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kandahar is the center of the drawdown efforts. ddition to the fourth of july, they are celebrating the reopening of supply routes from pakistan. streaming live from the kandahar airfield, we have our reporter dominic. reporter: hello, rick. absolutely. the pakistanis decided they're going to open the crucial supply routes here in afghanistan. they're going to take everything back to the united states. it is going to say the united states an awful lot of money. the commander of the logistical part of that program of the drawdown has told me that this is what he had to say. >> right now we fly all of our equipment out of all of our locations in afghanistan. yes, it will be proportionally very cost effective to go through the area and drive it down a port the port and ship it back to the united states. reporter: while the borders will open as soon as possible, we will not see u.s. convoys rolling out straightaway. we will see to were three months before that will happen. primarily, so much that has been waiting all these months. the k

the concession from pakistan. it will mean a much quicker drawdown for the united states.t will be a lot cheaper t was costing us $104 million extra a month. that we think will be about 60 to 90 days before we actually see flatbed trucks with the likes of mrap and other heavy hardware actually rolling across the afghan border into pakistan and heading to karachi. it will all go back to the united states. from afghanistan, happy 4th of july. back to you, gregg. gregg: dominic di-natale streaming live from kandahar. thanks very much. happy fourth. >> first came the supreme court's green light. and now why implementing the health care law could mean that the government gets quite a bit bigger. we're just starting to learn what is in the 2700 page document. lawmakers are concerned that could mean fattening up the bottom line. a fair and balanced debate on that straight ahead. gregg: today we're celebrating america's independence. unveiling the secrets of the official presidential flag. ♪ . ♪ why not try someplace different every morning? get two times the points on dining in r

that is going to be crucial to part of the effort of the drawdown. n with what are considered future foreign military sales. this is equipment of the afghan national forces. everything from radios to humvees. they want to do this over seven months. after that, a crucial supply of fuel will be sent. an extraordinary response ability of the united states by keeping things going in the network. that is the priority, and that is what we are going to see come along with any nato trucks rolling through as the nato drawdown of her. martha: that is an excellent question. when will we actually see these convoys heading out? and what is the mood on the ground in terms of what kind of situation they will be leaving? >> it seems like we have a communication problem with our reporter there. it is understandable. we will get more from him a little bit later in the show. rick: coming up, mitt romney clarifying comments he made on the supreme court psalter ruling. >> obamacare was bad policy yesterday. it is bad policy today. let me tell you why i say that. obamacare

at least publicly it will be interesting to see if the numbers change as well especially once the drawdown from afghanistan begins skeptics they know that with concerns about countries like iran and north korea and other threats that there will be plenty to keep black budget business booming at the pentagon christine for our team. well we were talking a little earlier about increased talk of copyrights and wrongs with legislation like sopa and pipa it turns out a lot of that actually stemmed from the case of napster napster of course the first file sharing peer to peer system that was a lot more easy for the average person to understand it was the biggest and most popular and of course an easy target therefore when napster was sued it was held responsible for all of the material its users shared making it impossible for them to continue doing business as it was if you log on today an app store is completely different now and arguably not nearly as successful as it was of course we have i tunes now but there are been some pretty major results in other realms and this is the subject of a pap

it was women who actually did better in the drawdown, in the loss of jobs.o, it's not surprising that there is a surplus of men who get jobs back. although, this is a fairly surprisingly wide gap. but the second issue is that when talking about young women. remember, married women voted republic, traditionally young women vote democratic. and this is where the social issues, the free contraceptives. the idea of national healthcare, all of these things play in. and i think obama campaign has played that very well. look, his campaign is based on one idea. you go out and you try to seduce one ethnic or socioeconomic or gender constituency after another. because you can't run as a national candidate who has improved the country. so you go after african-americans, for hispanics you do the dream being a. by executive order. for students, you cut their loan rates in half. for unions, you give them all kinds of goodies. and for women you get them the free contraception. and the boogie man of if republics get control of the supreme court they are going to somehow out

at least publicly it will be interesting to see if the numbers change as well especially once the drawdown from afghanistan begins skeptics they know that with concerns about countries like iran and north korea and other threats that there will be plenty to keep black budget business booming at the pentagon christine present r.t. . all right so there's been a bit of fallout from a recent comedy show at a los angeles comedy club and the blog of a girl in the audience what happened when daniel tosh of tosh point zero made the remark that all jokes about rape are funny so the girl wrote quote so i yelled out actually rape jokes are never funny i did it because even though being disruptive is against my nature i felt that sitting there and saying nothing or leaving quietly would have been against my values as a person and as a woman i don't sit there while someone tells me how i should feel about something as profound and damaging as rape after i called out to him tosh paused for a moment and then he said would it be nice or wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by like five guys right n

