of the pentagon. that's obtained through a contract that the pentagon issues with, i guess, choicepoint? >> it's a different private company but they are basically trying to compile records on students so they can reach out to themnd recruit them into the military. >> what do you think of the pentagon having dossiers on every young person in america, mr. chairman? >> i haven't heard that honestly. it's obviously a huge task and i don't think it's being done in the light that you are talking about. i think they are probably trying to identify those individuals that would be a high risk in terms of potential terror to this country, and i think that's what they are concentrating on. i don't think they are going to the average student and developing a dossier. i their doing a scan mechanism to find out is this particular student a u.s. citizen? is he a student from a country which is hos aisle or wants to indicate or has a past history of trying to hurt the united states? those the students they probably

everything that is except for the pentagon my greatest fear is that in economic tough times the people will see the defense budget as the place to saw the nation's deficit problems i would be very reluctant to cut defense spending until we see really how these two conflicts were are going to come out worldwide military spending increased by twenty point six billion dollars in two thousand and ten and one thousand point six billion of that was the u.s. alone according to the stockholm international peace research institute the u.s. very much sees itself as a global military power it's the only global military superpower and so it perceives security interests as encompassing the whole world. the u.s. has spent one hundred eighty nine two hundred thirty five years at war in two thousand and ten the u.s. spent more on its military than the next ten highest countries combined. both presidents bush and obama have read that the wars defense spending in the u.s. has increased eighty one percent since two thousand what this seems to reflect. prioritization of military power and military concept

the pentagon's two hundred thirty four golf courses. children poor women homeless you know take care of the needs of our population to spend enormous amounts of money on the pentagon budget while we or every program is being cut is just fraudulent in obscene try to put it on the ground read it read out. four cents of every dollar americans pay in taxes goes to funding past and future war and for all the tough talk by president obama about making hard choices cutting the budget and closing the deficit gap many americans are wondering when it will be the pentagon's turn to tighten its belt and ford r. t. washington d.c. . engine is that the parents struggling for plugs have resumed their efforts to remove radioactive water it comes after a powerful aftershock forced crews to leave the area he's going to raise them around the city to the maximum level of seven this puts the crisis on a par with a normal disaster this is very stormy day three thirty radiation from the damaged plant previously thought but officials say that the upgrade to th

we built the pentagon in one year. i don't know if i have towed to the story yet, but i have told it many times. if we wanted to build the pentagon right now, first of all, we would probably not be able to build at. probably some endangered species would stop us. say we got through the process and we finally turned the first spade of dirt and started building a, we would probably not be -- we would be in the vietnam war before we could get the pentagon bill. we have taught ourselves up with so much bureaucracy. tolet's move from budget policy issues. >> let's talk about iraq and whether you think the troops ought to pull out or not. it does not seem like the iraqis at this moment really want us to stay. >> i hope that there is a request to keep some troops there and provide some security. i am not convinced that the iraqis are totally ready to handle all of the security, and we are going to have contractors and state department people and other citizens over there helping the country rebuild. i think that will be put a

role that contractors have at the pentagon have. perpetuating the war machine even though the enemy of the original enemy the u.s.s.r. is no longer they are no longer a threat you know it's the sort of mentality that's that stuck in a cold war era but if we move on a little bit trying to make us more personal he used to live in the states you've left the states as one some muslim american how do you feel this president represents you and how do you feel this country represents you. the american population just like in the arab world when we talk about a disconnect between the propping up of the leak and the promotion of public opinion there is a complete disconnect between policy implementation and between the public opinion of the american population it's completely the state and that's the problem is there is an intentional propping up of cater ships and authoritarianism because they are afraid of the public opinion that is represented by the muslim world just like they're afraid of the public opinion that is represented by the am

