and contributor to "extreme fear" let me come to you first. ad your piece before i came on air. fascinating theory. tell me in brief terms what that theory is and why you think it could hold some credence here. >> it sounds a little bit outlandish. but as time goes by and the obvious answers don't pan out you start to have to turn to some of the more unlikely-seeming possibilities. and basically what some pilots are talking about, i'm hearing, is the idea that perhaps the pilot or copilot of this plane took control of the cockpit, either incapacitated or killed the other pilot, locked the door. there's a dead bolt you can lock everyone else out. turn off as much electronics as he could. dive the plane and head out. and now it just so happens, coincidentally, or perhaps not coincidentally, that where this plane vanished was last spotted was a patch of ocean where electronic communication is very poor. it's sort of a dead area between the ground stations where if you were to suddenly turn off your electronics and make a dash for it that would be

let me stop there. i will pick up with richard hofstadter and the kennedy assassination a little later. h.l. mencken mock outrage over german killings of belgian civilians as well as the sinking of the lusitania with the death of 124 americans. he wrote another piece of work, dreiser was a fellow american -- there could never be any compromise in the future between the men of german blood and the common blood of right thinking americans, being sarcastic. we will stand against him forever and do what damage to them and their tin pot democracy. if you come across this in your ridings your readings on h.l. mencken let me know because i rarely find it. like gold declared h.l. mencken the nation's greatest political influence. he faded in the 30s because he attacked fdr head on and that was not going to fly. in the 30s h.l. mencken's for acolytes hated the bourgeoisie but many had become communists. you couldn't throw a stone at a communist party mass meeting, excuse me, you could throw a stone in a communis

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let me just finish. let me just finish. let me just finish.e shouldn't be yelling out but let me just finish. we don't expect necessarily to see anything more come from that. but we have seen so much. we've seen so much hard evidence, and after all this time one would expect with all of that hard evidence, all of those private communications that we have access to come and we've seen, some of which you've seen, some more of which you get to see now because the governor's office decided that we should publish this report. we believe based on that hard evidence that we can make the fines we have, and there is not a shred, not a shred of hard evidence that the governor did anything other than what he has publicly said, that he had no knowledge of the lane closures beforehand, and that he had no role in the decision to implement it, or any implication of it. [inaudible] >> will they be a waiver of attorney-client privilege? >> you are getting with the report today hundreds of exhibits. hundreds of internal documents that have never been revealed b

let me go! no! let me -- let me -- let me go. >> a defendant goes wild in competency court.scene is caught on courtroom surveillance cameras. >> in all my years on the bench, i haven't had to use the panic button before, but i pressed it on that day. >> let me go! >> latasha williams. >> march 22nd, 2011. las vegas, nevada. judge jackie glass, a veteran in the 8th judicial district court, is presiding over a competency hearing for 36-year-old latasha williams. >> she can't leave the courtroom. >> two months earlier, williams was arrested for two counts of child endangerment and first-degree kidnapping when she allegedly dangled a neighbor's grandchildren over the balcony railing at this apartment complex. williams' attorney requests she be evaluated in competency court. >> and i do competency court for those people who are perhaps mentally incompetent to stand trial. under the law, you have to be able to understand and appreciate the nature of your charges and the legal process. meaning who the judge is, who the prosecutor is, what they do. basic legal principles. and you ha

let me put a reflector here. so all this beam energy goes down here, and this beam energy is gonna scatter off here, all right, okay? [makes noise] what color do you guys hear? blue. do you hear blue? you all get it? good. maydell, what color do you hear? white. yeah, she heard white. why did she hear the white? because she's standing right next to the-- that's right, honey-- some, some, filtering. she could have come right at her. it's a good thing you didn't have your eyes there. [laughter]

