the pentagon assessment is the will to fight, of a corrupt deposit. nouri al-maliki back in those days. now there has been a change to the government, with haider al-abadi in charge. the pentagon's assessment was the will to fight was broken by a number of factors, including the idea that some sunni fighters feel they are not being adequately support the by the government in baghdad. i mentioned antitank, a t4 weapons that could be used stopping the vehicle born truck bombs and vehicle bombs. there were none of those in ramadi. they are rushing some to iraq. that's the weapon that might have blunted the offensive. ut never know because of factors involved in the fall of ramadi. could have been a tipping point. the series of explosions demoralized and spooked some of the troops. might have started some of the despollution of what happened. >> they look at the factors. the troops in ramadi had been there for a while. they were suffering low moral, they did not have the leadership that they should have had. they are more hopeful that the troops going in,

the pentagon assessment is the will to fight, of a corrupt deposit. nouri al-maliki back in those days. now there has been a change to the government with haider al-abadi in charge. the pentagon's assessment was the will to fight was broken by a number of factors, including the idea that some sunni fighters feel they are not being adequately support the by the government in baghdad. i mentioned antitank a t4 weapons that could be used stopping the vehicle born truck bombs and vehicle bombs. there were none of those in ramadi. they are rushing some to iraq. that's the weapon that might have blunted the offensive. ut never know because of factors involved in the fall of ramadi. could have been a tipping point. the series of explosions demoralized and spooked some of the troops. might have started some of the despollution of what happened. >> they look at the factors. the troops in ramadi had been there for a while. they were suffering low moral, they did not have the leadership that they should have had. they are more hopeful that the troops going in in

jamie mcintire is at the pentagon with the latest. >> coalition continues to pound i.s.i.l. targets from the air. this picture showing an i.s.i.l. position being destroyed in a ferocious fire ball. by the pentagon's own account destroyed more than 1700 buildings in a list of more than 6,000 targets hit since the air campaign began nine months ago. while the pentagon cannot confirm the wounding of abu bakar al baghdadi in mrch, or his lieutenant, it does claim to have killed many of its leaders something lloyd austin told congress has derate dedegraded i.s.i.l.'s power. not as important as the fighting of baiji. >> no doubt they will seek to exploit it as a propaganda victory. that's i.s.i.l.'s main objective to give the illusion of strength. they need to win in iraq because if you look around the rest of the country they currently do not have the momentum that they once had. >> pentagon sources say iraqis are essentially cornered, with i.s.i.l. fighters in control of more than 80% of the territory inside the perimeter fence. i.s.i.l. also controls the area outside the fence

so he left the pentagon, the pentagon there is portraits of all the former defense secretaries and the day came when there was a ceremony that would unveil the portrait, they didn't have a lot of good relationships. it will be 10:00 in the morning, pick up the flag and shares, in the outer office and marshall is fair and one of my colleagues said to him are you going to the weinberger ceremony, weinberger instead of his picture. and no matter what happened in terms of the ups and down this of the defense secretary's. one is is mentoring of people in the impact it has. so in 1957, looking for a topic to write about and marshall suggests a topic to her and ends up being pearl harbor which ends up winning all kinds of book awards and a medal of freedom from president bush in the 1990 and fundamentally, intelligence and early warning and circumstances under which we will be attacked. a few years later a book comes out called the essence of decision which fundamentally leads to rethinking about thinking rationally or other factors at work, and and the marshall was the guy who gave the insig

pentagon officials tell a slightly different story. sources tell me by the way, that the iraqi forces in ramadi had a 10-1 numerical advantage over the advancing isil fighters. there were about 10,000 iraqi forces including 7,000 iraqi security forces and then another 3,000 federal police and special operations. the pentagon believes they should have nefr been overrun by this much smaller force of 1,000 isil fighters. so what happened? they said a series of things happened that spooked the iraqis in ramadi. there was a series of truck bomb attacks that killed more than 100 iraqis and eight attacks at once. there was an ambush of a small patrol that kind of spooked the iraqi forces there. then there was some weather problems a sort of haze over the city now that gave the impression that maybe the u.s. wouldn't be able to perform air strikes. all of these combined apparently prompted a lot to say, you know what? it's time to leave. the u.s. believes it was a huge tactical mistake that handed isil a huge victory. now those 1,000 isil forc

