beautiful cover. >> an author like stephen koontz whose name is bigger than the title and an author like nancy houston, her name is smaller than the title. >> stephen koontz has a very, very, very strong following a fiction readers and you will see that across almost all fiction books. they read the book of because of the author nancy houston is not so well known, so the subject matter for the audience, the christian audience, is probably more importance. pretty self-explanatory there and that goes along with any others. david limbaugh took everyone knows david limbaugh, so his-- even though they are equally in size, we talked bottom, left right so we see him first especially if he is on the shelf >> does david limbaugh have a say in how the cover looks? >> david limbaugh says he loves everything we do and i am not kidding. he absolutely loved it. >> does ann coulter have a say in everything you do? >> the very first book i did for her-- good question. i have only been here three years and i will admit i did not even know who ann coulter was three years ago. my very first book, one of th

>> if granted the authority. i don't have the day-to-day authority to do that. if granted the authority. >> so would you need basically to be directed by the president through the secretary of defense? >> yes, sir. i mentioned that in my -- >> have you been directed to do so given the strategic threat facing the united states and significant consequences you recognize already? >> no, i not. but if i could flush this out, i will say something in open unclassified i would be glad to go on -- >> yes, sir. >> i have directed nagt nationa mission force to begin specific worth. i would rather not publicly go into that using the authorities i retain as commandener this mission space. >> the inherent ability of a commander to prepare, plan and structure, but you need the -- you need direct authority of the president through the secretary of defense -- >> to do some specific things. >> some specific authority. >> some things i have the authority and i'm acting within that authority. >> essentially we have not taken on the russians yet. we are watching them intrude in our

how do you acquire an author? >> the traditional way is waiting for agents to come up with proposals but a lot of what we do here is trying to project what will be in the news and the best books, some of the book that is we do are books where, i think, or we think collectively, this author on this topic, that'll be dynamite, so we try to make those marriages happen, we come up with an idea, think the guy would be great for it and put two together. that's been our go-to strategy, not waiting on the agent so much but going out and pursuing authors. >> so ann coulter on immigration, is that one that you all put together? >> i think she came to us with that. [laughter] >> and even those ones that we take them to the author, the author, of course, makes it their own, i will call up and say, what do you think about subject x, what about subject x minus two, we talk it through and what not and i will -- it eventually works out. he can be up promoting it, i'm not going to be up promoting. i can only help him make the case

there are those that we take to the author and the author makes it their own. so i will call someone up and say what you think about ask and they will say what about subject x minus two and we'll talk it through and eventually it works out but any ideas at regnery become the others i dish and a drink idea. i can only help her make his case the best we can. >> host: someone who's published several times is edward klein. have conversation with mr. klein how does it go? >> guest: ed is an interesting case. ed is a reporter so what we can do is say can you find this out and try to see if we can get the sources to go. it out for information that is newsworthy. but a lot of this like he's a trail on this and should i pursue this and so it's a give-and-take that. >> host: when you acquire a book how long between the initial conversation until that book is on the bookshelf? >> guest: that varies a lot. i will say one thing that is sets us apart from other publishers is because they are very short incubation times and intent on the reporting is being done but when you'r

authors. the efforts are essential. during the more than three decades he's worked with a small independent publishing firm and scholarly one as well as the commercial houses. most of his time has bee this tt in trade publishing and is the publisher and editorial director at the bloomsbury press and in print that he founded. for his new book he gathered essays for more than two dozen contributors from across the publishing field. through acquisition to the editing process and publication and marketing. later chapters provide a look at pursuing a career in publishing. the book comes at a time of significant fast-paced change in the business. it's shaking up the industry more in the past 15 years as peter notes in his preface them the previous 50 years. joining on the panel this evening are two other veteran publishing insiders who contributed these pieces to what editors do. they recently joined the house as executive editor. those championed. seated next to him is susan ferber executive editor

