the pentagon put forward a planned it to go ahead and cut military personnel. because congress to be doesn't like that because of their salaries and on the tickets among other things inside the economy. i just around the country so i think in a way to answer to lead this but perhaps knowing that there be some resistance to cutting personnel and maybe that means the pie is bigger when it's all the time because carter's store is more the personnel cuts than they would have a weapon systems. a vanilla cake and i went to bed its last budget and now time for making the decision to really define its priorities qc happening with this budget that's being worked through right now. no i mean look and it's very hard to think for pentagon ever to get down to just parties because it is a lot of people inside the pentagon never going to be jockeying for the error their program for the air force over the others. i'm so that said i do think that the pentagon is on the right path again to cutting personnel. because you can gently regenerate person all fairly rapid the armies of

as the debrate rages on, the pentagon seemed to have no doubts about the nature of the attack.eon panetta testifying about it last year. >> no question in my mind this was a terrorist attack. these arms show up that there's something planned here. >> they planned terrorist attacks? >> it's a terrorist attack, and i think others, i know hillary clinton and others identified it as a terrorist attack, and that was my view. >> joining us now is byron york, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner and a fox news contributor. great to see you. >> good to be here, eric. >> leon panetta is a longtime great democrat. he calls it a terrorist attack, but nancy pelosi is pretty harsh, calling this panel a kangaroo court. what do you think the democrats are going to to? >> panetta and everybody else at the pentagon told investigators in the house they knew from the get-go, from the first moment, this was a terrorist attack, not some kind of demonstration gone awry. what is interesting is we have heard so much about the administration's obstruction and covering up of benghaz

>> ann, you covered the pentagon and know the culture before you covered the state department and now wider beats as the white house as well. you've seen it from all angles in washington. was the pentagon reluctant to also make this change or was it just the white house and personal loyalty that obama felt to shinseki? >> you heard the president's respect and true appreciation for the decades of service of general shinseki, the pentagon is a separate chain of command from the va and it's a constant source of frustration at the pentagon, the people who serve then -- then leave the service have trouble once they get to the va and all gets lumped together as it's the military's fault although the pentagon is constantly saying it isn't our fault. >> susan page, politically, this is the biggest political problem that the president has faced. this is far more serious than a lot of so-called scandals that have popped up from time to time in the last couple of months. >> i agree with you, this is much more perilous for the president politically, benghazi they can dismiss that as a partisan ba

for getting its fiscal house organize coburn's twenty thirty odd the pentagon act would have punished the military if it did not comply however that bill is still sitting in committee the pentagon's a new plan is to have its books audited ready by twenty seven t o our critics say that even that seems like a stretch there are reasons why this isn't happening and certainly the lack of campaign finance reform in congress allowing contractors kind of have a stranglehold on both congress and the pentagon to prevent this audit from happening because it would incriminate them but it would also incriminate the pentagon employees that are abusing the money one of the main arguments as to why congress has not forced the pentagon to comply is. the idea that the agency is simply too big to audit it is very complex but to throw up our hands and say well it's too big we can't worry about it that would be surrender we shouldn't do that and well former congressman ron paul is now out of office his senator son is taking up the cause of national defense is the most important thing we spend money on it'

for getting its fiscal house organize coburn's twenty thirty odd the pentagon act would have punished the military if it did not comply however that bill is still sitting in committee the pentagon's a new plan is to have its books audit ready by twenty seven t o r critics say that even that seems like a stretch there are reasons why this isn't happening and certainly the lack of campaign finance reform in congress allowing contractors kind of have a stranglehold on both congress and the pentagon to prevent this audit from happening because it would incriminate them but it would also incriminate the pentagon employees that are abusing the money at least one part of the military has its financial books in order the marine corps was success. fully audited on december twenty third of last year the marine corps was audit ready last year or so plus for the marine corp took a lot of doing to get that but. you know marine corps one of the smaller services we just made those advancements in the corps that allowed us to be autocratic however that military branch makes up only six percent of the

