so the pentagon papers was related to it. but it wasn't really so much the pentagon papers themselves which dealt almost entirely with the democrats except for the eisenhower period of which nixon had been part. what i think worried nixon about me was what i might or what he thought i knew about his secret policy in vietnam and what i could reveal with documents. in other words, my understanding is that he became very concerned about what i might reveal beyond the pentagon papers about his own administration and that i might well have documents to back that up. that would very much undermine his ongoing vietnam policy. from that point of view, the actions he took or directed which were, in fact illegal, even criminal actions in many respect s respects, were, i believe in his mind and with some reason, seen as national security matters. when he wanted to attribute his motivation to national security, i don't think that was just a cover story, in hi mind. that he really did think of me as threatening national security. as he un

that i had given the pentagon papers to fullbright and gredell. so they kpaj rated the degree of my intimacy. so i think hunt and libbey on the way homemade a little operation into gredell's office. they didn't do burglarizing themselves, but they probably had some other help on that. it didn't matter in the end. >> did you ever ask kroeg about that? >> yeah i i think i did, but he did not know. oh, yes. why would they be interested in my wife's analyst? the plumbers were -- that is the cubans who work for hunt and lib by, were interviewed at great length by taylor brarj and george trial for a book they were doing on the bay of pigs, actually. their publisher went bankrupt and branch and kryle had a fight over how they would split the royalties or something if they found another publisher. and it never did come out. and i was very anxious to get the files from branch, but they both -- it's a whole other story. but i didn't get it. houf, branch told me at the time a good deal about what they were after. and he said that they learned from the cubans

the pentagon reports a drone strike killed him four years ago. investigators say he was key figure in al qaeda's most active branch and was involved in several plots against the united states. he was the first american to appear on the capture or kill list. of course he never faced trial. trace gallagher in the west coast news hub. tell us more not the americans killed in our own drone strike. >> reporter: al-awlaki is believed to be the only u.s. citizen who was actually target bid u.s. drones. the rest were in the wrong place at the wrong time. president obama acknowledges giving the order to kill awlaki. the says he would have captured and prosecuted the cleric but he had to kill him before he cared out a plot against the u.s. kaan was an al qaeda militant who created an online magazine which calls for jihad against america. the same airstrikes that killed the american hostage warren weinstein in january also killed al qaeda militant awe maybe -- ahmed farouq, and also killed adam gadahn who was born and raised here in southern california. >>

we will talk about pentagon spending and in particular the pentagon programs where the costs are coming down. we will look at your piece, a cost of major weapons is finally coming down at the pentagon, what is the news behind the story? guest: basically the pentagon has been working to improve the way it buys stuff, for several years. starting with now defense secretary ashton carter when he was the undersecretary of defense and it has continued. basically, what is happening they are being more disciplined in the way they spend money. however the defense budget is also going down. host: you brought along a model of the f 35 joint strike fighter. tell us about this fighter and why this is such an true essential pentagon project. it is the most expensive program and pentagon history, it is expected to cost just under $35 million. it is replacing fighter jets and other types of planes in the navy and marine corps. it is placing the f-16 in the air force, the harrier in the marine corps and the hornet in the navy. it is a stealth plane so it can evade radar. you can see it doesn't have weap

the pentagon in terms of bases. then let the house and the senate votes to overturn the decision, those bases can be restructured closed, mover people from smaller bases to larger bases. we've saved tens of billions of dollars. there's another amount to be done. there's a half a billion dollars we're spending on leased property. that's a lot of money. and it's those kind of reforms that only will happen if the sequester holds and we say no to tax increases. i spoke with one of the leading congressmen who deals with military spending, and i said look, i want to help you on this spending restraint that you have so tell me what won't congress let you do to save money and i'll help fight to get that done. and every proposal i put out which is something i knew was being offered somewhere, to save money, he wasn't interested because it didn't solve all of his problems. the only way to raise -- solve all of his problems is raise taxes and end the sequester, and then the chairman said what can i do to be helpful? tell every