small the pentagon refuses to budget for the gigantic defense budget . little. can see this is live from moscow now the fatal terror attack since been sold less than forty eight hours all but according to president bush and co two suspects detained in connection with the monday metro bombing confessed to the explosion however the reasons a motive behind the attack remain all clear the blast killed twelve and left almost two hundred injured. the bomb went off as crowds were coming out of trains during the evening rush hour and the capital's main subway help. bring the groucho of a met some of the victims recovering and. the shoes from when. i started to scream help i was bleeding heavily i'm an injured woman can't be outside into the fresh air i told my nag and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived that's mine and one might be unaware they saved not only for the life of pure unborn child as well who came here who to leave but on the day i was going to the city center to buy vitamins and terrible it was not really if i got over not really there were

bases and sites the world why as well as the pentagon's two hundred thirty four golf courses the. children poor women homeless you know take care of the needs of our population to spend enormous amounts of money on the pentagon budget while we are every program is being cut is just fraudulent in obscene try to put it on the ground really a great deal of the royal. birth that the four cents of every dollar americans pay in taxes goes to funding past and future war and for all the tough talk by president obama about making hard choices cutting the budget and closing the deficit gap many americans are wondering when it will be the pentagon's turn to tighten its belt and forward our t. washington d.c. . still ahead this hour getting tested for the space right. one of the most unpleasant is being stuck in this capsule to the martian. thing that has by the waves over the open sea. can also use correspondent angle of the pressures of real world training find out. as if you're. making headlines this hour under an order given to detain the deposed egyptian leader hosni mubarak as well as t

a trillion dollars a year the pentagon's war her war when all. the united states world. and world were people and you could put twenty thirty forty billion dollars out of the pentagon budget for my or my. almost a trillion dollars out of the pentagon budget the pros don't need a war should be going to pass all right but it is unfortunate fortunately our reality is well if those deep cuts go through as you're suggesting as well that how would they affect washington's foreign policy. pentagon and the central intelligence agency which including the two of them are who are going in there are foreign policy change and all they are out of control re your oil resources in the world. and foreign policy including the chair is all about and it's going home and then. put them over these ongoing wars need to be paid for how damaging all the in the domestic cuts. are going to pay for the average american while the money is drugged up to carry on these conflicts. while nobody saying it's all becoming the end when you've already got fourteen percent of the publ

close ties between washington the pentagon wall street and the like. well he would recognize it is a huge waste of resources and now his production his warning was correct. democracy now takes second stage to the allegorically private interest and the military security complex is the most powerful these interests and these laws have no national purpose system only in order to create profits for the armaments industry and has no other purpose the idea that the united states threatened by afghanistan or iraq is uncertainty and no sane person can possibly believe them well and even china which would be the strongest rival i guess the united states we spend six months as times in our military on our military as that country so do you think if these massive budgets are coming out of fear or right i mean there really is no rival that that's worth this massive massive budget and that they're coming out of corruption and total corruption to pay off the homeless in the streets and internally politicians get very generous campaign contributions so it's a recycli

agendas white house and national security agencies cia the pentagon the pentagon these interesting africa agenda the one two windows were in libya install an african b. in africa where we have to remember the african headquarters and structure in germany because nobody now africa had quite its peace you know an african country and then the dominoes libya i do we coast we trade sea badly so my salt he said the next day i mean us to fail according to the african pentagon agenda and then leader own the big dominoes the countries where china has substantial investments example. nature i want you. to get a real game so we have to watch how this is going to play out in the medium term the picture you better be certain about it get counter-strategy if they see that they are floundering you know africa because of the military station of a constant being renewed ties with south america and with central asia. so they have really come out states let's focus park in libya and syria and syria the kids here in egypt they got what i wanted the people i talk all the leaders do you think the lives of the

pentagon refuses to volunteer for the gigantic defense also it's. never our business says the share swap between b.p. and roll c.f. is close to hitting the rocks last may have touched in from the deadline for the deal is not that extended make an announcement concerning its state's authorized it would have warned out of business school it's. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow with me on this have a. terror attack on ballerinas has been sold less than forty eight hours after it happened are going to present a will to suspect detained in connection with the monday metro bombing have confessed to the explosion. the latest. big rollout on tyra's that site has been solved the president's. got people behind but at last at nine pm on tuesday in a sting operation police arrested two suspects both of belorussian origin of the law the bit responsibility of this atrocity up the long hours of interrogation that wasn't us to give us a b. also they will lead to other similar terrorist attacks in the country's recent history in two thousand far as