perhaps the pentagon will finally get its fiscal house in order. in washington meghan lopez rt and a new report time the military drive down to the booming opium production industry in afghanistan the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction has concluded that opium production is hitting all time high and if i needed the seven point nine billion dollars u s has sent a fight. i did since two thousand taylor. according to the report there are over half a million acres under opium poppy cultivation as an all time high and a thirty six percent increase from two thousand twelve. add the snl supplies about reports of the world's illicit opium products. most opium production is taking place in the southern and western provinces like on monday and the heart of programme of coptic and destruction has been underway for several years but this show thousand eight the rate of eradication has been less than four percent of the total cultivated land seizures have also been negligible of the overt five million kilos of opium produced in twenty thirt

the pentagon. the government accountability g.a.o., they have been told by the pentagon that they by have data for an audit 2017. we have heard that song before. hey don't even know where billions of spare parts are sometimes. they have to buy new spare parts. all over the f world. barney by ron paul and frank formed a caucus in 2010, ibertarian and massachusetts liberal democrat to cut the bloated pentagon budget. host: why has not the big media covered things like this? they?ve guest: they have covered it very little. walter pincus a little. foreignrage of military policy other than independent media is ditto coverage. the same no it matter whether different newspapers. nce in a while there is investigative work from the "washington post," insurance and large this doesn couldn't occur if the media was it day after day. you would have to have public hearings. in 2013 you showed a side of yourself that we don't often i want you to -- this has something to do with the funniest celebrity chemica conte

joining us today johnny damon by the pentagon by rear admiral john kirby. good to see you. >> thank you for having me, glad to be here. >> a lot of outrage about the va scandal. this should not have happened to anyone much less than people who put their lives on the line for their country. what kind of reaction from troops and families? anger at the pentagon? >> i'm not sensing anger at the pentagon but i am sensing deep concern about these allegations. to the degree that they are substantiated, we don't know yet, secretary hagel has said that would be outrageous, a disgrace to the veterans and to their families. the investigation is beginning. we need to let the facts take us where they take us and we'll look at it as we come to conclusion on it. but the nation has no other sacred obligation than to take care of the veterans and we at a that seriously at the pentagon. >> the veterans from our greatest generation, world war ii are certainly aging . secretary hagel said we missed it. how. >> those are the things we are trying to find out. to be honest antonio

the greening of our pentagon has been a huge problem, the biodiesel fuels that cost ten times more than regular diesel. climate is changing over time, you know, our pentagon, the department of defense is going to be able to adapt to these >> not to mention dod is a huge user of energy. we're going to take more away from their budget by driving up their energy costs? all these things make it nonsense for the dod to say this. >> at the pentagon? >> i'm not saying it's a conspiracy. i'm saying it's an attempt to get more money on the battlefields. >> oh my goodness. that's just terrible. >> first of all, our agency is saying the same thing. >> can i have a moment here? our military, people actually die trying to defend supply lines to try to get fossil fuels to the front lines. the investment our military is making in clean energy so we can have more security for our troops will save lives. it's very important that we respect that. it's not some crazy conspiracy. it's great for talk radio. we're trying to save lives, number one. but number two, do you therefore think the government should

and the pentagon is faced with another dilemma strapped for cash that it may cut down its number of military personnel more on that coming up. and as the u.s. continues to blame russia for the ukraine crisis the u.s. state department pushes for stronger sanctions against russia more on that later in the show. it's thursday may five pm here in washington d.c. and lindsey france are watching our team erica but first things first you may notice this ribbon on my left look pal every year a news anchors at our team wear it in the run up to may ninth which is the day russia reserves to commemorate the end of world war two this ribbon is a symbol of that victory. more than fifty thousand u.s. led nato troops still deployed in afghanistan are such a withdrawal by december ending a long and costly battle to defeat the taliban in part five of her series artie's mega lopez explores the expensive reality of troop withdrawal and the pentagon's exemption from proper accounting practices. for thirteen years now these have been the sights and sounds. of war but with every helicopter mission and every damage

