in a statement, senators john mccain and carl levin said of the imprisonment could -- state department's spokesperson victoria nuland was questioned on the obama administration's handling of the case. >> [indiscernible] how come you left him to die [indiscernible] of the pakistani is on treason? how come you did not give him some kind of protection to us like the chinese dissidents? give him safe haven rather than leaving him behind? >> i think we have said that we don't see any basis for what has happened here, and so, you know, we will continue to make those representations to the government of pakistan. >> that was state department spokesperson victoria nuland. >> i think in any country in the world when a citizen of that country cooperates with the foreign intelligence agency to carry out an assassination on the country's soil, there's going to be legal consequences. now, the u.s. probably would like to buy dr. shakil afridi's freedom as a way to show other potential future sources they will back them up. i don't think they care sentimentally. we will see what happens next. it is pol

. >> senator carl levin and senator john mccain are managing this bill. we understand they hope to finish it in three days. that will not happen. how much more work is there to do? >> is remains to be seen. a lot needs to be sorted out behind the scenes. i do believe they would like to be finished by monday. that is where we are now. >> the house approved its defense authorization bill earlier this year. how does the senate bill differ? >> i was just speaking to some people on the house side, and they do not see any major difficulties in getting this done. last year, they were able to get a conference done in roughly nine days. i was assured they believe they can do the same this time. it does not look like it is going to be terribly contentious. both committees were trying to keep this non-controversial. as you know, we are coming to the end of the session so they need it quickly. >> do you think they will be able to do it by the end of the year? >> absolutely. >> thank you for your time. >> my pleasure. >> the senate returns on monday at 2:00 p.m. to re

so i think that senators like carl levin, richard lugar, who is now leaving, john kerry, john mccain, and some of the younger senators i think we will see in the coming years that they step up to be excellent senators. we're not short of capable people there. the problem is that the senate, what i call the senate ecosystem, sun healthy. it's the hyper partisanship that's holding us back and the efforts of people like the ones i mentioned, or like olympia snowe, who announced her retirement and is retiring. ?iewn fortunately. >> they're hampered by the fact they work very hard, and then the hyper partisanship prevents the accomplishments. >> but are there any sorts of maybe mechanical policy senate rule changes that could actually help bring or help restore that balance? >> well, i think -- i actually do believe we need to change the senate rules. i think we have to get back to a time when filibusters were real and rare. i think these holds that go on indefinitely and block nominations and legislative action is unacceptable. we have seen -- we have seen on struck shun used as a partisa

senator john mccain, dianne feinstein and carl levin are calling the film misleading and grossly inaccuratein a letter to sony pictures, they were especially bothered by the suggestion that torture produced the tip that led to the military capture of bin laden. >>> america has a new ally in the ongoing conflict of north korea. she is south korea's new president-elect, nicknamed the ice queen. she won yesterday's election. her father was president in the '60s. >>> a familiar honor for president obama. he is, again, "time" magazine's person of the year. an editor said, we are in the midst of historic, cultural and demographic changes. and obama is both the symbol and in some ways the architect of this new america. he also received the honor in 2008. >>> and coming up next, after the break, how the fiscal cliff could mean a delayed tax refund. don't like to hear that. for millions of americans. >>> plus, it's a procrastinator's dream. deep discounts expected at stores this weekend, after a disappointing season so far. >>> and the universe has a new reigning beauty queen. we'll tell you the win

the four senators that generally vote sanely two of them anyway particularly bernie sanders also carl levin and two other democrats the remainder of them schumer and gillibrand for example from the york where i am and lined up with the republicans on many major public policy issues so that as they campaign as being against the republicans where the rubber hits the road they end up voting with them in a very very few progressive insane members of congress on the other side as in this case well last month the e.u. adopted a resolution urging all member states to accept this act interestingly enough the french ambassador here in most case had the powers is to stay out of it do you think other countries will follow france's late my hope so i mean there's a socialist government so-called anyway in paris and at the very least they have to appear to not be hard core cold warriors even though the soviet union doesn't exist anymore but an interesting backdrop is the t p p meeting this going on in the new zealand right now where they're looking to open up trade in the pacific basin and particularly d

