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influence of its neighbors coming up later this hour the head of russia's parliamentary foreign affairs committee who talks about turkey's role in the conflicts but has a quick. turkey can't read or direct itself into this conflict you know that the war in syria. may have a lot of traps for turkey and the turkey has refrained from crossing the border and its ground troops to syria because it's easier to go in it's difficult to get out and the story of all the conflicts there against iraq whatever shows that you go in and the decisions taken a couple of days and then take years and years and years to get out so i don't think that the turkish government is willing to open a war with the syrian government. but. those two states are basically on the brink of war. people across the globe trues different ways to vent their anger they can on the crisis some resent being fired can't sum up for direct sanction on his laura smith tells a story a one businessman who decided to spearhead changes to the system by declaring himself a financial institution. thank you to one up thank you dave fyshwick is a cheek

i think that is exactly what our o in tell committee and foreign affairs committee and government reformthat is exactly what we need to be doing. geraldo, this are three things that should be of great concern to the american people. number one, why didn't we see this coming? number two, why didn't we take action as the attack was taking place? and number three, what has transpired after this? and we need to figure out if there was a coverup and, you know, i think that speaker boehner asked the right question this week in his letter to the president and that is when was the last time that you talked with ambassador stevens? if these are your appointees, you have them out there, they are working on behalf of the united states, if there is a problem in libya, when was the last time that you had a conversation with h him addressing these issues? >> congressman cuellar, how and when should benghazi-gate be he investigated? >> first of all, i agree with my colleagues. the first thing we need to do is investigate before we make any judgments. let's see what the intelligence community is going t

joining me now, elliot engel a member of the house foreign affairs committee.his morning. before we get to the debate, i want to ask you about these documents released by chairman issa. aren't these documents showing there was really a major security concern before the attack? >> well, we don't really know and the investigation is going on, we should let the investigation continue. the republicans with chairman issa, with mitt romney statements trying to make political hay out of a national tragedy, quite frankly, the way governor romney acted after the ambassador was killed was despicable. at a time of such national tragedy, we should be pulling together and speaking with one voice, not trying to score cheap political points. president obama is no more responsible for what happened in benghazi than president bush was for 9/11 or president reagan was for the marines being killed in beirut. >> you say we don't know. i want to read you something from this document on friday. this is from ambassador chris stevens. he writes in a cable, what we have seen are not ra

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influence of its neighbors coming up in just over an hour now the head of russia's parliamentary foreign affairs committee talks about turkey's role in the conflict here's a quick preview. so if you can be dragged or drag itself into this conflict you know that the war in syria. may have a lot of trips to turkey and it's not questions that turkey has refrained from crossing the border and its ground troops to syria because it's easier to go in it's difficult to get out and the story of all the conflicts that are against iraq whatever shows that you go in and the decision is taken a couple of days and then takes two years and years and years to get out so i don't think that the the risk is government is really willing to open a war with the syrian government. but. those two states are basically on the brink of war. time now for more stories from around the world this hour japan is accusing china all something for government ships to the waters of a disputed ark along go it vessels are said to have headed towards the islands after the japanese prime minister filed to ramp up coastal security on monday both

try to find the answer to the syrian standoff with the head of the russian parliament's foreign affairs committee. joining me now is the next a pushkov he's the head of the international committee in the russian duma thank you for being with us i'd like to begin with diplomacy in the world today and it's never been easy but it seems even more powerless with situations like we're seeing with full blown conflict in syria do you think a political solution that through words we can have peace there. has deteriorated to the extremely since last spring. and today it looks more like a bloody deadlock. than something that would give you the prospects for. a peaceful solution yet.

influence of its neighbors coming up in just over an hour the head of russia's parliamentary foreign affairs committee said talks about his role in the conflict but here's a quick. tour if you can read or direct itself into this conflict you know that the war in syria. may have a lot of traps for turkey and it's a question of the turkey has refrained until now from crossing the border and sending its ground troops to syria because it's easier to go in it's difficult to get out and the story of all the conflicts there against iraq whatever shows that you go in and the decision is taken a couple of days and then takes two years and years and years to get out so i don't think that the turkish government is really willing to open a war. with the syrian government. but. those two states are basically on the brink of war so really kind of not. should be untied part by part so now i think it's high time to start to untie the syrian. stories now from around the world for you this hour police in western kenya have quieted down crowds of protesters indignant over the murder of a prominent local politician sever

