>> the most important thing, we need to melt down the phones to call the come dantonio of the marine corps and the secretary of the navy. he should get a commendation for trying to do the right thing to save marines. those people who were responsible for the rules of engagement, the number one allowed a child predator to be operating a person that was -- had connections to the taliban as well. then for them to have the rules of engagement that didn't allowed the marines to protect themselves t cultural sensitivities went over board and we'll punish the major for doing the right thing. >> talks about an honest mistake. he tried to rectify it immediately and it was all in an effort to save lives. this is a confusing case. good to see you. all the best to you. >> always a pleasure. merry christmas. >> and to you. coming up, new polling on the health care over haul. bad news for the president's team. a key architect of the health care law responds. >>> plus a deadly car jacking in the middle of the holiday rush. this case is heart wrenching. the search is on for the perpetrators. what you need

and so, it's a real good place to be in the marine corps. >> during his fifth year in the marines, burdenk a medical discharge when he was diagnosed with schizoprenoform, a mental disorder defined by mental confused speech and delusions. >> i hallucinate and i disappear from work, a whole bunch of things i thought was going on inside my head. i decided to go out and go back to my family and just take things easy. >> six months after leaving the military, burden was arrested after he crashed his car into security gates at tampa international airport. >> i thought people were chasing me. i thought people were trying to kill me, so that explains it all running to the gate. i was trying to get away. >> burden admits taking four ecstasy tablets that night and prosecutors say he had almost 300 tablets in his glove box. >> decided to take those pills and that's when it went all downhill from there. >> burden is charged with drug trafficking, driving under the influence, and now, attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. he's pled not guilty and is awaiting a hearing to determine if he is me

the doubt? >> let me be clear. i love my corps. this is not the marine corps i know and love. t the history going back to 1775 when the corps started. this is not what america stands for. this man is a hero. we need to support him. if he did something wrong he will be the first one to stand on the carpet like marines do and say, i did it on an unsecured network. but kicking him out of the corps while he cooperates with the investigation into the murders is suspicious and is not good for the marine corps or the united states of america. support our heroes. >> we'll stay on it tomorrow as we get to day three. thank you very much for your service. >> appreciate it. >> a key new addition to the white house team is taking heat for comparing republicans to a murderous cult responsible for nearly a thousand deaths. one of the president's former advisers is here live. >>> and breaking news on "duck dynasty." what happens now that phil robert son has been suspended for the show from his comments. >> no shoes, no socks, no problem. everybody happy, happy, happy. the's a saying around her

army to adapt to the marine corps had a better time and it echoes the old adage every rifleman matters. in the counterinsurgency department you have 300 degrees so your cook and your truck driver everyone has to know how to fight and -- defend themselves. the u.s. finally did that somewhat with the surge by getting smaller and moving among the community. it is tough. i would say almost impossible and i characterize it in afghanistan. fighting with their hands tied as much as they are we have allowed lawyers to be political officers. the point that you can't drop a bomb for u.s. courses in combat under a lot of fire without getting a lawyer's position makes it tough for guys who want to extend themselves and get after it knowing that that little backup is very limited. dakota meyer is a marine who went back into that hot zone to go rescue his buddies. there was quite a bit of -- because the army offers as they were calling for didn't have the artillery support and there were a lot of americans killed that day. this is an example of the medal of honor winner that with great valor rescued

this was before the marine corps had a lot of multi-channeled communication between different bases. within our own base, we had to make sure all of the telephone, cable, and the fiber-optic was the difference. my marines were really hard- working. they would go out there and dig trenches to lay cable underground. we would get the entire company, 200 marines, to help us out. they took out all of the old iraqi telephone wires and replaced it with 30 kilometers of cable all total through the base. then we would get a mortar and the cable would you cut and then the repair marines would have to go repair it. it's being in charge of the whole cycle but i work with a lot of fantastic people. >> that's great. nicole? >> my story is a story of misdirection. i wanted to be a journalist, actually. the recruiter told me that i could not make the cut. i did not get the proper schooling to enlist as -- to get the journalism slot. i was like, what do you guys have to offer. he mentioned a few other mos's, and then he mentioned supply, and i was like, well, i have retail experience. i have office ex

