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Arbitrary across the board reduction that would saddle the military with trillion dollars in cuts, severely hurt our force structure and impair our ability to deter threats. don't bother to find a serious military rationale behind any of that, unless that rationale is wishful thinking. strategy is not driving the president's massive defense cuts. in fact his own secretary of defense warned that these reductions would be devastating and he's right. and that devastation would start here at home. mark my words, those cuts would only weaken an already stretched va system and our solemn commitment ...

National defense, help in the reelection at the expense of what feinstein said, great damage to american national security, that fits with the keystone pipeline decision, the decision to withdrawal the troops in afghanistan in the middle of the fighting season now rather than what the military recommended, after election day. all these decisions to make the president look as if he's subordinate the interest of the nation. >> the vfw speech was pointed at a number of places. mitt romney, we covered the president there yesterday. today he spent a lot of time talking about defense cuts as well. >...

the massacre inside that colorado movie theater now appears to be only part of the horror that was planned. a law enforcement official who seen video of the suspect, james holmes' booby trapped apartment tells cnn it was rigged with more than 30 homemade grenades and ten gallons of gasoline. the source says that would have created a fireball knocking out walls engulfing the entire building in flames undoubtedly killing many more people. cnn's ed lavandera is joining us now once again from aurora, colorado. ed, what else are you learning? there are new developments emerging even as we...

Including surveillance, counter terrorism, countering weapons of mass destruction and being able to operate in environments where adversaries try to deny us access. megyn: they are shifting the focus to the asian-pacific region, china. the army would shrink from its currents level of 570,000 soldiers to 490,000. joining me now, former air force vice chief of staff and a fox news contributor. i want to get your overall reaction to this. >> i think we can do this. what concerns me is what has already happened and my friend general jack king has concern. by pulling out of iraq we clearly even aim...

Clearly even aimed our force structure go down. but the fact is we opened up a pathway for iran into syria and israel that could be very dangerous and destabilizing. that's one issue that concerns me. the 490,000 -- if everything goes well, we could probably live with. but what is not mentioned in the conversation is secretary gates canceled the f22 which is much more capable for a china deterrent strategy. he canceled and delayed the next generation bomber. and he bought a smaller tanker. you need a large tanker if you are going to operate in the pacific. so i'm not sure there is a colearn i ...