the pentagon admits u.s. air strikes accidentally killed children instead of members of isil. ♪ >>> this is -- al jazeera america. the senate is down to the wire deciding what to do with the patriot act. it is a controversial act, and expires ten days from now while the senate is on recess. the senate is in session today debating on whether this law should remain. harry reid spoke about it a sport time ago. >> we have a piece of legislation where there are bipartisan efforts made and it worked. they passed this bill. and we should do the same before we leave here. >> as libby casey reports many are questioning whether the law should remain in effect. >> reporter: lawmakers and americans are still grappling with how far the government should go. >> i think the deintat whether the act has made america safer at the almost trillion dollars it has cost to implement it. >> reporter: he argues it has not made the country safer and the cost goes beyond money to civil liberties. >> when it was put together and rushe

pentagon officials tell a slightly different story. sources tell me, by the way, that the iraqi forces in ramadi had a 10-1 numerical advantage over the advancing isil fighters. there were about 10,000 iraqi forces including 7,000 iraqi security forces and then another 3,000 federal police and special operations. the pentagon believes they should have nefr been overrun by this much smaller force of 1,000 isil fighters. so what happened? they said a series of things happened that spooked the iraqis in ramadi. there was a series of truck bomb attacks that killed more than 100 iraqis and eight attacks at once. there was an ambush of a small patrol that kind of spooked the iraqi forces there. then there was some weather problems, a sort of haze over the city now that gave the impression that maybe the u.s. wouldn't be able to perform air strikes. all of these combined apparently prompted a lot to say, you know what? it's time to leave. the u.s. believes it was a huge tactical mistake that handed isil a huge victory. now those 1,000 isil fo

of mine and his wife died in the plane that hit the pentagon. and she called him before they hit the pentagon on her cell phone and he to tell her that two buildings had been hit in new york. and they said goodbye to each other. she knew they were going down. >> the boston airport, like airports now across the entire country, is closed. >> all air traffic in the united states has come to a halt. >> and then we heard there was another plane maybe going toward the capitol, and another plane wanting to go to the white house. people were running out of the white house, people were running out of the capitol. >> there has just been a huge explosion. we can see a billowing smoke rising and i can't -- i'll tell you that i can't see that second tower. but there was a cascade of sparks and fire and now it looks almost like a mushroom cloud explosion. >> and then what happened to me and what happened to every person on the planet earth who had action to a tv, is that a clock started ticking, because once the first tower fell, you knew that the second towe

jamie mcintire is at the pentagon with more on what's behind the decision. jamie. >> antonio, the pentagon says the increase of what it calls its force protection level from alpha, the lowest to bravo the second lowest comes on the orders of the four star admiral in charge of the u.s. home command, whose job it is to protect the u.s. from foreign threats. his concerns, no time for complacency and all areas are on their a game. in garland texas and the cartoon event there was no specific identifiable threat rather than an increase in social media and internet based discussions that has resulted in what he termed a generally heightened threat environment. the military's force protection level now moves from alpha to bravo with the threat going from increased general to more predictable. the next level charlie is one is likely and delta means an attack is imminent or has occurred. dire warnings about how social media has increased the likelihood of radical attacks. >> you might go your whole life without meeting somebody owho shared your views today it takes yo

jamie mcintyre reports from the pentagon >>> as syrian forces battle baz bashar al-assad army. they continue to fight. over 37,000 that volunteered to fight, the first 90 are being trained, not to overtake the territory but fight against i.s.i.l. >> many are motivated to take over. >> many are trained in jordan and another group will train in turkey but the training and equipping a fighting force is a long-term project and is months if not years away. >> we still have to train men to train over time. on the side of diplomacy and diplomats, there's the issue of finding moderate syrian opposition to establish a political structure to which the military force can be responsible. >> reporter: the war goes on the the pentagon says it's training anti-i.s.i.l. forces the reality means the u.s. could provide support and air strikes to soldiers fighting government troops. >> their mission is to fight i.s.i.l. so that is a combat we expect them to get involved in and expect to support them in that record. if they are contested by regime forces we would have a responsibility to help them.

ground troops in if, in fact, what we hear from the pentagon is correct? in ramadi the iraqi troops, the american-trained iraqi troops had a 10-1 advantage over isil? >> if you look at just the iraqi security forces, i believe there's at least 15 brigades in baghdad alone. so the iraqi government actually has security forces that they could put into the fight as well as tribal forces. part of it is actually working together to be able to have, i think, a broad coalition that even includes some of the shia popular militias working alongside the more sunni arab tribal forces as well as security forces and police. it's a matter of better coordination and devoting more resources to the fight. >> this is an interesting point. i was speaking with jamie mcintyre at the pentagon earlier today, and both talk about this breakdown in communication. better coordination. at some point we've all been in iraq for a long time. this can't be that hard to figure out. what's holding everybody back? there seems to be a lot of people from different places, different organizati

