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Defense spend bug moving money around and trying to get rid of some of these civilian contractor jobs and put in more critical areas but it is controversial. >> you are absolutely right. this san effort to try to live within the 1% growth that is projected for the department for the foreseeable future, 1% is not enough, andrea, for us to do all the things asked of us around the world and we anticipate being asked of us. secretary gates believes we need to find at least another 2% to get to the m...

While these steps will only apply to the d.o.d., jim clapper has indicated to me an interest in pursuing a parallel and coordinated effort using the same business rules for the national intelligence organizations. >> were going to continue to monitor this announcement by robert gates. to get you some sense of what this means, im joined on the phone by retired general russel hon honore from new orleans. very interesting, broad-ranging, what seems like a consolidation of the defense department and...

What secretary gates is saying. >> i served at the pentagon and served on the joint staff. im here to tell you most of those reports as the secretary said were generated by requirements of congress or from his own staff at d.o.d. the joint staff and then you have the d.o.d. staff that replicates the joint staff. the secretary is moving this in the right direction. we have joint services command today because it was mandated by the congress that we form these joints command. i think the secretary...

They also want to thank the many people who have reached out with letters and prayers and warm wishes. we of course wish the former vice president speedy, speedy recovery. good luck to dick cheney. lisa sylvester is monitoring some of the other top stories in the situation room right now. lisa, what else is going on? >> hi, wolf. defense secretary robert gates unveils a plan to cut his departments budget. the proposal includes eliminating the u.s. joint forces command. gates says the pentagon ...

The number of generals and admirals across the armed forces by at least 50 over the next two years. as well as 150 senior civilian posts. gates also plans to close the militarys joint forces command in norfolk, virginia. that accounts for 2,800 military and civilian positions, plus 3,000 contractors. current annual operating costs, $240 million. in all, secretary gates is tasking the military to find ways to cut spending by $100 billion over the next five years. jack cafferty is next with "the c...

Serving as overall commander as headquarters of central command in tampa. to replace him there, two names are often mentioned, general allen and james madden who heads joint forces command and both worked well with petraeus in the past. the new commander would technically be petraeus boss but in reality d.>> the bottom line is simple. everybody knows who is in charge of the war in afghanistan, thats dave petraeus. >> reporter: while there are difficult challenges ahead and well subly sized setba...

And then hopefully, we can get this done. >> senator stabenow defended the slow pace of progress on health care, saying even though the democrats have a 59-seat majority now, theres too much focus on capitol hill on the games of whos winning and whos losing. but you would never do that, chuck, right? >> never at all. thats not what we do in the media, right, savannah. its election day every day, thats what im told. moving on, mexican president felipe calderon yesterday continued his attacks on...

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Forward. i think general mattis will say, hey, weve got to make sure its a true national security concern before we unleash the dogs of war, as it was. but when we do, we better mean business as opposed to doing things in a more haphazard way. >> right. i too found that the marines were expressing that he is not necessarily a general that will initiate getting you into war but if a war you have is he is the one you want planning and fighting it thats for certain. >> thats the phrase i heard, mat...