at least publicly it will be interesting to see if the numbers change as well especially once the drawdown from afghanistan begins skeptics they know that with concerns about countries like iran and north korea and other threats that there will be plenty to keep black budget business booming at the pentagon christine present r.t. . well it's been sixteen months now since the violence in syria began his talks have been more than slow and we wanted to take a closer look at what these talks have brought about as well as the importance of international consensus in terms of fixing the problems there and a little bit of a look at russia's role r.t. correspondent salaam most affairs spoke to prominent syrian opposition activist michel kilo and here's part of that interview. the immediate come of the talks was pre-determined by the fact that you have on the one hand a delegation from a country where food borne war is raging and a great power on the other you can hardly expect a specific outcome at the essentially we wanted russia to hear us aid because we represent the oppressed people of syria w

they have to take supplies through russia during the supplies are crucial because we're beginning the drawdown from afghanistan, that would have left us to the mercy of the russian president vladimir putin. they wanted to fix it. they have done it. it was saying sorry and saying sorry with a purpose in the view of the administration. >> john: jonathan, thank you. >> more than a thousand miles to the west in iraq at least 40 people are dead after a series of terrorist bombings across the country. an iraqi intelligence officials say security guards may have taken bribes. witnesses say a vegetable truck packed with explosives blew up as she'ite muslims traveled for a holy day. the bombings bear the hallmark of al-qaeda. 275 people have died in attacks the last month. that is the deadliest period we have seen since u.s. troops left in december. it's fears that iraq is slipping back into chaos. >>> the former u.s. cabinet member that crashed his car three times in a single day will not face charges. prosecutors in los angeles, john bright john tested negative for alcohol and controlled substances a

economy is depending on foreign aid and foreign support, but i am certain that as a result of the drawdown of the coalition forces, civilian institutions will continue their economical support. >> reporter: not everyone believes economic aid is paving the way for prosperity. in a new book, "washington post" correspondent rajiv chandrasekraran chronicles a decade of conflict and a failed effort to rebuild the war-torn country. >> when it come to reconstruction dollars, instead of focusing on sustainable projects that the afghans could one day take ownership of, we essentially carpet-bombed the country with money. in 2010, we tried to spend $4 billion worth of reconstruction money in afghanistan. in some places, that equated to more than the annual per capita income. and so it distorted the local economy. it built dependency, and it created sort of the development version of a sugar high. we pumped them up with lots of goodies, only to then see it crash later as budgets would inevitably have to be cut. >> suarez: the obama administration disputes that and contends the money is important for

because of the drawdown in naval forces, we had gone from a navy of 4000 ships to 600 ships at the height of the reagan buildup. they looked at two ports for us to refuel. it is a safer port. that is where we will pull you into to refuel. expected to be there for about six-eight hours. >> yemen today it sounds like the headquarters of al qaeda. what was it known then and why were you -- i know that you did ask this question. what were you doing in yemen? >> our nation had made a decision a couple years before the uss cole ever pulled into that port, to do engagement. we had decided that yemen was a good port for navy ships to pull into. it was a way that we could introduce money into their economy and help them out in a very bilateral type of engagement. we put the mining teams in there to help the country demine. there were a number of activities going on. what we were not doing was investing in our intelligence. i think every ship that operated in that region knew that there was a general threat from al qaeda, obviously, we had that the bombings two years before. there was nothing untow

do you have a sense of where your forces will go after the afghanistan drawdown? henever it is time to head back and the president will decide that, we will go to the next part of the world where we are focused. from what we read in the papers, there is some shift in attention toward the pacific but wherever i go next is where the commandant of the marine corps sends me. host: this is from twitter -- guest:nmo, i haven't heard that phrase. it does not mean it does not exist but in my traveling around and the five months we have been here, i have not heard that phrase. in certain parts of helmand province where the u.s. and state department and u.s. aid have had an influence over decades, they have an absolute respect and admiration for what the united states has done for the people here in helmand province and afghanistan. host: 8 democratic caller from tennessee, good morning. caller: good morning, general, we appreciate your service. i know you have to do what you have to do but i think this war is as bad as the vietnam war was. i think we need to get out and i d

