mr. wolfe for your testimony. let me ask, start with professor mcgevern because i want to make a few things clear about what this bill widoes and does not d. i talked about what the video privacy protection act does and i want to talk for a moment about what it does not do. a lot of people have been saying that the video privacy protection act actually prohibits people from sharing their viewing habits on social networking. in fact one article said that quote, an old bill called the video privacy protection act forbids the disclosure of one's video rental information even approximate the renter is okay with the disclosure. is that right, professor mcgevern? does this law prevent, and i'm talking about the vppa from integrating in to social networks even if the consumer wants them to? >> no. that is not right. the statute requires consent every time. but as i mentioned in my opening statement that can be done by simply saying here is a press when you press to play the movie. and right next so it

mr. david m. wolfe. , the testimony you're about to give is subject to title 18, section 1001 of the united states code would hope we an investigative hearing this committee has the practice of taking testimony under oath. do you have any objection to testifying under oath? the chair then advises you that under the rules of the house of the rules of the committee, you are entitled to be revised by counsel. do you desire to be advised by counsel during your testimony today? in that case, if you would please rise and raise your right hand, i will swear you add. swear you in. do you swear the testimony you're about to give is the whole truth and nothing but the truth? you may now be seated, and it is my understanding that the only opening statement will be given by you, mr. secretary, in mr. wolf is here to re-enter questions in regard to the internal -- they are both going to give it. a change in direction from last night. if you would then -- you are recognized for five minutes to get your opening statem

i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, mr. wolf for your testimony let me start with professor mcgeveran. i want to be clear about what this bill does and does not do. i talked a little bit in my opening statement about what the amount does or does not do or what -- i talked about what the video privacy protection act does. i want to talk for a moment about what it does not do. a lot of people have been saying that the video privacy protection act actually prohibits people from sharing their viewing habits on social networking. in fact, one article said that, quote, an ant kwated 1988 bill called the video privacy protection act forbids the disclosure of one's video information even if the renter is okay with the disclosure. is that right, professor mcgeveran? and i'm talking about the vppa. prevent companies from integrating into facebook or other social networking sites even if the viewer wants them to? >> no, it's not right, senator. the underlying existing statute the statute can be done because presumably you have to press a b

i would like to yield to chairman frank wolf. >> thank you, mr. smith. i think this administration has been a total failure and quite frankly, i think the groups around this country should know this and not pretend it is not true. christians in egypt should know this administration failed them. iraqy and syrians should know this administration failed them. the vietnamese in vietnam, both buddhists and catholics ought to know this administration failed them. the catholic bishops in china and the house church leader in china should know this administration failed them. the dalai lama ought to know this administration failed them. buddhist monks and nuns set themselves a name. i want to bring it back to this and i did not know you had made a request. i would like to ask both of the wives if they would say publicly, i see the media here looking, but what would you say because there is still an opportunity to meet after the vice president from china leaves. what would you say if you had an opportunity to meet with president obama and shame on them both if the

and into mr. wolf. in your testimony ms. geng, you make the statement that it's no small irony that while you're speaking here on capitol hill, chinese vice president xi jinping is just up pennsylvania avenue meeting with president obama at the white house. you did point out with your disappointment that you believe that your husband's plight has been downplayed by the white house. i would say for the record, i want this very clear, i've been in congress 32 years, both mr. wolf and i have been, and we have never saw human rights issues as partisan issues. if george bush was dropping the ball, as we thought he was doing, especially in the run-up to the olympics with regards to human rights in china, we spoke out very, very loudly. we even went there right before the olympics to raise individual cases. set up the meeting with the white house. with six difficult dents before bush went there. including harry wu to insure that the human rights focus never left. i have been concerned. this administration has been indifferent to a

