he was with his friends on the side and he came over to me and he was like maam, how old are you? he saw my rank so he thought i was 22 and i think it was 29 at the time. i said, you know i'm 29. he said you know you look like you were 16. he didn't say it in a negative way. he was just so surprised because they looked so young in uniform. >> host: any instances where they were just downright not very nice? tellis. where is an instance where somebody mistreated you or when you our brain to them. of course it is taboo in the military. you are always checking out rings trying to figure out what your pecking order is. >> guest: i think sometimes maybe not so much anymore but people will try and walk by them and see if they can get away with not saluting. >> host: what do you do? >> guest: you go up to them and say hey i'm an officer in some kind of respect would be nice and you in you correct them and let them know hey, i rate a salute just like any other officer. so i mean there is a culture still of a thing like that but it is a small minority. those aren't your good marines really

paul and let me give you one example if i may, maam. in st. paul back in june of this year we had a symbolic youth summit. we invited people from throughout the twin city area to come to the summit, learn about a different topic. we had speakers from washington d.c. here, the department of homeland security, our fbi, u.s. attorney b. todd jones that he just mentioned and imams who brought people from their mosques to come to this youth summit. this is the second one we have held. we had one in january and one in jenin you would be surprised how many of people, and how many imams come. we are very engaged, so i don't see a problem with that specifically in st. paul. again, there are differences between our two cities even though we are one foot step away on the highway and the street. >> it is my understanding bed your police officers seem to have bought soccer shirts and have worked with the youth in your community, the somali youth in particular to ensure you have a better relationship with that community. is that not correct? >> that is abso

>> yes, maam. of course the overarching challenge with pipelines is they are so geographically diverse and there's so much asset to protect. what it necessitates from the beginning is prioritizing those for civility set are most critical to you. tsa does a pretty prescriptive process by which operators are to determine but ultimately the operator knows or should know what is most at risk and so forth so it against with prioritizing those things. their systems and the like can be applied effectively. across miles and miles of pipeline it is very difficult. there are-somethings working in our favor. for instance because of the d.o.t. and epa requirements about monitoring we do have in our case at colonial we have aircraft that fly continuously. those folks are well aware of the security implications and they know to report abnormalities and so forth. we still consider our greatest risk to be a third party with a big piece of yellow iron digging a water well or some kind of trenching that is outside o

>> well maam, it depends on how long the firearms state in the area. for instance many of the transactions here, the firearms levered left the phoenix area and the battery life up a tracker is only good depending. >> so the phoenix area, what could you charge the so-called trafficker? this law-abiding citizen who doesn't have a record but he is buying many many guns. what could you charge him? >> there is nothing to charge him with at that moment. we have to prove a violation has existed and has occurred. >> i just want to say, to sit in in the hearing a hearing in here people beat up on the atf is very very interesting to me. use it in our congress where the gun lobby's are you for the congress of the united states. on the republican side of the aisle they are totally controlled and on my side of the aisle they virtually control them. and the second 2nd amendment is cited as you try to do your job to keep guns from essentially bringing down the government of an ally. but when it comes to mexico let me ask you what kind of gun control laws does mexico

>> yes, maam. i do. >> what has concerned me deeply not only on this committee but the financial services committee on which i serve is the number of questions against you, because people have asked you for advice. i thought the freedom of speech was in our constitution and a fundamental right for our country. you have been described as a leading consumer specialists, adviser. is it unusual for, well you are an adviser to the president now and to sacred terry geithner but is it unusual for other members of government and congress members, the a.g., state city councilmembers, other professord captains of industry or managers of energies come as it unusual for them to call you a nasty for advice advice? >> congresswoman, i have been giving advice for a very long time. i hope it has been valuable, but i have always been willing to answer and have always been willing to talk to people. >> you don't have a vote on anything right now. you are just basically putting in place an agency that the president h

>> yes, maam. of course the overarching challenge with pipelines is they are so geographically diverse and there's so much asset to protect. what it necessitates from the beginning is prioritizing those for civility set are most critical to you. tsa does a pretty prescriptive process by which operators are to determine but ultimately the operator knows or should know what is most at risk and so forth so it against with prioritizing those things. their systems and the like can be applied effectively. across miles and miles of pipeline it is very difficult. there are-somethings working in our favor. for instance because of the d.o.t. and epa requirements about monitoring we do have in our case at colonial we have aircraft that fly continuously. those folks are well aware of the security implications and they know to report abnormalities and so forth. we still consider our greatest risk to be a third party with a big piece of yellow iron digging a water well or some kind of trenching that is outside o

