but as chip reed reports everyone knows what mr. obama meant when he said justice has been done. >> when we say we will never forget we mean what we say. >> reporter: this is not just any firehouse, the home of engine 54 lost 15 men when the twin towers fell, an entire shift. more than any other new york firehouse. a bronze plaque honors their sacrifice and that of their family including 28 children who lost their fathers on 9/11. >> it is some comfort i hope for all of you to know that when those guys took those extraordinary risks going in to pakistan that they were doing it in part because of the sacrifices that were made in this station. they were doing it in the name of your brothers that were lost. >> reporter: at new york's first precinct the president thanked the first police officers to responds on 9/11 reminding them that while bin laden is gone the threat of terrorism is not. >> you're still going to be called on to take courageous actions and remain vigilent but you'll have an entire country behind you when do you it. >> reporter: later he visited ground ze

president obama has decided not to make public those photos of the terror leader's body. saying, quote, we don't spike the football. >> that decision comes as mrobama travels here to new york to visit ground zero today. and the taliban is saying it does plan revenge attacks against america because of bin laden's death. >>> the raid on bin laden's compound has revealed the military's supersecret new weapon. before this, the existence of the stealth chopper had only been a rumor. >> but as brian ross reports, it flew the navy s.e.a.l.s to the bin laden hideout. >> reporter: the last act of the navy s.e.a.l. team before they left the bin laden compound was to blow up the damaged helicopter that had to be left behind, setting off a huge fire. and now, we know why that was so important. aviation analysts say the remnants of the aircraft reveal they were part of one of the u.s. military's most closely guarded secrets, a stealth blackhawk helicopter, whose existence was only rumored but had never been seen in public before. >> this is the first time that we've seen an operational stealth helicopter. >> reporter: the analysts say photos that emerged o

as incredibly tense. mr. obama first learned of the tentative identification of bin laden's body in midafternoon. >> jake tapper hasn at the white house as the story unfolded. >> reporter: they got the lead last august, and president obama said that he had told, when he started as president, he told his cia director, leon panetta, that he wanted the capture or killing of osama bin laden to be the number one priority when it came to the fight against al qaeda. and then in august, they got a lead. they followed the thread through. he gave the order. and u.s. troops were told from our reporter on the ground, we're told it was an on the ground operation in this one mansion, this one compound, and it was a successful mission. no civilians were killed. no u.s. troops were killed and the u.s. has bin laden's body. there's jubilation here inside the white house, outside the white house, tourists and others have gathered outside. they're singing the national anthem, chanting "usa." some of them are singing "na, na, na, na, good-bye" to bin laden. we should point out, george, that 9/11 was bin laden's most devastating and de

president, barack obama, is in ireland where he has just kicked off a week-long tour of europe. as well as holding talks with the irish president and the prime minister, mr. obama will also be heading to the small village of moneygall, to retrace his ancestral roots. his great-great-great grandfather lived and worked there as a shoemaker almost 200 years ago. after his 24 hours in ireland, he will head to the uk, france and poland. >>> spain's governing socialist party suffered a major setback in local and regional elections with around 90% of the votes counted, the opposition conservatives are cruising to victory with a 10 percentage-point lead. the elections were overshadowed by a week of protests over the country's deep economic crisis. >>> a deadly tornado has ripped through the u.s. state of missouri, part of a savage weather system that stretches across america's midwest. the national guard has been sent to missouri, to help search for the missing. and the town of joplin, homes were flattened, cars were tossed by a twister. a red cross official says three-quarters of the city has been wiped out. >>> security forces in syria have allowed the funeral

obama has given over the killing of osama bin laden. mr. obama said that washington wouldn't be releasing any images as the graphic pictures could be an incitement to additional violence. the american president will visit ground zero in new york later. the visit being described by officials not as a victory tour, but a homage to the victims. from new york, we have this report. >> heightened security at ground zero, guarding against a possible attack by bin laden's followers am by coming here, president obama will mark the death of the man who orchestrated 9/11 and pay his respects to those killed here. the president will meet relatives of the dead, including the father of fallen firefighter, jonathan yelpy. >> this thing had a happened the other day, where we killed bin laden, it's just, and we demand justice in our society, but we should not be too overjoyed with it. >> after the white house suggested it would release pictures of bin laden to prove he's dead, now the president says that's not necessary. >> we are absolutely certain this was him. we've done d.n.a. sampling and testing, and so there's no doubt that we kill osama bin laden. it is

