our resources in anwar. an attempt to allow america to develop a national energy policy and promote jobs. the gentleman knows the energy sector provides an awful lot of jobs in plant of parts of the country and can do more and is willing. private capital willing to deploy to create jobs. but i find it also ironic, mr. speaker, that the gentleman chance that there is no bipartisanship because we are not working with the administration. the administration has been on all of this. they are not interested in working with us to create a product where we can see jobs created. as you can see, the secretary sits in his office and opines and attacks the bill saying it is all the negative things that he said. that is not a way to collaborate and work together. the gentleman knows that as well. the gentleman knows that is certainly not how things have worked in this town if you want to produce a result. so, the gentleman can claim the mantle of wanting to work together and the administration is being trampled by some a

the website is linked to this radical extremist anwar al- awlaki. now dead, then a key al-qaeda figure. regarded as the men's inspiration, he called on western muslims to attack their home countries. although some of the men had heeded the message and chosen the target, they never actually made a bomb. but they were intent on bringing terror and fear back to the u.k. june kelly, bbc news. >> time to look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. mitt romney has won the latest contest in florida to choose the republican party that a candidate for the presidential election in november. he polled 47% of the votes cast, easily beating his main rival newt gingrich, who received 32% of the vote. the other candidates, former senator rick santorum had 13%, and congressman ron paul that 7%. both remain in the race. our north america editor sent this report from the campaign trail. >> that is not just excitement on the faces of mitt romney's supporters -- it is relief. his campaign is now back on track. he once again be seen as the

anwr, you can't do anwar either. ago, liberals were saying we can't get gas off anwar for a decade. we're still not getting gas and oil off of anwar if anybody deserves credit here, it's the good lord for putting oil and gas in the shale in the ground. that's who deserbs the credit. >> dean baker, the department of agriculture stopped the shale drilling at the utica field in ohio. it seems like the epa has been a boundary. >> the free market says that you can pollute my drinking water? people are trying to make their living as fishermen, tourism, and beaches covered with oil. >> that's an excuse to stop drilling? >> you have to make sure you have good controls in place so you don't have another one. what will you tell the people in louisiana the next time that happens? >> let's not imagine for a second. this president wants lower oil and gas prices. you know, maybe just for the election. and he came in, said he wanted higher fossil fuel prices to it to combat global warming. would would have a cap and trade system. >

remember, anwar al-awlaki was the first american on the cia's capture or kill list.d to have taken him out last year. today after the judge sentenced him. abdulmutallab lebanon called this a day of victory. mike tobin is outside the courtroom in detroit. life with no parole no, windows, no chance to get out, no big surprise but victory? >> it was pretty much a forgone conclusion that abdul me would never walk the streets. muslims are proud to kill in god's name. also came out throughout these proceedings as fox news reported that he was so tied in with al qaeda that he even stayed for a while with anwar al-awlaki. it was al awlaki who ultimately directed him to the al qaeda bomb maker. >> i think we have to understand that is he remorseless, that al qaeda remains determined to kill us. but, i take great heart in the fact that our american justice system today has proven that we can defeat terrorists in open courtrooms in america. >> now, a statement from abdul me me tell lab's family grateful did not result in injury or any death. >> shepard: before the sentencing, m

the sort of devices from the battlefield.or trackk down al qaeda leaders like anwar al-awlaki, kklled by a cia-operated drone in yemen last year.but new, smaaler, remote-controllee devices are widespread use outside - warzones like in u-- cities and rural areas.the coast guard used a drone in alaska last month to conduct surveillance of an ice sheet. weesee the civil applications of these things dwarfing the military applications in the future. farmers could oneeday use drones to monitor their crops or even spray fertilizerssand pesticides remotely.police could use a device likeethis five and a half pound drone developed by callfornia-based aerovironmenttto track down suspects on the run or erform other surveillance -- at a fraction of the cost oo a helicopter. under a bill recently passed by congress the federal aviation administration must draa up rules to allow small unmanned airrraft ystems to fll in ssfety agencies faster access - to some devices and fully inttgrate the systems into the manufacturers are very eager r for this market and i think it's oneeof these things that once

