plus, erin burnett has an exclusive interview with defense secretary, leon panetta about this launch. she also talks with him about syria, what we're learning tonight about the forces loyal to president bashar al assad, and how scud missiles have been fired. >>> the united states government says it shows just how desperate assad's regime is now getting. >>> and also, our first look at the shooter who police believe is responsible for last night's deadly rampage in a portland-area mall. police have identified him as well as the two people that he killed. let's go "outfront." >>> good evening, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield in for erin burnett tonight who is on assignment in afghanistan. we've got breaking news right off the top. cnn just learning that the united states does not believe that north korea is in full control of that satellite that it sent into space with the long-range rocket launch. this is according to a u.s. official to our barbara starr at the pentagon. up until now, by most accounts, this launch has been seen as a success, or certainly it raised the bar on how we vie

he tells leon panetta, get bin laden. >> the president asked to see me, leon panetta. he said i want to re-energize the hunt for osama bin laden. i want you to make this your top priority. i want to get reports every 30 days. >> august 2010, leon panetta comes back to the president with some information, correct? >> that's correct. in the summer of 2010, the cia led by leon panetta came to us and indicated they had ed that was interesting to them at that point, that led them to believe there was a high value person of interest at abad -- abbottabad, facemask stan. -- pakistan. >> when did it become clear that it was osama bin laden? >> even at that point it was a wholly circumstantial case. there was not direct evidence you could present to the president at that point saying we guarantee you, we have direct evidence that osama bin laden is at this compound. >> you excluded the secretary of state, the secondary of defense. tell us about that. >> to have in the first instance the analytical people, really the seoul team working on this. >> the cia. >> then it moved when

that was a base that the defense secretary, leon panetta had interviewed two years before. the explosion killed one service member and two afghan civilians. the taliban claimed responsibility, calling the bomber a quote/unquote brave fighter. panetta later said terrorists resort to these types of attacks in order to create chaos. well, chaos or not, there are 68,000 american troops who are risking their lives right here in this country tonight. many of them are going to be separated from their family and friends for as long as 15 months, serving their country, before they go home. it's a hard and stressful situation. there is so much sacrifice. but as we learned from the burnt family, it is something that families at home learn to deal with. mckenzie burnt knows what it means the to make sacrifices for your country. her husband is serving in the second striker brigade in afghanistan. this will be his third christmas at war. >> most people take for granted their husbands coming home at 5:00 at night or being home on the weekends or being there for holidays and military famil

he tells leon panetta, get bin laden. >> in the spring of 2009, the president asked to see me and leon panetta, and rahm emanuel, and ron leiter, head of the national terrorism center and he said, i want to re-energize the hunt for osama bin laden. i want you to make this your top priority. i want to get reports every 30 days. >> august 2010, leon panetta comes back to the president with some information. correct? >> that's correct. in the summer of 2010, the cia led by leon panetta came to us and indicated that they had evidence that was interesting to them at in point, that led them to believe there was a high-value person of interest at jalalabad, pakistan. >> at what point did it become clear that it was osama bin laden? >> you say likelihood, this is why that was a tough decision. even at the point it was a wholly circle case. there was not direct evidence you could present to the president at that point saying we guarantee you, we have direct evidence that osama bin laden is at this compound. >> one of the things you decided to do, and it must have been the president and you were

today the defense secretary leon panetta echoed a warning from president obama that if syria uses chemical weapons on its own people there will be consequences. jay there is no question -- >> there is no question that we remain very concerned, very concerned that as the opposition advances in particular on damascus that the raw -- the regime may consider the use of chemical weapons. the whole world is watching. >> you heard secretary panetta mention do damascus. that's the site of some of the latest deadly fighting which activists say has killed more than 40,000 people. james rosen is at the state department, and secretary clinton held some important meetings on the matter of syria. any progress? >> reporter: good afternoon. secretary clinton met with russia's top diplomat and with the special envoy to the syrian crisis who said nothing sensational came out of it. but clinton and the russian foreign minister did agree to try to find some, quote, creative ways to end the bloodshed. and it looks like russia's stedfast support for assad could be nearing its end. the influential russian lawmak

defense secretary leon panetta paid tribute today to all journalists who risk their lives in pursuit of the truth, including our own cami mccormick. she was seriously wounded by a roadside bomb three years ago while covering the war in afghanistan. cami returned to afghanistan last week with secretary panetta. >> it was truly an emotional experience to be with her as she returned back to afghanistan for the first time after that injury. she put her own life at risk in order to tell the story of that war. and in her and so many other war correspondents we see the highest ideals of democracy upheld. >> pelley: defense secretary leon panetta. if there is one place on earth that know it is pain of newtown, connecticut, it is this one, and we will take you there next. ng ? campbell's has 24 new soups that will make it drop over, and over again. ♪ from jammin' jerk chicken, to creamy gouda bisque. see what's new from campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. a delicious new way to get essential vitamins you need. just bite into the tasty shell... to a chewy vitamin core for a unique mul

