the pennsylvania department of health, the pennsylvania department of state, and the philadelphia department of public health and safety, they had ample opportunity to investigate and to shut gosnell down. >> joe, the doctor's staff, they seemed completely untrained. the chief anesthesiologist i understand had only a 7th graded indication. >> that's correct. linda williams testified this week she never went beyond 7th grade. and eventually got some training as a phlebotomist. but really didn't work in that job. she was working at another abortion clinic in delaware, sterilizing instruments. that's where she met gosnell. and later, after her husband was murdered, and she was going through problems, gosnell agreed to hire her under the table, and then gradually trained her in different skills needed for the abortion procedure. and linda, as any other employee, when they said, is this okay, is this legal, gosnell, according to the trial testimony, would say, you're working for a doctor, you're grandfathered in. >> eight of his subordinates have already pleaded guilty. and so the -- at first, th

department of state, danish and british governments and of course the afghans, additionally we reached out to the private sector for partnerships, and not for profits to deliver things that we weren't capable of delivering or to cover gaps that arose as we implemented the plan. we implemented the plan through 17 teams through helman and our two female engagement teams. this is actually just scrolling pictures. sometimes a picture says a thousand words and i don't want to take you down the whole history of a year but i wanted to talk to you about how we framed this plan. this plan was framed into 5 pillars and the 5 pillars were students and parents, we attempted to build buy in and assure safety among the students. there was lots of fear of reprisals. by sending your kids to school there was fear that the taliban was going to knock on your door and let you know that that wasn't allowed. previously the taliban had instituted a medrossas so their only forms of education were religious schools and those are religious schools for boys. teachers. there is no teaching force in afghanistan so

people have submitted comments on this environmental impact statement being coordinated by the department of state so what you see is millions of americans going up against this cynical todd funded by the koch brothers and funded by exxon and all the other big oil and fossil fuel companies because poll after poll shows that a majority of americans understand that climate change is real they understand that climate change is the result of us burning fossil fuels at a record rate and we have to act in order to save the planet and leave it better for future generations and so what i see is actually inspiring that people are going up against this way. wave of fossil fuel funded cynicism and actually demanding that the administration and congress take action so the question is is this tide of popularity of grassroots activism going to be able to overcome the entrenched fossil fuel interests in washington d.c. and i think that's the fight that we're going to see played out this year yeah it definitely is the fight and brad. what's your take on this fight i mean what are the specific probe proposals that

state department. you mentioned early in your remarks that the state isn't moving a large number of items in the state epartment control and the commerce department. of the accord hate how licenses are issued and second night, what mechanisms you have to coordinate with other countries that might ask for the same items to countries of concern? >> excellent questions. our export control reform effort is designed to have a more unified approach. the ultimate goal is the four singles enforcement mechanism. it would be a critical element of the coordination you're talking about with congress about that right now if they cannot get on and the licenses come in, double make it easier. commerce, we let them know which licensees would like to see in most of them to the state department and the state department bureaus that have equities will look at commerce and opinion. eventually would like to get tracing the lives. so in terms of other countries, these various non-proliferation including the agreement among countries. my doesn't handle it. it's a non-proliferation were they talk about items that we send dele

what do you believe are some opportunities that we have to partner with the department of state, the department of homeland security, and in order to secure and protect our homeland given the state of our budget? >> i think the interagency relationship is always a key part of any agency institution carrying out its responsibilities. your particular question mentions department of state and homeland security. gatesimes, secretary sounded like the secretary of state. rebalancinge priorities and the resources at state where some of these programs should reside and used to reside? in my opinion, he was right. state has a very important role to play in our foreign policy, obviously, but also in the homelandcy relationships that security, which, as you all knew, is a new agency. but they all connect. there is not an interest, not a connection point that doesn't affect all the other connection points that serve our interests, whether it's homeland interests, economic interest, diplomatic interests, and military interests, energy interest, cyber interest, whatever. they are all connected in.

