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the pentagon papers estimated about an estimated 280,000 vietcong communist fighters. this was up from what their estimates were of about 10000 in 1962, so 10000 to 280,000 in the insurgency was rapidly growing. there was an active uprising in south vietnam which included three months of setting themselves on fire, images which were broadcast into america's living room in the us understood and officials understood american intervention in opposition to it was rising, but they did not understand why there was opposition and why there was opposition into the us backed south vietnamese-- south vietnamese regime, but they thought scientists could up them understand, so slope was one of the people that was sent to vietnam. he was using the warsaw test which was a time to help understand psychotherapist. so far at least in this happy with the vietcong fighter that ink blocks veiled to release any insights into the fighter. he asked the viacom fighter to go through the parts and identify something sexual. nothing. than he has the fighter to find anything that reminded him of

it's also increasingly removed from the pentagon leadership. during the vietnam war, they were being hauled in front ofvi congress to ask their opinion on the war, to talk about theirlk t programs.s. i've gone to a lot of the darpa here is what the annual event and it is so marginal to the things going on in the wars that we fight today. darpa tries to argue that's a good thing. we are the agency of the future of tenures commit 20 years. that's how they see themselves today. that wasn't the darpa of 1958 when they got america into space in less than a year. they developed a nuclear weapon detection system that enabled president kennedy to enter the year of arms control but the limited test ban treaty, the system around the world in just a couple years. even the arpanet was in science fiction. he was laying the groundwork or he quickly for computer networking. i worry sometimes that we dorazy crazy projects alluded to in the introduction in 1958 would create killer electrons by launching nuclear weapons that would pride nuclear weapons, and basi

post, the pentagon is expected to communicate more with russia. the pentagon has stepped up communication with russia over syria as the trump administration lays plans for operations likely to thrust u.s. forces closer to syrian troops. the joint chiefs of staff said the united states had open a new channel between senior u.s. and russian military officials to discuss what pentagon officials onflictiono as the dec of this area. can you talk more about if that is affected by the russian probe? guest: it is a fascinating dynamic playing out in syria. obviously you have russian military forces there, backing the embattled president bush are all assigned. al-assad. it is all taking time at the peak tensions between washington and moscow. what happens in syria is quite interesting. as the post story notes, they have established what are called zones, and that can apply to time and space so was not always hard terrain being protected. it could be that the u.s. wants to conduct some sort of operation in the airspace over a certain city or town. , andhapp

they want to decrease nondefense spending to pay for pentagon increases. if the 2017n: budget taught us anything, it's that if we want to get a good budget to the congress, we want to do it expeditiously. it's going to require democrats and republicans coming to the table, rolling up sleeves and doing the budget in a bipartisan way. so i predict at the end of the day, that is what is good to happen with the fiscal year 2018 budget. how long it takes members of congress to really figure that out and also come to the table and just do the right thing is yet to be seen. i hope we will not be seven months into the fy 18 budget before you tell everybody you are not going to get a partisan budget through because the ultraconservatives are probably never going to agree with mainstream republicans and they are certainly not going to agree with democrats. what we saw in the fy 17 budget was basically democrats and republicans coming together. you're going to get the vast majority of us in the middle that want to do the right thing. you did see increase in defense.

. >> 16 years after firefighters still don't vay permanent place to call home at the pentagon. >> i'm chris lawrence. we start with the growing effort to bring better retail stores to prince george's county. it's become one of the county executives top priorities in our bureau chief tracee wilkins looks into why so many venues failed while others are succeeding and what developments are on the horizon. >> we had landsover mall at one point. >> i remember landover mall. i remember going there as a kid. >> reporter: for decades landover mall is the example of thriving retail but in the late '90s that changed when enthusiasm stores in the county were doomed to fail. >> crime started ridesing. we had challenges in the county overall and with not putting investment back into it, watching retail chains but not doing anything about it. >> reporter: residents hoped that the opening would turn things around but years later, stores left and many other stores followed. >> there was some unfortunate criminal events that occurred within the first six months of that place opening. and it got a lot

they must be here outside the pentagon for all landings at the helipad. these firefighters are not permitted to speak with the i-team but the head of their union is. >> gone 15 years anniversary after anniversary and always preach we will never forget. i think we have been forgotten. >> reporter: the i team wanted to know why the rebuild is taking so long. through review we found the answer. a combination of red tape and busted budgets. we found it took ten years for the defense department and congressional leaders to agree on a plan for a new station and to lineup the money. military formally estimated the cost to be $6.4 million. then for four years they tried to find a contractor for the job. and then a bigger problem. according to internal military records their estimate wasn't even close. >> the responses back far exceeded the funding we had. >> it was going to cost a lot more than you thought. >> it was going to cost a lot more than what we had funding for. >> reporter: which means leaders had to scrap those plans and start over including lobbying a

