what you may be doing differently that could assure them their privacy is protected? >> the president indicated while i haven't seen an essay undermining the rights of the privacy were citizens i'm concerned about the potential. therefore i'm going to overlay a couple of additional requirements. for example the metadata. i want you to now go to the court and use your own authori authority. now i want to go to the fisa court. he also directed we used to be able when we went into those instances when we went to the data we used to be able to do what we call three hops in the amount of time could follow the string so to speak. the president came back and said up to you what again i want to

put another level of protection there. i want you to do to hops until there's a connection. we are not authorized now to follow the string as we used to be able to do. in terms of the metadata of those are probably the biggest changes we have dealt with. in addition we have provided broad guidance in the form of an unclassified document that the government has generated which in a very public unclassified way outlines the general principles we want to make sure we apply in conducting intelligence at the nsa so we are putting those principles in place. in addition we have completed over the course of the last 15 months or so a fundamental review of everything that nsa does and what we collect against. that has all been reviewed to ensure we are comfortable from a policy perspective and what we are doing.

>> basically what the admiral said is in erbil her bill that the senate unfortunately did not take up. we look forward to putting it together. >> as quickly and this is so important. there was confusion here. you are obtaining the information for section 215 via the court are you not said that you have to go to the court? >> correct and i apologize. every 90 days we had to go to the court. >> is their content on those phonecalls? are you collecting storing content on phonecalls obtained under section 215? >> no. the information you get is metadata that contains pii in a? do you store the pii? >> i would have to talk to a lawyer but i guess you could

argue a phone number is pii. the challenges we get the number and not a name. >> so there are no names and no addresses and no information for which you collect any use that as an analytical tool. you believe that information is valuable in any counterterrorism effort that the united states undertakes? >> as i do. >> to have personal knowledge that information is lead or assist in any investigation to help defend the united states? >> i definitely think it's been a value in assistance. >> this is really important to me. no content is collected on any of those will phonecalls under section 215. you get a review by the court every 90 days many have to go back every 90 days with what you are done with it and how you have processed it and how you have handled it and if you want to go for another 90 days --

there is some notion that we shouldn't be participating in this and i think it was a bit confusing here. i think we are trying to get this right by involving metadata collection by the government putting it all in one place even though the protections are in place. it was legal and constitutional but maybe that wasn't the way to do it. we adjusted to that come is that correct? there are two competing bills and i'm trying to get this right. i would be cautious about shutting that therefore there isn't a legislative direction on fixing that would be my caution that i know others have called for something different. secondly on the pii for companies don't you have the capability to strip tiaa from information with the nsa and though he do that today? >> i would think we could do that in an automated fashion. one of those things in one of the reasons why i would want to have a discussion about what kind of information we are talking about and build in

protections. >> that was an important part of that conversation. even if a company doesn't have the capability today they say hey i have this and i'm going to give it to you and we have the ability to take and strip out the pii. in past conversations that is what the nsa has told told us i believe that's accurate. my only fear is and this was the biggest debate you want companies to participate because this is voluntary. we need to make sure that the liability standards are right if they are in fact good faith to provide malicious source code without pii these companies aren't held to a different standard and accident when it could happen so you want the companies making some effort. you want the nsa to have the system to strip that pii before gone into the database which is easier for you to do i would

argue the multitudes of thousands of companies trying to share malicious source code they have originated in russia or china or iran or north korea or some international organized crime element. it is want to make sure we have that full discussion about what that looks like and why there are concerns about limiting the number of companies that could participate. just as more vulnerability to the system. i wanted to make sure we made that clear and it was on the record. you were saved by the bell. the clock shows zero but i want to thank you for your service to the country. thanks for stepping in at a difficult time and thanks for recruiting the morale of the nsa folks and i hope in a bipartisan way it does tough oversight. we have the utmost respect for the work they're doing and thanks for your patriotism and staying on mission despite what they might read in the newspaper so thank you sir and thank you to the men and women of the

national security agency. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> i was born and raised in new orleans. i'm the second youngest u.s. attorney right now in our country and i also happen to have lost a brother to street violence in new orleans. so this issue of trying to intervene in the lives of young

people is near and dear to my heart. right now what we are doing is using one hand initiative called the student pledge against gun violence. we are going out into pointed and 50 schools throughout southeast louisiana on wednesday october 15 of this year and the pledge is simple. we are asking our young people to pledge not to bring a gun to school. they promise not to use a weapon as a result of violence dispute and lastly they promise to use their influence with their family and friends to ensure that those individuals don't use a weapon as a result of a fight or dispute. a simple place that's been around since 1996. over 10 million young people around the country have taken his place. this is the first time we will be in new orleans in that day we will send a powerful message that our young people individually and collectively are taking a stand against violence in our community and in our schools.

at his senate confirmation hearing today nicholas rasmussen the nominee to be director of the national counterterrorism center discussed a variety of security threats including isis, iran and cyberattacks. mr. rasmussen is currently deputy director of the agency. senator dianne feinstein chairs this hour-long hearing of the select intelligence committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] >> this hearing will come to order. let me just say to the soon-to-be chairman of this committee that this is not my usual way of operation. i like to be on time and i got into a bit of a problem in the caucus. i just wanted to say that to you. the committee will come to order. we meet today in open session to consider the president's nomination. mr. nick rasmussen to be director of the national

counterterrorism center or as we call it nctc. mr. rasmussen is well-known and respected by the committee. he has appeared numerous times in closed session as the deputy director of nctc and scents poulsen's resignation as the acting director. it's my intention pending today's session to move this nomination quickly to the senate and seek his confirmation before our german in december. mr. rasmussen has been the deputy director of nctc since 2012. prior to this he served from 2007 to 2012 as a the senior director for counterterrorism at the national security council. he is well-versed in terrorist threats to the united states and the growth of terrorist groups around the country. mr. rasmussen government service goes back to 1991 with a series of positions at the department of state, the nsc and the nctc.

