. >> bashir al-assad along three visiting french polar rotarians. -- parliamentarians. these images being broadcast without sound. the day before the french party met with the syrian foreign minister to discuss antiterrorist measures. but there were no scoops to be had. >> the islamic state group is creating tension in our country. >> the parliamentarians and say they were on a personal mission, speaking to -- defending the initiative. >> neither you nor i nor the united states will do away with assad. it would go from bad to worse. it is clear that he cannot be ignored. i'm not defending him but i'm saying we will have to deal with him. >> he would not go into the details of the talks, saying he was to relay the information to the french government but the government has washed its hands of the delegation. >> this is in no way an official french diplomatic initiative. >> france severed all contact with the syrian government and closed its embassy in damascus in 2012. paris has given military support the moderate syrian opposition. on the syrian side, the government app

bashir.he house the specifics of the case because it involves ongoing legal action, but i will discuss it with the home secretary. of course, one option would be for mr. bashir to make a formal complaint to the independent police complaints commission but let me try to get my honorable friend some more information about this. >> i know that the prime minister has followed closely the recent upheaval in the nhs in north staffordshire involving the stafford and stoke-on-trent hospitals merger, the pet-ct scanner and the waiting times at accident and emergency. his government commissioned kpmg to produce the staffordshire “distressed economy” report, but it is being withheld. will he now commit to publishing the full report so that we can all see his real plans for the nhs in stoke-on-trent and north staffordshire? >> i will look closely at the specific issue that the honorable lady has raised. as she knows, the safety of patients in staffordshire is absolutely our main priority. staffordshire?

bashir is not getting? >> i understand this does sound a very concerning his but my understanding is west yorkshire police are investing the circumstances serenity arrest at the detention of mr. bashir but i can't get the house specifics of this case because it does involve ongoing legal action. i will discuss it with a home discuss it with the home secretary of the and, of course, one option would be to mr. bush or to make a formal complaint to the independent police complaints commission but let me give you more information about that. >> i know the prime minister has followed closely the reason of people -- [inaudible] given his government commission to produce a strategy report and its being withheld from will he commit now to publishing the full report so we can all see his real plan for the nhs? >> i will look closely at the specific issue the honorable lady ask the action is continuing the safety of patients is our main priority. i know the university hospitals are working hard with the trust people

bashir mentioned the issue about schools. i used to work in schools and i often found it fascinating that we were able to find money for metal detectors but not cold paper and soap in the bathroom. it gets to the issue of priorities and how we message to young people about the value of their worth. when you do not allow young people to have access to toilet paper or soap and can't figure out a way to do that. you are telling them you're not worthy. you do not deserve it. so when we treat people like less than human from the time that we condition them to walks through metal detectors before they can get their education where conditioning young people for prison. by the time the get there, they have lost ownership of their minds and bodies. i think it is important to walk in one another's shoes. if children who are not in schools have to experience these types of conditions, do not know that that is not normal for everybody. if children do not have -- realize there are other kids who think there experience is normal. we have t

bashir mentioned the issue about schools. before i did the work i do now i used to work in schools and i often found it fascinating that we were able to find money for metal detectors but not cold paper and soap in the bathroom. [applause] it gets to the issue of priorities and how we message to young people about the value of their worth. when you do not allow young people to have access to toilet paper or so and kids figure out a way to do that, you are telling them you're not worthy. you do not deserve it. so when we treat people like less than human from the time they are children that we condition them to walk through metal detectors before they can get their education, we are conditioning young people for prison. by the time the get there, they have lost ownership of their minds and bodies. i think it is important to walk in one another's shoes. if children who are not in schools have to experience these types of conditions, do not know that that is not normal for everybody. they think everyone has the six errands. if c

bashir is not getting? >> i understand this does sound a very concerning his but my understanding is west yorkshire police are investing the circumstances serenity arrest at the detention of mr. bashir but i can't get the house specifics of this case because it does involve ongoing legal action. i will discuss it with a home discuss it with the home secretary of the and, of course, one option would be to mr. bush or to make a formal complaint to the independent police complaints commission but let me give you more information about that. >> i know the prime minister has followed closely the reason of people -- [inaudible] given his government commission to produce a strategy report and its being withheld from will he commit now to publishing the full report so we can all see his real plan for the nhs? >> i will look closely at the specific issue the honorable lady ask the action is continuing the safety of patients is our main priority. i know the university hospitals are working hard with the trust people

