pentagon officials were caught by surprise. protesters demanding the nigerian government do more. >> we want our girls back. but i tell you, we can do it. so nobody could say the nigerian military doesn't know what we are doing. >> now the government of cameroon, neighboring cameroon, announced it has deployed 1,000 counterterrorism troops to carry out reconnaissance. >> is the state department commenting on any of this, jennifer? >> spokesperson jen sake reiterated what officials have been telling us, which is that they still don't know where the girls are. drones are flying over a heavily forested area. >> we have consistently said that locating the girls is the first critical step, and that we're actively working to support the nigerian effort. the nigerian effort to do just that. we don't have independent information from the united states to support these reports you referenced. >> after weeks of being unable to share intelligence with the nigerians, the u.s. now has secure channels to share information but u.s. officials

those facilities are not related to the va, but a pentagon official is saying that the veteran scandal sparked the investigation. it is fair to say that the review is ordered within the context of what is going on in the va and we don't know whether we we have the issues, he wants to know and attack them aggressi aggressively. there are were two deaths at fort bragg and those patients died shortly after visiting the emergency rooms at the army medical center and the new york times report that it led to the suspension of the three deputies. >> the nsa leaker is saying he was trained as a spy. snowden is saying that the government is misleading the government labelling him as a hacker. he claims he worked for the cia and the nsa. >> i was trained as a spy in the traditional sense of the word, i lived and worked under cover vaegs and pretending to work in a job i'm not and being assigned a name that wasn't mine. the government might deny these things and frame it, and oh, you know, he's a low level analyst and what they are trying to do is trying to use one position i have had in a career

according to pentagon officials that the police and security cooperation and historical disputes should be approached differently. this can be a concern to korea due to sensitivity over tokyo's interpretation of history and territory all claims nevertheless south korea's embassy has welcomed leopards nomination as he has a good reputation among diplomats and the country. seasoning. i didn't use. a new report from korea central bank shows that the nation's annual growth is close to matching its potential growth rate. that's a positive sign for the economy but it could mean a possible rate hike later this year when jay explains the bank of korea has used the new lady of calculating the nation's output gap and results showed a smaller margin between the economy's actual growth and potential growth compared to the previous match and the new method introduced in the central bank's report on friday and eight that giving a more accurate picture on the economy and helping policymakers drop plans to promote greater economic activities. all three and asset bubbles and reveals the korean economy i

of people have been killed and others attacked on to the money about democracy cud that the pentagon. officials say more than two thousand people may be buried under the mud and debris. another two thousand people are believed to flip the region. they fear more landslides could happen doctors are giving aid and kia to the few who survived i could see them all. we found this child strapped into the night. yes injuries to attend were treating him and giving him medication to assist in the region is often affected by flooding and landslides in the spring months due to heavy rainfall and melting snow. government forces in south sudan say they have recaptured the key rebel bases in the sea air and the oil hub of bands you the offensive comes just days after south sydney's presidents of the year agreed during a visit by us secretary of state john kerry to hold direct peace talks with rebel leader weekly chart and you has changed hands several times since fighting erupted in december well at least three people were killed and dozens wounded in twin blasts in the kenyan capital nairobi authorities say

i was kind to the former pentagon official michael indeed he believes an exam by his comments. that's how he was nice to finally be easy its relations with russia. as an unfortunate statement because it is basically no draws a picture of russia and and and europe. it has been adversaries when there's a tremendous trade going on between russia and in europe so light i think that the others are more room of the nato countries probably more mature level headed the people to clean in europe who see the need to work with russia rather than to treat it as an adversary or an enemy as such the last ten to seventeen and the deposit with that except uncle clark productions and gotten stung but at the end production is still at a record high. corporation between moscow and washington decides to put some pressure on the illegal trade across the globe. but the amount of money comes directly into the country have little effect on the level of drones flying around europe russia and the ui snow on the receiving end of the drug trade has taken the kids while the fig is afghanistan as it's possi

after a decade of war pentagon officials are trying to figure out how to drive down billions of dollars in military equipment while he was looking and we are the pentagon's spending went wrong. art evening and lopez has more. when it comes to text you money. snell agency knows how to spend it with earth and the us military the pentagon led to its own device will spend money on anything over the past decade defense spending has claimed they were part of the federal budget with aggression is ramping up first in afghanistan and then iraq. in fact the united states spends more money on defense than the next ten countries combined. president obama and congress sets the military spending cap for twenty fifteen at four hundred ninety six billion dollars leaving plenty of room for all new top of the line equipment. with all of that spending government watchdogs don't have to look hard to find wastes lot of money from wasted in afghanistan in iraq the weapon systems being sent over. facilities being built that were needed. the special inspector general for afghanistan in the special inspector ge

