he photocopied a 7,000-page study that later became known as the pentagon papers. in 1971 he gave those documents to the "new york times." the richard nixon presidential library conducted this interview as part of a project to document the 37th president's administration. mr. ellsberg talks about his motivations in leaking is pentagon papers as well as his opinions on the vietnam war. this portion is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> right from the beginning and until late in '71 when they came out, so for, what is that, two years, a couple of years, i always thought for the pentagon papers to have any effect, they should be the basis for congressional hearings. precisely because i knew they didn't tell the whole story or an adequate story. i knew what was -- a lot of what was excluded from them. and what you needed was oral testimony, preferably under oath of people who really knew the decision-making at the time and could explain what was the implications of these papers where the documents themselves didn't tell the whole story. i knew that very well. for example,

so the pentagon papers had come out in june. so he knew all of that. so he now knows, you know the white house is very interested in this. so somebody has burgled his office. he was certain it was the white house. but i wasn't seeing him then. i was in cambridge. he wasn't in direct touch with me. i called -- something else happened. but let me come to this point. his lawyer, he talked to a lawyer about it. and the lawyer advised him don't get involved. don't get ininvolved. it's a white house operation. and don't tell -- well he said -- he apologized to me. he said i felt guilty. i feel i wronged you, which, from a professional point of view, he certainly had. and i apologize. i said, fine. everything had turned out fine by that time, of course. however, it bothered him so much that he got a bleeding ulcer. and, at one point, it hemorrhaged and he went to the hospital, the emergency room, with a bleeding ulcer. so it bothered him enough he already had hypertension. so it bothered him enough that it worsened his hypertension and gave him a bleeding else

that i had given the pentagon papers to fullbright and gredell. so they kpaj rated the degree of my intimacy. so i think hunt and libbey on the way homemade a little operation into gredell's office. they didn't do burglarizing themselves, but they probably had some other help on that. it didn't matter in the end. >> did you ever ask kroeg about that? >> yeah i i think i did, but he did not know. oh, yes. why would they be interested in my wife's analyst? the plumbers were -- that is the cubans who work for hunt and lib by, were interviewed at great length by taylor brarj and george trial for a book they were doing on the bay of pigs, actually. their publisher went bankrupt and branch and kryle had a fight over how they would split the royalties or something if they found another publisher. and it never did come out. and i was very anxious to get the files from branch, but they both -- it's a whole other story. but i didn't get it. houf, branch told me at the time a good deal about what they were after. and he said that they learned from the cubans

this is expected to be a big revolution in the pentagon. oblem you will run into is intellectual property. the company that makes the parts. want them copied, so you are getting into that napster mp3 revolution from the late 90's where people are downloading free music and you will have to come to say itunes where it can be widely implemented. host: you talked earlier about ashton carter's trip overseas, but he is not new to the pentagon. what is his influence on cost cutting? guest: it is a huge priority for him. this is his baby and he came up with a better buying power that frank kendall has been updating through the years. host: before he became secretary? yes, before. another man and there is robert work, he is very much interested in this. you have three people at the top level of the pentagon and typically the defense secretary isn't always as attuned to procurement acquisition. you actually have three people at the top who are attuned and that leads people to believe there will be a lot of improvement in this area. host: let's go to

the pentagon owns a lot of the airwaves, spectrum, right? deposition is well they would have to reorganize it to forget that so there's all this stuff but you could get it down to a fraction and then sell it off. if we sold it off they go to the general revenue and we would see none of it back, a piece of it back? i am in favor of anything talking to congressmen and senators look the pentagon owns, uses the spectrum. the art tends the navy hundreds of billions of dollars available, say to the pentagon you restructure, you sell it and it goes into the pentagon budget beyond what sequester allows. okay? but we're not going pass the cost with taxes or spending that you've got the money and you don't have to cut it. then all of the sudden the pentagon instead of hoarding spectrum, because someday we might need it which they've been saying for 60 years, goes i don't need this. i have a shiny new plane. let's sell that off. the brac legislation, base restructuring and closing effort which dick armey came up with in the '80s in which the pentagon s