before joining the marine corp. they had a dance for our veterans. st always our relatives and when we came back your introduced to the black leggings warriors society. regardless of the war, the conflict whether you agreed with it or not we always honored our indian people. so we are going asking smokey basis singers a veteran song please to honor those veterans before you. please stand if you'reable. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> all right. thank you for standing and thank you veterans. carry on with the plan of attack hey. all right. mayor ed lee has worked hard to keep san francisco economy and recovery on track and create jobs for san franciscans. he makes a city like san francisco to celebrate diversity in education and health care and in the environment for future generation. mayor ed lee began his career as a civil rights attorney he later served as a director of the human rights commission fighting for people then as director of the public works and later as city administrator now as mayor of san francisco h

this was before the marine corps had a lot of multi-channeled communication between different bases. within our own base, we had to make sure all of the telephone, cable, and the fiber-optic was the difference. my marines were really hard- working. they would go out there and dig trenches to lay cable underground. we would get the entire company, 200 marines, to help us out. they took out all of the old iraqi telephone wires and replaced it with 30 kilometers of cable all total through the base. then we would get a mortar and the cable would you cut and then the repair marines would have to go repair it. it's being in charge of the whole cycle but i work with a lot of fantastic people. >> that's great. nicole? >> my story is a story of misdirection. i wanted to be a journalist, actually. the recruiter told me that i could not make the cut. i did not get the proper schooling to enlist as -- to get the journalism slot. i was like, what do you guys have to offer. he mentioned a few other mos's, and then he mentioned supply, and i was like, well, i have retail experience. i have office ex

. >> i joined the marine corps in 2007. in february of 2009, we deployed to iraq. en we finally made it into afghanistan. my job is to find ieds, to keep other marines, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and even the local populous safe. that was my job. i loved it. i enjoyed every minute of it. we had another mission come down, and the night before we left, i had ended up getting on the phone and called my dad. there was just something about this mission that just didn't sit right with me. i just felt like something was going to go wrong. we had set up the night before on the other side of the hill, you look down, there's about a mile-long stretch of this little village where no one lived. we were going to go through to clear it so the local populous could come back and live there. the next morning, we push out, and my buddy john had found an ied in a doorway. so he was going to shoot his 203 into the doorway, which is the .40 millimeter grenade launcher which is under our rifles. we waited for the dust to clear and we came out from behind this wall, and i took about ten s

. >> i joined the marine corps in 2007. in february of 2009, we deployed to iraq. then we finally made it into afghanistan. my job is to find ieds, to keep other marines, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and even the local populous safe. that was my job. i loved it. i enjoyed every minute of it. we had another mission come down, and the night before we left, i had ended up getting on the phone and called my dad. there was just something about this mission that just didn't sit right with me. i just felt like something was going to go wrong. we had set up the night before on the other side of the hill, you look down, there's about a mile-long stretch of this little village where no one lived. we were going to go through to clear it so the local populous could come back and live there. the next morning, we push out, and my buddy john had found an ied in a doorway. so he was going to shoot his 203 into the doorway, which is the .40 millimeter grenade launcher which is under our rifles. we waited for the dust to clear and we came out from behind this wall, and i took about ten

washington tells me he had a difficult transition out of the marine corps in 2010. he lost his home in february due to alcohol problems and post traumatic stress disorder. >> i believe the transition coming back, they don't know how to transition coming back. so i can't speak for the older guys, but i know for the younger guys the transition coming back is tough. >> washington told me he has been getting help since june, and tonight he'll be sleeping outside with the students. this time by choice. >> i bet a lot of our viewers would be surprised to learn how serious a problem homelessness is for our vets. >> not as big as it used to be because a lot of organizations have been stepping in to help. look at the last five years. you can see from this graph that there has been a decline. on a singing night in 2010 a report by the federal government found more than 76,000 veterans were living in shelters or on the streets. the number this year dropped to just under 58,000. veterans still do represent a higher proportion of those who are homeless. they account for 12% of ho

