willingness to go with the iranians, the obama administration had a process inside the administrationand they looked at the problem carefully and came to the conclusion that they didn't stop the iranians and a very convincing way that would be proliferation throughout the region of president obama is a non-proliferation hawk something he regards as the most important aspects of his legacy and so israelis and jewish in america don't worry president obama will take care of it because he knows if he does think the saudis will proliferate. saudi's proliferation in the event of a bad deal was a given with respect to the administration up until yesterday. not when of the saudi's are unhappy with the deal, but that is all proliferate because we will give them a nuclear guarantee. >> and exposing comments? >> i say that's an important question for whoever is elected the next president. let me say security non-proliferation tools we have i think we have friends and allies in the lab security guarantee. the administration has done everything it can to undercut the credibility of the u.s. nuclea

bush administration. he worked with the central intelligence agency as well as at the state department. please join me in welcoming dr. peter brooks. [applause] dr. brooks: thank you john. i guess it's good afternoon now. welcome to the heritage foundation. i guess the deadline, like the red line is a deadline except when it is not. it seems we've blown through another "deadline" with iran and the latest round of nuclear talks. news reports from the and there are still in number of rough patches, and that talks will go until the end of the week -- maybe. these include hot button issues such as sanctions relief for iran, research and development the inspection and verification regime and the question about iran's prior work on a nuclear warhead, among others. to couple kid matters further iran is pushing for punitive sanctions to be lifted on their ballistic missile program -- to complicate matters further. as if that is not enough, tehran is also asking for an end to the weapons embargo put on iran, which

the administration is offering the ayatollah in iran. it's enough 40 and carter administrations. more than five decades washington as opposed to spread its sense of nuclear technology including the iranian enrichment even for this allies. it ends up traveling over the size and scope however iran can win at john its concessions if they decide to do so. especially if they will take time to reimpose. the russians and the chinese are sure to bring objections if they see it is in their interest to do that. and the institutional arrangement the elephant in the room but the obama administration downplays is a long history of violating its previous nuclear agreements. the administration claims it is for an unprecedented regime that iran already walked away from some of those commitments and iraq was the subject after the 1991 gulf war but circumvented inspections for 12 years until he was ousted in 2003. the administration sought to ease the anxieties about the compliance in the rule v. atomic energy agency that the iaea only has access to declared nuclear facilities at a completely aske

administration holding them responsible.nk if this is true you're going to hear the obama administration trumpet this news. if he is dead who carried out the attack that killed omar. we're waiting for more information not only from the u.s. government but all parties involved. >> and mike, of course, our relationships with the afghan government and the pakistani government are very important very critical to our interest in the region. what does it say if this is true that omar has been dead for maybe two years or more, and either they didn't share it with us or we didn't find out. what does this say about our relationship with them? >> well, i think it says as much about the u.s.-pakistan relationship as it does the u.s.-afghanistan relationship. as we said, omar reported to be living in pakistan. no one needs to be reminded that the tensions have been high for years because the reported closeness between pakistan, it's intelligence services and the taliban not only within afghanistan, but within pakistan itself. obviously

administrator mccarthy, thank you for being here this morning. representative george brown was, you know, partly responsible for the establishment of the epa and the passage of the clean air act. my constituents and i have seen first hand how the epa can improve public health. in my own county, according to the state of the air 2015 a report from the american lung association still has stre struggles with ozone and particle pollution. we are situated you know, downwind from my other colleague from california. and we typically have middle class, lower income folks that can't afford homes along the coast. and i am glad to hear my colleagues also care about poor people and middle class people. i don't understand where they're not so concerned about the wealthy people along the cost whose property values stand to be put in jeopardy by global climate change. but i'm struck by the fact that the epa regulations save us money in the long run by improving public health and a -- you know i'm struck by the comment that this is what we can pay for. but i'm a

