administration. but it is evident that the small team from the leadership perspective was able to help corral agencies and people that might not otherwise have been willing and able to do so to respond quickly. participants said multiple times. in 1840s -- national security council did not have. [inaudible] basically and standing up the whole apparatus the threat of terrorism additional terrorism is like trying to change a tire on a truck where it's going down the highway at 60 miles per hour. they didn't amazing job in adapting to the circumstances of the time and cutting through red tape and setting the stage for the normalization and the reorganization of government [applause] >> thank you. thank you for that presentation. we will move we will move on to the next paper which is strategic staffing after september 11. george w. bush's national security. >> thank you. i am honored to be here. as dave acknowledged this conference series has extraordinary reputation. i am delighted to be a part of this

the fourth circuit across the river ruled in favor of the administration and the administration prevailed's curious is roberts' legacy as jeffrey was talking about in saving obamacare once again. he did that with the individual mandate. very unpopular with conservatives. and once again he's adopting the same type of broad statutory interpretation. he's saying i need to look at the statute as a whole not just those words, and i think that this conforms with the purpose of the statute rather than send it into a death spiral if i were to rule for the petitioners. it's very uncharacteristic for a member who is associated with the right to adopt that type of broad statutory approach but he did it before when he saved obamacare the last time. >> that was a 5-4 decision so his vote was crucial. this is a 6-3 decision so his vote was not crucial although the fact he chose to write the opinion as the senior justice on the court not insignificant. >> to give credit to the administration they picked up justice kennedy as well. a 6-3 decision on a court that's usually very divided on this issue and i

that will change the game for the obama administration. but if that doesn't happen, and let's hope it does not, they're not going to do anything more than what they're already doing. lou: general always good to have you here, general jack keane. >> good talking to you, lou. lou: be sure to vote in our poll tonight. the question is -- cast your vote at loudobbs.com. >>> in colorado tornadoes and hail damaging dozens of homes several tornadoes touched down across the state. homes destroyed across a number of counties. thankfully no injuries have been reported. the storms backing a powerful punch dropping what some describe as baseball-sized hail and rain across the state. there are reports of hail being the size of grapefruit. >>> and the tornado's heavy rains leading to problems outside denver this morning. one police officer found himself in a sinkhole when the roadway opened up under his car. he crawled out. wasn't injured. >>> up next red storm rising and the white house once again trying to play nice with china. my commentary coming up,

nominee, noting that the previous administrator, pistole, announced his resignation last october but it took seven months to come up with a new nominee. bret? >> doug mckelway, thank you. >>> the stocks are off today. dow is down 28 and s&p down 2 and nasdaq down 6. >>> iran stocking up on fuel. we'll talk about it all with the panel after a quick break. >>> our diplomacy with respect to iran where for the first time in a decade we've halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material. >> how do you square that with the ie announcing a 20% increase in the nuclear feel? >> the iae report published at the end of last week is a snapshot in time and the joint plan of action requires iran by the end of that joint plan of action period in this case by june 30th to be at the appropriate cap on their stockpile. >> well the snapshot in time is the time over the last 18 months as this nuclear deal has been being negotiated with iran the nuclear fuel increasing by 20%, according to the iaea this as former key aides to the commander in chief that the preside

kelley the city administrator. i wanted to start off the presentation in and i don't see the slides next to me. there we go, okay. and so i want to start off right away, on my fiscal, 2015 through 2017 budget with just an organizational structure of all of the different departments, and the divisions and programs that are under the city administrator. and as you can see there is 25 of them, and however, the department of public works in the public of technology will be here later, today to present their budgets but everyone else, and including treasure island development and i am going to run through their budget right now and i don't know, if they are going to be here later, because i will cover treasure island and it gives you an order of magnitude of the departments that we are going to run through today and the next slide is the two year budget out look. and for current year for fiscal year, 14, 15, $309.two million and fiscal year 16, we are proposing --. >> sorry, real quick, could you call item six with this

