administration, were very supportive of this development. if one diplomat has to be given credit for it, that diplomat would probably be holbrooke, but negroponte played an important role in giving congressional testimony, and negroponte's deputy -- actually, the assistant secretary for refugees, later served as the deputy chief of mission under negroponte in honduras. with the end of the carter administration, negroponte served for a relatively short i'm as colin powell's deputy at the national security council, which meant that powell, as well as haig, became one of his patrons in his later career, and then with the start of the reagan administration, he embarked on the most controversial portion of his career as ambassador to honduras. and there's been a good deal of misunderstanding about honduras. the honduran government had, as the chief of staff of the army at the time -- i'm sorry -- the head of intelligence of the army at the time, negroponte arrived, a colonel alvarez, who became a favorite of the americans because, unlike most of

this is not happen during the obama administration.there is virtually no communication between him and the republicans. i'm not suggesting for a second the republicans haven't been very critical of him, they have but vernon jordan and african-american, who was on the record in my book by the way, and has been a major figure in the democratic party for many many years. he said yes, the republicans have made it difficult for this president that when you are elected president you are expected to lead and this leadership has been missing. >> host: i thought you wrote fernand jordan is a relative of valerie giorda? >> guest: vernon jordan's wife is a relative of valerie jarrett. >> host: ray for massachusetts independent line. hi. >> caller: hi how are you doing? first of all the republicans are the one that hurt us because of this mess. the congress has not worked for this president throughout both of his terms. i would like you to come back on after the midterm election and see who's going to be running. these republicans are going down t

administration were supportive of this development.f one diplomat has to be given credit, that diplomats would probably be holbrook. but he played an important role in giving testimony. and negroponte's deputy actually the assistant secretary for the refugees later served as the deputy chief of the nation under negroponte in honduras. with the end of the carter administration, negroponte served for a relatively short time as colin powell's deputy of the national security council which meant that powell as well as hague became one of the patrons in his later career and then at the start of the reagan administration, he and barked on the most controversial portion as the ambassador to honduras and there's been a good deal of misunderstanding about honduras. the government had as the chief of staff of the army at the time, i'm sorry the head of intelligence at the time that negroponte arrived, the kernel who became a favorite of the americans because unlike most of the military who fundamentally couldn't have cared less about the communis

and the obama administration oubter iran as a goal. but there is nothing designed to counter iran and in particular we had this very significant intervention in the syrian civil war by iran and by iran's proxies that elicited almost no response and i would say basically no response from the united states. and i think that was the first clear sign we had that the obama administration no longer regarded carrying iran really as a vital interest. if you look across the region in every major arena, you'll see increasingly the u.s. and iran are marching in parallel. the most recent example being the prime minister was welcomed by the united states and by iran. the supporters of the administration will say well it just happens that the united states and iran have the same interest and are walking in parallel like this. i personally don't believe that to be the case. i think there is a conscious effort to accommodate iran to arrive at a mod does and the primary reason for that is the notion that isis is the threat. we have this problem of jiha

bush's administration. later even in george w. bush's administration who feel of a e became something different person, he was not the same person in this later incarnation as vice president. dick cheney would argue with him our interviews that he didn't change. the world changed. but the change that matters tremendously is what happened on 9/11. but he would say that goes back to his days on the intelligence ommittee in the house when he first saw the sorts the underside of the world and there.going on out and that the world as it is response he kind of eels that the bush-cheney administration made. dick cheney thinks it's important to speak out and speak the truth. you know, there have been any number of times in his career i'm not running for the higher office. vice s -- i'm going to be president but i'm not going to run for president. herefore, i don't have to be calculating in a political sense. i can speak the truth. sees himself as a very frank, straightforward, and really for much of the career people had seem him that way