he says two special ba tallins have been sent to the search. >> pentagon officials say if russia is movingit's troops back from the border of ukraine, they're not seeing it. russia had 40,000 soldiers positioned on the border and have been there several weeks today, putin urged insurgents to post on their referendum for auto nominee. >> one of the ringling brothers pefsh formers is out of the hospital when the clamp failed sent the women to the ground follow fwhad 350 pound chandelier. she suffered small fractures as well as minor injuries in an interview she says she's sore but they're really lucky to be alive. >> just fell 30 feet and had our big prompt just fall on us. just a miracle. for sure. because... i don't know that we should have been that lucky. >> doctors say several of the other performers are injured more seriously. two have spinal cord injuries and may never walk again. four in serious condition. >> one day after being fired by warriors mark jackson did a series of radio interviews today he did admit to being frustrated with upper management. he says he was relieved and tha

they will meet with senior pentagon officials today. he will discuss the 90-day review of the military system. still a lot on the issue ahead. >> elizabeth prann live for us in washington. thanks elizabeth. >> that brings us to our look who is talking. this morning radio show talk host rush limbaugh. >> limbaugh on the record the va scandal is a glimpse of why big government doesn't work. >> it is here something left to the private sector despite all of the good intentions of the world they are just not egypt to do this kind of thing well, you can ask why all day if you have the courage to come up with the truth when you ask why, the answer is they are not qualified. they are not qualified to run obamacare. they are not qualified to run energy, they are not qualified to run the economy. they don't have anybody that knows what they are doing in anything. everything is smoking mirrors. >> a major update on the longest war in american history. president obama announcing plans to drawdown troops in afghanist afghanistan. but america's prese

coming up on monday, former pentagon official kt mcfarland. thank you for joining us.day. good night from new >> i'm tracy byrnes in for gerri willis. headline today, job growth jumps as unemployment rate plunges to 6.3%. there is way more important number to look at here. it is 806,000. that is a staggering number of people who dropped out of the labor force entirely. the new job engine, believe it or not is part-time work. joining to us talk about all this much more, john lonski, chief economist at moody's, david nelson, small business expert, susan salovich. jonas max ferries, my friend and founder of maxfund.com. was anyone jumping up and down about thi

pentagon officials say if raush is moving its troops back from the border with ukraine, they're not seeingmir putin claimed today that his troops have been moved away from that region. russia had about 40,000 soldiers there for weeks. he also urged them to postpone the planned sunday referendum, meantime, the u.s. is removing special trade benefits for russia. >>> now, for the first time, we are hearing from one the circus acrobats who plummeted in that horrifying fall last weekend. hanging only by their hair. lindsey janice has the story. >> reporter: this 23-year-old was living her dream. >> we all love doing it. it's really fun to perform. very unique. beautiful act. >> reporter: but sunday, something went terribly wrong. >> curtain falls, we start doing our first little routine. and about three seconds in, hear a huge crack and we just plummeted to the ground. it was really fast. i landed on my butt and i was still conscious. breathing really hard. >> reporter: she immediately thought of the other girls. >> i said is everybody alive. is everybody okay. and they said yes and then i was

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. >> reporter: it caught pentagon officials by surprise. was made in a rally in the nigeria capitol and protestors demanded that the nigeria government do more. >> we want our girls back. >> we can do it. we can do it. but where they were held. >> reporter: senior defense officials cannot confirm the whereabouts of the missing girls based on the information they gleaned from the surveillance conducted by u.s. predator drones in the region. the president author 80 u.s. air force u.s. personnel to accompany the drones. but there are no plans to stage a rescue with u.s. troops. >> thank you, jenna. >>> jury selection in the case of a san francisco giant's fan who was brutally beaten outside of dodger's stadium. the civil lawsuit is brought to against fred mccort alleging not enough security. stou was nearly killed in the attack and suffers permanent brain damage all of this after two men pled guilty to the crime. they are serving time behind bars. so one of the saddest stories we have covered. this poor man dpz to opening day. it is baseball a

