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On both sides of the political aisle and not going to puff his own resume and make himself look good in the history books. he is very critical of himself as well as president obama. and to say this, to say that the president of the united states deliberately was willing to send men and women in harm s way for a mission he knew would not suck sowed or early on knew it would not succeed, it is really showing a president that is not fulfilling his requirements under the constitution. and secretary gate said good things about hillary clinton in the book, but in a telling remark, talks about her saying that her position on iraq was driven by politics as well. it is damming for both of them. we ll get in that 20 minutes from now. it is a strong charge. kt, thank you for your reaction. kt mcfar land here in new york. the artic blast appears to be easing the grip on much of the country but not before the ....
Me is to understand what it is you re affecting. i grew up alongside soldiers over the last decade. i served in combat with countless professionals and that s what marty dempsey is talking about. there are necessarily going to be reductions in defense spending and if they re responsibly done as secretary gate laid out, that s probably fine. if you do a sequestration, that s an irresponsible way to cut and suddenly, you can t cut every part of the defense budget. many parts of them are protected for various reasons. so as marty laid out, you gut people, and when you gut human capital you ll pay a price that can t be caught up for a generation. mike: and the difference with sequestration, there s no discretion, it s an across the board, you cut everywhere. it s almost like going into an operating room and instead of surgery removing a tumor we re going to lose 20 pounds of flesh out of this body without regard where it s coming from. that s kind of what this problem is, isn t it? it ....
From secretary clinton? she s in charge obviously of those u.s. embassies overseas. she says, you know what, mr. president, almost 72 hours now, we haven t seen any attacks. secretary gate, was once a cia chief, he say if you look around the world, it is relatively calm. there s not been a lot of anti-american protests. there s not been any strikes against us. why would we incite what seems to be, thank god, a relatively calm situation? well, images like these could, of course, inflame the situation somewhat. at the same time, there s a danger that if there s no images out there, people who support al qaeda, who admire bin laden, will continue to believe that he s alive and that myth will continue. and that could also be dangerous, john. let s talk a bit about what we expect. you both know the intelligence business incredibly well. when we talk about ten hard drive, five computers, 100 storage devices, and you know the history of al qaeda, paul, to you, first, what s there? what ....
And republicans on board. barney frank and rand paul, great ten-year plan, bipartisan, to cut the defense budget by $10 trillion and keep this country secure. tim, let me turn it back to you. katrina s point is well taken. republicans as well as democrats, left, center, right, everybody looks at the defense budget. secretary gates looked at it and said $178 billion that he saw that could be cut over a couple years. why hasn t that been part of these continuing resolutions as proposed by the republicans to make this bipartisan? let everybody pay a price out of the sector they care most about. i think people are, frankly, afraid to do it. it s 19% of spending for federal outlays. i applaud secretary gate for saying we have to make these cuts. we have to do that. we ve called for that let me put it to you a little harder then. the tea party we have, we said it today with over 1,000 cheering folks cutting defense spending? absolutely leadership on the hill ....
Degraded. gadhafi s government forces knocking out tanks and armored personnel carriers. it is clear those strikes have not been enough to break knows government forces. government forces still outnumber the rebels in the battlefield by 10-1. the debate now is whether or not to rebels. some countries saying they need shoulder-mounted anti-tank missiles. others saying they can t handle advanced technology what they need is training and leadership. head of nato saying he opposed arming the rebels. turkey s prime minister saying to an the rebels could be to contribute to terrorism. secretary gate said arming the recollections would be another country s job not the u.s.. another country would have to provide the weapons and the trainers for those rebels. gates also talking about a possible longer term solution. saying it is not going to be the rebels who overthrow gadhafi militarily, it is going to be political and economic factors that do bring ....