done so many things wrong and you have all listed the many things that they have done wrong and i have sent you the letters and e-mails and telling you all of the terrible things and here i am telling you that i think that they need to be given a chance and so am i crazy? i don't think that i am because someone is going to get in there and i have no control over it and i think that you can control these guys and i think that mark can control these guys, and i want to tell you when i came in here, and this committee is so different from the committee that i had to deal with with whispers and circulo and thank you for your service. and i think that they need to go back to the drawing board and very do a lot of specking and a lot of important work, but, somebody is going to go in there. and they have a steep learning curve. >> time is up, sir. >> thank you. >> is there any final public comment on this issue? >> please come on up. >> state your name and if there is none after this i am going to close the public comment. >> i am joan and i have a bottom floor space on alabama street around

when we hear from people like you, professionals say we have to have a, you have to have it, but youdon't want to, but you know you need it. and that is what we are doing today. >> tank you very much. because you have been a leader and we appreciate your leadership. as the and this panel, let me express do in the strongest terms the american mainstream to abandon the pipeline. and that you cannot discuss this publicly, but this needs to be responded to and again this gets back to the whole issue of getting fuels to people when they need it. this is about pipelines and electricity generation and extremely important for generating the men and women and consumers. so thank you and i'm looking forward to following up. again, thank you all and the second panel will come forward and we will momentarily. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, if i could reconvene the meeting, thank you thank you for quickly adjusting panels. we have six experts on this panel and we only have about dirty or 35 minutes left to go. so i would like to ask each of you to limit your remarks to women i

when you have it, you do not have to use it. when you don't have it, you have to use it.hen you have it, you don't have to use it. we are cutting way back. many decades it has not been this weak. many decades we have not spent this little as a percentage. we are cutting way back great putin who is absolutely having a great time. russia is really hot stuff. now you have people in the ukraine, set up or not but it cannot all be set up, are marching in favor of joining russia. ist he has done for russia really amazing. he has done it by outsmarting our country at every single step. you look at syria. you look at iran. they are taking oil from a rack. we spent $2 trillion on iraq. that worked in not exist two years ago. now you can hear billion. now you hear trillion. we spent $2 trillion fighting in iraq for years and years. we lost great people. i come from new york. i help wounded warriors. i have met so many of them with arms and thehe ar and the trauma they are going through. for what? iraq.u look at now we have nothing to do. you know who has taken it? iran. for decades

you have created a system where you have a lot of waste.maceutical companies are setting the cost. we could change things like that and get some reductions. 40% to 60%s get a cut on their cost of pharmaceuticals, whereas seniors pay the full fee. host: here's a headline -- i theer if this will help. obama administration will release data about health care services provided by doctors who participate in medicare in what officials hail as a major step to making the health care system more transparent and accountable. patients will be able to see how much doctors are charging for which services. a major step forward. if we start putting that out there and there starts to be a public discussion about it, you will have a change in the way that you pay for health care. we want people to have good health care. we want to pay for quality. not for how much can i do. right now, you are paid for how many things you can do. you get paid more. what we really want is maybe we should do less for you, but do it more carefully, you would get a better result

you have questions, we have questions. my focus is making sure nhtsa does everything we can dealing with these cases. when it comes to your question, each case is different. ideally what i would like to have happen is we find -- automakers find and fix these defects right away. if they don't, i want to find and fix the defects. >> there are internal reporting systems, monitoring systems -- into if a specific model started showing up 100 accidents that were unexplainable that would be a big enough lead that somebody would say, what is going on? if you have a steering problem or rate problem -- brajkeke problem, enough you could see in your reporting somebody would say, hey. we need check that out. >>i am told there were some internal employees that njhhtsa said that, before gm admitted there was a problem, there were mid-level people that said, we need to look at it. a decision was made that it was not at the level of further investigation. is that true? >> we have a process to do exactly what you just said. we have people

we have to have a government people can trust and count on, so does a fine line and you have to havethe expertise and sometimes that comes from having worked in the industry. but you also have to have a distance and independence, and some isolation from those industries in order to be effective. is a tough issue, but one we always pay attention to and when we look at in our investigations. , anou want an inspector inspector for the faa who has been on a company certificate or anyears or do you want inspector that has been on their certificate for three months? want either.don't you want something that is in between. but in order to get to 13 years, you've got to start at three months to stop it always a challenge. we've got to look at these issues and understand how to do it better. that's where there are phone or abilities and asking for change. >> what was the high point of your tenure at the ntsb? >> that's another hard question. point wasy the high the people. room, the at this staff, the board members, industry partners, the family groups, the safety advocates, the controllers,

