syria has provided political and material support the hezbollah in lebanon. in early april, we reiterated our grave concern and alarm to the syrians over reports that may have provided scud missiles to hezbollah. we have spoken out forcefully about the grave dangers of serious -- syria's transfer of weapons. we have expressed our concerns to the syrian government. transferring weapons to has a lot, especially longer-range missiles, poses a serious threat to the security of israel. it would have a destabilizing effect on the region and if such weapons cross into lebanon, it would violate u.n. security council will 1701 which bans the unauthorized importation of any weapons into lebanon. we do not accept such provocative and destabilizing behavior, nor should the international community. president assaad is making decisions that could mean war or peace for this region. he is hearing from hezbollah and hamas. it is crucial here for must directly. so the potential consequences are clear. that is why we're sending an ambassador back to syria. there should be no mi

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lebanon and colombia.cs where's that both of those places are in the -- claire swears that both of those places are in the missouri, but i tell you, the brothers are going to go crazy over that. -- speaking birthers -- the birthers are going to go crazy over that. i am actually the fourth ranking republican leader in the house. there is me, eric cantor, john skinner, and rush limbaugh -- john boehner and rush limbaugh. russia called today to give me his regards. call from his doctor's office in costa rica. now we know who listens to rush into the room. speaking of health care, you have to admit that some of the provisions in a bad bill were untenable to republican leadership. you had to know the john boehner was never going to stand for the tax on tanning beds. i get it. they passed the bill. president barack obama feels he has some momentum going. now he is trying to co op some of our initiatives. the one that surprised me was his proposal for offshore drilling. i never thought he understood the concept.

perhaps israel would like -- into northern lebanon recently. israel could attacked tehran with the excuse that it had been hit with missiles that were ultimately provided from tehran. he thinks that the iraq war is a good thing it was wonderful because we just held an election there. as i said, he looks very dental. he looks like a nice guy. [laughter] and i am sure he is. i am some 20 years older than him. i have covered married -- i have covered many wars. it is not pretty. i do not enjoy seeing people dying. i do not see what he calls for more military action in iran. i am also opposed to iran gaining nuclear capability. i just don't think that war is the way to go. [applause] >> i am sure that roger does not remember this. i have written two fan letters in my life. one was to roll ball when i was -- roald dahl when i was a little boy for "charlie and the chocolate factory." the other was to a war correspondent roger fireline. he had written something -- a war correspondent, roger cohen. he had written from the front line. i suspect that you

they want to make sure they don't have any no votes, and right now turkey, brazil, lebanon and a problem getting to yes. >> thank you so much, glen kessler. >> aid groups feed haiti's hungry. a u.s. senate candidate talks about his military service, and the world as seen by photographer cartier bresson. now the other news of the day. here is kwame holman. >> the prime suspect in the times square bombing attempt in new york had his first court appearance. faisal shahzad went before a magistrate for just ten minutes. he is accused of trying to explode a car bomb in times square on may 1st. he was arrested two days later, just before he could fly out of the country. >> a taliban suicide bomber killed five american troops and one canadian in kabul, afghanistan. a dozen afghans also died, and nearly 50 others were wounded. >> reporter: it was the deadliest attack the afghan capitol hill had seen in months. the huge blast wrecked 20 vehicles, including five in the convoy and a civilian bus. the attack came on a section of dalulra road, and it defied recent efforts to intercept potential bomber

they say they want to export people to kill someone, people to include the democracy of lebanon of jewish communities in buenos aires. we know the names of the people who have been doing this. well, i'm sorry, this is not an internal affair and i don't have a civil rights. her mother, zimbabwe, iran, just those three for now. you can't get anything done at north korea. he's really an appalling regime and you find protected by the united nations and sort of sudan. it means they'll give all their weapons. you cannot address major human rights trauma in the world without coming up against chinese power on the wrong side. i'm sorry, this is not their internal affair. >> also, if you look at the experience of penn america, i'd say two things. every time pen has supported a writer and difficulty in whatever country, we have heard back from those writers that it was immensely valuable to them to know that their case was being seen by the rest of the world and that they gained great staying embarrassment from the fact that their case was being highlighted. there something in the cases of those wr

