yet, the obama administration remains undeterred. having decided to bypass congress and go it alone, the white house has likewise sought to remove meaningful accountability by means of the federal judiciary. as in the recess appointments cases, federal courts have rejected a variety of this administration's lawless actions and vindicated critical constitutional rights. no court has served as a greater check on executive overreach than the d.c. circuit court of appeals, which oversees most federal regulatory actions, so the white house has sought to remove even this modest restraint. after the d.c. circuit rightfully invalidated several key administration actions as outside the bonds of federal law, the president then sought to pack that court with compliant judges in order to obtain more favorable decisions. the president's allies in this body, in their own words -- quote -- "focused very intently on the d.c. circuit" determined to -- quote -- "switch the majority" on the court and were willing to -- quote -- "fill up the d.c. circui

we've had conservative administrations and liberal administrations and no matter what kind of administration we have, we're not fixing this problem. let's look at different explanation. for instance, the ability to send jobs overseas in the modern era. how much is that impacting on this? the fact that we have so many public companies today that have an obligation to shareholders over workers and the fact that because we have open foreign markets, perhaps we don't care enough. >> a lot of those factors are effecting countries like canada. that's growing but we should note by the way since 2006 canada has been run by the conservatives. we're running to the left. our middle class is shrinking. >> the middle class is under pressure everywhere around the world. >> canada and sweden were two countries in that article. their corporate tax rate is down to 15% and sweden has been cutting taxes in recent years so. the solution is obvious. when you look at those other countries in terms of minimum wage and things like that, germany has no minimum wage. their unemployment is 8%. france has a big minimum

i applaud the obama administration, i was thrilled and am so pleased that this administration has announced they're going to go ahead and furnish apache helicopters to the new government in egypt. it's going to be tough for the egyptians. they've got a tough economy. they have too many on welfare. they've got a lot of adjustments to make. but they want freedom. the masses of egypt want free do they don't want radical islam. they don't want radical islam like rebelled and killed kaddu fee, like took over due knee sa. -- and killed gaddafi, like took over tunisia. they don't want that. we need to encourage them, we need to help them. we need to help them eliminate all the weaponization that morsi encouraged and allowed, it turns out, in the sinai, as egypt stands up against radical islam. so i really want to thank the obama administration for supplying hrough and the apay -- apache helicopters that were supposed to be supplied. the general who stepped down as general of the military and who will likely be elected president , as he said previously do, you not understand, we use the apaches to

and failed to warn the administration. did the press make her a scapegoat for all the things that went wrong with the program? >> no, i don't think so. there are good things about the program. the website was botched. >> does the administration --. >> i remember rumsfeld and he was beaten up. >> my point. my point. my point. >> the "wall street journal" and the "washington post" both focused on the next nominee, they did not rehash her career. >> in in the "new york times" article she was called a proven manager and they gave that information to the media whether they took it and ran with it, it was difficulty. >> i was struck by the contrast of public words of praise and show was allyibility and we want her from out of there. they come from people in the background whispering to reporters. >> now an interview last weekend that jeb bush talked about immigration and whether he would run for president in 2016. we will look at that and reaction. >> they broke the law but it is not a felony. it is an act of love and commitment

i had hope this is a this administration -- i had hopes that this administration would keep the poms to dismantle no child left behind. it's been eased but not nearly what should have happened. and it turns out that the administration has been so busy with other aspects that apparently it has not had the time to devote to dismantling no child left behind as they might have hoped. we have the story from today, april 29, 2014, washington, d.c. , from judicial watch, benghazi documents point to white house on misleading talking points. the article says the release from judicial watch, that they announced today that on april , 2014, it obtained 41 new benghazi-related state department documents that include a newly declassified email showing then-white house deputy strategic communicator -- communications advisor ben rhodes and other obama administration public relations officials attempting to orchestrate a campaign to reenforce president obama to and portray the benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being, quote, rooted in an internet video and not a failure of policy, unquote. other

large got on the air but in the obama administration, not so much.would suggest there is a political aspect to it? >> i think there is a political aspect on the part of some people. cbs news is not a mono lit thick organization. we know we have a lot of different personalities. we have bosses that are at their heart great journalists but don't let that play. in the bigger picture, there is a tendency to avoid certain controversy, because of the pushback and the well-o well-orchestrated campaign that comes before us. that includes some conservative/corporate stories. there is this competing issue of bias if you want to say there is some sort of liberal political bias at play, there is also, i would argue, a competing corporate bias. instead of leading to a perfect balance of news, because those two things have a good, natural tension, i think it has led to a very narrow universe of stories they are willing to cover at all. >> when you were pursuing obamacare problems and benghazi and some others involving this administration, some on the right were ch