mr. rasmussen i enjoyed reading background materials for this hearing. public service as is part of a family and i'm pleased to welcome your family here who have been in public service as well. i know that i speak for the vice chairman of the committee senator chambliss two regrets he can't be here with us today and for myself when i say that we need a full time senate confirmed director of the national counterterrorism center as soon as possible. i won't go into the threats to our nation but they will go into the record. it's clear i think to all of us who deal in this situation with the islamic state of iraq and the lavant are isolating iraq and syria. we continue our efforts to defeat the thought of pakistan and the number of a few

affiliates and other terrorist groups across the world is growing at. so it is a real problem and it is escalating. these groups have safe havens in syria and libya and across parts of north africa and in many places on line. the threat from isil the khorasan group aqap in particular pose a direct threat to the united states homeland both from external attacks and from directed and inspired lone wolf attacks from within the united states. the nctc needs to be at the front of our efforts to identify these attacks as it is done many times in the past. the same time the director of nctc is the national intelligence manager for counterterrorism and the official in charge of government wide strategic operational planning to defeat terrorism. so mr. rasmussen you have a big

job before you. going to the answers to the questions that you have submitted i see no problem whatsoever but it's a great pleasure to welcome you and your family here today. i would like to ask unanimous consent to put into the record a letter of support for next nomination as the former nctc director mike leiter and matt olson admiral william mcraven former director of fbi former and deputy director sean joyce and former national deputy national security adviser juan sorak k.. in the interest of moving forward let's stop and look on the nominee and ask senator burr for his opening statement. >> thank you madam chairman and nick let me first say i want to thank you for your many years of government service at the state department, the white house the

odni and nctc. i thank you for the time you spend with me the other day and your insight into the areas of interest that we had an opportunity to talk about. i would like to welcome your wife, your parents. i know all three of you are proud of the progress of his career and i thank you for sharing him with the country because it is invaluable. over the last years you have focused primarily on analyzing the terrorist threat to our country and advising policy to those threats. nctc will be your experience in the years to come. 13 years after 9/11 we continue to face qaeda in afghanistan al qaeda affiliates in somalia or yemen north africa syria and now the indian subcontinent. boko haram in nigeria al-shabaab in somalia isil and al-nusra front in syria and iraq in the list goes on. these groups grow business

enterprises and in some cases state sponsorship. extremist with technical degree special skills and expertise building ieds are being lured to support complex plotting. western fighters to include americans supporting local and regional conditions to train extensively before returning home. here at home we face the threat of homegrown violent extremists who often utilize the information in connection from on line and plan smaller scale simple plots that are harder to detect. these terrorists are capable, well-organized well-financed and aspire to attack u.s. persons and facilities abroad and at home. the terrorist threat is distributed and complex than ever before. we no longer have the luxury of focusing our attention on one group or in one region. you are being asked to lead our nation to primary agency for integrating and analyzing intelligence related to the

terrorist threat and you do have your work cut out for you. this committee will endeavor to provide you with the resources you need to address the threat and keep our nation safe but the truth is we will have to make some difficult choices in the years to come. nctc is a capable organization with excellent people. i fully expect you to lead an effective agency under our watchful eye but i can also assure you that moving forward we are going to challenge you to improve the center and the search for efficiencies. we are going to ask tough questions and we are going to push to be better and i look forward to you getting us direct and candid answers. i thank the chair and pledge on the half of vice chairman chambliss and the site of the i/o madam chairman that you can't move too fast on this nomination process. >> thank you very much. would you stand please mr. rasmussen?

will you repeat after me? eyeing nick rasmussen do solemnly swear that i will tell this committee the truth, the full truth and nothing but the truth so help me god. [inaudible] >> thank you. you agree to appear before the committee here when invited? do you agree to send officials from the nctc and designated staff when invited? do you agree to provide documents or any other materials requested by the committee in order for it to carry out its oversight and legislative responsibility? can you ensure that the nctc and its officials provide materials to the committee when requested? do you agree. [inaudible] all members of this committee and covert actions rather than

the chairman and vice chairman. consistent with past commitments from the director of national intelligence will you promise to brief the committee within 24 or 48 hours of any terrorist attack or attempted terrorist attack if requested by the committee? thank you very much. please be seated and we would be interested in your opening statement. >> thank you madam chairman and chairman feinstein and senator burr and members of the committee that may start by thanking you all for considering my nomination to be the next nctc director. i also want to express my appreciation to the efforts of the committee staff that another's a tremendous amount of work that goes into the preparation and review to support any confirmation hearing and i'm very grateful. i would also like to recognize and introduce my parents mary jo and gary rasmussen my wife maria rasmussen. their love and support means everything to me and i'm very

glad they are here with me today. as you remarked madam chairwoman i brief this committee several times as recently as last week in closed session in my capacity as the deputy director of nctc but it's my first opportunity of appear before the committee no possession and i truly look on that opportunity. i'm honored by the presence trust and confidence my ability to continue to serve international counterterrorism enterprise. public service came naturally to me growing up up in washington areas i had to look no further than my own family for an example and inspiration. my father gary and my mother moved to northern virginia fairfax city from wisconsin in 1962 some i call the to pursue a career in public policy. he was a career federal employee beginning with the department of agriculture work in capitol hill for a short time as a junior staff member on the house side and retiring 40 years later is the most senior career official at the department of education. my mother was for a time a public schoolteacher in fairfax county while playing a active

role in the church and serving in the northern virginia committed college. among my siblings i wanted was an active-duty military office with two tours of duty afghanistan and another brother who probably works in local government in fairfax and volunteers in his church community. again everything i never -- you ready to learn about public service i learned first-hand from my immediate family. i have a say of a long way to go before serving in government as long as my father but i'm currently on your 23 of my own public service career. i started my federal government career while i was a student at leslie university and worked as an intern in the department of defense working on the career desk. i finished graduate school of princeton joined the department status to management intern at the united states is liberating kuwait during operation desert storm. during my tenure at the state department has given many extraordinary opportunities when it was working on efforts to dissuade north korea from pursuing nuclear ambitions establishing a formal structure to implement the peace accords

in bosnia or the latest in my state department career working towards a lasting resolution to the arab-israeli conflict. but my career took a sudden turn in mid-2001 when except for the position of the national security council staff working on terrorism issues. my first emma job was monday september 17, 2016 days after the 9/11 attacks. since that day 13 years ago i've been singularly focused every day of my career on counterterrorism efforts. this isn't the career positions at the white house under presidents bush and obama and nctc under directors brennan redd lighter and metals in the asked me to serve as deputy in june of 2012. over those years i've seen widely plea for vast improvements in our counterterrorism capability structures and policies. with assets significant challenges remain and there is much work to be done. this is what makes the work of the men and women at nctc central to our national security

and exactly why would like the opportunity to lead them to serve alongside them as their director. the u.s. united states working with our allies and partners has made great strides in dismantling the al qaeda organization that attacked us in september 2000 on for the terrorism threat we face continues to evolve as both indicated in your opening remarks. the president said in. the presence and mail plus point for the foreseeable future the most are expect to americans at home and abroad remains terrorism. the committee understands the instability in the levant the broader middle east and across north africa and accelerated the decentralization of the al qaeda movement. the movement's once global focus under osama bin laden is increasingly driven by local and regional conflicts and factors. all across these unstable regions where confronting a multitude of threats to the u.s. and our interests. for the long-standing well-known terrorist groups but also newer and loosely connected networks of like-minded extremists operate without regard to national borders or established

organizational mars. this committee better than any audience i engage with understands in great detail the multi-faceted picture we face. that picture also includes other sunni terrorist groups to include isil and also include shia aligned groups like hezbollah and iran's quds force that even includes homegrown extremist to live amongst us inside the united states. to sum up that threat picture in my view we face a broader way of threats from a greater friday if terrorist groups of individual actors than any point since 9/11. further complicating the threat picture losses in collection as a result of unauthorized disclosures from the spread of extremist social media new and different ways and face balance technology-based analytic tools with people focused human resource intensive eyes on analysis. if i'm confirmed by this and i

