annie erner, lieberman's high school teammate says lieberman didn't even let a broken rib delay her. >> she was told by the coach, "watch out, you're going to make the 1980 olympics. we want you to keep working at your game." and she said, "1980 olympics. i'm not making the 1980 olympics. i'm making the 1976 olympics. you watch." that's what she told the coach. and she ended up making the next national team tryout. and, of course, she played on the 1976 usa olympic team which won the silver medal. >> rick: at age 18, lieberman was the youngest basketball player ever to be an olympic medalist. also on the team-- legendary player-coach pat summitt. she says the montreal olympics transformed both of them. >> oh, i think the olympic experience was tremendous for us. because it will test your mentality, it will test your focus and your toughness and your togetherness as a team. you know, i think there's no substitute to being together with a team-- a great team that's on a mission. >> rick: more than a hundred colleges tried to recruit lieberman. but she made a surprise choice-- old domin

. >> thank you, senator mccain and senator lieberman. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you, mr. mullen. i suspect that you believe that the right thing has been done with respect to going in to the no-fly zone and for humanitarian reasons and to say that this is our way of supportive of the democratic rup democratic upriding in the arab world so in that way i agree with president obama. i also agree with president obama, it is unacceptable for our involvement to end with gadhafi still in power. with that sense, i agree with you, mr. secretary, a stalemate is not an acceptable resolution of all of this. our application of arab power has been having a significant effect. you have saved the people of benghazi from a humanitarian disaster and we opened the way for the opposition to gadhafi to move forward militarily, but the last few days have been me ask matter of fact, following up on what senator mccain said, do you feel confident, mr. secretary, that nato's assumption of the responsibility for enforcement of the no-fly zone and protection of the civi

people that we need to help the people of syria that's that your partner see in the nonsense and lieberman for example from israel has said the same thing we need to apply the same standards in syria as we have in libya but the truth is the national endowment for democracy in state government has provided over fifty million dollars in funding into governments places like syria in the last years to create a movement to unseat or provide more what we call democracy to make it possible for our interests to be better served to these places i think it is so interesting because you're talking about you know the standards but i think for me that there there aren't any actual you know guidelines laid out for foreign policy when it comes you know to the pro-democracy movement sweeping across the middle east middle east and north africa president obama said in his speech last month you know we simply can't help everyone but what do you think needs to be sort of defined here i think we need to make clear that these are ca back to mossad back to tell to inspect operatives covert forces involved in cre

. >> thank you, senator mccain and senator lieberman. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you, mr. mullen. i suspect that you believe that the right thing has been done with respect to going in to the no-fly zone and for humanitarian reasons and to say that this is our way of supportive of the democratic rup democratic upriding in the arab world so in that way i agree with president obama. i also agree with president obama, it is unacceptable for our involvement to end with gadhafi still in power. with that sense, i agree with you, mr. secretary, a stalemate is not an acceptable resolution of all of this. our application of arab power has been having a significant effect. you have saved the people of benghazi from a humanitarian disaster and we opened the way for the opposition to gadhafi to move forward militarily, but the last few days have been me ask matter of fact, following up on what senator mccain said, do you feel confident, mr. secretary, that nato's assumption of the responsibility for enforcement of the no-fly zone and protection of the civi

. >> smith: senator john warner had drafted legislation, along with senator joe lieberman, to mandatea 60% cut in greenhouse gases by mid-century. >> well, we have a prodigious task. >> smith: and while how the industry does that is unclear, the bill's authors are betting on it. is there a future for coal? >> there's got to be a future for coal in the us. it's too important to us. and again, i think once you create this law, this mandate, the coal industry and a lot of others are going to figure out how to use coal and not pollute the air. >> in the marshlands of central florida, there's not much activity for people. >> smith: to make the case for clean coal, the industry likes to point to a power plant outside tampa, florida, known as polk one. ge made a short film about it. >> with the help of ge's advanced cleaner coal technology, tampa electric is converting coal into a cleaner burning fuel. >> smith: we went down for a visit. mark hornick is the plant's manager. >> this is the top floor of the gasifier. we call it the burner deck. >> smith: the plant touts a process known in the

