we're all dealing with with sequestration. the law implemented specifies a defense cut and has some description of how it's applied. we sought guidance from the federal government to be more clear in how exactly see question trags would be implemented. >> it's hard to tell, he says. here's the cold hard truth, with half a trillion dollar in defense cuts spread over ten years it is not right to claim that 100% of the job cuts linked to the spending cut will come on day one. it just doesn't make sense. it doesn't add up. so the president's rule change does not change that many votes, sorry, pink slips. anyway, there's one other thing that doesn't add up on the side of the sequester, that is speaker john babier blaming the president for the fact that the $1.2 trillion cut are set to take effect in the first place sniet was the president who came up with the sequester because he didn't want the debt limit to get in the way of his campaign. now these arbitrary cuts are looming and frankly he's nowhere to be found on the issue. >> this is deeply ironic since speaker boehner voted for the bill that said sequestration is what's going to happen if the super committee fails. for anyone who's been watching this show they know the super pac failure has been a tragedy from our point of view but there's one man who's been very up front about his vote. he wrote tornado in "the washington post," i am among those who voted for the budget control act and i'm obligated to resolve the crisis it has created. here's buck mckeon. he is out front tonight. senator, good to see you. thanks for taking the time. >> thanks for having me. >> let me start on the issue of job cuts because i'm still very confused over what's happening here. there's a number out from the aerospace industry saying there's going to be 2 million jobs lost next year in 2013 alone just in defense. then there's a number out from the national manufacturers association that says 1.2 million jobs by the end of 2014 in defense services all the way across the board. i get the sense nobody has any idea. >> well, they know it's going to be huge. they just don't know the exact number. we've seen studies from 1.1 million jobs to secretary panetta told me last week, 2.1 million jobs, and i don't know if they're looking at just the defense side or the other side of the issue, but they're talking the sequestration is 1.2 trillion dollars of cuts that kick in january 2nd. actually those cuts are already taking place right now. people are being laid off. people are not being offered jobs because of the uncertainty. >> i'm wondering though on this sort of existential but it's at the heart of this entire debate. the question is we look at the omb numbers for what the country spent in 2012012. $846 billion on health care, medicare and medicaid. how can you defend spending more money on defense than on on health care when we have a debt crisis? >> i'm not saying we shouldn't cut defense. i'm saying we've already cut almost half a trillion dollars. that's already in the budget, we understand that. what i'm saying is the joint chiefs had a year to prepare for that. >> but a lot of those cuts -- i'm sorry. i don't mean to interrupt. a lot of those cuts weren't cuts. we're just not going to get the increase. that absolute value was about only 1%. >> if see question trags kicks in, there are real cuts, and if people could -- if i had the charts here i could show you how in real dollars they are major cuts. >> so let me ask you a couple of questions in your op-ed today that i wanted to clarify. you said in your frustration about the guide apts on the layoffs that hundreds of thousands of americans includes those fighting our wars should find pink slips in their mailboxes a few days before election day. i was curious. we called the defense department and read them your sentence. they said that that's just pure speculation, but the chairman of the house armed services committee can prevent it by stopping sequestration. can you tell me where you got that because that was new and very damning that people acting in the military could be fired. >> there are -- in the government guidelines in the warp a warn act you have to give 60 days' notice. that's for the defense contractors. in some states it's 90 days. but when you work for the government, they call for 115 days' notice. that's why i'm talking it could be -- it's already happening in the military. i was vegas visisiting with the. they're already cutting back, i guarantee it. the first half trillion dollar cuts are going to take a hundred and -- let's. it's going to take 80,000 out of the of the aermg, 20,000 out of the marines. a see question trags takes 20 out of the army, 20 out of the ma reaps. that's 200,000 in the military, uniformed people that are going to lose their jobs. that's where i get it. >> that means that would be people who are actively fighting our wars as you said, right? >> well, they'll have to determine that. you know, whether they're in afghanistan, whether they're in iraq, whether they're in korea, they will determine -- they, being the chain of command -- who actually gets the pink slip or who -- they don't probably sent pink slips. they just don't let them reup and then they may have to riff. it depends how deep the cuts go. >> john avlon joins me. what amazed me about the whole debate is here we are just months away and nobody has planned for this. >> nope. >> and nobody has no idea how much it's going to hur and therefore i see little impetus to prevent it from happening. >> but congress is planning on summer vacation. >> that is the end of the week. >> that's