host: our guest this buck mckeon. thank you for being here.et us start off with secretary to polish town of's line of conversation yesterday with senate members -- let us start out with jan and a polish town of's conversation yesterday with senate members. is this a problem? guest: it is hard to think that this is a culture. i mean, you get a couple of people out of hundreds of thousands that we have in the military. i do not think so. i think some guys lost their judgment and i guess, i do not know what was going through their minds. it is a terrible thing to have happened. i think that we have systems in place that they can do investigations and that they will get to the bottom of it and get it taken care of. host: have you got an insight into this as the chairman of armed services? guest: no. my staff had a briefing on it yesterday but i have not spoken to them about it yet. host: does it change the situation because members of the military are alleged to be involved? guest: it is a bad situation. we need to take care of it. deal with it. w

and we will talk to the house armed services committee chairman, california congressman buck mckeon, and connecticut congressman joe courtney, on the washington journal. >> born in a north korean war camp, it was the only world he had ever known. he's also the only one to ever have escaped from camp 14. >> his first memory from the age of 4 was going with his mom to a place near where he grew up in the camp to watch someone gets shot. public executions in the camp or held every few weeks. this was a way of punishing people who violated camp rules and of terrorizing the 20,000 people to 40,000 people who live in the camps to obey the rules from then on. >> sunday it, his journey out of north korea and learning about society and civilization at 8:00 on c-span,. on may 6, look for our interview that coincides with the release of "passage of power" by caro, on lyndon johnson. >> arizona governor jan brewer is encouraged by the supreme court oral arguments on the constitutionality of arizona's immigration law. she and the lead attorney paul clement spoke with reporters shortly after the s

saved about four million dollars that's not chump change but it turns out the good old war hog buck mckeon head of the house armed services committee has put his foot down on the latest round proposed by the military itself and so since he is so starkly opposed to the idea we don't even know how much money could have been saved because the money originally a lot of it for brac never even made it into the final military budget this time around so so much for saving money there right but guess what is how to live with all that extra empty space then again there's another idea how about looking at our military's dysfunctional weapon systems now i could go on and on but let's just focus on the show favor right the joint strike fighter program this was supposed to be the pentagon's ace in the hole and they invested heavily in the f. twenty two an f. thirty five but what do they have to show for it when not much both sets of unreadable serious problems pilots have died the fighter jets have been grounded for months at a time but despite the seemingly chronic problems the military actually wants

told time award and tonight we're giving it to a congressman who just loves to tells kerry stories buck mckeon is the chairman of the house armed service committee and he's one of d.c.'s finest when it comes to fear mongering i mean the man is hell bent on protecting pentagon spending the nukes the wars even of all of this defies all logic and so buck sense is a threat real or imagined against america and you can rest assured that he'll be the first to speak up in favor of spending more money to protect our national security and we get your d.c. politician of war hawk mccain wants to make sure that the u.s. is protecting itself from the biggest new threats abroad especially iran take us clipper he basically says that diplomacy with iran is pointless i think that. diplomacy puts it has a purpose and not just talking quit talking so you. can help us but but while we talk if we let them continue to pursue their aggressive efforts that we're a loser. buck does not like to lose so when his arm services committee discuss the pentagon's budget for next year they made sure to set aside money for certa

immediately, the guy who is the chairman of the armed services committee, buck mckeon, called him and want to be on armed services and you're talking about cutting defense? as soon as he showed up to town, he criticized majority leader eric cantor's calendar. but at the same time, he said to me that debbie washerman schultz was inciting a riot. he said that barney frank should be fitted with a punk jump suit. he is prone to outrageous statements and not big on self censorship. >> how is he coming with those pinko hearings he wants to hold? by the way, i short changed congress, 17% approval. i said 8%. >> it's been improving. >> yeah. at this rate, we should be up to 20% or something. >> boehner decided to scream fire with those comments. >> yeah. >> i think they have not gotten enough. and i think part of it was a fundraising appeal. they are desperate for cash, no doubt. what he's doing. but he's not wrong either. there is a 1-3 chance. >> absolutely. >> robert draper, it's a great book. you've done it again. "do not ask what good we do," inside the u.s. house of representatives. tha

this house armed services committee hearing, chaired by congressman buck mckeon, is an hour and 45 minutesime at 12:30, so we are going to be as expeditious as we possibly can here. the house armed services committee meets today to receive testimony on the security situation in syria from the secretary of defense, the honorable leon panetta, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey. thank you for being here today. the syrian conflict is now in its second year and the situation remains both uncertain and dire. as we convene, a tenuous cease- fire is in place. comes on the heels of horrifying violence at the hands of the assad regime, yet even though assange has committed to the cease-fire, reports indicate that he continues to inflict violence on the syrian people. president assad's years crackdown has been fruitless, including frederick human rights violations, use of force against noncombatant civilians, including children, and interference with the provision of humanitarian assistance. the estimate for the death toll is 9000. other estimates put the death tol

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