georgia trend named senator chambliss as georgian of you. his leadership and expense of homeland security and intelligence matters during his tenure in the house of representatives earned him an appointment to the senate select committee on intelligence where he has served as vice chairman since 2011. he is a strong advocate for improved information sharing and human intelligence gathering capabilities and the topic will get into your. again, thank you both for joining us. i was sharing with the senator feinstein, which all have, our propaganda if you will. i thought we could start with that, why did she decide to push this legislation or why it did and what does it do. >> i'll begin, but let me just say to begin with, ann, first of all thank you. it's my understanding that the chamber is prepared to support this legislation, and that's very important. i think if i can speak for the vice chairman and myself to our whole committee. but on a personal level i just want to say to the gentleman on my left what a great pleasure it's been to work w

chambliss: mr.president, how much of the time on the other side has been used? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont has 30 seconds remaining. mr. chambliss: and how much time do i have remaining? the presiding officer: 6 1/2 minutes. mr. chambliss: i've only had one speaker and i had 15 minutes. did he use 7 1/2 minutes, 8 1/2? the presiding officer: the chair was instructed that the senator from california spoke on the senator from georgia's time. mr. chambliss: well, i would ask unanimous consent that the time that the senator from california used be added to my time, plea please. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. leahy: mr. president? mr. president, reserving the right to object. i will not object. but i was going to yield the remainder of my time to the senator from texas, senator cr cruz. and i ask that he be allowed up to four minutes. mr. chambliss: i would object to that. he can have your 30 seconds. mr. leahy: then i will object to the request. i will not object to t

chambliss: mr.president, i thank senator leahy for yielding time, and i thank you most importantly for working through the process of getting several of georgia's judges to the floor of the senate. we've got some emergency positions that need to be filled, and senator leahy has been very cooperative in helping us to do. on behalf of my colleague senator isakson and myself, i encourage all of my colleagues to support the nomination of leigh may to be a judge for the district court for the northern district of georgia. miss may is graduate of our two flagship institutions, georgia tec as well as the university of georgia law school. she's practiced law with the butler wootan firm for many, many years, been involved in many high-profile case us. she brings intellect and integrity to the bench. she will be a great addition to the northern district of georgia and i encourage my colleagues to vote in support of this nominee. i yield back and i would ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is the

it is also my pleasure to introduce the honorable saxby chambliss. in 2008, saxby chambliss was elected to serve a second term in the united states senate. georgia trend magazine which consistently named him as one of its most influential georgians, calls him, highly visible well-respected presence in washington. he has a reputation as affable but straight talking lawmaker. georgia trend named senator chambliss as its georgian of the year. leadership and experience on homeland security and intelligence matters during his tenure in the house of representatives earned him an appointment to the senate select committee on intelligence where he has served as vice chairman since 2011.comm he is a strong advocate for improved information-sharing and human intelligence gathering capabilities and that is a topic we're going to get into here. again thank you both for joining us. i was just sharing with the senator feinstein our, what you all have at your desk are propaganda if you will. we're big fans of cyber information sharing act. why the two of you decide

as we sit down and i try to share everything nine no with senator chambliss either he has to give more i'd do and we have found a very productive way to produce for the people of this country. i remember before our intelligence community we had a classified be freed and will was happening in the united states with regard to cyberattacks then the director of the fbi said there is one thing that is common. 90% though they have been attacked the heather 10% may not that virtually every big american company today has been attacked but by how much? it is fair to estimate the cost to the economy is estimated in the trillions of dollars. so it is very serious. we voted on this with a different bill and we put it together on the floor indic got 56 votes in the needed 60. it only had one republican vote. so the key was to do a bipartisan bill.