look forward to working with and helping the committee overcome these challenges and years ahead ahead. 10 years ago when senator susan collins and senator joe lieberman put pen to paper and will become the intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act of 2004 most in the country truly believe the second large-scale catastrophic attack in the homeland as possible and perhaps probable in the near term. today threat we face is quite different from that and i would argue we are far better equipped to respond with them we were perhaps in 2004. earlier this year as nctc commemorated its tenth anniversary which we were honored to post that landmark legislation. senator colon she told the assembly workforce quote there's no doubt information-sharing is far superior to what it was prior to to the pass that along 2004 and there's no doubt the talented workforce at nctc has made a huge difference unquote. senator thrasher you can -- but

i can chery the members of her workforce at nctc were baiting with pride when they heard your words. 10 years later senator collins i firmly believe we can declare your vision and the congress's vision for nctc has taken hold. that vision called for an integrated and motivated nctc workforce fully empowered with access to the right information armed with the best training and tools. i believe that vision for nctc is growing stronger every day. wit yet we all know this is no time for complacency or self-satisfaction either at nctc or anyplace else in the nctc community. we understand both significant challenges remain. the terrorist adversaries we face are persistent and adaptive and so too must we learn and change to get better and improve everyday. we must match and exceed their determination to attack us with their own will to make certain that they don't succeed. in the current position i have as deputy director and acting director i'm reminded of 9/11

and the threat we face every single day and if confirmed by the senate would bring the focus and urgency born of that terrible day 13 years ago to everything i do as director. i would aim to ensure the best and brightest to fill our ranks at nctc and aim to ensure they are quick with the tools and training they need to meet the terrorist threat. in my 23 years in government service via in a number of hats working in different government organizations. no label means to me as much as the counterterrorism community. everyday i'm privileged to work with truly outstanding friends and partners all across that community. at fbi and cia and nsa defense department on the security justice state and treasury for their state and local partners around the country and our international partners at the white house in here on capitol hill with you and your staff. a job for which i've been nominated and commands very much but i'm thankful for the loving support of my family my wife maria my parents and i would

like to take this rare opportunity to thank her and to thank them publicly today. fis been there to support me as i have pursued my career. madam chairwoman i've been part of nctc family since its inception 2003 when serving president bush and president obama for several years on the nsc staff of the white house. i still felt very personally connected to the remarkable organization at nctc its vital mission and its uniquely qualified workforce and it's terribly critical place within the intelligence community. there is no place in government that i would rather serve. mr. chairman -- chairman feinstein and senator burr and thank you for your support for the women and men who work everyday at nctc and considering my nomination to be its next record. i look forward to your questions. thank you madam chair. >> that was excellent. thank you very much. mr. rasmussen in your written statement for the record you wrote and i quote attacks linked or inspired by isil in belgium

and canada recent arrests in europe and australia demonstrate that the threat beyond the middle east is real although thus far limited in sophistication. however if left unchecked over time we can expect isil's capabilities to mature and the threat to united states homeland ultimately to increase end quote. could you expand on nctc's view of the threat from isil to the extent you can in an unclassified setting please? >> i would be happy to madam chair. i tend to think of the threat isil poses currently as being somewhat in concentric circles because their capability is the greatest in iraq and syria right now. i think her personnel bear are potentially the greatest actress particularly in iraq where embassy security is as you know a serious concern paid in the front-line around iraq and syria jordan turkey syria lebanon saudi arabia, they are also, we

worry that isil has the capability to potentially carry out attacks to identify and mobilize personnel who engage in attacks against u.s. personnel and interests. beyond that the next outer ring i would look at is western europe where the very language that you cited in your question indicates that isil looks at europe as a potential theater of operations where it may carry out attacks against western interests. .. of attack from an individual homegrown violent extremist who may be inspired by but not necessarily directly by isil in homeland. the point about if left unchecked, we worried the longer and is left unchecked

allowed to pursue and develop a safe haven, door that capability is allowed to grow to carry out attacks in each of those theaters i mentioned. >> thank you. i signed responses to our prehearing questions that you wrote you will be hiring more than 40 officers this year. >> i saw that you wrote the you would be hiring more than 40 officers this year. it is my understanding that in addition to these 40, we still have many vacant positions. so the question is with respect to contractors, which we have concerns about, how do you plan to fill the vacant spots? >> thank you, madam chair. the support they receive from this committee in our efforts to maintain the best possible work for us could not be better and we are very grateful for that. the numbers that you cite of the 40 individuals a we are looking to hire this year reflects people that are hired and work

in the office of the director of national intelligence. as you know, and most of the committee knows, they have a blended workforce, which includes permanent condrey employees and also detailed personnel from other intelligence communities and not just intelligence communities but other government organizations as well and that is a life blood. the expertise. >> will they be a mix? we are preparing an accelerated effort to get this up from other intelligence community partners. all of those partners are willing and very strong supporters of this as an enterprise and the challenge comes year in and year out if you try to keep the numbers up and they have their own staffing needs during budget uncertainty

in a struggle to make their own internal efforts to do this themselves. so it is a constant dialogue and eight positive dialogue with them to make sure that we can get talented officers from people like this and other partners in the intelligence community. >> senator? >> as you know, the committee is charged with vigilant oversight and we have some questions giving up to this. would you agree that the committee to conduct effective oversight, that we should have access to the products produced by intelligence community and the wrong reporting that has contributed to the analysis? >> i believe in some cases it would make sense to have access to that.

>> will you commit to have complete and timely access to all these products before it's necessary to assist in the oversight responsibility? >> yes. >> i think you covered staffing very well. the institute of economics released the 2014 global terrorism index. reporting that the deaths from terrorism or are at an all-time high, specifically the number of deaths attributed to terrorism is five times higher than it was in 2000. and we have witnessed a 61% increase in the last year alone. would you agree that the threat from terrorism is at an all-time high? >> is measured with the threats across regions, the answer is yes. >> what is the executive agency

going to do about it? >> the role that they play in carrying out strategic operational planning and support of the government is one that has us tied very closely to the national security staff in the policy development process for pursuing strategies against counterterrorism. we work with the national security council staff to develop the whole of government plans to address counterterrorism concerns in each of the theaters around the world. not just one single thing as you would well expect, but the effort to develop strategies against isis is at an energetic pace right now. but our strategic operational planning is also brought to bear on the whole array of challenges we face in africa and asia and south asia and every region you can think of very and so i would consider our job to make sure that we aren't leaving any holes in the fabric of strategy as we look out across all of the

different challenges that we face. and while at the same time where it needs to be energetically directed, which would argue for a lot of the effort to be directed at the challenges we are facing in syria and also a rack. >> are you confident that we can discover and been able and disrupt the plot here in the homeland? >> i would say that our ability to detect and potentially disrupt a plot involving a complex objective with the number of terrorists and a fair amount of communication, i assessor odds as being good to detect and disrupt that kind of plodding. the more that the plotting looks like, with what you and the chairman talked about in terms of being a lone wolf actor, perhaps with no direct

connection or indirect connection to a terrorist group, only a self radicalized individual working alone to preserve capabilities, that decreases pretty dramatically our ability to utilize these tools to detect and disrupt. so it's hard to guarantee it will give you the ability to disrupt that kind of attack. >> you think that we should do more publicly to let the american people know the threat from terrorism and the fact that it is growing and not declining? >> i would certainly agree with you, senator, that's one of the reasons this hearing is such a good thing. the 9/11 commissioners during the past year as they reviewed where we are this many years later, one of their calls is on the policy community to speak more forthrightly about the environment that we face and i would certainly look to contribute that in my own way.

