in afghanistan. and, again, engaged with us. i can get back to with you more specifics on what we picked up in a classified setting, ma'am, not today. but i can get back to you. >> just to put it -- i look forward to having more detail on that but just to put it in perspective, both of these individuals are engaged in activities to kill americans or our allies, are they not? >> that's correct, senator. >> and so i can't imagine how frustrating it must be, obviously, for our troops to re-encounter one -- someone we've had already in detention. and so one of the concerns i've had is what do we do if tomorrow we recapture them in terms of where do we detain them, to interrogate them? and we -- admiral mccraven, you testified before the committee last year that, for example, if we got them, we couldn't hold him in afghanistan. we needed a place, a long-term detention facility that that would be helpful. can you help me, both of you, where are we on that and what would we do if we captured the two individuals we talked about again tom

and, yet, they're willing to help the taliban to some degree to fight us in afghanistan. and we also see their mischief in all around the world, of course where they attempted to kill an arab ambassador. this is an on going effort. it is something we have to accept as part of the scheme. and we certainly take a lot of prudent steps to maintain our own force protection. but we also see them trying to find their way in and take advantage of anything that any of these asia wakening causes that come up. they tried it in cairo. i think they were pretty well rebuff there. the iranian revolution is not being seen as an example for any of the arab nations in their awakening. so it's not completely successful. it's highly concerning. >> my time is about up. i'll ask you briefly, is all this activity in the region by iran evidence of the fear that people including in the region have that they really have ambitions and they want to stretch out across the region or is it -- can we not conclude that? >> sir, i think one of the reasons we're seeing the unity of the gulf cooperation coun

since i have been in afghanistan through the use of task force transparen transparency, through task force 2010, which has done a great deal about contracting and ensuring transparency and contracting. excuse me. in direct conversation with president karzai, we have taken steps and president karzai appointed a commission to partner with us. for example, to begin the process of removing organized crime from borders, customs depots. the process of doing that will recoup revenue to afghan coughers and reduce the thing you mentioned about the flying of cash out of afghanistan and president karzai who talks about this culture of impunity commissioned the presidential commission to partner with us. we are starting that process now. importantly as well, both of the security ministries, the ministry of defense and ministry of interior led by the ministry of defense completed something called transparency and accountability working group. this is the functions within the ministry defense. all the way from systems acquisition to personnel assignment. they are looking to remove criminal capture.

in afghanistan forever. in fact our strategy, part of the larger isaf strategy, agreed to ultimately with nato isaf and afghanistan in the lisbon conference of november of 2010 called for us to work through the business of transition moving the ansf gradually into the lead for security across the country in a process that will be completed by the end of 2014. the campaign accounts for that. and the campaign accounts for the drawdown of u.s. and isaf forces as the ansf moves to the fore, fully fielded in the battlefield and that process is on track. and in fact, the reduction of u.s. numbers and the reduction of isaf forces in direct support of our isaf and lisbon transition goals of 31 december 2014. with regard to the voices that we hear in the afghan government, the afghan government is on a path towards sovereignty. this is the whole process that we're talking about with respect to the lisbon convention of -- anticipating security leave by 2014. we should encourage the voices of sovereignty, he courage actions within the afghan government that seeks sovereignty, the m.o.u. that i recently signed with the minister wardac was one of the greatest acknowledgements where th

connivance would be disastrous for us in afghanistan in iraq in the terms of oil stability. this post that was paid for by the emergency committee for israel you. see in washington the campaign very obviously pushes for a more affirmative response from president obama on your readiness to go to war with iran in the run up to this year's elections you might want to hear from the powerful israeli lobby and make those statements but for many it would make a mockery of diplomacy in their words and president obama's nobel peace prize as well for that matter i'm reporting that. brian becker from the answer coalition says it's israel and not iran which should be considered a major threat in the middle east. i don't think israel's assertions are real at all i think it's part of the game plan that's part of a coordinated assault how iran does not have a nuclear weapon israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons around it subscribes to the i.a.e.a. the international atomic energy agency its nuclear program is monitored israel won't sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty israel routinely