in washington, there is a large fire at the pentagon. the pentagon has been evacuated. and there's -- you can see perhaps the second tower, the front tower, the top portion of which is collapsing. >> good lord. there are no words. >> it was so eerie to stand on the rooftop from where we were broadcasting from. >> you can see how tough it is for anybody to sort out the magnitude of what the city and what washington endured today. >> when the wind shifted, you could smell the jet fuel, you could smell metal burning. >> it's 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. it was late and i was tired. and i was crying. and i was thinking about -- my daughter was sort of in middle school, and i thought, god, her world is going to be totally different. it is going to be totally different. >> 9/11 forever altered the soul of our nation. we could never again take for granted our sense of security. and life has never been the same since then. >>> the winds have really picked up here. >> i had a satellite truck with me. i had a crew with me. and we were kind of on own own. you can see it, it's coming

the pentagon says. it should have been more secure because it was live agent, it was dead agent but still it was shipped in what the pentagon believes was a secure fashion. nobody is sick but the bottom line is all of this under investigation, because the pentagon cannot be sure at this point exactly what it is dealing with. jake? >> barbara starr at the bening thank you so much. no relief in sight for parts of texas. even a small amount of additional rain could mean an emergency situation. downpours are now predicted for some of the hit areas already hardest hit and now one city's mayor is ordering evacuations hoping to save lives as the colorado river gets close to overflowing, that's next. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you

i went to the pentagon became the pentagon correspondent. that was may 8 wth, 1990 and august 1 wst 1990 saddam hussein invaded kuwait and all all of the sudden cnn came of age. >> is there any story that has really stuck with you? >> all of them have really been powerful. but obviously 9/11. you know when we saw has was going on. and i remember vividly that morning, i saw on television what was going on, i got in my car immediately started driving downtown to get to the bureau. and people were driving away from washington. they were trying to get at as the plane landed at the pentagon. it was hard getting there. when i heard about the pentagon i had been the pentagon correspondent. i knew exactly where the plane landed. i knew what was going on. i knew this was an act of terror and i said to myself, this is going the change all of us forever. >> nothing was the same. thank you so much mr. wolf blitzer whose show starts in eight minutes. make sure to tune in tonight for our special report "breaking news 35 years of cnn." >>> was blues legend

the pentagon acquisition is to change people's sense of what's important. that mayound soft, but i think it is imptant. vago: think one of the things he was trying a copy at the time was to mamake more clear ruless to move the process along much more quickl obviouslsly, somof those nger-range skills. byron, talk to us about spacex. byn: i thinknk it is imptant to recognize that this i is not st about cyber there is a broader range of technologies thacommercial is really dving at this point. it is not just cybyber. space launch has alreadseen this cnge, but there is a lot going on in the commercial world that i i think the deparartment o of dedefense has to look at longinglyy and try to tap into and bring ininto address their mission. vago:he paradigm of buyi th most of the coverage of these events have e featured was the idea of t the pentagon buying frommall startp, venture finanancto silicon valley firms -- venture financed silicon valley firirms. marketing back to spacex, the most interti thin i he seen was a panel a couple of weeks ago on space launch.

pentagon officials say a frightening mistake was made at dougwayproofing ground in utah. it was there that anthrax samples were supposed to be rendered inactive before being sent to labs. but a test revealed some of them to be live but by that time a sample had already been sent to a military research lab in maryland and the maryland lab in turn sent parts of that sample to labs in eight other states as well as to a u.s. air force base in south korea. >> certainly no members of the public have been reportedly exposed. this was contained on the air base. it is away from the city center. >> reporter: the maryland lab only discovered that the samples were live after they had already been shipped. the pentagon says that despite the mistake, the public was never in danger but it also confirmed that four workers in maryland and 22 at the base in south korea are being treated for possible exposure. the live samples have been destroyed the pentagon says and investigators are visiting every lab that received samples. meanwhile, the cdc investigators are trying to figure out what w

jamie mcintire reports from the pentagon on how this happened. >> the pentagon says it is cooperating in an investigation by the centers for disease control and prevention into how the u.s. military mistakenly shipped life anthrax spors spores to a laboratory on monday. it reported last week that some of its samples were live. that sparked a recall of similar shipments to laboratories in a total of nine states and a u.s. military base in korea. besides maryland the states are texas, wisconsin delaware, new jersey tennessee, new york, california and virginia. a pentagon spokesperson says all the samples are retrieved and are inspected to see if any also contained live active spores. the cdc says there's no threat to the public and no suspected or confirmed case of anthrax infection. the shipment is a serious breach of protocol for handling deadly anthrax spores and the agency is investigating along with state and federal agencies. >> jamie mcintire in the pentagon. >>> authorities are asking residents to evacuate, after days of heavy rain and flooding that took lives in texas and oklah