it's not just all in the pentagon budget where we find security. >>. though your role in the next on cyber security. what threats are you looking at in cyber or physical that you are really worried about and we should be focusing on more? one of the things that i worry about the moose is a tax on critical infrastructure. have pentagon doing a good job. the department of homeland security. i would like to see somebody in charge with policy and budgetary authority which we still do not have and i have introduced legislation. cyber security detective which would create a position in the white house with policy and budgetary authority to compel agencies to close want minorities -- vulnerabilities. nobody would accept having the network.n the. calm what we need to do is see border cooperation between the government and the private sector. that's why information sharing is so important. mixer our private sector is as safe as it can possibly be. somey even require regulation. we need to get the authority to go in and direct vulnerabilities are closed in our e

pentagon officials deny that. >>> and this morning, that is not the only controversy facing the pentagon. >> that's right. 16 years after the 9/11 attacks, one important and symbolic part of that complex remains missing. despite pleas that the government rebuild it. here's scott mcfarrland and the news 4 i-team. >> reporter: we all remember where we were that day. bill remembers exactly what he saw. >> all of these images won't ever leave me. >> reporter: the wreckage of american airlines flight 77. >> seeing the devastation. >> reporter: which torpedoed through walls so close to his desk. >> my friends died >> reporter: keeps a piece in a plaque on his wall at home. >> i was underneath the rubble in the pentagon. >> reporter: dan remembers seeing the rescuers. >> the timing is of the essence when you're in firefighting. >> reporter: among the first to respond to the 9/11 disaster, the fire rescuers decided to protect the pentagon's helo pad, their fire station which was near the site of the crash was also destroyed. >> it was greatly inspiring to see how everybody came together and risk

guest: sure, the plan would allow the pentagon to set the final troop number, something administration was set by the white house in great detail and so this is one of illustrations that we've seen so far under the yield dministration to decision-making power on military questions to the than hold it er more tightly at the white house. and in some ways, i think that a welcome move, you know, idely welcome move because recognition there was too much of tactical deliberations were house.ing at the white on the other hand, as the caller said, there is of course a real that this could not go as ne would hope that perhaps strategic imperative not being taken into account as much as will hould be that there be a sort of overly tactical decision-making and, you know, obviously civilian control of the military is one the basic tenants of our system, we now have a general -- retired general in charge of the military, in charge of the pentagon and a national security advisors, active duty three-star general, so i think one is right those questions and a situation that will improve the outcomes,

what the pentagon is saying out about that ahead in the lab report. plus donald trump blasting democrats over the russia investigation and now a new video emerges showing the chairman of the house piling on. our panel debates next. when this bell rings... ...it starts a chain reaction... ...that's heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that's the power of and. thithis is the new new york.e? think again. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new university partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. >> jon: important stuff, let's listen in. >> to come to his house to talk about what's happening at the va. as you know, the president is so committed to fixing issues for veterans

they're being provocative, and the united states has intelligence services and the pentagon have been relatively quiescent. that is strangling the public's right to know when it comes to the degree of involvement of china in the north korean missile program and presumably as well, their nuclear weapons program. >> yeah, definitely their nuclear weapons program because components for north korea's nukes come across the chinese border, that's resent. as well as uranium. lou: what is the united states to do? this is not only a difficult, complex challenge, it's downright daunting. >> first thing is what president trump is already doing -- lou: okay, what do we do from here? >> the other thing we need to do is start imposing sanctions on chinese financials and the enterprises that are supplying this materiale. lou: look, you and i have known each other for many a year, we won't get into all the years. we're friends. and this audience has followed you and me throughout that period, and they deserve straight talk here. sanctionses don't work, economic sanctions don't work, and you than. so

go long. >> breaking news from the pentagon, the pentagon has announced that president trump has approved a plan to arm the syrian kurds. joining me now is pentagon correspondent hans nichols, this is relevant because one of our nato members, turkey, is dead set against this idea. they see the kurds as an enme. >> the kurdish group is the ypg, they think it is pkk, shorthand for tristin surge entcy in their own country. remember, the obama era defense department wanted this to happen, to directly arm the kurds. but what it tells us about the campaign against isis, number one, the final stages against the capital in raqqa, being encircled, the end is near and final assault of raqqa. but two, it's also an indication that president trump in his effort to accelerate the fight against isis is willing to make some allies bristle. turkey is a nato ally, there will be difficult conversations, the president is scheduled -- turks have said he'e meeting with president trump. we don't have that confirmed from trump' side yet but it looks like there could be a difficult conversation between president