. >> reporter: pentagon officials confirm six of the eight military personnel arrived to help coordinate the search for missing kidnapped girls. >> it is no question we are racing against the clock. they have been gone a long time. we made repeated offers of assistance and only this week the offer was accepted and within 48 hours people were moving to get there. and admiral john kirby making it clear it is a cordination cell that is communication and in the a armed cell or will lead the rescue of the girls. >> the house will observe a moment of silence for the young women. >> words of support for the girls and their families. the house prepared legislation to condemn boka ha ram. >> many around the world are just learning of the evil. unfortunately for the communities in northern nigerria, the terror there existed for years. >> begging the question why it took so long for the u.s. and governments to time up to stop them. >> is there any talk of armed american units on the ground there? >> reporter: no, the pentagon is very clear there is no talk of that and plans at this point to go afte

pentagon official says the search area is the size of the state of west virginia and they believe militantsrom boko haram have split up the girls into smaller groups. the leader of boko haram has threatened to sell the teenager as sex slaves health the latest from lawmakers, jen? >> we just spoke to congressman sheila jackson lee, a democrat from texas. she was leaving a closed-door classified hearing with fbi and u.s. intelligence officials. she told us that boko haram has been receiving a lot of funding from al qaeda. >> that $70 million isn'ting transferred to a number of al qaeda groups and that means this group is here to stay and for us it means that we must put them in the eye of the storm. they're reckless, they're thugs. but they're strategic, and the killing they did recently shows they'll good to no end. >> she said the concern right now is to keep the girls alive and warned that serving u.s.- -- sending u.s. or other troops on the ground to search for the girls could lead to the girls being harmed. the drone operated out of chad by the u.s. military will be unarmed, as are the o

tonight, a pentagon official tells al jazeera that the u.s. military is complying manned missions to help the search effort. that official describes them as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. they follow a day the captors proof of life with them, the message that will let the 276 girls free but only if the government grac agrees with a prisoner release. rawya rageh reports. >> girls are heard speaking in arabic reciting lines from the cokoran. boko haram leader also makes a separate appearance. in his second video since the girls were taken he says he will not let the girls go unless incarcerated members of the group are released. does not negotiate with what the government calls terrorists. abuja kept up a daily sit in calling for the girls release. joined by some of the girls relatives, a man told us two of his girls were kid flapped, many of the girls were christians and must have been forced to put on the head scarf. he asked us to conceal his identity. >> when i saw them i was really sad. why i was sad, that is not ho

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conducted several flights yesterday, i'm told, by pentagon officials. and now the u.s. has permission to fly over nigeria airspace. a senior u.s. official tells me to stay tuned as to whether u.s. drones may be soon be flying over nigeria. >> jennifer, is the u.s. sharing intelligence of this gathering with the nigerians or using it separately from nigeria? >> well, not at this point. at this point, one month after the kidnapping, the u.s. is not sharing intelligence including intelligence gathered at the surveillance sites with the nigerian government because we're told they're still establishing protocols with the nigerians. they are sharing with the military team on ground at the u.s. embassy in nigeria. again, this team is unarmed. and the nigerian has only requested surveillance at this time. >> with mike barret in washington, a former military intelligence officer with the defense department. mike, this don't negotiate with terrorists. don't talk to terrorists. i get it in concept. does it work here? >> sure. really what you see here say concept between two polici

but pentagon officials flat-out say, don't look for a u.s. military rescue operation. this simply would be too difficult to do at this point. why would it be difficult? well, look, first you've got to have nigeria's agreement to take the help. those girls may be across international borders. you would have to have every country's permission. but the bottom line is you have to have perfect, iron-clad intelligence. where are they, who is holding them, if they are dispersed now in multiple locations. how do you strike those locations simultaneously so you give the terrorists no warning that someone is coming after them? the problems just mount up, wolf. >> enormous problems. there are calls though, barbara, as you know, for a direct u.s. military operation in nigeria. listen to what republican senator susan collins of maine told our own dana bash. >> more can be done by this administration. i would like to see special forces deploy to help rescue these young girls. >> so what do the folks over there at the pentagon say about using special forces to go in there? how feasib

