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That purpose if it was threatening, that is, if it were coming towards our territory or the territory of our friends and allies. >> before i leave here, i want to ask you about the tragedy in fort lauderdale. the family believes there is some sort of trauma he received while serving overseas. obviously ptsd concerns a lot of our military. do you worry the national guard doesnt have the ability to find these mental health problems with veterans has they get discharged soon enough? >> i cant say t...

Maybe the company will have to implement some way to monitor the drivers and have video. >> it makes sense. that is why they are looking into regulations. cristina, thank you. good morning. "early start" continues right now. cyber attack. u.s. officials say they believe they know how hackers got access to sony computer systems as north korea defector warns of a dangerous cyber war office. and president obama now saying he will go it alone. flexing his executive muscle to ease restrictions ag...

U.s. troops to go to iraq. yesterday the secretary of defense, chuck hagel, signed their deployment orders for 1,300 of them. they are on their way. theyll be going there and im told by february of 2015, two months away, less than two months away, 3,000 troops will be on the ground. thats upper limit in effect of what the president has ordered. until very recently, all of those american troops, military advisers, folks doing train and assist, they were confined largely to baghdad and to erbil re...

Weigh in on these issues. that kind of goes back to the point you just made about festering inside of him and wanting to give a voice to his, to his concerns i would imagine. is that my read correct? >> yeah, i have the same interpretation. now that he can speak for himself and i think were grateful to hear his motivation and in his own words but, you know one of the things that truly comes out in the book is that love for troops and personal responsibility for their safety. signing all their de...

Letters has got to be extremely stressful. george, this is a defense secretary who on the outside was stoic, always very composed. the book paints a picture of a complete contrast of a man who was completely seething on the inside, could barely contain himself. >> a deeply reticent man such as mr. gates at last speaks. its worth listening to. whats been getting all the attention in washington is the serrated edge of the book that he says about certain people still in office. but what struck me m...

Some military folks to get their reaction. some of those guys who have been to the front lines were -- they want they werent surprised. they said that was always their sort of suspicion, that their commander in chief had his own doubts about what he was sending them to do in afghanistan, but very frustrated, as you can imagine, that they would be sent there to risk that i lives to do something in retrospect that the president didnt even believe was going to be successful. >> and thats a sobering...

Letters has got to be extremely stressful. george, this is a defense secretary who on the outside was stoic, always very composed. the book paints a picture of a complete contrast of a man who was completely seething on the inside, could barely contain himself. >> a deeply reticent man such as mr. gates at last speaks. its worth listening to. whats been getting all the attention in washington is the serrated edge of the book that he says about certain people still in office. but what struck me m...

Democrats giving in on the estate tax. yesterday we saw that the republicans withdrew their demands on social security but now you have i mean what is arguably a much more difficult negotiation which is over concessions on the sequester. you know, if this doesnt get done is that what the holdup is going to be? or is it just going to be a whole myriad of things? >> i think it would be a myriad of things but certainly a sequester is a concern for members of both parties. you know, the pro defense ...

Syria. those patriots are designed to intercept any potential missiles coming from syria. and defense officials say any country that sends its equipment is likely to send their own troops to operate it were told no one has signed deployment orders officially just yet. its almost certain at this hour u.s. troops will be on the move. there is absolutely no indication our fighting men and women would cross into syrian territory. but the pentagon has told the obama administration it would require mo...

A couple weeks ago attacks murphy for a 2003 arrest when the democrat was 19 years old. lets take a look at the ad. >> february 16th, 2003, ft. hood, texas. lieutenant colonel allen west had just received deployment orders and prepares his men to go to war. that night south beach, miami, patrick murphy is thrown out of a club for fighting, covered in alcohol and unable to stand. murphy then confronts and verbally assaults a police officer. patrick murphy was arrested and taken to jail. two men, ...