we even allow them to do this the first nation that needs to disarm without question is the united states. army grieve the loss of every soldier. his mother father brothers and wife will forever grieve as was. grief that was compound about the failing of his army. we have a duty to all families of our fallen soldiers given the truth the best we know what its passage we can. it was a crazy one steve warning. by his work midnights us home. we were good new carpet installed upstairs i was getting ready to babysit my grandson because my daughter had a whole point so it's a crazy crazy morning and. i thought it was and she forgot she forgot her key or had something. in. the soldier steve and. i just. looked at amber and she said. it's like. a door. get here or something wrong with. that i pull up and there is. a car out there with cover plates on it they said just killed. a full paragraph and that's all you know. the family began hearing details about the circumstances surrounding jessie's death within days of the official announcement they had said that. just. his humvee was struck. a dump truck ha

united states military. and we'll also get to enjoy the music of the army's oldest band.point band is one of america's finest military musical organizations. throughout the next hour, willing hear them on the field. in the halls. and on stage as they perform for the public in their annual holiday concert. but before we get to the music, let's go to washington, d.c. for a special message from general martin dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. >> thank you for the opportunity to show case this national treasure during the holidays and of course, to hear the music of the west point band, the army's oldest and one of its very best. i also don't want to miss the opportunity to highlight the service and sacrifice of the millions of servicemen and women, serving our nation add home and abroad during these holidays. i wish them happy holidays. >> the holiday would not be complete without the west point concert in eisenhower hall. named for the graduate and later president, dwight eisenhower, eisenhower hall is one of the largest theaters in america, designed to hold th

think of spleen as almost like the united states army camp where the soldiers go, they rest up and get war. all the old red cells that are filtered and the white cells are ready for far and the platelets are there. sometimes as a result of infection or virus or the kissing disease, the spleen can be enlarged. if you have leukemia or a rupture of the spleen it can be removed. can you live without a spleen? the answer is, yes. but you will be at the risk of not having the soldiers ready to fight. you have to get vaccinations and your pneumonia vaccine. any kind of infection can put you into trouble. it is a vital organ. >> dr.siegel all these things we can live without, include in that list the tonsils. >> actually, the spleen is very hard to examine. internists have a last trouble feeling it. you have to put the patient in exactly the right position so if it is enlargeed, for diagnosing of leukemia it is hard to find. and sickle cell leukemia, you have to have the vaccines. you are in high risk of infection. another point, if you have a traumatic fall, you have to watch out. that is one

the pentagon's research arm that created the internet, not to mention the joint staff and the united states army, navy, air force, and marines. they are all hard at work analyzing what began, frankly, back in 2011 as a culinary -- as a preliminary analysis was made, now it is becoming state of art as we ramp it up for this possibility of peace. they are all hard at work in close consultation with their idf counterparts, and we will engage in further close evaluation with every aspect and with palestinians. and with the palestinians, which is critical. we have a separate team assessing palestinian security needs in the context of statehood. we anticipate that the united states will continue to play a leading role in building, helping to build palestinian capacity, helping to build their capabilities, to maintain law and order, to cooperate in an effective judicial system, to counter terrorism and smuggling and manage border security, customs, immigration. needless to say, for a period of time, this will obviously involve israeli participation. it has to. but there also have to be objective standa

service member, the word that i'm getting from our detectives is that he served four years in the united states army. >> reporter: investigators say garnet, who was arrested in 2010 for threatening to kill president obama, began this week's crime spree in atlanta, where he tried to hold up a bank, but failed. from there, investigators say he drove nearly 300 miles to tupelo, where he robbed a bank, then shot the two officers. five days later, the fbi says he robbed another bank, 1,600 miles away in phoenix, where he was taken down in a shootout with police as he tried to leave the scene. tonight, some relief for sergeant stauffer's widow. >> you have made it possible for us to move forward to work finding peace for the long road ahead. >> reporter: and a federal law enforcement source tells abc news that while investigators believe garnet acted alone, they are not ruling out the possibility that he may have had help. >> all right, marcy gonzalez. marcy, thanks. >>> and now to the controversial case playing out in california. the doctors who declared a teenage girl brain dead and the family demanding

we even allow them to do this the first nation that needs to disarm without question is the united states. army grieve the loss of every soldier. his mother father brothers and wife will forever grieve as was. grief that was compound about the failing of his army.