bush administration. can you comment on the view of the epa regulations such as the clean power plan or proposed ozone rule will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and willin sent viez innovation. >> the clean air act was designed by congress to have sections that were moving technology forward. they were technology spurring. the section that we're regulating on power plants under the carbon pollution plan is one of those sections. so it does say we need to continue to move forward under our new standard. so what we have done is set a standard that's 30 years away. we have set a standard that allows -- it's an investment signal in order to tell states they have every flexibility to get to that standard, but it's also a signal to the market. it will tell people that investments and renewables are not only affordable today, they're going to get more affordable moving forward. so this is a markets-based approach to address a confounding problem but in a way that states can drive it and in the way that it works

the administration touted the numbers in pakistan. it turns out the vast majority of the people were not important terrorists. a terrorists. a lot of them were people who are enemies of the pakistani government. then a number of innocent civilians were killed. most countries don't even let us use drones. it is mostly pakistan and yemen. yemen, a pretty stark case of limitations. >> let me back up for a 2nd so that we understand. the fact that so many of these predator strikes and killing of high-profile terrorist and al qaeda leaders in yemen and pakistan isn't because that is where they are all hanging out the because those of the two countries which have the most liberal policies are letting america conduct a strikes. >> and we have seen over time, a permission diminished because of the fact that we were killing the wrong people for the fallout from the bin laden raid. they shut down a drum base. even when the drones were at there height you had the subway bomber and faisal's is odd that is that truck and the time square training in

has the administration reached out to the family and your knowledge? to the family of the woman was murdered by this individual who had committed seven different felonies in four different states in my understanding who kept coming back and is the administration reached out to the family? >> i would note the administration has reached out in a whole range of cases and i am not being critical of that. certainly there are times when the administration should do that and there are times when perhaps they need to do that. >> could you check into that? >> speaking for myself i have developed a practice of reaching out to every share for commissioner and chief who sent and was in the line of duty. i read a letter personally. >> i would ask that the administration check. >> 2700 miles i believe. >> and how much is actually complete at this point? >> 700 pursuant. >> what did the administration due back do back in 2010 which suspended the expansion of the virtual portion of the fence? >> my understanding is the 700 miles was built pursuant to the congressional

obama and his administration to even think of us. it must be a terrible strain for authoritarians of their striped to acknowledge that the nation and our people have an interest in the consequences of his grand fiats and proclamations. we are in the midst of a sorry sorry state that we have only ourselves and our votes to blame. now our quotation of the evening by one of the most important advocates of modern globalism who said -- the words of david rockefeller american banker, the oldest living heir to the family fortune and globalist. we're coming right back. >>> hillary clinton just can't get it going, and people are starting to notice. new polls show big trouble for the anointed one. that story here tonight. >>> and what could possibly go wrong when you strap yourself to the hood of a jeep cherokee and go through a wall of fire? you'll find out next. we live in a world of mobile technology, but it is not the device that is mobile it is you. my school reunion's coming fast. could be bad. could be a blast. can't find a single thing

this was all started by the bush administration. i served in that administration as a career diplomat. we tried to negotiate with iran. iran rejected those negotiations in 2006 and 2007. we then turned to sanctions. and i do see in a sense that unity between the bush and obama administrations. president obama was able to strengthen the sanctions regime, working with the european union. a lot of our allies in asia and the middle east. then he got into negotiations over the last year and-a-half. these were extraordinarily difficult negotiations if you think about it, charlie. on the one happened we had to open up the first sustained conversation between the united states and iran in 35 years. we literally had no sustained strategic communication until the autumn of 2013. so you had to deal with that dynamic. and the political sensitive tease in both tehran and the united states about that dynamic, first. second, the president had to keep his coalition together at the negotiating table, and that was russia and china. and they're not ea

this was the path that the 11th administration pursued. of course the great nation of iran is a symbol of courtesy and logic and rationality from the very first day on the day of the ceremony, i said the west can interact with us provided that it sets aside and eliminates the approach of intimidation and threats and instead the west should choose the path of dignity and respect. once we obtained today was a deal within the framework of that comprehensive joint plan of action, it has its roots in iran's interaction and also dignity shown by the people of the group. in the case of the absence of these parameters, we would not have been able to come up with any achievement. in the meantime, in order to gain success in the course of negotiations, we had to be able to actually improve our economy under sanctions and in the condition of stagflation. when we started the negotiations, we had an inflation rate above 40% and our economic growth rate was minus 6.8%. but in the course of negotiations by improving our economic conditions, we managed to

