senator kelly ayotte of the armed services committee. jack keane. and ambassador dennis ross. >>> then common core education standards exposes flip inside the gop. >> this is becoming a top-down approach, just like obama care. >> it's local schools with local school boards and high standards. i don't know how anybody can disagree that. >> two key players debate the merits of common core. texas governor greg abbott and former education secretary bill bennett. >>> plus, president obama wants to break those automatic spending caps and spends billions more on new programs. our sunday panel weighs in. >>> and our power player this super bowl sunday hall of famer, john riggins, on his larger than life legacy on and off the field. >> i came to play. i was there to play the game and to have fun. and i think i accomplished that. >> all right now on "fox news sunday." >>> and hello again from fox news in washington. we begin with breaking news. jordan has renewed its offer to trade an al qaeda prisoner for a juror pilot being held by isis after they released

senator kelly ayotte, four star general jack keane and ambassador dennis ross.nd then common core education standards split inside the gop. >> it is local school boards and higher standards. how can anybody disagree with that. >> the debate of common core. >>> governor greg abbott and former education secretary bill bennett. >>> and the president wants to spend billions more on new programs. our sunday panel weighs in. >>> and our power player this super bowl sunday former pro-football player john riggins and his legacy on and off the field. >> i came to play the game and have fun and i think i accomplished that. >> all right now on "america's news headquarters." >>> and hello again from phoenix news in washington. we begin with breaking news. jordan has renewed the offer to trade a prisoner for a pilot after there was a release of a murder of a japanese hostage. we'll discuss that with key players on this issues. but first conor powell is live in the middle east newsroom with the latest. >> in just about every corner of the region there is cause of concern of t

ke and senator ayotte and people asked him at the very beginning, get control of that thing in syria.m. and in moves al qaeda. then isis. withdrawing our troops from iraq, il,yk)zú believe, is reason why he was8+ calling isisorou the jay vee six months0m+xw ago. if you have 100,0000h= troops. 50,000 troops in a country information. when you don't have them there, don't get information. he was obviously getting the wrong information about isis and it's directly attributable to him pulling the troops out. >> mayor nice to see you >> thank you. >> first taking revenge that's what king abdullah has promised to isis. the$v burning to death of his nation's pilot. thousands of people in jordan taking their outrage to thecxsx streets. so is this the moment the pentagon has been waiting for? joining us now defense one kevin. that is what you wrote today.?!= jordan's retaliation is the real arab awakening th:gé6 pentagon has been waiting for. what do you mean by that? >> the pentagon strategy for everything in the world is to try to get over other military to do theé#ekr fighting for themselves

senator ayotte: as i understand it, they continue to support assad. they have continued to support groups including has below -- including hezbollah. would you still consider them one of the largest state sponsors of terrorism? director clapper: they are still classified that way. senator ayotte: i would like to follow up on an issue with international implications, and that is of international drug trafficking. in my home state of new hampshire, we have had a devastating amount of people dying from heroin overdoses. i would like to hear your opinion, general stewart, about what is happening in terms of drug trafficking, and in particular heroine, and how the networks are using -- are being used to fuel terrorism. what do southern and northern command need in terms of fighting drug trafficking? general stewart: i-8 will have to look at the numbers again -- i will have to look at the numbers again, but i don't think drug trafficking is increasing through our southern borders. pakistan and afghanistan continue at about the norm of the last few years. we

senator kelly ayotte looks at the situation in the middle east and says there's a, quote, fire alarmringing. agrees that a change must soon happen and here's why. >> i think that the president has set an ambitious and i think, under current circumstances, unrealistic goal when he talks about our intent being to destroy isis. with the means he has approved so far i think, that's an unattainable objective. >> the outgoing secretary of defense chuck hagel is floating the idea now and sending troops to the region to help improve the accuracy of air strikes. and republican senator lindsey graham going further. pitching 10,000 american troops on the ground in iraq and in syria. something that democratic lawmakers are voicing strong opposition to already. >> invasionry force of 10,000 americans. to plunge them into the chaos of syria at this point would be a serious mistake in my view. let's build this coalition of indigenous efforts in the region to bring stability. >> and there's continued talk this weekend about the administration's refusal to characterize the enemy in isis-controlled te