as mr. obama paid homage to those pols who lost their lives in the second world war. poland is a country whose national identity has long been shaped by his destruction of nazi germany and subsequent decades of communist rule. and after chatting to world war ii veterans, mr. obama crossed the city to another significant landmark. the monument to the warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943. here he met holocaust survivors and jewish community leaders promising to return again with his daughters when the national jewish history museum is completed. tpwhut visit is important diplomatically, too. poland is a key nato ally for thes but mr. obama's decision to halt the bush administration's plans for maisel defense system here turned relations frosty in recent years. still, the white house has stressed the two presidents would be discussing the u.s.' role in poland's national security during bilateral meetings on saturday. as guest of honor at a meeting of central and eastern european leaders, the u.s. president sought to reassure his hosts. >> we have taken great inspiration of the blossoming of freedom and economic growth in th

iraq a cia agents all are there even before obama recognizes and has going for it mr libya along working alongside french intelligence and british s.e.'s as well they are manipulating the agenda of this transitional council some analysts say the u.s. is using the turmoil in libya to propel to power people who would be loyal to their interests you look at this collection of gibril joe yunus and if there are these people are foreign agents they're nato stooges they're they're completely can. trolldom they will never be able to assert any kind of independent autonomous libya their groups of the proper regime and that this will degenerate into chaos and number of leaders who were prompted by washington have based popular discontent in egypt hosni mubarak had been extensively supported by the us but their kids despite the mess they disapproval of his policies yemen has seen violent protests over the rule of its president who many believe has managed to hold onto power only thanks to u.s. support and the government of hamid karzai in afghanistan has been struggling with public discontent for years the u.s. and its allies will go into the style

mr. obama said he wants to extend existing leases off alaska and in the gulf of mexico. mr. obama has come under increasing criticism as the average price of a gallon of regular hovers around $4 nationwide. his announcement comes following passage of three republican controlled house bills that would expand offshore oil and gas drilling. >>> speaker of the house john boehner is delivering the commencement address at catholic university today. but not everyone at the washington, d.c. school is looking forward to it. a letter signed by dozens of faculty members says boehner has one of the worst records in congress on programs for the poor. it also asks boehner, who is a catholic, to refamiliarize himself with church teachings on the subject. >>> shirley sherrod reportedly is going back to work for the department of agriculture. she was forced out after she was wrongfully accused of making racially insensitive remarks. the washington, d.c. website politico reports she'll be a contractor, helping the usda improve its civil rights record. a report earlier this week said the department still has problems treating minorities

has unique spending because he ran against mr. obama twice for the senate in 2004 there were two finalists and if indeed mr. obama as the evidence shows committed fraud and the evidence that we have shows doesn't have a valid social security number he's using a number that was never signed and it doesn't have the original birth certificate he was provided to the public and i believe greatly influenced the country as a whole and somehow influenced air the court in the future proceedings publishing this computer image is of original birth certificate issued in 1961 and issues that it's not, it isn't it true image of the of original birth certificate. it's a very invented computer art where pieces were taken from different documents, put together and the damage was created. he created this psychological map. he called us [inaudible] and the start of mass hysteria in the media saying we need to go away, get out of the country and so forth the investor has perfect standing and if fraud was committed and mr. obama doesn't have the proper paper he could never become president or become the senator from the state of illinoi

