gao yuan is around a province 1,000 kilometers from beijing.e owns seven restaurants on guijie street and with 400 employees he's become the area's most successful entrepreneur. this is a weekly meeting. it's meant to motivate employees and foster a sense of belonging. his business model has changed drastically over the last ten years. by 7:00 p.m., customers are lining up to get into the restaurant. summer is guijie street's busiest season. the restaurant's most popular dish is cray fish with hot peppers and chinese peppers. he revamps the menu every two months predikcting what customes will want, always taking initiative and setting new trends. this spicy hot crawfish dish was a hot just as he predicted approximate although he's out performed the competition for ten years, he can't let his guard down. although he's out performed the competition for ten years, he can't let his guard down. although he's out performed the competition for ten years, he can't let his guard down. although he's out performed the competition for ten years, he can't l

gao and oig. we have had over 140 open audits under way. i think we have cooperated. i cape here voluntarily. >> thank you. >> danny? lacy. >> the distinguished gentleman from missouri is now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. and i thank the ranking member for yielding his time. gao found that healthcare.gov had security weaknesses when it was launched because of a lack of oversight of security contractors, is that right? >> we found that with respect to when it was first deployed -- recognize that our audit occurred subsequent to the initial deployment. we found that based on review of the documents that there were certain vulnerabilities in controls that he had not been tested at that time and that there were a few vulnerabilities that had been identified through testing through which the cms had accepted in order to provide an authority -- >> whose responsibilities were incumbent upon the contractor, correct? >> well, overall responsibility rests with the service -- >> with the contrac

cms has offered to brief gao on these 13 incidents.ot acceptable after the public scrutiny reveals that they exist and they have been denied on the eve of a hearing and only after an audit is completed to then say we'd be glad to brief you. that's unacceptable and quite frankly one of the most disingenuous things i have ever seen. there were five months during the audit to comply with a reasonable request by the general accountability office and it doesn't done. questions of security can no longer be easily dismissed by the administration. in late july health care.gov suffered a malicious attack from a hacker and took two months for cms to identify the intrusion. marilyn who is with us today will testify. and we will discuss that in addition to the gao report. i'm sure we will hear that there was no loss of data, that this was not the main site and so on. that doesn't change the fact that security risk exists whenever you fail to secure not just the main site, but back doors. too often, back doors have been what we have discovered. in

is it gao's position that we do need some i.t.pdates and reforms to kind of update on clinger cohen, which was almost 20 years ago in technology, that's light years. >> that's outside my particular area. i focus on information security and privacy issues. i can get that answer to you. >> that would be fine. but isn't information security related to how well we're managing our i.t. assets? >> oh, certainly. and certainly there is need for improvements in how i.t. is secured within the federal government. and by an implementation issue. we're also on record that the federal security management act that governs information across the government could also be updated and modified. >> again, i believe this committee and again the chairman, ranking member and i have been involved in that as well. but the house has certainly tried to address that. and with bipartisan common ground on these issues, i urge you to look at the bill and see how it applies to your particular area. >> i will. >> i thank you. mr. chairman, thank you for allowing

is it gao's position that we do need some i.t.es and reforms to kind of update on clinger cohen, which was almost 20 years ago, and in technology 20 years is light years. >> well, sir, that's actually outside my particular area. i focus on information security and privacy issues. we have others that -- >> but aren't -- >> but i can get that answer to you. >> that would be fine. but isn't information security related to how well we're managing our i.f. assets? >> oh, certainly. certainly there is need for improvements in how i.t. is secured within the federal government. and by -- that's an implementation issue, and we're also on record that fsma, the federal information security information act, which governs information security across the government, could be updated and clair fade. >> the ranking chairman and i have been involved in that as well. the house has certainly tried to address that. and we found bipartisan common ground on these issues. i urge you to look at the bill and see how it applies to your particular area. >>

it found 20 specific security issues, some which put users personal information at risk, gao says the the obama administration should never have rolled out the web site before it was fully tested. >>> say yellow to spirit's new look, low cost airline is giving them a bright yellow air job. home of the bear fares, spirit ceo says it is fun, acts like a flying billboard and also practical because the cost is less to paint then just two collars. ukee and natasha do you like the new look. >> look at that canneri, yes. >> i know. >> it will be noticed, that is for sure. >> all right, thanks jill, appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> happening today a resource center opens in atlantic city toy help another round of laid off casino workers. nearly 1,000 trump plaza a wu)u$out a job after the the casino closed its doors yesterday. workers can stop byathathathathy >>> good morning everyo. as you can see from this live picture water continues to bubble from the ground after a water main break at seventh and location news center city. the the water department is there trying to cap it the right now,

