over losing a pentagon contract worth billions to rival microsoft. wants to this morning hong kong pro-democracy movement takes a break from the protests and group the closely watched local elections seen as a litmus test for. the rest. try to block conservative pundits from speaking on campus of the universe it was about isolating alternative viewpoints that. it's important to have different values here on campus not just progressive values or ideas experience you different challenging ideas that. we only hear one side that's all they'll ever hear. the morning here in moscow this 25th of november welcome to the program live from the world news center it's this update for you hope you stay with me too for about 25 minutes or so as we go through it so if there's one thing amazon doesn't like to start with it appears that that's losing the internet giants formally launched a legal challenge against the u.s. defense department after rival microsoft beat the firm to clinch a very lucrative dated contract the decision surprised. in the bag but the route w

to the pentagon for a $10000000000.00 contract to microsoft after accusing president trump of interfering in the bidding process. broadcasting. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad you're with us. they whistleblower 'd has cast doubt on the way the international chemical weapons watchdog handled last year's alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma a leaked internal e-mail from an unnamed employee at the o.p.c. w. claims the organization misrepresented facts in its official report released by wiki leaks it coincides with the o.p.c. w's 5 day conference which is now underway in the hague. on the agenda of this annual meeting is just routine administrative stuff but this thing this in this whistleblower email is certainly the big elephant in that room because it was compiled by one of the co all of those over the o.p.c. w.'s report on the 2018 the chemical attack in the syrian city of duma and while his words i should say sum up better than anything he's feelings when he saw what the report that he was working on turned out to be as he is accusing the o.p.c. w. of manipulat

cries foul over losing a pentagon contract worth billions to rival microsoft and. one person in particular . pro-democracy movement takes a break from protests and heads for a big win in the closely watched local election season as a litmus test for. the rest of made us more than a 1000 california university students try to block a conservative pundit speaking on campus was directed. alternative viewpoint. it's important to have different values to share on campus not just progressive values are ideas experience new and different challenging ideas that might arise if we only hear one side that's all they'll ever hear. monday morning here in moscow this 25th of november a welcome to the program life. with this update for you so 1st off and if there's one thing doesn't like losing the internet giants formally launched a legal challenge against the u.s. defense department after rival microsoft beat the firm to clinch a very lucrative data contract the decision surprised analyst sue thought amazon had a in the bag but the road is about more that money is explained. ama

amazon cries foul over losing a pentagon contract worth billions to rival microsoft calls a lawsuit claiming one person in particular. plus hong kong's pro-democracy movement takes a break from protest big vote this last weekend secures a big win in closely watched local elections seen as a litmus test for beijing. either just this 25th of november her days going good if you just joined us welcome to the program live from the r.t. world news center with this update hope you can stick around so 1st off and a whistleblower is casting doubt on the way the international chemical weapons watchdog handled last year's alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma a leaked internal e-mail from an unnamed employee at the o.p.c. w. claims the organization cherry picked misrepresented facts in its official report the release now by wiki leaks coincides with the o.p.c. w.'s 5 day conference about to start a bit later today in the hague as he goes down off reports. on the agenda of this annual meeting is just routine administrative stuff but this thing this in this whistleblower email is certainly t

fall over losing a pentagon contract worth billions to rival microsoft. one person protect. him from right around the globe this hour welcome to our team international my names you know. a whistle blower. on the way the international chemical weapons watchdog last year is alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of a leaked internal e-mail from a named employee and the o.p.c. claims the organization cherry picked and misrepresented fox in its official report the release of by wiki leaks coincides with the o.p.c. 5 day conference which is now underway in the hague. on the agenda. just routine administrative stuff but this thing this in this whistleblower email is certainly the big elephant in the room because it was compiled by one of the. reports on the $28.00 team the chemical attack and the. syrian city of duma and while his words i should say sum up better than anything his feelings when he saw what the report that he was working on turned out to be as he's accusing the o.p.c. w. of manipulating facts after reading the modified report i was struck by how much it misrepr