mr. obama is expected to announce new aid packages for egypt and tunisia, the two nations seen as models for democratic uprising. >>> al-qaeda hasip in there records the information off the magnetic stripe. >> reporter: to record the pin number, they install a tiny camera hidden in the panel above the key pad. >> the thieves can download your account information on the magnetic stripe of a blank card learn your pin number from the camera recording and start draining your account of cash. >> that is what happens to rose flores when she used the atm at her bank last year before going on vacation. she got back and discovered thieves were raiding her bank account. >> i felt very violated and very scared. they took out almost $6,000. >> rose discovered the theft by checking her statements online. chase eventually reimbursed all the money she lost but she is careful using atms now. important precautions, check the atm to see if anything looks loose or out of place. >> if anything looks suspicious, don't use the atm. contact the bank and the police right away. >> even if a card reader looks legitimate shield the key pad with your hand

has a choice. he can lead that transition or get out of the way. >> reporter: many in the arab world have doubts about mr. obama's commitments, as we saw firsthand in tahrir square, where many expected more support from the president, and today, it was his very direct language to israel that was perhaps most striking. >> the dream of a jewish and democrat state can't be fulfilled with permanent occupation. >> calling for an exchange of land for security and peace. >> we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed slots. >> israel's prime minister, netanyahu, rejected that, saying israel would be indefensible. and major u.s. settlements would be outside israel. however, mr. obama said he's convinced the majority of palestinians and israelis no longer want to be trapped in the past. >> that is the choice that must be made. a choice between hate and hope. between the shackles of the past and the promise of the future. >> reporter: the president also said all palestinians including the militant group hamas, which is now part of the government, must recognize israel's right to ex

as president, you would put out a photo of a dead osama bin laden? just to be sure, mr. cain, you would not? >> i would not. >> senator santorum, you said that president obama has made the country less safe and made america's enemies less fearful and less respectful of us. drone attacks in pakistan have more than tripled under president obama. he sent 30,000 more u.s. troops into afghanistan last year and he just authorized, as we talked about, this mission to kill bin laden. how much more aggressive could he be? >> if you look at what president obama has done right in foreign policy, it is always been a continuation of the bush policies. he has gone right by keeping gitmo open. he has done right, finishing the job in iraq. he has done right, trying to win in afghanistan. those were existing policies that inspector place. the decision he made with osama bin laden was a tactical decision. it wasn't a strategic decision, the strategic decision was made by president bush to go after him. what president obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he has been president, he has gotten it wrong strategeically every time, whether in central america,

mr. obama has been called the post american president. american exception was and has been called into question. our role as a stabilizing, unifying force in the world has been doubted. we have plunged from positions of responsibility as the global order tremors with the forces of hope and change. i use that term not indeed style of political campaigns, but as it exists on the tongues and in the hearts of the oppressed. today, the peoples of the middle east are standing up in defiance of tyranny, filled with hope that their nation contingent -- can change. since our founding, america has been a beacon of light for these movements. new england's minutemen did find a monarch's. liberated europe from a fascist tyrant and kept watch over western european democracies while staring down the soviets empire. we are at a time where democracy squares off against tyranny. the battleground is all too familiar to west -- the middle east. with the military engaged in degree different theaters of combat, it is important that our nation remains guarded and strong. it must be our top priority to feel the forces to stave off

mr. obama spoke to america's pro-israel lobby. he defended his proposal to use israel's 1967 borders as the basis for a future palestinian state. the president said all he was doing what stating publicly what has long been u.s. policy and he warned that time for a mideast peace deal is running out. >> it is the right and the responsibility of the israeli government to make the hard choices that are necessary to protect a jewish and democratic state for which so many generations have sacrificed. >> israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has already rejected the president's proposal. netanyahu will address the same group today, and congress tomorrow. >>> fighting continues this morning at a pakistani navy base. it is in the southern port city of karachi. taliban militants attacked last night. the attackers destroyed two surveillance aircrafts, supplied to pakistan by the u.s., then holed up in a building on the base. at least a dozen pakistani security officers were killed in the suggesting that president obama isn't admitting the severity of the nation's problems. >> my first campaign stop will be in iowa, and that's where i'm going to begin a campaign that tells the american people the tru

