Page 3 - Security Role News Today

To spin it into a sort of hilariously transparent fashion. >> yeah. i mean, i think the things that i -- i do feel confident about now is that the power dynamics have changed from where they were early on in this administration and part of that is because, listen, in the early days of the white house it was like "home alone." they had no cabinet secretaries. it was bannon, priebus. now we have cabinet secretaries. we have gary cohen, the head of the n.e.c. we have dena powell whos now taking on ...

Advisors, susan rice, was the one that authorized the unmasking which included the presidents associates, maybe the president himself. >> neil: she dances around the subject that it wasnt for political intent. if she did that, is that illegal in her security role that she had with barack obama? >> unmasking in an of itself is not illegal. you can unmask to a procedure. it would -- >> neil: unless you had compelling reason. >> even if you had the authority to do it. theres a statute that says it ...

To coast guard would actually happen since it has such an important security role. >> talk about skepticism, maybe not that the cuts will happen but that they will help anything. thank you renee, i really appreciate it. joining me now is republican congressman from california, duncan hunter, thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> youve written about this. you call the idea of cuts to the coast guard budget appalling. your team even called it a joke. why? >> because the entire operatin...

Abe and the positioning, one thing i was waiting for that didnt happen is abes biggest goal, private goal in japan, is repeal or gutted what they call article 9 in japans constitution of the famous no-war clause. one time i put out a tweet saying i can imagine donald trump saying japan is weak. japan is limiting. japan is not playing the security role in the region it could because of article 9. that would be a huge gift to abe from donald trump that would change the domestic politics and make i...

Company. theyre saying theyre not trained for these new security measures. this is stretching them too far. they dont believe theyre adequately able to fulfill this new security role that malaysian airlines has asked them to do, and are wondering why the airline isnt providing air marshals, security to people who are trained to do the function theyre being requested to do. the airline is saying it is instituting security procedures, aircraft procedures, that are familiar across many airlines aro...

Their country. after todays ceremony when they hand it over the lead security role they are in the driving seat right now and they will depends their country. they will have u.s. and nato troops as back up for the 18 months to come but they are in the drivers seat. >> thanks so much. you look back were going to be pulling out next year and leaving the afghans with an army. the soviets left the afghans with a good army, armor. took three years and it crumbled . >> they also talk about they need m...

We have two questions each i think from u.s. and afghan press. well start with scott wilson of "the washington post." >> thank you, mr. president, president karzai. mr. president, does moving up the deadline for the transition to an afghan security role in the spring mean youre winding down u.s. troops faster than you expected this year? and specifically, as possible, how many troops do you expect to leave in afghanistan beyond 2014 for the two missions you outlined and would you consider leavin...

>> i just spoke to the head of security in sinai and he is very positive the situation will be resolved shortly. i also spoke to the kidnappers a couple hours ago and they confirmed that the hostages are saved. unhard. >> well have full details on that when we go live to cairo in a few minutes. also in egypt, secretary of state hillary clinton meeting with the countrys newly elected president mohammed morsi. egypt is nowhere near settled politically. there is no cabinet, no parliament ...

which appears to hope that syrias president assad will negotiate his own departure, seems utterly doomed. instead, america, the western world, indeed, the civilized world should attempt to dislodge the assad regime. but is there a smart way to do it? for a number of reasons military intervention is unlikely to work well in syria. unlike in, say, libya, syria is not a vast country with huge stretches of land where rebels can retreat, hide, and be resupplied. syria is roughly one-tenth t...

morning. ets its going to go like that today. also joining us is jeff toobin the cnn senior legal analyst. thank you for joining us and hank of political strategist, iconic political strategist. nice to have you joining us. >> thank you. >> lots to get to. the afghan man who hijacked a car and then breached security, drove on to the runway in kabul just as the pentagon chief leon panetta was landing. that man has died. he died from burns he received after he lit himself on fire. we lea...