and cries foul over losing a pentagon contract with billions to rival microsoft and files a lawsuit blaming one person in particular. coming up to hong kong's pro-democracy movement takes a break from protests and secures a big win in closely watched local elections seen as a litmus test for beijing. monday morning here in moscow hi there thanks for choosing to us this is out international live from the world news center with me kevin though in top story the whistleblower is casting doubt on the way the international chemical weapons watchdog handled last year's alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma a leaked internal e-mail from an unnamed employee at the o p c w claims that the organization cherry picked and misrepresented facts in its official report the released by wiki leaks coincides too with the o p c w 5 day conference in the hague which starts in just a few hours time let's go to europe our correspondents for cissie goshdarn off today a go morning you'd think this might have a renewed focus to the o.p.c. w.'s imminent conference is it raising eyebrows in the hague this

the about your role at pentagon specifically under jim mattis. guest: i was the chief speechwriter for secretary mattis. speechn charge of operations, writing memos and letters to world leaders. i was also his director of communications. that started to elevate that role to the communications and messaging coordination with the white house, state department and international organizations. host: did you know secretary mattis before you got the job? guest: i had met him once very , i had beenically interviewing for my first speechwriter job. for 20 years i was in f-18 fighter pilot. maybe a year to two years of a break. i was interviewing for my first speechwriter role. here comes secretary mattis. had a chance to meet him very briefly. get the job? you host: i was contacted. forere stationed overseas two and a half years. when we moved back to the united states we had just taken a job in norfolk, virginia. i got a call saying my services were needed in d.c. host: what was the goal in writing the book? sometimes when you look at it through a narro

correspondent standing by also the headlines this morning imus and cries foul after a multi-billion dollar pentagon contract for an artificial intelligence project went to its rival microsoft. hong kong's pro-democracy movement takes a break from protests and heads for a big win in closely watched local elections happen yesterday exults coming out now seen as a litmus test for beijing. by the monday morning here in moscow this 25th of november welcome to the program live from the r.t. world news center is kevin though in with his update 1st not just mentioned in those headlines a whistleblower is casting doubt on the way the international chemical weapons watchdog handled last year's alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma you may recall it made so many headlines that a leaked internal e-mail now from an unnamed employee at the o.p.c. w. claims the organization cherry picked and misrepresented facts in its official report released by wiki leaks coincides with the o.p.c. w.'s 5 day conference in the hague which starts in a few hours time will be across but. correspondents easier for us he

over losing a pentagon contract worth billions to rival microsoft files a lawsuit blaming one person in particular. also ahead hong kong's pro-democracy movement takes a break from the protests securing a big closely watched local elections seen as a litmus test for beijing. coming from moscow 24 hours a day euro r.t. international pleasure to have your company linings you know. a whistle blower. on the way the international chemical weapons watchdog last year's alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma a leaked internal e-mail from an unnamed employee at the o.p.c. w. claims the organization cherry picked misrepresented facts and its official report the release by wiki leaks coincides with the o.p.c. w.'s 5 day conference which is now underway in the hague. on the agenda. is just routine administrative stuff but this thing this in this whistleblower email is certainly the big elephant in the room because it was compiled by one of the. you. p.c. w.'s report on the 28 teen that chemical attack in the syrian city of duma and well his words a should say sum up better than anyth

to our pockets over the holiday season but it turns out the real money that goes softer is the pentagon's given the u.s. military spent over $600000000000.00 annually it's unsurprising there's a battle for the big contracts so head to head and microsoft have been vying for the pentagon prize of $10000000000.00 over the next 10 years the contract in question is for the judge by project and ambitious event that would allow the pentagon to stall sensitive data on a single large cloud it would also allow the military to take full advantage of fishel intelligence tools tools which have drawn concern from ethical what dogs for their lethal potential in guiding missiles and drones amazon thought it had its foot in the door not only is it the lead in the walls of cloud computing it's also made $600000000.00 from its dealings with the cia since 2013 so you can understand the shock when microsoft was crowned and amazon's not happy it's so unhappy in fact that it's filed a lawsuit saying that it was passed over at the recommendation of a certain donald trump we believe is critical for our country th

the contract in question is for the judge by project and ambitious offended that would allow the pentagon to stall sensitive data on a single large cloud it would also allow the military to take full advantage of fishel intelligence tools tools which have drawn concern from ethical watchdogs for their lethal potential in guiding missiles and drones amazon thought it had its foot in the door not only is it the lead in the walls of cloud computing it's also made $600000000.00 from its dealings with the cia since 2013 so you can understand the shock when microsoft was crowned and the amazon's not happy it's so unhappy in fact that it's filed a lawsuit saying that it was possible at the recommendation of a certain donald trump we believe is critical for our country that the government and its elected leaders administer procurements objectively and in a minute is free. in political influence numerous aspects of the joint enterprise defense infrastructure evaluation process contain clear deficiencies there is an unmistakable bias and is important in these matters be examined and rectified it's