let me start tonight with this.he nonstop partisan attack it is on our president remind me of the joke about the young postal worker when the postmaster told him he was the fastest mail sorter he'd seen, his response was you just wait until i learn how to read. the right wing assault on president obama is just like that. nothing to do with the information, only with the relentless e desire to throw punches at the white house so fast people can't figure out what they're punching at. today on capitol hill elijah cummings had enough of the attack. >> if you will sit down and allow me to ask the question. i am a member of the congress of the united states of america. i am tired of this. we have members over here each who represent 700,000 people. you cannot just have a one-sided investigation. >> cummings had just witnessed a typical assault. darrell issa had just choreographed another day of beating the dead horse of the irs so-called scandal. like benghazi and obamacare and now ukraine, it's the bang bang bang bang of

love you ♪let me give my life to you ♪let me drown in your laughter ♪let me die in your arms ♪let me always be with you ♪come let me love you ♪come love me again >>> high-tech military, the reality of reduced resources in a challenging and changing environment requires us to prioritiertize and make difficult choices. >> secretary of defense, chuck hagel announced this week, a new five year budget for the pent began that could reshape the armed forces. one, army cuts. the u.s. army is already scheduled to drop from today's active duty force of 5 hundred 22,000 troops to 492,000 next year. serve secretary--secretary hagel wants to bring the total to 440,000 troops by the year 2019, six years from now. it will be the smallest sized u.s. army in 75 years, which brings us back to before world war i i. here is secretary hagel on why. >> we are no longer sizing the force. >> that is called army speak. you figure out it. two, marine corp. cuts to 182,000. three, army national guard cuts from # 3-0 hundred 55,000 to- -from 355,000 to 335,000. four,s special operations up from 66,000 today t

let me go through it quickly. if you consider this, whip, boom, folded down, okay, folded right down. so it's over here and call it b prime. i could ask you, guys, what's the shortest path between here and here, and you would all say what? a straight line. a straight line. in fact, you just go like this and say, "that's the shortest path between those two." what's the shortest path between here and here, touch this line? how many see it already? well, this line here, fold it up like that, the distance here and here is the same as the distance here and here, yeah? yeah. so it turns out, what the light will do, the light will hit here and then go up to here, see? like if you put your eye here and you will look down the mirror to see this, you will look right there to see it. not like here, okay? now, i've got an exercise for you. what i've done is i've shown where the image of b would be down here, huh? what would be the path of least time to go from b to "a"? can you, at your seats, fold "a" down and do it? go. do

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chairman, let me thank senator mccain. as i'm sure members of this committee know, this committee passed the many ski bill that would've applied universally. it would not have been limited to just one country but it would have been applied to any gross violations of human rights anywhere in the world. and if we had that bill passed in a form that passes this committee, then the president could act with the authority of congress if this type of episode occurs again. we hope it will not, but we know that unfortunately, we are seeing too often world leaders and individuals commit types of action that require the united states to show leadership. so senator mccain, i support your amendment. corruption is one of the issues that we want covered under the magnitsky act. i think your language makes that very clear, and clarifies the provisions as it should be. and i would just urge this committee, i was contemplating offering an amendment to make these provisions global, after talking to determine i have determined that that could

let me go to nick byrnes and see if he can answer -- we'll go to ben steele who's right here with me on set. do you think this deadline is for real and do you think there's going to be a military storm? >> i don't think the deadline is necessarily for real in terms of the exact hour. but there's no doubt that moscow is ratcheting up the pressure, larry. and the west has very little leverage here, financial sanctions, trade sanctions, diplomatic sanctions. these aren't things moscow is afraid of. >> is crimea lost? >> i think it is, two things, first, our leverage is minimal. what does russia care about? gas exports. the europeans don't want us to go near that. germany's very dependent on gas imports from russia. they're also dependent on exports and direct investment in the russian energy infrastructure and business -- >> you think that's sufficient to back off -- i want to get our other experts in. but so far they're not connected or at least not connected with me. i apologize to the viewers on that. we'll get them on. let me stay with this, benn steil. german's foreign minister has