year, they put the report to congress on the pentagon. every year they say sorry, we don't have the daily dusty data available from the pentagon to have an audit. so i think once you are the pentagon, you know where the money is and you know where it is going and where it is misspent. obama and hillary clinton is in. it is even ask for money from congress. they got a billion and a half dollars somewhere in the pentagon budget. rights a real big left, alliance. control, the political heights in congress. you have john boehner, he just wanted areas you let mcconnell, he wants it. >> what is my secretary of defense want to audit the? wind that been easy way to do it? >> you're all promising. the secretary of defense says we are working on an audit. the latest offense deadline is 2017, just after the election. what you do other than mention them here? did anything publicly to try to ?et rid of the pack >> i read about it and talk about on capitol hill. i talk about it with conservatives who want the audit . as i say, eisenhower warned about th

perhaps the pentagon will finally get its fiscal house in order. in washington again lopez rt. authorities in south sudan claim to have recaptured a key world cup and the rebel stronghold in the north of the country but reports in the army attacks were held by the government wants the violence itself the dna has been going on for months between the president's supporters and his deputy who was accused of planning a coup thousands are important to have died in return suspected militants have targeted the neocons were in pakistan's restive northeast on the border with afghanistan at least two drivers have been killed and two others reportedly kidnapped meal convoys carrying supplies to and from ghana see her frequently targeted by it the area. fast spreading while firing u s state of oklahoma but has left at least one person dead and destroyed some twenty homes. the blaze broke out and sent sunny afternoon after a controlled burn and got out of control firefighters and residents who were overcome by the heat and smoke are being treated in hospital with being driven by high winds a

my younger brother was at his desk for the pentagon. he was a civilian working for the army.k, we asked, how will we remember those we lost. as a family member, we need to honor and remember them and in the process, maybe find a way to heal ourselves. working together with friends, colleagues, families, supporters from around the world, we opened the pentagon memorial on september 211, 2008. t is a place we remember 184 men, women, and children. a place to provide solace and healing surrounded by the beauty of life. my brother dave and i had been young together and we expected to grow old together, play a lot of golf, and argue about who had the better looking grandchildren. now there will be children born after 9/11 who only read about that day in books. some might even think the people it happened to weren't real. but we are here to help them know that they were. my hope now is to create an educational center at the pentagon memorial where school children can come and spend some time getting to know their country's story and the very real people who lived it. [applause] >>

you can go back to the pentagon papers with dan ellsberg and others who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward, he is a traitor and he has betrayed his country and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so. >> well, today the famed pentagon papers whistleblower dan ellsberg is sounding off about kerry's comments.

the pentagon is impenetrable. e impossible for zombies to actual ly -- wai a minute -- >> jim, keep your frame safe. >> oh, wow. i don't know what the deal there was, ronan, but it's called com plan 883811. it's called control zombie dominance and survival plan. crisis action plan, to eradicate the zombie threat, and protect humankind. this plan was actually drawn up by the military strategic command. and it runs through several zombie scenarios that could threaten the political and economic stability in the united states. and as you said, it lists various types of zombies, including veggie zombies, space zombies, and, you know, it ominously warns -- and this is the most ominous part, the zombies -- and this is a quote -- zombies are undead, so they feel no pain or fear of death, rendering riot control measures totally ineffective. >> they really thought about this. >> yeah. and what this is, actually, it's an actual training plan. and they use the zombie scenario to spice it up a little bit. >> that's classic. >>

and i remember thinking my grandfather who worked for the fbi at the time was in the pentagon when the plane hit it. i take the threat of terrorism seriously, and i think we all do, and i think it's really