as a result, we are able to have the pentagon support it. a writer was selected, and again, we went through the process of trying to get all the information we can for those who are still living, and as a result of all of that, the linguists" was finally published. it's a great book about the m.i.s., and, hopefully, the children of the men who served as well as people of this country, will learn more about what the japanese and m.i.s. did in the pacific. for me, there was another lesson that we need to learn militarily as well. it's that we need to use the talents as well as the language and the culture of those who are citizens of our country to deal with the country that we are fighting. this needs to be learned, and i hope the book "the linguists" will provide lots of that kind of information as well. terry: do you recall -- when you went to the military, do you recall what were their first reactions to your proposal? senator akaka: the first reaction was they did not realize what this was going to be all about. as a matter of fact, it did

the pentagon owns the lot of the airwaves spectrum. the position is to free it up so there's all that stuff to get down to the fraction. if we see a piece of it back i would be talking to the senators there are hundreds of millions of dollars available. say you restructure and sell it and it goes into the pentagon budget beyond what the sequester allows. but we are not coming across where they are spent but you've got that money and you don't have to cut. then all of a sudden the pentagon instead of porting the spectrum because someday we might meet at which they've been saying that for 60 years. i would rather have a shiny new plan. let's sell that off. it's the base structure effort which they came up with the pentagon says here are a series we don't need so it is bipartisan and regional and nobody feels they are getting screwed and they pick 30 of these bases and say these can be closed but the pentagon doesn't want it anymore so we are not taking some important thing away and then both the house and the senate voted to overturn the

the pentagon owns a lot of the air waves, spectrum. their position is if we were to -- they'd have to re-organize it to free it up, so there's all this stuff, but you could get it dune a fraction and then sell it off. if we sold it off they go on to the general revenue and we reside see none of it back. piece of it back back? >> guest: i'm in favor of it. i've been talking to congressmen and senators the pentagon owns uses, this spectrum. there are tens and maybe hundreds of millions of dollars available. say to the pentagon you restructure, you sell it, and it goes into the pentagon budget beyond what sequester allowed. okay? but we're not going past sequester with taxes or spending but you have that money and don't have to cut it. then all of a sit the pentagon instead of hoarding spectrum, because some day we might need it which they've been saying for 60 years -- goes, i don't need this. i'd rather have a shiny new plane. >> host: aircraft carrier. >> guest: the base restructuring and closing effort which the army came up with in t

the pentagon owns a lot of the airways. and their position is well if we were to -- reorganize it to free it up so there is all of this stuff. and if you could get it down to a fraction and sawell it off. it would go into the general revenue if we sold it and we would see none of it back or a piece of it back. i am in favor of saying look, the pentagon owns/uses this spectrum there are tens and maybe hundreds of billions of dollars available, say to the pentagon you restructure, you sell it and it goes into the pentagon budget beyond what su sequester allows. but we are not going past sequester and you have to money and don't have to cut it. the saving spectrum, some day you might need it goes i don't need this and i would rather have a shiny new plane and let's sell that off. the basic restructuring and closing effort from the '80s in which the pentagon says here are a series of basis we don't need. a commission comes in. it is bipartisan and regional and they pick 30 bases saying they can be close. we are not taking an im

it's where the pentagon is working the haroldest to repel isis fighters.ten to this. >> i would much rather than ramadi not fall but it won't be the end of the campaign should it fall. we've got to get it back. the focus is, in fact, on bayy. >> reporter: isis militants managed to breach the outer perimeter of the refinery there but were repelled at first by iraqi security forces before the pentagon sent in some air support, and overnight the pentagon tells us they took out five isis tactical units with five airstrikes compared with just two airstrikes in ramadi where this morning a source on the ground is telling us that isis has surrounded a government compound. and, remember, the pentagon says if ramadi falls, not the end of the world. but that is not a strategy sitting very well with republicans who are worried about losing gains that cost a lot of american money and lives. >> and now this general says that it really doesn't matter? i wonder what he would say to the families of those marines and soldiers, those brave americans who were killed and wound