sisilicon valley exist today because o thehe pentagon. they fororget that. inc. you tell a successful because of a contract vehicle. rebecca: explain that to the audience. they were given venture capal by the ciaia. jonaan: thcistarted them and spread the candy on the groundndf venture capital money. rebecccca: and they produced google earthth. jonath: in order for t the pentag to get t into the gate --- to get innovatation, thehey hahave to do things. they he to change how they workith the contractors. and thehey ve to -- entrepreneurs here serve the publicic interesest. entrepreneurs in silicon valley ve to figure out how to make the next unicorn to sell to oglele. recca: i want to mention re-code, the bible for t tech crowd. theyid a whole f five-part series on whtc is notust tech c cool but -- d.c. is not just tech h cool but tech successful. della: i i think they would argue that it's not lack of technology, but the way the government buys. technology is not geographic in nature. a few sources sasaid it's not about silicon valley or washington. it the pblem

the pentagon in essence controlled that spectrum. with the pentagon, it could always say it is for security reasons we cannot share. we developed a relationship with the pentagon. they understood where we are coming from. we understood where they were coming from. the process took about six months or so. it is critical we all work together. it was very helpful to start off with the pentagon. we could share spectrum. the broadcasters were helpful with that. they got into it and really helped us work with the pentagon. no one really controls it. that is the nature of internet and everything else we do. that is a part of it that a lot of people have difficulty with. if you saw the net neutrality base, that was unbelievable in the sense that people understand that the internet should be free. there shouldn't be people who get faster access or not. when that occurred, that whole energy that happened with that when chairman wheeler with the overturning of the internet order, when he hinted that there might be privatization -- prioritizatio

andrew krepinevich and barry watts talk about their book at the pentagon's office and the pentagon's think tank from 1973 to 2015. the co-authors are former members of marshall's staff. this event was held at the nixon presidential library and museum in yorba linda california. [applause] >> tonight's discussion is that andrew marshall who served from nixon to obama. he retired january at the ripe age of 93 years old. for his pioneering work called the hidden hand before and -- behind american foreign policy. his two former aides, let me back up for a second. what is significant is nixon tapped marshall to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries at the time namely the soviet union to the concept is called net assessment. his former aides andrew krepinevich and sub diver here to discuss the achievements of their mentor tonight and sign copies of their biography about him called "the lost warrior" andrew marshall and shaping of modern defense strategy. mr. krepinevich's it is the author of several books on military history and strategy including the very influ

both of yospent t time in the pentagon. anandrew, you were aop official. lk us throughhat the house and senate proposals are and how they are goioing to affect the current system that is changing as we speak. guest: it is changing. a lot of the effort has been to bring in aries parts of the system that support -- various parts of the system that support the systems getting them around a common plan that is well thought through. the two bills work toward a similar end. they are about trying to drive more responsiveness in the system. the house bill is morof an incremental approach designed to empower the program manag who is the person in the government responsible for the success of the program.m. under the packard commission approach adopted years ago. the senate approach is more disruptive to the current system. on the one hand, it t is focused onon trying to achieve responsiveness. on the other hand, it completely changethe authority flow of commanfor acquisition. that is a huge change. vago: steve? steve: i would agree with the general charactezation o

the pentagon says the employees did not seek reimbursement from the charges. they paid them out of pocket. i guess, hoping no one would notice, david. >> martha raddatz live in washington. martha, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to the big legal blow tonight to the government's domestic spy program. an appeals court ruling it illegal. the nsa collecting millions of american phone records every day. the court today saying the program goes too far. exceeding the guidelines of the patriot act. congress and the white house now deciding how the program will be charged. >>> and here in new york this evening, a sea of blue at the funeral for nypd officer brian moore. the 25-year-old, shot in the head in an unmarked car last weekend. tonight, thousands of fellow officers from across the country and from canada paying their respects. moore is one of 40 police officers killed in the line of duty in this country so far this year. >>> we turn now to the manhunt under way in northern california at this hour. for this man. caught on camera trailing a 13-year-old girl