and arguing for the policy based on the previous clinton administration before the bush administration before the retrenchment of the obama administration. but it is often through the state department when i worked in the state department in different presidencies of reagan and clinton, of course, you have different perspectives but the state department is generally for a large role for the united states with international affairs a larger role for them. simple as that. more complicated than that the you put it that simple and not be so wrong. afghanistan your chronicle of your policy makes me want to repeat who said american policy does not change? does continuity is not a source of success in afghanistan but characteristic of its. to more specifically how it maximalist responses? it depends on the challenge. that is thought to be before the president at the time but it tends to involve a pretty comprehensive approach just done military response more foreign assistance more institution building. if it is characteristic of maximalists some in different phases i would call your attentio

now,ed administration, the obama administration -- now, the administration, the obama administration, has made some real progress on this issue over the last year. but it is still the case that guantanamo is a rallying cry for extremists around the world and until we transfer and try these detainees there is no denying that guantanamo is in fact hurting our national security. we need to re-evaluate our response to the long-term threat of terrorism and realize that policies that mark the rule -- mock the rule of law make it more likely rather than less likely that we will be attacked again. how can we expect americans who are captive abroader to accorded the right to be sentenced and brought to while when we hold 154 prisoners in guantanamo without charge and without trial? some of my colleagues are going to argue that detaining or trying suspected terrorists in the united states would endanger national security. but it's not the case. more than 400 defendants charged with crimes related to international terrorism have been successfully convicted in the united states since 9/11. that i

tell us, if you look back, clinton administration, bush administration, obama administration, who handledrussia better? if you want, of course, you may start with bush won. favorably disposed. >> guest: right. in my book i discuss for resets that we have had since the close of the soviet union. i was in policy planning in the last 18 months of the clinton administration, six months of the bush administration and then the national intelligence. both times when i served in government we were already on the kind of downward slide in the u.s.-russian relationship. i think the first reset was brief because obviously president george h. w. bush did a lot with president yeltsin, but that was very much when the focus and, of course, general scowcroft was the national security adviser -- with best focus was on disarmament, arms control issues, denude keel are rising ukraine and making sure after the collapse of the soviet union then the clear weapons are safe. there was probably not enough attention given to helping out the camino, new russian government financially, economically. i know president

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administration. they also have the luxury of invoting the nsa act of 1959 which the nsa argues exempts it entirely from the freedom of information act. and the release of records which will paint them in a positive light, unsurprisingly, the nsa only complied with 2% of its requests last year. so absolutely we're facing a crisis. >> our community has tweeted in, and there is a facebook post from andrew . . . and speaking about the nsa, brad tweets in . . . check it out. another reacted document there, lisa. and then rich goes . . . all right. horace i want to go to you. look, ryan mentioned the nine exemptions that the go uses to get out of foia requests. the one used most frequently is documents are in the interest of national security. do you believe the obama has abused that? >> i'm not sure of that. i would settle for if osha or the mine safety health administration or epa or department of transportation, if they would make this kind of information and data available, that there has been terrible

-- administration policy to the obama administration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. levin: let me close, you know, i think it's regrettable that we're here in this predicament when we don't need to be. i think we do need to fix the ex-pat issue but not by unfixing health care reform. for millions of people. this is about more than about 300,000 people. we're talking about the health care protections and provisions applicable to 13 million people in this country who are here legally. it's been said, and i very much respect this, it's taken three years to try to fix this problem. mr. carney and others have truly been working and mr. nunes and there have been bipartisan discussions. but here's the problem. if we're really going to continue effectively to work gether, when there is an outstanding issue, when there's been this aura of good faith, the majority should let the minority place on the floor an amendment to the bill and let us debate it. in fact, it only works against bipartisanship in this kind of circumstance to

wants to do, both the bush administration and the obama administration. they want to narrow the field of national security reporting. they want to make it very difficult for anyone to pursue stories outside of accepted boundaries that the administration are you and you >> that is, to make him what they're trying to do. they are trying to create a path for exceptional reporting and if you were a reporter go outside of those parameters, you will be youshed and the sources were trying to deal with will be prosecuted. that is essentially what i think they're trying to do. act,e a de facto secrets through the use of the justice cia, and thehe white house, i think are , in a sense to, without congressional approval, be able to make sure every story that comes out about national security something that make the makes thee look good, cia look good, and any story that does not make them look good or does not help the local the people involved in the story will be punished. that is the end result. if you look back at the kind of and bush have tried to put out in te

