homeland security and cia external advisory boards, chief international correspondent and christian amanpour. chief national correspondent john king and michael hayden, who has run the cia and nsa and is a principal with a security consulting firm and serves on the boards of several defense firms. christiane, you have been reporting on this and talked to a number of folks and allies an the world. what their reaction to this and in particular britain, which is capability of launching a tomahawk missiles. are they saying that they want the u.n. to actually publish 0 a report before they are willing to make a decision about whether or not to have military action? well, the very latest, in fact, from great britain is precisely that. they have said now they will not join any action against syria until there is a report from the u.n. inspectors. we don t know all of the details about what the british mean by
defense firms that defends these big banks. how hard are they going to regulate these guys? they re not going to regulate them at all. that s what we ve seen throughout this bailout era. they can step in and aggressively fix a problem or reform a problem. they didn t do it. the culture is all the same people. it s the same group of people on both sides of the aisle, and it s that s the problem. we also just got new sound from vice president joe biden following his violence task force meeting at the white house. some remarks for you after the break.
defend themselves. they are being massacred. this president does nothing. in afghanistan, i m telling you that it is unraveling there because all the president talks about is withdrawal and leaving. and you are seeing a reinsurgentence of al-qaeda there. so as far as the middle east is concerned, this president s national security policy has been an abyssmal failure and i want to go back again to syria. how can you not speak up on behalf of these people who are being massacred by the hundreds every day using iranian weapons, russian weapons, al-qaeda and other terrorist organizations? it s mind boggling. i have not seen a morphicless foreign policy since president carter. brian: i tell you what, he seems to be getting a pass on it, which is staggering to manhattan the defense firms are going to be looking at a big the defense military complex looking at big-time down sizing. how many layoffs are we looking at, especially if sequestration is allowed to go through this
defense sector, there s only 3.4 million jobs. if you have a 10% cut, are you going to lose 33% of all jobs? second, mind you that when you do have procurement cut in research and development that most defense firms are out and about doing, you don t get all that money in the first year. only 20% of it is spent the first year. the rest is spent over two, three, and four years so the defense industries have time for normal attrition and retirement to be cushioned from the blow. the bottom line of everything is think about our future warriors. can they find that submarine and find the future bin laden, because we gave them the right instruments of war. it s not a jobs program. it s a war and defeat the enemy program. admiral joe, thanks so much for joining us. great to be with you. coming up later detail of the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks. how decisions were made and who was lied to. for many of us what happened on this day is unforgettable, but
the jury is shown photographs of the victims at the age they say sandusky abused them. a sensitive military drone crashes in maryland during what the pentagon says was a routine training exercise. tonight newt gingrich joins us to share his thoughts on the general election match-up. you. childhood photos of eight of jerry sandusky s victims were projected on to a big screen today. it s day one in the trial of the former penn state football coach. he s accused of assaulting at least ten boyce over a span of 15 years. the jury heard from one of those alleged victims today. sayre rare gan numb was in that courtroom. the first witness to testify was vick up in four. he says sandusky assaulted him dozens of times and later sent him creepy love letters. i write because you mean so much to us, i write because of the churning in my stomach when you don t care. i still hope there will be meaning to the time we have known each other. notes like that, the graphic testimony, how did