remember the radical american cleric anwar anwar al awlaki wal qaeda leader in yemen.u.s. drone strike killed him in september. yemen is also the poorest country in the entire arab world with one of the world's most active terror branches. the united states has now thrown its support behind yemen's vice president. a bloody prison break in mexico came with the help of prison guards. that's the new word today from investigators there. another indication mexico's powerful drug cartels are becoming increasingly untouchable. those investigators say more than a dozen guards appear to have allowed 30 minutes of the zeta cartel to walk free on sunday as other zetas started a riot. it left 34 rival gang members dead inside that prison. the victims reportedly bludgeoned and knifed to death. officials are offering a nearly $800,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the people involved in that deadly escape. well, here at home, big excitement in the big easy as some million people go out to celebrate fat tuesday. from new orleans to pass christian they are marking ma

however, drilling in anwar would assist and also create jobs.t would assist us in not being dependent on foreign oil. also, exploration off shore. as you heard kay bailey hutchinson say that exploration permits have gone down, not increased. and the keystone pipeline. this is the first time in washington d.c. i've actually seen unions, and ultra conservatives be on the same team. and if we allow that pipeline to be built and get oil from canada, that would increase jobs and decrease our dependency on foreign oil. mitt romney has a very good plan, jamie. obama went to war on oil and coal. right when he started his presidency. so, if we have a mitt romney president, not only will he relax regulation, which actual actually strangles us and he'll give more research and development with clean coal technology and biofuel and also allow us to drill in anwar. >> jamie: let me wrap up your thought for a second and i'll come back to you. but, does the president-- how much patience do you think voters will have on the issues of gas prices? it seems to me t

very prospective in nature and it will never materialize and the democrats will never let us open anwar. so to insult the intelligence of the american people to say it's not really deficit spending because we're going to pay for it by future revenues. if we have future revenues we need to pay down the debt and we don't need to be spending money that we don't have and if we combine that with the payroll tax and the dollars, the payment for medicare, we're going to be adding well over $100 billion to our deficit this week at a time when we're all talking about needing to cut the deficit. so larry, it's very discouraging for those of us who really believe that this country cannot add more debt and expect to survive. the only reason we are now is because we're printing money and because the euro's in so much trouble. >> is there another $50 billion bailout of the highway trust fund for so-called infrastructure spending? is that really the thrust of what you're saying? another $50 billion in the hole to bail out the highway trust fund? >> i think it is. because we'll borrow the money and the

this is the same mosque where anwar al alaki once served as imam.osque's current i ma'am is among a group of muslim leaders who regularly meet with the fbi. >>> a car crash in prince georges county. tonight, a young mother is gone and police are still looking for the man behind the wheel. darcy spencer joins us live. >> reporter: well, aaron, i was able to speak to those family members tonight. they were obviously extremely distraught. they lost their loved one early this morning, right here on suitland road, just down the street from where i'm standing. to make matters worse for the family, the person behind the wheel still hasn't been caught. >> i lost my sister. >> reporter: relatives are grieving the loss of tyesha williams. she was 18 years old, the mother of a little boy about to turn two. she died in a car crash in prince georges county early saturday morning. police say the driver left the scene. >> i just want to say if anybody knows the whereabouts of who the driver was, please come forward and alert the authorities. >> reporter: the singl

it is the same place that anwar al ala wa hi was. el khalifi was not a regular worshipper at that mosque. >>> still ahead here, is it safe to get your caffeine fix by inhaling it. >>> rick santorum is trying to explain what he meant when president obama had a, quote, phony theology. >>> and it turns out this is >>> the fd is looking into whether inhaleable caffeine is safe. it's for sale in massachusetts and new york. it's sold as a dietary supplement, but new york senator chuck shumer asked the fda to take another look. aero shot said it will cooperate with the review and its product is safe. >>> espn fired one employee and suspended another today for using offensive language referring to knicks phenom jer any lin. it was used in the mobile website on friday. it was also spoken by an espn news anchor. the anchor was suspended for 30 days. there was another use of the phrase on espn radio by a commentator who was not a network employee. jeremy lin hit the hardwood again this afternoon. >>> still ahead tonight, chuck's back to tell us

he wants including killing so in total secrecy with no transparency or checks, and after we killed anwar al-awlaki, a drone attack killed his 16-year-old son and 17-year-old cousin in yemen and the u.s. government refuses to account what happened there. if you talked about those things and the other secrecy doctrines, you'd have 50% of the room, the ones identified as republicans supporting it, cheering for it, justifying it, apologizing for it, and happy with it. 50% of the room, the democrats, would be angry over it, objecting it to as not following the constitution and right wing republicans. you would now have 90% of the room cheering for it and supporting it or at least justifying it in mitigating it the way matt did in the post or acquiescence it and 10% of the room would be angry about it because they were angry about its being done the first time around and not pretending to be angry for partisan gain, and this has really changed the way these issues are discussed. the fact that now it's not just the republican party standing for this form of lawlessness, but it's become under pr