people have submitted comments on this environmental impact statement being coordinated by the department of state so what you see is millions of americans going up against this cynical tide funded by the koch brothers and funded by exxon and all the other big oil and fossil fuel companies because poll after poll shows that a majority of americans understand that climate change is real they understand that climate change is the result of us burning fossil fuels at a record rate and we have to act in order to save the planet and leave it better for future generations and so what i see is actually inspiring that people are going up against this wave of fossil fuel funded cynicism and actually demanding that the administration and congress take action so the question is is this tide of popularity of grassroots activism going to be able to overcome the entrenched fossil fuel interests in washington d.c. and i think that's the fight that we're going to see played out this year yeah it definitely is the fight and brad. what's your take on this fight i mean what are the specific pro proposals that the yo

it essentially says the department of state is stonewalling. what some attorneys who are representing at least four people with intelligence who are either on the ground or know exactly what was happening on september 11 of last year when those four brave americans were killed, the letter complains that the state department is not providing the access and the process so that the attorneys can do their jobs and would have clearance to security documents. >>gretchen: it's a federal law with regard to whistle-blowers. the headline here is that there are four whistle-blowers apparently of these 20 people. state department officials are within the c.i.a., not knowing if they are on the ground in benghazi or not. but four whistle-blowers willing to come forward to say we have information about three important things regarding this investigation. >>steve: they have been willing to come forward but the problem is the department of state won't give them the process. that is a problem. a representative of at least one of them says people have not come for

to work through the secretary of state and the other arms of the us government to accomplish transfers first of all mr williams of the state department gave this testimony in the middle of march that is three months after the state department shut down the office that was working on those transfers so it is not clear how they continue to work on it if they shut down the office that was doing that also defense lawyers present at this commission hearing saw the response as an attempt to water down the core issue to walking down in legal details which seem to have no effect on the outcome of the indefinite detention that they're asking for or justifying is under the laws of war and in the states united states mind that that. that war ends at the end of hostilities against two al qaeda and associated forces well what does that mean that's indefinite that is the epitome of indefinite some here have voiced the idea that whatever is keeping most of those people there has nothing to do with the law but more with the fear that even those who had been wrongfully captured and held there for years for no reason have weakness so much at that pris

it is said that you've penetrated into the us department of defense is that true we have recruited a high ranking officer from the united states department of defense however not all of this information was genuine a part of it was supposed to mislead us this offer say even unveiled a general scenario of the war with iraq the us military strength in turkey information about troops and counter intelligence in countries neighboring iraq such as saudi arabia and the gulf arab states he was the one who confirmed there would be no attacking from turkey guided by this information we relocated the adnan division from the mosul region closer to baghdad that's fortifying positions of the troops around the city the u.s. counter intelligence suspected we had a source in the department of defense and was deliberately exposing tons of all sorts of information but we knew which of the information was true that we had information that the americans would invade as soon as they amassed seventy five thousand troops in the gulf about a month ahead of the invasion we sent to reports to the command staff informing them that the american forces st

questionicular mentions department of state and homeland security. many times, secretary gates sounded like the secretary of state. rebalancinge priorities and the resources at state where some of these programs should reside and used to reside? in my opinion, he was right. state has a very important role to play in our foreign policy, obviously, but also in the interagency relationships that you mentioned, homeland security, which, as you all knew, is a new agency. but they all connect. there is not an interest, not a connection point that doesn't affect all the other connection points that serve our interests, whether it's homeland interests, economic interest, diplomatic interests, and military interests, energy interest, cyber interest, whatever. they are all connected in. omen security, the way it is structured -- and i was there in the senate when we rolled up agencies and the one -- has authorities in a rather significant for homeland security. we are still working through how we all work together. and that's ok. but i think another part of you

state department the e.p.a. says the state the state department study of the proposed pipeline which took more than four years to complete contains quote insufficient information and went on to urge state officials state department officials to conduct a more thorough analysis of the oil spill risks and alternative pipeline routes as well as consider the greenhouse gas emissions that would be associated with the keystone x.l. pipeline. the e.p.a. raise similar concerns with the state department's handling the project back in two thousand and eleven so just how good a job is the state department doing at assessing risks and threats posed by the keystone x.l. pipeline joining me now for more on that is anthony swift attorney and keystone pipeline expert with the national resource defense council anthony welcome back it's good to be back terry to have you with us anthony first of all why is the state department in charge of the keystone x.l. pipeline i thought they did things like negotiate with foreign countries it's a really good question and it's certainly not in the area of the state department's expertise this