meantime, pentagon officials say russia has now pulled back most of its troops from the border with ukraineraine is one of the many things on the agenda as u.s. national security advisor susan rice joins charlie rose. that's tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. new york time, only on bloomberg. now a bloomberg exclusive. the target annual meet something june 11. sbir imc.e.o. will no doubt be dealing with a number of issues. a common stock in its own mini bear market, continued fallout from last year's data breach that left 40 million u.s. credit card customers vulnerable. and a troubled canadian division. joined us on "bloomberg surveillance." >> what we've done has been unacceptable and nobody feels that more than the canadian team up there. we've got a new leadership team who is focused on fixing the technology in the supply chain. parallel to that path, exactly to your point, we're looking at everything we've done there, the assortment, the promotional cadence, how we promote and display the merchandize. >> as for the united states, he says target needs to focus on what he called newness. >>

is there a sense you're getting over there barbara how concerned pentagon officials might be about the security of these americans, some very well-known americans, who want to monitor those elections, how worried they should be about the security situation, in fact, they could even have free and fair elections in this kind of environment? >> i think the security is a huge concern, wolf. you know, we saw some of those types of monitors being held by the pro-russian militants in eastern ukraine for many days, and only recently released. so, you know, the issue for security here is the russians could make a statement, everything will be okay. the ukrainians could make a statement, everything will be okay. but a lot of the pro-russian militants are under no strict control and they are moving in a number of areas and the concern is you are going to see some of them simply acting out under their own direction, their own will, and nobody can really predict what might happen. it is a huge concern, wolf. >> it certainly is. i spoke to some of those americans who are expected to go watch these e

now he's talking to pentagon officials about leadership. and hello again from fox news in washington. as we celebrate mother's day, it's a time of heart brbreak fo hundreds of mothers in nigeria. michelle obama spoke out in this week's presidential address. >> in these girls, about a rack and i see our own daughters. we see their hopes and their dreams. and we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now. >> more than 250 girls are still missing. let's go to jennifer griffin. >> chris, six unarmed u.s. military personnel are on the ground in nigeria, part of 16 u.s. personnel. they've been tried to pinpoint where the girls are being held by the islamic fighters known as boko haram. they're trying to help the mothers and fathers of these young girls. and now the pentagon is discussing the possibility of moving surveillance and reconnaissance assets towards nigeria, possibly drones. a senior u.s. official tells me they're waiting for nigeria to formally make the request. however, there is still no talk of sending armed u.s

our power player of the week : leader of uconn's women basketball trips and now talking to pentagon officials about leadership. >> we are doing the same thing but the stakes are winning and losing a game. >> all right now on fox news sunday. hello again from fox in washington. as we celebrate mother's day it is heartbreak for hundreds of mothers in nigeria whose daughters have been kidnapped. in the girls, we see our own daughters. we see their hopes. their dreams. we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now. more than 250 girls are still missing. jennifer? >> six military personnel are on the ground in niger.part of a group of 16 united states pearl knell sent to pinpoint where the kidnapped school girls are being held bit islamic fighters. in are rising demands that the united states and others do more to help the mothers and families of the young girls and now the pentagon is discussing the possibility of moving surveillance and assets, possibly drones to nigeria. they are waiting for nigeria to make the request formally but there is still no talk of sending armed u

. >> reporter: pentagon officials tell us the 80 air force personnel will not be involve inside grounds to rescue the girls, they will be sent with one mission, to fly a predator drone over the area where the girls are believed to be held by bow coe boko haram. the predator will allow the u.s. military to fly lower than the global hawk that was previously being used. the drone team will be based many neighboring chad which is closer to the area in northern nigeria where the girls were kidnapped. the unwillingness to spend u.s. special operations ground units and conduct a real search for the girls once the u.s. military locates them is eliciting bipartisan frustration on capitol hill. >> so i want, i don't see why that once we get these girls free, i'm going to tell you, for me, i want drones, i want something. because they don't belong on this earth. >> it is a struggle for the nigerian military to cope with this threat. and that's led some to say that we should not get involved. but it tells me otherwise. it tells me that u.s. involvement is critical. >> reporter: nigerian schools cl

now he is talking to pentagon officials about leadership. >> we're doing the same thing they're doing except the stakes for us are just winning and losing a game. >> all right now on fox news sunday. >>> and hole low again from fox news in washington. as we celebrate mother's day, it remains heart break for hundreds of mothers in nigeria whose daughters have been kidnapped by islamist militants. first lady michelle obama spoke out in this week's presidential address. >> in these girls barack and i see our own daughters. we see their hopes and their dreams. we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now. >> more than 250 girls are still missing. let's get the latest from fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin. jennifer. >> chris, six unarmed u.s. military personnel are now on the ground in nigeria, part of a group of 16 u.s. personnel. they've been sent to try to pinpoint where the kidnapped school girls are being held by the islamic fighters known as boko haram. there are rising demand that they do more to help the mothers and families of these

