mr. thompson goes first to mr. swaney. >> mr. swaney, as recently as 2011 the president was willing to cut a deal. he was willing to raise the eligibility age on medicare. he was willing to make changes to social security. to the frustration of much of his party's delegation in washington, but conservatives balked because it included tax increases. he insisted on that. in hindsight, was conservative inflexibility on this matter a mistake? >> yes. yes, it was. social security is one of the most successful programs of legislation that's ever been enacted in the united states of america. and it's not really in trouble. they want you to think that it is, but it's not. it needs a little bit of help. probably all we really need to do is to remove the cap on payroll taxes, people that make more than $117,000 a year are not paying into the social security system. i think that ought to be removed. that may do the job by itself. but if not, what would be left would be a very small percent increase in the payroll tax, which according to the

mr. thompson in the context of his life. >> every time somebody like this does something like this, it erodes the public trust in not only the police but the criminal justice system as a whole. >> reporter: in the end he was not sentenced to the county jail but one year of electronic home detention. >> in the past 90 minutes air force 1 touched down at san francisco airport. the president is visiting the bay area as part of a three-day west coast fun raising trip ahead of mid-term elections next month. we were there for the president's arrival. there was an unusual crowd on hand to meet the president today. >> yes. with the election just a few weeks away he made a special effort to reach out to a crowd that was bussed here. on the tarmac of the airport, the president was greeted by the friends and families of white house workers and air force 1 crew members along with former campaign workers. >> we got invited to come out today and be a part of the greeting party. >> reporter: the president is in tonight and tomorrow for two private fundraisers aimed at raising millions of dollars to boost de

mr. thompson. >> good afternoon. want to thank the chairman for holding this timely hearing on our efforts, both domestic and international, to contain and prevent the spread of the ebola virus. also, i think the witnesses for appearing here today. i look forward to the testimony. additionally, i want to thank the chair and the board of directors of the dallas-fort worth airport, and their executive staff, for hosting the committee today. i want to extend my condolences to the family of thomas eric duncan, the first person diagnosed with ebola on american soil. we are not here to dehumanize mr. duncan. unfortunately, his diagnosis, and the procedures that followed, raised critical questions about our preparedness for highly infectious diseases such as ebola, and how federal, state, and local authorities coordinate in their aftermath. as ranking member of this committee, i often urge my colleagues not to use opposition of influence to promote fear in the public. hence, i want to clarify that while it is proper to have

mr. thompson and goes to mr. first lafrance. obama has two years left in his last term. he is a lame duck. he is blocked by a hostile majority in the house. he has a senate that at best is going to be pretty evenly and bitterly divided. this is a six-year term you are running for four senate. would you please tell us what you would hope to accomplish in that six years, most of which will not be with president -- be under the administration of barack obama? and please don't mention obama, if you can give me an answer like that. [laughter] >> i appreciate that. what i hope to accomplish is pretty simple. if elected, i want to leave office six years from now or be re-elected for another term potentially, with the federal government smaller than it is today. with the budget deficit gone, and a balanced budget amendment in place. i'd like to see the income tax system be completely over-hauled. we have a 75,000 plus page income tax system. companies have to hire armies of accountants, c.p.a.'s just to do with it and try to find the loopholes that benefit them. it is ridiculous

mr. thompson is concerned and a professor at the university of texas who we spoke to as well to get his perspective on it, they're saying what needs to happen is there needs to be a plan and that you can't just go in and start a war and not have a plan for detaining people and having custody. at one point there was 4,000 people in one detention center in iraq and just that shear number of people they were outnumbered so messages could spread. they are saying there has to be a plan and when possible to not have so many people in one place at one time if it gets back to that point, brooke. >> i know this is just a piece of your reporting. we'll watch for the entire thing airing tonight on cnn tonight at 10:00 eastern. stephanie elam, many thinks to you this afternoon. >>> coming up next, we're now learning the name of that dallas nurse who has been infected with ebola. here she is. a picture for the first time. plus, a scathing letter from the husband of the spanish nurse infected with ebola. hear his harsh words for health officials. stay here. >>> we are now identifying this young woman. this young

