he worked in the obama-biden administration as the national economic counsel. he was the director of it. he was the secretary of treasury in bill clinton's administration. before the vote he told everybody, the american rescue plan could set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation. i guess he was right. jason furman, an economic advisor to the obama-biden administration said the same thing. the american rescue plan was definitely too big for the moment. i don't know any economist that was recommending something the size of what was done. but every democrat was. why don't we go to steve ratner, another obama-biden economist? what did he say? the american rescue plan was democrats' original sin when it comes to inflation. think of that. steve ratner, who worked in the obama-biden administration who tried to help them during an economic crisis, especially when it came to the automobile industry, says this is the original sin, the american rescue plan, that caused inflation. he didn't say it was putin's fault. he didn't say it was temp

so why did the obama administration but over the course of several reviews in 2016 the most recent ion't have a definitive number but there was a small portion of overall but now i will recognize chairman adler for his questions. >> thank you very much. but now looking at current in military format former servicemembers that can you describe the more detailn exactly how that initiative is to make sure we could put together but then with the enforcement of those local officers and public safety concerns but then they dive into criminal history and then a supervisor for another adreview that i have been ten very attorney a wellness because that looking at the service heavily in this category but that we do just wish there were other services and there were that option but then to sign the executive order toid direct dhs and the department of defense to "the sale of naturalization for members of the military. what action has the department taken as a result to facilitate naturalization members of monitoring? >> first we work very closely with our partners as is provided in the recruitme

the obama administration had to suspended in 20 put -- 2015. one enlistment was found to be a chinese spy. a number of foreign nationals who enlisted in the military were deported for committing crimes. yet, the democrats don't differentiate between heroes and those who abuse the system with ill intent. i look forward to a discussion about these and other important issues with witnesses today and i yield back the balance of my time. chair lofgren: i am pleased to recognize the chairman of the judiciary committee, chairman nadler for any opening statements he may wish to offer. rep. nadler: emigrants have served in the u.s. armed forces in every major consulate since the revolutionary war. today there are 45,000 immigrants actively serving in the u.s. to armed services. every day, great immigrant servicemembers risked their lives in support of our country. we rely on them to keep our nation safe and protect u.s. global interests. in return, we must honor their sacrifices by supporting them and their families. and, by giving them every opportunit

miss miller, within the obama administration suspend the program in 2016? >> the program was subject to continuous review. >> why did the obama administration suspend that program? >> over the course of several reviews, in 2016, the most recent review indicated that there were significant counter intelligence security concerns within the program that led to a suspension. ller: i don't have a definitive number or percentage. there was a small pursuit -- portion of the overall population that was determined to have a foreign nexus. rep. mcclintock: can you get to me the exact number in this case? ms. miller: sure. chair lofgren: the gentleman yields back. i would like to recognize chairman nadler for his questions. rep. nadler: ms. rogers, as you mentioned in your testimony, the immigrant military members and veterans initiative or immvi allows dhs to consider on a case-by-case basis parole requests under section 212 d5 of the immigration nationality act from certain noncitizen current and former military servicemembers and qualifying family members outside t

. >> i think the case involves the clean power plant that never went into effect that the obama administration attempted to implement before it was withdrawn by the trump administration. talking about that, and also the osha case that was another similar type of administrative law question. one, i think it is the codification of the major questions doctrine that justice gorsuch has been talking about for a number of years through a number of cases. it is not exactly the nondelegation doctrine, but it is a cousin of it. it basically says the way the court is looking now at regulatory actions, whether they involve climate change or vaccine mandates, the court is looking for much more specific authorization and guidance from congress before regulatory agencies can take action. i think that is the big picture of both of those cases. west virginia versus epa has been kicking around for a long time, since the obama administration. the clean power plan of the obama administration was an effort to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. what it did was it essentially encouraged coal producers,

that was a priority of the obama administration to say we will regulate this. there were several years that they got companies to submit applications. there wasn't action for several years. the process moved forward and there was a lot of discussion under one fda commissioner in particular who talked about trying to encourage cigarette smokers to stick to less harmful options. also during that time, vaping became a significant problem. the fda took several actions to try to rein in the underage vaping than the oh biden administration came in and they have several policies looking at the industry from the cigarette side and the e-cigarette site. host: jennifer malone is joining us from the wall street journal. this is from aaron in michigan. caller: i'm wondering why the fda is such a vendettas against juul but they don't go after flavored disposables which are taken over the market. and why are disposables allowed? guest: that's a good question. this goes back to 2020 when under the trump administration, the fda grappled with vaping. they looked at these fruity