well, when the pentagon papers came out, they knew who had given it very quickly. what is not clear from the files, i've gotten -- what is it -- i think 24,000 pages -- let's see. no. no. i've gotten 16,000 pages of files from the fchl bbi. fyi, a lot of it i have blacked out, of course. from what i did read it's not clear whether the fbi made clear to the white house that they had known about this a year earlier and hadn't moved on it. on the other hand, it's possible that they did tell henry kissinger and others. there's some indication that henry kissinger did know about it. >> in response to my last question, your relationship with henry kissinger. he was initially madder than anyone else in the oval office. >> well no. you know that's very -- the history of that is be lied by the tapes very strongly. in fact, i'm surprised you say that. haven't you seen the -- >> in the book. >> -- the very first discussion between him and nixon? >> i'm sure i have. wasn't he upset -- what was he thinking about you? >> very mild reaction. the idea of someone putting out tapes

a lot to watch at the pentagon, jennifer, thank you. jon: and continuing on with our top story now u.s. counterterrorism operations that left two innocent hostages dead. lisa curtis, of the heritage foundation keeps an eye on some of these kinds of issues and joins us now. lisa apparently the united states had absolutely no idea that the two hostages warren weinstein, the american included, were part or were being held at this location? >> yes. this is an absolute tragedy. warren weinstein, who had been an aid contractor in pakistan, humanitarian worker kidnapped in 2011 was killed inadvertently in this drone strike. it looks like they knew it was an al-qaeda compound, but they did not know that weinstein and another italian hostage were also present. they were being hidden in this al-qaeda compound. so this is an absolute tragedy. our hearts go out to the families of the victims and, you know, unfortunately this is not a precise science, using drone strikes. the drone strikes have allowed us to degrade al-qaeda's leadership prevent ter

as a result, we are able to have the pentagon support it. a writer was selected, and again, we went through the process of trying to get all the information we can for those who are still living, and as a result of all of that, the linguists" was finally published. it's a great book about the m.i.s., and, hopefully, the children of the men who served as well as people of this country, will learn more about what the japanese and m.i.s. did in the pacific. for me, there was another lesson that we need to learn militarily as well. it's that we need to use the talents as well as the language and the culture of those who are citizens of our country to deal with the country that we are fighting. this needs to be learned, and i hope the book "the linguists" will provide lots of that kind of information as well. terry: do you recall -- when you went to the military, do you recall what were their first reactions to your proposal? senator akaka: the first reaction was they did not realize what this was going to be all about. as a matter of fact, it di

the pentagon owns the lot of the airwaves spectrum. the position is to free it up so there's all that stuff to get down to the fraction. if we see a piece of it back i would be talking to the senators there are hundreds of millions of dollars available. say you restructure and sell it and it goes into the pentagon budget beyond what the sequester allows. but we are not coming across where they are spent but you've got that money and you don't have to cut. then all of a sudden the pentagon instead of porting the spectrum because someday we might meet at which they've been saying that for 60 years. i would rather have a shiny new plan. let's sell that off. it's the base structure effort which they came up with the pentagon says here are a series we don't need so it is bipartisan and regional and nobody feels they are getting screwed and they pick 30 of these bases and say these can be closed but the pentagon doesn't want it anymore so we are not taking some important thing away and then both the house and the senate voted to overturn the

saved in the pentagon. that's nonsense. that person is no longer in office and no longer the problem that he was but i was thinking. there's not a penny to be saved in the pentagon, even though i talk to him about ideas that would save tens and hundreds of billions of dollars over time. he wasn't interested in putting any effort into that. with the sequester then you guys in charge of the pentagon are very interested. i gave a presentation of this on the hill and some hawks can buy.com tell me about the savings idea. tell me about the house guy. account that goes are interesting to some senators. with a spending restraint cap sequester, all of a sudden people care about national defense become the outlet of the taxpayers, not their enemy. so i think how do we get stuff sold off? there isn't any more money. there's a pile of about a trillion dollars, over time trillions of dollars in oil and natural gas and minerals under the ocean, under american property, government property in federally owned land. imagin