nowcan we have one proposal on the table by democratic senator carl levin.which says that we will provide timely and relevant amendments, a process -- and there can be lots of them on the table -- and in return we will cut off the filibusters and queen of the process little bit more. if i had my way, take a few steps further. i think some of the options for using the filibuster is a tool of obstruction, including the 30 hours of post-cloture today, i see no reason why you can't, at minimum, say 30 hours divided between the majority and minority and you have to be on the floor debating if you're going to take 15 hours that you had. i see no reason why you can't expedite actions even a little bit further so that if you want to raise the bar to 60, you can do it. but you have to move a little further. and i would be one of two things. because i think what has happened here, in particular, and what has made this the tool becomes particularly attractive to you on a regular basis is that since 1975, basically the way the process works is to put the majority to mov

senators john mccain, carl levin and diane feinstein sent a letter to sony.avidson is a senior editor at "the new yorker" magazine and wrote a column about it. good to have you here. so the senators, they came out staunchly against the film after seeing it saying it's perpetu e perpetuating a myth. your assessment of the film? are they right that the movie takes a little creative liberty with the tortures a sne s s ss? >> it did and there was an open letter saying the head of the cia had deep troubles with the ill families and not accurate in the description of what torture did for the united states. the reason they felt the need to speak out was because this was billed as the big movie that the cia cooperated with and the pentagon. opens with recordings of people dying in the world trade center and saying it's based on actual accounts and saying it has that and then make the case we needed torture to keep us safe, that torture got us bin laden, you could see why that's department lie disturbing if as people who have seen the intelligence say it's not true. >

you have written a letter to the chairman, ceo of sony pictures, along with senators carl levin and diannetein, democrats. why are the three of you writing the ceo of sony who produced this? >> i watched this film. it shows a very brutal investigation tactics by the cia interrogator. it also shows extensive waterboarding -- the people that they are holding. and the -- clearly the information is that this waterboarding and torture was -- was the major factor in obtaining information about the whereabouts of bin laden, specifically a courier that had been working for bin laden. the fact is that no information -- according to the former cia director leon panetta -- no information useful to them in tracking bin laden was the result of torture. in fact, khalid sheikh mohammed, or ksm, when he was waterberded, like 134 times or something -- incredible. he stated that this cower courier had retired. in other words, not only they didn't get good information from these techniques of waterboarding and torture, they got bad information. >> greta: what do you want the ceo to do at this point? >> we sh

senator's john mccain, dianne feinstein and carl levin are asking the head of sony pictures to correct the record. we believe you have an obligation to state the role of torture in the hunt for osama bin laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative. let's turn to the director of the aclu national security project. thank you so much for coming on the show. >> thank you for having me. >> the opening scene depicts the torture of a detainee. later the detainee supplies a piece of information during a meal with his interrogators. do you think the film misleads people on the hunt for bin laden, does it not provide sufficient context? >> i think the film certainly starts out with the claim that it's based on fact and it leaves the strong but entirely false impression that torture led to bin laden. and we know that that is false from the people who have reviewed the cia's records. senator's feinstein, levin and mccain are amongst the senate intelligence community personnel who reviewed millions of pages of cia documents that in fact torture did not lead to

. >>> senators are slamming the movie "zero dark thirty," carl levin and john mccain said the movie do not separate fact from fiction. it insists torture is effective. katherine big low responded with a statement saying we depicted a variety of intelligence methods that were used in finding bin laden. no single method was necessarily responsible for solving the man hunt. >>> ben affleck testified on capitol hill about the eastern congo and the estimated 5 million deaths there over the last 14 years. politico reports affleck would not discuss a reported possibility of a run for senate saying that's not what i'm here to talk about. >>> if you read only one thing this morning there is a fascinating new study on the happiest and least happy countries in the world. it's my must read. it turns out that money, education have little to do with how good you feel about your life and, for example, bhutan in south asia makes public policy based on what they call the gross national happiness index. this story will make you smile especially if you're from latin america. it's up on our facebook page

democratic senators dianne feinstein and carl levin and republican senator john mccain say zero dark grossly inaccurate and misleading. they are upset with the way the film depicts cia interrogations and they want the film studios to state that the movie is it not based on fact. >>> the manhunt is widening for a pair of convicted bank robbers who made a daring escape from prison. authorities say the two men tied their bedsheets into a makeshift rope to escape from a chicago correctional facility tuesday night. they climbed out of a 20-story window and scaled down the side of the building. then they changed clothes and took a cab. the fbi is offering a $50,000 reward for their capture. kind of sounds like a movie. >> on a bed sheet, two. >>> 5:24. just hours now to doomsday. of course not. nasa sets record straight about the end of the world. >> and no, it's not the latest in-flight meal. how 2,000 pounds of potatoes could improve your airplane wi- fi connection. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, on saturday. the space agency has been by sday rumors for >>> if you are busy planning the end of the worl

