afghanistan this week, it is now increasingly clear that the united states is winding down its massive military commitments to the two wars of the last decade. we are out of iraq and we will soon largely be out of afghanistan. threats remain, but they are being handled using special forces and intelligence. finally, after a decade we seem to be right sizing the threat from terrorist groups. or are we? we leave the battlefields of the greater middle east, and we are firmly committed to the war on terror at home. what do i mean by that? well, look at the expansion of federal bureaucracies to tackle this war. since september 11th, 2001, the u.s. government has created or reconfigured at least 263 organizations to tackle some aspect of the war on terror. 33 new building complexes have been built for the intelligence bureaucracies alone, occupation 17 million square feet. the equivalent of 22 u.s. capitals or three pentagons. the largest bureaucracy after the pentagon and the depa
intelligence committees, democrat dianne feinstein and republican mike rogers. plus, the anemic recovery and the election with the national journal s major garrett and janice rivlin. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. republican leaders and former rivals are gathering around mitt romney s candidacy, but the coalescing lacks a certain warm and fuzzy feature. compared to barack obama? i would trust mitt romney 100 times over. he s the guy. he called and i called him back. we kind of traded some voicemails. he s the person that is going to go up against barack obama. it s pretty clear. and we need to win this race. i am joined by the latest candidate to exit the race, former house speaker newt gingrich. thanks for being here this morning. good to be here. so my question is these have not been warm embraces. it was a tough campaign, and i get that that s a tough step to take, but do you think that it s time now to try to bring those who would fo
care insurance or pay a fine. are the justices giving any signals on which way they might rule? let s ask fox senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. judge, we haven t hard the audio yet from today s courtroom session. but the breakdown we re getting in print about the questions the justice has asked suggest that the court is kind of breaking down along the four liberal, four conservative line with justice anthony kennedy being the swing vote gleen and even though he was not in the courtroom and have not listened to the audio yet, i m about to do so as you and i finish chatting, jon, it appears that justice kennedy did ask some of the most profound and stinging questions of the government, saying things like well how can the government create a market for the purpose of enabling it to regulate that market, and this is the profound question. he says to the slitter general, isn t it true that this law, if undisturbed, would profoundly change the