james inhofe, the senator from oklahoma says it's the greatest cover-up in history. and he didn't even see the interview. he goes to great lengths to trash the president. i guess it's safe to do it down in the patch. >>> plus, is hillary clinton repeating mistakes she made in 2008? she hasn't even begun to make mistakes. how can she be accused of making mistakes? that's what some obama folks are saying. i don't buy this. i don't think she has done anything wrong yet. it's all in the record. >>> and it was 49 years ago that bob dylan was booed by purists for playing electric guitar. now the purists are booing again, this time over a super bowl commercial. it's hard to beat bob dylan. this this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> women's rights activist sandra fluke has filed paperwork out in california for henry waxman's seat in congress. fluke became a national figure after rush limbaugh disparaged her with a vulgar term for asking the federal government to take pour women's contraception during a congressional hearing in 2012. later that year she spoke at the

>> we can set jim inhofe aside. >> i really like the guy. i'm watching him, i'm thinking p.o.w. read the statement. >> so inhofe says whenever it snows that's proof that there is no global warming. >> i don't really like him that much. >> lindsey graham has -- he is likely to have a difficult primary challenge. >> seven people running against him. >> and he just gets something stuck in his craw here. the odd thing, though, this isn't even about benghazi. we're not talking what happened, whether there is adequate security, why these guys got killed, could something have been done to prevent it. we're talking about things that happen affidavit they died. and did he call it terrorists? did he call it extremists? it doesn't matter if he called it a ham sandwich. >> we're talking about the etiquette of talking points. >> the cia, the intelligence committee wrote the term extremism. that's the word they use for terrorists. >> right. >> it was general petraeus himself ahead of these directives who took out the phrase al qaeda. it's all in the record. >> right. but to have a cover-up, t

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but let me just return to senator inhofe, who says he has nothing to do with it.with him to this far. he was in uganda just this past january, leading a delegation of congressmen organized by the fellowship as he's on record saying i go to promote the jesus thing. the jesus thing did not include in his meeting saying one word against the bill. even when president of uganda was looking for an american excuse not to sign this bill. he was looking for a way out. he denounced it as fashionist. when he didn't get that support, he about-faced and now is -- now it's law. >> he has been very active in africa and in uganda. in a statement, he says, many know i have a special place in high heart for africa. my work with uganda started many years ago to bring an end to the lord's resistance army and defeat joseph coney, who for decades has been kidnapping, mutilating and forcing african youth to become child soldiers in terrorizing northern and central africa. by the way, we invited him to join us to discuss this issue. he's got an open invitation if he wants to. but very qu

what should the government do senator inhofe about the president's statements on benghazi. president obama is totally out of sync with his benghazi cover-up script. he's now getting caught in his own lies. senator james inhaofe is taking on the president and he joins me now. thank you, senator, for joining us. what the president said last sunday in the bill o'reilly interview, you say, was an outrageous lie. why do you say that? >> well, first of all, you know what evidence is with your background. the president has four advisers on things having to do with intelligence or defense. that is the cia director and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. when you have all of the advisers appointed by the president, answerable to the president telling the president that it was an organized terrorist attack -- >> senator, i don't mean to interrupt. i agree with you. everyone said it was an organized attack. five days later susan rice is sent out. without going into the whole scenario, how did this administration benefit? and we know it's right before an election but how did they be

you and senator inhofe and vitter. i hope we can come up with something that strengthens our infrastructure program in a fiscally responsible way. >> senator, i hope so. i say this, this committee is going deal with the reauthorization. what we heard from every member when you were -- it's very important duties is that we need certainty here. businesses are -- they don't know what the future hold. what i'm hopeful we can get a five or six year bill out of here. it will deal with the funding. but it will waive us out. that is why it is so important. whatever our -- i have classified views. one of them is to go after 350 billion uncollected taxes every year. i'm sure others wouldn't agree with me. there is many ways can get this trust fund going. but mr. donahue makes an important point. it has to be real. it has to be real and certain. that's why the user fund, however you use the user -- whatever it is. whether it is the gas tax or it has a separate seat. it doesn't cause any problems for deficit. very important and i