try to find the answer to the syrian standoff with the head of the russian parliament's foreign affairs committee tuesday. joining me now is alexei pushkov he's the head of the international committee in the russell doom i thank you for being with us i'd like to begin with diplomacy in the world today and it's never been easy but it seems even more powerless with situations like we're seeing with full blown conflict in syria do you think a political solution that through words we can have peace there well i think the situation. has deteriorated extremely since last spring. and today it looks more like a bloody deadlock. than something that would give you fair prospects for. peaceful solution yet i think that. the international community can generate nothing but. the geneva communique. that was adopted today end of june and which says that. the international community has to bring both sides at the negotiation table is no secret here the reason medical answers the answer is first for both sides i mean russia and china one and the so-called friends of syria . is to understand that it is not one of

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coming up, we'll talk to a democratic member on the house foreign affairs committee, congressman engle of new york. >> there's news of another brazen insider attack in afghan. six afghanistan police officers are dead after coworkers orchestrated an attack at a checkpoint in hell mewed province, a police officer and cook poisoned their colleagues with militants attacked from outside. the officer was caught as he tried to run but the cook escaped. >> coming up on america's news headquarters, a progress report on the pakistani teenager shot in the head. the brave girl makes great strides in recovery. welcome back, we have a wonderful update on malala, the pakistani girl attacked by the taliban. malala is the outspoken advocate for girl's education in her country. taliban shot her in the head to silence her. she's being treated in england and her doctors say though there are positive developments in her condition, she faces a long, difficult recovery with uncertain prospects. >>> this fox news alert, today marks a milestone for libya. a year since the capture and killing of gadhafi. we're

biden because he has much more seniority and experience in the senate as the chairman of the foreign affairs committee and the vice president, who has been dealing with all kinds of major issues the last 3 1/2 years. >>shepard: thank you, carl cameron. the republican congressman is with us from illinois and the democratic congressman from california is with us, as well. gentleman, nice to see you. you are here to speak on behalf of your candidate? are you worried about the gaffe? everyone thinks he can hit hard. but if he says something weird that wouldn't help help. >>guest: i'm more concerned about the vice president having a chance to talk about what they will do. the vice president always speaks from the heart. that is great. sometimes he has things he has to explain later on but the great thing about the vice president, he speaks from the heart. i wish mitt romney would speak more from the heart rather than left field or, maybe, right field and maybe we would view a better idea who mitt romney is. he will talk how we are going do get out of the black hole, what we will do the next four years and

. >> new york democratic congressman greg meeks is a member of the house foreign affairs committee and joins me here at the table. the foreign policy challenges as well as the electoral challenges now, in battleground turnout mode, state by state, how much difference will tonight's debate make? >> well, all debates are important, but i think you know the president obama has a deep and intense battleground and on the ground strategy. that's why he's been advocating to get many people to the polls as we can. we want people to come out to vote. we've got a ground operation. that ground operation is what's going to take us over the top. we knew all the time that this was going to be a close race. anybody you talked to could have told you from the beginning this race was going to be close. it's about turnout and we have the ground game to turn out our voters and the voters will turn out. >> how concerned are you by the polls showing that the president is tied with mitt romney, 47-47, and the trend in this poll is a diminishing number of women in favor of him in terms of the gender gap that

we have chris smith, a member of the house foreign affairs committee, who does quite a bit of work withnd our interests there. >> thank you very much. >> shannon: this came up a lot in the last debate. i want to play what governor romney had to say about our current relationship with china. >> we lose sales and manufacturers here in the u.s. making the same products can't compete. china has been a currency manipulator for years and years and years. and the president has a regular opportunity to -- to label them as a currency manipulator and refuses to do so. >> shannon: trade issues, intellectual property hacking, what occurrence you most about our relationship with china? >> unfortunately, under the obama administration, we have had a numbing indifference toward human rights. we have -- they have people getting 10 to 50 cents for hour, now occupational or safety protections. how do u.s. workers who can out-compete anybody in the world, compete with that exploitation? and this administration has been almost completely awol when tao came in and the incoming president came in and met very