also, yesterday, senators carl levin john mccain of for their ideas for bypassing the bill buster to -- it would change the senate rules to assemble a majority vote. they spoke for about half an hour. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] ok, sorry for the delay. we thought we had a vote, but there was no vote. senator mccain and i are part of a group of eight senators who have been working for about a month to come up with a proposal for our leaders and our conferences, which will hopefully overcome the gridlock that has so permeated the u.s. senate. the eight senators who have participated in this effort are myself, senator mccain, senator schumer, senator alexander, senator cardin, senator kyl, senator prior, and senator barasso. it is a bipartisan proposal, and we believe strongly we must reform the senate's procedures if it is going to do business more efficiently and fairly. there are many parts to our proposal, i would say the key number-one part is to give the majority leader options to overcome the fi

democratic senators dianne feinstein and carl levin and republican senator john mccain say that "zero thirty" is grossly inaccurate and misleading. they are upset about the way the film depicts sky interrogations. they want the film studio -- cia interrogations. them. the film studio to say it's not based on fact of. >>> 6:52. take a deep breath. nasa promises the sun is going to rise on saturday. >> ha. >> they promise. >> that's good. >> the space agency has been busy debunking doomsday rumors for weeks getting hundreds of calls a day believe it or not. some think the world will simply end tomorrow because the mayan calendar stops there. others think that a rogue planet or maybe a massive meteor an as steroid is on the way to destroy us but busting that myth is easy as looking through a telescope. >> one doomsday rumor has a planet, a rogue planet named mibiru or planet x coming into the solar system and crashing into earth. this is silly. if there were such an object, anybody could see it. it would be one of the brightest things in the sky. >> the great david morrison. he's terrifi

democrats who met with governor snyder today, all democrats, from the president on the tarmac to carl levin the senator to all those members of congress, all meeting to try to talk the governor off this ledge, it was not always like this about union rights in michigan or anywhere, but specifically in michigan. it was not always a democrats versus republican thing. the specific union rights that rick snyder and the republicans in the legislature seem to be about to strip in that state were enshrined in michigan law in the first place by this guy, former michigan governor george romney, father of mitt romney, revered republican figure, and frankly, revered figure in michigan state politics. governor rick snyder's office is in a building called the george w. romney building. they hold him in high regard there. congressman sander levin recounted the story today at the "washington post" of how union rights were enshrined by governor romney. congressman levin met with governor romney in the 1960s when mr. levin was a state senator. he says, quote, we sat there for an hour. the governor was in a r

succeed but are not on board with you yet include senator barbara boxer, dianne feinstein, pat leahy, carl levin, max baucus and depending on how you pars the statement, senator jack reed. why are your colleagues holding back and what are you doing to push them on this issue? >> recognize, this is an institution, the senate, that rarely changes its rules. so folks have been here often for very long time saying, well, we can always make a gentleman's agreement to make this place work. we score the social contrast. that would be ideal and certainly if these rules worked in the past why can't they work today. so there are folks reluctant to change them saying the better thing is to restore the social contrast. quite frankly, we've tried that. the minority leader and the democratic leader worked out a gentleman's agreement two years ago. it failed utterly. it's just clear, we're not in the same world. >> sir, how do you define failure? >> well, we failed in the sense that it was supposed to eliminate these huge number of filibusters and allow us to get an agenda on the floor. no longer have the bloc

these include dianne feinstein, carl levin, as well as republican john mccain whose own experiences as an outspoken critic of torture. now, since most people have not seen the film yet, let me explain a little bit. the torture scenes, which there are more than one show cia interrogators waterboarding, humiliating, and abusing detainees. in the movie, these interrogations do result in crucial information in the search for osama bin laden. now, i would not say that the film actually glorifies torture, but the cia operatives are not squeamish about what they're doing. at a later point in the film, one of the officials complained about president obama's decision to stop the detainee program. now, in a letter to sony, which is the studio behind the film, the senators say that "zero dark thirty" is, quote, perpetuating the myth that torture is effective. they argue that a still classified report proves they called the coercive interrogations did not result in any information that led to bin laden's capture. here's what else they had to say in the letter. they say "zero dark thirty" is factua