, some of the contemporary authors? >> guest: we have published a lot of -- they include dinesh d'souza ann coulter david limbaugh ezra kline and some others. >> host: if you put in ann coulter bookout does it sell automatically because her name is anna? >> guest: it certainly helps that her name is on it but you can't say that any book is a guarantee of success anymore. i think the publishing business has changed over the past 15 or 20 years. a lot more of the business has gone on line of course and people are buying on line so you lose the opportunity to visualize those books and publicize those books physically and you lose the sense of discovery that people have had for generations going into a bookstore in finding a book that they didn't know existed in finding an author that they didn't know about before. that's been a big change in our industry and frankly is put a lot more pressure on publishers to come up with interesting and creative ways to help people know that a book access when there isn't a celebrity auth

it doesn't need any kind of authorization because the authorization that the u.s. government gave to the military to intervene in iraq still holds though isis didn't exist in two thousand and three. under international law this is just a blatant violation there is no there is no united nations security council resolution the country involved syria has not requested for help and on top of it you you have. a military presence in a country where you possibly could go into a military conflict with another mate a nato country turkey and of course it's a face down with russia is this authorization issue in portland or not of course it's important first of all there of course there is no u.n. security council authorization for the u.s. to be in syria there is there there in the. of the syrian u.n. recognized syrian government that wants them to leave that there is obvious there partitioning the country but what has the us ever cared about international law so that doesn't even appear in the us media if you never hear about it right but we get to the issue that is also sti

>> granted the authority. they don't have the day to day authority. >> are you would have to be .irected by the president >> have you been directed by the

missing passage of the authorization act would be helpful in executing executing our authorities and responsible is. over the past year at dhs have been working on a unity of effort at dhs and this is critical and hopefully we have time to talk about it today. it's looking at how we as the headquarters operate to enable and support the headquarters and i see three roles for the headquarters elements. leading a community of practice, seeing subject matter servicing the headquarters. i think your proposal, mr. chairman, consolidating some of committees would be a great parallel to what we were trying to do in headquarters and streamline it better. we've made great progress and we have to do more in this area. what we are looking for an authorization bill overall is something that does what you say and codify some of the efforts we are making already. it doesn't go so far as to dictate and legislate areas that really would be difficult to change or take away essential possibilities of the secretary and leadership of the department. we do feel like areas in an authorization bill that wou

think it is accurate to say the house authorization -- and this is what we do in these authorizations. we take with the they do and codify it. testimony it is pleasing to see how many recommendations the department has made to improve their operation. this has not been an easy department to establish and operate. together.s called missions trying to develop that unity of mission. we helped a little in the last congress in that effort. we are trying to codify these things. there are a couple of key changes, or new departments that want to codify the weapons of mass destruction office. i think we want to figure out to focus the mission, do the renaming. we talked about doing that on a must pass piece of legislation. there is a great desire to do it. it is a matter of how do we get is efforts signed into law. need to be items worked out. authorization for fema grants. what we do with federal protective service. we continue to have those discussions. maybe that is something we can have a conclusion. my last point, i want to talk about the one glaring omission by the house authorization. m

when we think passage of the authorization act would be helpful in us executing our authorities and our responsibilities. over the past year at dhs, i've been working on a unity of effort effort at dhs and this is critical, and hopefully we'll have time to talk about it today, but it's really looking at how we as the headquarters operate to enable and support the headquarters. and i see three roles for the headquarters elements, leading a community of practice, being subject matter experts and servicing the headquarters. and i think that your proposal, mr. chairman, of consolidating some of the committees would really be a great parallel to what we're trying to do in headquarters and to line and streamline even better. we've made great progress. we have to do more in this area. what we're looking for in an authorization bill overall is something that does what you say and codify some of the efforts we're making already, the leadership commitment, but doesn't go so far as to dictate legislate areas that really would be difficult to change or take away key and essential flexibilities of t

how do acquire an author? >> the traditional way is waiting for ages to come up with her pose those, but a lot of what we do here is trying to project the news in the best books we do, some of the best books we do or where we think collectively this author on this topic, that would be dynamite. we try to make these marriages have been. we try to put the two together. that is sort of been our go to strategy. not waiting on the agents actively pursuing authors. >> ann coulter on immigration. is that when you'll put together. >> i think she came to us without one. those are ones where we take them to the author. i'll call somebody up and say what you think about subject x. they will say what about subject x minus two. talking through and eventually it works out. any ideas we generate here of course become the authors idea. i can only help him make his case the best way he can. >> someone you've publish times as edward kline. if you have a conversation with mr. kline, how does it go? >> at is an interesting case.