reporter: he says his son's life started to spiral out of control after his best friend from the marine corps died. he encouraged him to get help at the va hospital. the doctors loaded him up on painkillers. >> that was the beginning and the end for him. >> reporter: tim was hooked and overdosed again and again. his parents kicked him out. he moved in with eric. they fed each other's addictions. when they ran out of pills they bought heroin. eventually tim realized he needed to move out. three months later his former roommate died of an overdose. today, he is living with his girlfriend. he's been clean for six months now but staying off opiates hasn't been easy. in july after a confrontation landed him in a va emergency room he was shocked with an agency doctor again proibed ox you co done. he filled the prescription and then stared at the bottle. >> i opened it up a couple times a day just to try to take one out. if i take this, you know, i'm not going to be living where i am right now. i'm going to be off and running again. it's going to send me on my way. so i flushed them. >> with his min

i went to officer candidate school in the marine corps. n are supposed to be better map readers. that's the part when i was in the marine corps officer training school i failed and i took my team into a river or something. what does that say about my brain? >> that there's human variation. and for example, bill clinton has a great deal of high estrogen qualities in him. he cries easily, very verbally skilled, very good people skills, he's imaginative, the whole world knows he can't stop talking. he has a lot of the traits of the female brain. whereas his wife i think hillary is tough-minded, direct, decisive. so you're going to see variation. >> doesn't it sound to me like a bunch of stereotypes that should be based on anything that hillary is a man and -- >> i didn't say hillary was a man. >> and bill acts like a woman? i don't buy that. >> naysayer. >> biology has been telling us for years, this is just another part and another step in the sky athens actual science that men and women are wired differently. it doesn't mean that men should

the native of houston, a former captain in the marine corps, tice was supposed to travel from the outskirts of damascus to beirut, lebanon, when he went missing on august 13th, 2012. 6 weeks later a video appeared on youtube purporting to show tice blindfolded and distressed. >> oh, jesus. >> in time u.s. officials suggested the video may have been staged. pointing to clothing that is native to afghanistan, not syria. the committee to protect journalists include tice on their imprisoned list but the family does not know who holds him and the assad regime has denied having him in rebel custody. we're joined by mark an deborah tice, austin's parents. thank you both some of for joining us. deb ra, as we enter this holiday week, do you think we're any closer to finding out what happened to austin? >> well, i think that it's less important to find out what happened then it is to locate him now. >> jeff: mark, what else do you think can be done. >> we are now and we have been for over a year now asking for help, for mercy, and for austin to come home. >> jeff: debbi to all those other families ou

. >> military investigators say the marine behind that double murder suicide at the marine corps base in quantico should have received bert psychological care. sergeant subio lopez fatally shot his exgirlfriend and a colleague before taking his own life. lopez was receiving treatment in north carolina after his vehicle was struck by an ied in aq. the medical care stopped abruptly when he was transferred to quantico. investigators found lopez's new doctors didn't know about his previous treatment and he didn't bother to tell them. >>> fire chief of staff or senator lamar alexander has been ordered to live with his parents while he awaits prosecution on child pornography charges. a federal judge allowed ryan to be released from custody today. his lawyers successfully argued that 35-year-old had no prior convictions or arrests. prosecutors opposed his release. he will be electronically monitored and confined to his parents maryland residence. he also is not allowed to access any device that can be connected to the internet. >> underway in the closest election in virginia history. it has

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the servicemembers and their families had just finished christmas dinner at the marine corps base in hawaii. resident obama thanked the troops for their service and on christmas eve, he spoke by phone with 10 servicemembers stationed overseas. >> many americans are not thing for a lawmakers on capitol hill. according to the cnn orc of the poll, two thirds say the current congress is the worst in their lifetime, and he pulled on that republicans have a slight edge in the battle for control of congress. pollsters give republicans a 49% to 44% lead over democrats. >> we are getting a look at new video of an american contractor who was kidnapped in pakistan. next at noon, hear his message to president obama. another 10, 15 seconds, it would have been too much fire. >> a true christmas miracle -- a police officer had mere seconds to save a man from a burning car. >> plus, tens of thousands of people remain without power after a weekend ice storm. when utility crews plan to restore electricity. much are dealing with cooler temperatures. much are dealing with co[ male announcer ] some things

