have left a dirty and even toxic mess for a local community isn't as it turns out the united states department of defense is the biggest polluter on the planet and as you'll see the mess may just be too expensive for the pentagon to clean up. the united states department of defense the planet's biggest polluter with hundreds of military bases around the world the department is responsible for more ways than any other company or country this is a consistent pattern of a lack of concern for the environment and for human life and of course that's something that's part of an imperial mindset the problem has persisted throughout history from nuclear testing in the pacific in the fifty's fire. to nato attacks dropping depleted uranium in libya it gets into the water table and it does damage to the kidneys and the liver is very very highly dangerous some countries say they've had enough like japan which is pushing for the ouster of u.s. troops stationed in okinawa what looks like ninety thousand people in okinawa and thousands others across japan seems to represent people saying as they have been for quite some

of defense, honorable leon e. panetta from the u.s. department of defense. general martin e. dempsey, united states army, chairman, joint chiefs of staff. the honorable robert, if i heal, tunds secretary of defense, and controller of the department. thank you for being here. mr. secretary, the time is yours. >> thank you very much, members of this committee, always nice to be able to return to the house i'll ask that my statement be made part of the record. >> no objection, so ordered. >> i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the president's budget request for fiscal year 2013 for the department of defense. these brave men and women, and they are, for anybody that's gone to the battlefield and talked to those in uniform, they are without question, the next greatest generation of individuals. along with the department easy vilian professionals who support them, they've done everything that's been asked of them and more during more than a decade of war and, again, i thank you for the support you provided to them. if fy 13 budget request for the department of defense was, indeed

of defense. department of defense of united states and what i would like to see that russia using to fully comp live with all international obligations and commitments very girly in supply to middle east and of course i would like to say boldly syria we don't we deal. in norms and there is no restrictions regarding our arms supply to syria and or away you'll see that we didn't supply offensive arms we are supplying just syria. defensive arms and that so. is writing in this article that we discussed in the beginning of this interview i quote in the upcoming ten years around. so one hundred sixty six billion dollars will be allocated for modernizing the defense sector and quite well this money they will go mostly to the russian weapons producers over. yes of course it's will be all huge sum of money is it a lot for the russian i mean. to us we would like to get more. broadly please don't. get some. said by mr putin there. our economy our government is in debt to russian army because previously we did invest a lot of money to russian military and don't forget that at the same turn all of western countr

united states soldier. >> the department of defense also issued an apology today to the muslim community in the washington, d.c., area and said the pentagon is fully investigating this incident. >>> heart-breaking news for the family of the dutch prince buried in an avalanche last week. today doctors say 43-year-old johan may never wake up from his coma. after suffering massive brain damage. the middle son of queen beatrix was skiing off course in austria when the avalanche happened. >>> an emotional sendoff for hugo chavez as he departed for cuba for emergency surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. he is confident he will recover, already talking about his re-election campaign this fall. >> there is some talk the tumor could be malignant as well. >> thanks, janelle. >>> an online insurance company is launching an investigation tonight after a photograph of a 9/11 hijacker was used in its new facebook campaign. atta used to promote a plan for insurance savings. atta was the ring leader of the 9/11 hijacker that say flew two airplanes into the world trade center. this morning insurance savings pulled the ad

on april 13th, 2011, the president of the united states announced his intention to reduce the department of defense budget by $400 billion through 2023. however, his announcement was unsupported by any type of comprehensive strategic review or risk assessment. in fact, then secretary gates testified before congress that he only learned the night before about this massive proposed cut in our defense spending. now, the president proposes $487 billion in cuts over ten years and told the cuts are in the budget driven, but based on a review of the defense priorities. respectfully, this doesn't add up. unfortunately, this defense budget continues the administration's habit of putting short term political considerations over our long term national security interests. in afghanistan, our military commanders initially asked for a serge of 40,000 traps. the president disregarded that sending 30,000 troops instead and announced a date when to withdraw. the commanders recommended maintaining the full force throughout this year's fighting season, but the president, again, disregarded their advice and announced