mr. thompson.earth has been oppressed at some time with blacks getting it the worst, but jews also suffering grievously. the liberal concept of white privilege in america is actually harmful to blacks. it provides an excuse for failure and antisocial behavior. and it robs some people of motivation. i will continue to knock down this bogus destructive propaganda, and you should applaud me for doing it. tony, maryland, can obamacare be repealed by the next president? congress can repeal or revise a current law. the president would have to sign it or be overridden by a two-thirds vote in the senate. dr. fernando, bell harbor, new york. o'reilly, as you noted the affordable health care act has increased deductibles and copays at least for my patients. only subsidized plans pay the full amount. it is disturbing president obama and attorney general holder associate with al sharpton. i fully agree with that, mike. mexico, the left spends millions trying to convince blacks and women that republicans will h

mr. thompson goes first to mr. cotton. >> mr. cotton, there's open war in syria and iraq.here's something that looks a whole lot like a declared war going on in ukraine. and our soldiers for a couple decades, our service personnel have all branches of service have been asked a lot, ranging from extended deployment, it is often very expensive. what strategies should we have to contain these threats such as these that can be applied in a bipartisan manner to over a long course of time that we can afford? cotton: the most fundamental responsibility of our government is to keep america safe. and barack obama's foreign policy of weakness, hesitation and a decision has made america face greater risks in the world. unfortunately, mark pryor has been rubberstamping that foreign policy. but if you look at what's happening in iraq with the islamic state, they are rampaging across the region. they're killing americans, crucify christians, burying people alive. this is happening because of barack obama failed to take the vice of his generals in 2011 when asked for a small stay behind

mr. thompson. >> good afternoon. want to thank the chairman for holding this timely hearing on our efforts, both domestic and international, to contain and prevent the spread of the ebola virus. also, i think the witnesses for appearing here today. i look forward to the testimony. additionally, i want to thank the chair and the board of directors of the dallas-fort worth airport, and their executive staff, for hosting the committee today. i want to extend my condolences to the family of thomas eric duncan, the first person diagnosed with ebola on american soil. we are not here to dehumanize mr. duncan. unfortunately, his diagnosis, and the procedures that followed, raised critical questions about our preparedness for highly infectious diseases such as ebola, and how federal, state, and local authorities coordinate in their aftermath. as ranking member of this committee, i often urge my colleagues not to use opposition of influence to promote fear in the public. hence, i want to clarify that while it is proper to have

mr. thompson. , there is open a war in syria and iraq. something that looks like undeclared war in the ukraine. and our soldiers for a couple of decades, our service personnel of all branches have been asked a lot ranging from a deployment to the giving of their lives and it has been very expensive. what a strategy should we have to contain the threat such as applied in an be bipartisan manner over a long course of time that we can fford? >> the most fundamental responsibility of our government is to keep america safe. barack obama's foreign-policy of hesitation has made america face greater risk. unfortunately, mark pryor has been rubberstamping. if we look at iraq and syria with the islamic state, there are around paging. -- and they are rampaging. they are be heading americans and crucifying christians. this is happening because barack obama failed to take the advice of his generals in 2011 when they asked for a small stay behind to force. not trigger pullers like i was in iraq would we were fighting the precursor group of the islamic

mr. thompson and to represent him both in the court of appeals and the u.s. supreme court, and so let me echo the chairman's comment to apologize to you for the ordeal you endured. >> thank you, sir. >> and to thank you for having the courage to speak out about it because that cannot be easy to do. >> no. >> this issue is an issue that raises complicated issues because you've got conflicting interests. mr. raemisch, i'd like to ask in your judgment, with what frequency is solitary confinement used for relatively minor infractions? >> i can only at this point give you my impression, and my impression is that it is incredibly overused in that area. i was talking during the break that really the process hasn't changed in over 100 years, and i try to think of what is still being done 100 years ago that's being done today that should be done, and i can't think of anything. and so when i look at that whole process, it, again, has become a tool to make a facility run more efficient, and that part of our mission we're failing because we're sending them out into the c

mr. thompson are holding a good hearing. i'm glad to be a small part of it. mr. chairman, i want to feed off of varied first question that you ask. ed. i think this is a serious issue. it is obvious that people are affected by. people are concerned by. ,ere in the north texas region it is real. we have had in the bola case, an individual not from the area who traveled to the area. he contracted the disease and has died. it is not academic. first and foremost, this should be treated as a public health issue. it is not an international diplomacy issue. it is not a foreign policy issue. it is not a civil rights issue. it is a public health issue. in the community that i live and in texas, about three years ago, a teacher contracted tuberculosis, was teaching his class, one of his students contracted the disease. when that became known, the texas department of public health, which will testify in the next panel, came into the school district, interviewed all the students in the class, 14 to quarantines some, monitored some. that was treated as a public health issue a