don't understand, why would someone want to set something up like that about syria and not let the pentagon know about it? >> again, i have no idea. i think it would be best to talk with these people. from a military standpoint, we have ways to communicate with russia about syria. these sources are not people who are willing to give their names, so it is hard to respond to things like this. again, there are no names, no dates attached. let's just let this unfold. >> we are chasing our tales when it comes to the russians as a nation. think about it this way, you have the ambassador of russia pointing back to moscow on an open channel that jared kushner is going to move into the and this he, i do not trust that -- i -- into the embassy do not trust that story as far as i can throw it. i do not think it makes sense that he would report back on an open channel note they know we -- channel that they know we are monetary. there is something suspicious about that. >> historically there has been back channels? >> i was saddened by the general saying that. i think this is an administration that take

jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. what more do we know about the americans injured in this incident? >> secretary of state rex tillerson just issued a statement condemning the attack and offering condolences to the victims adding the u.s. commitment to afghanistan is unwavering. i spoke to a senior official and i'm told that 11 u.s. mostly contract personnel, were injured in the blast. they were working for the u.s. embassy. one afghan local guard is missing, i'm told, and nine guards working for a u.s. government contracted security company were killed during the explosion, which emanated from a water tanker packed with explosives. resulted in a mushroom cloud of smoke over the capital. a driver from the bbc was killed and four bbc journalists were wounded. the neighborhood where this attack occurred is home to many foreign embassies. blast walls didn't even make a difference today, shep. >> shepard: we still don't know who is behind this, right? >> it's not clear who is responsible. a spokesman for the taliban denie

hans nicoles is at the pentagon with more. hans? >> stephanie, what we have here is a consideration and this is 3,000 to 5,000 additional troops for afghanistan according to military official. and what we know is this process has percolated up, general nicholson, the commanding general in afghanistan said publicly he wants a few thousand. i think we're right to focus on the number of troops because it is a clear escalation, but more importantly is the strategy, stephanie, that is that these troops would be there to support the afghan national army to go directly against the taliban. this would be in support of the government there. there's a new president there. there's a lot of complaints about hamid karzai and these troops would be bolstering an army that has really had three problems, corruption, desertion, and high casualty rates. that's what the strategy seems to be. no decision is final. president trump has not weighed in on this and we're picking a little bit back and forth. there may be -- debate may be too strong but strong

are expecting notices from the pentagon and otherwise in the moments ahead. i should tell you as well the breaking news that we've been following out of times square in new york city, in the car crash that killed at least one person and injured an unknown number, more than a dozen at least, concerns early when you're at the crossroad of the world, but i heard from a police source an hour ago or more than that there was the belief that this was maybe an alcohol-related crash, there was no terror relation here, that the suspect is in custody and being question, and now the police have confirmed all of that is true. no terror strike in times square. a horrible event, of course, believed to be possibly alcohol-related, but no terror, not in times square, not today. continuing coverage of that story on fox news channel on satellite and cable right now. much more on this local fox station as time permits. i am shepard smith, fox news new york. now back to regular programming on the fox news channel to jon scott. >> jon: thank you. jon scott here with julie banderas

getting mac thornberry, the way pentagon procures weapons. let's fix people's problems and all of our committees are still doing that so as i said i know that people can get consumed with the news of the day but we are leer working on people's problems every day and we have all these different committees that do different jobs and our job is to make sure that we still make progress for the american people and we're doing that. >> but look what you're being asked about. >> yeah. you want to ask about tax reform? all right. go ahead, mike emanuel! you'll get picked if you say -- >> pass. >> mr. speaker, thank you. regarding tax reform, there's folks that think it slips beyond this year. >> i don't think that's the case. our goal and i feel confident to meet the goal is 2017 for tax reform and i think we are making good response. ms. bloomberg with a tax reform comment? >> i do. majority leader mitch mcconnell said that he thinks that prospects for border adjustment part of the plan are rather bleak in the senate. if he still says it should be r

