>>> next on this week in defense news, what the obama administration's new defense strategy will mean press release the pentagon, >>> welcome to this week in defense news. why is iran picking a fight with the united states and can it stop american warships from passing through the straight. a top analyst explains and a look at u.s. arms export and export reforms after a flurry of foreign sales ended september 2011. but first president obama made a rare visit, that will shape some $490 billion in spending cuts over the coming decades, cuts to be detailed next month when the administration's 2013 budget request goes to congress. the new strategy scraps the long standing policy that the u.s. military be able to fight two major wars at once and it would shift to asia as ground forces are cut in favor of air and naval power. is this the right strategy, will it yield on a tighter budget, and what will it mean for pentagon and the industry that supply it. joining us now are david bertow and lauren lexington. welcome back to the show. >> welcome and then i want your take on this. >> the strat

, the obama administration. e your policies, so will we. that was a critical opening, and i've been told by people within the iranian national security council that it was fully cleared, authorized, and thought through. it was a major strategic error that we did not pursue serious, sustained diplomacy with the islamic republic of iran. president obama has brought us closer to the brink of conflict with iran than even the bush administration did. >> we're going to come back. when we come back, i will let bret respond and we'll talk about the next step. white meat chicken. the way i always made it for you. one more thing.... those pj's you like, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. try bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles so it enters the bloodstream fast and rushes relief to the site of your tough pain. it's proven to relieve pain twice as fast as before. bayer advanced aspirin. when i'm out with my kids, my

let me lay out the ideas that i think should be more central an administration strategy. i will finish with the role of the reserve components, especially in planning for future possible ground wars. as many of you know, the administration has proposed we no longer need to be ready for two simultaneously ground wars. that would be a change that has not previously been seen in 60 years of american defense policy. ever since peraea we have been planning for the least two at a time. -- ever since korea, we have been planning for at least two at a time. since the cold war ended, we typically focus on north korea and iraq. north korea remains a problem and a rock is still a problem in other ways, but i would submit things have changed enough in iraq and a broader middle east that the administration is correct to change our constructs from two simultaneously ground wars, plus the ability to wrap up quickly if need be. i am not sure they've gone far enough to change to construct as a result. i want to talk about the navy to begin. you can consider this equal opportunity or equal

, the obama administration. r policies, so will we. that was a critical opening, and i've been told by people within the iranian national security council that it was fully cleared, authorized, and thought through. it was a major strategic error that we did not pursue serious, sustained diplomacy with the islamic republic of iran. president obama has brought us closer to the brink of conflict with iran than even the bush administration did. >> we're going to come back. when we come back, i will let bret stephens respond, but we will also talk about how this is all going to end. and boston cream pie. did you say pie? pie. she said pie. pie. [ male announcer ] get back on track with low prices on everything you need. backed by our ad match guarantee. walmart. [ male announcer ] when diarrhea hits, kaopectate stops it fast. powerful liquid relief speeds to the source. fast. [ male announcer ] stop the uh-oh fast with kaopectate. >>> we are back talking about iran and the dangers and opportunities with vali nasr, bre

i think the obama administration was right. they have had greater success in getting a greater amount of sanctions. the point at which i find it to be less important is it's not bringing us closer to a resolution. i think the biggest mistake from the u.s. side was once the turks and brazilians managed to intervene and negotiate with iran and get them to put their signature on a deal, the obama administration was so deep into its -- >> what brazilian deal? >> i explain this in detail in the book. they negotiated with iranians and got them to agree to a deal that was following the same benchmarks as the deal the u.s. put on the table a couple of months earlier. at that point, the iranians did not come and give a yes to the proposal. a couple of months later, some things had changed. but the bottom line is that deal called the tehran declaration, followed a letter the president sent to the leaders of brazil and turkey only three weeks later. but by that time the obama administration was so deep into the sanctions drive, two days be

he brought them inside the administration to protect the big banks there. is it going to be brewer or schneiderman? attorney general holder had this to say. >> aggressively pursuing any and all leads. as part of our investigations, the department of justice has issued several subpoenas relate relating to residential mortgages and you can expect more to follow. >> i'm incredibly dubious of anything that eric holder says or does. i was excited when he was first selected but he has done almost nothing to pursue the banks in thee three years. what he just said was good news. they have 11 11 subpoenas, and maybe we're getting somewhere. is schneiderman playing ball to get a bigger name? maybe the president owes him a favor, etc. or is he going to hold these guys accountable and drive the administration to do the right thing, and which side is president obama on? these are all good questions but i wanted to ask robert kuttner, co-edty coeditor. >> my sense he is going to push the administration to get tougher with the banks. give who he is and how progressive he