and what does the and what does the obama administration administration do? keep keep egypt at arm's length and cozies up to the cozies up to the qataris, to the turks turks who back the muslim brotherhood and brotherhood and who gave free passes through passes through turkey to the people who became the islamic state state terrorists. i i mean, gutted absolutely upside down, but down, but the bottom line is our allies can't trust allies can't trust us, our enemies don't fear enemies don't fear us. and you and you can't blame that on bush. >> ralph, good to >> ralph, good to see you. >> thank you, >> thank you, megyn. >> joining >> joining us now with the other side, larry side, larry korb. former assistant secretary of former assistant s defense. larry, your take on what larry, your take on what seems to be a to be a shifting message from the administration on the administration on isis and what kind what kind of threat it poses to us. >> well, >> well, there's no doubt about the fact the fact that they were surprised that the surprised that the iraqi milita

bush administration would. >> those gasoline prices are going up. you know why? there's been no energy plan. >> the fact we don't have an energy policy out there is one of the major storm clouds on the horizon for our economy. >> rewind a year before that election. dick cheney is ceo of the oil services firm halliburton. speaking at the institute of petroleum's fall conference in london. he says, for your over 100 years, we as an industry have had to deal with a pesky problem that once you find oil and pump it out of the ground, you have to turn around and find more or go out of business." looking ahead to 2010, by which time he says the world's energy needs will have increased by millions of barrels of oil per day, cheney asks, "where is the oil going to come from?" "the middle east with 2/3 of the world's oil and the lowest cost, it's still where the prize ultimately lies." arguing that oil is the fundamental building block of the world's economy, the future vice president says, "governments and the national oil companies are obviously controlling about 90% of

it does not feel like the administration feels that way. >> is this administration more restrictive orrestrictive than past administrations? >> i asked the washington bureau before coming here what they thought. they do feel its more restrictive than it has been in the past. they are little bit more upset about it perhaps than they might have been because this administration bills itself as being more transparent and they feel deceived by that. there has been an increasing desire to control the news. there has always been some, and look, we accept that. journalism isn't for the faint of heart. there's a constant back and forth with any government, and that's fine. we also believe that a democratic government should believe that a free press is important and should at least try to facilitate that in a general way and that's the kind of place where we end up taking thinking we are not so sure that is true. >> i think it's part of a trend that began before obama was elected, but i certainly think it's a gotten more dramatic. the trend has gotten worse. social media has given the obama adm

bush's administration, and later even in george w. bush's administration, who feel that he became something of a different person, that he was not the same person in this later incarnation as vice president. dick cheney would argue with them and does in our interviews that he did not change. the world changed. the change that matters tremendously was what happened on 9/11. he would say that that goes back to his days on the intelligence committee in the house when he first saw sort of the underside of the world and what is really going on out there. is that the world as it requires the kind of response, he feels, that the bush cheney administration made. dick cheney thinks it is important to speak out and speak the truth. there have been any number of times in his career when he has decided he's not running for any higher office. president,to be vice but i'm not running for president. therefore, i don't have to be calculating in a political sense . i can speak the truth." he sees himself as a very frank straightforward straight shoote

i thank the administration for taking action. i hope congress will take action to be your partner in making the reality of america's leadership on global climate change what is desperately needed. >> thank you, senator. thank you for being here. very nice to see you. there's so many problems that have been pointed out already by my colleagues with the existing source carbon rule that it's hard to know where to begin. first there's the issue of the impossible efficiency requirements that will replace some power plants. then there's the question of what should happen with the standard, the compliance for coal plants and how they're supposed to achieve reductions without going belly up. and how epa plans to enforce the rule and to what extent the agency will be allowed to tweak the state's plan if it's not making the progress that it needs to be made during the decade-long compliance period. these are very complex questions. and there are hundreds more, many smart people have been reading this rule for the last two months and they'r

there's been a criticism of the obama administration the most secretive administration in a while. jay carney, he responded that if you look at different pages in the "new york times," there are tons of stories that they don't want on the front page. how would you respond to that? >> you like that. >> do you think his response is fair? second is that as we move towards a model where we have more freelancers how do we keep those filters in the reporting? >> every president feels he and some day she is the -- one or the "new york times" should pick on the most. we are an equal opportunity critic. we go after all administrations with the same vigor and enterprise on behalf of keeping all of you educated about what the government is doing in your name with your tax dollars representing you. the one kind of cultural difference i noticed, i need to be careful buzz it's not perfect, republican administration seem to view this, yes they get angry and they sort of seem to view it as the natural order of things. sheep dog in wolf. they don't hate each other, the sheep dog is protecting the s