hans nichols at the pentagon. >> somewhere out there is without west wing drama. republicans trying to make sweeping changes. president trump tweeted theus senate should switch to 51 votes immediately and get health care and tax cuts approved. fast and easy. dems would do it, no doubt. >> casey, a couple of things wrong with that tweet. a lot of republicans who don't want that health care bill going back in the model. that's part of the problem. the other is no tax bill to vote on. >> you have listed two of what i think is a slightly longer list of issues. the other being they are using a procedure in the senate to pass the pieces of legislation with just 51 votes. they are trying to work outside of those rules. the problem is there are not 51 republican votes for health care or tax reform in the senate right now. it's not an issue of having a a having a problem with the democrats. and we do have a statement of from mitch mcconnell, they say senator mcconnell agrees that both health care and tangs reform are essential and that's why republicans in congress are usi

they're being provocative, and the united states has intelligence services and the pentagon have been relatively quiescent. that is strangling the public's right to know when it comes to the degree of involvement of china in the north korean missile program and presumably as well, their nuclear weapons program. >> yeah, definitely their nuclear weapons program because components for north korea's nukes come across the chinese border, that's resent. as well as uranium. lou: what is the united states to do? this is not only a difficult, complex challenge, it's downright daunting. >> first thing is what president trump is already doing -- lou: okay, what do we do from here? >> the other thing we need to do is start imposing sanctions on chinese financials and the enterprises that are supplying this materiale. lou: look, you and i have known each other for many a year, we won't geinto all t years. we're friends. and this audience has followed you and me throughout that period, and they deserve straight talk here. sanctionses don't work, economic sanctions don't work, and you than. so what

barbara starr, thank you so, so much at the pentagon. >> sure. >> thanks so much for being with me. i'm brooke baldwin. let's send things down to washington, d.c. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> thanks, brooke. two top trump advisers refusing to comply with the russia investigation. "the lead" starts right now. cnn exclusive reporting that this the russian sources say were caught on intercepts bragging about possessing something damaging to donald trump and his campaign. was this just boasting? was it disinformation? or was it legit? >>> firing back. for the first time the u.s. fires a missile capable of knocking down potentially a north korean nuke. was the test a success? >>> plus, asleep at the wheel. new details about that disoriented looking tiger woods during his dui arrest. what does the breathalyzer have to say? welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. the russia investigation by the fbi and by the house and senate intelligence committees is proceeding at full speed and so is apparently the refusal to cooperate for many key figures closest to president trump

streamlining the way pentagon works on weapons. let's get on with tax reform. let's fix people's problems. and all of our committees are still doing that. so as i said, i know that people get consumed with the news of the day but we are here today working on people's problems every day. we have all these different committees that do different jobs, and our job is to make sure that we still make progress for the american people, and we're doing that. reporter: what you're being asked about? speaker ryan: do you want to ask about tax reform? all right. mike emanuel. [laughter] reporter: mr. speaker, thank you. regarding tax reform, there's some folks who think you can go beyond this year -- speaker ryan: no, that's not the case. our goal and i feel very confidential we can meet this goal is calendar year 2017. i think we are making good progress. does bloomberg have a tax reform? reporter: i do. so majority leader mitch mcconnell said he thinks the prospects for border adjustment tax are rather bleak in the senate and yet he still says it should be revenue neutra

nbc's hans nichols is live at the pentagon. jill colvin and phillip rucker also on the set at the white house north lawn. hans, when will the test happen? how significant is it? >> the significant thing about the test is what the u.s. is trying to do. shoot down an actual icbm. they're launching one from the marshall islands an atoll in the western pacific. they'll send it up and over around noon pacific time, 3:00 p.m. local and they'll try to knock it down sometime before it splashes into the water there in the pacific ocean west of california. so the significance really is the speed with which this missile is heading towards the states. it would approximate an icbm. in pentagon-speak that's hitting a bullet with a bullet. one thing -- a few caveats. number one, north korea doesn't have, as far as we know, an operational icbm. number two, tests like this are long planned. they're long budgeted for. don't think of this as a tit for tat conversation between what the pentagon can do and what north korea is attempting to do. >> i

they're being provocative, and the united states has intelligence services and the pentagon have been relatively quiescent. that is strangling the public's right to know when it comes to the degree of involvement of china in the north korean missile program and presumably as well, their nuclear weapons program. >> yeah, definitely their nuclear weapons program because components for north korea's nukes come across the chinese border, that's resent. as well as uranium. lou: what is the united states to do? this is not only aifcult, complex challenge, it's downright daunting. >> first thing is what president trump is already doing -- lou: okay, what do we do from here? >> the other thing we need to do is start imposing sanctions on chinese financials and the enterprises that are supplying this materiale. lou: look, you and i have known each other for many a year, we won't get into all the years. we're friends. and this audience has followed you and me throughout that period, and they deserve straight talk here. sanctionses don't work, economic sanctions don't work, and you than. so what