as empty of concrete significance. let's bring in kevin flower who joins us live from jerusalem. there's also the question the palestinians are asking, okay, mr. obama has said all these things he wants for the region, but they're probably wondering and i'm assuming what kind of role the americans actually want to play in this. >> well, one thing to remember in all of this talk about what obama laid out in his speech is that all of that is predicated on talks taking place at some time in the future, but the reality on the ground here is that talks have not been going on between the palestinians and israelis for months, so it's crucial to know that. and so all of these -- all of these talks about 67 borders, talk about what a state could look like, for a lot of palestinians and a lot of israelis, it's about sort of the pie in the sky right now. and what president obama laid out, what one writer here called it was basically a political buffet in which people on either side could pick and choose things on either side that they liked or didn't like about it. and what they've seen in israel is a real focus on the 67 borders issue. just to give you a sense of

has unique spending because he ran against mr. obama twice for the senate in 2004 there were two finalists and i indeed mr. obama as the evidence shows committed frau and the evidence that we have shows doesn't have a valid social security number he's using a number that was never signed and it doesn't have the original birth certificate he was provied to te public and i believe greatly influenced the country as a whole and somehow influenced air the court in the future proceedings publishing this computer image is of original birth certificate issued in 1961 and issues that it's not, it isn't it true image of the of original birth certificate. it's a very invented computer art where pieces were taken from different documents, put together and the damage was created. he created this psychological map. he called us [inaudible] and the start of mass hysteria in the media saying we need to go away, get out of the country and so forth the investor has perfect standing and if fraud was committed and mr. obama doesn't have the proper paper he could never become president or become the senator from the state of illinois a

mr. obama's stay in ireland was a real family affair you could say. traveling with the president and sunlen miller has more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, peggy, rob. the president announced himself as the city embraced him as family. a pint shared with the president's eighth cousin. once a stranger, but over a guinness, a friend. >> the president pays his bar tab. >> reporter: in front of 25,000 people, later in downtown dublin, the president paid ode to a nation of his family history. including the language. >> some wise irish man or woman once said that broken irish is better than clever english. [ cheers ] so here goes. [ speaking foreign language ] i am happy to be in ireland. >> reporter: from ireland to england. the obamas didn't receive an invitation to the royal wedding, but today they will have an official state visit with the queen of england. they met before, but this time, the first couple will sleep in buckingham palace. they will have a formal lunch with the queen majesty herself. and the president will meet with the prime minister and the opposition leader. the obamas arrived in england one night early. they were forced to leave ireland due to the volcanic ash making

mr. obama has been called the post-american president. during his tenure, american exceptionalism has been called into question. our role as a stabilizing, unifying force in the world has been doubted. we have flinched from positions of responsibility as the global order tremors. and i use that term not in a slogan style of political campaigns, but as it exists on the tongues and in the hearts of the oppressed. today the peoples of the middle east are standing up in defiance of tyranny, filled with hope that their nation can change. since our founding america has been the beacon of light for these movements, our military, the torch bearer, new england minutemen defied a monarch, union soldiers freed the enslaved south, g.i.'s liberated europe from a facist tyrant and kept watch over western european democracies while starring down the soviet empire and democracies square off against tyranny, the battleground is all too familiar to us, the middle east. with our military engaged in three different theaters of combat, it is important that our nation remains guarded and strong. it must be our top priority to field the forces a

the unexpected consequences is perhaps we do not billion as we wants did this could be avoided with better food education. first lady mrs. obama has achieved a lately by launching her let's move campaign which is a wonderful initiative if i may say so manufacturers getting a healthy weight commitment and pledging to cut 1.5 trillion calories per year from their products. all promising to sell products with less sugar and trans fats and reduce prices on fresh fruits and vegetables and the big drive to improve healthy eating in schools and the exxon fatah verging doctors to write the prescriptions for exorcise producer marvelous ideas that will make a major difference. approximately 40% of food is lost between farm and market. could that be remedied by better farm storage and we should remember that many if not most farmers are achieving a fraction of the yield of a mate -- they might get from water management. however what we need to consider is how conventional techniques can achieve as they do and how we measure that success and here i come to the aspect of food production that troubles me most. the well-known food commentator re

