. >> -- gsa tt -- gas attack last week. >> there is no doubt that the regime is responsible. >> washington can also count on the french. president francois hollande supports military intervention in syria, even without a mandate from the u.n.. for now, america's closest ally is staying out. parliament condemned the use of said -- chemical weapons in syria. in an interview friday, he tried to put it into perspective. >> i have a strong view that we need to take a tough and robust approach around the world to an appalling war crime taking place in syria, but i'm also a democrat who believes in consulting and listening to parliament. i have set out those steps and a very deliberate and careful way. we have to listen to parliament. parliament spoke. >> the u.n. experts player on -- plan on sharing their findings. according to one spokesman, analysis could take weeks. >> as we heard as well, the u.s. and france are already convinced that the regime of president bashar al-assad was behind the chemical attacks. can they intervene and syria without a u.n. mandate? >> we look at the legality of the

on hotel rooms for testing for those exams and i would note that we have a commitment for use from gsa to use the testing rooms for some of their large events. and so, we think that it also provides the opportunity for when it fits into our schedule, for testing, that we are able to have the departments use them and they don't have to go to the outside of the city as well. >> mr. chairman, actually if the department is committing that they are going to save the $30,000 in the hotel rooms, we would recommend approval. if the department is suggesting that the board of supervisors request the controller to submit rescinding legislation of the moneys that you just appropriated in this year's next year budget, this year, now, beginning july 1, then we would recommend approval of this item. we are not... there is... the only way that you can get savings is you have to take it out of the budget. and savings does not just materialize, you have appropriated the funds and now you have to rescind the funds. >> we are prior to sign the leases of the legislation to determine whether or not there we

city through adrian and the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs, the five foundations and gsa. they are providing the much needed funding for this initiative. there is a national effort called the new americans campaign which is working on naturalization in multiple cities in the country and the seven cbos who makeup the san francisco collaborative are truly grateful. now that san francisco is part of this americans campaign. melissa rogers from the immigrant illegal resource center who heads up that campaign is here today. i want to quickly introduce. and irlc is providing [speaker not understood] to our collaborative. besides self-help for the elderly, there are six other community based organizations and their representatives whom i'd like to introduce to you now. if i call your name, would you step up and stand beside me? because we're not doing this alone, we're doing everything together. so, from the advancing justice asian caucus executive director hen june ro. from the asian pacific islander legal outreach, executive director dean ito taylor. program director from the

. >> host: a continuing theme in "totally incorrect" is the relationship with that gsa. what do you think of them? >> those that go to work, you say where they get the people that joined in the nsa? where do they round these people up? the same type of people from the bottom of society lowlife middle aged people speaking to would drop whenever they we're doing previously to put on a tacky uniform to go to the neighbors 30 laundry and serve a useful purpose in the process. this little bit of power that they have got holding it over others makes your life miserable and withal bureaucracy once created, it grows. bureaucracies like that, this is true of all of washington you have to kinds of people in the world. those that believe in those the believe enforce that are drawn to the government with the power of the state comes out of the barrel of a gun. it at some point with the people that work for the government for whatever reason they do not want to be there any more. we are also reaching that tipping point in the united states. >> host: who are your political heroes? >>

different ways to we searched disagree with the same backscatter machines at airports to provide the gsa agent with naked images of our bodies but to look under the vehicle or under clothing or a match a suspicious shape. john: cruz dell industry a bad people? be bigger vehicles and. john: the public says you have nothing to worry about if you don't do anything wrong if we are safer. >> but who determines what is wrong? if you look at the history of our country you find a decades-long history of the abuse of power for political purposes to suppress dissent to the most the tories case of the decade-long campaign waged by the fbi to destroy and discredit martin luther king to be replaced by what it could be replaced by the right kind of negro leader also women's rights activist of the civil rights leaders, unions, has anyone seen as opposed to the authorits. john: but we are smarter now this would not happen today is immaculate at history and current events around the world becomes clear when people have the power to observe thpublic without their own actions subjectto oversight and accoun

