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A couple of dozen protesters who came out. now those protests number in about 100 to 150. two police arrests so far. no kind of violence. brett, tomorrow attorneys will be back in court to set a retrial date for officer porter. >> leland vitter live in baltimore, thank you. lawmakers will vote friday on a massive $1.1 trillion government spending package. tomorrow the house will vote on a $650 billion tax break bill. the tax package reverses many of the deficit gains won under former house speaker john boehner. current speaker paul ryan predicts bipartisan support for both bills. tomorrow wi...

We are talking the kind of action that president clinton took for instance in iraq in 1998 over several days of but iran is a much better equipped entity than iraq was. as you know it's not an easy target. >> no. but, chris, just a couple months ago president obama himself said in almost mocking tones we spend $650 billion a year on defense. iran spends $30 billion a year on defense. we have the ability to destroy their defenses. that is without question. the incoming chairman of the joint chiefs of staff testified to that last week. >> whether you can do it and whether you should do it or t...

N ♪ where did the money go ♪ ♪ where did the money go as we head into the shopping season, the feds are warning about counterfeit goods. take a look at these goods. a collection of watches, perfumes, jewelry. this was all seized in south florida. counterfeits are a $650 billion threat to the world economy costing some 10 million jobs. >> christian louboutin is famous for his red bottom shoes. you can get that same color in a nail polish. it's the same price as a fair of those shoes. $675 each bottle of starlight is decorated with 1500 crystals and comes in a black lacquer box. just 1,0...

The russians do what the russians do because they have this long expansionist history. they're a serious threat in the region. putin's entire military budget is $88 million. ours is $650 billion. russia is doing what russia does. they're not calculating the moves based on whether they perceive the current president be strong or weak. >> bill is shaking his head because the concern, is paul, if he takes a step into estonia, latvia, lithuania, now you trigger nato. you have to stop them before an all-out conflict. maybe a show of strength sooner winds up averting that. >> i appreciate the perspe...

Overall strategic agenda? are we missing something here? >> the strategy. one of the things that should be clear to everybody in the united states watching this play out is we have had a pivot to asia, it's incomplete, but in the works. we have had a reset with russia in recent years. left in the dust is the u.s./european relationship. in the cold war, we had a strategy bassed on deterrence. today, we have no strategy at all. the defense budget should be a reflection of a strategy. itis hard to have a proper number around the spending, whether it's $650 billion or just under $500 billion witho...