this was before the marine corps had a lot of multi-channeled communication between different bases. within our own base, we had to make sure all of the telephone, cable, and the fiber-optic was the difference. my marines were really hard- working. they would go out there and dig trenches to lay cable underground. we would get the entire company, 200 marines, to help us out. they took out all of the old iraqi telephone wires and replaced it with 30 kilometers of cable all total through the base. then we would get a mortar and the cable would you cut and then the repair marines would have to go repair it. it's being in charge of the whole cycle but i work with a lot of fantastic people. that was really great. >> my story, i guess, is a story of misdirection. believe it or not. it, i wanted to be a journalist. the recruiter told me that i did not make the cut. i did not get the proper score to get that slot. i was like what you have to offer? you mentioned a few other ones. then you mentioned supply. i have office experience. supply and garrison versus supply during a deployment is real

the marine corps had a better time at that because if you were in the counter insurgency environment you have 360 degrees of threat so everybody has to know how to fight to defend themselves. they finally did that somewhat in the surge by getting out and getting smaller and moving among the community. it's almost impossible and i characterize that in afghanistan now. citing a counter insurgency with your hands as tight as they are we become political officers and the union. the point that you can't drop the bomb for the u.s. forces in combat under a lot of fire without getting a lawyer's commission makes it tough for those that want to extend themselves and you get accurate chasing the enemy knowing that that level of backup is very limited. there is dakota my ear who went back into that hot zone and there's quite a bit because the army officers that they were calling for denied them artillery support and there was a lot of americans killed that day so it is in the example of a medal of honor winner with a great feller that got rescued with a lot more people die than necessary becaus

i never did that -- in the marine corps, you can do a lot. i never did that, though. t took me a few years to dial down the pressure, and the pressure on me, to. in the military, you are all about doing the mission, dig through the night lay the cable, , whatever you have to do. in grad school, i would look for people to tell me what to do, and that is not the point of doing scientific research. the point is to learn what the science has to tell you. it was hard to make friends initially. bit by bit, i started making friends and my graduate program. but that only happened after i came forward a little bit with my story and started confiding in my class mates about what had happened in my deployment, the experiences i had had, what it was like to be on a base. finding people i could really trust. one of my best friends in my program was an army officer getting a masters in physics to go back and teach at west point. he was still on active duty and we became friends. from there, i developed a good cadre of people to hang out with, and from there, that helped a lot. but,

this was before the marine corps had a lot of multi-channeled communication between different bases. f the telephone, fiber-optic was the difference. my marines were really hard- working. they would go out there and dig trenches to lay cable underground. we would get the entire company, 200 marines, to help us out. they took out all of the old iraqi telephone wires and replaced it with 30 kilometers through the total base. then we would get a mortar and the cable would you cut and then the repair marines would have to go repair it. it's being in charge of the whole cycle but i work with a lot of fantastic people. that was really great. >> >> that's great. nicole? >> my story is a story of misdirection. i wanted to be a journalist, actually. the recruiter told me that i could not make the cut. i did not get the proper schooling to to get the- journalism slot. i was like, what do you guys have to offer. mos's,ioned a few other and then he mentioned supply, and i was like, well, i have retail experience. i have office experience. supply and garrison versus a deployment is really two diff

to the marine corps. to the scene of your i was there anything rena texted to say she couldn't make it and she had a lot of things to do she couldn't come which was a pity when i feel so stupid upset. i doubt a reader knew it was my birthday she couldn't mean it to be such an empty present the worst time for me was when i was forty five it was a tough this year of my life that year in may the best impressions i've ever had in my whole life i realized that it was too late i was way past the critical stage and i was depressed it's a most dangerous suicidal state for a hit boiling point. after my second attempt to commit suicide failed which i decided there was not much point in trying again for a third time it was much better to see what would happen if i started taking hormones for going so that's what i did. where back exactly where we stopped last time i asked you for a document for any relevant so typical as that could prove that the clinic has a license can you present such documents are not i can't pre

