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>> and yet scott brown running a tight race with elizabeth warren has come out and said i believe cordray is the right person to lead. unfortunately the system is completely -- >> your point is what? >> this is something that is not only good for the country but also good for re-election if youre from the president down to the senate. lets swivel around and talk about defense cuts. the president announced slimmer military strategy this afternoon, speaking with leon panetta. lets play a little so...

Campbell, kentucky, just about ten minutes from now and well bring those live to you. ft. campbell is home to the 101st airborne, also known as the screaming eagles, as well as the night stalkers, the unit that flew in the navy s.e.a.l.s who killed bin laden. barry mccaffrey and retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs are both msnbc military analysts and im delighted to say that they join us now. colonel, everyone has been talking about bin laden, but you think the biggest story is actually the ga...

>> colonel jack, very briefly, weve talked about the new jersey and the value of the material thats been gathered. do you think that the potential plots that may have been in place are now going to be disrupted, prevented? >> i think theyre going to be disrupted to be sure. this is not going to keep these guys from trying to invent new plots from a wide variety of different places. dont forget al qaeda is very fragmented, that theyre in a number of different places and thats good news and bad ne...

Very chaotic. private weapons trainers, al qaeda does have a presence, this is on the border with chad. sudan in the corner. a lot of different groups in this country. if you have chaos and a long stalemate, it would not benefit anybody, not the results and certainly not united states. >> i want to bring in army colonel, jack jacobs. even if there were trainers brought in from egypt, what is the boot camp of the united states? 16 weeks. >> we do not have that kind of time. it takes about 12 to 1...

With the constitutional powers of the president and with past practices. be it president reagans action in grenada or the balkans. congress taken even a few days to debate the use of force prior to acting in libya, there would have been nothing left to save in benghazi. >> reporter: we have talked a lot tonight, chris, about arming the rebels and colonel jack jacobs my hero, by the way, told you its not an easy task. for the last several weeks, we have seen rebels here armed with old weapons, so...

Based mostly in the city of darna. the gadhafi regime released about 110 members of the organization, and they are out here. the libyan fighting group is on the ground. and there are many other rebel groups and militant groups operating in the area, even the somali group el shabab operates inside of libya. it is a country where there is little central command right now. there is no central command so just pouring weapons, sophisticated weapons into the country would be very dangerous. and going ...

Unaccounted for. those who survived the disaster are now braving freezing temperatures today. more than 600,000 homes do not have electricity at the moment, three times that number lack running water. so difficult route now in japan. meanwhile, off the coast, a 15th u.s. battleship is arriving, adding to the massive u.s. relief effort in full swing. 17,000 sailors and marines are flying hundreds of missions to search for survivors. colonel jack jab cob is an analyst. we have so many troops dep...

If theres wind and bad weather, it becomes extremely difficult, sometimes impossibility to get over the site in order to drop water and drop boron. during the entire duration of this whole exercise, the japanese have had a hard time getting the wear precisely on top of the target. >> and so important to the multinational efforts happening, over 100 countries are trying to help, including the united states with its military force. colonel, thank you very muchisms youre very welcome. we want to ...

Heated up and they couldnt cool it, they had to probably release some radioactive vapor just to keep the pressure down as the core gets hotter and hotter, the pressure builds up. pressure builds up too much and you dont release at least some of the vapor, theres a great danger the entire thing will explode. thats what theyre trying to prevent. its difficult to tell right now at what stage that reactor is. we are told that the core is starting to consume do ining to. that means there wont be a me...

At least nine people are in custody following an immigration raid in arizona. they were taken from a sizzler steak house yesterday. police received tips of undocumented workers with false documentation. more than this 4,400 u.s. troops have been killed since the war in iraq began just over seven years ago and it is assumed most of those casualties are men, but throughout the whole war, women have had a large role in the fighting overseas. joining me now msnbc military analyst retired army colo...