>> smith: i've talked to senator kaufman.i've talked to senator grassley. i've talked to staffers. i've talked to a number of people. they told us that they felt that you didn't make this a top priority. >> well, i'm sorry if they think that, because i made it an incredibly top priority. but when we can't bring a case, we have a m... we have an ethical obligation not to bring those cases. but it's not for lack of trying. our lawyers are working incredibly hard, and it's a disservice for anyone to suggest otherwise. >> smith: in all of this, was there a case that you thought could have gone forward as a criminal prosecution that didn't? >> you know, there were a lot of discussions along those lines. you know, i talked to lanny when i was in the criminal division daily. >> smith: did you argue with him? >> yes. and we would argue this back and forth, and then we... but when we finally came to a decision, sometimes i would be frustrated. sometimes i would be disappointed. >> smith: you always accepted the decision? >> but i acce

senator ted kaufman spent part of his time in congress warning about high frequency trading. trading firms are currently in line locked in a technological orange letters the result in some big disasters. and then only he made this warning just a few months before the crash and two thousand and ten producer bob english and i had the chance earlier today to speak with eric scott han sader is the founder of man x. i first asked him if he agreed with senator kaufman characterization of the competition between exchanges and the firms as an arms race meaning that the two are continually having to up the ante in terms of bandwidth and speed and here is his response. that there's not really. exchanges. trading there kind of. relationship. the arms race for going faster is kind of it's almost a gentlemen's agreement. to to to agree to a speed limit and not spend themselves to death and we kind of see this because every time the nicely does a capacity upgrade if two firms kind of spike the capacity and they just kind of push up against a glass ceiling but do they sometimes break it doe

jeffrey kaufman, abc news, london. >> what a good looking couple? right?y. >> they make good looking kids. >> how long -- >> talented no less. >> that's a better-looking couple. >> you like that don't you. you do make a dashing duo. >> check that out. you have to have the victoria posh look. >> you will get your husband jealous. >> how long before he is knighted? >> bookies, 6:4 odds, he will be sir david beckham. >> i think it will happen soon. >> what a send-off for bill hader and characters on "saturday night live." >>> and the performances at billboard awards that may be all the buzz around the ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ skinny so skinny >>> welcome to "the skinny," everyone. really quickly, we're going to give you the highlights and lowlights of the billboard awards. in case you missed them. here we go. taylor swift was really the performer of the night. she took away seven awards, altogether, including top artist. on top of top artist she got billboard 200 artist, digital songs artist, country artist, country album, country song for "we are never getting b

you may remember senator brown joined with senator kaufman during the dodd-frank debate to introduce an amendment that would have broken up the country's largest banks. the amendment had bipartisan support behind it, but it did not pass and we all know what has happened since then. the four biggest banks considered too big to fail before the crisis are now 30% larger than they were just five years ago. the libor scandal, the infamous london whale, the fourth quarter foreclosure fraud. attorney-general holder -- said they could not do this without factoring in potential systemic fallout. there are parts of dodd-frank there to address the problem, even federal reserve chairman bernanke says it is not yet over. i know you're elsewhere during the dodd-frank debate, but i like to read you something from a "new yorker" article on what a senior treasury official said about the brown-kaufman and too big to fail amendment. "if we, the treasury department, would have been for it it would have happened. but we were not, so it didn't." the opposition of the treasury is an important reason that m

jeff konoton goes back into government because his old friend ted kaufman takes biden's seat. and their whole ambition is to make wall street pay. and they try. >> jon: done tell me how it turns out. i don't want to know. i bet at the don't get away with it. stick around for a little bit though, okay. >> sure. >> jon: it is beautiful storytelling. it is like stud turkley but with a ken burns. the unwinding, on the book shelves may 21st. !fhobo1oqodoíododo%opo

jeff konoton goes back into government because his old friend ted kaufman takes biden's seat. and their whole ambition is to make wall street pay. and they try. >> jon: done tell me how it turns out. i don't want to know. i bet at the don't get away with it. stick around for a little bit though, okay. >> sure. >> jon: it is beautiful storytelling. it is like stud turkley but with a ken burns. the unwinding, on the book shelves may 21st. oe.#)Ç-d >> that's our show, join us next week. >> here is it your moment of zone. >> the attorney general failed to answer my question about what the -- >> gentlemen, gentlemen. >>> to  ♪ chappelle's show, chappelle's show ♪ ♪ chappelle's show ♪ chappelle's show ♪ chappelle's show ♪ ow! ♪ whoo-hoo-hoo! ♪ whoo-hoo! ♪ yeah, yeah. [♪...] let's start the show. [♪...] man: dave chappelle...! [cheering and applause...] [♪...] damn, that was nice. thanks, y'all. oh, be comfortable. relax, everyone. thanks for coming out, man. this is... you guys are so nice. make you feel good, havin' your own tv show. that's a good thing, when you have

