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Be like when hes king? >> i think it is going to be a long tie. lets be clear about this. his father has been waiting for a long time. judging by the good windsor genetics, it seems the queen god bless her will live for a long time yet. we are talking about something that might not happen for 30, 40 years, he will be at a man in the middle of his middle age. i dont know. i think everyone thinks no pomp and ceremony. hes very straightforward. very direct. wants to put people at ease. i saw last n...

The mission to train afghan security forces is supposed to be so important it is our path out of that country. afghan trainees repeatedly killing american trainers and american service members they were supposed to be serving alongside, that casts a considerable cloud over the prospects of this as a path out of afghanistan for the u.s. military. if thinking about this stuff you have concluded that maybe we need some fresh thinking about our military challenges, about our war in afghanistan, toda...

Other war in iraq. the mission to train afghan security forces is supposed to be so important it is our path out of that country. afghan trainees repeatedly killing american trainers and american service members they were supposed to be serving alongside, that casts a considerable cloud over the prospects of this as a path out of afghanistan for the u.s. military. if thinking about this stuff you have concluded that maybe we need some fresh thinking about our military challenges, about our war i...

Every day, theres another reaction. today -- i mean, most people would have thought that theres not that many presidential, vice presidential flights. most people would have thought an air traffic control supervisor would have an eye on a controller guiding that flight. so were changing the rules. were talking about no sleeping. it doesnt deal with the heart of the problem. you said it, eliot, the heart of the problem is there are not enough controllers. theres a backlog of trainees and they can...

The pay to make air traffic a less appealing profession. lets take kennedy tower. theyre understaffed in the new york air space. they have been, 270 people should supposedly be there to handle the traffic load. they have about 148. >> wait, wait, michael, i hate to interrupt. there are supposed to be 270 and there are 148. >> my numbers could be six months out, but things dont change that fast. >> even if youre off by a few, that margin is enormous. i mean, how do you make -- >> it is enormous a...

Jackson and broadcast for three full minutes over the frequency, over the radio. it had to be a military plane that called in and said hey, youre clogging up the radio with a movie. thats -- >> thats different. >> circumstance, thats ridiculous. >> look at our reaction. maybe it will serve a greater public good here. its so ridiculous and the examples are so ridiculous, thats why i think administrator babbitt and the faa have done a good job digging out of a hole they inherited. theyve made some...

Because it happens all the time. >> when we talk about increasing the staffing and you said reno is one of those airports where they had one person on overnight and hopefully that will change, do we have people being trained? are they trained at a fast enough clip so you can replace people when they go or bring in as many people as you seem to need right now? >> well, in the last two years weve definitely been very generous about getting a lot of trainees in because thats previous to that we did...

Work at a time of great, intense, international concern. rick: young libyan volunteers from all over the country are flocking to the rebel city of benghazi. to fight there. and reports say that many of the trainees are under age. but, that is not stopping them from joining in the battle. >> we have the youngest out there but we do not... most of them in benghazi, they push their youngest to come here to be trained. >> translator: i am so proud, so proud of my son because he is providing support ...

Confirm that nato will take command of the libyan operation. >> thank you. desperately in need of fresh recruit but short on time, the libyan rebels are getting a crash course in weapons training. senior correspondent rick leventhal has that story. >> this used to be a military training academy for gaddafis army. now it serves the revolution. the instructors are former soldiers including special forces. teaching benghazi civilians how to fight. >> i am a computer engineer. until the government o...

>> bret: checking international headlines now. leader of iraq main political group begun three days at negotiation ending an eight-month deadlock. this was 500 miles from shiite. they say afghanistan should handle their own security by 2014. the commander of the training mission says he needs 900 more trainees to meet that goal. afghan official says afghan and nato forces killed 15 insurgents in a joint operation in kandahar province. wendell goler reports from new delhi that the president playe...