different ways to we searched disagree with the same backscatter machines at airports to provide the gsa agent with naked images of our bodies but to look under the vehicle or under clothing or a match a suspicious shape. john: cruz dell industry a bad people? be bigger vehicles and. john: the public says you have nothing to worry about if you don't do anything wrong if we are safer. >> but who determines what is wrong? if you look at the history of our country you find a decades-long history of the abuse of power for political purposes to suppress dissent to the most the tories case of the decade-long campaign waged by the fbi to destroy and discredit martin lutr king to be replaced by what it could be replaced by the right kind of negro leader also women's rights activist of the civil rights leaders, unions, has anyone seen as opposed to the authorities. john: but we are smarter now this would not happen today is immaculate at history and current events around the world becomes clear when peop have the power to observe the public without their own actions subject to oversight and accou

take on the play because they feel if anybody sees me with it that i will be dragged in search by the gsa and they will freak out and it never occurred to me we got to a place so far away from this era that people are paranoid about being seen of jay space history. i think we're just overly paranoid at this point and a lot of fear is not justifiable but to talk about the security but definitely a case to be made in the opposite direction with their own sense of freedom and the longing. it is understandable to some extent certainly but perhaps we need more distance from these events. >>. >> in the 1970's into lower thoroughly so your comments bring it back but the question i have is related to the details the you express from your book for example, the flight across the hijackers mines. is as a result of your research in interviews? >> there is no in dollars and i interviewed roger holder i tracked him down he is living in san diego in a very difficult man to find but i found him and interviewed him a great length. so the details about him wanting to have jeannette's come along on their ad

in 2010, the president appointed john as administrator of gsa, a position he holds to this day.has agreed to field questions from frustrated travelers in the audience. [laughter] at the back of the hall, the conclusion of this event. [applause] >> the privileges and opportunities of being a tsa administrator. thank you. let me say a few words about bob. some traits, if you will. the first thing that comes to mind for most of us is a leader. a man of character. integrity. a distinguished and dedicated public servant. humble, principled pragmatist, an innovator and motivator. a few words about those few words. under director mueller, he directed and implemented what is arguably the most significant change in the fbi's history. some a debate what is been the most significant. i was suggest what has happened in the last full of years. we all remember the in my five debates, whether the fbi in that post 9/11 world could handle the traditional law enforcement responsibilities that it was known for, and also collect intelligence, and share that. it is because of george and his cooperat

the gsa says travelers can apply for expedited screening to avoid these headaches. have?w, a travel expert mark murphy. before we get to this, i want to know your reaction the department of justice is doing with this merger. do you think that the merger will create higher cost for consumers? >> i have been saying it all along that it will create higher fares. less competition. limited number of carriers. domestic air traffic. fares will go up. case in point on the heels of the announced proposed merger, u.s. air raised the fee from 150 to 200. guess what, every other carriers matched. 200 for domestic and 300 for a change fee on international tickets with most major carriers. at intel was a big mistake to do that because it is easy to price match, and those things do stake. gerri: that is a good point. we will watch about it and talk about it. it is important to our viewers. another thing important to our viewers is getting through the security lines, and i have a surprise for you. i have one of the cards that we're talking about. that is my global entry card. so i can sn

now, problems with the gsa. we've tried to have a constructive relationship with them, and we do, but there's just hitches in hand in the system. first, we believe that in many cases we are not charged an appropriate market rate for the facilities we rent. when they do construction for us, it seems to be at costs that are not really competitive and out of higher than we should pay. there tends to be construction delays that further drive up the cost. with respect to this effort to release space, it's a little hard sometimes to get gsa to take the space back in a timely manner. we, of course, have to continue to pay the rent, no discretion about that, yet went as a percentage of our budget is not subject to sequestration or other cat. so we are still, we have to pay, that's one of the reasons in accounts like ours that are so heavily people in rent, that it is very hard to see all the, we have no way to quickly reduce our rent costs. that's one of the reasons that the burden seems to fall so heavily, so fast on t