lieberman will have a a chance o argue his case at a final hearing before a decision is taken. the president of belarus has announced that three suspects had confessed to the bombing of the minsk subway station. he also said that the worst attack in the country's history had been solved all of a motive remains unclear. >> people are still in shock. many have come to the mattress station to express their grief. at least 12 people died when the bomb went off during the evening rush hour. investigors arrested two suspects. on wednesday, and the president announced that the case had been solved. >> they made their confessions at 5:00 this morning. the most important thing is that we now know who carried out this terrorist attack. we do not net k know their motie but we will soon find out. -- we do not yet know their motive. >> this has shaken the confidence and the president to guarantee stability and security. the opposition fear the authorities will use the attack as an excuse to crack down on them. the president has ordered the interrogation of opposition figures in connection w

in pro basketball, the glass ceiling for women is being shattered again by the amazing nancy lieberman. join me on n.b.r.'s "women in leadership" special to learn more about nancy and her tremendous career. >> susie: the battle of the bratz is over, and the winner is not mattel. a federal jury says mga entertainment owns the rights to the popular line of dolls. the verdict came after a three- month trial over copyright infringement, and a dispute that's lasted a decade over who owns the drawings on which the dolls were based. at their height, the bratz raked in more than a billion dollars in revenue for mga. mattel had claimed it lost $300 million in profits. >> tom: amazon.com's cloud computing systems went dark overnight, and continue to have problems throughout today. the trouble happened with amazon's computer servers that host web sites for other companies. social network foursquare was among those taken down during the outage. the amazon service allows companies to store data and run software without having to own the technology themselves. >> tom: stocks and metal prices continu

. >> thank you, senator mccain and senator lieberman. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you, mr. mullen. i suspect that you believe that the right thing has been done with respect to going in to the no-fly zone and for humanitarian reasons and to say that this is our way of supportive of the democratic rup democratic upriding in the arab world so in that way i agree with president obama. i also agree with president obama, it is unacceptable for our involvement to end with gadhafi still in power. with that sense, i agree with you, mr. secretary, a stalemate is not an acceptable resolution of all of this. our application of arab power has been having a significant effect. you have saved the people of benghazi from a humanitarian disaster and we opened the way for the opposition to gadhafi to move forward militarily, but the last few days have been me ask matter of fact, following up on what senator mccain said, do you feel confident, mr. secretary, that nato's assumption of the responsibility for enforcement of the no-fly zone and protection of the civi

someone like mahmoud abbas still couldn't find common ground with benjamin netanyahu a very good or a lieberman and many others because this has made it very clear not only they don't want negotiated peace and they don't want a settlement that abides by international law they are doing their own thing and they are not abashed at all by doing it the fervent build up in is drusilla i'm the settlement freeze that this book about last year has all been made up for and there is more under construction throughout the west bank illegal settlements and then in any other years in the last five years and that's according to peace now which is an israeli organization so the israelis have given no indications whatsoever that they are keenly interested in peace they want to get back to the so-called negotiating table in order for them to win more time to build more settlements and to achieve whatever strategic and colonial gains they have in the west bank it's very difficult even for someone as amiable as mahmoud abbas to really carry on with this show right for too long and this is a problem this is why he

and senator lieberman that libya is going to be divided it's probably three different states and i'm going to paraphrase one based around tripoli and its environs and no one in benghazi and its environs in another and he said it's going to be similar to libya before the monarchy was established when it was three different semi autonomous areas so they're breaking libya up just like they broke you can slavia interesting of your thoughts in the program of money various nasm roy from the center for research and globalization of sale on the line from ottawa canada tonight thank you . well still to come for you this business behind bars we look at our foreign investor oh the hundred million dollars by the georgian government ended up in jail . it's almost fifty years since mankind's first journey into space we bring you all the latest on preparations for a special verse of in-flight. japan now that it's facing a grim prospect of said rule months in controlled uncontrolled radiation leakage officials have said radioactive water continues to escape into the ocean from a crack in the fukushi

work correspondent kid harmon snow in williamsburg massachusetts he gave me his thoughts on mccain lieberman and senator lindsey graham's comments today well that's a bunch of interesting propaganda from those three guys it's important to note that they're backed by the center for security policy these guys the center for security policy is the most right wing terrorist organization in the united states very very secretive all kinds of defense and intelligence apparatus. so that they they're doing it in at the center of the security policy so there's a program behind this which has to do with unsealing different governments around the world to serve american interests and libya for example was a mistake but you're an illustration that it's going to get worse and i think they're leaning towards doing exactly the same thing in syria syria is in the big producer of raw materials the united states but it does have oil and it's been producing oil which involves american canadian british and other oil companies in the last few years and it's a kid's player in the region with respect to maintain a

