instead, we know from the statements of senior administration officials that the administration deliberately withheld notification from congress until after the trade occurred, months after negotiations to make this trade resumed and intensified, weeks after the detainee transfer agreement with qatar was signed, and days after the final decision was taken. given that the administration accepts the constitutionality of the legality of the notification requirement generally, its actions represent a direct effort to undermine the obvious core purpose of the law -- giving congress the opportunity to raise its objections and lobby against an ill-advised release or transfer before it happens. mr. president, this isn't maximally faithful compliance. this is outright flouting of the statute. the administration, though, has also claimed a need for secrecy; specifically, that informing congress would endanger the prospects for sergeant bergdahl's safe return. i take this concern for secrecy extraordinarily seriously and i know every one of my colleagues does as well. preserving secrecy as not to endan

it didn't start with the obama administration, but it's gotten worse with this administration as it's moved to its side of union advocacy with such things as ambush elections and microunions and undermining state right to work laws. the national labor relations board should be an umpire rather than an advocate. finally, mr. president, my fourth amendment. the fourth amendment i would have offered this morning if our subcommittee markup had proceeded as it had been scheduled and which apparently was canceled because some senators didn't want to take -- quote -- tough votes, my fourth amendment would simply require the obama administration to be straightforward with the public about the affordable care act by reporting basic facts on the federally run insurance exchange which is running the exchange to 36 states. facts such as the number of people signed up and making premium payments. i introduced similar legislation last year. the house of representatives passed that legislation in january by a bipartisan vote, 259-154. a total of 33 house democrats voted for it. it was very simple, c

i applaud the very way in which this administration has taken that responsibility. they've looked at it. >> michael boyles, if that definition had been beefier, more defined to decide what it is, would you feel it is even more an issue? >> i think those exist. this over all decision, and the memo does not discuss the issues that i just raised. the issue of threat. when someone is sitting there with their finger ready to press a button, yes, i think everybody would yes that you could orde agree that yes, you could do that. but that's where you have to have responsibility, and i believe the administration had met that test, and i think this memo is not part of everything, it's not the answer to everything. >> in the push of the release of the memo, it's out, what do you make of what you saw? >> the release of this memo is long overdue. the memo is important for both what it tells us, and it's important for what it doesn't and there are other memos that the administration has not yet released. when they claim to have the authority to kill people based on shifting stand

the administration did neither. it is in the policy of the united states not to negotiate with terrorist. this seems to be violated. it is a designated foreign terrorist organization according to the noted state state department and killed alice americans and afghan soldiers. it maintains close ties with al qaeda as the most dangerous terrorist group fighting in afghanistan. it doesn't matter that qatar acted as a go-between -- this raises another concern close to home in texas. one of my constituents was taken hostage in january 2000 13. an event that many americans have forgotten. he was captured after he hit his coworkers in a space in the refinery. the terrorist never found the coworkers and they eventually escaped. it has been reported the hostage takers wanted to trade those american hostages at the facility, including victor, for terrorist in united states custody. they wrote me recently to say they were told by our government during the attack that the united states does not negotiate with terrorist. victor

at this administration. he was playing word games and being cute. and he is for the administration, i think some members of the committee have observed that he is a useful tool for this administration. but the committee has got to go well beyond saying that i do not believe you, in my opinion. the american people right now are furious and any timidity here to go after the truth, i think it would be, frankly, it is unforgivable as the act of this administration. >> where is the investigation now, and do you know what is owing on with the hard drives and the backups and the e-mails that are in any other part besides the federal government or the executive branch? >> that is why we say we won a special prosecutor now. because we cannot get to the answers that we are told consistently that we are still working on this, we will come back to it as soon as we get the information, you will know. when you look at what is going on, and i'm not disagreeing with you about taking too long, but when you go through the pro