of february. that's according to the complaint investigation report filed by the statee department of social -- state's department of social services. "a child was pinched on his side and had his arms squeezed by a staff member." this is a different and separate incident from the one that got all the headlines last month when a teacher was accused of tying a 2-year-old up with tape after the child refused to take a nap. the pinching incident happened first but wasn't reported until weeks later. the pastor correctly and immediately passed the information onto the state. the e-mail tells parents "we have a strong commitment to take all reports regarding our program seriously, investigate them, and communicate the outcomes in a timely manner." >> reporter: officials say they recently put the staff through an extensive training program to identify personal rights violations against children. and they want to make it clear that both of these allegations happened before the recent training. >> are they classifying this in any way? was it a type of punishment? >> reporter: they have not elaborated on that. co

until congress got involved to give the administration even begin to move the process at the state department. one of the bills that actually passed and was signed into law, we know they stalled the process when the state department recommended denial and the president denied the permit in january of 2012. here we are, april 2013, still mired in the process. 3 puts an end to that. it declares no presidential permit shall be required. of thes additional work nebraska deq to be sufficient. the additional provisions of the bill will ensure the pipeline is built. history is a great educator. in 1973, congress passed and president nixon signed into law to ensureska pipeline that because of the extensive governmental studies already made of this project and the national interest in early delivery of oil to domestic markets, the trans alaska pipeline be constructed properly without further administrative or judicial delay or impede immense. -- impediments. sound familiar it? that is what we are saying. congress greenlighted the project. is the trans alaska pipeline of our day. we need to cement our relation

he received an immediate answer from the department of state. they hate us because we are so supportive of israel this is the answer i believe you could have gotten from the state department any decade of 1948. [laughter] the president did not buy it because he's understood we had plenty of intermit -- information that they were better about the israeli government so he looked around and ultimately this led him to the freedom agenda that the problem with the repressive nature that societies came with the doom about the israeli-palestinian conflict? it took the president until 2002 to develop his answer that was to states and to people but only when it is a stable stable, peaceful, democratic , but uncorrupted government of course, that made arafat has to go. if i say to you now that sounds i get a big deal. it was a very big deal arafat was the single foreign leader who visited the most not tony blair. yasser arafat. people understood arafat was a huge piece so in his june 2002 speech that is not the path to peace comes we can go down and when he

negotiate with foreign countries it's a really good question and it's certainly not in the area of the state department's expertise this is a. the state department's ownership of this project has to do with the fact that it crosses an international border it's canadian it's not even oil actually it's got an exemption because it's so toxic and turn that the pain of the oil spill fund that that's exactly right it would carry something called tar sands which you know we found seems to have a harder time moving through pipes and when spilled causes significantly more damage so my understanding is that the comment period the state department's comment period and pipeline closed yesterday is true that is true and what happened what were the what were the comments like was that has there been any quantification or or well over a mill the american public sent over a million comments in opposition of the pipeline so that shows how deep the opposition to money whatever it's hard to say they're not they're not i know that some of the folks at a.p.i. have been pushed. for comments but they haven't told how many went

that went to the highest levels of the state department. whether or not security clinton had actul or constructive knowledge of it, i can't prove yet. i can prove this to you though, she should have. she is the head of the state department and there were repeated requests from the bass - embassador himself. there were repeat of violence. we were the last western target. red cross had left and british had left. i think i can prove they were under actul notice that an attack imminent. kiprove to you that a reasonably prudent person would have been under constructive notice that something bad was about to happen. >> that begs the question. have you found out answers why our ambassador was there knowing thalt region was clearly unsafe? >> i think it had to do with perpetuating a myth that everything okay in libya and our foreign policy going along swimmingly. who you concede that a region is dominated by terrorism, that is a failure of your foreign policy. i can tell you this. there are more are hadingogs bengazi that are coming and i would enco

