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The Department of Defense released the following statement on the tragic deaths of U.S. service members in Afghanistan Thursday.

These threats that we are seeing are more than folks in washington are admitting. >> the threat is real. we must continue to build and advance our military. we had many years were military was put at risk and most important he threw no budget. we have to keep a budget funded every year and congress needs to realize that when you put our defense statement factor politics it puts the world at stake. >> no doubt the combat readiness was absolutely rotten until a few years ago. i want to switch gears here because there are reports out that isis fighters have executed 11 person in nigeria, because ...

Comical. it would be comical if it wasn't so tragic. >> bill: do you want to hear from witnesses in a senate trial? >> you know, bill, i really at this point i don't think i do. i don't want to make that decision yet. i think the time to make the decision on witnesses is after we hear the house managers plead their case and we know their case quite well obviously. it isn't much of a case at all. i want to hear them first and then the defense statement. maybe get some questions through the chief justice. and then at that point maybe we should get together and talk whether we want to hear from m...

That way? >> not necessarily. say that you can't prove cause or manner of death, someone gives a confession. anderson -- a small piece of evidence that supports it. that's not how the statement went. it was up and down and clear she was tormented. she was holding the detective's hand and crying and asking for her mother. gave multiple versions and in cross-examination by the officers, the officer said she gave so many different stories we don't know which one to rely on. prosecutors don't want to have witnesses on the stand saying we don't know what version of the defense statement we can or c...

Raising the price of a drug by 1,000% is now on trial for deceiving investors. in a dramatic opening defense statement his lawyer said, look, you may hate the guy, but you cannot brand him a criminal. back to you. >> we'll see how that plays out. thanks so much. still ahead, parts of the country, they are set to face the risk of more severe weather today. bill karins will have the latest on who is at risk following a series of tornadoes touching down across parts of the midwest. plus, a quiet day turns chaotic for some in philadelphia after -- you see it in the video. it's all caught on ...