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let me ask you this. somebody's tweeted me down. daisy 1158. solution to finding the plane is surely for the satellite images to be released immediately and not three to four days later. what is the truth about this? are these images when they're being picked up, are they given to the malaysian authorities immediately and then perhaps released to the public days later, or does it take several days for these images to actually be analyzed an i guess released properly? >> that's my understanding is it takes several days for them to be properly analyzed, and then they are immediately released to the malaysians and then down to australia. and then i think later on in the day maybe 12 hours later the malaysians are then releasing it to the general public. >> right. and i suppose the obvious question then is, if these images have been released even to the malaysian authorities, say 48 hours after they're actually taken, how far can this wreckage, then if it is the wreckage, have drifted in that particular part of the ocean? >> we're told by the ocean

joining me now, angela rie and matt sclaff. let's some of the headlines, influential republicans looking to push jeb bush, gop insiders pushing jeb bush to run for president in 2016. where is he now? is he the guy to watch? >> well, definitely. if he gets in this race, i think he becomes the de facto front-runner. i bet there's a lot of people making bets in their own head as to whether or not he'll actually get in this race. i think he's seriously looking at it, but i don't think it's a done deal. if he doesn't get in the race, it is completely wide open for the first time in my lifetime. >> angela, wasn't so long ago we were talking about chris christie in this front-runner position. of course, he's had political problems since then, but in 24 hours, the beginning of the weekend, he did a national tv interview, released the report his administration commissioned about bridgegate, gave a press conference, where he frankly was his old feisty self. take a listen. >> it's colorful, brian, colorful. why don't you just get to the questio

let me -- mr. secretary, talk about -- i know you're here about the budget and also about values, from my prif, prif -- perspective, it reflects what we believe in as a country. when we talk about the budget, i also look at the draft of the house and ways and means committee's chairman tax reform plan that has a complete elimination of the state and local tax deduction. that's a proposal that would impose a significant, from my prif, unfair tax increase on millions of families in my home state in new jersey and across a number of high cost states in the country. unfortunately, for the reality of this bill's prospects, experience from the 1986 effort shows that as most tax experts know any serious tax reform effort can't be build on such a shaky foundation. my question, to get a sense from you, in order for tax reform to become a reality, do you think tax writers should take into account the regional impact of any tax change? >> senator menendez, i guess i should start by saying chairman camp deserv

a bouquetking this tossing contest, let me tell me what you know. you are so lucky to have chip. there is a reason that i called him back when i was a young congressman and i had a full head of hair and rugged good looks. he is a straight shooter. we are lucky to have him. thank you for that kind introduction. i think it would be cruel and unusual punishment to give you a big filibuster. 11 you had to rave the elements. -- a lot of you had to brave the elements. i thought i would offer a few thousand particularly well-chosen words. my staff wrote be speech. i can mail it to you. to give you a little bit of a sense of where i think where we are on health policy. suffice it to say most of health policy really is not health policy at all. it is essentially budget policy. ducks on the big put something that washington might be called a patch. maybe it is an extension. maybe it is called a stopgap. the big issue. it repeatedly ducks of the big issues. particularly a medicare when you have 10,000 people eligible for medicare every day. there is a very real costs attached with that. is

today, let me start with you on cia interrogation. the big interrogation report that the committee approved, contained a section senator udall referred to it and discussed representations to the department of justice regarding coercive interrogation. you indicated to me yesterday that you had read the report. based on information in the report, does it appear to you that the cia provided our justice department office of legal counsel with acceptably accurate information about the coercive interrogation program? >> based on my reading of that section of the report, i agree with what the former general counsel said, which was that the information provided fell short of the normal type of information that is provided. >> so the answer would be no. >> yes, i think that is right. >> you have told us that it does not appear to you that the cia divided the justice department with acceptably accurate information, correct? >> yes. >> we talked about this in the office. this is a particular opinion in the office of legal counsel. i have been co