in washington, there is a large fire at the pentagon. the pentagon has been evacuated. and there's -- you can see perhaps the second tower, the front tower, the top portion of which is collapsing. >> good lord. there are no words. >> it was so eerie to stand on the rooftop where we were broadcasting from. you can see how tough it is for anybody to sort out the anybody to sort out the magnitude of what this city and what washington endured today. >> when the wind shifted, you could smell the jet fuel, you could smell metal burning. >> it's 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. it was late and i was tired. and i was crying. and i was thinking about -- my daughter was in middle school, and i thought, god, her world is going to be totally different. it's going to be totally different. >> 9/11 forever altered the soul of our nation. we could never again take for granted our sense of security. and life has never been the same since then. >>> the winds have really picked up here. >> i had a satellite truck with me. i had a crew with me. and we were kind of on own own. as you can see it,

jamie mcintyre is live for us at the pentagon. is the pentagon responding to a specific threat here? >> well no in raising the threat level from alpha, which is the lowest level to bah woe, which is a higher level of threat the pentagon says it is not reacting to any specific or identifiable threat. technically this order came from the commander in colorado who is responsible for protecting the home homeland, he looked around and sees what is going on in social media and decided it wasn't acceptable for military bases to be at the lowest level. here is what he said, quote: and that's the point they are stressing here. no specific threat. no specific group, but just an increased amount of the kinds of things they can't keep track of on the internet. social media, people talking to each other, the rise of extremism in some places. they felt like this was a prudent step to take. >> so interesting, particularly in the context of texas and what texas -- that event was all about. so what thanks would all of this mean for military bases?

by the pentagon's prediction perhaps 30 years. this is the global war on terrorism, for a lack of a better term. it is not a singular war. susan: 30 seconds on the just released report on sexual assault in the military and the levels not changing all that much. megan: you will see a lot of reaction from the hill on that. perhaps it might revive the debate inside the chain of command, outside the chain of command. congress has past hundreds of provisions over the past several years to adjust this problem, but there has not been a lifetime for it to take root. he and other sources say, let's give this some time to see if this can make progress before we take more drastic measures. susan: for critics, will that be sufficient? megan: probably not. those in favor of taking the decision for prosecution out of the chain of command is the crux of one proposal, and believed to be the only way to address this problem. there is a broader issue of change of culture in the military. things like retaliation if you do report these crimes. kevin:

. >>> the pentagon now admitted that a u.s.-lead air strike in syria most likely killed two children. the military for the last two months has denied that any civilians were killed in either iraq or syria as part of the campaign against isil. kimberly halkett has more from washington. >> reporter: this is the fist time we have the pentagon acknowledging civilian deaths. you are right, this is the result of a four-month investigation. the pentagon saying the civilian death of children likely occurred on november 5th and 6th. this was apparently an effort to target an al-qaeda cell. but the numbers do contrast some very respected numbers get from the syrian observatory for human rights they report 2500 people killed since the start of this complain. 131 of those civilians. now, the pentagon saying they are still looking into two other reports of civilian casualties. two deaths in iraq as well as one in syria. there's a lot of visiting of strategy in recent days. the president, of course defending the strategy acknowledging this i

pentagon officials say a frightening mistake was made at dougway proving ground in utah. anthrax samples were supposed to be rendered inactive but a test of the samples that remained in utah revealed some of them to be live. but by that time a sample had already been sent to a military research lab in maryland and the maryland lab in turn sent parts of that sample to labs in eight other states as well as to a u.s. air force base in south korea. >> certainly no members of the public have been reportedly exposed. this was contained on the air base which is away from the city center. >> reporter: the maryland lab onlying discovered the samples were live after they had already been shipped. the pentagon said that despite the mistake the public was never in danger but it also confirmed that four workers in maryland and 22 at the base in south korea are being treated for possible exposure. the pentagon says the live samples have been destroyed and that investigators are visiting every lab that received anthrax samples originating from dougway. meanwhile the cdc investigators in

. >>> the pentagon admits u.s. air strikes killed children instead of members of isil. ♪ >>> this is al jazeera america. live from new york city i'm randall pinkston. the senate is down to the wire to decide what to do with the patriot act. it is a controversial law covering everything from how the nsa collects information without a warrant to the handling of terror suspects and it expires ten days from now. right now the senate is in session, and the debate begins soon. minority leader harry reid spoke about it a short time ago. >> we have one piece of legislation for one of the rare times out of the house there's bipartisan foefrts made and it worked. they passed this bill and we should do the same before we leave here. >> as libby casey reports, many are now questioning whether the law should remain in effect. >> reporter: 14 years after the patriot act and the attacks of 9/11 lawmakers and americans are still grappling with how far the government should go. >> the debate is whether the act has immediate ameri