the artificial urgency here. look, it is insane. first of all, let us remember this is a self-inflicted problem. we've had a number of chances to avoid these painful sequestration cuts. the deal for the super committee, boel bowles/simpson. they had their bluffs call and now they don't want to third quarter medicine it's amazing. both sides have had their bluffs called. the president is clearly playing politic because he doesn't want the pink slips go out. the republicans say this is dire and horrific but can't come up with anything measurable that would indicate it is. >> this is serious. these kinds of scutes where they hatchet instead of squacalpel c cause real problems. it's always been a loser's bet flank. here's some good news. there's still time to avoid this. if folks in congress are upset not because they want to put the fear of god in them but they're interested in the implications of the economy, guess what, make a deal. they there's still time. make a balanced deal and we can avoid this. they say, you know what? 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"outfront" tonight wesley clark and foreign policy spokesman for mitt romney. let me start with you, general clark. do you think he did the right thing? i mean obviously there were gaffes. there's no denying that but did he get more out of it than he lost in some of those hits? >> i think ultimately that's something the american people are going to have to decide. when something like this is done in a campaign, most say no big issue, then there must be some horse race reason why he's leaving the country. so there were a lot of discussions about taxes and did he pay the right taxes and so forth and why he won't release his returns and there was a bain campaign. probably the way it's done and i've been involved with the campaign for a few years, somebody said, hey, you need credentials, go out there, see some allies, have a great trip you. know you're going to go to friendly countries, britain, england, poland. they freed themselves. you made the comment about the russians. the polish don't like them historically. go out there, look presidential, don't say anything too controversial, come back and it will all have blown over. it's the kind of horse race strategy that the american people don't -- when you don't follow politics that closely you might not see it, but when you follow it, you say, okay, that's the strategy. >> rick, did he succeed in that? he had fundraisers. did he have the money that he needed to raise the money from and convince -- some of the people in our strike team said the core evangelicals who were nervous about the whoet quote/unquote mormon thing that he is a deeply conservative christian? >> you know, i want to pick up on one thing general clark just said. he used the word political and think he's exactly right. this is what happens when political reporters go overseas to cover a foreign trip. these guys were bored from the beginning. if you look at the twitter feed one reporter tweeted why are we here. she had no idea. i think in the clip you just showed you have a reporter screaming at the top of her lungs, and believe that's "the new york times" reporter. she's screaming trying to yell a question when she's in a holy place. i mean i don't think they understand where they are. if you take england and you take israel and poland and you take what r.i.m. did and how these political reporters said that they were gaffes, each one of them is not that big of gaffe. when mitt romney says it's disconcerting that the news reports of the security situation in england and he's the guy whoolympics? that's an expert saying -- he was reiterating the news, erin. he wasn't giving an opinion other than says these news reports are disconcerting and the british media went crazy. >> don't you think he wanted it? just being honest that he would like the headlines to be different. presidential mitt delivers moving speech? >> of course. that goes back to my point. that's what you get. politics. will it me say one last thing. i've about been on a lot of trips, a lot of trips. when you take a state department reporter or u.n. report oren a trip, you get substance. you actually get issues lie the former polish president endorsing mitt romney who understands what barack obama is doing in syria by not helping the opposition. you get substance. but, you know, the silly stuff of somebody shouting, that's a new york times reporter i would be embarrassed if i was the norm times reporter screaming at a holy place. >> shep, the trip really was for political purposes not for foreign policy purposes. >> that's not true. >> he said i'm not going to comment. >> if you'd seen, okay, what's governor romney said so far about foreign policy, it's not a strong track record. it's, you know, a lot of waffling. >> oh, general, that's not true. that's absolutely not true. >> it's some very -- it's some very hacking phrases that come out of the cold war. >> those are from surrogates. those are from surrogates. those are not from romney. >> i'm not sure you'd say russia is the greatest. >> he didn't say that. he said it's a geopolitical difference. >> think i do. >> that's not a policy. >> i deflate the too two. >> you're spinning it. >> when you're in the middle of a presidential campaign and you've been under a political attack at home and you go abroad and it seems pretty obvious what the purpose is, of course, you're going to bring the political press with you. when i was running as candidate for democrat i had to testify at the war trials against hague against mel lisovicz and i thought maybe -- i