john, let me start with you. if this is where the plane went down, that's a massive detour, and that indicates basically it went down when it ran out of fuel, doesn't it? >> it indicates that as a strong possibility. we've been looking from the last-known position of what's known as the acars system, and they've been able to triangulate that, and this is the most likely scenario, and now what the australians are saying, it's increased the likelihood they found the debris field. >> pete, why is the most likely scenario they came up with? what was it about it? >> well, you look at where it was last known to have flown, and then you say, you know, draw a straight line from there. >> the curvature of the earth? >> right. when it would have run out of fuel. >> and explain what role the fbi has been playing. >> the fbi's role has been limited here, because obviously they have no jurisdiction to go into a foreign country and start knocking on doors. they have to be invited in. the malaysian government she hasn't done th

but let me flip it over. if it turns out they're, in fact, complements either simultaneously or other time, if getting habituated then leads you to be a heavy drink canner later in life, if that's true, are you prepared to reconsider your position that we should legalize cannabis? >> [inaudible] >> okay. the lady in the very back there. >> thank you. good morning. hi name is jasmine tyler, i'm from the open society foundation. i really have appreciated this panel this morning. but one thing that has been missing is the conversation around the cost, the human cost of marijuana prohibition and the, you know, folding in of african-american and that tee know entrepreneurs -- latino entrepreneurs into the corporatization of the new burr with johning marijuana industry. so i wonder if you could talk about that a little, any of the panelists. >> i could talk about the first half of that and say it's important. i think one of the places where i would differ with sue and with a lot of people in this debate is there's

let me just finish. let me just finish. we shouldn't be yelling out let me finish. we don't expect necessarily to see anything more comes from matt. but we have seen so much about the hard evidence. and after all this time, one would expect with all of that hard evidence and private communications that we have access to and we have seen some of which end you have seen more of which we have got to see now because the governor's office decided that we should publish this report. we believe based on that hard evidence that we can make the findings we have and there isn't a shred of hard evidence that the governor did anything other than what he has publicly said that he had no knowledge of the closures before hand and he had no role in the decision to implement it or the implementation of it. >> will there be a waiver of the privileges [inaudible] that they would be disclosed in the underlining report? >> you are getting the reports today hundreds of exhibits. the internal documents that have never been revealed before. they've all been posted online for you to review

let me be clear.a policy of diplomacy and sanctions but at the same time i am convinced that we should only relieve pressure on iran in exchange for verifiable concessions that will dismantle iran's illicit nuclear program. [applause] >> and that we do that in a way that sends alarm bells from vienna to tel aviv to washington should iran started program any time in the next 20 or 30 years and i am here unequivocally to state my intention as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee to make absolutely certain that any deal we may reach with iran is verifiable, is effective and preventive from ever developing even one nuclear weapon. but based on the parameters described in the joint plan of action and all i heard is grieving and recent iranian actions, i am very concerned. this is not a nothing ventured nothing gained enterprise. we have placed our proven effective international sanctions on line without a clear lead defining the parameters of what we expected a final agreement and that is why

but let me say one other thing.e other great aspects of this bill is the increasing medical professionals, nurses, doctors, and others, that will allow young people to go into the medical profession, so there is both an outreach for young people to get covered, and everybody knows, they think that nothing will happen to them. but i think all of the exciting stars and celebrities that are going to be out these in these last two weeks, we're going to at least reach to the heights of meeting not only the deadline, but meeting the numbers that we like. this is not about meeting numbers only, chris, as you well know. it's about helping people, it's about the affordable care act, that has been an anchor in changing the way we get our health care, and making sure that all people are covered, and that we have the kind of ongoing health care that is preventative, that louse people to prevent sickness, by being able to access doctors earlier. that's very important. >> can i say, was that an unintentional or intentional pun, w

