ester, sarasota, florida, leon panetta spoke here and said he was surprised and shocked by the cia memog a spontaneous demonstration. he said he told the president terrorists were involved but the problem is secretary panetta will not say that here, esther. and he has had plenty of opportunity to do that. raul otra, singapore. bill, eric bolling was trying to tell you that markets some decide what technology gets advanced not you or the government. not if you're interested in national security, raul. u.s. government funds research as i told miller on many things in the interest of public good like weapons that protect us. getting away from opec and high energy prices should be a top priority for this country. robert bland, sydney, australia, "don't want to be rude but bolling didn't make much sense. he must an ulterior motive." he doesn't have an ulterior motive. he's a small government capitalist. and his analysis reflects that. stossel doesn't gamble, he bets. gambling is when you can't afford to lose. james carroll, san diego, bill, having worked in public schools for seven years i c

there was conflicting evidence on benghazi and that's what the compliant media will report. >> leon panettapoke here and said he was surprised and shocked by the cia memo mentioning a spontaneous. secretary of state panetta will not say that here. raul. bill, eric bolling was trying to tell you that markets should decide what technology gets advanced, not you or the government. round to bowling. not if you're interested in national security. the u.s. government funds research on many things in the interest of the public good. how about weapons that protect us? the atom bomb? getting away from opec and high energy prices is a top priority for america, thus the government in funding. robert bland. don't want to be rude, but boling did not make sense. he must have an ulterior motive. >> stossel doesn't gamble. he bets. gambling is when you cannot afford to lose. james carole. bill, having worked in public school for seven years, i can tell you that students ilg nor cell phone rules and create privacy issues for teachers and other students. please keep on the issue. i will. >> there once of a m

there was conflicting evidence on benghazi and that's what the compliant media will report. >> leon panettawas surprised and shocked by the cia memo mentioning a spontaneous. secretary of state panetta will not say that here. raul. bill, eric bolling was trying to tell you that markets should decide what technology gets advanced, not you or the government. round to bowling. not if you're interested in national security. the u.s. government funds research on many things in the interest of the public good. how about weapons that protect us? the atom bomb? getting away from opec and high energy prices is a top priority for america, thus the government in funding. robert bland. don't want to be rude, but boling did not make sense. he must have an ulterior motive. >> stossel doesn't gamble. he bets. gambling is when you cannot afford to lose. james carole. bill, having worked in public school for seven years, i can tell you that students ilg nor cell phone rules and create privacy issues for teachers and other students. please keep on the issue. i will. >> there once of a mystery confounding tha

leon panetta testified before a senate panel on this very issue of trauma among veterans. he said the military should include in its diagnoses. panetta said "these are real problems. it is unacceptable to have the process we now have in place." they have not necessarily ruled out terrorism. more news from washington. the high court struck down a decades old limit on the total amount donors can give to federal candidates and parties. the court was split. this one was tight.5-4. phil mattingly has the winners and the losers. >> the dnc had to keep the powder dry a little bit, because they were opposed, but they will benefit as well. the implications are party candidates will get more money directly run big money donors. that should, you would assume, take some money away from the pac's. all 36 senators who are up for reelection in 2014, you can max out donations for each one of them. that is the big change. the caps for donations to everybody are now gone. but what is amazing the big-money donors are already hearing about this. they are already getting calls from fundraisers

lou: was the cia, under moral, under petraeus, and various cia director, particularly leon panetta, so little bitizee litt- politicizeed by politics of its leaders, if could not function objectively. there seems to be a disconnect. when he went it the silv silly o story. your thoughts? >> well, we have to be frank, anybody that been around washington, d.c. knows that this cia at times has been not a political but has been politicizeed. i can't get out all of the facts. but this much i know about cia. the people who work there, day in and day out, inelgin, and analysis they provide, people in feel who risk their lives on every day basis are extraordinary human beings, we have a 9/11 generation in cia because whatever happened, bringing down osama bin laden is largely due to their great efforts. i resist getting involved in the politics of cia, i have opinions but not facts to support it. lou: i talk about the politicalization of cia i am talking about its leadership, political car, point. a appointe top. it is very disturbing in particular as it working out in the search for truth for e

leon panetta hits the a mixed record on national security.rmer cia director saying the concern is the president defining america's role in the 21st century hopefully she will do it. also hillary clinton would be better to shape the geopolitical role whatever that means. he announced an agreement on ukraine today. with the russian counterpart it calls all full-size to refrain from violence and to disarm. i cannot wait until they decide who is a legal that those illegally seized buildings must be returned to the legitimate owner's and they must be vacated.=ku6 and our next guest says it is a complete win for vladimir putin lieutenant colonel ralph peters. thank you for being here. here we go we can. in looks like this is tough fascinating break through and you are as well. >> i am glad obama was mildly skeptical because reading it, it is stunning. the foreign minister is a master. and he is so wolf and kerry is a to what. -- to what. but the deal in geneva obligates putin to nothing. he does not have to do anything or give up anything he can fa