house who the president wants to cut the pentagon by. and that is former director of o.m.b. how you want so man who when you make the reductions understands the world is just coming from the cia he's been looking at it we want someone who's going to be able to work with congress he's a former congressman and he was a republican before he became a democrat so i can't think of anybody who would have better experience to carry out. president obama's agenda similarly i think by building general petraeus to the cia we've had some differences between the cia and the military about what exactly is happening particularly in afghanistan hopefully general petraeus will be able to bridge that gap now jack i want to get your opinion here what do you think of these and this is i think a lot of people are describing this as a shakeup but if you really think about it it's it's the same faces that are just being put into different positions and you know given an entire. you know you're absolutely right i mean if you think about if you'd rather kate's a

and the statement through better national security agency is the sixteen of them the cia the pentagon state department will. help you many which i rather expect is not. anybody would want to rickles themselves that was have ask of our correspondent at the age of time. over the top economies in the world to the most influential people in the world there's another theory out now about that time magazine that is and its choices for the one hundred most influential people out this week talked this includes talk show host comedian that even teen heartthrob justin bieber but is this really a list of some of the most important people in the world or a good or popularity contests whether you agree with the top one hundred or not it all comes down to how you define influential correspondent on a stasi charkha has more. top one hundred influential people in the world time magazine annually mixes matches and puts together an eclectic group of folk and annoyance them with the word influence this year's group has been announced with great fanfare but how prominent are these figures and what is thi

we built the pentagon in one year. i don't know if i've told you this story yet, but i've told it many times. >> that wasn't the house you built. is it? >> no. different story. but if we wanted to build a pentagon right now, first of all, you wouldn't probably be able to build it. it's a swamp out there. probably some endangered species. but say we got through the process, all the court indicateses and everything -- cases and everything, and we finally turn the dirt and started building it. we'd probably not be in world war ii. we probably would be done with korea. we'd probably be in the vietnam war before we could get the pentagon built. we tie you ar -- >> i'm going to jump in. we have about seven minutes left. let's move to policy issues. >> let's talk about iraq and will you think the troops ought to pull out or not. it doesn't seem the iraqis really want to us stay. what's your view? >> i hope that there is a request to keep some troops there to provide some security. i'm not convinced that the iraqis are totally

poifments the bigger issue is there is a certain interchangeability between the pentagon an the c.i.a. these days. the c.i.a. is in the military business, dropping bombs in pakistan and the military is fanned -- expanding its intelligence operations. gwen: does it make less distinction than in the past when the president says, for example, we're not going to put boots on the ground, it buzzn't matter because there are wing tips on the ground? >> that's right. they're trying to gather intelligence, so boots on the ground still means military although the c.i.a. has expanded its par amilitary force, the number of people who show up in places like libya, so many times it's kind of a distinction without a difference. >> the c.i.a. in this administration has been really a favored agency. i think your newspaper quoted the president once as saying the c.i.a. gets what it wants. will petraeus going to the c.i.a., will that even more accentuate the importance of the c.i.a. within the administration? >> it's hard to same the c.i.a. loves to be at the center of things. always fearful of being ma

when it will be the pentagon's turn to tighten its belt and ford r. t. washington d.c. . engineers at japan's struggling fukushima nuclear plants have resumed efforts to remove the radioactive water that comes after a powerful aftershock forced crews to leave the area once used a japan raised here and there to around the facility to the wrexham level of seven this puts the crisis on a par with the chernobyl disaster decisions based on the data showing more radiation leaks from the damage of previous and forth but officials say the grange is more than just today she has been critical. temps to the store cooling systems that reactors appear to be no closer to success you can engineer on the gunderson these the japanese government has downplayed the extent of its asked. the japanese are really committed to nuclear and so the result of a lot of russian interests that wanted to downplay it you know i study the three mile island accident list very true noble and. this one and it's pretty scary packer's there where no one things are breaking you do seem to l