senator inhofe. >> well, thank you, madam chairman. i do have a long and brilliant opening statement to give, but i will listen to you, and se said that for the record, just make a simple comment. there's one paragraph in your that i do want to actually read. as i see it, we have four choices moving forward, one based on cbo estimates if we don't find new revenue and customer looking at a 90% cut in the program in less than eight months and some data actually is that figure at 100%. second time we simply, we are talking this -- transfer from the general fund. third, raise revenue, and for them in the absence of entering the first three, before map-21 expires we rely on a series of short-term extensions. this is something i want to avoid, and i have to say, confession is good for the soul. our problem it seemed like every year and i've been involved in these every year since i was on the t&i committee and house many years ago. is not so much with democrats but with republicans. there is this passion for some republicans to get the conse

senator inhofe. >> thank you madam chairwoman. i do have a long and varied opening statement to give but i will listen to you and for the record just make a couple of comments. there's one paragraph paragraph in here that i do want to actually read. as i see we have four choices moving forward one based on cbo estimates if we don't lined in a new record in the trust fund we are looking at a 90% cut in the program and some data has the figure at 100%. second we simply, something we will talk about later on transfer from the general fund and third raise revenue and for an absence of ads during the first three before a map-21 expires a series of short-term extensions. this is something i want to avoid and i have to say confession is good for the soul. our problem it seems every year and i have been involved in these every year since i was in the committee on the house many years ago is not so much with the democrats but with the republicans. there is this passion for some republicans could to get conservative ratings and when somethi

just last month senator jim inhofe led a delegation of u.s.and senator inhofe, a member of the family, a hero of the author of the bill, did not see fit to even mention it in his official conversation with president museveni. >> jeff, did it end up being important in the development of this law especially as it ended up getting closer to getting signed here? did it end up being an important factor that there were american activists involved in the genesis of this bill as you reported at the time? >> you know, in uganda the american activists have kind of dropped away. it's interesting. the bill sort of moved like a hot potato. and that's what's sort of really alarming is that this bill that began with some fringe american activists, then moved into, you know, more mainstream american politicians and their relationships with ugandan politicians, it has now been taken up by museveni. so it's moved from sort of the tea party of uganda to become the mainstream of uganda. and i think when you talk to ugandans about homosexuality there's an idea tha

we're joined by frank inhofe at his ranch. thanks for hosting us here, frank. coping with the drought. >> well with the lack of water for the last four or five months we have to start selling off our cars. we have a choice or buy hay or sell cows. we bought three or four loads of hay. we have gotten rid of 20% of our cattle herd and looking next month another 20%. >> what we're looking at, for the short term an increase in supply but ultimately there will be a big drop-off. that is why prices are spiking even as more supply is coming to market here. what do you see if we don't get rain soon, what is your fall back plan and how much rain do we really need to get? >> we need a lot more rain. so norm smallly we're at 17 1/2 inches. so far we're 3 1/2. the fallback plan to be sell more cows. that would put a person out of business. the choice is, by more hay or sell cows. i think at this point we're on verge of selling more cows. >> just quickly, what would be the solution that you and cattleman talk about what that you would ike to see implemented? >> governor sta

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tried to find that common ground whether it is passing a bill with senator blunt or inhofe. in health -- whether it is introducing a bill on immigration in terms of bringing in some of our high skilled workers which i did with senator hatch. the two of us were voted the two senators waste likely to get into a scandal by "the washingtonian" magazine. find common ground and an understanding of the issue and go from there. it has helped me get things done for my state but to feel good about the work we do every day and he gives you some hope which we have now seen, i would argue, in fits and starts, borne out in the last year, whether it is that incredible moment when the senate passed that bipartisan rubioion bill with marco and john mccain working with senator mccain and senator andin and senator menendez senator hatch and i contributed to that bill or whether it was battery -- patty murray and barbara mikulski to get that budget done or the work on the farm bill that senator stevan abinow has done recently. still find it within themselves, this courage to stand next to someo

inhofe: mr. president, it's my understanding that senator bennet is going to be due here shortly. i should be through by that time so i ask unanimous consent that i take senator cornyn's time, about 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: mr. president, in january of 2014 may go down in record as the coldest of the months in united states history. between the polar vortex storms of last we're freezing temperatures much of the nation experienced cold weather and records, at least once or twice. and this has been going on now for the last three years. so while we won't have official nationwide temperature data for january for a few more weeks, we do have preliminary figures. throughout the entire month over 2,387 daily cold temperature records were set around opportunity, many of those were in my state of oklahoma. at least 49 of these daily records occurred on january 6 and 7 when the first round of the pole har vortex hit. polar vortex hit. yesterday in tulsa it went dow

