we will take it up talking with former pentagon official katy mcfarland. president obama back in washington after his hawian holiday vacation now he is beginning the difficult task to redo it the second term agenda. many of his items will carry ove from last yar including immigration form and gun control. but the administration reportedly will put a focus andn the ming months. the president is expected to lay out specific proposals amid jittery 2 stat of the union address. among his proposals, raising the federal minimum wage $10 or fryer that the administration officials say will have bipartisan support for a promise and the floor today harry reid kicked off the effort. >> wages of middle-class families have fallen by almost 10% with food and housing and gas has gone up. the rich keep getting richer the poor get poorer and bn a class are under siege. lou: democrats wt to make income inequality the big issue of this midterm election year to take the focusrom the disasters of obamacare. on capitol hill the senate voted to have janet yellen service a the cha

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the pentagon officials say transport planes will be on standby at u.s. bases in germany just in case americans want to leave the olympics. >>> investors are cautious after a mixed bag of earnings reports. the dow is down 32 and a little bit of change. >>> you can expect to see a little something different during the national anthem at this year's super bowl. [ opera ] >> world-renowned opera singer renee fleming will perform in new jersey at metlife stadium. she will be the first opera singer to sing the anthem at the super bowl and bruno mars headlines the halftime show. >> they better wear jackets because it might snow. >> it's going to be cold. >> i understand she sung for the world series before and had trouble with the lyrics. >> oh. >> that's scary on the world stage, with the super bowl the most watched thing ever. >> hopefully she is going through the lyrics right now. >> you bet she is. >>> around the bay area today, looks like another very mild day outside as high pressure sits overhead. the storm track staying well to the north. a little bit h

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pentagon officials say the move is part of the u.s. military rebalancing toward asia, and the pacific. officials say the battalion will be deployed on february 1st, equipped with tanks and other armored vehicles. they said they are sending the troops from an army base in the u.s. state of texas, and will replace them in nine months with another battalion. the u.s. army has about 20,000 soldiers stationed in south korea. the army deployed a new helicopter unit there last year for enemy surveillance. army chief of staff general ray odierno said the rebalancing of troops to the asia pacific region is based on a u.s. national defense strategy laid out in 2012. >>> leading american artists and scholars are voicing their opposition to a plan to build a new u.s. marine base in okinawa prefecture in the southern part of japan. filmmakers oliver stone and michael moore, and linguist noam chomsky, were among 29 prominent figures who signed the document. they say they oppose the plan to relocate the marine corps futenma air station within okinawa.

senior pentagon officials testified before the armed services committee. they said that this sounded like a human rights nightmare of endless war. why on the left side, the human ishts community -- the aumf this horrible endless war. one thing works better than the aumf and that is what we proposed, codifying some authority that pulls away the fiction that this is winding down to an end. from the human rights community point of view, there is actually something worse than the aumf. no aumf. from the right cost point of view, there were a lot of people on the right who would agree in principle, ideally, you'd want to document that reflects the war we are actually fighting. here's the problem. as you open it up, they are free to limited. optiondy has a preferred . they go different directions. everybody's second-worst option is the current status quo. that is why we will continue living under the very old document and interpreted at any given moment in time to allow us to do the things that we are doing. if i sound contemptuous of this is a compromise, i am.

pentagon officials say the move is part of the us military rebalancing four nation and the pacific. officials say the battalion will be deployed on february first equipped with tanks and other armored vehicles they said they're sending the troops from an army base in the us state of texas and will replace them in nine months with another battalion the us army has about twenty thousand soldiers stationed in south korea. the army before the new helicopter unit there last year for enemy surveillance. army chief of staff gen re org year ago said the rebalancing of troops to the asia pacific region is based on u s national defense strategy laid out in two thousand and twelve. another mechanical defect and struck the cleanup effort sent this to push him and i each a nuclear plant engineers have again had to abandon the sophisticated water filtration device electric power company workers have been using a machine known as the advance likud processing system or alps to remove radioactive substances from water. but the system has been plagued with trouble tackle managers now say a crane that