be disastrous for us in afghanistan in iraq in terms of oil stability in the middle east. this post that was paid for by the merge and see committee for israel you. see in washington they campaigned very obviously pushing for a more affirmative response from president obama on his readiness to go to war with iran in the run up to this year's elections he might want to do the probably three lobby and make those statements but to many it would make a mockery of diplomacy and peace efforts then president obama's nobel peace prize as well for that matter i'm reporting from my heart. if you want to stay up to date on everything that is happening around the world go on to our website or to dot com and here is some of what's waiting for you there right now. tracking the trackers big brother add on allows users to monitor how their online activity is tracking shared by various websites plus. as an asteroid hurdles towards earth experts agree on a way to alter its trajectory in two thousand and thirteen find out more about this celestial body in our. file sharing website r. and b.

correct me if i'm wrong, but i think the last time i checked the gdp without us in afghanistan is around $2 billion? and the gdp with us is around $16 billion? does that sound about right? am i off there, general mattis? >> i'd hate to say it's right. but it sounds about right. >> right. and, by the way, thank you both for all of your service and your leadership. i have said repeatedly i am supportive of what we are trying to do in afghanistan. but i have become increasingly skeptical about the infrastructure projects that we are spending money on. and i have followed the saga of surp from my first days on this committee. i have watched it have successes and, frankly, one of the things i've noticed is that while everyone thinks the idea is good, we have yet to have really an objective study that shows the value of a lot of the surp money. now we have for the first time what i'm affectionately calling the son of surp. which is the afghanistan instra structure project which is part state money and part dod money. which while not unprecedented in our history, it is very unusual for our mili

currently serving beside us in afghanistan and off the horn of africa. in stark contrast one of the world's poorest, most closed and most mill tarized countries, north korea lies less than 20 miles from the northern districts of seoul, a city of over 24 million people. the change in north korean leadership led to a period of increased uncertainty on the korean peninsula. the new leader appears to be following the same pattern of his late father and grandfather, examples of this are north korea's recent announcement of their intention to launch a satellite with a ballistic missile and their continued denounsing the nuclear security summit and alliance military exercises. these actions are increasing tensions on the peninsula. additionally, north korea continues to adhere to its military first policy, they maintain the fourth largest conventional military force in the world, the world's largest special operating force and significant long range artillery capabilities. over 70% of their combat powers are right within 90 miles of the demill tarized tone and n

this is the drone being used in afghanistan. the idea is use the sensor ball and use it to track the systems. this is the off the shelf system that you can use right away. that configuration is not what you exact for missile defense, but it is a beginning. and, in fact, if you designed a better airborne infrared system than the picture i just showed you, this shows the area of space looking down on the earth that an infrared system could see. if you are familiar with infrared systems, it depends on the temperature of the object you are looking at. these detect a black body radiation. heat coming off the object. for warmer objects, 300 kelvin, you can see that. for colder objects, 250 kelvin. that is minus 50 degrees or so. the detection range is not quite as good. you can see three orbits in and around europe. you get substantial coverage. why is that important? if i go back to the radar picture. here is a notional intermediate range heading out of iran and into europe. here are the pictures. the forward-based radar. the trajecto

things we saw muslims are stupid you know when it happens they just beat us in iraq and they're about to beat us in afghanistan so really how stupid can we be doesn't really sound like it i really appreciate you being on the show we're out of time for now we're going to have to leave it there but it's nice to know you and always we appreciate your insight that was michael scheuer former cia intelligence officer also an author and professor. all right time for some loose change going to give you our three stance on three stories chatting here per usual because we have talked a lot about money's influence and politics especially surrounding the citizens united decision and super pacs well now one billionaire says he and his super wealthy friends do not have sufficient influence on u.s. politics just to give a glimpse of citadel the hedge fund that he is the chief executive and their power and markets how significant they are this is him talking this was actually in two thousand a during the financial crisis when he testified explaining. our broker dealer is the largest market maker in options in the united state