it comes back to the administration, if you have an administration that is lawless and refuses to enforce the law as this administration has, you are going to reap the whirlwind. news," story from "u.s. migrant surges u.s. borders. had to find an immigrant sneaking illegally in the country. he waited in plain sight along a dirt road as a group of migrants and a young girl walked up surrendered to him a mile to the rio grande. they are giving up. the main responsibility is supposed to be serving court papers. as he waited for agents, another group was coming up behind him, and on, and on and on it goes. it's what happens when an administration refuses to enforce the law. itself.to the law when you have an attorney germ hides the evidence and keeping the evidence secret of what happened in a couple of thousand guns being sold, forced by the government to be sold, to people that should have never got them in the operation called fast and furious. we have known about for a number of years, but we have always lt like even in the john mitchell department of justice, en when there was illegality

over 500 went during the bush administration. 50 have left during the obama administration.: you are on the air. democratic caller. the taliban are a terrorist organization. that is a great question. there were some confusion. wereber that the taliban the ruling party of afghanistan when 9/11 took lace -- took place. when the bush administration determined that al qaeda was not a country and they do not fight for a country and therefore they cannot be legally classified as prisoners of war -- three countries around the world have recognized the taliban as the legitimate ruling party of afghanistan. afghanistan itself had satisfied -- ratified and signed the geneva convention. administration decided that captured taliban fighters would be afforded pow status if they follow the rules of war. wearing arms openly, uniform with distinct emblems, following a chain of command, they did not do that. they were not treated as pows. changeda administration the definition. same difference. president obama has been calling them enemy combatants. he is now calling them prisoners of four.

>> yeah. >> is our city administrator here? we have kim from her office that is here. >> okay. >> before taking that motion, why don't we hear. >> so. let me just start by saying, that last year, supervisor breed and this committee started the process of talking about our outstanding grants for the arts and our arts commission and various city funding of the arts in the city and i think that with the goal of expanding the arts for everyone, and especially in one of the most art supporting cities in the world and i think last year, supervisor breed and i and others, raised some concerns about making stronger progress towards cultural equity and we defined the cultural equity broadly, not just under served communities of color and also lgbt committees and woman's arts organizations and other under served and usually smaller based organizations. and at the hearing last year, kerri, that now 34-year head of the grants for the arts mentioned that she was working hard on creating funds for smaller fragile, arts organization and she c

that is something that happened during the clinton administration.'m sure most of you have heard about the mark rich part in which he helped engineer a pardon for someone who was an international fugitive which is -- i'm not sure that had ever happened before, you know? the president has the authority, and there's a pardons office at the justice department that veterans are familiar with, and, yeah, we know about this pardon that was given to someone who had not been arrested, had not stood trial, had not been convicted and who was in court, but somebody who had fled the united states abroad after rich's wife gave a lot of money for building the new clinton library. but that's not actually one of the worst things that eric holder engineered. one of, one of the worst things that he engineered was another series of pardons for 16 terrorists. there were 16 terrorists of the faln, this was a puerto rican independence group. they had been involved in 130 bombings, armed robberies, six killings and hundreds of injuries in new york, chicago and elsewhere. t

and the conflicts we're hearing within the administration's own story, and the administration went toantanamo just three years ago. because he was such a huge risk, surge a risk to u.s. national security. and now they are letting him walk. those are things you don't need to have a ph.d. in national security studies to understand. that just doesn't make sense. >> juan, does this mess, and i think we all agree it's been a mess this week, does it have an impact either in the 2014 midterms or for hillary clinton in 2016? >> i think for mrs. clinton, she initially n the book apparently says she was opposed to the deal, and then has come to the point where she says she was willing to negotiate because she wanted to get bergdahl back. and now she says she's supportive of the administration' decision as you just heard. so for her, i think it's a matter of this fits the title of her hard book, "choices." she was grappling with difficult decisions in a difficult time. that doesn't have much consequence for her political future. for democrats, this is interesting because you heard from senator d