we have enough oil in both anwar and on shore, that at the margin, prices, yes, are hit by the incertainty. but at the margin, it's the new oil that's coming on that's available and the amount of every day excess supply that would bring us down to the 85 and $75 price point and we can do it now in the united states and we have the shale oil revolution and we have the keystone pipeline that would actually bring another 2 million barrels and we could have 5 million extra barrels a day and trust me, i've been in the energy business a very long time, with that type of excess capacity, we would have $75 oil or lower, it would be profitable to bring out of the ground, but also have about $2.50 gasoline. >> i want to get back to this supply issue in just a minute. but jonas, you don't think it's because of supply disruption, you think it has something to do with demand? >> what i'd like to say walking into the gas station and not experiencing the energy industry, but the actual-- >> oh. >> and the tax, the tax is the reason the-- we're all acting like, we need to have the tax break to pay for the

community believe it was al qaeda got more mature with its message but also found the right messenger, anwar al-awlaki, who had been here in america for years, born in new mexico, spoke perfect english and was a master propagandist for al qaeda and he was a very prolific youtube video creator. >> pelley: and he was killed by the u.s. government. >> in a drone strike in yemen. and i think when you see that spike start to dip, scott, that may have something to do with it. two things, one, that the government asked youtube to remove those videos because they said that was direct link between that message and terrorist plots but al-awlaki's death also kind of made that communication halt. >> reporter: in a case like this, what kind of evidence is there likely to be? >> in this case, you're going to see wall-to-wall evidence, scott. you're going see video inside apartments of people handling weapons. you're going to hear voice recordings and video recordings of people in cars. you're going to see him trying on this suicide vest because the government has also realized the strongest hedge against

you know, more drilling in the gulf, opening up anwar? >> i assume, you know, when we put out -- when the president puts out a pay for, i assume that's what the debate is going to be about, senator. that's what they're debating over in the house now. they to split the bill up into three bills. one is transportation. one of them is energy because they're trying to figure out a pay for. >> i was just asking your opinion. do you think that's a good idea? >> i like the idea of the president put out. i like the idea of half of it highway trust fund and half of it iraq money. i think it's a pretty good formula. >> okay. appreciate it. thanks. >> yes, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> i thank all senators who participated. i thank the secretary very much for being here. as i've said many times, you

drone strikes in yemen that killed anwar al awlaki, a suspected terrorist, and other americans. the lawsuit is directed at the defense department, cia and justice department, asking for documents and medical row is justifying the killing of americans. two days ago, president obama acknowledged in a social media gathering that the u.s. was using drone attacks in pakistan to target terrorists. >>> back in a minute with more "washington today." >>> "washington today" is now available as a podcast. download each program individually at cspan.org or subscribe using itunes. accuracy the "washington today" podcast wherever you are with the c-span radio iphone app or on your data-enabled mobile device. >>> a dramatic recording that we'll hear in just a moment. the national archives has released two hours and 22 minutes of a conversation that took place aboard air force one during the flight from dallas, texas, to washington, d.c. november 22nd, 1963, following the assassination of president john f. kennedy. the tape was donated to the national archives, the recordings involve conversati

but i think the other is the death of al qaeda's propaganda master, anwar awlaki, as well as the deathrike of a person who ran their "inspire" magazine, their online puplication. they have had a slowdown in propaganda and charismatic speakers who can reach people. >> mason: at the same time, in this case, john, as the government was investigating, didn't they effectively provide khalifi with a bomb? isn't that a risky proposition? >> well, they provide him with a bomb to the extent they went to a quarry, they made a nok-up of the device he would be given. they blew it up, and that was to show him that it worked and his response was he wanted more explosives. he wanted a bigger bomb. ultimately the device they gave him was made by the f.b.i.'s bomb technicians in the explosive sections at the lab in quantico, and it was a completely inert device. he recognizeds it as the same tyner the same material he had seen in the quarry but it wouldn't have worked. and the same with the gun they provided him. it was just like the real one he had handled but this one wouldn't have fired. >> mason: j