nuclear non-proliferation treaty and also perhaps they might retaliate in a blaze such as hezbollah, lebanon or hamas and palestinian. so i've heard these arguments and i think that there are hard-liners in iran who wouldn't mind some kind of military attack, not that would remove them from power of course because the number one thing is to remain in power but an attack that might aim at some of the nuclear sites but not remove the regime because that would give them an excuse to crack down further on this society and tightened its grip on power. and the second question was t -- >> guest: and about how vulnerable are they? i think they feel they've been vulnerable and that's why they've used force and violence against their own people. i think they are most scared of their own people and what they are scared of is this threat of ideas about democracy and human rights because if these ideas strengthen, and they already have in the society, then the people in power think it will threaten them because they don't want to share their power so they've been using imprisonment, intimidation and so l

effective but they have divided baghdad, essentially, car bombs it started a civil war in iraq it slided lebanon in the '80s. they are the poor man's air force and very effective. what do we do about cars? can't get rid of them. >> larry: what does this society do, harry? you can live in fear or what? >> basically -- >> larry: ban making it able to see inside a car, right? you can ban tinting? >> that would be one thing. new york city is doing some great things technologically in detection. they have a system called ring of -- i have forgot the exact name, maybe i shouldn't even talk about it but basically it is a detection system that actually can detect license plates, run the license plates in real time and also sniff, sniff for radiological issues and for -- for explosives, for nitrates. and that's been in existence now down in the financial area for some time and i believe the city is now moving the same system up to times square. >> it would appear, bob, they are on the trail of this guy, wouldn't it? >> probably catch him, yeah. because of the fact that the bomb was so crudely made, i'm s

perhaps israel would like -- into northern lebanon recently. israel could attacked tehran with the excuse that it had been hit with missiles that were ultimately provided from tehran. he thinks that the iraq war is a good thing it was wonderful because we just held an election there. as i said, he looks very dental. he looks like a nice guy. [laughter] and i am sure he is. i am some 20 years older than him. i have covered married -- i have covered many wars. it is not pretty. i do not enjoy seeing people dying. i do not see what he calls for more military action in iran. i am also opposed to iran gaining nuclear capability. i just don't think that war is the way to go. [applause] >> i am sure that roger does not remember this. i have written two fan letters in my life. one was to roll ball when i was a little boy for "charlie and the chocolate factory." the other was to a war correspondent roger fireline. he had written something -- a war correspondent, roger cohen. he had written from the front line. i suspect that you probably favor, after th

in lebanon. the only way you won a war is you destroy the enemy and/or his will to fight.ow, they have, right now, under the obama administration, a leader that has accepted the fact that we are going to have to lose. in essence, getting out of afghanistan, whatever the deadline is, we have lost. these people will keep coming and coming and coming until they destroy our will to fight. i will give you an example. iwo jima. the battle the significant in the sense, we lost 6000 marines in six weeks. that was president truman. we took 1000 prisoners out of that battle. he made the decision to still use the atomic bomb in japan. use it. we used the atomic bomb. we used it was. the japanese recognized that we were strong enough and have enough will to win the war. the idea of leaving afghanistan -- we are just a rendering. host: things for the call. a couple of stories we want to bring to your attention of the weekend. in new york, andrew cuomo is running for the democratic nominee for the democratic nomination for governor. the primary is held later this year. the headline is h

monday, he will visit with the president of lebanon at the white house.his will be his first official visit to washington during his premiership. he will explore consulting with the prime minister on a broad range of mutual goals concerning 119's sovereignty and mutual peace and security -- 11 on -- lebanon's sovereignty and neutrals peace -- peace and security. he will discuss the important role played in our economy. also, president obama will welcome the president of italy to the white house. the white house regards italy as a strong ally. there are strong bilateral relations. he looks for to continuing his consultations with the present following up on the july 8 meeting from last year in rome. later on tuesday, the president will travel to san francisco, california to headline events on behalf of senator barbara boxer. on wednesday, the president will visit the cylindra facility where he will tour the 300,000- square-foot high-tech facility. he will make remarks regarding the economy. he will return to washington, d.c. after his remarks. on thursday,