the administration has moved in recent times on a few things. did not expect six months ago that they would allow iran in a negotiated deal to keep such a large infrastructure in place, even if they're doing so with very little nuclear fuel. that infrastructure would allow iran to ramp up quickly at the end of the agreement whether that is 10 years or 15. we did not really understand what iran's inspection regime would look like. we are still trying to get a handle on how quickly sanctions would get relieved. if a lot of the sanctions on oil and financial transactions are lifted early then the administration will have a lot less leverage when they are dealing with iran later on. charlie: final question to dennis and to gary. do you think there will be a deal? >> i think the recent hand grenade raises questions about whether the iranians are ready to close the deal right now. we have seen this before, last summer of number facing a deadline, khamenei gave a similar speech with red lines that were unacceptable, saying iran would not give up a sing

office john our fleet administrator and office naomi kelly and jennifer and from others from my office of the department of the environment for their hard work and coming up with the fleet martin luther king policy the amendments were substantive i'll hope we'll make today but will have to sit in committee everyone is in agreement with the recommendation i'll be making a motion with that colleagues no questions turnover to the budget analyst report and move from there and. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee on page 17 of our report we note to the- will not be subject to the contract for the administrative code or environmental code for the solicitation of contract for the hiring we also note on page 17 of our report as supervisor farrell has gone over we would like to emphasis a journal report on the 5 percent for the non safety fleet generates savings in a 4-year period other efficiency will be achieved through a greater oversight of vehicles use a 5 percent reduction in fuel restriction is more annual savings and 10 percent reduction will result in $17,000 plus in annual sa

sadly, the bush administration exploited 9/11.book. the exception to the rulers. the think tank formed in 1997 to quote promote american global leadership. its founders are a who's who of the neoconservative movement which seamlessly more into the top officialdom of the bush to administration. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld as president jake cheney. cheney's chief of staff. deputy secretary of defense. national security council staff member. among others. the members had a reputation around washington explained the retired cia analyst as >> he did it for president george h he observed. when we saw these people, coming back in town all of a sudden. we said the crazies are back. mcgovern said their wild eyed geopolitical schemes would typically typically go right into the circular file. in 2000, he issued a report that called on the united states to dominate global resources. the key to realizing this was a catastrophic and events like a new pearl harbor. until you have the allegations of weapons of mass destruction the pretex

an opening for the administration.if you use the toolbox right say we mean business taxes will be report. the quickest way to get those of the is the obviously resolve the cases in a way that return is the ultimate resolution of the case. its corruption abroad. judicial system, judges, foreign minister that might not be susceptible to corruption. a huge problem in many countries. it's probably are. for would for would you say to that? has that caused some of this? >> to some extent i will try to answer your question. the reality is that individual parents of faced and so enough to speak to each individual situation you the pieces of information's detailed descriptions of the performance problems. previous reports listed concerns about judicial performance there was significant detail provided for country that has not been spoken about today such as costa rica. detailed descriptions of the problems that the united states notice in the application of the treaties principle that the courts. you know they remain loaded in

sadly, the bush administration exploited 9/11. the blueprint for what happened and i think it's important to go back even not so far history. was drawn up years earlier. by the project for the new american century. i'm reading for my first book. the exception to the rulers. the think tank formed in 1997 to quote promote american global leadership. its founders are a who's who of the neoconservative movement which seamlessly more into the top officialdom of the bush to administration. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld as president jake cheney. cheney's chief of staff. deputy secretary of defense. national security council staff member. among others. the members had a reputation around washington explained the retired cia analyst as >> he did it for president george h he observed. when we saw these people, coming back in town all of a sudden. we said the crazies are back. mcgovern said their wild eyed geopolitical schemes would typically typically go right into the circular file. in 2000, he issued a report that called on the uni

administrate i provisions maritime administration. section 170. the administration is authorized to make necessary repairs involving government properties. section 171. none of the funds shall be used to negotiate or perform fee for service contracts for vessel disposal. pipeline and hazardous material safety administration operational expenses. $20,725,000. hazardous materials safety. $60,500,000 of which $7,570,000 shall remain available until september 30 2018. pipeline safety. pipeline safety fund oil spill liability trust fund, $145,870,000. the chair: clerk will suspend. the gentlelady -- for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? >> i rise today to offer an amendment, amendment number 30. the chair: the clerk will designate that amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mrs. capps of california, page 61 line 22, strike the period at the end and insert the following. colon, provided further that not less than $1 million of the funds proswrided under this heading shall be for the finalization and implementation of