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. >> what would you say to senator inhofe and to others in the senate who are resisting even science? what's your message to them here today? >> my message, i think, is that the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere. >> and do it urgently, now. >> do it urgently. >> this, i love, this newt gingrich guy, he's great. i would hate -- he uwas talking to somebody who used to be called a flip-flopper. i would hate to thing that newt gingrich is competing with john kerry for the title of flip-flopper in chief. >> it was in a debate in the senate conference hearing room talking about taking effective steps and suddenly elevating this -- i'm happy to say this is a serious topic and debate seriously. to then elevate that to more important -- remember, the phrase he uses is very clear. that's why the speech matters. not a press release. he says, this could be the biggest mass threat. >> perhaps, he says. >> just plain not true. >> we're going to be fighting tonight, but we've got some people to help us get

the media spotlight now one former federal regulator is going public about the sabotage john while inhofe who was the chairman of the federal energy regulatory commission at the time says this is the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred while and have also caution that if this were replicated across the country it would take down the u.s. electric grid and blackout much of the country utility executives and federal energy officials have long worried that the electric grid is vulnerable to sabotage the grid is most notably vulnerable to trees hitting transmission lines in fact one tree in two thousand and three knocked out power to fifteen million people in the eastern u.s. and canada for days in the april incident a blackout was avoided due to utility workers who were able to reroute power around the site but the substation was knocked out for about a month the f.b.i. says it doesn't believe a terrorist organization caused the attack but it still remains a mystery who the perpetrators are and how they pulled it off. and we are just one

think there is such negativity in some parts of american media around sochi you've been here for your inhofe is unjustified. i think they're just concern in general about the region and in some of the hot spots across the caucasus mountains but. i think because of what they call the ring of steel i think this is a very secure place i think i would be more on secure an american classroom that i would be in sochi itself just because of the security here when when some of those great and some of those tourists decided to back out did you try to convince them how did you sell stocks into them which was a well we told them that the place where we were we would be staying would be in a very secure location. and one of the major parts here of the sochi adler. and so i think those are about as secure as you're going to get i think maybe outside of sochi maybe less secure but we told them that they're going to be in the kind of that inner core of the ring of steel and you do you get the feeling you get the sense that they they that the the tourist who did back out back to house solely because of the

tried to find that common ground whether it is passing a bill with senator blunt or inhofe. in health -- whether it is introducing a bill on immigration in terms of bringing in some of our high skilled workers which i did with senator hatch. the two of us were voted the two senators waste likely to get into a scandal by "the washingtonian" magazine. find common ground and an understanding of the issue and go from there. it has helped me get things done for my state but to feel good about the work we do every day and he gives you some hope which we have now seen, i would argue, in fits and starts, borne out in the last year, whether it is that incredible moment when the senate passed that bipartisan rubioion bill with marco and john mccain working with senator mccain and senator andin and senator menendez senator hatch and i contributed to that bill or whether it was battery -- patty murray and barbara mikulski to get that budget done or the work on the farm bill that senator stevan abinow has done recently. still find it within themselves, this courage to stand next to someo

senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman.had six things i was going to ask, but i think director clapper answered two of them. a lot of detail, but i want to mention snowden that tied a war, and then one other question about the iran. first of all, you -- i thought you covered it very well, director clapper, in terms of what snowden has done. the disturbing thing, and we hear from an awful lot of people, treating him as if he's a hero, and i look at it more as a trader, and i would like to get from each one of you that he is ploabl, the degree he's perpetrated the single greatest compromise of information in american history, and secondly, respond that i believe that the vast majority of the 1.7 million documents that was stolen have nothing to do with nsa or surveillance programs and if disclosed or replaced in the hands of the add veer sorries to defend our homeland. the vast majority has nothing to do with the rights people are concerned about under the nsa. >> as i indicated, the revelations have gone way, way beyond the