>> well maam, importing the strategy together for this case the strategy came from several places. the department adjusted originated a draft in january 2010 about how to combat southwest border drug trafficking by mexican drug cartels and one of them dealt with firearms trafficking that said three tzipi located strike forces a mere interdiction is not the answer. you have to go after the structure and the organization of whatever it be, firearms, human drug trafficking to make the biggest impact. >> and who would that memo have come from? >> i do believe that memo came down from the deputy attorney general's office. >> and then, so now we are going to change the strategy. it is going to be a different way to conduct an operation. so you get your directives from them and these groups you talk about, you sat down and it came up with a plan noted that plan come from. >> the plan figured into come or the memo figured into how we were going to address when we first looked at it in november 2009 was already a prolific firearms trafficking organization. in my 23 years we have never seen

>> well maam, it depends on how long the firearms state in the area.nstance many of the transactions here, the firearms levered left the phoenix area and the battery life up a tracker is only good depending. >> so the phoenix area, what could you charge the so-called trafficker? this law-abiding citizen who doesn't have a record but he is buying many many guns. what could you charge him? >> there is nothing to charge him with at that moment. we have to prove a violation has existed and has occurred. >> i just want to say, to sit in in the hearing a hearing in here people beat up on the atf is very very interesting to me. use it in our congress where the gun lobby's are you for the congress of the united states. on the republican side of the aisle they are totally controlled and on my side of the aisle they virtually control them. and the second 2nd amendment is cited as you try to do your job to keep guns from essentially bringing down the government of an ally. but when it comes to mexico let me ask you what kind of gun control laws does mexico have?

>> yes, maam.es from the beginning is prioritizing those for civility set are most critical to you. tsa does a pretty prescriptive process by which operators are to determine but ultimately the operator knows or should know what is most at risk and so forth so it against with prioritizing those things. their systems and the like can be applied effectively. across miles and miles of pipeline it is very difficult. there are-somethings working in our favor. for instance because of the d.o.t. and epa requirements about monitoring we do have in our case at colonial we have aircraft that fly continuously. those folks are well aware of the security implications and they know to report abnormalities and so forth. we still consider our greatest risk to be a third party with a big piece of yellow iron digging a water well or some kind of trenching that is outside of our company. a sickly a third party is our greatest risk but it has the added effect of monitoring for surreptitious activity. if someone was ou

. >> yes maam. how do you feel about people giving a ownership to harlem now saying that the neighborhood is being taken over? do you feel that we should go back downtown where we were originally from? in tribeca? [laughter] i am from harlem by the way. >> i think you should buy property wherever you can basically. so i wrote a little article that is supposed to come out in "the daily beast" and they have been promising it for months and it hasn't. and it is titled something like what is black new york? and the point that i make there is harlem as we know it, i.e. of the first half of the 20th century, has created its own myth of black people living in a really very dense segregated area where they have lived and worked and play together, community institutions and so forth and get there for that and now i have to say now, blacks are spread all over the city. harlem is becoming more integrated, which is what it was, not before, but which lower manhattan was before and populations like in brooklyn, a

. >> maam, go ahead. >> i am an educator here in baltimore. my question is very similar to the gentleman who stood before us, before me rather. i just want to preface my question with the following. on the way over here my children and i took delight rail and we saw about five young black males, teenagers being questioned by the police, the mta police. that is the transit release, and what bothered me is that four of them were let go but they had one sitting on the ground and he was told to keep his hands behind his back. he actually at the point of being asked to stand up, stood up without any kind of smugness and he followed all of their you know, come in so to speak. raise your hand, but may frisk you and all of that kind of thing. i say all of that to say that i'm one who totally embraces alex haley's interpretation of malcolm x's life. i say that as one who has not read mr. manning's book on malcolm x but i fully intend to. but i just ask scholars and teachers what is the message that this current work, what is the message that this curre

maam?> all i can say is, because i'm not an expert in that aspect is i know there are some -- care. i do not know how they decide when it goes to fee-based care or not. >> okay. >> i am shooting a back to you, paul. >> when you are in the fight and you need ammo you put your hand back and you get ammo. these folks these folks were out in the site. they need immediate care and whether or not it's a contract is like d.c. talk to folks in the field. they want to know who can i call right now they can help me? i think whatever it takes to creative delivered at that point of impact is what we need to come up with. >> that is my perspective. a think having people that need the knee or hip replacement that are on a list for two years is not a good way to run a ship and i understand the problem with recruitment and rural america and the private sector and the public sector both. so it is really important. i time is run out long pass. i want to thank you all for your testimony and appreciate your pe