senator ayotte we hope to speak to you later. here's the president. >> good morning. as always it is a great pleasure to welcome my close friend and partner chancellor angela merkel back to the white house angela has been here many times but this visit is a chance for more to congratulate her on two achievements well into her third term she's one of germany's longest serving chancellors, perhaps more importantly this is my first opportunity to publicly congratulate angela and germany on their fourth world cup title. as we awe saw, angela is one of her team's biggest fans. our u.s. team gets better each world one so watch out in 2018. germany is one of our strongest allies so whenever we meet it's an opportunity to coordinate closely on a whole range of issues critical to our shared security and prosperity. as angela and our german friends prepare to host the g-7 this spring, it's also important for us to be able to coordinate on a set of shared goals and at our working lunch we'll focus on what to do to keep the economy growing and creating jobs. as strong supporters

and senator ayotte, i'd like to make a final comment. >> mr. chairman, with permission, can i have a follow up questions? i don't know if anyone else is but i'm willing to direct that. i know you have to go. >> senator manchin? go ahead. >> thank you. let me make the point, as we look at the taliban five, i think the point needs to be made clearly, they were top commanders in the taliban. i read you the quote about what one of the commanders on the ground said in helmand province. it's like pouring 10,000 jihadists back into the fight, so you can't say they weren't directly involved because they themselves only issued the commands to kill americans and didn't kill the americans themselves. the leaders are often more important than the foot soldiers asked to carry this out, so i don't understand the argument made, with all respect, from my colleague from virginia, but these were top taliban leaders who themselves made many orders that were involved in killing us and our allies in afghanistan. i would like to ask admiral myers, we had general mat

and senator ayotte i'd like to make a final comment. >> mr. chairman, with permission, can i have a follow up questions? i don't know if anyone else is, but i'm willing to direct that. i know you have to go. >> senator manchin? >> thank you. as we look at the taliban five, i think the point made clearly, they were top commanders in the taliban. i read you the quote about what one of the commanders on the ground said in helmand province. like pouring 10000 jihadists back into the fight, so you can't say they weren't directly involved because they themselves only issued the commands to kill americans and didn't kill the americans themselves, the leaders are often more important than the foot soldiers asked to carry this out so i don't understand the argument made with all respect from my college in west virginia. these were top taliban leaders who themselves made many orders that were involved in killing us and our allies in afghanistan. i would like to ask admiral myers, we had general mat is before the committee the other day, i'm sure you kno

. >> would kelly ayotte be a good runic mate? >> i think new hampshire would be very happy to have senator ayotte on the ticket. >> gall she wouldn't be from new hampshire anymore? >> no because -- listen every time we have somebody who understands the state, knows what we need who appreciates and is committed to new hampshire, that's one of the reasons we like having all the presidential candidates there so much. it gills us a chance to talk about what's on people's minds in the state, what we want to see. that's good for new hampshire. it's good for the country. >> senator jeanne shaheen, who knows that state and just won 51-48, a very tough race there. who women in a row beat him in two different states. >> that's history. >> is he heading to maine? anyway, thank you very much. james pindell, thank you. please come back. >>> we've got the most memorable moments coming up next this is "hardball," the place for politics. go? i gotta go dad! okay! let's go go, go, go... woah! go right, go left, go left stop! now go... (shouting)

indeed, i applaud the expeditious consideration of senator ayotte's bill in the armed services committee under the leadership of senator mccain. those moves -- or these moves come at a critically important time as we continue to witness the spectacles of barbarism perpetrated by the so-called islamic state or isis. aid workers and journalists gruesomely beheaded, christians tortured and murdered for refusing to convert and most recently a captured coalition pilot burned alive. these acts are just a glimpse of the undiluted savagery unleashed by this terrorist organization on a large swath of territory in iraq and syria that it controls. even beyond its horrific human rights violations the islamic state threatens to destabilize the entire middle east and is attempting to undo that -- all that was accomplished by our service members and eight years of blood and sacrifice in iraq. most doubling of all the islamic state serves as a safe haven for terrorist training and planning. similar to afghanistan prior to the september 11 attacks with the islamic state's stated attention to -- quote --