the pentagon is not sure what it was. they were targeting a compound that al shabaab used to launch attacks against americans and other targets inside africa in general. reuters is reporting that the real target was a leader that played a key role in an attack on a local university in kenya that had 150 dead. most of the dead christians. a $5 million bounty on his head. the seals were advising soldiers and flew in by helicopter 40 miles east of the capitol. early during this assault, down on the coast is when they took heavy fire and the american died. >> we first and foremost want to express our deepest condolences and deepest appreciation for all of the men and women in the military. >> now, the pentagon says they still don't know if the mission was a success in terms of kill and capture for the al shabaab leader that they were looking for. we have a lot of history in somalia. this is the first american combat death in somalia since 1993. >> leland, thank you. the political panel is here. sarah linty, from the national

the ride began at the pentagon and ended with a parade in d.c.. and this, of course, known as rolling thunder and riders say they're on a very important mission. >> they are gone they're not forgotten. let's bring our pows and mias let's bring them home all about the veterans. whether you're serving now or then but to bring memory of the people forgotten. >> the ride for freedom has been rolling now for the past 30 years and know when it's that time because it kind of hearing them drive ago roun the city over the weekend and as we're headed to the weekend. >> i was on dive driving north over the weekend and saw the motorcycles coming south you. >> know what they're doing. displayed in the pentagon. >> here is his incredible story. >> master sergeant david long finds peace through the lens of camera. this graph went from talented photographer and peace in the pentagon to the photos took while in afghanistan. >> i'm trying to catch up they're actually there it's amazing. >> pictures are part of wounded warriors healing hearts exhibit. >> it tells a

but now the pentagon wants to reverse that. it's asked to add 3,000 to 5,000 more personnel, and for authorization to send u.s. forces closer to the front lines, to back up afghan soldiers who are often overwhelmed by the taliban and dying in the thousands. here in brussels, the u.s. has been trying to talk its nato allies into adding thousands more troops in afghanistan as well, but so far the reception has been cool. and as for the decision to beef up u.s. forces, it has been postponed, scott, until the president returns to washington. >> pelley: liz palmer with us in brussels tonight, thank you. today, the pentagon acknowledged at least 105 civilians were killed in a u.s. air strike in mosul, iraq, in march. a 500-pound bomb hit a building to take out two isis snipers. but the pentagon said today, isis had explosives in the building and the secondary blast collapsed the structure. coming up next on the "cbs evening news" from brussels, alarming news from people who don't get enough sleep. and later, one family, five graduati

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that's the word from the pentagon. u.s. officials say arming the kurds is necessary to capture raqqa. raqqa is the islamic state's capitol in syria. even though our nato ally turkey has rallied against that plan. the defense secretary jim mattis said he had a good talk about the issue today with his turkish counterpart in his visit to denmark. jennifer griffin has details. >> turkey had fought the u.s. arming the kurds tooth and nail. they consider them terrorists. the u.s. relies them on the most able fighting force on the ground in syria. the pentagon had this spokes man dana white. yesterday they want to equip democratic forces as necessary to ensure a clear victory over isis in raqqa syria. the statement described the kurds as "the only force on the ground that can successfully seize raqqa in the near future." the pentagon plans to send an mored vehicle like the this one here as well as small arms, ammunition and construction equipment like armored bulldozers. defense secretary mattis returns later this week. the turkis

coming up this morning, pentagon bureau chief discusses the pentagon's progress report on the fight against isis. then the american advance for sciences will join us to discuss the future of scientific advisory boards under donald and environmental security departments. piecewe will discuss a examining how the u.s. education system has left some children and their parents behind. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern time this morning. join the discussion. weekend, on american history tv on c-span3, on real america, a new york broadcast with robert kennedy and california governor robert reagan. they are taking questions the a satellite from students in london. >> with the candidates like to comment on this and perhaps the america'sy learn from experience? we have just begun to recognize the plates -- the plight of minority groups, and have just now begun to do with them. >> next, we talk about the emancipation in the civil war. >> the idea that a rebellion of the seven states may have been to a 40 -- the authority emancipate slaves for the civil war is not a novel idea. i