. >> thank you mr. wolfe. >> i know there'll be a few questions and i wan to say in minnesota, our chief supreme court justice has been one of the drivers of this. and the international association of corporate councils has weighed in. we know it can be used for very wide range of our young leaders and young citizens as they'rear wolfe about i civics or in general? >> now so much -- i guess a question, from the standpoint, i'm secretary condos from vermont, and one of the things we have found and as former state senator who chaired the education committee, we struggled with this issue and we actually tried to put the civics curriculum back into our department of ed. but a lot of their focus because of budget cuts or whatever over the years--i think there's some issues there that we need to relook at at a national level to try to get something reinstituted. which is a party issue, it's really, we oaked that, and it passed overwhelmingly, 75% to 80%. >> providing these resources to schools and i hope they would

based on the conversation i had with mr. wolf and based on what a lot of us have been observing with corporations really moving hard in this last year to get control of the internet from various corporate angles, i do not think -- i know i have been kind of quarterly bringing this up, but i think it is time for us to start really hitting this again. i do not think we can wait much longer. i would urge you to agendize this session so we could talk about the possibility of fiber optic broadband as a public system so we no longer have to deal with just getting our service from comcast and at&t, which, from personal experience, has been held for me. i am sure some of you have probably had problems with those sort of duopoly carriers as well. there will be a key component with how we build howcca and -- how we build out cca and smart birds. i think it is time for lafco to take this on. -- smart grids. commissioner campos: any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will come back to this in a future meeting so

>> mr. wolf pointed out, it's not available on every device. it's available on every computer but the implementation is that you start the movie, the presumption is share and deal with the movie you can elect not to share and then after the movie is displayed on facebook, you can go back and adjust the setting to unshare that. >> here's my question. what he is the difference between an unshare opt out and a share opt out? they are both asking the same question. one's presumption, you're going to share all the time but you're still making a decision each movie. unshare or not unshare. >> well, one is opt in and one is opt out. >> yes. but the decision for privacy is still made individually on every movie that they send downstream. what's the difference? of having an opt in or opt out? if the whole argument is that they have the same thing? >> it doesn't defeat my argument. that's our implementation. it's not required under the law. >> i understand. >> we've done that because that's what we believe consumers want. the issue for us at the highest

and mr. wolf, i want to thank you and ms. anderson for the work you've done on this. this may come as a shock, but, you know, it's not always surprising to us to learn that an agency may be dysfunctional. so this is not always a surprise. but we appreciate the candor, and no one should ever be criticized or subject to anything for being very open, which you and ms. anderson have done, so i thank you for that. i believe that gives us some input. but i wanted to ask you a few questions, if i may, mr. wulf. you know, as i look through the report, one of the things that you said sometime were the issue of unions within the organization. can you tell me when the work force in the division was unionized? >> i can't give you an exact date on that. it was before ms. anderson's and my arrival, but i want to say spring of last year, in march. >> well, let's -- can you tell me, does each worker have to cast the vote in order for their votes to be recorded as far as do you know how the process works? non-voters are considered voters to unionize how that's counted? >> i'm not comp

i would like to recognize mr. wolf for five minutes. there might be a button. there you go. >> thank you. i would also like to thank the members of the committee for the opportunity to testify before you today. in july of last year, penny anderson and i assumed our positions as deputy -- as director and deputy director, respectively, of the infrastructure security compliance decision, or iscd, the area that monitors the cfas program. under the request that we apply a fresh look at the program, we applied what we see to be the challenges and priorities to the program. both penny and i feel strongly that the challenges we have identified are not significant, but they are also not in seiz e insurmountable. i would also like to echo the undersecretary's focus on the action items. we've already made tangible progress in addressing some of the challenges in the report. one of the things in the report is the ability to cite security plan reviews in a consistent, reasonable and timely fashion. to help overcome task difficulties in meeting this challenge, iscd is utiliz

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mr. david m. wolf deputy director of infrastructure office of infrastructure protection, national protection programs director at the you know, the testimony that you are about to section 1001 at when holding an investigative hearing, and this committee has the practice of taking testimony you have any objection to testifying then advises you under the rules of the house and the roof you are entitled to be advised by counsel. do you desire to be advised by counsel during your that case, if you please rise and raise your right hand, i that the testimony you're about to give us the truth, the whole truth and nothing and it's my understanding that the only opening statement will be given by you, mr. secretary and mr. wolf is here to answer the internal. they're both going to give it. okay. change in, mr. beers, you are recognized for five minutes to and distinguished members of pleased to be here discuss the department of homeland security's efforts to regulate the antiterrorism standards act. as you are