it does not feel like the administration feels that way.s this administration more restrictive or less restrictive than past? bureauked the washington for i came what they thought. they do feel its more restrictive than it has been in the past. they are little bit more upset about it perhaps than they might have and because this administration bills itself as being more transparent and they feel deceived. there has been an increasing desire to control the news. look, we accept that. m isn't for the faint of heart. there's a constant back and forth and that's fine. we also believe that a democratic government should believe that a free press is important and should at least try to facilitate that in a general way and that's the kind of place where we end up taking that. a trendnk it's part of that began before obama was elected but i certainly think it's a gotten more dramatic. the trend has gotten worse. social media has given the obama administration is a lot of elected officials the plausibility that they're going straight to the people b

lou: administration critics are howling at attorney general eric holder's announcement, obama administration will try the foley's brutal execution as a law enforcement matter, launching another criminal investigation of a terrorist act, even though it is on video watched by millions of people, foley's killer has been identified, goldman sachs news chief -- folks news chief intelligence contract katherine catherine herridge tonight with a report. >> reporter: as battle hardened jihadist showcase their weapons and isis threatens the lives of more american hostages, top line officer said they will bring foley's killers to account. >> justice department has an open criminal investigation. >> reporter: fbi director said that bureau opened a file on foley when he was kidnapped two years ago, and the murder changed focus. >> i am very sorry to say these savages turned it to a homicide investigation, we'll stay on it. to bring justice to the foley family. >> reporter: and strong hints that use of lethal force was in play. >> those who perpetrate such act need to understand, we will not forget what h

this administration is the most anti-israel administration since the creation of israel. and back in 2010 notices were going out to the irs to examine some of these organizations. it wasn't just tea party groups in the cross hairs. pro-israel groups were too. >> so this is not the intention of the irs. it's not what lawmakers intended for the irs. i don't think the founding fathers wanted the irs picking and choosing. i'll give you information. this is according to documents in the case. what the irs is looking at is they were calling this group occupy territoried a va cosi and then the individuals were saying that there was high risk of terrorism in israel. so this sounds to me like bureaucratic bungering. >> but it does sound very similar to the sort of stuff we were hearing with lois lerner. we got some more e-mails showing her intentions. >> this is par for the course. we learned that conservative talk show hosts, radio show hosts, they are crazies and worse than alien terrorists. i mean this is what the administration thinks. they have forgotten who is friend and who

that the bush administration's aided we were going to do -- the bush administration stated we z, anding to do x,y, and that did not happen, and that leaves an impression you cannot do what you say you say you're going to do. .here's often muddled signals with talk about hamas and its rise and what i thought was a big mistake in 2006 with their election and what the bush administration did at that point in their decision, but the point i want to make is i fear, given all of our power -- and we are still power within the region in the world -- quite often, we have our leaders, whether president obama or president bush, state are going to do x, y, and z. arrest the rise of the taliban, stop north korea from getting a weapon, and when we do not achieve that, that creates a lookingroblem of people at you and say, "you cannot even get done what you say you want to get done. so i would also suggest, too, yat some sort of kumba message, but i think if we got , i come fromher the centerleft, and i worry what michael said is spot on, that the architecture for u.s. engagement, the political suppor

it was all done, you know, things were hunky-dory earlier in his administration.ow that things seem to be going south, it is the bush administration's fault. >> yeah, this is very painful because one of his, his whole political identity was caught up obviously in opposition to the iraq war. one of his main bragging points as president he fulfilled his promise to end the iraq war. he never ended it. he abandoned it which created predicate for what we're seeing on the ground here. ab is right. the start of administration really grappling with the reality what is happening on the ground there and now what we need to see is the follow-up with a comprehensive campaign plan to defeat isis. jon: yeah. we still have troops on the ground in germany more than 50 years at the end of the world ward two. we still have troops on the ground in korea after that conflict ended. why the rush to get out of iraq? >> that is complicated story involving the government in iraq and whether nouri al-malaki could forge a deal for immunity to our troops that remain and whether president oba

