is still a very big deal even for an agency that has a budget of $530 billion. we are talking about about $2 billion in savings. it buys refined products for planes tanks, and ships. a giant player accounted for 1.5% of u.s. petroleum consumption and 8% of the jet fuel market. the air force consuming more than any other service. this fiscal year the department projected it would consume 91.5 million barrels. the original price tag was $14.2 billion. if oil prices hold at $50 a barrel, the bill for the pentagon could fall to 12.2 billion dollars. that is how you get the $2 billion in savings. it could be bigger and that is real money at the pentagon. >> what are they going to do with those

the pentagon teamed up with these contractors in information and intelligence sharing arrangement the that contractors agreed to report to the pentagon threats they were sent on their network and occluding when he had been breached. the pentagon agreed not to disclose this publicly because companies do not to say when the that hackers and cyber networks. and then return the pentagon was going to provide these corporations with information that it was gathered from some intelligence operation to effectively the fruit of espionage that agencies like the nsa were gathering about these threats in china and how they might affect american businesses. this partnership essentially sets up whereby private sector and public are coming together for their mutual purpose of defending these computer networks. companies are essential in this arrangement and this is true across the board when we talk about defending critical systems in the u.s. companies own roughly 85% of the network infrastructure in the united states. the government does not physically control it so companies have to produce it wi

jamie mcintire has more from the pentagon. >> 15 recommendations designed to save the pentagon billions of dollars without reducing the overall compensation of troops. but the reforms could prove to be a hard sell if it appears they make it harder to retain and recruit top-notch people in the future. its pricey weapons like the uber expensive f-16 fighter price tag $144 million gives the pentagon its reputation of spending beyond its means. but that is not the only thing that is going to bus the budget. >> the simple cost of manpower cost for the pentagon eats up more than 50% of our dollars and those costs are rising every year. >> politician he with military expertise is now recommending an overhaul of the system. its most potentially contentious contentious, continue full retirement benefits after 20 years and eliminate tricare the military's health care plan and replace it by private health care plans. predictly many are upset. >> instead of maintaining a system that's worked well, defined benefit system, we're going to force military to put their plans in a casino plan. >> reservin

sometimes the pentagon is penny wise and pound foolish. sometimes the white house tries to cut military spending for other parts of the budget. sometimes the priorities are wrong. congress forced the pentagon to buy the predator. they didn't want it. pilots do not like pilotless aircraft. it is countercultural. i don't know many people who would reverse that decision today. each of us has a responsibility to represent the interests of our district or state. we don't no one else will. this congress sometimes make the wrong call? absolutely. please do not fall into what was said in another context, the soft bigotry of low expectations. the constitution gives congress the responsibility to raise support, provide, and maintain lee terry capability. congress can rise to meet the historical moment. that is what you, the american people, should expect us to do today, even if the president does not always rise to the moment in carrying out his constitutional duties. some expect lawmakers to just cut the check and not ask questions. the congress sh

. >> you covered the pentagon for a long time. how difficult would it be for hackers to get into the more classified sites at the pentagon and are there fears of a bigger hack on that kind of data? >> it's much more difficult to get into the pentagon secure internet site. there's much more -- you know when the pentagon uses these social media sites in order to communicate with the public, they are essentially using the sites you and i would use. they are limited on the kind of cyber-security they could have there but it's a much different prospect getting into the secure pentagon system. >> jamie mcintire, thank thank you. ing even before this was confirmed president obama was talking about making the cyber world safer. he proposed a cyber bull of rights. efforts to keep kids safe as well. >> today we're proposing the students digital privacy act. -- student digital privacy act data collected should be for educational purposes not to market to our children. we want to prevent companies from selling data to third appeared other tha

that's our pentagon. when you're under stress, when a bomb goes off, pentagon is alert. the gland says, guys, we have a war going on, flight or fight. that's when they send a message to the u.s. based army which is your adrennal grand. you have all these lieutenants waiting to be armed. you have cortisone level. short term, your body may be sending like who are mowns, but it comes down. if you're under attack all the time, bombshell after bombshell, your cortisone level is going to be high. your adegreenal gland is going to be high. it increases inflammation, heart disease, increase diabetes, everything else is effected. how do you take care of this? yoga, exercise, relaxation. this is something you cannot avoid. staying away from negative energy. that's one of the resolution of 2015, remember. but try to stay calm. it hasalth problem. >> as you know our own dr. siegel, he's an expert in this field. he has written extensively on the subject. including his book "false alarm, the truth about the epidemic of fear." you pointed out the fight or flight feeling that gets into