even helped jeff bezos clear his desk of brian becker from the antiwar hunter coalition says the pentagon is always considered to be a solid business partner in us defense and profits tend to go hunting to the. well amazon's lawsuit represents indicates the cutthroat competition between the mega monopoly corporations that are competing with each other to become an appendage of the pentagon big technology companies know that in order to really prosper and thrive in the american economy you have to affix yourself to pentagon spending because the lion's share the majority of discretionary budgeting each year in this massive federal budget actually goes for death and destruction for the u.s. military machine so this is not simply a matter of war the defense department and the contracts this is this is business and in america war is very profitable and war contracting very very profitable. hong kong's pro-democracy movement is celebrating victory in the chinese territories district council elections after a record number of voters flocked to the polls on sunday the opposition want to run like

christ all over losing a pentagon contract with billions to rival microsoft and falls a lawsuit claiming on person in particular. the hong kong pro-democracy movement takes a break from protests and. closely watched local elections seen as a litmus test for beijing. by their good afternoon just 1 pm here in moscow this 25th of november live from the r.t. world news center is kevin 0 in with his 30 minute update of you stay with me so 1st the whistleblower is casting doubts on the way the international chemical weapons watchdog handled last year's alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma leaks internal e-mail from an unnamed employee at the o.p.c. w. claims the organization cherry picked and misrepresented facts in its official report the released by wiki leaks coincides with the o.p.c. 5 day conference is now just got underway in the hague as he goes down off reports . on the agenda of this annual meeting is just routine administrative stuff but this thing this in this whistleblower email is certainly the big elephant in that room because it was compiled by one of the co all of

a very major development at the pentagon.hite house's review of the eddie gallagher navy s.e.a.l. case leads to the firing of the navy's top civilian. back to you guys. >> that's extraordinary, ryan. thank you for that. >>> now, to the impeachment front. a confidential review of the freeze of military to ukraine, has uncovered hundreds of documents, revealing efforts to justify president trump's actions after the hold was in place. there was a debate involving mick mulvaney, about whether the delay was legal. it's not clear if these records pose legal problems for trump but they could be embarrassing. let's get more from jeremy diamond at the white house. >> reporter: the white house has been conducting an internal review of president trump's decision last summer to withhold nearly $400 million in security aid to ukraine. according to "the washington post," that review is turning up hundreds of documents to suggest that white house officials and officials in the office of management and budget, were trying to draw up a legal

courtney kube is posted up at the pentagon. i want to start with you. richard spencer seemed to take what you could call a parting shot on his way out the door. i want to read part of his resignation letter. he says unfortunately i no longer share the same understanding with the commander in chief who appointed me in regards to the key principle of good order and disciplines. i cannot in good conscious follow an order that i believe doesn't support the constitution. that is written in respectful military speak but it is very clear that is a shot at president trump. what are you hearing this morning? >> it seems pretty clear that the reason that he put that in is that it was referring to the eddie gallagher case. so we had some reporting over the end that secretary spencer was very upset by president trump's tweet on thursday, in which he told the navy not to get involved any more with eddie gallagher, not to review his trident, which of course is the navy seal pin, the accreditation to become a navy seal. and secretary spencer made it very clear on thur

pentagon, on september 11th. accomplish they're sitting in their office doing what you do in the first hour of your first day at work, filling out your personnel forms. and one of them collects the forms at about 9:30 and walks over to the fantastic machine -- this is 2001, actually had to fax something and walk up to the machine, load the dodge inside, enters in the number, hit this start button the building explodes and she is standing there, zinged, on fire, wondering what she did to the fax machine. and that she and her colleagues that day, many of her colleagues died. she and sheila have both end up surviving that day, getting out, in part because of the incredible efforts of some of her colleagues. this is where you sort of see these incredible stories of the human response to 9/11. of course we are familiar with the firefighters and the police officers and the emts and the paramedics who go into the towers and up the towers in new york. in the pentagon, it's a story of military officers who run out of a bu

when it comes to his management of the pentagon versus the white house.aying, there could be no daylight between us. people are getting tired of hearing one thing out of the administration and the opposite. it has to be aligned. the that reflect the general attitude of general mattis? >> 100%. he understood that he served at the pleasure of the president. he's the secretary of defense at that point in time. the white house may say one thing, that was the concern. if you don't have that transparency within the administration, you don't have that alignment in your message, it's very confusing. we are seeing that today. even just recently with the news about secretary esper having a breakdown with his navy secretary and subsequently firing him. it all happened because there was a misalignment in the messaging and the white house. >> he said, we have to make sure we are aligned with the white house. given example. >> there was a meeting i had with the secretary. a great example is when we would go to the nato minister in brussels. you are on the world stage.