does the fbi or dhs have such authority and capabilities? >> you could argue probably only that there's a legal aspect that i'm not the most qualified. some combination of dod or doj understanding authority in that regard. >> that the mission teams at the origin of these attacks so. >> i don't have the data day-to-day authority to do that. if granted that. >> have been directed to do so given the strategic threat that face the united states and the consequences you recognize are ready? >> no. i would be glad to grant more detailed in a classified session. i have directed the national mission forced to begin some specific work that i will not want to publicly go into that. >> is inherent ability of the commander to prepare a plan that you need the direct authority of the president to do some specific things. >> there's something that have the authority. >> essentially we have to take it out the russians yet. watching them intrude in our elections, spread misinformation, become more sophisticated, try to achieve these objectives and were just

junior authors. thinking about readers who would be important revamped for them to know people out in the field who know their work. cervelli great opportunity to build those networks and use our placements to do that. >> another thing i don't think we mentioned that we often say to authors. review is picking out something in the book and the author doesn't want to deal with it. we often say well this could be a preview of what's going to happen when you have the book published and there's a published review of it. this is the kind of issue that could come up some eyes will catch it now before it's published. i thought maybe we would move on to acquiring the books and eric what are the different ways to look for books to consider for publication and how do the methods differ depending on whether it's a monograph book. >> we have a righty of different ways in which we acquire books. their other projects that come in by e-mail and such. different fields are different that way. could probably go several

it doesn't need any kind of authorization because the authorization that the u.s. government gave to the military to intervene in iraq still holds though isis didn't exist in two thousand and three. under international law this is just a blatant there is no there is no united nations security council resolution the country involved syria has not requested for help and on top of that you you have. a military presence in a country where you possibly could go into a military conflict with another mate a nato country turkey and of course it's a face down with russia is this authorization issue horton's or not of course it's important first of all there of course there is no u.n. security council authorization for the u.s. to be in syria there is there in defiance of the syrian u.n. recognized syrian government that wants them to leave that there is obvious there partitioning the country but what has the u.s. ever cared about international law so that doesn't even appear in the u.s. media if you never hear about it right but we get to the issue that is also still barely

board and will be acted upon by a sing vote of the authority board.here will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the authority board so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the con sent algds da and considered as a separate item. 6a, approving the minutes of the january 10, 2018 meeting. 6b, resolution retroactively approving and authorizing the execution of a first amendment to the amended and restated base closure and homeless assistance agreement between the treasure island development authority and one treasure island. 6c, authorizings the treasure island director to execute an eighth extension to the loan agreement with the fine arts museums of san francisco for the temporary loan of the miguel covarrubias mural. 6d, resolution authorizing the treasure island director to execute a fourth amendment to the agreement between the treasure island development authority and langan engineering for environmental engineering consulting and oversight of the navy remediation for the treasure island/yerba buena isla

using authority that was punitive toward the economy.hat we are set on doing this year, is d weaponize in -- deweaponzing. get back to the basics of our agency. the d regulatory effort we are engaged in, 22 significant actions over the past year, equaling $1 billion in savings for the u.s. economy in a year. the administration as a whole, $8 billion from a regulatory perspective. the tax-cut, partnered with the regulatory reform, you see what is happening across the economy. it has been a busy year. we have plenty to do. i'm excited about what we have been able to achieve this first year. >> specifics, most notably the clean power plant. i love the way these things get named. the affordable care act, net neutrality. >> we will get to that. >> here is a plan that the president has specifically asked you to dismantle. the program your undertaking will save upwards of $35 billion. other than that, how was the play, mrs. lincoln? why was it so important to repeal the clean power plant? >> this was an example of an agency using authority to s