far the pentagon bought almost 150 f-35s, with more on the assembly line. seven though the plane is not cleared for combat. eventually the air force is expected to buy more than 1700 f-35s. with the navy and the marines purchasing 700 more, ones modified for them. why buy so many f-35s when they are not cheer for battle? >> congress and the military believe the plane can be refined is more being built. >> from the futuristic shape to the lines of computer code acting as artificial intelligence, it's a complicated beast. miller is one of the places it is being tested. ltcol bishop is a test commander. how do you compare the f-35 to the f-15e. you are licensed on both. >> the f-35 is a monumental leap in capability. it is something our air force needs to secure the national defence. >> from a military man, that may be what you expect to here. other reviews are less positive. the plane has been plagued by flaws and setbacks, rarely a week goes by out a head line. the latest this report by jay michael gilmore, the tester and evaluator, a pentagon watchdog. his

it's where the pentagon is working the haroldest to repel isis fighters. listen to this. >> i would much rather than ramadi not fall but it won't be the end of the campaign should it fall. we've got to get it back. the focus is, in fact, on bayy. >> reporter: isis militants managed to breach the outer perimeter of the refinery there but were repelled at first by iraqi security forces before the pentagon sent in some air support, and overnight the pentagon tells us they took out five isis tactical units with five airstrikes compared with just two airstrikes in ramadi where this morning a source on the ground is telling us that isis has surrounded a government compound. and, remember, the pentagon says if ramadi falls, not the end of the world. but that is not a strategy sitting very well with republicans who are worried about losing gains that cost a lot of american money and lives. >> and now this general says that it really doesn't matter? i wonder what he would say to the families of those marines and soldiers, those brave americans who were killed and w

so the pentagon papers had come out in june. so he knew all of that. so he now knows, you know the white house is very interested in this. so somebody has burgled his office. he was certain it was the white house. but i wasn't seeing him then. i was in cambridge. he wasn't in direct touch with me. i called -- something else happened. but let me come to this point. his lawyer, he talked to a lawyer about it. and the lawyer advised him don't get involved. don't get ininvolved. it's a white house operation. and don't tell -- well he said -- he apologized to me. he said i felt guilty. i feel i wronged you, which, from a professional point of view, he certainly had. and i apologize. i said, fine. everything had turned out fine by that time, of course. however, it bothered him so much that he got a bleeding ulcer. and, at one point, it hemorrhaged and he went to the hospital, the emergency room, with a bleeding ulcer. so it bothered him enough he already had hypertension. so it bothered him enough that it worsened his hypertension and gave him a bleeding els

the pentagon owns a lot of the airways. and their position is well if we were to -- reorganize it to free it up so there is all of this stuff. and if you could get it down to a fraction and sawell it off. it would go into the general revenue if we sold it and we would see none of it back or a piece of it back. i am in favor of saying look, the pentagon owns/uses this spectrum there are tens and maybe hundreds of billions of dollars available, say to the pentagon you restructure, you sell it and it goes into the pentagon budget beyond what su sequester allows. but we are not going past sequester and you have to money and don't have to cut it. the saving spectrum, some day you might need it goes i don't need this and i would rather have a shiny new plane and let's sell that off. the basic restructuring and closing effort from the '80s in which the pentagon says here are a series of basis we don't need. a commission comes in. it is bipartisan and regional and they pick 30 bases saying they can be close. we are not taking an im

in arlington county peggy fox, wusa9. >> since it's next to the pentagon the new bridge's crowning touch will be signature medallions honoring each of the four branches of the u.s. military. >>> from our prince george's county bureau mixed signals whether a metro stop could be coming to national harbor. rushern baker told wnew yesterday, "we're going to have to bring the metro across the woodrow wilson bridge." mgm which is building a casino at national harbor said it supports baker's efforts, but a county spokesperson says there are no plans and no official talks with metro or national harbor. >>> a major milestone for the telescope that has brought us closer to the outer reaches of our universe, how nasa says hubble has changed our view of the cosmos. >> windy today and that really blew around the pollen. the main culprit is tree pollen. it is high, ash, oak and pine, low for grasses and mold spores. we'll come back, talk about maybe lowering the pollen count with some rain and sh wó >>> a new sign today that governor chris christie is at least prepping to jump into the 2016 president