. >>> all right "the situation room" with mr. wolf blitzer just a few minutes away. hello, wolf.'ve got a live interview in the next hour with republican presidential candidate ron paul. i tweeted earlier in the days asking my followers out there for some suggested questions, and as you know, don, a lot of great questions came in. so we'll have an interview in the next hour with ron paul, plus all the day's political news. we'll go to syria, what's going on there as well. so a lot of news over the next two hours. looking forward to that. >> nothing as hard-hitting as my interview with the kardashians. i watched it. you were terrific. >> thank you, wolf. we'll see you in a bit. >>> 3, 2, 1 -- >> all clear! >> it is an edge of your seat hollywood thriller stars real navy s.e.a.l.s, but some aren't too happy about the movie or the secrets it reveals. that's next. to do business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ in here, machines have a voice... ♪ [ male announcer ] in here, medical history follows you... even when you're away from home. it's the at&t network -- a network

i would like to escape mr. wolf -- asked if mr. wolf had any comments. we will leave the final words to these two distinguished whitest. thank you for the testimony. mr. fu? >> i think real intent will depend on two factors. the most important is inside china. in spite of the increasing persecution, perhaps the worst in two decades last year, we still are hopeful we still are seeing signs. it is not because of relaxation of the totalitarian regime, but i think because of the growing awareness and consciousness by the chinese people. look at what happened to that the village in the province. 15,000 people, when they were united, they were able to win the fight, at least temporarily, allowed to have their first freely, and democratic elections. the elected their own leaders in that 50,000-people the village. it is a small step, but it shows the people's power. i think there are hundreds of thousands of chinese petitioners, despite of imprisonment torture they still organized and went to the chinese leadership compound in shanghai, in beijing and hundreds o

now to mesa, arizona, and mr. wolf blitzer. "the situation room" starts right flow. >>> brooke, thanks very much. happens now on this the eve of the arizona republican presidential debate, brand-new poll numbers just out that show -- guess what -- a very, very tight contest in this critical primary state. also satan at war with america? some old and controversial remarking are now coming back to haunt rick santorum. >>> plus president obama's vow to the middle class and his message to congress. does he really expect republicans to take up his agenda? we'll go inside his strategy. i'm wolf blitzer in mesa, arizona, you're in "the situation room." this just coming in. on the eve of the new nuclear weapons showing that just how tight the race is. take a look 32% say rick san storm, but with the sampling eras that's constituentically a tie. ron paul coming in at 6%, let's go in depth right now with our chief political analyst gloria borger and depend can i washington bureau chief michael crowley. gloria, first you. arizona we all t

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mr. chairman. with congressman wolf and others on such legislation as the international religious freedom act and the north korea human rights act. his statement reflects a great understanding of what tomorrowed america can do through peaceful means to make china and the worth a better and safer place. let me conclude with the words of preliminary himself. if america is to be a great nation, this must become true. thank you very much. . >> pastor, thank you very much. without objection your request to include the statement by michael horowitz from the hudson institute will be made part of the record. do i greatly admire his work as well on behalf of human rights and today's action is another discernible manifestation of that deep concern for fundamental human rights in china and everywhere else. thank you for your testimony. to begin the questioning, let me ask ms. hu, if i could, you point out in your testimony that zhang said you cannot be a human rights in china without being a rights case yourself. i will say this as well as to ms. li as well. when we express disseafgz with a policy or our govern

wolfe. >> i thank you, mr. smith. >> i think this administration has been a total failure. and quite frankly, i think all the groups around this country -- >> should know this and not pretend it is not true. the coptic christians in egypt should know this administration has failed them. iraqi and syrian, chaldean christians should know this administration has failed them. the vietnamese in vietnam, both buddhists and catholic ought to know this administration has failed them. and of course, the catholic bishops in china and the protestant house house jewish leaders in china should know that the administration has failed them. and the dalai lama should know that this administration has failed them. 11, 11 now buddhist monks and nuns have set themselves aflame. but i want to bring it back to this. and i did not know that you had made a request, i would like to ask both of the wives if they would say publicly, i see the media here looking. what would you say, because there's still an opportunity to meet after the vice president from china leaves. what would you say if you had