mr. thompson, is there anything else he would like to add? >> our role is to look at suspected cases, and we appreciate your sending your cdc team down to support us in this effort. wethink it is a small framed are looking at in terms of the number of people we are looking at, and we will report to the public. >> and i will repeat that this is a tried and true photo call. this is what we do as a protocol for a variety of infectious diseases, and this is what we do at the cdc globally. and today, we released our weekly bulletin, and there was a report of the nigeria investigation, where a single patient came in, and unlike this, that individual was not cared for with infection control and resulted in a number of secondary cases, but even with 19 secondary cases, they appear to have been able to stop the outbreak. i have no doubt that we will stop this in its tracks in the u.s., but i also have no doubt that as long as the outbreak continues in africa, we need to be on our guard. other questions in the room? >> from wxaa. can you give us a numb

mr. thompson provided this nice graph. and doctor, you'll recognize this graph. this is a classic growth curve. you've got a lag phase. you've got a log phase. the log phase, the phase of growth, the exponential phase. and in two countries at least, ate pierce that they are in the log rhythmic phase. dr. fauts said at another hearing a few weeks ago, that when you get to exponential growth, exponential always wins. o my question is where on this is the fit -- where on this line is the threat matrix such that you would recommend to the president we have got to do something different and we have got to stop this disease and not allow it to be imported to our country? because this doesn't come in, it's not like pandemic flu. you can only get ebola if you go get it and then bring it home. so where is the point on this graph where that would occur? >> we are already at the point where we believe that all stops need to be pulled out in preventing the growth of the disease in africa. and that can really -- and that's what we need to focus on. because the risk in this co

mr. thompson and are battling cancer and strength and courage as they do so. and of course there resources available for the individuals. so we encourage the individual in question to pursue the resources available and wish him every best wish. >> mr. speaker, a private enterprise will benefit from the canada decision eliminate home mail delivery. as shown and 65% of the population spoke out against the privatization of the post ask survey. can they tell us why the public has to pay between 20 and $60 to have their mail delivered to their door? >> the honorable mention -- >> the reality is they don't. canada post is facing a serious cash front and as they are supposed to do under the 2er78s of the statute. indeed mr. speaker, i think it's important to know that the federation of municipalities overwhelmingly rejected a motion brought to the floor asking that the federation condemn the government and reverse the decision. they said no and they will continue with their plan. >> the number one member. >> in the 2014 report on the terrorist threat to canada, it is

mr. thompson and to represent him both in the court of appeals and the u.s. supreme court, and so let me echo the chairman's comment to apologize to you for the ordeal you endured. >> thank you, sir. >> and to thank you for having the courage to speak out about it because that cannot be easy to do. >> no. >> this issue is an issue that raises complicated issues because you've got conflicting interests. mr. raemisch, i'd like to ask in your judgment, with what frequency is solitary confinement used for relatively minor infractions? >> i can only at this point give you my impression, and my impression is that it is incredibly overused in that area. i was talking during the break that really the process hasn't changed in over 100 years, and i try to think of what is still being done 100 years ago that's being done today that should be done, and i can't think of anything. and so when i look at that whole process, it, again, has become a tool to make a facility run more efficient, and that part of our mission we're failing because we're sending them out into the c

mr. thompson and to represent him both in the court of appeals and the u.s. supreme court. and so let me echo the chairman's comment to apologize to you for the ordeal you endured. >> thank you, sir. >> and to thank you for having the courage to speak out about it, because that cannot be easy to do. >> no. >> this issue is an issue that raises complicated issues because you've got conflicting interests. mr. raemisch, i'd like to ask, in your judgment, with what frequency is solitary confinement used for relatively minor infractions? >> i can only at this point give you my impression, and my impression is that it is incredibly overused in that area. i was talking during the break that really the process hasn't changed in over 100 years, and i try to think of what is still being done 100 years ago that's being done today that should be done, and i can't think of anything. and so when i look at that whole process, it, again, has become a tool to make a facility run more efficient, and that part of our mission we're failing because we're sending them out into the community wors

mr. thompson and represent him with the court of appeals and the supreme court. let me echo the chairman's comment and apologized to you and you will do that. and to thank you for having the courage to speak out. that cannot be easy to do. this issue is an issue that raises complicated issues. i would like to ask in your judgment with what frequency is his solitary confinement used for relatively minor infractions. >> i can only give you my impression and my impression is that that is overused in that area. i was talking about what is being done 100 years ago and so part of the process and making the facility run more efficient and that part of our mission was failing because of sending them out to a community worse than they came in. that's what making the periods of time in administrative segregation does. when i hear the comments and the issues and questions and sitting next to me was the director and pretty big systems. i was asked that question by one of the audience members, i pointed to the others, welcome to the knuckle-dragging club. the public perceptio