one pentagon official called him the chief financial officer of isis. isis oil facilities have been frequent targets of the u.s.-led pomming campaign, but this time, the delta commandos intended to capture the man who ran the operation. a firefight broke out and according to pentagon officials some of the isis fighters attempted to use women and children as human shields. about a dozen enemy fighters were killed in fighting that sometimes involved hand-to-hand combat. pentagon officials said there were no reports of civilian casualties and no americans were killed or wounded although there were bullet holes in some of the aircraft. the commandos found abu sayyaf and his wife on the top floor of the building. according to pentagon officials he attempted to resist and was killed. his wife was captured and taken back to iraq, along with a young iraqi woman who officials believe had been enslaved by abu sayyaf. the young woman will be returned to her family. the wife will be interrogated. officials believe she knows about the abuse suffered by kayla mueller

pentagon forcesources tell a slightly different story. they say the iraqi forces squandered a substantial combat advantage in ramadi. pentagon sources say they outnumbered the isil attackers 10 to 1. there were 7,000 iraqi security forces in ramadi plus another 3,000 police and special operations troops and they got in their vehicles and drove off as the 1,000 isil fighters were advancing. the pentagon says none of those fighters who were in ramadi though were trained and were part of the forces recently trained by the u.s. it was something that the white house was quick to point out. >> we would expect that forces that are augmented by u.s. and coalition trained troops forces that are augmented by local fighters from local sunni tribes, and from the population mobilization force, will be able to improve the performance of the iraqis on the battlefield against isil. >> reporter: so what happened in ramadi? pentagon sources say they believe essentially the iraqi troops there psyched themselves out by a series of events including a surprise

one pentagon official called him the chief financial officer of isis. isis oil facilities have been frequent targets of the u.s.-led bombing campaign, but this time, the delta commandos intended to capture the man who ran the operation. a firefight broke out, and according to pentagon officials, some of the isis fighters attempted to use women and children as human shields. about a dozen enemy fighters were killed in fighting that sometimes involved hand-to-hand combat. pentagon officials said there were no reports of civilian casualties and no americans were killed or wounded, although there were bullet holes in some of the aircraft. the commandos found abu sayyaf and his wife on the top floor of the building. according to pentagon officials, he attempted to resist and was killed. his wife was captured and taken back to iraq, along with a young iraqi woman who officials believe had been enslaved by abu sayyaf. the young woman will be returned to her family. the wife will be interrogated. officials believe she knows about the abuse suffered by kayla mue

why in the world should the pentagon be any different? taxpayers deserve better than black box budgeting and two decades of, we'll get on with this rhetoric. they keep postponing and saying, we'll get to it later. that's unacceptable when it comes to ending waste, fraud and abuse. i remember several years ago there were reports from "the new york times" and subsequently these reports were substantiated that taxpayer dollars cash, money, in suitcases, being passed out in afghanistan. what in the world are we doing? i mean we have no clue where that money went, how much it was, it was cash money. we need to take this action, and i thank mr. burgess and ms. schakowsky for this. if you ask me, i think we need to take bolder actions to address the pentagon's failure to achieve audit-ready status, excuse me, and somehow at some point penalize them if they don't do that. because we all would be penalized if in fact our books were not in order. so this amendment i just have to say is a major step in the right direction. the american people deserv

were using the pentagon cards to hide it from their spouse. >> right. melissa: they're not afraid for the government to know that they're getting, using escort services and that. they don't want their spouse to know. >> they counted 900 visits. spending was almost $100,000. according to my math but i don't go to the places but that is a $1000 a visit. >> their solution once they got caught, the pentagon, says we will tell the people it is against policy. hello. it is against the law, converting to personal use government property. melissa: other thing that drivers me crazy about the thing always details come out through an investigation with the inspector general in their particular department. you don't hear more about it. like it comes out they have done it but then no one gets punished. it just sort of sits there. for example, in the with the va. a federal former federal employee in michigan admitted to embezzling $150,000 from the va spending it on addiction to gambling prostitutes and strippers, including lap dancers from a stripper named ashley. >

but the pentagon says the employees did not seek reimbursement for the charges. they paid them out of pocket. i guess, hoping no one would notice, david. >> all right, martha raddatz live in washington. martha, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to the big legal blow tonight to the government's domestic spy program. an appeals court ruling it illegal. the nsa collecting millions of american phone records every day. the court today saying the program goes too far. exceeding the guidelines of the patriot act. congress and the white house now deciding how the program will be changed. >>> and here in new york this evening, a sea of blue at the funeral for nypd officer brian moore. the 25-year-old, shot in the head in an unmarked car last weekend. tonight, thousands of fellow officers from across the country and from canada paying their respects. moore is one of 40 police officers killed in the line of duty in this country so far this year. >>> we turn now to the manhunt under way in northern california at this hour. for this man, caught on camera trailing a 13-ye