of it. >> reporter: in a surprising departure the defense department encouraged them to participate. normally they don't even admit to being part of one of the military's most highley specialized forces. >> the united states launched a targeted operation against that compound. >> reporter: when seal team 6 killed bin laden last may, the military wouldn't even acknowledge they existed. but the new film appears to be a recruiting video. >> this film does allow us to explain in a very visual way what being a seal means. i think it's a valuable first look. >> reporter: some in the military worry that the government is giving up the seals biggest weapon, the secrecy of its tactics. >> splashing this all over the media and i don't understand that. >> reporter: earlier this month a retired lieutenant general criticized the government for being to forthcoming about success elf seal missions. >> you going to fly in and shoot down every [bleep] helicopter and kill all the seals >> reporter: ben tracy. >> and we he will be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, "body art expo." . >>> a colorful gathering this weekend at the body art expo

on april 13th, 2011, the president of the united states announced his intention to reduce the department of defense budget by $400 billion through 2023. however, his announcement was unsupported by any type of comprehensive strategic review or risk assessment. in fact, then secretary gates testified before congress that he only learned the night before about this massive proposed cut in our defense spending. now, the president proposes $487 billion in cuts over ten years and told the cuts are in the budget driven, but based on a review of the defense priorities. respectfully, this doesn't add up. unfortunately, this defense budget continues the administration's habit of putting short term political considerations over our long term national security interests. in afghanistan, our military commanders initially asked for a serge of 40,000 traps. the president disregarded that sending 30,000 troops instead and announced a date when to withdraw. the commanders recommended maintaining the full force throughout this year's fighting season, but the president, again, disregarded their advice and announced

department of defense payloads. we had done payload operations, carried laboratories for many of the countries in the world as well as providing a research laboratory for people in united states. with the stroke of a pen it is decided that we were unwilling to risk human life to deploy satellites that could be as well deployed in an unmanned fashion. we sort of lost track of our objectives. what we or after was continuing the operation of the premier launcher within all space systems of the world. and we're also trying to make this launcher economically feasible. unfortunately we lost sight of what our objectives were in the early phase of the program. we basically accepted a placebo for the loss of the challenger crew. i think if they were here today, they would say we went the wrong way. >> do you think perhaps too much was asked of the space shuttle? it originally was conceived as something that wroub all things to all programs. perhaps that was asking too much. >> well, i'd say yes and no. i'm not quif kating in this. i think it literally was everything technically that we asked it to do. it could deploy, it could retrieve. it carried laboratories. it was a launcher for s

on april 13, 2011, the president of the united states announced his intention to reduce the department of defenseget by $400 billion through 2013 -- however, his announcement was not supported by any type of comprehensive, strategic review or risk assessment. in fact, then secretary gates testified before congress that he only learned the night before about this massive proposed cut in our defense spending. now, the president proposes $47 billion in cuts over 10 years -- $487 billion in cuts over 10 years. respectfully, this does not add up. unfortunately, this defense budget continues the administration's habit of putting short-term political considerations over our long- term national security interest. in afghanistan, merely to commanders -- military commanders asked for a surge of 40,000 troops. the president is regarded their advice and sent 30,000 troops instead, then announced a date for withdrawal. commanders recommended retaining the full surge force throughout this year. the president again disregarded their advice. the presidentraq, disregarded the advice of his commanders again, dragg

united states. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has the story. >> we at the department of defense regretlogize for this incident. we are investigating it, learning from it and committing to ensuring such an incident will never happen again. >> senior defense department official apologized for american muslim community for what the u.s. government called inadvertent burning of religious materials by u.s. personnel in afghanistan. this comes after a letter of apology from president obama, was delivered to afghan president hamid karzai. the top u.s. commander, general john allen and defense secretary leon panetta offered apologies of their own. now the pentagon is promising to do more. >> i know that apologies are never enough and do not erase the incident. after the completion of the prompt and decisive investigation, we will hold people appropriately accountable. the response is this event at theition lammic center in urban washington was peaceful and call made to recognize how some might exploit the incident. >> we understand that the individuals and forces on the ground in afghanistan t