president bruton may desperate effort efforts to ward off a war they began back even before the obama administration. during the bush administration, there was a leaked classified cable that came from the us and bastard of moscow, ambassador william j burns. very good man from all that i can tell. he was appointed by president george bush and he, he said it very strongly worded our cable in which he showed that russia would be further eastward, expire towards into the ukraine as a military threat. what was happening is the nato was beginning to talk about nate, about the ukraine joining nato, which would have presented an extra sterile threat to the survival of the, of the russian nation. and so, so they knew precisely what was going to happen. they knew that the russian would be forced into making a decision on whether to intervene. so what happens is there's actually a fairly significant war being waged by ukraine against the don bass to a lesser extent, crimea, but principally against the don bass. it killed about $14000.00 people, mostly civilians and and finally, towards the end of last year, t

i think that this case involves the clean power plant that never went into effect in the obama administrationthat they attempted to implement before it was gone by the trump administration. trump administration. but talking about that one and the case that was another similar type of administrative law question. one i think it is the codification of the major questions doctrine that justice gorsuch has been talking about for the number of years now through a number of cases. it isn't exactly the nondelegation doctrine but it is a cousin of it and it basically says the way the court is looking now at regulatory actions, whether they involve climate change in the epa case or whether they involve vaccine mandates. the court is looking for much more specific authorization and guidance from congress before the regulatory agencies can take action.ti so i think that is the big picture for both of those cases butt to explain them both briefy west virginia versus the epa has been kicking around for a long time now since the obama administration. the clean power plant of the obama administration was an

ambassador schapiro served as ambassador to israel during the obama administration for more than six years after serving on the national security council. our next ambassador has experience working on u.s. policy in the middle east after serving as u.s. ambassador to israel for five years, twice, in the clinton administration and in the obama administration, serving as a special envoy. congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz as a leader in congress on all issues of importance to jewish democrats, including support to israel, defending democracy, combating gun violence, and defending reproductive rights. thanks to the three of you for joining us today. before we focused on israel, i would note that president biden is about to take the stage in riyadh, where in an unprecedented development, he flew hours ago from israel directly. let's start there. we will start with ambassador schapiro. what can we expect from the president's speech in saudi arabia which is about to start? mr. schapiro: thank you. it is good to be with everybody to talk about this historic visit. the president landed i

miss miller, within the obama administration suspend the program in 2016? >> the program was subject to continuous review. >> why did the obama administration suspend that program? >> over the course of several reviews, in 2016, the most recent review indicated that there were significant counter intelligence security concerns within the program that led to a suspension. >> how many recruits were identified as having -- foreign preference? >> sir, i don't have a definitive number of percentage. there was a small percentage of the overall population that was determined to have a foreign influence or foreign access. >> would you get back to me on the exact number of details where these cases? >> yes, sir. >> thank you. i assume my time is expired. >> the gentleman yields. back i would now like to recognize chairman nadler for his questions. >> thank you very much. miss rogers, as you mentioned in your testimony, the immigrant military members and veterans initiative, or immvi, allows dhs to accepting consider on a case by case basis request under section 2:12

s. technology way back, as you mentioned, the obama administration, while way already. in fact, why has been cut all over and finally the high and michael chips result he almost collapsed. so bob. ready industry, but the fact remains why has been in infrastructure, especially in 5 g, a structure on a long time. in fact, in spite of the company that council 60 percent, all l y g in both structure throughout the world and actually in the station. and you can continue with by the industry, all sorts of areas and also. ready sanctions and also barriers against an entry. so the lead this, this company, and obviously if you find a company, we got this all the evidence evidence that the united states, this is the key to use the other infrastructure. but i think the accusing why all those doing a thing destroyed american technology. it's a bit of over high. i think that it would be best to concentrate on its own competence. but nevertheless, this is part over 360 degrees, respect and china. so this again, but of course hallway has denied all those accusations that it is a tool

and part of that is the obama administration, you know, the result of the obama administration and policies. okay, well, joe biden said, when he addressed the meeting on saturday, he said washington's not walking away. we're not going to leave a vacuum to be filled by russia. china or iran, is he doing enough now to, to try to, to make men's to make good with the gulf states with saudi arabia, partners? well, i think, personally, he's saying the right things. and moreover, i think the united states administrations before have we said the right things. i don't necessarily think he said anything new the, you know, what we heard were a lot of statements that, of principles, of declarations and statements of, of principles. but you know, time will tell, i think, just expand upon what as i had mentioned. indeed there is this notion that there is this vacuum and i think it's been prominent in the past years, especially after the arab spring, et cetera. we're where people are talking about this idea of an american withdrawal . i personally don't think america is withdrawing to that extent. moreove

