we are addressing the issue of foreign fighters in and out of syria, which i'm sure we will ,iscuss thismorning as well as for example, enhanced countering violent extremism efforts here at home through various outreach programs that we have, including the pilot program the attorney general announced earlier this week. we are doing a number of things that will be -- we will be pleased to discuss with you at this morning's hearing. i look forward to your questions. thank you again for holding this hearing. >> i thank you. now recognizes the director for his testimony. >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be before you first time. and to be joined by my friends. to matt also, the american people will never fully know how much he has none to keep them safe. a lot of people in this room know and will be forever grateful. waschairman, as you know i in government for almost a decade. that is why i may have a different perspective grid when i came back to government a year ago. i discovered that the threat had changed in two ways first, thanks largely to our minimum women in uniform, we have taken

. >> in addition to the great compromise, there were many iscussions, over 20, on how we would elect our president. they were uncomfortable with hamilton's monarchy with the nd also states and the people. ow did we get to the electoral college. >> rick calls it the single biggest thorn, the great piece coming back to you. >> i describe it as pure torment. here was the basic dilemma. way was wilson. it was the direct popular election of the president. one.as a minority of not because the framers thought stupid.e people were too , eldridge gary, bona fide bon curmudgeon. they didn't believe the people were too stupid but too ignorant. how in the world could a voter in georgia know the merits of a vice ate in new york and versa? vastness of the landscape, the rudimentary nature, made it not a viable alternative. worried about and appropriately worried about this stupidity, but provincialism. i want to say this before we end. i'm going to say it right now. greatest s' creating a was nation in a country that did not national identity. that they were as georgians, new yorkers, pennsylvania

so that's the second thing we need to do and the white house is deeply engaged in that iscussion. the third thing is have a bipartisan discussion whether or not to initiate war. senator mccain and i have introduced a bill that looks at the infirmties that have made that war powers resolution in 1973 kind of a nullty since it was enacted. t was enacted after nixon -- congress had approved the vietnam war but they didn't approve of nixon going into cambodia and louse. the resolution was passed after that. it was vetoed by the president nixon the veto was overridden but no president has concede it had constitutionality of it for a series of reasons and there are probably some problems of the bill that make it unconstitutional. so we have put forward a repeal and replace of that resolution that basically does three things. it tries to define -- and this is pretty tough -- what is war. it's not state v. state any more of nonstate actors, cyber attacks, drone attacks, what is war that would trigger the executive legislative interaction. second tries to define and system ties consultatio

you had about 500 or so of your closest friends for a .iscussion this afternoon if you could give a survey of the remarks and there are a lot of students in the audience today so could you also give a view of the water front of the international state system, syria, ukraine, etcetera. and a bonus question. >> he wants me to give two or three more speeches. >> is president putin making a pretty good case for man of the year or sort of beating out roger goodell? hanks. you know, i'm sure you can find it at speaker.gov probably somewhere in the archives. but if you read it, you'll find out that everything i've said in 2011 is exactly what he's done. nd, you know, the message from president borashenko today was very straight forward. america, we need your help. we can't do this by ourselves. we can't. they can't. the president has worked with the europeans, put some anctions in place. but sanctions are not going to bring freedom and security to the ukraine. they need weapons. they need advisers. i think he made the case today if not now when and if not there where? you know, when i talk to our

we have had a very thorough iscussion. i hope you'll be able to be relatively brief and respond only to points that you have not had an opportunity to address so far. with that, go ahead. >> the first is their response to the discussion of ratification. the question is always whether there is an official interpretation of statute that congress was aware of and legislated and that is not the case here. many members of congress were not aware of the program. those who were were not provided legal analysis. they were not able to discuss it with colleagues or constituents in a way that the supreme court has pointed to in past cases of ratification. >> the second point is to go back to an exchange you had with the government relating to the efficiency of the the question of efficiency. it was explained clearly that the government could use targeted demands in a nearly instant tainly way if it was structured with the telecommunications companies in a certain way and congress could provide for that mechanism and the fact congress

