bragg can't wait to meet the troops. the book is dedicated to patriots who serve our country and have served in the past. a grit event. >> i heard on the radio that the -- since you are doing the army visit today, employment for people returning home from the war is at 15%. >> an -- that's atrocious, huge numbers. not just military returning home, they deserve the employment opportunity more so than anybody else. making sacrifices, putting careers and education opportunities on hold so they can serve something greater than self. to be essentially punished by this lacking economy right now by not seeing job opportunities upon their return is unacceptable. job opportunities are gonna be created when our federal government will quit taxing those who are creating the jobs. not quit taxes but reduce taxes and start incentivizeing small businesses so this economy can become more robust jobs created not government creating, private sector and our troops are going to be able to come home and cap advertisize on some of the great

bragg can't wait to meet the troops. the book is dedicated to patriots who serve our country and have served in the past. a grit event. >> i heard on the radio that the -- since you are doing the army visit today, employment for people returning home from the war is at 15%. >> an -- that's atrocious, huge numbers. not just military returning home, they deserve the employment opportunity more so than anybody else. making sacrifices, putting careers and education opportunities on hold so they can serve something greater than self. to be essentially punished by this lacking economy right now by not seeing job opportunities upon their return is unacceptable. job opportunities are gonna be created when our federal government will quit taxing those who are creating the jobs. not quit taxes but reduce taxes and start incentivizeing small businesses so this economy can become more robust jobs created not government creating, private sector and our troops are going to be able to come home and cap advertisize on some of the great

goes after those heinous murders at fort bragg and 95, general king testified issued this pamphlet that are quite directed towards other racial extremism and specifically detail some of the key indicators to look for in white supremacy, which i thought was exactly the right thing to do. of course. and the question now is do you think they should issue a similar type of pamphlet with the same kinds of recommendations to address the threat of violent islamist extremism, because that's the reality. do you want to respond to that? >> only that i think you make a good point. >> okay, thank you very >> good to see you again, senator. in my opening statement i talk about violence. and i made the point that somehow vindicated that we did not address the kind of violence that you are speaking to, radical islamic fundamentalist untracked fundamentalism and the behavior that goes with that. and the point that i make is yes we did. because secretary gates wrote to us in terms of reference that talked about violence in the workplace and the people, including people hurting themselves, we decided to

he happened to have been the command down there in fort bragg and i was commander of the second fleet and we were friends and worked down there then. >> i -- to build upon my response to senator i am going to give you vern's view here. we talk a lot about how do we shape this and if we shape this as -- and the report was full of reference to radical islamic fundamentalistic activity and behavior. some people would have read it one that it was going to be all about that. -- you know that was. going to be all about that. the secretary of defense clearly gave us another task. he gave us the task to deal with violence in the workplace across the board. and because he did, we made the decision that we were going to handle it the way we have presented it. but when questioned about it -- we frankly, senator, didn't know how people were going to be able to misread the reference to self-radicalization. we thought that was going to be pretty clear. maybe it wasn't clear enough. our focus then, and one of our primary recommendation is the guidance on these behaviors is inadequate. and the way yo

goes after those heinous murders at fort bragg and 95, general king testified issued this pamphlet that are quite directed towards other racial extremism and specifically detail some of the key indicators to look for in white supremacy, which i thought was exactly the right thing to do. of course. and the question now is do you think they should issue a similar type of pamphlet with the same kinds of of course the -- do you want to respond to that? >> only that i think you make a good point. >> ok. admiral, please. >> good to see you again, senator. in my opening statement, i talked about violence. and i made the point that some have indicated that we did not address the kind of violence that you're speaking to. radical islamic fundamentalism. the behavior that goes with that. i made the point, yes we did. because secretary gates wrote us a set, a terms of reference that talked about violence if the workplace and the people, including people hurting themselves, we decided to go after it in that way. the people, including people hurting themselves, we decided to go after it in that way.