we are awaiting right now the results from the pentagon. this is the equivalent of trying to knock a bullet out of the sky high in the atmosphere with another bullet, so we're waiting the results to see if this test is successful. it would be a huge step forward in trying to defeat the threat of an intercontinental ballistic missile launch against the united states. brooke? >> right, as you pointed out, timely and for two reasons, both because of, you know, goings on with iran and north korea. barbara starr, we'll stay really close to your reporting and find out how successful it was and how far-reaching this ballistic missile test would actually be more the united states. barbara starr, thank you so, so much at the pentagon. >> sure. >> thanks so much for being with me. i'm brooke baldwin. let's send things down to washington, d.c. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> thanks, brooke. two top trump advisers refusing to comply with the russia investigation. "the lead" starts right now. cnn exclusive reporting that this the russi

it was destroyed next to the pentagon on 9/11. the firefighters were among the first to respond after the attack. they're also assigned to respond to emergencies on the foreign dignitaries and marine one flies. for years they've operated out of trailers which they call too small and potentially unsafe. >> we've gone 15 years with anniversary after anniversary. we always preach, we'll never forget, and i think we've been forgotten. >> reporter: the pentagon acknowledges it should have been built years ago. they say the temporary one is safe. what are the holdups with this project so long in the making and what do 9/11 survivors say about it? our news 4 i-team investigation tonight at 11:00. for now, scott mcfarland, news 4 i-team. >>> 5:36. discarded like a piece of trash. prince george's county is desperately trying to find a women's body avs police say her boyfriend tossed it into a dumpster. they say turkessa her boyfriend confessed to strangling her. paige's father says she was going to break up with her boyfriend just before s

estimates that said it was 60 miles from russia. >> jon: lucas tomlinson at the pentagon for us. thank you. ♪ so, we are awaiting president trump's remarks at the 36th annual national peace officers' memorial service. the ceremony honors those law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. the vice president at the podium now, and the president is going to be speaking momentarily. let's listen in. >> the men and women we remember today came from all across america and served as every level of law enforcement. we mourn with those who mourn. we grieve with those who grieve. but we do not grieve like the rest who have no hope. because heroes give us hope. the tens of thousands who stand here today continue a tradition of honoring you heroes of our law enforcement community across america in cities large and small. and i am confident to say as i saw last year, on the streets of howard county, indiana, where thousands spontaneously poured forth to line the streets to pay a solemn tribute to the late sheriff deputy carl coons. i am confident today that millions of americans to

talk about what you found and what is pentagon documents reveal. >> thanks. audits a kind of worrying of the whole prorocess of the supply chain of over $1 billion worth of equipment. a lot of it weapons, as you said, going into kuwait and then snaking its way up and through toack to various -- iraq various army day pose. it found that there was no real centralized information source. oneu.s. military at any given point in time could not have an accurate assessment of the quantities and the location of equipment coming in. i think this is especially concerning because we have seen in previous dod audits that the situation is even worse on the iraqi side. once equipment is handed over to the iraqis, previous reports have shown that the iraqi warehouses are disorganized, even the iraqi officials don't know what is in some of the warehouses. there is an inventoried increment sitting in shipping -- equip men sitting in shipping crates. problems and deficiencies. and why we are concerned about this is there is a very long history of leakage of weapons supply to th

in hours from now, the pentagon will test an intercontinental range missile for the first time. the message to north korea. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm steph knanie ruhle at our mc headquarters here in new york city. we begin with a flurry of develops. this morning, the white house and russia. nbc news confirming a long-rumored shakeup has officially begun. departing, white house communications director, mike dubke. as he left his home, no comment from president trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, to the latest reporting he tried to set up a back channel communications with russia during the election. the president himself taking to twitter this morning, declaring, quote, russian officials must be laughing at the u.s. and how lame excuse for why the dems lost the election has taken over the fake news. this as presidential counselor kellyanne conway strongly defending kushner this morning. >> kushner said from the beginning he is willing to go and share any information that he has with congress, with the fbi, and as you heard general mcmaster, as you heard secretary kelly over

the afghan president's office confirmed the pentagon announcement. jim mattis, en route to denmark, had this to say. >> they are on their back foot in syria, iraq, they have lost a lot of ground. they still have strengths. we have eliminated some here and the fight goes on. stick we have learned that the two u.s. army rangers killed on april 27th in eastern afghanistan. joshua rogers and cameron thomas were killed in the same raid that killed the afghan head of isis. the pentagon is investigating whether the two americans were killed as a result of friendly fire. this is the same area where the u.s. dropped the mother of all bombs, a 21,000-pound bomb which is the largest nonnuclear bomb in the air force's arsenal. that was employed. sheikh abdul hasib is now dead. john nicholson issued the following statement. "any isis member who comes to afghanistan will meet the same fate." pentagon presenting a plan to president trump for about 3,000 more troops in afghanistan. head of u.s. special operations command, general tony thomas suggested the new strate

