this administration has been willing to disregard the bill of rights, onstitution,irst amendment, secondndment, th and fifth amendments with drone policy. to set aside the con strntsd have the law for partisan aims. the result has been that people's trust and the inegrity of government has been undermined and hasn't en helped by the fact that t administration has been willing to mislead the american people. i think the president needs to tell the truth. >> eric: you bring up at least two of the three pending scandals. the problem of transparency that that gave us has given way to denials. what would you tell president obama? would y tell him to step aside? >> i would tell him to t tell the truth. i think every president has an obligation to candor to the american people, not to mislead the american people. we have seen two instances of senior administration officials committing flat out falsehoods. the wite house press sectary stated neither the white house state department had edited the talking points on bengha other than changing the word consulate. in a couple of days, abc ws reporte

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soon after america returned to belfast, opening one of our ,irst consulates here in 1796 when george washington was still president. today, names familiar to many of you are attached on schools and courthouses and memorials across the united states. names like wilson and kelly, campbell and o'neill. so many of the qualities we americans hold dear we imported from this land. perseverance, faith, and unbending belief that we make our own destiny. an unshakable dream that if we lived hard and live responsibly, something that her lies just around the bend. so our histories are bound by blood and belief. by culture and by commerce. our futures are equally, inextricably linked. that is why i have come to belfast today. to talk about the future we can build together. , the youngeron generation, has come of age in a world with fewer walls. you have been educated in an era of instant information. by some been tempered very difficult times around the globe. and as i travel, what i've seen of young people like you around the world show me the currents have conspired to make you a outration with

soon after america returned to belfast, opening one of our ,irst consulates here in 1796 when george washington was still president. today, names familiar to many of you are attached on schools and courthouses and memorials across the united states. names like wilson and kelly, campbell and o'neill. so many of the qualities we americans hold dear we imported from this land. perseverance, faith, and unbending belief that we make our own destiny. an unshakable dream that if we lived hard and live responsibly, something that her lies just around the bend. so our histories are bound by blood and belief. by culture and by commerce. our futures are equally, inextricably linked. that is why i have come to belfast today. to talk about the future we can build together. , the youngeron generation, has come of age in a world with fewer walls. you have been educated in an era of instant information. by some been tempered very difficult times around the globe. and as i travel, what i've seen of young people like you around the world show me the currents have conspired to make you a outration with

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irst place. we've surcome a long way. ♪ [ le announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours.ero heartburn. >>> the obama administration paces another setback as russia refuses to return edward snowden. how should the u.s. respond to this latest diplomatic embarrassment? landmark rulings from the supreme court on voting rights, racial preferences and more. we will break down what the high court's decisions means for race in america. a key senate vote puts immigration reform in the hands of the house and now it face as huge uphill battle. will lawmakers get onboard with the overhaul? the hunt for nsa leaker snowden. snowden apparently still in a moscow airport where president obama says he shouldn't have to call president putin to get him back. >> i'm not going to have one case of a suspect who we are trying to extradite suddenly being elevated to the point where i have to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues. simply to get a guy consider dieted so he can face the justice system in the united states. >> how will this affect the administra

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and to be the director of the bureau. .irst i will start he is currently the act teen attorney general for the civil division. from the university of virginia. after graduating from el went to the 11 circuit court of it feels. mr. dellry went on to private practice at wilmer, cutler & and pickering known as wilmer-hail where he was a litigator for 14 years. if contract and corporate administration and administrative law matters. in 2009, he held a number of leadership roles including the chief of staff and counselor to the death of the attorney and general, the associate desk of the attorney general. in these positions he advised the department's leadership on a and range of matters including civil litigation, appeals, national security litigation, and policy. yousecurity litigation, and policy. are as acting assistant attorney in an and in general for the civil division, he supervises approximately 1,000 attorneys representing the you united states, the president, and cabinet officers and you agencies. he supervises much of the government's civil litigation and which includes the defe

thank you for all of the gifts you have given. .irst, patriotism andn who loves his country that 18 prove that by volunteering for service and fighting and being in a time of great danger for the love of his country. love ofe is also a district. wonderful district in michigan. a microcosm of america that so many people coming from all over the world. hopefully that is why this house is considering immigration legislation. that the same kind of strength and devotion to the stranger will be in his heart and the hearts of those who share his responsibility. love ofin thanks for nature and creation. the energy and future and the things you need so badly. treat them with respect. that is a gift you have given him as well. -- finally,ank you thank you for his gift of making friends. bless him with so many days in the house without making good friends on both sides of the aisle that he can work with for the good of the country. thank you for having blessed john. we ask you to keep blessing him and our country. through his work and the work of the horse -- those were dedicated, maybe we will have