pentagon is saying that the u.s. embassy in yemen's capitol has not been evacuated. and if the fight against isis still continues. secretary of state john kerry said iraq and allies have made significant progress battling the militants. >> reporter: saying the progress has also been tangible and measurable against isis despite the frustrations of iraq's government. the pentagon is responding to iraq's call for more training more weapons, more support. on their own? >> i do disagree with the prime minister's comments. >> reporter: last year the pentagon says the u.s. gave iraq tens of thousands of small arms and ammunition. >> we are doing everything we can possibly do to help. >> reporter: at a meeting with partners fighting isis secretary of state john kerry said it is working. >> we are flushing them out. >> reporter: the threats continue. the u.s. european commander is stepping up security there. more random searches more staff at check points more patrols after the paris attack liked to isis. now new concerns about al qaeda. yemen's government has fallen to rebel

but they have to sit there and take it until we get tougher in the pentagon. at some point as we progress perhaps the pentagon will decide they can take come kind of action. certainly if they can identify the targets and mortar positions quickly i have no doubt we would have american aircraft on them but they are not typically standing by waiting for something to happen. they have to be called into action and that takes time. >> authorities say isis coordinated a suicide bombing attacks on their army and police barracks. 23 iraqis were killed in ann bar province. the attack came soon after a protest. if kobani represents a slight defeat for isis they are still on something of a roll in ann bar. >> they absolutely are. no question about it. they continue to do well down there. the iraqi army isn't prepared to fight them. the kurds have both done well in holding the fort with isis in some areas but down to the south -- i don't think isis will get into baghdad but they will create a lot of problems. and until we have the sunni tribes and the iraqis along with thi

i was once educated to be an electrical engineer a long time ago, so i was able to approach a pentagon story about the latest zillion dollars jet aircraft from the nuts and bolts did it work or not rather than the political aspects of why it was being built. >> host: anyway pulitzer winner? >> guest: yes, the times did a big project on the so-called stars wars program during the reagan administration. we won a pulitzer for this series of articles. >> host: we are here to talk to you about your book here at an interesting title, field guide to radiation. >> guest: it was only partly tongue-in-cheek tribute was preceded by the field guide to germs. perhaps a little bit more tongue-in-cheek here and you can't obviously take these books out into the woods and identify anything. the fear of god traditionally is an excellent way of organizing a complex topic into digestible bits. so that is my hope for this subject. >> host: before we get into the discussion, what is radiation? >> guest: radiation is a natural process something we are exposed to for different sources and nature. it is a forc

joining me now is chief pentagon correspondent. give us more info on your sourcing of this. >> according to senior defense officials with direct knowledge of the investigation, it is likely that bergdahl will be charged with some lower level of desertion. one in which he would be accused of abandoning his post to avoid either hazardous duty or a difficult or special assignment. the one thing they're sure of is that bergdahl did walk away. >> okay. i think we lost mick. i'm going to bring in a senior writer from "politico" and a senior washington correspondent. before we discuss this let me follow back up with mick. i think we have your audio back up. >> oh, i'm sorry. >> it's okay. continue on. >> sources indicate that bergdahl would be charged with a lesser form of desertion. everybody thinks desertion, oh, my good, you're going to spend your life in prison but the one they're talking about, the one where he would be accused of leaving his post to avoid hazardous duty could carry a five-year prison time but it is likely that he wo

>> it became almost assessed in from the pentagon we had 36 u.s. soldiers trading 24 nato mentors to mentor the afghans because they came and prepared. they under estimated level of atrophy that was experienced after the end of the cold war. we are now asking to do things that we take for granted with eerie air refueling and the number three going into one of the most complex environments. >> i guess there is an advantage is they have pretty soft power projection. >> they do. but what you have to have on the field is close integration. they often look at the e.u. said they didn't have the integration. so at the end of the day there is fantastic benefits that we have to be clear what they can do on the ground. from a political will also a capability. >> what about going up against isis as we are in a coalition? >> the other portion is american leadership. i talked about and there is real benefit to having arab partners from a messaging system point from a broader strategic standpoint but it can almost work against you. >> general the kristol really

the pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. we should act like it.

jim miklaszewski at the pentagon for us tonight. thanks. >>> there is another terrorist attack in the news, but this one didn't take place in paris or on live television. and there's been no parade of world leaders with arms locked in defiance. this attack reportedly took place in northern nigeria late last week. according to terrorist experts and u.s. officials, as many as 2,000 civilians were massacred. though the nigerian government disputes that number. the clear suspect, the jihadist group boko haram. and the horrors continued through the weekend in nigeria, a pair of bombings at marketplaces killed at least 19 people. the method of attack was apparently among the most despicable imaginable, using girls as young as 10 years of age to carry suicide bombs. >>> tonight, search teams in the java sea have recovered one of the black boxes from that airasia flight 8501. the flight data recorder has been pulled from underneath one of the wings of the plane. it will now be analyzed in indonesia for clues as to how the plane crashed. sea