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Freddie gray visiting baltimore today and meeting with official and members of congress and law enforcement and faith and community leaders. the raw pictures coming in to us you're seeing them as i'm seeing them at the same time and all at the same time we're getting some updated numbers. number on arrests, on injuries during last week's violent riots. police have arrested 486 people since april 23rd. they say 113 police officers were injured. in the meantime the city is trying to get back to normal. you've probably heard the national guard troops are drawing down, but there's still that state...

White house not stepping up to talk about the potential strategic potential frame of the strategy, because we are leaving afghanistan and the drawing down, and the president is talking about virtually no sources in 2016, and the taliban is going to remain and we have to negotiate that way out, and this could have been a important confidence-balancing measure with the taliban and it could go wrong, but it is important to consider it with other measures. >> thanks so much for being on the show. >> thank you, chris. and now, what is running far and far away from the president's epa plan. and ...

House and congress haven't gotten together, and it's required by law. they're breaking the law. budget resolutions are supposed to pass, become law by april 15th. >> the only leadership we really have is the fed, and he's pumping $85 billion a month into the economy. is he doing the right thing? >> i don't think he has any choice. and there is disagreement about whether they should because they worry about the implications. >> but he doesn't have another choice? >> he doesn't, because there's no fiscal policy, no budget, no management, no debt reduction plan. and he has begged congress. he's a...

It was about $700 billion, way more than double. now, here is something else kind of amazing. that is a bigger increase in total in spending than we saw in either the vietnam war or the cold war, and here is where it left us. we're spending more than china, the uk, france, indiana, saudi arabia, india, and canada, combined. we're spending more on our military than the next dozen high spenders combined. our wars, now, however are ending. officially the war in iraq is over. the war in afghanistan is drawing down, osama bin laden is dead. spending dropped somewhere between 43 and 33%. now speak a...

Losing the gains that have already been made and to make sure that we're in a position to support afghan units when they're in theater and to make sure that our folks are also protected even as we're drawing down, so, i can't give you a precise number at this point. i'll probably make a separate announcement once i've gotten recommendations from troops -- from the generals and our commanders in terms of what that drawdown might look like. with respect to post-2014, we've got two goals and our main conversation today was establishing a meeting of the minds in terms of what those goals would be ...