it's a busy day for the pentagon. today you have an airfield in southeastern yemen falling to aqap yemen a continuing problem. you have the city of ramadi in western iraq the largest city in anbar province n danger of falling. and a day when you look at ukraine, the russian president denying there are russian troops on the ground in eastern ukraine more than a year after russia took the territory of crimea which we barely hear about anymore as russian troops continue to advance on eastern ukraine. these are the daily elements on the agenda of the u.s. defense secretary. that's just a sample of questions he'll be facing today. but those are the crises the department faces today. >> i know as we watch and wait -- stay with me jim. i know just yesterday, secretary carter met with the iraqi defense minister at the pentagon. can you tell me what they discussed? >> well first of all, the iraqi prime minister wants more help. you're seeing that on the ground even in ramadi right now. we're hearing from officials inside the c

"al jazeera america"s jamie mcintyre joins us from the pentagon. during the cold war we were told the threat to the grid was from an atomic weapon, is the thinking about the vulnerability shifted. >> it has. we here warning of an electronic pearl harbor, a cyber attack that could not just affect the electrical grid but water supply and in a way the new era was ushered in by the united states and israel, where experts agree that those two countries introduced the stuxnet virus disarming iranian centrifuges, it's where you have a cyber weapon, a line of complicated computer code that can inflict physical damage. if the u.s. and israel can do it. others can do it too >>> so does the defense department war game around, strategise around attacks to infrastructure. >> yes, they do. last week the commander - the u.s. northern commander based in colorado was here, talking about how concerned he is about this. his primary mission is to protect the defense department submissions and help in civil attacks as well. it's not just the pentagon, it's law enforcem

>> you've already done two stints in the pentagon. how were those two stints at the pentagon how did they help you to prepare to lead the organization? >> that's a good question. i'm going to begin the answer to that this way -- i left the pentagon at the end of 2012 and went back to the private sector. actually thought i was done in public service at that point. but probably the thing that i missed most about public service in the department of defense was, frankly, the character of the military personnel that i work with day to day, whether it's a member of the joint staff, a member of the joint chiefs, or a senior enlisted. and so i really miss those men and women in uniform. and when the president offered me the opportunity to come back to national security to be the secretary of homeland security i said yes in part because simply i missed the people. i enjoyed working day to day with the military with our civilian public servants. and now that i'm in the department of homeland security we work with an extraordinary number of men

the pentagon is not confirming that or anything else about this story. the coalition strike reportedly happened about a month ago in northern iraq near the syrian border about 100 mimes west of mosul. the "guardian" sites 0 a source, al bagbaghdadi's injuries were so severe naming a new leader in case he died. the source says al baghdadi is recovering. this is not the first time reporting an attack injured or killed the terrorist leader and arguing not a game-changer had he died. not that it's not good news but not a game changer. >>> meantime iraqi forces making progress in their battle guess isis. against isis. 's the iraqis say they've captured parts of ramadi where isis had taken overven a children's hospital. showing soldiers firing from that hospital. u.s. marines are training troops not far from there. details of the story. what else are u.s. officials saying about the report of are this isis leader badly wounded? >> reporter: the pentagon isn't denying air strikes the day al baghdadi was reportedly injured, according to a spokesman, he wasn't spe

and, in fact, it had quotes from the pentagon papers in it. and i had said, without identifying them and i had said in the document very provocatively. i wanted to see what would happen. so i wrote this in 1970. nobody was willing to publish it because it was only history. and i even offered to shorten it. >> i gave it to lots of people all over the place. i gave it to henry kissen jer. i gave it to many democrats. and everybody said, very, very interesting. kissenger's office had it. you know, interesting stuff. and nobody commented on the fact that it obviously was based on classified documents. and that although people were always writing memoirs based on classified documents, they never said that. that was fairly challenging. >> dr. fielding did he explain why he didn't tell you that he thought -- >> yes. he said that it upset him very much. he knew that he was sure that it was the white house. i remember, this was '69. they had not come out yet. but he knew what i had been doing. i told him what i was doing through -- i left him in -- let