peter neffenger served as -- serves as sixth administrator of t.s.a. with a work force of almost 60,000 employees. prior to joining t.s.a. he served as the 29th vice deman daunt -- commandant of the coast guard and the coast guard's deputy commandant for operations. we want to thank you for being here today in your debut performance before this committee. the chair now recognizing admiral neffenger. mr. neffenger: thank you. i have written comments for the record and a brief opening record. good morning chairman mccaul, ranking member thompson and distinguished members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to testify in my new role as administrator of the t.s.a. i'm pleased to appear before you to share my vision and thoughts about the future of t.s.a. let me begin by saying that t.s.a. is fundamentally counterterrorism organization. our job is to deter, detect and disrupt those who would harm our system of transportation across the country, especially the aviation sector. we protect legitimate trade and travel. we have a no fail mission one

lou: that wouldn't happen if somebody in this administration didn't say sickem.isn't something that spontaneously combusted in the state department and the intelligence community. somebody on high said go get 'em right? >> if that's true unfortunate breakdown of procedure. the culpability is for the person who sees this, has it land on the desk and says we need to go forward with the referral. >> there wouldn't be this long delay hadn't there have been that person that made the call as you intimated. have to be. why else now months and months later after the controversy has gone by that now there's action. lou: well, it's interesting that just when it looked like this was dying down, someone, and i would personally suspect and it is purely speculation on my part, i acknowledge that but it's based on considerable experience with these things had to say systems are go. here's the green light. go get 'em. emily good to have you with us mercedes good to have you with us. >> thanks. >> we asked can the republicans win the presidency in 2016 if donald trump runs as a t

on one you had the bush administration and then candidate obama wanting to put this -- implementing the process early. but they volunteered to do that. if they hadn't done that there are no -- explain sort of the rules of the government that do or don't govern the transition process. >> yes. well it used to be there really were no rules. now there are rules of what type of information that you have to provide. >> and starting when? before the election or after? >> after the election then you provide information. but they have moved up the timetable with legislation after 2008 that then candidate, the major party candidates will get information. but in reality in 2008 after hillary clinton bowed out, then government agencies were able to come in and talk to the two presumpive candidates so the office of government ethics could talk about what kinds of financial disclosure requirements there will be for nominees. at the end of june josh bolton brought in representatives of both -- of barack obama and john mccain, brought them into the white house to work together on things such as the mem

the obama administration today took its campaign to sell its iranian nuclear deal to capitol hill. cabinet secretaries john kerry, ernest monies and jack lew testifying before the senate foreign relations committee. that committee absolutely key to get the deal through congress. republicans in congress, however, are saying outright they'll do everything in their power to stop the deal. senators blasting the agreement saying iranian negotiators had fleeced and bamboozled the administration. we'll be talking with one of the senators in that hearing today. he strongly opposes the deal. he's also running for the republican presidential nomination. senator rand paul with us tonight to talk about iran and presidential politics. >>> also tonight, the house voted to cut off federal funding to sanctuary cities today. more than 200 cities that refuse to enforce u.s. immigration laws. the white house, however, threatening to veto any such legislation. so where does that leave the issue? we discuss tonight. we'll be talking with one of the congressmen who voted to kill sanctuary cities, congre

it was never the goal of this administration and not even the bush administration -- the bush administration in 2008 offered -- >> mr. secretary with all due respect, perhaps if you could answer about the solmoney the lifting of sections of the -- >> i want to be very clear we are achieving what we set out to do. with respect to the military sites, yes, they will have providing that is part of the inspection of an undeclared suspicious facility and if it is we will -- >> we will have access to the military sites? >> if they don't provide it, they will be in breach of this agreement, and the sanctions will snap back. >> and we'll consult with iran before we get access? >> there is a procedure in place. >> so iran is wrong when they say we won't have access to military sites. >> they are taking care of a domestic constituency in -- >> thank you. >> i'm going to remind the members, we have five minutes, so ask the question give enough time for response -- >> could i just ask -- >> mr. chairman -- >> and what we're going to do is we'll have the response for the record. but i'm going to encourage