on april 13, 2011, the president of the united states announced his intention to reduce the department of defense budget by $400 billion through 2013 -- however, his announcement was not supported by any type of comprehensive, strategic review or risk assessment. in fact, then secretary gates testified before congress that he only learned the night before about this massive proposed cut in our defense spending. now, the president proposes $47 billion in cuts over 10 years -- $487 billion in cuts over 10 years. respectfully, this does not add up. unfortunately, this defense budget continues the administration's habit of putting short-term political considerations over our long- term national security interest. in afghanistan, merely to commanders -- military commanders asked for a surge of 40,000 troops. the president is regarded their advice and sent 30,000 troops instead, then announced a date for withdrawal. commanders recommended retaining the fullurge force throughout this year. the president again disregarded their advice. hefinally, in iraq, the president disregarded the advice of his comma

united states. we're already looking at what can happen in owe 14 and then what is happening with deficits around the country. the emphasis that came on is what can the department of defense do but still what do we have to be able to do for what we can do with the money that we have. so there's two arrows of economic realities out there and the budget control act along with the desires for strategic review. at a high level of discussions along with the combat ant commanders and leaders in the jcs and osd as well as played out in two and three-star meetings among what many call the three-star programmers. this was an interim processes as to what does it bring to bear and what can the force do and the bottom line is, a restructured force and i'll show you slide by slide what that means and then you see the $58 billion. that's going from 13 through 17 and 13 through 17 in pb 13. >> a reminder that you can read the president's entire budget request online at c-span.org. also, hearings and briefings related to other web pages at c-span.org. join us later tonight for more from american history tv. the focus is george washington. historian smith reflects on the first president f

defense department encouraged the seals to participate. normally navy seals don't even admit to being part of one of the military's most highly specialized forces. >> the united statesd a targeted operation against that compound in abadabad pakistan. >> reporter: when navy seal team 6 killed bin laden, the military would not even acknowledge the team's existence yet the film appears to be a recruiting video. >> this film does allow us to explain in a very visual way what being a seal means. i think this is a very valuable first look at what we do and how we do it. >> all boots are on the ground. >> reporter: but some in the military community worry the government is giving up the seal's biggest weapon. the secrecy of its tactics. >> splashing all of this all over the media and i flat don't understand that. >> reporter: earlier this month retired lieutenant general james vaught criticized the government about being too forthcoming about seal missions. >> are you going to fly in and shoot down every helicopter and kill every one of your seals. >> reporter: yet the filmmakers say their movie is a tribute to courage and honor, something they feel should not be kept secr

of the united states. >>reporter: the state department says it will work with the afghan government to hold those troops involved accountable. >>justine: a defenseial said the troops did not intent to offend the muslim community by burning copies of the koran, but he says the religious texts were being used at a detention center to pass what he calls extremist messages between prisoners. >>james: we will continue to fall the fallout with that. here's a look at the golden gate bridge as we head to the break. we'll be back with more headlines in a minute, it looks like a light clear shot. >>james: we are back and still falling the rising gas prices at the pump. we spoke with several regular commuters that said they are reducing their expenses by leaving their cars at home. >>reporter: in downtown san francisco, hundreds of people carpool every day win for their rights home. this woman commutes five days a week she says by sharing a car she saves a lot of money. >> like $220 per week that is parking and gas. i have four kids, a single mother so this is my everyday thing. >>reporter: a few blocks away at the ferry building this woman works in the ci

department of defense. the along with san francisco police officers and san francisco police home and security and the university of california san francisco police and the united statesguard set up a scheme. her they used night vision goggles and waited for them to shell out and they did about 3:00 a.m. and the police caught them red handed. and >> as you can see that come along here, they use all of these roads, you tie downs. this is the device could be used to the copper from underneath the ground. >>stanley: this shipyard is always under tight security. this entire operation it came about after we showed you video of them living inside of the freeways. people will soon go to steal copper. they would climb down lee's man holds and the copper wiring can sometimes find the structures to get more copper. it even with the arrest, there was still evident that, but these were still hard at work. i will have more to come on this chlorine--to come on this story it. >>justine: we have a quick look outside. we will be tracking the storm right after this. [music] >> mark: we have some heavy rain around the bay area today. look at the sierra, we have several feet of snow expe

