congressmember john conyers, you were a congress men at the time.his was 20 years into your term in congress. to 30 years later, you are calling for an investigation once again. what happened then? where was the investigation and what will be different now? >> well, that is going to turn in large part on how eric ,older, the attorney general wants to have his legacy viewed as he prepares to leave the top position in the attorney general's office. thatact of the matter is this is an embarrassment. the haven't even dismissed witnesses or the suspects involved. it is like they just put this into a closet and locked the door. and thanks to congresswoman beretta sanchez and others -- , wetta sanchez and others are saying we don't want president obama and the department of justice to leave this case as if it never happened. theant a hearing in judiciary committee or i will hold a forum if i don't get a hearing, but we have got to get into this. i am going to be working closely with eric holder, who i believe is sensitive to the position that is being rais

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members of congress either you know we had someone from the house intel committee we had congressman conyers. you know there were some senior people there and it was nice to see them there it was nice to see them interacting with the family it's nice to see them say we heard you we care sorry. considering her only twenty six percent of americans disapprove of drone strikes though jennifer what will it take for this practice to end. i'm hoping it's putting in a human face on it i'm hoping this week is the start of a change in those numbers that there was a poll earlier in the week that said that. you know the number drops to magically in terms of approval when you look at whether they're killing civilians or not well the reality is here are three civilians right here who have been impacted by u.s. drone strikes they need answers we need transparency in the program and maybe if we can start putting faces to the numbers and engaging with the human side of this discussion rather than just the statistics we can start to get people to take action. how do you think the average american citizen can

over in the house chairman conyers, former chairman of the judiciary, jim sensenbrenner, have been very supportive. trey gowdy, a former prosecutor. so i think we've got very good support on both sides of the aisle, and i think the more parents and people become acutely aware that these gps type of devices can be very helpful in your day-to-day life, they can also be a tool and a conduit for somebody who's got some nefarious thoughts and ideas to follow somebody without their knowledge. that really should be against the law. and law enforcement really should have to demonstrate to the court that they have probable cause in order to go follow somebody without their knowledge. >> host: do you hear from constituents on this issue? >> guest: oh, absolutely. i think certainly with the nsa revelations, people have been acutely aware and concerned about what the government is doing, are they following them? the obama administration has not clarified their position post-jones on how they're going to deal with this. there was a freedom of information act request that the aclu put in with the dep

let's start with john conyers out of michigan. >> john conyers has what most members of congress nowrty members get elected to party positions, but they use it as a kitty for personal benefit. in the case of john conyers during the last election cycle, conyers literally spent more money on limousine service for himself than he did on giving money to other candidates. he also bought thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of tickets to sporting events, which again has nothing to do with what a leadership pac is supposed to do. >> how do you explain that? i had to have a meeting an an nfl game? >> right. that's how they justify it. the larger problem is that unlike normal campaign committees, say the committee to elect john conyers that have strict requirements that you cannot use it for personal use, the fec has no restrictions on leadership pacs. you can wing it and decide what you want to spend your money on. >> another example. ander crenshaw out of florida. >> he used his leadership pac money to tour wine countries in napa valley, california. he took a couple defense contractor

briefing with congressman alan grayson include rush holt of new jersey jan schakowsky of illinois john conyers of michigan and rick nolan of minnesota but despite the low turnout this was a rare event on capitol hill in which members of the u.s. government officially acknowledge that these strikes are actually happening and they are destroying lives something the current and previous administrations in the white house have been reluctant to do earlier i sat down with congressman alan grayson and i asked him what impact he hopes his briefing will have. i think that over time it's going to have a great impact one of the laws of war the use of military force in general is that we try to spare civilians we try to spare the innocent and the case of drones there have been documented reports of roughly a thousand innocent people who've been killed by these attacks virtually every observer says that the chance of killing an innocent is roughly one in five every time we launch one of these attacks one in five of the victims turns out to be entirely innocent and there are publicly available lists of the

