evidence of sleeper cells still operating here in the u.s. >>> joining me now, former senator, bob grahame committee and led the congressional investigation of the 9/11 attacks. senator graham, welcome. i'm glad to have you here to talk about this. let's talk about congressman walter jones. we have steven lynch and thomas mass massey, holding a press conference with 9/11 victims' families where they announced this resolution calling for the pages to be declassified. and you wrote that report. what can you tell us about what's in these 28 pages? >> well, alex, because this document has been classified since 2003, there isn't a lot i can say. but other than my judgment and in the judgment of the other people who were involved in writing this report, there is nothing here that is a threat to u.s. national security. there may be things that would be embarrassing to various intelligence agencies, because they indicated a failure to conduct a thorough investigation. i believe that it's important that this information be available to the american people. because there are american citizens who a

spoke to bob graham and asked him about how part of the 9/11 commission report remains redacted. >> theppressed pages were in the congressional joint inquiry. throughoutigently 2002 to gather as much of the information as we could and to make recommendations. report.n 800-plus page one chapter of which related primarily to the role of the saudi's in 9/11 was totally censured. every word of that chapter has been denied to the american people. >> what about that, patrick cockburn? bond are bush says he was called a saudi ambassador to the united states, sitting out on the truman balcony with resident bush the day after the 9/11 attacks. 15 of the 19 hijackers were from saudi arabia. and then bondr bush, being one behind ther forces forces, the rebel forces in syria? yes, it is amazing. it has had unfortunate consequence by not going after the very obvious roots of al qaeda in saudi arabia. in terms of money and political support. this has enabled al qaeda to grow again. al qaeda, i worked on the map, now controls an area in northern syria in northern iraq which is about the size of great

among them, gwynn graham, challenging sunderland, daughter of bob graham.w romanov, a thorn in the side of democrats. this time, though, the party has gotten behind the house bid. and madison county judge ann cow stepped down from the bench. she has to get out of a democratic primary first that takes place in a couple of weeks. and new york's 11th, one of three new york districts on the list. recchia is hoping he can unseat grimm after a string of controversies, vowing to conduct himself more honorably in washington than grimm. they've identified four emerging races in four emerging districts where campaigns are trying to put longer seats in play. dewitt, running arkansas 4th district for the seat held by tom cotton, challenging mark pryor, and in virginia's 2nd, retired naval officer suzanne patrick is taking on scott ridgel, the second district is one that just come up inches away, and steve israel of new york joins me now. congressman, good morning to you, sir. >> thank you for having me on. >> well, i have to say it is hard not to look at your release t

i think bob graham, were we to consider increasing our presence -- i think baghram, were we to consider increasing our presence, would be key. >> my concern, and i met with senator john campbell last week concerning the reposition of the army as the budget was put forward. my concern is with the national guard. the guard is very crucial to all of our states. it is not the guard we knew growing up. i filled the guard can be used in a much more cost efficient matter. >> both of the recommended reductions, although the recommendations we made were definitely less than the act of duty. start with this. the importance, the relevance of the guard and reserve continue. there is no question about that. especially the accomplishments and what they have achieved over the last their teen years. as you noted, the guard today is a different guard. we don't want to lose that. absolutely. their mission is different from active duty. it goes back to the question senator reid asked me about balance. we have tried to balance this with all the forces. what are we going to need? how are we going to merge a

. >> my name is bob graham. i served as the chair of the institute of medicine sports related concussions and youth study. you have my testimony before you and copies of the study. i will take these minutes to give you a summary. the institute of medicine is part of the national academy of sciences, chartered by congress to provide advice to congress and the executive on various scientific issues. we were specifically impaneled to look at the evidence about the causes and consequences of concussion in youth and military, the state of concussion diagnosis and management, the role of protective equipment, and sports regulation. we had 17 members on our committee. we worked in 2013. dr. molfese was a member of the committee. we came with six recommendations. the first was the cdc needed to establish a better mechanism for national surveillance to comprehensively capture the incidence of concussions. you heard a number of figures in one sport or another. we know where they are measured. we do not know the incidences

i think bob graham, were we to consider increasing our presence were we toaghram, increasing our presence, would be key. >> my concern, and i met with senator john campbell last week theerning the reposition of army as the budget was put forward. my concern is with the national guard. the guard is very crucial to all of our states. knew not the guard we growing up. i filled the guard can be used in a much more cost efficient matter. recommended of them . -- reduction. >> both of them recommended reductions, although the recommendations we made were definitely less than the act of duty. start with this. the importance, the relevance of the guard and reserve continue. there is no question about that. accomplishments and what they have achieved over the last their teen years. noted, the guard today is a different guard. we don't want to lose that. absolutely. their mission is different from active duty. it goes back to the question senator reid asked me about balance. we have tried to balance this with all the forces. need?re we going to how are we going to merge all of our forces together,