because of the drawdown in the naval forces over a number of years, if not decades, we had gone from a navy of 4,000 ships following world war ii to a little shy of 600 at the height of reagan buildup, to 315 the morning of october 12. there wasn't one within about 1,000 miles. they looked at two ports to refuel. aidan, jabutti, and said, adrian is the safer port, that's where we're going to pull you into to refuel, expected to be there about six to eight hours, taking on a little more than a quarter million gallons. today sounds like maybe even the headquarters of al qaeda. what was it known then and why -- i know you asked this question in the book. what were you doing in aidan, yemen? >> our nation had made a decision a couple of years before uss cole ever pulled into that port to do engagement on a broader level with the yemenees government with the capital. had decided that yemen -- or aidan was a good port for navy ships to pull into. it was a way to have is a refueling port of the it was also a way to introduce money into their economy and help them out in a very bilateral typ

or are we locked in because of the drawdown? >> our leverage is quite potential. i think the logic is there. afghans see that there is a tremendous amount at stake in the coming years. we will have a crucial role in all the elements of our strategy, and not just we, international committee more broadly. afghans international partners are united behind the proposition that the political process needs to be credible and knees to produce a peaceful transition. >> thank you. thank you both of you and i look forward to seeing you out there. lugar?nator >> i am pleased that you are willing to undertake these responsibilities. i have confidence in both of you and the confirmation process should be an opportunity for us to discuss pakistan and afghanistan to obtain more information for our committee and the republic. i want to raise this question broadly. deadly brutal attacks within pakistan amounted to well over 3000 pakistanis killed. the threat of violent military groups is pervasive. no part of pakistan is spare. there were suicide and armed attacks in karachi as well

this amendment captures the billions of dollars that we will save by pursuing this steady drawdown of troops as opposed to maintaining troop levels at 68,000 throughout the entire fiscal year 2013 and then presumably on october 1, bring 28,000 troops home. this amendment would cut $12,670 ,000,000 from the overseas contingency fund. this amendment does not cut funding for troops on the ground in afghanistan. i believe, as do all of my colleagues who have advocated for an end to this war that our troops in harm's way should have all the resources they need to safely execute their mission and i'm committed to ensuring that our troops on the ground have the best equipment and the compensation that they deserve. this amendment does cut the funds that a not needed and would not be used if we pursue the president's steady drawdown plans. we should not be paying for things that we aren't going to buy and that we don't need -- and we certainly don't need to further pad the budget. the committee has approved $3,350,000,000 cushion on the fund that wasn't even part of the president's request. w

the drawdowns have been felt already. the concept it does not affect the overall economy, uh-uh.ravard county alone has had a tremendous hit. there is an economic analyses on demographics of our country and jobs. he knows what he is talking about. host: david, las vegas nv, a democrat. caller: a couple of years ago, the government accountability office completed their audit of the defense department and identified one of a $20 billion a year and waste, fraud, and it used cutting 60 billion would only be cut in half. government for many agencies and i will tell you every year about two months before the budget for fiscal year is over, there would come around and tell us, we're under budget. we have to spend more money or they will cut our budget, so they would buy furniture, do everything they could spend as much money as possible. we could cut 10% of the federal government budget without touching one job. that is my comment. guest: i wish to work that way, but it doesn't the steady he's talking about was sometime back. since then, the defense to present has been drawn down heavil

this is a continuation of the gao efforts to reduce the drawdown and build up of the civilian presence. the gao was asked to testify on the plans. the primary message of my testimony is that the state department and dod have planned for a large civilian presence in iraq. the iraqi commitment to the presence remains unclear. support and security capabilities have not been finalized. most important, efforts to identify security vulnerabilities and progress toward mitigating them are not being fully tracked. my first point is that the plan for a robust presence in iraq. the allocated estimated $4 billion for the presence and plan to have over 16,000 personnel at 14 sites across the country. most personnel were to be contractors primarily responsible for security and logistical support. as of last month, state and dod were developing a plan to reduce the number of sites and personnel. the mission is still comprised by far as the largest diplomatic presence in the world. my first point -- my second point is they have been counting delays in establishing basic infrastructure and life-support