so much of what we do is in closed session with you and your staff. certainly we have opportunities as well rican speaker directly to the homeland aspects of this threat, which i referred to a minute ago in the threat of a postwar communities. >> in your response to the questions, you indicated that the data was one of the biggest challenges. i see the the united states is struggling as a whole without challenge. however, the correlation of big data is a life-and-death matter. and i'm concerned that this issue doesn't receive the proper attention, can you assure us that you will make this a top priority and that this effort will get the attention that it needs? >> you are right to point to the issue as being one of our biggest challenges and i can commit to you wholeheartedly to

embrace this as one of my top priorities. on his way out the door during his last couple of months of service, he directed the creation inside of an office, it an office of data strategy and innovation to do a better job than a what we thought we were doing of organizing the short and medium and long-term vision in terms of how to make this possible use analytically of the data that we have access to. some of that will also involve developing new technologically new technology tools by the director to create a new architecture for terrorism and intelligence information for the entire intelligence community. we hope to leverage this work to create a more car-based architecture across the area. >> we thank you for that and i hope you will keep the committee updated on the progress.

>> thank you, madam chairman. first of all, congratulations on your appointment which i think is an excellent one. i appreciate that the president chose to put a career expert in this vital position and i thank you very much for your generous comments and especially in creating this in the states. i hope you will let this committee know if you encounter difficulties in getting details for those that are well off i'd and experienced to come and work here. i know that it's very hard for other components of the intelligence community and the fbi to let go of some of their most talented analysts said. but for them to be, it is a

essential that we achieve that goal of having it here. please do not hesitate to come to the chairman or the ranking member or any of those if you do and to participate in problems from that area. >> thank you. >> one of the findings of the 9/11 commission was that border security and immigration were not seen as national security concerns prior to the attacks on our nation on 9/11. the 9/11 commission specifically found that 15 of the 19 hijackers could have been intercepted through diligent enforcement via immigration laws. as the acting director of the

and corporation, what about the proposals for immigration changes that he will be announcing tonight. >> i'm not aware of whether there was elsewhere in the intelligence community. >> when president obama created the 2009 guantánamo review task force to evaluate which detainees could be transferred or released from guantánamo, as i recall the head was the executive director of the task force. is that correct? >> yes, matt olson held that position as chair. >> okay, and he has told me that when the decision was made to

exchange what had become known as the taliban and five with the release of sergeant bowe bergdahl, that nctc was not consulted. was anyone consulted to your knowledge? >> my understanding is that in the process of moving to the transfer of those detainees, there was a request for an assessment from the intelligence community that was prepared by another element and not just this. >> that was despite the fact that this was the executive director for the commission? >> i think that matt had that role in a previous time in the

current processes that the administration was following for considering this, they are being asked to agree to produce assessments and what impact the potential return may have. that did not happen in the case of the issue that you are referring to. >> okay, just wanting to be clear. the normal process is for them to be involved in putting together the package that is used by decision makers on how to classify the detainees. is that are correct? >> that is correct. >> but in the case of the taliban, the nctc was not apt together a new analysis that went beyond the previous analysis, which, according to press reports had found that these detainees were to dangerous to be related.

is that correct? >> again, we did not have direct involvement in the intelligence assessment. >> thank you. again, i want to thank you for your willingness to serve and what is a very demanding job and i think that we are very fortunate to have someone with your background and expertise. >> thank you, senator. >> thank you. >> it looks like this is going to be a tough vote. senator rubio? >> for tv i was just an. [applause] >> thank you for your service to our country, congratulations on your appointment and we look forward to moving forward quickly. asking you a number of questions that are of interest. the first has to do with a plan reduction and commitment to u.s. afghanistan and the growing concern that that would have in counterterrorism operations and the region.

if there's than success, it's the ability to erode the presence and if we lose territory in afghanistan back to the taliban, we could very easily be in a position where many of those elements strengthen and are ungoverned space that the government is no longer capable of exercising this in that region and will lead to the commitment of being accelerated. what are your thoughts on the current plans to draw down forces in afghanistan and the impact that would have on our counterterrorism efforts? >> as an intelligence community we also are concerned about what potential affect the drawdown of u.s. forces may have on the ability of al qaeda to regenerate capabilities, particularly in the northeastern part of afghanistan. and the effort to train and equip security forces an important part of the effort to make sure that there is the capability to disrupt potential

activity inside afghanistan. we of course maintain a robust as possible intelligence collection framework to allow us to continue to monitor and track and disrupt al qaeda resurgence in that part of afghanistan and certainly pakistan as well. but it will be a more challenging and difficult collection environment than we face today. and my second question has to do with iran. there's been talk about this and the sanctions against them. and so this includes the relaxation of sanctions that i believe could have an impact on the ability to fund and expand the robust sponsorship of terrorism around the world. i was hoping you could share some thoughts not just about what they are doing now, but if they could grow and do a this in the future, if in fact these

sanctions have more access than global capital and more money to sponsor these operations. >> the willingness and the ability to support various terrorist groups has always been very high on the list of concerns in the intelligence community. one of the pathways to addressing that challenge has been to try to get iran out of the business of thinking that carrying out those kind of acts is in their national interest. and that ultimately they could see this as not advancing their interest. speaking personally in my own personal analysis, anything that puts us in a position where we are more effectively dealing with iran in the normal way would reduce the incentive for

them to use a proxy network that they do in fact have it there disposal. you're absolutely right, the capability of the terrorism apparatus sponsored by iran is something that is threatening to the united states not just in the region of the middle east but all around the world and even potentially here at home. so i would like to place it as a priority in trying not necessarily to seek to defeat that terrorism apparatus as we have in some of our efforts against al qaeda but in effect trying to take them out of the business in some other fashion. that is how i would about it. but there's no question as we watch and we worry about how the sunni and shia tensions play out and how our interest are put at risk by the shia sponsored terrorist groups and the focus will continue and be a high