partly it makes it harder for the pentagon to mr. clinton for the future. -- to plan for the future. the rest of the story is there's a broader debate that's bigger than defense about fiscal responsibilities, about whether you can save money through the mandatory spending or entitlement programs or two-thirds of the federal budget is about what needs to happen to the other domestic programs and so that's where the differences are going to have to be ironed out. i still have hope that there are can be an agreement. even if you take the enyou tilet titlement -- entitlement reforms president obama proposed in the past and apply some of those savings to defense and nondefense digscregsarry programs, i think you can get a huge number of people on both sides of the aisle to support that. question is, does the president want to do that or does he want to play chicken and hope he can get more spending on his domestic programs? i think it will be interesting, i have to say, if we send the president a defense bill at exactly the level he asked

pentagon officials say: the u.s. says it trained 11,000 troops with another 3,000 in the pipeline, it's unknown how many were involved in ramadi and the combat capability remains in question. several thousand shi'a militia men moved to a military base. the questions surrounding the fall of ramadi were many. are the iraqi forces the equal of i.s.i.l. fighters. if iraq can't hold ramadi how can it liberate the biggest prize of mosul down the road and the big question will the u.s. have to rethink the opposition for putting boots on the ground. >>> jamie mcintyre at the pentagon, thanks. the white house says it will no longer allow police departments to buy military-style equipment from the federal government. the issue came to a head after police rolled out armoured vehicles during the ferguson riot. mike viqueira is our senior white house correspondent. >> good evening. there's images from ferguson, missouri, and voting as the president travelled to nursy. those are military vehicles police clad in cam flim military-s

people were freaking out. >> at the pentagon a plane or a helicopter has crashed, and the pentagon is being evacuated. >> ted also was a friend of mine. his wife died in that plane that hit the pentagon. she told him before they hit the pentagon -- she called him before they hit the pentagon on her cell phone. he had to tell her that two buildings have been hit in new york. and they said good-bye to each other. she knew they were going down. >> don't miss our special report "breaking news: 35 years of cnn." it airs later tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. and also please make sure to go to cnn.com. you can read some of my memories from the first gulf war, i've written a personal account of that day that saddam hussein invaded kuwait when i was cnn's pentagon correspondent. that's it for me. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. for our international viewers, amanpour is coming up next. for our viewers in north america, "newsroom with brooke baldwin" starts right now. >>> wolf thank you very much. great to be with you on this tuesday. i'm brooke baldwin. we begin w

. >>> we have got breaking news from the pentagon. pentagon says it is investigating how an army lab in utah mistakenly shipped live anthrax spores to labs in 9 states across the country including maryland and virginia. the pentagon is not saying which labs but the labs are supposed to receive dead anthrax samples to research. the pentagon says there is no known risk to the pb lig and no lab -- public and no lab workers showed signs of infection. >>> breaking news out of bolt pore where attorneys for the 6 officers charged in the freddie gray case have filed to move the trials out of the city. the baltimore sun reports lawyers for the officers say the clients can't receive a fair impartial trial in baltimore city. the 85 page motion outlined a precopings of press dig that exist -- presumption of press dig that exist in the city. >>> a -- pre-- prejudice that exist in the city. >>> faced with near certain defeat prince georges county executive baker cut his costly proposal to turn around the school system in half. now, the ball is in t

mystifying the pentagon can't answer all the questions. for other work in the united states also on prevechbltntive care the centers for disease control has taken charge of the investigation, talking to the pentagon and the army talking to these labs across the country, trying to figure out how 22 shipments, which began in march of 2014 how nobody noticed it was live anthrax. wolf? >> and what about those civilians, military personnel, who actually handled the anthrax? first of all, has anyone been sickened? have they all been put on cipro, a major medication preemptively to deal with this? what's going on. >> reporter: at this point the pentagon is saying there are no reports anyone is sick and they do not believe it's a threat to public health. that's really important, of course. this is not a terrorist attack. this is not like in 2001 when letters full of loose anthrax went through the u.s. mail and killed five people. this is not that situation. they were shipped in approved containers but those containers were supposed to be for dead