jajouka is also home to one of morocco's better-known musicians, bashir attar.cians have traveled all over the world to jajouka to meet this the guy. he's part of a lineage of master musicians, all from this small mountain village. ♪ >> famously dubbed as a 4,000-year-old rock band, by william burroughs, bashir, his son and these musicians maintain one of the oldest still living musical traditions on earth. ♪ we're invited for dinner. it's family style, of course, beginning with braywine, like a kefta pocket, hand formed envelopes of dough seasoned with seasoned beef, baked until golden and then crisped in oil. i'm good for now -- well, one more. uh-oh, here we go. the main event, tagine of chicken. >> welcome, tony. >> thank you. just gorgeous. first, chopped onions, garlic, parsley and turmeric are blended with olive oil. the bird is generously coated and stuffed. then after simmering in a touch of olive oil and water, it is fried until crispy, served with roasted almonds, paprika, ginger and olives. nice. >> he smells the food. >> like anywhere else in the ar

president bashir was denying it. he was saying absolutely no soldiers were killed. we decided to go in the back of trucks with the rebels and we went there and there were bodies everywhere as far as one could see. there were dozens of bodies. there was an incredible sight. that picture appeared on the front page of the new york times and was impossible for bashir to deny what happened. it was a perfect example of the power of photography and the power of documenting and being there. in 2008 i got a call from dexter, a well-known war correspondent and he was a good friend and worked together extensively in iraq and afghanistan. he called me up and he said hey, man. talks to everyone, whether it is the taliban, me, his girlfriend, he called me and said i got a great assignment and he said it is on the taliban of pakistan. i remember my husband who was not yet my husband was sitting next to me and rolled his eyes and said you are not going to meet the taliban. i didn't answer. dexter went. i've learned not to answer. dexter went to pakistan. spent months trying to line

military directly involved in efforts to overthrow bashir al assad. and yet somehow these two places, libya and syria, which have effectively been test cases for different approaches to u.s. foreign policy in the region, somehow they appear to have converged in the same chaotic and brutal end result. it raises some disquieting questions as we have a debate about the authorization of use of military force about the u.s.'s ability to effect outcomes in the region and whether u.s. influence is a lot more circumscribed than anyone in washington is willing to admit. joining me now amman mulhadine. there was an intervention, and then the benghazi attack which probably spooked u.s. security officials to sort of pull back. what do we make of what libya is now when we think about how the obama administration has managed the arab spring? >> well, the short answer to both of those comparisons is they have one thing in common they are both failed states. the underlying message is that regardless of the approach in the early stages of the engagement, how long and

aabout a alba bashir al bashar al assad. and yet how it appears they may have killed the person fighting the same organization in the past. begs belief really. >> it really does. and i'm wondering as jordan continues its air strikes, what about the people there in aman? is there widespread support in. >> reporter: this was a country that wasn't united in its support for skror dan'sjordan's role of the coalition ahead of the video of the pilot being so brutally murdered. pretty hard expressed when you speak to jordanians now who are divided to find anybody who is really divided in their support for the armed forces here. so very much more cohesive support in the past week or so for king abdullah's positioning here. how long that will last well, that remains to be seen doesn't it. you're feeling the support across the region but the more pilots who are killed the more people who lose their lives on the ground will lead i'm sure at some point to dissolutionillusionment about exactly how effective this campaign is. >> thank you,

>> the african union has opposed to the charges against bashir but not as strongly as those brought against kenyan president kanato alongside charges brought against rutesults. they refer to post election violence when ruto and kenyo were on separate sides of the political divinede but the a.u. has viewed this as -- was broadly with viewed this as an assault on african sovereignty, the fact that an african head of state can be taken before the icc. so they have opposed the icc claiming that it's an impair tive institution even if it was set up, it's being co-opted by malanal external influences. they are trying to push it back. >> do you think they are right? many within the a.u. say why do you focus africa when a lot of them call for george bush and tony blair to face trial for lie to go their people. >> there are very legitmit criticisms. of the 26 cases it has looked at every single one has been african. it has real failings in the types of crimes it can look at. however, the way in which the idea of sovereignty has been allied with presidents only with leaders, how leaders can't