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let me go to former ambassador keith.his performance by the malaysian government has been uneven, raggedy at times. do you have a sense of what it is they're most nervous about? all countries would be nervous in a situation like this. what are their fears? >> chris, i think it's clear that they're not practiced and not able to manage this in the spotlight of international scrutiny. they haven't had the experience necessary to pull this off. i don't think there's a conspiracy here. they're not holding back information on the basis of a calculated move. they're just not handling it well from the -- ones heart goes out to the victims and you have to feel for their pain and some of that inflicted unnecessarily by the malaysian government but i don't think it's maliciously so. it's that something something of a wakeup call for the malaysian government that hasn't used the time it's had to increase the transparency and accountability of the government. >>> did you fly malaysian airlines when you were over there on post? did you

>> john, let me ask you this -- >> the russian reset -- >> hold on. let me play something for you. this is from june of 2009. this is president obama's first international speech. listen to what he said and apply that to what's going on right now. listen. >> given our interdependance, any world order that elevates one nation or a group of people over another, will inevitably fail. >> john, let me paraphrase, america is exceptional but they should no longer feel exceptional. we're almost embarrassed for american exceptionalism. john? >> certainly, there's no belief in american exceptionalism, eric, and that's why we've been weak on russia, on iran, al qaeda and it's not just that we look weak, we are weak, and obama has a lot to do with that. >> i have no idea where we gets we're weak on iran when the sanctions have been working. >> we lifted them. >> but have they worked? that's the point. >> how did they work? >> we have in this country no interest in a shooting war with russia. we have got to pull back from where we were two wars that we were sick of. but at the end of the day, a

public comment, let me withdraw that without objection? is there anyone from uber lift, or their representatives from the so-called tncs that we invited several times to this hearing, i am going to give them an opportunity for them to speak is there anyone here that would like to speak? >> then i see none, so let me say that we are going to close public comment. >> thank you. >> colleagues, i know that there may be a couple of other closing comments, but let me be brief. it has been a great learning experience, thank you so much to the drivers and the companies and the disabled advocates and the pedestrian safety and the other advocates that have come out today and this hearing has been focused on insurancing the public's safety and insurancing access, and looking at a new wild west of an industry that is sprouted up without adequate state regulation, and then definitely not enough attention from our local government. and i wanted to say that and i wanted to thank, sophie lou's family for being here mr. dolan and my intent following up wit

chad, let me begin with you. why, first of all, does it take four days for the chinese to say, oh, we spotted this in this place and why are the pictures so bad? >> you have to remember this was a large area and they were probably digesting all that data. the second is they have over the last three years almost doubled the number of satellites they have. our own defense department is estimating they'll launch another hundred by 2015. they may have capabilities they're wishing to mask so they may have taken time to dumbdown their imagery to prevent showing full capabilities. >> you don't want folks in that region or anywhere else knowing you have that technology. >> that's true, but only a handful of actors such as the united states. you think about right now they're trying to attract vast areas of ocean. our satellites that have this electrooptical capability can look at the surface of the water, some that can go below the water to a degree but they'll only pass over that area about ten minutes twice a day, so yo

let me finish--out of all the calls i got.verybody has the reputation i have. >> i thought what i found was a bulldog with a lot of character. >> i have a lot of character. >> and i was wrong. >> don't make me cry. you're making me look like a stupid liar, and i'm not. >> but you lied to me. >> i didn't. when did i lie to you? did you say to me today, "are you trying to buy popone?" did you ask me that? >> how was i supposed to know? you did it behind my back. >> i didn't-- >> how am i supposed to trust you? i mean, i was willing to put in hundreds of thousands of dollars into this... >> marcus. >> and you're asking me to trust you. >> marcus, that email-- >> "i'm trustworthy. i have integrity. i have all these things." >> i absolutely do. >> you did not display it. you did not display it. integrity is the only thing in business. so you can be very wealthy. you can be very smart. but if you don't have your word, you don't have integrity, none of the other stuff's worth a damn thing. sharla, right now, i do not want to do busin