the candidates are running for the open seat of retired senator saxby chambliss. that is coming up live shortly. until then, more insight into the midterm elections with shirley cook. he spoke recently at the annual washington ideas forum about the election, as well as the state of the gop and democratic party. [applause] >> notice she kissed my microphone. >> i did. >> anyway, this is -- last year i spoke at this ideas festival and i looked around the room and the audience was just as impressive as the green room before. anyway, it is a real honor, a real privilege to be here. listening to tom fanning, he was outlining what a tax deal might look like, and i was talking to some people with a very large company the other day, and asked them, would you go along with raising the minimum wage in exchange for lowering the corporate tax rate? without hesitation, in a second. those are the kinds of deals we used to put together in this town. let me get back on subject. i am glad everybody is seated because i don't want anybody to fall over and hurt themselves. we have th

let's meet our candidates who are trying to earn your vote to replace retiring senator saxby chambliss. we determined podium position by drawing. first, david perdue. next, michelle nunn. and libertarian candidate michelle swofford. we want to thank you for being with us. i am joined by our panel. the assistant program director for wsb radio. washington correspondent daniel malloy. political reporter -- you will have one minute for response, 45 seconds for rebuttal, and these are loose guidelines today. certain conversations may warrant more time. i am going to try to get some clarity on those campaign ads. first question, neither of you has held public office. ms. swofford, you have but it was with city council. no disrespect to that position but you are outside the beltway politicians. the question is this, what have you done in your life to prepare you for one of the most powerful jobs in u.s. government? >> thank you. it is great to be here this morning. as i go around the state, the number one issue that i hear from hard-working georgians is they are concerned about their jobs. if

to the senate race in georgia, of course that is the seat vacated by the retiring senator saxby chambliss. right now, david purdue is leading the challenges michelle nunn. she is the daughter of sam nun. the key question is whether this race will end in a runoff. at least one of the candidates needs at least 50% of the vote. we have the projection in west virginia. the projected winner right now, shelley more capito, and she becomes the first female senator from the great state of west virginia. in florida, charlie crist who is a former governor, against governor rick scott. and you can see how tight that race is right now. and we're also hearing reported at this time, christ has filed a motion to extend voting hours because there were some problems in fort lauderdale. >> stephanie thank you very much. florida has been close between republicans and democrats since 2000 in bush versus gore. let's go to david shuster now. north carolina looks like the key race now to watch in the next hour, right? >> yeah, you are looking at both north carolina and new hampshire for the democrats to have an

demi chel nunn is neck and neck with republican david perdue to replace the retiring republican chambliss, the only one giving them heartburn is kansas where an independent is neck and neck or healed of the long time incumbent pat roberts because orman is an independent he doesn't have a traditional party apparatus behind him helping him to get out the vote on election day, so it is really, really difficult for both parties to figure out how that race is going to figure out. >> glor: nancy cordes, thank you very much and see you on tuesday night and cbs news will have election updates throughout tuesday evening. including complete live coverage at 10:00 p.m., 9:00 central. >> suicide bombing killed more than 50 people in a pakastani checkpoint mere the border with india, 100 others were reported wounded several of them critically, a splinter group of the pakastani taliban is claiming responsibility. if an iranian woman has been sentenced to a year in prison for trying to attend amen's volleyball game. ghoncheh ghavami who also holds british citizenship was arrested in june in tehran's fre

the farm bill is something that saxby chambliss said was perhaps the most important piece of legislation for most people in the state of georgia, and you are opposed to it. the farm bureau said that they wanted it -- if we had your way, we would still have farmers that did not have the clarity of exley having a farm bill passed. it is not what we need in washington. -- we do nott mark need more gridlock. >> and this is an interesting issue, mr. perdue, about the farm bill and what is tied to it. >> well, it is a perfect example of an ombudsman bill were only 20% of the bill was related to the farmers. the other 80% was related to the food stamp program. but let me go back to that plan. in her him plan her own advisers said that she was too liberal for the state of georgia. that is not even a real georgian. they had to put her in a rural scene so that people would think issue was important to her. this is not the kind of senator we need a washington. we need some buddy to be a champion for the working men and women in georgia who are concerned about their kids in the future. barack obama

it's going strictly to him for retiring senator chambliss -- it will be senator perdue taking over. it was an interesting race to watch here. perdue come out with 53% of the vote. joining me now from atlanta, georgia is kaitlyn ross. it is fascinating we heard michelle nunn say her representation didn't put it in play. it didn't come down to the runoff. >> absolutely. we thought we were going to be up all night waiting for the vote counts to come in. it was projected to be one of the closest races in the country. as the early numbers came back it became clear that david purdue was going to take it. it became a different election. michelle nunn did give a concession speech. she didn't concede. she said she feels proud about what they were able to do during the election. she said her campaign changed the face of georgia politics. it put the state in a different position going from a red state to. pras the purple state. she said she feels like she moved the state forward. perdue, for his part, he said he won because he was running as an outsider. he's going start off running. he wants

[applause] >> the cyber security summit feinstein from dianne and saxby chambliss. the discussed ongoing efforts in congress to draft and task cyber security legislation. this is 35 minutes. ..