lou: the obama dead blood dash administration has said very little. are more than 163 cities that refuse to honor immigration and customs enforcement to deny access to jails and prisoners. joining us is the executive director it is great to see you. it is extraordinary he could not answer the question if century cities are safe or not with a clear example they are not. >> first of all, it is a the tragedy our thoughts and prayers go out to her family this should not have had been false stop the liggett the bigger picture it is an aberration between 1980 and 2013 the undocumented population live from 3 million a petroleum but their rate of violent crime has decreased by 25% said he does some represent that undocumented population. lou: it would be a terrible injustice to suggest that this man is an "avatar" for the entire immigrate community but to meet it is deeply troubling the immigration advocacy groups do not a college the decree by which we have the problem replaced with terrible crimes of their records with the refusal to reinforce but those who

this is going to be a very hard sell for the administration. they'll have to get at least 34 votes, assuming a resolution of disapproval passes the president vetoes it he'll have to get at least 34 senators to go forward. >> you know where the head count is just looking at what you look at in the senate. p i mean you say it'll be tough. where will the red line be for example, for democrats? who have said and expressed concern for about this potential deal. >> i think they'll have the same concerns i outlined. i know there will be a strong pull not to go against the president on something as important as this is to him, but i hope there will be enough democrats willing to look at this objectively. look at the facts. is this a good deal? is this likely to achieve the outcome we had hoped for? if they can bring themselves to do that and make an objective evaluation of it i think it's going to be a very hard sell for the administration. >> according to press reports, the white house had a conference call on monday with liberal groups saying, gettin

aren't your administrative actions and your agency's administrative actions to examine millions of unlawful and criminal aliens of any enforcement use of congress constitutional role? >> inherent in the enforcement of any law, sir, is the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. that's what we do in the enforcement of our laws. that's what the department of justice does. and that's what multiple other agencies do. >> well in all due deference to you, prosecutorial discretion is one thing. the suspension of the law is another. and i will probably leave it right there, mr. chairman. >> chair thanks the gentleman. recognize the gentleman from georgia, mr. johnson, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this is a hearing where republicans are arguing that the administration is not enforcing the immigration laws and that this is leading to increased crime crime, exhibit a, the murder of ms. steinle in san francisco. and that event happened within the last two weeks. and i am really impressed with the speed by which this committee has sprung into action to bring this issue before a hearing. y

if the administration want it to fall apart it would fall apart. the administration was against a lot of sanctions to begin with. they tried to prevent from passing sanctions a few years ago. the sanctions regime was working. it had worked only for 18 months. you haven't had sanctions on iran for a decade. for 18 months iran was desperate to come to the negotiating table. and instead of dismantling their nuclear program when they dismantle the program. you are dismandling the regime and leaving the program in tact. >> here is what they point to. they point to britain's ambassador to the united states who say sanctions reached the high water mark and you will probably see more erosion if the nuclear talks fail and if diplomacy fails the regime might unravel and historic trading partners will not economically injure themselves indefinitely that partners were losing their back bone. >> just as a factual matter the sanctions regime was built for two reasons. it was a credible military threat. as long as europe and russia and china saw credible military

consider just a few facts that reveal the economic weakness the obama administration has produced. in the june, 2015, jobs report the number of unemployed workers, workers who can only find part-time jobs and workers who are now only marginally attached to the labor force, stood at 10.8%. they number over 16 million americans. america's labor force participation rate remains at lows not seen since the carter administration, and median household income still is below the level achieved before the financial crisis. . the contrast between america's current condition and the recovery president reagan achieved is stark. 4 1/2 years after the recession began in 1981, the reagan administration through policies opposite to the obama administration created 7.8 million more jobs than when the recession began. real per capita gross domestic product rose by $3,091. real immediate i don't know household income rose by 7.7%. to check america's problems, the reins act is one of the clearest and most powerful measures we can adopt. the regulation that the obama administration issued and plans to i