asked to see me, rahm emanuel, leon panetta and said i want to e re-energize the hunt for bin laden. i want this to be your top priority. i want reports every 30 days. >> august 2010, panetta comes back with information. correct? >> that's correct. in the summer of 2010 the cia led by leon panetta said they had evidence that led them to believe there was a high value person of interest at abbottabad, pakistan, in a compound there. >> at what point did it become clear there was a high likelihood the person was osama bin laden? >> you say "high likelihood" and this is why it was a tough decision. even at the last principals meeting on april 28, 2011, where the principals sat with the president and gave him their view whether to go or not, even at that point it was a circumstantial case. there was no direct evidence saying we warrantee you, we have direct evidence that osama bin laden is at this compound. >> one of the things you decided to do -- and it must have been the president and you and a small number of people. to limit access to this information and decision-making to a very ti

on tuesday, leon panetta will have to write 800,000 layoff notices to the defense contractors. >> if the president doesn't deal with this, is a cloudy commander in chief. i would be very disappointed in the president as commander in chief and disappointed in the republican party for allowing this to even be a possibility. >> reporter: sequestration is designed to be painful. it was the penalty the congress imposed on itself last year. now, half of the cuts are directed at the pentagon but president obama said today the dramatic across the board cuts can be offset by raising taxes on the rich. >> if we have raised some revenue by the wealthy paying a little bit more, that would be sufficient to turn off what is called the these automatic spending cuts and that would have a better outcome for our economy long term. >> reporter: senator graham said he thinks it is possible to find the money in cuts elsewhere to spare the defense department. but he thinks a bipartisan agreement probably can't be reached until february or march. >>> so at this point, there is no agreement on how to avoid

please join me in welcoming to the national press club secretary of defense, leon panetta. [applause] >> thank you very much, theresa, for that kind introduction. thank you for the invitation to be here today. but i look forward to the opportunity to go back and -- and carmel valley. i have told the story before but it makes the point. when i was young, my father when he first planted that wanted orchard, as it grew he would go around and shake each of the branches. my brother and i would be underneath collecting the womb it's. when i got elected to congress, my italian father said, you have been well trained to go to washington and. [laughter] because you have been dodging all of your life. [applause] it's true. it was great training. i have had the opportunity to be here at the press club and obviously some of my past jobs as a member of congress and as omb director and chief of staff. in those jobs, words were both my weapon and my shield. in this job, as secretary of defense, i have a hell of a lot more going for me. but, in a democracy, words remain the most powerful w

he tells leon panetta get bin laden. >> in the spring he asked to see me and rahm emanuel and he said i want to re-energize the hunt for osama bin laden. i want you to make this your top priority. i want to get reports every 30 days. >> august 2010, leon panetta comes back to the president with some information, correct? >> that's correct. in the summer of 2010, the cia then led by leon panetta, came to us and indicated they had evidence that was interesting to them at that point, that led them to believe that there was a high value person of interest at abad bad pakistan at a compound there. >> at what point did it become tler there was a high likelihood that was osama bin laden? >> you say high likelihood. even at the last principals meeting on april 28th, 2011, where the principals sat with the president and gave them their view, even at that point it was a wholly circumstantial case. there was not direct evidence you could present to the president at that point saying we guarantee you we have direct evidence that osama bin laden is at this compound. >> one of the things you decide

panetta come over from cia to go to d.o.d. and then you had a military man general petraeus leave dia to go over to cia so i think many much of this may be some level of high high level of policy cross-fertilization the question becomes is it healthy and should it continue to go on his transgressions sense leon panetta is probably leading to and you know protect the traces already of cia i mean this is the day that said stay and focus on these drugs for a minute there is mounting outrage will why did the u.s. drone strikes america's reluctant. to carry responsibility for the damage cause that's what we've been talking about a lot with this new spike that will bring any more accountability with a lot of the get even with us well it isn't theory would be if you had better spies on the ground you would have better intelligence driving those drone strikes i think it's heavily needed one of the criticisms that right here on our team before is that they're launching drone strikes as little as forty percent accuracy information when