. >> senator chambliss. >> well, again, ann, thank you very much for having us here today, and thanks to the chamber on two accounts. number one, what i have found as i have been around the country and literally around the world, but around country and around my state and i talk about cybersecurity, until six or eight months ago if i was at a rotary club and i said, guys, the most important thing we've got to deal with is cybersecurity, everybody's eyes would glaze over. this is not what i, as a lawyer, refer to as a road wreck case. you can't see what's happening out there, you can't really feel it except that now people are starting to understand that this is serious, that it has huge financial consequences not just to the economy of the united states, but to me personally. so what you're doing today is helping educate people about this, and i am very thankful for that. secondly, the support of the chamber is key. i ran into the former dni just last thursday. we had a cybersecurity conference in augusta, georgia, and former director mike mcconnell was there, and we were talking abou

dianne feinstein and and taxi chambliss-- and saxby will be here as soon as it gets underway. later tonight, obama announcing his executive action on immigration. his plan would shield 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation. scheduled to is address the nation at 8:00 eastern time. we will take your live calls on c-span. you can tune on c-span radio. live shortly here at this hearing for the national counterterrorism director nominee, and that is nicholas rasmussen. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> c-span bringing you live coverage from the senate confirmation hearing for nicholas rasmussen. that chair of this committee was just on the senate floor casting her vote. incould see her momentarily the hearing room. we will take a look at immigration and the president's expected announcement tonight. this is from a conversation we had earlier. we will bring you right back to the room as soon as things begin here at

saxby chambliss great heroes of georgia.se] i will work hard to earn your trust over the next six years. i will work every day to turn your trust into results. i want to thank each and every candidate in this long road to get here. i want to thank michelle nunn for running a strong campaign. she should be proud of their effort. mentionedporters, i to her tonight, i wanted her to convey my congratulations. they fought hard and they believe in what they believed. that is our system. we have to engage -- [applause] butll not give up my values i'm going to washington to get something done. [applause] herthose who voted for amanda swafford, i welcome you to join us in trying to make a better place for our kids and grandkids. [cheers and applause] youommitment to everyone of -- bonnie and i will give you everything we have to represent every individual in this state. this is the greatest state in the country. we can lead this country back in the direction it ought to be headed. [cheers and applause] without thanking congressman ja

. >> and of course david purdue will replace republican senator chambliss who is retiring in december. >> a very expensive race there. >> indeed. some of the social issues on the ballot minimum wage races passing in five states alaska will increase to 9.75 by 2015. illinois 10 by 2015. nebraska $9 by 2016 and south dakota 8.50 in 2015. the current federal minimum wage 7.25 per hour. >> mid cal marijuana fails in florida. the amendment failing with a no vote of 42 percent. needed 62 percent to pass. the campaign for medical marijuana was one of the most expensive with millions spent on both sides. they claim the amendment was too loosely awarded in which it was medical in name only. >> fox news polls taking a closer look at how voters feel about several of the key issues facing our nation today. 45 percent of americans say president obama was not a factor in their vote for u.s. house on election day. 33 percent say the opposition did play a factor. >> despite the ee bowl laup and isis 45 percent of the americans say the economy is the most important issue facing our country. >> 70 perc

georgia has a great race going on for the seat from saxby chambliss. as he hangs it up. we could be looking at a runoff that takes place all the way into january. finally, there is an interesting governor's race in florida. rick scott, the incumbent republican took the seat after charlie crist hung it up. he was a republican turned independent turned democrat. a lot of people are saying the lesser of two evils. this will be an interesting one to watch, it is one of multiple races that we will be tracking for you throughout the evening. much more coming up in just a bit. >> thank you, scott. you will be busy tonight. tomorrow join us as we break down the results from the election. we will have a tamil political experts. jimuding michael steele and blanche. you can watch that at 7:00 and again 8:30. >> moving on to some other news identity ofknow the the pedestrian killed in an early morning accident in montgomery county. shkiinr-old schmidt marshall a d was struck by a car this morning. the accident remains under investigation. >> still mourning the loss of the 17-year-ol

