one solution that collins is proposing 8 to million dollars payment into the retirement service should be returned and that money used to buy out postal service workers. she said it would result in savings of about 20% of the workforce. shep? shepard: are these proposed cuts the end of it, doug, or are there more to come? there are a lot more to come. this is basically just a cutting into the surface of it a little bit. we are talking about the elimination of saturday mail delivery and we re also talking about the elimination of 3700 post offices around the country. they believe that would result in a down sizing of the workforce of about 100,000 people, shep. shepard: wow, doug mckelway live huntington virginia this evening. thank you. he is in charge of keeping planes safe in the sky. but tonight the f.a.a. chief is off the job because of what the cops say he did while behind the wheel on the ground. that s next. and mindy mccready in court today. the country singer, well, sh
panetta. let s sis listen to what she said. we are on track to come home july 2011. i was there over st. patrick s weekend and i visited our troops there at that time. what i saw was a preparation for our down sizing in afghanistan and a turn to what our civilian presence might be there and we deploy out of afghanistan militarily. so change is in the air there and now it s even more so. no doubt wolf blitzer is continuing all of this coverage in a matter of moments on the situation room. be it nancy pelosi, peter king, mike pence, all kinds of questions regarding all of the billions of inappropriations, the role that the isi might have played and complicity with regard to osama bin laden, what
middle age white guys basically, it s like, kevin costner and tommy lee jones, these guys and chris cooper, the cowboy looking guy they are all oust work, they had jobs 30, 40 years, thrown out of work. as part of down sizing. you re attitude about this whole thing. what do we know? what i ve learned and what i know in the four months since i ve been on television with the president is that things aren t always what they seem. the thing that s been very troubling to me and i was thrilled that you invited us here for this program today, especially on such an important day, martin luther king s birthday and our recognition of that is that there s still a gap. there s a huge gap in race relations, in how we view this president s administration, in
engineers are coming out and it s going to be very positive. ethical marks there s a new movie coming out. middle age white guys basically, it s like, kevin costner and tommy lee jones, these guys and chris cooper, the cowboy looking guy they are all oust work, they had jobs 30, 40 years, thrown out of work. as part of down sizing. you re attitude about this whole thing. what do we know? what i ve learned and what i know in the four months since i ve been on television with the president is that things aren t always what they seem. the thing that s been very troubling to me and i was thrilled that you invited us here for this program today, especially on such an important day, martin luther king s birthday and our recognition of that is that there s still a gap. there s a huge gap in race
afghanistan, he left out or down played the most significant factor in our success in iraq, and that is a presidential level commitment to victory that is unquestioned. and we haven t seen that from president obama. tonight he reaffirmed the deadline in afghanistan. something president bush never did. bret: thanks for watching fox news special coverage of the president s address on iraq. i m bret baier. please join me wednesday at 6:00 p.m. eastern time for special report. good night from washington. the o reilly factor starts right now. bill: hi, i m bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight for this special edition of the factor. so, what did you think of president obama s speech on iraq? did it mean anything to you? some of us here on the factor were discussing why the president even bothered. the down sizing of combat troops is a big story but it s been