cia officer is being charged with leaking secrets to the press this is now the sixth time the obama administration is attempting to use the espionage act to marcy wheeler will help us uncover the inconsistency s. and the dangers for whistleblowers and then last night the candidates spoke on immigration mitt romney suggested that self deportation should be the easiest fix so what exactly is self deportation. going to give us the details we're going to all that morphy tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. our so last night we were forced to sit through yet another republican debate this one was hosted by n.b.c. and moderated by brian williams who did an embarrassingly poor job of it and it one point i'm pretty sure that william just stepped out to have a smoke or something because he let mitt romney newt gingrich just ask each other questions and go back and forth for about ten minutes now there was one of the value to this exchange however romney really went after gingrich and expose what is a systemic problem the revolving door of

the administration said congress didn't give it time to review the permit. response to the action congressman harry introduced legislation called the north american energy access act that gives approval authority of the pipeline to the federal energy regulatory commission. witnesses include representatives from the state department, nebraska and federal regulatory commission. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> i would like to call this hearing to order this morning. the subject of this hearing is american jobs now. we are going

i think the administrator and i commented on that. but if there's any question in anyone's mind that they gave us a free ride, if the last two months of negative publicity and my -- the fact that i'm sitting here explaining this, thanks but i'll go it alone in the future. >> thank you. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> i thank the gentleman. i believe you have a bit in order? the gentlemen from a virginia is voiz recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome. >> thank you. >> the chairman of the full committee indicated the ntsa study was done roughly sort of half way through the number of sales that currently have occurred. that is to say, i think you said there were about 8,000 volts on the road. this happened around sale 4,000. is that about right? >> i'm sure there were quite a few less than. that we sold 1,500 plus in january alone. it's gaining momentum. i was closer to 2,000 or 3,000. i don't have the specific number before me. >> of the 8,000 familiar lids r

the first of whom is the administrator of nasa. r] >> he is a graduate of the united states naval academy. commissioned as second lieutenant in the marine corps, completed fright training in 1970 and became a naval aviator. he flew more than 100 combat mission in north and south vietnam, laos and cambodia and received the distinguished flying cross. he tran transitioned to becoming a test pilot, where he tested a variety of aircraft until his selection as an astronaut candidate in 1980. becoming an astronaut, he traveled in orbit four times aboard the space shuttle between 1986 and 1994. commanding two of the missions. his flights included deployment half the hubble space telescope and the first joint u.s.-rescue shuttling my which featured a cosmonaut as member of the crew. he came back down to earth and returned to marine corps in 1987 and served as commanding general of the third marine aircraft wing from 2000 to 2002. retiring from the marine corps in 2003. he was induct out into the u.s. astronaut hall of fame in 2006. just by

the administration was facing added pressure to reject tte project from environmental protesters.but the state department has already indicated it expects the company spearheading the project -- transcanada -- to reapply for approval.i'' ninette sosa reporting. the white house had tried to delay a decision on the project until next year ... after the presidential elections.but, as part of the payroll tax cut negotiation, congressional republicans gave the administration 60 days to make a decision. crews suspend the search for survivors aboard the cruise ship ... costa concordia.as the water becomes colder... the odds of finding survivors... become slimmer. the ship wrecked off the italian coast last week, leaving 11 people dead and several more missing.the captain is currently under house arrest and could face manslaughter charges for abandoning the ship with passengers still on board.he says... he tripped and fell into the water and that's how he ended up in a life raft. baltimore fans are known for supporting the ravens with their hearts, their voices... and their wallets. the most

from the administration standpoint they are kind of screwed, to be honest with you. he white house will look to the republicans. president obama and john boehner tried to reach the grand bargain last summer and they failed. both sides were entrenched in their position. does it work for the president to blame the republicans or vice versa? >> the president can run against washington but it's hard for him not to be seen as part of washington. if there is paralysis on this issue voters will blame all the incumbents, including the guy in the white house. megyn: faceoff in florida in what is not you biggest presidential contest to date. a winter take all primary and the top gop contenders are doing last-minute campaigning. trying to win over the undecideds. a win for mitt romney seems the his status and a front runner. but newt gingrich vows to stay in the race no matter what happens today. florida is the fourth most popular state just behind new york. it has the third most of any in the united states. it can decide an election. whichever gop candidate wins this primary ta

with the outbreak of war in september, 1939, the focus of the roosevelt administration turned increasingly towards international affairs. with the shift in priorities also came a shift in franklin roosevelt's inner circle. domestic advisers were often marginalized in favor of military, diplomatic, and intelligence leaders, longtime friends became ill or died, personal staff changed. even as fdr's attention became global, his private world became smaller as a result of wartime secrecy and security. to gain greater understanding of these important behind-the-scenes figures, so integral to the roosevelt story, the fdr presidential library and museum and the roosevelt institute are proud to present fdr's inner circle. today's forum concentrates on the military and foreign policy advisers. and now, it is my great pleasure to welcome our moderator, stuart chinski. he's been executive editor of content and audience development of the poughkeepsie journal and the poughkeepsiejournal.com since december, 2006. he oversees all news operations at the newspaper, its website and magazine. in 2011, "the