i know that i speak for the vice chairman of the committee senator chambliss two regrets he can't be here with us today and for myself when i say that we need a full time senate confirmed director of the national counterterrorism center as soon as possible. i won't go into the threats to our nation but they will go into the record. it's clear i think to all of us who deal in this situation with the islamic state of iraq and the lavant are isolating iraq and syria. we continue our efforts to defeat the thought of pakistan and the number of a few affiliates and other terrorist groups across the world is growing at. so it is a real problem and it is escalating. these groups have safe havens in syria and libya and across parts of north africa and in many places on line. the threat from isil the khorasan group aqap in particular pose a direct threat to the united states homeland both from external attacks and from directed and inspired lone wolf attacks from within the united states. the nctc needs to be at the front of our efforts to identify these attacks as it is done many times in the

. >> they are in a race to replace returning senator saxby chambliss. this race is a tossup. this debate is one hour. >> this was one where they brought in audience questions, but they also let the candidates question one another. there were follow-ups to the candidate's questions. it was a different format from what we've seen in other laces. >> the last one but i want to show you is vermont. this is a multi-candidate debate, where everyone who is on the ballot for governor is in the debate. they did the same thing for the congressional seat, where every person on the ballot was at the debate. this is a typical in the u.s. at a general election stage. >> good evening everyone and welcome to our biennial debate each ring the candidates for governor of our state. i'm stuart leadbetter. as you heard, we have invited all seven candidates whose names appear on the ballot to be with us tonight. all seven have joined us. positioned in a medical order they are, peter diamond stone, representing to liberty union party. chris erickson, an independent. dan feliciano, representing the l

georgia very well and that's one of the races which is held by a republican now who is retiring saxby chambliss, so you have david purdue the republican businessman running against michelle nunn the daughter of sam nunn the former democratic senator there. you know that state well. how do you see that going? because democrats have been pounding david purdue about his comments about outsourcing jobs? >> it's a very close race right now. michelle nunn was ahead a couple of weeks ago but it's part of republican candidates starting to do better. david purdue has started to pull ahead. the critical question is whether either candidate get over the 50% mark. if not, they go into a runoff that doesn't occur until january 6th. >> what do you expect? do you think that will go to a runoff? >> the bet now would be that it goes to a runoff. but if you look at the states where democrats have been leading like north carolina and new hampshire, the lead is narrowing. >> right. >> if you look at states where republicans have been leading, the lead is growing. the arkansas poll just came this week showing tom c

in georgia, republican david perdue wins the race over saxby chambliss. and democrats hoped michelle nunn to flip the seat but republicans take control. and new hampshire, cnn is projecting jeanne shaheen will hold on to her senate seat. she beat the challenger scott brown who came under fire for moving to new hampshire to run after living and serving in massachusetts. >> maybe we're expecting the wrong things, other than jeanne shaheen, it makes you think that republicans were rolling even more than some expected. now, north carolina, okay, you could say that was the clincher for republicans. thom tillis defeated democratic senator kay hagan. it put the gop over the top and control the senate. now the question is not just if they'll control, but by how much. what will the margin be. republica republicans steve daines defeats amanda curtis. after fighting for his political life, allegedly, minority leader mitch mchad connell could be the next majority leader. the kentucky senator easily won a sixth term in the senate defeating democrat alison lundergan gr

national guard and this is a hot race in georgia, democrat michelle nunn is socking to replace saxby chambliss. and the republican is making the case that nunn would be a rubber stamp for president barack obama's agent. perdue has taken heat on the issue of outsourcing of jobs. those are some of the key races that could affect the balance of power in the senate. >> mike, thank you very much. even if thing goes the republicans way, they will not have the super majority of 60 necessary to undo the gridlock and will not have the white house as president obama there is for a couple more years yeard has the veto pen. what does that mean for all of us? with all the gridlock in d.c., can they get anything done? to peter barnes. what would a republican-controlled everything on the hill mean? >> healthcare reform. republicans say they want to repeal obamacare but you just said the problem, which is they're not going to get the 60 votes they need to make -- be able to overcome any fill buster and won't be able to do anything about the president's veto or override a veto so health care reform probably wo