. >>> former defense secretary, leon panetta on may 24 will deliver remarks to more than 730 graduates at st. mary's. the school says that's the largest graduating class in st. mary's history. >>> bare shelves that are normally packed with food. a look at how the drought is making it harder to feed our >>> the air search for the missing malaysian jet is on hold tonight, because of a tropical cyclone, and the u.s. robotic submarine failed again to find any wreckage. it has completed eight missions so far, and covered about 2/3 of the targeted area. the sub could finish scanning the ocean floor by the end of the week. >>> an accused gang member was shot and killed by a u.s. marshall during his trial in salt lake city. the defendant he was shot several times in the chest and rushed to the hospital, where he died several hours later. officials say he attacked a witness with a pen. the defendant was one of 17 alleged gang members on trial on federal racketeering charges. the judge declared a mistrial. >>> friends of a man who was killed last month by san francisco police held a vigil in his

. >>> former defense secretary, leon panetta on may 24 will deliver remarks to more than 730 graduates at st. mary's. the school says that's the largest graduating class in st. mary's history. >>> bare shelves that are normally packed with food. a look at how the drought is making it harder to feed our most vulnerable. >> next, you're looking at an 805-pound shark on the back of a truck. why the story behind this huge catch was not supposed to go public. >>> the air search for the missing malaysian jet is on hold tonight, because of a tropical cyclone, and the u.s. robotic submarine failed again to find any wreckage. it has completed eight missions so far, and covered about 2/3 of the targeted area. the sub could finish scanning the ocean floor by the end of the week. >>> an accused gang member was shot and killed by a u.s. marshall during his trial in salt lake city. the defendant he was shot several times in the chest and rushed to the hospital, where he died several hours later. officials say he attacked a witness with a pen. the defendant was one of 17 alleged gang members on trial

a few weeks into obama's presidency leon panetta, the new cia director, he realizes these drones are pretty cool. a lot they can do with them but this guy, a new president who is not anti-war but he is trying to end these wars. he brings the counter terrorism military guys, people who run the drone programs with him into the oval office to give obama a briefing, charts and pictures and video off and he goes through -- he is trying to reassure obama that -- how careful and precise the program is and they don't kill civilians and this very intricate set of permissions they have to go through and show this video of these drones flying many thousands of feet above the target, with their camera watching very carefully the patterns of light this cia calls it to make sure they have got a right person and then patterns of light. then they show the target is with his wife for playing with his children and we will watch patiently for hours, days or weeks until we have a clear shot and then we take the shot and then, you know, if a civilian enters the frame at the last second week can divert th

. >> was the cia in effect under morell, under petraeus and under in effect leon panetta, and so-called so-called politicized under the direction of mike morell that the judgment could not be brought to bear. because there is a horrible disconnect of september 11, to whom he was the first to believe it was a al quaid and the tell president so, and then in 2012 to decide to go with the silly video story, and by the way, it is silly in any context no matter the reputation of the analyst who would push it or not, i think. your thoughts? >> well, i mean, we have to be frank. anybody that's been around washington, d.c. knows that the cia at times has been certainly apolitical but has been politicized, and that happened in the bush administration when they were pushing it against president bush's prosecution of the war, and it may have happened here. i can't get down to all of the facts, because i have not seen the thousands of documents, but much i do know about the ci a aings and this is what is disturbing me about it, the people who work there, day in, day out, and the intelligence they pr

impression that he was going to do something about these people who went beyond the bounds but then leon panettae first director of the cia persuaded him to move on. but let's get this out and this morning general hayden, former head of the cia is on fox news saying that senator feinstein is too emotional? no. the committee voted 11-3 to put it out, including many republicans. >> right. and you know, james, to that point, because i was going to raise that, i found that to be an incredibly sexist and inappropriate comment. to what lawrence just said, james, i think it is appropriate to get emotional about the idea about torture and about the idea that the american government may -- the american people may have been misled on this. >> that's right. listen, the report is going to be surprising to many who have not been following this in the media when people read the stories about some of the folk who have died in sort of -- while being detained by the cia and being interrogated in which they died, people get emotional. any time a political resorts to racism in their rhetoric, that's coming from a

this thing, the people he works for was started by leon panetta, this consulting firm.le, former people from the state department who work under hillary clinton. he's working for that firm. so he was kind of hiding, covering up for her. he says he didn't deliberately mislead or deliberately down play the role. not a word. >> what do you -- >> there's nothing about his track record that would indicate he wouldn't be candid. he said, bring it on. bring on the cameras. i want full out in front of everybody. everybody to hear what i have to say. what he had to say was, i took out extremists because everybody knows that. i forgot to bring that up when you asked me. i thought mike morrell's testimony was more confusing than anything else up until this point. >> he ignored the people on the ground in libya and went with -- >> huge pinhead. i have even a bigger pinhead. here's my pinhead, i want to get his name properly stated. hasan rohani. put his picture up there. he is the president of iran. there he is. and he is sending as the u.n. ambassador here to new york city a man.