i was a communications officer in the marine corps. actually in the marines, you don't get to pick, they pick for you what you do. they saw that i had a technical degree under grad. they made me communications officers. i worked with computers and radios, satellites, wired, wired telephones and ran a platoon that maintained generators and power equipment for our unit. so i was deployed to iraq for seven months in 2004. and one of the reasons that i became an officer also was for the leadership aspect. i had 35 guys working for me and one woman. growing up with three younger brothers and having been a camp counselor in high school with the best preparation for that ever. except with machine guns in iraq. so, yeah. and what we did, our main role was to be on a base which, did get mortared and to lay cable underground. this was before the marine corps really had a whole lot of multichannel radio communications between different bases. so there was only a little bit of that. so within our own buys we had to make sure all of the telephone ca

partner in afghanistan, marine corporal andrew lindstrom contacted the military when he came home. >> he was very concerned of how she would be treated once she retired as a marine corps dog. for him to go through all that trouble to find out just how emmy was doing and sure she was taken care of shows me what kind of bond they had over there. >> reporter: even now as she protects the pentagon, emmy likes to stop and visit. her special attention, devoted to other marines. she makes sure there is time for officer harris to tell about her old unit. >> the reserve unit out of hawaii, now we'll give her a job here and keep her working. she is not ready to quit yet. >> reporter: but then it is right back to work. sniffing, searching, patrolling to make sure everyone stays safe. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> a great story. what do you think were the top stories of the year? go to cnn.com and to go your top ten choices. you have until midnight eastern time tonight. the top ten will be revealed on monday. here are some of our picks. >> a funnel cloud that has just developed. it appears to be on the ground in oklahoma city. >> it is a populated area. we just fear that n

they have had crashes, though, and the data they have come up with on how it works and in the marine corps, it is something they may want to have a look at. >> my copy of "50 shades of gray" just got taken out by a 747, but we'll keep following it, amon. >> could be a problem, you bet. >>> two big name companies going worldwide, first, hilton, bought by black stone nearly ten years ago, now plans to sell in two weeks, they are expected to raise nearly $2 and a half billion, valuing the company at more than $20 billion. >>> and another company selling stocks, arrow mark, the big company that serves lots of stadiums and amusement parks, plans to raise money by the partial sale. the partial sale means that rare row mark would have a partial stock of $3.4 billion. >>> and plans to cut costs by the year 2016, buying back more stock. that is where we begin tonight's market focus, the drug maker says they will down size the staff to save money and buy back at least $400 million in stock to boost shareholder returns, they are facing patent expirations will also buy the schizophrenia drug. >>> hedg

how far do you think the marine corps needs to be reduced? >> those are coming down. i'm pretty sure the army is going down to 430,000. this is part of it. there are other costs in terms issuesensation and other that can be looked at. >> a package is in on this question. i could just in on this question. [indiscernible] >> i think he has done a great job. he has been very open and reaching out to congress. she is a good partner to work with. tohe has been a good partner work with. he does not know what his budget is from week to week. of that, i think he is doing a great job. she has certainly been open in that congress cap the relationship and a good place. >> thank you very much for being this week's newsmaker. >> thank you for the chance. >> let me turn to our two reporters. let's begin where we began with the interview. that is afghanistan. what did you hear from him? >> we heard him say we need to ease up a little bit. rhetorica lot of hard coming from both sides in washington and kabul over whether to keep troops there and in what conditions. there was also some

marine. >> he's the one guy who tried to warn him about the guy. his warning was right. >> no good deed goes unpunished. this good marine and the united states are being punished. in the marine corps, part of the code of conduct is that you self-report. if you do something wrong you stand on the carpet. >> he said, i have my documents, i sent it unsecured. i have to tell them. >> what kind of message is it now? if you stand up and do the right thing and self-report you could be kicked out of the corps. it's not a good precedent for the marines and not good outcome for the united states of america. we need every good man we can have. we say a few good men. we are losing a great marine. >> we fired him as the result of this. brezler was fired for using a personal e-mail account and supposedly having documents on the home computer which he never accessed. they weren't making a big deal. it was a technical any tall call ti. now can he appeal this, do anything to stop it? usually once this is done it's hard to appeal. >> it is very difficult. i don't think an appeal would go anywhere. his service to our country will end here. he'll have to continue with rescue 2, one of the best squads

