Doing just fine. I wont go into the i. G. Report on the background checks. But the people that are at kabul now, it is 100 million a year we are paying them. I cant believe we cant use the marines in these situations. Someone has got to do a cost benefit analysis. Can you imagine the amount of money we have spent fooling around with these contractors that werent getting the job done . Can you imagine the time we have spent on this and the money that has been spent . I would like for you, general, to talk about the cost benefit of putting marines in our embassies and why in the world this is hard for us to get our arms around and where is the analysis that shows us we are saving any money. Just to react briefly to what would be necessarily a much longer conversation. The marines are not thats not their role or what they do for the nation. Could it be at some point potentially . I would hate to think we would make that decision based on costs but it would require a longer conversation. I
But they are so careful about not mingling interests of what got you here today was the talk about immigration. I thought about getting all of you together, but you have slightly different takes. You are a member of the group of eight. Maybe it is not a group of 7. 5, depending how senator menendez is doing. We will see. In the question of how the white house even today, the president said at the Democratic House retreat that he is heartened by democrats and republicans both seem to take this seriously. Politics may not be easy. There are regional variations in the country. There is youth and dynamism. I love you in your group of eight role. Also sharing your work with the colorado compact. Talk about the Michael Bennett vision of what we need to do to achieve Immigration Reform. If i can, let me take you to colorado on this issue. That is where my interest started first, as a School Superintendent in Denver Public schools. The lack of resolution for young people who have come to this
In this area to say what has not been dealt with. You are exactly right, fannie and freddie is not dealt with under doddfrank. But lets talk about doddfrank for a moment. There have been reforms to our financial system, but there needs to be significantly more. One thing about doddfrank is it sets up a framework. But ultimately not all of the rules are implemented. There are very important standards that need to be set by the regulators and treasury. Because what we are worried about is trying to protect americans in the event of another financial crisis. We do not want to be in a situation where one of the companies can bring down all of these losses in american jobs and american pensions and mortgages. We cannot be in one of those situations again. So, we are going to continue to raise the alarm and say there has to be more work done. And it is not going to be easy. And there is a lot of heavy lifting. One of the things to me quite disgusting is you have all of these companies to tak
Shown up still claiming he is russias leader. Were bringing you the coverage of what could be a developing crisis beginning with phil black live in kiev. Reporter some of those gunmen skrouurrounding that air look like myly sha. Thats why they are calling this an invasion. Overnight, dozens of armed pro Russian Forces seized control of the International Airport and military arpt in the crimea region. They took over a government building yesterday and raised the russian flag. Their fugitive president is expected to emerge from the shadows. A week after being ousted, reports the humiliated leader will hold a News Conference in russia. Likely to anger the demonstrate stray tors against the new government. On thursday, yanukovych told russian News Agencies that the parliaments activity is illegitimate. Voted into the seat of prime minist minister. Well do everything and use all legal means to stabilize the situation in crimea. Reporter hes concerned about images like these. Crimea remains
Normalizing relations after more than 50 years of a standoff. Plus, russian president Vladimir Putin prepares to address his nation very soon in the midst of an economic meltdown. Well take you live to moscow for a preview. And coming up later, sony cancels the release of the controversial movie the interview, but will the movie only encourage the hackers whove targeted the entertainment studio . Well explore that question this hour. We do want to begin with major developments in u. S. cuban relations. These places are so close geographically but for half a century theyve been so far apart over a political ideology and human rights. Well, now what were seeing is a change in direction as the two countries are announcing plans to normalize relations and it all began with a Prisoner Exchange. Global Affairs Correspondent elise labott reports. Reporter u. S. Contractor alan gross on american soil with his release a historic opening of u. S. Relations with cuba after five decades of confron