joining us now, retired lieutenant colonel bill caoan, and tony schafer with the center for advancedense studying and tim kinnett, former jag and prosecutor. thank you all for joining us on such a big story. tom, what's happening behind the scenes in afghanistan? where is this soldier? >> right now he's obviously detained in confinement. it's unclear as to whether he would already have counsel, but at some point in the very near future a. trial defense services counsel, that's sort of the military's version of a public defender, or legal aide, they're part of the ja g corps but they retain anonimity to avoid conflict of interest. i imagine it's one of the first things we'll hear from, in terms of a legal defense, is rcm706 insanity board to determine whether this soldier is able to face the charges against him. jengen we've only heard a few things about him and i want to caution our viewers, we still have a lot more to find out about the situation. but we understand, according to our reports, that he had deployed to iraq, he is a father, he was based out of washington state, and colo

colonel schafer, why have anybody there?d you can't repair that sort of damage, and i had to sit there for another 12 months, that would be horrendous for me and my family. >> it is. it is. and this is why the politics being involved in defense is so bad. we got the white house right now more concerned about winning an election and not appearing to fail rather than doing what's necessary to get on the often i -- offensive. there are two things that have to happen to be successful. we've already met the mission requirements, al-qaeda longs are long gone, second, we've got to get back to looking at them in other place, pakistan, get on the offensive. third for afghanistan, we've got to find a reconciliation process between the taliban and the pashtun-led -- the karzai government, they're pashtun, and they reconcile. pakistan is key to that. we continue to pretend otherwise, we continue to pretend we can throw force and afghanistan -- they're never going to tufb us. we were there to do business in '03 and '04, that's why we wer

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justin schafer with republican main street. good morning, congress bank. >> morning. >> i was watching the house floor yesterday, and you heard the buzz words, end medicare as we know it, vice versa, and how do we educate the public that the real drivers of the debt are not foreign aid, waste, but the big three entitlements? >> right. so if you watch it, i have this chart that cbo puts out that shows how three programs, medicare, medicaid and social security, um, eventually just consume 100% of revenues. you throw interest on top which you have to pay interest, they consume 100% of revenues by 2025. and it's not an insidious plan by one party or the other, it was just demographics and health inflation. it's both parties made a lot of promises to people that the government can't keep. gao says it's about $100 trillion worth of promises made to today's americans that the government's shy of covering. as soon as we acknowledge that, the better off we're going to be. the more we can convert these empty promises, that's what we're p

in addition jim schafer at the time a lieutenant colonel was in the air in the third v-22. and john brow and brooks gruber were his friends. he's joined in this effort to clear their names. it does not make any sense, mr. speaker, that the marine corps cannot do what has been asked by the wives. the wives have just asked for one paragraph that clearly states -- and mr. speaker, quite frankly, the marine corps owes this to the families because they came out with this press release that i just read a moment ago in 2000 and indicated that this was pilot error. they have seen all the information that i have accumulated in 10 years and all the families are asking for their children, connie has a little girl named brooks, trish has two boys named michael and matthew. all they're asking is an official letter from the united states marine corps that the children can have, for years to come, and whenever it comes about, the crash on april 8, 2000, in arizona was pilot error . and, mr. speaker, they can say, no, that's not true. i have a letter from the united states marine corps com