he was born noble ray price in perryville, texas, and after a stint in the marine corps he slowly tookff as a country star. among his hits, "make the world go away." his song "crazy arms" was number one on the country charts for 20 weeks. he once hired a young musician named willie nelson to play in his band. the great ray price was 87 years old. >>> make of this what you will, but last month was the hottest november on earth since 1880. temperatures on land and at sea were an average of 1.4 degrees hotter. it includes most regions of the planet. >>> this is the picture on facebook that announced the big news out of boston. the hand belongs to krista d'agostino, a nurse at spaulding rehab, who worked with the boston marathon bombing victims. now she's engaged to one. james costello met krista when she cared for him, and now they care a lot for each other. they were engaged on a cruise for survivors of the boston bombing. >>> and we don't know what this says about our era, but the folks at google are out with the top searches from this year. the most often searched question of 2013. wha

apache and little bird upgrades continue and the marine corps ordered another 99 b-2 2s. by 2018 business could plunge as existing programs end and no new work emerges around 2030. a gap that will hit helicopter makers hard. we visited shendley park. i asked manager leeann core rhett what she is doing to keep production lines full during the expected production gap i can't that is a great question and a serious one that our work force asks us all the time. these two recent for both the chinook and the v 22 bring us to the end of the current reduction runs. we are taking advantage of this time to make certain we are investing more dollars so that we can bring those additional capabilities. when i look historically, i actually see that this period of time is the greatest opportunity for us as an industry to lean forward and be able to provide more for less for the government customers. if you look historically, i'm following vietnam the apache and the blackhawk helicopter were developed. after the iran hostage crisis the v-22 was developed so that customer could operation a

i was a communications officer in the marine corps and in the marines you don't get to pick. a pic for you what you do. .. a whole lot of multichannel radio communications between different bases. so there was only a little bit of that. so within our own base we had to make sure all of the telephone cable and fiber-optic cable worked. it was a gigantic airbase midway between ramadi and fallujah on the al-anbar province. it was like heading up construction crew and my marines were really hard-working. they were great. they would dig trenches and lay cable underground. we would get the entire company helping us out, 200 marines, pulling out cable under a airfield. they took out the old iraqi telephone wires and replaced them with 30 kilometers of cable throughout the base. then we got mortaredded. the then the cable would be cut. and my repair marines would repair it. it was like being in charge of the whole cycle of operations there, which was stressful but i worked with a lot of fantastic people, so that was really great. >> that's great. and nicole? >> my story i guess is a

the obamas made a stop at the marine corps base in hawaii. he made a few remarks in the dining hall and took photos with the service members and their families. vice president biden was here in maryland visiting wounded warriors. he and his wife jill went room to room to say hello to patients and their families and chatted with hospital staff. the vice president thanked the service members for their service and sacrifice. >>> you can use christmas to teach your kids a history lesson. this is how hundreds spent the day wred, watching the re-enactment of george washington crossing the delaware river. he made the rossing on christmas day in 1776. it turned the tide of the revolutionary war. this is the 61st year the crossing has been re-enacted. >> certainly cold when washington it the first time. >> when washington did it was windy, blustery, there was snow and one of the actors yesterday, they were doing it in 30-degree weather, how cold it was and that they did this over a span of almost two days and keep in mind that the revolutionary war is

the marines. court march twice. one for accidentally shooting himself with a der gear pistol. one for fighting a superior rank. stationed in japan. the only thing oswald learned how do well in the marine corps. was how to shoot a rifle. he was trained to shoot it without a scope. he got the middle grade markmanship. he cheated his way out of the marine corps. that his mother needed him. dependency danger. then all a sudden one day he showed up in moscow and said he wanted to renounce his citizenship. the russians thought he was nuts. he claimed to have secrets. he didn't have anything they didn't know. they cube lost interest in him. they recognized him for what he was. a fool. so they shipped him off and made him work in a radio factory. he married a russian woman and had a baby. he hated life in the soviet union. when he experienced it as it was he couldn't wait to get out. he moved the family back to america in 1962. >> he ended up in dallas. he bought a rifle mail order. but his first target was not john kennedy. >> no. it was edmund walker. he missed. >> this was one of the things that i find that few people remember or know about. seven months before oswald assassinated president kenn