senator carl levin called this a tipping point.he president calls it a race to the bottom. >> we don't want a race to the bottom. we want a race to the top. we -- america, america is not going to compete based on low skill, low wage, no workers rights. that's not -- that's not our competitive advantage there is always going to be some other country that can treat its workers even worse. right? what is going to make us succeed is we got the best workers, well-trained, reliable, productive, low turnover, healthy. that's what makes us strong. and it also is what allows our workers then to buy the products that we make. because they got enough money in their pockets. >> the president is correct. workers make this country great. when unions take a hit, the workers do as well. but here is what i find interesting. take the pen, governor snyder, sign it, and then turn to the cameras and say "this is what the people want." you can't do that because you'd be lying. or maybe you have the guts to do that. i have never seen a number like this t

senator carl levin, one of wall street's toughest critics, criticized the bank in may when it announced the loss saying, quote: it made a very big and complicated bet that now has gone very wrong. the senator's office did not immediately respond to our requests for comment on details of his subcommittee's probe, and the bank has declined to comment. but all of this could mean headaches for jamie dimon, the ceo of the bank. just ask goldman sachs' ceo lloyd blankfein who left have you been ripped -- levin ripped at a hearing in 2010. >> peter, this could be a big setback considering that the company announced it plans on buying back $3 billion worth of the company's sock -- stock in the new year. and you really wonder if this is going to be a step backwards even though we were starting to see signs of healing. >> what this means is this problem is not just going to go away for jpmorgan. it has this subcommittee looking at it up on capitol hill. jamie dimon testified at two hearings about it in june, and, of course, the regulators, the sec, the cftc, they also continue to look into the ma

this includes dianne feinstein, carl levin as well as republican john mccain whose own experiences as.o.w. in vietnam has made him an out spoken critic of torture. the torture seens, and there are more than one, show waterboarding, humiliating detainees and it results in crucial information in the search for osama bin laden. now, i would not say that the film actually glorifies torture but the cia operatives are not squeamish about what they are doing at any point. but there is a point where a cia operative complains about it. the senators say that "zero dark thirty" is perpetuating the myth that torture is effective. a classified report called coercive negotiations didn't result in the capture of osama bin laden. they said, "zero dark thirty" is factually inaccurate and we believe that you have an obligation to state that the role of torture in the hunt for osama bin laden is not based on the facts but rather part of the film's narrative. sony claims that they have never document classified this as a documentary. they said, this was a tenure intelligence operation brought to the scre

. >> mccain with senators dianne feinstein and carl levin wrote to sony complaining "zero dark thirtyl to shape american public opinion in a disturbing and misleading manner. they asked sony to consider correcting the impression that c cia's use of interrogation techniques led to the capture of osama bin laden. she said showing the techniques was vital to the form. >> i think it was important for us to tell a true story. it's controversial but it's part of the history. >> part of history perhaps but only future historians might know how accurate holiday's first look at the search for bin laden actually is. for "cbs this morning," john blackstone, cbs news. >> sony hat nos responded. senior correspondent john miller who once interviewed bin laden is a former director of cia national intelligence. we'll get the information from you now. how accurate is this portrayal? >> well, the portrayal is extraordinarily accurate in the way that movies are accurate, so all of that up to and including that one of the detainees was subject to the waterboarding actually gave up the name of the courier

. >> i would say first, look at the proposal of the carl levin put out at the end -- a few months agorting point it's something that had been discussed in a bipartisan way in the senate house committee through several hearings on the filibuster over the last couple of years. chuck schumer, chairman of the committee, lamar alexander, ranking republican and others talk about the idea of a trade-off. eliminating filibusters and the motion to proceed in return for some guarantee of amendment. senator levin's proposal is very specific on how that could work. i think you could use that as a starting point and maybe agree to some other changes. that would be very much like what happened in 1975. part of the agreement and 875 was the put in for the first time ever been asked a silly day. okay we came this close, but we're going to put that in the rules. the you could imagine finding a bipartisan agreement. the other possibility is that she get another eager handshake for implicit agreement between reid and mcconnell that there would be changing the way they do things now commented to repeat m