department of defense and the nation. >> the question is do they have, if they've got the sleeper cells and the capability here inside the united states, they'll use it. we have seen them use proxies in buenos aries. hezbollah are financially support bid iran. >> i guess the question for a lot of people is it a good idea or not? i mean a lot of people clearly believer rang to an excitizen shall net. >> they're looking at possibilities and the truth is that they word getting out of two wars, but right now they're saying, you know, you have left us in the lurch, we have got a dangerous iran, we can't predict it and even getting the knowledge is enough to scare the israelis and they have a completely mentality from ours. so how israel hit an iraqi nuclear site 30 years ago, but the iranian sites are very different than that iraqi site? >> absolutely, that was the single target and you have multiple as you hit targets, bunker penetration type technologies, which is very difficult. i'm not sure that israel has all the capability to do it themselves hole lesically, they can do segregated targeting and i don't know the answer to this, but th

department of defense. you heard from patty murray the impact it would have on veterans affairs and the veterans returning from the wars in iraq, afghanistan and elsewhere in sur ves outside the united states. >> you're listening to c span radio's washington today. we are heard in the washington, d.c. area. >> at the white house tonight the president will be honoring more than a million american troops who served in iraq by welcoming a small cross section to a formal white house dinner. among those in attendance, a colonel in the u.s. marine corps, todd rosier. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> what do you expect this evening? >> well, i was invited to attend a dinner at the white house by the president of the united states. what i was told by the sergeant major in charge of organizing the event we would be representative of all the servicemen and women who served in iraq. it is an honor to be selected for that and representative them. i'm expecting to uphold the legacy of honor and courage that's been demonstrated in the war in iraq. >> when did you get word of your invite? >> it was a couple weeks ago they contacted us. then it was a process of submitting information for it. >>

of defense, honorable leon e. panetta from the u.s. department of defense. general martin e. dempsey, united statesy, chairman, joint chiefs of staff. the honorable robert, if i heal, tunds secretary of defense and controller of the department. thank you for being here. mr. secretary the time is yours. >> thank you very much, members of this committee always nice to be able to return to the house i'll ask that my statement be made part of the record. >> no objection so ordered. >> i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the president's budget request for fiscal year 2013 for the department of defense. these brave men and women, and they are for anybody that's gone to the battlefield and talked to those in uniform they are without question the next greatest generation of individuals. along with the department easy vilian professionals who support them, they've done everything that's been asked of them and more during more than a decade of war and, again, i thank you for the support you provided to them. if fy 13 budget request for the department of defense was indeed, a product

department of defense to the department of offense. guest: i think the answer is in order to defend a country, we cannot just build a big wall around the united states and assume that we are going to be saved. 9/11 proved that does not work. people came here from various parts of the world and attacked and killed 3000 americans. those same folks are looking to get their hands on weapons that could kill even more americans and are very committed to that. so, i think the bottom line is in order to protect the country, in order to protect american lives, we cannot just hunker down here at home. we have to look overseas at where those threats come from. that is what has been going on in afghanistan. that is why the basic goal of making sure afghanistan does not revert to a base from which terrorists can attack us is the basic goal. general petraeus said that very thing last week in a meeting when i asked him that question. host: a democratic collar. caller: yes, i was in the navy. your greatest defense in the war department is your diplomatic officers. these are the people who keep us off the front lines. we are killing machines. when you send us in, di

united states is in some type of obligation to support allies in some way. so it does put us in a predicament, and i'm sure it's a concern to the department of defense and the nation. >> fran, do you agree with bob that an israeli attack on iran would be iranian attacks on u.s. interests? >> i believe they will try that. the question is, if they have the sleeper cells and the capability here inside the united states, they'll use it. we have seen them use proxies around the world, in buenos aires, this is what they do. it's a militarily capable organization, hezbollah. they're financially supported and armed by iran. it's a cape nlt they have for just this sort of circumstance where they can strike back at a state power. >> the question for a lot of people is, is it a good idea or not? many israelis believe iran to be an exteistential threat. >> they're looking at iran is headed toward some chaos, some group that is more radical than the one in power now could take over. they're looking at possibilities, and the ruth is they could be hit with missiles right now. and they're looking at this entirely differently. we're getting out of two wars, but they're sayi