bill being worked on by republican jim sensenbrenner who wrote the patriot act and democrat john conyers as well as senator patrick leahy would limit the n.s.a.'s ability to engage in bulk collection of americans phone metadata under section two fifteen of the patriot act the bill also strengthens rules against targeting americans with searches of the n.s.a. databases and gives companies the opportunity to release just how many orders they've received from the government to turn over their customers data now to break down all these issues and other tech stuff in the news i'm joined by archie's a steve the web producer and your book a sad injury thanks for coming on here so let's break down the story about lava bit and this was an e-mail service used by edward snowden and four hundred thousand other people exactly but i'm guessing it was the edward snowden affair that really brought the attention over you tell me here what have we learned about how the federal government put pressure on this company that eventually forced it to close its doors ok back up a few months first guardian leaks

he cosponsored with a liberal democrat john conyers on the legislation.guantanamo bay, he says that prisoners should not be held indefinitely, and he is one of the few republicans to bring them over to the united states. this all-equals a libertarian grab bag, which has given him a high national profile, but has raised concerns and questions back in his home district. in the "washington post," philip rutter can reported that congressman amosh -- [ technical difficulties ] this potential fiscal cliff situation with the debt limit could mean for their businesses. so there's chatter about him getting perhaps a more moderate competitor in the primary next year, so watch for that, and watch for the congressman in terms of his national profile. tomorrow's meeting will introduce her to the representative from texas. filling in for president barack o.the u.s. would remain commited the shut down back home is in politics. >> it has begun the engines of both within our global economy while many nations are going through tough times. the economy are suffering from cu

i teamed up with john conyers, and this is not a partisan issue .or republicans, democrats, libertarians, conservatives, liberals, everyone in between. when we fought for that amendment and we took to the house floor and had that debate, that was the proudest moment for me as an elected official. [cheers] >> we brought republicans and democrats together to speak on that amendment. we only had 7.5 minutes. that is the debate time they gave us, seven and a half minutes to talk about one of the most important issues facing our country and the world. we split it up between 11 or 12 people. on both sides of the aisle. i have to tell you that afterwards, after we had that debate, people were saying congratulations, they were proud of what we had done even though we had not had the vote yet. when the vote came down, it was close, it scared people. it scared the establishment in both parties. we have the president of the united states fighting against the amendment. it was the first time in his administration that he came out in opposition to an amendment.

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. >> thank you, chairman conyers, this thing which members of the judiciary committee. i am honored today to speak to you briefly on behalf of the national legal aid and defenders association. nlada, founded in 1911, is the oldest and largest membership organization in the nation, advocating for equal justice for all people in both the civil ad criminal justice systems, regardless of income. on the half of my defender colleagues, i want to endorse the comments of mr. kramer, on behalf of our ceo jo-ann wallace who was former public defender of the district of columbia. we certainly understand the crisis in federal defense, as was the crisis at the state level. however, today i'm here on behalf of the thousands of attorneys and other advocates in the civil justice system dedicated to ensuring our democratic principle of equal justice under the law. my colleagues across the nation work every day, often at significant personal sacrifice, to make that principle of equal justice our reality for low-income families in communities in every corner of the nation. i wanted to bri

one of the groups released this video featuring maggie guillen hal and john conyers, in support of the rally. >> we've gt a wake-up call just recently. >> nsa snooping includes the interception of call detail records. >> audio, video, photographs, documents, chat logs and e-mails. >> every american is at risk for getting caught up in the nsa dragnet. >> nsa whistle blower edward snowden is throwing his support behind the protest. it comes amid fresh revelations that the nsa has been spying on 35 world leaders including allies like angela merkel. they promise to review the surveillance policy. joining me now is juana summers, for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> they are saying this is the largest rally of its kind in history. to note there haven't been vem but this will change after the details. >> it absolutely has with all of the disclosures from edwa edwardsnowden, in the trenches of capitol hill and the policy community has been brought into the public eye. what we're looking for is so see how much ferver go behind this offer and will what lawmakers are response be next we