all because of the obama administration? pointed to them as responsible. them for would blame is their refusal to recognize the spread. the refusal to recognize that there is this proliferation and terrorist groups, jihadist .roups they have similar objectives, similar bill or religious beliefs -- similar religious believes. it is estimated to have doubled in a for your time. the state department caulks about core al qaeda. we have decimated core al qaeda. that is not true. there is this massive expansion of terrorism in that part of the world that coincides with the u.s. withdraw from that part of the world. with germanic reductions in the u.s. defense budget. the administration acts like there is no problem. i think there is a huge problem. like therethey act is no problem and the president has talked about terrorism. >> not much. worriedid he is more about a terrorist bombing new york. there have been drawn attacks after gun attacks against terrorist leaders in africa and in other places, as you know. they have not been unmindful of the threat of terror

stop insulting our troops. >> i'm disgusted with this administration. the more you have found out, we have found out quite a bit have we not from people who were actually on the ground from special forces that were tasked initially to find him, that happened to be in the area at the time that herb disappeared, about mr. bergdahl. they were able to read from his diary all that he wrote down about the military, about america, about his intentions, and wanting to leave, and then he did just that. 2h(t&háhp &hc% promote him to the level of sergeant while he was gone and while he willfully put the lives of other officers in danger by wandering off because he was politically opposed and his idealology was shaken by his experience over there. it's disgraceful. i'm looking for the administration to do the right thing and justice for the soldiers that died. >> instead of saying his fellow soldiers were lying, why don't they tell us what they do know, the obama administration? >> i think eventually you are going to have to find out. i don't think there's any rush

the administration just lied about this.y said they would not do it without consultation with congress. they did not live up to that promise. the second thing is they just broke the law. this administration got to the point where they feel like if they don't like the law, they're going to break the law. and then the secretary couldn't respond to any of those. what was even amazing, lou, is when they started talking about how they couldn't prosecute the guys. the worst terrorist we had at bai, we were going to have convictions from them or plea deals from them within six months from this administration came into office according to the prosecutor. the administration stopped that prosecution. we have not prosecuted them yet after five years. >> i want to turn quickly to eric cantor, the house majority leader's defeat and get your reaction and what you assume to be the likely impact both within your state, two of most senior republicans remaining in the contest there. you and bob goodlaw. i mean your thoughts here? >> first of

>> they make the bush administration look like amateurs.you look at the inspector general report, it's not just politico's but it's hiring from advocacy organizations. so, for example, if look at inspector general report that was released last week you will find in the civil rights division voting section the majority of the large there have all been hired from just five advocacy organizations, the mexican american legal defense fund, laurent south, the aclu. so those folks go aikido -- la raza. they don't make the transition to being government lawyers. because when you leave private practice or belief and/or position like that into good work for the justice department, you have to transition into being a government lawyer whose job it is to represent the public as a whole. and i can tell you that people that have come from those organizations, they just now think they're still working for those organizations but that the governments power and the government resources to do what they want. christian adams and a couple of years to come we t

but administration after administration, this is not the first as you know, president george w.insist on driving forward, comprehensive immigration form as he put it, amnesty, open borders, without bringing the american people together. this turns out to be utter madness, doesn't it? >> it is utter madness, we talk about it over and over again, breaking it into smaller pieces. there are problems, we need better hardware, better software, need better technology to secure the border. something we need toas and do. we need to deal with high skill visas. what are we going to do when a student comes over and gets a degree in engineering and science? that's something we have to resolve in law. all the enforcement, for 20 years the united states had a law we have to do a border -psecurity and interior securit system that if someone comes to the country legally, student visa, work visa, we know when they are out, when they leave. it's never been applied. that has to be fixed. lou: we're going to see what all is fixed. congressman james lankford, we're going to be watching, as i know you

there were two other motives for the administration, policy motives. you can get rid of the five worst offenders, it makes it easier to close guantanamo, the rest seems minor and trivial. and the third is this was an attempt to reach out to the moderates in the taliban. leave it up to you to decide if that's of an oxy moron. back to the cold war thinking, we try to manipulate our enemies, sometimes to no effect. but that's what happened. a plethora of reasons, none of which seemed satisfactory. >> we asked you for questions, and from facebook, when is the president going to invite the families of those killed looking for bergdahl to the rose garden? moira, you spent a lot of time covering the white house. do they realize how tone deaf, even offensive, the rose guarden ceremony was, and how do they explain it? >> a lot of democrats say it was a mistake. they should have made a statement, strong and silent. but the white house said they had to do it, the president was leaving the next day. parents just happened to be in town. which was true, they were he