they left fort bragg, north carolina today.heir main task is to prepare for the arrival friday of more than 800 other u.s. military personnel. and thousands of additional u.s. troops are expected to head to haiti in the coming days. at the same time, the president warned a relief effort of this magnitude will not happen all at once. >> even as we move as quickly as possible, it will take hours, and in many cases days, to get all of our people and resources on the ground. >> reporter: underscoring the u.s. commitment, secretary of state hillary clinton cut short her trip to asia to return to washington. but she acknowledged huge logistical hurdles facing the relief mission. >> when you're on the ground and see the roads that are totally impassible, an airport that was knocked out of commission, no air traffic control, trying to piece together the step-by-step patient work that is necessary to minimize the loss of both life and to try to get people back into some semblance of normalcy is just very hard. >> reporter: some civilian

down in haiti, general allan was the deputy commanding general for the 18th airborne corps in fort braggd the opening, as you like to make? >> thanks a lot and good morning ladies and gentlemen and banks for the opportunity to join you today and update you on efforts under way by the international community here in haiti. i know you join me in extending our condolences to the haitian people. our hearts and our prayers continue to be with the haitian citizens during this tragic time. all of us in haiti and across the globe, partner in this recovery effort, share the common passion and commitment to do all we can to help the government of haiti and the haitian people recover from this tragedy. we are employing all their resources as fast as we can and we continue to make progress here everyday. we do not underestimate the scope of the challenge in front of us. we are here at the request of the government of haiti and we are working in partnership with the united nations and the international community. we enjoyed incredible team work and support with and for all contributing parties and th

caller: first of all, i have seen you lecture at fort bragg before the house arms committee. i agree with everything you have said in each form. my question to you, when is the intelligence community going to start coordinating with each other? i was a former counter-terrorism intelligence officer until six weeks ago. i was arrested on september 14, 2009, because i was provided a user name and password to individual in the intelligence community not widely known in the united states. to make it simple, i dreaded of the judicial branch's monitoring of this individual -- treaded on the judicial branch's monitoring of this individual. when is the nsa billing to coordinate with the judicial branch, i.e. fbi? guest: i do not know what the answer is to that. i know that unfortunately the intelligence reform bills pushed through the congress, very few congressmen actually read it. it expanded the intelligence community from 16 units to 18 units. as a result it has created a greater bureaucracy. we still have computer systems that are not shared across the system. i am told that we s

staff sergeant robert was deployed to baghdad with the 82nd airborne division out of fort bragg when a massive explosion destroyed his humvee and he was the sole survivor and suffered terrible burns over more than one-third of his body. welcome back at fort bragg his wife, connie, have to leave their three kids with family and she made the trip to a hospital in texas to care for her husband. so day after day and month after month connie stayed by his bedside and she fed him and tended to his wounds, helped him through dozens of painful surgery's, and that is one story, part of the story because back at home their oldest daughter, brittany, helped to hold the family together and overnight she went from being a 15 year old teenager to imam to become a mother for her younger brother and sister. she had to get her driver's license early so she could run errands and do the shopping. she made the meals. she did the laundry. she help with homework. yes, a 15 year old. and i might, her younger siblings would call in to break me's bid and seek the security they would get from their mother. so

i went to fort bragg, north carolina to watch their training and saw how arduous it was. we took horrific losses in afghanistan, 18 killed in action, 39 critically wounded. these are the best of the best, and i do want to knowledge the leader of our national guard in afghanistan who is with us here today, and he is a man that i think very highly of. it is brigadier general steven huber, deputy commander of the military army national guard. he served in our state as the commander of the combined joint taskforce phoenix, an illinois national guard-led taskforce, comprised of thousands of troops including more than 3000 from the state of illinois. general huber, i met general huber in kabul, afghanistan, and i saw his leadership and i saw the leadership up -- the men and women under his command. they are not all young. some of their romp -- are almost as old as me. they go to a very full board in place -- they go to a very foreboding place at the gates of hell, confronting al qaeda and the taliban in the mountains of afghanistan and never complained. it was inspiring to be t