. >> well, as chair of the house foreign affairs committee, we know that your work there and for others in the house is far from over. we know the senate will examine this as well. congresswoman, thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. we have a follow up letter based on this hearing to secretary of state hillary clinton asking for detailed answers on the questions that were brought up in that hearing. so thank you very much. >> thank you, and we'll make sure our viewers get a look at that letter as well. >>> some minor set backs delay the arrival of the space shuttle "endeavour" at its new home. we'll take a look at when it's finally expected to get there and what's been in the way. >>> plus, with just two days until the next debate, we asked governor mark sanford about the candidates' strategy moves going into a brand new format. he's live with us ... next. [ female announcer ] the best things in life are the real things. nature valley trail mix bars are made with real ingredients you can see. like whole roaed nuts, chewy granola, and real fruit. nature valley trail mix bars. 1

the state of south carolina, a district thereof, and sits on both the armed services and foreign affairs committeesngressman, welcome back to the program. we've been showing it -- >> megyn, it's an honor to be with you. megyn: here's just a sampling of what we have seen from team obama in the wake of that first presidential debate in denver. just watch a sample. >> are you saying that governor romney lied or was dishonest? >> well, yeah, i think he was dishonest, absolutely. >> plenty of people have pointed out what a liar mitt romney is and was last night. >> and so if you just lay out lie after lie after lie about your own plan as well as what the president has been talking about, of course you can look good. megyn: do you think that they are applying a different standard now to governor romney than that they demanded of you? >> absolutely, megyn. and, indeed, my son alan identified what i did, it was a spontaneous, town hall moment. what they're saying, and this is the highest levels of the obama campaign, it took them three days to try to respond to the failure of the president's last exhibit o

to are very patient invited members of congress, starting with the senior member of the foreign affairs committee, mr. rocker. -- mr. rohrbacker. >> as the chairman of the said committee of foreign affairs, i appreciate you taking the lead in making sure we are deeply getting in the to an issue of importance to the american people. it has been suggested the budget cuts are responsible for lack of security in benghazi, and i would like to ask mrs. lamb, you made this decision personally, was there any budget consideration and lack of budget that led you not to increase the number of people in the security force there? >> no, sir. >> that's all i needed. wewasn't a lack of money, as have heard by some people trying to suggest that. was it a lack of intelligence? was this a failure of intelligence or lack of confidence or is this just something that will happen no matter how we try or how competent we are -- how, but and we are, we're going to lose lives? >> this was an unprecedented attack in size and ferocity. in the words of erik nordstrom. as long as we have the need to be outside the wire in th

to are very patient invited members of congress, starting with the senior member of the foreign affairs committee mr. rocker. -- mr. rohrbacker. >> as the chairman of the said committee of foreign affairs, i appreciate you taking the lead in making sure we are deeply getting in the to an issue of importance to the american people. it has been suggested the budget cuts are responsible for lack of security in benghazi, and i would like to ask mrs. lamb, you made this decision personally, was there any budget consideration and lack of budget that led you not to increase the number of people in the security force there? >> no, sir. >> that's all i needed. it wasn't a lack of money, as we have heard by some people trying to suggest that. was it a lack of intelligence? was this a failure of intelligence or lack of confidence or is this just something that will happen no matter how we try or how competent we are -- how, but and we are, we're going to lose lives? >> this was an unprecedented attack in size and ferocity. in the words of erik nordstrom. as long as we have the need to be outside the wire in

representative schwartz now serves on both the committee on foreign affairs and the committee on the budget. joining us also via is the satellite this morning is representative peter roskam, currently serving his third term, he is the republican chief deputy whip, the fourth ranking republican in the house, and is a member of the committee of ways and means. he's also co-author of "the pledge to america." our moderator will be national journal's managing editor kristin roberts. prior to joining national journal, kristin was washington news editor or and deputy bureau chief for reuters where she held positions in the new york, miami and washington bureaus. she covered wall street while in new york and then led reuters' coverage of housing and banking policy and regulation from washington. kristin, i'll turn it over to you. [inaudible conversations] >> hi, how are you? far away. [laughter] lila, are we waiting for -- >> no, we got him. >> oh, there he is. >> hello, congressman roskam. [laughter] thank you both for joining me and for joining our whole audience here. we've got a really i