. >> senator ayotte? >> thank you, chairman. i want to thank all of you for the hard work that you obviously and thoughtfulness that you've put into this commission and for having this important discussion with us. i do have to say, today i'm walking back and forth between this committee and the budget committee. and as i look at where we are, senator kerry, to use the word holistic, in a way, in a way that i think the point needs to be made here is if you look at where we are for example the president's budget that was just submitted, by 2021, our interest costs, what we're paying in interest, is going to exceed the defense budget. and, as i look at what the work that you've done, bipartisan commission, and we look at what the biggest drivers in our debt are overall looking at the big budget, of mandatory spending for programs that we need to have similar looks at medicare, social security, that are very, very important programs to people appreciate that you've done all this work. i think we're looking at our military stepping

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and senator ayotte, i'd like to make a final comment. >> mr. chairman, with permission, can i have a follow up questions? i don't know if anyone else is but i'm willing to direct that. i know you have to go. >> senator manchin? >> thank you. as we look at the taliban five i think the point made clearly they were top commanders in the taliban. i read you the quote about what one of the commanders on the ground said in helmand province. like pouring 10,000 jihadists back into the fight, so you can't say they weren't directly involved because they themselves only issued the commands to kill americans and didn't kill the americans themselves, the leaders are often more important than the foot soldiers asked to carry this out, so i don't understand the argument made with all respect from my college -- colleague in west virginia. these were top taliban leaders who themselves made many orders that were involved in killing us and our allies in afghanistan. i would like to ask admiral myers, we had general mat is -- general mattis, before the committee

senator jeff sessions apparently lashed out at the mitch mcconnell plan but senator kelly ayotte struck back in its defense. >>> vice president joe biden tweeted out this group photo, "farewell to the "parks and rec" cast." the final show aired last night. >>> and pete davison got a letter of praise from bill clinton. his father was a firefighter who died on 9/11 and thanked the president with a tweet that read "i recently read an article about your career and deep family connection to service in the city. as a fan of "saturday night live," i want to congratulate you on joining the cast. i can only imagine how excited you must be, both as a comedian and a lifelong new yorker." very nice. >>> and a reminder tonight, msnbc and telemundo will hold an exclusive town hall with president obama. jose diaz ballard will interview the president and focus on the issue of immigration. what do you want to ask the president? send your question via instagram, twitter or facebook with #obamatownhall. and that is your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> 22 minutes past the hour. i'm joined now by

very helpful. >> senator ayotte. >> i want to thank both of you for being here. and secretary, i wanted to ask you about afghanistan. i know that last june you were quoted in the "new york times" about the administration's time line for withdrawal from afghanistan. and one of the things you said was if it was a time line with a strong statement that said, hey, this is our plan but no plan survives contact with reality, and of course we're going to adjust based on conditions on the ground then no problem. in reference to the withdrawals. are the afghans on the plan we called for or not is the insurgency as we expected or worse. ? what i'm hearing is it's hell or high water. i'm hoping you have a different sense of this now and i want to get your thoughts on afghanistan because many of us i think who have had the opportunity to visit afghanistan and then this weekend we had obviously the opportunity to sit doub with president gaunie and hear his per spective to really understand their plan right now as it stands president gani seemed really concerned that we not re

senator kelly ayotte of the armed services committee. jack keane. and ambassador dennis ross. >>> then, common core education

kelly ayotte, the public and furniture, saying "defense secretary nominee ash carter says using five to provide legal defensive weapons to ukraine. hope president listens." tweets from capitol hill on the reaction last week when things began to intensify, another discussion coming to washington this week with the plan a meeting between german leader angela merkel and the president at the white house today. and joint news conference at 11:40 a.m. eastern time and we will have live coverage on c-span. we will continue to get your thoughts on this, whether the west should on the ukrainian forces -- should arm the ukrainian forces in response to russian-backed rebels. we have about 20 minutes or so to get more of your thoughts this morning. first, joining us on the phone is the congressional reporter with "the hill" to talk about what else is happening in washington. what is on the agenda on capitol hill? we will start with the senate this week. guest: well, they need to ask the funding bill -- past the funding bill for the department of homeland security. big issue, big contentious issu