. >> senators also picked up on the president's remark and one, james inhofe, did not hold back. >> that's going to go down in history as the greatest coverup. i'm talking compared to the pentagon papers, iran-contra, watergate and the rest of them. this was a coverup in order for people right before the election that there was no longer a problem with terrorism in the middle east. >> joining me now south carolina republican and member of the oversight committee trey gowdy. congressman gowdy, great to see you tonight. the president basically told bill on the subject of benghazi that, look, people just doesn't know at the very moment exactly why something like this is happening and it wasn't some systemic, well-organized process. those were his reasons it seems for not being more direct about the fact that this was a terrorist attack. >> then he needs to read the e-mails from the state department because on september the 12th, less than 12 hours after the siege ended, they said we know who do it. his own state department knew within six hours of the siege ending this was a terrorist attack.

i know you tried to do that and senator vitter worked hard on it and senator inhofe. we were able to maintain a level of funding the minimal level we thought was necessary. that is an even bigger challenge this year and i look forward to working with you. >> senator same here and i happened to be here when we did now is the budget and i think we can do it again if we are smart about it but the important thing is we have that self-sustaining trust fund which is so critical. i have always supported that. that is operational. we spend what we take in. we have to be smart about it. of course we have long-term problems we have to deal with so it is my pleasure now to call on the ranking member of the subcommittee that has worked so hard on this. >> thank you madam chairwoman and ranking member vitter for holding the hearing. i appreciate and share your commitment to ensure the highway bill program continues. i want to thank our panel for being here today to testify. we can get the business and labor communities at the same table that sends a strong message to all members o

i know you tried to do that in senator vitter worked hard on and senator inhofe. we were able to maintain a minimal level of funding so i would just say that is an even bigger challenge this year and i look forward to working with you. >> senator, same here and i happened to be here when we did balance the budget and i think we can do it again if we are smart about it that the important thing about highways is we have that self-sustaining trust fund which is so critical. i have always supported that. that is operational, spend what you take in. we have to be smart about it. i agree with you. of course we have long-term problems we have to do is so it is my pleasure to talk -- call him the ranking member of the subcommittee that's going to work so hard on the senator barrasso. >> thank you dedham chairwoman and ranking member vitter for holding the hearing. i share your commitment to ensure the highway bill program continues. i want to thank our panel for being here today to testify. we can but -- get this business and labor communities at the same table that sends

your james inhofe, you grew up where you have neighbors literally miles away and it's hard to believehe climate of a whole world. >> but, dr. science guy, you look at the -- you -- dr. sax, you look at the -- interest dips when the economy is bad. that said, this argument has been framed as one of greenies there is nongreenies where it's an economic issue. we rattled off the list of droughts, there are wildfires, the polar vortex. it's expensive when things freeze over. it's expensive when crops die. how come that part of the economic argument or the sort of economic impetus, the urgency in terms of the american economy hasn't figured more prominently in the debate over reform? >> i think first people should understand that the science has been around not just for a decade or two or three, but it goes back to 1840 when it was fird identified. then in 1896, a nobel prize winning chemist, swedish chemist, made the calculations that showed what would happen when the carbon dioxide doubles in the atmosphere. this goes back a long time. the controversy we're having right now is some confus

nine elaine inhofe is solidly sanity it was constructed by i knew going in and can always be denied that she started to give his own trumpet in band so will discuss these days. it looks like real to say that it is proper to school is like seventy five new in colors and according to his last and declaration. he's the iq celery and teasing comments on the meaning then hop so this is the end of the shield in on all raffles is people take mine so this will discuss the needs of where the money's gone one of the issues which disgusts me come back stay with us are watching the polls until today. it's been. khan. and then to welcome if you just joining us this is the false been gifted people for using so it's good to sample the stories of florists and even the phone for you at the top of the hour visit the commuter chaos going on in once in a forty eight hour tube strike workers walking off the job cuts as layoffs and the replacement of men ticket booths by automated machines. more storms that are sold in britain and the french atlantic coast a spanish cargo breaking in half. after crashing into

