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top of their professions battling it out over a public issue. frankly i don t see the e-mail as anything that we should all be shocked or superconcerned about it. i mean, every one of us can produce an e-mail from a white house, it doesn t matter of which party, that is far more ominous than what woodward got. what do you think? i think the bigger picture is the woodward thing is fun to talk about for a couple of days but we re on the verge of the perfectly dysfunctional political equilibrium with the sequester that may perpetuate itself indefinitely. this is happening now, the budget stuff at the end of march where the government may run out of funding, you ve got the debt limit again coming back in may or june. so, this is going to stretch on for months in this kind of dysfunction that s insane. and, of course, we ve been talking about the pope. we have ten seconds until we get to the next show. i hope the papal conclave doesn t last that long but with senat ....
bill clinton presidency should have been made public a year ago. but they are still under lock and key. that s according to the website, politico. some but not all of the papers may soon be released, and that could cause some problems for hillary clinton if she runs for president in 2016. our senior political analyst, ron brownstein, joining us now from culver city, out in the california. ron, give us an idea of what kind of documents we re talking about, what this potentially could mean if hillary clinton runs for president. reporter: hi, wolf. first of all, substantively, i have written books using the presidential libraries and the general trend over time is to longer delay and narrow disclosure. fdr library, lbj library, huge trove material, part of a long standing trend. we don t know what are in the documents. many confidential advice within the white house. i think politically, this really plays into the broader issue, which is that obviously one of the fulcrum ....
we start with big cuts over at the pentagon. we re awaiting the arrival of the defense secretary, chuck hagel, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey. they ll be laying out the details of the new proposed pentagon budget and the cuts. you re looking at live pictures from the briefing room over there at the pentagon. once they come in, we ll go there, we ll hear what chuck hagel has to say. the new york times is reporting that under this new proposed budget, the u.s. army will be cut to a level not seen since before world war ii. that means a drop to around 450,000 active duty soldiers. but the new budget is also expected to protect critical programs like cyber warfare. the old strategy was to have enough military strength to fight two ground wars simultaneously. that s changed with new directives and now with a projected smaller fighting force. let s discuss what s going on as we await the defense secretary. joining us, general george jo ....
china plans to send out ships to try to find this new object. in the meantime, the search for those other two pieces of or these other objects, i should say, goes on. we re talking about six planes scouring the area for a third day today. no traces were found, however. they came back, at least a kouchl couple of the planes, and found nothing significant. weather is deteriorating though in the search area. australian official says the operation going to continue despite that. also multinational flotilla forming a search. a norwegian cargo ship is already there. diverted from its onlial end point. austral australia, malaysia is spending planes to the planet s most remote areas. the revelation of the satellite images came as flight cruise wrapped up, as i said, this third day of searches as they look for the other two pieces that we were talking about. those spotted by an australian satellite but we re in a whole new phase of this now because, as you said, we re 75 ....
poignant. looking at pictures of it right there. we re waiting on the president s arrival where he ll lay that wreath. later he ll make remarks as will chuck hagel. we ll bring those comments to you live. we want to bring in we see the wreath arriving. i think we should just sit back and watch this happen. we are waiting for the president s arrival at this ceremony at the tomb of the unknowns in arlington national cemetery. he ll lay a wreath at the tomb. let s bring in michelle kosinski. the president just returned from an unannounced trip to afghanistan to meet with the troops serving there. what was his message when he was on the ground during this visit? i think it s a nice contrast to see this very solemn ceremony about to get under way today and he s just getting off a flight, a 14-hour flight from afghanistan from that surprise trip. he spent about four hours on the ground there. he didn t land back in washington until 7:00 this morning. and while he was ....