jeff konoton goes back into government because his old friend ted kaufman takes biden's seat. and their whole ambition is to make wall street pay. and they try. >> jon: done tell me how it turns out. i don't want to know. i bet at the don't get away with it. stick around for a little bit though, okay. >> sure. >> jon: it is beautiful storytelling. it is like stud turkley but with a ken burns. the unwinding, on the book shelves may 21st. george packer, everybody. >> that's our show, join us next week. >> here is it your moment of zone. >> the attorney general failed to answer my question about what the -- >> gentlemen, gentlemen. >>> to captioning sponsored by comedy central >> stephen: tonight, an unexpected treatment for heart disease. so if you're having a heart attack right now, stick around. [laughter] then is the government meddling in our private

here's abc's jeffry kaufman in london. >> reporter: it's posh and becks, the sizzling duo, does celebrity get any sexier or successful than this? he david beckham, the world's most famous soccer player, she victoria, former spice girl. >> his hair, suit, his wife. >> reporter: theirs are the faces and bodies that have sold billions and made them millions. but look at her face. there's a reason they call her pouty posh. she never smiles. there they were at the royal wedding in 2011. poker faced posh looking like she was heading to the dentist. today as her husband played his last soccer game and heads into retirement she finally did it tweeting this picture. is there a hint of a smile there? that look, we've seen it before, oh, yes, on the mona lisa. could that smile mean that she's happy that her husband will finally be home a little more often? abc news, london. >> we thought we would end with a pout there. "good morning america" this week first thing in the morning. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow night. from all of us here at abc news thanks for watching this weekend. we hop

for kim kaufman, one of the organizers of what's billed as the biggest week in american birding, it's a magical time. >> essentially what we're doing is connecting world travelers -- birds and people -- in this amazing place in northwest ohio. >> do you still see him, jim? he's back behind some leaves now. >> reporter: each year crowds flock to oo and ahh over the warblers and finches and other beautiful song birds. >> you never know what you're going to to find out there so it's like a treasure hunt in some ways. >> reporter: and the treasure is becoming even more rare. figures show the populations of many of our most common birds are in steep decline. down dramatically in the past four decades. but still, birders, as they're called, keep coming. about 47 million of them, according to the u.s. fish and wildlife service. impressive numbers, for sure. but a new birding craze? >> the key to finding birds is just look for movement. >> reporter: british photographer richard crossley has his doubts. do you see birding being very popular in the u.s.? >> no, i don't. reporter: it's not? no,

opportunity as a freshman senator to preside more than i'd like to, i used to see then-senator ted kaufman would come down to the floor and almost every week talk about a federal employee. and when ted, who had served as -- as a staff director to joe biden for close to 30 years when he left the senate, i got to inherit that responsibility from him. and while i have not been quite as consequence enhusband is as senator kaufman -- conscientious as senator kaufman, i've tried to make sure i come down on a regular basis and call out federal employees who deserve recognition. including even certain federal employees who work in the senate. today i want to take a moment to recognize three federal employees who particularly are relevant to the debate we're having about budgets because one of the issues we all have to recognize is we've got to find ways to make our federal dollars go farther. so i want to recognize three federal employees who happen to be virginians who are working to make our government use data better, to improve accountability and transparency. and these are individuals that as

using conservative estimates, the kaufman foundation predicts that the entrepreneurs via could generate 500,000 to 1.6 million jobs over the next ten years. these are real jobs with real economic impact that could affect real american families and boost our g.d.p. by 1.5% or more. a 1.5% increase in our gross domestic product just by this provision of the legislation alone. anticipating floor consideration now of the immigration bill, i have been speaking with entrepreneurs, investors, and start-up policy experts to develop an amendment that would improve the legislation. in my view, we have an opportunity to create jobs for americans by making certain highly skilled and entrepreneurial immigrants are able to start a new business and contribute to the growth of american companies if we miss this opportunity, we risk losing the next generation of great entrepreneurs and the jobs they will create. i will offer an amendment to the immigration bill to accomplish these goals and hope my colleagues will join me in supporting the changes to the legislation that would result in the creation of

sun that you and senator vitter i think i don't know a year ago i would have said no when senator kaufman i introduced legislation to break up the largest five six banks. back in two thousand and ten we got thirty three thirty four votes including two or three republicans we're now working with ten republican offices a number of democrats who voted no on our amendment have said now they're going to vote yes they've they've changed it and i think people have seen the people in the senate have seen the size of these banks and in the economic and political power they have it's not to say it's going to be easy i think we have a shot at doing it i've seen that the public is change you see people like george will and thomas hoenig. bank administrators is enough to him a federal reserve and ministry and you now would have to see you see a number of conservative regulators and columnists who now say these banks are too big to fail this is a problem we need either to we need to take away some of their guarantees and protections they can either build more equity in their banks or they could begin t