talk about what you found and what is pentagon documents reveal. >> thanks. audits a kind of worrying of the whole process of the supply chain of over $1 billion worth of equipment. a lot of it weapons, as you said, going into kuwait and then snaking its way up and through toack to various -- iraq various army day pose. it found that there was no real centralized information source. oneu.s. military at any given point in time could not have an accurate assessment of the quantities and the location of equipment coming in. i think this is especially concerning because we have seen in previous dod audits that the situation is even worse on the iraqi side. once equipment is handed over to the iraqis, previous reports have shown that the iraqi warehouses are disorganized, even the iraqi officials don't know what is in some of the warehouses. there is an inventoried increment sitting in shipping -- equip men sitting in shipping crates. problems and deficiencies. and why we are concerned about this is there is a very long history of leakage of weapons supply to the

the pentagon says more than 100 civilians were killed after the u.s. dropped a bomb on a building in iraq in march. the device triggered secondary explosions. it was likely the largest single incident of civilian deaths since the u.s. air campaign against isis began in 2014. china is protesting a u.s. navy patrol that sent a warship near a group of islands in the south china sea. jennifer griffin tells us from the pentagon those islands are already the focus of intense disagreement. >> for the first time since president trump took office in american guided missile destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of one of china's man-made islands in the south china sea. early thursday, the uss dewey passed near the aptly named mischief reef, 1 of 3 islands built by china in the past three ye military fortifications. beijing protested the action, deploying two chinese warships. >> translator: we urge the u.s. to correct its mistake immediately and stop provocative actions that hurt china's sovereignty and security. a stick at the pentagon would not confirm the

today the pentagon acknowledged at least 105 civilians were killed in a u.s. air strike in mosul, iraq, in march. a 500 pound bomb hit a building to take out two isis snipers. the pentagon said today isis had explosives in the building and the secondary blast could lapsed the struck tawr. coming up next on the cbs evening news from brussels, alarming news from people who don't get enough sleep. and later, one family, five graduations. >> pelley: tonight we have a fases naturing new study on sleep. we hope the results don't keep you up. here's dr. tara narula. >> reporter: scott, this study looked at the effects of sleep duration in people with metabolic syndrome which is a group of conditions that puts people at risk for heart disease and stroke. they include high blood pressure, high blowed sugar, excess body fat around the waste and abnormal cholesterol levels. it's estimated 35 to 40% of americans have metabolic syndrome. in a sleep lab researchers monitered the sleep of more than 1300 people and found that those with metabolic syndrome who got less than si

here, at an airbase north of los angeles, the pentagon launched a rocket. it's job was to shoot down the fake ballistic missile which was launched from the marshall islands in the pacific ocean. that missile was designed to imitate the type of weapon north korea could fire — it was shot down over the ocean. the bbc‘s peter bowes has the story, from los angeles. 0n on display for everyone to see, the complex technology behind america's ground—based interceptor designed to halt a long—range missile in its tracks. the interceptor was launched from an air force base on the californian coast, its target was a mock up of an international ballistic missile, which was fired from an island in the pacific more than 4000 miles away. the operation was likened to a bullet hitting another bullet, though at far higher speeds, and it was a success and according to the director of the us missile defence agency it was an incredible accomplishment and a critical milestone. it demonstrated that america had a capable and credible deterrent against a very real threat. ea

the pentagon calling today's intercept test an incredible accomplishment. lots to talk about when we look at the threats around the globe. let's bring in colonel alan west. great to have you on the program. >> good to be with you, jenna. >> jenna: i know you spent some time in afghanistan working as a private contractor after your military service. i wonder if you could give us perspective as to the size of this bomb and the strategy it took to get into this particular area of kabul. >> when you talk about this area, the green zone, which is the diplomatic area, coming down from jillabad from the east. that area is heavily guarded. then from the circle up to the airport road, to the kabul international airport. so the fact that a truck of that size was able to get through that type of security, it makes you believe somehow there was some coordination from within that allowed that truck to get in. because normally trucks of that size are gonna get diverted out of that area to, you know, periphery roads so they don't get that close. so that is a big concern.