incredibly careful not to use labels like radical islam and you've seen some politicians, senator kelly ayotteur enemy. we need to say what it is. others are saying look this is nothing to do with islam. where do you fall on that? some people of certain religions can do horrific things that have happened in christianity in the past. >> i agree with what he's saying. he's saying the war is not with islam. it's with extremism. it's existed in many religions. i think he's trying to focus the conversation -- you have 1.6 million muslims. you can't categorize them with the same brush. i think he's saying be very careful about extremism not religion. >> but that's not what he said. >> he's saying you can't categorize muslims in this way. >> when you listen to this sound bite and he says let us not get on our high horse, when you look back you know this happened before -- >> right. extremism in all religion have acted violently. >> exactly. >> the history of christianity with the crusades in the i can kwi significance which he brought up is not exactly stellar. >> are you concerned with what dr. ahme

senator kelly ayotte, four star general

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. >> senator ayotte. >> i want to thank both of you for being here. and secretary flournoy i wanted to ask you about afghanistan. i know that last june you were quoted in the "new york times" about the administration's timeline for withdrawal from afghanistan. and one of the things you said was if it was a timeline with a strong statement that said hey, this is our plan but no plan survives contact with reality. and of course we're going to adjust based on conditions on the ground then no problem in reference to their withdrawal plan. are the afghans on the path we planned for? are they not? is the insurgency as we expected or is it worse? all the things have to be factored in. have what i'm hearing out of the white house is this is hell or high water this is what we're going to do. i'm hoping you have a different sense of this now and i wanted to get your thoughts on afghanistan because many of us i think who have had the opportunity to visit afghanistan and then this weekend we had obviously the opportunity to sit down with president ghani and hear

. >> senator ayotte. >> thank you chairman.ard work and thoughtfulness you put into this commission and for having this important discussion with us. i do have to say today i'm walking back and forth between this committee and the budget committee. and as i look at where we were senator kerrey, to use the word "holistic" in a way that i think the point needs to be made here, is that if you look at where we are. for example the president's budget that was just submitted. by 2021, our interests costs what we're paying in interest is going to exceed the defense budget. and as i look at the work that you have done, bipartisan commission. and we look at what the biggest drivers in our debt are overall looking at the big budget. mandatory spending programs that we need to have similar looks at. medicare, social security. they are very, very important programs to people. i appreciate that you have done all this work. i think we're looking at our military stepping forward first in making many changes. and i think that we need to look a

republicans like kelly ayotte are up for reelection in 2016. that is traditionally ace swings date. democrats would love to we -- two win that state back. you heard from senator ron johnson from wisconsin another vulnerable republican of in 2016, moderating his challenge. mark kirk did not vote last night. he's probably the most honorable republican -- most vulnerable republican in the 2016 elections. republicans came in and said they wanted to govern. they spent a lot of time on this issue and i think everyone is really eager to move past it. and another big fight they are having is this keystone authorization. it's finally on the president's desk and you will have your first veto probably. host: the keystone legislation the subject of an opinion piece in "usa today today" this morning. -- "usa today" this morning. but going back to the vote, failing 13 those shy of what was needed. one other option being talked about, that your reporters talked about in their story on this was changing the filibuster rules in the senate. how much of a realistic option is that? guest: you are heari

on wednesday, carter was asked by republican new hampshire senator kelly ayotte wednesday carter vowed he would not bend to any pressure from president obama to transfer prisoners out of guantanamo. >> i would ask you to tell us and to make a commitment to this committee that you will not succumb to any pressure by this administration to increase the pace of transfers from guantÁnamo. when you commit to that? >> absolutely. >> the u.s. diplomat leading historic talks with the cuban government has rejected cuba's calls to return guantanamo. president raÚl castro has said restoring havana's control of the bay is a prerequisite for normalizing ties with the united states, which has controlled the area of cuba since 1903. but assistant secretary of state roberta jacobson said the obama administration has refused to consider it. >> the issue of guantanamo is not on the table in these conversations. i want to be clear that what we're talking about right now is the reestablishment of diplomatic relations, which is only one first step in normalization. obviously, the cuban government has raise