and try to go through the certain congress in the prior year the media to grease the pentagon papers rarely manning according to some of the news that new york was on this first. involving torturing and. of billions in iraq he allegedly brought that to the commander he was directly above the commander rejected and said nothing going on here get more iraqis than the rest of iraq that same kind of prison so he tried going through command structure it didn't work and so what do you what do you do seeing was widespread crimes and we just saw crimes released yesterday about the get no documents that showed torture going and torture is that they got to be horrifically those into those silly that show torture in fact their dark ok i want a job where there is a way that i was part of their doctors so i covered doctors covering up torture time of day another crime and the doctor saw hillary clinton ordering the state department spies and you do mats another crime of them on a crime is a lot of real crime if you can say that you can make a case that maybe there was more released then necessary

in the black budgets of the pentagon these covert programs cost many billion dollars and. what technologies benefit from this financing. starfire has been used primarily in the past to do research on satellite tracking also they've done a lot of work in astronomy with range finding of stars he use the laser to be able to help tell you where the star is and how far away. in the budget documents on the air force there's also been mentioned you know they use a star fire for and sell it weapons actually. the air force told congress that it had no intentions of using starfire for anything related to you and he selling weapons however they are doing it just to make the very ski. and make it stay very stable as it goes up and they're going to target that on a salad. if you're tracking it sally you don't need a very skinny laser beam in fact you want kind of a light because you want to make sure you catch it in need right. so. many of us here concerned that this kind of a test is actually an anti-satellite weapons test in disguise. in april of two thousand and five the air force l

bases insights the world why as well as the pentagon's chil hundred thirty four golf courses. i mean children who are wimmin homeless you know take care of the needs of our population to spend enormous amounts of money on the pentagon budget while we or every program is being cut it's just fraud to lean in obscene try to put it on the ground. that the four cents of every dollar americans pay in taxes goes to funding costs and future war and for all the tough talk by president obama about making hard choices cutting the budget and closing the deficit gap many americans are wondering when it will be the pentagon's turn to tighten its belt here in florida are t. washington d.c. . struggling for. water it comes on after a powerful force cruise to flee the area she's going to pan raised around the missing the maximum level of seven i suppose the crisis on a par with the chernobyl. the decision was based on new data showing more radiation from the damaged previously but officials say. the situation critical meanwhile attempts to restore cooling systems of the reactors appears to be

bases insights the world why as well as the pentagon's chil hundred thirty four golf courses that. children poor women and homeless you know take your or the needs of our population to spend enormous amounts of money on the pentagon budget or every program is being is just rajoy in an obscene right to put it on the. road. that the percent of every dollar americans pay in taxes goes to finding past and future war and for all the tough talk by president obama about making hard choices cutting the budget and closing the deficit gap many americans are wondering when it will be the pentagon's turn to take in its belt and forward our t. washington d.c. . news making headlines this hour a suicide bomber has killed at least ten people in our attack on tribal elders in eastern afghanistan a close ally of president calls i was killed in the blast the attack approached the elders after a meeting before detonating the explosives strapped to his body the taliban denied responsibility for the attack claiming that the victims had their own enemies. the deposed egyptian leader hosni mubarak and hi

guest: we did notify the pentagon. in part notified them because we wanted to see what they could tell us about the photographs, and we also notified them because we knew the reaction might potentially put troops in harm's way. we want to give them a heads up that this was coming. they mostly spoke to was off the record, so i cannot tell you what they said, but in one on the record conversation we pointed to the photographs of the men tied up beside the road, and we wanted to know if they were investigating who those men were, the circumstances under which there were killed, and whether u.s. troops were involved in the desecration of the bodies. basically the response of the pentagon is they have no way of knowing in no way of basically figuring out who the men in the photographs were. that was disturbing, because you could see from some of the related photographs that there were marks on the striker vehicles and other identifying signs that any peace investigator could have to track down what had happened in that inci