fox business reporting that jpmorgan in the cross hairs of a senate comment, carl levin, the senator,e financials, and i know you never liked it in the past, but is it bad news for the group overall? >> yeah. we've been avoiding the group. the only way we play financials in the last two years is through the credit card issuers, visa, mastercard, american express. the big money center banks, like you said, in the cross hairs for awhile. dodd-frank is barely over a quarter of the way written, and i really think now with the current administration, scott brown losing his seat to elizabeth warren, i think the rest of the regulation is not favorable. you know, i just see a lot of head winds. we're avoiding financials all together. cheryl: she's been appointed to senate banking. good time for banks and those companies overall. >> perfect. cheryl: you're not a big technology investor, but, at the same time, there's been such a weird movement in apple. many saying apple is selling off, people dumping out of the dividend tax issue, but you stick with apple. are the concerns overblown, too worr

dianne feinstein carl levin and john mccain.e issue themes that show cia officers torturing people. the senators say the film suggests torture led to key information about where bin laden was hiding. something the senators say is not true. the senators have sent a letter to sony pictures saying it should clarify that the role of torture is based on fiction, not facts. zero dark 30 debuted in new york and la. it will have a nationwide release next month. >>> 8:16. right now in washington, house of representatives is special. it's a lot different from what the democrats want -- is in session. it's a lot different from the what the democrats want. >> reporter: we're taking a look at the capitol, eric canter is scheduled to talk about boehner's plan in a minute. plan b would raise tax rates only on those making more than $1 million a year. and to would put a hold on automatic tax spending. it's a temporary fix and a long- term deal would have to come later. president obama wants to raise taxes on households bringing in more than $40

dianne feinstein, carl levin and john mccain are deeply disappointed with one specific part of the moviee scene. they said it's grossly inaccurate and they blasted the ceo of sony pictures and wrote zero dark thirty is factually inaccurate and we believe you have an obligation to say it's not based on the facts, but rather the film's fictional narrative. let's talk about this flick. joining me live in l.a., spell it out for me. what is fact and what is fiction? >> that's a very good question, brooke. i'm not sure what they expected the filmmakers to do. i'm talking about the senators. the movie is out and i don't know if a disclaimer would be that effective anyway. we have the three lawmakers and particularly senator mccain with experience as a pow and made him a critic of any kind of torture. they are upset with the filmmakers and they say in a letter as far as they are concerned, zero dark thirty is perpetuating the myth that torture is effective. they call it coercive and didn't result in any information that led to osama's capture. they said in a statement to us that the intelligence

senator carl levin, the chairman of this subcommittee, criticized the bank in may when it announced this law saying it "made a very big and complicated that that now has gone very wrong." he is now one of the sentence leading critics of wall street. they did not comment on our story today. if a probe generates any substantive results, that could mean war headaches for ceo jamie dimon. it has been investigated whether -- that issue as well as the bank's internal controls oversight of traders and other matters could be among the subjects of the subcommittee's probe. melissa: peter barnes, thank you so much. lori: breaking news out of egypt. thousands of protesters ready to march on the palace to protest president morsy. melissa: let's see how the energy market is reacting to this. let's look at gold and silver and copper as we head out to break. crude is trading down. almost a full percentage point. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ lori: most popular segment, at least this hour. what you need to know to make some cash. recent comments that were made on the president's health care plan. charles:

three members of the senate intelligence committee, dianne feinstein, carl levin and john mccain saya letter to the movie's producer, they say "zero dark thirty" suggests that torture revealed information leading to bin laden. the senators say that is false and they have called for changes in the movie. >>> and it's a hollywood ending for a college from wisconsin crowned the new miss universe. olivia culpo is the first miss usa to win the pageant in over 20 dwlaerz. she describes herself as a nerd and has even performed at new york's carnegie hall. >> the new miss universe might want to avoid partying like a rock star. a new study shows musicians have a higher risk of premature death compared with the rest of the population. researchers at britain's center for public health looked at nearly 1,500 pop rock hip-hop and punk rock performers. they had a 9% death rate over a five-decade period much higher than average. nearly 39% of those deaths were caused by factors related to violence or alcohol or drugs. >> they did not see the concert of 12/12/12 because everybody on that stage, the

senator carl levin of michigan. >> he has a responsibility as governor of avoiding this kind of a cliffuld like to get this behind us. >> stephanie: he went on to say -- the senator for millions of michigan workers this is no ordinary debate. it is an assault to have their bagger aging assault their pay and to have all benefit from such negotiations share in some way in the cost of obtaining them. that's exactly what it is. it is to weaken unions. they keep talking about the 47% of us, the moochers. this is letting people freeload by withholding -- you know, they don't have to pay and they get the same benefits. how is that not -- being a taker! >> that is a taker. >> stephanie: okay. carol in michigan. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi carol. >> caller: hi. i'm doing fine. i love your show. you guys are truly inspirational. i'm so glad you're on. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: yeah, hey, i have a couple of points to make. earlier, there was a comment made by a right wing guy who said that car companies didn't want to come to michigan because of the high union wages. well t