we have a dedicated group of people who have their individual .eats and have we have a business reporter and an education reporter. for people tot get to know their local reporters. they take pride in that. host: you have competition with a local newspaper? caller: from the hartford current. and from online sources. all see ourselves as comrades doing work -- host: as far as the web, how does your newspaper incorporate that into your day-to-day reporting habits? caller: we put everything we report. it gives people that extra vehicle to get their news. host: that's michael. a member of the staff at the new britain herald. newspapers -- are they still relevant? (202) 585-3880 for the eastern and central time zones. (202) 585-3881 for the mountain and pacific time zones. a couple of stories from other papers this morning. the ones we focus on -- the new york times looking at the topic of the drone strike. a judge weighing in on the nature of drone strikes. a federal official friday dismissed a lawsuit against a top obama administration official. the court should hesitate before deciding to

they have asked heard that told me they have asked what the guidelines are. prosecutor at the state and federal level, shipping companies and even pharmaceuticals brought information to our attention, saying hey, we think there may be an issue here want to this address. i'm asking you to set guidelines up so they can work closely with eliminate,an if not significantly curtail the abuse of prescription drugs. can we do that? >> i certainly did not mean to made,in their marks i that companies are legitimately producing these very useful products. they cannot be held responsible for the distribution chain down the road where people steal and a whole variety of things. i don't want to cast that wider net. to the extent that there are concerns that people in industry, i would more than .elcome the conversation is, this is the thing that concerns me, their people have legitimate needs for these kinds of prescriptions and substances that relieve pain. we cannot omit in our legitimate stop opioid use which potentially leads to heroin involvement. we cannot lose sight

all three know they have to have a better governance. with what tension they have to do. we don't know how that is going to work. in policy terms, it will be important that we are close to have that -- who that person is. we need to help them manage that difficult tension so that proves governance rather than standing miracles of american we think should be immediately enacted. know't think any of us what to tell a man is thinking. their main issue is to discredit the new government. their approach has been hamid karzai is a foreign puppet. he has no legitimacy. we are legitimate. their goal is to maintain that situation. an election which has few adherents and a few people who vote and is badly contested by fraud. the more the next government is legitimated by the election and by how accept it, the more the taliban is in a position of having a difficult discussion. i have no idea how they will come out on that discussion. there is long history of our growing out of a gun in afghanistan. it does not mean people will be instantly saying that is the rule people. >> i don't

we don't have to do an experiment or have a breakthrough drug to have a huge impact.is is the way it can be orchestrated. i usually do not have the rosy glasses but the challenges have a historic opportunity to matter how much we know that it will only work if we can orchestrate the political process. think you. >> representative committee? >> -- representative kennedy >> i have gotten a very not have to turn on microphones for the last three years. i am rusty. [laughter] i am honored to be here that you are amassing that kind of energy that needs to be placed in this area to get the federal government to pay attention how do we move forward? i just want to say i am honored to be here with all of you it is a.e.i. and i am a liberal democrat but mental-health knows no partisanship as has been stated before my dad and i were in the principal sponsors in it could not have been done with many others. so in this town of bir polarize by ideology but this is one area that we put ideology aside that there will be those that the large majority can work together to find common

what do you have? >> i have three.omes to streaming video content in the u.s., amazon's instant video service is in the third spot, behind netflix and youtube. this was based on some tracking of all the stuff by a company called bill. that amazon'sst video service has surpassed those of apple and hulu for just being very busy with streaming traffic online. amazon put out a press release highlighting this today. everyone is fighting their spot in this battle. >> i am a big amazon customer. they are pushing those videos all the time, we have gotten letters in the mail saying that they have video. >> is so amazon not to actually tell us what the numbers are. they point towards other peoples's numbers and not suggest great success. >> how much do we know about this company quote? -- quilt? they are talking about overall amount of traffic. they know networks well. these to work at cisco. i think we should highlight that surpassing apple, apple has been operating the same kind of instant video service. if you aretreaming wat

but i do know that we have three at noon. we're going to have to call a halt. we have other experts that we are going to want to hear from. so i just ask, i don't want to cut anyone off. but i would like to just great as long as we can get to the next panel demand i will put my question. >> i appreciate that very much. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i will just ask one question around the subject area when an individual goes to buy this, they are going to do an inspection of the house and make sure that worth investing in. for the programs you run the assessment on the borrower and it's not really about creditworthiness but about need for it so the institution and the case, the oakland of the house deserves to have the same kind of rigorous analysis applied to it. and today we sort of have an all or nothing approach when we are looking at institutions as to whether they are worthwhile and basements and one look to it plays in california, a school that has revenue of $1.7 billion, 83% comes from the programs that you run. and yet they have the full rate i