petraeus in this role well to trace is only highly thought of by people like john mccain and joe lieberman he's the neo-cons guy i mean he's a he's a war hawk he he was responsible for the surges in iraq in afghanistan some people . say that resulted in a lot more u.s. military deaths as well as civilian deaths so what we have with petraeus is yet another military person after bush put general michael hayden over at the cia after he was deputy director of national intelligence and n.s.a. director at the cia as a civilian institution and this is yet another move to militarize the key u.s. intelligence agency and many people at langley would look very of scans at that i would point out that the president want to militarize the civilian institution well i you know it goes back to where and when bush put hayden over there hayden was actually walking around the cia in his uniform and and it was it was gates who actually told him you know you should really take off the uniform and retired from the air force now what happened traders at the cia i guess we'll have to see whether he's going to be w

guest: i think senators mccain and lieberman would be surprised to see me in the same camp as them. what i said was if you're going to do it, don't let the united states bear the full costs. i think that's the saying that people like ron paul and rand paul, congressman and the senator, saying if you are going in, this is -- this is very unusual. i think we're making a transition from super power to super partner. given we've got a lot of these problems and we don't want to build an american empire. if we're going to do this, i think basically we need not to carry the whole burden. i mean, if you look at what we spend for example in iraq, we spent close to $1 trillion. nobody else spends much near that. in kosovo we had 75% of the costs of that. basically, i think the model in this, i mean, i think we'll have less than 50% of the overall cost. host: you mentioned that the defense secretary gates and earlier at a hearing this week he was asked about the application of the war powers resolution. there was an interchange with randy forbes from virginia about this. i want to get your rea

people who most want to start these wars in the first place which are lindsey graham john mccain joe lieberman the three musketeers those three people are as much. enemies of free speech in this country as we've had in the united states senate they understand that there is an essential tension between the prosecution of the war which is the most liberal thing you can do is governments and the virtue of free speech which is the cornerstone. of liberal societies we don't i'm happy to bring up some of those contradictions of those hypocritical statements that people like lindsey graham also say you know that this puts american troops in danger but they don't mention the fact that yes the guantanamo bay also puts american troops in danger that muslim countries that they continue to want to bomb also put american troops in danger they just somehow don't really put two and two together but you know i also want to talk about the fact that you know we mentioned now this is become an endless war on terror how many ways have our civil liberties and our free speech been eroded since then how about things

two thousand and nine john mccain along with other war hawks in the senate lindsey graham and joe lieberman they all made a trip to tripoli to visit it off and they discussed the possibility of the american military sending equipment to put off a mccain said a news conference at the time the ties between the united states and libya have taken a remarkable and positive turn in recent years. so i guess those relations between the u.s. and libya have now taken a remarkable turn against senator mccain so this time it off he no longer provides you with a political purpose now coincidentally as we told you earlier mccain's visit comes just one day after president obama signed off on using armed predator drones in libya against it off its forces but obama's approval gives the military the power to use two on manned aircraft around the clock in urban areas in libya and the u.s. military tried to launch them on thursday but weather issues force them back it's just another slap in the face from obama to his anti-war base something that i personally have come to expect these days so would john mccain

off with what we're seeing here in washington three senators just today senators john mccain joe lieberman and lindsey graham issued a joint statement they said what's happening in syria has reached a decisive point they said by following the path of gadhafi and deploying military forces to crush peaceful demonstrations all assad and those loyal to him have lost the legitimacy to remain in power in syria but senators said we urge the president to state unequivocally as he did in the case of gadhafi and hosni mubarak that it is time for syrian president bashir al assad to go so i'm wondering what you think about this i mean do you think there's any way that syria would be the next libya. i think that's very much what it appears to be and we can see that actually from john mccain who is on the board of the international republican institute and the new york times just calmly admitted in mid april that the international republican institute is one of the organizations that has been funding these so-called spontaneous grassroots uprisings in the arab spring so he obviously has a vested interes

politicians obama is being obviously rather silent on this in terms of the john mccain's and joe lieberman's and lindsey graham says the blank is always to be. normal are more i mean who am i trying to convince here do you think the american people are actually convinced when they sit at home on sunday morning and watch these these news shows or is are they going to think themselves the salt political moments thinking john mccain lindsey graham is not thinking they're all trying to score political points there may be half a dozen people on both sides of the aisle democrats and republicans who are actually thinking and their thinking is drowned out by the rest of them who are trying to make political points out of their little point that we're talking about with with defense contractors with the military grants political points right now there are even more per go on than that they're trying to make points against the president or for the president because this is the political season already we're trying to line up and have a campaign two years out and these are points that they're trying to