irst place. we've surcome a long way. ♪ [ le announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours.ero heartburn. bill is on a tear. >> bill: o'reilly factor is on. >> this is type of program that put orwell to shame. >> bill: another shocking investigation. every verizon telephone customer is under surveillance. >> you personally signed the documents with the dollars on it before the conference. >> i initialed the routing slip. >> what does that mean to you? do you have any responsibility for that? >> bill: talk about an out of control situation, irs spending $50 million on conferences and parties even while they were unfairly scrutinizing conservatives. laura ingraham has some thoughts. also open warfare in great britain between muslim jihadists and angry citizens. we'll tell you all about that. >> caution you are about to the enter the no-spin zone. factor begins right now! ♪ ♪ >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. federal government out of control. that is the subject. seen every night i'm sitting here telling you about another horror story in washington. today we learned that america

. >> it is the state's honor to present to you for the very irst time -- [laughter] >> the entire wedding party. even the pastor broke out in the harlem shake. apparently it is still going strong. >> what if you have no idea what the harlem shake is and you're witnessing this. >> the grandparents. >> what's happening up here? we got a lot to talk about on the ride at 5:00. >> we do. watching andrea heading our way. it could bring significant changes. really heavy rain. the storm has been upgraded with stronger winds. tropical storm warnings have been extended up the coast to cape charles. the delmarva peninsula. that does not include our area. the closer to the coast you are, the more likely you will be to see those gusty winds. boy the rain is really heavy. in florida today, we expect andrea will be making landfall later this afternoon in the big bend area. rainfall should be between 3 and 6 inches and we could locally heavier amounts in parts of florida. as we take a look at the forecast track here, we'll put this into motion for you now. it is going to be riding up the coast. we're not

we were among the irst to report this. i still think it is very hard.berg, another former hedge fund manager. liz: let's back up a little bit for people who may not be that familiar with fac. you get the bridgewater guys. charlie: 1996, he charges more than anybody. you will see people at the justice department and they will say anyone that is that good has to be cheating. that is essentially what they beleaguered we should also point out, they are 67-zero. liz: charlie, think you. exclusive aspects of the story. closing bell ringing in about 16 minutes. we are giving you a sneak peek at the upgraded windows eight. will all these changes be a calm moment or microsoft? should it be in or out of the portfolio? plus, we are dying to hear if you that microsoft is getting its mojo back. ♪ everybody has different investment objectives, ideas, goals, appetite for risk. you can't y one size fits all'. it doesn't. that's crazy. we're all totally different. ishares core. etf building blocks for your personalizedortfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large professiona

irst place. we've surcome a long way. ♪ [ le announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours.ero heartburn. >> welcome to "red eye." it's like the six million dollar man, if by man, you mean a personal dodger, andy what is coming up on the show? >> coming up, do most americans believe they've lost their privacy. a new survey without their consent says yes. if you just said how come she did not predict that, then please change the channel. just kidding. what google search do resident s of pakistan lead the world in? >> andy, bill is doing a man on the street today. >> i know. >> and you didn't write about it, promote it and hope he dies in a horrible accident. >> honestly, for those of the viewers that saw a last one, i could not top it. i wrote myself in a corner. >> get out of here. let's welcome our guest. she is so hot that jalapenos makes poppers out of her. i am with co-anchor patti brown. and she is so hot that stolen watches sell her in time square and get top prize, that's two ts. t squared. in newark, he is consider can -- considered a corpse. and sitting next to me,

>>irst of all, they don't get the job is t issue. you know what, this is not 100 percent. not 1 percent. @%t it just depends. uant an answer? that is my question. you actually want to do something about it all would you rather have, as you said, labor force that is affted only by markets? dend. people come. e wwge rates and lowed because they're is lot of demand. so be it. john: what's wrong with that? >> well, what is wrong with it? okay. how abouthe millions of americans whose wage rates are depressed and/or the people who are displaced. of consumers would like it,utt the worrs are oing toe negatively affected. john what about the americans to do have just because their work for gloria w were t these businesses created by emigrants. >> let them keep working. immigrants, we are not tryin to stop eve immigrant fm coming to the country. why not take in that we need desperately, people coming in with capital toctually do exactly what you said, invest in business. people cing in with skills3 th we need. right now we don't need a lot of people with low skills and low wage rate