to have on this? >> i'm trying to think if it is a two-year or a five. they are doing a five-year. the last ones were about eight. i do not imagine they will be able to get away with less than five or six. is this a cover-up that they say they will not give greece anymore money? so they have to go to bond markets to raise money? >> that is not quite accurate. fact the greeks know that if they are going to ask for more imf condition is that they have to be funding themselves out of markets. so that is a very important step to have it at the background should, in two years time or a years time, for whatever reason, they need more. look, we are already raising money. so you see how far we have moved. >> look at the spanish yields. --does not seem to be under seem to be reflecting the underlying risk. thes traders looking for ecb? happens, we are not going to have another sovereign crisis. the fact that drug he is saying, well, we don't know what kind of stuff, and the fact that the americans -- again, th

so we have to counsel people do have problems.le could face deportation based on these kinds of matters. making it admissible to get a green car permanent residence or come back into the united states. people will find that they have problems getting naturalization or even something much more simple to get a temporary status as many people seek to have an afternoon on a regular basis. people who want to get deferred action which is not really status but those who came to the united states in the maybe barred from doing these things due to very minor scrapes with the law, things we would hold against a citizen. so we find out that criminal defense attorney individuals have said i know it shouldn't be a problem because the probation and it's something that couldn't possibly be a problem lo and behold it's a huge immigration problem. so we find people that want to reopen the case. and we can't go back before it is effective. and so things that are newer on people's terminal records to give rise to the circumstance. and i will tell yo

you have to understand when you are doing these things, you have to have the right principle, if you will, somebody who can pull it off. we were confident he could, and he did. and obviously, zach and his team were fantastic doing it, but what it wasn't and never was presented as was a political interview with the media. i remember we had some discussion during 2012 about, well, is it appropriate for the sitting president and candidate to give interviews to jon stewart and others. the answer was yes, again, because the young voters are more likely to watch the "the daily show" than some other news shows, but also i think if you look back at 2012 in the series of interviews the sitting president of the united states gave, probably the most subsequent interview he had was jon stewart. it was with the anchor of "the daily show." >> what does that tell you? >> uh -- [laughter] i think you all should examine it and write about it. i think it's a broader discussion about where the traditional media are today. it's also a reflection of the fact that somebody like jon stewart is a very smart

i think we have to have both. i don't think we should shy away from using a system that is tried and true. >> i'm way over my time. i couldn't agree with you more. on to make sure before we put them in a military commission an article three courts that which i do gather as much intelligence possible lawfully before we try them. >> mr. attorney general, we thank you for your testimony today. as you can see, this is a pretty smart, aggressive committee. we really want to work across the aisle and protect our people. started first of all with the constitution. we want to protect the constitution, we want to protect people against all enemies foreign and domestic. that means the scum who prey on greed like mortgage fraud all the way up to these despicable acts of terrorism. you have a big job and we wish we had a bigger budget. we will take a good look at it and see how we can support you. >> elects a one thing. that is a thank you to the committee and to the chair as well as senator shelby. we had dark days in 2013.

what obligation do these people have? none. they have been competed. ra republicans can do is look at a policy emor things that say if you do the right things, then it should be possible for you to get ahead. it should be possible for you to stay connected to the labor market. looking at policy through that lens, things like trying to get the long-term unemployed back to work through payroll tax rebates and what have you. you are doing the right stuff, and therefore we have an obligation to you. if you are not doing the right stuff, then we don't. if you are not trying to work, then we don't have it. it has to be two-way. i don't think either party has captured that space yet. it is the way to go. >> how do wage subsidies work. >> you have americans that are not competitive with chinese works, or they are not competitive at the level their parents worked out. they are downwardly mobile because doing what they are dad did doesn't pay what it used to. what a lot of them are saying is no. why should i do this? this is demeaning i should have to do it for

good to have you. >> ba having .left said the word dubious victim. what you think of that? >> i expected the fallout from the left. they have been cheerleaders all long ignoring all the effects it is happening -- having a real american families but to focus on the keywords and the catch phrases they just keep repeating over and over to make them feel good about this. neil: they did not believe the fact you were paying $221 per month before now ost th sa happened. >> we were getting are really great to price. i don't deny. we bought that years ago so little by little in has gone up over the years. our exact plan one year ago would have been a lot more expensive. neil: but that should not have to be clarified. it is what you paid with the adjustments but tell us what else. what changed as the results of the plan that you had to adjust to or pay more for? >> the new affordable care act includes the mandated benefits but it comes down to the bottom line financially. even with the extra benefits there is no possible way t