they have in fact withdrew their troops from lebanon and importantly israel has actual little bit given up control of gaza and substantial territory in the west bank. what did they get for it? thousands of missiles launched into israel itself. and when retaliating, they, of course, were condemned for a fight that they didn't even start. it's time for the palestinian missile attacks to stop and for the palestinians to reciprocate for israel's tangible concessions in gaza and on the west bank. . to make it real, the palestinians must renounce what they call the right of return. the israelis have taken major steps. now it's time for the palestinians to move. and until the palestinians make recognizable steps forward as israelis have done, our government should not be urging israel to give up even more territory or condemning them for prodding the palestinians. for example, if the israeli innovation of apartment complexes in jerusalem gets the palestinians to realize that they can't wait forever because israel is just going to move on unless the palestinians come out and try to reach an agr

education exchanges, that bold they are terribly worried iraq will have to compete with egypt and lebanonources. so iraq may drop. iraq enjoyed this privileged positions of iraq peace and i've heard on the civil society site people saying just when we should be at the kind of expansion phase them the security situation improved now what is going to happen is we are going to be competing chasing scarce dollars to continue the kind of program work that is just now bearing fruit so there is a struggle over resources over what part of it is going to look like still more security than civilians rather the total amount of resources available officially is when to contract over the obama administration for fy 12th requested an increase but it's not clear they will get it and then there's the question of the iraqis become more confident they can solve the finance will they always pick an american partner. and i think th will spread it out now. they will pick the european partners. we witnessed the danish journalist trainin in the kurdish region while we were there. the europeans are in the game a

they are behind killing our boys in lebanon. they are behind hezbollah, hamas. russia, china, turkey, brazil are of no help to us. they are all chasing the dollar. nobody wants war, but these people only understand force. guest: first of all, there are several parts to what is going on now. in terms of the nuclear proliferation problem, what has to happen is they have to submit to international inspections to make sure that they are living up to the non- proliferation treaty. that is the legal aspect of this. frankly, they have a right to a peaceful program, if it is under inspection, but not a nuclear weapons program. i agree about their behavior. the question is, how do you deal with the regime like that? the question also is whether or not force would work. in terms of my previous discussion with the tool box, i would not take force off the table, but based on what i know -- and i have not read it entirely into the intelligence of this -- but it is hard to just use force to get rid of their nuclear program without an awful lot of problems. first of all, its e

if you look as the global rankings of business friendliness, greece has been down there with lebanon,gypt and countries that are not well known for having a transparent system and welcoming business start-ups and foreign this is this before and businesses to come in and invest. they have been very unfriendly. california, consistently comes in at the very bottom both based on regulatory environment, taxes, and just the process of trying to get the permits to start a business. there are infamous example spinco los angeles has been a discussion if you want to start a restaurant in los angeles, the permit process to have to go through has to go to 12 separate agencies and takes, on average, when and have to 3 years. --one and a half to 3 years. you not see as many restaurants are not in los angeles than you would like. host: they ask, does california have more corporate contractors and public employees? how much fraud is committed by contractors and public employees? guest: good question. i have not seen a good accounting of total contract work force versus state work force. california do

face the threat from iran and the threat of 40,000 rockets and missiles supplied by the iranians in lebanon, with hezbollah, which said it wants to kill every jew. and this accumulation of 40,000 rockets has been done in violation of u.n. security council resolution 1701, which has not been enforced. so hence this bill, this bill which comes from the administration which will provide $200 million-some in maintain israel's military superiority and in protecting israel's citizens against possibly unprovoked aggression and is an absolute prerequisite if we hope to see any peaceful negotiation in the middle east. i therefore congratulate the administration on taking this step and on the steps it has made to maintain israel's military superiority. i thank the sponsors and i urge the passage of this bill. i thank you for yielding time. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. poe: madam speaker, i'd inquire of the gentleman if he has any speakers. mr. mcmahon: madam speaker, it appears i don't have any other speakers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas.

>> i would just point out that the inspector general found that the activities were deficient on lebanon -- on leveraging our risk and they found there were no changes made by the sec with respect to western's risk management. >> it is difficult to disagree with -- with respect to bear stearns's risk management. >> is a difficult to disagree with this. the failure of the program is manifest in the failure of bear stearns itself. the main purpose of the program was to provide an early warning system and it did not. i fundamentally agree. i would also point out that for the federal reserve, with the regional fed, they have the same things with -- they were being used across the system around the world. with respect to the question of whether this was meant to be an accommodation or a real regulatory program, i can tell you that since i was not there in 2004 but i did listen to the meeting, again the release, i have every reason to believe that the story is exactly as i have heard from my service at the sec exactly as german donaldson has explained it. the sec was very, very interested in g