and i don't think the administration can afford to agree to those kinds of terms. >> reporter: administration spokesman cast the group's statement not as an alarmed critique but rather an endorsement of mr. obama's approach. >> the types of concerns that outlined in the letter are very much on our minds as well. >> so when they say we fear that the current negotiations may fall short of meeting the administration's own standard of a good agreement, they just don't understand what the administration is doing i guess. >> i'd just say they have no reason to fear. >> reporter: director of national intelligence general james clamp acknowledged to lawmakers in a june 3rd letter it would have been appropriate for his agency's 2015 worldwide threat assessment to have made mention of the iran-hezbollah terror network as the state delayed its annual report on human rights which fouled iran guilty of arbitrations detentions torture and killings. the iran nuclear talks, however, are not linked are human rights. >> i'm always hopeful, yes. >> reporter: it's not just former advisers to president obama who

let me just start with this administration, which is i can't recall any administration, including the administration that just simply bald face lied to the american people on so many issues so often, can you? >> lou, in your lead-in when you were talking about the president and you actually did the clip of him saying this is not going to cover illegal citizens for health care. i got to thinking about all the other lies he told like if you like what you have, you can keep it. american families save an average of $2500 per family on health care costs. we see extraordinarily high increase in the cost of the premiums and so i could just go on and on and on about the things that he has said that we know were not true, and it is very, very discouraging. it almost makes you feel like sometime you want to put your hands up and say i don't know what else to do we can't do that. we have to keep working. this country is a wonderful country and have another year and a half and hopefully we'll have another leader in the white house that we can trust. lou: hopefully we'd have a leader who can make

let me just start with this administration, which is i can't recall any administration including theon administration that just simply bald-face lied to the american people on so many issues, can you? >> well, lou, in your lead-in when you were talking about the president and you actually did the clip of him saying he is not going to cover illegal citizens, health care, i got to thinking about all the other lies that he told, like if you like what you have, you can keep it. american families are going to save an average of $2,500 per family on their health care costs. we see extraordinarily high increase in the costs of their premiums. i can just go on and on and on about the things that he has said that we know are not true. it is very, very discouraging. it almost makes you feel like sometime you just want to put your hands up and say i don't know what else to do. we can't do that. we have got to keep on working. this country is a wonderful country, and we have got another year and a half, and then hopefully we'll have another leader in the white house that we can trust. >> hopeful

i think just going after the administration is a good sign they are doing that.u elizabeth we appreciate it, and patrick good to have you here. >> time for a look at our on-line pole results do you believe that president obama would be a better leader if your national media were to quit pretending he actually is. 79% of you said no, no. that will not help. time for your comments, lynn, without leadership at national and local level we will not prevail against the islamic state, leadership does not exist at either level. jeff tweeted no american city should be a lost cause baltimore needs leadership, anger management and economic recovery that is it for us, thank you. good night from new york! kennedy: world of the night is dobbs. thank you, lou. i am watching and already crowded presidential feel, exceeds capacity but it is not like the vip section you would like to see at a club with a bottle full of bub. lincoln chafee was a republican turned independent who is now an opportunist, what is his big idea for defeating isis? lincoln? >> here is a bold embracive int

let me first off i sang where we agree with the administration, we work with the administration. this week's action on trade is a perfect example. but on this health care law we could not be more opposed to what the administration is doing. we really think this is doing great harm to the health care system and to the people we all represent. so let me start by just addressing the big elephant in the room. any day now the supreme court as you will because your name as is burwell, in king v. burwell, is about to roll if the court rules against the administration, and millions of people will be stuck with a government design health insurance that they cannot afford. so the question is then want? what about the people who are going to lose their subsidies and possibly their coverage? is the president going to dictate to us how to fix this flawed law? or is the president come is the of michigan going to be willing to work with us to give families greater freedom in choosing a health care that works best for them? >> so with regard to the question of the court, i think you know we beli