have read things i have hoped for me in shape me. as far as if your talking about logistics' being part of that high speed fast moving in that dawn applied denied don't know that that could be talked about. they branded as an idea. among the right. i just got approached by a former bbc actually has a business. his sole purpose is to match as in the special operations committee with industry. i just don't remember. literally we just want e-mails. he is going to advertise on our website. you just watch the site when this kind of the service that is providing tax. >> think you for coming today. my question is about the different special operations. you looked like delta for seals. i've read that there is lot more working together between the different groups. have these a different, lot of competition between. >> well, there used to be like all lot of competition to the point of being detrimental. when they formed jay sock committee is going to play nice, the navy is in the army gunners, once we started train together if find out that e

have enforcement on one hand. you have legal visas. we do have issues with other things related to security, economic freedoms. people being able to come out of the shadows. what are the number one things that you are hearing that are the bases that are giving people the most pause on this subject? what are they things are you are hearing people are struggling with the most in getting behind some form of comprehensive reform, which is what we looked like we were going to get out of the senate, to a piecemeal fashion assuming anything goes through. >> first of all, the american people demand we secure the border. they have been promised that once. nobody believes that actually happened. the recession was the great border security. not anything the government did. no administration of any party, my party or the democratic party, has ever done anything to enforce visa laws. it has been a sieve. the american people generally offer immigration reform. the status quo is about the worst thing we can have. immigration reform, they don't want t

so far, we have to have a bigger position.sing the market, i think china looks surprisingly upside. saying they will -- [indiscernible] 7% or 7.5%? the beginningat of march it was several .5%. i think we -- 7.5%. i think we have a chance of quantitative easing. nevertheless, they know it will be difficult to achieve it. is moreway which construction. aware of the challenge. china, it is in very attractive. market isk the significant in china. >> thank you stop i want to ask about corporate stories and next. -- thank you. -- i went to as you brought corporate stories next. hans nichols will break down the story. what have we heard from torture? -- deutsche? bad, will do the good, the and the unknown. let's start with the good. they were not nearly as bad as people were expecting. people were expecting big profit losses. they were not as bad. the bad news is a cfa capital problem. on that conference call, they talked about how standards are getting stricter. he did not say if they would have new share offerings. there were repor

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they have money, resources, and they have been able to build engineering teams. >> what do they haveell this? is it better content? a lot of people are perfectly happy with netflix, why would they switch? >> it is content that drives everything. it drives consumption. it is the same thing in the cable world. the contentget going right and then you have to get the device and service working seamlessly. it sounds easy to say, but it is hard to pull off. only a handful of people have been able to pull that off. that is why we love netflix. it works. >> in terms of where the competition is, netflix, we are over the top with netflix. chromecast, a doesn't feel like the full product. >> apple and google have been disappointing on their tv offerings. apple has apple tv. you can get great downloaded movies, but there's no streaming service. it feels like it is underperformed relative to what it could be. apple could make a run at netflix and build a product. it would make a lot of sense for them, but they have not done it. google announced chromecast. it has kind of faded away. i have not he

they have leadership skills, they have communication skills. they're used to moving around, so they're flexible and they're adaptable, and they can enter a group very easily because they're used to doing that. military families move about two to three -- every two to three years, and those are assets when they go into the workplace. we want employers to see that. and so we've partnered with the chamber of commerce and highlighted some of those issues. we're doing a lot of that work at blue star families and in partnership with the chamber of commerce because we want to highlight those strengths. excuse me, i'm losing my voice. so those are some of the best practices i want to bring out today. a lot of those are being represented here. thank you. excuse me, i'm coming down with a touch of a cold, so -- excuse me a moment. so i'm very pleased that all of these organizations are integrating families and, again, what i want you to leave with here today is that every time you hear "service member" and every time you hear "veteran," i want you to thi

you have to have a lot of acreage to graze cattle. so i think they were limiting it and he felt it wasn't their right to do so. there is real debate where weather this land should be owned by the federal government or state government. with regard to his specifics, i'm for obeying the law and i'm not for a violent outcome. but with regard to the general question, should the states have some prerogative in this, i think so. i would like to see the land owned by individual, either privately or at the very most the state government, but not the federal government. and i would like to seat endangered species act administered with a little more sense of what people need as well as what animals need. >> is this a sense of a growing sort of overreach by the government or is this just like, you know, tempers just went way off the charts on this and it got way out of control? >> well, look at it this way. we have a little city named grand rivers in kentucky. they wanted to build a new sewage plant because when it rained the raw human sewage we

have a good day. >> i have a question about the cia. they are declassifying -- act in 2009 he said the cia misled you. this report gives evidence to that claim, and there's proof that there was a misrepresentation of the interrogation program. what kind of consequences should there be for the cia? is made up of many very patriotic americans who take risks to protect our country. good intelligence prevents conflicts. what was done at the cia, in my view, came from a came from rate, higher-ups to direct them to do what they were doing. i am not surprised by it at all. meeting, controlled the report on it, add facts mythology fact -- and -- add mythology after the facts, and then they do what they did or alleged to have done to that senate committee. committee,s out of it will go to the cia for classified vetting, is that correct? i'm not finished. the ghost of the cia for classification vetting, then it goes to the president, and the president can declassify. it's a funny thing. some declassification took place that should not have during

