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react to what happened overseas? the opening bell just 30 minutes aw away. and life-altering disease. jack osbourne diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. how he is coping. plus -- take a look at that. talk about a tennis tantrum. ow! taking out his frustration on the ad board but hitting the ump in the process. not only does he get kicked out of the tourney but the police are considering charges for that ornery tennis player. good morning, everyone. hi there. im ashley banfield. we wa...

are no wounds on his body. his family is still trying to make sense of it all. >> he loved being in the military, and he loved serving his country. he was absolutely willing to make any sacrifice, and its just horrible that this is the sacrifice he ended up making. 9/11 terror attack suspects turned the arraignment into a circus and victims families dont think it is funny. the five men including khalid sheikh mohammed, appeared at a military tribunal in guantanamo bay, cuba. one ente...

sodomizing a boy in the showers, but not going to police. in an e-mail, he writes he did have discussions with police and the official at the university in charge of police. he spoke briefly with cbs news. >> do you have any idea when you think you might be ready to talk? >> this process has to play out. i just dont have anything else to say. thats all. >> okay. one last thing. describe your emotions right now. >> all over the place. just kind of shaken. >> crazy? >> crazy. >> you said...

Jonathan. and finally, senator richard shelby has now released most of the holds he placed last week on every single presidential nomination before the senate. hes now down from more than 70 nominations he was blocking to three. the three are all related to federal spend iing that he want for his home state. he was trying to get attention for projects that are, "critical to our national security." one of them is a $45 million fbi lab slated for huntsville, alabama. the other is a $35 billion c...

Be made online made it into our budget. i also want to note even though the department of defense is exempt from the budget freeze, its not exempt from budget common sense. its not exempt from looking for savings. we save money by eliminating unnecessary defense programs that do nothing to keep us safe. one example is the $2.5 billion that were spend iing to build c-17 transport aircraft. four years ago the defense department decided to cease production because it had acquired the number request...

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That goes toward enforcement activities as a stand in, at least temporarily, for the border wall. this is going to be something that i think is going to be up for debate this week. how firm are they going to be on a physical wall. there are a lot of republicans in congress who are support border security but dont support spend iing money on a wall. and the question is will the president stand firm. this is one of those things that e he promised his supporters during the campaign. and it will be ...

>> thats a good question. we did a study at the center for american progress and the institute for policy studies, former assistant secretary of defense was on the board with me. we showed how if you cut national security spending, ed, not just the pentagon, but everything across the board, va, does you can cut a trillion dollars out and still bring us back to 2007, 2007 level spending in inflation-adjusted dollars. for 13 years now, we have been increasing the defense budget. you could easily c...

So people want to make a change. they didnt propose a budget so republicans have the start mid-year in search of savings but are determined nonetheless. >> we know that there are hundreds of programs that are going to need to be cut. >> agriculture subsidies are outrageous. ethanol is a joke. multi-billion spend iing. all ag subsidiaries, sugar subsidiaries. >> one noted urgency when greenspan said there is 50/50 chance the u.s. will have a debt crisis in two or three years. >> we cannot continu...