authorities are still on scene. there's questions about what may be whether they have found the gunman. if they have, they have not told us that officially. these are the live pictures coming to us from wsvn. a number of reporters on scene. here's what happened. about 40 minutes ago we believe -- cbs 4 in south florida was texting with a female student who was barricaded in a closet with other students saying it was cramped and hot and the students were upset. imagine there in south florida, very near the end of the school day and all of a sudden reports of this gunman on campus and a lockdown at the school. we now have wsvn. let's listen in. >> but we've got a lot of anxious parents out here, a lot of scared students who were able to get out in time. there are other schools in the vicinity. that's what -- >> okay. vanessa, i want to interrupt. craig stephens is joining me to continue our coverage here in the 3:00 hour of this active shooting situation unfolding right now. >> shepard: again, we've lost that feed for

done under what authority. and that's not really good for transparency. so i think we've got to figure that out. we've got to figure out how to be clear with both the partner nation where we're working and with the american taxpayer, you know, what monies we're spending on what activities and how they relate. so i don't know putting 1208 into 333 is the act answer, but i think that general discussion needs to be had. >> absolutely. as usual i can't agree more with my former colleague tommy, except with the notion of writing another book. otherwise i agree with him on everything. so some quick points on your last point, laura, i think that's spot on. you know, best case scenario is not only that washington gets on the same page with itself but also with a partner. that would really be fantastic. i have all sorts of thoughts i could walk through in nor forum if you wanted. and paul jumping to your point, if you haven't played on the security assistance monitor website, it's fantastic. i strongly recommend it. i w

is there anything, she was talking about authorization, anything we can do in the authorization to makehis more clear cut and protect your department? we can talk about doing a government wide. i support the end government shutdown act which was if we don't get our act together we would start funding the government at the current level. disciplinary action after 90 days or hundred days. andaside a government wide government shutdown act, is something in his authorization we can take advantage of? that, itn't considered is not just the day of. it is the weeks leading up to the shutdown where there is asked. portions ofbiggest our workforce, say transportation security officers, are on the low end of the scale. even having to wait for the money could be critical for them. >> give that some thought. . am open to mark this bill up if we can't do it by next week we will be holding a markup and maybe the following week. if we delay it there are more complex issues. give that some thought. his situation is, every time there has been a government shutdown, everyone gets the back pay. it is incr

authority? >> i've tried to act within the authority granted me to be aggressive. >> we have not asked for additional authority? >> because i guess right now my son is i am not sure the capabilities i have would be optimal were the only response to this. >> wouldn't you agree it is a necessary response? >> it would be part of a response. i just think we need to step back and look at this very broadly because one of the arguments not just in the current peace but others is being mindful of falling in the track just because someone comes at us and cyber that we have to default immediately going back into the same thing i've just always believe we need to step back and think a little bit more broadly. it's because of that but i've not done that to date. >> for how long with all due respect do we need to step back and look broadly at this ongoing attack? literally last week in the wake of the parkland shooting, the face accounts again and again disrupting, continuing to attack the democracy in a way

it implicates the number of our authorities. i don't believe addiction appears anywhere in the statute that the commission enforces. if i confirmed something i know we'll need to tackle. >> i agree with my colleagues. the only thing i would add is that addiction creates fertile ground for folks to profit solutions that are not really solutions. that has long been a concern for the ftc. confirmed i committed to continuing the tradition to focus on the. >> i appreciate that and where were going with other issues particularly around the opiate crisis. when you load a lot of money into a program it becomes more fertile ground for the type of things are talking about. >> thank you for the last question which raises a profoundly important topic. estate attorney general i sued one of the major open manufacturers in this country. it happens to be a connecticut company. because it had misleading or deceptive advertising. we led the federal government in that effort. eventually were trying by the department of justice. his estate attorney

do you sympathise with an authority like that?early different issues affecting different ones. this cou nty affecting different ones. this county council in particular has been vocal about the pressures it faces. i have sympathy with local authorities in the position of adult social care because this is demand led and we have an ageing demographic population and the need for actually funding that service, the decision has been made by the government to say that large element of that can be met from increases in council tax. but there are other ways that local authorities can manage their budgets. the clear issueis manage their budgets. the clear issue is that large numbers of local authorities across the country are carrying high levels of reserves which are not earmarked for any particular purpose and can be used partially, i wouldn't use them all, because that would be a good rundown of reserves. councils can look at the contracts they are placing. 0ne of the issues in local authority procurement is that they are not a lwa ys pr