thought, be careful, be careful. this has nothing to do with politics. don't expect anything, don't look for anything. and sure enough the day i testified was the day we captured saddam hussein in baghdad. so there wasn't a word about it and wit was just fine. but when grow in the middle of a campaign and you load it with people who could report good things, they're going to report something. if you don't talk to the reporters, 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congressionals working would solve the whole problem. senate majority leader harry re reid did do a deal. they signed a deal on a continuing resolution that will fund the government through march of next year. well, our third story "outfront," al qaeda rising. they're more powerful than ever. this is something we reported on last week where they have taken over the northern part of the country in a coup. you're looking at groups defeated by al qaeda groups. they're also focusing their efforts in a lot of countries. when you look at this lit up map, this is pretty powerful and we're not even lighting up algeria which we should be. syria, yemen, somalia, niger, mali, yemen. seth jones, good to see you. appreciate your taking the time. the greatest terrorist threat used to be afghanistan and pakistan and people have become accustomed to that. why are we now seeing such a significant rise in al qaeda-linked groups in northern africa and the southern part of the arabian peninsula? >> well, i think there's a bit of a supply and demand issue here. on the one hand there's a new demand for justice. we've seen the fall of multiple regimes in yemen, weak regime in somalia. now we've got falling regime in syria. al qaeda has pushed fighters in to help fill the vacuum. at the same time we also have a supply again of fighters. we've seen money coming from the la vont and the gulf. a bit of basic supply and demand. >> what we heard in mali is they obviously are very add meant that countries like qatar are involved. assad has been saying that it's been ail kai day linked groups that have caused the problem but your report that are dozens of suicide attack shas that have be been. is it possible bashar al assad is right? >> no, i think he's wrong. it appears to be local syrians, members of the free syrian army. the al qaeda element is very small but it does appear to be growing, upwards of 200 or more fighters and they're very sophisticated. can do a range of improvised explosive devices. that is very disturbing because these are very dangerous people. >> how sig can't is it? as the u.s. debates whether they should be arming the rebels or getting involved how significant is al qaeda? >> i think it's fairly significant and the real concern is if we go back to 2003 and 4 and 5, the primary foreign firefighter network in through iraq was three syria, cities like damascus. now it's in the reverse. they're moving from iraq, turkey, into syria to conduct jihad. we should be seriously concerned about -- this is prime territory for al qaeda. it's a sunni-dominated country. >> what should the united states do. in the country of somalia there were no borders. people were talking about horrible stories of what was happening in their villages, villages abandoned. is there anything the u.s. can do? >> think there is. i think we know over the last several years what we shouldn't do. putting large numbers of booting o temperature ground. this is really the work of special operations forces and intelligence units which have a capacity to work with and by and through local government actors whether that's through mali and the syrians but working with locals. >> thank you. our story out front. chick-fil-a. ceo has been in the news about his recent remarks against same-sex marriage but it's his political wealth and political contributions that have made news tonight. have joined the ranks of the world's richest. "outfront" tonight matt out front is man who tracks this and knows everything this is to know about these guys who has suddenly emerged on the national stage. so how much are dan and donald worth? >> they're each worth $1.5 billion, they own chick-fil-a with their father true wit kathy. >> is that like inventing the internet? >> invent the chicken sandwich. in the south, very much so. chick-fil-a is sort of a staple in life in terms of their chicken sandwich, and a big deal in the south. >> all right. 1 $1/2 billion for each of these guys. how unusual is it when you look at other fast food chains, mcdonald's, et cetera, are these the richest of the rich or is this standard? >> it's not standard. some of the richest in fast food. three are those who were able to take burger king publicly but this is certainly the richest family in the world. >> why haven't we heard of them before that. sounds like they've been active in causes. >> they haven't given a tremendous amount of money to this but it's such a hot button and people who are anti-same-sex marriage you can get people upset and boycotts chicken sandwich shops and we're talking about it right now. >> i guess that's true. when danica thi cathy took it, guilty as charged. i know you've about looked into how much time they're giving a way. is this sort of like another coke brothers family? >> they have wind shifts of about $62 million, $63 million, they gave away $4 million in 2010. a lot of money they gave to were to pro-family, promanufacture marriage, pro-foundation. but if you look at it in terms of scale. warren buffett gave 2 ppt $4 million to bill and melinda gates. when you look at their net worth it's less than the a tenth of their percent. so it's not in terms of scale or billion nair giving. it's not an astronomical number. >> certainly people like mitt romney is giving away vast amounts of their wealth. >> it's a small figure and also from a percentage of net worth. it's not at the most jie nor russ number. if you look at sheldon adelson he gave more away than they did just to mitt romney and newt gingrich in the past six months. >> they are, like it or not, now on the national stage. >> yes, they are. >> thanks to matt miller. we appreciate it. authorities have received hundreds of millions of dollars of meth and heroin. it's a major drug bust. and the hot chinese phenom and beat the men. did she dope. 