priority. and the calls it calls to mind the potential that any sort of sanctions should be linked not just to nuclear program but to a sponsorship of terrorism as a leverage point to get them to abandon the sorts of things. >> i can't speak to the policy context in which we can relax sanctions. >> thank you, senator rubio. >> thank you, madam chair. sir, i have been to your office and i've been to the cia and the pentagon and i have traveled recently. the one major conclusion that i have taken from that is the incredible quality of the people that we have working for us. they are patriotic, idealistic, smart and capable. your exhibit number one today. i'm honored to serve this country along with you and your

colleagues. and i hope you will take that word back. >> thank you, senator. i appreciate that. >> we've talked about this before. here is my concern. and i urge you because i know that in the day-to-day work you are focusing on threats and attacks and that is your basic mission. but we have to be thinking more strategically and long-term, it seems to me. we cannot simply kill these people and call that the solution to a worldwide terrorism problem. and i'm looking -- i remember from the 50s that we had and it was a strategy and a conscious well-developed strategy. and i urge you to work with your colleagues and with the ink tanks in any brand corporations really work on a strategy for dealing with this problem in

addition to the military response. do you have any thoughts on that >> that is a triptych suggestion, senator. obviously be expertise of how to carry out this does not reside only within the government as you alluded to. research organizations and ink tanks on this in washington all around the world have a role to play in helping us get this right. the strategy that we help to produce and support of the national security council staff are typically government strategies not just relying on intelligence capabilities are military capabilities but also trying to take advantage of the resources that we have across the government to try to produce the conditions that would over time offer support for terrorism in these locations overseas. at the same time we go into it

offering to understand that those efforts will take years if not decades for us to reap the benefits of those kinds of strategies. and in the meantime you are left to manage the threat environment >> otherwise we are in for a 100 year war. we had the ability to talk about nation states, those that have the capability to forestall this is a structure, whether generating powers or moving water and fuel. how concerned are you about them using their own capacity or hackers for hire to attack the infrastructure? how serious is the cyberattack threat to . >> i would agree with the nsa director and what he said this

morning. it is more acute from straight actors than individual terrorists or terrorist established groups. >> they have shown a pretty capable ability with the internet. >> it's certainly something that they have aspired and exercise. and so knowing that we are looking ways to be ahead on the ability to defend him the structure or our ability to detect. >> you alluded to this but isn't it true we've lost a lot of capability in terms of tracking these groups because they have gone dark based upon their awareness that was given to them by the snowdon revelations? and that has compromised our ability to protect ourselves. >> i would agree with you not

just the disclosures but other disclosures of classified information it has caused adversaries to look for new ways of doing business and to find new platforms and to go dark in some cases were simply find new ways in an attempt to keep us in chase mode as they move from potential platform to potential platform. this is an ongoing platform, i know that our colleagues are focused on this. but you are absolutely right. >> it is a serious thing because in my view with terrorist threats, intelligence is the first line of defense. these are people that we can line up the army and navy or shoot. we need to know where they are coming from and when. and the intelligence is absolutely critical. >> i would agree with you, sir. >> thank you.

>> thank you, senator. >> thank you, madam chair. i want to thank you for being here today and i want to thank you all for public service. as you can see, we have an enormous amount of respect. i wanted to ask you given your experience with the national counterterrorism center going back to the conception. it is clear that there are few in the federal government with your knowledge of the nctc and its mission. the responses to unclassified questions from the committee and you talk a little bit about the unique role. particularly of the nctc analysis as outlined in the terrorist prevention act of 2004. as well as the objectives assigned through the national

intelligence strategy and i want to dig a little deeper into the unique nature of the analysis that they do relative to that by a number of other community agencies. and so even though they are the primary u.s. government organization tasked to analyze terrorist organizations, there are several other agencies within this track and they analyze the terrorists as well. so can you articulate how is the analysis conducted true unique to those done by the other agencies? >> one element that puts it in a unique position to carry out the best possible analysis is our access to the full body of the terrorism information. that was the unique insight of the effort to bridge the domestic foreign intelligence

divide. so analysts will have access to whatever is available to the u.s. government in terms of intelligence reporting from overseas collection as well as domestic law enforcement here at home. that is not true of every other element of the intelligence community. so that puts it in a unique position. that plays out the advantage more profoundly when you're talking about homeland threats between the bridge of domestic and foreign intelligence matters so much. i would not quibble at the talent capability that analysts remotes of my partners could bring for the analytical effort on some of our key challenges overseas. during the time the defense department and intelligence

agency were doing terrific work, and i would never do anything to suggest otherwise. but to answer your question, i think it's access information that makes a critical difference >> would you characterize the most unique thing is being able to see a bigger picture from multiple sources and in particular when we are talking about a combination of foreign and domestic to . >> in your response, it we also have the growing importance of monitoring social media and tracking terrorist threats and conducting analysis and in your comments you mentioned that technology can help to implement privacy and civil liberties protections beyond the safeguards guardian place. can you elaborate a little bit on what you mean by that and also describe for us the shortfalls that you have seen their in the privacy safeguards that are currently in place?

>> i wouldn't so much described as shortfall, what i was referring to with that answer was the one that we can do to automate and make happen technologically the segregation of information and all of the things that we do to commit as part of our adherence to the guideline, the more we can take the human element of that or we can certainly see something, hold on to something that they did not have authorization to do, the more we can automate that process to the technology and give ourselves the ability to audit ourselves more effectively and therefore train more effectively and that is what i was trying to get out. until it's more about implementation than any sort of change and authorization. >> on the rare occasions where

we had something go awry, we have found that it has almost universally been a matter of human error rather than any intent to mishandle or misuse or not protect information. you think you again. >> we have completed the questions and i would like members to know that it is my intention to vote on this nomination as soon as possible when the senate returns and it may be off the floor after thanksgiving. many members should submit questions for the record by next monday so that we can have the answers by the time that the vote is taken. and we will do our best to move this just as quickly as we can. >> i'm very grateful for that and i will commit to getting every answer back to you as quickly and expeditiously as possible. >> that is fine, can't do better

than that. thank you very much for being here. the hearing is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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[inaudible conversations] >> coming up next on c-span2, jeb bush discusses education. then from the republican governors association conference, a panel of newly elected republican governors and then a health hearing on the international response to ebola. >> tomorrow we will look at the negotiations over the nuclear program and the deadline for agreement in those talks is monday. leaders from the national iranian american council and international policy analyst will brief the congressional staffers on the issue. live coverage begins at 12:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2.

>> i say to my good friends in north dakota, no. >> i would just say that my good friend from wisconsin is part of the story. >> the domestic austerity sponsored by my good friend from colorado. >> this is actually part of british lineage where if you've ever seen the proceedings of the house of commons, they have the honorable gentleman which has a thinly veiled approach to somebody really don't care for. especially where there are 435 members. and it's kind of disingenuous to use another phrase from the book. they probably know each other, they may not like each other,

but at least there's a better chance of them being acquaintances if not actually good friends hassan rouhani sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span "q&a." >> on the next "washington journal", the former commissioner of u.s. immigration and naturalization will discuss president obama's announcement on immigration and how many unauthorized impacts and border protection and previous efforts. as always, we will take your calls and you can talk more about it on c-span. >> jeb bush talks about the foundation for excellence. he discussed reforms to the public education system and called for higher academic standards. this is 20 minutes.