senator kelly ayotte saying it matters because you have to define your enemy. lindsey graham saying when our president doesn't acknowledge this is a religion-driven war, it's going to be very hard to win it. what do you think of what the president says, by giving them the label, it is feeding into the native that isis wants, that the west is the enemy? what do you think? >> it's kind of like if we're worried about what they're thinking instead of what they're doing, that's something that you know -- what i'd like to see the president do is kind of like what roosevelt did in world war ii. he put the military leaders in place, he gave them what they needed to carry out their mission and then he said go win the war. it's kind of like reagan says we win, you lose. >> does that mean ground troops against isis in your view? >> i think whatever -- whatever it's going to take to win. you have to first decide you're in a war. then you have to decide if you're going to really win it and what you're going to lay on the line and you don't start out by telling the enemy wha

i'm pleased to be working with senator ayotte on that legislation hoping to reintroduce it soon. the area that i'd like to focus on which, in a sense is the elephant in the room, is underreported. the shame and stigma that causes so many of these cases to be unreported. the feelings of embarrassment. and excuses. and sometimes love for relatives. children or others who are actually exploited. there is a combination of feelings that result in this underreporting, and i want to thank you miss quinn for including in your citation some of the numbers here, which are really staggering. elder abuse is vastly underreported. only 1 in 23.5 cases is reported to any agency for financial abuse. financial abuse it's 1 in 44. 1 in 44 financial abuse cases is reported which makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for the best prosecutors in the world, and i've been a prosecutor, not one of the best in the world. to take this kind of action. for neglect it's 1 in 57. so i am looking at some of the state laws that apply to reporting. and looking at who the mandated reporters are, rarely are

. >> senator ayotte. >> thank you chairman. i want to thank you for the hard work and thoughtfulness you put into this commission and for having this important discussion with us. i do have to say today i'm walking back and forth between this committee and the budget committee. and as i look at where we were senator kerrey, to use the word "holistic" in a way that i think the point needs to be made here, is that if you look at where we are. for example the president's budget that was just submitted. by 2021, our interests costs what we're paying in interest is going to exceed the defense budget. and as i look at the work that you have done, bipartisan commission. and we look at what the biggest drivers in our debt are overall looking at the big budget. mandatory spending, programs that we need to have similar looks at. medicare, social security. they are very, very important programs to people. i appreciate that you have done all this work. i think we're looking at our military stepping forward first in making many changes. and

gregg: here is snorm kelly ayotte ... >> they should spend less time about worrying about being politically correct and how we define our enemies and more time on how to defeat them. gregg: robert gates says the president's plan to beat isis is not realistic. >> reporter: whitney houston's daughter found unresponsive in a bath tub. >> it intercepted at the goal line! gregg there are wouldn't believe it could you? the super bowl patriots are the champions after what some are calling the worst call in super bowl history. >> this is understand believable. we worked so hard together as a team. it's awesome. lea: the white house weighing a manage shift in strategy in the ukraine. the move comes amid intensified fighting and new battles waging around an eastern town in ukraine. thousands of civilians are becoming refugees trying to escape the advancing russian forces. the u.s. has been limiting its support. gregg: the obama administration facing new criticism over the fight against isis. robert gates warning it's time for the president to redefine his strategy if he's going to take down the terro

. >> senator ayotte. >> i want to thank the chairman i want to thank you, dr. carter, for all your service to the nation and your willingness to serve again. i would like to ask you about, according to the director of national intelligence we know that at least 107 terrorists who were formerly detained at guantanamo and been released have been confirmed of re-engaging in terrorism and in fact, an additional 77 are also suspected of that 73 in fact, we know that public reports tell us that at least two guantanamo detainees have also joined isis. and so what i would like to ask you, number one, there were reports that secretary hagel said that he was under pressure to increase the pace of transfers of guantanamo detainees by the administration. and as you know the statute says that you, as the incoming secretary of defense will have to make the determination, and only if you determine that the actions, there's a whole set of factors, but in particular, you have to determine that actions that have been or are planned to be taken will substantially mitigate the ris

martha: kelly ayotte was in that hearing with james clapper listening to him yesterday.e. so john kerry is upholding a line of thinking and discussion that we have heard from the president, that the world is becoming more tolerant overall a more peaceful place. they said the globe is more tranquil and then you listen to clapper who basically has been saying the same thing these hearings for five years. >> he has been very consistent. the other thing he said is 014 was the most lethal year for global terrorism. what we have is the administration either is totally disconnected from the intelligence community. but way suspect more is they are trying to spin what is a very bad situation around the world and trying to posit an alternative reality. during this state of the union the president said the shadow of crisis has passed. that's inconsistent with what we heard from director of intelligence clapper. martha: i think more important perhaps than the larger statement that john kerry is making about i gets's about statistics compared to world war ii and stalin, the more impo

