nation in the middle of nowhere, and i think that was a little bit nutty. we should have stayed just on the military track. hunt down the terrorists and stop. don t feel you have to build a modern nation out of afghanistan. and so if you had just one day as top general in that country, just one day, what would you do during that day that s not being done right now? first, i d say, stop giving away so much money. second, i d say, concentrate on attacking the taliban wherever you see them. and, third, i d say, make sure that the afghan soldiers are in the lead. all right. well said. bing west, pleasure having you on. the wrong war, grit, strategy, and the way out of afghanistan a very interesting read. thank you. we reached out to the pentagon for reaction to the book, a spokeswoman said, as a matter of policy the pentagon had no comment. well, nobody likes to talk about tax hikes.
arlington national cemetery, the nation s most hallowed ground for military veterans, something like this could have happened. what the army says is a year later, the difference is, as they are finding these problems, they are rapidly fixing them. but, randi, they are still finding problems. that s really the news here today at this hearing on capitol hill, i think. an army official confirming to cnn a short time ago in one of the latest examples, and i want to read this because it s so specific. in a single grave they found eight sets of cremated remains, three of which could not be identified will be reburied as unknown and a criminal probe under way about that matter. there are a total of 18 graves now at arlington. they think where they are either misma mismarked, unmarked, inappropriate marked in some fashion. they ve reviewed 22,000 graves. they continue to find these problems. but the new management says they are moving very rapidly to try
nothing going on but that s the bad news. i d love to see clouds blocking that sunshine, getting rid of it, getting rid of the heat. the clouds are going to be away. we re going to have warm air coming in from kansas, oklahoma, arkansas, and northern texas, we are going to see severe weather this afternoon and tonight. all the way up into you can get severe weather into canada july and august, that s where the jet stream is. joining me right now, this is a big deal, greg carbon from know ya s severe prediction center in norman, oklahoma, going to talk about the threat today. let s start there, greg. tell me about what you believe the threat is today. well, you kind of set it up there, chad, we re moving into that time of year we re not surprised to see these weather systems start up in the plains and produce a lot of dangerous weather. so we re sitting right now in the sixth floor of the national weather center here, and i m watching the sky out the window. towers have not gone up
ali velshi isn t in this chair. reporter: one way to reduce deficits or shortfalls is to cut non-security, nondiscretionary spending. that s the stuff that isn t the kmai medicaid, the medicare, and the medicaid, the medicare, and social security. the president s debt commission wants to cut it by $2.2 trillion. the republican or ryan plan wants to cut $2.7 trillion over ten years. the president s plan, which he announced, wants to cuts $1.1 trillion over 12 years. now one of the major criticisms is that no party has been prepared to make the cuts to some of the biggest things we spend on like medicare and medicaid. so let me give you a sense of what the two parties what the three plans want to do with medicare and medicaid. first of all, the republicans go a lot further than the president does. they want to cut $389 billion from medicare, $735 billion from medicaid. the president s plan calls for by the way, that s over ten years. the president s plan calls for a
increases for the wealthy. so we did have a target. but i think, you know, this such a delicate dance right now that, if the white house was serious about getting some kind of a budget deal done before the election in a big way, they may have really blown their chances in a way yesterday because republicans are so angry and so upset about what the president said. yeah. and both sides, you know, we hear a lot of i m not going to vote for that, they re calling each other s plan a nonstarter. so how do we get this started? where do we go from here? it s interesting. i think the conversations have already begun. and there are large differences between the parties and the president laid out a very important plan yesterday and put down his markers on medicare and on taxes for the wealthy. but the republicans, honestly, were so upset at the way he did