. >> finding that in the remaining few minutes can we iscuss iran. >> i will ask the one question which a number of issues that we can tackle. one is you're about to respond back to our report if you could just maybe give us a flavor today of what areas you may disagree with us on. two, do you think a settlement by november with iran on its nuclear program is becoming more or less likely? and just the final item is there was announcement that our embassy would reopen tehran announcement was made on 17 june maybe three months have passed why has it taken so long? >> on the first question. the committee's report. the government's response to the committee's report will be published on the 12th which i think is friday of this week. in general, we're in agreement with the reports' findings. not surprisingly there are some emphasis on certain points. one area that i could perhaps mention now is the question of trade with iran. the government's position is that iran mportant sees agreement on a comprehensive deal as the means to restoring its trade relations so we are not encouraging companie

so that's the second thing we need to do and the white house is deeply engaged in that iscussion. the third thing is have a bipartisan discussion whether or not to initiate war. senator mccain and i have introduced a bill that looks at the infirmties that have made that war powers resolution in 1973 kind of a nullty since it was enacted. t was enacted after nixon -- congress had approved the vietnam war but they didn't approve of nixon going

the presence of the colleges have been very unwilling to iscuss this issue at any length. so i'm sort of glad i have you here. so i apologize in advance. but i'm not sure if you're but almost half of people out of college are unable to pay loans. the lifetime default rate for all colleges in federal student in excess of 30%. you know the other big numbers, on and so forth. what i found after looking at question for quite a long comes w is systemically, down to the fact that student loans are the only type of loan country to be exempted, standard bankruptcy protections. statutes of limitations. heard other consumer protections that are soon there. t provides adequate warning to the students. the students never know these things before they sign for the debt. host: we've got a lot there. et's get a response from dr. mason. guest: thank you for the question. i think it's an important issue. iowa that oure at student loan default rate is about 2%. it's quite low. there's certainly great examples out there of abuses of i dent loans, and by abuses, ean people really not know iin

we are addressing the issue of foreign fighters in and out of syria, which i'm sure we will ,iscuss thisrning as well as for example, enhanced countering violent extremism efforts here at home through various outreach programs that we have, including the pilot program the attorney general announced earlier this week. we are doing a number of things that will be -- we will be pleased to discuss with you at this morning's hearing. i look forward to your questions. thank you again for holding this hearing. >> i thank you. now recognizes the director for his testimony. >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be before you first time. and to be joined by my friends. to matt also, the american people will never fully know how much he has none to keep them safe. a lot of people in this room know and will be forever grateful. waschairman, as you know i in government for almost a decade. that is why i may have a different perspective grid when i came back to government a year ago. i discovered that the threat had changed in two ways first, thanks largely to our minimum women in uniform, we have taken t

the presence of the colleges have been very unwilling to iscuss this issue at any length. i'm sort of glad i have you here. so i apologize in advance. but i'm not sure if you're but almost half of people out of college are unable to pay loans. the lifetime default rate for all colleges in federal student in excess of 30%. you know the other big numbers, on and so forth. what i found after looking at question for quite a long comes w is systemically, down to the fact that student loans are the only type of loan country to be exempted, standard bankruptcy protections. statutes of limitations. heard other consumer protections that are soon there. t provides adequate warning to the students. the students never know these things before they sign for the debt. host: we've got a lot there. et's get a response from dr. mason. guest: thank you for the question. i think it's an important issue. iowa that oure at student loan default rate is about 2%. it's quite low. there's certainly great examples out there of abuses of i dent loans, and by abuses, ean people really not know iing w

he joins us to continue the iscussion on the threat posed by the islamic state. and president obama is set to address the country tomorrow night. congressman, what are you looking to hear from him? to hear him g explain to the country how complex the situation is and how wave a magic t isis disappear. how the destruction of isis, important goal, but its destruction doesn't mean that truth and justice just of the from the soil middle east. you destroy one power in the middle east, you empower the other side. the four groups that are fighting isis now are in many as isis ly as evil itself. and, in fact, those who are isis stood on st the ground have killed far more americans than isis has. host: if you were advising the president, what would be the endorse?that you would guest: i would say his cautious approach has been a good one called for. is criticso respond to the who oversimplified the situation dramatically and played to abamerican public who's used to movies only the white hat and the black hat in the western movie. with the black hat, the white hat rides o