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Side to funnel people in afghanistan? >> that is a good question for the policy makers, the central command. >> youre the guy here. >> focused on our effort here. >> u.s. military and afghan military has had a lot of success to track down bombs before they go off. in 2010, for example, the commanders are saying that the afghan and the u.s. military stopped more than 1 million bounds of explosives before it went off. that is about 25,000 iedes, each one capable of blowing up a convoy. you can see...

This will be its 39th mission. we wanted to take a look at what its like for astronauts in those final minutes before takeoff, what its like to feel weightless, and also todays historic -- the significance with todays launch. bort sound like about question to ask shannon walker, whos good enough to join mess from kennedy space center. before i start talking about butter flies, ive got some astronaut talk i need you to translate for me, okay? our folks have been listens to the folks in mission co...

That marriage can only exist between a man and a woman. attorney general eric holder told congress today that the president has concluded the law is unconstitutional. the federal law will still be observed but the justice department is leaving it to congress who passed the law back in 1996 to defend it in court. the u.s. military working with the fbi and justice department today to determine where 15 somali pirates connected to the murder of four americans at sea will go next. a spokesman from...

Going around parts of the pacific. initially on this trip leaving from the india from the western port of mumbai there had been part of a rally as it were a group of vessels sailing together for safety. at some point they left that group of vessels to go on their own and that could have caused them to be even more vulnerable. i just want to play a bit of sound here from a vice admiral with the u.s. he described what happened when those u.s. navy special ops forces arrived on that boat. >> there ...

A group of high-ranbing pakistani officers returned home in protest last night after they were taken off of a plane, detain and interrogated at dulles international airport outside of washington, d.c. brian todd has been looking into the bizarre story for us. what are you learning, brian? >> well, a pakistani official told me in his words humiliateh. they have returned to pakistan in regard to their treatment. this was a nine-member delegation led by brigadier generals and one admiral. according...

Mean, if he does, i think he needs to point that out, because right now, were bogged down in afghanistan, where had we not diverted our attention to iraq, we would have achieved our objectives in afghanistan already, and saddam, as general zini did, the commander who ran the central command until 2000, he was growing weaker by the day and he was contained, and as has just been pointed out, if the life of the iraqi -- are the life of the iraqis any better than what it was? by in large you have 2 ...

But its a privilege to do it with the tremendous team that we have out here. >> he recalled the candid one-on-one conversation he had with president obama the day he was tapped for the job. >> well, we talked about literally again the importance of the mission, the importance of our commitment to it. talked about the way ahead. talked about the various dynamics that are at play here that obviously give impressions about our commitment and so forth. i didnt come out here to carry out a graceful e...

Mind. to be candid, i thought i had done my last one of this type but its a privilege to do it with the tremendous team that we have out here. >> he recalled the candid one-on-one conversation he had with president obama the day he was tapped for the job. >> well, we talked about literally again the importance of the mission, the importance of our commitment to it. talked about the way ahead. talked about the various dynamics that are at play here that obviously give impressions about our commit...

Afghanistan is blessed with the presence of what a trillions, with an "s," trillions of dollars worth of minerals if and only if you can get the technology and human capital operated and lines of communication to enable you to get it out of the country and all of the rest of that. very big if. theres a foundation of security that would be necessary on which to build all of that. but again the prospects are very significant if you can achieve objectives. and, by the way, im always leery of using ...

To be candid, i thought i had done my last one of this type but its a privilege to do it with the tremendous team that we have out here. >> reporter: he recalled the candid, one-on-one conversation he had with president obama the day he was tapped for the job. >> well, we talked about literally again the importance of the mission, the importance of our commitment to it. talked about the way ahead. talked about the various dynamics that are at play here that obviously give impressions about our c...