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>> thank you. now we duo to uganda who says a fast-moving ebola outbreak haskill 14d people. appears to have started with one family. david mckenzie went on the ground to find out what happened today and we asked how doctors are triting to fight it. >> erin, there are at least six cases of the dreaded ebola virus here in you began za bringing the amount of total infected to 25. this outbreak started ten weeks ago. at first it wasn't detected and it centered in the west of the country. health officials and groups like the center for disease control are scrambling to the region to try to isolate the patients to stop the spread of this disease. there's no known cure to this virus and it could potentially spread panic through populations. that's why uganda's president got on television and asked people to stay calm but to avoid fiscal contact. the next few days up to a week will be crucial in tries to stop this outbreak before it spreads. erin? >> all right. thanks to david mckenzie. now let's check in with anderson on what's coming up up on "ac360." a report at blasting the people who are supposed to be keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. specifically it takes the t if to task during that operation fast and furious. we'll detail what the report says that went so badly wrong. the committee ininvestigating it. also a survivor of the massacre pay tra anderson took a gunshot to the brain. she's already walking, telling jokes, going to grand skew for a degree in music. we'll talk to neurosurgeon about how much had to go right for her to beat the incredible odds against her. and tonight's ridiculous. >> see you in just a few moments. and now our fifth story out front. a strong deny from the 16-year-old who has shocked the swimming world after a series of record-breaking swims. her name is ye shiwen. she's from china. she told the reporters, quite, my achievements derive from diligence and hard work, i will never use drugs. chinese athletes are clean. you look at her face. she looks like a child but she is ripped. she placed first today after setting an olympic record in the 200-meter individual 200 medley yesterday. on saturday, she won the gold in the 400 meter individual medley. in that race, in the last 50 meters the freestyle leg, ye logged a faster time than the u.s. champion ryan lochte. maggie gray, anchor with "sports illustrated." it is pretty stunning. what do you make of the performance of the 16-year-old, beating the top american man? >> okay, so we have to put a few things in perspective. first, she was trailing. this was her opportunity to make up ground and put herself in position to win a gold medal. where as lochte was ahead by three body lengths. he did not have to try hard in those last 20 to 30 meters of the pool. so that's one thing. i do want to believe that if someone really has been training their entire life, that they could put together one length of the pool where they do swim -- >> just a sprint, 100%? >> tenth of a second better than a man could. >> so you think that's reasonable. what about this whole issue about doping? a lot of people are saying, you know, in 1994 china dominated in swimming. 12 of 16 gold medals at the worlds. but seven chinese athletes later tested positive for banned substances. she says chinese athletes don't dope. obviously, that's not true historically. >> as recent as a 2009, in the junior championships, that got caught dope. it's dangerous to make that correlation right to ye shiwen. look at baseball, such a huge problem with steroids for decades. you wouldn't say one person, just because the first baseman is doping means the entire time is doing it too. i think we need to give her the benefit of the doubt. she will be tested. she probably already has been. >> okay, so does that -- i know there's about 10,500 athletes. just over half of them get tested. you've got a 50/50 chance. if she gets tested now after winning, would every possible substance actually show up? >> absolutely. she will get tested. the top five athletes in every event, plus two other athletes who compete in that event, all get tested. if you win a medal, you're getting tested for every meddle that you win. that's number one. she is definitely getting tested. secondly, they keep the test for eight years. as the technology of drug testing gets better and better, they will go back -- >> so they could rescind the medal? >> this happened before, to marion jones, the sprinter from australia in 2000. they can go back and find out whether or not someone was cheating. they want to find the cheaters. she's innocent until proven guilty. >> it is a stupendous performance. i want to ask you this question. missy franklin raced two swimming races ten minutes apart. people are saying that's just so incredible, that performance. why aren't people picking on her for doping? is there some sort of an ethnoism going on here? >> i