driven under this 74-year-old bridge next to the pentagon. it takes washington boulevard over route 110, but it wasn't build to handle the 72,000 vehicles that use it every day and it's not pedestrian friendly. >> it looks pretty dangerous. >> reporter: the sidewalk is narrow and needs repair. feet away traffic whizs by. >> cars are buzzing by pretty fast. >> reporter: the old washington boulevard bridge over route 110 right next to the pentagon is structurally deficient built in 1941. it's seen better days. >> it's not unsafe to drive on, but it needs to be replaced sooner rather than later. >> reporter: the construction project begins monday morning just in time for the commute. the three lanes in each direction will be reduced to two. >> we're telling people just to expect about a 10 minute delay. >> reporter: the new bridge will still be three lanes each way, but it will be 9 feet wider with a 14-foot shared use path on the pentagon side and an 8-foot walkway on the west side. when you hear about a 14-foot pedestrian multi-purpose walkway

mcintire, reporting from the pentagon thank you. robert grenier, he helped conceive and organize the pentagon's counterterrorism operation. a big step forward he quents that won't change, he says critics of the deal haven't posed a viability alternative to the curbs that iran has agreed to with this deal. mr. grenier, could iran under this deal still be a direct threat to the united states? >> oh absolutely there's no question about that. we don't see our national interests in similar terms at all. we're going to continue to have conflict with iran, there's no question about that. the issue though is managing that conflict and making sure that it doesn't get to a military level, still less a nuclear level. now at some point in the future the iranians may decide that it's in your national interest to develop a nuclear weapon. they may withdraw from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. obviously that is what we are trying to avoid and in part what this agreement is supposed to help to us avoid. >> but a lot suggest there agreement wou

if the pentagon continues to muddle through with the budget it iss given it is not a believable case they are making ey cannot live under sequestration level spending. they have to do something to show they needed a base budget increase specifically. >> one of the reasons they don't like getti money through this mechanism is it is one-your money, so they cannot plan long-term with it. that is why you will see secretary carter continue to make the point. at the end of the day, it is inevitable the extra money going to the defense budget wiwill come through h the other account because it does not require a politil deal in congress. >> even bob gates has been trying to discipline the account and move non-incremental cost back into the base budget. i think it is an arcane point. ash carter has been around the pentagon long enough to know combing going -- co-mingling money breaks the discipline he needs to exercise. that is anothereason he will at leaeast rhetorically resist this. >> it does not get to 90 -- $90 billion because there's a large contingent in congress who think the pentagon

based on report from pentagon and peter doocy are they heading out of that area? it's a big confusing mess as we talked about here. if they docked what do they have? what are they delivering? and are they surface-to-air missiles that would help the houthis fight back? right now we don't know. martha: couple days ago the white house said the strikes were stopping from the coalition at yemen and saudis would no longer do airstrikes. we saw airstrikes continue in spite of that claim. they appear to be continuing more today. how the white house feels about that we'll be asked at today's briefing. bill: one wrong move and that thing's a mess. martha: to this before you labor department releasing new jobless numbers as they do every thursday. americans filing for unemployment rose slightly to seasonally adjusts of 295,000. more evidence that companies are cutting fewer jobs but the labor force participation rate continues to be at a historic low. bill: another black eye for the secret service. this involves president george h.w. bush. what the agency reportedly failed t

but the question of civilian casualties is something that has the pentagon concerned. a yemen government special forces camp under attack. explosions in the street. as government and rebel forces battle each other in southern yemen. civilians run for safety as french troops evacuate children. more than 600 indian chinese, pakistani and slivisri lankans getsing out. the u.s. is providing more backup for the campaign against the iranian-backed rebels. >> we have expedited weapons delivery increased intelligence sharing and we've established a joint coordination planning cell in the saudi operation center. >> the pentagon appointed karl mundy to run a 20-person support operation. the immediate question will the u.s. share detailed satellite imagery on specific targets the saudis want to hit? >> the united states would be in a terribly difficult and awkward position if it did not offer the saudis support of this nature. >> the pentagon already urging caution. defense secretary ash carter wednesday spoke to the saudi defense minister and emphasized the importance of limitin