. >> i have been on the foreign affairs committee during almost my entire time in congress. you never do it when congress is in session. the notion that i have missed those because i've been overseas is simply not true. >> committee meetings and sub- committee meetings. >> you are wrong. when congress is in session and you have committee hearings, you are not traveling. you just do not do that. i have served on three committees most of my time. you will have three committee hearings going on at the same time almost every week. you have to decide which one of the assigned committees can you attend. what he is talking about is typical of any member of congress. >> i don't think so. >> you know how congress operates. if that is the way congress operates, i would not want to be part of it. that is a very dysfunctional congress. what about your trip to palm beach? how was that benefiting the american public? you said that the government requested due. we looked at your record. two-thirds of the time, you were not at committee or sub- committee meetings. over 800. >> you do not tra

committee will hold big hearings tomorrow. a preview tonight from our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >> reporter: as house republicans prepare to hold hearings on the benghazi attacks, mitt romney disclosed he met one of the victims, former navy s.e.a.l. glenn doher doherty. >> you can imagine how i felt when i found out he was one of the two former navy s.e.a.l.s killed in benghazi on september 11th. >> reporter: doherty's family confirmed the two met at a neighborhood christmas party a few years ago. this as republicans accuse the state department for rejecting the request for more security for ambassador chris stevens, slain in the attacks, so washington could say libya was becoming more peaceful. investigators say two months before the attacks, the state department concluded the risk to u.s. personnel was high. republican congressman jason chaffetz is just back from tripoli. >> twice in the six-month leadup, you had bombings at our compound in benghazi, and it's 9/11 in libya. what other warnings do you need? >> reporter: there were two assassination attempts against the ambassador in recent months. s

chairman of a guy who's been chairman of the foreign relations committee and knows foreign policy inside and out. he passed the bar on national security and foreign affairseemed practiced and vague on afghanistan, yes. had he made a big gaffe, mispronouncing the name of a terrorist group or confusing iraq or iran could have been a disaster. one other thing i would add i did not think he made his best case on medicare. my story in time focuses on whether the ryan plan's proposal for medicare are going to be a problem in a state like florida and other swing states. i thought biden got the best of the argument. ryan i've seen him give better pren traces trying to explain why medicare has been saved in his view and didn't see him at his best. >> they focused -- biden cleverly focused on ryan one which is not the romney endorsed plan, and which is -- >> the $6400 number not really accurate. >> he could have said we've moved on from that and refined that. could have come up with a way of explaining it from ryan's perspective. >> i thought biden made a good emotional connection with seniors and said trust your instincts speaking generationally. >> josh green, t

she is here as the keynote speaker at the world affairs council of the committee on foreign relations. she obtained her master's of philosophy and phd from cambridge and her undergraduate degree from princeton. roxane and i have been dear friends for 18 years and i can tell you it's exactly that long since her brother married my daughter at that time. i present roxane farmanfarmaian. dr. farmanfarmaian. [applause] >> what a pleasure it is to be here today. thank you so much, pat patterson for that wonderful introduction and for the world affairs council for making this trip. i wanted to make sure that you have a look at the map. it's a pocket-sized map so that everything i talk about today becomes manageable and understandable. two years ago, if we have had the conversation about the middle east, it would been such a different conversation. it has had since then the air of spring come in with no predictions and such huge changes to our world. and we need to keep our eye on the ball. because if we take it off now, we will have a retrying of the middle east map. now, american policy und

she is here is the keynote speaker at the world affairs council and the committee on foreign relations. she obtained her master's of philosophy and phd from cambridge and her undergraduate degree from princeton. roxane and i have been dear friends are 18 years and i can tell you it's exactly that long since her brother married my daughter at bedtime. i present roxane farmanfarmaian. dr. farmanfarmaian. [applause] >> what a pleasure it is to be here today. thank you so much, pat patterson for the wonderful introduction in the world affairs council for making this trip possible. i wanted to make sure that all of you have a look at the map. it's a pocket-sized map so that everything i talk about today becomes manageable and understandable. two years ago, had we had had the conversation about the middle east, it would've been such such a different conversation. it has had then the arab spring coming with no predictions in such huge changes to our world. and we need to keep our eye on all because if we take it off now, we witness the next big change, which is a retrying at the middle east m

. >> after rule of law committee for the oceans, in the mid century, nicholas said geography was one of the most important factors in foreign affairs because it was the most permanent. this year we just saw the arctic icecap dropped another 750,000 square kilometers and appears to be opening more this session. what do you think this trend will mean not next year or even next decade but in a generation as that becomes more open for russia and canada in particular. >> nicholas pikeman is someone i devote a whole chapter to in this book because he is very provocative and here is the man who when it was unclear that china where defeat japan, predicted that china who is our ally at the time would become our adversary for geographical reasons and also said when europe was fighting for its life against germany, united europe could be a competitor for the united states. she was very clear volume. in terms of the arctic icecap, this is playing out over decades. if you had an arctic open for shipping and a close friend and unveil the northwest passage precisely now because of what you bring up and up greenland and you can have shipping in th

