brenner? >> we are talking of something that happened many years ago. >> you can't recall it sounds like? >> i don't recall whether there was a letter or whether there was a phone call. but i know that it was reviewed by the personnel office. all of these retention -- >> no. you had an obligation to do due diligence. did you talk to the prospective employer? you have to be able to recall that spent 20 some years ago so i don't member whether either talked to the employer or had received a letter, but i know that without one of those two things being in place, there was no way i could -- it could've been approved. >> let me ask you about the $8000 discount you receive. did you disclose that on your financial disclosure statement? >> i did. >> you did? is that an amount that is legal to actually receive? >> on my -- >> is in its -- >> on my 2011 disclosure statement. as i said -- >> was that after the fact? was that after it was recorded? >> that was when it was reviewed. and as i said, it was r

mike brenner will join us to talk about how the fiscal limbo is making it impossible to get his dream off the ground. lauren simonetti is on the loor of the new york stock exchange. >> this is an excellent day on wall street. the nasdaq is up a solid 2%. it is a winning day here. the level is 16.67.

mike brenner is the founder and master brewer at brenner brewing and he is here to tell us why the governmentnting his brew company from actually getting off the ground. thank you for joining us. you've got what, $750,000 already invested in opening a craft brewery, correct? >> yeah. just over a million actually. >> just over a million dollars. you're getting ready to bring your product to market. i know it is successful because people used to gather at your art gallery to get free beer and you realized switch it, charge them for the beer and let them see the art. what's the holdup? is it some kind of taxing, the ttb, alcohol tax trade bureau, tobacco tax and trade bureau? >> yeah. part of the problem is so many craft breweries are open in america right now. this trend just exploded. there is this incredible backlog of all these breweries trying to get their doors open and get the businesses started. so on top of that you have the government shutdown and it slows everything to a crawl. now it is just completely stops progress. adam: right. in fact there was a 75-day backlog when they were up

mike brenner is founder and master brewer at brenner brewing company. welcome, mike.now, one thing that just shocked me in reading notes here, is that, 419 breweries opened across america last year and every single one of them needed federal approval for its license. i didn't realize that you need ad federal government's okay just to open up your business. they shut down for business themselves. that caused you a problem. how is that going? >> well it is actually gotten a lot better now that the shut down is over. i talked to a friend in chicago who just had his brewery approved this morning. we also ran, they called me last week, right after they got going again and helped me walk through one of my applications. now that they're back in business, they're ready to help us again. dennis: typically average approval time the u.s. bureau of alcohol tax and trade bureau takes 75 days to approve a license. what did that lengthen you figure during the shutdown? how many days has your license taken for approval? >> well, my, my initial approval went through but the issue come

raise standards but teachers say that scheme will merely increased workload and damage pensions jeff brenner is a senior vice president of major teachers' union he says an agreement must be reached though to avoid a crisis. we already know that there are thirteen thousand fewer teachers in training this year than the previous year if that continues we're going to have a major crisis in teacher supply they now will be put on a paper point and they may never move from it even if you meet your targets now there's no guarantee that you will actually get the pay that in the past you were promised a better performance we've also had only one percent pay rise in the last three years so we've taken our fair share in fact if you take the pension increases alongside the one percent we're actually worse off now than we were before this government came in and we hope that michael go will see the anger of the twelve thousand teachers that marched here in london today and of the many thousands more that marched in bristol and the northeast and will and he will actually sit down with us and have meaningful

brenner, back in the 70s, when you and mr. beale went to princeton, you begin a friendship that could require, that should require when you are the superior if someone that you helped bring into the agency, that you look with the little bit more scrutiny. but you are more likely know what someone is saying isn't true and i find it astonishing that. and additionally during our investigation and the help of the inspector general we became aware of what appears to be an inappropriate set than 70,000-dollar gift. a discount on a mercedes-benz. from an outside lobbyist. my understanding is this was not done with the approval of cooperation of mercedes-benz, but it is her attention to use our power beyond that which the ig has authority. it were up to me, the ig would've had authority to interview all of you or both of you even as he sought retirement escape history section. one of the reasons that you're here today is in fact that the ig act has certain limitations and it cannot compel former members of government to speak them. yo

and joel brenner, former inspector general and senior counsel for the national security agency. that interview i just conducted with thomas drake, a whistle blower for the nsa. what did you make of what he to say of his argument? >> drake was involved in -- he basically lost his point of view in a competition for certain symptoms at the agency. issue as to who was right about that, he may have been wright. nothi nothing wrong with the way he conducted that. he decided to leak information to "the baltimore sun." he was really leaking classified information. i thought it was a terrible thing -- i thought he was overprosecuted under the espionage act. i thought it was ridiculous. >> you thought prosecution of him for giving material to "baltimore sun" under 1970 espionage was in itself a wrongful act. >> not a wrongful act. bad politics, bad law. we create people like mr. drake who have become a force to be adversary when they see what it is like to be attacked by their own government. when you impose the question whistle-blower or leaker, very often people can be whistle blowers a