among the witnesses was the administrator of the national highway traffic safety administration dr. rosekind he took over just weeks after the last subcommittee's hearing in december. during yesterday's hearing, one they have themes we heard repeatedly was that nhtsa would have been able to identify and mandate recalls if they had more resources. it's a refrain we're used to hearing here in congress. his argument was with more money they could have saved more lives. i'll take him at his word on that. for fiscal year 2016, congress is proposing funding the national highway traffic safety administration account poe responsible for the policing of auto manufacturers' products for $15 million. it's an increase and for that i'm grateful. it is in the interest of good faith however that with the new chairman, from the new chairman of the subcommittee to the new administrator of nhtsa i want to take an additional step and offer $4 million more dollars to provide them with what they need to ensure more lives are not disrupted by these defects. i hope that nhtsa can use this additional fundi

can you talk about that transition to the next administration? sandy: we were focused on the transition out because we did not have much of a transition in. the national security advisor did not spend much time transitioning in except to call me in december to say we just sent 20,000 troops to somalia but do not worry about them. they will be out before inauguration. [laughter] sandy: that was my one real experience of the inside. i asked all of our people to do very short concise statements of where things were, and what options were. and one thing i was very focused on and the president was very focused on was terrorism and al qaeda. because the folks who were coming in had governed before all this happened. they governed at a time when the world's enemy was the soviet union. it was a bilateral world. and had not governed in a world where we were threatened by people living in caves. i spent a lot of time with condi and president bush trying to explain that this world has changed. so that was a particular emphasis of hours going out -- of ours

he expressed confidence that the administration would win that case.ere's c a bit from that press he press conference. >> it's not something that should be done based on a twisted interpretation of four words in -- as we were reminded repeatedly a couple thousand page piece of legislation. what's more, the thing is he working.work part of what's desirable about this whole thing is we haven't is we had a lot of conversation about the horrors of obamacare because none of them come to pass.ors of you have 16 million people who have gotten health insurance. overwhelming majority of them arens satisfied with the health em are insurance. s it hasn't had an adverse effect on people who already had n health insurance. the only effect it's had on people who already had health insurance is they now have an assurance they won't be not be prevented from getting health insurance if they've got a preexisting condition and they e heal additional protections.ome in the costs have come in stlsh substantially lower than our ost. estimates bout how much it would cost. he

is that going to be administration's position or is the administration going to be willing to work with congress to find a way to give people more healthcare freedom? ? that's the question i'm trying to get at. >> with the question of healthcare freedom it is it is important to reflect the marketplace is a market, it uses private insurers, people that sign up in the marketplace are not on so they have many choices. as a matter of fact, in the marketplace this year there were 25% more plans. that's more choice that's more competition, that is why -- >> let me ask it this way because i want to be kind of everybody's time. let me ask it this way, if the plaintiffs prevail, if the king side wins and then the exchanges are deemed unconstitutional, not legal in the federal exchange states, then the individual mandate is effectively struck down for those taxpayers in those states. is the president going to say reinstate the individual mandate? i've got to tell you it's not real popular and we here at least on this side of the aisle aren't eager to reinstate the individual mandate, we would lik

within the administration, that was also concern. during the vetting process, lawyers had raised questions about the qualifications of the two nominees and their commitment to conservatism. the president was attracted to the political symbolism, believe them to be sufficiently conservative and intended to appoint them. but then then aba standing committee on the fed is just very as unqualified for the court. -- on the federal judiciary rated them both as unqualified. in the past, nixon probably would have sent the names to the senate anyway. but things were different now. it was time to search again. still, he was angered by his opponent -- that his opponent denied him an opportunity, had denied him the political payoff yet hoped for. he viewed the lilly vote as overkill, and next return of the screw. in stearate -- starting the process over, the president focused much more on the quality of the nominees and not the politics of the nominees. quite quickly he settled on a resistant but very well-respected lewis powell of virginia, who