it was after the bush administration left and then it was renewed by the obama administration, a wholees of subpoenas. in my affidavit, in one of them, i think i filed several of them i talk about the harassment i got during the bush administration, so that is public in the court documents. where i describe all of the efforts, both public and some private efforts by the administration to in my view, to harass me and try to have a chilling effect on reporting i was doing. if you remember, if you were in 2005 or 2006, there was a lot in the press about that. it was a fairly concerted effort against me and eric licthblau, my colleague at "the new york times." it got pretty intense. >> i wonder how hopeful are you this collective effort will make a dent -- what would follow and a sideline question -- is this an opportunity to push back against a federal shield law? >> i will address the first part of that. in 2008, obama delegates at the democratic national convention -- i can say the democratic party has given hope a bad name in the past years. your question about how hopeful i am, i have

i'll speak again briefly to the issues that zoning administrator just raised. as of a they recalled matter it should be clearly made to the board the question before you tonight is a straightforward one whether the error and discretionary were issued when it was released as the suspension request. this is not a more act burgers question whether the permit should be issued under the rules of the board and the city charter it is an abuse of the discretionary review and i'll get back to that as a backdrop there are thousand plus hiv and aids patient that will be impacted. so this permit was issued on january 14th and the suspension was on the 23rd there was no finding of the formula retail use. and if you see the highlighted portion of the suspension request it specifically says there's no formula retail and asked for additional time for the open question of formula retail >> is there anyway to make that bigger please. >> this notice of decision i know you're asking for regarding the minutes from that meeting explicitly states the board is up holding the suspensio

the clinton administration began to push hard for nato expansion and there's no way you could explain nato expansion unless you make the argument that it's designed to contain some sort of future russian threat nobody put the argument for nato expansion in those terms at the time but in retrospect it's quite clear that that's what was going on so the deep cause of the present crisis i believe is nato expansion which is part and parcel of a strategy designed to contain russia and to strip ukraine away from russia's orbit and to grade it into the west the precipitating crisis would cause the. present crisis that's going on i should say the precipitating cause of the present crisis were the events of february of this year especially the february twenty two coup. in kiev. it's stephen it's interesting if we if we look at nato expansion and it ends up being kind of like a chicken in the egg situation because if russia is the threat do you want to expand nato but if it isn't a threat you know if you expand it you do create a russia that is extremely anxious about it a vast military complex

not allowed to leak confidence comallage stewart administration and this administration that done that repeatedly. this administration has done it four separate times in regard to israeli national security information. israel is supposed to use an air base to strike iran. that was leaked by the defense department know "new york times." israel was supposed to work with the saud diz. that was leaked by the defense department. israel is -- and israel is working out agreements with particular groups to go in and try to decapitate the heads of the nuclear program. also leaked by the defense department to the "washington post." not just israeli national security information that's being leaked. you know how we all knew that obama had this kill last. rand paul has been big on president obama has this kill list, hernandezs -- american citizens abroad. and regardless of the killing of al wall can i, he deserved to die. the possibility we now live in a country where the president can determine based on which side of the bed he woke up on, whether to hit somebody with a drone or trade them for fi

it was after the bush administration left and then it was renewed by the obama administration, a wholeries of subpoenas. in my affidavit, in one of them, i think i filed several of them i talk about the harassment i got during the bush administration, so that is public in the court documents. where i describe all of the efforts, both public and some private efforts by the administration to in my view , to harass me and try to have a chilling effect on reporting i was doing. if you remember, if you were in 2005 or there was a lot in 2006, the press about that. it was a fairly conservative effort against me and both -- it was a fairly conservative effort licthblau, my colleague at "the new york times." it got pretty intense. >> i wonder how hopeful are you this collective effort will make a dent -- what would follow and a sideline question -- is this an opportunity to push back against a federal shield law? >> i will address the first part of that. in 2008, obama delegates at the democratic national convention -- i can say the democratic party has given hope a bad name in the past years.