this was the number-one legislative priority of the marine corps. and the commandant explained to us that for six years the marine corps has spent analyzing and preparing for this expansion so that the corps can meet its minimum training criteria. as general demsey, the chairman of the joint chief of staffs told us just a few weeks ago the authorities in this defense bill -- quote -- "are critical to the nation's defense and are urgently needed to ensure that we keep faith with the men and women, military and civilian selflessly serving in our armed forces." relative to the question of amendments which has been raised, we tried when this bill came to the floor to get consent to have amendments relate to the defense authorization bill. we were unable to get that consent. we tried to get consent to adopt almost 40 cleared amendments as a managers' package. we could not get consent to do that. we asked to lock in 13 additional amendments for votes. both sides of the aisle were equally divided without prejudice as to further amendments that could be brou

if you ask the marine corps what they do, you'd get a straight answer, right? every marine is a rifleman. if you asked a diplomat what do they do, it's much harder because they have a much more diffuse focus. but it also means that the leadership of the institution is not conveying its core values and central responsibilities. and if you don't do that, people very quickly lose focus. and on the programming part, part of the reason that congress trusts the pentagon with an enormous amount of the taxpayers' money is because the pentagon provides a lot of information and makes, does assessments of whether it's worth it. so think about dave petraeus when he was commanding in iraq during the surge and congress was deeply skeptical that the surge was working. what did the military do? they identified what they thought the right metrics were for which to hold themselves accountable, number of intelligence tips they were getting from iraqis, number of attacks on american troops. they collected data over the course of a whole year. they head that data lick so scholars c

the u.s. marine corps. it is not close to my heart, it is in my heart. aircraft that the we are examining as part of our budget proposal this year has nothing to do with that specific airplane. it has to do with the balance i referred to before. our job is to provide the capability for combatant commanders. your support is one of those aspects. -- air support is one of those aspects. deep strike, everything that we have on the battlefield, that should be issue for us, is how do you provide that in the best balance possible with a reduced force? that is the issue. to pay our 12 billion dollar a year bill for sequestration, we have had to make savings. that is the problem. all of these discussions are based on. it is not about his pacific platform, it is about balancing relationships. they do it well. we have the best air support. are there other airplane that do it? absolutely. we have a plan to replace certain aircraft. the plan is not change. >> you know many supporters of this aircraft think that even if it survives, it is going to be a well before it i

substantiated, including 26 in the army, three in the navy, ten in the airforce and none in the marine corps. it was almost a year ago that then secretary of defense leon panetta ordered a review of ethics training among military leaders and recommended earlier and reinforced ethics training. according to the department of defense that was the message delivered to the white house. but a year later with the case of alleged hazing in the navy now public as well as other scandals, there are questions whether anything in the military has really changed. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >> axelrod: later, the hero cops who saved the pilot of a crashed and burning plane, and a high tech competition to build a robot that could save human lives in a crisis. he he -- lives in a crisis. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus,

and the marine corp is seeing fewer donations. the marines needed 75,000 toys and this year, demand could top 100,000. volunteers hope the community will step up here, and had help make it a very merry christmas for the county's 35,000 needy children. >> this is what i have, and this barrel has been in here for over a month. and this is what i have. and this is the shortest choice, all my toys are just like that. all my boxes, are like this. >> now, if you would like to make a donation, you will find a link to do that on abc 7 news.com. every kmield should have a present over the holidays and on christmas morning. let's talk to sandy with the forecast. you have done it, you have made it through a brutal bitter cold spell. you could tell today it was considerably nicer. >> it was, you can feel the difference. >> still not warm, but better. >> we are heading in the right direction, you will be able to lose a few layers as we go through the weekend. it will not feel like late fall or winter. does that get your attention? it will be li