this is a choice by thing for us between good graphics at the pentagon or a uav that is tried and true that has led the uav boom that we have had in this country. it is the predator which is the reaper. it doesn't need any more development. our soldiers sailors and marines use it every single day. it has done more good probably then many of these weapons systems we are talking about here and i think it's a worthy trade-off. with that i yield. >> the gentleman yields back treated mr. wittman. >> thank you mr. chairman. i reluctantly oppose this amendment. i understand representative hunters concerns about the mq-9 bieber. it's definitely a great platform. we do need isr platforms. this platform does even more than that but again you go to where the offsets are. these operation and maintenance accounts may be seemingly innocuous but when you take them down to a critical level you go to the point where you'll be able to take away the capability with the most accounts a man of the terms of those accounts when you are talking about the media ability for the department of defense and those k

my younger brother dave was at his desk at the pentagon on that september 11th. ck many wondered how will we remember those we lost? as family members, we needed to find a way to honor and remember them and in the process maybe find a way to heal ourselves. working together with friends, colleagues, families, supporters from around the world, we opened the pentagon memorial on september 11, 2008. it is a place we remember 184 men, women and children, a place to provide solace and healing surrounded by the beauty of life. my brother dave and i had been young together and we expected to grow old together, play a lot of golf and argue about who had the better-looking grandchildren. now there will be children born after 9/11 who only read about that day in books. some of them might even think the people it happened to weren't real, but we are here to help them know that they were. my hope now is to create an educational center at the pentagon memorial where schoolchildren can come and spend some time getting to know their country's story and the very real people who l

fear-mongering over and over again going all the way back to the 1971 week of daniel ellsberg when the pentagon papers and informed the american citizenry that the government was systematically lying to them for years about the vietnam war. daniel ellsberg was my childhood hero. i actually had the honor of becoming friends with him and i served on the board with him. i have had the opportunity to talk with him. he has become the leading most vocal defender not just of edward snowden but chelsea manning and other whistleblowers. the reason he said he does that and he's devoted to doing it even though he's now 83 is because he said every single thing that they say about edward snowden and chelsea manning every single thing was said about me.

it's not just the pentagon. ange in the position of russian troops along the ukrainian border. and also the nato secretary-general is saying the exact same thing. saying that this is not a movement that they have seen along the border. here's what one official, defense official said on background. saying that this is a giant shell game that putin plays, quote, he pulls b

jennifer griffen at the pentagon. what do we know about these drones we've sent in? know from u.s. officials they say they have not yet located the girls of yet. the u.s. military is flying not just man surveillance flights as we reported but also the unmanned global hawk. they're searching an area the size of west virginia and new england in northeast nigeria. there is no evidence, according to state department officials if the girls were split up into smaller groups or moved across the border. >> any indication the united states plans to send more help of any kind to nigeria? >> i can tell you the pentagon said those marines sent to sigonella were sent to embassies like north africa and yemen where there is trouble, not to deal with the nigeria situation. sus susan rice said it is the responsibility of nigeria to provide security for their people. >> to the extent they make requests of us or others to provide support, we're open to entertaining those. obviously, as i said at the outset, the most important thing is to locate the girls. there's no point in sending any

and barbara starr, i hope you are still with us from the pentagon, because i wanted to ask you, always i remember with when the war in iraq was winding down, there was a big back and forth about leaving troops. in the end, we left none, because there was no agreement, but a lot of talk about how many and what role. is there conflict between the defense department, state department, or the defense department and the white house, as this administration decides what does a post-u.s. combat role in afghanistan look like? >> there's a lot of different options on the table. how much they are in conflict, you know, still remains to be seen. the pentagon, surely, the generals, the commanders, would, as you would expect, want to go for the higher number, because they want to get as much done as they feel they can. so, they are more in the 10,000 range. we've heard a lot about this range of 3,000 troops being left behind. and pardon me what military commanders are tell you is that 3,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan really isn't enough to do anything. you would have to have so many devoted to secur