and the gao said on a number of fronts cms was getting it right. they had a lot more work to do. this is a historical problem for the federal government through many -- this is not even a red state/blue state issue anymore. when it comes to this, we're in a state of emergency. gerri: state of emergency, absolutely right. open enrollment for obamacare in less than two months. paul, to you, they're delaying it after the election, why? >> because it's going to be another mess. so as we know a number of insurers are increasing rates, and the president said you can auto enroll in the plan you had last year. the problem is that your plan that you're in costs may have gone up, it may no longer be the silver plan, the costs would change. gerri: so what i thought i had locked in, i don't? >> you have to do it all over again to make sure you have the correct premium, otherwise you amount of money. gerri: you did a great job. paul and adam, great job. >>> and another factor influencing your money today, the federal reserve, the central bank saying it's staying the course with monetary polic

i want to bring in victor gao now.s with the china national association of international studies in beijing. victor, you're a regular guest on the cnn. we always enjoy speaking to you about china and politics. i'd just like to get your take, first of all. what do you think beijing would be making of these scenes behind me? tens of thousands of people chanting for universal suffrage, for a full and fair election. how would beijing be viewing this? >> well, first of all, hong kong is a democracy, and people in hong kong have the right to demonstrate and protest. and they have the right of freedom of speech. therefore, it is not surprising if people demonstrate. and such demonstrations and protests happen in almost all the other countries in the world, including the united states or great britain. however, i would say when people demonstrate in a democracy, they also need to do so by abiding by the law. therefore, if they use violence, if they disregard the warning of police, they are actually doing more harm than any goo

we're holding out for edinburgh, the nation's capital, the financial center, closer to gloss gao that voted yes, that's an industrial city. there have been some big wins for yes in the dundee area over here. the rest a lot of disappointments for those nationalists who waited decades for their chance and just to be clear here, just to come back to the overall map, yes we're talking about scotland in the north but politics in london right down here in the southeast of england is going to change dramatically, because what we're going to see really start iing overnight for america but today in the uk is english nationalism, the need to appeal to english nationalist votes being first and foremost for british prime minister david cameron. >> hitting on the numbers from the polls leading up until the vote it was said it's going to be very, very close and you've been looking at some of those gaps. have they been very far apart as you look from one local authority to another or have they been close in single or double digits to are that matter? >> areas that should have been close like gloss g

>> the office of management and havet and treasury responded in the gao report themselves. the ownby and treasury -- the omb and treasury have said we will take thatnto consideration. >> that was something that bobob hale, his successor is working on. you are in the data field. how long is it going to take for them to get squared away? >> about the same time i project. it is a major challenge. >> we have 30 seconds left. what a readers going to see? >> the defense is doing sosomemething pretty neat. he will have an individual newspaper coming out on each morning of the three days of the show. all sorts of good stuff. we are going to look into a deep dive. >> thank you very much for joininus. >> thank you for watching. visit us online for continuing coverage, including coverage of the nato summit, how israe planans to pay for his gaza operations, and france's decision to suspend the delivery of a helicopter carrier to russia. i will be back next week at the same time. unl then have a great week. [music] >> the soul that sinneth, it shall die--and all of us have sinned. how c

quote, many of the assumptions made by gao in extrapolating costs over the life of the f-35 program did not reflect ongoing process improvements or fail to account for learning and feedback that will improve efficiency and it's launched several cost saving initiatives including using existing supportive services. south korea formally announcing it's buying f-35s. this makes them the third foreign country behind japan and israel to purchase the jet. >> thank you. new data about home sales and mortgages, the real read on housing right now. plus looking for opportunities to make money in this market. we wi morgan brennan knows where to look. >> financial sector has enjoyed a rally this month but there's one group of stocks that has lagged. can you guess which one? analysts say it could present buying opportunities. we're going to have those names and all that information after the break when "power lunch" returns. while every business is unique, everyone is looking for ways to cut expenses. and that's where pg&e's online business energy checkup tool can really help. you can use it to track

