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Arbitrary across the board reduction that would saddle the military with trillion dollars in cuts, severely hurt our force structure and impair our ability to deter threats. dont bother to find a serious military rationale behind any of that, unless that rationale is wishful thinking. strategy is not driving the presidents massive defense cuts. in fact his own secretary of defense warned that these reductions would be devastating and hes right. and that devastation would start here at home. mark...

National defense, help in the reelection at the expense of what feinstein said, great damage to american national security, that fits with the keystone pipeline decision, the decision to withdrawal the troops in afghanistan in the middle of the fighting season now rather than what the military recommended, after election day. all these decisions to make the president look as if hes subordinate the interest of the nation. >> the vfw speech was pointed at a number of places. mitt romney, we covere...

the massacre inside that colorado movie theater now appears to be only part of the horror that was planned. a law enforcement official who seen video of the suspect, james holmes booby trapped apartment tells cnn it was rigged with more than 30 homemade grenades and ten gallons of gasoline. the source says that would have created a fireball knocking out walls engulfing the entire building in flames undoubtedly killing many more people. cnns ed lavandera is joining us now once again fro...

Including surveillance, counter terrorism, countering weapons of mass destruction and being able to operate in environments where adversaries try to deny us access. megyn: they are shifting the focus to the asian-pacific region, china. the army would shrink from its currents level of 570,000 soldiers to 490,000. joining me now, former air force vice chief of staff and a fox news contributor. i want to get your overall reaction to this. >> i think we can do this. what concerns me is what has alre...

Clearly even aimed our force structure go down. but the fact is we opened up a pathway for iran into syria and israel that could be very dangerous and destabilizing. thats one issue that concerns me. the 490,000 -- if everything goes well, we could probably live with. but what is not mentioned in the conversation is secretary gates canceled the f22 which is much more capable for a china deterrent strategy. he canceled and delayed the next generation bomber. and he bought a smaller tanker. you ne...

Iraq the killing of osama bin laden, gadhafi being depose and other successes that the administration has had and emphasizing the fact this posture will change, leave to colonel jacobs the implications for forced posture and readiness, the defense spending is going to continue to grow, just not going to grow as rapid a rate and obviously, shifting emphasis, as you heard the secretary say from europe to the pacific rim in the middle east. >> you were madly writing notes during both of those speec...

Other successes that the administration has had and emphasizing the fact this posture will change, leave to colonel jacobs the implications for forced posture and readiness, the defense spending is going to continue to grow, just not going to grow as rapid a rate and obviously, shifting emphasis, as you heard the secretary say from europe to the pacific rim in the middle east. >> you were madly writing notes during both of those speeches so what does it say to you about how we will operate in th...

Very happy that you made time for us today, general. good to see you. >> its good to see you, martha. good morning. martha: obviously, theres cuts across the board, and the military has to, basically, cut $350 billion over the next ten years. do you agree that its impossible to do that without some of that coming from these combat brigades? >> well, the intent is to cut some force structure out of the army. the challenge we have, martha, is that the army already is too small. that is the reason ...

Be accomplished without reduction to force structure and military capability." whats force structure? several of the services, carl, already looking at downsizing and further cuts in their own spending. carol? >> and also, barbara, if this becomes a big problem for the pentagon what do they do? >> well, yeah, you know, where do you turn next, if they are already saying that they cant handle more defense cuts? the pentagon says, look this cant be just an arithmetic exercise to cut military spendi...

Right? >> well, a senior u.s. intelligence official tells me tonight that they still have some indication that qaddafis son, hamess in charge of the brigades. one of the most notorious brigades in his force structure that he may have been killed in recent days by coalition bombs in the tripoli area. you heard secretary of state clinton mention that two nights ago in an interview that she did. im being told tonight from intelligence officials, they still have indications that may have been killed...