the administration has been too slow. they say it might get into the hands of bad guys like it did in afghanistan. >> what we have heard from the administration -- we have to put what has happened since the downing of flight 17 by the russian backed separatists -- russia and putin have put more armament into eastern ukraine. the notion that we will not provide military support for ukraine -- they are not asking us to put troops in. >> do you think the administration is softening? >> no indication. we are not providing them with real-time intelligence. it is critical we do that. the russians have given more anti-aircraft capability back to the separatists. that is the capability that took down the flight. we have seen military cargo planes and jets taken down with this. if they have more real-time intelligence from us about what is happening in their own country, not russia, but the eastern ukraine territory, that would help them defend themselves. >> putin has doubled down. how far should we go? we ratcheted up the sancti

bush administration cited for removing hussein from power. and it was during america's second iraq war that the kurds faced a choice. would they, could they, trust the united states against saddam hussein? would they join america's war against saddam? their answer back in 2003 was resoundingly, yes. fought alongside america, and fought to topple saddam hussein. >> these are the soldiers who will fight with gis. 90,000 kurds say u.s. officials are ready today to protect paratroopers dropping into northern iraq. >> we have the good military capability. hardened and tested in the battlefield. these forces have been in the forefront of democracy in iraq. >> though he refused to point out likely u.s. bases, nbc news has learned there are at least three. >> in northern iraq, u.s. forces fought the war side by side with kurdish fighters. in the aftermath of the iraq war in 2003, as fighting threatened to disintegrate the rest of the country, kurdistan, that kurdish area in northern iraq, it actually began to flourish. it's a region that had a degree

to overturn the zoning administrators release decision not it on the permit holder. these statements about what's on the website of or the press released those do speak to how the pharmacy and clinic will be operated. the company burglary do what it does on its website not related to the pharmacy and clinic it's different the look and feel and the elements of formula retail are clearly laid out and it's not formula retail. none of that is going to be h f. the policy rationale behind this listened behind the formula retail of not having a rows and a mcdonald in the castro maybe well served by changing the projects that people thought might look like formula retail the zoning of formula retail were removed fits it's no mcdonald or mixed pharmacies or whatever the h f competitors are afraid of seeing. the public has been well served assuming the permit is finally issued. the district attorney's suggestion there was a desertion is false. there's no decision that quo would be appealed and without a determination that can be appealed the current holders are deprived of the

three administrators are still on paid administrative lead, they have not been fired despite some reports are. >> from management perspective, global business perspective, how do you see this issue and where do we need to go. >> i see this appearance and statement a lot more making remarks how they better situation for our veterans. i see this as very political move. let's not forget he is not polling well in north carolina. the state democratic senator kay hagen is in very fierce battle where her opponent saying she is rubberstamp for the president and president and his administration failures will be mimicked by her performance in the state. as far as veterans affairs are concerned. so there is, certainly some political implications here. i'm very interested to see what sort of steps they're going to take. i think all ears will be listening to this. >> what about the politics, jenna. >> he is not polling well among veterans which is interesting. in july in ap poll obama approval rating among vets and households is 33%, which is really, really low. he need to come out to show some sort o

the problem in the administration is that this, for , you do not have anybody in this administration really is an the next word on middle east policy, who have had a long career in managing middle east policy in the area that is the most complicated for this administration. neither john kerry nor susan rice nor anyone on the nsc. the people who are working in the nsc right on middle east policy came out of the european n government.on o it is mind-boggling that at a time we are it is because of war and peace in the middle east, the the president does not have very talented people who had that long, necessary experience in foreign policy in the middle east around him. iraq in another story on the "london telegraph," the headline is -- the islamic street extremists deliver ultimatum to trapped yazidis: convert or die. hundreds of terrified people running to the besieged yazidi s' death have been reportedly threatened with death if they did not convert to islam today. s are athe yazidi christian sect along with other sects -- for our viewers to understand, there have been almost 500 yea