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mr. paulson defended treasury's 2008 bailout of the insurance giant saying it was needed at that time to stabilize the u.s. financial system. mary thompson has more tonight from federal claims court in washington, d.c. >> six years after the financial crisis, former treasury secretary hank paulson returning to d.c. to defend his and the government's actions in putting together what became a bailout for the insurance giant aig. in less than two hours on the stand, paulson defending the harsher terms of aig's bailout saying the public saw aig as a scapegoat for everything wrong on wall street. paulson equating aig to citigroup, a firm set to fail without government help. the difference being, citi's failure would lead to other bank failures whereas aig stood along among insurance companies. paulson said aig's tough terps were needed to get a reluctant congress and an angry american public to buy into a bailout and to pave the way for the delivery of t.a.r.p. money paulson said he needed to help other firms. his first priority during the crisis was always to maintain financial stability. aig's former ceo hank greenberg and its investment fi

mr. bloomberg had 13% of the vote. thompson got 12% of the vote. of the registered voters stayed home.i would just like people to get out and vote. if people did that -- especially those so-called on the left -- look at whether you agree with them or not. tea party has the done in the last few years, just organizing and getting out and putting the folks in. i will use one example in new york and then move on. al lewis got 55% and put the green party on the ballot. the gentleman from south carolina is very right. what we need to do is look at 5 of the constitution at changing the senate and get more proportional representation be more d then we will balanced out. but al lewis got the green party on the ballot. the green party in new york is running for governor now, but they could have run a person in every single district. we have to stop being a country of only pointing fingers at the problem. start from the solution and the solution starts with all of ourselves. and vote all go out for whomever. that is the beginning of a change. much chael, thank you very for the call. i am glad you

mr. woolf? funicello: have you ever experienced or been to the thompson park vortex?nik: i follow the news clips about it. if you were state legislator would you have voted for -- absolutely not. >> no indeed. motzert leave over governor cuomo november? >> yes. >> no. >> oh god, no. >> did you vote for him in 2014? >> i wrote an expletive. >> should roger goodell stepped down as commissioner of the nfl? >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> moderator: we are going to go to closing statements and that begins in one minute to remind you and mr. woolf you first. a. woolf: thank you for the opportunity to be here in a spirited moments and it's an incredible honor to be a candidate for congress in the 21st district. i think we have a lot to be proud of in our district and we are seeing the seeds of the new economy and so many places. small-scale manufacturing warren county ag revival in champagne valley and forest tree to provide cutting-edge forest tree for fort fort drum. i've such faith in the future of our economy in upstate new york but dysfunction and inaction and partisan extr

mr. klain. i disagree with that and i'm curious if you think i'm wrong. that's sort of the job of the secretary of hhs. tommy thompson was the secretary anthrax scare. we do have someone with that job. now that we have a czar we introduce a whole new bureaucracy. turf wars warning who is supposed to do what. already have a cabinet level person, a secretary of hhs who answers to the president. why do we need a czar? for weeks now no one in charge. largely the secretary of hhs, sylvia burwell very capable individual. there was nobody. that's why some of us said, look, who is in charge? put somebody in charge could have made her the czar. the american people need to look to someone who has the knowledge expertise background can assure them we are taking the measures necessary. and frankly i don't think mr. klain fits the bill as a partisan democrat. certainly not in any effort to address this issue in a bipartisan fashion. >> back in march, the world health organization roared a a rash of case of ebola the worst ever seen in africa. >> we have done something maybe he wouldn't have come here to the united states. >> i th

mr. woolf? >> what do you think the answer is [laughter] >> do you believe in the thompson park for text?> i have no idea what you're talking about. >> i have not experienced it. >> i have not experienced it. >> if you were a state legislature, would you have voted for the safe act? >> no . >> no. >> no. >> will you vote for governor cuomo in november? >> no. >> no. >> no. >> did you vote for bill owens in 2012? >> no. >> no. >> i wrote in a next but if -- an epxpletive. odellould roger did -- go step down as nfl commissioner? >> yes. >> it is but a very interesting experience. we will go to closing statements and that begins one minute. mr. woolf, you first. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here, even in these spirited moments. it is an honor to be a candidate for congress. i think we have a lot to be proud of in our district. we are seeing the seeds of a new economy in so many places. ag revival in champlain valley, the repurposing of some of our heritage to provide cutting-edge energy for fort drum. i have such faith in the future of our economy in upstate new york. dysfunction a

