closer on other maps were two, maybe three border crossings that have been closed at times and then reopened yet again but aleppo is the center of the action right now in syria as we move in now on some 17 months of this conflict continues. 33 minutes past the hour now. here s heather. heather: tough words from a new hampshire senator kelly ayotte. she is blasting democrats for basically using the military as blackmail. she says the president needs to take a leading role in figuring out how to resolve the defense cuts issue which would force the pentagon to cut $500 billion over the next decade. it makes me sick some in washington, particularly, you know, some of the senate democrats, want to play, even our president unfortunately want to use our military as a bargaining chip. tennessee congresswoman marsha blackburn serves as a
terms of whether he is competent to even go through this process now, and his mental state at the time that he committed these acts. heather: arthur aidala is a knocks news legal analyst and former prosecutor. let s talk about this package, should it be admissible? in the defense is going to go with an insanity defense then it s 100% admissible, because now you re talking about a relationship with a psychiatrist that has to do i mean a psychiatrist i mean by definition it has to do with your mental state, correct? so if he s saying that his mental state was so altered at that point and just so the viewers know it s basically the insanity defense isou
they are in office. for example, george w. bush was a great supporter of israel. bill: indeed. but went there only once and if his second term not his first. bill: point taken. marvin kaleb thank you out of washington. heather: have you heard about this massive black out in northern india. the power grid collapses bringing trains to a stop, forcing hospitals and airports to use generators, and leaving millions of people sweltering in the summer heat. david piper streaming live for us from bangkok, hi land. what caused this and when will power be restored? there are hundreds of millions of indians suffering today because they haven t got even all the power back on yet. the real reason for it they don t know. some suggestion is that some of the states are taking too much power off the grid and that s why it crashed. but they ve launched a parliamentary inquiry now. the indian government has said in the last hour, they say 85%
america so we re here to inform america it means nearly a million jobs in the defense industrial base, but as senator mccain has said our secretary of defense has said essentially we ll be shooting ourselves in the head if we go forward in this hal hroeupbg out our force, jeopardizing you re national security. senator lindsey gram also on this tour says there hasn t been enough public pressure so far. clearly between day and tomorrow they are trying to change all of that. heather: we know what these three are saying. what are leading democrats saying about this tour and the broader issue? reporter: i thud note, heather that they invited all the sevens from the four states they are visiting. florida, north carolina, virginia and new hampshire. democratic senator bill nelson from florida sent a letter writing quote, when you get right down to it we must have a very robust and healthy pentagon budget for a simple reason, our national defense. nelson goes onto say, you can count on my
done in the future. the u.s. spent $8 billion training iraqi police since the 2003 invasion but the report says this latest effort showed, quote, mixed results. the training is supposed to be the centerpiece of the u.s. effort to continue helping iraq and it was the largest state department expenditure anywhere in the world. despite all the training, iraqi police remain vulnerable. six were killed just yesterday. nine more wounded in bombings and shootings in the former al qaeda strong hold of fallujah. heather? heather: thank you, steve. not the outcome we re looking for when you spend that amount of money in. thank you. bill: 26 minutes past. there is a new video that shows a pivotal battle in this war in syria. the fight is on for control of the country s largest town and the rebels are apparently holding their own. what does that mean for the country s leader? we will take you there live. heather: plus a congressman rocking the house with a rousing speech on job-killing red tape an