of a palestinian state? >> ultimately that was a hugely controversial issue eleanor roosevelt who was not much of an advocate for jewish issues during the war becomes a major advocate after but the state department threatens to resign if chairman supports the state of israel ultimately he does come out to support the state of israel and immediately recognizes the state of israel and becomes a hero even though earlier he was criticized to be anti-semitic. i think fdr would have done the same thing he was strong on the establishment of palestine when he was governor he issued a statement saying he supported a jewish homeland in palestine he opposed those with innovation policy and constantly tried go back channels to pressure the british to modify the white paper and spoke out in favor of a jewish homeland at the end of his life, he is gravely ill and traveled to the suez canal to meet with the king of saudi arabia to persuade him to except the jewish state in palestine to offer incentives and got absolutely no where for that and was gravely ill so much he was operating on there of instead of flying back to the u.s. he goes to the conference to meet on pakistan and -- palestine spanish how many we

how this even came to pass because it's typically not a mission of a city to go to an international destination. we've got a state department, we've got the military, we've got a lot of organizations at the federal level that do this all the time. so it seems a little bit of a one-off for a city to be involved. but when i say it's a story of people and a story of community, it really does start right there. last halloween, so we're talking on the eve of -- in the aftermath of fleet week, as it were, october is a really busy month for us here in san francisco. it starts off with fleet week and it ends with halloween so it's two cresendo events. last halloween diana who you see running around here, key to the organization, who does most of the logistics to make this happen, and i went to get dinner at a local establishment. it's called hays and kabob and we went to get dinner on our way to the operations center hoping nobody would celebrate too much so we could get out of there at a decent hour. when we went there, we were both in our black eem polos and we started talking to the owner and he said, oh, did you hear about the

it concludes the administration's reaction was, quote: a concerted attempt to insulate the department of state from blame following the terrorist attacks. the report was prepared by the chairman of the armed services foreign affairs judiciary oversight and government reform and select committee on intelligence. all of them republican. here are their initial findings after months of gathering testimony and reviewing internal interagency communications. quote: prior to the benghazi attacks, state department officials in libya made repeated requests for additional security that were denied in washington despite ample documentation of the threat posed by violent extremists militias. further, reductions of security levels prior to the attacks in benghazi were approved at the highest levels of the state department. up to and including secretary clinton. this fact the report says, contradicts her testimony before the house foreign affairs committee on january 23rd, 2013. >> the specific security requests pertaining to benghazi, you know, were handled by the security professionals in the department. i

the spokesperson of the state department was really put off by his question and let's have a listen to how it happened at the press conference mr mingles of has refused through his own legal counsel to meet with any russian delegation we've conveyed that to the russians so we're not able to facilitate the interview that they requested because we have a longstanding policy of not forcing such interviews if they're not voluntary so. so off the battlefield of course rudiment want to look for oil but we're certainly going to respect his right not to see the russian. not to shoot a russian delegation we have when work is interesting which wrote to you we have been we have been working hard as you know to. meet international humanitarian law standards at guantanamo. indeed the russian moscow asked continuously to provide access to. the prison the spokesperson had put in the and said that she would welcome and she already sent invitations to the official nations to the russian delegation to come to guantanamo and have a visit something of course where mr lavrov russia's foreign minister raise

department of state testified before a human rights commission and here's what he said but we will continue to work through the secretary of state and the other arms for u.s. government to accomplish transfers some here have voiced the idea that whatever is keeping most of those people there has nothing to do with the law but more with the fear that even those who had been wrongfully captured and held there for years for no reason have witnessed so much at that prison including torture and other forms of humiliation that fear that the u.s. may have created its own enemies there you have dozens of people cleared for release and still languishing in prison so they may have fallen victim not just to their wrongful capture but now to u.s. politicians assumptions of what they may or may not do in the future in washington i'm going to check on. the paying tribute to it's fallen on memorial day on monday israel ushered in celebration for the sixty fifth anniversary the. trick reaches fever pitch on the palestinian issue that remains an open wound with a piece of the ocean oh well the horizon ocean