. >> do you have time>> of course, i have time i want to recognize supervisor william kennedy's work. >> okay (clapping.) i can relax a little bit. while we thank supervisor dr. kennedy are in the house and she was our fourth president (clapping.) okay. all right. so i want to bring up unknown but before i do i want to announce there's great people in the house to thank. we do have let see commissioners from the oc ii the director of the public housing and c l and we have community partners such as a mr. walton and ed williams and dr. honey cut and dwayne jones and then we have department heads mohammed the man of the hour for me he made this happen and barbara smith the head of the housing authority and ann is here (clapping) so we're going to have supervisor cowen come up because - oh, another supervisor in front. we're so proud to have her in our district and she said he did i was her master of thesis and every time we need something she's right there like sophie we appreciate her and glad to have her with us >> good morning. i'm glad the speaker put the breaks open kathy that is w

all the people i have needed have never let me down. so i'm still trusting. >> the president and first lady has said to me, they became closer in the white house. that this big place where they live upstairs -- because they see each other. >> more than they used to. >> tell me about her and him. >> they're hilarious. they love each other and their family. >> i know. >> i'm just telling you. >> have you ever heard them fighting and screaming? >> no. never. ever. really, never. i think that the life they had in chicago was so different. saturdays were about ballet lessons and the bookstore. it is the huge testament to their marriage. suddenly -- on one hand, the house is big. under the hand, there was nowhere to go. that was a hard transition. that is why the president loves to meet people so much. the people we bring in -- >> you mean people on the road? >> people on the road. >> you don't mean people in congress? >> he loves to meet people in congress. that is how he stays in touch. the current equivalent of the 52nd street bookstore. >

if you have worked and have not been paid under the law. under the immigration status whether you are authorized to work you are entitled for that work. the only difference being a fan employer retaliates against you for complaining about your lack of overtime pay or minimum wage decides to fire you because of it you wouldn't be n. titled to the reinstated back at your job. i would like to try to recover those wages. yes, you are entitled to that and we can definitely do something about it but keep in mind if your employer decides that when we raise this issue decides to fire you you are going to be out of a job. i can't -- the wall isn't going to force them to reinstate you and in fact it can't so in the context we have to take with every client we have to assess one's immigration status and how that affects what advice we are able to give them and i will hold off into circle back. >> what you just touched upon is a nice segue to then ask john a question to be followed by ofelia. we have also seen its lead to some reactions at the stage le

now you have got google and microsoft. you have young mr. zuckerberg calling the president and complaining about how his company is being treated in the global digital domain. american companies do nothing more for the united states than other countries do for their sovereigns around the world. microsoft, at&t, etc., do the same thing that deutsche telekom does for german security services, etc., etc. but it's only american information that has been put out there, it has been put out there in a way that suggests, almost declares, that only the americans are doing this. i would suggest to you that practically the entire continent of europe, including their elected representatives, now know more about american signals intelligence than they do about their own country's signals intelligence. and that's not a balanced discussion. >> there are lots of things that america might want to be for -- want to compete for global preeminence on, but i don't think one of them is going to be that we are the most closed government and we are the best at keep

the only concern i have heard have been me -- i have been to 20 offices. several the employees have term.ed to the nobody in the white house or treasury or administration has asked me not to use the word. >> thank you. mr. chairman, about a minute americansd more seeking tax preparation assistance and that is the the taxle complexity of code. much of the affordable care act through the tax code so when uninsured americans file taxes they node to figure if they qualify for the subsidies and what they can more financiales and medical sense to get coverage or pay the penalty for violating the law. doesn't the affordable care act issues on complexity top of those we already have making it even more difficult driving even more americans to tax preparers when coulds to getting returnreturns in on time? believe most are prepared to handle the complexities arising from the affordable care act? >> i think we will have questions from the preparers and taxpayers. the vast majority of americans will check off box that says they have insurance or medicare and they won'