[applause] gentlemen, the united states army band and chorus. ♪ ♪ arrive for the flag of the free maya standard forever daymber the proclaim as they march but by their march they live forever ♪ ooray for the flag of the free banner forevera remember the day the claim as they march marchy their they live forever ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic leader of the united states house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. [applause] [speaking native american language] >> good morning. it is an honor to be here with our speaker, to be here with our , with american brother ron kind, with the distinguished senator johnson, and senator inhofe, and we in california take great pride in having the largest number of native americans. and of course, with the admiral that we will hear from later. in 1941, a young member of a tribe, charles, joined the u.s. of hisne of 17 members tribe, he was recruited to speak their language in service to our country in world war ii. even in a nation that has long denied him his basic rights that long refused his people citizenship, that

of his time in the military haunt more than a decade from the 82nd airborne decision of the united states army. mike never served in combat but has been fighting an internal war for years. >> you get better and crash back down. it's endless. another soldier assaulted him. he didn't report the dismept. he was too afraid to speak up. >> i thought god would protect me, and he didn't. that's the toughest betrayal of all. i feel betrayed by the government and the military. >> there are nearly six-times more men than women in the military and female ails are more likely to be targeted. according to a 2012 department of defence survey approximately 14,000 active duty servicemen said they faced unwanted sexual contact in the last year compared to 12,000 women. this is the first time mike is speaking publicly about his assault, and sharing his medical records, showing he suffered night mares, flash backs, abuse and angry outbursts. the assault pushed him to the brink. i ended up binge drinking and ended up with my 22 rifle in my mouth, drunk. the last time i was putting pressure on the trigger >> why d

today, and i'm a marine talking about this, the united states army, one of the best that it's been, 315r average 60 month enlistee. >> you're goingto need some of these terrific volunteers and those who have served the nation so gallantly and have sacrificed ever so much, as you have pointed out, for all of us. sir, thankkyou. the book is american heroes on the homefront online at bookstores everywhere and as i saidthis is my book, he wre it, but it is my book. lou: and president obama swapping out for hillary clinton? we have that here and he has doublingownnd getting a lou: the new book -- and getting a lot of attention highlighted in the book and the obama campaign's consideration of replacing joe biden with hillary clinton. he first heard that story right here on our broadcast. ed klein broke the story first. more than a year ago. >> are you saying that you think it is all but a done deal that he will be replaced on the ticket? >> i'm not saying that at all. i am saying that there are those inside the obama campaign were thinking maybe we should consider replacing joe biden and they

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states army band and chorus. ♪ >> ♪ hurrah for the flagee may it wave as a standard forever the champ of the land in the city remember the day proclaim as they march by their might they live forever ♪ ♪ hooray for the flag of the free may it wave as a banner forever seam of the land and the remember the day as they march that by their might they live forever ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic leader of the united states house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. [applause] [speaking native american language] >> good morning. it is an honor to be here with our speaker, to be here with our native american brother, with ron kind, with the distinguished senator johnson, and senator inhofe, and we in california take great pride in having the largest number of native americans. in 1941, and of course, with the admiral that we will hear from later. in 1941, a young member of a tribe, charles, joined the u.s. army, one of 17 members of his tribe, he was recruited to speak their language in service to our country in wor

today, and i'm a marine talking about this, the united states army, one of the best that it's been, 315rage 60 month enlistee. >> you're going to need some of these terrific volunteers and those who have served the nation so gallantly and have sacrificed ever so much, as you have pointed out, for all of us. sir, thankkyou. the book is american heroes on the homefront online at bookstores everywhere and as i said, this is my book, he wrote it, but it is my book. lou: and president obama swapping out for hillary clinton? we have that here and he has more coming up as a business owner, i'm constantly putting out fires. so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cascard from capital one, i get 2% cash back on ery purchase, every d. i break my back around here. nally soone's recognizing me with unlimited rewards! meetings start at 11, cindy. [ male announcer get the spark business card from capital one. choose 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase, every d. what's in your wallet? i need your timesheets, larry! it's lots of things. all waking up. c