next year, there's a house bill that's introduced by representative ted po and representative john conyers that is moving ahead as well. i think they'll have hearings on that one. i think it will take a little longer. but we've had some success in the past. we passed the house twice, 2007, 2009. so we're optimistic. >> it is bipartisan. mike pence, republican from indiana who basically said, look, i'm not doing this because i love the media. in fact, sometimes i don't like you guys but i believe in protecting whistleblowers. >> a constitutional issue. so many conservatives see it as a constitutional issue which they should. >> build upon sort of the answers on the past two questions. i don't -- i don't want you to shutter here, but there is -- doing your best. >> there's a defense to be made in the group that part of the political segment loves to hate, the main stream media. it's a proliferation of news websites at the state, local, and national level, new ventures here and there. citizen journalists. all of that is to be applauded. but if you look at these cases, you -- "new york times,"

a group of lawmakers led by congress number john conyers introduced attribute to wallace in the congressionalecord, saying -- amnesty international has launched a campaign calling for albert woodfox's release. the final imprisoned member of the angola 3 has had his conviction overturned three times, but he remains in solitary confinement at the david wade correctional center in homer, louisiana, where he is subjected to strip searches and anal cavity searches as many as six times a day. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a democracy now! special, we spend the hour with four former government officials, all whistleblowers themselves, who have just returned from visiting national security agency whistleblower edward snowden in russia. they are former cia analyst ray mcgovern, former fbi agent coleen rowley, former national security agency senior executive thomas drake, and his lawyer, former u.s. justice department ethics advisor jesselyn radack. last week, the group became the first americans known to meet w

conyers, for five minutes. mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i thank you for the opportunity to rise and address my colleagues. on november 1, households participating in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, popularly referred to as snap, will see their monthly benefit sharply reduced. the temporary benefit boost provided for in the 2009 american reinvestment and recovery act is scheduled to expire next month leaving many americans unsure of how they will put food on the table. the november 1 cut will exaggerate the problem of hunger in our nation and make it much harder for millions of americans, fathers, mothers, children, veterans and active duty military, even, to provide for their loved ones. the benefit increase passed in the depths of the great recession has provided americans both directly and indirectly with substantial benefits. low-income families who face unemployment and underemployment are provided a critical way to bridge the financial barriers they face. americans who are employed in -- inadequate paying jobs

conyers is the way h.r. 2374 should have been drafted. instead of short circuiting the regulatory process on behalf of wall street profits, this represents an appropriate and balanced way forward to advise the department of labor in their current rulemaking on investment advice. first congress should not be in the business of shutting down any and all efforts by the department of labor to make rules for fiduciaries. the fiduciary rule is the corner stone of pension law. that when makes sure you hand your money over to someone else to invest it for you, they're going to act in your best interests. stopping any and all regulatory action to ensure that people's retirement nest eggs are protected is irresponsible. my amendment would allow the department to proceed, at the same time it addresses concerns that have been raised with the department of labor's proposed rules. under my amendment, the congress would send message to the department of labor that we want investors protected, not wall street brokers. or advisors trying to protect their

congressman john conyers. >> congressman conyers has the leadership pac.ship pacs are designed to give money to fellow members of your party to win reelection. the problem is john conniers in the last election cycle spent more money on personal limousine service. >> 1500 bucks. >> than to give to other candidates. he spent about that same amount on one visit to a brewery that he decided to go to an event. it's a lifestyle subsidy that takes place. >> congresswoman grace napolitano, she's democrat out of california. she loaned her campaign some money and charged 18% interest. >> remarkable. she runs for office in 1998, loans her campaign about $100,000, charges her own campaign 18% interest, doesn't pay the loan off for more than 20 years. so she literally pockets hundreds of thousands of dollars cash in her pocket. again, completely and totally legal. >> her explanation on "60 minutes" was i have the same car and house. that makes me feel better. crenshaw out of florida, his leadership is to reelect republicans. >> this committee dropped a huge amount of m

rosa delauro sean honda schakowsky lead jackson-lee cicilline he pass capuano thurston clarke colon conyers cummings davis defazio janice hanh. steve horsford. we have allen grayson and many many more. we have mark pocan. so now let me tell you we have a speaker from tt w.. john from ctw. where are you at john? >> come on and make some noise. [applause] >> hello. my name is john anderson. i'm a line line cook at the smithsonian institute. before the shutdown i was struggling to keep a roof over them my and my sons had paying bills and transportation and food. since the shutdown i went from low-wage to no wage. i have no savings because i live from check to check. now i'm living day-to-day wondering if my son and i -- if me and my son will have to move into a homeless shelter because i cannot afford the room that we share together. i am a divorced father of two children that are still in high school. my 16-year-old lives with me and my daughter is a senior in school and lives with her mother. my daily decisions are not about if i'm going to go to a yoga class or if i can afford to pay transp