you have to take it out of something that people already have. i think this is going to be a big challenge for republicans as they frame an agenda which is that if you're going to be honest about what it's going to cost and how you're going to do this and who the losers are going to be, because there is no such thing as a policy in which someone is not worse off, then you're going to have to go out and say that. and be credible. that is going to make those people very upset. > democrats can do that. >> i think the problem is that it takes us 40 minutes and a future of conservative -- conservatism talk to mention nything about social issues. we lose people flat-out because we have this bloodletting of state by state gay marriage, yes or no. so is there some kind of way that we can avoid a possible skis much of northeast republicans who frankly this issue is settle, right? all of us have gay friends, we're fine with it. but for southern republicans, how do we keep them from going off and causing a schism and running away with todd akin and pat robi

and i have so many questions, so many concerns. i have had for some time. i have been mostly concerned about the communication. i am not concern that this hearing helped me. it confused me a little bit more. but it also made me a little more frustrated because there was a certain, there was something else in my mind that i understood was going to happen with public housing. yes, the rad program and certain properties. but i wasn't completely aware that those properties that truly need to be rebuilt completely, are not. not only not going to be rebuilt in a timely manner, and we will be required once rehabilitated to keep them online for 20 years, we won't be able to demolish those particular buildings. that's news to me. i am concerned about so many things i don't know where to start. i lived over 20 years of my life in public housing. and you know it was a part of my existence. i had a strong community. but we constantly had challenges. what is really sad, i have gone on walks informally to all the public housing establishments in my district. and the cond

i have seen documents that have my story published. i have not making that up. -- allblem is bureaucracy wants control of information. when you are working in the secret world, you have this mechanism. almost everything that has to do with our relations with the world or military threats were intelligence matters, even policy, that is not testified in congress are in a press release or news conference, is classified. we said we could not cover some of the biggest expenditures that the country makes, the hardest decisions, the ones that involve the greatest risk and allow us to hold accountable our leaders for the way that they use their power. you have to cut out -- they're a big blank spot. there's never been anything like it. stories, thousands of stories in the time i have worked at the washington post, that touched on something like that stop we cannot let the stamp itself be the decider. we have to try to way, what are the stakes? their stories we have killed over the years. there is an archive we did not consider publishing. that

not been, you have sanctioned, but some institutions have been sanctioned, some individuals have beenioned. how is that affecting your business in general? >> at the moment, we do not feel anything. >> nothing. >> what happens if the level is ratcheted up? >> i think that people still use our kiosks will be in place. visa is not the only way to use your wallet. >> when visa and mastercard declined to service some of these credit cards, you are talking about a small number of red card numbers, tens of thousands in a country of 40 million people. if we saw a larger application of that kind of denial of service as a weapon by the united states, that could be really bad, no? ,> if there is no substitution no national payment system card instead of visa or mastercard, we will just switch to cash. >> russia is just going to go all cash >> that is very obvious. they used to use cash. >> what about the economy itself western mark -- the economy itself? s&p cutting russia to bbb-. the outlook is negative. how much can the economy withstand if sanctions are escalated? qiwi's perspective, we do

have a meeting, you just come to have a meeting but you cannot have both of them. to have group meetings not controlled by the government. >> the media in ecuador criticize the president? >> of course. the media all the time every day because most of them are bound bythis elite -- are owned this elite. public media, also, they have independence and they can criticize the government. >> let me talk about how you see the role of government and you are identified as a socialist. >> yes. >> what does that mean to you? >> to look for social justice. and who have been the academics as well as the political figures that have influenced the way you see government? >> my political thinking has by the sociald doctrine of the catholic church and also the liberation theology because i worked in my youth with these groups. but also for several experiences in latin america. >> lula in brazil and venezuela? >> of course. >> he was a political hero. >> well, he was a political figure. >> and you admire lula and chavez because of what they did in changing their country? >> of cours

having said that, the models that have been rolled out have been with hotels and they have seen success they are now looking specifically at following the malaysian airline disaster at the transportation sector. >> is every purchase in the united states to travel outside or every purchase out of the united states to travel in the united states checked against the database at the point of purchase or closer to the departure or arrival? >> this will be the final question. >> when the tickets are purchased and checked out the counter. >> 100%? >> inbound flights to the u.s. yes. >> i want to thank the witnesses for being here. i think all of us have additional questions, so i would invite you all to separate those for the witnesses and we will ask for a written response to the questions and again i appreciate you coming on short notice. we convened this hearing i had an idea and convened it pretty quickly particularly for helping us move on capitol hill. so we appreciate the witnesses coming this morning and in person went to the role that record will be open for seven days and without obj