and exercises to the authority that occupy the space often those authorities are used in conjunction when you don't always know what activity is being done under what authority. we have to figure it out and how to be clear before the partner nation and the american taxpayer of lower spending on what activities. i don't know what the exact answer is but the general discussion needs to be had. >> i cannot agree more some quick thoughts, i think you're spot on the best case scenarios not only to get on the best page with yourself but also at the partner would be fantastic. but those two key elements are critical. think tommy is highlighted how we don't see that a lot. if you haven't played on the security system website it's fantastic. crs does a great job for anyone who has ever been country desk officers, the easiest way for us to figure out what is going on was to go to the crs. they have a view that i don't know others have. >> i think it's important and there's been new emphasis but developed and then oversees implementation of the program. first is the people doing in what we've s

security council authorization for the u.s. to be in syria there is there there in defiance of the syrian u.n. recognized syrian government that wants them to leave that there is obvious there partitioning the country but what has the u.s. ever cared about international law so that doesn't even appear in the u.s. media if you never hear about it right but we get to the issue that is also still barely covered which is is the u.s. legality of the war in syria of the war on the syria and it's done under the two thousand and one two thousand and three authorization of the use of military force for iraq against al qaeda which is still being used by the united states to justify its presence in military conflicts all of the so when this is a justification for endless wars thinking they say that they have the authorization you just move the goalpost as it were and say this is what covers it ok i suppose it will fly to yemen in somalia and only those who are getting it is ok so i mean you know it. it's already a justification and it doe

it could be clean power. >> we already have that authority. >> we already have authority for new clean generation, right? what we are missing, the gap we are trying to fill with the charter amendment is the rest, you know. all the other things that we need to invest in in order to serve our customers with clean power, you can have a generator that generates clean electricity. if you don't have the transmission and distribution facilities and the transformer, you can't provide the service. so we have gaps the charter amendment is intended to fill. the authority is power enterprise authority, so it's not specific to clean power assess program or the hechi power program. assuming it will get adopted, available for use by either entity. a challenge will be we don't have a credit rating for cleanpowersf, we need to get that in order to use that capacity, ok? so, hopefully that helped clear things up rather than cloud it further. >> because i'm, you know, it's helpful, that's the first i've heard and i don't know if any other commissioners understand this charter amendment that we are going

now, in just a few minutes it's the final author of the day, ben blum, and he reports on the life of his cousin, alex blum, who was an army ranger who participated in an armed robbery before he was set to deploy to iraq. and we'll be right back with live coverage. [inaudible conversations] >> here's a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. on march 10th and 11th, we'll be live from the university of arizona for the tucson festival of books with author talks and call-ins. this year's festival features msnbc's katie tur and charles sykes, max boot, investigative journalist david cay johnston and many other authors. later in march it's the virginia festival of the book in charlottesville and the national black writers conference in brooklyn, new york. in april we're headed to texas for the san antonio book festival, and we'll be live once again at the los angeles times festival of books. for more information about up coming book -- upcoming book fairs and test values, click -- festivals, click the book fairs tabben our web site, booktv.org. >> let's

why not give him the authority. >> nobody is denying him the authority. we are looking at a in number of different ways to put pressure. this president as i told you last weak has been tougher on russia than his predecessor. let's not forgot it happened under obama not under president trump. if you want to blame somebody on past problems then uvtd look it at the obama administration. the president is looking at all of the different causes and the ways we can prevent it. as we find different ways we can do that we are complementing them. like you see with the money aloindicated from the state department, as you see with the conversations the secretary from d.h.s. is having. we're looking at different ways to combat it. i would imagine that will be a part of it but i can't speak to anything further tennessee eon it right now. >> this is not about the past. this is protecting intrusion in the next election. >> exactly. >> he needs the authority and hasn't been given it. >> i can't speak to that specifically. i can tell you that we are taking a number of step