in the streets of new york, ocean of the pentagon, in the fields near shanksville kindness poured forwarde another. this museum built on the site of rubble and ruins is now filled with the faces, the stories, and the memories of our common grief and hope. it is a witness to tragedy. it is an affirmation of human life. it is a reminder to us and to all future generations that freedom carries heavy responsibilities. it is a reflection of our belief that the true hope of human tyree sides in our compassion and kindness for one another. walking through this museum can be difficult at times. it is impossible to leave without feeling inspired. each story here beats with a human heart, which if we allow it touches our own. the stories are the proof that what we do and the choices we make affect each other's lives and the course of human history. this morning, we'd like to share just a few of these stories the museum tells. ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce the president of the united states, barack obama. [ applause ] >> thank you. please be seated. mayor bloomberg, governor cuom

most people in the pentagon did not even have any idea what that is. t is how every other modern business combines their audit information with their management so that they achieve savings. the general and her team have saved year to date in laster about $680 million. and they did it because they actually know what they are doing because they got good numbers. the question i asked for she made her presentation, could you pass an audit? of course. we cannot pass a continuing process improvement if we did not pass and on. i want to take us away from audit in this, which is the buzzword we're hearing in this hearing him to having an organization that has the initial controls with which to make the property decisions, because ash the proper decisions, because that is the basis. the check to see if you have the information systems, the financial aid. i have one other and note, a little commanding general at an air force base, cut $100 million out of his budget in one year. a small air force base. he did it through good management. good management. he did no

the pentagon is debating "whether to use control of iraqi oil to advance important u.s. cy objectives affected by energy issues." well, the national debate is over aluminum tubes and mobile biological weapons labs, internal planning documents note that increased oil production in a postwar iraq would have the eventual affect of reducing world oil prices. >> prior to our even going to war in iraq, the focus was on oil. and iraqi oil. and how to take it over far more than anything else. >> in public, bush administration officials continue to maintain that oil is not a factor in their war deliberations. in this infinity cbs radio interview broadcast on c-span, defense secretary donald rumsfeld is pressed on that issue. >> mr. secretary, what do you say to people who think this is about oil? >> nonsense. it just isn't. there's certain things like that myths that are floating around and i'm glad you asked. it has nothing to do with oil. literally nothing to do with oil. >> behind the scenes though, planning for iraq's oil goes into overdrive. rumsfeld's defense department has

intelligence agencies and the pentagon have been looking at overhead imagery for days. tion forces, figuring out the best airfields for landing. it's a far cry from september 11st, 2012, when the u.s. compound in benghazi came under attack and the ambassador and three other americans were killed. there were no u.s. military forces nearby to get there in time for a rescue. >> barbara's joining us now from the pentagon. barbara, do we know what exactly would trigger the evacuation plan? >> well, wolf, i think it's fair to say it is partially a political question for the white house. the shadow of benghazi looms large. that big disaster there. they don't want any chance of a repeat. so if the embassy situation were to become too dangerous, if they felt lives were at risk, direct risk, the general thinking is, then, that the state department and the white house would order an evacuation. diplomatically, they hope to stay. because once you leave a u.s. embassy overseas, even in dangerous situations when it eventually calms down, it becomes difficult to go back and reopen. the

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military the pentagon left to its own devices will spend money on anything over the past decade defense spending has claimed a bigger part of the federal budget with aggressions ramping up first in afghanistan and then iraq in fact the united states spends more money on defense than the next one trees combined president obama and congress set the military spending cap for twenty fifteen at four hundred ninety six billion dollars leaving plenty of room for all new top of the line equipment with all of that spending government watchdogs don't have to look hard to find waste weapons systems being sent over facilities being built that weren't needed the special inspector general for afghanistan and the special inspector general for iraq have identified at least one hundred billion dollars worth of wasteful spending senator tom coburn's annual government waste book highlighted some of the starkest examples of lavish spending by the military in recent years my favorite fact that they're forced bought six hundred million dollars where their planes and as soon as they were delivered and ship th

