announcer: only at progressive par. maybe an insurance park was a bad idea. yeah. yep. trace: the mastermind behind the september 11 terror attacks may come the justice, now set to begin a military trial january 11th 2021p of the trial will take place in a military court at guantanamo bay. if found guilty, would likely face the death penalty. also developing tonight, white house staffers scrambling to turn president trump s idea into policy.
afghanistan this week, it is now increasingly clear that the united states is winding down its massive military commitments to the two wars of the last decade. we are out of iraq and we will soon largely be out of afghanistan. threats remain, but they are being handled using special forces and intelligence. finally, after a decade we seem to be right sizing the threat from terrorist groups. or are we? we leave the battlefields of the greater middle east, and we are firmly committed to the war on terror at home. what do i mean by that? well, look at the expansion of federal bureaucracies to tackle this war. since september 11th, 2001, the u.s. government has created or reconfigured at least 263 organizations to tackle some aspect of the war on terror. 33 new building complexes have been built for the intelligence bureaucracies alone, occupation 17 million square feet. the equivalent of 22 u.s. capitals or three pentagons. the largest bureaucracy after the pentagon and the depa
intelligence committees, democrat dianne feinstein and republican mike rogers. plus, the anemic recovery and the election with the national journal s major garrett and janice rivlin. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. republican leaders and former rivals are gathering around mitt romney s candidacy, but the coalescing lacks a certain warm and fuzzy feature. compared to barack obama? i would trust mitt romney 100 times over. he s the guy. he called and i called him back. we kind of traded some voicemails. he s the person that is going to go up against barack obama. it s pretty clear. and we need to win this race. i am joined by the latest candidate to exit the race, former house speaker newt gingrich. thanks for being here this morning. good to be here. so my question is these have not been warm embraces. it was a tough campaign, and i get that that s a tough step to take, but do you think that it s time now to try to bring those who would fo
the navy ship, brought to the united states and given the right of u.s. citizen. are we going to have intelligence operators and systems in effect acting as overseas and csi investigators. bret: in december, congress passed a law, piece of legislation that blocked the transfer of guantanamo bay detainees to the u.s. to criminal courts. essentially some analysts are saying this is the administration doing an end end-around that piece of legislation. bret: it potentially is it doesn t mean it s a new policy. first, they don t have a lot of captures and it s criticized for not having adequate captures. many of the people have been killed. they might find a way one more time or two more times. make at it policy. they can potentially use military vessels at places to indefinitely hold detape knees. what i think it show
ship somewhere. or is released anywhere or to their country to take up the fight against us. that is the scandal. the only reason that these have been released is because this administration will not allow the use of guantanamo. how can you release the terrorists to fight against america again. when facility to try them in military court and have them secure from attacking americans. bret: next up, cooperation between irap and the middle east militants that could lead to extented duty for u.s. troops in iraq. back in a