>> there has been one, it's a brigade up at fort bragg.but the specific of what we're going to need and how we're going to need it and the evolving situation, i don't have a specific on that right now because we don't understand what the situation is on the ground. we don't understand where the capacity of the haitian government is, men sumbings ta. we're just putting and giving ourselves options for the future system of that will evolve. >> the haitian government said on cnn a short time again that the death toll may be in the hundred os thousands. do you have an an initial sense from folks on the ground if that appears to be in the ballpark of what you think the death toll will be? >> i have no good sense. you've heard reports of collapsed buildings, but there's been limited communications, there haven't been assessment teams out there a lot of organizations are focused on recovering their own people and families. we don't have a good sense of what that equates to right now. i think there will be significant loss of life, though, but i c

i remember visiting the soldiers and their families at fort bragg, one of my first its with charlene austin. we were just talking about that. she hosted me for my first visit. and there i saw firsthand the toll that these wars have taken on these soldiers who have carried so much of the burden of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. i will never forget the families that the president and i met at fort hood after suffering such a horrible tragedy, they showed us incredible strength. the strength that binds army families together. i remember the sailors and their families at norfolk and what a thrill it was for me to share their excitement as we welcomed home the crew of the aircraft carrier the u.s.s. eisenhower and the hospital ship, comfort. they were coming back from treating patients and delivering health care and humanitarian assistance across the americas, including haiti. and as we all know only after a few short months at home the comfort is back in haiti along with many other branches of our military delivering aid with their civilian cornlte parts. helping the -- counterparts.

i remember visiting the soldiers and their families at fort bragg, one of my first visits with charlenetin. we were just talking about that. she hosted me for my first visits. and there i saw firsthand the toll that these wars have taken on the soldiers who have carried so much of the burden of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. i will never forget the families that the president and i met at fort heard after suffering such a horrible tragedy. they showed us incredible strength, the strength that binds army families together. i remember the sailors and their families and/or folk and what a thrill it was to share their excitement as we welcome home the crew of the aircraft carrier, the uss eisenhower and the hospital ship comfort. they were coming back from treating patients in delivering health care and humanitarian assistance across the americas, including haiti. and as we all know, only after a few short months at home, the comfort is back in haiti, along with many other branches of our military, delivering aid with their civilian counterparts, helping haitian people and all the while,

army at fort bragg where jason was stationed. his bravery was without question.d his valor beyond measure. it is because of the sacrifices that our nation's brave soldiers like specialist johnson make each and every day in regions far across the globe that keep americans sleeping safely at night. specialist johnson was one of the nation's finest soldiers. as his family said last week, he was a hometown hero who died serving the country he loved. he will be missed. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this past week the city of memphis and the world lost a great musical producer, a musical icon, willie mitchell. willie mitchell was laid to rest today in memphis, tennessee. he produced a sound that included bill johnson and anne peebles but his most famous find was al green. great horn player and a great musician, willie mitchell was in texas and al green was on the bill. he told al gr

caller: first of all, i have seen you lecture at fort bragg before the house arms committee. agree with everything you have said in each form. my question to you, when is the intelligence community going to start coordinating with each other? i was a former counter-terrorism intelligence officer until six weeks ago. i was arrested on september 14, 2009, because i was provided a user name and password to individual in the intelligence community not widely known in the united states. to make it simple, i dreaded of the judicial branch's monitoring of this individual -- treaded on the judicial branch's monitoring of this individual. when is the nsa billing to coordinate with the judicial branch, i.e. fbi? guest: i do not know what the answer is to that. i know that unfortunately the intelligence reform bills pushed through the congress, very few congressmen actually read it. it expanded the intelligence community from 16 units to 18 units. as a result it has created a greater bureaucracy. we still have computer systems that are not shared across the system. i am told that we som

as a feature educator and someone who hails from fort bragg, what specifically is being done with these families facing deployment as it pertains to education? >> part of the gi bill which was initiated out of the pentagon and supported by the president is to put in legislation, the ability to transfer benefits to spouses and independent children. that is the first time that had ever been done. that is a significant step. secondly, several organizations, including the pentagon have worked to make it easier for dependents who move from one state to another to transfer into those school systems without going through a horrendous amount of work and red tape in order to get thirdly, states would give, and there have been many of them in recent years, that did in-state tuition to individuals who get transferred to focus on that aspect of education paren. there are programs focused on spouse education that each service has. how can we emphasize that and approved that? the foundation for a bright future is most often and education. -- and education. -- an education. it was dramatically differe

as a feature educator and somebody who hails from fort bragg and is seen the stress of these families what specifically is being done for these families facing deployment as it pertains to education? >> part of, talk about a couple things, part of the gi bill, and this was initiated out of the pentagon and supported by the president, is to put in legislation the ability to transfer of benefits that are of the gi bill to spouses and dependent children. that is the first time that had ever been done. that is a significant step. several organizations, including the pentagon, that work to make it easier for dependents who move from one state to another to transfer into those school systems without going through a horrendous amount of work and red tape in order to get in. thirdly, states which give, and there have been many of them in recent years, that give in state tuition to individuals who get transferred, members to get transferred, to focus on that aspect of education. there are programs focused on specification. that each service has. how can we emphasize that and improve that? it g

