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>> first and foremost, an easy win, although politically difficult, is closing excess bases and facilities. the secretary of defense has come out and said, the military believes they have 19% excess capacity in their bases within the united states. they have to get permission from congress to close the bases. as long as the bases stay open, we're pouring money down the drain, year after year, maintaining the facilities, when the military doesn't need them. that prevents the military from transitioning and rebalancing itself for the types of forces and capabilities we need in the future. >> ebo...

Policy. very concerned about pulling back, closing bases, and particularly his talk about iran. i heard that from more than ten people. >> i've got to say the same thing. i love the domestic message, even if sometimes he goes a little bit too far out there because it is a great anecdote to everything that's wrong with washington, but john heilemann, that foreign policy message where he sounds like he's apologizing for ahmadinejad is probably not going to win him a lot of votes in south carolina. >> it's a huge -- the foreign policy thing is a huge problem for him and i think more broadly, you ...

charged with public intoxication, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest. take a look at this. near los angeles, one shopper actually pepper sprayed the people in line ahead of her at a walmart to get the year's hot video game console and it worked. sandra endohas developments. what more have you learned about the attack? it's almost impossible to believe that this actually happens during the holiday shopping season, but yet here we go again. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely, jim. that video is so amazing, and incredible to see the crowd as they go after these discounted items in walmart....

immigration. we'll show you the old clip making new headlines. wolf blitzer is off. i'm joe johns. you're in "the situation room." we begin with breaking news. american students caught up in the bloody cairo protest are finally on their way out of a nightmare experience in egypt. let's go straight to cnn's senior international correspondent, ben wedeman in cairo. earlier today we heard the three american students would be released on saturday. now we're hearing it's already happened. why? >> what we understand is that yesterday the prosecutors ordered their release but it took for ...

Who will vote against killing jobs in their own district. the only way to deal with the base commission was the closing bases. it's really a mess. >> it is a mess and we're spending $2 billion a week in afghanistan a decade later. >> yeah. >> is it time to get out of afghanistan? >> i think so. i have actually had -- president karzai changed my mind. i was supporting the president and have been for some time. he came out with this thing that would put women back in the stone age. the whole reason for my wanting to give the president's strategy a chance was worrying about the 15 odd million afg...