now the conversation, again, separate from the joy of getting our troops back, every family that s had a troop go to war, of course, understands the joys of having them come home. thousands will never return, of course, because they ve been killed. what we need to do is have a policy about the enemy that really is about defeating them and not leaving anyone on the field and making sure our enemy is defeated. this nation is going to have to be dealing with that now because we re going to have to reverse that policy and perhaps at some point in the future show the enemies of this nation and the free world that we are going to not continue this dynamic. but we ll have problems now coming up. julie, quickly, final word? well, tammy raises a good point. we spent a lot of time fighting the taliban. high ranking military official told me once was the taliban knows two things. eventually we will go and they will still be there. and we can continue to invest in trying to kill the taliban, b
cnn s christiane amanpour, the russian troops along ukraine s eastern border are poised to move and could do so in as little as 12 hours. phil black is live in moscow. phil, just a few days ago, it seemed that vladimir putin was trying to pull or planning to pull those troops back, but still high alert this morning that an invasion could be imminent. what has changed? reporter: christine, i guess that s the point, nothing has changed. it has been a significant week diplomatically with russia pushing a possible diplomatic solution, russia suggesting a partial withdraw of forces from that area near the ukrainian border. the nato assessment of russia s capability in that area hasn t changed, that remains, 40,000-plus soldiers at a high state of readiness with all the logistics and support necessary to move into ukraine with pretty much no warning. now they ve put a figure on it. in less than 12 hours, which in military terms is really nothing, they say they have seen
to push troops back, thanks again in part to the fighter jet strike, we have video from a royal air force tornado jet hitting one of those tanks and those strikes and the rebels persistence pushed their troops west and the rebels retook brega and moved onto ras lanuf and are now in ben jawad in cell of the key oil refining cities and can export aoil within the week, up to 300,000 barrels a day and have a deal in place with qatar and while the fighting continues they are making pretty dramatic progress. heather: thank you very much, rick, doing a great job, reporting from benghazi, libya. gregg: japanese officials now back-pedaling after reporting a massive radiation spike at the crippled nuclear power plant. workers there had thought the levels of radioactive water in
independen independence, the greening of america. those are new industries we create here, and then we bring them across the u.s., and then we sell it to the rest of the other nations. so that s important. but, again, you re going to get the real money. we re looking. and this is why, about a year ago, democrats passed this new acquisition program on the defense committee, and that was to say, listen, there s too much money being spent on defense and a lot of it is going to waste, fraud and abuse. we need to rein that in so we can save billions of dollars. and again, the two wars. we need to figure out how to really get our troops out by 31 december this year, in iraq, and how to win, whatever that looks like, in afghanistan, and get our troops back, and start to concentrate on the domestic front, and get out of spending all those billions halfway around the world in a war. okay. you know, you re obviously going to be heading back to congress. we just found out that jane harmon is ex
state. do you pay market value for those? the military bases we would lease out like germany does and south korea does. pay a yearly fee to california, and as far as the federal land tucker: so you would have foreign troops on your soil. camp pendeleton, you would have thousand of marinesuc from another country in your country, why would you do that? the united states does that to every other country on the planet. i tucker: when we are invited in or beat them in the second world war, yes, we do that. t but why would california do that?t? in japan and in korea, you are here already. the united states military bases are here, keep them here. if they want a slow withdrawal,, they can slowly take their troops back, the bases back. problemve no with united states being here. tucker: you are using the words they and you. er you already don t think that you are part of the united states.