despe federal reserve aasurance is the economy's getting better,irst quarter gdp growth gettin revised2%. with more on this, an economist with the university of maryland. i thought this was a big revision. tell me what you make of this. >> well, consumers are spending the way we thought. sinesses are remarkably hasn't to invest. they're just not convinced the economy is taking off. they willave customers. they see uncertainty about the costs associated with obamacare and would just rather look for other places to invest. gerri: you look back at the recovery. of course it has been slow, but3 it has been a recovery. are we do for receson? >> i don't know that that is the cacase. it seems as thoh the economy is content to slog alo. the second half o barley be a little bit better, but it will be anything to che about. this recovery is for a half years, averaged about 2%. the comparable amount of me during the reagan recovery was 5%. gerri: the world has definitely changed when it comes to the strength of recoveries, that's for sure. one bright spot is housing. we have seen some impressive

. >> you know,irst and foremost it's a real ftse interbank account, so you can always rest assured thaty is safe and backed by the federal government's. but on top of that, i have been building mile applications f close to a decade now. we know this inside and out. melissa: tell me how your fee structure works. i have been hearing your ad. i think -- no fs at all, but there are things that you can pay fees for if you want certain services. how does itork? >> with go bank what we want to do is make it really fair and transparent. oliver fees can fit into a single tweet. there are few. i think the one that will be the most novel twist is, most of the monthly fee just for kping your account open. with go bank we wt to turn the system alone ahead. we have done, customers can pick what they wantt pay what they want, between zero and $9. think about is a tip. if you love the product as mu as we hope you will, to press for it. melissa: that does not sound like a fantastic business model. how will you make money? >> we're not relying on the monthly fee itself to make it a profitable busins. we

>>irst of all, it drbs your whole routine.e used to getting a few hours before your early tee time and being prepared and ready to yell. as you saw, three hf-hour y yesteterday. some of the players did not see off until today for the second round until 430, 5:00. they will finish around 21 friday. you know, phil mickelson clinton's an and did noo arrive until 330 in the morning thursday morning a few hours bere his gerri@foxbusiness.com. he ended up shooting below ground. it is unbelievable. gerri: i think he wasoing to his daughter's graduation. >> demand is eight grad graduation. in 1999, he beat phil nicholson the last poll, he says, go home. be a father, have the baby. that was demanded being born then. gerri: great context. one final question because there e so many about the idea that there will make less money because you work gular people like me can go wch it. what did they choose this course? >>ell, i think it's a great question. we could talk about four hhurs. it's a histori course. bobby jones completedhe grand sla

within a year, i became very good at it and began breaking records. 14.irst was when i was it will be a huge time in my life. at hunter.eat i wanted to go to a school where i could be intellectually challenged, but also athletically. at the how i ended up university of texas. i thought it would be the best place for me. >> we will come back to a little bit of your background after we watch clips. clip] >> when these new development in the black movement happened, the emergence of the black panther party, i wanted to be there. this is earthshaking. i wanted to be a part of that. [siren] revolution is about thinking about things radically -- in a radically different way. in america, the idea that black people should be equal, really equal, was a revolutionary thing. , lack people are treated very much as vietnamese people. the police do not promote our welfare, but are there to detain us, to brutalize us and murderous. >> do you know what black power means? black power means dignity. >> some of our fellow citizens have turned against our society and government. the fact that you cannot

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the army has already -- in the irst part of our reductions based on the budget patrol act e took an additional 12,000 soldiers out of europe. we have now set which will leaf brigades and some logistics and support capability forward will about the hat is right amount to allow us to continue to work with nato allies. we are doing two other things. we now have the joint .ultinational training center we are using that as a platform nato applies our and other partners. e are making that more of a multinational capability. we want to invest in that so we an continue to do the joint training. as part of regional line forces i can bring firsts from the over there to train with them and make sure we build the relationships. exercises that are high level. umanitarian assistance, disaster relief exercises or higher-end operations. he other piece we committed to for the first time is department of defense has committed we will of the rigade as part nato response force. that will come from a brigade in the united states. less people ave forward stations i would argue i like this set better because i do k

irst i would like to thank c-span support this show. it provides america with a great transparency we would not have otherwise. , congressman you service.or your the key word "we" and at thetability" which is root of america's problems it seems. squabblingm that the at the top levels of our toernment send mixed signals our soldiers and patriots in the fields at times. this? we rectify and are you ready to dig your boots in with congress and take long run?is for the because we do need some straight,ing out. gained by trust. i would like to look at our congressmen as generals and soldiers and how we used for the r good of them and trust. he n.s.a., our government and our security needs to do its job. i would argue as a former that more than 90% of our soldiers would say snowden is a traitor we took care of secrets that were much less mportant than what he did with greater care and men who put their lives on the line. don't understand how a few people or many people can think him as anything less than a traitor. guest: well, i think that p

