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Speaking. it means its likely to be with a threat of the future is going to come from. >> bret: congratulations to the federal authorities. that was a big bust today. next topic, unescoe funding. this was an item found in the president budget request. charles, what about that? >> its surprising. one of the successes the administration has had is when the palestinians tried to get recognition for palestine without a peace agreement with israel. they had almost shut out. american law says any u.n....

Speaking. it means its likely to be with a threat of the future is going to come from. >> bret: congratulations to the federal authorities. that was a big bust today. next topic, unescoe funding. this was an item found in the president budget request. charles, what about that? >> its surprising. one of the successes the administration has had is when the palestinians tried to get recognition for palestine without a peace agreement with israel. they had almost shut out. american law says any u.n....

>> i can say today and i do not fully endorse the budget request. indeed im seriously concerned about how we arrived at this point. >> you cant take a half a trillion dollars out of the defense budget. and not encourage additional risk. we believe they are acceptable risk. but there are risks. >> what remains of the fourth in afghanistan will leave by 2014. much of the defense savings in this budget come from the anticipated troop withdrawal. money for the afghan and iraq wars will be slashed by...

Not fully endorse the budget request. indeed im seriously concerned about how we arrived at this point. >> you cant take a half a trillion dollars out of the defense budget. and not encourage additional risk. we believe they are acceptable risk. but there are risks. >> what remains of the fourth in afghanistan will leave by 2014. much of the defense savings in this budget come from the anticipated troop withdrawal. money for the afghan and iraq wars will be slashed by $27 billion to $88.5 billio...

Soldiers and marines from the force. >> let me be clear: you cannot take half a trillion out the defense budget and not enoccur additional risk. we believe they are acceptable risks. but there are risks. and we will have a smaller force. >> he warned that each of the 50 states will feel the cuts that come from the defense budget. >>shepard: that is the part we will notice the part. it is important for context to remind people the military budget will be larger than the military budget of every o...

That has surrounded solyndra and a few other companies over the course of last year, that of course solyndra is the solar company that went belly-up after they received more than $530 million in federal aid. the white house is calling for even more of this renewable energy funding to more companies as part of the presidents 2013 budget request. $27.2billion would be marked for this as part of the department of energy. republican congressman darrell issa is the chairman of the house committee on ...

Is that the amount of money budgeted to train the afghan army is being cut in half. even though the entire afghan strategy has been to train the afghan forces so that u.s. forces can leave in 2014. the budget for iraqs security has been cut to $3 billion a year. during the armed services hearing today, senator john mccain accused the white house of coming up with a strategy to fit preconceived budget cuts. >> i can say today that i do not fully endorse this budget request with. indeed, i am seri...

The implement ters of this new strategy to rely on them rather than large ground forces. the special ops community has 66,000 forces, less than 2% of the countrys military, but its size and budget has doubled since 9/11. its budget request for this year is $10.4 billion, about four 50s of the 12,000 or so special operators deployed around the world are in the middle east. now their top commander is seeking to cut through the pentagons bureaucracy so he can move those forces where he wants when h...

an hour before her death by someone in the very hotel room where she died, according to ed winter, the assistant coroner here. the person left the room and then came back about an hour later and found whitney houstons body inside the bathtub. and then ed winter said her body was removed from the bathtub. they tried to revive her. they coop revive her. of course, at 3:55 a.m. pacific time she was pronounced dead. as you know, you had been covering these beats when stars die, when people...

That draw down. >> according to "the wall street journal" u.s. military offices will propose the president withdraw a whopping 5,000 troops by july and as many as another 5,000 by the years end. though troop levels would go down, the presidents 2012 budget request for military operations in afghanistan would remain about the same about $11,000 billion roughly the amount weve spent in 2011. that request sounds excessive to the combat vet ran who currently chair -- veteran who currently chairs the...