troops are inside the war zone in eastern ukraine. a pentagonsman flatly denied it, saying a few hundred u.s. troops are training ukrainian forces in the western part of the country near poll land which we knew. he says russia's claim they're in the east is a ridiculous quest to shift the focus as the kremlin deploys more and more troops inside ukraine. state department says the russian troop presence on the boredder is is the largest since last fall and accused russia of beefing up the air defense system inside eastern ukraine. the pentagon spokeswoman saying that arming the rebels is a blatant violation of peace deal signed in february by vladimir pun and other leaders. joining me to talk about this and the breaking news of russian headquarterses getting into the pentagon network retired general sedrick layton. a one-time deputy director for training at the national security agency good to see you again. >> good to see you too shep. >> is this more of the same on the part of the troops by putin in the east or is there something bigger happenin

the fbi knew who put out the pentagon papers because they had owned it since early 1970. they had been told by my -- now, this is my former wife's mother-in-law, her father's wife -- not her mother. second wife. the stepmother had told -- i think i've got the wrong relationship here. mother-in-law. >> no it's your mother-in-law. >> stepmother-in-law. >> i'm very bad on the relations. her stepmother, correct? her father's second wife is her stepmother. >> yes. >> i do this all the time with relatives. okay. she had become quite conservative in her older age and went right to the fbi having been told by my former wife that i had copied the pentagon papers. so the fbi knew this from '69 or early '70 and they interviewed rand. do you know about this? >> no, i do not know. >> i think this is something that i had to cut out of the book just for space. i had a whole chapter on it. the fbi came to rand in april of '70, having already tried to interview my wife -- former wife. and my former wife had been advised by her lawyer not to see them unless with a lawyer and they don't inte

a33-page strategy will be released today by the pentagon. it's the first time the pentagon has talked openly about its offensive cyber capabilities. u.s. officials are hoping this transparency will deter u.s. enemies, jenna. jenna: okay. a lot to watch at the pentagon, jennifer, thank you. jon: and continuing on with our top story now u.s. counterterrorism operations that left two innocent hostages dead. lisa curtis, of the heritage foundation keeps an eye on some of these kinds of issues and joins us now. lisa apparently the united states had absolutely no idea that the two hostages warren weinstein, the american included, were part or were being held at this location? >> yes. this is an absolute tragedy. warren weinstein, who had been an aid contractor in pakistan, humanitarian worker kidnapped in 2011 was killed inadvertently in this drone strike. it looks like they knew it was an al-qaeda compound, but they did not know that weinstein and another italian hostage were also present. they were being hidden in this al-qaeda compound. so this

in arlington county peggy fox, wusa9. >> since it's next to the pentagon the new bridge's crowning touchl be signature medallions honoring each of the four branches of the u.s. military. >>> from our prince george's county bureau mixed signals whether a metro stop could be coming to national harbor. rushern baker told wnew yesterday, "we're going to have to bring the metro across the woodrow wilson bridge." mgm which is building a casino at national harbor said it supports baker's efforts, but a county spokesperson says there are no plans and no official talks with metro or national harbor. >>> a major milestone for the telescope that has brought us closer to the outer reaches of our universe, how nasa says hubble has changed our view of the cosmos. >> windy today and that really blew around the pollen. the main culprit is tree pollen. it is high, ash, oak and pine, low for grasses and mold spores. we'll come back, talk about maybe lowering the pollen count with some rain and sh wó >>> a new sign today that governor chris christie is at least prepping to jump into the 2016 presidential p

"al jazeera america"s jamie mcintyre joins us from the pentagon. during the cold war we were told the threat to the grid was from an atomic weapon, is the thinking about the vulnerability shifted. >> it has. we here warning of an electronic pearl harbor, a cyber attack that could not just affect the electrical grid but water supply and in a way the new era was ushered in by the united states and israel, where experts agree that those two countries introduced the stuxnet virus disarming iranian centrifuges, it's where you have a cyber weapon, a line of complicated computer code that can inflict physical damage. if the u.s. and israel can do it. others can do it too >>> so does the defense department war game around, strategise around attacks to infrastructure. >> yes, they do. last week the commander - the u.s. northern commander based in colorado was here, talking about how concerned he is about this. his primary mission is to protect the defense department submissions and help in civil attacks as well. it's not just the pentagon, it's law enforceme