julie, the president, the administration has been pushing this for a long time. they are getting pushed back now on how and who they are releasing. >> we're at a difficult point for the administration on guantanamo. if the president leaves office and this is still open it's going to be a huge failure for him. it's something that he staked out during the early days of his presidency but the people there are there because it's difficult to transfer them out or we've deemed them necessary to keep them in detainment. so he is looking for all options trying to get creative asking foreign governments to take them swapping five for bowe bergdahl. the challenge is there are a lot of republicans on capitol hill who do not want to see this prison closed and are moving forward with legislation to try to make it harder for him to take the steps that he wants to. >> dana the interesting thing about the taliban five that catherine herridge received from multiple sources is they were going to go back to fight with terrorists and yet now we learned they tried to flip some of the

now, i wish the administration would take this as seriously as we do. let me just say that that whole obamacare matter, and heard all sides and really got tremendously involved in it naturally because i've done an awful lot of health care legislation over my 39 years in the congress. and i have to say that one of the principle arguments was by some that -- that, you know, that the -- the people would have to go, the exchanges would have to be set up by the state. the argument behind it was that's the only way you're going to get people to really sign up for it because that's where the money goes. and that argument was used on more than one occasion and all i can say is i'm very concerned about this whole issue. the statute is unambiguous. it's amazing to me that we've come this far without somebody admitting that, hey, they made a mistake. and that we would have to rewrite the law so that you can do what they've just unilaterally decided to do without any real legal authority to do it. thank you, mr. chairman. senator cruz: thank you, senator hatch. sen

. >> which zoning administrator? in '78? >> the one that submitted the letter of it's appeal or he abused his discretion in making that determination. >> neither the current zoning administrator or the deputy? okay. zoning administrator ever met spencer steel. >> but frank has. [ laughter ] >> absent of clear documentation that would indicate that it was a 4-unit. i don't see how we can come to a conclusion that the za errored in his decision. >> the problem, yes, that is the problem. but the core larry is that you look at the floor plate and it's large. 28 something like that. but you are talking about a floor plate that is approximately 1500 square feet or a little bit more. it's a fairly substantial size. the original drawings show it's all storage down below. and it specifically states in there not to be occupied. i don't know what happened, what timeframe. >> we can all remember. we were most of us are here in '78. it was a crazy building time as it is now. '76, '77, '78, it was all out of control. diamond area

it appears to be a major victory for the obama administration in the obamacare case. let's go to pamela brown who is at the supreme court. >> reporter: this was a broad ruling in favor of the obama administration. today the high court ruling that millions of americans that are in states with federally run exchanges can keep their tax credits that help them pay for

yet the administration sent a witness. here they are unwilling to answer those same questions about whether the administration is willing to comply with the law. the letter this committee sent to treasury jack lew on may 27, i'm going enter that letter into the record and i'll hold it open for one week for any additional material senators would like to add. with that i'd like to welcome the second panel to the table and will start immediately. [inaudible] >> he is a lawyer and he has the distinction of being my first call to the facts which i am sure they will hold them to account for all the mistakes they have made. we've got sir michael cannon who is the director of health studies and is a well-respected scholar on economics and healthcare. we have professor andy gray wall who is a professor of law at the university of iowa in iowa city. we have ms. elizabeth who is chief counsel of the constitutional accountability center here in washington d.c. we have mr. robert weiner who is a partner in our own supporter. we'd like

nominee, noting that the previous administrator, pistole, announced his resignation last october but it took seven months to come up with a new nominee. bret? >> doug mckelway, thank you. >>> the stocks are off today. dow is down 28 and s&p down 2 and nasdaq down 6. >>> iran stocking up on fuel. we'll talk about it all with the panel after a quick break. caring for someone with alzheimer's means i am a lot of things. i am his guardian. i am his voice. so i asked about adding once-daily namenda xr to his current treatment for moderate to severe alzheimer's. it works differently. when added to another alzheimer's treatment, it may improve overall function and cognition. and may slow the worsening of symptoms for a while. vo: namenda xr doesn't change how the disease progresses. it shouldn't be taken by anyone allergic to memantine, or who's had a bad reaction to namenda xr or its ingredients. before starting treatment, tell their doctor if they have or ever had, a seizure disorder, difficulty passing urine liver, kidney or bladder problems, and about medications they're taking. certain

