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shawn. the executive rails visit as a people living in the crash site say they are frustrated both the state and federal response for their also blaming a railroad for this disaster. this is fema is sending a support team to the area after first denying ohio governor mike to winds at for a disaster declaration. eric is live the site with the very latest. actually where the meeting was. what do we know about femas response and what they are doing today? >> the incident response team wil...

Regretfully despite every piece of intelligence that we received back when i was in the intelligence community, we ignored 20 years worth of what putin was planning to do. and he told us what he was planning to do. and so regretfully we decreased our posture. both during the obama administration and during the trump administration. why did we do that? europeans were not willing to pay for their own security. only eight countries out of 30. eight nato countries continue to pay 2% toward the colle...

Without water, and 80% of ukraine is plunged into darkness. theyre trying to restore the electricity, but its proven very difficult. so knowing all this, nobody wanted to do anything about it. only eight nato countries are contributing now into the collective defense kitty. and so we didnt take our opportunity to develop a counterstrategy, and this is why right now were not in a very strong negotiating position. and were depleting our own weapons supplies. we have now spent on some missile syste...

Admirals. then they pulled more from the reserves. so you have in the army about a 10% overage of what they normally would have. secretary gates is saying hes going to cut about 5% that makes sense if we are getting out of iraq and wittle that headquarters down that is 5% there. >> jamie: we know winds to cut costs and hes been asked to do that this is one way. the first casualty, one is the dismantling of the joint forces command unit. i assume it is one of several that well be hearing about. t...