in the "crossfire," adam schiff and ron johnson. let me ask you, if i might, congressman, you all were briefed i think today. what's your sense? as you know, senator feinstein who is the chair of the finance committee in the senate, from your state, indicated she probably wouldn't go if she had a family member participating. what's your sense of how big a challenge it would be to go to sochi right now? >> if i had tickets to the olympic, i would go. there's certainly a risk. no place around the world regrettably is safe any more and certainly the olympics with the threats we've been hearing about, but i think it's a manageable risk. you won't be able to avoid crowds, but you can't avoid straying off the beaten path. you can take certain precautions in how you get to sochi and not deviating from instructions given to you by personnel on the grounds. you can take precautions to reduce the risk. the risk is greatest outside of sochi, outside of the olympic village, the transportation hub. we've been hearing a lot about aircraft risks b

for more we turn to two key lawmakers, michael mccall and congressman adam schiff.rector of our national counterterrorism senator talk counterterrorism center talked this week and gave a threat assessment. let's listen. >> the greater danger is in the potential for attacks tovenues games themselves. >> and tsa banned all liquids, aerosol, gels and powders from carry-ons on flights between the u.s. and russia. chairman mccall, you're just back from sochi and you say the threat there i and credible. >> i was watching the olympics and rooting for the u.s., about you ybut we also want them to come home safely. putin's perimeter, 145,000 special force, so a lot going on including our fbi and homeland security people. it there are two major threat vectors. in to russia, at that point, which isn't a rin much steg of . and the threat of suicide bombers. the so-called black doughs. widows potentially blowing themselves up or decembtonating explosive p .russians have been cooperative when it comes to external operations. internal operations, less so. >> congressman schiff, ho

southern california congressman adam schiff who is on the house intelligence committee says he believes the olympic venues in sochi are safe but he wishes the russians would share more information. a reported 40,000 russian security forces are patrolling the games. >>> some police officers in san rafael are testing out body cameras. it's part of a 90-day pilot program, the $800 pager-sized cameras record both video and audio. a spokesman for the department says wearing the cameras not only provides a record of encounters but can prevent suspects from being hostile if they realize they are being recorded. if the department likes the cameras it will spend about $60,000 to get more. >>> a petaluma-based company rawing about 60 million pounds of meat, the second recall for rancho feeding corporation in less than a month. the u.s. department of agriculture food inspection service says the meat may have been processed from diseased and unsound unanimals. the recall applies to meat produced between january 2013 and january 2014. so far no reported cases of people getting sick from eating the m

department of justice the issue of targeted drone killings came up as well with representative adam schiff calling for an annual report detailing all drone strike deaths the director of the cia john brennan called it a worthwhile recommendation but back to the n.s.a. today's hearing comes a few weeks after president obama laid out a series of n.s.a. reforms including changing section two fifteen of the patriot act which underpins the n.s.a.'s domestic phone spying program and nearby in the house judiciary committee another hearing was underway that specifically honed in on these issues it was here that david medina of the privacy and civil liberties oversight board explained how this sort of surveillance restricts american civil liberties examine the privacy and civil liberties consequences of the program and found them serious because the program contains highly sensitive information that citizens are maybe chilled and if they're so seasonal rights and engaging with reporters or religious groups or political support is ations knowing that the government is collecting information about the

and he will have representative mike motorcycle mccaul and representative adam schiff. >> a fox extreme weather alert. utility crews are trying to restore power. at one point it left 150,000 customers in the cold and dark. they may have to work through the weekend to get the lights back on. there is a new blast of the frigid air on the move, more on >>> on obama care. y duke university. 44 percent of top american companies say the health care law has them already considering cutting back on benefits to current employees. stephen moore and fox news contributor. good afternoon to you. 44 percent? >> yeah. >> head of a ol saying it costs them what? sen million a year? >> right. and remember this comes 24 hours after we got news from the congressional budget office that 2 million people will be removed from the work force and now further confirmation. and this was a survey of major players in the country. 44 percent may eliminate health care and drop the employer plans. let's assume that number is right in terms of what employers do. i calculate somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 million a