michelle nun and republican david per due are fighting to replace retiring gop senator sax saxby chambliss. the libertarian has a chance if neither candidate would get 5 ooh% of the -- 50% of the vote. in the dope south, we could see another such runoff in louisiana. democratic incumbent mary landrieu is facing a republican from challenger -- challenger from cassidy and maniss. he's expected to draw enough votes to prevent either cassidy or marylandrieu from getting 50% of the vote. that's just a handful of states. arkansas, west very much virginia, alaska, new hampshire and north carolina all could play a significant role. if it comes down to kansas democrats could maintain control without having a horse in the race. that's in independent candidate grill orman wins and decides to lean to the left. the gop does need a net gain of six seats to gain control of the the senate. >> be sure to count on wusa9 for complete election day coverage. and we want to remind you now that the polls are open from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in virginia. >> and they open soon too across the state lines. 7:00 a.m.

there you're talking about the seat vacated by retiring republican saxby chambliss.t is on between michelle nunn, the democratic candidate who's been statistically tied with david perdue, the republican. and in the mix also, libertarian amanda swafrd. again, if nobody can get more than 50% of the vote, that automatically goes to a runoff in january. and don't forget about kansas in all of this. in kansas the incumbent, pat roberts, the republican, is up against an independent challenger greg ormond. here's what makes this tricky. if he wins nobody knows who he'll vote with. they don't know if he'll vote with the republicans or across the aisle with the democrats. any one of these races if it comes down for-to-that could make it hard to know which party has the upper hand in this chamber. or mono. >> don't forget to get all your election night coverage right here on cnn. special coverage begins at 5:00 p.m. eastern. cnn will be there until the last vote is counted. thank you so much for joining me today. i'm carol costello. "@this hour with berman and michaela" after

republican david perdue will take over for retiring senator saxby chambliss despite some prediction therebe a runoff with democrat michelle nunn, perdue crossed the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff vote. kyra phillips caught up with perdue after his victory speech. >> we had people tell us a year ago if we got our message out that we could win this. so that's what we did. we had some really talented quality people in our primary -- republican primary. in the runoff i had jack kingston. the only reason i think we're standing here tonight is that this message resonated across the state that we have to change the direction. >> reporter: michelle nunn was very critical saying he's the out-of-touch businessman, all he cares about the money in his pocketbook. what does this say about how voters feel about you andmessag was saying. >> this's a great candidate. she's got a great family. she's done a wonderful job in her work and her life. i have nothing but kudos and i admire her professional work, they do great work over there. you can't run from your heritage. my mother is 88, she's in th

i think that chair and pledge on behalf of vice chairman chambliss and the side of the aisle that you cannot move too fast on this nomination for us. >> thank you very much. would you stand, please, mr. rasmussen? would you repeat after me, i, rasmussen, do solemnly swear that i will give this committee the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me god? [indiscernible] >> you agree to appear before the committee here, do you agree to send officials from the nctc when invited, do you agree to provide documents or any other materials requested by the committee in order for it to carry out its oversight and legislative response ability -- response ability -- responsibility, do you agree with [indiscernible] of members of this committee intelligence activities and covert actions rather than only the chairman and vice chairman? >> [indiscernible] >> consistent with past investments with national intelligence, will you promised you briefed the committee within 24 or 48 hours of any terrorist attack or attempted terrorist attack if requested by the committee? >> yes. >> t

. >>> senator sox by chambliss is the top republican on the intelligence committee. good to have you with us. the paparazzi explicitly called for bashir al assad to go back in august of 2011. there was a statement where he wrote the time has come for president assad to step aside. at that time he pressed congress for support and didn't get it then. will congress, do you think, support him now? >> well, i think certainly there was no disagreement back in 2011 between the president and congress and hillary clinton that bashar assad should go. the president and secretary clinton said at that time that he would be gone in a year. well, here we are three years later, aiferin, and he's still there. that just tells you that our strategy inside of syria has not been working very well. >> and let me ask you about the bashar al assad side of things. it is a bit complicated. the united states said let's kill gadhafi and now egypt, mubarak is left and replaced with turmoil until another military general took over. i know you said it is imperative that assad be removed as well. b