there are things in the pentagon that were wasteful. ople in the re-elections or whatever, and that was one of them. it was just literally building two engines for the same plane. and it didn't need to happen. we got rid of it. >> the pentagon said we don't need it. >> yeah. >> i remember we fought together on this one. >> right. >> listen congressman, i almost called you tom for a second thanks for joining us again on "taking the hill." thanks for your voice in congress. it's much needed. as a veteran. thank you. >> thanks for doing the show. thanks patty. >>> up next, a former army ranger's new mission in afghanistan that puts women on the road to economic prosperity. we all enter this world with a shout and we see no reason to stop. so cvs health is creating industry-leading programs and tools that help people stay on medicines as their doctors prescribed. it could help save tens of thousands of lives every year. and that w ould be something worth shouting about. cvs health, because health is everything. the largest enterprises in the

it's a busy day for the pentagon. n airfield in southeastern yemen falling to aqap yemen a continuing problem. you have the city of ramadi in western iraq the largest city in anbar province n danger of falling. and a day when you look at ukraine, the russian president denying there are russian troops on the ground in eastern ukraine more than a year after russia took the territory of crimea which we barely hear about anymore as russian troops continue to advance on eastern ukraine. these are the daily elements on the agenda of the u.s. defense secretary. that's just a sample of questions he'll be facing today. but those are the crises the department faces today. >> i know as we watch and wait -- stay with me jim. i know just yesterday, secretary carter met with the iraqi defense minister at the pentagon. can you tell me what they discussed? >> well first of all, the iraqi prime minister wants more help. you're seeing that on the ground even in ramadi right now. we're hearing from officials inside the city who have been

the pentagon is not confirming that or anything else about this story. the coalition strike reportedly happened about a month ago in northern iraq near the syrian border about 100 mimes west of mosul. the "guardian" sites 0 a source, al bagbaghdadi's injuries were so severe naming a new leader in case he died. the source says al baghdadi is recovering. this is not the first time reporting an attack injured or killed the terrorist leader and arguing not a game-changer had he died. not that it's not good news but not a game changer. >>> meantime iraqi forces making progress in their battle guess isis. against isis. 's the iraqis say they've captured parts of ramadi where isis had taken overven a children's hospital. showing soldiers firing from that hospital. u.s. marines are training troops not far from there. details of the story. what else are u.s. officials saying about the report of are this isis leader badly wounded? >> reporter: the pentagon isn't denying air strikes the day al baghdadi was reportedly injured, according to a spokesman, he wasn't spec

robert grenier, he helped conceive and organize the pentagon's counterterrorism operation. a big step forward he quents that won't change, he says critics of the deal haven't posed a viability alternative to the curbs that iran has agreed to with this deal. mr. grenier, could iran under this deal still be a direct threat to the united states? >> oh absolutely there's no question about that. we don't see our national interests in similar terms at all. we're going to continue to have conflict with iran, there's no question about that. the issue though is managing that conflict and making sure that it doesn't get to a military level, still less a nuclear level. now at some point in the future the iranians may decide that it's in your national interest to develop a nuclear weapon. they may withdraw from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. obviously that is what we are trying to avoid and in part what this agreement is supposed to help to us avoid. >> but a lot suggest there agreement would be better if the united states had approached it in a stronger position if the president

by pretty fast. >> reporter: the old washington boulevard bridge over route 110 right next to the pentagon is structurally deficient built in 1941. it's seen better days. >> it's not unsafe to drive on, but it needs to be replaced sooner rather than later. >> reporter: the construction project begins monday morning just in time for the commute. the three lanes in each direction will be reduced to two. >> we're telling people just to expect about a 10 minute delay. >> reporter: the new bridge will still be three lanes each way, but it will be 9 feet wider with a 14-foot shared use path on the pentagon side and an 8-foot walkway on the west side. when you hear about a 14-foot pedestrian multi-purpose walkway -- >> it's a lot better than what they got now, absolutely. >> reporter: in arlington county peggy fox, wusa9. >> it will take three years at a cost of $31.5 million. >>> always watching always tracking, wusa9's first alert weather, d.c.'s most accurate. >> so how do we break up this weekend? >> i would get everything done you want to cut the grass, garden, golf, whatever. do that tomorr

