nothing-about john brennan is accountable to congress. we have to think about whether, how to deal with the problem. very important. when we first talked about the position what we envisioned was a man of woman stepping into that position to stay five or six years and developed a position, strengthen it and all of that. that has been one of the problems. hopefully we have one now that will stay for awhile. >> i hope. thank you. next in order of arrival senator akaka and then senator carper. >> thank you very much. hal, would like to welcome governor came and congressman lee hamilton. thank you for being here today. although many of the information sharing and intelligence shortfalls at the 9/11 commission and identified have been addressed, critical work remains to ensure that we have an agile and well coordinated response to various threats. you have been discussing this. starting off federal workers will be addressing the intelligence community and other agencies in make daily sacrifices to keep a safe. it's essential to this effort. ad

protesting the issuance on january 10, 2011, to john brennan, a permit to alter rebuilding, a chase bank, includes window and brick wainscoting modifications, revised floor heights, revised entry and structural -- -- revisions for door and atm openings. public hearing was held in closed on march 16, 2011, and the matter was continued to allow absent board member to participate in the vote. commissioners, at that hearing, a motion was made by vice president garcia to grant the appeal and condition the permit so would be revised to reflect the plans contained in addendum number two from january 27, 2011, provided this does not cause the square footage to exceed 3999 square feet. the vote was 3-1-1 with hwang dissenting. >> i will jump in. i do wish mr. duffy were here. i have a question for him about the square footage better -- measurements. i did watch the video, the streaming video, and thesf gov tv version over the last several days. i applaud the commissioners and the members of the public who sat through it live and also applaud the council for the two sides. i thought the arguments

white house counterterrorism adviser john brennan told reporters that the u.s. is preparing for a possible gadhafi directed terrorist attack, quote, gadhafi has the penchant to do things of a very concerning nature, brennan said. we have to anticipate and be prepared. >>> up next, we're going to turn to japan. radiation from japan detected today in california. we've got the latest on japan's today in california. we've got the latest on japan's nuclear emergency. sssssss to skate o ce. what was i thinking? but i was still skating on thin ice with my cholesterol. anyone with high cholesterol may be at increased risk of heart attack. diet and exercise weren't enough for me. i stopped kidding myself. i've been eating healthier, exercising more and now i'm also taking lipitor. if you've been kidding yourself about high cholesterol, stop. lipitor is a cholesterol-lowering medication, fda approved to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients who have heart disease or risk factors for heart disease. lipitor is backed by over 18 years of research. [ female a

nothing-about john brennan is accountable to congress. we have to think about whether, how to deal with the problem. very important. when we first talked about the position what we envisioned was a man of woman stepping into that position to stay five or six years and developed a position, strengthen it and all of that. that has been one of the problems. hopefully we have one now that will stay for awhile. >> i hope. thank you. next in order of arrival senator akaka and then senator carper. >> thank you very much. hal, would like to welcome governor came and congressman lee hamilton. thank you for being here today. although many of the information sharing and intelligence shortfalls at the 9/11 commission and identified have been addressed, critical work remains to ensure that we have an agile and well coordinated response to various threats. you have been discussing this. starting off federal workers will be addressing the intelligence community and other agencies in make daily sacrifices to keep a safe. it's essential to this effort. ad

i want to read from senator lieberman's letter to john brennan, the assistant to the president for a homeland security. he said violent islamic extremism is offensive an contradicts thousands of years of accepted military and intelligence doctrine to know your enemy. we have to know our enemy. it is radical islam, in my judgment. i would like to ask mr. bledsoe, your children were kidnapped by these mosques. they were sent overseas and their lives were destroyed. have these two mosques done anything to repair the relationship? have they apologized? did they say they would change their practices? >> i will speak first. no, i have not heard from a mosque at all. we are not talking about, all moslems. we are talking about islamic rattle -- radicalization. i want to make that clear because that is a difference. i have muslims in my family. i'm stuck in the middle. we are not talking about all moslems. we are talking about the ones who are hiding behind the moderate muslims. they are the ones who are a threat to america and a threat to our babies and a threat to the children and they are

counterterrorism adviser, john brennan, warned we could see libyan-based attacks even here in the u.s. how valid is that? >> well, clearly, everyone tries to do contingency planning and worst-case scenario. gadhafi has been warned in the past. the lockerbie attack on the pan am jet. people are worried about it. he has threatened it. the question really is, how is gadhafi going to step down, if he will? the u.s. and the world hasn't really left him a way out because they already referred him to the war crimes tribunal. so, that puts his back against a wall. >> and how much does what we are seeing take place in libya right now complicate the rest of the region? yemen and bahrain, there's fighting going there. the u.s. is very focused on what happens eventually in saudi arabia. how does this complicate the situation? >> it's an added layer of difficulty. you've seen what happened in yemen, a bloody slaughter in the capital yesterday. in bahrain, apparently there was going to be negotiation. in bahrain, the hard-liners are basically ruing the day. they've wiped away the main protest squar

one of the really interesting debates that came forward on the libya front was when john brennan, presidentrorism adviser, raised the issue of the fact that a lot of these libyan rebels have ties to al qaeda al qaeda put out a statement on thursday saying they were with the libyan opposition. >> the big ideas, are we getting them right? >> mike mullen said the biggest single national security problem is our economy. this will not make it better. instead we're ignoring a previous secretary of state john quincy adams someone you haven't had on the show in a while, we're going abroad in search of monsters to destroy. there's any number of monsters but is this right now something that strategically necessary and vital for the united states, given all that's happening in places like egypt, bahrain, audi arabia, around the world, all we need to repair at home? i would think the answer is not. this a's the idea the administration is missing. it's not enough to simply want to do good wherever we see bad. we've got to ask where can we do good against what cost? >> andrea, it's values versus interest

