our mainstream seems to take the pentagon press as gospel.a first-account of a story it's almost always fictional. >> as with jessica lynch pat tillman's case, where you have heroic actions and we find out it's completely undermined with what happened. and now with the bin laden raid. >> cenk: i remember when i used to be with the mainstream press i would say i don't believe the pentagon. people would be like, what? how can you believe that? that's point number one. and owens is clear the original count was not where near true as you saw there. number two, what do we think about owen releasing this information that the white house and the government is not happy about. they may prosecute well, that would be amazed by that if that were to happen. but listen to the disparity of brady manning who releases classified information and this is the only classif classified information on this book. >> i think he's right to be writing the book. they're cracking down on him because it's coming out on september 11th, two months before the election. it's

several hats as the editor, but certainly my team, our journalists, the white house press core, pentagon presscore, same press conferences everyone else is, in communication with the pundits and various principles like any news organization is, and so, yeah, i think in that capacity we're very much a journal organization. c-span: got video from an interview we did here sometime ago with wheeler. i want to run it. it's self-explanatory, but i want to ask you you fit. he's a critic of the military. let's watch. >> guest: okay. >> imagine this, you are tasked to oversee purchases of the f-35 fighter air force and the job of the arm services committee is to ensure it's effective and affordable. meanwhile, your ambitions is to go work for the air force as the senior acquisition executive. you're going to ask all of these really aggravating, tough questions getting to the bottom of the f-35, and you'll aggravate those officials who are in a position to offer you a job or not. that's not the way it works. you're going to cozy up to the air force. they'll give you some information, you know, as much a

. >>> the associated press says the pentagon has been investigating a four star army general william kip ward and now he's facing allegations he misspent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars using the cash to pay for things like air travel and hotel stays for friends and family. defense secretary leon panetta is expected to decide ward's fate by the end of this month. >>> we've got a threat of storms tonight and the 9 weather team is declaring a code yellow alert. >> we're not expecting the storms tonight to be as widespread as yesterday. so that's the good news. friends in the northern neck and eastern shore, we do have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 10:00 tonight. it's basically south and east of town which includes st. mary's county in maryland. live doppler 9000, pretty quiet, no warnings, but we see showers and storms south of us out toward fredericksburg and just toward the eastern shore. doppler is showing lightning associated with those storms. we'll talk more about tonight's storm threat and the weekend cooldown. >>> coming up at 7:00 former penn state assi

bahrain i believe they're getting their marching orders directly from the pentagon the bahraini royal family which is to quell and press send and the reason is because the pentagon simply cannot afford to have a genuine uprising or any form of political instability going to country that is out. it's that naval fleet is very important because right now after the election or right around the u.s. election there is a war drums against iran they're going to start beating those again and the hyping up the conflict with iran the fifth fleet is a really important piece on the chess board for the united states so obviously bahrain is going to do whatever washington says but this isn't direct contradiction to hillary clinton who's parading around with the friends of syria and the arab league and talking about them about democracy while the u.s. is funding al qaeda and suicide bombers in syria so it doesn't make it there's no there's a lot of hypocrisy is coming out of washington when you look at the situation in bahrain which is very ugly. the world's biggest global body outside the u.n. suspending syria's membership the organi

the pentagon says the now retired steel, writing under a pseudonym but identified in the press, never received approval. >> i think the secret should be kept secret. >> most people consider protecting mission's secrecy sacred important protection for the safety of seat -- of future missions. everyone we spoke to today agrees. security tromps freedom of speech. >> he is not eligible to disclose that information. i do not think he has the right to come as badly as we all want to know. >> some members of the military had already criticized the white house for apparent leaks about the bin laden raid. one attacked us, but -- attacked president obama. >> mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden. . >> the honor of the uniform is to be neutral, to serve the united states and not the republicans or democrats. but the pentagon today said it wants to review before deciding whether officials will take any action against the former officer. the head of the operations and have a severe warning that those involved would be facing possible criminal prosecution. >> it looks like we might have a