let me go to matthew wald.we're looking at pictures there which are this flight simulator that the pilot used. this is his that he had in his house. what is the significance of this? i understand it's not unprecedented that some pilots do indeed have simulators at home. but should we read anything more sinister into this? >> it means he likes his work. i should say that the people whom the copilot invited into the cockpit were not random. they were mostly pretty girls. that's not unheard of. pilots say that over water flights tend to get boring. i'm not sure what i can read into that. and i'm not sure we should be ready to slander the dead. there may be time to do it later but i'm not sure this is the time. >> but on that particular point -- and listen i accept what you say about the copilot inviting girls. thousand w though i was surprised you can do that anymore. i remember kids going into cockpits years ago. certainly post 9/11 i was amazed you could still do that and adults would go in and out. but let's mo

>> i'm not hearing it now. >> he's not hearing it now. >> let me ask you, barbara if i may. can get chris to hear me. barbara, do you feel that enough is being done? the president's been involved, fee marks the army corps of engineers. do you feel you're getting enough support from local and federal level? >> i think it's great what we're doing. i just think it could have been a little sooner. but that's my personal thought. but i think all the resources are being used. and i appreciate that. and i just wish somebody could tell them where bill is and they could go for him. but that's my -- that's my thought. >> and barbara, for those who don't know bill, describe him to m me. >> he's a very kind man. he can be opinionated. you can tell when he likes someone and loves them, which is me. i don't know what's -- just this very special guy. he is just a true man. and i think he's done a good job of taking care of his family. and this was just a disaster. i figured if anything he was out there helping other people himself if he survives it. >> barbara, it must be an agonizing time

let me begin on a local issue. with our facility in west haven is deficient in serious respects of the inspector general. so that you will work with me to seek remedies that have been documented to be forthcoming and responsive to have resources committed with the west haven facility the next item the good news is you are not a defendant but brought against the secretary of the army and other officials is it is to veterans of the of the and not more one has suffered 40 years from pds steve -- p.t. sd for posttraumatic stress. that was the recognized at the time it died -- not diagnosed and not treated at all those public and private with the understanding and concern with this issue changing his discharge from less than honorable to honorable is not with did your power. it is the authority of the review board of the department of defense. you mentioned after having meetings with secretary haig go with the armed services hearing i believe there is sympathetic to unsupportive i like the commitment he will raise that p

let me go to nia, because you let me go to nia, because you cover general assignment. men's issues too. it just it seems to me that this is the big lie. if they have no evidence that she did anything wrong or commit nod sin of omission, if you will, no failure to meet her resolve to try to save the life of a friend of hers, darrell issa never met chris stevens. . he was a friend and diplomat working for hillary clinton. she cared about the guy. what evidence do they have that she didn't try to save him given the distance and the timing here? >> they don't have any evidence. if you look at the benghazi report that was issued in january, it mentions hillary clinton one time. and that was in terms of republicans talking about their assessment of it. but it does fault the state department. it does fault the state department for not providing a security. it also faults the state department for not communicating adequately with the cia, which also had an outpost there in benghazi. >> talk than night. no, no, nia. i want you to focus on what they're really charging here, i bel

let me just ask mr. dissing had anything to add. >> i want to say that there are wide range of market estimates in terms of the ukrainian financing needs. i don't want to speculate without having facts. the imf will provide that transparency in terms of the transparency. i will say that in their estimate of what the ukraine needs to much of that will depend upon the willingness of the ukrainian authorities to undertake the needed reforms. every indication that we have is that they're willing to make our decisions. i should just add that the imf and the international community have more than enough resources to reprint -- the ukrainian needs. >> any idea, if i can, when we will see that report? is that weeks, days? >> it depends on the speed with which the relevant data can be handed over and analyzed. it does not need to take a long time. >> thank you, sir. i appreciate that. >> let me ask a question just about the brutality against reporters. this is one of the concerns i have about the ability to get t

let me repeat that.rdinates to turn the plane were put into the auto pile low computer at least 12 minutes before they radioed "all right good night" shortly after takeoff. why would someone who put a turn back to kuala lumpur into the auto pilot? it may be the pilot who has extensive experience was being prudent and knows the old school rules of flying, always have a plan in place before an emergency arises or it could also reveal that this was all planned for yet an inexplicable reason. the other big news is that authorities in thailand say they may have radar data from the morning of march 8th that shows the flight 370's flight route. now, when thai officials were asked why 11 days later they are only now releasing the information, a spokesman said because thailand was never asked. the families are now -- the families of the passengers are none too happy about the flow of information in the case some have threatened to go on a hunger strike to demonstrate their hunger and are hoping to reveal official