saw the solar blankets that were already in use in afghanistan and heard about how much weight it saves our soldiers and also, again, not having to provide those resupply convoys. >> and that's another effect of decreasing -- as people attack these supply lines and some of our soldiers and employees die from these attacks, we think it's very important that you -- we develop these programs. remarkable progress with batteries, for example, recently at a summit conference, a company we supported announced that they doubled the world record energy density looking at batteries which appear to have no additional costs in manufacturing and they are optimistic that it can go much better than that. so this is something that is going to be very important. so we look across and then find energy efficiency, something that is not only for the foreign deployed areas but for the general military we think it's a very important part of stretching the u.s. taxpayer dollars so the military can help our security in a way by saving money by saving energy is a very important deal. >> again, we saw some very

in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and she eventually following us barmy edited version of iraq in two thousand and three the united states wound up with iraq. staying behind. i believe is actually at the as the ultimate purpose of many of these wars we used to think of military bases being built in order to wage the worse and i think increasingly we see the wars themselves as convenient opportunities to station the bases and to have a more. the presence in countries such as iraq such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so that's. what we have here is video games. and. some of the things that go. with it. is to want to this has been at first but soon the. trolls daily says you can say you can buy me one being on your first quite a long time and make that age as it will give way pay for college is something i wanted to do for a long time and done students active and i never wanted this job so had to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constan

interpret as being done without a connivance it would be disastrous for us in afghanistan in iraq in the terms of. this post that was paid for by the merge and see committee for israel. many bus stops in washington the campaign very obviously pushing for a more affirmative response from president obama on he's ready to go to war with iran in the run up to this year's elections he might want to. make that many he would make a mockery of diplomacy and separate and president obama's nobel peace prize as well . from the coalition says its role in this really threatening peace in the middle east. i don't think israel's assertions are real at all i think it's part of the game plan it's part of a coordinated assault iran does not have a nuclear weapon israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons iran subscribes to the i.a.e.a. the international atomic energy agency its nuclear program is monitored israel won't sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty israel routinely invades its neighbors as it has over the past four decades iran has never started a war so when you look at all of these actual fac

after two thousand and fourteen we do after all do not want international forces to be in afghanistan fighting for us. even in our longer indian edict from the video outside we have to believe the prime responsibility of taking over as you can if you should be. there's a possibility of after you think they will be ready by two thousand and four we are already if you if you go into afghanistan if. any of the operations in different parts of their countries are carried out by afghan forces and our forces. because they are close to sensitive because they are part of the afghan nation. there. will be much more effective in much more positive than the role of an international force that was the economics of this there is no doubt if it will have some impact on already quantity but there is no nation in the world there can indifferently rely on foreign aid. so when we are talking about transition we are not thinking only about security transition but also economic transition even if in the short term there is a downturn in the economy in the longer term if there will be. good with wood with proper afghan i

since i have been in afghanistan through the use of task force transparency, through task force 2010, which has done a great deal about contracting and ensuring transparency and contracting -- excuse me -- and in direct conversation with president karzai, we have taken steps, and president karzai has appointed a presidential executive commission to partner with us. for example, to begin the process of removing organized crime from borders, customs depots and airports. the process of being able to do that will recoup substantial amounts of revenue to afghan government coffers. it will reduce the very thing that you mentioned about the flying of cash out of afghanistan and the president, president karzai, who talks publicly and often about this culture of impunity, has, in fact, commissioned the presidential executive commission to partner with us in that process and we're starting that process now. importantly as well, both of the security ministries, the ministry of defense and ministry of interior led by the ministry of defense completed something called transparency and accountabili

after two thousand and fourteen we did after and did not want international forces to be in afghanistan fighting for us. even in our longer. from the very outset we have to believe the prime responsibility of taking over security should be. a disadvantage of afghans and you think they will be ready by two thousand and three we are already if you if you go into afghanistan if. any of the operations in different parts of the countries are carried out by afghan forces and our forces begin. sensitive because they are part of the afghan mission. there. a rule will be much more effectively and much more positive than the role of an international force which is economic thought that there is no doubt. it will have some impact on our economy but there is no nation in the world they're thinking differently rely on foreign aid i thought when we were talking about transition we're not thinking only about securitization but also economic transition even if in the short term there is a downturn to the economy and the longer term there will be. again with with with proper after institutions and with peace i think ab