as we begin the process of drawdown we'll need the supply routes even more than before.we're dealing with a very prickly, problematic friend or ally or adversity, way you want to put it. the reality that we've learned is that by pressure alone will not... we're not going to get the collaboration we need. we have to have a positive momentum in this relationship that is better for us. it's better for our goals and it's better for the agenda that we have in afghanistan in the war on terror. >> brown: general keane, i want you to pick up on this. you just used the expression, ally, adversary, however you want to put it. general general keane, what is our relationship at the moment? >> i think our relationship has suddenly changed from an allied relationship with pretty good cooperation to one that is more of a partnership that's based more on conditions. listen, i couldn't disagree more with vali on this in terms of our relationship. you know, coddling the pacts that we have done now for ten years has clearly protracted this war in afghanistan. we've got to sanctuaries, afgh

they are making decisions about how there are redeploying their forced to handle the drawdown of the marines. i heard enough about interaction between police and local police and army to be reasonably impressed. probably the best story in afghanistan. but it is different. the east is different. one thing i heard from all three american division commanders was the excruciating difficulty of getting hard- charging marines and paratroopers to take their hands off said the afghans take the lead. -- so that the afghans take the lead. in short, the process of building this army is a very recent one. it is not a 10-year process. it is about a 2.5-year process. we have examples of having done this well, not a guarantee. vietnam is an example of having done it well if you look at 1972 and a massive north vietnamese attack. by 1975, the morale was already going to hell, then they fell apart. i do not say it is certain, i simply say that it is possible. we have critical issues to get through in the next couple of years. these two years our movement from quantitate to quality. we have done quant

the cost is much higher to move supplies through there, and particularly when it comes to the drawdown move a lot of the hardware out especially, sensitive material, lethal material, intelligence-slated material, to bring it up to the states, all the way out to russia, that was going to be quite difficult. it was very significant for the u.s. in terms of cost and in terms of comfort of bringing all that equipment out as they draw down going into 2014, that nato forces are able to do so through pakistan. >> host: again, going back to this math, iran right in the center. >> guest: iran is there as well. obviously, given that the northern distribution network was running through the central asian states and russia, the concerns there were, a, the fact that the states would seek to look to cut a very hard bargain in terms of cost and b, it's a much longer route, in some cases, dumping out in siberia or the baltic sea, so you have to protect your convoy a whole lot longer. >> host: if you look at this region and of course, from the '60s and '70s, iran was an ally of the u.s., with the shah.

they are making decisions about how there are redeploying their forced to handle the drawdown of the marines. i heard enough about interaction between police and local police and army to be reasonably impressed. probably the best story in afghanistan. but it is different. the east is different. one thing i heard from all three american division commanders was the excruciating difficulty of getting hard-charging marines and paratroopers to take their hands off said the afghans take the lead. -- so that the afghans take the lead. in short, the process of building this army is a very recent one. it is not a 10-year process. it is about a 2.5-year process. we have examples of having done this well, not a guarantee. vietnam is an example of having done it well if you look at 1972 and a massive north vietnamese attack. by 1975, the morale was already going to hell, then they fell apart. i do not say it is certain, i simply say that it is possible. we have critical issues to get through in the next couple of years. these two years our movement from quantitate to quality. we have done quanti

i think we can handle what we have proposed in our budget and the drawdown numbers coming now. we'll try to do this pursuant to our rational strategy over these next five years and i think the systems we are working on and what we are trying to put in place and company can respond to that. but i sequester should have been annexing additional rudeness and they put on top of it, it could really strain the systems. >> mr. secretary, could you please give us that input for the record and in keeping with that, my time is expired. mr. miller. >> both secretaries in 1861, john f. kennedy said we put a man on the mid-and eight years later america was fair. we talk about integrated health record by 2017. why could we put a man on the moon and eight years and were not starting from ground zero with the electronic health record. why is it taking so long? it is so vital especially, secretary should psyche to solving the backlog issue that exists out there today in regards to disability claims. >> mr. chairman, i can't account for the previous 10 years. i do know there is a history here. the

they are making decisions about how there are redeploying their forced to handle the drawdown of the marines. i heard enough about interaction between police and local police and army to be reasonably impressed. probably the best story in afghanistan. but it is different. the east is different. one thing i heard from all three american division commanders was the excruciating difficulty of getting hard-charging marines and paratroopers to take their hands off said the afghans take the lead. -- so that the afghans take the lead. in short, the process of building this army is a very recent one. it is not a 10-year process. it is about a 2.5-year process. we have examples of having done this well, not a guarantee. vietnam is an example of having done it well if you look at 1972 and a massive north vietnamese attack. by 1975, the morale was already going to hell, then they fell apart. i do not say it is certain, i simply say that it is possible. we have critical issues to get through in the next couple of years. these two years our movement from quantitate to quality. we have done quanti