when president clinton asked me to be secretary of agriculture, he and leon panetta met with me and clinton said your most important job is to work the congress. you know what it is like. you know what they are thinking about. hell maybe my eyes and ears. work it hard. when president clinton asked me to be secretary of agriculture, he was serious about that. so were his chiefs of staff. the president must engage in this process. >> >> welfare reform reflects bill clinton's commitment to do something really contrary to the liberal wing of his party. and one final thing. he also had the lowest period of time anddent in a long those relationships on capital hill as trent can talk about his huge difference in survival. >> being on the receiving end of communications from bill clinton i can confirm that we stayed in regular contact. he would call it all hours of the day or night and on more than one occasion after midnight. i was wondered what he was doing up at that time of night. but no. he was watching basketball. about ae was calling situation in central america. but the point was not that h

. >> former defense secretary leon panetta said something this weekend i found interesting. folks in his own party starting to criticize president obama. panetta saying, quote, the president has made some tough decisions, but it's been a mixed record, and the concern is the president defining what america's role in the world is in the 21st century hasn't happened. do you agree with that assessment? do you agree with that characterization? >> i think that the president has done a better job than he's sold to the american people. there's no consistency. there's no simple kind of bullet point about what his vision is of the united states in the future. and that quote was in a story about hillary clinton. she's trying to portray herself as much more hawkish in 2016, that she was tough on iran, tough on china, supported the bin laden raid. so will president obama's foreign policy legacy hurt the democrats in the election this year and in 2016. >> will voters in 2016 want hawkish? david, always good to see you. thank you so much for being here. reuters an "the atlantic," fascinati

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former defense secretary and cia director leon panetta, he will deliver the commencement speech at st. mary's college next month. last year, he delivered remarks at santa clara university. his alma mater. this year, on may 24th, he will speak to more than 730 graduates at st. mary's. the school says it is the largest graduating class in st. mary's history. >>> today meles of the muslim community are set to meet with state lawmakers in sacramento. it's part of the annual muslim day at the capitol. organizers of the event say they will ask lawmakers to act on what they believe are critical issues including making college more affordable for incoming students and expanding access to healthcare coverage for all californians regardless of their immigration status. >>> 8:10. today is earth day. nasa is holding a global selfie event to celebrate. here's how it works -- you snap a picture of yourself somewhere outside, then post it on one of five social media websites using hashtag globalselfie. that's will use the -- nasa will using the photos and you can post them on twitter, instagram, fac

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here's a memo from harold to leon panetta. maxwell house coffee is on sale this week for 3.49. here's one, for $10,000 you can have a private meeting with vice president gore to discuss re-inventing government, and for $20,000, you don't have to go. rosy o'donnell was the president's first choice to be here this evening, and she withdrew, citing a nasty and brutal con femurration process. -- confirmation process. [applause] >> i wasn't even the second choice. dennis miller was the second choice but he got hung out by an illegal nanny technicality. but isn't that what the confirmation process is all about here in washington? weeding out the truly qualified to get to the truly available. >> watch this year's white house constants dinner life saturday night. president obama and joe mchale of number's community headline the event. our coverage starts at 6:00 p.m. eastern with the red carpet arrival followed by the dinner, live, saturday night, on c-span2. >> senator ron johnson of wisconsin has filed a lawsuit against the obama administration over the affordable care kaz kas subsid

>> your biography does not mention any reference to your time serving under the ncaa director leon panetta. usurped him during the raid on the bin laden compound in abbottabad, pakistan. the recall any of the details as to how this race was decided on and what the decision process was to keep the photos of bin laden under the shroud of secrecy? >> i'm sure you brought papers. >> no. [laughter] >> in fact i wasn't there when the raid occurred. i left a while before then. >> been do you think is rated and aftermath permanently hurt our military a little and diplomatic relationship with the government of pakistan? what do we have to do to repair this relationship? >> i'm just not a position, myron, to understand the damage to relations with the government of pakistan. i'm really not in that information network right now. one of the things we do in the military that is would try to make connections with our service counterparts. i do know the pakistani attachÉ here in the u.s. i have met with the pakistani ambassador coming to me in the next couple of weeks. we are trying to arrange a visit fo