here is the warning from the watchdog, the gao report.inancial protection bureau has not yet fully implemented a number of privacy controlled steps. information security practices which could hamper the agency's ability to identify and monitor privacy risks and protect consumer financial data. tell you congressman. we've been down the road a lot with a lot of different private companies. here is the federal government who will do the exact same thing. what are you growing to do to protect us? >> voters understand when big government meets big data, they better be concerned some what we need to do is change the budgeting process of the cfpb so they are accountable and have government oversight. take steps to make sure this data is made, is kept anonymous and not able to be traced back to the individual consumer. we ought to have opt-in requirement so that consumers are not required to have this data collected. this is, voters understandably are concerned. they don't trust government. we need to do more to make sure they're protected. david

unlimited tax gao, limited holders coming in. >> who are the major players here? through their logic. --the financial guarantee they had ensured that issue back in 2005 four detroit's pension. they think that deal was a fraud because it was done back in 2005 mayorawmaker patrick was -- they are saying we deserve more than $.10 on the dollar. we should -- they have made a claim for $.75 on the dollar. they're saying detroit has not done enough to raise revenue. >> i can see where they are coming from. if you cut a deal with a mayor who is now in jail, you might hope to wiggle out of that ill. -- out of that deal. >> the city is saying we have done enough to raise revenue. we can't do anymore. there wasn't some confusion in the courtroom about whether an economic analysis had been done on the city. if you raise taxes, what effect does that have on the local residents? they made it seem like that analysis had taken place. in the trial this week, they were not sure. detroit is sticking to its guns saying, we have done all we can. any early sense of how this judge migh

now, that's exactly what gao said the administration did. they violated section 811. 8111.it is true throughout the country's history there have been differences of opinion about the constitutionality of various provisions of law. i think it is fairly rare, however, that a president has chosen to violate a provision that is as clear as this one. there were no waiver authority, no ambiguity, no matter of interpretation. the law was clear. it says if you're going to transfer swb from guantanamo bay you got to give at least 30 days' notice. they did have meetings within the administration that discussed whether to follow that 30-day requirement and they decided not to do it. so it was a clear cut decision, not to follow the law. in addition to that the point was made by the gentleman from florida that they also violated the antideficiency act. now, there's never been a dispute about the ability of congress to put conditions on funding and yet by carrying out this action they spent funds for which they were not, they were not authorized to spend. which also violated a separate

practices, in terms of what causes these deaths or contributed to the deaths, and to have a full-scale gaoaudit of va's appointment system and va's scheduling system and the va enrollment system together. >> scott, was thinking of your case and the hell hat no fury like going after those who blow a whistle, but i was wondering about what might be the strategy here on the part of the va, because there have been calls for heads to roll, and if the va can come out with a report as it did in the case of the va ig and claim no veterans died as a result of malfeasance or delays or stupidity, then there's no punishment meted out because there's nothing be to punished for. what do you make of that? >> i think this where is va really just expects the public to be stupid, and believe the lies that they're telling. why should we support report from va that listened to itself and said, we examined ourselves and we found that we had no problem. that's like general motors saying we examined the situation with the ignitions in our card and found we had nothing to do with the death of the people who broug

you have been a political director for 19 years per gao agree or disagree with what i said? for 19 years. do you agree or disagree with what i said? >> let's talk about case seven. what really happened is quite different. he had been waiting 12 months for the pointless the v.a. when he presented in january having chest pain several times a week. an ekg was done. was suggestive of a prior myocardial infarction in a patient having chest pains. he was given an appointment in october from january, only because they spotted it in june did i get him in sooner. at that time, he was having daily chest pains. showed he had an injection fraction of 35%. 50% is normal. my analysis is he had a heart attack in the 12 months waiting. he further extended that. fortunately, we were able to get him urgently cathed and bypassed. he saved his life but lost 30% of his heart function. the report referred to that as a favorable outcome. >> i guess if you don't go to a funeral, it is a favorable outcome. i can tell you that had been my anybody, your would not have been happy with the care you got.