a scathing new house report is faulting the highest levels of the state department that includes then secretary of state hillary clinton for a lack of security at the time of the benghazi terror attack. elizabeth pran is live in washington with the details. >>> members of the u.s. house of representatives releasing a progress report on the investigation into the assault on the american compound in benghazi which killed four americans. that report is the joint pork of republican chairman of foreign affairs jude dish ry over site and government reform and select committee on intelligence. there was a reduction in security before the attacks on benghazi. approved at the highest levels of the state department all of the way up to secretary clinton. that statement contradicting what she said back in january. >> the specific security request pertaining to benghazi are handled the security department. i didn't see those requests. they didn't come to me i didn't approve them or deny them. that's one of the findings bams dorr hick coreings and mullens made these requests don't ordinarily come

of 2012. the state department itself circulated to 300 national security principles sort of the equivalent of a telegram, a bulletin, what's called an ops alert from the state department operations center telling everybody again 6:08. terrorist group claiming credit for those attacks. it strains credibility to imagine that that report was withheld from the secretary of state on the night of the attack. >> bill: okay. yet she testified under oath she was aware notify reports to the contrary prior to september 16th. >> bill: you know, i agree with you, it's strange crajulity that mrs. clinton would not see a vital op. like that that goes out the night our ambassador is assassinated but it's possible. and she will say "i never got it i was at the hairdresser." i was having dinner. you know, that's what she is going to say? >> put aside your sexist hairdresser remark for the moment, bill. think of this, there is is paper trail. if she was indeed sent that ops alert, there would be a paper trail to that effect. there is something that bears further investigation to by eye. >> if there is a paper tr

suggests they are worried about the pipeline. >> reporter: the epa raeuflt efld the state department's initial review of the pipeline as insufficient, which means the state may have to go become to the drawing boards. the epa says the state department didn't consider the carbon emissions from producing crude from the ale sands in canada or the safety of transporting the crude via pipeline to texas. there are as you can imagine some skeptical members of congress as well. >> the keystone xl paoeufp line would ask the united states to bear all of the environmental risk of transporting this dirty oil, in fact so dirty it doesn't even count under the regulations as oil, without insuring that american consumers get any energy security or see any of the benefits of this project. >> reporter: the state department officials say they always anticipated the need to do further reviews before they finalize it. they've got about a million public comments to sift through, jenna. jenna: a divisive issue certainly in certain circles that is the truth. thank you very much. we'll stay on this story for sure. jon: a shooto

this legislation deems approval of certain permits within the jurisdiction of the department jurisdiction of the department of state, and carry a defense, and prohibits epa from being involved in providing input for permits under the clean water act. is that so? >> yes. >> are we certain all the probation has been gathered to justify issuing these permits, yes or no? >> no. >> mr. chairman, never had the american people been comforted by the words i am from the government, i am here to help. president bush establish a process to issue these types of permits and i believe allowing the public to know how this project will affect their communities is simple common sense. i would point out that they were going to go through nebraska over a very, very sensitive aquifer, and they found out that it posed enormous risk. that information was not available to the public the and as the house author, on which i labored long and hard, i can say that it was created to create transparency so that the people would know the impact of the project and what it would be on their communities. however, this bill will circumvent that tran

in january of last year, fortunately the state reversed its position and the department's rights were restored. and later i'll talk briefly about the ramifications of what that means to the department. thirdly, the passing of recent state legislation outlining a program to secure additional federal reimbursement for medi-cal patients and their transports has had a real positive impact and potential to have a positive impact for our department revenues. although we haven't seen the funding yet, the department is projecting additional revenues as a result of this program. in the fall of 2014, another thing that i wanted to bring up that is important, tomorrow is a special day at that site with the mayor and maybe many of you and chief suhr, we will be bringing online in 2014 station 4 which will be housed in a public safety building that's well deserved and needed by the san francisco police department. it's located in mission bay close to the ballpark and as you know there's a lot of growth in that area. tomorrow we will be participating in a topping out ceremony where the final field