. >> we have a bunch of senators, dianne feinstein, carl levin, john mccain, all of whom sent a lettering the film grossly inaccurate and misleading. "the new york times" is now reporting that cia act director michael morrell sent out an agency-wide letter criticizing it. >> it is no question that the -- political drama around this movie is added to the buzz and made it as interesting as the film itself. i guess in the -- in the -- lit help drive interest into this thing but there's also a negative which is the fact that there's been so many of these political complaints that it could hurt the film at oscar time. lot of people will be voting for best picture, you know, may vekd thoughts because they -- they have this sense from, you know, authoritative sources that there is misleading and -- harmful position. >> can i ask you quickly of focus on this lone wolf character maya who is credited with the tracking down of bin laden. was this the case in reality? >> this is a very accurate portrayal. the woman is a real person and not a composite. she is still at the cia and under cover. a wo

film particularly the scenes where cia operatives are torturing detainees, dianne feinstein and carl levinn senator john mccain whose experiences as a p.o.w. in vietnam made him an outspoken critic of any torture. they're upset with the filmmakers. in a letter to the studio behind the film they say "zero dark thirdy" is "perpetuating the myth that torture is effective." a classified report says the coercive interrogations didn't lead to any information that resulted to owesamosama's captu. "it is factual inaccurate and we believe that you have an obligation to state that the role of torture in the hunt for osama bin laden is not based on the facts but rather part of the filthment's fictional narrative." this was a ten-year intelligence operation brought to the screen in a two and a half hour film. we depicted a variety of controversial practices and intelligence methods that were used in the name of finding bin lad laden. no single method was necessarily responsible for solving the manhunt nor can any single scene taken in isolation fairly capture the totality of efforts the film drama adv

. >> i would say first look at the proposal that carl levin put out at the end, a few months ago. it's in the record. you will see it. as a starting point but it's something that had been discussed in a bipartisan way in the senate rules committee through several hearings on the filibuster over the last couple of years. chuck schumer, the chairman of the committee, lamar alexander, the ranking republican, and others are least talked about the idea of a trade off, limiting filibusters on the motion to proceed in return for some guarantee of amendments. and senator levin's proposal is fairly specific and how that could work. i think you could use that as a starting point and then maybe agree to some of the changes. and that would be very much like what happened in 1975. it was part of the agreement was that they put in rule five for the first time. it had never been there. okay, came this close but we're not going to do. we're going to put that in the rules. but you could imagine finding a bipartisan agreement. the other possibility is that you get another even handshake or implicit

very well steeped scholars, richard aaronburg was one, richard aaronburg was an aide to senator carl levin as well as to senator tsongas around majority leader george mitchell, so a long career of experience here on the floor of the senate. and the other was robert dove, who is robert dove? he was the parliamentarian of this chamber. he spent his time working here from 1966 to 2001. and in the chapter of their book titled "bring in the cots" they explain how this works. between pages 146 and 152. here are a couple of the passages that i thought summed it up. "those who call for forcing the filibusterers to talk either ignore or are unaware of the fact that for a sizable organized minority and certainly for a minority of 41 senators or more, lengthy sessions are little more than exercises in scheduling. the filibusterers are able to take turns holding the floor and since they can demand the presence of a quorum at virtually every moment it is the majority that carries the heavier burden because they need to keep 51 senators nearby. if the filibusterers call for a quorum and it is not produc

