putin s invasion. we estimate that they will try to do something on this february. norah: with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars going to ukraine, cbs s david martin reports on its impact on america s readiness. for a couple of key items, the stockpile is getting low. richard alexander murdaugh wishes to take the stand. i didn t shoot my wife or my son anytime, ever. severe winter weather stretching from coast-to-coast. the cold air comes charging in on friday, setting the stage for a huge winter storm in the west. announcer: this is a special edition of the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from the uss nimitz. norah: good evening, and thank you for joining us. tonight, we are broadcasting live aboard the uss nimitz, and while we can t give you our exact location, we can tell you, we are here in the western pacific ocean. we landed here just moments ago, after boarding a c2 greyhound in guam and landing on the deck of
e. as t worldar one year of hey will try to do something on this february. norah: with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars going to ukraine, cbs s david martin reports on its impact on america s readiness. for a couple of key items, the stockpile is getting low. murdaugh wishes to take the stand. i did not shoot my wife or my son anytime, ever. severe winter weather stretching from coast-to-coast. the cold air charging on friday, setting the stage for a huge winter storm in the west. announcer: this is a special edition of the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from the uss nimitz. norah: good evening, and thank you for joining us. tonight, we are broadcasting live aboard the uss nimitz, and while we can t give you our exact location, we can tell you, we are here in the western pacific ocean. we landed here just moments ago, after boarding a seed to greyhound in guam, and landing on the deck of this massive aircraft carrier that stre
It is sunday morning, november to a second. The president beginning his long trip back to washington after wrapping up a nine day trip that included the g 20 in turkey, and visits to the philippines and indonesia. We want to begin with your calls and comments on whether you support or oppose the use of Ground Troops to fight isis. 202 7488000 if you support the idea. 202 7488001 if you oppose. We are also getting your tweets at cspanwj. Or you can share your thoughts on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Good sunday morning to you. Thank you very much for being with us on a busy weekend, especially in europe with new fears and brussels, parts of the capital city on lockdown. I want to share with you from the hill newspaper, one poll on the issue of americans favoring Ground Troops against isis. Large majorities of americans favor military action, including troops in iraq and syria. 73 support increased american airstrikes against isis and 50 back more ground forces, which is dou
Where he is s also an hot water with lawmars for usising hs private email account for ofofficial business. Carter has admitted he made a miake. But insiders worry it will handicap his ambitioious agenda for his last year in office. Here to reflect on 2015 and tell us what to expect over the next 12 months are mackenzie england, thompson,son, loren and leo shane. Welcome. Mckenzie, let me start with you. I remember being here last year and saying what we should expect from ash carter inin the next year. Lets recap. Yearoes ash carters first in office shape up, what are his priorities for 2016, and does the email issue hamper that . He has been an ambitious secretary. He has put forth more ambitious proposals than expected. Congress is largely withholding judgment. What they expected in terms of foForeign Policy, because they know what to expect from president obama, the status quo. There will not be significantt change is ithe Islamic State plan. The email will play a part in termrms of
[captioning performed by the naonal captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content t and accuracy. Vit ncap. Org] will come to defense news. Republicans have regained control of the senate and increase their margin in the housjust in time for a budget battle. To talk about the elections, sequestration, defense spending, isis and more, is a roundtable, todd harrison,ckenzie egeland, gordon adams and Loren Thompson of the lexington institute. Welcome back to the program. Thanks. To start f mckenzie, i would like to start with you. Is a perception that republicans will be good for defense. There areertainly some people in the pentagon who think the tod times will start rolling again. Therere e other people who warn there will be realities. Tell us a little bit, each of you, on what you think republblican control of bo chambers of congress will mean for defense. It is marginally better. The Republican Party gave away a Strong Defense of essential tentative, its core pla