we have spoken to local authorities. we have to understand they are just working their way through their building right now. a lot of people speculating about this. it's important to wait for the facts. there may be more about this in terms of what they find once i get inside the building. there is a protocol they have to follow to ensure there hasn't been any explosives. i'm not saying there is. i'm saying it's protocol they follow. it still an active thing. and evidence they have to gather. this is an individual who's going to be prosecuted. >> this is a school shooting or the individual suspected of carrying it out escaped, survived, taken to hospital but he is in custody. what should happen to this person? >> obviously is going to be charged with a crime but for law enforcement, they will want to know if anyone else was involved and whether there's any existing dangers. sometimes they become complex. there might've been an incident that happened beforehand. they may learn others have been hurt in the process. there's

authority that rafael mentioned. this is a sizable pot of money that we're trying to achieve real strategic effects with, consistent with the national defense strategy. in terms of ways we're changes, we're having to adopt our culture internal to the department of defense. it's a wide reaching effort that touches really every combat and command, all of the services. so maintaining that network, and creating a partnership across those echelons is really central to my day-to-day work. i think we've had some real success in setting up those mechanisms and some transparency, some real trust across the entire enterprise. but we have to be honest that there are winners and losers here. and this is a real global competition now for priorities. and the national defense strategy ascribes specific priorities that will inform the way we invest in security cooperation partnerships. and i should say that you mentioned that i had previously worked at the treasury department. i did a brief stint once upon a time at the state depart

these recent price crashes have caused some authorities to act.nking giant lloyds banned its customers from buying cryptocurrency with their credit cards. they're worried about people racking up debt. the idea behind cryptocurrency is that it is a way of storing money and making purchases without involving the banks. but remember, the banks don't just hold our money, they also keep a check on who has paid what. they are a trusted central point. so how do you do banking without the banks? when you want to buy something normally, using your normal bank card, this is what happens. i give my card details to the shop. the shop asks the bank if i'm good for the money. the bank checks its records to see if i've got enough in my account. if i do, it lets the shop know, it updates its records to show the movement of money from my account to the shop's. oh, and it takes a little cut for its trouble. now, if you wanted to remove the bank from that system, who else would you trust to keep those records, and then not alter them or cheat in any way? well, i wou

you can use our authorities.o military has the ability use immediate response authority to create a rolling start. we can reinterpret and leverage these kinds of things as we move forward. a part of that is the national guard. we have unevenness within the stand of our national guard activities. we have both cyber and information operations. i think we could create pockets of talent. washington state has a phenomenal industrial control system. maryland has a fantastic unit where they leverage a lot of nsa expertise. we have unit spread across the country. we need to create a construct of cyber mutual assistance across countries. we can do that. to sit down and plan together a campaign in that regard. what the senator's time is expired, if you could expedite your answer i will let you finish up as well. >> i will go quick. i support all that was just said. abroad i do not believe the kind of activities i described earlier need new authorities. on the deep dive i say great. us -- atried to get start on that. there

so will, implicates a number of our authorities. but to be responsive, i don't believe addiction appears anywhere in the statute that a the commission enforces. but if i'm confirmed, it's something that i know will need to tackle. >> any other -- >> senator, i agree with my colleague only thing that i would add is -- addiction, obviously, creates fertile ground for folks to solution to consumers that are not solutions and that is an area that has long been a concern for the ftc if confirmed, i commit to you to continuing that tradition working with my colleagues and staff to focus on it. >> well i appreciate that and terms of where we're going with funding for treatment and other recovery programs a other kinds of addiction issues particularly around opioid crisis. as we know when you load a lot of money into a program, it becomes more fertile ground for type of things that you're talking about so thank you very much senator blumenthal. j thank you and thank you for that last question i think raises a profoundly important topic -- m

cover a range meant is is is tacitly accepted by view authorities and i think it's extremely difficult for the british or thought he is given the transparency they've insisted on interesting like the cayman islands they have a double standard not to apply the same level of transparency with regard to. places like london where these proceeds are actually loaned the special interest in this the charas because they don't seem to be losing much they're only gaining as i said i think if that scheme is implemented at the end of the day the british government will be the ultimate beneficiary of all those ill gotten assets because it can claim it for itself. maybe maybe not i mean a government will claim it it may be the british government will have to hand those money so it's a money laundering occur for that if you need to cleanse ahmed rashid nation and that goes for years if not decades and they're also political issues involved so it's easier to keep it for yourself and for your budgets and that's where i think that's a really brilliant idea. well it may it may if may well be as i say you