we also spoke to former pentagon official michael maloof he believes these comments should not be regarded as official stance. it was an unfortunate statement because it basically draws a picture of russia and europe has been adversaries when there's a tremendous trade going on between russia and europe so i think that there's more room among the nato countries probably more mature level headed people particularly in europe who see the need to work with russia rather than to treat it as an adversary or an enemy as such. is coming under pressure from major german companies who want no more sanctions imposed against russia over the ukrainian crisis it will make it hard to push for stricter penalties and that's likely to be the message from when she meets barack obama on friday evening to a booked in for a four hour dinner at the white house parties but are all of the reports on some of the potential sticking points likely to be on the friday but it's set to be a meeting between two of the world's most powerful leaders but there are more than rumblings that the balance of power in the relatio

pentagon officials say the figures don't reflect an actual rise in crime, but an increased willingness by victims to speak up. that's crucial, because the military is under pressure to act. the chairman of the joint chiefs, army general martin dempsey, said as much to newshour earlier this year. >> we are currently on the clock, if you will. the president of the united states said to us in december, "you know what? you have got about a year to review this thing and show me you can make a difference." >> reporter: but new york senator kirsten gillibrand, who led the fight to take sexual assault investigations away from commanders, said increased reporting is not enough. >> reporter: "more reporting is not the end game," she said in a statement. "more people coming forward and not receiving justice only further erodes trust in the system." the report found 73% of the accused assailants last year were prosecuted last year. that's up from 66% in 2012. >> ifill: to assess this latest report, we get two views, former marine corps captain anu bhagwati is the executive director and co-founder

and that he has ordered a review of the group boko haram and we hear from pentagon officials even ifanted to send air assets, drones or aircraft to help with the search, they would not be able to do so because there are no protocols in place with the nigerian government for the u.s. government to enter nigerian airspace. in other words the nigerians have to ask for u.s. help formally but they haven't done so. today the leader of the terrorist group for the first time claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and for enslaving the girls. i abducted your girls, the leader of the terrorist group said in the new video that was released today. he offered to sell the 13-year-old girls some of these girls, we have been told have been forced to marry their captors. the christian girls were forced to convert to islam according to sources in touch with the group. mothers of the kidnapped girls protested this weekend in nigeria's capitol. they are angry that the president of nigeria good luck jonathan has done very little to find jonathan. in a twist nigeria's president's wife ordered the prote

i spoke to senior pentagon official this morning, he said nothing new mismorni this morni. u.s. officials they've been burned before. promises have turned out to be false. remember the russian president denied russian forces inside ukraine, later said there were russian forces inside ukraine. a couple weeks ago rush bes said they had withdrawn one company of troops from the border from 40,000, 50,000, like a couple hundred guys, of course he insignificant. but u.s. officials are watching closely. they want something real and ncrete. >> what's his next move, putin? >> we don't know. he hasn't decided. he's trying to leave room to maneuver. what happens happening inside russian, the russian machine is very unwielding and hard to stop or turn around or slow down. he's trying to maintain room to maneuver, the russian propaganda machine has been constantly sounding a drum beat for war for going all out, annexing eastern ukraine for weeks now. how do they calm down the population if he's taking a step back? >> more on the story coming up, thanks very much. jim sciutto's going to

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here is what the official said. the pentagon has initiated planning efforts to determine how we can offer options for support of the nigerian government in the current situation. so that's a big clue here about what is going on behind the scenes, planning options for support. don't look for boots on the ground, so to speak. don't look for u.s. military operations on the ground. what we are talking about is how to offer the nigerian government the support, the help that it needs to get these girls rescued if that is even possible. some of the examples that are under discussion with the military and the intelligence community are intelligence sharing, investigation help, hostage experts, not really included at this point, expected to include rescue mission personnel. don't look for special forces on the ground kicking doors down so to speak. all of this is coming from the center of the effort, the u.s. embassy in nigeria. there have been military intelligence, law enforcement personnel there, they work out of that embassy all the