. >> in the words of the secretary of defense, leon panetta, this will be a disaster. what the obama administration is doing is unilaterally reducing the military capability of our forces. this is at a time when we have china with its massive force expansion, building a world capable force projection capability. we have the russians modernizing the russian forces. we still have the iranian problem totally unresolved, north korea always a flashpoint. look at the middle east. anything far from being settled there. and let me take that navy as an example, which will be illustrative of the other forces and what it will do to the navy. it will take the navy and drive it down to the smallest force it has had since prior to world war one. not world war ii, lou. world war one. lou: you know, i'm sorry, admiral. when governor romney said that, pointed that out to president ama in the debate, he was -- we had horses and bayonets, too. he seemed to make light of tht. how important is it? can you give us a sense of the impact? >> i think the president's comment is showing his inex

we just learned within the past few hours the defense secretary leon panetta signed an order sending two patriot missile batteries to turkey. that's to assist that nation in defending against any pollible military action by syria. this move was expected as the civil war in syria destabilizes the assad regime with each passing day. in addition to this, 400 u.s. troops are going to turkey. they will be deployed to operate the missile batteries. cnn's nick payton walsh has the development. >> reporter: good morning. 400 personnel will be accompanying the batteries. let me give you history. over the past two months, we saw sporadic exchanges of fire across the border. syrian military firing into turkey causing often destruction and death. turkey often responding. that brought about this request to nato for patriot missile batteries. they're supposed to be there. this particular type better at taking out missiles in the sky rather than taking down aircraft. but this move part of a nato response. also supplied by germany and holland whose parliament last week approved their contributions.

all this after leon panetta left the area. cnn's erin burnett is on that trip. >> i was traveling with the defense secretary and in kandahar with him. at this point the u.s. defense department said that they don't know whether it was linked to the secretary's arrival. you may remember when the secretary visited afghanistan, there was an unauthorized vehicle that gained access to an air base on that visit. we are not sure if it was lirchlged or not. it was a terrible attack. one member lost his and two afghan civilians in terms of injuries. 18 afghan civilians. the numbers could change. the taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing and in fact praised the spokesman for the suicide bomber for his bravery. the timing on this is very tough for afghanistan and the united states. both are trying to tell a story about improving security in this country with an insurgency on the wane if not on the way to defeat. general abrams in kandahar said the security situation gets better every day and said the insurgents are limite

. >> remarks from defense secretary leon panetta at the national press club. secretary panetta talked about the federal budget, defense cuts and the security situation in afghanistan. he visited afghanistan last week. this is an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the national press club. my name is theresa warner and i am the 105th president of the national press club. we are committed to our professions future to our programming and events such as this while fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, visit www.press.org. to donate our programs offered to the public through our national press club journal them and to do, visit press.org/institute. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speakers and those of you attending. our head table includes guest of our speaker as well as working journalists who are club members. if you hear applause in our audience, members of the general public are attending so is not necessarily evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. i would also like to welc

leon panetta made the decision yesterday. some say the sergeant deserves the plemedal for jumping on a grenade. but panetta agreed with the decision from sxwgates saying te is too much conflicting evidence. >> reporter: she says her brother was very generous. >> he would give everything to his friends. >> reporter: and in the end, he gave them the ultimate gift. insurgents shot hip as he and other marines raided a house in a in fallujah. >> one of the insurgents threw a grenade into the room where he was lying and he pulled it under himself and pretty much saved everyone in the room, myself and the other marines in the house all owe him our lives. >> so joining us now live from las vegas is tony perry, san diego bureau chief for the "l.a. times." good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you reported extensively on this. and some say that he was brain dead before he jumped on the grenade. what does that have to do with anything? >> what it has to do is the question of if he did indeed reach out and grab that grenade and smothe

. >> as the fighting in syria -- on a, secretary of defense leon panetta said that the latest intelligence raised serious concerns that the syrian president may turn chemical weapons on his own citizens. >> the whole world is watching. the whole world is watching very closely. the president of the united states has made very clear that there will be consequences. there will be consequences if the assad regime makes a terrible mistake by using these chemical weapons on their own people. >> diplomatic efforts to end the 21-month-old conflict had failed. tens of thousands of people have been killed so far. with so much at stake, senator john mccain said it may be time to take action. >> it may mean that the united states and our allies are facing the prospect of an imminent use of weapons of mass destruction in syria -- this may be the last warning we may get. time for talking about what me made -- what we may do may be coming to a closed. >> angelina jolie traveled to a refugee camp on thursday. she is a special envoy. it was her second official mission to the region in three months. >> pres

