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This have a professional wildlife response team in place. today we have 4 2k teams on the water with 80-plus on board. through the stage in the response, weve been pleased we havent had more impact. we continue each day to look and respond to calls. >> there is a lot of people working on this. reassure people youre not going anywhere. >> ive been here since may. mike gusler is up at central command, he the b.p. leader there and mike is going to lead gulf coast restoration organization here for y...

This have a professional wildlife response team in place. today we have 4 2k teams on the water with 80-plus on board. through the stage in the response, weve been pleased we havent had more impact. we continue each day to look and respond to calls. >> there is a lot of people working on this. reassure people youre not going anywhere. >> ive been here since may. mike gusler is up at central command, he the b.p. leader there and mike is going to lead gulf coast restoration organization here for y...

Established does not translate to 8.7 billion being unaccountable. centcom believes many financial records were sent for archiving and says theyre very difficult to find. this isnt the first time the pentagon has been criticized for poor record keeping of iraqi funds. five years ago, d.o.d. was not able to account for nearly $100 million. that case resulted in ten convictions of officials for fraud, bribery and money laundering. suzanne. >> thank you, lisa. a most up usual look at music up nex...

Were supposed to establish separate accounts to deposit foreign money that does not belong to the u.s. federal government. that wasnt done except in one case. d.o.d. should have named a point person within the agency to make sure controls were in place. also not done. and d.o.d. was supposed to keep track of how much iraqi money it currently is holding. that hasnt been done. the special inspector general found no incidence of criminal wrongdoing so far but no one knows what happened to the money...

Ground inside pakistan. it is absolutely urgent that we take a stand to stop spreading war in pakistan, to nip in the bud the u.s. ground presence. as for the 92,000 documents released by wikileaks, congressman kucinich suggested that the problems with the war in afghanistan have been crystalized. >> our troops are being placed in mortal peril because of poor logistics, countless innocent civilians killed by mistake. and an afghanistan government which is hopelessly corrupt, pakistan intelligenc...

Hearings on president obamas choice to head the military central command, general james mattis. while senator john mccain seemed eager to portray the wikileaks documents as harmful to the wars chain of command, general mattis disagreed though he deplored the release of the documents. >> what effect does this have? >> sir, i would speculate but due to the urgency of the operations in a combat zone, it probably wont have much because at the moment theyre actually reporting they are probably more e...

Troops on the ground inside pakistan. it is absolutely urgent that we take a stand to stop spreading war in pakistan. to nip in the bud, the u.s. ground presence. as for the 92,000 documents released by wikileaks, congressman suggested that the problems with the war in afghanistan have been crystallized. >> our troops are being placed in mortal peril because of poor logistic. countsless civilians killed by mistake. afghanistan government which is hopelessly corrupt, pakistan intelligence, collab...

President would be more clear, saying next year hell start to bring troops home but only if conditions allow. john mccain had an interesting exchange today with the new commanding general of central command. the general james mattis, nominate to be the central command commander. >> we have to be clear were not leaving and it starts a process of transition to the afghan forces. it is not that we are pulling out of the region. >> wouldnt that be more impactful, your statement if the president of t...

Caucus. seems like minority leader boehner and eric cantor, they do not want to join this tea party caucus. mike pence has joined. so theres a question of how closely gop members in the house are going to embrace this new tea party caucus that mikell bachman has formed. >> all right, john harris with politico. thank you very much. >> thanks, john. >> i thank you, john, for as always, wearing the save lindsay bracelet. a lot of americans noticed that. i appreciate it. pat buchanan, lets talk abou...

Democratic, more african-american and more hispanic than the average woman population. but they are -- they also identify with democrats but they are leaning republican for the november elections. i think theres more potential for her to have impact than there has been in the past. >> is this a threat to democrats now? is this a precursor to palin running for president? >> i think her poll numbers arent great just -- generally speaking. amongst conservatives, though, her advantage is she energiz...