. >> my name is bob graham. served as the chair of the institute of medicine sports related concussions and youth study. you have my testimony before you and copies of the study. i will take these minutes to give you a summary. the institute of medicine is part of the national academy of sciences, chartered by congress to provide advice to congress and the executive on various scientific issues. we were specifically impaneled to look at the evidence about the causes and consequences of concussion in youth and military, the state of concussion diagnosis and management, the role of protective equipment, and sports regulation. we had 17 members on our committee. we worked in 2013. dr. molfese was a member of the committee. we came with six recommendations. the first was the cdc needed to establish a better mechanism for national surveillance to comprehensively capture the incidence of concussions. you heard a number of figures in one sport or another. we know where they are measured. we do not know the incidences i

these are reforms support bid bob corker and john mccain and lindsey graham as well as some of the democratst was pretty broad bipartisan support. whether that -- what we shouldn't do is preclude this aid package from going forward. if it's decided to be dropped and dealt with another day, so be it. meantime we've got to recognize we've got a new pro western regime in the ukraine. we ought to do all we can to withstand aggression out of russia. i have two points, both bipartisan, that i hope get include. one is we're going to be able to weaken putin's aggression, we've got to be able to decouple europe's dependence on russian gas and oil. along with republican senator from north dakota i've said, hey, administration, lets speed up the processing of more of these natural gas exporting permits. the administration granted six. there's another 20 pending. they ought to get off the dime and over the next 60 days tell us. >> what's the second point you want to make sure is included. >> the second point is ukraine we're going to give them aid. one thing we ought to recognize is the previous governm

made them fearful since bob bennett lost his senate seat. >> they are not stupid. lindsey graham is as smart as ever. >> because they have seen one too many of their colleagues go down. >> to make your point, this week in texas, john cornyn, who had no real opponents had 41% of the primary voters vote against him. it's scary. >> it is scary. that's why i agree with dana. i think we are all here in agreement. the republican party, it's not that the republican party co-opted the tea party, the tea party movement -- it is the future now. >> they must think of the future, a terrible phrase. cpac wasn't ted cruz's only stop. a group further to the right set up their own shadow conference dubbed, the uninvited. steve king, the cantaloupe guy of iowa. he says immigrants have cabs as big as cantaloupe. they are carrying 150 pounds full of marijuana. gomer of texas, mo brooks of alabama who said this on the topic of undocuments immigrants. i will do anything short of shooting them. that's kind. franks referred to president obama as an enemy of humanity and jim bridenstine refused to atten

graham trying to join the crazy. with ted cruz pushing his way through the right wing crowd, calling people like bob dole and john mccain names all the way, anything to get to the hard right frontier where to lead the country he intends to plant his flag. dana milbank is a columnist for "the washington post." and jonathan capehart is an opinion writer, also with "the washington post" and an msnbc contributor. gentlemen, this was something. this week went really far right. >> it's always a bit of a circus at cpac when they come to town. and of course everybody is under pressure on the right to provide all the red meat. but this did go further. this is the time when you had ted cruz not just speaking to cpac, but speaking to the uninvited. >> further right. >> people who were too far right to be invited this. you had the spectacle of cpac not inviting the leading republican in the land, the speaker of the house, not eligible there. you had republican candidates in turn snubbing cpac -- >> is this the republican party of 2014? people working here, i've been talking with people today, they say you could argue this is the re

>> well, i called bob gates yesterday because i was troubled by the level of intense criticism of the president from senator mccain and senator grahammiddle of what probably is the biggest foreign policy crisis of obama's presidency. i wanted to reach out to somebody who's sort of both republican and democratic administrations, bob gates has been secretary of defense in both, and can him what he thought. and not to my surprise because gates really is at the end of the day a pretty balanced, level-headed person. he said this is a time with which criticism that we've heard from mccain and graham troubles him. he said it shouldn't be speaking with one american voice in a time of crisis these days seems like a quaint idea. >> yeah. >> he said, i find that truly discouraging, and i share that feeling. i thought gates expressed it well and, you know, he's a pretty good person to say that. >> michael, you know as david is saying, obviously you've got mccain and lindsey graham. it wasn't just them. mitch mcconnell and john boehner jumped in. it's an overwhelming throwing stones. give you a chance to say, look, is anyone going to listen to r

graham trying to join the crazy. with ted cruz pushing his way through the right wing crowd, calling people like bob dole and john mccain names all the way, anything to get to the hard right frontier where to lead the country he intends to plant his flag. dana milbank is a columnist for "the washington post." and jonathan capehart is an opinion writer, also with "the washington post" and an msnbc contributor. gentlemen, this was something. this week went really far right. >> it's always a bit of a circus at cpac when they come to town. and of course everybody is under pressure on the right to provide all the red meat. but this did go further. this is the time when you had ted cruz not just speaking to cpac, but speaking to the uninvited. >> further right. >> people who were too far right to be invited this. you had the spectacle of cpac not inviting the leading republican in the land, the speaker of the house, not eligible there. you had republican candidates in turn snubbing cpac -- >> is this the republican party of 2014? people working here, i've been talking with people today, they say you could argue this is the re

one of the most respected people that senator graham and senator ayotte and i had to deal with over the years was bobgates. mr. gates served this country in a variety of posts, the latest, of course, being as outstanding secretary of defense. this morning in "the wall street journal" he wrote a piece called putin's challenge to the west. i'm not going to read the whole thing. madam president, i ask unanimous consent that it be included in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: but this is really important for all of our colleagues and the american people to know. and they don't have to take senator graham's and my word for it. already we're accused of being partisan, politics stops at the water's edge, all of that baloney when they can't rebut the message, they shoot the messengers. this is secretary of defense gates. quote -- "so far, however, the western response has been anemic. mr. putin has little influence by seizure of personal assets of his cronies or the oligarchs or restrictions on their travel. unilateral u.s. sanctions save on russian banks will be effective abs

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