white will hear about the house 2014 budget request from the pentagon. defense secretary chuck hagel and joint chief of staff general martin dempsey take questions from reporters about the pentagon's budget. this briefing is ready minutes. -- 30 minutes. >> good afternoon. >> i'm announcing the fiscal year 2014 budget request for the department of defense. this is a base budget of $526.6 billion. this budget continues to balance the compelling needs of supporting troops at war in afghanistan, implementing the president's defense strategic guidance and sustaining the quality of the all-volunteer force all while ensuring the use of every taxpayer dollar and addresses imbalances within the department of defense budget. as i discussed in my speech last week at the national defense university, the cost of acquisitions and personnel come pension must be addressed to put the dugget on a sustainable path -- department on a sustainable path particularly giving the pressures on our top- line budget. this takes important steps in each of these areas. first, the bud

the pentagon, i think, did a good job of getting everybody ready for this. i thought it was long overdue, the repeal of don't ask don't tell. most of the people felt the same way. there has not been the spike or the harassment of gays and lesbians that sometimes we had feared going into this. but it doesn't matter who the target is. it matters that there is harassment or assault of any kind. host: students at the naval academy are dressed as midshipmen, the official military rank. you can see the students between classes and also on the yard ship, the arbitral ship. we have some of the basic training required of all of the graduates, and the graduation ceremony will take place next month. charles is joining us from connecticut, republican line, with ray mabus, u.s. navy secretary. good morning. caller: good morning, steve. it's 32 days. good morning, mr. secretary. i question has to do with what you are just speaking of, new ways of thinking. in this day of nuclear arms, i remember films when the testing was done and the way that many of the ships moored aro

air force security officer, former joint staff's anti- terrorism and homeland defense director at the pentagon. ceo of phoenix solutions. former deputy assistant secretary for critical infrastructure protection. we want to recognize some of the other members of the task force that have arrived at this report. i am pleased to release the comprehensive report of the national school shield initiative. this report includes everything from best practices to technology to review of surveillance and includes the recommendations that i will present later in this presentation. for over three months, these experts have engaged in the assessments of multiple schools of sizes, of composition. they have done assessments and evaluations of best practices and vulnerabilities. have conducted interviews with people knowledgeable in the field. the president of the national association of school security and a commander of school security in the philadelphia school district. thank you for joining us. one of the experts in the field. just offered their basic knowle dge to us. i want to go through some of the find

he called the pentagon "a big damn bureaucracy of mine -- a big damn bureaucracy." it does not sound like leon panetta at all. [laughter] wherever you are, leon, we're quoting you. the military is not and should never the run like operation. but that does not mean we don't have a good deal to learn from what the private sector has achieved over the past 20-30 years in which reducing layers of upper and middle management not only reduced costs and micromanagement, but also led to more agile and effective organizations. and more empowered junior leaders. in light of all these trends, we have to examine whether dod a structured and incentivize to ask for more and do more. that entails taking a hard look at requirements. how they are generated and where they are generated from. it could turn out that making dramatic changes in each of these areas could prove unwise, untenable, or politically impossible. yet we have no choice but to take a close look at how we can do all of this better. in order to address acquisition, personnel and overhead costs in smart ways, they hav

federal investment of its kind and could be an economic development opportunity in that area much as the pentagon was years ago. s you know, we're in over 50 facilities in the national cancel region. if i want to have a meeting i have to bring the secret sfrfs owntown and a other managers from over there. it is better to have an integrated approach that will the department was created for. i'm not one to come in and say we need a building given the budget constraints. it has already started. the investment -- some of the fixed costs have been incurred. the coast guard is moving and the budget supports their move before thanksgiving. i think it is appropriate and in the long term more coast effective to have a real headquarters. >> we believe there is a great opportunity for this full committee to work closely with j.a.o. and use them as a tool to get better results with less money. we're impressed when your deputy secretary was here a couple of weeks ago. she's leaving, i understand. we'll miss her she's been a great public servant. great improvements have been made in terms of three secretaries

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don't use those it's really not clear what can change the status quo at this point an advisor for the pentagon who visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted the ongoing strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor at guantanamo who goes by the name zack who goes only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detainees called wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered camors end of quote and the question many now ask is what if someone really are is in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to. underscore so we're bringing you our in-depth coverage of the developing crisis gone tunnel going head to our web site for a full timeline of events. meantime coming up here on the scene just a couple of minutes we'll look at the brothers believed to be behind the boston bombings and the way that portrayed in the global media do stay with us for the back after the break. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. this is also you coming to life fo

don't use those it's really not clear what can change the status quo at this point an advisor for the pentagon who visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted the ongoing strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor ed. on top of my name zack was only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detainees called wanted to die otto hunger and thirst behind covered cameras and followed and the question many now ask is what if someone really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to. bring in your in-depth coverage of the developing crisis agung tanabe as you can always have told website home for a full timeline of the vote step and in the meantime coming out here on all scene just a couple of minutes we'll look at the brothers believed to be behind the boston bombings and the way that trade in the global media after the break. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. watching r.t. live from moscow great to have you with us millions of russians

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some reason don't use those it's really not clear what the status quo at this point an adviser for the pentagon visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted gun going strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor at guantanamo who goes by the name zack who goes only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the. detainees called wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered cameras and of court and the best of many now ask is what if someone really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to check them. still to come rising violence in iraq the country suffering one of its bloodiest chapters in the u.s. troops left with ethnic clashes and bombings even more than one hundred dead one this after a short break. the international in the very heart of moscow. mother of the two boston marathon bombing suspects claims she's seen video proving her son tamra one was still alive after being detained but instead the eldest brother was run over by his younger siblin

don't use those it's really not clear what can change the status quo at this point an advisor for the pentagon who visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted the ongoing strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor at guantanamo who goes by the name zack who goes only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detainee called wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered camors end of quote and the question many now ask is what if someone really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to. still to come rising violence in iraq the country's suffering of its bloodiest chapters since u.s. troops pulled out with ethnic clashes in bombings leaving more than one hundred dead more on that after this short break stay with us. the international in the very heart of moscow. nineteen minutes past the hour now the mother of the two boston marathon bombing suspects claims she's seen video proving her son tamar line was still alive after being detained police

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well i think that they're trying to the wire the white house and the pentagon are trying very hard to retain their strategic domination in afghanistan they see afghanistan as strategically key they want to bring down the number of troops but they want to find a way to have afghans do the fighting against the forces that have resisted the occupation there and so they've poured this money and they have tried to buy military commanders local governors and military commanders of all different kinds and you can see that this is this is not succeeding this isn't and this is the way of occupation all hours of the general afghan public think about this the general left afghan public that aren't on the receiving end of some of this money well i think that there's great anger about this and the fact that as i mentioned before even some were telling the statistics in the country virtually every other indices of power is among the worst in the entire world despite the fact that really what will end up to be over a trillion dollars will be spent by the united states on the war and the people who a