brooke, let me add, at the same time pentagon officials tell us the intelligence they do have still leadelieve that the girls probably have been broken up into smaller groups. >> that's what i was discussing with general spider marks, finding that specific target, to find these girls, gosh -- >> very tough business. >> barbara starr, thank you so much, at the pentagon with this breaking news. we now know from the white house they are sending in 80 troops, 80 u.s. armed forces to chad to help bring our girls back. we have a correspondent in nigeria. we'll talk to zain asher next. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain. this is humira helping me lay the groundwork. this is humira helping to protect my joints from further damage. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira is proven to help relieve pain and stop further joi

however in the meantime a former pentagon official michael maloof he believes these comments should not be regarded as nato officials don't. it was an unfortunate statement because it basically draws a picture of russia and europe has been adversaries when there's a tremendous trade going on between russia and europe so i think that there's more room among the nato countries probably more mature level headed people particularly in europe who see the need to work with russia rather than to treat it as an an adversary or an enemy as such and german chancellor angela merkel will have dinner with president obama on friday night and there will be plenty on the menu the meeting is planned to last for hours all these pretty or all of the reports on some of the sticking points likely to be on their plate it's said to be a meeting between two of the world's most powerful leaders but there are more than rumblings that the balance of power in the relationship is very one sided doesn't say and i think that's they had this it's based in dependency is the u.s. denied spine and merkel cell phone ben a

those facilities are not specifically related to the v.a., but a pentagon official said the veterans scandal sparked its investigation, adding: >> the announcement comes on the heels of two deaths at one of the army's busiest hospitals in fort bragg. those patients died shortly after visiting emergency rooms at the womac army medical center. "the new york times" reports the dealts led in part to the removal of the center's top commander and suspension of his three deputies. >> the secretary of veterans affairs is expected to provide president obama with a preliminary assessment of the problems at the v.a. later this week. >> 20 patients and a nurse were killed after a fire broke out at a hospital in south korea. the flames were put out quickly, but many bedridden patients suffocated because of toxic fumes. the facility located 200 miles from seoul treats elderly patients suffering from dementia. an yea 1-year-old man with dementia was retained for starting the fire. >> ukraine regained control of the airport in donetsk monday. the military saying 40 fighters were killed in the attack

pentagon. u.s. officials think the video is authentic? >> just moments ago state department spokesman was asked whether the video was in fact of the kidnapped girls. >> we have no reason to question its authenticity. our intelligence experts are combing through every detail of the video for clues. >> in terms of what, if anything, the u.s. military is doing to find the girls, the six additional u.s. military personnel who have been sent to nigeria are not armed, and are very limited in what they are authorized to do. they have to tread carefully so as not to offend the nigerian government. defense sect chuck hagel had this to say. >> going to be very difficult. it's a vast country. so this is not greg -- going to be on easy task but we're going to bring to bear every asset we can use to help the nigerian government. there's no intention at this point to be putting any american boots on the ground. >> no u.s. special operators like the u.s. sent to hunt for joseph coni, and no u.s. drones. >> does it look as if the nigerian government woul

to greenlight discussions of a possible transfer plan but it was kept under wraps until two pentagon officials leaked the information to the associated press pentagon press secretary rear admiral admiral john kirby said no decision to transfer private manning to a civilian detention facility has been made and any such decision of course properly ballot will properly balance the soldier's medical needs with our obligation to ensure she remains behind bars well ensuring she remains behind bars is one thing ensuring she's safe behind bars while receiving treatment is quite another a concern for manning's attorney who has weighed in saying the legal team was never notified that such a transfer was even on the cards in fact he released a statement claiming the pentagon strategically leaked the information in an attempt to pressure manning to drop the treatment request forcing her to essentially choose between personal safety at fort leavenworth and medical treatment at a federal prison he blames the d.o.d. for not taking proper responsibility of its military members saying the military is refusal t

i'm out in martin and this is great and it's that so yesterday we learned from two anonymous pentagon officialsthat the army is trying to move whistleblower chelsea manning from a military prison in fort leavenworth kansas to a civilian prison now the whole reason behind the move is because manning is seeking treatment for her gender dysphoria a condition in which a woman is trapped inside of a man's body or vice versa see unlike civilian prisons the army can't provide manning's requested treatment because then it would have to acknowledge that transgendered people exist in the world of course officially transgendered individuals are also barred from serving in the u.s. military listen at the very least it's a good thing that the army is trying to accommodate manning's necessary treatment but how sad is this that our life may be put in harms way. just because the military is still operating with the twentieth century mindset civilian prisons are notoriously more dangerous than military ones in fact manning's lawyer david coombs had this to say about the situation is that the military's refusal