president bashir has no political solution to sudan's problems. as the people of darfur know only too well, displacement starvation, and death are the only strategies being pursued by the government in real time and real life. it is unconscionable, it is shameful that these horrors are taking place inside sudan in complete silence. the lack of response by the united states, by the europeans by the nations of the region only serves to provide bashir with the green light to continue the killing. over 10 years ago, congress called these very same actions acts of genocide and crimes against humanity. at the end of this month, i intend to reintroduce an updated version of my bipartisan bill, the sudan peace security and accountability act. and demonstrate to the suffering people of sudan, especially those in darfur, and the blue nile that we hear their cries and that this house intends to take action i he -- take action. i ask all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join me in this effort. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the spea

popular mobilization units who are gathering and building for a major operation just south of kirkuk at bashir. i'm not going to talk about the progress of the war against isil. we'll do that in other forums, on other days, through our written products. i believe the war against isil in iraq initially is highly winnable. and, in fact slowly, slowly, we or that trajectory now. for many people, the velocity will not be fast enough. but the vector, the direction is in that direction towards cutting them down to the stage that they are a serious insurgent and terrorist movement. unfortunately, today's best-case scenario were 2013's worst-case scenario. the goal posts have shifted dramatically over the last few years. what we're hoping is that in the next year or so we can cut isis down until it is our worst nightmare from 2013 and then we start again and we start working our way to cut them down to where they were in 2009 when the security operations were at their most effective, probably and then finally to get them down below that to the hopes that we had in 2009. what i'm going to talk about to

very vocal saying time and time again we cannot have long term success if there is not a solution to bashir alosa. do you still feel that way? >> i did and said it since we started dropping bombs. the center of gravity in syria and i believe across the border in iraq in the whole isis situation is the removal of assad in syria and again, with the uptick now with the jordanians with king abdullah and getting more of the arab key nation states involved in the coalition, they're the ones that have to determine that. we even spoke about the turks. the turks want to get involved but they are looking to us on guidance on what is the standard in syria and how will we do it because the turks have said time and time again they want a no-fly zone in syria. i'm not sure why we keep backing up -- not backing off but why we keep sizing up on the syria issue. again, i do believe it's the center of gravity in this whole issue. >> colonel reece, thank you so much. stand by you will be joining us throughout the hour. >>> also this top story, a tragic story and a lot of people want answers. two parents in ar

and president bashir, the sudanese president was denying it saying absolutely no soldiers were killed. so we decided to go in the back of trucks with the rebels and we went there, and there were bodies everywhere as far as one could see. there were dozens and dozens of bodies, and it was an incredible sight. and that picture appeared on the front page of "the new york times" and it was impossible for bush year to deny what it happen. to be it was a perfect example of the power of photography and the power of document and being there. in 2008 i got a call from dexter, a very well-known war correspondent, and he was a very good friend and we've worked together extensively in iraq and afghanistan. and he called me up and he said, hey, man, and he talks at length with the exact same time whether it's the taliban, become his girlfriend, doesn't matter. he calls me up and says hey man, i got a great assignment. he said it's on the talibanization of pakistan it i remember my husband who was not yet my husband was sitting next to me and he just rolled his eyes in his like you are not going to

makeup room and to amica thompson and for rocking that a-block and to dom early who i did inherit from bashirbeneath my wings and to this amazing floor room and studio a and those friends at 30 rock behind the scenes who were supportive and of course to you the reid-ers and the tweeple who we do this every day for and a special thank you to rick holly and brand hudson who creates reid. but i want to express hi gratitude to the men, women, teenagers and black and white and in between who ever where i go come up to me and say how important it is for them to see someone who looks like me with a platform like this representing the often unrepresented. and to them i say thank you and i love you and keep on insisted on being representatived. and so now for all of those you haven't seen. run up on the stage. come on. get your five seconds. and thomas will be here. and you want to support that. thank you, team. i want to support you. [ applause ] >> thank you. good luck. goodbye. "the cycle" the next. thank you. and this is a soda a day for a year. over an average adult lifetime that's 221,314 cubes