the bush administration was decent at that. the clinton administration was very bad at that. in some ways, it's just a comparison of -- in our profession, we want to find out information. we like people who are willing to have a free conversation. they've kept a lid on that. that's part of the frustration. but having said that, there's no question you were talking about the photo issue -- remember, this is the administration that when they had the subsequent swearing-in when chief justice roberts messed up the oath of office, there was a big issue because there were no reporters to watch what was apparently the official swearing-in later that day. their initial reaction is not always to open it up. it's more of a campaign style. that doesn't necessarily gel well with a president in the white house. >> and several newspapers and growing i think have refused now to actually even print the photos that they get from the white house because they were not invited in to take them themselves. i have to wrap it there. stephen, great to see you. >>> republicans say some e-mails show if

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what has changed is the policy of this administration verb sus previous administrations as to how to enforce that federal law. so based on the whangs that you have all made, shouldn't that come to congress and say, look, we believe that the law is wrong, this is how we're enforcing it now. we believe this is why, and we think that the law should reflect the enforcement. >> well, i would sigh if you look at -- at the end of the day if you look at the kinds of marijuana cases that we will bring, or that we are bringing, and what was brought by the justice department previously, i'm not sure that you're going to see a huge difference, the priorities that we talk about, prooefbsing the distribution of marijuana to minors, preventing cartels from being involved, preventing violence and use of firearms, a lot of marijuana enforcement happens at state and local levels, with regard to possession defenses. the kinds of cases brought previously by the justice department and that we would bring again now, i'm not sure that you're going to see a substantial difference, and to the extent that the

and the obama administration has been enforcing the immigration laws. in fact, if you're in the interior of the country now, you stand no chance of getting deported. >> so at this juncture in time, why does anyone take illegal immigration seriously? why does anybody bother with the border? why do we continue to act as if there's some result other than what is before us? that is an administration that has taken control of our government, our lives, our society and decided there is no such thing as illegal immigration. >> look. the sad reality is we're pretending to enforce the border but we don't. i've been on this show for over a year saying it's not going to happen and it won't. because the political realities are against them. >> then why does he keep protesting otherwise? >> because there are a lot of business interests that want an immigration bill and he's placating them frankly. >> placating them and defending a sizable portion of their constituencies. >> i will disagree with heather on one point. a lot of surveys show as hispanics reach the media

administration officials say it's just one step of many. the crisis in ukraine only growing more violent, today the obama administration introduced new economic sanctions it says are designed to punish russia for orchestrating it. the sanctions focus on individuals tied to russian president vladimir putin. including dmitry kozak, deputy foreign minister and head of putin's 2004 presidential campaign. and igor sechin, president of rossneft, russia's leading oil company, a close adviser to putin. the sanctions target nearly a dozen businesses tied to putin's banker and believed to help manage the russian president's vast personal wealth. the penalties do not, however, target putin, himself. >> the goal here is not to go after mr. putin personally. the goal is to change his calculous with respect to how the current actions that he's engages in in ukraine could have an adverse impact on the russian economy over the long haul. >> reporter: notably absent from the new measures are some of russia's most powerful businessmen and companies, includin

there is a tide going one way and the obama administration has the tougher but the administration has decided to use discretion in places. and so it is hard to often tell people look at the data. which of those current system of those conflicting crosscurrents is what they are reading and what the numbers are as a result of. so on the one hand there is a big spending buildup and secure communities, there has been august the eighth of august to -- audits and the workers that were caught and there has been a very important move from end of permanent harassment of people in the interior to the much more targeted approach that we have been hearing about focusing on criminals and on the border. and to me, the most important -- that is harder to understand. there is this tightening and loosening what am i seeing and what is the result of that data. the most important change i think is the change that both of our predecessors have talked about the change on the border from the formal or the informal sending people back on the bus to fingerprinting them and putting them in the system come a c

leave this for the next administration? if so, what are the specific ideas that the administration is going to put forward? >> congressman, i think that you have to look at where we started. we made enormous progress. i have not said that i'm happy that there is a $600 billion deficit. i'm happy we reduced the deficit and on a path towards keeping it coming down so it will shrink as a percentage of gdp. affordable care on net is reducing the deficit not increasing it. the thing that is driving entitlements up, baby booms are retiring and claiming social security and medicare they are entitled to. these are challenging areas. unless somebody wants to say they are going to do something other than pay social security and medicare, the solutions are very hard. we tried over a number of years to work on a bipartisan budget agreement. the president put his every beth effort into it we are with not able to get an agreement on a bipartisan basis. not the with standing that, we made enormous progress. incrementally doing it on discr