bases inside the world by as well as the pentagon's two hundred thirty four golf courses that. it needs children poor women and homeless you know to take care of the needs of our population to spend enormous amounts of money on the pentagon budget while we are every program is being is just fraudulent and obscene try to put it on the ground bring it out. that the four cents of every dollar americans pay in taxes goes to funding past and future war and for all the. but meanwhile the u.k. is giving one hundred million pounds of emergency funds to its military forces to support the libyan campaign despite the cuts agreed in temple's defense spending review comes at a time when britain is dramatically slashing social spending actually contributor because we know there's a view that says debating defense cuts will soon be felt and square. well britain's involvement in a new conflict it's impossible to state and the level of defense cuts decided upon last year when still defense needs extra funding but the government has two major obstacles in providing it the first one is how to ens

for the last three years the pentagon has been trying to make china the new body and china unwittingly played into the united states hands with its anti-satellite test. according to some experts this anti-satellite test didn't come as a surprise to american officials. at the time i was at a conference in colorado springs and the military officers in the room actually left to watch the test in real time. so they were observing the actual chinese and the satellite as we know about every space launch we know about every rocket launch we have reconnaissance and surveillance satellites that can detect all these we detected the chinese test for example in fact we detected the two previous chinese tests that failed so we know about this it's extremely difficult to hide this space tests they're one of the most observable weapons tests you can possibly imagine. everything indicates that china's anti-satellite test was intended to make the world aware of the united states intention to dominate his face by doing so this china also showed the united states that any orbiting weapon can be shot down

do you want to cut if you are deficit the number one hits or is the pentagon so under the cover of all this debate about a shutdown or not a budget showdown about continuing resolutions the congress and the president in both parties are working to take defense spending what the public wants off the table and you would think that would be selling easy right now for democrats to come up with some kind of a counter proposal to really prove right that republicans aren't doing this about the money that so much is that is about politics about cutting some of these programs for lower income americans cutting the programs that a lot of democrats hold dear but they're not doing that's a do you think that it's deliberate or do you think that you know perhaps they're just carry. i think what we're seeing here is until it is what she was a terrible metaphor what the sacred cow is in the budget in both parties you're right the democrats who come out right now and offer a twenty billion dollars worth of cuts to the pentagon old weapons systems all kinds of defense corporate welfare and you could do

so moving leon panetta to the tom job at the pentagon do you think it makes sense what i think this is primarily what we're seeing is a. dance of political geometry. the problem is and you mentioned before this is almost like just changing chairs some of correlates to you know changing and removing pictures around the titanic which i don't quite agree with the problem is i think we set up an echo chamber and having people simply move jobs around is not going to be a lot of good the problem with leon panetta frankly and this is something that i think people tend to overlook is that he is not well known for his military or intelligence background it was an anomaly that he got sent to cia he was sent over there to reestablish confidence and that's another us code word in the d.c. for keeping a lid on things so i think what we're doing now what we're seeing now is handing it to the pentagon because of his political connections with the white house rather than his ability to manage department events or more importantly achieve victory not a war has been said and he pressed about leon pan

was the pentagon's chief of star wars it cannot protect the population of the united states it can be when the soviets overwhelmed outfoxed underflow i for one am not willing and able to just accept the idea that it can't work because they are never going off the drawing board the project was too far ahead of its time and the anti bill is big missile treaty prevented the testing of a successful development of s.d.i. . bombs on target real time management that's horrible. in that's what we are able to deliver through space air land and sea. the capability of all those to come together we started the storm we've done that in each conflict since and we get better and better and better. though planning to harm the heavens was put under wraps the use of military satellites for global communications and getting weapons to their targets was relied on more than ever. since the first gulf war the military presence in space has only continued to grow becoming the keystone of all operations during the air campaign on baghdad in march two thousand and three seventy one percent of all weapons laun