law firm of greenberg and lieberman was a co-founder of the modern whig party and is now prosecuting high value terrorism and war crimes suspects being held at guantanamo bay cuba. captain ord can still call you knight thank you so much for joining us tonight it's great to be here adam thank you very much i'm sure you can remember back to the job you had when you were working for me so what a years ago and it's a bit of a contrast to what you're doing now before we get into that i want to play a clip for our viewers you're in marks at a press conference we had here in washington before taking off for that trial in kansas city so let's roll that. they support. the first of a number of these are the military. political speech and they are civilians they need to draw a line in the sand in order to protect the first amendment rights of others take over right the sense of our. free speech rights recently better than. those in the united states. so that was some years ago we kind of wrestled that particular case to a tie i was able to keep my benefits what are the implications of that now

. >> i assure you once again for the benefit of senator lieberman and i point out the decisive role of submarines in conducting the operation. >> senator lieberman will be happy to here there are submarines involved in this. they are part of the nato force that are doing the armed embargo, and are a stated requirement. >> and also are delivering land attack missiles? >> indeed, they are. 196 of them from key west submarines, for example. >> thank you. we had the opportunity, i want to open this up to general kehler also, to talk about the emerging cyber dimension in warfare, and our lack of preparedness, senator mccain referred to it in his comments also. from your perspective as the nato commanders and strategic command general, can you do the general comments? >> thank you, sir. from a nato perspective, because that'll be different than what bob will talk about. from a nato perspective, we're very aware of this. it's part of the strategic concept that just came out. nato has two organization that is focus on this. one is the nato cyber defense center in appropriately inist -- a natio

through the stem master teacher corps act, which has been cosponsored by my colleagues, senator lieberman and shaheen. we have been hearing concern about the state of stem education in our country for over a decade now. in 2000, a 25-member commission headed by former senator john glenn published a report called "before it's too late" which addressed the pressing need for high-quality math and science teaching. five years later, another report, "rising above the gathering storm," presented the findings and recommendations of a national academies commission chaired by former lockheed martin c.e.o. norm augustine concerning the deterioration of stem education and basic research. last year, a follow-up report dramatically titled "rapidly approaching category five hurricane," warned us that the -- quote -- "gathering storm is now threatening to wipe out u.s. leadership in global science and technology if we don't act fast, and it said so with good reason. according to the bureau of labor statistics, nearly every one of the 30 fastest growing professions require stem skills. these include jobs

let my carry on what senator lieberman was saying. i was going to approach it from a different perspective. back from the '90s, it was actually jim jones at the time was talking about the reduction of our presence, our installations, our personnel in western europe. at that time, one the reasons was with the, and this is particularly true in germany with a lot of the problems that were existing at that time, the environmental movement, there were somewhat restricted. and what our capabilities were going to be in terms of how many hours we can

lieberman: i thank the chair and i thank my friend from california. one might say in the context of the debates going on in congress now that senator blumenthal and i have come to the floor of the u.s. senate to talk about a governmental program that really works, that has inspired an entire state, perhaps a nation, and i speak, of course, of the university of connecticut basketball program. madam president, it's with great joy that i come to the floor of the senate today to congratulate the university of connecticut's men's basketball team and their great coach jim calhoun on winning the ncaa championship last night. this has been a remarkable season. it -- a team that started unranked, a young team in a year that was supposed to be a rebuilding year just came together in a magical way. they had their ups in the season early, they had their downs as time went on, but the run that began with the big east tournament a few weeks ago has for our state and i think anybody who follows and loves college basketball really been inspirational. i do want to say

so, you know, to prosecute anyone connected to wikileaks is joe lieberman. i just don't think this change will come, it will come from congress. they appear actually much more aggressive here than the government itself. and they are the ones who are accusing the department of justice of a very wicked action to assange. so i think if anything the change will come probably and the pressure will come from some of the hits that are not part of the companies. i mean, there are still a lot of very influential people in silicon valley who are concerned with the direction we should be going. many of them are speaking out. i don't know if the pressure of society will be enough. as was cited a few years ago, i mean, all it will take for the rest to pass it is an i-911 and i don't think that changed for the better. if anything it was changed for the worse, you know, so my response is, you know, we have as much power we have as we are to shape the patriot act so i'm not -- but i also don't think there is much pressure that you can expect to come from a vote. it's not, y