om bashir lost two sons. they were about to return home to celebrate christmas. mom, cook uh all the holiday food she tells me. but the bastards kidnapped them like they deprived me of their sons i hope god deprives them. the attack sparked national outrage. islam and christianity in egypt forming one hand. men in this village understand what it means to work in libya. the thing about villages like this is people are poor. work is scarce. libya was seen as the only opportunity. some say once things calm down they will risk their lives going back. hannah isn't returning. he's lucky to be alive, narrowly avoiding being kidnapped by isis. he 's the last to see the sons alive. he tells me there was a crack in the wall next to the a.c. masked mensesed his cousins and knee few. he heard isis militants say they had orders from the amir to arrest all christians there. he escaped into the desert with 15 others. back home he avoids his family. >> i feel guilty he tells me. first of all, the situation was difficult. more than you can imagine. how can your nephew be taken fr

thisiddy assy of cooperating with the iranians and quote taking isil first of which bashir assad is nonsense and immoral. the committee will return at 2:45 since there is a vote at 2:30. and members who seek a second round or those members who have not asked questions will be allowed to at that time. so we'll stand in recess until 2:45. thank you. >> i don't know what to say about it, but the level has hit a stride. >> he covers congress for military times. he is covering ashton carter hearings. how is he viewed on capitol hill? >> senator mccain and a lot of the other congressmen walking into this hearing set he is known and well-liked and should not have a problem. i'm hearing is more of a chance to criticize obama on a number of national security issues, on his syria strategy and his afghanistan strategy. >> it sounded like mccain and ashton carter were in agreement in terms of getting rid of the sequester. the pentagon spending caps. how are they going about doing that? >> that is the big question. you heard senator mccain, german thornberry on the house side. the mandatory spending cuts

they won't even go after bashir of sudan who has a genocide indictment. >> what you have to do is either one hire a brand new commander and chief if you hang on long enough or convince this administration this is a war being waged against us. not just in syria and iraq. but globally. it is a global war and it needs to be prosecuted as such. if you do that then this. >> prosecute as a war not prosecute in court? >> exactly. unfortunately neither of those options are likely until we do hire a commander and a chief. >> we have historically like with bin laden put a big poundy on his head but then we have got a situation where we have got the one man who helped us get bin laden, dr. afridi, we have totally aabandoned him. is he now sitting in a pakistani prison. we left him behind. >> for 30 years. >> for 30 years. so we can forget trying to get a lot of help. >> here is what ought to be done. it's not just all military. we don't need to put the first marine division and 82nd airborne division back in the ground inside iraq or inside syria. number one stop bashing israel. okay? finance a pol

more charges may fall if police come from her story bashir arrived on a flight from minneapolis with but a ticket or boarding pass. >> catherine: >> catherine: @ jacksonville airport, she boarded a bus for the upscale army resources saying she was a participant in the hotel's biggest loser promotion. she was giving a room, by the time the real test showed up she had vanished. hartmann was discovered yesterday morning in another run on the door and renovation. the officer who rested tercet sheet that he told her he was curious to rick--hard man was discovered yesterday morning and another run on the plant renovation. the officer corporate the tercets he told her he was curious. >> just wondering how you done this before and she just would not tell me. >> catherine: the first town and learn about hartman was when your ago. add s f o she sneaked into a hawaii bound jet and was apprehended only after the passenger who see she was in reporter. the fact is we do not have good security you do have to have a boarding pass to get into the security line and how did she manage to do that? we do

shawn daivari is known in the professional wrestling world as sheik abdul bashir. >> the character i played on all the shows has always been like the top villain. >> on this day, the villain is the hero. >> if you've seen the footage, i have to go up to grab him. i couldn't grab around his neck. i kind of do a little jump. fortunately i was strong enough to be able to pull him down. fighting uphill always sucks. i knew i couldn't out-muscle him. so like i had to choke him out so once he started fighting me off, he was trying to hold himself up, his body started to lighten up and i grabbed him in a body scissor. there are a lot of ways to get out of it, or counter it. fortunately, he didn't know any so it worked out best for everybody. >> and just like that, the menacing passenger is down for the count. >> once he was out, like, i didn't know what my next step was. i mean, it's not something you hold on forever, i don't want to like kill the guy. it's also something if you let go of him, he's going to be back on his feet in 45 seconds. the train just happened to hit a stop and the doo