he says al qaeda is significantly weaker since the killing of osama bin laden and the american-born anwar awlaki in yemen. clapper says al qaeda, while still a threat, is probably unable to launch a massive attack. director clapper also noted the rising volatility in the wake of the arab spring, which, as you know, diane, we are seeing throughout the middle east. >>> speaking of that volatility, martha, we have another headline now from another tinderbox box, syria, where the incendiary clashes continue today. the united nations security council coming together to debate the future of syrian president assad. the u.s. sent in the big guns, secretary of state hillary clinton, who talked about the challenge of pushing assad to resign. >> this will be hard. the results are far from certain. success is far from guaranteed, but the alternative, more of assad's brutal rule, is no alternative at all. >> the security council engaging on the issue today. >>> and now a note about your money tonight on this, the last day of the month. even though the dow closed down slightly today, this month emerged

the transportation committee and inserted unrelated and controversial provisions like keystone and anwar and offshore drilling and cuts in federal pension, and even worse, they changed the rules in the middle of the game, because yesterday morning after everyone had submitted the amendments to the original single bill, speaker boehner decided to split it in three separate measures, and he said it was the name of transparency. transparency! give me a break. it was more like the valentine's day's massacre of transparency. you know a bill is bad when the competitive enterprise institute, and taxpayers for common sense and the natural resources and the defense council are all opposed to how it is structured. talk about strange bedbedfellow. and former transportation secretary ray lahood called hr-7 the most transparent transportation bill i have ever seen, and i further quote him, he said, it is the worst transportation bill i have ever seen during 35 years of public service. it came out of the transportation committee and so in and of itself defeating them doesn't make a bill bipartisan. --

secret and jamme committee and inserted unrelated and controversial provisions like keystone pipeline anwar, offshore drilling and cuts in federal pensions. even worse they changed the rules in the middle of the game because yesterday morning after everyone had submitted their amendments to the original single bill, speaker boehner decided to split it into three separate measures. and he said it was the name of transparency. transparency? give me a break. it was more like the valentine's massacre of transparency. you know, you know a bill is bad when the competitive enterprise institute taxpayers for common sense and the natural resources defense council are all opposed to how it's structured. talk about strange bed fellows. transportation secretary ray lahood, a former republican congressman, called hr-7 and i quote, the most partisan transportation bill i have ever seen and i further quote him, he said, it is the worst transportation bill i've ever seen during 35 years of public service. the chairman of the transportation committee calls this a bipartisan product. madam speaker, making de

after the deaths of bin laden, anwaral awlaki, our testament to the effectiveness of the small rapid missions instead of the nation-building of the past, the emphasis based on a lilly pad strategy will continue to help us address our national security issues as well as draw down unnecessary troop levels in europe, for example. secretary panetta, i'm here -- i was pleased to hear you announce a few weeks ago that the drawdown from afghanistan would begin as early as mid 2013. although i appreciate accelerating the drawdown slightly, i would like to hear more about the number of troops that will be withdrawn in 2013, as well as the schedule set for the pace of withdrawal of the 68,000 troops who will remain. as a long-standing opponent of the war, i also have serious concerns that the lessons learned from iraq are not being implemented fully in afghanistan. as the dod attempts to rein in costs, i am puzzled why contracting in afghanistan has not been more closely scrutinized, especially since many of the contractors overlap in both iraq and afghanistan. the special inspector general fo

know the administration is sort of kind of saying they're going to release more information about the anwar locky drone strike which was in yemen. so they are beginning to recognize that they're beginning to suffer religion i'm a see issue here i think one of the other things that's going on is david petraeus has actually been less gung ho about targeting then leon panetta ahead of him before him with the cia and so one of the you're beginning to see interesting leaks coming out of the cia as well because david petraeus isn't giving the counterterrorism center kind of carte blanche to go bomb whoever they want to bomb so we're getting leaks anyway and this report i think is an important part of it but i have read the quote that you raised you know were al qaeda sympathizers if we asked pakistani journalists and locals to help put names to the people who've been hit me strikes. you know that they're obviously trying to push back and ensure there won't be any independent checking of their records in you know possibly in anticipation of them becoming slightly more transparent with it so it's r