applause ] >> we have so much more on the way, but first let's hear it for our outstanding united states armys! [ cheering and applause ] >> and now it is my great honor to welcome the first family of the united states of america. [ cheering and applause ] ♪[ music ] >> welcome, first family. mrs. robinson, mr. obama, sasha, malia, welcome and merry happy holidays. >> we're still having fun, a little wet but still having fun. >> our main job today is to light the national christmas tree and so we're going to need a little help from you to count it down. we're going to start at five. >> yeah. let's do five. >> since it's a little wet we shouldn't start at 10, all right? so everybody ready? five, four, three, two, one. [ cheering and applause ] >> merry christmas! ♪[ music ] ♪[ music ] >> she's a 20 time grammy award winner and a presidential medal of freedom recipient with an honorary doctorate of harvard -- >> so aretha franklin is getting ready to come on, the queen of soul, but the main attraction there, the fir adorned in all those beautiful l.e.d. lights is all aglow. we want to see the q

he served in the united states army rangers. >> he loved his country and his family and he loved hisfriends. he loved his craft. he loved doing whatever he was doing. >> the accident happened saturday night as the couple was headed to their hotel. >> forget about hillary clinton and a possible 2016 presidential race, speculation is now centering about what role the former secretary of state will play in next year's midterm elections. "usa today" reports that the ready for hillary clinton action committee is asking the members to support candidates endorsed by clinton for the midterm elections. there is speculation she could hit the campaign trail for the friends and allies. her office is not commenting and a spokesman says it is too usually to start talking about what will happen in 2014. >> just released list is revealing highest paid university executives in the country. there is no shortage of californiains including the president of usc taking home $1.4 million in 2010 and university of that veteran president received $1.2 million. dan ford president received $1.1 million. and ch

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states army band and chorus. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> ladiesates house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. [applause] >> good morning. it is an honor to be here with our speaker, to be here with our native american brother, with ron kind, with the distinguished senator johnson, and senator inhofe, and we in california take great pride in having the largest number of native americans. in 1941, and of course, with the admiral that we will hear from later. in 1941, a young member of a tribe, charles, joined the u.s. army, one of 17 members of his tribe, he was recruited to speak their language in service to our country in world war ii. even in a nation that has long denied him his basic rights that long refused his people citizenship, that long neglected the challenges facing native americans, charles volunteered. like many of his generation, his fellow code talkers and service members, he signed up to protect and defend our communities and shared homeland. that is the oath of office that we all take to protect and -- like many of his

united states is an outrage. it's an outrage. i'll just give you one example. four years ago at fort hood, texas, nadal hasan, a major in the united states senate army, killed 11 people and wounded about 30 more. this is about four years ago, and you'll remember it. the reason why it took so long for him to be brought to justice, i'm not sure i understand exactly why, but there was some concern -- and a concern i shared -- that if we identified this for what it truly was which was a terrorist attack on our own soil, that it might undermine the fairness of his trial and give him some grounds to appeal and perhaps escape the just punishment for what he did. major hasan when there was initial review of what he did and evidence that he had shown absolutely clear signs of being radicalized and joining the fight of islamic extremists against the united states of america, against his own government, that those were completely ignored by the military. by the army, in an exercise of political correctness. and even though he stood up that day and he said god is great in the traditional cry of al qaeda and islamic extremists and others who are bent on suicidal and homici

the words i'm getting from our detectives is he served four years in the united states army. >> reporter: garnet, who was arrested in 2010 for threatening to kill president obama began this week's crime spree in atlanta where he tried to hold up a bank but failed. from there, investigators say he drove nearly 300 miles to tupelo where he robbed a bank and shot the two officers. five days later, the fbi said he robbed another bank. 1600 miles away in phoenix where he was taken down in a shootout with police as he tried to leave the scene. some relief for sergeant stauffer's widow. >> you have made it possible for us to move forward toward finding peace for the long road ahead. >> reporter: a federal law enforcement source tells abc news while investigators believe garnet acted alone, they are not ruling out the possibility that he may have had help. marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. >>> the family of an american contractor abducted two years ago in pakistan is speaking out for the first time, just days after he appeared in a new video. warren weinstein is apparently held captive by al q