georgia's saxby chambliss, ranking member on the senate intelligence committee, called it "totally flawedgle case pointed to by anybody who can show that as a result of the collection of metadata under 215, any americaç had their privacy rights breached. it simply has not happened. it will not happen if we keep this program in place. >> ifill: president obama had proposed curbing the n.s.a.'s data gathering, and the houseç approved its own, weaker version of the bill in may. the white house supported the senate version in part because the law authorizing the entire program expires next june. joining me now to discuss what comes next for n.s.a. reform in congress is democratic senator from vermont patrick leahy. leahy, who is chairman of the senate intelligence committee, co-sponsored the legislation that failed last night. we reached out to several republicans who opposed the bill who were not available tonight. senator, part of the debate last night was whether your solution to this issue went too far or didn't go far enough. where did it land? >> well, weç got 58 votes out f 100 senat

later today, you'll hear from senators feinstein and chambliss. i think the role they are playing is attempting to generate legislation to help the private sector deal with the very real and legitimate concern about legal liability. that is critical for us. because if we don't help address that very legitimate concern that i think for many of you, many of you in the private sector that is a real challenge for you, for timely information sharing. as the director of the fbi, in a private life, he was general counsel of the largest brokerage firm in the united states. i will often ask him -- when you were a lawyer, what was your recommendation? what advice were you giving? he doesn't hide the fact that he would oh is tell them to be very mindful about the liability. that you have to be very careful and if you're not, potentially, the corporation is going to be setting themselves up for major financial liabilities and potentially impact on market share and business and the image. we have got to help address those concerns. what we have to get to is a

let's meet our candidates who are trying to earn your vote to replace retiring senator saxby chambliss. we determined podium position by drawing. first, the republican candidate, david perdue. next, the democratic candidate, michelle nunn. and libertarian candidate amanda swofford. we thank you all for being with us this morning. to question the candidates today, i am joined by our panel. the assistant program director for wsb radio, atlanta journal constitution washington correspondent daniel malloy and channel 2 political reporter laurie gily. you'll have one minute for response, 4r5 seconds for rebuttal at my discretion and these are loose guidelines as certain conversations may warrant more time and i'm going to try very hard to get some clarity on those campaign ads. first question is mine. mr. perdue and miss nunn, neither of you have ever held public office. s. swofford, you have. clearly you are outside the beltway politicians or hope-to- be politicians. what have you done each of you, what have you done in your life to prepare you for one of the most powerful jobs in u.s. gove

i thank the chair, and pledge we have of vice chairman chambliss and this side of the aisle, madam chairman, you can't move too fast on this nomination for us. >> thank you very much. would you stand please, mr. rasmussen? which repeat after me? i, nick rasmussen, do solemnly swear that i will give this committee truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me god? [inaudible] >> thanks. do you agree to appear before the committee here or in other venues when invited? do you agree to send officials and nctc and dedicated staff when invited? do you agree to provide documents or any other which was requested on the committee in order for it to turn out its oversight and legislative responsibility? >> i do. >> will you ensure that the nctc and its officials provide such material to the committee when requested the? >> i do. >> be a great -- [inaudible] all members of this committee on intelligence activities and covert actions rather than only the chairman and vice chairman? >> i do. >> would you promise to brief the committee within 24 or 48 hours of any terrorist attack or attemp

michelle nunn and public and david purdue are running for the open seat of retiring senator saxby chambliss. tossup. is considered a here is a look at what voters in georgia are seeing from the two candidates. >> i am michelle nunn, and i approve this message. today, it is the leading manufacturer of cable in north america. when i hear david purdue say he is proud to outsource jobs to other parts of the world, i have to wonder -- every time we invest in georgia workers, they can compete with everyone in the youd, so i don't know how can be proud of having sent american jobs overseas. >> david purdue helped create and save thousands of jobs right here in america. all michelle nunn seems to do is attack david. we want to know where she is on jobs, education, national security. she never says die that is because she supports president obama's agenda. we do not need more bad policy from washington. we need a new direction. >> that is david purdue. >> david purdue. >> i am david purdue, and i approve this message. >> i'm michelle nunn and i approve this message. david purdue is defending his car