includes the obama administration reaction what was called mac a concerted attempt to insulate the department of statem blame following the attacks" end quote. the report's release comes as more than half house republicans are pushing house speaker john painter to create a select committee to investigate the september attack and benghazi. critics attack last night's talk talk imagine that. one that we detail the unanswered questions around illegal immigration we will take that up with the advocacy group that tries to appear so pristine and purer and above politics and we will examine that as well. one of the loudest vocal critics of gang of 8 is congressman smith and he will join us to share his concerns next. for seeing your business in a whole new way. for seeing what cash is coming in and going out... so you can understand every angle of your cash flow- last week, this month, and even next year. for seeing your business's cash flow like never before, introducing cash flow insight popowered by pnc cfo. a suite of online tools that lets you turn insight into action. ...amelia... neil and buzz: for te

yes chickens are the least of their concerns the environmental protection agency is up in arms over the state department's latest her view of the keystone x.l. oil pipeline which would transport eight hundred thirty thousand barrels of oil to texas or fineries from the oil sands of alberta canada so our state department report from february downplayed the environmental concerns of the project saying that the pipeline would not have an impact on the greenhouse effect because the state department has the final say on keystone in the report suggests that the project would get a green light from the obama administration however the e.p.a. says that the report is just insufficient the environmental agency recommended that the state department take a closer look at the effect of greenhouse gas emissions from the extraction of the tar sands before concluding that keystone would be neutral for the environment for more on this i was joined earlier by jamie henn communications director at three fifty dot org who told me a little bit more about the e.p.a. statement you know the e.p.a. statement is a big black eye fo

department of everything else. >> some v. and if you think back to the history of the department, it's one of the older departments in the united states and it was created to handle all matters related to the interior of the united states which and over time some function versus been moved to other departments and other functions added to this department. but it is a department with a very broad mission. so the way i'd like to think about it is that we are the custodian of america's natural resources and that's all the energy. our national parks and also our history. because in the statute of liberty to the historic monuments that we oversee around the country, that is all part of our mission at the department. >> every cabinet secretary has to make decisions and get pressure on different fronts. but in your role you are dealing with the conservation movement and the oil industry. two very different political forces in this town. >> that's true. and it happens whenever you are dealing with land use and natural resources issues. they are not easy issues. there is conflict, those who want to preserve and those who want to develop. we tr

he received an immediate answer from the department of state, israel. they hate us because we are so supportive of israel. this is the answer i believe you could have gotten from the state department in any decade since 1948. the president didn't buy it. he didn't buy it because he understood we had plenty of information, the saudis were bitter about their government. he looked around for another explanation and ultimately this led him to the freedom agenda, the ideas that the problem was repressive nature of the societies from which the terrorists came. what to do about the israeli/palestinian conflict? it took until june of 2002 to develop an answer and his answer was two states, peoples, jewish state and palestinian state, the palestinian state will be a decent, stable, peaceful, democratic, non corrupt government. that means yasser arafat has to go. if i say to you, you can't do that, he is a terrorist, doesn't sound like a big deal. was a very big deal. he was the single foreign leader who would visit the white house most in the clinton years, not t

of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right, madam clerk, can you please call item number 1? >> item number 1 is an ordinance authorizing the juvenile probation department to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $461,166 from the office of justice programs for the united states department of justice for funding under the fiscal year 2012 second chance act juvenile offender reentry program (second chance grant award); and amending ordinance no. 165-12 (annual salary ordinance, fy 2012-2013 and fy 2013-2014) to reflect the addition of one class 2910 social worker grant-funded position (0.4 fte) at jpd. >> all right. so, i believe we have either someone from supervisor breed's office and or cathy mcguire from the juvenile probation department here to present on the item. >> yes, supervisors, i think we have both. connor johnston, legislative aid for supervisor breed who was happy to accept and expend on behalf of the juvenile department. as a disclosure, my dad worked at the department since before i was born. this is sort of a home coming for me. this allows the department to department to expand and continue the juvenile collaborative