leon panetta said the defense sequester cuts that congressman date to take effect january 1. they also attacked hagel over his renaissance to escalate with iran. in iran you have the people who were the masterminds behind a lot of what happened in iraq, being the voices in pushing to escalate an iran and yet don't seem discredited and now they are going to try to take down someone who was an early disacceptability, although he did vote for the iraq war. this seems ridiculous to me. >> in 2009 charles freeman was a lifelong member of the foreign service, a u.s. ambassador who was nominated to lead the intelligence council from the national security council in the same neo faction that attacked him for the same reasons to express a tiny disdent on the secretary of israel. john kerry who is replacing hillary clinton, chuck hagel, you had to support the iraq war to maintain credibility in u.s. national security circles even though the exact opposite should be true, that people who did that aught to be extremely discredited. >> at the end of the day chuck hagel is a republican rea

we'll respond if we have to. >> breaking news out of afghanistan where leon panetta had been visiting. a car bomb went off just hours after he left. officials say the secretary was never in danger. >> jerry brown is fighting cancer. it's the second time since returning to office and the third time since 2008. his office said the 74-year-old is undergoing radio therapy for early stage prostate cancer but said he won't miss work. he was treated for skin cancer in 2008 and 2011. >> last night's 121212 concert raised $30 million for victims of hurricane sandy. it included springsteen and bon jovi, alycia keys, the rolling stones, the who and paul mccartney. here's a little taste of another legend, billy joel. ♪ got washed away, jamaica bay and sent manhattan out to sea ♪ ♪ ♪ >> some of us couldn't go to the show so this is the best we got, right? right, mr. williams? the opening bell is ringing on wall street after new reports out this morning seem to show the economy rebounding from superstorm sandy. jobless claims dropped from 370,000 to 343,000, the lowest level in two months,

panetta and barack obama. he gave his life for his fellow americans and he and his teammates remind us once more of the selfless service that makes our nation strong, safe, and free. his sacrifice has not been lost on the doctor's family, who offered their condolences and thank him for his bravery and for the bravery of his teammates. >> if the fiscal cliff budget talks fail to produce a deal, more than 2 million will lose their jobs after christmas. it would affect those who have been out of work more than six months. and another 1 million people will lose benefits during the three months at the beginning of 2013. president obama has announced he is committed to extending jobless benefits for another year. the governor has -- the government has spent $520 billion on unemployment extensions since 2008. many republicans do not support extending benefits without cutting other costs. and marilyn couples need not worry. attorney-general doug danziger said even if the high court comes down on the defense of marriag

they can only go to the commanders, except leon panetta has moved it a step up to the colonels. but keep in mind, that commanding officer might be a drinking buddy of this suspect, or the suspect themselves. and don, we shouldn't discount the fact that men are also raped in the military. but the vast majority are female victims. and the pentagon is starting to realize that this is a real problem. >> yeah, yeah, there are long-term effects on these victims. watch this clip from the documentary, and then we'll talk. >> when he comes up and hugs me, sometimes i will cringe, and he will feel it. and he gets mad like why aren't you hugging me back, or whatever? >> i still do that. there are times -- >> and like him grabbing my hips. >> and i didn't understand, you know, why, because it is like i'm your husband, why? and i don't fully understand now. >> i see it in my dreams, that is what you don't get. i don't want to talk about stuff. >> how are victims supposed to deal with things like ptsd and rape? >> women, in fact, the example know you saw just there of that young veteran. she

please join me in welcoming to the national press club, secretary defense leon panetta. [applause] >> thank you very much, theresa, for that kind introduction and for the invitation to be here today. i look forward to the opportunity to go back in the valley. i told the story before but it makes the point when i was young my father when he first planted that walnut orchard as it grew, she would go around and shake each of the branches and my brother and i would be underneath cracking walnuts. when i got elected to congress, my i italian father said you have been well trained to go to washington. [laughter] because you have been dodging nuts all your life. [laughter] [applause] it was great training. i've had the opportunity to be here at the press club, and obviously some of my past jobs as a member of congress and then as the chief of staff. in those jobs, words were both my weapon and my shield. in his job as the secretary of defense i have more going for me. but in a democracy, the words remain the most powerful weapon in our arsenal and it is for that reason it is an

defense secretary leon panetta calls him one of the great military giants of the 20th century. he died after complications from pneumonia. he was 78 years old. >>> in india, growing demonstrations after a woman was gang raped on a bus in gnu deli. she's fighting for her life in singapore. doctors say she has taken a turn for the worse and her vital signs are deteriorating. meanwhile protesters are growing angrier over the number of rapes in new delly. six expects have been arrested. protesters want tougher laws for rape and crimes against women. there were 572 reported rapes just last year and more than 600 reported so far this year. >>> americans may no long er be able to adopt children from russia. president vad vladimir putin signed a bill today. >> translator: the vast majority of russian citizens are very negative about foreigners adopting our children. we need to do it our oust ourselves. we need ourselves to stimulate, bringsing to the family orphans or those left without parental care. >> the law which goes into effect around the corner on january 1st could affect hundr