in the administration. >> but of course you have.n't have chosen those words randomly. they actually appear in paper -- >> that's what you're doing. it doesn't require anybody to be told what to say to know that that's what you're doing. >> i think you're well briefed. let's get to the heart of this. why now. you raised -- you raised a question. >> let's get to the heart of the issue. we are missing the huge forest for the trees right now. this book was scheduled to come out in october, and it would have been much easier for me. i pressured my publisher random house to bring it out now before the fateful vote on iran. this is not about books. it's not about fires or about pouring -- it's not about pouring fuel on fires. it's about the security and the future survival of the jewish state. it's not about legacy. it's not about diplomacy. it's about my children's lives. my grandchildren's lives and i am not speaking as anybody's spokesman here except for myself. i am telling you this is a very bad deal that endangers our future security

let me first start off by saying where we agree with the administration, we work with the administration, this week's action on trade is a perfect example. but on this healthcare law we could not be more opposed to what the administration is doing. we really think this is doing a great harm to the healthcare system and to the people we all represent. so let me start by just addressing the big elephant in the room. any day now the supreme court as you well know because your name is burwell, in king versus burwell, is about to rule and if the court rules against the administration then millions of people will be stuck with a government designed health insurance that they cannot afford. so, i mean, the big question is then what? what about the people who are going to lose their subsidies, and possibly their coverage? is the president going to dictate to us how to fix this flawed law or is the president is the administration, going to be willing to work withes us to give families greater freedom in choosing the healthcare that work best for them? >> so with regard to the question of the cour

now, i wish the administration would take this as seriously as we do.y involved in it naturally because i've done an awful lot of health care legislation over my 39 years in the congress. and i have to say that one of the principle arguments was by some that -- that you know, that the -- the people would have to go the exchanges would have to be set up by the state. the argument behind it was that's the only way you're going to get people to really sign up for it because that's where the money goes. and that argument was used on more than one occasion and all i can say is i'm very concerned about this whole issue. the statute is unambiguous. it's amazing to me that we've come this far without somebody admitting that, hey, they made a mistake. and that we would have to rewrite the law so that you can do what they've just unilaterally decided to do without any real legal authority to do it. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you senator hatch. senator whitehouse? >> thank you chairman. i want to echo the comments of my colleagues about the empty chairs her

the obama administration has many problems and very few problem solvers, and now it is clear, the administration has been neither vigilant nor effective in protecting federal digital information and data, nor forthcoming what our enemies carry out successful cyberattacks, stealing that information. the obama administration has been keeping the truth from the american people about the cyberattacks on what may be tens of millions of us. the head of the office of personnel management today back on capitol hill. she refused to tell lawmakers the depth, the frequency and the damage done by the suspected chinese hackers who carried out successful cyberattacks against her agency. the attacks, according to the chairman of the house oversight committee may have affected as many as 32 million current, former and prospective federal employees, including potential military enlisties. turns out the first major chinese breach was november 2013, and it was not discovered until four months later. in march of 2014. yet opm director archuleta reassured congress in july of last year that there had been no security

what the administration is putting into this? rep. chaffetz: the department of justice, the person they put in charge of this investigation from the department of justice was a max out donor to president obama. there are some of us that really question if we will get a fair hearing. we talked to the victims of this. people who have been on the receiving end of not being able to get the information out of the irs, who were clearly targeted by the irs. the fbi did not ask them a question. then you have the president of the united states in an interview on the super bowl sunday say there is not even a smidgen of corruption here. how did he come to that conclusion? the department of justice had not completed their report. congress had completed its report. the inspector general has not completed his report. how did the president come to that conclusion? i do not think there is anything signaling to his political allies this is the conclusion we're going to have. that is not what congress is going to do. we are going to let the facts dicta