mr. obama and his dreamers has presented that, but at the end of the day, 80 million egyptians, for example, are not going to move toward a secular democracy they regard as pagan and away from islam. it's just a nonsense. so supporting the overthrow of dictators, that's been one of their goals since the beginning. >> i have a different view of this, john. i actually think that bin laden saw this democratic movement throughout the middle east as leaving him behind, because it is antithetical. if people were going to embrace these freedoms, they were going to reject bin laden's entire philosophy. and unless he found some piece of this to hold on to, he ran the risk of losing people. so i have a somewhat different view. >> i want to ask you a question, u.s. intelligence had access to the wives. sources tell us it was a hostile encounter. what would the process be, as someone who's worked in the cia? if you were going into that meeting, that interrogation, that debriefing, call it what you will, what's the process? >> well, i think the process would be very formal in the case of women. you'd be very courteous to them. they were with the pakistanis for a long

has unique spending because he ran against mr. obama twice for the senate in 2004 there were two finalists and if indeed mr. obama asave shows doesn't have a valid social security number he's using a number that was never signed and it doesn't have the original birth certificate he was provided to the public and i believe greatly influenced the country as a whole and somehow influenced air the court in the future proceedings publishing this computer image is of original birth certificate issued in 1961 and issues that it's not, it isn't it true image of the of original birth certificate. it's a very invented computer art where pieces were taken from different documents, put together and the damage was created. he created this psychological map. he called us [inaudible] and the start of mass hysteria in the media saying we need to go away, get out of the country and so forth the investor has perfect standing and if fraud was committed and mr. obama doesn't have the proper paper he could never become president or become the senator from the state of illinois and investor keyes and president obama were the finalists in

as rather matronly with old-fashioned suits and dresses, old-fashioned hats. look at mrs. kennedy. it was not common for women to wear sleeveless attire. and now we take that for granted and mrs. obama has brought the sleeveless dress back into vogue. also note the color, a very vibrant, bright pink rather than a dark, somber suit or a dark, somber dress and full sleeves or a little dowdy hat. i say she could wear this hat to the kentucky derby and be right in style. this gives her husband another boost of symbolism, of youth and fashion. now, we also know that one of the other elements that she's quite famous for and remembered for is redecorating and restoring the white house. when i was doing my research for this book, i called the curator of the white house. this would have been in the late 1990s, and told her i was writing a book at jacqueline kennedy, and i was particularly interested in mrs. kennedy's restoration of the white house. the curator said to me do you know that restoring the white house is so associated with the name and the memory of mrs. kennedy that americans think that no one has ever touched the white house since mrs. kennedy left in 1963. and yet we know that eve

as a consequence to win what i think will be a historic majority. [applause] >> mr. gingrich, my question for you is, so, how do you intend to beat mr. obama, a man who hasthe potential to amass millions, possibly billions of dollars as we sit here today? and he has the media behind him? how are you going to beat that? >> by pelling the -- telling the truth. that's why two plus two equals four matters. [laughter] i believe he can outspend us by about four or five to one and still lose. if you go back to 2006, every republican senator who lost spent more money than the democrats. if you look at california, jerry brown was outspent, i think, three to one. and the fact is in the end, particularly running for president, it comes down to people you see in your living room every night. it's people who you hear from them, you don't hear from their consultants, their advertising. that matters in primaries. in the general election, if you have a message that's real and people know that's real, all that will do -- i believe it is impossible for the president to try to turn all of america into a chicago machine. i believe it is impossible for him to raise enough mo

as you look at the picture. the role of the cheap -- chief comforter, has become familiar ground for mr. obama. last month he toward similar devastation after twister's hit tuscaloosa, alabama, and offered similar encouragement. he did the same for flood victims along the mississippi. omaha, nebraska, is next. republican line. caller: i have been a single parent of most of the 20 years that i have been a nurse. and my profession we pretty much have paid time off protocol for vacation days. and i can tell you i have never actually taken a vacation. as a single parent, my vacation days were used for my children as far as any time they were in the hospital, any time they were sick. that is where my vacation went. i just am appalled that the federal government thinks this is one more matter that they need to step been in and regulate. it is just unbelievable to me that our government thinks they could step in and do this. host: just so you know, they have not made any policy as far as this is concerned. there was a report that a look at other nations that made vacation time mandatory policy and we