the latest this report by jay michael gilmore, the tester and evaluator, a pentagon watchdog. his report details so many problems, a defense industry always the g 35 a hot mess. >> let's look at why the pilot. >> reporter: it doesn't make for easy reading. we asked him to take us through it. an engineer that evaluated planes. he designed the f-16 in the '70s. he has left the defense department, he has spoken with pilots that flew the f-35. she have among their concerns is the plane's safety. >> think of the engine as a blow torch surrounded by fuel. that is what it really is >>> fast-forward to another downer for the high flyer. the pentagon warping capitol hill, that for call superior technology, the f-35 will not be able to protect ground forces as well as the ageing f 10, the war hort. the air force is aiming to retire it. >>> next - the blueprint for a way back. a campus called the rape capital and our look at sex crimes in spot. friday - back on the water. five years off the bp oil spill, is the gulf catch safe to eat. response. >> to say that it's well and good and we sho

but the question of civilian casualties is something that has the pentagon concerned. a yemen government special forces camp under attack. explosions in the street. as government and rebel forces battle each other in southern yemen. civilians run for safety as french troops evacuate children. more than 600 indian chinese, pakistani and slivisri lankans getsing out. the u.s. is providing more backup for the campaign against the iranian-backed rebels. >> we have expedited weapons delivery increased intelligence sharing and we've established a joint coordination planning cell in the saudi operation center. >> the pentagon appointed karl mundy to run a 20-person support operation. the immediate question will the u.s. share detailed satellite imagery on specific targets the saudis want to hit? >> the united states would be in a terribly difficult and awkward position if it did not offer the saudis support of this nature. >> the pentagon already urging caution. defense secretary ash carter wednesday spoke to the saudi defense minister and emphasized the importance of limiting

in terms of her guest, isn't it true that when the pentagon's budget, it is not really cut they wouldake away money from, let's say, building future fighter planes and program that money toward building up the intelligence arena, or they would take money away from recruiting and they would put it into some rain technology -- submarine technology or nuclear subs that kind of thing. do they really cut the budget or redirect money in a nether prioritized -- another prioritized military necessity? thank you. guest: it is up to pentagon leaders how they want to spend this money. i should go back to the 2000 law that sets the budget cap for a decade. that basically reduced funding for each of the fiscal years from 2013 until 2021, something like that. that means that the pentagon's budget next year is already cut, and what that is doing to the pentagon is it is really squeezing them and military leaders constantly go before congress, go before congressional channels and complaint to congress about what this is doing to their programs on the hill. how it is hurting their programs to prepare

at the pentagon joint chief's chairman general dempsey downplayed the set back. i would rather ramadi not fall. it will not be the end of the campaign. >> several say said the more important tack it to the north. that is a more strategic prize than where the focus is. >> once the iraqis have control of budget yi of baiji, they control the structure north and south and deny generating revenue through >>> defense secretary ash carter stressed that iraqi forces battling i.s.i.l. must be multicultural and report only to baghdad. >> we support forces under the command and control of the iraqi government, irrespective of their sectarian make-up, which is the whole point. the way things got, the way they did in iraq is the collapse of a multi sectarian approach. >> reporter: in a speech in washington. the tikrit offense is was called a model. >> >> in many ways, the victory of tikrit shows how the rest will be helped and how federal and local forces work together to ensure the safe return of people to their homes. >> the pentagon says it's investigating reports from som

peggy fox joins us live near the pentagon where the washington boulevard bridge is coming down. how old is that bridge? >> reporter: the bridge is 74 years old built during world war ii, but it was not built to handle the 72,000 vehicles that use it daily and it's not very pedestrian friendly either. >> cars are buzzing by pretty fast. >> reporter: the sidewalk is narrow and needs repair. feet away traffic whizzes by. >> it looks pretty dangerous. >> reporter: to stand to do an interview. >> like we're doing now. >> reporter: the old washington boulevard bridge near route 110 by the pentagon is structurally deficient. built in 1941, it's seen better days. >> it's not unsafe to drive on, but it needs to be replaced sooner rather than later. >> reporter: ddot is doing just that, survey teams out today. the construction project begins monday morning just in time for the commute. the three lanes in each direction will be reduced to two. >> we're telling people just to expect about a 10 minute delay. we're going to be doing our best during the project. keep two lanes open both direct