so why won't they use in the afghanistan? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. late today we heard for the first time the details from inside the cockpit of that harrowing mental breakdown suffered by a jetblue captain. the copilot says the captain scolded air traffic controllers for making too much noise then turned off all the radios in the cockpit and finally told the copilot they weren't going to make it to their destination. captain clayton osbon was charged today with interfering with a flight crew. he's hospitalized in amarillo, texas, where the new york-to-las vegas flight made its emergency landing yesterday. lee cowan is at the airport in vegas with the copilot's statement and the stories of the passengers. lee? >> reporter: scott, as you say, we're learning a lot more about the pilot of that jetblue flight. turns out, his wife told investigators she didn't notice anything unusual when he went to work yesterday but a just-released f.b.i. evidence you

afghanistan. i'm talking about the fact china is essentially exploiting our men and women in the military and the united states taxpayer by having us pay the burden in both blood and money for quite honestly, an area where china is going to be it's one that reaps the windfall benefits of stability in afghanistan. and if they're not willing -- i don't understand where the benefits to the u.s. citizen comes in spending $10 billion a month if 21 months from now the end result is going to be the same. we're going to be out of there, will have lost more men, more women. we will have spent more money, yet china is going to step in, they're stepping in right now. thank you, mr. chairman. >> the gentleman's time expired. mr. franks. >> well, thank you, mr. chairman, and thank all of you for being here. general, appreciate your team being here. i know you put on that uniform. you do a great deal for the cause of freedom. i have to point out a special greeting here to commander waltz, who has been a friend of mine for a very, very long time. ever since he was a little boy. that's not quite correct. but thank you for being here, and i wanted

us wound up with military bases in kosovo mania area macedonia hungary. and croatia following us were only go up garrison in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and you the following us barmy get invasion of iraq in two thousand the fray the united states wound up with iraq. staying behind. i believe is actually at the is the ultimate purpose of many of these wars we used to think of military bases being built in order to wage the wars and i think increasingly we see the wars themselves as convenient opportunities to station the bases and to have a more. the presence in countries such as he rocks such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so that's. what we have in here is video games. and. some of the things that the. swiss are going. to launch a five plus has been at first but soon you trolls daily so you can see again by me one of the first quite a long time and made that ages that will give way pay for college get something i want to do for a long time and tons do is active i never wanted this job so i had to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing s

feelings i mean certainly you know why you believe it's not the intent of actions by the us military in afghanistan when it comes to the surge and of course it's an isolated event but we had that chain of isolated accidents in our gunners from falling for the last year do you remember our building of course some years ago bombardment all we're really sure is in the suburbs so all of our herat province where more than seventy serial. and sware killed and it's. almost every month we have some accidents of killing a shooting i agree that there is sort of thought he was an american and other foreign military force was one of the same time i just want to draw your attention to the reaction of god so of course everybody was shocked by these fragile be about the same time you cannot see and of widespread demonstrations and protests taken all organic stunned by this also sort of psychological thought thinks exists not only was foreign forces but also says well you know for the last ten m. even more years are guns so if i may use of this what got you into casualties and deaths and their sensitivity to such

failed experiment of reaganomics and call in the rich to pay their fair share to help this country and the taliban has ceased talks with us officials in afghanistan should we accept this is the last straw and withdraw from the country. you need to know this somewhere grover norquist is freaking out the millionaire lobbyist and anti-tax master of the republican party may be losing his grip on power but a freshman republican representative rick crawford is introducing legislation in the tea party controlled house to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires are offered legislation mirrors what democrats in the senate have been trying to do for months at a small surtax to anyone who makes more than two million a year one hundred close to representative crawford said about the legislation if we're going to make any progress in addressing the deficit and the bed eventually then we need to find compromise and so it looks like at least one of the boys in the republican party is waking up to the reality is that you ation that republicans can't ride a rich people only agenda to election victory in two thousand and twelve even though they seem eager to

