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Re-election. the national organization for women is pressing for the president to appoint women to have of his cabinet. they say there are plenty of qualified women to take those jobs. im joined by terry oneil who is president of now. its good to see you. >> good to see you. >> 22 cabinets currently in the obama administration, eight are female. 36%. we know that there will be a shakeup as there always is in a second term. why do you think the women -- the president needs to appoint more women? ...

For jumping in. >> from women in combat to robots in combat. will the rise of the machines result in an droid marines. a human rights watch report called for a ban on killer robots which they maintained could be fully operational and ready to terminate in 20 years. the pentagon has made clear that man and not machine will always hold the trigger. the deputy defense secretary signed a policy directive that states that the semiautonomous weapon systems must be designed for proper machine interface...

But also we had troops deployed. we are out of iraq. there are savings to be found in our ground forces and a have a right of weapon systems. >> you have to look at these things on a microlevel just in your home state of washington, joint base lewis-mcchord, we found it would cost your home state 17,000 jobs, $730 million in income loss. you know, how much does that affect your stance on military spending? youre there for your constituents? >> those are projection estimates. theres no doubt that...

>> its a big cut. its a mindless cut. theres no ability to do any sort of strategic planning. i think the defense department can take some reductions. its part of a budget deal. we can reduce the amount of the money that were spending but to do it through sequestration, a cut right now, mindless across the board will really hamper our national security. no question. >> you talk about the ability to make some cuts and leon panetta has suggested that being a toletoll tolerable cut. >> we have big ...

Weve lost that cia unit that was there on the ground monitoring and trying to tell us about weapon systems that were moving through that area and al-qaida in that area. so awful that has been lost. >> reporter: there is also this proposal from a senior senate republican to have a select committee to handle the multiple investigations to bring them into one tent, if you will, though weve already seen a push back from the senate majority leader harry reid, as well as some senior republicans in the...

In libya. >> the free syrian army now has al-qaeda militias in their ranks fighting to out president assad. to date, more than 32,000 people have been killed there. you are looking at what happens when the arab spring turns in to a radical islamist winter. >> weapon systems are extremely accurate and with a short amount of instruction, you have somebody capable of taking down any aircraft. anywhere in the world. >> muammar gaddafi, the former libyan dictator owned more man-pads than anyone else....

Some of the gold. we aloud gold ownership but never reversed the law. >> sean: i watched you closely at your speech at the republican convention. i agree with you. we have to cut out the waste, fraud and abuse. you talk specifically about the military. im worried about the world is about to blow up with egypt and iran, is this the time to be gutting defense? >> i wouldnt gut defense but the primary function of the federal government is national defense. its what we are supposed to do. with that ...

We aloud gold ownership but never reversed the law. >> sean: i watched you closely at your speech at the republican convention. i agree with you. we have to cut out the waste, fraud and abuse. you talk specifically about the military. im worried about the world is about to blow up with egypt and iran, is this the time to be gutting defense? >> i wouldnt gut defense but the primary function of the federal government is national defense. its what we are supposed to do. with that being said the com...

>> bret: now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. the jewish vote could be key to winning the presidency. both sides are courting it. house minority leader nancy pelosi had this to say in an interview friday. >> president obama has been the strongest person in terms of sanctions on iran, which has been the strongest person on whether its david slaying any of these weapon systems and initiatives that relate israel. he has been there. over and over again. >> bret: weekly standard edit...

minutes, but first, we are getting kwoword of a u.s. milit crash in oman which happened 15 miles from the countrys capital. five crew members were on board, and the condition is not clear. military officials dont know what caused this crash, but they say it was not attacked. in northern columbia, a 3-year-o missing for an entire day was finally rescued from a sewer. you have to watch this. the boy had been playing in a construction zone with his brothers when he disappeared, and now ...