. >>> next on "this week in defense news," a glimpse at the obama administration's efforts to improve national cyber security, plans to cut >>> welcome to "this week in defense news," i'm vago muradian. two weeks after unveiling its new defense strategy, the obama administration announced plans to withdraw some 7000 troops from europe. what does that mean for nato and european defense? and we take a closer look at the capabilities iran is developing to keep u.s. forces out of the persian gulf. but, first, a new cyber security strategy is emerging in washington. the obama administration is wrestling with how far it should go in defining national standards, not just for federal agencies, but also for critical infrastructure that's privately owned like power plants, transportation, data and financial services. the process is being led by the national security agency and builds on a document drafted two years ago that defines 20 critical cyber controls. now the secret event is working on a plan to require private industry to better protect itself from cyber threats. joining us now to expl

we also have the city administrator to address any questions that come up specifically to their areas. >> think you to the chair and to supervisor kim for your comments and work on this issue. i thought that i would just briefly walk through what the board of supervisors did, the resolutions before you today, and then as supervisors chu mentioned, we have a number of staff from city agencies are available to answer your questions. >> we have been joined by supervisor cohen. i know that you are a sponsor of this legislation. would you like to offer any comments? >> thank you very much. my comments are pretty humbling just to say think you to all the people that have been involved in this process from start to finish. thank you for hearing this item so quickly. iso want to thank the staff persons that have worked tirelessly on this particular item. i look forward to hearing from each one of you. this outlines the materials before us which demonstrates that there is a number of actions that the city must take in order to protect the housing and public assets and to ensure that the city c

services under the city administrator. talks about the requirements for payment and performance, authorizes the oversight board, rescinds the redevelopment as ignition for treasure island, and makes findings under ceqa. it is laying out the framework under which we can address how it is we are going to be structuring 3 development activities going forward. i think that conversa a

the gentleman from cleveland, mr. kucinich. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. administrator strickland, i'm going have a series of questions. i would ask that your answers be brief and, of course, true. >> yes, sir. >> now the fire occurred on june 6th. and as my colleague points out, it wasn't until november that ntsa's follow up testing confirmed that this was not an isolated incident. it does seem like a long time. what we need to know, administrator strickland, is whether there was a valid reason for so much time to pass. so the first question is, what was ntsa doing between june and november that required such a long internal investigation? >> thank you for the question, ranking member. in june, once fire was discovered, after the fact, some time over the weekend, and we were notified, we had absolutely no notion of what the source of the fire was. there was three other vehicles around it. it could have been arson. it could have been one of the other vehicles. it could have been a number of factors. so we had to go out, figure out what happened on the scene, higher fire

a brom was discovered on campus outside the administration building. arsonists set fire to the student union. this is the building of the building that night. to force the university to close after the kent state tragedy. the governor of kansas declared the university would remain open. parents and quite frankly many students panicked, and as one integral staffer recalled, the top administration seemed to freeze. into this void stepped the network of women that taylor and her staff had developed. a female graduate student suggested to taylor they initiate an information hotline for students, faculty and parents. taylor agreed to set up the 24-hour phone line in her office using her phone number so students and faculty could report incidents and also test and find out about the very rasity of rumors. as a result, the staff could also find out about potential unrest and try to diffuse it before it happens. for instance, when 300 students disintegrated on the military science building, rocks in hand, a number of taylor's young staffers were there. the staf

the roosevelt administration. she will also have tutorials with an economist that you might have heard of whose name is john kenneth gal bright. sowe so eleanor argues repeatedly that we must tell the country why weir fighting the war because we will lose the war before we will win it, and the great lesson of world war i is that we won the war, but we lost the peace. so she embraces the four freedoms with a life and risking fervor. there are assassination attempts on eleanor roosevelt's life during the home front in the second world war. i do not make threats. i do not need hate mail and this is the time when she will be assembling the largest fbi file in american history, and a symbol of j. edgar hoover who hated her, who wanted to strip her of her citizenship who sent her to go live with her people in liberia. so, eleanor, in many ways, and eleanor speaks her mind in the way general marshall speaks her mind and also like general marshall. there are times when she will -- there's no other word for it, just shut up