the pentagon had never completed an audit. let me repeat that. in its history the department of defense had never completed an audit. kind of remarkable. the fy '19 dod audit is one of the largest audits of any organization in history. over the course of this year this audit hasud required more than 1400 auditors and hundreds of duty site inspections. inspectionsrs and evaluating thousands of sample and documented items to accountt fors. the roughly $2.8 trillionn dod assets. conducting an audit of this size is nohe easy task but it's a critical function that dod must do and the results reveal issues that we all must learn from. there w is still much, much more work to be done. but it commend the secretary for undertaking this difficult but important task. as of last friday the department of defense completed its second agencywide audit, and while it did not receive an overall clean opinion come much knowledge was gained from actually doing the audit. i'm sure we'll hear more but over 24 individual audits across the different agencies, seven did

senior pentagon officials' testimony. the pentagon officials thought it was necessary to get $400 million in relate assistance. they got no answers why the money was being withheld. how concerning was that? >> i think this is more interesting than it looks. it's very boring at the outset. you think government is boring, start reading that transcript. the government said ukrainians are doing fine. in fact, the way you get around that confusion is simple. the white house brings in people around the government, secretary of state, secretary of defense, office of management and budget that has to release the money, the president made a decision based on policy reasons, go execute and we will talk about that until the ukrainians comply. none of that happened. why? the president wanted research into the bidens and had nothing to do with corruption. everybody was confused because only the president and his researchers knew what happened. >> the secretary of defense testified in late august, kurt volker then the special envoy for

the pentagon is saying that's not true?on is saying the chief of staff did not know the specifics of what spencer was proposing that would have been the deal where they would have had an impartial review of gallagher, but ahead of time there would have been an agreement that his s.e.a.l. status still would have been preserved. they didn't know that's what spencer was proposing. >> a lot of conflicting comments and versions of this. barbara starr from the pentagon, thanks very much. >>> there's stunning testimony from 12 witnesses over two weeks. did the impeachment hearings move the needle for voters? new cnn polls out this morning. we'll break those numbers down. be powerful. be the diamond you are. find dazzling deals on diamonds and more. the zales black friday sale. get 30-50% off everything, including this stunning 7-carat diamond bracelet. exclusively at zales, the diamond store. including this stunning 7-carat diamond bracelet. for powerful relief from cold and flu symptoms without a prescription, try theraflu multi-

thek pentagon has mobilized. we have the gao and eiji and others would they do program on its this particular subject. the difference of the financial statementhe is an end-to-end the audit on the dramatic scale. >> what you just said twice. >> what we just did twice. that that's never happened before. >> why? >> a couple of reasons. it's an extremely hardwh task. >> they did one in world war ii for example. say that the challenge with the audit is there was an emphasis on trying to get ready for and this is where i run a fundamentally different view. they said it's too expensive. let's get ourselves ready enough that wee can pass the audit and bring the auditors then. my experience with homeland security where they were under audit is that was a major mistake. homeland security didn't have a choice. i found the auditors in their feedback to be the central piece of getting us to that clean opinion so my view is the money we pay the auditors with all the other money we are spending are going to things and we are g

blind siding the pentagon by tweet.dle of 2018 and into march, the president threatening to close the southern border even though he was told that was impossible. we will build a wall or close the border. immigration is often an area where the president tries to do policy by tweet. and hire ere is another one. i.c.e. will begin the process of removing a million illegal aliens. this in june of 2019. those who serve the administration, after they lee, they are willing to talk about their frustration. >> when the president says here's what i want to do and here is how i want to do it and i'd have to say i understand, but you can't do it that way. it violates the law, it violates treaty, you know. he got really frustrated. >> and concern stiwe were still someone to take my place. i said whatever you do, don't hire a yems man, someone that won't at the time you tof of lifelif life -- tell you, because if you do, you will be impeached. >> the president denies that last part .bbut the latest cases the president essentially usi