. >> want to know in facebook what lady would irst caroline compare most to? >> rose lynn carter, a quiet irst lady but a woman busy trying to do worthy things. i guess the thing about -- modern day ford and her -- her -- it's often lic -- public. but she was -- >> she was. >> and ms. carter wasn't. she was a much quieter, more -- more behind the scenes. >> so -- a neat person but i wanted to -- i want to say jaclyn of her in the sense sense of the white house and the historic preservation and why important to the presidency. > we began 90 minutes ago with the thesis that caroline harrison was one of the more underrated first ladies. hope you demonstrated over the last 90 minutes some of the perhaps be uld better known than she is. guests for e two being here and the help they provided and the season as the season progresses. ckinley will be the final first lady in the first season of thet ladies taking us in to new century and we look forward to seeing you then. >> thank you. . ladies, influence and image continues monday when when ckinley who ida m appeared

this country yearns for a senate that exercises its pregnant terrogatory tive as par it's irst branch of government. domestically the abuses of the i.r.s. and other federal agencies stands as exhibit a for more robust and oversight. recent presidents, both republican and democratic have exercised itself foreign arena far beyond that contemplated for a commander in chief. often obligating future congresses to future commitments beyond security arraignments. a bare functioning senate would not count what is left of its authority. now is not the time for this institution to retreat into irrelevance where the sum is to sign off on to another continuing resolution to fund the government for another six months. where prioritizing spending cuts is avoided by invoking another sequester. we've been there, done that. it's time now for the senate to lead. encouraging signs we may be moving into this direction. was r this year a budget passed by the chamber. it was not a budget that i preferred but i was given ample opportunity to debate that legislation as my republican colleagues, we came up sh

. -- irst one, tkaourbg during ahmadinejad's there were at least 2.2 million afghanistans iraqis thate in iran. they have been there over 30 and don't get support from government. see dr. rohani would change that or will there be change? during nd question is the 1979 time i believe there billion of 25 iranian money in the stock exchange. i want to know if there is still money there. thank you for taking my call. guest: thank you, caller. caller is right, over the given the cades, ivil war in afghanistan iran accommodated over two million afghan refugees. since gone down but it still is pretty sizable. those is true that refugees, the afghanistan refugees in iran, haven't been treated.well they are not given equal rights. for them toifficult get gainful employment. manual doing a lot of labor and construction jobs. t is often very difficult for them to send their children to school. i n i was based in tehran would say afghanistan school childr hildren, afghanistan children who should be in school selling chewing gum or shoelaces on the streets. i think this is something which is unfor

irst of all, on energy, think we are interested in the cost of energy but we have to be aware of theost of global warming. and the increasing ferocity of whether that is coming from that. about jobs and money to have jobs -- we are blocked toutingt by the radical of economic benefits to the very wealthy and it has cost two massive financial crises in the last eight years. we continue the very same thing. as a matter of fact, 1929 is -- was being repeated in 1977 and accelerated when president reagan the -- came into office. then president george w. bush really put the final kibosh on it. i'm talking about the core institute of the united states government, congress should get their act together and realize that science is right about climate change and, also, that ascannot have extreme wealth the justice said and as have extreme wealth and have democracy also. not -- west, we will have waited we need a vibrant middle class for it when we have a separation between the haves and have-nots, that is a problem. cecil goes to the conversation on energy and if you want to see job growth in

well, if irst wet, and they will have a capacity to drive the 10-year money to below 1.5%, and the federalnds because the yields are too low, and that will take a few countries in europe out of prison by depressing the rates, but it will end up in meremerging mark and the two things we are facing is appreciation of the u.s. dollar which is deflationary in the markets, but the appreciation of the yen could be deflash nation or inflationary if in fact the japanese decide to leave the market, the leave will be substantial, and we won't know if they will do that for at least six months. >> and six months around the world keeping people guess iing. thank you, viktor, shvets from macquarie. steve liesman joining us this morning. >> well, it carl, it is about us. the u.s. economy is simply better than the market and the economists expected. so far the effects of the sequester have been muted as the consumers continue to spend, and jobless claims continue to fall. this is the data from this morning and retail sales being the expectations, and the core sales, the numbers that the economists follow,