in afghanistan, six u.s. servicemen have been killed by members of the afghan army. if we have to fight both the taliban and the afghan army, there is no reason for us to stay in afghanistan and other day -- and other day. -- another day. >> jeffrey goldberg said the president used the phrase "i do not block." >> is talking to israel and iran. he is saying to israel, do not attack iran. trust me, if iran gets weapons, we will do it. you have to believe me we will do it. you do not have to do it now. that is the message to israel. the message to iran is that we are serious. i do not think it will work, but he is saying to them that you have to stop building weapons. >> he is talking of a snowball effect in the middle east. if iran gets a weapon, the saudis will want a weapon wi. >> the point charles made last week is open for discussion. an attack on iran might get applause in riyad, amman, in baghdad. the prospect of a shiite government concerns other parts of the middle east as well. it is a serious calculation. i think they all want to see iran not have the capacity to launch a nuclear weapon. i think president obama has made it clear that the uni

we fortress again on helping us constitution to secure our country and if we house and put pressure. on outside elements they come in creating think we will be in afghanistan we believe that with security and stability the the opium use will be dealt with in a more sustainable and a more real manner but again as long as there is security as long as there are out of reach there will be the opium of the production of food and some of that money goes again to the traffic or some of this even goes to the insurgents finances and surgeons so it's in the interest interest of insurgents as well to allow production as well as in again the environment for the production of what the american. you know over sixty percent of afghanistan's stock lation is under the age of twenty five it's their respective labor market for these people otherwise there really is a subject for terrorist recruiters absolutely this is the biggest challenge and that's why we see this we need to focus on more sustainable. employment generation and on that in that exist exist and focusing on i would be culture that exists in focusing on infrastructure trade and transit there exists in the middl

troops out of afghanistan, that's quicker than what's currently planned under all the other agreements, and also i'd like to parenthetically mention, i've never heard anybody say us staying in afghanistan forever was even a remote option. i'm not sure where my colleagues earlier got that idea. but back to my point. i understand after october 1 you handle the 68,000 there and the mission all the way to the end of 2014. if suddenly the administration announces without your input they're going to change the parameters with of people you're working with or the capacity you'll have in place during this transition, what impact will that have on our ability to be successful with those reduced resources and/or a different model that it's remarkably different than what you're planning to use? >> i, first, there's no indication that the administration is -- >> well, there are those in the legislative branch pushing that, and sometimes that has some impact. not often. >> it would ultimately be a function of what the number would be. but the nature of the relationship that we have right now is that the conversation about what combat power is necessary, what the force structure ought to

in afghanistan, six u.s. service members have been killed by members of the afghan army. if we have to fight the taliban and the afghan army, there is no reason for us to stay in afghanistan another day. >> the president told jeffrey goldberg that iran and israel should take seriously the possibility of american action against iran nuclear facilities. he used the phrase, "i do not laugh -- bluff." >> tsa into israel, do not attack iran. -- he is saying to israel, do not attack iran. if iran gets the weapon, we will do it. you do not have to do it now. the message to iran is that we are serious. he is saying to them that you have to stop building weapons. >> there is the snowball effect in the middle east if iran gets the weapons. >> the point charles krauthammer made last week is up for discussion. an attack on iran might get applause in amman, riyad, baghdad. the prospect of a shiite government concerns other parts of the middle east. it is a calculation. i think they all want to see iran not have the capacity to launch a nuclear weapon. i think president obama has made it clear that the united states would take all steps to keep iran from having a

barbara starr is at the pentagon for us with how the troops are protecting themselves and sarah sidner is in afghanistan with sarah. tell us a little bit more about the chilling threat from the taliban. >> reporter: yeah, the taliban sent me an e-mail this morning and in it it basically talked about the fact it has to avenge those who were killed and it said that it would take revenge on any american by beheading any american who is on afghan soil so a very strong threat there from the taliban. now, this threat came after we heard from someone who was in the village, the same village where this soldier accused of opening fire and killing 16 civilians. we heard from one of the villagers and an official in the area saying during a funeral that had some high-level afghan officials and the brother of president karzai, there's small arms fire that broke out. we understand at this point that four afghan soldiers have been wounded. we have not gotten anymore information out of the area at this point in time but four afghan soldiers wounded an enthe attack, no one claimed responsibility yet for this attack but