chess war it's the pentagon fiat african i guess the chinese investments in the middle. i will say at least fifty african governments and scrambling to see oh keep what's going to come down. that's ahead you this hour despite claims of social benefits many georgians are running it hard to meet ends meet system getting government assistance. plus a power struggle of a different color take a look at the fuel source of all the next big thing but not everyone is convinced. global finance chiefs are warning that swift action is needed to skate a new wave of economic crisis countries runs a financial and usually turn to the international monetary fund and the world bank which apparently lots of us. are explains the has already had. an annual spring gathering about the world economy produced a dreadful financial forecast we are one shock away from a full grown crisis critics say through the establishment of the international monetary fund and world bank america has positioned itself as an economic dr to the world using the institutions to retain global domination and fulfill th

guest: we did notify the pentagon. in part notified them because we wanted to see what they could tell us about the photographs, and we also notified them because we knew the reaction might potentially put troops in harm's way. we want to give them a heads up that this was coming. they mostly spoke to was off the record, so i cannot tell you what they said, but in one on the record conversation we pointed to the photographs of the men tied up beside the road, and we wanted to know if they were investigating who those men were, the circumstances under which there were killed, and whether u.s. troops were involved in the desecration of the bodies. basically the response of the pentagon is they have no way of knowing in no way of basically figuring out who the men in the photographs were. that was disturbing, because you could see from some of the related photographs that there were marks on the striker vehicles and other identifying signs that any peace investigator could have to track down what had happened in that inci

there is a difference between the veterans affairs and the pentagon budget. for the most part, of veterans affairs is dealt with separately. i spoke to senator simpson yesterday and he says he believes the commission put the plan does take care of soldiers, and he differentiated the difference between a military retiree who was never seen combat, and day veteran who has a disability or a wound from iraq or afghanistan. when approaching this problem of military health care, it is important to keep these categories in mind -- the difference between a combat vet and a lifelong benefits to retirees. host: jeanette is next. a republican. caller: hi, ladies. how are you? i have friends and family that our military, and we have always been proud of that. one thing icy that stresses me, -- that i see, especially when you talk about budget, is the recruit people that want to learn a skill in serving that capacity. they spend months paying them, and pain for the schools to train them, and then they end up moving them and their families halfway around the world cared to

martin at the pentagon. david, the u.s. says it's operating only in support of nato, but we're doing a lot more than we thought, aren't we? >> reporter: well, the pentagon revealed today that despite assurances the u.s. was no longer striking targets on the ground. american jets have, in fact, attacked libyan air defense sites three times in the last ten days. add in aerial refueling, reconnaissance, and electronic jamming missions, and the u.s. is flying 35% of all the nato missions. >> couric: so why are the europeans and the rebels complaining that americans aren't doing enough? >> reporter: well, they want the u.s. not to just attack qaddafi's air defenses. they want the u.s. to attack his ground forces. and specifically, they want to bring in the a.c.-130 gunship. here's the problem-- this is a video of a british jet dropping a bomb on a libyan tank. it destroys the tank, but then look what happens. all the libyan soldiers that were operating with that tank flee in pickup trucks. it's hard to bomb a pic

pieces of steel from the world trade center and the pentagon that was from flight 93 was used in the creation of the statue. it will be placed in a park where green played little league. >>> truly disturbing remarks coming out of arkansas war school nurse -- where a school in your has been fired. according to a letter written by the superintendent. maryland snyder told staff and faculity members all special ed student need to be euthanized and wiped off the face of theearth. parents are outrage and paul has been -- has an 8-year-old son with a tim. listen. >> the thought that he should be put to sleep like a dog, wow. >> the public school board held a hearing and voted unanimously to fire the school nurse. snyder says it was a bad choice of words and her quote, heart

pentagon by current cia director leon panetta. panetta will be replaced by the top u.s. general in afghanistan, david petraeus. general john allen will take petraeus' place. >>> it was an unprecedented move. the president of the united states producing a detailed birth certificate to prove he was born in the united states. the president says it's time to move on. but the issue is still not resolved for some so-called birthers. susan mcginnis is in washington