chief judge administrative law was annters and conyers employee that was a former police officer to videotape you on the days that you are supposed to be working from home. youare trying to catch going shopping or otherwise taking advantage of the rules. they were unable to provide any proof like that. the films going shopping on weekend. then evidence was fabricated in that videotape to make it appear as though you were going shopping during work hours. then it was turned over to your superiors. that correct? >> yes. >> they try to discredit you because they believe just spoken to a reporter about what was going on in the office. muchudge has admitted as and a signed statement to the social security administration. it is exhibit number 82. chillicothe ms. martin or ms. hicks? >> either will be fine. >> ok. you are married. a member of the huntington placed callsarly to you at the office informing working she would be from home. >> she actually did not call the office. she called my personal cell phone. >> were you at the office when she call? >> most of the time. knowanted me to let eric wha

there's a house bill introduced by representative ted poe and representative john conyers moving aheadawell. i think there are at lough hearings on that one. it may take a little longer. we have had some success in the past. we passed the house twice. we're optimistic. >> it actually is bipartisan. for many years our greater champion was a republican from indiana who basically said, look, i'm not doing it because i love the media. i don't like you guys, but i believe in protecting this whistle blowers. >> to et the -- constitutional issues. many see it as a constitutional issue, as they should. [inaudible] >> the apps on the past two questions. and i don't want you to shudder here, but there is -- [laughter] there is a defense to be made of a group that everybody at least part of the political spectrum loves to hate, which is the main extremely media. there's a proliferation of new state websites, state, local, and national levels. citizens journalist. all that have is to to be applauded. when you look at the cases, "the new york times," "washington post." [inaudible] "the wall street

there is a house bill introduced by representative john conyers that is moving ahead as well.they take a lot longer. we've had some success in the past. we passed the house twice. so were optimistic. it actually is bipartisan. for many years, our greatest champion was representative mike pence, republican from indiana, who basically said i'm not doing this because i let the media. in fact, sometimes they don't like you guys, but i really believe in representing the source. >> many conservatives be at -- [inaudible] >> are the answers on these past two questions. i don't want you to shutter here, but there is -- there is a defense to be made of a group that everybody, at least part of the political spec to his immediate. yes, there's a new news website at the state, local and even the national level. new ventures here in air. citizen journalists. and all that is applauded. but "the new york times", siobhan gordon "wall street journal." fox news, they are part of the news media. they are mainstream and large. these are the organizations that have a base for the moment deep enoug

the bill that they have now, ath conyers, yes, definitely new bill, we should all support the need to get rid of this spying, it is not doing anything to stop the real people who are causing the domestic terror. you: congressman, earlier told us that you disagree with the legislation. why would you oppose those efforts? it will be less safe -- guest: it will be less safe, folks will die. there were 54 events around the world, 13 in the united states, 41 overseas that eventually resulted in people dying. not something i want to have happen, so part of my job is to do the oversight and work with the system to make sure that privacy is not being abused and if it is, the folks are being held to account. i understand the overall disdain for what is going on. she mentioned drones and other things, it has absolutely nothing to do with nsa. we have new tools to try to prevent crime in the united states. each local jurisdiction, each state gets to decide for themselves. she has mixed her message is there between what she does not like and the nsa programs. place. good processes in earlier you

. >> chairman conyers and members of the committee, thank you for staying with us on behalf of the sexual violence and the crisis centers throughout the nation. and for the coalition against greek i would like to thank you for this opportunity and i have been walking around the organization saying i feel like chicken little because i keep saying the sky is falling and nobody else seems to get it. but i think the sky is falling and we really need to act now. and my esteemed colleagues on this panel -- the fact that mauney america doesn't care what justice anymore breaks my heart. it really does. and the people here that are doing the work that comes from our founding fathers work on the constitution that we all swear to defend and we all pledge allegiance to but lets me get real and get the budget done so that we can all go back to work. >> on behalf of all of my colleagues on the judiciary committee, we thank you for the incredible response. we think we have a record now that can make clearer the crisis that is going to affect the justice system and the judicial system of this country. an