[applause] [applause] >> thank you all. thank you. i do a lot of public speaking and it happens pretty regularly. i think you have been trumped, campbell. i know that you will continue to excel and make your family proud and i am proud of you as well. what a spectacular young woman. it's the reason that we are hearing to help people like this to be able to pursue her dreams. you know, it's a big struggle to

reform the schools. the unions fight and we have administrators that fight it. and sometimes reformers fight amongst themselves and that happens a little more often these days. but when i hear the story of this young girl, i know that the struggle is worth it and i'm so proud that all of you are here to collaborate and to champion this work. please welcome to a really good fight. [applause] and for those who may not know, we have hundreds of lawmakers and educators and policymakers who have the ability to make this possible for kids and parents and families. we need you and we need thousands more like you. because it's not just to give a chance to this one individual, but there are millions of those waiting to be helped and waiting for us, waiting for us to push policy and to give them a choice. that is what they want.

they will take care of the rest. it's up to us to provide it. in that choice is the promise of education for every american and with it is a chance to strengthen the incredible country that we are. we've always known the connection between opportunity and education. we've always known that the more that we learn, the more we can be. but it took a lawyer and a future supreme court justice to connect those dots and make access to quality education a civil right. sixty-one years ago he stayed at this hotel to argue brown v. board of education before the united states supreme court. at that time, one in seven african american children earn high school degrees and one in 40 errand a policy degree. so this is a legacy of an unjust system, separate and unequal schools, then it had the futures

of millions of children and denied this nation the full measure of their potential. marshall argued that the unequal opportunity to receive education is fundamentally unjust. by his effort and the efforts of many who followed him, the barriers did fall, but today, six days decades after the beginning of segregation, where do we stand? this includes for some networks and not for all and too often the bar is set too low and too little is expected of children who can do far more. african-americans are more likely to obtain a high school diploma than they once did, they are still less likely to earn a college diploma compared to their white counterparts. today, african american and hispanic fourth graters read 2.5 behind their white peers. because when schools fail our

kids, we deny them more than an education but their rights to their potential. the doors closed and they become stuck in a world that none of us would choose our own children and in case anyone thinks that this is just a problem for a few kids and a few urban districts, let's cut to the chase because this is a national problem. students from higher income families do worse than their counterparts around the world and the same goes or the middle class. but when we fail the kids in poverty, we fail everyone. children will struggle all their lives to get a job or provide for their families or to achieve things that they rightly should enjoy. what is in danger here is not public education but the core idea that defines america. but my friend calls right to ride. an education that becomes harder to attain and so does economic opportunity. 70% of people raised at the

bottom for earn below the average income for the rest of their lives and this story is becoming more narrow in america where it should be exploding out into our lives. so for them it becomes harder and harder to make a living and lead a productive life. harder to start a business if you have a great idea and harder to raise a family. there's lots of reasons why this is from stuff like tax policy and over regulation, not pursuing an energy policy. it starts with an access to quality education and learning how to read and understanding science. education is the great equalizer. a math problem doesn't care if you're born into privilege or poverty. a great piece of literature doesn't know if readers went to a fancy college or didn't go to college at all. it doesn't worry about whether you speak english or spanish or

haitian creole at home. if you can learn something, it is portable wealth and nobody can take it away from you. but if we buy the excuse is that has happened in the world that we live in today, if we herd people into failing schools, how can we expect young people to grasp the wrongs of opportunity. that is why this challenge must be the most urgent national priorities. this isn't just about saving amazing students like her, but it's about renewing this great country and protecting and promoting the central rights. we all know the those that are more intent on serving adults than kids who learn. a system that every year graduates millions of children unprepared for life and is never held accountable for that

failure. it blames the failures of kids on parents and budgets and socioeconomic and just about anything but the people who control the budget. and so those that run and designed the curriculum. imagine doing that in any other important american endeavor. poverty is not an excuse. look at the success academy charter schools that are taking the poorest kids in new york city and thanks to a culture of really high expectations and accountability, their students are earning the best test scores in new york state. there are schools like this all across the country. or take my beloved home state of florida, working with the florida legislature, we have implemented a sweep of old reformed starting with the plan for education in 1999. we went from a top 10 state in education and today the low income fourth-graders lead their

peers according to the latest result in a big do better than or equal to the average students in 34 states and washington dc. they have advanced 2.5 grade levels since the reforms began. we are a national leader in providing disadvantaged students access to advanced placement classes. and they know what works. we have built a nationwide reform based on a set of proven principles and of course choices at the center of our reform efforts. but there are other things as well. high standards, rigorous and high-quality accountability for it early childhood literacy and ending the insidious ideas of social promotions in third grade. transparency preparing to see whether schools are getting

better or worse and these policies matter. how we achieve them will differ from community to community and we had to makes room for diversity even as we reach our common goals. there is a lively debate about this. i don't know if you've noticed it. this testing promote real learning? do we test too often. i had some views on these issues and perhaps i'm in the minority. but i believe that the testing is critical and that we need to measure to identify schools that are struggling so that we can give them the support and resources that they need to help them improve. and we should have fewer and significantly better tests. we should make sure that these are used in a way that is hopeful for the teacher in the classrooms. my point is that we should be willing to experiment and we should always look to improve

our thinking based upon the evidence. that is why the debate over the common core standards has been troubling. i respect those who have weighed in on all sides of the issue. but let's take a step back from the debate for a second. this morning over 213 million chinese kids went to school and nobody debated whether academic expectations should be lowered in order to protect their students self-esteem. yet last week i read that that debate actually did occur at a school board meeting and they voted to make it impossible for a student to receive a grade below 50. you get 50 out of 100 just for showing up and signing your name. this was done from a local official so that the students do not lose all hope.

but students from shanghai ranked number one. it is in the 21st in reading and 3031st in math. this includes overriding concerns for self-esteem that does not get you to number one. it gets you to number 21. so let's get real about this. only a quarter of graduates from high school who took the acps are fully prepared for college. more than half attend community college take a remedial course before they start taking college-level work. 600 dozen been factoring jobs remain unfilled because we haven't trained enough people with the skills. almost one third of high school graduates failed the military interest exam. given this reality, there's no question that we need higher academic standards and that the local level content and

curriculum and in my view the rigor of the common core standards must be the new minimum in classrooms and so for those who are using a path other than common core, i say that that's fine except you should be aiming even higher and be older and ask more for the students. everyone in the room knows that they have the potential to deliver it. there are many principles for us to agree upon. we need to pull together wherever we can. it starts with a basic question if we were designing school systems from scratch and what would they look like? i know that we wouldn't start with more than 13,000 government run unionized politicized monopolies who have students in the system that no one can escape. it would be insane if we