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bush administration would. >> those gasoline prices are going up. you know why?re have been no energy plan. >> the fact we don't have an energy policy out there is one of the major storm clouds on the horizon for our economy. >> rewind a year before that election. dick cheney is ceo of the oil services firm halliburton, speaking at the institute of petroleum's fall conference in london. he says, for over 100 years we as an industry have had to deal with the pesky problem, once you find oil and pump it out of the ground, you have to turn around and find more or go out of business. looking ahead to 2010 by which time he says world's energy needs will have increased by millions of barrels of oil per day, cheney asks where is the oil going to come from? "the middle east with 2/3 of the world's oil and the lowest cost. it's still where the prize ultimately lies." arguing that oil is the fundamental building block of the world's economy, the future vice president says "governments and the national oil companies are obviously controlling about 90% of the assets." "compa

administration.there are conscious decisions being made not to stop them. and that is, i think, where you see the continuity between bush and obama. >> bureaucratically, being realistic about the way the justice department works, people at the lower level start a case, they get very aggressive, and it is just like one of your editors at the "new york times" hesitating to tell you, don't pursue that story. it might appear that they are stopping you from a legitimate inquiry. so, up the chain, if you talk to these people, there is a lot of reluctance to stop it a read the difficulty is, they are not setting the policy at the very top and saying -- from my point of view, i think they are harming themselves by either declaring or appearing to declare a war on the press. >> what frustrates me a little bit about the way this discussion is categorized -- my hypothesis, all of these cases involve somebody who committed a felony. >> maybe. >> prima facie case. just like the police investigate robberies and wh

those are just the latest mixed messages coming from an administration that continues to walk a fine line on this most divisive h divisive subject. here's ed henry. >> reporter: joining civil rights leaders at the lbj library we swayed to gospel s g songs today, president obama celebrated the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act being signed by talking of doors of opportunity for everyone. >> they swung open for you, and they've swung open for me. that's why i'm standing here today, because of those efforts. because of that legacy. >> the talk of coming together was mere hours after more divisive rhetoric from the president and his attorney general eric holder. in a closed door fund-raiser in texas last night, the president charged republicans are pouring big money into the midterms and purposely trying to prevent people from voting. when a member of the audience shouted it was unamerican, the president replied, unamerican. how is it that we're putting up with that when we don't have to. yesterday, holder spoke at the national action network and suggested race was a factor in rep

during the clinton administration. with integrity, former members of congress, no current elected politicians, to do a complete audit of government. every agency of government has a piece of legislation or charter that created it. it has a purpose. if it is not fulfilling that purpose or doing it within a reasonable budget, it should be cut or eliminated. this came in with the highest motivation. do you know -- and i did not know until i researched it -- there are three had starts. two?do we have the other because the first one was not working. washington,broken saturday night at 10:00 eastern and sunday night at 9:00, and then a book party. year'sekend, this national black writers conference, saturday at noon eastern, with panels on race, literature, shifting identities in africa. then sunday, strengthening communities. as a panel of publishing. next eight discussion about a national shield law that would protect journalists from prosecution from protecting their sources. you will hear from the bill's sponsor, charles

can you point to us any other administration legal precedent, case law where an administration has justdecided as a matter of policy to get aside a whole category of cases that are eligible for prosecution but in a broad sweep? this whole category, we're not going to look at them or prosecute them. when has that been done before? >> i can't give you specific incidents but i'm sure i can come up with exam. s. administrations ma make these determinations all of the time. when i desize that we're going to prosecute category a, we're going to prioritize those and i have eight, ten,000 prosecutors, that necessarily means i'm probably going to have less capacity to do other cases. >> certainly. >> former attorneys general, former justice department folks who head up the criminal tuition, other enforcement divisions have made those determinations all of the time. >> for broad categories of individuals that fit broad definition of characteristics. i'm talking about broad policy matters. what i'm trying to drive at, you said you can't think of specifics. it sounds like the administration may be