lee lieberman with the federalist society. >> hi.i was wondering what kind of reaction you've been getting from people in these law schools to the book. [laughter] >> um, i just began touring on it a few weeks ago, and so i have been to, i believe, indiana, illinois and minnesota so far. and the response has been wonderful. now, maybe it's self-selecting. maybe the ones who hate my guts wouldn't be seen dead in the same room. but the faculty very often agrees with much more than we might expect of the, both the critique and the possible ways of improving things. the students, maybe they're mistaking my talks for talks about the general law school crisis of why it's so hard for them to find jobs, but for whatever reason, they've been showing up in larger numbers than when i, than what i expected. and i mentioned that we're at a moment economically where people are ripe for rethinking things. there is a lot of doubt as to exactly how they will be rethought. possibly, the ranking system will get shaken up because of the inspired law fir

as senator lieberman has indicated, the intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act of 2004, which we offered, did do much to improve the management and performance of our intelligence homeland security and law enforcement agency. this most sweeping reform of the nation's intelligence community suggests after world war ii would not have happened without the leadership of our witnesses and the efficacy of the families of victims. the resulting increased collaboration and information sharing has helped our nation prevent numerous attacks, and there have been on told successes, and many cases the intelligence community and law enforcement have quietly connected the botts and thwarted plots. in other cases, alert citizens have reported suspicious behavior to the authorities just in time. challenges still remain, however. we continue to see troubling examples of the pre-september 11 stovepiped combined set from some of our intelligence and law and for some officers. for example, as documented in the kennedy's recent report, on the fort hood attacked, the army and the fbi collectively ha

as senator lieberman has indicated, the intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act of 2004, whicherformance of our intelligence homeland security and law enforcement agency. this most sweeping reform of the nation's intelligence community suggests after world war ii would not have happened without the leadership of our witnesses and the efficacy of the families of victims. the resulting increased collaboration and information sharing has helped our nation prevent numerous attacks, and there have been on told successes, and many cases the intelligence community and law enforcement have quietly connected the botts and thwarted plots. in other cases, alert citizens have reported suspicious behavior to the authorities just in time. challenges still remain, however. we continue to see troubling examples of the pre-september 11 stovepiped combined set from some of our intelligence and law and for some officers. for example, as documented in the kennedy's recent report, on the fort hood attacked, the army and the fbi collectively had ample information to major hasan's connection to a rad

this morning, here is the headline -- joe lieberman, lindsay gramm ", white house to break publicly with syrian president and to impose sanctions against members of this government. let's go to mclean, virginia. ben is a republican there. caller: i have a question for mr. andrew tabler were a suny- dominated government to take place -- power in syria following a possible fall of the president assad regime, what would be your prediction for the stability of the country? some people are saying there might be a lot of violence, revenged violence winter at what is your thinking? host: before it will show you that, let me -- before you answer that, let me show the breakdown. guest: it all depends on what the fall of the regime would look like. the president assad regime is about fall% of the population, and those around them are israelis, and jews, christians, and they all make up about plot% of the population. -- 12% of the population. the regime cracking as it did in egypt and tunisia is not likely because the fellow whites and the other minorities feel like they're backs are against the wa

he was corrected by joe lieberman in an interview that there were holding. the other thing is, the john mccain visit, who is he representing? if he is representing himself as an individual, it does not have a lot of meaning. he is still fighting the vietnam war, i believe. i'm about his age or so. we backed the chaean fight -- chadean fight with gaddafi which they won. with that in mind, i don't know what to make of john mccain's visit. i don't know who he is representing. host: thanks for the call. we now have laila fidel who is with "the washington post." we are talking to her this morning by telephone and she is in mizrata, libya. from the last caller who asked john mccain was representing. is he over there as a private citizen or a representative of the u.s. government? from your reporting as the cairo bureau chief and the co- author of this article, who was representing? guest: i don't think he was representing the american government. i think he was representing himself. he said his piece about the opposition but i don't believe it represents the line