. >> so conyers and brenner being -- the problem is, i'm not taking comfort in it.coalition. i'm thinking, the rand paul was for it, maybe i ought to be against it. stick with us. my favorite story of the week was about flipping the script on the former nsa chief. you just never know who's listening. help the gulf ur commitment recover and learn the gulf, bp from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, where experts watch over all drilling activity twenty-four-seven. and we're sharing what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger. with an innovative showerhead plus wireless speaker, kohler is the proud sponsor of singing in the shower. in the nation, what's precious to you is precious to us. ♪ love is strange so when coverage really counts, count on nationwide insurance. we put members first. join the nation. ♪ nationwide is

campbell conyers and young, for and tested the whole system. you did your part. mr. slavitt, you said the same thing, correct? you both tested your parts. am i correct? >> so cms has independent contractor, qssi that test our system. >> okay. and, mr. slavitt, did qssi test the whole system? >> we tested the portions of the system for the code that we received -- >> who was the independent contractor? >> uss iowa is one of the independent contractors. we tested code from cgi. >> did you find any problems? >> we found problems in the code -- >> would require more time to fix it? >> which isn't necessarily a problem so long as they are fixed. >> did you inform anybody at cms or hhs that you needed more time to? >> we inform both cms and the other contractor. >> who did you tell? >> i don't know the names of anybody which all but i can tell you we inform cms and we informed the contractor responsible for the code. >> how much money did cgi get from the federal government, told? >> our total is about $290 million. >> mr. slavitt, how much did your company receive? >> the

the bill that they have now, ath conyers, yes, definitely new bill, we should all support the need toet rid of this spying, it is not doing anything to stop the real people who are causing the domestic terror. you: congressman, earlier told us that you disagree with the legislation. why would you oppose those efforts? it will be less safe -- guest: it will be less safe, folks will die. there were 54 events around the world, 13 in the united states, 41 overseas that eventually resulted in people dying. not something i want to have happen, so part of my job is to do the oversight and work with the system to make sure that privacy is not being abused and if it is, the folks are being held to account. i understand the overall disdain for what is going on. she mentioned drones and other things, it has absolutely nothing to do with nsa. we have new tools to try to prevent crime in the united states. each local jurisdiction, each state gets to decide for themselves. she has mixed her message is there between what she does not like and the nsa programs. place. good processes in earlier you me

. >> chairman john conyers. >> the chairman from -- the ranking member from the judiciary committee is here. we have several members from our various caucuses. the new democrats have been champions on this issue so what we are saying is on the democratic side we are ready and we hope our publicans many of whom -- over two dozen who have said will vote for a comprehensive bill can rally to no week and get this done and there's no reason to have this dysfunction. >> you are the only member of the so-called group of eight who is here. what does that mean for that bill? is that an alternative that would totally replace the dash apparently? >> that legislation which we have introduced is there. many of us i believe on a bipartisan basis believe that it could become the vehicle that we use in the house to get this done and so i think they they're still great anticipation and hope that the work that was done by the by parchin group of house members can still produce a -- to our immigration system. >> a guest worker immigration that you're bringing in basically 2 million people -- [inaudible]

the good news was that chairman hyde, a republican and ranking member conyers at that time, and senators on both sides of the aisle joined together in one big room to come together and acknowledge the importance of protecting women and then of course to acknowledge that violence, domestic violence is a disease, an epidemic that spreads beyond the question of whether you are male or female. and so the staggering loss of life that has come about because people have not found a refuge, and for those of us who have heard firsthand stories -- as a member of the houston areas women center, the board that in houston -- the board that, if you will, had supervision over local women's centers, where women could go, i have known and seen stories that would argue so vigorously for more funding and more recognition and more laws that would protect these women. so i am glad that even though the journey was even longer to get the violence against women act passed in the last congress, that we ultimately after many petitions, that we were involved in, saw a bipartisan vote in the house and in the senate