the administration has helped enforces laws. tavis: let me close on the snow.re can i do you listen the any hope? you place i am not an optimist but i am a prisoner of hope. you can see something i feel something that things will get better. c about thisimisti but i am a prisoner of hope. looking the other way. john banner has made it clear that this is nothing comprehensive will get through the house. in anrying to get a sense election year where you think the energy, the tracking is going to come from to get anything done in 2014? >> the change will come administratively. i want to echo erika's point about her mother. the fact that this administration has the ability but the question is do they have the political will to, at the very least say that they are no longer going to deport. they will illuminate the category of those who came back and reenter the country simply because they were desperately trying to be reunited with their citizen children. the fact that today, a mother who gets to ported, -- deported, if she does not make her way back, she will use

bush administration would. >> those gasoline prices are going up. you know why? there have been no energy plan. >> the fact we don't have an energy policy out there is one of the major storm clouds on the horizon for our economy. >> rewind a year before that election. dick cheney is ceo of the oil services firm halliburton, speaking at the institute of petroleum's fall conference in london. he says, for over 100 years we as an industry have had to deal with the pesky problem, once you find oil and pump it out of the ground, you have to turn around and find more or go out of business. looking ahead to 2010 by which time he says world's energy needs will have increased by millions of barrels of oil per day, cheney asks where is the oil going to come from? "the middle east with 2/3 of the world's oil and the lowest cost. it's still where the prize ultimately lies." arguing that oil is the fundamental building block of the world's economy, the future vice president says "governments and the national oil companies are obviously controlling about 90% of the assets." "c

administratively. what i offer is we don't need to pick one or the other. we have work to do both in front of congress and in front of all executive branch agencies to do better, including our court system, so let's talk about some of what was offered before. i agree that we should be optimistic. optimistic for and cautious at the same time. our window is narrowing. in on every detail of every piece of the 1200 pages that was the senate bill. we looked at all 300 amendments, every line, every comma, and we weighed in. we were our own best advocates. we try to get the best bill we could. the bill is not perfect. the bill is tangible and sizable. what do we know on the house side? we know there is a gang of eight in the senate. there is a gang of eight in the house. whereas the house gang of eight, unfortunately, has broken up. they have been working quietly since 2009 trying to find consensus by partisan effort. there is a ton of legislative text that has been drafted and has not been made public. our c

successive administrations have done a poor job of gathering administration. obama came to office established effectiveness was operation and control. this was largely based on the patrol. of border it measured capacity to respond effectively and to encourage them at different places along the border. it was a problematic measure for many reasons, partly because it relied on those subjective judgments. there are still very remote parts of the border where you see agents. they came out with a report that 44%, and that became a ightmare statistic. they decided to stop using operational control methods. i supported that decision. i thought it was a good idea. their effort to find a replacement was badly missing. it was designed to throw together real estate values along with traditional come upent metrics and with an index. it never saw the light of day. the result was the administration didn't have measures to tell a story. what it fell back on was the apprehensions data. there is the number of arrests by the border patrol in any given year. there are individual

enterprise administration, the deabt management, hr function administration of the office. now this would be the point i would like to turn it over to tilly chang, our executive director to go over the operation analysis. >>i good morning commissioners. i am pleased to present the work that we have done and i appreciative as well of the management team to do this. the strategic view -- >> i have a question on the chart on page five. >> sure. >> just looking at policy and programming versus planning -- >> right. >> -- how would you really distinguish those two? >> good question. >> really policy and programming refers to all the funding and the fun programming work that the agency does. it's coordinated and however if you break it down policy and programming role is looking at the strategic opportunities and do the engineering with the other partners in the city to design a capital strategy for the capital program and do this with the agency and the planning division will do long range and short and medium range planning and in addition do policy studies out of both and the

it always depends on the administration, which means in theory a future administration could conduct the same kind of policy, but it seems unlikely. after 9/11, many americans realized they are not in the same page with what the cia did, that this was against american values, against american beliefs. is it likely to happen again? is it likely to fall back. >> we have already had that change, as the administration has changed its policy. >> the actions of the united states on german soil, coming under scrutiny at the highest political level. >> a parliamentary committee has begun investigating allegations of nsa spying. >> reports the u.s. is using its air force base in germany to coordinate drone operations around the world. >> the use is controversial, as civilians are often mistakenly killed in the strikes. >> brandon bryant left his job with the u.s. army three years ago. he said he wanted to stop helping to kill people. he was connected as a remote drone operator to the u.s. base at einstein. -- at rammstein. >> this is essential in the drone where for -- warfare operations arou