. >> pentagon officials insist the u.s. troops will be there only to help search for the girls. that even if they are located at least for now u.s. troops will not be participating in any rescue effort. kate? >> barbara, thank you very much for that. a quick note, 15-year-old soft-spoken girl you heard in the end of barbara's piece is debra peter, she has escaped being captive from boko haram before. she's going to be speaking with us next week. her story so important to see that face and hear her story of what that group is capable of. >>> let's talk more about the troop movements. in the search right now, joining us from washington, retired brigadier general mark, former assistant secretary of state. general, thank you so much for coming? >> sure. >> real quick, what do you make of this move? 80 troops on the ground in chad. >> well, i think it's important to keep in context that we've been having operations coming out of niger for some time with manned aircraft putting these personnel into chad would indicate may they have a better specificity where the bochco haram person ma

fourteen but we're moving american personnel isn't the only task at hand after a decade of war pentagon officials are trying to figure out how to drawdown billions of dollars in military equipment while analysts are looking at where the pentagon spending went wrong artie's making lopez reports. when it comes to taxpayer money perhaps no wages he knows how to spend it quicker than the u.s. military the pentagon left to its own devices will spend money on anything over the past decade defense spending has claimed a bigger part of the federal budget with aggressions ramping up first in afghanistan and then iraq in fact the united states spends more money on defense than the next ten countries combined president obama and congress set the military spending cap for twenty fifteen at four hundred ninety six billion dollars leaving plenty of room for all new top of the line equipment with all of that spending government watchdogs don't have to look hard to find waste a lot of money has been wasted in afghanistan and iraq weapons systems being sent over facilities being built that were needed the special

>> reporter: that criticism from washington by the pentagon's top africa official was front page newsin nigeria today. not only did she criticize the army's seventh division, that's the group that is leading the search for the girls or supposed to be leading the search for the girls, but she actually said that nigeria was proving to be an extremely difficult partner to deal with. that has not gone down well here. it splits up into two issues, if you like. there's the nigerian army on the ground and then there's the international cooperation. the u.s. has dozens of people here now work iing on this as wl as manned and unmanned aircraft. the uk has special forces people here as well as offering a plane. canada, france and so on. so there are dozens of officials from six foreign countries trying to work with the nigerians, but off the record briefing that we are getting is that they are not getting the cooperation from the nigerians that ideally they would like. so a lot of criticism of nigeria from abroad. >> thank you for your reports, bill. we appreciate it. >>> we have new disturbing

. >> this might be the kind of thing you would dismiss as some, you know, pentagon official with tooworking up all kinds of scenarios, except, in this administration, we have seen just flagrant abuse of federal power. we have watched this administration use the irs to go after groups that it disagreed with politically. we watched them go after reporters like james rosen of fox news, go after the associated press and tap their phones and check their emails. we have watched the abuse of federal power in so many ways under this administration, absolutely we were just talking, lying to us. so when this kind of thing comes up, it's not too farfetched to think that we have a government that would think it's okay to use the military against civilians. >> he will with, of course not. >> they can't do that. >> the nsa was created to monitor foreign governments and now it's monitoring me. >> exactly. >> the u.s. military was created to protect from foreign threats. is it a stretch to think it could be turned inward? >> tucker, anybody with a ninth grade civics classroom experience knows that t

and earlier we spoke to the former pentagon official michael maloof he believes alexander comments may not reflect how the wider nato family views its relations with russia was an unfortunate statement because it basically draws a picture of russia. and europe has been adversaries when there's a tremendous trade going on between russia and europe so i think that there's more room among the nato countries probably more mature level headed people particularly in europe who see the need to work with russia rather than to treat it as an adversary or an enemy search the you are spend nearly seven billion dollars as part of its efforts to tackle drug production in afghanistan but opium production is still at a record high cooperation between moscow and washington serves to put some pressure on the illegal trade across the globe but the amount of money pounds directly into the country had little effect on the level of drugs flowing out europe russia and the us are on the receiving end of the drug trade let's now take a look at some of the figures afghanistan is responsible for more than ninet