but now the pentagon wants to reverse that. it asked to add 3 to 5,000 more personnel. and for authorizization to send u.s. forces closer to the front lines, to back up afghan soldiers who are often overwhelmed by the taliban and dying in the thousands. here in brussels the u.s. has been trying to talk its nato allies into adding thousands more troops in afghanistan as well. but so far the reception has been cool. and as for the decision to beef up u.s. forces, it has been postponed until the president returns to washington. >> pelley: liz palmer in brussels tonight, thank you. today the pentagon acknowledged at least 105 civilians were killed in a u.s.ir mosul, iraq, in 500 pound bomb g to take out two isis snipers. the pentagon said today isis had explosives in the building and the secondary blast could lapsed the struck tawr. comipng u next on the cbs evening news from brussels, alarming news from people who don't get enough sleep. and later, one family, five graduations. >> pelley: tonight we have a fases naturing new study on sleep. we hope the results don't keep y

the challenge we face is bringing it into the pentagon and to defense programs. more stable budgets. a little more flexibility in funding. in fundingty categories makes a harder. businessculty in doing with the federal government, trying to improve that, all of those are key to help feed those things in as well as the approach we have laid out on is openion which as -- architecture and modular systems. you can make improvements as time goes on. there is a significant part of that our policy decisions. what do we expect the military to do to the spend -- defend the country in cyberspace? we have never come to grips with that. what about unmanned systems and the capabilities of that? what about artificial intelligence? all sorts of issues that are out there that we do need to be , but in order to have those options, we will have to have an acquisition system that pushes innovation more. one of the big restructurings we did lester was to break up a company to have a new undersecretary to just focus on innovation. there are offices that are workarounds that are doing

you look at the pentagon and the intelligence community and the business community. there's overwhelming support in the business community for the united states to stay in and for good reason. they look at climate change. they actually know that's real. it's not an ideological issue for them. this is a dollars and cents issue. they know that paris was a good deal, an historic deal that's balanced. they want the united states in this deal because if they are not in this deal, the business interests of the u.s. won't be protect. there's all kinds issues that arise in these discussions, and they will be ongoing discussions to -- to further implement paris, but issues like intellectual property, are issues like trade. the u.s. business community won't be protected if the united states is not there, and they know it and business likes predictability and in-out, in-out is not what business wants so business, it's also supportive of staying in. >> todd stern thanks so much. >> tune into sunday. cnn for "state of the union." my guest will be health and human services secreta

the fact it's viewed in the pentagon multiple times a day. that is awesome. >> it's great to meet him. i wish him the best with the recovery and the photography. if you know no one we should feature e-mail me here. the work is really good. you will see a commander go by or general. stop and take it in. read the bios. really admire the work. alison: which the best part. you don't think of the pentagon and the art on display. that is awesome. thank you. still to come at 5:00, we tell you what to watch out for before you hit the roads over the weekends. but he is not the ordinary horse. more on thalways rightmirrator: to do what is right. ralph northam. army doctor during the gulf war. volunteer director of a pediatric hospice. he passed the smoking ban in restaurants, stopped the transvaginal ultrasound anti-choice law, and stood up to the nra. as lieutenant governor, dr. northam is fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare. ralph northam believes in making progress every day. and he won't let donald trump stop us. alison: 20 horses ta

frankly, i have had some debate about the leadership of the pentagon about this. they are concerned about telling our there's too much about what our problems are. my focus be more politically than theirs is to get the political support we need to have the rebuilding like they did in the 80s, we are going to have to be more explicit about it. i will say, when you have things that happened last month, you had a fair number pilots go on strike because they believe the aircraft they were being asked of lies not safe. it does help wake people up little bit. we have had a number of classified briefings with my committee. i think the more people know about the facts, the more urgent fixing this problem becomes. >> let me look at one more example about readiness problems which is, army brigade combat teams. for the last two or three budgets the army has been saying it wants to send roughly one third of their combat teams per year to the training center to do the full three week long exercises that are the combination. while think that if we have been trying to find that

i'm curious about the feeling inside the pentagon. is the feeling one of optimism, one of nervousness because of the weight of this trip? how would you describe that to our viewers? >> reporter: i would say there's a very strong sense of optimism and confidence because some of the metrics that have come in in terms of the fight against isis are very positive. now remember, the special envoy and general dunford are both obama holdovers so they have seen this fight since 2014 take place. and they were able to present some incredible metrics in terms of the amount of territory that's been taken back from isis. 55,000kilometers, they say. and also in that sense 2014. that's not since january of this year. but they also say, and this was very important. defense secretary mattis said since it used to be that there were 1500 foreign fighters arriving in syria to fight for the so-called califit every month. that number is down to 100 a month. they are really tightening the -- they are trapping those foreign fighters inside syria. they are enc

. >>> today the pentagon is expected to test a new system that could shoot down a ballistic missile. it's in response to the recent