to it that deadliest white supremacist attacks in its recent history were born far out from the pentagon in october of 2018 a gunman murdered 11 jewish worshipers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania. talking about. then in august 22 people were shot dead in an attempt to kill as many latinos as possible in el paso texas. just 9 months apart these attacks were connected to the ideology of white supremacy and only read gradually and i think we all come to realize how extensive this underground network is of people who have bought into this hateful belief system. those things are being nurtured by our president in his language and actually stoked against license to people like the shooter to do violence against communities. to pittsburgh suspect was critical of donald trump and they'll pass so shooter distance himself from the president in his manifesto. but both men frame their actions as responses to crises real or imagined that the president has amplified even echoing his language about minorities and immigrants out of florida rally in may the president rhetorical he

where essentially we're loaning our our military muscle for pay running up you know running the pentagon at a profit if you will look yes if that's what you listen to the president's word when you ask but i don't think i go wait a minute let me as it were president words you know does it matter right as it depends on it and i look at this when you ask anyone in the military about why all of these agreements exists because the united states has an enduring interest that these things exist if you want a united states military that's able to react to a threat abroad or to act as a deterrent abroad and the united states needs partners and allies that's just basic one a one defense doctrine right so you need an agreement with you know to have basing you need an agreement to have access to ports and overflights with all these individual countries but i think we're already way down the weeds from what kind of really the bigger question here which is donald trump has brought a new way of doing business a new way of doing foreign policy and he's done it by the will of the american people or at le

and joining us from berkeley, california, pentagon paper whistleblower daniel ellsberg.is most recent book "the , doomsday machine: confessions of a nuclear war planner." dan ellsberg was blocked from testifying in the recent trial of the kings bay plowshares 7. we welcome you both to democracy now! martha, can you respond to pope francis going to hiroshima, nagasaki come and sing nuclear weapons are immoral? >> thank you, amy. good to be here. i think we have before us a remarkable pope and he is certainly exhausting himself with this work of peacemaking and global solidarity building. he is in a quickly speaking out against nuclear weapons. he does support the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. my heart rejoices to hear his words and you see him. he is very purposefully going to places -- places of sin and sorrow and grief and pain. he calls it a separate mental act to go to the sites. i feel complete affirmation and what he is trying to do. with regards to our own action of walking on to enable submarine base. amy: has he weighed in on your trial or your se

the pentagon had never completed not it. but you repeat that. it is history, the department of defense had never completed an audit. kind of remarkable. the faa 19 d.o.t. audit is one of the largest audit of any organization in history. over history, this audit has required more than 1400 auditors and hundreds of d.o.d. site inspections. these auditors and inspections evaluate thousands of samples undocumented items to account for roughly the 2.8 billion dollars in d.o.t. assets. conducting an audit of this size is no easy task, however it is a critical d.o.t. function which it must do in the results reveal issues that we all must learn from. there is still much, much more work to be done but i commend the secretary for undertaking this difficult, important task. as of last, friday the department of defense completed its second agency wide audit, and while -- much was great for doing the odd. i'm sure we will hear more but many audits done across the different agencies, seven did come back clean, so, why do we take the time to do an audit? in pa

this is not the way the pentagon works. there is supposed to be very clear direction, not competing narratives and of course that is so troops know exactly what their senior commanders expect of them. now the real question i think gallagher will retire at the end of the month, but what is left is a navy secretary out of a job and really critical questions about does this really impact morale, good discipline in the ranks. and there is an awful rs ais an people that that is a heavy price being paid. >> because it appears that the takeaway is that gallagher gets to keep his trident and spencer are lost his job. so the president got what he wankts wanted. but what is the fallout. we appreciate you joining us and let's discuss this case now with former commanding general of u.s. army in europe and a cnn military analyst. and also retired air force rachel van landingham who now teaches criminal loot cor lieutenant colonel, you tweeted that the secretary of defense is an enabler who cares more for his job than doing the right thi