chairman of the foreign policy division of the senate for many years, a committee that handled foreign policy in the senate, so i think for paul ryan, who has not had much experience in foreign affairseen briefed carefully on those issues. biden will try to trip him up there. patti ann: this may be entertaining. we might all tune in for it, but how important is the vice presidental debate? >> in terms of changing votes, it's not very. it probably won't make a lot of difference in terms of votes, but, look, people got really intrigued with the debates this year because of what happened last week, and you had this enormous audience showing up, 67 million. so people are following this narrative, and it's really up to the vice presidental contenders to continue the narrative, to keep them interested so they'll tune in to the following week's presidential debate. patti ann: you know, the media tends to cling to one or two memorable lines. we just showed some of them from debates in past years that still stick with people, but again, i guess the question is, even if somebody comes out with a really good zinger, is that going to change the way an individual voter who is watching that debat

our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is following the story for us. jill, what exactly is the house intelligence committee reporter: well, start with what they're not saying, wolf. they're not saying they have a smoking gun they didn't provide adequate information on the operations in the united states or connections to the chinese mill. the two chinese telecommunications companies could be a threat to the national security of the united states. that's the conclusion by the house intelligence committee after a yearlong probe of huawei and zte. >> we do not have the confidence that these two companies with the ties to the chinese government are trusted with infrastructure. >> reporter: the committee has no proof of any wrongdoing but the chairman claims that the companies could be a kind of trojan horse allowing the chinese government to gather intelligence or strike the u.s. with a cyber war. the committee is urging american companies as well as u.s. government systems and contractors to find other vendors. but h youuawei say it is committee is trying to poke china in the eye on cyber attacks holding the

foreign relations committee the last four years. most of his time has been spent on international affairs. >> you know, i don't mean to laugh.remendous amount of respect for him. but i don't know of an issue in foreign policy joe biden's ever really been right on. he wanted to subdivide iraq into three portions after 9/11. wanted to give $2 billion no questions asked to iran to show the middle east we were okay with them and didn't want to invade them. paul ryan doesn't have a lot of expertise in foreign policy, but joe biden has a lot of experience and been wrong pretty much all the time. >> go ahead, paul. >> these guys are going to put the other's principle on trial. if ryan is smart, and he is very. he won't attack joe biden the way erick did and erick has points to make, he will attack president obama. he will say i predict on foreign policy is this, if mitt romney had been our president, he would have never moved heaven and earth to go after osama bin laden. that's a quote from mitt romney. if mitt romney had been our president, we would still have troops in iraq. he called ending the war in iraq a tragedy. bin laden w

foreign affairs reporter elise labott has been going through the documents. elise is joining us right now. what are you learning, elise? >> wolf, the committeement reform released about 100 documents -- over 100 documents. one of the things you get, wolf, is really the heightened concern about the unraveling security situation in benghazi in the months leading up to the attacks. one cable from june 25th, about two weeks after the consulate was already attacked by an ied, look at the pictures of the aftermath, wolf. you can see the damage to the outside of the main building, which was really extensive. i was told by extra security personnel brought in to guard the building until it was fixed. and the cable said that the libyans believed this attack and others against westerners were the work of extremists opposed to western influence in libya. serious concerns, wolf, about this libyans' ability to protect the americans. a cable from august 8th, a month before the attack said even the head of the libyan supreme security council admitted his own men had not coalessed into an effective stable security force. a lot of concern there about not only

affairs committee. the senior member of the governing united russia party. he is well connected with the kremlin. >> mr. romney is not someone who strikes me as a person of the 21st century in foreignreporter: he believes romney is wrong in saying obama is soft on russia because this has been a very difficult, sometimes confrontational year for the two countries. it started last december. russians took to the streets after disputed parliamentary elections. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton also criticized the vote, and vladimir putin, then russian prime minister, accused her of encouraging the protests. >> mr. putin interpreted certain remarks made by secretary of state clinton as something which shows that the americans are incleaned to change in russia too. >> reporter: syria has proved the most emotional issue. u.s. officials have said russia has blood on its hands for vetoing tough resolutions in the u.n. security council and for selling weapons to the syrian regime. russia doesn't trust america's intentions. >> we hear that the united states after human rights, democracy, freedom, and so on, and then we see that in the majority of cases it has to do with geopolitical int