today the press secretary referred questions about the book to the pentagon. >> it's important to state out right that as the president said on the night that justice was brought to osama bin laden, quote, we give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exempt fie the professionalism, patriotism, and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country. >> the book is scheduled for release next tuesday. a number of news organizations have already gotten copies. >>> sales for general meets are plug-in hybrid are surging toward a monthly record. a gm spokesman says august sales of the chevrolet volt will top 2,500. it's the best month since the volt was launched in december 2010. sales are up 35% from july and up 700% from a year ago. gm says demand especially strong in california where one- third of chevy volts are sold. >>> amazon.com announced today the kindle fire is now sold out. don't worry. a newer version is on the way. amazon is expected to unveil a new model the kindle fire next week in santa monica. they don't say how many they've sold, but amazon does say it

from the white house the pentagon the national security agency and the cia all to reveal those who spilled the beans investigation has already kept a distinct chill over press coverage of national security issues as journalists here say agencies declined routine interview requests and refused to provide background briefings on top of that the legislation is in the works in the u.s. congress that would for example allow to strip the government's employee of their position in punishment or on authorized sharing of information with the media so you have an assault on the first one both the government and the lawmaker a former assistant director of the cia is that everybody in the intelligence world agrees never have there been so many level leaks one has to go with ministration as being so hard on leakers as this one we're talking about all kinds of the leaks about the administration's targeted killings program as it continues to illegally execute suspected terrorists abroad or leaks about government agencies sweeping surveillance capabilities that whole feel bomb administration alone has prosecuted six government officials believe king information to the pres

within my organization and the pentagon, we are very mindful of further opportunities in progress. we are going to press forward very aggressively. >> i would say we are not as ready as we should be 10 years after 9/11. i would have hoped that in terms of integrated planning at the local, state, and federal level , that we would be further down the road. we did not get as far as i think we hoped we would have gone. you always show up with what you have. it is a crime when you can not be as efficient. i think we lost a lot of that momentum. the state became -- we did not think about this at the front end. there would be periods when states would be flush and times when they're not. we didn't plan for a kind of system that would be sustainable during times when we were throwing a lot of money at the problem and during times when we are not throwing a lot of money at the problem. we should be a lot further on than we should be. a good example is integrating the reserves into the response and the debate back and forth between governors. it is hard to believe it took us that long. i think shame on us for not

pentagon we are mindful of further progress. with leadership in the initiatives we will press forward very aggressively. >> i would say we are not as ready as we should be 10 years after 9/11. i say that not because of things that the in the may have done, i would hope in terms of integrated planning and the local state level, we were a lot further down the road. we have much more ambitious plans in terms of being able to implement the plan across state and federal, that did not go as far as i had hoped it would go. you always show up with what you have. it is a crime and you cannot be as efficient with what you have. i think we lost a lot of the momentum. i think part of it is because the states became -- we did not think about this at the front and, there would be periods when the states would be flushed and the with our interest at this and there would be periods when they were not here the water to cover more back on the federal table. we did not plan for a sustained -- a system that would be sustainable in periods when we were throwing money at the problem. we should be a lot further on that we have been carried here is a g

. >> i understand this afternoon you're going to have a press conference to talk about the bill that you're proposing, the audit the pentagon just briefly, into the world of why we need more billion dollar aircraft carriers and more billion dollar airplanes flying around? >> well, we done the have any billion dollar airplanes flying around but they're pretty expensive. we do need to have a strong defense. but the defense of this country and our ability to defend ourselves is based on our economic strength. and you cannot have a strong defense without a strong economically viable, growing nation. what we've done is spent way too much money and not had any grown-ups in the room when it comes to major weapons systems. >> what are we spending too much money on? >> well, let me -- this is a long story, if you have time for it, i'm happy to go into it. when somebody gets an idea in the pentagon and they want to say, well, here's a new idea, they put out a cost plus contract on research. well, if you're on other side of that, you say, oh, yummy. you know? they want to do something, we'll do it, and they make good money. then the i