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she works at the pentagon. when her transcript was released, it was of course released in the 4:00 hour so i had to read it stabbing myself in my eye with my glasses. but what jumped out at me reading it like that was that there were questions at the pentagon about the law. there were questions about whether or not it was illegal. so you talk about that which is impeachable. there were questions about -- at least questions about what was legal. >> so after congress appropriates money, there's a big question about whether the president can -- can then stop that. so i think that cooper will be important, one, in tying the halting of a directly to the white house. but remember, she is the deputy secretary of defense. so she also understands how vital this aid is to ukraine. so i think she will also establish that this shakedown was extremely effective because ukraine had to have this money. and they expressed their concerns to the department of defense. >> you know, ari, some of the most compelling testimony is ar

now it's flowing over into the pentagon. this is not new. go back to the trans ban, the kurds, mattis, this. trump is at odds with his own military. we'll find out what happened with esper and who spoke to who. you're in uniform right now, you see chaos at the top, leadership that's not on the same page and senior leader saying that the president gave him an unlawful order and he's not going to follow it, and that guy is out. it comes on the back of the resignation of mattis. what good order and discipline means, what it means to be lawful in the military. commander in chief is at odds with the navy s.e.a.l.s, we've got a problem. >> another shade of exactly what paul is talking about, david, when it comes to what has happened here, this comes down to a question of chain of command. the president is the commander in chief. who is stepping out of line here? >> great point, kate. the president is the commander in chief. so, does he have the authority to take these actions? he does. but that doesn't make it right. it doesn't make it the right d

the president calling the pentagon a deep state at a rally. then you see president trump standing in front of the troops and the jouint chief of staff wo went to the white house to object to his involvement. clearly the administration sending a strong message. >> that backdrop is really important. thank you for giving us that context. so the taliban has yet to confirm or deny whether talks with the u.s. has restarted. so what has changed in the past three months since president trump canceled those talks? skin sin #17... too many after-parties. new neutrogena® bright boost with dullness-fighting neoglucosamine. boosts cell turnover by 10 times for instantly brighter skin. bright boost neutrogena®. ithere's my career...'s more to me than hiv. my cause... and creating my dream home. i'm a work in progress. so much goes into who i am. hiv medicine is one part of it. prescription dovato is for adults who are starting hiv-1 treatment and who aren't resistant to either of the medicines dolutegravir or lamivudine. dovato has 2 medicines in 1 pill to

i think what the pentagon is looking for and i have talked about this, they want continuity.en the intrenti process. it is the same argument amazon made for not splitting up the intelligence community. they said we need all agencies on the same cloud. amazon's arguments might come back to hurt them on trying to split this with microsoft. >> morgan, it appears that the argument that amazon is making for why they lost this bid was because of politics and they are criticizing trump, but microsoft is hardly a company that has a conservative pro trump ideology either. do you think they have any ground to stand on in this objection? >> yeah, i think microsoft will do really good. you have to remember, this is not to be -- this is not unexpected. when you're talking -- i've been involved in 1 billion dollars procurements before where we protested those when we lost it, a prior company serving dod and the pentagon, it is not unusual to have a protest. you are talking about a 10 billion dollars program, a lot of money on the table. this is microsoft's first big win in this. i guarante

newly released transcripts show the pentagon was kept in the dark about withholding ukraine dark about withholding ukraine aid. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with that arctic storm that has put much of the country in a deep freeze. it is now moving east. winter storm warnings, advisories, and freeze warnings are posted from texas to maine. cod get up to a foot of snow. the snow and ice also caused major problems at chicago's o'hare airport. a plane skidded off a runway. a ground stop was issued, and more than 1,000 flights were canceled.boe this is only the beginning of a chilly week set to impact more than 222 million americans. chief meteorologist kate bylow of kyw has the forecast. >>> we are tracking a very strong arctic cold front which is ushering unseasonably cold air to really the entire eastern half of the country today and into your wednesday. the cold has already settled in across the great lakes in the wake of the snow. as far as precipitation is

>> harris: jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thank you very much. i will bring in rob o'neill, the retired navy seal who we know worldwide as the man who killed usama bin laden, and author of "the operator." you tell me still when you hear that when it feels a little out of body for you. >> was almost to the point where i know what happened but there's no way it happened. that's one of the things -- >> harris: we are grateful to you as a nation. let's talk about this conversation that is going on very publicly. my one criticism has been if we are going to have these conversations, good lord, can we do them in private so our enemy doesn't see us grappling over things with our military? i want to first get your thoughts on the first reaction to what has played out. >> we have the former secretary of the navy complaining about a lack of chain of command, when he is going behind his boss's back it -- being the secretary of defense -- to go white and don migrate to the might of the metal he has no business doing. with the president pardoning eddie gallag