gerri: quickly, we don't have a lot of time left here but the gao came out with an interesting report on how this money is abused. and frightening when you see what is going on online, because on websites like craig's list, these food stamps are being bought and sold by people who may have no claim to them. for example, there was one offer for, for beer, you no. i give you beer if you give me feud stamps. i will clean your house if you give me clean stamps. offers of i will give you cash for food stamps. the offer is 240 bucks with $400 worth of food stamps. maybe people are in deep trouble with debt or drug debt this is what is going on behind closed doors. is the amount of money we're spending for welfare, is that causing some of this widespread abuse? >> certainly there is a lot of fraud in the welfare system, in food stamps as well as in the earned income tax credit but the more pertinent thing is, what you're seeing there with people selling food stamps is that they actually have more aid probably than they can spend on food. so they're trying to cash them out. the real problem i

officials did tell the gao that additional clarification may be needed and officials say federal agencies will provide additional guidance in the coming days to help ensure future compliance, after all that has been done but ignored, it will be a lot tougher to get anyone's attention. >>> still ahead, hillary clinton, benghazi and the possibility of evidence tampering. first, democrats try to avoid snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in the iowa senate race. aarp's staying sharp keeps your brain healthy with online exercises by the top minds in brain science. find more real possibilities at aarp.org/possibilities. an unprecedented program arting busithat partners businesses with universities across the state. for better access to talent, cutting edge research, and state of the art facilities. and you pay no taxes for ten years. from biotech in brooklyn, to next gen energy in binghamton, to manufacturing in buffalo... startup-ny has new businesses popping up across the state. see how startup-ny can help your business grow at startup.ny.gov tnchs kansas state supreme court -- chad tay

the gao reported that about 7,000 people had iras worth more than $5 million in 2011, the last year, complete tax data is available. about 300 others had more than 25 million in an ira. the president criticized the ability of wealthier people to sock away this money in tax deferred iras, proposed capping balances at $3 million. bogle did not specifically endorse that idea but supports limiting retirement breaks for wealthier people. gerri. gerri: peter, thank you for that. should the government get more involved in your retirement? joining me financial adviser philip siegel. and town hall senior political editor guy bensen, welcome to you both. >> hi, gerri. gerri: interesting comments about 401(k)s. philip, start with you, you're talking to people all the time about retirement savings. my question for you should we cap the amount of money as was discussed on capitol hill that can be set aside in retirement accounts. >> public policy question. obviously, you're going to raise more tax revenue if you tax people of a higher income. i think the thing to remember though is when you're ta

what we know from the gao, the general accounting office, is that 80 percent of that debt is from theiror re-education. i thought they were all paying their kids' debt. apparently, that's not the case. what would you tell somebody who is already a senior citizen who is facing heavy college debt? >> right. well, first of all, that's an amazing statistic because in my wildest dream, i would have have never thought that to be the case. as far as seniors, if they're, in fact, in that position where they have large student loan debt on their books and they're already in retirement, the only thing you could possibly say to them at that point is, don't panic. you need to go back, speak to those lenders. perhaps you could work something out just simply by speaking to the lenders. one of the biggest mistakes people have made x that's why a lot of these seniors are in this predicament, basically comes back to the fact that they didn't make loan payments on time and ignored it for years. could have been for other financial reasons -- unemployed for a period of time, death in the family, who knows

he's live in gloss gao to tell us how the vote might go.ing. >> reporter: good morning, carol. it's going very bitterly. 4.25 million people registered to vote, 97% of the total electorate of the country is expected to vote. turnout is high. they're 7 1/2 hours into the voting, 7 1/2 hours to go. we were here just before the polls opened and it was quiet. in the minutes right before you could hear the feet thundering down the pavement here, and the doors opened there was a line of people, a lot of people in suits on their way to work and that's the way it's been, a continuous stream of people coming and going since then, people who moppered the outside of polling stations here this one in particular in the past this is the busiest they've ever seen so the prediction of a high turnout is what we're seeing right now. the notion it's as easy as one line, if there is a yes vote good tomorrow the detailed work that probably involves more than 18 pages will get under way. carol? >> what are the polls showing, nic? >> reporter: right now, too clos

the gao did not comment on that specific issue.the second thing i would say is we are not really arguing that two wrongs make a right. we're arguing about whether it was law in the first phase. president george w. bush was absolutely wrong to have taken those actions that he did and contrary to statute, he did something that was illegal and were very mad about that and as long as were talking about it we should mention the fact -- i haven't heard anyone say that because i think the implication is on that side they didn't think was wrong. that is the issue. president toor the do something he believes is in the national security interest of the country under his article to authority. i think most people would say sometimes yes, sometimes no. it's a debatable issue. it's not a matter of saying two wrongs make a right. it's a matter of arguing whether or not it was wrong in the first place. hobgoblintency is the of small minds, as the saying goes. it certainly is enough inconsistency on this issue to make people believe that this is mo