>> reporter: nobody here at the pentagon is declaring victory. what they are saying is after months of air strikes, that ildz is slowly being pushed back and that isil no longer has the ability to maneuver freely in that 25 to 30% of iraq that it once called. the u.s. central command released another group of videos with the allied air campaign now into its ninth month, the pentagon is anxious to show the slow war of attrition is producing results on the ground. it released a map comparing the territory isil controlled last year to now when the pentagon claims the group has lost its freedom to operate in roughly 25 to 30% of iraq where it once held sway. a spokesman said it showed the combine effort of iraq and the u.s.-lead coalition is having a significant effect. >> it's still early. this is a long fight, so i'm not prepared to say the tide of battle has turned but i will say iraqi security forces along with the coalition air power have unquestionably inflicted damage on isil and began to push isil back. >> reporter: tikrit recently retaken by

that means that the pentagon's budget next year is already cut, and what that is doing to the pentagon is it is really squeezing them and military leaders constantly go before congress, go before congressional channels and complaint to congress about what this is doing to their programs on the hill. how it is hurting their programs to prepare soldiers to go overseas to fight isis. it is a pretty big problem, according to the pentagon. there are other experts who say the pentagon knows how to handle this. they basically have done exactly what republicans are trying to do in order to circumvent these budget caps by turning to the war fund and they use this flex ability to do that. democrats, however, a lot of this call this war fund a slush fund and the hate the use of it and call it a gimmick. it is a problem according to the pentagon, but there are critics who say we are the biggest military spender in the world and we really do not need to spend any more than that. host: are republicans trying to bust the spending caps, also on discretionary spending? guest: democrats -- we want to in

we'll get reaction from pentagon officials and what they say is the russian president vladimir putin's true motive here. we'll talk with a former deputy director of the joint chiefs of staff about what putin's troops are up to and what could be next in a very tense standoff that seems to be escalating along the border with russia and ukraine. that's top of the hour on "shepard smith reporting." >> thank you. >>> retired general david petraeus appearing in federal court today accused of mishandling and leaking classified information to his mistress. he is pleading guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. will he be spared prison time? ... ... ... ♪ ♪ when you're living with diabetes steady is exciting. only glucerna has carbsteady clinically proven to help minimize blood sugar spikes. i'm a bull rider make it part of your daily diabetes plan. so you stay steady ahead. >>> defense secretary ash carters giving a speech at my alma mater stanford university and talking about an attempted hack into the pentagon by who? the russias. jennifer griffin with this breaking story happening ri

. >> jamie mcintire joins us now from the pentagon. jamie is this progress in iraq leading to more cooperation from the pentagon that this can be curbed in iraq and syria? >> they are saying what this shows is that the constant aerial bombardment has pushed i.s.i.l. back and it is no longer able to maneuver in large parts of iraq that it once controlled. the u.s. central command released another bunch of cockpit photographs, with the allied air campaign now into its ninth month the pentagon is anxious to show the slow war of attrition is producing real gains on the ground. so it has released its first battle damage assessment. a map showing the territory i.s.i.l. controlled last year, to now. when it lost its freedom to operate in 25 to 30% of iraq with it once held sway. territory that amounts to between 5,000 and 6500 square miels. amiles. the coalition is having a significant effect. >> it's still early, this is a long fight i'm not prepared to say the tide of battle has turned but i will say that iraqi security forces along with on

forces out. >>> jamie mcintyre at the pentagon. a grim reminder of the toll from syria's 4-year civil war. the syrian observatory for human rights says 220,000 people have died in the conflict. more than 67,000 were civilians, 11,000 were children. . >> the dead included 28,000 foreign fighters fighting with groups like i.s.i.l. and the al nusra front. u.n. security council members were moved to tears by footage of suspect chlorine gas attacks. and heard from doctors that treated the victim, many of whom were joig. the u.n. will try to yaf and bring to justice those behind the attacks. >> reporter: this shocking video was filmed in the aftermath of a chemical attack in syria last year. the pictures of doctors trying to revive young children was shown to security council ambassadors. they were shocked. men moved to tears. >> the video in particular of the attempts to resuscitate the children. if there was a dry eye in the room i didn't see it. it was - it's devastating to see the fact of what the regime was doing. people were visibl

