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President obama for coming here to the pentagon this morning, and also, in particular, to thank him for his vision and guidance and leadership as this department went through a very intensive review that we undertook to try to develop a new strategic guide thanks were releasing today. and in my experience, this has been an unprecedented process, to have the president of the united states participate in discussions involving the development of a defense strategy. and to spend time with our servic...

>> let me begin by thanking president obama for coming here to the pentagon this morning. and also, in particular, to thank him for his vision and guidance and leadership as this department went through a very intensive review that we undertook to try to develop a new strategic guidance that we are releasing today and in my experience, this has been an unprecedented process, to have the president of the united states participate in discussions involving the development of a defense strategy. and...

We need a smart, strategic set of priorities, the new guidance that the defense department is releasing today does just that. i want to thank secretary panetta and general dempsy for their extraordinary leadership during this process, i want to thank the service secretaries and chief, the combatant commanders and so many defense leads, military and civilian, active guard and reserve, for their contributions. many of us met repeatedly, asking tough questions, challenging our own assumptions, and ...

power. it will allow the pentagon to slash hundreds of billions of dollars from the budget. rick santorum heads to new hampshire primary with a million dollar boost from iowa. source close to the campaign says that santorum raised more than $1 million after finishing second in the iowa caucuses. santorum, he is attending a faith, family and freedom town hall meeting in northfield, new hampshire. that is happening this hour. hes trying to position himself as the main conservative chal...

And following his defeat in the election. hes a very dangerous situation. mark milley, ive since ive known him since he was a colonel, he is one tough customer. most of his life was deployed in combat. former chief of staff, 30 years in uniform, princeton and columbia educated, a very bright, capable officer. he doesnt command any soldiers, any airmen, any marines, any sailors. the 11 combatant commanders are under the control of the secretary of defense and the president of the united states. s...

Clear the decks. let me go back to the xm back and let john kelly have his clean slate to put his own team in there thats the way its coming down. we dont know if its because of the chain of command and kelly wanted to make a change there or if it had something to do with the interview that scaramucci gave last week, the profanity-laced interview that he gave with the correspondent from that one publication. clearly john kelly likes to run a tight ship. if hes got somebody out there who he belie...

The geners do have the authority to do this just as she said. a strike like the, the military doesnt see this as terribly different than when they drop a 5,000 pound bomb. they use the appropriate munition for the appropriate target. in this case was large isis complex in a more remote area in eastern afghanistan and hit a somewhat extensive is that complex opportunity system underneath it. the reason for the large bomb was to take out the entire complex at once. it was a large zpartarget and t ...

Michael hayden says senators on the committee never talked to them. essentially a poorly done partisan attack on the agency that has dont most to protect america after the attacks of 9/11. i spoke with michael hayden a few moments ago and well get his comments in a matter of moments. one of the many things we discussed. martha: in the meanwhile we are seeing the fallout over the release of this report. secretary of defense chuck hagel announcing a worldwide alert for all u.s. military forces. he...

To stop the use of torture. hes now a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school. thank you for being here. >> youre welcome. >> you and others inside the administration at that time were opposed to these methods. what did people say to you when you tried to stop it? >> well, youre right about that. every military lawyer ive ever spoken with, including those ive worked with in the pentagon, at 9/11, and after 9/11, and every three or four-star admiral general ive ever spoken to, including comba...

What would you say to the president? to get the situation under control. >> two things need to be done. first, he did not listen to department of defense and service chiefs and combatant commanders in 2011 and 12. they warned him it would happen and it is fully on the roar. it is not irreversible. two courses of action needs to happen. the prime minister there needs to reach out to kureds and sunni arabs in the north and tell them look, we all agree we dont want a gihaddist islamic state. and i ...