dictator or a monarch playing judge jury and executioner all in one no it's not forget in the case of anwar locky we've never been handed any evidence to back up the administration's claims that he played an operational role in plotting terrorist attacks against the united states and secretary of defense trying to claim last week that he had wanted to or how do you wanted to he could return to the u.s. in question being placed on that assassination list but there's no way to find out if you're on one of these lists because no lawsuit was ever brought no public statement was ever made about it and the only reason we found out was because of a leak but it's not just about on want to lock up it's about what we've allowed this president to do how we've allowed him to change the rules and set an incredibly dangerous precedent i'm sure they did it without asking i certainly would not have allowed this why improving these respondents have just given the executive branch the permission to do this again and again and again so this isn't about terrorism this is about standing by certain values and la

i keep going back to 1995 when the house and the senate passed anwar.toed by the president shortly thereafter. prices at the pump back then were $1.07. today it's $3.65. think about where we would be, mr. president, if that action had not been vetoed. if the alaska pipeline which is now less than half filled were at full capacity coming with oil -- with oil coming out of anwar. mr. president, a colleague of ours from new york just why yesterday sent a letter to secretary clinton asking her to pressure saudi arabia to pump more oil, and in his -- in his letter to the secretary, he says i urge the state department to work with the government of saudi arabia to increase its oil production as they are currently producing well under their capacity. well, our pipeline, mr. president, is certainly well upped capacity at 600,000 barrels a day. when we were pushing it through at full tilt, we were over two million barrels a day. that's exactly with the senator from new york has asked saudi arabia to step up to do. we could be doing it from this country with our

specifically about three drone strikes conducted in yemen last year that killed american citizens including anwar all along the way we've seen reporters like jeremy scahill go to somalia report on say proxy prisons there to tell all of us the real story now of course the problem here is that the mainstream media they won't do any of that reporting they initially attacked scahill for that piece he was criticized for revealing national security secrets because you know that nobody loves to keep a secret more than the mainstream media so they can keep their ties and all of their stores as high up in the government and at the pentagon and never get in anyone's way to just realize what's coming and remember that thus far in the build up to what will soon become the norm the mainstream media has consistently chosen to miss. well we've spoken a lot about hydraulic fracturing aka fracking here on the show the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock and one which the natural gas industry is increasingly using across the u.s. have. negative consequences on communities and yesterday and a house si

program specifically focusing on drone strikes last year that killed three american citizens including anwar locky but should organizations like the a.c.l.u. take it one step further reading the new york times this monday march canis was one of the authors of an op ed the push for human rights organizations to start using drones for surveillance specifically using the example of syria they argue that if human rights organizations can spy on evil they show it to now we have to ask should they join me to discuss that is mark canis founder of the genocide intervention network and scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine and i want to thank you both for joining us tonight and mark i'm to start with you just start by telling us why it is that you think that human rights organizations should use drones human rights organizations use people to monitor human rights violations we either get visas and do it with the permission of governments were sometimes they sneak in and go in there without governments knowing in eastern burma for example lots of

united states or the obama administration may be very proud of the fact that for instance they killed anwar a lot t. who's of course a u.s. citizen and samir khan who was killed along with him was also a u.s. citizen let's remember that two weeks later they the u.s. military and cia forces killed sixteen year old of the raaf mana locky who was unaware a lot he's sixteen year old son also a u.s. citizen so we've killed three u.s. citizens in a two week period and when i would ask yemenis about that they would say to me well what about the forty something bedouins that obama killed or what about the governor of mara province who was killed in an airstrike and there is a hero you all focus on the americans we're focused on our people that you're killing you say that these guys are terrorists we say your drones are terrorism so you know i do think that the united states names needs to back away from this idea that you know you can engage in this cruise missile or drone strike fuelled war of attrition and kill the finite number of bad guys in the world because that's just not the way it works we

a lot of things going on you never want to talk about, because you want to talk about drilling in anwarbeach house. >> eric: gasoline prices, we outlined this earlier. don't go through it again. july 5, 2008, george bush sig signed the document that pulled moratoriums off offshore drilling. oil went from $15-barrel in six months to $33 a barrel. you is to admit, drill more. oil prices go down. >> eric: he did take the moratorium off. >> bob: except when jeb his brother asked him not to do it is. there a moratorium there now? >> eric: yes. b. that has been lifted now, right? >> eric: no. >> dana: it's like accommodation on obamacare mandate regarding contraception. they say oh, we are going to lift the moratorium. okay. you see the headline and the next day, wait a second. that's not what it says here. >> eric: a permitting process. >> greg: the story is he actually said, didn't he say he is doubling down? doubling down on solyndra and the volt? that is what crazy people do. when something doesn't work and you continue doing it. >> bob: how long is the dinosaur crap going to last? >> dan