item 19. >> amending the administrative code subject to the prevailing rate of wage requirements. supervisor wiener: this legislation and i want to thank supervisors chu and campos for cosponsoring with me. this legislation will improve and cleanup and tighten our prevailing wage ordinance. our prevailing wage ordinance requires certain city contractors pay the prevailing wage and that is part of san francisco's commitment to pay workers a decent wage. when we are contracting out, that does not mean that those workers are going to receive poverty wages. in this case, it is important for janitors who are low-paid to make sure they are receiving a prevailing wage. they think it must be 30 or $40 an hour. the prevailing wage is $12.75 an hour. we're talking about all low- wage -- paying someone all low- wage as opposed to an extremely low wage. it applies to other categories. this legislation broadens types of contracts that are subject to the prevailing wage ordinance. it consolidates for consistency various parts of the ordinance. it creates a transition period of up to six months

without question and you're absolutely right we have seen this under the obama administration where in fact we have more than tripled the number of surveillance routes that we run through through various predator drones and some of the others as well so we're starting to see this not just in iraq and afghanistan but of course pakistan has increased dramatically most recently we've heard about the crash of that one drone in iran solely seen that the real possibility that we're going to start seeing this in places like the philippines the places like indonesia malaysia and other areas of yemen which we've already seen some of the again these numbers continue i mean and you realized that because it's easy it's simple and we like to do it but of course it's a violation of international law but you know that just gets in the way so we'll just say it's easy and it's simple so we'll do it we've got the stuff let's do it that's the argument i guess as should the state department be doing it though. no without question they should not be doing this i mean again we have to decide whether or not

donovan to his credit, when the administration set up the war refugee board, toward the end of the war to try to get more jews out of eastern europe, donovan's oss officer served his pay masters for the war effort, the war refugee operations and the order is to provide all the support they could in the operational theater. he did it really because he hoped to glean intelligence from the folks that went out on the rescue missions that he could find useful for his own oss. so there was not -- there was somewhat of an ulterior motive there. donovan also led the collection of evidence for the nuremberg trials, the war prosecutions. again, he had some uler theiter motives there too. he wanted pay back for the nazis who had killed and tortured his agents, and he wanted to make sure his agents in the occupied areas that had worked secretly for the oss didn't get swept up in the prosecutions on themselves. one final thing, donovan advised against interning the japanese and donovan's own staff thought it was a terrible idea. one of them wrote we'll make enemies of people who were never enemies.

think of what the administration has done in the middle east.cognized the arab spring but ignored the persian spring . ignored the uprise nothing 2011 and the alalamaki who kill would the citizens north of baghdad . we want to get rid of qaddafi and worried about the people in bengazi but not the people and didn't support the democratic resistance when it is risen on the streets of iran. we talk sanctions . we need to talk about delisting and not that that will turn it around overnight. but it sends a signal, sanctions and we will recognize the. >> all the best to you. >> is there a new tornado alley. last year alabama had more tornados. and you can't fight mother nature but you can be prepared. what officials are doing there, next . [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. [ male aouncer ] red lobster's ur course seafood feast is back. get soup, salad, cheddar bay biscuits, dessert and choose one of 7 entrees. four courses for only $15. offer

you know what the obama administration has already done a modest opening to burma a very very modest opening to north. gloria the president doesn't have a lot of political capital that he doesn't want to waste it initiatives that might appear from republican critics to be appeasement so appeasing china appeasing north korea peace in burma he doesn't want to get into a situation in which you there's eventually now especially in the lead up to the elections where you their congress or the republican candidates can say we told you we told you this guy likes to sit down with dictators we would have none of that if we were president does that mean that the u.s. is changing its strategy in that region in the i mean in the middle east and in strategy in general not just in middle east you know i think the obama administration is have a. pretty clear trajectory for the last three years it's tried to extricate the united states from the worst kind of legacies of the previous administration primarily in iraq but also looking ahead in afghanistan but at the same time dealing with what has been c

the way or the other take more harker's position and see in the current obama administration sure there's a general consensus there too so i don't think there's a lot of differences between the republican plan or i mean santorum comes from a completely different school than mitt romney and ron paul. they certainly do they're appealing though to some of the same voters and i think in a general election we of course would see the republican candidate move toward the center in order to get as much of the center and independent votes as possible but right now during the primaries they're pretty much going to be clustered around the same kind of positions and they're running against the obama administration and there isn't a lot of difference between them we've seen their positions we've heard their positions countries like iran right now way which is the hot spot what role do you think they foreign policy play in their campaign right now to be honest foreign policy doesn't play much of a role in part because the obama administration has taken foreign policy off the table certainly national se