you asked us to address legislation introduced by senator ayotte and several other members i understand may be marked up by the committee next week. in our view this legislation would effectively ban most transfers from guantanamo for two years and reverts to the previous regime for fiscal 12 and 13 which resulted in only court ordered transfers, transfers pursuant to plea agreements and use of only a few national security waivers. in addition, it adds a proposal to limit transfers based on jtf gitmo threat assessments that may be outdated or not include all available information. we believe any decisions on transfers should be based on current information and individual assessments of current detainees. because this legislation if enacted would effectively block progress towards the goal of closing the guantanamo bay detention center the administration will oppose it. the posed legislation bars transfers for any detainees for two years. 76 yemeni nationals remain. 47 eligible for transfer. 26 for prb review and two have charges referred and one is serving presentence confinement. a ban

ayotte. mrs. fisher. mr. cotton. mr. sullivan. mr. lee. mr. graham. mr. cruz. mr. reid. mr. nelson. mrs. gillibrand. mr. donnelly. mr. king. mr. heinreich. mr. chairman? >> 25 ayes, one no instruction. >> it will be reported favorably to the floor of the senate and hopefully we can get a vote perhaps even as early as tomorrow. >> do you want to keep it open for sullivan to vote? >> no. we'll leave it open for senator sullivan to make his wishes known. for awhile. the armed services committee meets today to receive testimony on our nation's defense budget and priorities from the bipartisan national defense panel. this group of former military leaders, members of congress and pentagon officials that served release a report on our nation's defense strategy last year. we have with us two distinguish distinguished members with us today. they are among the most respected defense experts on both sides of the aisle. we're grateful for you to appear before us today. also dr. william perry for his leadership and the panels members and staff for their diligent work. the national defense panel'

. >> senator ayotte. >> i want to thank the chairman i want to thank you, dr. carter, for all your service to the nation and your willingness to serve again. i would like to ask you about, according to the director of national intelligence we know that at least 107 terrorists who were formerly detained at guantanamo and been released have been confirmed of re-engaging in terrorism and in fact, an additional 77 are also suspected of that 73 in fact, we know that public reports tell us that at least two guantanamo detainees have also joined isis. and so what i would like to ask you, number one, there were reports that secretary hagel said that he was under pressure to increase the pace of transfers of guantanamo detainees by the administration. and as you know the statute says that you, as the incoming secretary of defense will have to make the determination, and only if you determine that the actions, there's a whole set of factors, but in particular, you have to determine that actions that have been or are planned to be taken will substantially mitigate the ris

ayotte," and it is instantly recognizable. kathie has been calling the roll for quite a while. she became the first woman to ever call roll in the senate. in 1999 with senator collins in the chair kathie became a member of the first all-female team to preside over this body. and in 2009 she became the senate's first female legislative clerk. so kathie alvarez has been making a lot of history since she first arrived here in 1984. and you'll notice, madam president, that every female floor staffer is paying tribute to her today. they're each wearing something with kathie's favorite design: animal print. along with the love of cajun food s.a.r.torial distinction is one thing that louisianans become known for a passion for perfection is another. kathie has maintain add laser-like focus for three decades. that's good news for the senate, because we rely on her and the american people rely on her to ensure that every bill, every amendment, and every message from the house is processed perfectly. that's a lot of pressure. so you can't blame kathie for wanting to retire. i know she's l

senator king i know senator ayotte and i are all very proud of the portsmouth naval yard and that you were issued an invitation to visit, which i would second. while you are at it you can come to pea's and see the home of the new kc-46 refueling tanker which we are also very proud of. but one of the challenges of sequestration is the impact on not just our men and women serving in uniform but also on our civilian workforce. so can you talk about the threats that is supposed by the uncertainty, especially for the engineers, scientists mathematicians, that we are going to need to continue to fill those civilian jobs to keep our shipyards at their highest level of efficiency and production and all of our depots as well. >> yes. thank you. i do want to take the opportunity to express my gratitude for what our civilian members of our department of defense do. a lot of people have the image of the civilian as aarp bureaucrat sitting behind a desk somewhere. that's an issue we also need to get at because there's that too, and that's costly, headquarters, overhead and so forth. but most of do

