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Still plenty of spending, plenty of big-dollar figures. the 2012 budget looks like it will shape up this way. about $553 billion in spending to be requested. now, thats actually about a 5% or so increase in spending over last year, accordingly to some experts calculations. thats the highest budget ever at the pentagon, and that doesnt even begin to account for the $100 billion or so still being spend to fight the wars in iraq and afghanistan, another $30 billion on top of that from the departmen...

That they need to cut back on that kind of spending. so in the end, even projections outward of the next four or five years continue to see substantial rises in the defense budget unless, of course, congress, some members of congress, get their way, richard. >> some of the critics of this cutback of $78 billion over the next five years might say weve got two wars going on. we have soldiers in harms way right now. how can we cut money from the budget at this moment? >> well, there are some who ar...

A multinational coalition led by the united states. iraqi forces are driven back, saddam hussein comes close to being overthrown by revolts in the south and the north of the country. iraq is forced to allow u.n. inspections of its weapons program, when saddam hussein obstructs inspections, britain and the united states launch air strikes against weapons facilities in iraq. after the 9/11 tacks, george w. bush declares that iraq, iran and north korea form an axis of evil. iraq unconditionally agr...

And restraint. toward this end, i am directing that any new proposal or initiative large other small, be it policy, program or ceremony, come with a cost estimate. that price tag will help us determine whether what we are gaining or hope to gain is really worth the cost. either in dollar terms or in the diversion of limited manpower and resources from other missions. >> reporter: no price tag to this specific proposal right now. gates has already trimmed several weapons programs for what he says...

The treaty was enacted in 1970. they meet every five years. the four nonmembers are india, pakistan, israel and north korea. all have nuclear arsenals or weapons programs. now, of the three members, five are nuclear powers. i want to take a break right now. not go away, just take you to something else. we want to go to the white house briefing. robert gibbs stepping up to the podium. >> a quick readout before we do q&a here. the president spoke late this morning with israeli prime minister net...

Thailand and vietnam agreed to join and strengthen the treaties and international partnerships at the core of our efforts. japan, india and china will create new centers to promote nuclear security technologies and training. nations pledged new resource to help the iaea meet responsibilities. in a major and welcome development, russia will close the last weapons grade plutonium production reactor. im pleased the united states and russia agreed to eliminate 69 tons of plutonium for weapons progra...

Argentina, the philippines, thailand and vietnam agreed to join and thus strengthen the treaties and international partnerships that are at the core of our global efforts. a number of countries, including italy, japan, india and china will create new centers to promote nuclear security, technologies and training. nations pledge new resources to help the iaea meet its responsibilities. in a major and welcomed development, russia announced it will close its last weapons-grade plutonium production ...

Highly enriched uranium so everybody has work to do including the united states. >> in that context, we talk about this terms of north korea and iran and weapons programs, but a lot of the nuclear material in the world is research, medical research, we have issues with the canadians to our north and within the borders of the united states. how much is the technology of this business, the necessary nuclear business changed in the last ten years or so so that you can now go to these people and say...

>> time nor now for our hits and misses of the weekment dan, first you. >> on tuesday president obama signed the legislation allowing the department of education to take over the student loan programs and on tuesday when they went into the departments website they got an error message because the website was down suggesting that the government is too big to work. now, youve got to worry, if the chinese can hack into the pentagons most secret weapons programs, how hard is it going to be for an mi...

>> time nor now for our hits and misses of the weekment dan, first you. >> on tuesday president obama signed the legislation allowing the department of education to take over the student loan programs and on tuesday when they went into the departments website they got an error message because the website was down suggesting that the government is too big to work. now, youve got to worry, if the chinese can hack into the pentagons most secret weapons programs, how hard is it going to be for an mi...