thisiddy assy of cooperating with the iranians and quote taking isil first of which bashir assad is nonsense and immoral. the committee will return at 2:45 since there is a vote at 2:30. and members who seek a second round or those >> the use of military force against isis is something the white house is currently considering. house speaker john boehner said he expected the president to seek congressional authorization soon. he told reporters that congress would go through a "rigorous set of hearings to discuss the issue." another terrorist organization is just going to pop up anyway. let them make their noise and ignore it. all they want to see is is getting scared of them. john writes, how are we supposed to balance the budget while paying for these in the source? i thought republicans were supposed to be concerned about government spending. rick it military actions include providing arms, then make sure those weapons are seized and used against us. error countries need to get involved in this conflict. garrett writes, we don't have a choice, they must be stopped. >> we will hear from hous

what about martin bashir?oduced a segment that said he hoped somebody would defecate in sarah palin's mouth? he was never fired for what he did. this is the face of msnbc and nbc. now another bigger problem not just their bias but honesty. now you have their lead anchor who we found out has been a serial liar on a number of fronts who apologized and added a falsehood to the apology. the apology didn't go anywhere and i'm telling you right now, this weird six month suspension is going to go nowhere. there is more going on behind the scenes that we don't know. stuart: do you think -- i believe there is a leftist bias at nbc and elsewhere, but at nbc i think there is. the series of embarrassments and you pointed out, it is a long, long list do you think it will change that bias? will they rein themselves in at all? >> no, because the, you know, the inmates control the asylum at nbc. these left-wingers are in control and comcast, that owns nbc has demonstrated a complete unwillingness to show any kind of corporate

richer to get them here fifth the come here and they found herself on this town a condom in the house bashir there to hear how he back feared she dropped him off >>mark: this was an interview with the father of you to watch its entirety will have a post on our website at kron 4 death, >>erica: good morning lots of sunshine as to take a live look at walnut creek this is looking down interstate 680 corridor we have been fall from virtually all morning long and temperatures have not been to assess the effects of the sunshine for getting an early star without warning for filled in 4347 out the door and oakland very mild conditions downtown san francisco at 54 degrees and 45 ride down san jose from the '60s even seven is is yet to lead on today but is on the start of a warming trend public hearings into the weekend record highs mid-70s definitely a possibility in nevada and a forecast come of in 15 minutes. >>george: web number of problems this morning and major delays persist in the south bay there was an accident here at the 28017 interchange is acid been there for awhile a load of wood was are

the government of bashir al-assad initiated a plan to crush. he issued chemical weapons and weapons of mass distraction to kill his own people. they have been involved in widespread killing, including children as well as hospital patients, arbitrary arrests, and imprisonment. indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas. systematic destruction of property and looting. systematic denial of food and water and prevention of medical treatment. so depraved has the assad regime been it is reported to have indiscriminately shelled with artillery rounds. a british volunteer surgeon reported victims of government snipers would display wounds on particular days indicating they may have been targeted in a gruesome game. the syrian government came to view doctors and nurses as corroborate her's. early in the conflict the assad regime imprisoned hundreds of health workers and tortured many of them to death. others just disappeared. government forces arranged the universal principle of medical neutrality. the government is not the only violator of human rights

as you know, my name is steve bashir, i am the governor of the commonwealth of kentucky.'m a proud democrat. [applause] i am also here to tell you that the democratic party has lost its way. you know, we have always been the party of the people, by the people, and for the people. i purposely use the words of the very first republican president of the united states, a great kentuckian, abraham lincoln. if you were with us here today he would be so disappointed and what his party has become that he would be reregistering as a democrat. [applause] you know democrats have always been the party that believed deep this in, and fought hardest to protect the economic and political well-being of all americans. thanks to our efforts, the dream of a better life has been both visible and reachable. for workers, families, on to be newest, new arrivals, no matter what their economic background, no matter how humble their origins. unfortunately, the last few decades had given birth to a dangerous and ugly trend in america. we now live in an era in which the privileged few are grabbing a

thisiddy assy of cooperating with the iranians and quote taking isil first of which bashir assad is nonsense and immoral. the committee will return at 2:45 since there is a vote at 2:30. and members who seek a second round or those members who have not asked questions will be allowed to at that time. so we'll stand in recess until 2:45. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> i don't know. the level of dialogue about it is just hitting a stride after the state of the union. thank you. >> yes. >> hi. yes. >> ok. >> good to see you. back in. the witness -- the nominee ashton carter back at the table and the hearing getting underway live here at c-span3. >> as usual with the efficiency of this well-oild machine we have a vote now starting now. so we will be going back and forth. and senator king is here, and so i'd like to recognize him at this time. senator king. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. carter i am going to revisit a lit