and the obama administration oubter iran as a goal. but there is nothing designed to counter iran and in particular we had this very significant intervention in the syrian civil war by iran and by iran's proxies that elicited almost no response and i would say basically no response from the united states. and i think that was the first clear sign we had that the obama administration no longer regarded carrying iran really as a vital interest. if you look across the region in every major arena, you'll see increasingly the u.s. and iran are marching in parallel. the most recent example being the prime minister was welcomed by the united states and by iran. the supporters of the administration will say well it just happens that the united states and iran have the same interest and are walking in parallel like this. i personally don't believe that to be the case. i think there is a conscious effort to accommodate iran to arrive at a mod does and the primary reason for that is the notion that isis is the threat. we have this problem of jiha

this leaves the obama administration on the side lines. interesting to hear that. >> that's pretty amazing. the islamic state taking manpads, they take over something and they get equipment and something that was ours at one point or the other, we sold it to our allies. but one of the recurring refraining is we have to work with our allies in the region, other countries have to step up and here you have egypt and the uae not coordinating with the united states. this is a region that is really falling apart. there's a lot of forces and it's really complicated. it's not so simple. we're going to have to be on the same side of people that we are enemies with before this is over with. >> doesn't that say something, george, about those two countries, that egypt and the uae acting independent of the sn u.s.? >> there's a third country of interest here. the british ambassador to washington has made clear this is the most allied in the gulf war and invasion of iraq in 2003 has already said that we are contemplating no direct action at this point,

>> i absolutely think the administration is not focused where we should be focused as a country. by continuing to focus on iraq's governance and so-called political stability we are continuing the same mistake we have made since 9/11. if we look back to the day after nfl. we had our nation's leaders declaring war against these islamic extremists who attacked us, who declared war on us, that we would go after them, anywhere in the world and take them out. since then, we saw over the years, really a distraction and we ended up nation building. we ended up occupying iraq. we ended up occupying afghanistan. and spending a lot of our nation's treasure and precious lives doing some this has clearly been a mistake because now we are seeing the result of that distraction through groups like isis and other islamic extremists who have grown in their strength, their capabilities, their discipline and now, we are having to deal with the consequence of that, both with what's happening in kurdistan and other places. >> i want to remind our viewers, you are not an iraq veteran, you are not some

>>> the obama administration sets its sights on the killers of that american journalist, while questions arise over revelations of an unsuccessful rescue mission. this is "special report." good evening. i'm chris wallace in for bret baier. there is plenty of second-guessing tonight over how president obama is handling the aftermath of that gruesome execution of american journalist james foley. we have fox team coverage. the optics behind the president's response. we begin with national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon. and details of what had been a highly classified mission to rescue american hostages. good evening, jennifer. >> good evening, chris. that's right. the mission had been top-secret until it leaked out yesterday. now we've learned the rescue attempt took place over the july 4th time frame, a mix of tier one special operators launched a daring mission that ultimately failed. senior military officials say multiple helicopters covered by u.s. jet fighters and surveillance drones overhead flew in from an undisclosed neighboring country, dropping the specia

this has not happened during the obama administration. there is virtually no communication between him and the republicans. i'm not suggesting for a second that the republicans haven't been very critical of him. they have. but you know, i interviewed vernon jordan, an african-american, who was on the book, and has been a major figure in the democratic party for many, many years and heñr said, yes, e republicans have made it difficult for this president, but when you are elected president, you are expected to lead, and this leadership has been missing. >> i thought you wrote that vernon jordan is a relative of valerie jarrett? >> vernon jordan's wife is a relative of valerie jarrett's. >> ray from massachusetts, independent line. hi. >> caller: hi. how are you doing? >> good. >> caller: first of all, the republicans are the ones that put us into this mess. the congress has not worked with this president throughout both of his terms. and i would like you to come back on after the midterm election and see who is going to be running because t

the bush administration spending increased eighty eight percent and under the obama administration it has increased less than four percent previous graphic anyway the deficit meanwhile is at a years long low and ever since the stimulus job growth has been steadily rising. stimulus was in the second or third little blue bar there at the bottom of the obama administration so why isn't this the basis for every conversation about obama's economic policies too little too late and trying to take i think there's a little bit of it that people just expect recess of turn around the recession is over and we're finally getting back to business i think there's a little bit of everything but here and it's hard to separate but the stimulus worked stop the job hemorrhaging and the the the the amount of debt that he has wrought up has been the deficit cutting have more than half and the amount of increase in government spending was eighty eight percent during the bush administration's been three point four percent during the obama administration i mean how is it that the average american doesn't know