we even made efforts a number of years ago to extra candidate ourselves completely from gsa are.e court of birmingham to get to a that point. >> they came to a point of extending it. there was some concern about it. i studied it and thought they were exactly correct. we were able to maintain that, and there was no doubt that every judge -- absolutely confidence it saved money and things ran better. it would promote good government. we haven't been to be gleet yet. i don't know where the cases are nationwide in recent weeks. we looked at gun prosecution. they have, dropping. i looked at the bank fraud case. they're not up, actually down a little bit over the last x number of years. as i said the number of cases actually gone to trial is -- because that's been going on for a decade or more. those are remarkably low. you have situations such years the d.c. circuit which has a u loest case load in the country. our colleagues seem dorm fail vacancy on that circuit which their case load per judge is less than half of the national average. and so there may be yet some places that we cou

spending that exceeded what we saw and everyone was appalled at with gsa. and that review of that matter has resulted going from 45 million to about $5 million, considerable saving for the taxpayers. and then i think all of us were stunned when we heard about, and i don't know of a better term than scandal, that the irs was improperly awarding contracts to strong council. i'm sure the members that were here that heard tammy duckworth, one of our war heroes question the witness who had scammed the system, and also irs giving half a billion dollars worth of contract potential under false pretenses, with the veterans disability. so again, we have i think an important responsibility to look at these matters. unfortunately, irs has had a number of problems, and this one that we're looking at today continues. the incidence of identity theft related to tax fraud, now listen to this, some of this data is very interesting. it goes from 456,000 cases in 2009 to an estimated 1.9 million cases in 2013. that's a 416% increase. the treasury inspector general for tax admi

in 2010, the president appointed john as administrator of gsa, a position he holds to this day.has agreed to field questions from frustrated travelers in the audience. [laughter] at the back of the hall, the conclusion of this event. [applause] >> the privileges and opportunities of being a tsa administrator. thank you. let me say a few words about bob. some traits, if you will. the first thing that comes to mind for most of us is a leader. a man of character. integrity. equated --shing that and dedicated public servant. humble, principled pragmatist, an innovator and motivator. a few words about those few words. under director mueller, he directed and implemented what is arguably the most significant change in the fbi's history. some a debate what is been the most significant. i was suggest what has happened in the last full of years. remember the in my five debates, whether the fbi in that post 9/11 world could handle the traditional law enforcement responsibilities that it was known for, and also collect intelligence, and share that. hiss because of george and cooperation, co

gsa and ofpp, the office of federal procurement policy, are driving this. there's even a strategic sourcing council. we want to put it into second, third and fourth gear. there are four common functions that that strategic sourcing council has teed up, things like domestic parcel delivery. the efficiency is there that can be achieved with government's massive buying power -- think a costco on steroids -- the efficiencies are just off the charts if we just push the edge of that envelope. so a great start, but we think more and with both strategic sourcing, looking at those common commodities that everybody uses and everybody buys, i'll give you a great example that gene dodaro's staff found, cleaning products. every agency buys cleaning products, paper towels. they found one example where one agency paid $30 for a case of pape or towels and another paid $60. that's not quite as exciting as a $700 toilet seat, but it's still pretty exciting. [laughter] and strategic sourcing strategy applied across the enterprise would help squeeze the those prices down and g

the gsa and opft are driving this. there's even a strategic sourcing counsel. we want to put it in second, third, and fourth gear. there are four common functions that strategic sourcing council has teed up. things like domestic parse l delivery, the efficiency is there that can be achieved with government's massive buying power. think a costco on steroids. the efficiencies are just off the charts if we just push the edge of that envelope. a great start, but we think more. and with folks strategic sourcing, looking at the common commodities that everything uses and everybody twice. i'll give you a great example. cleaning products. every agency buys paper towels. one place paid $40 one paid $60. it's not as excited as $700 toilet seat. they squeeze the prices down and get a better deal for the taxpayer. >> more transparent pricing data. giving insight in to what did you pay, what did i pay and beyond the surface level and sharing? >> i have to tell you i had the experience literally yesterday afternoon we are working on a bad, there are some part of the governme