adam schiff on the house intelligence committee says he believes the olympic venues in sochi are safe but he wishes the russians would share more information. a reported 40,000 russian security forces are patrolling the winter olympic games. >>> 7:15. jamie anderson from south lake tahoe is celebrating a women in the women's slope style snowboarding. we will be announcing the running medal count later in the story, just to warn you. anderson tweeted this photo celebrating her win. her caption reads, words can't describe. the 23-year-old she put together a nearly perfect run in the final. >> it just felt so good to be able to do something that i knew i could do and i -- i believed it but just having that passion and determination to really do what i'm capable of. >> here's the medal count so far -- norway, leading, seven medals, canada, the u.s. and russia have won five. netherlands has won four medals. >>> china spent the weekend making its case to host the 2022 winter olympics. five cities are in the running to host the big games eight years from now. the city beijing hosted the 2008

adam schiff, sir, let's start with that one, the security was lax, and the senators want an answer then why susan rice said five days later we obviously had a strong security presence. >> well, look, i think the president, secretary clinton, and ambassador rice will acknowledge and have acknowledged that the security was insufficient. by definition when you have an attack that claims the lives of americans serving overseas, there was an attack on the security. i don't think you can take that small snippet and inflate it to mean she thought the security was ample. plainly it was not. >> a strong, strong but not ample. is that what you say her message was? >> no, what her message was in those immediate days after the attack was based on the intelligence assessment that we had at the time, that there was a demonstration that proved not to be the case. but as the senate report is confirmed, what the accountability review board found is that none of this was done for the purposes of political spin. so i think you could take isolated snippets as my colleagues had and try to inflate it into so

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. >>> joining me now adam schiff, thank you for being here.e appreciate it. >> you bet. >> let's pick up on that point, russia denying involvement in that airport raid. do you believe russia? >> well, russia may not have been directly involved in the sense of sending russian troops to the airport, but that doesn't mean play being a role subross is a, they have a lot of levers at play to use in the ukraine. it is certainly through its contacts there get ukrainians and crimea to stand up to various uniforms toage ta agj tt part of ukraine or other parts. we have to expect putin will use these levers, financial levers in terms of gas going to ukraine. whatever assistance we give, they can undercut by raising the price of the gas and we can expectage tags in crimea and elsewhere, there it's directly done through troops or indirectly done through proxies in country. >> secretary kerry talked about the fact that he had spoken with lavrov earlier today. let's listen to what he had to say and i want to get your reaction on the other side. >> i talked

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in the "crossfire" -- congressman adam schiff from the intelligence committee and u.s.oreign relations committee. in a dangerous world, can we count on putin to protect americans? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> i'm sally kohn on the left. in the "crossfire" tonight, a democratic congressman and a republican senator. holding the olympics in russia was already wrong, now it's scary and wrong. and getting scarier by the second. we just learned the u.s. is banning carry-on liquids on airline flights to russia following warnings about toothpaste tube bombs. and if that sounds like a joke, watch what one of them does to this car. now listen to what senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein just told cnn's jake tapper. >> i think people going to the olympics should be careful. i think they should watch their backs. i think they should stay out of crowds if they can. >> like that's doable. the olympics is one giant crowd. if i were a ticket holder or an athlete, i'd be scared. wouldn't you be? >> well, i'd be so

. >> joining me now, california democratic congressman adam schiff. thank you for being here.talked about two priorities. we're hearing about immigration reform and higher minimum wage. you tell me the prospects of getting either one of those done. >> i think it's going to be a challenge either way as we saw a couple of weeks ago, the republicans announced five principles on immigration reform. and then a week later, they announced a principle that trumped all of their five, which is, don't do anything to divide the gop base. so they indicated they're not likely to bring it up this year which means we'll have to try to force their hand. this is enormously important for the country. it enjoyed widespread support in the country. it would be good for our economy and fair to millions of people. >> how do you force their hand? how do you do that? >> there are a number of ways it can be done. certainly turning up the heat, turning up the pressure, focusing on those republicans that represent increasingly minority districts who are in marginal seats. maybe a discharge petition where

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