we're about eight months into it, the pentagon said about 3400 air strikes in that campaign in total. today in washington this letter was sent to house speaker boehner calling for a congressional vote to authorize that war eight months after it started. for the first time it's actually a bipartisan call. for the first time a republican has said we ought to vote on that. schiff, who's been trying to get a vote on the war, but also by a republican, by tom cole, who is not only a republican congressman, but also a close ally of house speaker john boehner. that could politically be important. this is the first time a republican has joined in the calls for congress to vote on authorizing that air war in the house. i don't know if that makes that debate and potentially vote more likely or not, but it's becoming increasingly clear by the time congress does get around to it, if they do get around to it, it's entirely possible by then, we will be involved in a whole new war all together, one in which we've got 9,000 personnel deployed already, in another part of the world that is basically a h

here is a picture that i took at the pentagon terminal. the pentagon of the hotline in the white house is just a consumer. i forget about florida sun, but but they gave me two or i may have to read telephone that wasn't connected to anything. anybody that comes and says where is the red zone? they hold it out. must've been as a joke. they use a chat protocol to coordinate with moscow and the text messages or e-mails back and forth. it is still there and actually we have some opportunities to use it here recently. putin and obama have a separate line that is secure, that piggybacks on the hotline's trunk. it goes over by satellite and fiber optic and on and on. and so, those three stories led me to the book. what i did was i picked unanticipated crises starting in 1950s for tall presidents. some had one some had to. i picked the crises that were most meaningful, that could be a teaching or a learning experience that were illustrative of the demands of the international crisis. you can see it was the north korean invasion of the south. eisen

big news out of the pentagon. admiral john kirby will retire from the military and move from duties at the pentagon and replace jen psaki to become state department spokesman. kirby was the pentagon spokesman. >>> we're keeping close eye on the fox extreme weather center. we're also watching stocks. the dow is up over 50 points right now but there has been a lot of volatility as u.s. company profits take a hit on the strong u.s. dollar. lauren simonetti with an update for us. talks about rising prices at chipolte. that stock is down 6%. we'll have it for you. "happening now," harris. >> interesting, thank you, jon. jon: thank you. >> more proof that sexualized images of women in ads in social media lead to problems in young girls. new survey shows girls between 11 and 13 are more likely to worry, lack confidence or feel nervous than they were five years ago because they feel pressured to look and act a certain way. case in point a dangerous new trend encouraging girls to perform a beauty trick to look like reality

the pentagon is not running this the white house is running this. for some odd reason the white house is not destroying isis which we could do. i don't have the answer why. but i can tell you if i was the air component commander i would be flying 500 strikes a day. gregg: do you suspect it's amateur hour or at the white house? >> i suspect it is amateur hour. ramadi is the key to sunni unity there. it's not just bricks and mortar. it's the i symbol of the iraqi unity. baiji is an oil refinery. we can close that down and they won't get any oil out of there. we must defend ramadi. now, this is not general dempsey's decision. this is iraqi prime minister al-abadi month is really an iranian stooge. he's as bad pass maliki. when we pulled out of there we made iraq an iranian proxy and that's not good. gregg: would any of this happened if president obama had not pulled out american forces prematurely and without a status of forces agreement? >> this would not have happened. everybody will agree including vice president biden when we left everything was in

on the pentagon side and discretionary spending. what that spending is on the food stamps and on the department of veterans affairs for veterans benefits. democrats want to raise a breach those year. president obama has said that he would not sign a bill that only increases defense spending while it doesn't increase domestic discretionary spending. there might be some sort of agreement later down the line this year that lawmakers will try to get to. paul ryan, when he was chairman of the budget committee and patty when she was chairwoman of the budget committee -- late in 2013, they got a deal that said that sequestration would be relieved for the next two years. part of that deal is basically still in effect. sequestration is not really happening right now too much. it did not really completely reverse sequestration, but it eased it to the poor -- point where most people were satisfied. there have been wrongly sent capitol hill over the last few weeks of lawmakers saying that maybe we can get another one of those deals to really ea