. >> and you pointed out to him that the gao has estimated there's only 6% operational control of this border. only 6%. we've got the homeland security secretary sitting there talking about how he may or may not be familiar with the report you have in hand about these four terrorists. >> and i asked him. i asked him what is the operational control right now on the border? what is the operational control? and he said i don't know. how could he not know? he's the homeland security secretary. >> when you watch that body language, even the clip where he's scratching the nose, that's a dead give away. remember clapper with the hand to the forehead like not wittingly or trying to do a bewitched to get out of the room. congressman, good to see you. >> thanks, megyn. >> right? or the little daughter, tabitha who had to move her nose around. >>> we have new information tonight on the new york man suspected of trying to recruit isis fighters and how he was trying to recruit americans to the cause of jihad. that's next. plus, the benghazi select committee opened its hearing today just one day aft

. >> reporter: the gao recommended in the audit that congress stop paying for the headquarters unlesshs develops a better building plan. justin gray, ktvu channel 2 news. >> when it's finally finished, the new homeland security headquarters will house more than 14,000 department employees. >>> the main road connecting solano, sonoma, and napa counties will be shut down this weekend. starting at 10 clerk, highway 37 will close in both directions between route 21 and the sonomaeracyway and highway 29 in vallejo. the caltranscrews will be repaving the road. the highway is to be reopened by 5:00 on monday morning and closed again for more work the following weekend. >>> and so who opens the content you buy and downloadfo your computer? >> academy of art university students are concerned. will they be able to afford to use the key computer program many feel they have paid for. >> the bay area city makes an about-face. the controversial garbage contract changes hands. what is not changing. . >> and in weather, low clouds and fog increasing. we'll look at the weekend forecast and let you kno

programs that waste $45 billion by some estimates over the next five years could be saved or courting the gao if we were to eliminate the programs. second, although this is a the congressman also opposes, we ought to give the department of health and human services the ability to negotiate discounts for pharmaceuticals. there's no reason for them to be wasting money at the behest of the drug companies. there's a lot more we can do to crack down on fraud in the medicare system, but we shouldn't do, as congressman coffman has proposed, is to dismantle medicare as we know it. that is not my assessment, it is what "the wall street journal" said his vote would do, essentially and medicare and force seniors to pay thousands of dollars more a year in out-of-pocket costs. >> we had a couple of follow-up questions on this topic. mr. coffman, which entitlement programs would you look at first to make cuts? i'm sorry, mr. romanoff on that one. >> first, my take is the are to be strengthening social security. i don't consider it, as congressman coffman called it, upon 16. i think we ought be strengthenin

we spoke to gao feng, deputy head of china's anti-counterfeiting police unit.ted. obviously the authorities know about this, and yet, the shopping mall is open, the markets are open. >> [speaking foreign language] >> this phenomenon does exist. i admit its existence, but there's a question of how hard you crack down. that's because, under chinese law, someone cannot be prosecuted only because he sells a small quantity of fake products. >> in 2003, there were about 1,000 police raids, often followed by press conferences and displays of the seized goods. but american companies say that's what it amounts to: a display. that's because, unless a counterfeit really hurts people seriously, the fines imposed by the authorities are very low. and the relationship between the cops and the counterfeiters is often less confrontational than cozy. >> i remember going on a raid one time, in which the counterfeiter and the local enforcement official seemed to know each other very well. he said, "hello." he actually served tea to us when we went and seized the product. of course