language add -- frank wolfe had this language added, this is language in the law, and my friend mr. wolfe included it to reference the f.b.i.'s policy and it says, this is the language in the law conferees support the f.b.i.'s policy prohibiting any form of -- formal non-investigative cooperation with unindiletted co-conspirators in terrorism cases. the conferees except the f.b.i. to insist on full compliance with this policy by f.b.i. field offices and to report to the committee on propings regarding any violation of policy. guess what? we didn't get this from the f.b.i. we had to get it from the islamic society of north america's own website. they reported that on wednesday, february 8, that's this year, the american-arab anti-discrimination committee the arab american institute the interfaith alipes, the islamic society of north america, which has been pronounced by the fifth circuit as having plenty of evidence to support that they fund terrorism and have, and then it mentioned other groups, but that they, it says, had a shoulder-to-shoulder campaign, had an opportunity to discuss the

wolf. >> i want to thank you mrs. smith and senator brown for your work on these issues. i do have a statement i want to read and say. i woke this morning to read a powerful but thoroughly unsettling piece by chinese dissident yujia in "the washington post." he said chinese dissident exiled to the west today get a very different response than soviet writers received not long ago. i would go further that mr. yu. chinese defectors get a very different response as evidenced by a story that broke days ago about a senior communist party official in china that reportedly attempted to defect to the u.s. and was turned away after his request for asylum was rejected. the soft-spoken man who i recently met endured beatings and torture from chinese secret police. he asserts china is a greater threat than the soviet union ever was but now the west lacks visionary politicians such as ronald reagan to stand up to that threat. i could not agree more. in fact, just last week, along with a number of other members, we urged president obama in a letter signed by a number of members to do wh

mr. chairman. thanks a lot. wolf there you have it, the republican chair saying it probably wouldn't have made much difference had the caucus been held in washington county. >> thank the chairman for us as well, ron paul getting ready to speak to his supporters out there, i want to hear what he has to say. he's going to be walking out momentarily, and i'm sure he is severely disappointed. mitt romney got 39% of the maine caucuses, ron paul 36%. 2,190 votes for mitt romney to 1,996 for ron paul, a difference of only 194, and i'm sure a lot of the ron paul supporters are saying to themselves, if only they had worked a little bit harder, maybe they could have changed the result and created the first win for ron paul in this presidential nomination process. ron paul is walking out, he's going to be speaking right now. i hope whoever is holding up that ron paul sign drops it so we can see ron paul. let's listen in to ron paul. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. just remember, the revolution is only beginning

mr. ambassador, thanks for everything you have done in syria, we appreciate your effort. >> thank you, wolfto be with you. >>> a fellow graduate of the john hopkins university school of advanced international studies here in washington. my alma mater. >>> we keep hearing about the violence in homs. now concerns about brutality in another syrian city. our ivan watson is standing by to join us with those details. >>> and the soundtrack of president obama's reelection campaign. you may hear the songs that made the cut. [ beep ] [ mom ] scooter? the progresso chicken noodle you made is so good. it's got tender white meat chicken. the way i always made it for you. one more thing.... those pj's you like, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >>> did today's protest twin blasts rocked the government cities in aleppo. let's go to ivan watson. he as standing by in istanbul. now the focus is also on aleppo. what's the latest? >> reporter: that's right, syrian state news agency reporting, wolf, this was t

mr. fleischer himself, even though no delegates awarded, money will come in for santorum tomorrow. wolf money and ari had tweeted earlier, looking more presidential in coats and ties. so we saw him with a coat and tie on tonight. maybe that will help him with more money. >> no sweater vest. howard kurtz now at the daily beast and "newsweek" and the host of "reliable sources" sunday morning. very important that ari fleischer learned how to spell though. that's another story. and paul vercammen, you have more numbers. i think they're pretty dramatic. what's going on? >> hang on, wolf. they're not here yet. they're promising me here at gop headquarters in a matter of moments. this is very free thrflowing he. they'll have a massive batch of numbers. the time table is 10 to 15 minutes. we're on the third floor, and possibly give us the final numbers. so we'll hang on for you right now. >> stand by for a moment. we're not going to let you go too far away. in fact, stand by for one second, paul, because we'll come back to you as soon as you get the numbers. in fact, let's take this opportunity