so it's not the anti-semitism that we knew in france in the bashir regime and in the 20th century. it is a different one. the reach unfortunately is the same but the origin is different. he is very popular in some segments of the french society that's true. and so the more you -- the more he's persecuted, the more popular he is, yeah, in those segments. . >> other audience questions? >> can i just ask for the two journalists, in deciding to publish after the murders, how much was your own newspaper's security and fear an ingredient? how much did you say, well are we putting our employees and others in harm's way by inviting a violent act against us? >> we didn't take this into account. no. we had a discussion. we had a debate, including in the newsroom among editors and also in the newsroom. but that was not really a factor factor. as the people who went to the january 11th rally didn't take into account the fact that there might be more attacks. this was something we thought we should do. >> it was a major factor. danny pearl was my colleague. so we thought long and hard about it.

popular mobilization units who are gathering and building for a major operation south of kirkuk at bashir. i will talk about the progress of the war against isis. we'll do that in other forums in other days through our written products. what i will say to reiterate, i believe the war against isil in iraq initially is highly winnable and in fact slowly slowly we're on that trajectory now. for many people the velocity will not be fast enough but the vector the direction is in that in that direction towards cutting them down to the stage that they are a serious insurgent and terrorist movement. unfortunately today's best-case scenario were 2013's worst-case scenario. the goalposts have shifted dramatically over the past few years. what we're hoping in the next year or so we can cut isis down until it is our worst nightmare from 2013, we start again and start working our way to cut them down to where they were in 2009 when the security operations were at their most effective probably. and then finally bet them down below that to the hopes we had in 2009. what i will talk about today more is w

and iran operates light water reactors at bashir and they pose left of a risk for the potential of civilian power production than other types of reactors that are prohibited by the u.n. security council so what they are doing now is not, in fact, a violation. and we've been clear in making -- in defining that the purpose of the negotiations we're in now with iran is to ensure that their nuclear program is exclusively for civilian purposes. that is the key here. they could have a civilian peaceful program so when you get into the number of centrifuges and this and that, if you have a civilian power plant and producing power legitimately and not a threat to proliferation, you could have 190,000 or more centrifuges and if they are power plants producing power. so the key here is is this a peaceful program and are the measures in place capable of making sure you know it is peaceful. that is the standard we're trying to apply. >> we go now to judge ted pope of texas. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you mr. secretary for being here. starting with isis. i think it is important that we define

we hear bashir al-assad is speaking out. what is he saying? >> reporter: that's right.st. the king of jordan has been putting together a growing alliance of nations, making a televised address to leaders and calling on them to help them fight terrorism. as you mentioned, the united arab emirates announcing now this morning that they have bombed isis targets with f-16s and they say all of those fighter jets are back safely. and then amid all that amid that if you like growing alliance growing push against isis you have this interview with president assad of syria with the bbc. one crucial remark that we made that is getting a lot of attention is about whether or not the syrian regime is in contact with the alliance. and let me just read you what he says because it's pretty important. he said in this interview, there is no direct cooperation through a third party more than one party, iraq and other countries, sometimes they convey messages general message, but there's nothing tactical. so effectively, rather carefully, confirming that there is some kind of communication b

thisiddy assy of cooperating with the iranians and quote taking isil first of which bashir assad is nonsense and immoral. the committee will return at 2:45 since there is a vote at 2:30. and members who seek a second round or those members who have not asked questions will be allowed to at that time. so we'll stand in recess until 2:45. thank you. >>> ashton carter who served in the obama administration from 2011 to 2013, nominated by the president to serve at the next secretary of defense, replacing chuck hagel who is stepping down. he also served in the bill clinton administration. the senate armed service committee taking a break for a series of vote in the senate and recess and back at about 2:45 eastern we think and we'll have live coverage here on cspan3 when they reconvene. and we'll re-air all of today's testimony at 8:00 on cspan coming up tonight. and this would be the fourth secretary of defense in the obama administration, replacing chuck hagel who is stepping down. in a minute we'll show you some of the hearing so far today. we've been asking throughout the day your thoughts on