german-born jew on the reporter for stars and stripes that is a newspaper still today of the united states army and they were the first americans to enter the confines of concentration camp in that area. they wanted to be the first to reach the camp and they were. while american soldiers from the others occupied coming and i'm reading now with regard that they found at the entrance to the concurrence to the campus itself they headed for their first glimpse of the prisoners. nothing could have prepared them for what they witnessed their. the inmates gained control the night before when most of the remaining guards had fled to be unsure of whether the german soldiers remained outside of the barracks they stayed inside until marguerite and peter opened the gate at the closure. the visitors were americans and she wrote after tattered man weeping, yelling and shouted will lead america swept towards the gate. those that walk or crawl in the confusion that were so hysterically happy. they were there during a five minutes he was patted on the back and embraced enthusiastically by the prisoners. afterwa

him more than a decade after his honorable discharge from the 82nd airborne division of the united states army. mike never served in combat, but he's been fighting an internal war for years. >> you get better for a while and crash back down. it's endless. >> mike says another soldier sexually assaulted him in 1998. he didn't report the incident because he was too afraid to speak up. >> i thought god would protect me. god didn't protect me. and that's the toughest betrayal of all. i also feel betrayed by the government and the military. >> there are nearly six times more men than women in the military, and females are more likely to be targeted. but according to a 2012 department of defense survey, approximately 14,000 active duty service men said they faced unwanted sexual contact in the last year compared to 12,000 women. this is the first time mike is speaking publicly about his assault and sharing his medical records. they show he suffered from nightmares, flashbacks, alcohol abuse and angry outbursts, the assault pushed him to the brink. >> i ended up binge drinking a lot and ended up thre

and there she is in her oather job as a first lieutenant in the united states army. she's a bronze star recipient and served two tours of duty in afghanistan. she has received a number of awards and badges for her bravery. and she did -- she's an amazing young woman. i heard her speaking this morning. what do you think? >> she's beautiful on the inside and out. and i want to say at a time when everybody seems to be talking about miley cyrus, i've been on your show talking about miley cyrus and she's half naked out there. i think young girls would do well to set aside miley cyrus and look at a girl like rachel as a pro football cheerleader gave up her vera wang cheerle cheerleading cos tul, which tumy uniform. >> beautiful, smart, and look at her sacrificing her life for this country. amazing. i'm with you, monica. she's a role model. >> she went from the cheerleading. she did the uso tour as a cheerleader and then became a cultural ambassador in afghanistan. she helped a woman give birth to a baby. she's super woman. >> well, she's a jets fan, i'm a giants fan. good

united states, national military family association, naval enlisted reserve association society of medical consultants to the armed forces, the military chaplains association of the united states of america, the retired enlisted association, united states army war rant officers association, utah united states colt guard association, chief petty officers association, veterans of foreign wars of the united states, and vietnam veterans of america. this distinguished list of organizations consisting of members and former members of the united states military have registered their opposition. i can only hope at this point that members of the senate will listen to this. this is a so-called savings of $6 billion out of an $80 billion package. surely we can find $6 billion without putting an $80,000 penalty on the back of an e-7 retired enlisted person who is not rich, who served honorably under one set offer rules and who he's been now told, sorry. and i have to say this. when people see the government not keeping their promises, i think it's destructive to our system of government. and it's exactly the sort of thing we're seeing with obamacare. it's not being overly repetitive to remind my colleagues that the president of the united states, barac

excellent briefing from the colonels and the generals, and the chief master sergeants of the united states army there. and unanimous, unanimous was their view that they believe that we in the congress of the united states are not taking care of them. they've always looked to us to provide them with the pay, the benefits, the housing, the equipment, the training that's necessary to do their job. they don't believe we're doing that anymore. they believe when we enact sequestration and with a meat-ax cut across the board -- and don't ask me about it. ask general odierno and the chiefs who have testified before the armed services committee about the devastating effects of readiness, of training, of acquisition. and most of all, on the morale of the men and women who are serving who literally don't know, some of them, what they're going to be doing the next day. the next day they don't know if they're going to be able to fly their airplanes or run their tanks or have the exercises that have been planned for months and even years. they don't know because of almost day to day trying to apportion funds