in english translating that you tried to do that with the john bre brenner nomination which led to your filibuster. are you prepared to stand there and filibuster again? >> we'll see. but i do want to make the point that for three years we've asked harry reid for a vote on the fed. it passed the house overwhelmingly. over 100 democrats and all of the republicans voted for auditing the fed. we're supposed to be in charge of the fed. we created the fed. and congress has beabdicated it duty. a lot of wealthy people are getting wealthier, poor people are getting there's an illusion of wealth. i am in favor of looking into what the fed is doing. >>> an official apology for the botched rollout of obama care. and the question is whether the president misled the public on the a crucial aspect of his legislation. >>> multiple body parts found in two municipal treatment plants. >>> later what is google doing on this barge? the mystery solved next. [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isn't a thing at all? it's lots of things. all waking up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call

s scongressman james sense en brenner is expected to propose a new law, the freedom act, which would stop dragnet collection of phone calls of american citizens, place stronger restrictions on who is targeted and .a special advocate to the super secret fisa courts to protect privacy rights but director of national intelligence james clapper and general keith alexander told the schmidt the content of phone calls remain secret in a virtual lockbox unless there is a link to possible terrorism and that, they say, is rare. >> there wiat would only be loo when we had reasonable and articulable suspicious that we had connection to a foreign al-qaeda or related terrorist group and look into that box. in 2012, we had 88 such selectors that we could go and look into that. >> that's it. of the billions of records, only 28 yeah. >> at the committee hearing, there was relatively little discussion about allegations the u.s. had spied on america's allies but at the whitehouse, it was still a hot topic. press secretary jay carney says president obama assured german chancellor angela merkel there is

brewer mike brenner getting his wish after the 16-day government shutdown paralyzed his business.the lights are on but nobody is home. blackberry chandelier. check that out! how creative or creepy? this hour we'll introduce you to the designer of this blackberry chandelier. >> time for stocks now as we do every 15 minutes. let's go to the floor of the new york stock exchange and our own nicole petallides. stocks are coming back to even. >> really interesting as we see the market to the designside. we got a note from ubs floor trader art cashin calling it a monday meander. the dow is sitting at 16,400. s&p 500 as well -- 15,400. tech-heavy nasdaq is best of the three up one-third of

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brenner back in the '70s when you and mr.eale went to princeton you began a friendship that should in fact, should require with your superior of somebody who you help bring into the agency you look with a little more scrutiny if you're more likely to know that somebody says is not true additionally with the investigation with the help of the inspector general we became aware of what appears to be an inappropriate except in $78,000 gift, a discount on the mercedes benz for an outside lobbyists. this was not done with the pre-approval in cooperation with mercedes-benz but our intention to use our power to investigate that the ig has authority. if it was up to me id would've had the authority to interview both of you even as you saw retirement to escape his jurisdiction. one of the reasons you're here today is in fact, that the -- it has certain occasions it cannot compel former members of government to speak to them it cannot go between agencies and is a very stovepipe baby will move legislation to expand the ability of the ig

senator patrick leahy and kim dems and brenner write this in -- jim sensenbrenner wrote this in politico -- what do you think? should congress endorse the surveillance programs, or should they be stopped? tom in, republican caller. hello. caller: good morning. i don't think the u.s. should spy on friends. we have no security, no private situation in our home. some security day personnel listens to our phone. danny in westfield, virginia. good morning. caller: i am definitely against the nsa but the only way you'll ever stop them is to shut them down completely. he may say they have stopped but they will not stop. they have done this over and over for the last 15 years. they were told to stop doing things and continue doing them anyway. it amazes me that republicans who supposedly wants smaller government and less government in our lives are absolutely in favor of continuing to have the nsa spying, even on american citizens. senator dianne feinstein, the top democrat in the senate intelligence committee, called for a total review. should there be a church committee 2.0 as "the new york ti

brenner, right? >> if the gentlewoman would yield come i believe it was gina mccarthy. >> okay, gina mccarthy. so she should be auditing it for the whole area? >> should only have three direct reports. mr. brennan and mr. beale and another person to actually clarify this? >> the gentlelady, her time is expired and i have been very generous. but united will have a chance to talk briefly and he may have an opportunity to answer the response one of my questions. but for my time, we are going to the gentleman from michigan, mr. wahlberg. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to the panel that is here that has helped you get to the bottom of some of these issues that we are requesting. mr. sullivan, were you aware that mr. beale was in pakistan? >> he had significant foreign travel and we knew he took a trip to india, not sure if we ever confirmed a trip to pakistan. but when he claimed to be in pakistan, through phone records we prove he was in the united states. >> can we get the flight up on that. >> o