ambassador schapiro served as ambassador to israel during the obama administration for more than sixears after serving on the national security council. our next ambassador has experience workin

so coming back to nasa as the deputy administrator in the obama administration. i thought it was very natural goal to want to continue that transformation process and president-elect obama happened to agree. so it says my quest because it's a memoir, but it's a lot of people's quest for decades and that's why i wrote the book. well, let's open that up for a minute. you say that nasa had lost its way. i mean that's sort of a big statement. what do you mean by that? and how did that happen? you know, we're talking primarily here about human spaceflight at nasa many many things at nasa go very well and in fact human spaceflight has in some sense then hugely important and transformational even since apollo, but the shuttle was supposed to reduce the cost and increase the reliability of human space transportation, and it had not we had only flown a couple of hundred astronauts since apollo in the 30 years since and we had lost two crews 14 people in a system. that was clearly never going to be reliable because it's design and it was never going to be cheap. so when i

before joe biden became president under the obama administration and the bush administration, they can request suspicious forms. it's unheard of. he's had 150 of the violations. once we determine this, the treasury requested one for hunter biden. we change the rules, and it started getting press. the treasury department was on this and they said okay, if you can get single democrat to sign on the request with you, then we will give you the request. obviously, you can imagine, no democrats are interested in signing on. >> jason: what kind of rules are they making up on the fly? keep after it, i will tell you. congressman jordan, repeatedly, joe biden will go to the microphone and say they told me not to say this. then you've got -- i love the video of the easter bunny coming out and telling joe biden it's time to move on. if one in the world is going on there and who are the puppeteers making the decisions and why is the president of the united states saying they told me not to say this? >> it's a sad situation for the country because no one wants to see our president of our great count

so maybe two or latin america the obama administration trapped him there ever wanted to be in russia. he had always intended to pass through russia on his way to latin america the obama administration trapped him there by revoking his passport, but most important. by bullying the cubans out of intercending their guarantee of say passage, which he needed in order to get to latin america, so he's been in russia for eight years. so when i visited him he was still hoping one day to be able to leave. by now, he's married his american girlfriend. they have two children, and i think they're kind of building a life there and if he still loves to come home, but you know, if he can't i think he's content with the life. he's chosen. there's a real debate in this country about julian assange ed snowden and chelsea manning heroes or villains. me, so to me, there's no real debate. one of the was the true extent to wage virtually everything in washington is done behind all of secrecy. obviously almost everybody agrees that some things the government does should be secret if there are troop movements

by not international economic policy record into economic agenda of the biden/harris administration. joining the obama/biden administration he served as an acting director of the office of management and budget and deputy director of the national economic council. he is here today, to share updates on competition policy on behalf of the biden administration. so, over to you. [applause] >> thank you vivian. and thank you to the aspen institute for hosting today. and for the role you play in advancing public dialogue. thank you cecilia for being here and for all of the inherent on-screen being part of this conversation. spotlighting which we certainly believe deserves greater spotlighting. today we hope to be doing that. so, i wanted to spend some time today talking with you about where we come, we are and where we are going in respect to policy. in the biden administration. it is an appropriate moment to do so because it's just a little over a year ago that president biden signed the historic event on competition. and for many of us who were there in the room with the title recall that he articulated b

and its gone on with prosecutor started looking into hunter biden in the waning years of the obama administration. the u.s. attorney of delaware opened his full investigation into hunter biden's taxes in 2018 and since then, it has turned into an investigation into possible gun crimes, possible money laundering, possible foreign lobbying violations. they are looking into a lot of different aspects of this investigation. this has been going on for four years and it sounds like we are coming to a resolution. what that resolution is going to be remains to be seen stuff i talked to several former prosecutors. they tell me how they look at it reading the tea leaves on what could come out and what has happened. we could be going toward some kind of plea agreement and the reason they say that is because a plea agreement to a possible tax crime would check off a lot of boxes for a lot of people. it would give david weiss and merrick garland of the justice department the ability to send off republican critics by saying we scored a guilty plea and they charge him with something, it was not an investigation