are we kind of locked in because of the drawdown? >> i think the -- our leverage is quite substantial. i think the logic is there. i think afghans across a broad spectrum see that there is a tremendous amount at stake in the coming years. we will still have a crucial role in all the elements of our strategy, political, military, and economic. the international community more broadly. one of the core messages that comes out of all of these meetings and discussions that we have been having, most clearly at tokyo, is that afghans international partners are actually united behind the proposition that the political process going forward needs to be credible and needs to produce a peace nul transition. -- peaceful transition. >> thank you very much, ambassador. thank you both of you and look forward to seeing you out there. senator lugar. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would just say at the beginning that i'm very pleased that you, ambassador cunningham, and you ambassador olson, are willing to undertake these responsibilities. i have confid

and the nato forces conduct the planned drawdown of troops at a much lower cost. updated on fox. jenna: police in texas are bringing out the big guns now, ramping up their fight to head off violent drug cartels south of the border. the texas department of public safety deploying its own fleet of armored gun boats patrolling the rio grande. casey stiegel live in the dallas bureau with or on this. >> reporter: we've been calling america's third war and that it is but now local law enforcement has a new tool in its arsenal to battle these violent cartels. >> support vehicle in the south side. >> reporter: the rio grande river in south texas, places where only a few hundred feet of water separates mexico from the u.s.. >> it is very rough down here. >> reporter: and that is putting it lightly. >> officers at gunpoint and three rafts. >> reporter: almost every single day the smugglers try to use the river to move, weapons and people into our homeland. >> the people we go up against with the drug cartels they have unlimited monies. they have unlimited firepower. >> repo

because as things get hot across the midst of the country you have a big build-up of natural gas usage that goes on and everybody is waiting for that. that drawdowntockpiles of natural gas going on so i think as opposed to a corn trade you might be looking at buying natural gas plays and go for the next two quarters. >> good. thank you for your trades. >> all right, mandy just ahead, is netflix a streaming buy? why it could be the end of ly lin-sanity of new york. >>> why the muscle men of venice are not so pumped up about google coming in on their turf. >>> here's today's "return on retirement." 72 million americans said so long to hidden 401(k) fees this week. the department of labor's new rules require plan providers to dispose fee information to participants. so, what changes can you expect? the answer when we return. i've been a superintendent for 30 some years at many different park service units across the united states. the only time i've ever had a break is when i was on maternity leave. i have retired from doing this one thing that i loved. now, i'm going to be able to have the time to explore something different. it's like another chap

i think we can handle what we proposed in our budget and the drawdown numbers of coming out here we triedpursuant to irrational strategy over the next five years. i think the systems we are working on and what we're trying to put in place, i am confident, can respond to that. if sequestered should have and an additional burden is put on top of it, i think you could really strain the systems. >> mr. secretary, could you please give us that input for the record? >> absolutely. >> in keeping with it, my time is expired. mr. miller. >> both secretaries come in 1961, john f. kennedy said that we put a man on the moon. eight years later, america was there. we're talking about integrated health records by 2017. why could we put a man on the moon in eight years and we're not starting from ground zero with electronic health records. why is it taking so long? it is vital to solving the back log issue that exists out there today with regards to disability claims. >> mr. chairman, i cannot account for the previous 10 years. another is a history here. but let me just suggest that two large departments

. >> almost everybody admits no matter who wins the election, there will be a couple billion more cuts in this drawdown which will follow sort of a classical cycle. air force sources have told me when those cuts were made, they were done in consultation with both the guard and the states and the reserve component. if lawmakers don't let you cut the reserves, even in the future or just cut personnel levels entirely, what path do future cuts take? how hoard does your acquisition account, for example? >> here's the point. we have to make the case to the congress that we cannot unbalance this air force. if they want to have the world's best and most feared air force, we need to have balance. and that involves balance amongst the components that's the active duty, the guard and reserve, balance between personnel costs which are high and increasing, acquisition, in other words procurement, modernization as well as readiness. we have to get that as close to right as possible. it's controversial. there are a thousand views on how to do it right, but the bottom line is i would argue that it is the air force and