the administration's message is tragic because of the journey the administration encourages it is so dangerous and result in death and harm to so many miners along the way. -- it seemssaid our bordersiddles while they implode. i look forward from find out from the witnesses at what is the obama administration plans to do about the crisis and what solutions could work to end it. all witnesses many who are career law enforcement professionals for taking the time to testify. to recognize ake ranking member from michigan. mr. conyers. hoped we could have a balanced discussion about the root causes of this humanitarian crisis we are seeing play out along the south was border and also begin to identify solutions to this pressing issue. some have already made their conclusions before even hearing the facts. about the surmises are made of. the name of the hearing seems to say it all. and administration made a disaster is to south texas border surge of unaccompanied alien minors. more strongly with the misleading titles such as this. by the arguments just presented. my concern is not just the

let's get back to it according to the guardian the obama administration is considering transferring more of the detainees out of guantanamo bay guardian is reporting that a small number of current get more detainee's are being considered for transfer final decision has been made yet though this comes in the wake of the republican manufactured bowe bergdahl release scandal which many first saw as the obama administration testing the powers are testing the water when it came to closing down get paired with ministration official the majority of agencies involved the transfer discussions favor the transfers we've got eighty six i think is the number of people in guantanamo right now who not only have never been. charged the crime never been connected to a crime but the bush administration declared had never ever committed a crime they were they were picked up in appropriately and they've been down there for twelve years now should we at least be letting these eighty six people to. make that case in the light of day i mean and said oh you know transfer this i mean what a lot of people now don

here he is. >> we have released both under my administration and previous administrations a large number of former taliban fighters, some of whom returned to the battlefield, but by definition, you don't do prisoner exchanges with your friends. you do them with your enemies. >> general, realistically, how big a threat are these five men? >> well, first of all, any exchange, we're trying to get someone is held back in captivity, the deal will naturally favor those who are holding thatperson in captivity. secondly, these five taliban guys are obviously -- everything that people are saying they are, the fact of the matter is there's no conditions that are mitigating what's taking place here. they should not have access to phones, visitors, they should be restricted, they should be on a military base in qatar and to international observers keeping track that. as we speak right now, they are reintegrating with the leadership with the taliban, on the phone, internet, visitors from them. they will eventually come back into the leadership fold of the taliban. make no mistake about that. the fact

the administration did neither. it is in the policy of the united states not to negotiate with terrorist. this seems to be violated. it is a designated foreign terrorist organization according to the noted state state department and killed alice americans and afghan soldiers. it maintains close ties with al qaeda as the most dangerous terrorist group fighting in afghanistan. qatar -- matter that this raises another concern close to home in texas. of my constituents was in january 2000 13. an event that many americans have forgotten. hit hisaptured after he coworkers in a space in the refinery. the terrorist never found the coworkers and they eventually escaped. it has been reported the hostage takers wanted to trade those american hostages at the facility, including victor, for terrorist in united states custody. they wrote me recently to say they were told by our government during the attack that the united states does not negotiate with terrorist. victor was later killed. i asked for consent that the letters be ma

it's always administrative.hese guys were making these laws -- i don't know where they get their health care from but is probably from the private sector and we know they are well taken care of. host: david from california. independent line. hello. caller: i have been dealing with the v.a. here in california for 21 years. they started off telling me that i was never in the ring core -- corps.ne i told them about all of my problems in 1993. three years ago, i went to a private doctor and they had to start putting students into my heart and they told me the reason i don't get the oxygen is because my heart does not pump enough. 421 years, the v.a. told me it was always my lungs. you have to be kidding me. it is off the richter scale. i am 100% disabled from ptsd. they come to work and they transfer from the east coast out here to the west preparing for retirement. i get one and they last anywhere maybe 2-3onths to years. and then they are gone. host: your average wait time for an appointment would be what? caller:

this is part of the pat terp of this administration. they don't know that a caliphate is being established in iraq. >> you just like that word caliphate. >> well, they don't know that the v.a. hospital s as are in a mess, and anything that is going on and they don't know that the environmental policies, which is what this is, and the -- think about this, adam. they don't know that the people's e leks are the ti bills are going to skyrocket. that is what the president did not know. >> and he said he did. >> candidate obama said that the electricity bills would necessarily have to go higher. >> he does not say how much. >> well, you are giving him too much credit. >> what, 30% or smog? -- 30% or something? >> no, in germany, there are 80,000 homes that cannot afford the electric bill, and they are ahead of us, and the only thing saving america is the fracking and the natural gas and the ceo is right, we are headed to the place where the average american is going to be crushed economically and i mean crushed. >> neil, you caught him in a m

the obama administration has weakened it and all the administration plans to deal with the problem will assure the claims get adjudicated quickly and minors and adults will be put on the fact track two remaining in the united states permanently and legally and with access to the full array of taxpayer provided benefits. under the current law many of not a majority of them are eligible for immigration release. many of the miners arriving at the border are claiming asylum or credible persecution. these minors can apply for it will likely receive asylum because it is as easy to save the system. they maintained a department of homeland security report that shows at least 70% -- 70% of the cases contain proven or possible fraud. the rates of the asylum applications are skyrocketing and the former members of the violent gangs who were once encountered are getting asylum. last the aliens who were denied asylum are rarely successfully deported. they will first apply with a uscis officer and approval rates by the officers of increased from 20% to 2007 to 46%. approval rates have increased from 5

but the administration -- since you asked, the administration's changed that policy to deport more people were catching at the border. >> they're calling them deportations -- they're putting them through a deportation process. they didn't go through the process -- >> simon, help me understand how you can see that crossing the border is down under president obama when i'm watching this video right here and i'm seeing thousands of kids and others coming across. >> gretchen, the average year -- 500,000 people came into the united states under george bush. under barack obama, it's zero. there's a number of undocumented immigrants. the undocumented population in the united states has not grown at all under barack obama -- >> why suddenly so many kids? >> these kids are getting caught. and the reason why is that there is turmoil, as your reporter said, will carr said, turmoil in central america, more kids being shipped out by their families to give them a shot at a better life. >> but why? you're not answering the political question. the political question is why those families may be sending t

the administration's message is tragic because the journey the administration encourages is so dangerous and results in death, disease and harm to so many minors along the way. it is often said that nero fiddled while rome burned. unfortunately, it seems that obama fiddles while our borders implode. i look forward to finding out from the witnesses today what, if anything, the obama administration plans to do about this crisis and what would end it. i would like to thank many of the witnesses, many of whom are career law enforcement professionals, to testify. now i would like to welcome the gentleman from michigan, mr. conyers, for his opening statement. >> i had hoped that we could have a balanced discussion about the root causes of the humanitarian crisis we're seeing play out along the southwest border and also begin to identify solutions to this pressing issue. i now see that some have already made their conclusions before even hearing the facts. i am very, very disappointed about the conclusions and surmises that have been made in the opening statement. and the title of this hearing

but but the other is the way the administration handled it. and that's very difficult to explain, why they didn't consult with congress, why it was necessary to have this rose garden issue, why it was important to have the national security adviser go on television to vouch for this guy's service record. so the issue of how they handled it, they've really inflicted injuries on themselves. but the core of what they did there, the prisoner exchange, they can make a good case that was the right thing to do. >> yeah. radicka, the article in time, our whole team read that this morning. probably the most in-depth piece i've read about the situation so far. but jumping right into it, you guys talk about the communication, or lack thereof between president obama and congress. and the article says, the president made matters worse by rushing the final arrangements to trade five taliban leaders for bergdahl past a reluctant military. the decision boiled down to suck it up and salute. help us to understand what was going on in all of this communication,