. >> senator ayotte. >> i want to thank the chairman i want to thank you, dr. carter, for all your service to the nation and your willingness to serve again. i would like to ask you about, according to the director of national intelligence we know that at least 107 terrorists who were formerly detained at guantanamo and been released have been confirmed of re-engaging in terrorism and in fact, an additional 77 are also suspected of that 73 in fact, we know that public reports tell us that at least two guantanamo detainees have also joined isis. and so what i would like to ask you, number one, there were reports that secretary hagel said that he was under pressure to increase the pace of transfers of guantanamo detainees by the administration. and as you know the statute says that you, as the incoming secretary of defense will have to make the determination, and only if you determine that the actions, there's a whole set of factors, but in particular, you have to determine that actions that have been or are planned to be taken will substantially mitigate the ris

kelly ayotte who is a military wife.on't love her positions on issues, but she sits on armed services. she does a great job. >> she's from a swing state. even if it's a smaller swing state. >> martha mcsally. . she won a contested house race and used her experience to really make it a local race about the air force jet. and this is exactly what she put down and the republican leaders point to her. this can be the future. it's a generational change more than it is a shift in who the types of people are. >> i want to pop back on this idea of how we use the military. a key insight that our foreign policy has been militarized. ebola outbreaks, second the military. tsunami, send the military. i'm wondering if i'm sitting here trying to have a more complicated way of thinking about our foreign policy is but now the military is the one thing that can globe trot for the u.s.? >> think about how we got here. the cold war ended and it was all military all the time. the clinton administration came in and there was a peace dividend.

here today and i express a appreciation to her for this work in this area that i work with kelly i ayotte and this is hardly a partisan one and it is a succinctly bipartisan involving stronger protection for sensitive consumer data and we recognize the states as laboratories of democracy and the great work that they have done in this area. let me conclude by saying. we have a lot of good work that should be done but one guiding principle is do no harm. that is to the state enforcers that every day are seeking to protect the citizen from the scourge and spreading problems of data theft in order for the consumers to trust retailers banks and online sales a need to know their data is secure without abuse, shopping online or bricks and mortar retailers are protecting their information and will do everything in their power to protect that data and that is a reasonable expectation and they have the right to expect more than they are receiving for the insurers, banks, institutions and nonprofits that increasingly have the coin of the realm of the data about consumers. >> thank you senator blumen

ayotte: wakened nation -- and awakened nation. that's what it has, the roots of the revolution are actually the aspirations, our goals and principles which will remain unchangeable and in implementation if there is something to be considered, then that still will be within the framework of the islamic republic of iran, that will be conducted through the ballot boxes and through the elections where the people vote. so in the same way that the great imam said the islamic republic is islamic republic absolutely. the islamic nation just translates into the republic system, the islamic republic, and vice versa. for us to see the demand of the people fulfilled the best way to do that is the implementation of the islamic precepts and teachings and for the republican establishment, the best way is the rule of the people, the will of the people, who within islamic rules the late imam gave legitimacy to the vote of the people and issued a fatwa odge reasons decree and the islamic revolution leader too said that the vote is the right of the

senator king i know senator ayotte and i are all very proud of the portsmouth naval yard and that you were issued an invitation to visit, which i would second. while you are at it you can come to pea's and see the home of the new kc-46 refueling tanker which we are also very proud of. but one of the challenges of sequestration is the impact on not just our men and women serving in uniform but also on our civilian workforce. so can you talk about the threats that is supposed by the uncertainty, especially for the engineers, scientists mathematicians, that we are going to need to continue to fill those civilian jobs to keep our shipyards at their highest level of efficiency and production and all of our depots as well. >> yes. thank you. i do want to take the opportunity to express my gratitude for what our civilian members of our department of defense do. a lot of people have the image of the civilian as aarp bureaucrat sitting behind a desk somewhere. that's an issue we also need to get at because there's that too, and that's costly, headquarters, overhead and so forth. but most of do