the upside of missile defense and the greater cooperation with the u.s. you have the pivot to asia, which the administration announce ed to great fanfare. there s been no plus up of forces that is real. this administration can t even bring itself to call china an adversary or to say we would like to contain china s ambition. now the big deal is with deal with iran over its in you clear program. none of our allies think that s a good move. they think we re giving too much, getting too little. this is very unique. it s unified former enemies in the middle east. saudi arabia, the gulf states, and israel, all on the same side that are concerned that basically they re going to have to go it alone for the next three years. so, christian, if the sands of global power are slipping through america s fingers, who stands in the best position to collect it? you mentioned russia. is it russia, china, iran? i think the two big threats right now are iran and china.
let europeans defend europe, and we need to shift to the pacific where we have the nation state threat from china, and start pushing back on china s claims. don t accept the language that there s only one china, or if you look at the language that they used with taiwan, it s really quite threatening. we need to be much clearer that china is a serious threat and we need to stop facilitating their military encroachments. we can get more bang for our buck in the military. we need to reform procurement, stop spending $13 billion on aircraft carriers and get a lot smarter. there are many complexities to this, but we are out of time so i do have to leave it there. i appreciate your analysis. christian whitton there in los angeles. thank you. thank you. i mentioned earlier, it s a good thing i got my wife a new
0 shopping. that s a problem. if i were to drive tomorrow from manhattan to hudson, is it a good day to do it? i think you ll be fine. there s going to be some rain move in that will melt a lot of the snow and the warmer temperatures certainly will help that as well. rick, thank you very much. you bet. i m glad i bought my wife a new shovel for her birthday. you re so kind, mr. jarrett, so kind. let s take a look at cleveland. we have live pictures there. it s like you can t even see yourself see five inches in front of you there. this is from our affiliate wjw. they re getting clobbered there with the snow. folks in cleveland, they re used to it. traffic still moving. i m sure carefully on some level. so far, it hasn t crippled things completely, huh. police in colorado are searching for answers today, following yesterday s school shooting in a denver suburb. veg investigators say an 18-year-old classmate suddenly opened fire, critically injuring a 15-year-old girl b
washington hasn t realized. it they would try to hit back. we said we are going to do this and walk away. and so we are not maintaining esclaatory dominance. and iran knows it and may try to hit us. christian whitton thank you for your experience. thank you. we connected with chief white house correspondent ed henrow working today to bring us details about the video that is floating on the american media and perhaps part of what we know that the senate has seen in terms of chemical weapons used allegedly inside of syria. ed, you are with us? yes, harris. what can you tell us about the video? there is disturbing images and it has to be viewed in a broader context, the administration as you are talking about. struggling to convince congress and the broader public about syria they are engaged in a sales pitch.
the jobs of our congressman is asked to make hard judgments in whether it is our national interest to respond. christian, this is not new video. some of the stuff is found on you town. it was edited together with the worst of what people were suffering and certainly hard to look at for that senate intelligence committee and now begin to the media by a u.s. government official. i want to point to the numbers and people who are polled by the washington post and abc news to she you where americans stand on the poll. 59 percent oppose a strike on syria and 36 percent support it. are these the kinds of images to sway public opinion? i don t think they will. the american people have been through so much since september