mr. geithner testifies today but we are expecting him on the witness stand tomorrow. back to you. >> all right. mary, thank you so much. mary thompsonering that for us today. when we come back a slam dunk for the nba. a look at the league's mega tv deals and the focus on mobile and what it's going to do to the salary cap, that in a moment. we'll be back. dow has gone negative down 23 points. where the reward was that what if tnew car smelledit card and the freedom of the open road? 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 so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are24/7branches? it's just i'm a little reluctant to try new things. what's wrong with trying new things? feel that in your muscles? yeah... i do... try a new way to bank, where no branches equals great rates. >>> coming up at the top of the hour, halftime is live today fro

thompson is as happy as a happy meal. and he seems just as blissful back at headquarters. [ whistling ] >> he actually whistles while he works. his meetings -- >> mreasterbrook. >> begin with -- even found him humming to himself at his desk. it's temping to think he doesn't have a care in the world. but you'd be wrong. >> we have 35,000 restaurants. we're a big target. if you attack mcdonald's you'll get press. so everyone will attack mcdonald's for everyone. >> thompson took the reins two years ago as first african american ceo his charge, make the golden arches golden again. recent consumer report survey of fast food restaurants ranked mcdonald's as the worst tasting burger in the industry. sales have been in a downward spiral with competitors like chip poet take, wendy's and taco bell eating the profits for breakfast. >> ronald mcdonald. >> do you think expectations might be higher for you when you took this job? >> the fact that i'm african american probably called it out more. if the bar is a little bit higher, it's always been a little bit higher. not a new thing for me to be african american. it's new to be african american ceo. >> he grew

thompson has been watching in washington for us. today was former fed chair ben bernanke taking the hot seat, mary. >> mr.nanke's first turn in the chair was far less cordial than tim geithner's. he appeared slightly combative and vaguely annoyed from the questioning from david boyce mostly providing curt responses like yes, sir, i don't recall. they got an exchange of aid package and loans and commitments. asking bernanke, as you understood it in 2008, did rates include equity? bernanke, i don't recall. they claim it violated their fifth amendment rights by not compensating them for that. geithner and paulsen is trying to paint the officials as forcing a slap dash agreement that failed to properly value the company and unfairly punish its shareholders. as for why the equity stake was taken, bernanke did have an answer to that telling the court it was taken for the public saying, i know the equity component was additional compensation to the taxpayer for the risk being taken. mr. bernanke had to leave court around 3:15 today. he will be back tomorrow morning for more questioning and we'll be here to cover

thompson joins us now with the details on what happened. mary? >> reporter: geithner is still on the stand and been there for about five hours today and most of the questions posed to mrhner by the lead attorney answered with the following statements. i don't recall. i don't recall precisely. i don't know. the former fed -- head of the new york federal reserve pressed repeatedly for interest rates on various government credit facilities, the collateral asked for of other troubled firms and the dates of proposed term agreements for an aig bailout. all part of a strategy by the prosecution to prove that aig and shareholders were treated unfairly in the process charged higher than average interest rates on the loans given and shareholders couldn't vote on the preferred shares the government eventually took when it took a stake in aig as part of the bailout. boise also asking geithner why he has not followed up on several e-mails of private proposals. geithner said he was exposed to all sort of ideas at the time and, quote, if there was any sort of credible offer to take some of the extraordinary risk off of our hands, we would have welcomed it. there was a moment of levi

mr. duncan arriving? >> no. we never had a discussion. they gave us an optional seminar to go to. >> an optional seminar, secretary thompson.u about not pointing fingers. that makes sense. we don't want to play the blame game but it just seems as though the cdc did not live up to what it says in its own mission statement on its website it says that one of their top tenets is to train the public health workforce to combat these diseases. >> true. >> so why didn't they do that? >> they should have done that, and i think they've acknowledged that, and they're going to do better in the future. i can remember back when we started with sars and anthrax. every single day we had, through my command center in health and human services, we had daily communications from cdc from the world health organization we put a command center over at the world health organization, nih, every single day we had that, giving out information. we distributed information to the public on a daily basis, cdc should get back to that and continue to do so. they have to be able to as soon as somebody comes out with any kind of infectious virus like ebola,