>> if granted the authority. i don't have the day-to-day authority to do that. if granted the authority. >> so you would need basically to be directed by the president through the secretary of defense? >> yes, sir. in fact i mentioned that in my statement. >> have you been directed to do so given the strategic threat that faces the united states and the significant consequences you recognized already? >> no i have not. if i could flesh this out, say something open, unclassified be open to go into more detail classified. >> yes, sir. >> based on authority as commander i have directed the national mission force to begin specific work. i would not publicly go into that. using authorities i retain as commander in mission space. >> inherent commander -- >> yes, sir. >> and structure but you need to direct authority of the president through the secretary of defense. >> to do some specific things. >> some specific authorities. >> some specific authority i am acting within that authority. >> essentially we have not taken on the russians yet? we're watching them intrude

the authority, and i don't have the day-to-day authority, if greater the authority. >> said you would be needed be directed by the president or the secretary of defense? >> yes, i mention that. >> have you been directed to do so giv the strategic consequences you recognize already? >> know, i have not. amy: that was nsa head michael rogers, testifying before the senate armed services committee tuesday. on tuesday, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders responded to questions about nsa head michael rogers' statement. >> the premise of your question, it is not just one individual. it is looking at a number of different ways. >> he is in charge of cyber command. why not give him the authority? >> no one is denying him authority. we're looking at a number of different ways. amy: in florida, the house appropriations committee has voted to create a statewide program to spend $67 million to arm teachers in classrooms, despite the vocal opposition of the survivors of the february 14 mass shooting in parkland, florida. this same panel voted tuesday against an assault weapons ban. m

authorities want to get the message out they have not forgot been these vandals. they are angry, upset and they hope to make many more arrests a handful of vandals decided to repeatedly, jump on a stranger's corvette during an eagles victory parade last thursday, a few days before a group caused chaos inside of this sunoco station on south broad street just after the super bowl win, and dozens ransacked the place, and stole whatever they could. >> it is a big deal. we will find you. >> reporter: philadelphia police detectives promised last week that they would not forget those who climbed on this awning, flipped over a car, and broke these windows outside of macy's. >> they are putting it not only in our face police officers but the city of philadelphia. >> reporter: list goes on, just today authorities released new videos, including this woman, pulling down part of a light pole. >> i'm stealing it, i'm stealing it. i'm stealing it. >> what she is saying i just took this. >> reporter: man car thinking traffic sign, also, has the attention of police. >> last week m

there is no record of conditional use authorization. in 1971 when there was discussion about the sale of the portion and put on the overhead. this is a report from the summer -- can i have the overhead please? the overhead. the overhead. it does state that the parking authority does not see need to develop subject city owned lot for parking and unauthorized parking and then there was the referenced letter stating again that it was not developed by the city or had not been developed for informal parking. in 1974 there was an environmental application as part of the sale, and also looking at the proposed residential uses on the property and that described the present use of the site as vacant, at the bottom you can see present use of site vacant. and there were photos accompanying that request. i have on the overhead showing the use of it. it was -- there were cars there, but also didn't have wheels and didn't seem to be used much as parking. beginning in 1978, the use of public parking wouldn't have been allowed and since that time it wo

we are waiting for authorities to announce that. speaking of authorities, a federal official has identified the school shooting suspect as nicholas cruz. the official spoke to the associated press on condition of anonymity. the official study been briefed on the investigation in the shooting at the south florida high school but was not authorized to discuss it publicly. authorities say the shooter open fire and killed numerous people. students are speaking to reporters on scene. it's 25 minutes before the top of the hour. we are waiting for the broward sheriff scott israel to come back with an update. we are expecting specifics. wsvn, our south florida new station coverage. let's listen. >> it brings me chills. these kids, when we interview them, they are very stoic, very matter-of-fact but it's going to take time to process it. you heard a sound bite from a student saying yeah, there was a loud noise and we open up the door there was bodies everywhere. that's pretty much how he said it. it's going to take time to process exactly wh