hope not. we talked about the reputation the chinese have, which should not reflect on ye shiwen. she didn't break any world records. no olympic records in those races. i think the world record is really what raised people's eyebrows. and the fact that shiwen really dismated the world record by a full second, that raised eyebrows. it could be just a phenomenal olympic performance. i think that's what everyone should take it as. >> it's unfortunate these doping allegations hover over so many sports. >> it's the landscape of sports today unfortunately. next, so many people are saying that social media has made nbc a complete dine sore by holding olympic events until prime time at night. if you're one of those people, we're not sure your logic adds up and we'll explain. for your attention. so we invented a warning you can feel. introducing the all-new cadillac xts. available with a patented safety alert seat. when there's danger you might not see, you're warned by a pulse in the seat. it's technology you won't find in a mercedes e-class. the all-new cadillac xts has arrived, and it's bringing the future forward. take the steps to reach yours, everyowith usgoals. with real advice, for real goals. the us bank wealth management advisor can help you. every step of the way. from big steps, to little steps. since 1863 we've helped guide our clients, so they can take the steps to help grow, preserve, and pass along their wealth. so their footsteps can help the next generation find their own path. all of us serving you. us bank hethey don't need one,gh wes, clay and demarcus tried on the new depend real fit briefs for charity to prove how great the fit is even while playing pro football. the best protection now looks, fits and feels just like underwear. get a free sample and try one on for yourself. now to australia, where police busted a major drug ring, seizing half a billion worth of meth and heroin. more than 674 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and 555 pounds of heroin were seized as part of an operation that began a year ago when the u.s. drug enforcement administration tipped off officials in australia. now, this is the largest seizure of meth amphetamine in australia's history. an important link, a lot of them were coming from thailand. and now the spoiler fest that's going on out there. twitter is ruining the olympics. at least that's what you might believe from a lot of recent headlines. over the past week, headline after headline have blasted twitter for giving away olympic results before nbc has a chance to hold them for five hours and air them in prime time. but is it true? is twitter really a giant spoiler? we took a look at the numbers. while it's true there have been more than 10 million olympic tweets sent during the games so far, about 100 times that of the beijing olympics, twitter is not the worst offender. if you look at americans who use social media, 96% of them are on facebook. only 24% are on twitter. so the average person who's online in this country has a better chance of finding out results from some other site than twitter. but then there's this. this is really the cold ard truth. social media is only a small part of the spoiler problem. only about 56% of americans actually have a social profile at all. half of us will not even see the spoilers on twitter, facebook or anywhere else. which is pretty amazing. considering everyone's been so complaining. every tv network, including this one, posts the networks on their websites. despite the complaints about twitter, most online users are getting their olympic results from there. if you didn't want to know who won the gymnastics tonight and you're like brittany on our show, you don't go to cnn.com all day. the people responsible for spoiling the olympics for americans who want to watch on tv is actually nbc. nbc is the network that decided to delay their coverage ofhe games till prime time and nbc is the worst offender of spoiling. they've been live tweeting the events, updating their blogs and yesterday they ran a promotion that gave away who won just six months before they aired, breathlessly, the competition. it's killing old media. can't blame twitter for that. "anderson cooper" starts right now. we begin keeping them honest. with the people who are supposed to be keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals. the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, the atf. tonight, we're getting our first look at a report that says several people from top to bottom at atf failed to do their jobs in connection with the operation called fast and furious. that's the bottom line of a report by house and senate republicans and it contains new allegations as well that we're going to talk about. we obtained a copy of it. the bottom line, from the outset, the case was marred by missteps and an inherently reckless strategy. that strategy was to go beyond simply seizing firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. his death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes starting at gun shops it the gun dealers were reassured atf was closely monitoring the transactions and interdicting the weapons. the report focuses sharply on this man. william newell. the republican investigators concluding that agent newell authorized and endorsed fast and furious and let it continue long after atf had the goods on the straw buyers. bill newell had the ability and the duty to end operation fast and furious much sooner than it did. instead, the report states, it ended as a reaction to a foreseeable tragedy. despite prior warnings during the bush adminat