officer describing how he would have assassinated snowden if he had the chance another unnamed pentagon official has been quoted saying he would have simply love to put a bullet in snowden's head or he not restricted from killing an american snowden's lawyer says the former contractor is constantly accompanied by private guards but that may no longer be enough to ensure his security. we clearly understand that there is a serious danger for the life and health of edward snowden and n.s.a. intelligence officer says that it's easy to imagine a situation where he walks around moscow for example after doing his groceries and he accidentally bumps into someone then he suddenly. goes home and dies in the shower in his situation he has to think about his security snowden's attorney stresses that according to russian law does. criminal liability he also says the former contractors refugee status makes him only entitled to ask the police for help in the meantime a new poll by pew research shows that while americans are still divided over the benefits of snowden's n.s.a. leaks when it comes to just young a

. >> reporter: pentagon officials say in september, a launch officer at an air force base in montana allegedly texted other officers' answers to a monthly proficiency test. >> some officers did it. others apparently knew about it and it appears that they did nothing or at least not enough to stop it or to report it. >> reporter: the officers have been removed from missile crew duty and their security clearance is suspended. the air force' top general says the cheating appears to have more to do with the lack of integrity than a lapse of knowledge. >> it's hard to cover up incompetence cheating one time on a test. when you're going to have a monthly simulator with two instructors watching you actually conduct the practical application of this knowledge in a simulator, you can't hide that. >> reporter: the scandal appears to be isolated to the malmstrom base. >> the air force has to look not only at what's happening in that silo; they have to look at the commanders probably two levels up to see what would make these people think they could get away with this. >> reporter: every launch

certain pentagon officials during the week of nine eleven he met with people within the white house he met with porter goss bob graham. senator kyl. during the time of nine eleven so yes that's the same guy and. what did the government do to cover up saudi arabia's role after the fact. well the bush administration and the obama administrations did as much as they could to make sure that the courts sided with the saudis over the nine eleven families i think that's discrete feel absolutely absolutely disgraceful. what did they do to side with the saudis instead of the families. well for instance there's i said kristen brought wiser asked obama to release those twenty eight redacted pages he said he would look into it and get and never got back to her and alina kagan on behalf of the obama administration. filed their brief with the supreme court i believe if i remember correctly asking them to protect the saudis to make sure that they could not be sued that's just one of the things that they've done. and of course you know flying out the family and they they claim that bin ladin was the b

other parts of the province in iraq and proclaimed and islamic state security analyst and former pentagon official a michael maloof believes al qaeda today is stronger than ever the whole movement is stronger than it's ever been contrary to what president obama nationally so that they were on the ropes that they were decimated that's not true and when you look at over time the extent to which has branched out from from the arabian peninsula into africa northern africa into the magreb and also now into russia using the chechens there it's a very serious development in terms of their of their growth over time because it's evolutionary we don't see it it's not one big event and so this this is emerging as a as an increasingly serious problem in terms of al-qaeda spread and it's getting worse and it's all done at the behest of the saudis the saudis are controlling all of this and they've made it well known prince bandar has made it very well known that he can switch them on and switch them off like a light switch. in syria western nations are watching in horror as their favored derivable groups turn o

he pointed to reports on the website policy which quoted an un named a pentagon official saying he would love to put a bullet inside instead. he also told the interviewer that he was motivated to leak information after his watch director of national intelligence genes clap or doing what he called lying to congress. without political correspondent. what exactly has changed for snowden since that interview the puzzle the interview itself has done very little to change to address the situation on he remains in hiding in russia or he's been granted temporary asylum he remains very much a wanted man in the united states wanted on espionage charges here are three felony charges against him. their palms and feet remains very much in the center of attention perhaps a bit more so now through this injury few of the german government by the way has responded to the interview saying that it does not change their situation their position at all of the german government saying that there are no grounds for granting and restored to an asylum up in germany and i would say that the interview has done ver