>> rose: ray odierno is here, he is a four-star general and the 38th chief of staff of the united states army. he is best known for successfully implementing 2007 surge and for his units capture of saddam hussein exactly ten years ago, i am pleased to welcome general odierno to this table. >> thank you, it is great to be here. >> rose: take me back to that moment and what that meant. >> well, at the time, it was important. we had been really looking for him for about six months, you know, we had started in about june of 2003 and we had figured out early on that we were going about it wrong in the beginning. we were worried, we had the cards and you had the faces on the cards and we thought they were somehow related but we realized they weren't, what it was about is understanding who is trustful in the circle wise, it had a lot to do with family and people he grew up with and so, you know, working very closely with our special operations forces we started to put the puzzle together. we probably did 30, 40 raids thinking we were close, but finally, you know, on december 13th we got him and, you

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states army band and horus. >> ♪ >> ♪ for the flag of free may it wave as a standard forever remember the day proclaim as they march but by their march they wave forever hooray for the flag of the free may it wave as a banner orever remember the day the claim as they march that by their march they live forever hey! ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic leader of the united states house of representatives, he honorable nancy pelosi. [applause] >> good morning. it is an honor to be here with our speaker, to be here with our native american brother, with ron kind, with the distinguished senator johnson, and senator inhofe, and we in california take great pride in having the largest number of native americans. in 1941, and of course, with the admiral that we will hear from later. in 1941, a young member of a commanche tribe, charles, joined the u.s. army, one of 17 members of his tribe, he was recruited to speak their language in service to our country in world war ii. even in a nation that has long denied him his basic rights

with the fourth infantry of the united states army.us about the manufacturing wars in america. do you have any sense that michigan, detroit, can compete with the advantages you have in south carolina? >> we have been in south carolina now for 40 years. every company has to decide what they're going to do. we came here for a number of reasons. first of all, the infrastructure is right for us. and the access to ports, in particular. >> come on. i will buy all that, but it was a union differential, wasn't it? au went to south carolina for low wage. have those wages grown on a real bases in 40 years? yourm, i don't agree with hypothesis. we operate 14 plants in the u.s. three are unionized. the pay and benefits between our union and nonunion plants are virtually the same. >> interesting. >> we have to continue to move forward and we are determined as workforce in all of our plans, in particular in south carolina. >> how many workers will you hire for your plants in the next year? >> we announced with the $759 investment we will be hiring 5

texas, some four years ago, at the hands of major nadal hassan, a radicalized major in the united states army, who shouted the word "a allah achbar" before he proceeded to mow down 12 people that cost them to end their lives, and injury 40 more soldiers and military who were injured that day. well, the majority leader seems to think this group of nonurgent and controversial mid-level nominees, that we have to get this done. that's why he's jamming this through and refusing to allow us to amend this legislation with a fix to the military pension issue or to allow us to honor the victims at fort hood with the recognition and the benefits that they so richly deserve. unfortunately, like so much around here lately, it's all politics, all the time, even if that means sliding our wounded -- slighting our wounded warriors and refusing to honor 13 brave americans who was killed by a terrorist attack at a u.s. army base. so, madam president, i would ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending motion so that i may offer a motion to concur with amendment 2602 which is filed at the desk. the presiding

and in the united states army especially. then we went to the gulf war and we had to forgeneral -- to take seven and so we ended up with 500,000 troops there. then we come to bosnia. there's people fighting and you can't tell the good from the bad and you can't spell the names. they don't have any vowels, you can't pronounce them. and so as barry testified, my predecessor take 400,000 troops to deal with this problem. and that wasn't terribly helpful. nobody on my staff had ever tbon boss knee imrap they didn't know what they were talking about. and i got a lot of information from it. but nobody could tell me what the military dimension was. so i talk to my buddy because he was actually doing most of the -- i would like to go there and learn this. so you to unit. anybody who gets involved in bosnia. it will ruin your career and probably get fired. so not only did you have the problem in the pentagon of wanting to use at lough force. you had a lot of people jumping tbrak the problem. it was a rocky road. ly say that. it was fu