the template that they're going to follow as they go forward. >> all right, jamie mcintire at the pentagon thank you. >> three months ago iraqi forces libertied the diyala province from i.s.i.l. but now the sunnis there say they are being targeted by the militias. omar al saleh has the story. >> this group lives on the city of baqubah sunni and they say they are scared to return. >> translator: we are afraid of the militias. we're afraid that they might kill us and our families. >> translator: we don't have weapons to defend ourselves. if publish yas would storm our homes we would be dead. >> reporter: thousands much iranian backed shia fighters started a campaign to recapture diyala from i.s.i.l. now forces of the iran supreme leader and his predecessor are everywhere. influence is evident. this border crossing was closed for 30 years. now, it's wide open. the popular mobilization force and shia militias are the real power here. some analysts feel, the victory over i.s.i.l. may have strengthened the shia fighters. >> translator: after the liberation of diyala we wachtd the increase onwe w

on the pentagon side and discretionary spending. that spending is on the food stamps and on the department of veterans affairs for veterans benefits. democrats want to raise a breach those year. president obama has said that he would not sign a bill that only increases defense spending while it doesn't increase domestic discretionary spending. there might be some sort of agreement later down the line this year that lawmakers will try to get to. paul ryan, when he was chairman of the budget committee and patty when she was chairwoman of the budget committee -- late in 2013, they got a deal that said that sequestration would be relieved for the next two years. part of that deal is basically still in effect. sequestration is not really happening right now too much. it did not really completely reverse sequestration, but it eased it to the poor -- point where most people were satisfied. there have been wrongly sent capitol hill over the last few weeks of lawmakers saying that maybe we can get another one of those deals to really ease se

share and it's the only way to make a better world. >> carter used his appearance to announce the pentagon'st new cyber strategy in four years. it'll include the creation of a first of its kind unit to help scout break through emerging technologies to fight traditional and cyber terrorists. >>> hundreds gathered today to see military honors given to labor leader and former sailor cesar chavez. 22 years after his death. chavez received grave site honors from the u.s. navy of his memorial in central california. the idea came from a sailor who learned he does not receive the honors at the time of his death. travers died in 1993 when he was 66 years old. the family said they never thought to ask for military recognition since they focussed more on his work with the farm workers. he served in the western pacific from 1946 to 1948. >>> as we continue some competition out on the fairway. >> there's a lot of excitement coming out here between that. they love to battle it out. >> the first round is over but this is just the beginning. >>> why female announcer: sleep train's interest free for 3 event!

bill: why would the pentagon put out a map that was not accurate? what would that do? >> you know, you're seeing more of this administration where they show what they want the american people to see for domestic political considerations. kind of disingenuous. the map doesn't show the gains isis made during the pinprick strikes. house leadership speaker boehner said it very well, we need a robust strategy, not just poking them in the eyes. it is really disingenuous to not show the actual gains isis has made. bill: in the full picture of things, isis stated it is in print, it needs to gain and hold territory, and apparently it is doing that? >> that's absolutely true. look we, many people many, smarter than me said, look we can't if we're going to send people over there, we can't do it with just airstrikes alone. if we send men and women into harm's way our american forces that's what we decide to do, we need allow them to beat the enemy into submission, period. bill: do you think that is happening? i read where one expert said they have been very minimally challenged. is

if the pentagon continues to muddle through with the budget it iss given it is not a believable case they are making ey cannot live under sequestration level spending. they have to do something to show they needed a base budget increase specifically. >> one of the reasons they don't like getti money through this mechanism is it is one-your money, so they cannot plan long-term with it. that is why you will see secretary carter continue to make the point. at the end of the day, it is inevitable the extra money going to the defense budget wiwill come through h the other account because it does not require a politil deal in congress. >> even bob gates has been trying to discipline the account and move non-incremental cost back into the base budget. i think it is an arcane point. ash carter has been around the pentagon long enough to know combing going -- co-mingling money breaks the discipline he needs to exercise. that is anothereason he will at leaeast rhetorically resist this. >> it does not get to 90 -- $90 billion because there's a large contingent in congress who think the pentagon