chairman rogers and i have been working very closely with senator feinstein and senator chambliss onthese issues in the senate. we need to move quickly to recognize these issues and pass this legislation. the threat is not going to wait. thank you, admiral rodgers\/\ -- admiral rogers. thank you for having this open hearing so we can educate our american citizens on this threat and what we need to do. >> thank you very much. the floor is yours. welcome. good to know that you have not voted anything to significant. >> thank you for the ability to speak on a topic of critical importance today. i will keep my remarks short. i would start by first thanking representative rogers for your time. this will be the last time, i suspect, i will be testifying with you asommittee chairman and i just want to thank you for your leadership on the truly nonpartisan nature that you have created. i think it is a great example for all of us and serves the nation well. individual who interact with your committee on a regular basis, i thank you for that. it makes my job better and easier and, more importa

let's see if they can avoid a runoff there. >> remember senator chambliss needed a runoff to win his.nd game is work in georgia. >> it's well underway. ainsley, what do you got? >> let me tell you what's happening in the news this morning. the 19-year-old chicago man accused of trying to join isis ordered to remain behind bars one month after the f.b.i. arrested him at o'hare airport. we have just learned mohammed cannes was not alone. agents also arrested his 16-year-old brother and 17-year-old sister who were traveling with him to go and join isis. they have not been charged. prosecutors say kahn worked all summer to pay for plane tickets for himself and his siblings. >>> are u.s. troops worse than isis? one university of arizona instructor says yes. he just published an article writing this: it would not be a stretch to say the united states is actually a greater threat to peace and stability in the region than isis. some are now saying taxpayer dollars should not be funding a university encouraging such dialogue about current events. >>> angelina jolie going from the box office to

. >> we know that saxby chambliss soon to be predecessor needed a runoff and it often happens in georgiawas won in the last week? do you believe the polls were off? did people change their mind? what happened? >> no. our pollster had this number pegged all along. we lost a little traction midway in the general election, but we got up on tv again got our message going and once message kept resonating out there, people responded to it. we could feel that. we just finished a ten-day tour around the state and we just heard this response coming back to us overwhelmingly. so that's really what i think turned the tide here. >> your reaction to the flyers that went out from, i understand, the democratic party of georgia that had warning the black community if you allow david perdue to become our senator, that we can visit another -- we could have a ferguson in our streets. do you think that was over the line? >> well, i do. i said that publicly. it's disappointing, but it's what we've come to expect in politics. we've got to change that. we disenfranchised a lot of people who have become cynical

isakson: on behalf of myself and is senator chambliss from georgia -- the presiding officer: the chamber will come to order. mr. isakson: we would like the senate to look favorably. we could appreciate your consideration and your yes vote. i yield back. the presiding officer: all time is yielded back. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of leigh martin may of georgia to be united states district judge for the northern district of georgia, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is: is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of leigh martin may of georgia to be united states district court judge for the northern district of georgia shall be brought to a close? the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will report the. -- the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding of

cnn's nick valencia is live with more on the race to replace saxby chambliss. >> this is not what people expected to happen. most pollsters didn't think either candidate was going to get the 50% plus 1 vote to win the run-off. but just oofs after the polls closed it became increasingly clear that david perdue, the republican candidate was pulling away and that's what happened. despite her loss, democratic candidate michelle nunn was upbeat in her concession speech. >> we have exceeded every expectation of what was possible in this race. i want to remind you all that about 15 months ago all of the political pundits said georgia was not in play. and we put georgia in play. >> now republican candidate david perdue said georgia voters made their message very clear, that they're unhappy with barack obama's presidency. he did a good job in his campaign of attaching michelle nunn to president obama. saying that she would basically be a rubber stamp for his agenda. and that eventually hurt her in this, david perdue, the victor in the senate race in georgia. >> thank you. >>> you know we keep say

they are in a race to replace returning senator saxby chambliss. this race is a tossup. this debate is one hour. this was one where they brought in audience questions, but they also let the candidates question one another. there were follow-ups to the candidate's questions. it was a different format from what we've seen in other places. we would like to welcome you in our live studio audience to the debate series. this is the debate between -- >> the last one but i want to show you is vermont. debate a multi-candidate , where everyone who is on the ballot for governor is in the debate. they did the same thing for the congressional seat, where every person on the ballot was at the debate. this is a typical in the u.s. at a general election stage. good evening everyone and welcome to our biennial debate each ring the candidates for governor of our state. leadbetter. as you heard, we have invited all seven candidates whose names appear on the ballot to be with us tonight. all seven have joined us. positioned in a medical order they are, peter diamond stone, representing to