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the united states army band and chorus. ♪ ♪ >> ♪ arrive for the flagay it wave as a standard forever remember the day proclaim as they march but by their march they live forever ♪ >> ♪ hooray for the flag of the free may it wave as a banner forever remember the day the claim as they march that by their march they live forever ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic leader of the united states house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. [applause] [speaking native american language] >> good morning. it is an honor to be here with our speaker, to be here with our native american brother, with ron kind, with the distinguished senator johnson, and senator inhofe, and we in california take great pride in having the largest number of native americans. in 1941, and of course, with the admiral that we will hear from later. in 1941, a young member of a tribe, charles, joined the u.s. army, one of 17 members of his tribe, he was recruited to speak their language in service to our country in world war ii. even in a nation that has long deni

army, the environs of the united states military academy in west point in 2011. and if you go through my paper, i make some arguments about the logical implications of gates' vision. >> so, gordon, i would agree with the fact that the word "shape," shape the international environment means all things to all people. so for me, the most important elements are deterring adversaries from mischief or aggression, reassuring arter ins and allies of our -- partners and allies of our commitment to them, and, you know, working with allies and partners to build their capacity to contribute to regional and international security. you know, i agree with a lot of phil's comments about readiness for what. we can't predict specifics, but i think the mission manies of the u.s -- missions of the u.s. military have been fairly consistent there being able to deter and defeat aggression against our allies, crisis response, counterterrorism ask so forth on down the list. that's just a sampling, not the full list. to mitzi's point about, you know, again, i agree with the importance of

tendencies to blame the united states for what was happening in the middle east and basically ended up declaring war against his own country even while wearing uniform of the united states army. well, he killed 12 people in fort hood, texas, killeen, texas, while standing up and yelling allah akbar, a cry often used by suicide bombers and other terrorists in the middle east and elsewhere. clearly this was not a case of workplace violence. that's what the government called it. workplace violence. this was a terrorist attack, pure and simple. no more, no less than what happened that killed 3,000 americans on september 11, 2001. now you know what the united states government did in 2001, quite appropriately, in my view? the secretary of defense exercised his discretion to award purple hearts and the appropriate and commensurate benefits that go along with being casualties of war. that was war being declared against the united states. and the united states congress issued an authorization for the use of military force recognizing it as a act of war. but when i tried to offer this amendment to recognize the loss of life in the line of duty of 11 military members and a department

you've got members of the united states military, the u.s. army performing that arctic airborne operation. that means they are jumping out of the back hatch of this plane loaded down with arctic gear. it's all in preparation for training exercises that are going to happen later on this winter. >> steve: it clear to see how the shoots get deployed. it's clear to see how static -- now we're on one of pairt trooper's el mets. wait for the guy waiting to jump ahead of him. they want to make sure that they are prepared once they get to the arctic area down below. >> they have the white camo on, too, which makes them look like storm troopers. >> watch this guy go down. you see the frigid landscape get closer and closer. the sky even looks cold. if you're having a cold day where you're living right now, just think about these guys. the money and women in our military are prettyin credible. >> all hands on deck on this cruise ship because of this. this a funnel cloud. there's 2 hoon miles. it's not just one. there were two on one side and two on the other

again about four years ago when a radical jihadist who happened to be wearing a uniform of the united states army, major nay -- nadal hassan opened fire at fort hood army base in killean, texas. that shooter killed american soldiers and one civilian and shot and injured 30 more. this is a terrible tragedy, and i remember president obama coming down for the memorial service where we honored the lives of these people who lost their lives in this terrible attack. but no matter how you slice it, this was a terrorist attack on american soil. not much different except the means by which it was carried out than what happened on september 11, 2001. prior to committing this terrible terrorist attack, the fort hood shooter exchanged no fewer than 20 e-mails with a senior al qaeda operative, walk walk -- anwr al-alawaki. the shooter, major hassan, had essentially become more and more radicalized over time, and this is a real problem with our military that seemed to have turned a blind eye. but it's also a problem when the federal government calls this workplace violence and doesn't call it a terrorist attac