here's what the pentagon says. it's for security. to make sure that commerce runs smoothly in the arabian sea. but the other reason is clearly iran. they're keeping an eye on iranian ships that just might be bricking some weapons, maybe some supplies, maybe some other things too, to the rebel group that has overrun yemen, the houthis. forced the president of that country to leave. saudi arabia, pounding rebel targets inside yemen now for nearly a month and despite calling an end to those air strikes, the saudis starting hitting houthi positions again today. an interesting end. houthis are enjoying the support of another nation, iran, at least ideologically they are right now because it's not known for sure if iran has given them any weapons. that's a big yet. president obama says he wants the military part of this conflict in yemen to end now. >> right now, there are a lot of people inside of yemen suffering. what we need to do is bring all the parties together and find a political arrangement. it is not solved by having another prox

the pentagon of the hotline. the white house was just a consumer. i forget what ford is fun but they gave me a tour and they had an old telephone that wasn't connect it to anything. anyone that comes in polled said. must've been as a joke. what they do is use a chat protocol to coordinate with moscow in the text messages or e-mails back and forth. it's come a long way but it still going on at still there. we've had some opportunities to use it recently. there is a separate line to secure back from hot line that goes over by satellite and fiber optics and on and on. so their stories kind of led me and what i did was i picked anticipated crises in the 1950s for 12 president. they had one some had to pick the crises that were most meaningful that could be a teaching or a learning experience of love for illustrative of the demands of an international crisis. you can see chernin up in the invasion of the south. eisenhower kennedy in the cuban missile crisis. johnson had two of the six day war, the pub of. general ford. carville as i mentioned, reagan. bu

peggy fox joins us live near the pentagon where the washington boulevard bridge is coming down. how old is that bridge? >> reporter: the bridge is 74 years old built during world war ii, but it was not built to handle the 72,000 vehicles that use it daily and it's not very pedestrian friendly either. >> cars are buzzing by pretty fast. >> reporter: the sidewalk is narrow and needs repair. feet away traffic whizzes by. >> it looks pretty dangerous. >> reporter: to stand to do an interview. >> like we're doing now. >> reporter: the old washington boulevard bridge near route 110 by the pentagon is structurally deficient. built in 1941, it's seen better days. >> it's not unsafe to drive on, but it needs to be replaced sooner rather than later. >> reporter: ddot is doing just that, survey teams out today. the construction project begins monday morning just in time for the commute. the three lanes in each direction will be reduced to two. >> we're telling people just to expect about a 10 minute delay. we're going to be doing our best during the project. keep two lanes open both direct

>> pelley: david martin at the pentagon for us tonight. david, thank you. we're told it took four months to make today's announcement because of the difficulty of getting reliable evidence from hostile territory. the president spoke by phone to warren weinstein's widow in a the u.s. government says it will pay compensation to his family and loporto's. wyatt andrews has more on weinstein's ordeal and his family's reaction. >> i'm addressing this video to president obama. >> reporter: in this video released by his captors 16 months ago, warren weinstein asked the president to negotiate his release. >> i am also appealing to you as someone who has served his country and who now needs his country to help him. >> reporter: weinstein was a career foreign aid worker who went to pakistan in 2004 as a government contractor advising pakistani businesses. he was kidnapped in a daring raid by al qaeda operatives who tricked his guards into opening the front gate of his compound. this was just days before he was due to leave pakistan. in the maryland neighborhood where

carter used his speech today at stanford to try to smooth the distrust between tech companies and the pentagon caused by the digital surveillance revelations released by edward snowden. >> whether it's helping safeguard the internet or helping save lives working together for the greater good is bigger than who we are as individuals. it's an imperative we face opportunity we share and it's the only way to make a better world. >> carter used his appearance to announce the pentagon's first new cyber strategy in four years. it'll include the creation of a first of its kind unit to help scout break through emerging technologies to fight traditional and cyber terrorists. >>> hundreds gathered today to see military honors given to labor leader and former sailor cesar chavez. 22 years after his death. chavez received grave site honors from the u.s. navy of his memorial in central california. the idea came from a sailor who learned he does not receive the honors at the time of his death. travers died in 1993 when he was 66 years old. the family said they never thought to ask for military recognition si