obama administration said they were kind of caught off guard. how do you get caught off guard in the middle east with all this stuff going on, with all the money we've spent, in that region, all the lives we've spent? here's the problem, the obama administration has now said they may have to ask iran for help. what is going on with iran and the u.s. they want nukes. they want to negotiate nukes. do you think that's not going to be on the the table when we say we need your help put -- pushing back this isis group? >> yes. we want nukes. katie couric asked him, qatar had some dealings with isis. now how scary is that? qatar had dealings with isis. qatar was also the go between the taliban 5 and trading for bergdahl. the point is this, it is so mixed and jumbled, this whole terror thing, we just have to stop or we're going to start arming our enemies and we heard today there's a possibility u.s. stinger missiles may be in the hands of isis. kimberly, i love you. i disagree. stop being with decisive. we did decisive. it doesn't work out. >> i think

he said he he was not speaking for the administration.le i just wanted to make the point that the public should wait before passing judgment i unfortunately used language that many see as disparaging to u.s. members. it is a battle of brawn on a lighter note, president obama versus vladimir putin. after video of the american president went viral, looking at comparisons. while mr. obama does a mean lunge and works out on the elliptical. putin is no straipger to strenuous workouts. president obama put in his reservation for, got to use the gym. president putin went for a swim in an icy lake instead. speaking of physical fitness, a picture has prompted a thousand words at least over hillary clinton's health. the cover of "people" shows clinton leaning on what some people speculated might be a walker. that fed into the narrative she's not in good health. but the magazine says stop all the fwlog blogs it's a patio ch. media coverage of the prisoner swap has prompted a resurrection from a blast from the past. howard kurtz has that part of the s

have been -- many administrations, the clinton administration had been pursuing. he's turned away from that, right, and has a foreign policy now defined -- i think, steve, you'd agree -- by negative opposition to the west and in counterdistinction to the west at this point with russia taking the unique stance, pull back, well, in terms of political cooperation. that said, you can't pull back economically. he can stand defiantly politically, but at the end of the day, the russian economy can't stand defiantly in the economic realm, and they really are vulnerable, i think, to this, and i think it's made a difference, frankly, in terms of his decision. i think the decision he's trying to make is balance his conduct versus causing the west to put the most aggressive secretatori sanctions on him. >> i want to follow up with the west, but steve, if his option is to make, pardon the phrase, a pivot to asia, can russia counterbalance his losses in europe by what we've seen recently in his negotiations in china? >> he can help, certainly on the energy side, to have additio

bush administration stories was the story of how that administration reacted to that supreme court ruling in 2007. the supreme court rules that epa has to regulate air pollution and that the epa has to, they're required by law to determine whether or not green house gases are air pollution. if so, the epa has to regulate them. the epa under george w. bush, they did what the court asked. you got to. it's the supreme court. right? they did what the supreme court asked, said, okay, fine, yes, we acknowledge as the epa, green house gases are air pollution, we're in charge of regulating air pollution and so yes, we do have to regulate them, they were ordered to come up with a finding on that issue, they came up with a finding on that issue. and then they e-mailed that finding to the white house and the george w. bush white house refused to open the e-mail. literally they said they wouldn't click on it. so technically they were never required to act because they never heard what the epa decided on this issue because they literally decided that they would not open the e-mail that contained the f

government the authority to target anwar al-awlaki, who the administration claims had joined al qaeda. the memo was authored by former obama justice department official david barron who was confirmed to the first circuit court of appeals last month. we will discuss the militants release in detail ash the memos released later in the broadcast. in iraq, sunni militants have solidified their control over the western border, including crossing points with syria and jordan. the expansion came as secretary of state john kerry at a surprise visit to baghdad monday . speaking in washington, the state department spokesperson laid out the details of what the administration called its intense and sustained support for iraq. >> first, there are going to be advisers working with the iraqis to help shore up their ability to fight isil and we will be enhancing our intelligence sharing through joint version centers and we will continue to supply a steady stream of sophisticated munitions. they will be working with iraq's best units to help them fight isil. >> the united nations reports at least 1075

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