united states. president andrew johnson, general of the army ulysses s. grant, checkout the western army after two years. we'll keep you anything you want. that says it all. >> tell us more. >> red cloud was somebody nobody knows today because we don't know about american indians at the 1800s. a lot of what this book is about is not the fighting that went on, but what was life like in 1840, 1850, 1860, red clauss, crazy worst, sitting bill. when they were fighting each other, fighting other tribes. the excitement about what the great plains were like the early 1800s. >> at one point, raincloud, he would never call it an empire in our lexicon, he was one fifth of the contiguous united states. he controlled from canada down to the colorado, was not in arizona, new mexico border east of minnesota to salt lake. so we like to think it's a big, epic scope about the manifest destiny and white people living in an inevitable clash of raincloud's entire emanation empire of the united states. >> affixed to question if he was so victorious and had that much land what

iraq is not of any pushover for anyone but i don't think anyone would imagine that the united states would send an army up to tehran in the event of a conflict again i wouldn't want to see a conflict but in the event of a conflict it would be all air naval and missiles. and a say surveillance is another huge topic and that's not likely to end well i understand that what do you think it is necessary how will people counter it or will they just give up. no i think what's going to happen is out of the court ruled as you know that. you know the court just a court just ruled at the federal level the district level that the that the gathering all the information from telephone calls e-mails and the rest of it on everybody and putting it on file that this was unconstitutional but there's two more courts to rule and i don't think the supreme court will let that stand but i do think this there's probably going to be some reforms made of the n.s.a. and its bugging and it's all the rest of it all the material it gathers and which i think are basically done for the security the united states i don't think they're

thirteen but doing it a must pass bill is cuz the constitution provides that there's no standing army in united states that may surprise people given that no trains is today. the fowler to acquire appropriations bills. we passed every two years of army cease to exist that means they're going to pass this bill one way or another right. why is it that some lawmakers are saying that this is going to add a lot of things are going to expire if this is not taking care of before the holiday anyway that really the case scores is something that they could possibly take up in january on a comeback they will pass this bill. i dated a guy in my mind they will pass this night they will not allow people to lose come back to it and convinced that many many things that don't work in congress is on those things they actually will work out some agreement to do so for whatever that's under the provisions of the spell for some all get out there isn't happy with that let's take a listen first to what senator carl levin had to say the bill basically takes half of what we did in the senate. and yes that is to give flexibili

but it is clearly lining the united states with the iraqi army and the iraqi military. and if in its efforts to fight against al qaeda. of course we want to defeat al qaeda, but just adding ours into the mix without integrating shia, suni and kurds is a dangerous route to go down. >> want to bring up when michael knight with the washington institute for near east policy told the "new york times." here is what she had. >> there is one place in the world where al qaeda can run a major affiliate without any drone or air attack and that is in syria. statement? super bowl, first, iraq and syria are two places. but i would say it is worse than that. i think there is an al qaeda ability to operate without risk of u.s. drone strikes across in africa. yes, we do have u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen. but we have seen a resurgence and expansion of al qaeda operations through a much wider area. i think what we are seeing, we have seen a withdrawal of the u.s. from iraq. a planned withdrawal from afghanistan. a a reluctance to engage in syria. a minimal engagement in lybia

but our next guest shed over 100 pounds in order to accomplish her ultimate goal, joining the united states armyh all the -- certainly the holiday pies are about to start showing up at the house. you got the bunt cake and jell-o mold, everything else. how did you do it, how did you lose 100 pounds? >> dedication, motivation. i work with the guys at the station all the time. i work out seven days a week and diet. i avoid any situation that could give me pie and cookies and all that stuff. >> i understand, though, kind of what gave you the motivation. you're on this whale watching trip and you see the people looking overboard and almost idolizing members of the coast guard. when you realized you didn't meet the weight requirement, did your heart sink to your stomach or how did you feel at that time? >> i knew i was heavy, just didn't realize how heavy i was. seeing how the people reacted, just the coast guard in gem, i wanted someone to look at me that way. >> that is so nice. now that you are 100 -- more than 100 pounds lighter which, again, is amazing. anybody who has tried to do that knows that