>> well, let me let me take on lee first. and i mean, that's obviously the two lines of lee that are the government's favorite two lines in lee. but lee starts with a substantial burden inquiry, which is where most of these sincerity questions go. and lee definitely says that there is a sincere religious belief and a substantial burden on religious exercise. so the two sentences that you're quoting come in the compelling interest analysis of the case. and i think lee does stand for the proposition that in the tax context, it's going to be very hard for somebody to bring a claim that satisfies even the demanding compelling interest, least restrictive alternative test. >> well, that's an interesting question, because the briefs on both sides here are written as if the penalty for not having a health insurance policy that covers contraceptives is at issue. these employers could choose not to give health insurance and pay not that high a penalty, not that high a tax. >> well, just to put this in concrete terms, for hobby lobby, f

let me go to former ambassador keith. this performance by the malaysian government has been uneven, raggedy at times. do you have a sense of what it is they're most nervous about? all countries would be nervous in a situation like this. what are their fears? >> chris, i think it's clear that they're not practiced and able to manage this many the spotlight of international scrutiny. they haven't had the experience necessary to pull this off. i don't think there's a conspiracy here. they're not holding back information on the basis of a calculated move. they're just not handling it well from the -- ones heart goes out to the victims and you have to feel for their pain and some of that inflicted unnecessarily by the malaysian government but i don't think it's maliciously so. it's that something something of a wakeup call for the malaysian government that hasn't used the time it's had to increase the transparency and accountability of the government. >>> did you fly malaysian airlines when you were on host? did you rely on th

ambassador let me go to you. what's your thought on this gary kasparov thought that the only people to go after is the oligards. their asset, bank deposits. is that realistic? >> it is. and the think, the people to go after are the people who are making these decisions, that is the government officials, people in the parliament, if there are advisors to mr. putin, then they should go after them, individual sanctions as you say, take away visas so they can't travel to the united states or europe. freeze their assets that they have in europe. and in the united states. go after these kinds of things. these are the individual sanctions. there are broader sanctions one could take against russian banks and that's a broader set of issues. the president could do that. those things are economic and get the attention of decision makers and people advising mr. putin. >> steve, let's continue this line of thinking. your piece also argues economic sanctions not quite the same as kasparov's piece. you talk about wire transfers

redistribution is not. >> let me do this. i'm going to throw this to you and put a picture up here of two different people. we are going to take surfer boy on one side. we are going to take a military guy on the other side. are we now handing over lobster and sushi to surfer dude at the expense of the military guys who, by the way, juan, they have to pay more for tri-care, military health system, more for housing and their pay is being frozen? is that fair? is that the america we want? >> this is so simplistic it is laughable. are you kidding me? even thon thon said our military budget is bloated. we have programs that even the military says that they don't want or need. when it comeso surfer dude, everybody says that guy looks like a bum. he shouldn't be -- we shouldn't be ecouraging him. one out of six americans go to bed hungry and we shouldn't tolerate that in our society. >> if you are taking from one and giving to another it is the same dollar. am i taking a cheap shot at surfer dude? or is this -- these are the numbers

