The white house coming out today with some strong words in response to an attack on the Obama Administration from former defense secretary robert gates. In gates new book he slams president obama for things of how it handled the war in afghanistan, and a particularly harsh attack against Vice President joe biden. Gates writes i think he has been wrong on every Foreign Policy and National Policy in the last four decades. This line on biden, as you know, has been used by republicans before. But how surprised are you to hear this coming from the former secretary of defense. Reporter its surprising for a number of reasons. First of all, robert gates never struck a person that he would write a memoir to write about someone he worked for while they are still in office and while still directing the troops. Robert gates was always known at a lowkey, quiet, getitdone kind of individual. In his book titled duty writes about his di disdain of washing. You wrote of the individuals in the white hou
Is. White house course upo correr us. What did the white house had a have say about all this . Reporter there are very few who escape the scorn of robert gates. Overseaing thover seeing the scq and afghanistan, but the criticism of president obama, but it was Vice President biden who was scorned. Saying joe biden has been wrong for four decades and he goes on to accuse biden as poisoning the well both here at the white house and elsewhere and among the broader american public. Today the white house is going out of its way a show of support for Vice President biden allowing cameras into a photo op, no reporters, just cameras capturing the image. This happens once a week. The first time in five years theyve allowed cameras in. Also jay carney, the white house spokesman said the president values the experience of joe biden and a lot of other things to say in defense of the Vice President. When asked, and the president and others simply reassert the fundamental fact here is that Vice Presi
We begin with a horrifying report issued about north koreas regime. The report, based on testimony from hundreds of witnesses, says north koreas leaders use murder, torture, slavery, and mass starvation to keep themselves in power. It says the brutal regime has no parallel, no parallel in todays world. Brian todd has been going through the report getting reaction. Hes here to report on what he found. Brian . Wolf , it is the detail and some of the imagery. We have to warn viewers, some people might find the drawings at the top of our story disturbing. Images of skeletal, starving people eating snakes and rats, emaciated human remains left for rats to eat, prisoners being accused and tortured. They are part of disturbing and exhaustive report of human rights in north korea. Hundreds of former prisoners and other witnesses were interviewed. A survivor tells of a starving woman who gave birth in a camp. A prison official repeatedly beat the mother, she said, eventually forcing the mother
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Including remembrance sunday, to remember those falling in world war i and ii. And that is an event attended by the royal family. But no details whether those arrests are in connection with those events at this time. Any idea that the queen still plans to attend those events . We asked the palace about that. And they said they are not going to comment on any security matters. That is up to the police. But the queen will continue to go ahead with her plans to attend remembrance sunday and visit the Senate Memorial the next day. So there is no change in plans by the royal family. They are going to go ahead with all of those memorial events. Thank you very much. Meanwhile president obama is doubling the troops on the ground in iraq now. Planning to send up to 1500 more troops to help train and advise iraqi and Kurdish Forces. It is expected that some are going to be in anbar province. And live from turkey, what are you hearing on the ground there in response to this new campaign . Reporte