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That the checks and the balances are there and we're measuring against what are we trying to do. we're trying to protect against another terrorist attack. >> one of the other big issues that you're going to be voting on, the defense appropriations bill and the whole question of sexual assault an whether chain of command should apply. this is senator gillibrand's appeal based on what she says the victims are asking for. >> what the victims are telling us is that they don't trust the chain of command, they're not reporting these cases because they don't think justice can be done, and of the peop...

That combat outpost. and even if drinking was not directly, did not directly contribute to that incident, in which 16 civilians were killed, it is sure in this investigation that some of those commanders are probably in deep trouble and could get demoted or even lose their jobs in the military as a result. i will say that there is no evidence, however, that alcohol contributed or that command climate did, but there are serious questions about what was going on at that outpost. as far as staff sergeant robert bales goes, it is still second that there will be charges filed against him later this...

Correspondent jim miklaszewski. allen talked about an investigation into the chain of command. those who were around sergeant bales leading up to his alleged crime. >> that's right. everybody suspected this would eventually happen. but it's the first time today that in his testimony, general john allen revealed there is in fact an investigation underway into the command climate. just what was the level of discipline at that forward operating base where those special operations forces were could not village stability operations. they want to know why since he was that a special operator was he ...

Still in the area. there's some speculation that one of marines may be out of service but none of that is clear yet. so far they have not identified a single one of these marines and the investigation continues. not only into these marines, but into their commanders to see if there was a command climate that could have fostered this kind of offensive activity. >> how worried are our military leaders about what this video could do to the long term operation in afghanistan? >> flthere's always that concer. there's been some cases of these events much worse than that where they feared there would...

is responding. we'll take you live to afghanistan. also, no holds bard in south carolina. the candidates unleashing brutal attacks trying to stop mitt romney from steam rolling straight to the nomination. will it work? newt gingrich who said, i'm not going to go negative. here's what he said. >> this is going to be armageddon. they will come in here with everything they've got, every surrogate, every ad, every negative attack. >> wait, wait, what happened to the i'm not going to go negative? that's ridiculous. i will not go negative until now when i go negative. we'll talk about th...