this is what you have to -- when you have chance you have to get rid of as many of these weapons as quickly as you can. you have to take them off hair trigger alert. ready to launch in 15 minutes. you have to here this, when you have the chance, because you don't want to risk that miscalculation in a period of unpredictability, a period of crisis like we might enter. >> just quickly. you were saying our comments about the republicans' criticism of obama. let's talk about the democrats' criticisms of obama's foreign policy, which -- it's not simply -- republicans only, that would make life easy and predictable, but even within his own party, there is broad concern about the negotiations with iran, the amount of time being spent on arab-israel issues and so forth. that's transcends party. i agree with john. i love the line about nice tent. i'll use that. if you think about that to take on the arab-israel issue, that's not a political winner. that's in the graveyard -- jimmy carter, george bush. the middle east is not politically career-enhancing for anybody to take on. when there are so many

we have to find a way. >> you guys have had to have large orders like this before, right? >> not-- >> yes, we have, but usually i have time. >> do they have a shelf life, the lollipops? >> they got a long one. >> they have a shelf life? >> super long. >> so then why don't you have an inventory of them? >> i can never get ahead. >> we'll deal with the issue of not having the inventory on hand and the people to make it, but right now it's all hands on deck. we have a $2,000 order. we have to get it done. all right, well, we got a lot to do. let's get working on this. >> butter hot. >> stick it in the center. >> okay. >> wrap it over one side. >> dane, so why don't we jump in the kitchen? >> okay, let's do it. >> everyone is working their hardest, but there is a ton to do. so i've asked dane to help out. >> let's put in two cups of water. >> and now is the perfect time for him to demonstrate that he deserves equity. >> so you could do fondant, whatever you want. >> will you help us wrap, dane? >> yeah, i'll help you a little bit. hey, allison, i didn't realize it was gonna be

gone, there might have been hijacked, might have landed there, might have been shot down there.ies are not satisfied with that answer. they want to listen to the air traffic control recordings, the voices of the pilot and first officer. they said part of the gays can't do that. they want to know what was in the cargo. part of the investigation. they want to know whether the plane took a left or a right turn when it turned back to malaysia. they were shown maps, but having talked to someone present in that meeting still confusing and unclear exactly the route the plane took. so they are asking the same questions they have been asking. they are not getting the answers they want. but the narrative you're getting here is a real questioning over the route and this issue of some kind of conspiracy that the plane might have landed in diego garcia. this is something that the investigators just can't lay to rest for these families saying that they can only go with this inmarsat data that they have right now. >> nic robertson, thank you very much. you know, joining me, our panel, richard

we have to find a way. we have to get around it.the. >> story about a trip to china. , the question him about where in -- he represented. what you need to understand is they go home to their districts. if we are hearing yet home or not hearing certain things, that's what gives our interest first and foremost. if we are not hearing the deal, it tends to have an impact. on the flip side of that, we have to sift through a lot of this knowing of some of this stuff is the same because all the e-mails of the same. we have to sit through that. also as well, something is going wrong, and it is not with congress when the major security issue here at home is a concern that folks have all of the nsa as opposed to anything else which is not their fault, i would argue. debt is some of the kinds of things you hear in your home. >> okay. the third row. and then the woman in the far back, just to set that one about [inaudible question] will there be any change at all? >> and in the back please. >> hello. thank you very much for being here. it my qu

i think we have to have a balanced approach to dealing with this. there has to be an enforcement component to this. the dea will leave that. we have an increase of more than by% between 2008 and 2013, the amount of heroin we have taken from the cartels that was meant for our shores. beyond that, enforcement alone is not enough. we have to come up with, we have to also make sure we identify this problem as a public health problem. police officers, doctors, educators, we have to come up with treatment programs, prevention, educational programs. i don't think we should repeat the mistake of a frankly, that we made that we dealt with the crack epidemic. when we looked at it only as an enforcement issue. there has to be in enforcement component, but we have to bring into play all of these other resources we have, including supporting the programs that you have described, these monitoring programs. it is why i think it is so important that our capacity to aid our state and local partners be made whole in our budget. these are issues that the federal gover

we have the plumbing issues and the mold and mildew, and we have the walls sweating. we have so many issues in holly court. it's ridiculous what rad is attempting to do is probably not going to work. my biggest concern is for our residents as well, as far as our residents are already isolated in living in public housing. our residents don't have a voice in this here. if you ask how many appeared in the vision program, maybe 10. we have to start informing our residents about what is going on. so they will have the proper rights. as far as the employees, we are very concerned about our jobs, which is definitely totally important to us. and more than that we are concerned about our residents as far as the services they will receive. we are with them every day, and so we are very concerned about that. i think that's it. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is sabrina cheeks, i work at the housing voucher program. i have worked there 20 years. i am here about the rad program, and i understand that it's important to implement to improve the housing conditi

