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Why dod is rebalancing it's resources towards the asia-pacific region. we are in the process of modernizing our defense posture across the entire region to defend and deep even our partnerships with traditional allie, especially japan, south korea, and australia. to continue to defer and defend against provocations from states like north korea, as well as non-state actors. and tokes spanned our networks of security cooperation throughout the region to combat terrorism. counter proliferation. provide disaster relief, fight piracy and insure maritime security. i will continue this rebalancing ev...

Challenges. as this committee knows, that's why dod is in the pacific region. we are in the process of modernizing our defense posture across the region to defend and deepen our partnerships with traditional allies especially japan, south korea, and us a trail yeah. to continue to defer and defend against provocations from states like north korea as well as nonstate actors. and to expand our networks of security cooperation throughout the region to combat terrorism, counter proliferation, provide disaster relief, fight piracy and ensure maritime security. i will continue this rebalancing even ...

So, you know, that's another area of trying to reduce the scope of that where they think that's part of the regulatory, you know, overhang that they want to try to deal with. >> it will be interesting to see if he kind of draws a fence around defense spending. this has been a big foreign policy week in washington. and i'm wondering, given what we've learned about al qaeda and its resurgence in north africa and just defense posture globally, david, do you have a sense of what ryan is thinking about defense spending these days? >> no, i don't, particularly with regard to ryan, but i think it's s...

Quickly becoming the next big battle ground outside of the middle east. and the chaos in syria is quite frankly, an inability on the part of this administration is to see who the real enemy is and our ability to respond to any of it is reduced by the cuts we're making in our defense posture. one last point about what's going on in algeria. the algerians have been through this before and goes all the way back to the 1990's, some may remember, as i do, the kidnap of french priests, who were eventually murdered because the french would not accommodate their demands. if you look hat what we don't ...

Americans, including our ambassador to libya, was the result of a spontaneous, violent protest that simply got out of hand. but as we hear reports directly to the contrary, the white house is now being challenged on what kind of warning we actually did get prior to this attack. chief white house correspondent ed henry has more live in washington. >> reporter: good to see you, megyn. i did ask jay carney whether or not the administration got some sort of heads up that the situation was deteriorating in libya, some reports suggesting we had up to three days' notice there could be an attack on th...