in the bush administration comes into office in 2001 they inhrt lawsuits that the clinton administration filed. we didn't drop them. we had to suspend d.c. gun ban because that was the law. she wasn't asking for money. she was asking for help from the congress to help tell the cities to do what the law says they have to do. >> what the law requires. >> it is lawlessness. good to see you. >> thank you. >>> and here is another dose of it. as the white house faces tough new questions about this murderen san francisco the administration is getting hammered by a federal judge in texas. his name is judge andrew hanen. he ordered a halt to the president's executive orders the ones he said he never had power to institute because he is not an emperor. he said you can't just allow millions of illegal immigrants to remain in the united states. now that same judge said the administration has violated his order and he is demanding that the homeland security chief himself and four top deputies show up in his courtroom to explain themselves for flouting the law. joining me now on it greg abbott. good t

administrator to address this enormous failure? administrator neffenger: mr. chairman thank you for the question. and you're absolutely correct to point out that this is a huge concern. and it greatly disturbs me to know that we had that fale you're rate at the checkpoint. as you know the checkpoint although not the only element system of our security is a critical part of security and the barrier between the sterile and nonsterile areas of an airport and a visible deterrent and the last chance to catch items that we do not want getting onboard aircraft. so as i look at the fill you're rate my immediate questions were the same ones that secretary johnson had. as you know that came out during my nomination and confirmation process. and i had a number of conversations with the secretary. he immediately ordered an establishment of a team to take hard look at the nature of the failures and what they've done. so i inherited that theme. i've seen the work that they've done. and what i can do is i'll speak directly to what that team is doing. but i'll speak in more s

we put together a book about the second term of the bush administration. it was called "second term blues." that is not to pick on george bush so much as to say second term presidents have difficulties. the first term has more promise. there are many opportunities in the second term, but there are often similarities. one is, most every second term president going back 50 or six years, has lost control of congress. there is often a turn in foreign policy. there are questions in staffing continuity and change. there are also big changes to shake up the administration and we will hear about all of that today. let me put a few things on the table and then we will turn to our panelists. we have with us canada who has -- kenneth who has had a long , career in congress and the ford administration, but for the purposes of this panel we think of them first in congressional affairs in the first term of the reagan administration and then returning with howard baker to the white house, first as deputy chief of staff and then as chief of staff the second term of the re

the obama administration's aggressive effort after mr. obama sent the agreement to the united nations. president speaking in pittsburgh to the veterans of foreign wars national convention. they're trying to brush off critics of his deal. >> the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution, to iran's nuclear program, are the same folks who are so quick to go to war in iraq and said it would take a few months. lou: opposition to the deal is a lot more widespread than the president acknowledged there. in fact, the obama administration's hard sell today involved sending defense secretary ash carter to israel to try to win over israeli prime minister netanyahu, who greeted carter in jerusalem with a handshake but abruptly scrapped plans for the two leaders to make public remarks before beginning discussion. take a look. it was to say the very least, a bit awkward. >> i think we're going up. >> okay, excellent. >> if you gentlemen want we could come back. thank you. no, i didn't want to. lou:

but i do believe that the administration has one case. some of the money will ub doubtedly be spent on domestic concerns and domestic needs. rowhani belongs to a wing of the politics that are interested with the china model where you can purchase domestic assent by offering economic opportunity. so in that particular sense you can make a case, and i think a rather plause ubl one, that the rowhani administration has been one of the most oppressive and iran burdened citizens would require some sort of relief and along the china model the idea is by granting them a measure of economic rewards you can purchase domestic consent. and it is particularly the case because the islamic republic is haunting by the green revelation of 2009. so to have hope, rowhani needs an arms control agreement as much as the islamic impeeralism. in the end this deal may not rest on trust but it does rest on hope. the hope that a decade from now that the islamic republic will be a different regime, in power, inclined to live at peace with neighbors rkt a power that

it will be a hard sell for the administration. they will have to get 34 votes assuming a resolution of disapproval passes and the president votes it and he will have to get at least 34 senators to go forward. >> you know where the head count is looking at what you look at in the senate. you say it will be tough but where will the red line be, for example, for democrats who have said and expressed concern about the deal? >> they will have same conditions i outlined. i know there will be a strong pull not to go against the president on some administration important as this is to him but i hope there will be enough democrats willing to look at this objectively look at facts. is this a good deal? is to likely to achieve the outcome we hoped for? if they can bring themselves to do that objective evaluation of it, it will be a very hard sell for the administration. >> according to a few press reports the white house has a conference call with progressive and liberal groups getting ready for the push saying it will be the president's num