it released a map comparing the territory isil controlled last year to now when the pentagon claims theup has lost its freedom to operate in roughly 25 to 30% of iraq where it once held sway. a spokesman said it showed the combine effort of iraq and the u.s.-lead coalition is having a significant effect. >> it's still early. this is a long fight, so i'm not prepared to say the tide of battle has turned but i will say iraqi security forces along with the coalition air power have unquestionably inflicted damage on isil and began to push isil back. >> reporter: tikrit recently retaken by iraqi forces shown on the map as still contested. the next city is listed as isil controlled but the oil field is said to be in iraqi control. but the map also shows a different story in syria, where coalition air strikes have done little to diminish isil's region of influence, and where the group has actually gained ground. in an interview, john allen, insisted isil is losing power by the day. >>> the u.s. and the coalition powers are able to provide, really precise fires that not only accomplish the dire

it is a new policy in essence. 33-page strategy to defend the nation against cyber attacks the pentagonrolling out today. in this speech ash carter revealed that the russias hacked into an unclassified system here in the pentagon earlier this year. what ash carter says in his prepared remarks is that the pentagon was able to push the russian hackers out within 24 hours. in fact they set up a hunter/shooter team as he describes it to push the russian hackers out. in the process, he says he learned a lot about russian tactics in the cyber realm and this cyber hacking realm. >> very interesting. d.o.d. hacked unclassified information. thank you very much. >>> we are awaiting the sentencing of former cia chief david petraeus who pleaded guilty giving classified information to his mistress and biographer. he gave her the coalition war strategy in afghanistan and notes about his discussions with president obama. in november 2012 petraeus signed a form that court documents proved he lied about sharing that private information. six months later, the fbi seized those binders from his virginia ho

the pentagon is not running this the white house is running this.ome odd reason the white house is not destroying isis which we could do. i don't have the answer why. but i can tell you if i was the air component commander i would be flying 500 strikes a day. gregg: do you suspect it's amateur hour or at the white house? >> i suspect it is amateur hour. ramadi is the key to sunni unity there. it's not just bricks and mortar. it's the i symbol of the iraqi unity. baiji is an oil refinery. we can close that down and they won't get any oil out of there. we must defend ramadi. now, this is not general dempsey's decision. this is iraqi prime minister al-abadi month is really an iranian stooge. he's as bad pass maliki. when we pulled out of there we made iraq an iranian proxy and that's not good. gregg: would any of this happened if president obama had not pulled out american forces prematurely and without a status of forces agreement? >> this would not have happened. everybody will agree including vice president biden when we left everything was in good

>> pelley: david martin at the pentagon for us tonight. david, thank you. we're told it took four months to make today's announcement because of the difficulty of getting reliable evidence from hostile territory. the president spoke by phone to warren weinstein's widow in a the u.s. government says it will pay compensation to his family and loporto's. wyatt andrews has more on weinstein's ordeal and his family's reaction. >> i'm addressing this video to president obama. >> reporter: in this video released by his captors 16 months ago, warren weinstein asked the president to negotiate his release. >> i am also appealing to you as someone who has served his country and who now needs his country to help him. >> reporter: weinstein was a career foreign aid worker who went to pakistan in 2004 as a government contractor advising pakistani businesses. he was kidnapped in a daring raid by al qaeda operatives who tricked his guards into opening the front gate of his compound. this was just days before he was due to leave pakistan. in the maryland neighborhood where h

the pentagon of the hotline. the white house was just a consumer. i forget what ford is fun but they gave me a tour and they had an old telephone that wasn't connect it to anything. anyone that comes in polled said. must've been as a joke. what they do is use a chat protocol to coordinate with moscow in the text messages or e-mails back and forth. it's come a long way but it still going on at still there. we've had some opportunities to use it recently. there is a separate line to secure back from hot line that goes over by satellite and fiber optics and on and on. so their stories kind of led me and what i did was i picked anticipated crises in the 1950s for 12 president. they had one some had to pick the crises that were most meaningful that could be a teaching or a learning experience of love for illustrative of the demands of an international crisis. you can see chernin up in the invasion of the south. eisenhower kennedy in the cuban missile crisis. johnson had two of the six day war, the pub of. general ford. carville as i mentioned, reagan. bu