re-created what we have today is a let's think and act like were starting from scratch with start with three ideas that i believe is fully embraced what create rising student achievement which is the whole objective of all the reforms of the reforms that were going to talk about over the next few days so that more students are college and career ready. parents should have the right to a full and competitive marketplace including neighborhood schools, charter schools, private schools, splendid and virtual schools, home schools, children should be able to cross the code lines and county lines into the neighboring school districts and families would be given a say over children's teachers and given the information needed to make those decisions. we would make it crystal clear that the student is why schools exist and they go first and everyone else goes after them in

the pecking order. everyone. that goes especially for the federal government. this is where the best ideas come from and they have the capability to make reform happen and they are ultimately accountable. so the federal government wants to play a role in reform and you take time to tie all of it to roll wit and washington dc, they should make more programs like this including early childhood programs so that states can't avoid it as they see fit, including vouchers to enhance state programs. in my view, every education dollar should depend on what each child needs and not what the federal bureaucracy wants. where the child goes, the dollar should go as well. when that happens, we will see major reform for the federal government and we can go back to playing the supportive but completely secondary role that

should be playing. education should be a national priority. not turned into a federal program. and second, we need great teachers and we need to treat them like modern professionals capable of creativity and worthy of economy and deserving of personal accountability. for decades we have been treating teachers the way that we used treat assembly line workers. they get paid the same, they get treated the same regardless of what they do or do not do. but worker good work her back, whether they take on great challenges or do less. that mistaken view belongs in last century. we have good teachers, let's find ways to honor and recognize them for the important work that they do as a volunteer to work with difficult students or in challenging schools, we help them more. and let's help those teachers that shouldn't be in the

classroom move on to other careers so that every child has a chance to learn him an extraordinary teacher. a student who enters the classroom with a great future walks out a full year ahead of a student has an ineffective teacher. and one of the key organizing principles of school that needs to be turned completely on its head, right now we think of education that occurs when the amount of time in which students spent on the class, not about the knowledge they gain. it's time to reverse that. time should be the variable and learning should be the constant. it should be customized to each student where mastery of materials means a student moves on to the next challenge rather than sending a predetermined amount of time. this can be done today through technology and having spent time with my 3-year-old

granddaughter, georgia, one of the most incredibly brilliant people on the planet who plays with a tablet like a concert violinist. i think most of us get this pretty clearly that i sense that today's kids will not struggle with this. digital technology expands and makes learning personalized. any of us can be taking a class by the most impressive minds in the world. it is no longer bound to the four walls of the building. if you're the only kid in your high school who still wants to study latin, and there are probably a few out there still, used to be stuck. but now you can learn it and connect it with great teachers online. and if you can move faster than the rest of the class or you need more time, there is no reason a technology solution can't help. a great teacher working with 21st century technology can

develop a blended learning strategy that works for every kid. look at what is happening at rocketship education schools. in massachusetts, school officials use digital technology and blending learning to help a student body that speaks 27 different languages. this one would win the gold award as the top urban school in the nation from the national center for urban school transformation. they even have their own version on campus. there's nothing unique about the kids who have any of the high performing schools that embrace technology but that teachers and administrators and students were given every incentive to innovate and to use technology to transform the way that teachers work and the way that

students learn and ultimately the way that the school performance. that is what reform looks like in the 21st century. making one final point that education reform and accountability, transparency, choice, is now in its third decade. all that has been done and all that will be done in the future will require bold leadership from the people in this room, and i think we have an obligation to recruit five or 10 or a hundred more people to make this room even more powerful. abundant choices for parents and teaching professions and the full embrace of digital learning will require changes in laws and rules and regulations. most of the time it's going to wire a big political fight. monopolies do not go lightly into the night. the minute we begin to understand that together, the more insightful or efforts will be as we push back an antiquated

system. the movement has become strong but the work is only beginning that there are millions of kids waiting for us. for example, in failing schools and armies of teachers whose who know that we can do better than this. so it's okay to be disruptive. but never lose sight of our greater goals. the future of learning in america. the future of america where everyone has the opportunity to achieve their potential as an earned success. that is the purpose of this gathering and that is why i'm happy that you are here and i'm so grateful you are here. god bless you all. [applause] >> the miami book fair is this weekend. join us both days starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern for live coverage on booktv on c-span2. you will see best-selling authors talk about their nonfiction books and we will take your calls and e-mails and tweaked. authors include more manlier and

cornell west. the miami book fair all day saturday and sunday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2 booktv. >> at the republican governors association in florida takes place, newly elected governors discuss campaigns and political agendas. it's made up of governors like from arizona, massachusetts, maryland, texas, and arkansas. they are joined by chris christie and haley barbour. this is one hour. >> when we started this year we had a pretty difficult map. including 19 in comments in nine states the president obama had won twice and we were able to

successfully extend 17 of the 19 in comments the one the biggest state in illinois, michigan, wisconsin, florida. and we picked up four states that were previously held by democrats and we've seen a number represented here today as well. so today despite $300 million spent by public-sector individuals, 300 million that they put into these races, today we have the largest of republican governors in nearly two decades. 200 million americans will be represented by republican

governors. [applause] been since 2009 and i'm not taking credit for this, there are many great people that came before us. but since 2000 nine, i believe that this has been the most useful thing is we look at the facts, it has been the most successful political committee in the country 22231 public and governors in the last five years area if you look at what those governors are doing, they represent the political policy of not only our party but our country and they have a very real and fundamental way and that is my distinct honor to introduce someone who really has a great deal to do with that.

.. >> >> we need time for these guys. are you going to say something else? in acustar to.

then we will go from there. it is great to have these new governors appear. with big futures and above what to try to make a decision about is the election and how they won analysis of offer their administration. or their agenda. what did they expect you to do? were the most concerned about? so i will not ask any questions about immigration. [laughter] [applause] i got on the msnbc payroll. so i will start off you could get all of these guys but tell us about your

campaign restarted out and where you are headed. >> thanks again for having me here today. with our campaign started with a broad coalition, we started off winding up the right people to communicate to send a message to an hour campaign would be about. it was really last year about this time playing governor christie came into the room to talk about his victory from new jersey in 2013 and 2009. so people were somewhat uncomfortable that was not the typical road to victory. talk about education and resonated the group given the current circumstances. so we talked about the

people, we riata on opportunities for all agenda. along the way we actually had city and state and senators even democrats signing on the tes they were not happy with what was happening in the economy in their district and was not happy with the children's schoolrooms. so i will look govern as i can pay with the best of my ability to focus on education per carol. >>. >> gan to read that campaign

i always wanted to run because the hour gsa had my back. with the democratic governors' association spent $1 million of attack as right after the primary the rga was right there with a response ad that was perfect and covered be allowing me to continue with what i wanted to do for arkansas so we could read the agenda oriented campaign that made all the difference in the world. so we started off telling them what we want to do for arkansas. which was the plan to go to the web site per'' they could download the six points as well i wanted to do including tax reduction making arkansas more competitive compared to surrounding states we have 7% with republicans and

governors around us having lower rates. we had to be competitive. second career in education education, talk about computer science at every high-school. we want to reduce health care with choice this is like gm put -- campaign done. the a vintage is it was not it easy race but we won by a great margin. whenever we won the -- every federal race everyone every constitutional office in arkansas. [applause] so as we say in the south the first time since reconstruction riata republican governor, of the legislature and constitutional officers and the republican in federal

delegation. but the advantage to go into the next legislative session is i campaigned over the agenda that allows us that we have a mandate for change. button of? saying on the computer coding i am the only candidate to use computer coding in the campaign at. [laughter] dick gave me an opportunity to use something very specific and i illustrated it with 30,000 high-school graduates in arkansas every year for only 20% based computer science or coatings then we produce 6,000 graduates into the economy every year knowing nothing but how to program computers that changes the dynamics of this state's economy.