using less fuel in theater can mean fewer fuel convoys which will save lives. for every 50 convoys of fuel we bring in to afghanistan, a marine is killed or wounded. that's too high a price to pay for us. being efficient in what we do is part of that. and we're doing a lot of efficiencies. everything from new hull coatings to our ships, to replacing light bulbs with l.e.d.s, to using smart grids and smart meters. but we've got to get -- we've got to do more. than just be more efficient. thankful thankfully, canada provides more than a quarter of the oil the united states uses. but that still leaves us buying too much from those who may not be our friends and who may not have our best interests at heart. all you have to do is turn on the television in the last year and watch the news on emerging threats and multiple threats to energy security. we are too vulnerable in this area. we would never allow some of these countries to build our ships or our aircraft or our ground units, but we give them a say in whether those ships sail, those aircraft fly or those ground vehicles operate. and an even greater vulnerability is

in. where we do not have control over saw so that if we foreclose again on helping afghanistan and to secure our country and if we help us and put pressure. on outside elements that come in create insecurity in afghanistan we believe that was acute and stability the the opium issue will be dealt with in a more sustainable in a more real manner but again if as long as there is security as long as there are areas out of reach there will be the opium of the production of opium and some of that money goes again to the traffickers some of this even goes to the insurgents its finances and surgeons so it's in the interest interests of insurgents as well to allow production as well as the environment for the production of food and. three or sixty percent of afghanistan's population is under the age of twenty five it's their respective labor market for these people otherwise they're really easy subjects for terrorists. this is the biggest challenge and that's why we see with we need to focus on more sustainable. employment generation and all that. exist exist and focusing on i would be culturally exist in focusing on the infrastr

>> richard engle starting us off from our bureau in afghanistan. thanks. all of this puts the u.s. in the a difficult position as the president meets the biggest ally in afghanistan. the british prime minister. andrea michelle is with us in the d.c. bureau. sitting down with the prime minister yesterday in london, you could tell that he was still, as so many are, processing the impact of this. >> reporter: hard to get your head around it. the white house is trying to send a message tonight the president is not going to change strategy because of this horrific incident, but there is an unstated but very clear glide path out. brian, they plan to withdraw the last 23,000 surge troops by september. then they can always axccelerat the withdraw of the remaining 68,000 troops. as you know from that interview with the prime minister at downey street, just before he flew here today, afghanistan is going to be a big topic at those meetings. what's becoming clear is an increasing number of americans and the brits no longer understand why we are still in afghanistan and what could be accomplish

in afghanistan. >> is it time for us to leave afghanistan, mr. speaker. >> i think it is. >> jeff: pensions, republican employees are slashed in one new england town, tony guida tells us rhode island may have been first but it won't be last. >> and remembering-- remembrance in japan one area later. bill whitaker is there as the country reflects on the earthquake and tsunami. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> jeff: good evening, i'm jeff glor t was awful news from afghanistan coming at such a critical time. and tonight the fallout is just beginning. a stunning and so far inexplicable mass killing by an american soldier inside a small afghan village. that soldier acting alone, u.s. officials say, opened fire early today just outside his base in kandahar province. mandy clark begins our coverage in kabul. >> reporter: the shooting rampage took place here in the village of balandi after an american soldier, an army staff sarge ent walked off his remote base just 500 yards away and went house-to-house killing villagers. 11

in afghanistan. kim dacey joins us with more. ing. >> the shooting of those 16 men, women, and children in afghanistan could translate into the deaths of american troops, according to congressman dutch ruppersberger. he said he is not surprised that the taliban is using the shooting spree as a call to seek vengeance on americans. ruppersberger believes that instead of striking stateside, terrorists will target members of the u.s. military serving in afghanistan, just as we saw last month after american servicemen accidentally burned copies of the koran. after the shooting spree by a lone american soldier, anti- american outrage is building in afghanistan, and ruppersberger is fearful that other american soldiers may pay for the actions of a disturbed comrade. he believes our biggest threat is what he calls loan will extremists. kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news. >> -- lone wolf extremists. the man is a father and husband. the soldier was flagged for mental illness but continued to serve after he passed a personality test. >> kim dacey, t