has doubled on down on bush administration tactics, doing things that the bush administration had barelyonsidered. >> i don't think there's much doubt about it anymore that the track record is pretty clear. they have had more leak investigations and more leak prosecutions, and have jailed more people in connection with stories that have appeared in the media than any other adenines has ever had. they have crackdown on reporters in various ways over the last fewer years, as well as whistle blowers, and they have tried to shut off the flow of information from the government to the people, which is the whole point of the first amendment. >> and you also said that the administration is trying to create a de facto secret sect, so only the facts that the government wants to be heard are heard. how? >> well, one way they have done it is by prosecuting and going after and conducting criminal investigations of stories that they don't like. if you -- if the people write stories in my case in a bang, it's a good chance that they will conduct a leak investigation, if it involves in their mind, some

this administration should not pretend this was a success. this was i think the start of a chain of events that has led to where we are today where we came to see asad as a partner and lost any seriousness when it came to confronting the regime but that's water under the bridge. now $500 million is not enough to support mainstream syrian rebel forces and is a start but i would actually recommend people check out my colleague's ken pollack's long detailed, very ambitious and provocative proposal in foreign affairs and he lays it out in detail of building a syrian rebel army. he puts the price tack at $3 billion to $10 billion a year for two to five years depending on how extensive we want it to be. that might sound unrealistic to the ordinary american viewer. which is fine but we shouldn't -- we can't do a lot of this on the cheap. if we are serious about defeating isis, then we have to rise to the occasion. if people don't want to do that, that's fine. but there are proposals out there that are possible if we had leadership in the u.s. and eu

this administration and other administrations play a role, whether --[indiscernible] and they do nothave to worry about it. or we are not going to change anything anyway. the iranians are moving forward with the nuclear plan. the goal is the same. they think that even holding it back just for strategic reasons, it is much farther ahead than you really think. that is the problem with that. my question is, on this side, we have the useful idiots. the people who really want to see america being reduced and having less influence in the world. the press is a much more amorphous thing. they've been playing along all along with this game. what will wake the press up? this is the only thing we can do. the government is whatever the government is. we, as organizations of individuals, the only angle -- what would that be? >> the first thing is to be realistic about what a journalist can or cannot do inside a totalitarian regime. and still survive. years ago, i went to grenada on the first anniversary of the american invasion. i let with a tv news crew. -- i went with a tv news crew. the corres

this is an administration drunk on secrecy like the bush administration was. think we're going to see more whistleblowers coming forward in part because of edward snowden. i think courage breeds courage. this administration is wild with its overclassification of information that should be available to the american people. >> author and reporter for "the intercept," jeremy scahill. thank you. >>> the botched execution, why this time was different, coming up next. a card that gave you that "i'm 16 and just got my first car" feeling. presenting the buypower card from capital one. redeem earnings toward part or even all of a new chevrolet, buick, gmc or cadillac - with no limits. so every time you use it, you're not just shopping for goods. you're shopping for something great. learn more at buypowercard.com for over 19 million people. [ alex ] transamerica helped provide a lifetime of retirement income. so i can focus on what matters most. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. [ female announcer ] everyone has a momen

that is because the administration has wide administrative latitude in deciding how to enforce the laws how to spend resources that congress appropriates. pursuether to enforcement against certain specific individuals. they have the discretion to recognize individuals with certain equities hama mitigating factors like how long someone has lived in this country, what their family ties are. experiencemployment is like and authorize them to affirmatively get temporary relief from deportation. it's that type of policy we hope to see and it is that type of policy that will be scrutinized for its legal authority. with the bat, let me turn it over to some of the experts to talk about that legal authority. -- with that, let me turn it over. >> thank you, marshall. professor wadhi, tell us about that legal authority. >> thank you for inviting me to be part of this panel and for mr. whitley for featuring immigration in this homeland security institute. marshall has provided a great job for how we got here and he asked for some to have the administration exercise discretion wisely and widely. what