he doesn't like it either, carl levin.in is part of -- he and john mccain did not like this and are looking for ways to avoid it. the debate is between the house republicans and the president. the senate is along for the ride. host: we showed a picture of buck mckeon, republican of california. does he have a say in the negotiations? guest: absolutely. he has been vocal about the damage sequestration could do. he wants to see the pentagon avoid it. he has a bit of a buyer's remorse. he is lamenting the fact that the pentagon was placed at the kind of risk he feels are right now. host: frank, what is your background? caller: retired national guard. what is the situation between officers and enlisted? i do get tricare and all the benefits. how will the sequestration affect me? guest: in terms of the ratio, it has been going up. a lot of people in congress are concerned that there are too many generals. the air force has been under criticism for the number of generals it has. the ratios are much higher than they use to be. as

that's in the wall street journal, there was a letter actually signed by dianne feinstein, senator carl levinand senator john mccain, they wrote to the head of sony pictures, which put out the movie, saying that this depiction of the reliance on those interrogations was incorrect according to the records. there's also a senate intelligence committee report that has not yet been made public, but the summary released of that categorically states that these enhanced interrogation techniques were not -- that they are discredited as an intelligence- gathering mechanism and that they were not a central part of the pope binding in bin laden. host: this is the headlights from yesterday in the baltimore sun -- what did the cia and the intelligence community learn from the bin laden killing and how does that play into the future operations? guest: the cia was working the intelligence exploitation and putting together the trail of breadcrumbs that i think was really what is a fascinating story and reveals the cia detective work, this very painstaking and often un glamorous work to put together clues, si

senator carl levin asked the governor to veto the bill or at least to delay the legislation voting one. in a statement this morning senate majority leader harry reid calls the michigan anti-worker legislation a dangerous nationwide trend by republican-led state legislatures to attacking and collective bargaining. >>> a new poll out today on immigration shows that a majority of american voters support citizenship for undocumented immigrants. 62% support a path -- a proposal that lays out a multiyear process. according to the politico gw university battleground survey. the results are similar to those from an abc news "washington post" survey taken right after the election last month. cnn suggesting the president may turn his attention to immigration after he is done dealing with the fiscal cliff. an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants are currently living in the u.s. we're back after the break. stay with us. (vo) this friday current tv presents a special event. >> nobody knows disasters like comedians. that's why for my upcoming benefit for victims of hurricane sandy, i booked

this type of a setting as opposed to those that would probably remember him being questioned by carl levink in front of the house committee because this is the lloyd blankfein i know and the lloyd blankfein he's become in the public eye, somebody who's willing to say what's on his mind and speak it. three things come to my mind. certainly at the top of the interview and towards the bottom, he defined goldman's business twice, i don't know if you picked up on this, is risk management. first thing he said is we're in the risk management business. obviously, taubllinlked about tt that goldman is in capital advisory work, but he does see the business as a risk management business. that's important. and something he wrote down here. let other people define us. that's pivotal for goldman sachs public shareholders. that was something they did in 2008 and 2009, and in 2011 they decided to take a different approach, and they're not going to let other people define them. when i see lloyd here, it reminds me back to 2010. there was a time at the hearings in d.c., when a lot of pre-ipo partners used t

law, giving congress oversight of these decisions, was perhaps best expressed in 1985 by senator carl levin. he said, quote, these protections against untrammelled executive power to close bases came because members of this senate and this congress felt that the power to close bases had been abused and had been used as a club over members of congress, unquote. today it is the 911th. but tomorrow it could be a base in any member's district. i urge my colleagues to support efforts to strengthen the base closure law, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until noon today. the house is meeting with a group of governors today as well as the president to discuss the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations. that meeting is goodlett for the afternoon, the president meeting with governors this morning. you can find all of that , ourage, including tweets website. also happening this morning and brought much of the day, a group calling themselves campaign to fix the dead is discussing health care costs

was nominated for the academy by the chairman of the armed services committee several years ago, carl levin. he came to my office after a tour serving as captain of the u.s.s. stockdale, an arleigh burke class guided missile destroyer. i know he was an excellent captain, indeed. i personally observed commander bennett's abilities. i am very impressed. he has a good strategic grasp of america's challenges while also mastering the details necessary to fully grasp military, budget and financial issues, among other issues that we deal with. his command of the defense authorization and appropriation legislation from both the house of representatives and the senate has been exceptional. he consistently puts in late nights and long weekends studying the details of legislation affecting programs that are vital to our national defense and state of alabama. more importantly, jeff possesses excellent judgment. i have valued his judgment and insight on global issues as well as the more rigorous detail issues of the senate. i can say without hesitation he has fulfilled the high reputation that the navy