it has called the pentagon excess property program. since it's inception in 1997 it has put more than $4.3 billion of equipment on the streets of american cities just in the last year alone half a billion dollars worth of military equipment. so the president followed the recommendations of that task force that he put in place after ferguson, and banned some items and restricted some. here is just a smattering of the things that the president proposed banning today: now some of the restricted equipment that the president put forward today: and it does again, follow that task force mrengd mrengd -- recommendation which was released today. but the one thing the white house does want to give law enforcement, body cameras. they aloe -- allocated $75 million. now they want congress to give more for that purpose of body cameras. >> the announcement came as the president visited can -- cam -- camdan new jersey. why? >> it has been known as one of the nation's poorest and most violent and crime-ridden communities. about three years ago they dec

late word coming in the pentagon accidentally sent live anthrax. the urgent testing now in nine states from new york to california from texas to wisconsin. a major investigation right now. the new storms hitting tonight. a tornado slamming into a shopping center. the system from texas to maine. >>> the major scare in the air. both engines failing. passenger plane then dropping 13,000 feet. >>> the fbi moving in after the u.s. lost the bid for the world cup. authorities say, now we know why. suit cases stuffed with cash? >>> and the major headline involving women and their health. the fbi investigating a key piece of hospital equipment. can it spread cancer? authorities asking who knew what and when? >>> and, the hunt for your made in america inventions. and the $100,000 surprise. >>> good evening. and we begin with that developing story tonight, the pentagon acknowledging a major mistake. sending live anthrax from a facility in utah. they sent samples to nine states one even sent overseas to south korea. they thought that the samples, the spores we

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reports that united states may engage in a military showdown with china over the south china sea region, pentagon reportedly considering sending u.s. surveillance aircraft, and navy ships to within 12 nautical miles of disputed reefs that china has built up, and now claim as their own naive's goal to force china to make concessions. for its part china lashed out at united states for considering sending military force in to south china sea saying they were quote severely concerned. but will the united states follow through? and will failure to do so embowlin china as a -- embolden china as a result? the question is, what is the obama strategy? we look for answers. also president obama has a party inviting leaders of 6 persian gulf arab nations and almost no one showed up, president met with saudi crown prince. we called the meeting the g2 summit as a result. and white house refuses to acknowledge the snub. it is hard to explain why embahrain a king would -- why elba rainelse bahrain's king would attend a horse show instead. we take it up with ralph peters, and john hanna. strategy on the rails of

barbara starr is at the pentagon and has more for us. good morning. >> right now the pentagon says there are no signs anybody is ill but they are moving to take the actions you just described. what we do know is the military contracted with fedex sometime ago to undertake these shipments, but that may be about all we know. this morning the pentagon really scrambling to come up with a set of facts about what happened here. this morning fear up to 22 personnel may have been exposed to anthrax in an air base in south korea, and an investigation underway after an army lab in utah shipped live an anthrax samples to them and nine states over the last few days. 22 people being monitored in south korea join four workers in the u.s. who received preventive post exposure treatment, and a lab in maryland was the first to report receiving the live bacteria after handling the samples, and the question now is how could this have happened? >> that's a great question. that's why we brought in the center for disease control and their investigators. >> th

the story reported first on cnn from pentagon correspondent barbara star. >> u.s. army special operations forces and that means delta forc

pentagon says the employees themselves paid these added expenses not taxpayers. pentagon says the employee the employees did not seek reimbursement for the charges. they paid them out-of-pocket. i guess hoping no one would notice. >> vote counting continues in great britain tonight. volunteers north of london race to go count ballot this evening to go count ballot this evening. exit poll projecting that cameron conservative party begin more seats in parliament but there are still more vets to be tabulated. biggest shock was a 20-year-old scottish student who became the country youngest lawmaker since 1667. >> wow! >> brady speaking out for the first time since the report on the deflate gate was released. curious fans in attendance at event outside boston wondering what the reaction would be. here's karen you. grand appearance by don't helicopter then brady down to business. >> there is an elephant in the room. >> where? >> you may be the only one who doesn't see it. >>reporter: before packed house of thousands the superbowl mvp sat down with sportscaster jim gray

let's go to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. she's got the very latest. >> reporter: wolf the centers for disease control and the defense department looking into all of this. right now, they know that last friday a shipment of live anthrax inadvertently went to one lab in one state. but overall, shipments were made to nine states. so now the cdc is collecting up all of those samples and trying to make sure that none of the other samples were actually live anthrax agent. but look at how widespread this problem is. the states that got the shipments in this original situation were wisconsin, delaware new york texas, maryland new jersey tennessee california and virginia. they're not saying yet which lab in which state got the live agent by mistake. that lab reported it to the cdc. the pentagon then informing labs in all the other states. so they're trying to get a handle on it. right now, they don't have any reports that anyone is ill. but the problem here wolf is how did it happen? it's not the first time. how does this happen that