has dropped by half since 2006. republicans dismiss the president's renewed focus on immigration as pure politics. in 2008, mr. obama vote. next year that voting bloc could be critical to holding on the states like florida, new mexico, and nevada. >> the president's challenge will be to communicate to latino voters, yes, i am working for you, yes, i am fighting for you. >> reporter: karen travers, abc news, traveling with the president in el paso, texas. >>> and here is a scary story now. a delta airlines passenger was arrested after trying to open up an emergency door midflight. an off-duty police officer subdued the passenger and held him, this while the plane continued on its journey from orlando to boston. fellow passengers say that the suspect appeared to be drunk. >> the flight attendants, they actually brought him to the back of the plane and put him in between two different people so that he couldn't get up or anything. he was wearing a bruins shirt. i saw him in orlando. he asked me to go to the bar with him. very intoxicated. >> the second time in the past week that a passenger has tried to open up an emer

mr. chairman. i understand the foreign services committee has jurisdiction over bilateral aid? >> yes. >> i would note that the aid as announced last week in president obama'sspeech would therefore fall under the jurisdiction of this committee, and i ask that you make a stipulation that my children be returned before one dollar of that aid is given to egypt. >> thank you, sir. your point is well taken. [applause] >> the cooperation's committee and the authorizing committee have jurisdiction, so thank you so much for that. appreciate it. anything else? okay. i want to say to the other left behind parents here, there's additional hearings, we'll focus on the military side like michael elias and there's a bill that requires them as mr. payne pointed out so well, to begin educateing so that people who are deployed overseas are not unaware of what the risks are and also that our jag core is much better acquainted with the issue of child abduction to better serve those who are deployed overseas. thank you so much, all three, for your tremendous testimony. thank you. [applause] i would like to now introduce the third panel of experts beginning with patricia apy, p

mr. obama has made scene so contrary to the positions that he took as a candid. many of them have been in the -- index, most of them have been in the national security area. i certainly understand that there is a real national security committee that operates in washington. there. not really a wide spectrum of opinion in this community. they have sort of made up their mind as to how the world should run, and they have a tremendous influence on presidents, particularly those who do not have a deep background in national security, and so i see time and again from guantanamo and the inability to close it to the treating of many, looking like the same old national security community speaking in doing it the way they think it should be done and the president not really having enough background or experience to take this community on, which he needs to govern and keep the country safe. so i think that is part of the problem. >> my question is for mr. dean. you were on the panel, and the issue arose regarding the supreme court decision for corporate money on the campaig

mr. bower. >> chairman, i understand that the foreign services committee has jurisdiction over bilateral aid. >> yes. >> and i would note that the aid as announced last week in president obama's speech would, therefore, fall under the jurisdiction of this committee, and i would ask that you make a stipulation that my children be returned before $1 of that aid is given to egypt. >> i thank you. point's well taken. [applause] both the corporations committee and the authorizing committees have jurisdiction, so thank you so much for that. appreciate anything else you'd like to add. i would also like to say to all of the ore left-behind parents here and others who couldn't be here today, there will be additional hearings. we'll focus on the military side like michel elias. i did do an amendment back in 2009 that requires them, as mr. payne was pointing out so well, to begin educating and especially have people -- patricia apy will speak to this, i'm sure, when she testifies, so that people overseas and our jag corps are much better acquainted with the issue of child abduction to better serve those who are deployed overseas. so thank you so much, all three, for your tremendous test

as a consequence, what i think will be a historic majority. [applause] >> my question, how do you intend to beat mr. obama, a man who has the potential to amass millions and possibly billions of dollars? and he has the media behind him. >> i will tell the truth. that is line 2 +2 matters. he can outspend us and still lose. if you go back to the 2000's six, every republican senator who law spend more money than the democrats. california, jerry brown was outspent. the fact is, particularly running for president, it comes down to people you see in your living room, the people, you hear from them, not your consultants or advertisers. that matters in primaries. if you have a message that israel in the general election and people know it's real, --i believe it is impossible for the president to try to turn all america into a chicago machine. -- if you have a message that is real. people would re- elect someone who has failed in performance. there's not enough money in this country. if we have a candidate, that is the key thing. ronald reagan beat carter -- ronald reagan carried more states against carter than fdr carry guns t