here is senator james inhofe, responding to date to the president saying benghazi was investigated.o the senate. >> it is just an outrageous lie. it's kind of hard to call it anything else. i will say this to my dying day. i don't people don't realize it now, but that's going to go down in history as the greatest cover-up. i'm talk compared to the pentagon papers, iran/contra, watergate and the rest of them, this was a cover-up in order for people right before the election to think that there is no longer a problem with terrorism in the middle east. >> i mean, this was the senator today. now, that definitely was security failures, but a worst cover-up than watergate and iran/contra? what is he speaking about, professor peterson shirks speaking in pure hyperbole there. for all of these so-called scandals, they've been debunked multiple times. yes, benghazi was tragic. and there was security and communicative failings prior to it. but there was no cover-up there have been many, many hearing on it, much exposure about it, and to call it a scandal is much ado about nothing. same thing w

given that all beit you have a different approach, what would you say to senator inhofe and others resistingmessage today? >> my message is that the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere. >> and do it urgently. >> yes. >> and do it urgently now. do you still agree with kerry on that point? >> i think it is perfectly rational to say that as at matter of prudence we should limit carbon loading to the atmosphere. to go from that statement, declare that it is a weapon of mass destruction and that we should adopt trillions and trillions of dollars of changes, centralizing power and bureiocracies over something which may or may not occur over the next 100 years particularly since 2007 the evidence has not been very good. we have been in a 15 or 16 year pause which the climate fanatics are trying to explain. the arctic ice last year has grown dramatically from the year before. the antarctic ice has grown dramatically. i think there is a lot of evidence to have a rational conversation. read kerry's speech. he r

. >> senator inhofe, director clapper. >> distinguished members of the committee, we are here to presentelligence community worldwide threat assessment as we do every year. i will cover about five top picks in approximately 11 half or 12 minutes. this is my fourth appearance before this committee to discuss threats that we face. and as the senator noted i made this next assertion previously but it is more relevant today. looking back over my now more than half a century in intelligence i have not experience a time that we have been beset by more crises and threats. my list is long. it includes the storage and diversification of terrorism loosely connected and globally disbursed to include here at home exemplified by the boston marathon bombing and by the sectarian war in syria, attraction as a growing center of radical extremism and the potential threat that disposes of homeland. let me briefly explain on this point. the strength of the insurgency is estimated between 75 and 80,000 on the low end and 100,000 on high-end while organizing more than 1500 groups of widely varying political l

and i see my friend, senator inhofe, here today. we make quite an unlikely pair.ural ethiopia with several close friends when our van got stuck in the mud. after a pause, the senator generously suggested that everyone under 70 should get out and push. [laughter] the next thing i knew, i was covered in mud and once again because of congress. [laughter] [applause] in this city and 180 countries around the world, prayer groups like these are strengthening our hearts, giving purpose to our lives and helping all of us lead with greater moral courage. that was my experience when i was invited to join a small senate prayer group. the labels of party and background fell away. and i saw how, by remaining devoted to faith and setting high aspiration, we can transform our world for the better. this morning i want to shower an overarching purpose -- share an overarching purpose worthy of this room that is come together to -- that has come together to follow the teachings of jesus. let us work together to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. [applause] because this is now achi

tried to find that common ground whether it is passing a bill with senator blunt or inhofe.n health -- whether it is introducing a bill on immigration in terms of bringing in some of our high skilled workers which i did with senator hatch. the two of us were voted the two senators waste likely to get into a scandal by "the washingtonian" magazine. find common ground and an understanding of the issue and go from there. it has helped me get things done for my state but to feel good about the work we do every day and he gives you some hope which we have now seen, i would argue, in fits and starts, borne out in the last year, whether it is that incredible moment when the senate passed that bipartisan rubioion bill with marco and john mccain working with senator mccain and senator andin and senator menendez senator hatch and i contributed to that bill or whether it was battery -- patty murray and barbara mikulski to get that budget done or the work on the farm bill that senator stevan abinow has done recently. still find it within themselves, this courage to stand next to someone