at the start of the year it hacked into a twitter feed run by the pentagon. the message to american soldiers said watch your back. in the news room a reminder of an attack on "charlie hebdo." since then french media has been on high alert. france is part of the coalition fighting isil in iraq. this is a different kind of warfare though and very sophisticated. >>> the technical director at network security is here with us now. i asked what he thought about the online security measures of the network. >> they indicated they're not very sophisticated as far as their security. so the network director actually said that -- if that's their defense, then it's not really surprising that the attack occurred. >> so what are they missing? >> all that defense in depth when you're trying to stop an attacker. when you think about how an attacker breaks into a network, they need a foot hold which is often done through mal malware. but then also identify indicators of that type of behavior. >> is it your impression that it's likely to be isil in this case? and how does this p

and jamie joins us from the pentagon. jamie, let's begin with yemen and what's the defense department's assessment of a deteriorating situation there? >> it was one of the questions that ash carter faced in the first news conference that he faced since they took over two months ago. and the question of course is with with the saudi air campaign failing to halt the rebel advance what is the consequence of enabling al qaeda in the arabian peninsula to make gains and his response was a little bit vague. >> it's easier for us to operate against a group like that if we have the cooperation of a stable government, as was the case in the past. but if we don't have a stable government as in the case of the current circumstance, we have to use other means to protect ourselves and that's what we're doing. >> so that was the message the sort of unspecified other means that the united states was going to be using 20 battle aqap in yemen and the real answer of course is with the chaos on the ground, the u.s. doesn't really have any sor

big news out of the pentagon. from the military and move from duties at the pentagon and replace jen psaki to become state department spokesman. kirby was the pentagon spokesman. >>> we're keeping close eye on the fox extreme weather center. we're also watching stocks. the dow is up over 50 points right now but there has been a lot of volatility as u.s. company profits take a hit on the strong u.s. dollar. lauren simonetti with an update for us. talks about rising prices at chipolte. that stock is down 6%. we'll have it for you. "happening now," harris. >> interesting, thank you, jon. jon: thank you. >> more proof that sexualized images of women in ads in social media lead to problems in young girls. new survey shows girls between 11 and 13 are more likely to worry, lack confidence or feel nervous than they were five years ago because they feel pressured to look and act a certain way. case in point a dangerous new trend encouraging girls to perform a beauty trick to look like reality star kylie jenner. the kylie j

near the pentagon and the gal that was in helicopter with the president i told you about said one of the most disturbing sights he'd ever seen. and so the think about this crisis is they responded against the taliban in afghanistan to drive al-qaeda out of the safe haven, but immediately shifted to iraq turning their attention to iraq. because two hours after the plane hit the pentagon, rumsfeld was meeting with his visors and he told them you need to sweep iraq into this problem. because a lot of people believe iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks, which they work. and so it was not a long-term crisis measure of success because the government the president turned away from afghanistan and al-qaeda. bin laden escaped, over to iraq. and so had long-term consequences, a lot of people have called it the biggest foreign policy blunder of modern american history. and then finally obama. libbey into fidget as you recall gadhafi wanted to very savagely put an end to the demonstrations and rebellions in libya in march 2011, beginning the arab spring. and obama decided to intervene with nato and

here's what the pentagon says. it's for security. to make sure that commerce runs smoothly in the arabian sea. but the other reason is clearly iran. they're keeping an eye on iranian ships that just might be bricking some weapons, maybe some supplies, maybe some other things too, to the rebel group that has overrun yemen, the houthis. forced the president of that country to leave. saudi arabia, pounding rebel targets inside yemen now for nearly a month and despite calling an end to those air strikes, the saudis starting hitting houthi positions again today. an interesting end. houthis are enjoying the support of another nation, iran, at least ideologically they are right now because it's not known for sure if iran has given them any weapons. that's a big yet. president obama says he wants the military part of this conflict in yemen to end now. >> right now, there are a lot of people inside of yemen suffering. what we need to do is bring all the parties together and find a political arrangement. it is not solved by having another proxy