. >> leon panetta was cia director back in the summer of 2010 when the first big break materialized. the cia tracked a man believed to be bin laden's courier to a walled-off compound in pakistan. satellites parked above the compound revealed another figure. a tall man taking walks in the court yard. analysts gave him a nickname, the pacer. the imagery was never know for sure if it was bin laden. >> ultimately it was a 50/50 proposition as to whether it was bin alauladen. >> it was the best intelligence breakthrough in tora bora in 2001. >> when they picked up information and began to get more of a sense that maybe there was something there, at first it was only within the white house. i was brought in in january, and then we began these intensive meetings. >> a series of top secret meetings started up up in inside the situation room, the sit room as its known in white house parlance. at one of those meetings last year, admiral william mccraven the head of special operations command outlined a possible raid on the suspected bin laden compound. >> i had 100% faith in the navy s.e.a.l.s

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defense secretary leon panetta would not be drawn on that earlier today. listen. >> without commenting on the specific intelligence that we have with regard to these chemical weapons, i think there is no question that we remain very concerned. the intelligent that we have raises serious concerns that this is being considered. >> certainly the alarm is nothing surrounded this time around. several nations and the u.n. secretary general have repeatedly warned that this is a potential threat and repeatedly warn president assad not to go through it here. >> shepard: there is another thought and dangerous one that assad is just playing a game. >> the idea that he is finally completely desperate. is he realizing finally that he is now surrounded by the rebels in damascus. they are getting closer and closer to it ousting him. that ouster, if he stays there, would end in his death. so, this might be a final negotiating employee on the -- ploy on the part of president assad with the international community. listen. >> another way to look at it though, he wants russi

that's the word we got today from leon panetta. he's in afghanistan tonight meeting with american military commanders and afghan president karzai. he says the goal is to turn over security of the afghan forces next year and he says those forces are making progress. >> they're involved in almost 85% of the operations there that they're guiding. they're involved in some large scale operations on the ground. they're involved in special forces operations. so in every one of those areas, they're doing a better job of providing security. >> shepard: right now the united states has about 66,000 troops in afghanistan. officials have said as many as 10,000 could be stuck there after 2014. >>> protesters staring down tanks and riot police again today in egypt and now opposition leaders say they may try a new strategy in their showdown with their president. plus, what the millionaire cops call a person of interest in a murder case. john mcafee is coming here, aloha. police say that does not mean he's in the clear and word of a crisis for amer

. >> leon panetta added in this fallen hero and our special operator, americans see the highest ideals of citizenship, sacrifice and service upheld. >> reporter: it happened under the cover of darkness. to rescue this man, philip jose joseph, an american doctor working for morning star development. >> it's team with lots of training on hostage rescues. until you get in there and do it, you don't know what you'll find. >> reporter: two colleagues and the doctor were returns from a medical facility when they were kidnapped. they were taken to a mountainous region close to the pakistan border. the afghan captives were released. joseph wasn't. when u.s. intelligence showed joseph's life was in imminent danger, they made their move. >> there's a high risk that the hostage him or herself could be killed. >> reporter: that came from general john allen. special forces landed by helicopter seating off a fire fight that left several taliban fighters dead. the victory came at a price. a u.s. service member injured trying to rescue joseph died of his wounds. the ultimate sacrifice to save the life

leon panetta was emphasizing some of the progress. he wants to try to tell a story if the united states has been more successful in training afghan soldiers, to try to take over when the u.s. leaves. but to your point about troop levels, there's an interesting delay here, and the defense secretary didn't really have a good answer for that. you know, it was several weeks ago, they said, look, we'll know in a couple weeks. when that time came, they said, we'll know if a few weeks. the defense secretary said, look, we've had several different scenarios we've provided to the president, but there's been no final plan. even when that's made, the crucial thing will be, indemnity. do troops get tried here or at home? that's crucial for the u.s., because no one is really sure whether this insurgency will become, again, a sanctuary for al qaeda. back to you guys. >> and, of course, the defense secretary wouldn't say that they're going to be completely, you know, removing their focus from afghanistan, but what did the secretary say about kind of