let's start with what the pentagon is proposing. guest: first of all, what is notable is this the first time they proposed a budget that fit within the budget caps that are required by law. for 2015, they spent $496 billion. in order to make this fit, they retired a number of weapon systems that they don't think they need any more. the big highlight is the a-10 aircraft. they will be retiring the entire fleet of them. they're proposing retiring them and meeting stiff resistance on the hill. they propose doing things at the navy ships. there are a number of changes like that. the army has made some changes in their core structure. they're taking some helicopters into the active component and taking helicopters and moving them into the guard and the reserve. there has been a lot of resistance on that. dod has some other cost savings. they have another round of days closures. as the military gets smaller, it will be more like that. they will have another round of base closures to get rid of some of that excess inventory. host: this is t

you just don't get to tell good news from the pentagon very often. eant bergdahl wrote down the letters s.f. with the question mark. special forces. the guys on the helicopter said, yes, we are special forces. we've been looking for your a long time and we're told at that time sergeant bergdahl broke down, randi. >> highly, highly emotional. such an emotional endeavor for the troops involved. er erin. what is the white house saying about today's developments now. >> reporter: well, randi, they're speaking through administration officials to clarify some of the details that went down. barbara, of course, referred to the release of the five detainees from began tan moe. i want to make this clear though that this is a little bit of a political issue. we've been seeing some traffic from conservatives who while they are thrilled that bowe bergdahl is now safe and in u.s. military hands, they're concerned about the precedent that it's setting. and as you know, senator john mccain was a prisoner of war himself in vietnam for roughly the same period, for abou

the pentagon sends troops to find the 200 school girls held hostage. david martin reports. jim axelrod investigates the drug that some n.f.l. players say was forced on them by team doctors. >> they'd shoot me up, you know, two or three times, give me a handful of pain killers, and a shot of toradol and get out there and play. >> pelley: and before itunes came the eye of jim cummins. >> that's patti labelle! ♪ voulez-vuos coucher avec moi ce soir ♪ >> pelley: for 30 years he captured the sight of our favorite sound. ♪ and another little piece of my heart now, baby ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. the commander in chief promised today to fix whatever is wrong at v.a. hospitals that's keeping veterans from getting care. some have allegedly died while waiting for treatment. it was the president's first public comments in more than two weeks on the growing scandal in the department of veterans affairs. but critics, including senator john mccain, said, "not good enough." here's ch

it's not just the pentagon. you have the white house now weighing in saying they have seen no change in the position of russian troops along the ukrainian border. and also the nato secretary-general is saying the exact same thing. saying that this is not a movement that they have seen along the border. here's what one official, defense official said on background. saying that this is a giant shell game that putin plays, quote, he pulls back one battalion, sends another one forward, the end result is that nothing has changed. the key part about this whole thing is that it's not just the russian troops poised along the border and whether they're moving back or moving forward. it is mainly the russian separatist groups that everyone believes are taking direct orders from the leadership in moscow. and that is really what's stirring up the trouble in eastern ukraine and otheres. >> it appears you can't believe anything that vladimir putin said. as you recall, he was saying before, the reason those troops are there is

perhaps the pentagon will finally get its fiscal house in order. in washington i get my hands are t. authority. when they recapture the keyboard or a band of rebel stronghold north of the country. a council report said the army attacks were repelled by the government fund is a mixed picture command of the at the mullins center demos been ongoing for months to the president's supporters most of the deputies. you're accused of running into thousands are reported to the gabba tomorrow. employee of yemen's the drive by shooting in the capital sanaa officials with the regional branch of al qaeda's behind the attack in a separate sold the french god would teach the youth diplomatic mission was shot dead and another was wounded in his conduct in its operational the country to try to eliminate al qaeda like this. osman well for the listing of oklahoma's left at least one person dead and destroyed some twenty homes so far the blaze broke out on something often enough what should've been a controlled burn. over three went badly wrong firefighters have request

last march the pentagon decided to deploy the 14 additional ce 2's in alaska if the next test hits which we're expecting sometime very soon. since that decision was taken last march, two things have happened. one is the july test of the ce 1 failed and that led to a decision by the mda to redesign to kill vehicle which has now been firmly embraced by mda, the pentagon, congress, its one of the few thing that is seems to have widespread bipartisan support redesign the kill vehicle. so those two things, the failure of the july test and now this effort to redesign the kill vehicle do those in your mind in any way change the decision to go ahead with the 14 additional ce 2's? it's one thing for the next test to lead to fixing the ten that are deployed, but does it change what your thoughts about deploying 14 additional ce 2's now that we know about the unreliability of the system and that we're working on a better system to follow up? thank you. >> no. and to elaborate just a little bit, you have both the quantitative and a qualitative set of issues. as we saw the threat from north korea adv