let me ask you another question.atching at home and are thinking, why is the mcconnell campaign going to such great lengths to keep you out? >> well, they are going to great lengths. i'm critical of mcconnell just like i'm critical of just about every politician who's ever been in kentucky. there were even journalists who were critical of mcconnell who were allowed in. it's kind of a mystery to me. i think it's interesting that mitch mcconnell has always portrayed himself a great champion of the first amendment. he was against the flag burning amendment. he's famous for saying that money equals speech. but when it comes to a reporter wanting to enter a press conference and ask him a policy question, apparently the freedom of speech and freedom of the press goes out the door. >> yeah, you say that and also it was a classic political error, because as we mentioned, and maybe this wouldn't be true in sort of a preinternet era, but you were able to catalog it in real time. other reports, both local and national dipping i

let me explain this.mocrats, progressives, so-called liberals see themselves as social redeemers. they don't approach social programs, problems pragmatically looking for ways to improve this situation or that except as a political expedient to get votes. they approach social problems with an eye to changing the world. hillary clinton once told "the new york times" -- and this is a quote -- we have to twine what it means -- define what it means to be human in the 21st century. no republican or conservative in his right mind talks like that. on the eve of his election, barack obama said we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the united states of america. no one in his right mind eventies like that. even thinks like that. unless they are progressives. who believe they are on the side of history. and the more and that the moral arc of the universe is bent towards justice. that phrase is actually woven into a carpet that obama has installed in the oval office. it's his inspiration. lest -- lefti

jonathan, let me propose something. don't think ronald reagan in a mill years would have attacked iraq. he was not an adventurous in foreign policy. he was an anti-communist pure and simple. this crowd has made a bet. this crowd led by sarah palin and ted cruz, that the republican party is still in any way proud of what they did in iraq, their last big foreign policy adventure. i don't think they are proud of it. i think they're quietly embarrassed by it or humiliated or morally embarrassed by the horror of counting 186,000 dead people because of that policy of invading that country. if they're still proud of that war, ted cruz has a chance. if they're quietly embarrassed by this overseas adventurism, put your money on rand paul, because he is betting -- he doesn't say it, they blew it. and they better not blow it again with another country. your thought. >> that's actually a very, very interesting question, taking all those comments from those clips that you showed and others that we've been seeing from cpac all weeken

>> let me start off by thanking you for letting me be on the show. it is a great opportunity to talk about the important work of the federal trade commission. let me explain that we at the federal trade commission had a dual mission which is to protect american consumers and to promote competition. we did that in a couple of different ways. the first i

whether there were certain things that were checked as carefully as they should have been. >> let me ay, it is impossible to try to guess where this is. one thing beginning to wear on me is terrorism, which i thought was probably a prime suspect, it's highly unusual for terrorists to do an act like this and not take credit for it. the whole idea of terrorism is to promote terror. the fact that nobody has come forward after five days makes me a little suspicious whether it was an organized terror attack. >> would we hear yet, though? they could possibly be taking credit for it and no one is telling us they are. >> usually, if you look at these things, they come out right away and somebody takes credit for it. that's the only thing i'm hanging that on. >> they look to verify that to see if there's credibility, because there's also in the interest of promoting terrorism, they like us to feel vulnerable and less safe and secure in our airlines and transportation systems. before they release something like that, they have to check if there's a nexus or connection. >> all it takes is for a

you tempt me. let's have a go at it, huh? come with me into my office. oh, you can have a few minutes break. come back in a quarter of an hour. they better come as well, don't you think? yes, bring them along. now remember, don't be late. you've got a quarter of an hour. is he serious? what's he gonna do? oh, this is utter madness. does he expect to knock up a play in five minutes? yes, like the actors in the old comedia dell'arte. what if he thinks i'm gonna have anything to do with fun and games of that sort-- i should like to know who these people are. and who do you think they're likely to be? they're probably escaped lunatics or crooks. but does he really take what they say seriously? vanity, that's what it is. the vanity of appearing as an author. it's absolutely unheard of. if the professions come to this-- well, i'm rather enjoying it. how are you, my dear? let me tell you something. well, after all, i suppose we shan't have the pleasure of seeing what comes of it all. now come along, ladies and gentlemen. are we all here? yes, sir. let me have y