or keep people from being slaughtered? shepard: we will bring in jen from the pentagon. there is not one report of a single qaddafi leadership position person having defected to the other side. and, at the same time, the president is saying that the goal of this is not to topple qaddafi but that qaddafi must go. it s hard to imagine the sort of trouble that a map like muammar qaddafi could cause if he were still allowed to have the machines and the people to cause problems. reporter: absolutely. we have some of the answers from the pentagon here today that steve was posing in terms of how much air coverage do they plan to fly for the rebels. nothing, according to the general would is, who was briefing us here, the medicine of the command and control saying it is not their responsibility, not part of their mandate or part of the
unmanned aerial vehicles, we now have that coverage from california through texas.rn we didn t have it before. we now have it. we have that air coverage, so important to our manpower. we took down future expenditures for something called sbi net, which was aes very expensive w technology that was going tope cost billions of dollars and it didn t work. it didn t meet our needs and we re replacing it with technology like mobile radar systems and things of that sort that really work, allow us to sustain our coverage at that border. now, one of the things we re worried about is if the house passed budget is ultimately passed into law, it is not a i good budget for homeland security and indeed, representative peter king, who is from here, republican, chair of the homeland security committee has said that. it is not good to allow us to move forward and continue the pathway the president has set to make sure that border is secure. but are we really getting g
time. we talked about the unmanned vehicles. we have that coverage from california through texas. we didn t have it before. we now have it. we have that air coverage so important to our manpower. we took down future expenditures for f.b.i. net, which was an expensive technology that costs billion dollars of dollars and it didn t work. it didn t meet our needs. we re replacing it with technology like mobile radar systems and things of that sort that really will allow us to sustain our coverage at that border. now, one of the things we re worried about is if the house passed budget is passed into law, it is not a good budget for homeland security. indeed representative peter king, who is from here, republican, chair of the homeland security committee said it s not good to allow us to move forward and continue the pathway the president set to make sure that border is secure. mike: are we really getting
time. we talked about the unmanned vehicles. we have that coverage from california through texas. we didn t have it before. we now have it. we have that air coverage so important to our manpower. we took down future expenditures for f.b.i. net, which was an expensive technology that costs billion dollars of dollars and it didn t work. it didn t meet our needs. we re replacing it with technology like mobile radar systems and things of that sort that really will allow us to sustain our coverage at that border. now, one of the things we re worried about is if the house passed budget is passed into law, it is not a good budget for homeland security. indeed representative peter king, who is from here, republican, chair of the homeland security committee said it s not good to allow us to move forward and continue the pathway the president set to make sure that border is secure. mike: are we really getting
time. we talked about the unmanned vehicles. we have that coverage from california through texas. we didn t have it before. we now have it. we have that air coverage so important to our manpower. we took down future expenditures for f.b.i. net, which was an expensive technology that costs billion dollars of dollars and it didn t work. it didn t meet our needs. we re replacing it with technology like mobile radar systems and things of that sort that really will allow us to sustain our coverage at that border. now, one of the things we re worried about is if the house passed budget is passed into law, it is not a good budget for homeland security. indeed representative peter king, who is from here, republican, chair of the homeland security committee said it s not good to allow us to move forward and continue the pathway the president set to make sure that border is secure. mike: are we really getting