israel has long been pushing for his israel, but administration after administration has said no. you've been watching our continuing live coverage of the iran nuclear negotiation in the congress committee. committee member after committee member expressing skepticism and at times it became down right contentious. we'll follow that throughout the day. i'm del walters. ♪ this is the al jazeera news hour warm welcome from me, david foster and looking at in the course of the next 60 minutes. they are shoulder to shoulder nato backing turkey's fight against i.s.i.l. as the first air strikes with the kurdish. africa is on the move. a new africa is emerging. >> praise and warning as barack obama

let's listen in. >> -- the administration was successful in blocking that legislation.instead of us considering a verifiable enforceable and accountable agreement, we are being asked to consider an agreement that gives iran permanent sanctions relief for temporary nuclear restrictions. should iran be given this special deal? in september committee members will face the important decision of approving or disapproving this agreement. we will have that vote only because of the iran nuclear agreement review act, passed in may, which the administration did not want. to be frank, the administration's preference has been to sideline america's eventtives -- representatives. so it was not surprised when the administration gave russia and china and others at the u.n. security council a vote on this agreement before the american public. that's backwards and wrong. we have heard serious concerns from experts about the substance of this agreement. first iran is not required to dismantle key bomb-making technology. does that make the world safer? second it is permitted a vast enrichm

ten years ago, you were in the administration, correct? >> right. >> ten years ago is it true, without disclosing any classified information that iran was behind weapon enhancements in iraq that led to americans dieing on the fields in iraq ten years ago? >> i actually told national security adviser hadley it was a policy of the iranian government, approved at the highest levels of that government, to facilitate killing of american and other coalition soldiers. >> 20 years ago, without disclosing any classified information, to your understanding, is it true that iran played a critical part to the u.s. airmen who were killed in saudi arabia? >> that is my understanding. >> 30 years ago -- 32 years ago is

she was the assistant administrator for the p office of air administration. she previously served the connecticut department of environment protection. she has worked at both the state and local levels on environmental issues and help coordinate policies on energy, transportation, and the environment. and a masters of science in health and engineering and planning. administrative mccarthy, we welcome you and if you would begin. admin mccarthy: thank you chairman smith for inviting me here to testify on it the environmental regulatory efforts. the mission of epa is protection of public health and the environment and regulatory efforts in furtherance of those goals. we are guided in science and of the law which serve as the backbone of each of the agencies ' actions. i will focus and provide more details on three wheels which will hopefully provide tremendous benefit not only to share this information about tremendous benefit to the public health. approximately 170 million americans which is one and 3 million people get their joint water from streams without cl

we have been told from administration witness after administration witness sitting where you are that they didn't want to discuss terrorism and wanted to focus on the nuclear negotiations. it is very odd that that would be in there and particularly just so because of the blood that they have on their hands. >> i think the agreement announced this morning is framed such that all of the sanctions that were passed against iran in the security council and other places are going to be lifted whether about directly nuclear program or not. is it a problem that the iranian revolutionary guards corps may have more money available to them? yes. it's a problem. when i testified earlier i said i support this. i think on balance it's the right decision for the united states. but there are risks here and there are trade offs and some of them are very difficult to digest. that is one of them. >> senator lieberman, this influx of cash to the regime, is there any doubt in your mind that some of the proceeds will be used to fund the iranian terror network? >> none at all. it would be hard to conceive o

the obama administration came back with a negotiated agreement. this is among the most complex agreements any of us can hope to judge. it is filled with painful trade-offs. there are risks to acting and risks to not acting. i agree that this will be one of the most consequential votes any of us will take. for diplomatic history you may have to go back to the league of nations in 1920 four when congress played such a role in whether we go forward or whether we don't go forward. i worked on iran policy for three years. i helped to sanction iran. i believe we have to contain the threat in the middle east, but i also believe president obama's policy is worth your support. i'm going to support it because i think it is the best alternative. if i could design the perfect alternative, it is not available to the united states. whether we oppose it or support it we have got to make it about what the alternatives have been. here is what president obama and senator kerry have done. it will deny a nuclear weapon because it won't have the fissile material. it c