>> unfortunately if you look at gao reports in the past, government accounting office. you see this is kind of a, something happened before. this not first time this is happening. but what is happening right now, in the wake of ebola and incident, people in this country are saying, gee, are we prepared? what you find from this report. the $47 million that congress put back in 2006 has not been spent the right way. now, when i was here in the states i had role in overseeing stockpiles here. it takes maintenance. it takes rotating the stock. they're not doing that. some of the things in the report i know you have seen are kind of outrageous. 16 million surgical masks but yet they don't say why they need 16 million. gerri: why do you need 16 million surgical masks or 350,000 white coverall suits? they didn't establish a need for any of this. just to show folks some elements out from this report, i want you to see this, 81% of antiviral medication on hand will expire next year. 84% of hand sanitizer stockpiles have expired. less of an issue in my view. stockpiles of five mi

well, they've read the pentagon audits and the gao reports and the "60 minute" exposes and so on. it's horrendously inflated. waste, fraud, abuse is only part of it. we're still building cost-overrun military weapons systems designed for the soviet union era of hostility. like, the f-22 should never be built. you could put it on this stage. that's how much $200 million of electronics cost, profit in overruns. why are we building more submarines, nuclear submarines? one trident submarine--nuclear warheads can destroy 200 cities. that's before it reloads. why are we building more aircraft carriers, $15 billion a carrier? we got 13. the next country to challenge us is italy, has two. [laughter] it's the military industrial complex that eisenhower warned us against. people don't like that. they'd rather have that money go where eisenhower wanted it to go in his famous "cross of iron" speech that you can look up on the internet--april 1953, when he said, "is this the way we want to live? we can wipe out the soviet union. they can wipe us out." and then he did what no other president di

wealthiest citizens, to prepare for retirement without needed tax incentives and along with this is the gao is giving the senate finance committee some statistics on i r as with high balances. in 2011 the latest year it has full data about 7,000 people had i are as worth $5 million and 300 people had i are as worth 25 million. president obama criticized the ability of wealthier people to sock away this kind of money on a tax-deferred basis proposing capping these balances at about 3 million. so -- stuart: he wants to exercise some control over who can accumulate how much in the 401(k). he is not saying you cannot put it into that stock or bond, saying more control over who gets the money in that tax deferred account. >> more control over how much on a tax of vantage basis. stuart: i thought janet yellen was going to tell me i can't invest in microsoft but i digress. thank you very much. charles, you just heard the real story spelled out. what do you make of it? charles: there might be more to it. he gave out, he wrote a big piece and gave the big presentation to the industry and he did talk

according to a 2013 gao study, the volume of contractor post payment claims reviews increased by 55% between 2011 and 2012. more audits means obviously more appeals. that is an inevitable result of the additional from integrity functions that we here have asked cms to government. congress has not provided omaha with more funding for more judges to adjudicate claims so when we wring our hands about the number of days that these providers have to wait, we have to wring our hands and look directly at ourselves. despite a sixfold increase in the number of appeals since 's in the number of alj omaha has received constant. 192 claimsi received get received no additional funding to handle the workload. i joined my colleagues in sending a letter to the secretary of hhs citing concerns about the program and expressing the need for reform. it is also important to note that has led to the exposure of many questionable billing billing forch as hospital readmissions on the same day with the same diagnosis. durable medical equipment items delivered but never ordered i a position. hospital claims c

that's one of the recommendations we received from both gao and the peer review panel.generally speaking, we are consistent with the dhs model of consequential vulnerability and threat, deciding what the risk is for an individual facility. for the information protection piece, cbi, it's the information regime that was developed. so anything with peer information or chemicals on site of the security plans, all that would be protected under cbi for our program. and that is how we maintain it secure the information. >> do we have other questions out there? mr. kennedy? >> you guys are stuck in between two walls. i've never really seen this before. i do a lot of chemical security issues obviously, and i'm also an honorary regulatory geek as well. the question that i had was, for fix some of these issues? and also, moving forward, could you just sort of explain kind of what the time line -- if i had an idea, like a checklist or something like that, and i propose it, and i make comments, in the next reiteration in the final rule, will you take those into consideration and wei

we have dod, department of state, usaid, gao and i apologize if i missed one or two. but you understand, those folks audit representatives and other folks from those organizations come together and we talk about a comprehensive oversight plan to try to deconflict that. >> particularly in the federal community, one of the things i was encouraged with are these joint audits or joint inspections that we have done. my first week on the job we rolled out -- or were in the process of rolling out a joint report on the boston marathon bombing and the intelligence community's actions with regard to that. that was the intelligence community igs cia ig, dhs ig, doj ig, all of whom had a piece to this, all of whom could have told separate reports that wouldn't have been told in a cohesive way. inspector general got everyone together pursuant to some direction from the white house to see if we could put a joint report together and i think that process worked terrifically and there are a number of other circumstances in which we'll work a case or an inspection or audit jointly. >>