along the way, i think, the army and the marine corps. learned a lot of lessons. by the end of the vietnam war. they knew what they were doing. the tragedy is what happened after wards. then the counterinsurgency manuals were literally thrown in the trash and said we're done with that! >> yes never want to do this again. let's get back to fighting the red army. when army went to afghanistan and iraq, the big army, i'm not talking about special forces, the big army was not well prepared. i think we paid a heavy price for the fact we didn't have an army marine counterinsurgency until the end of twirks. they figured out what to do. they didn't have a manual. along the way, they have become perhaps the finest counter insurgety force the world has ever seen. what the young officers are able to do in the field is mind boggling. they are manipulating so many different -- they are good at doing this kind of stuff. so to a specific cultural concept. they understand in in the way they didn't at the beginning of the war. my concern is what happens out now we are out. i hear l

i got discharged honorably discharged from the marine corps in two thousand six all in one a key moment when i started using tools everybody talks to god oxycontin is the latest tried to treat severe acute or chronic pain. veterans hospitals are increasingly prescribing the drug to people with chronic pain the la salle had poster matic stress disorder it. on its shores. to that of a flood of disorders that you come back from the mayor with immediately. mental illness can increase a person's risk of addiction. so that addiction turned to snow balled and spiral out of control on to the point where i lost everything. it's the monday got so caught up in his addiction he was ultimately rested for writing fraudulent acts to buy drugs illegally. oxycontin is an opiate like an addict appeal and killer that resulted in over sixteen thousand deaths in two thousand and eight that number has been increasing over the past eleven years. this despite the highly addictive nature and the number of appeal in discussions over and i'd be a hazard risen by over two hundred eighty seven percent during ninete

and presently at this moment he is playing golf and getting in the vacation mode in the marine corps te house said the president is being updated on obama care and resonating in a powerful way is the exemption from the individual man date that he granted to people who are losing health care. the insurance company said it is a tweak. the president will tweak away as is necessary. >> there is a bunch of things that we are taking a look at and i will make appropriate adjustments when we get through this year and initial surge of people signing up. and the president is taking tremendous heat from the republican opponents who say the various tweaks are at best a case of executive fiat and at worse unlawful. is the president planning to sign up for obama care. now the deadline is approaching. >> he has to do it before monday. he will sign up for obama care. but the interesting thing before the friday press conference the website crashed again and obama care is coming up unrelenting criticism. >> with this health care law. there is less choice and nower opportunities and larger bills. this i

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the interstate service group is partnering with the marine corps toys for tots drive.p as santa and and deliver christmas presents to about 800 children. coming up, a holiday travel headache. find out what led to emergency landings -- an emergency landing for one southwest lane after takeoff. thee will tell you about visit pope francis made. more to come. >> it was another rough night for the washington capitals. >> it is hard to believe it has they wereears since around the verizon. the capitals are we -- really from a loss. -- reeling from a loss. the goal. 2-1.on up the game-tying goal. what can they do now? less than 10 minutes left in the third. ryan stonewalls the rebound, home and light up the lamb. -- lamp. it looked different. i don't think i made eye contact. i couldn't. >> you got to ms. bruce. the redskins are back on the field gearing up for the giants on sunday. >> thank you. time to talk the weather. eileen is joining us once again. finally in the holiday spirit weather-wise. >> that is the thing for me. i have a hard time getting into the spirit when it

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the country. >> we are. we are gratified that michael grimm, combat marine and he and other five marines members of congress brote the secretary of the navy to ask him to explain why the marine corpsrough the ringer. >> what message is it sending to others out there on duty about raising concerns about violating the law. when they go to report it, they are told that that is not appropriate and you should stop this. >> you hit the nail on the head. this is sending a terrible message. this is crucially important that the service men tell each other the truth about the afghans forced to work with. >> to refresh the viewers on the particular individual we are talking about, who major was upset at to raise concerns about the background. out there, harming the children. >> this is terrible. he is using the police force to kidnap and rape afghan children. dealing drugs and running guns to give the weapons to the taliban to facilitate the terrorist attack on american troops. >> shameful. >> we will follow this closely. we wish you the best. keep us posted. >> thank you. >> get a load of this latest obamacare p.r. push. the d.c. officials are sending what they call assisters to local store