ralph, is the iranian ambassador right and the obama administration wrong?ll, the iranian ambassador was clearly having a good time mocking. the officials in tehran are mocking it. as you just heard it's game over sanctions is not going to be snapped back and by the way, this is a president who is just all talk. you heard him say in the clip you played that he will not relent until the american hostages are free. hostages whose names he can't even pronounce at this point. he's already relented. the only hope of getting those hostages back as a group was before the deal was inked. lou, this is looking like the worst u.s. diplomatic debacle since woodrow wilson. >> do you think that that was greater mockery because he was uttering those words to the veterans combat veterans most of them at the vfw convention? >> yes. >> john hannah, what are we to make of a president who sends an emissary defense secretary ash carter to israel to meet with the prime minister and has -- there is no message, there is no voice of support from this administration or the united sta

to add insult to injury, the first line of h.r. 427 statement of administrative policy states, the administration is committed to ensuring that regulations are smart and effective and tailored to further the statutory goals and most effective and efficient manner. this is the statement from the administration on why they oppose h.r. 427. i cannot believe that a single regulation promulgated by this administration with $140 billion of cost was put forward in the most cost-effective manner. a regulation costing 11,000 jobs in georgia alone is hardly smart. the statement of administration policy also claims that underlying legislation will create business uncertainty. i encourage this administration to use the infamous pen and phone to ask business what is creates uncertainty for them because when small businesses across the country came to congress last week as part of the national federation of independent business lobbying day, their top legislative priority was regulatory leaf. these are small business owners who sat with us and said here is what we are facing in trying to get people jobs. the 3

the administration een -- the administration's own guidelines they pointed out as they were going into these negotiations. they've violated every one of their own guidelines. i just don't see how this does anything to keep americans safer. >> should the senate pass a highway bill, what happens next when it comes to the house? will the house take it up? speaker boehner: the house has pass as responsible bill to fund our highway program for the next five months. there's a lot of concern being raised by our committee chairman and others about the policy that's contained in the bill the senate is considering. we don't know what that bill is going to look like until they pass it and until they do i think i'll reserve judgment on how we'll proceed. thanks. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi also held her weekly briefing with he reportest. she discusses the iranian nuclear agreement and the plcy concerning sanctuary cities. ms. pelosi: the agreements that have been reached, i'm proud of our members in terms of the thoughtful approach and serious approach they had taken to seeking informati

he hasn't reviewed it knowing the administration has, he's only been briefed on it. later saying that congress will be briefed on it at some unknown point in the future, yet they're rung the 60-day clock. now the clip that you played from the white house press person, he referenced there's no secret deal, and right there the the end he says between the p5+1 and iran. he didn't say between the iaea and iran because there is a secret deal. >> the level of integrity right now on the part of this executive is republican loyal opposition, many of your colleagues, certainly not to you, because i don't just understand why the interest of the nation the american people isn't represented in bald faced lying, is it not? >> they should be insulted by it. especially if it's their own political party. kudos to congresswoman grace mang. she is the first house democrat to come out against the deal. that takes real chutzpah. kudos to her, and all the other democrats should follow suit. senator schumer, there are leaders in the house as well, and not only coming out against the deal

thank you administrator mccarthy. i want to go on a couple lines but one i want to follow-up with a recent discussion. if we go back to our farmers and we say that if you look at these ditches and you believe you are not polluting these waterways these temporary waterways, these ditches, you are okay and there's no reason why the federal government should come on your property and check these ditches out? >> we have done nothing other than to hopefully provide clarity on what constitutes a tributary and what does not. >> okay. okay. i'm going to move onto california since all of my texas folks are yelling and screaming about their state. i will talk about california a little bit. in a recent article there was some discussion. i'm going to read very quickly just a couple lines. indeed in some localities especially in the western states the new standards are approaching background levels of ozone, in other words the level that occurs due to factors beyond local control. while epa claims that they're exceptional events e