. >> and a startling report from the pentagon on sexual assault in the u.s. military. reports of abuse spiked 50% last year. which is about 1600 more cases than in 2012. rosalind jordan has that story from washington. >> the pentagon announced that more than 5,000 people filed a sexual assault complaint with the military in 2013. that is a 50% increase from 2012, but the military says this is not a sign of any sort of sexual assault crime waive, rather that -- crime wave, rather that members feel they can trust the system to prosecute the allegations. out of 5,000 complaints filed, 838 people found themselves going before a court-martial to answer for the charges and 140 people found themselves administratively punished or discharged from the military. that may seem like a small number of cases, but the military says it has to follow military justice rules. some of the cases brought happened before the alleged victims came into the military, and in other cases there was not enough evidence to substantiate trying to actually prosecute the alleged perpetrators. that said

in december of that year, the president gave the pentagon the authority to deploy up to 102,000 troops to the afghan war. in august of 2010, the additional troops were in place as the u.s. force size hit 100,000. and in june, the president announced a withdrawal plan, and in september of 2012, troop levels fell to 77,000 as the final surge of course is preparing to leave afghanistan. that leads us to today with 38,800 u.s. troops there. >>> a fox news alert, new information on the gunman responsible for the vicious killing spree in southern california. police are gathering more evidence as they piece together the background and mental history of 22-year-old elliott rogers seen there, he had been characterized for months before the attack as mentally disturbed, airing his hatred for humanity in those disturbing youtube videos and his chilling 141-page manifesto. claudia is live with more. >> reporter: new details coming to light today about the desperation surrounding the gunman elliott roger and how close he came to having his murderous rampage discovered by sheriff's deputies when the

you can go back to the pentagon papers, dan elsberg and others who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward. he is a traitor, and he has betrayed his country. and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.

account is nothing more than a slush fund for the pentagon. if we want to save some money, one of the first places we should look is getting rid of the o.c.o., putting everything back into the pentagon base budget and then taking a long and clear-eyed look at where spending needs to be reduced. madam speaker, there are many other problems with h.r. 4435. it continues to place restrictions on the transfer of inmates at guantanamo. it undermines our nuclear security cooperation with russia. it attempts to derail the multiparty negotiations with iran, and it coddles the nuclear weapons budget. foolish choices, wasteful spending and wars without end. i urge my colleagues to vote to change course, to end the war -- to end the war in afghanistan, to cut the nuclear arsenal, face reality and make the tough choices and overall defense spending and with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves his time. the gentleman from georgia. mr. woodall: madam speaker, at this time it's my great plea

>> jennifer griffin keeping an eye on that at the pentagon thank you. if those evacuations should take place marines are relying on the osprey aircraft to evacuate those americans as jennifer just told you. they can take off like a helicopter and fly horizontally like a plane. right now in north carolina a massive search is underway for a marine who apparently fell from an osprey aircraft during a training mission last night. happened near the town of white lake near fayetteville. no word how the accident happened. the marine's name has not yet been released. >> now to politics on a big primary day with national implications ahead of the november midterm elections as voters in six states head to the polls in races that could change the balance of power in congress. in one very close watched race in georgia, the gop is looking to nominate a candidate who can hold the seat of retiring senator sachs by chambliss. senior national correspondent john roberts is live in atlanta with the details. hi, john. >> reporter: hey, julie. good morning to you. the reason