john brennan has been coordinating and we have had frequent meetings. we have been in close consultation as they have been courting the american response we have been making sure we share information as appropriate with our colleagues at the nrc. we have consulted closely with our japanese colleagues and have dispatch subject matter experts in an emergency response. we are in consultation and we will make sure that any requirement they have we're prepared to meet and we're talking with them on a real-time basis. we have technical expertise already there on the ground and we have additional capabilities as needed. the japanese government has tremendous capabilities on their own. because a matter of this nature requires our best efforts, we stand ready to assist. you give us a sense of how president obama is getting briefed about the crisis and the risks to the people there and can you describe the nature of what we're seeing and how bad is? >> lumley say that the press -- let me say that the president was briefed multiple times and this morning and throu

john brennan has been coordinating the interagency. we have had frequent meetings. we have also been in continuous consultation with the ambassador. hats off to him for the response. and we have been making sure we share information with the chairman and our colleagues at the nrc. we focused our efforts on consulting with our japanese colleagues. we have dispatched subject matter experts on emergency response. we are in consultation with him. we will make sure any requirement they have if we are prepared to meet. we are talking to them on a real-time basis. we have expertise already there on the ground. we have additional capabilities. the japanese government has tremendous capabilities on their own but this requires our best efforts. >> i will go ahead and call on people give >> can you give us a sense of how president obama is getting briefed about this nuclear crisis? can you describe the nature of what we are seeing and how bad it is? >> let me just say the president was briefed more people times over the weekend. he has been briefed this morning. john brennan i

this is the president of yemen, somebody that john brennan and the handful of times he's come in here talks about an important american ally -- he said this: i am going to reveal a secret. there is an operations room until the fees, with an aim of destabilizing the arab world. and the operations room is in televisa and run by the white house. is that how an ally -- is that how you were to become our allies should speak about the united states? >> well, we've made clear to the leadership in cnn.com as we have with the leadership in other countries, that the need to focus on political reforms and the need to implement the respond to the legitimate aspirations of their people. and we don't think scapegoating will be the kind of response that the people of yemen or the people in other countries will find adequate to get is, again, i think the focus needs to be an yemen as it needs to be in other countries on opening their society, working with countries -- i mean, working with the people in their country to bring them to a political process that democratic inconclusive. connect given that

questions of the witnesses, i want to -- i want to read from senator lieberman's letter to the -- to john brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security. he said the failure to identify our enemy for what it is, violent islamic extremism, is offensive and contradicts thousands of years of accepted military and intelligence doctrine to know your enemy. we have to know our enemy. and it is radical islam in my judgment. i would like to ask mr. bledsoe and mr. bihi, your children were kidnapped by these two mosques, held hostage, sent overseas to both yemen and to somalia, and their lives were destroyed. had these two mosques done anything to repair the relationship? have they ever told you they're sorry and have they ever told you that they will change their practices? >> i'll speak first. no, i have not heard from a mosque at all about whether or not they are sorry. i think that going back to the question, the lady from texas, we're not talking about all muslim. we're talking about islamic radicalization. and that i wanted to make clear because that is a difference. i have muslim in

queions of the witnesses, want to -- i want to read from senator lieberman's letter to the -- to john brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security. he said the failure to identify our enemy for what it is, violent islamic extremism, is offensive and contradicts thousands of years of accepd military and intelligence doctrine to know your enemy. we havto know our enemy. and it is radical islam in my judgment. i wod like to ask mr. bledsoe and mr bihi, your children were kidnapped by these two mosques, held hostage, sent overseas to both yemen and to somaa, and their lives were destroyed. had these two mosques done anything to repair the relationship? have they ever told you they're soy and have they ever told you that they will change their practices? >> i'll speak first. no, i have not hear from a mosque at all about whether or not they are sorry. i think that going back to the question, the lady from texas, we're not talking about all muslim. we're talking about islamic radicalization. and that i wanted to make clear because that is a difference. i have muslim in my family, i

i believe the white house has spoken to president saleh -- not the president, but john brennan, it reiterated our views. we made it quite clear that any humane government needs to refrain from violence against non-violent peaceful protesters. and any government has to support political change that needs aspirations of the people. i am. saleh has launched an investigation -- i am aware president saleh has called for an investigation of the march 18 violence. >> why is the u.s. trusting someone who has committed these apparent acts of humanitarian violence against his own people question of does it come down to the assistance which the u.s. is looking into yemen? >> our assistance for yemen is based on, in many ways, trying to address the inequities that exist and trying to build a prosperous economy and to address many of the issues the people are protesting for. but beyond that, there is not some kind of quid pro quo. >> two questions. are any u.s. officials are in touch with some of the cabinet members who resigned? and what will that mean for the u.s. if the president goes? >> on the first

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. >> margaret brennan, thank you very much. >>> coming up on 7:07. johndwards may have left politics, but the scandal that forced him out will not go away. the former north carolina senator and past presidential candidate could learn soon whether he will face criminal charges. a federal grand jury has been investigating whether he violated campaign finance laws in covering up his affair with rielle hunter. brian ross has much more on this. good morning, brian. >> reporter: the moment seems to be fast approaching for john edwards. the key question is whether edwards knew his campaign supporters were paying hush money to his mistress, to keep her quiet while he ran for office and she had his baby. federal prosecutors at this courthouse in north carolina, have reportedly wrapped up their grand jury investigation. and await a decision by the end of the month, on whether edwards should face criminal charges. >> we actually want to live in a moral, righteous and just america. >> reporter: when edwards announced he was running for president, his mistress, rielle