as we begin the debate on the nomination of mr. liu, let me start by telling my colleagues how thoroughly his nomination has been vetted by the judiciary committee under the leadership of chairman leahy. president obama first nominated goodwin liu for this position in february of last year. that's over one year ago. the judiciary committee has held two separate hearings on this nomination. mr. liu's latest set of questions and answers for the record spanned over 130 pages. the judiciary committee has favorably reported his nomination on three separate occasions: in may of 2010, september of 2010, and april of 2011. so i'm disappointed that my republican colleagues have refused to allow this nomination to come to a vote without the necessity of filing a cloture petition. as you know, the majority leader has filed cloture on this nomination. senators have had ample information on the background, experience and qualifications of this nominee and it's time for the senators to perform their constitutional duty to debate the nomination and to vote up or down on this nominee. mr. president, i was privileged to serve on the judiciary committee in the 111th congress and participated in the debate of goodwin l

mr. obama has been called the post-american president. during his tenure, american exception ellison has been called into question. -- american exceptionalism has been called into question. we have flinched from positions of responsibility as global order trumbull's -- trembles with the forces of hope and change. i use that as it exists on the tongues and in the hearts of the press. the people of the middle east are standing up in defiance of tierney. they are filled with hope that their nation can change. since our founding, america has been a beacon of light for these movements. our military, the torchbearer. the new england minutemen defied a monarch. union soldiers freed the enslaved south. gis liberated europe from the fascist tyrant and kept watch over western european democracies while staring down the soviet empire. we are again at a time when democracy squares off against tyranny. the battleground is too familiar to us -- the middle east. with our military engaged in three different theaters of combat in this perilous region, it is monumentally important that our nation remains guarded and strong. it must be our top priority to feel the forces and hardware necessary to stave off even the most unlikely of contingen

obama at ground zero tomorrow. a spokesman says the former president appreciated the offer to attend but has chosen to remain out of spotlight. he says that mr. bush celebrates bin laden's death asd in a few moments our coverage of osama bin laden's death continues with a look at how the navy s.e.a.l.s prepare for such death-defying missions. later on "america this morning" and "good morning america," we'll have more live reports also from washington on this major story. >>> switching gears a little bit now. this may be a sign of our internet-connected world, computer and social networking users are being warned now about new internet and e-mail viruses that have cropped up since bin laden's death. a fake, again we repeat, a fake photo of the dead al qaeda leader has been clicked on millions of times launching a virus every time. security firms say it all spreads very quickly. >> with facebook, it's very easy for someone to start to spread it by posting on other people's walls. like here they're talking about giving it an ipad too. it's probably fake. probably no one will ever get an ipad out of this offer. it starts popping up, advertisements, basic information, pepsi or coke.

as we did. some of this problem could be avoided with better food education. you only have to consider the progress your first lady, mrs. obama hased by launching her "let's move" campaign. manufacturers are making a their helpweight -- their healthy weight commitment and pledging to cut calories from their products. they will reduce their prices on healthy items like fresh fruits and vegetables. the first lady's big drive to improve healthy eating in schools and the help -- the excellent thought of having doctors write prescriptions for exercise is a marvelous idea and it will make a difference. in developing countries, approximately 40% of food is lost between farm and market. could that be remedied by better on a firm bank storage? it also--remember -- farm storage? most farmers in the developed world are receiving a fraction of what they would if they had improved water management. the big issue we need to consider is how conventional at red industrial techniques are -- agriindustrial techniques are and how we measure that success. the well known commentator on food matters in this country said recently that the combined mark