. >> previously commented gao had indicated only 6% operational control of the border. what percentage -- what is the operational control of the border at this time? >> i don't have that number off hand. i do agree with you that the challenge of those coming from countries other than mexico, particularly into the rio grande valley sector is one i am concerned about and something i have been concerned about since i took office in january. they've seen it myself at our detention center in brownsville when i visited there in january. there was something like 80 nationalities present there. >> i need to interact because they are just a little time. i've got to switch quick to a yes or no question presented no question but in a tv through president reagan put in place prohibition from seeking visas to come to the united states to be trained in aviation security -- aviation and nuclear sciences. myself, the judiciary chairman bob goodlatte, congressman trey galli and i introduced to the legislation that we keep the prohibition in place. there's been a process going through yo

the gao is looking at this.re are many answers that will be forthcoming but a few we can speculate on now was the plan too ambitious. this was a big project going to be connected to everything. with regard to an applicant. one of the things we hear a lot about the federal exchange is for maryland. there wasn't enough time for consumeri#ffffz testing. there was a very rushed atmosphere. the contractors were fighting, according to the press and other accounts. and there may have been a lack of savvy about the consumer side of things at the top of the exchange leadership. failure, high profile resignati resignations, the leader failed. went on vacation after the launch and was lampooned. she was from are the private sector, well trained for this kind of work. but maybe not as politically salve va as she needed to be. she was replaced by the person who headed up the effort in the governor's office. secretary scharfstein is leaving in january to join the school of public health at johns hopkins. he will also be gone.

then the most important is, the republicans talking about passing legislation to have the gao audit thepen market committee and federal reserve, terribly politicizing that, and finally when i was chairman, we had to stave off an effort by some of the republicans to get the international monetary fund not to participate with the rest of detroit to try to help europe. i think there's an absolutism there that goes against many of what i know business wants specifically. >> larry kudlow, do you think that if we did not have a republican majority in both houses, that the issues that mr. frank just brought up, we would have some progress there? >> well, i don't know. chairman frank is a good man, sometimes we agree, sometimes we disagree. i just want to say, one thing a republican majority will do is immediately launch corporate tax reform. they will want to slash the corporate tax rate and pay for it by getting rid of loopholes and enhancing economic growth and jobs. that's something the chamber of commerce wants and that's something that's high on the gop priority list. mr. frank mentioned

from d to have a report the gao outlining and certified that says this is what the this isis at this point how we can correct it. one of the things that play to bigger theme of border security on other issues is not who comes a in and out borders. most people here illegally came and expired.a 50% of those here illegally came legally. they're not for some reason hitting a terror list or atchlist, prime minister cameron has said we don't nope who's coming in and out. e have had the issues with the americans going to fight with the islamic state. suspend the nt to program? yeah.: rich: is there suspect support? hope so.e we're going to suspend this program to make sure we along with the allies have the ability in place, trols whether it be background checks program, we' the open to either one. with wae tonight make sure who's coming in and out of our country can protect ourselves as best we can. have a problem we don't right now. it comes out of the free society. ost: "the washington times" reporting this morning that the issue is bound to come up wednesday when the homeland johnson sec

there was a gao investigation and congressional hearing and this was all before a discovered the reportingut. he he became a campaign issue in 1992, overseas trade and the trade officials and bill clinton issued an executive order in his first days in office banning his trade officials from lobbying for foreign interests. this separate had a huge impact and it wasn't the only center report and i started looking into lots of them. amazingly there were things about chuck's name in the center's name that would keep turning up. epic stories about corporate donors traveling with cabinet secretaries, political party chairman who were lobbying. they would be fbi investigations and first up was having an impact. they were knocking out one great story after another and i kept thinking you are these guys? from the outside looking in from "the philadelphia inquirer" inquirer it seems like this incredibly professional slick organization and later i would discover when i went to work there that i want but the stories were fueled by desperate all nighters and dashes to the finish line breathlessly getti