that is like said presenting campaign because of what rga did to make sure we were protected and supplemented we have a $2 million financing deficit and they made all the difference. thanks to everyone who could support that. [applause] >> i will skip over governor christie. but he with a campaign for reelection where he'd never said anything bad about his opponent. these guys are setting themselves up to come back in four years to read and your record. can you imagine. bob is campaign? but you will see from the incumbents who got away.

most of the people you don't have to talk about policy. to but most had already succeeded. that is the point we need to make as a party. all they could run on his what's wrong? bay here with rga to encourage our governors that there is nothing more powerful men to give somebody something. so with that notice that is so we doing in texas. >> but they expect results. one way that texas has achieved results in a way more than any of their state

over the past decade it is the number one in the nation for creating jobs. but the day after the election and i received a playful full call from scott walker saying wisconsin was coming after texas for job creation. but i heard from other governors in other states. but i got some bad news. there is a parody built in his stated texas and real elevates its higher and better before or that we will remain there for one of the nation in her o park ave relates to expedite permits? the fact the say surplus.

will you be looking for ways which we can cut taxes? >> we are going to with of though wages the sizzle of

the goes and we seek to retain. i will not talk of broader immigration in. however as the key part of my a platform and every candidate in the state of texas we will fund a program that secures our border. also use of the news about the people coming across the border sometimes 1,000 per day. with the federal government has failed in a the fundamental responsibility.

and in texas there will not stand idly by when it refuses to do its job. but it is to secure the border to ensure that we can achieve that regard this of what the federal government does. with a stronger more productive wealthier texas than ever before. one that demonstrates texas commitment to reach out to ensure prosperity from every sector regardless of the background. with nine heavy of reach from the community with the record-setting results in that regard.

i did have a secret weapon in to help me achieve that when i got elected my wife became the first hispanic first lady in the history of texas. [applause] it did demonstrate his more than just a talking point but a genuine parts of where we are and but if not a position that is elected or appointed by the governor. i appointed the chief of administrative officer of the southernmost part of the state of texas, a man born in mexico but became a united states citizen but

the outrage is not some day that begins on election day but will keep to newf and that they can settle on a constituency but this a way i have been married to rely 33 years we will have lasting republican majorities -- just about the governor's four decades to come. [applause] >> thinks. of course, i said i would not lot -- as you and you could not handle lead but it is a different issue for kroger for you.

event four years ago in 2010 so tell us how you change it and where you're headed. >> first of all, things for your support it has made a huge difference in our campaign in the ability to campaign in this day were 11% of the electorate are republicans. and so we start with the hill to climb but we've made a commitment to the campaign

and where republicans historically has not.

but with a small business we also campaign on the fact whether a booming economy through massachusetts not so much. we've made a commitment to focus on strategy cover balance our economy from one end to the other and we wrote down what the proposals would be and how we would approach it and were very specific. so as to respect that platform row the people we were talking to. we had a player and. somebody wanted to talk

about what we could do to reprove our career we had a plan and could talk about it. and put them in one week ago to parole that issues with our economy tenneco's chief medigap parent but that shows the way we manage to take chavis' iraq that its

use it invoked and deliver on it. but as i say i really do feel both the to have met it air because all of this house in messages with the 345 machines. >> one key route to see another tuesday case and what we believe it knows was fundamental to them if you try to find a job you can find one if you have one keep it. and using that your kids get the education they need to build the future. but that is the kind of

massachusetts you want to be part of. but the great thing is so much of that we put together and wrote down and communicated day after day. folks know it is coming. the first comment we've made is i imprinted and being city manager there the past 14 years to have done an incredible job to create jobs and economic opportunity to improve the quality of life in our community. the secretary of economic affairs whole lot of people were shocked and amazed the new republican governor appointed a democrat were obviously i did not do that well on election day to be another step in -- and the

secretary. but that is exactly the kind of personal rule looking for based on the campaign we ran into the issues we ran on. and then to bring people to the administration to build a great commonwealth and at the end of the day that is how we will be measured and we look forward on our record when 2018 rolls around. [applause] >> i have an office in washington and i spend between eight in 10 days a month that there you would not know there was a race listening to the local media. but also how you go forward

not just that you once. >> is a pleasure to be a peer i cannot tell you how proud i am. aren't they great? [applause] i am the least likely to be a perrault's people did not expect to see it had been part of maryland was re off track and the terror who ran across the ice president's that became the voice of opposition put 40 taxes in a row and his training. >> but iraq will dash -- iraq with metric period to move to maryland and is trying to steal some of the

businesses which is easy to you do. but governor perry said down a texas we pray for rain but appear your government will tax it. [laughter] but we will try to compete with that. we did surprise a lot of people you worked very hard we go to areas where republicans don't usually go. we talked about the things they care about the economy, losing 200,000 jobs come and unemployment has doubled and the zero largest tax payers of any state and the worst. we got if we can do with it in maryland there is no place that's interesting

governor christie with his leadership. and you are in the exact position that was said and 2009 when people did not think and said and to help make a captive. governor christie said he would be my a haley barbour and he was. [laughter] [applause] we ran of race and they have democrats or republicans but i will ask you about that $16 million then there were three men eliot and.

>> zero lot of hard work event those blue dollars retracts but breed did better with his big sand with women the to shaky in any. [applause] and we went over the asian vote as well. we could not have won this race had not convinced his colleagues but the last 10

days of the of raised put in by rga he did not have the money. he did a tremendous fund-raising job. face it merrill lynch was not in the map from the budget. but somehow we popped up in first do governor christie for believing in us and two-step up for the rga for their leadership and going into debt on our raised. they did have great commercials on the end but i'm hoping.

>> debbie will turn things around. with the of party affiliation the purslane ashley first person is the democratic happen to believe we have to reach across the aisle with real common-sense bipartisan solutions. we have to roll up our sleeves. we have 60 days to put a cabinet together. takeover is states in a bad job and i have to submit two days after with the billion dollar shortfall and a structural deficit. we will get to work to receive we promised during cut spending and taxes than streamline regulation.

we will make maryland a business friend least a twisted has not been in a long time. the government would get off our back. . .