mr. chairman i did like to make 1.. understand the foreign services committee has jurisdiction over bilateral aid, and i would note that the aid as announced last week and president obama's speech would therefore fall under the jurisdiction of this committee and i would ask that you make a stipulation that my children be returned before 1 dollar of that aid is given to each of. [applause] >> thank you, sir. the corporations committees and the authorization committee have jurisdiction so thank you so much for that. anything else you would like to add turkowski i would like to say to the other left-behind parent tier and others who couldn't be here today, there will be additional hearings we will focus on the military side. i did do an amendment to the department of defense bill a couple of years back in 2009 that requires them as mr. payne was putting out so well to begin educating and she will speak to this when she testifies, so that people who are deployed overseas are not unaware of what the risks are and also that are j.a.g. corps is much better pointed with the issue of child abduction to better serve those to put overseas. thank you all three for your tremendous te

as a consequence to win what i think will be a historic majority. >> mr. gingrich, my question for you is, how do you intend to beat mr. obama, a man who has the potential amass millions, possibly billions of dollars, and he has the media behind him. how are you going to beat him? >> by telling the truth. that that's why two plus two equals four matters. i believe he can outpend us four or five to one and still lose. if you go back to 2006, every republican senator who lost spent more money than a dem contract. if you look at california, jury -- jerry brown was outspent three to one, and in the end, comes down to people you see in your living room every night. you hear from them, not they're consult tans. that maries in primary in the general election ex-if you have a real message, that -- i believe it's impossible for the from try to turn all of america into a chicago machine. i believe it is impossible for him to raise enough now convince the american people that reality isn't real, that their principles aren't their principles principles and they should re-elect somebody who has failed in performance and who is a radical in policy and p

obama this afternoon naming businessman john brighton as his choice to replace outgoing commerce secretary, gary locke. mr. locke. expected to take over as ambassador to china later this year. mr. bryson has a background in environmental issues and served on a united nations advisory group on energy and climate change. coming up at 2:00, the house is expected to return for a short time. only to recess again until legislative business starts at 4:45 this afternoon. members are expected to debate raising the nation's debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion. votes on this legislation expected at 6:30 eastern. you can follow that debate and vote live here on c-span. also coming up live a hearing on global perspectives of autism. that begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern live from capitol hill. can you see it on c-span2. and also at 2:00 a hearing on security of the nation, the electrical grid and infrastructure. witnesses include representatives from the energy department, live coverage of that on our companion network, c-span3. the house returning at 2:00 p.m. eastern. until then a look at funding for the u.s. military from today's "washington journal." inues. host: bill gertz is the national security editor w

obama, and his first lady come to visit. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you, mr. president and michelle. [applause] to make that precious connection with his irish family, his irish roots, as thousands before him has -- have done, today, the 44th american president comes home. [applause] [unintelligible] he might have dreamed but hardly imagine his great, great grandson would return as president of the united states. [applause] that boyce said it could buy -- that boyd said goodbye to ireland. millions packed their hopes and dreams, stepping onto ships, which for some was like stepping into space. every one of them and all of the people and our people, their path is our path. their story is our story, so, this evening, my call is directly to those 40 million irish-americans and whether you are listening and watching in new york or in new haven or in san diego or in st. louis, whether you are irish by blood or by marriage or by desire, we, your irish family, are right here. [applause] we, your family, your irish family, are right here to welcome you to follow your president home. [applause] last week, queen elizabeth came to our shores and about it to our dead. the irish heart glittered above the h

as we begin the debate on the nomination of mr. liu, let me start by telling my colleagues how thoroughly his nomination has been vetted by the judiciary committee under the leadership of chairman leahy. president obama first nominated goodwin liu for this position in february of last year. that's over one year ago. the judiciary committee has held two separate hearings on this nomination. mr. liu's latest set of questions and answers for the record spanned over 130 pages. the judiciary committee has favorably reported his nomination on three separate occasions: in may of 2010, september of 2010, and april of 2011. so i'm disappointed that my republican colleagues have refused to allow this nomination to come to a vote without the necessity of filing a cloture petition. as you know, the majority leader has filed cloture on this nomination. senators have had ample information on the background, experience and qualifications of this nominee and it's time for the senators to perform their constitutional duty to debate the nomination and to vote up or down on this nominee. mr. president, i was privileged to serve on the judiciary committee in the 111th congress and participated in the debate of goodwin l