i worked in the obama administration and bush administration.'m an independent and retired army officer. we work with all parties to make sure they have what they need to be able to protect their infrastructure. and what is most sacred to us as citizens, our ability to have confidence will be go vote at the ballot box that our vote counted. annmarie: a very busy agenda for you. thank you for joining us, jen easterly, director here in america. dealing with cybersecurity and outside threats like russia, iran, north korea and china. kriti: annmarie hordern, thank you. time for the first word news with mark crumpton. mark: health officials are calling on european countries to beef up covid monitoring and bring back curbs to tackle the resurgence of the virus. the world health organization is warning of a challenging autumn and winter and asking governments to promote mask wearing. the number of cases in europe has tripled in the past six weeks, with almost 3 million infections reported last week alone. gasprom is going to restart exports to europe o

if we talk about our country, uh, there are wrong policies pursued by the obama administration and uhequent presidents. we, too, have been victims of illegal unilateral sanctions and coercive measures. we call these sanctions. with long-term measures, we say that these are not sanctions, because sanctions are against those who, uh, have some kind of authority to make some decisions, but here we believe that the administration of the united states ah makes these decisions independently and we see massive large-scale application of sanctions against the russian federation in a variety of sanctions, the task of which is to, uh, stop economic development block the country isolate. but as i said, the concessions of the purpose of these sanctions were not achieved. this is a very serious miscalculation. i would say not an excusable miscalculation and the result of this miscalculation, but is the problem faced by the economy of the united states which faced the economy. european union a-a, who today do not know how to solve the difficulties that have arisen. how to return to normal life and

the obama administration didn't do that. they wanted the deal more than iran did. n administration has been signalling the exact same thing, we want this thing more than you do. that's not negotiation. and the biden administration hasn't done it right. >> eric: israel standing by its own survival it says on the line because of this. thank you for your insight. of course we'll get back to you on this very important issue in the future. >> thanks, eric. >> eric: take care. arthel? >> arthel: thank you. a woman has died after falling into an alligator-infested pond in florida friday night. we will have those details on this very tragic story that's coming up next. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health. versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost® high protein also has key nutrients for immune support. boost® high protein. this is john. he hasn't worked this hard to only get this far with his cholesterol. taken with a statin, leqvio can lower bad cholesterol and keep it low with two doses a year.

scenarios like we're seeing in ukraine. >> before that template was created, you write that the obama administrationrly days of the emergence misunderstood the islamic state. president obama called it the j.v. team. what was the effect? >> tilliest the u.s. unprepared. the month that president obama called it the j.v. team was the same month that the head of the delta force and the senior special operations commander for the middle east went to iraq. so iraq's counterterrorism service and action and reported up their chain that it was overmatched. that it was having a hard time coping with this isis which was really an evolution from an aboutl-qaeda group. >> one soldier described it as a valley forge scenario, the revolutionary army at the lowest point. why had the iraqi army deteriorated to that point? >> in 2010, there was very well understood on the part of the iraqi generals and the american general that is there was a continuing need for a small american presence to mentor, train, enable iraqi forces. but the politics in baghdad and the politics in washington were such that american forces lef

nick: before that template was created, you write that the obama administration, in the early days ofe, misunderstood the evolution of the islamic state. president obama, of course, famously called it the jv team at one point. what was the impact of that misunderstanding? michael: it left the u.s. unprepared for what it later had to do. you know, the very month that president obama called isis, the -- called isis the jv team was the same month that the head of the delta force and the senior special operations commander for the middle east went to iraq, saw iraq's counterterrorism service in action and reported up their chain that it was overmatched, that it was having a hard time coping with this isis, which was really an evolution from an al qaida in iraq group. nick: what was overmatched, of course, was the iraqi military at the time. and you describe it as rudimentary, what one soldier referred to as a valley forge scenario, of course, a reference to the american revolutionary army at its lowest point. why had the iraqi military deteriorated to that point by 2014? michael: in 2011,

before joe biden becameid president under the obama administration, the bush administration, any member of congress to go to the treasury ndan department and request suspicious activity reports, these were put into place again to catch funneling money to terrorist cells in the united states meets unheard of. he's had one hundred and fifty of these violations. once we determine that, then i went to treasury, requested the stars on it and they said, no, we changed the rules.e starcan't do that anymore.. thiste started getting press. we started leaking out that the treasury department. stole a lot of this. >> then they came back and said, okay, we'll make an exception if y you can get a single democrat to sign on the request with you, then we'll give you the request. and obviously, jason , as you can imagine, no democrats are interested in on what kind of rules are they just k making upn on the fly to reach t their political goals? it, keep after it. tell you i got to say, congressman jordan, you know, repeatedly, joe biden will go to the microphone and say, you know, they told me notot to