irst i will highlight our work review g.a.o.'s efforts. second i will discuss their work regarding their efforts and their work on managements for securing the border. with regard to my first point, border patrol data shows from 06 to 2011 apprehension at each border sector declined. changes in the u.s. economy and increases in resources. fiscal year 2012 data reported by the border patrol indicated that apprehensions across the southwest border increased from fiscal year 2011 but it is too arly to see whether this indicates a trend. entrees in each southwest border sector also declined. other data collected by the border patrol are used by sector management to inform assess yments of its efforts. the percentage of estimated known legal entrants apprehended more than once which is referred to it is a recidivism rate and contraband procedures. our analysis shows that the rate decreased across southwest border sectors between 2008 and 2011 with regard to drug and other contraband seizures the number of seizures increased by 83% from fiscal y

irst, i might just respond that -- well, in a number of ways here. i don't know where to begin. first of all we have 37 state waivers now. those are all grandfathered in. those evaluation systems are all grandfathered in to this bill. what we've basically said to the other states, you have to come up with an evaluation system and, again, the parameters that we had set forward in here was those parameters that were set as a result of a very large study, the met study done by the gates foundation. $350 million study. what are the best parameters, best practices? and so that's where we're at. we didn't just pull this out of a sky. this was because of a very large scale intensive study that was done on that project. so, yes, we do make it mandatory that they have an evaluation system. we set parameters. we didn't exactly say how exactly you got to do it but we set up certain parameters. i might also add, i don't need to ask my friend from tennessee, i don't think we ave a peer review mandate in there. there was' peer review in the state waivers that they've gotten but i don't believ

still too many but 18% for the irst months of the administration i think it is quite a good output.he law, it unavoidable obligation. with this i thank you very much forward to the other presentations and commentary and this.ons on thank you very much. applause] the m now going to ask assistant secretary for international affairs of the homeland security, alan bersin, please to respond. can we turn off this power bersin.o we focus on mr. >> thank you, diana. brookings, mr. ambassador. thank you for that presentation. describe at is to lea outline, the response of the department of homeland ecurity and by extension the united states government to the transition that has taken place mexico. in the context of any ransition, whether it be mexican or in the united states, when you go from one the next thereto the tendency to emphasize new and the different. of course, in any transition there will be changes. to this groupgest we need to step back and look at the long-term strategic place in t has taken the united states of mexico over the hrlast 12 years, certainly over the last years, a

. >> the federal government can in terms oftes security with two kinds of actions. ,irst, social problems concentrating on juvenile gangs recruited by criminal organizations, and the military police interventions. these efforts have to be articulated. is reactive,ary the police is reactive to some problems. the social policy is in its own way could these two measures -- own way. these two measures have to be better coordinated. >> i want everybody here to thank our panel for their excellent presentation. [applause] this concludes our meeting. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> in a few moments, a forum on first ladies through american history. in a little less than an hour, supreme court arguments in the case regarding affirmative action policies in higher education. the high court on monday sent it back to the lower courts for further review. then a discussion on cooperation between the u.s. and mexico. on the next "washington journal," we will be joined by representative mike pompeo of kansas. he is a membe

irst question mark >> yes. today's testimony highlights the results of our audit, a virus confident running for 2010 audit of the--our irs from 2010-2012. we received a specific allegation is excessive spending. overall, we found the irs spent an estimated $49 million for 225 conferences during this three- year period of our review. a conference in california was held at the marriott, hilton, anaheim intels in august of 2010 the cost of $4 million. the small business self employed division of the irs conducted this conference for an estimated 2600 executives and managers. is required at the time, the conference was a cute -- the conference was approved by the deputy commissioners of the irs. we cannot validate the accuracy of the 44 $.1 million conference cost because the irs did not have effective controls to track and report those costs. the $.2 million of the conference costs were paid from unused funding originally intended for hiring enforcement employees. as that of using the required irs personnel whose

irst, why should a taxpayer in latimer, iowa, pay for a farm for the lancaster, california, to advertise his produce? second, why should a shop keep for the lancaster who has to pay for his own advertising also pay for the local farmers' advertising as well? and third, and most important, how can any member look his or her constituents in the eye and tell them that a beer seminar in china was worth spending more of their earnings than they make in a year? we keep hearing how draconian is the sequester, how it's cutting deeply into vital public services. i dare say at least a dozen speeches on this floor this week were dedicated to the painful cutbacks caused by the sequester. we tell schoolchildren they can't tour the white house because we don't have the money due to the sequester. we tell our constituents they have to wait in insufferable lines to see us in the house office buildings because we don't have the money due to the sequester. and yet, we seem to have plenty of money to fund travesties like those that are crammed into this farm bill. doesn't that bother anybody here? i believ