yet general braxton bragg who would do now and the tyrant and his wartime orders as a witness at hisecond wedding. when he reached out to the south, we're talking the white south. that it did reflect a sincere taking him on his own terms the sincere patriotism that he wanted to kind of show that northern men fought for the union, wanted to restore the union "after words." so that's why he very much wanted to endowed university in the south. >> what would vanderbilt say to obama right now about what's going on with our financial system, with our economy? what would his advice be? >> well, you would wonder first toy black man became president. i think i would've found him. i think we're probably -- should we make this the last question? so this is the sort of question historians hate because, you know, frankly anyone if you could make an announcement on this and it would be accurate as anyone could say. it is underlay unprovable. there are two counterbalanced inside sudan. one, he believed in was a fair which had been a radical philosophy but also neatly suited him when he was a corpor

when it comes to braggs and the broadcast airways, they have always been a public option to make suresterday. >> dr. johnson, i raised the about the amateur radio broadcast service. mr. roz and i are the two licensed operate operators which gives us an opportunity to be real hams. when you look at this, which are you concerned about and what threats and value do you see in that spectrum? >> i won't be able to give you a full detailed answer because i have not looked at that particular issue and n detail. i would support however, i also am a ham radio operator. i would suggest however your thesis that the ham bands have been an important back-up system for the nation's security and i think they are also a valuable resource for citizen who is have an interest in that kind of technology. although there are other avenues to address those same issues now outside the ham bands i think they are still important and we would be happy to look into the technical details. >> mr. hatfield? do you have any comment? tell me you're a ham radio operator. >> i think my license expired. i got into this

assuming this position in haiti, he was the deputy commanding general for the 18th airborne at fort bragg. and the opening comments you would like to make? >> good morning. ladies and gentlemen. thank you for the opportunity to join your today and update you on efforts under way by the international community here in haiti. i know you join me in extending our condolences to the haitian people. our hearts and prayers continue to be with haiti citizens during this tragic time. all of us here in haiti and across the globe partnered in this recovery effort been share and on, and -- sharon on common passion and commitment to do everything we can to help the haitian people recover from this tragedy. we are employing all of our resources as fast as we can and we continue to make progress every day. we cannot underestimate the scope of the challenge in front of us. we are here at the request of the government of haiti and we are barking in partnership with the international community and the united nations. we enjoyed incredible team work and support with and for all contributing parties and the

. >> caller: yes, first of all, i attended your lecture at fort bragg and the intelligence. i agree with everything that you have said in both of those forums. my question for you is when is the intelligence community going to start coordinating with each other? i myself was a former counterterrorism intelligence officer up until about six weeks ago. i was arrested on september the 14th of 2009 because i was provided a username and a password to an individual that's not widely known within the states. but it is within the intelligence community. and i guess, to make it quite simple, i threaded on the judicial branches monitoring of this individual. so when the is cia and the nsa and the dia going to coordinate with the judicial branch, i.e. fbi. >> you know, i don't know what the answer is to that. i know that unfortunately, the intelligence reform bill that was pushed through the congress with very few congressman reading it apparently was expanded the intelligence community from 16 to 18 units. and as a result, it has created a greater bureaucracy. we still have computer s

it is a brigade in fort bragg. specifics of what we are going to need and how we are going to need it and the evolving situation, i don't have a specific on that right now because we don't understand what the situation is on the ground. we don't understand where the capacity of the haitian government is. we are just putting and giving ourselves options for the future. so that will evolve. >> yes, sir. >> the haitian government said on cnn a short time ago that the death toll may be in the hundreds of thousands. the you have an initial sense if that appears to be in the ballpark of what you think that all will be? >> i have no good sense to be able to tell you. you have heard reports of collapsed buildings, but there has been very limited communications. there has not really been an assessment teams that have been out there. a lot of the organizations are just focused on recovery their own people. so we don't have a good sense of what that equates to right now. i think it will be significant loss of life. i can tell