seven weeks before the election, the new revelations go to the heart of the administration. >> an email sent three days after the benghazi attack leads directly to the white house and suggests the senior adviser to president obama played a essential role preparing former u.n. ambassador susan rice for the sunday talk shows where she blamed an anti muslim video for the deaths of four americans. among the pages of documents is an email from ben rhodes. with subject line prep call with susan. rhodes writes to a dozen members of the administration's inner circle, including key players, such as spokesman jay carney, to underscore that these proceed refts are rooted in an internet video and not a failed policy. the document reads like a pr strategy. not an effort to provide the best available intelligence to the american people. >> the goal of the house was to do one thing primarily was to make the president look good, blame it on the video and not on the president's policies. >> the rhodes email is significant because it was not part of the email released last may by the administration and i

administration. so it was said that the brotherhood moved in that changed the obama administration line to mubarak, but the explosive growth of the protest affected on the one hand the brotherhood in on the other hand the u.s. administration. they were both drawn to a different position. >> we can expand from a different day. if were talking about the game changer, there's tens of thousands took to two rear squarer peer 50s, 60s, 100,000. it was the narrative that the administration between our ally, mr. mubarak and these people. if they wanted to actually have these people, they rate go down. i'm asking the question, i think the brotherhood did not really change the nature of the demonstration. the brotherhood came in. that's why my criticism is that the administration was badly advised in the sense that only when the brotherhood poco would, you will let go of mubarak because it may have been paid attention that they want to know also that the islamists are going to do. there's always this concern b

just to conclude, what we argued for is that this administration and future administrations should be gathering a larger range of data. what's the apprehension rate at the ports of entry? people tried to get to the legal ports as well. what is the number of visa overstays? all this should be part of the report. there are challenges. it definitely could be done. there's a pretty good model for how to do this. the border security result was passed last year. that bill sets out achievable goals for border security and lays out how the administration should assess and evaluate progress to those goals. just in case anyone thinks it's impossible to find a consensus, that bill passed the homeland security committee in the house unanimously. every democrat. every republican on the committee voted in favor of that bill. there is an approach we can agree on. thanks very much. [applause] >> hello, everyone. thank you for being here. these guys have done such a good job of talking about the numbers. i'm going to talk a little bit about the political ramifications of the debate. the first thing to

the day before prussian protesters stormed to make a life regional state administration. they appeal to follow the scenarios of vignettes contraband lot lines through social networks that has aired over two hundred supporters of platoons aggressive policing the most of the field in the barrington on the station the police came to defence to practice and waving to color so intelligent person slogans at claire's broke out after the demands of the mind on the kiddies to leave the square were denied. it involves don't think the defense companies fifteen people were injured in half an hour security for the first to get there with david and tom and the monorail to the heroes of the chomsky airborne depicted in the transfer from fire and edged weapons. in the service the protest aggression last night was a menace by the euro might not make to these as themselves the unknown persons whose interactions likes romantic weapons cache of shiny gold chains and that makes others were arrested by a local so the trains at the monument and superficially up to everett to start the police me

>> because administration, administration at least according to many, it would be provocative.nt to encourage the russians. don't upset the russians. the russians don't really care at this point. what the administration has done is talk, talk. talk, done nothing. obama talks, putin -- bill: you don't think this administration is prepared to do much. >> no. in terms of talk. bill: helping kiev? >> no, here's why. even if they were willing to do something like banking sanctions, energy sector sanctions, the problem we don't have a lost trade with russia, so there won't be that effect in the near term. the europeans have a lot of trade, et cetera, with the russians. they're not likely to endanger that. so the, they're probably not going to step up. bill: what is the danger of us not doing something to help the people in ukraine? >> here is the danger. that putin keeps going. what he has done, he has taken in 2008, he took part of georgia. he has now taken crimea. when hardly a peep out of anybody. certainly nothing effective. he is poised to take parts of eastern ukraine. if that

a word real quick on some administrative procedures that the administration has undertaken. in the absence of immigration reform and legislative reform. and that also may be coming. we, of course, have tried, one of the things we try to do in the immigration enforcement system at least and the removal to try to focus on parties. in other words, if you start with a system that has too many cases and too few resources, what you do is you prioritize, prioritize on this case is that really should have the governments attention in the first instance, and they involve public, threat to public safety, serious criminal activities, things like that. and try to de- emphasize those cases that may involve people that don't have a lot of criminal act every or really any criminal activity. it has been i think a sustained effort that we start in 2011 primarily with dhs with regard to prosecute to discretion with dhs was exercising more discretion in terms of the cases they sought to bring to court in order to get removal orders. while the numbers have not been huge they're having a fair am