senator chambliss and i wrote a letter to the four big telecoms and we asked them if they would hold the data? the answer came back from to, yes, and educating back from to, no. since that time the situation has changed. not in writing but my personal testimony from two of the companies that they will hold the data for at least two years for business reasons. now, here's the problem. the mandate was inherent in the 215 at is gone. at the fact is that the telecoms have agreed to hold the data. the president himself has assured me of this. if we do not pass this bill we will lose this program. senator rubio sits on our committee. i listened to with interest the i agree with him in what he has said about isil and others that will come after us if they can. and the only protection we have essentially to disrupt the plot before becomes our reality in this country. and the program is not widely used as the 288 queries in a given year would indicate. additionally, in this bill, and this should i think be a satisfaction to a number of people, the fisa court would have to approve a query befo

. >> david, my position on ebola is the same as johnny isakson and saxby chambliss. that is all i need to say about it. we need to be sure that we take the extraordinary and most important efforts there to combat ebola and we need to make sure we are following our scientists as we do that. i believe that we need to have a conversation, deliberation along long-term deliberation in congress. right now, i'm continuing the policies we have right now around airstrikes and around continuing to arm the moderate rebels. david, a year ago, you are asked if you are for intervening in syria and armoring the moderate rebels, and i think that would've made a difference in fighting isis, and you said no. something that john mccain said it was a catastrophic position as it related to isis. >> lee's answer that, and then, miss wofford. >> i do not think -- that is in total disregard and you have absolutely flip-flopped. you deny that even in this. i think we need strong leadership in the white house -- not just with isis and ebola. also with softening the sanctions on iran. safety a

chairman rogers and i have been working very closely with chairman, with senator feinstein and senator chambliss on these issues in the senate. we need to move quickly to reconcile the two, these two issues and pass this legislation. the threat is not going to wait. so thank you, admiral rogers, for taking the time today to come before us about the cyber threat, and chairman rogers, again, thank you for having this open hearing so we can educate our american citizens on this threat and what we need to do. thank you. >> thank you very much. admiral rogers, the floor is yours. welcome. it's good to know in seven months you haven't bumped into anything too significant. congratulations. >> well, chairman, thank you very much. vice chairman and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to talk to you today on a topic that clearly is of critical importance to the nation and to each of us here today. i'll keep my opening remarks very short as i think the interaction between us will generate the greatest value. i would start by, first, thanking representative rogers for your time, and this

that his former, outgoing senator saxby chambliss standing behind david perdue. he will take his seat, january. back to "the washington post," their breakdown of who voted and why -- married men philip is a republican in glasgow, kentucky. living in aare state where you have the senate majority leader representing you. what you think about that? aller: i think he would do good job. i really do. i have been listening to what you are talking about, and i think the governor's races around the country, and the house races around the country may be just as important as the toate race and the shift whatever it is going to be, probably 54% to 46%. it it is 53-43. two independence. three more to be decided. i hope i have those numbers right. caller: right. mitch mcconnell ran a good race in kentucky. the only thing i was going to say, as much as anything, given the governor's races, the house, and the senate, this is more a repudiation of the policies of obama. getting to that point -- the republicans getting to this guess,oday is, i euphoric, in a way, but at the same t

saxby chambliss is retiring. now it is up for grabs and michelle nunn is make it competitive. that: one might argue david purdue is making it a little less competitive. statements that will not play well in downstate georgia with the manufacturing jobs down there. perdue testament to a campaign that is not as tough as it could have been. host: republicans looking likely. that means they still have to get three more seats if they pick up the ones that look likely. where else are the big pickups? that aree main pickups going the way of the republicans are arkansas and louisiana. these are red states. in a nonpresidential election year, democrats have a competitive disadvantage because their voters are not as motivated to come out. , wherere ruby red states it is easier for republicans to organize their base. very unpopular presidential approval ratings that they are battling. , at one point the democrats were even pulling out of kentucky the couple of weeks ago. that is one that gets you 26. -- to six. unless the republicans lose one of their states, they are in a pretty good po