pentagon we are mindful of further progress. with leadership in the initiatives we will press forward very aggressively. >> i would say we are nots ready as we should be 10 years after 9/11. i say that not because of things that the in the may have done, i would hope in terms of integrated planning and the local state level, we were a lot further down the road. we have much more ambitious plans in terms of being able to implement the plan across state and federal, that did not go as far as i had hoped it would go. you always show up with what you have. it is a crime and you cannot be as efficient with what you have. i think we lost a lot of the momentum. i think part of it is because the states became -- we did not think about this at the front and, there would be periods when the states would be flushed and the with our interest at this and there would be periods when they were not here the water to cover more back on the federal table. we did not plan for a sustained -- a system that would be sustainable in periods when we were throwing money at the problem. we should be a lot further on that we have been carried here is a goo

associated press is reporting the name, cnn is not doing so at the request of the pentagon, which is. team members. ap said they weren't asked to withhold the name. the question is what's in the book? the book called "no easy day." firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden. the author calls himself ma mark owen, a fake name he picked. the former s.e.a.l. was on the raid according to penalty gone officials. his publisher says his account includes the stealth helicopter crash that could have killed the author and his teammates. it already set off a fire storm even before the september 11th publication date. >> he has no right to make public details of that raid and the operational information that is necessary in order to do that without getting approval. >> penalty gone officials say the s.e.a.l. did not submit the book for security review. now they urgently want to read it. he left the navy in april, but could be subject to criminal prosecution. the pentagon is asking cnn not to disclose the s.e.a.l.'s real name and cnn is not doing so. the worry, other s.e.a.l.s o

pentagon, and that should be a contributed to reduction. to go a couple more questions. a couple of your critics. paul krugman. more questions.uple >"meet the press" newt gingrich had a couple comments related to your budget. how you address these issues? curious what you think of people voicing concerns. take a first of all, for the tax portion, that is not an accurate statistics. we use cbo numbers. we're talking about revenue- neutral tax reform. this is for class warfare gets into it. the people who enjoy the most tax deductions, the biggest tax shelter are the folks of the top to brackets. if you have $1 of income part in to that, that is taxed at zero. if you take away the tax shelter, and that dollar is taxed. so by broadening the tax base, the private tax shelters of lowering tax rates, you are subjected more of the income to taxation, albeit at a lower rate, and just like the president's fiscal commission, which is served on and was supported by a majority of democrats, they agree you need to lower tax rates to make us competitive globally, create jobs, and brought in the tax base. our tax reforms are a page out of the book of the fiscal

pentagon we are mindful of further progress. with leadership in the initiatives we will press forward very aggressively. >> i would say we are not as ready as we should be 10 years after 9/11. i say that not because of things that the in the may have done, i would hope in terms of integrated planning and the local state level, we were a lot further down the road. we have much more ambitious plans in terms of being able to implement the plan across state and federal, that did not go as far as i had hoped it would go. you always show up with what you have. it is a crime and you cannot be as efficient with what you have. i think we lost a lot of the momentum. i think part of it is because the states became -- we did not think about this at the front and, there would be periods when the states would be flushed and the with our interest at this and there would be periods when they were not here the water to cover more back on the federal table. we did not plan for a sustained -- a system that would be sustainable in periods when we were throwing money at the problem. we should be a lot further on that we have been carried here is a g

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within my organization, within the pent pentagon, we're mindful of the opportunity for further progress and with secretary panetta's leadership we're going press guard aggressively. >> i would say it's a wrong question. so i would say we're not as ready as we should be ten years after 9/11. i say that not because things fema or dod has done. i would have hoped that in terms of integrated planning, and at the local, state, federal level we wrp a lot further down the road. we had much more ambitious plans in terms of being able to plan across federal -- that didn't get as far as we hoped it had gone. and, you know, you always show up with what you have. it's a crime when you can't be as efficient as what you have when you have. and i think we lost a lot of that momentum, i think part is because the states became -- we didn't think about this at the front end there would be periods when the states are going to be flushed and a lot of resources at this and periods when they're not. and try to put more back on the federal table. we didn't plan for a kind of sustain -- a system that was going to be sustainable in periods when we were employee throwi

press conference. the area you can go into is a small little room. there is a must room. you don't get to walk the halls of the white house. when i was covering the pentagon years ago, you'd be let in. you could walk around the