now and 6 of those in the richmond and i have used public transportation the whole time that i have lived in san francisco and i am some what of a little embarrassed to say this of a public transportation nerd. and i would like to outline some of the reasons why i think that i would be a good choice for a seat. and i don't really have a specific agenda, and you know, i live in the neighborhood, and i see a lot of what is going on, and i have got the ideas but i don't have a specific agenda or nor do i represent a specific group. i take the 38, not on a daily basis, but just about every day and i take the 1 ax to work and back on a daily basis but i only live two blocks away from geary. and i worked for the city traffic engineer as an intern for the city of montereywhen i was getting my mp a and i enjoyed the work that i was doing there and it was nice to liase between the city hall and the residents there. and i enjoy the planning and aspect behind it and another reason that i have lived and worked in quite a few different countries and i have seen how different countries incorporat

we have not had that. we are only starting to see a little bit now, which has led to efforts by the administration to rein in a little. besides obama saying he wants to anvil collections, he has also ordered there be public advocates before the surveillance court which traditionally only hears from the government on surveillance issues. he wants to have advocates to give the public interest side of surveillance. he has ordered there be stronger privacy protections for foreigners whose data is incidentally collected and collection on dozens of heads of states be halted. that is some measure of accountability. it does not go as far as some would like to want to see not just an end to the nsa election of phone metadata, but the end of all collection. they would like to see a warrant requirement for searches on americans' communications in a program called prism. they would like to see greater disclosure of the other book collections and greater transparency around the overseas collection, which we are only no

of support if we have that situation again and unaccompanied minors so that they feel that they have that support and comfort when they are in a different country or a different area, without that parental support. and finally, what we have done is one thing that we realized that was a positive was the airlines and their alliance partners and so asiana airlines is alliance parter with united, everyone is aware that united has a huge presence at san francisco and that really came to play. and asiana themselves did not have a lot of staff at the airport to respond, but united did and because they have an alliance and a partnership with those two airlines, united stepped in virtually as the asiana to handle all of the family and friends and support effort and we want to be sure that we have plans in place and if there is an airline like these airlines on the right here, who don't have alliance partners we want to make sure that we focus with those airlines and go over and, we have actually met with each one of them on here to get a copy of their emergency plans and to review those to ma

it should have already have been searched.ld have already ruled out the pings were from the mh-370. >> i want to get to jim tilmon now. this is a huge question and maybe the most important question especially when it comes to dollars. the top adviser said the search could cost a quarter of a billion dollars. that's in u.s. money. who should foot the bill for this because depending on how much it costs and who foots the bill is how long the search will go on. that's what will determine that? >> this situation is one that affects all aviation, particularly commercial aviation over this entire planet. it's important that we understand that this is not just a malaysian situation. we have a lot of lessons we are learning out of this. it is expensive learning but we have to pay the price in order to get what we need to know for future events. this is not just a one-time thing and don't worry about it. it will never happen again. don't count on that. that's not a good idea. >> very well put. >> geoffry thomas, let's say they find som

you have one, you have a bill? >> yes, sir. >> what's your name? >> i'm madeline roche and one of the department of defense overseas delegates. >> where are you based? >> kazakhstan and germany. >> what do you think of germany? >> i like it. i have been there nine years and longest i lived anywhere. i consider germany my home in a weird way. and it's definitely a mind-opening experience for me and it's changed my perspective on a national level for the country and also on an international level as well. >> what's your favorite german word? >> oh, that's a good one. probably bergermeister. >> and the bill you want passed. >> i would go along the lines with everyone else, it seems an education bill. living in a military community i have seen the effects transferring through multiple school systems has on students and how the lack of standardization and common goals for education have on students and their futures. >> let's go back in the back here. people we have not been able to talk to. yes, sir. >> my name is daniel rose and i'm the delegate from

host: thanks for having me. --guest: thanks for having me.we will have coverage on c-span 3 today if you want to watch that debate. that is this morning at 10:30 a.m. eastern time. we will continue talking about this and other issues with representative tim griffin. then we will talk with ben cardin. first, we want to show you a little bit of yesterday's hearing with mary barra. that is the front page of "the wall street journal." the front page of "the richmond times dispatch." also, the business day section of "the new york times" says this. mary barrara offered scant new information. here is a little bit of yesterday's testimony of the gm ceo, mary barra. [video clip] >> thank you. my name is mary barra and i and the chief executive officer of general motors. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today. more than a decade ago, gm embarked on a small car program. sitting here today, i cannot tell you why it took so long for safety defects to be announced for this program. i can tell you that we will find out. this is an extraordinary situ