i mean, senator -- mccain, senator lieberman, i agree that support this mission. i mean, we're all in support of the mission. so if there is an effort at an authorization resolution, hopefully we can come together on that if there is such an authorization. there's a lot of language which would have to be viewed, and need to be set aside in a significant amount of time in the senate for that, and it may be to some extent overtaken by the event of the handoff to nato and the reduction of our presence. so that it may take way less of the >> we are going live now to the longworth building on capitol hill and the house ways and sub committee on health is what is holding a joint hearing on aarp's tax-exempt status. structure and financial growth over the next -- over the last decade. according to a new republican ways and means republican report, aarp can make as much as $1 billion from the new health care law that it supported. aarp is the largest organization representing seniors. there's a story related to this in "roll call" from a day or so ago. republicans have la

just last week the committee on homeland security on the senate side, senator lieberman's committee,asked my county judge to come up and give testimony. so she was a. no, and, in fact, made a number of points that i want to reinforce here this morning. first of all, i represent the safest city in the united states of over 500,000 people or more. it's interesting to note that five of our border cities, to include the two largest one, el paso and san diego, and mcallen, laredo and tucson, are, in fact, on the top 10 list of safest city in the country. the reason i mention that is because oftentimes the rhetoric does not match what we are experiencing, those of us that live on the border. the border is not a lawless region. the border is not an area that is out of control. i can't say enough about the work that the border patrol is doing. i can't say enough about the cooperation that exists to make sure that border communities are secure. feel secure, and our job is to make sure that the facts come out. so when we talk about the border region, i would strongly recommend that you do a se

last congress i issued a report that documented how the kerry-lieberman climate legislation would impose a $3.6 trillion gas tax on the american people. using the data from e.p.a. and the energy information administration, we calculated that climate legislation would impose a $2 trillion gasoline tax, a $1.3 trillion diesel tax, and a $330 billion jet fuel tax. according to the e.p.a. and the senior obama administration officials, regulations would be evening worse than legislation. that was one of the main arguments they used in support of climate legislation, that the regulations would be even worse than cap-and-trade legislation. but, that's exactly what we're getting with the e.p.a., now trying to regulate what we could not pass in the legislature for good reason. the baucus amendment could shield small business and farmers from e.p.a. permit requirements, but it codifies the requirements for energy and fuel produce,meaning everyone in america will still pay higher energy prices. the stabenow and rockefeller amendments only delay the higher energy costs and job losses for two years.

last week, the committee on homeland security on the senate side, senator lieberman's committee, asked my county judge to give testimony. she was up here, and made a number of points i want to reinforce here this morning. first of all, i represent the safest city in the united states of over 500,000 people or more. it is interesting to note that five of our border cities, which include the two largest, el paso and san diego, and laredo and tucson, are on the top-10 list of safest cities in the country. the reason i mention that is because oftentimes, the rhetoric does not match what we are experiencing, those of us who live on the border. the border is not a lawless region. the border is not an area that is out of control. i cannot say enough about the work that the border patrol is doing. i cannot say enough about the cooperation that exists to make sure that border communities are secure, feels secure, and our job is to make sure the facts come out. when we talk about the border region, i would strongly recommend that you do a series of hearings. in particular, may be in those cities

last week, the committee on homeland security on the senate side, senator lieberman's committee, askedo give testimony. she was up here, and made a number of points i want to reinforce here this morning. first of all, i represent the safest city in the united states of over 500,000 people or more. it is interesting to note that five of our border cities, which include the two largest, el paso and san diego, and laredo and tucson, are on the top-10 list of safest cities in the country. the reason i mention that is because oftentimes, the rhetoric does not match what we are experiencing, those of us who live on the border. the border is not a lawless region. the border is not an area that is out of control. i cannot say enough about the work that the border patrol is doing. i cannot say enough about the cooperation that exists to make sure that border communities are secure, feels secure, and our job is to make sure the facts come out. when we talk about the border region, i would strongly recommend that you do a series of hearings. in particular, may be in those cities on the safest cit

lieberman: i thank the chair. madam president, it's coincidental but my remarks follow in a logical path from those of my friend and colleague from texas, particularly with regard to the questions, thoughtful questions he raised about syria, because i've come to the floor to speak about the historic and extraordinary events that are taking place in syria where for the past three weeks the syrian people have been peacefully and courageously taking to the streets of their cities. and i want to talk particularly about what may happen in syria in the next 24 hours. what's happening in syria is part of a broader story that's unfolding across the middle east, a democratic awakening in which millions of ordinary people are rising up against corrupt autocratic regimes that have ruled the region and suppressed these people for decades. but the strategic stakes in syria are among the highest anywhere in the region. in fact i'd say what happens in syria in the coming days will have far-reaching consequences for the future of