and the iowa federation of college republicans chairman john kaufman. here you at, john? on behalf of the republican party of iowa, i want to thank all of you for coming out tonight. it means a lot to me. it means a lot to the party, and when we look at a crowd like 24 -- this in eastern iowa, i can tell you that the first congressional district is in play in 2014 and we will be prepared to fight in it. the second congressional district is in play. we're recruiting hard for that seat and we plan to compete and win there also. you can clap. [applause] but we've got a wonderful opportunity ahead of us as republicans and i can tell you, hen we as a party stand on principle, we win. if you look back at 2010, when we swept across the nation with a tea party title wave of lynns in the republican category -- wins in the republican category it is because we as a republican party stood on principle. i'm confident that a republican party that stands on principle, that stands up for marriage, human life is going to be a republican party that will energize the base and that will adva

colonel kaufman was appointed the vermont guard staff psychologist. he would debrief returning soldiers at the books in unit as well as brief soldiers that were getting ready to go on the vermont guard deployments to iraq and afghanistan. he and his critical incident team debriefed nearly every vermont soldier returning from overseas, including troops deployed with other reserve units and state soldiers. in addition, for the better part of a lasting years he consulted with soldiers prior to departure to iraq in afghanistan can often for repeated taurus. the team was constantly deployed to one of 12 different army deportation locations around the kutcher providing 106 small level unit if debriefings during the weeklong vacation process. six months ago he retired 49 years of army service as which time he was awarded merit and distinguished service. welcome. [applause] this year's theme for the colby military writer symposium is coming home, and it talks about the hopes, fears, dreams, and ambitions, i hope, of returning veterans. and the dwindling numbe

colonel kaufman was appointed the vermont guard staff psychologist. he would debrief returning soldiers at the books in unit as well as brief soldiers that were getting ready to go on the vermont guard deployments to iraq and afghanistan. he and his critical incident team debriefed nearly every vermont soldier returning from overseas, including troops deployed with other reserve units and state soldiers. in addition, for the better part of a lasting years he consulted with soldiers prior to departure to iraq in afghanistan can often for repeated taurus. the team was constantly deployed to one of 12 different army deportation locations around the kutcher providing 106 small level unit if debriefings during the weeklong vacation process. six months ago he retired 49 years of army service as which time he was awarded merit and distinguished service. welcome. [applause] this year's theme for the colby military writer symposium is coming home, and it talks about the hopes, fears, dreams, and ambitions, i hope, of returning veterans. and the dwindling numbe

senator kaufman's leadership, i want to note, he was very useful it not just what he did, but in his insights. i also want to mention the center for best practices and the franchise they developed informally looking after the process. also the aspen institute, i've mentioned clay johnson and his work as a zealot. the world needs that. josh has been acknowledged as well and many others, we were able to interview, who shared their wisdom freely. i also want to a knowledge the obama administration was responsive and very useful. they were good to work with. people would have been proud of the sense of bipartisanship that existed in these interactions. i also believe abundant credit is due to george w. bush for setting a very high standard, repeatedly. officials of the obama administration acknowledge the tone that was set in the 2008 transition. they were committed to hold themselves to the same standard in dealing with has. obviously, our product, our preparation was never tested. their grace was never tested. [laughter] it is clear to -- me everyone was intending to make this a profes

kaufman: mr. speaker, i de-- mr. coffman: mr. speaker, i demand the yeas and nays.peaker pro tempore: those in favor of -- the speaker: those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. the pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman , mr. bridenstine. mr. bridenstine: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: without objection, the gentleman from ohio, mr. joyce, is recognized for one minute. mr. joyce: thank you. i want to thank the sister for leading the house in prayer and for making this trip from ohio. it was a beautiful prayer and it's an absolute honor to have her here sister. i met sister jacqueline where she is the president and all three of my children attended high school. she is a model of grace, comp

we develop a set of recommendations that became the basis of legislation in 2010 that senator ted kaufman, a champion and was able to pass. probably the most important element of that legislation was moving at the time treated from election day to the culmination of the convention at which point the government would actually provide official transition support for the party's nominee. and part of the purpose there is we believe that it was important to flip the switch, to move the presumption to being one that did it in the dead of the night to you did a public would because as part of your responsibility. and the romney campaign, romney transition project was the first to operate under that new legislative environment. and in 2012, in may, we have a great pleasure of meeting governor leavitt, chris, if you other folks from the romney campaign to try to help them connect them to people who understood how best to run transition and help in any way that we could. in full disclosure, you've already signed up for may 2016, and it really is important to quickly that the work that's been done h