mr. fu? >> one more point to bring the true change to china, i think it's very important for congress to work together to pass the global internet freedom act. i thank the leadership of congre congressman wolf for this. that will provide a tremendous efficient tool to break down this firewall in china. and certainly, it has improved the chance fora pid democracy in china. thank you. >> as you know, that bill, the global internet freedom act, we hope to get it finished on our subcommittee. it's an idea whose time has c e come. the enabling of high-tech -- to enable dictatorship to find, apprehend and incarcerate people of faith, the christians, the wiggers, and to destroy dissident movements throughout the world calls out for this legislation so i hope to have this bill out of committee shortly so i thank you for bringing that up. i'd like to thank our distinguished witnesses aagain and without further a' dieu, the hearing is adjourned. this meeting took place as president obama met today with the chinese vice president. in the meeting, president obama reiterated if long-standing human rights issue. expected to become chinese leader defended the communist right's country over the past 30 yea

wolf produced the special for cbs news. despite months of preparation, he didn't meet mrs.e shooting began. >> she was slightly nervous. the nervousness was in her voice too. >> are there many state dinners? >> yes, there are. there were almost two a month last year. >> reporter: but she pulled it off. >> she was brilliant. you know, we were totally astonished. >> reporter: wolff says while mrs. kennedy didn't need any retakes, her husband did. after watching some of jackie's tour, the president asked to redo his part so he could match her tone. >> well, i think the great effort that she's made has been to bring us much more intimately in contact with all the men who live here. >> reporter: retake or no, the special was a hit. it aired on all three broadcast networks, more than 50 million people tuned in. >> people wanted to know about jackie. as a matter of fact, three out of four of all the sets that were turned on were watching jackie that night. the curiosity about her was intense. >> this is the emmy award that she won. >> reporter: mrs. kennedy even received an honora

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mr. speaker, as usual, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks. good to see you, wolf>>> will the republican race for the white house remain undecided all the way to the august convention in tampa? we're taking a closer look at the tea leaves. that's coupling up in our "strategy session." and you'll hear the chilling 911 call that led police to the unspeakable scene of the powell murder/suicide. sfloo >>> let ate get right to our strategy session. jamal simmons along with alice stewart. let me start with you. you agree with newt gingrich, this republican contest could go all the way to the end of august, the convention floor in tampa? >> i agree, and i think ever candidate has the right to stay in until the nominee receives the magic number 1144. back in '08 it was governor huckabee. he stayed in until john mccain received the exact number. it's important to do this. voters in all states should have the opportunity to vote until someone has the magic number of votes. this is an important part of the process, important to make sure that all the candidatesing gf after ea

mr. speaker, as usual, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks. good to see you, wolf. >> thank you.inues right now. >>> the action is getting under way right now on this very busy and important night in the republican presidential race. caucuses are beginning in minnesota, one of three states holding contests tonight. our exclusive cnn caucus cameras are inside to show you the voting and results in realtime. chris welsh, shannon travis, david manningly, all inside caucuses right now. let's start with shannon in maple grove, minnesota. set the scene for us. we want to see democracy in action. >> reporter: that's right, wolf, democracy in action. we're in maple grove, the suburb of minneapolis. the anticipation is building because the caucus is about to start moments way from now. i will have my cameraman pan over and show you a shot of the room. a couple minutes ago, there weren't that many people here and now filled up to starting the program right now. we're expecting for ron paul to come in, in about 10 or 15 minutes to speak to these people. the campaign told me today, part of th

wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> our national political correspondent jim acosta is following it for us. >> reporter: it sounded like he was referring to mitt romney as mr. burns, the villain from "the simpsons" who once said release the hounds. that's because in the race for the alpha dog, the fangs are out. rick santorum doesn't need anybody to tell him who let the dogs out. >> i think it's interesting you're asking that question about governor romney and his attack dogs.connect 1200 >>> he has an opportunity tomorrow at this convention ironically he spoke to them four years ago this week, wolf, when he was pulling out of the presidential race. let's listen to what he says. >> i stand for conservative prim pes, i'll fight alongside you for all the things we believe it in, and one of the things we believe is we cannot allow the next president of the united states to retreat in the face of evil extremism. >> wolf, he received a great reception there four years ago, because don't forget, even though he was getting out of the race, he was the conservative candidate, because they didn't like john mccain. >> he was the conservative alternative to john mccai