right. a baggy outfit or something there. i don t know. larry flint has been around constitution issues for years. he better dig into funny money or he will be paying this woman. hello again, i m fredricka whitfield. it s 4:00 eastern time. let s great straight to the news. the u.s. state department confirmed more than 120 americans were onboard that cruise ship that ram aground off the coast of italy. there are no reports of any americans being among the dead and injured. the captain, however, is under arrest. a local prosecutor says he is being investigated for manslaughter and abandoning ship. at least three people are dead. rescue crews and survivors say the death toll is likely to rise. translator: i am afraid the people with me the entire time are dead. i think the two people i was helping the entire time are dead. i don t know where to ask. the reporter is at the port where survivors are being taken and will join us with an update seven minutes from now. re
so let s get to it. as you heard here, about 90 minutes ago on cnn, the president said that the federal government has gotten too big and complicated. that s not a revelation but he says he can fix it by streamlining, consolidating, simplifying. he said a leaner government would create a leaner and better national security. congress didn t consolidate on its side so now the department of homeland security reports to over 100 different congressional panels. that s a lot of paperwork. that s a lot of reports to prepare. that s not adding value. it s not making us safer. well, congress will have to approve a rewrite and republicans promise a careful review of that. military investigators say that they have tracked down and interviewed at least two of the marines seen urinating on corpses in afghanistan. the video has gone viral. today the deputy commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan issued a directive, reminding troops, and i quote, we must treat the living and the dead wi
in the battle against the rebels. this is the first real battle of what s become a civil war in libya. there s heavy artillery coming in. we can hear the pounding like a hammer, we ve had a couple of air strikes come in here today over us. big bombs going off and this is as a number of rebels are coming up saying where is the united states? where is any of our help? we ve come this far, why haven t we come any farther? it s important, though, to understand what you just heard behind me, a couple of gunshots going on. these rebels have no unit discipline and when the fighting seems to get fierce, they seem to be running faster away from the front lines than they were ever running towards it. back to you. is there a sense if we re going to help meaning the u.s., nato or u.n., we can t wait much longer. is there a sense the time is now? i think there s a very real sense that the time was, perhaps, yesterday rather than now. but it s important to understand while the no-fly zone psycho
access to the generals and so we shouldn t confuse that reporting in rolling stone with the imbed system. it s a different thing. what did you think of that piece? did you think it was appropriate to put in the comments he put in? look. reality is always appropriate in journalism. god forbid. yes, it is! proof. there you go. mike barnicle. i love that. always appropriate. back to the original concept at the top of the hour that we talk about war. it s not a video game. many americans have a frame of reference for war as a video game, who we are fighting. were you impressed with the unit discipline of the taliban? the taliban is kind of a catchall phrase and it compromises a lot of different things. i mean, it goes from they were really hard-core international, foreign fighters in the korengal. they were incredibly fighters. they were as well trained, as disciplined as american soldiers. you go all the way down the