i wonder, what you guys feel, what is the net net damage that the administration will have to recover >> yes. >> zero. voters don't care about any of that. >> from a bill daley standpoint, there's a message. it is inside baseball that the white house has kind of given up on the relationship with business. that is why he was brought in, he was going to be the guy that could deal with congress and hiring jack lou who is well respected in washington and probably not a stupid hire because if it shows the focus will be on budget and balancing the budget and all those fiscal issues, nonetheless, it says from the obama administration, game on, we are not goingç to take 2012 and we are in a political environment and bill daley who was hired to make nice with business is no longer with us. >> what we are hearing more is that it will turn more to a campaign. being the president, we will change from this to campaigning, we will shift the message and shift to middle class language and what daley did is alienate people inside and outside the white house. that is why the president looked to pluff

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we are efforting confirmation of this from the obama administration. >>> also this. a new government report just out dealing, detailing the common warning signs that someone might be a terrorist. for the first time ever the obama administration is it providing top law enforcement officials with unclassified information on what it says is a growing threat. with us now, chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. so what's in this report and who is seeing it, catherine? >> reporter: thank you very much, jon, good morning. the obama administration is providing senior law enforcement from federal, state and local groups with this unclassified analysis of homegrown terrorism events and the common signs to identify violent extremists. now analysts from the fbi, homeland security and national counterterrorism center which is the nation's center for threat assessment reviewed 62 cases and here's what they found. individuals likely to commit violent acts often speak out against the government. they blame the government for their perceived problems. their actions are o

elections well it's primarily elections i mean if you look at the obama administration's position toward israel. even israel will say it's been the best relations in a long time. the obama administration opposed palestinian initiatives in the us going after statehood continued military support of israel. basically when netanyahu refused to do anything on the settlements issue again there's been some aspirational language with the united states would like to. solve in the arab israeli disputes but generally speaking there has been no transformation of the united states remains firm of israel the republican candidates are thinking well there are two constituencies we want to reach out to one are evangelicals evangelicals who have very strongly said that we stand with israel and the others jewish voters who if they can peel them away from obama would be a great in the two thousand and twelve election i mean could you elaborate a little bit more about that specially with the g.o.p. presidential candidates right now and it was specially after what you said that obama has done everything to wh

for me, the role of the city administrator is so critical. it really is one of those positions that makes sure the government is responsive to its constituents. i was wondering if you could say every bit more about your thoughts on that, because i know that has been your track record, but i want to make sure the people who are watching and are here in the audience to hear directly from you on that. i have to say that when i say the government is responsive to its constituents, i mean government being responsive to everyone, and that includes people who often times do not necessarily get the attention that they should get from government, so i am wondering if you can speak to that? >> absolutely. first, i am very lucky in my position as acting city administrator and, hopefully, city administrator, that i have had the opportunity to work with nancy at 311. they have done a great job at 3112 connect diverse populations, a closing low went public -- including low-income populations, and for low english-speaking skills to be able to work with the f

>> guest: that's right. >> guest: this is the common curve across all administrations. and that is if you average the approval ratings of all presidents, all our modern presidents, in their first term, you find that they come into office with their comparative high level of approval and suffer an inevitable decline through their third year. >> guest: because the approval was artificially high to start with. everyone... >> guest: we believe. >> guest:...was all excited about the new administration. hopes ran high. this is a kind of artificial high point that's going to then come down automatically. c-span: is the inauguration day, january the 20th, the biggest and highest day of a--usually of a president's... >> guest: i would say--i would guess so. c-span:...most solid high? >> guest: we don't--we can't... >> guest: on average it is. >> guest:...look at before. >> guest: you know, you might have an intervening event that could lift it higher. for instance, an international rally event, some foreign policy crisis might elevate that particular president's approval higher t

. >> i think within the administration is a sense that, you know, we have got them where we want them to be. you make a good point that the regime feels it is threatened, that this is an existential threat to this regime and so it is going to fight back and, you know, i do hope the administration thought through carefully what it would do if suddenly you were in a much more serious crisis next week, a month from now, whenever. >> rose: we continue with ian bremmer of eurasia group and his listing of the top risks to peace and economic progress in 2012. >> fear is actually the single biggest risk in 2012. it is not that the big things are blowing up, the euro isn't going to blow up, the united states is actually doing better than people think, china is not going to have a hard landing yet all of the headline risk around political volatility is keeping money on the side lines, it is keeping people investing in gold, and it is stopping the global economy from developing the way it probably should be. >> rose: these are things you call red her rings. >> that's right. >> we continue with j