. >> pentagon officials say in september a launch officer at malmstrom air fort base in montana allegedly texted other officers' answers to a monthly proficiency test. >> some officers did it. others apparently knew about it, and it appears they did nothing or at least not enough to stop it or to report it. >> the officers have been relieved from missile crew c security and their duties suspended. the chief say it has more do with lack of integrity than a lapse of knowledge. >> it's hard to cover up confidence in cheating when you're going have a monthly simulator with two instructors actually watch you conduct practical production. you can't hide that. >> the can zal appears to be isolated to the malmstrom base. >> they have to look at commanders two levels up to see what would make them think could get away with it. >> reporter: every launch officer in the air force is being tested this week. now, the cheating scandal came to light during a drug investigation that involves 11 officers, two of them among this -- involved in this cheating scandal. the pentagon says that they are accused,

a pentagon official who is a former special forces officer told by spd i do not take pleasure and taking another human being like her he remained blank. having to do it in uniform. but he is single handedly of the greatest reader in american history. nelson said the outlook for the bulletin said. one thing that everyone agrees that the current conversation about surveillance would not be happening without the sleet to snow day. archie is anzacs aware that the president speaks and brings us this report. after nearly seven months of nsa disclosures present obama finally came forward with reforms to the spy agency. acknowledging that the current capabilities in the usa. do leave open the possibility of abuse give them a unique power of the state. it is not enough for readers to say trust us we won't abuse the data we collect. for history has too many examples when that trust has been breached. for such a system of government is built on the premise that our liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of bowls and top the president to address the nsa is most controversial program section to

has offered russia high tech bombs attacking equipment according to pentagon officials.o word on whether president putin will accept a security measures are adding $ to the already high cost of this year's games. absolutely incredible. read more about it in "bloomberg businessweek." vladimir put in is trying to assure the international community on the security measures. >> we have adequate means available to us through the federal security service them of the interior ministry, armed forces units that will be involved in providing security on the water and in the air. if necessary, all those tools will be activated. the job of the live exposed is to ensure security for participants and the olympics and visitors. we will do whatever it takes. >> we sat down with the russian deputy prime minister in davos and he says the country is ready for the winter games. >> we have 40,000 security people. we have collaborated with our foreign partners to provide for better security. i believe we are prepared. >> lots of reassurances but u.s. lawmakers are still skeptical. >> all the

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troops and danger within the intelligence committee he is widely seen as an enemy to america a pentagon official who is a former special forces officer told buzz feed i do not take pleasure in taking another humans beings life but he is singlehandedly the greatest traitor an american history he also said i'd love to put a bullet in its head one thing that everyone agrees the current conversation about surveillance would not be happening without these leaks from snowden artie's sam sachs was add the president's speech and brings us this report after nearly seven months of n.s.a. disclosures president obama finally came forward with reforms to the spy agency acknowledging that the current capabilities of the usa do leave open the possibility of abuse given the unique power of the state it is not enough for leaders to say trust us we want to be use the data we collect for history as too many examples when that trust has been breached or so the system of government is built on the premise that our liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power the president dress the n.s.a. as most c

joining us, former pentagon official, fox institution news analyst ktmcfarland, first to extends an invitation gain the wishes of u.s. or against the wishes of bong. and then -- of the obama administration, then today withdrawing it, you know after they heard so many protests. >> you have to wonder maybe united nations leadership is tang a page out of the obama playbook. we're for them, we're against it, it looks chaotic, the bigger take away is who is iran, iran will become thal of that dog in -- alpha dog in the middle east, they will call the shots, whether relations with syrian or persian gulf region, they will become dominant economic military and m.i.t.alower in mittal power in the region. lou: that is what disturbs most of us, my -- my guess why would israel tolerate this, because, it seems to make no sense for their security interests. >> well, past a certain point, israel will not tolerate it t israel has been abandoned by the obama administration. and all of topics you raised in the intro, the common thread is iran, with karzai surrounded b pro-iranian advisors, and syria and sanctio