. >> i'm here with my husband mica. i too want to underscore my support for the phase one budget for the transit center.

. >> i'm here with my husband mica. i too want to underscore my support for the phase one budget for the transit center. we worked to find new and relative ways to communicate our values to the subcontractors . calcon is proud to be the owners. thank you for understanding how important to the bay area as a whole. although i know that this is a regional project thank you for outreaching and encourages local firms to compete for these types of opportunities is very much appreciated. i apologize we're actually going to lose members of this board and ideally we would have the entire board for the vote and that's why we're having a conversation about public comments. i think we have to take public comment before the vote happens so i guess i could just ask if folks could be brief with their comments but please make the comments you want to make but if you feel like your comments have been said before please please be brief. >> i'm sorry there's a number of people in line. >> calling members

there is a bankruptcy that mica might go for it might not how does a deal leveraging in detroit fit into your paradigm well very different because local governments and state governments are not only constitutionally bond from doing the type of fiscal policies that states can do when you start to compare houses and families and firms and ultimately countries you're not comparing like with like for a country particularly a large country what you are spending as an outcome of policy as much as a constraint a family can't import new members into the family intox them in debt in the name for three generations countries can do this mean a simple bankruptcies are small localized events governments don't go bankrupt for the simple reason that so long as they can tax intergenerational they can block their bonds detroit can't do the well in certainly greece has a similar constraint they can issue debt to an extent but they can't control the printing of their own currency so would you be for a unification for instance in europe of fiscal to unite the monetary policy as well well that would make se

down expose is a leadership vacuum there are now 15 empty slots and homeland security senator john mica says now is a good time for congress to consider to dismantle hamas security to replace it with the smaller focused entity that is realistically capable to connect the dots of threats posed to national security. joining us now the former head and former governor of pennsylvania, a tom ridge. >> my pleasure. lou: here are presiding over a monster is entity. what are your reactions to his statement? >> i respect the congressman's public-service in his senate great deal of good work i think h is ong when it comes to the department it was a bold aggravation of over 20 departments but the real challenge i believe has more to do with congress than the department. the secretary continues to report to almost 100 committees and subcommittees at the end of th day there is no smaller group in the house are the senate that can continue to work with or communicate or collaborate to make it the most effective organization possible and nobody wants t give up jurisdiction. everybody runs to the hill

mica. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let go back to the identification that are used for entry at the border, either of you gentleman, mr. fisher, mr. murphy, are you familiar with any technical of the boards that approve the credentials that are used for crossing the border, mr. fisher? >> i am not, no. >> and mr. murphy? >> no , sir. >> is this why it's so difficult to conduct this hearing without someone responsible from dhs who can answer these questions. we have least five documents i cited. none have buy biometric capable. the acting commissioner and the chief not. did you know, mr. fisher, if, again, those documents can be used by themselves either global entry, an ne x sis or century? >> i don't know that, sir. it's not my area of expertise. >> again, i think as chief of u.s. border customs and intersection, you should know which towments can -- documents can be used. i'm not able to question, again, whether or not terrorist any coordination -- there's any coordination in the development of those documents, and w

no critic more vocal about tsa misconduct than john mica of florida who wants the agency privatized. >> some of the incidents have been totally embarrassing and embarrassing to the thousands of tsa employees that get up and do a good job every day. >> the report quantifies tsa's misconduct. it finds the largest category of misconduct was showing up late for work and improper cases of leave, that comprise 32% of misconduct. screening and security issues accounted for 20% of infractions, among the officers found to have engaged in misconduct, 47% were reprimanded, 31% suspended, 17% removed from duty. more troublesome for some members the lack of a standard for punishing bad apples, for example screeners who failed to detect bombs in covert testing are not dismissed but usually allowed to just undergo new training and get back on the job. shep? >> if you miss a bomb i guess that's necessary. this is a relatively rare thing considering what an enormous organization we are. >> it is a huge organization employs about 56,000 people at the airports. it found 9,300 cases of misconduct so rel

congressman john mica, a long-time critic of the tsa, call ed for the audit. >> what is tsa doing abouthis? the report says they can't get a handle on it. >> reporter: the government is calling on the agency to improve how they monitor allegations of tsa misconduct and how they follow up after investigating. the tsa telling cnn, in part, they are already working to implement the recommendations. >> all right, now, rene, i know the house subcommittee is going to be holding a hearing about so, what are they going to do about this new report? >> reporter: well, erin, we know that this report, which we have here, it will come up, most definitely, in this hearing tomorrow, in part because a representative from the government agency responsible for putting this report together will be one of the witnesses testifying. we know the deputy director of the tsa is expected to testify. >> and there was another disturbing development tonight. this was not tsa, but it was an airport employee at san francisco international. he and his fiance arrested and charged with theft after authorities say they st

>> mica hughes. >> from where? >> east st. louis, illinois. >> your thoughts on america.eed basically what everyone is staying, we need structures. we need politics to get out of a lot of the things that we're doing and we need to be able to provide for our families and our children and leave them with a legacy that our parents were trying in the '60s trying to leave us with so we need to really get it together as far as, you know, the president, they need to have his back, you know. and, unfortunately, we might need to get those republicans out of office so hopefully we'll have more democrats in there to help him get through. >> now, i want to point out that these are three ladies that this essence festival here in new orleans, di tell you i was going to talk to you? no. did i tell you i was going to talk to you? no. did i just put the microphone in front of you. you heard three women articulate what their vision for america is and what they'd like to see happen. just right off the cuff. shouldn't that be somewhat of a message to a lawmaker that since you're picking up t

but even that infuriated congressman john mica, an advocate of privatization. >> that throws the whole system into chaos. people don't show up for work. how you can properly screen folks, mr. lord, for the record is shaking his head in the affirmative. >> it's -- well, i think it depends on particular facts and circumstances. it does have the potential to disrupt screening operation. >> because of agent tardiness, tsa has set up a screening force of 250 separate agents to fill in for all of those missing agents. and that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars a year. shep? >> shepard: doug, federal aviation officials have changed a rule now in the wake of the recent crash landing in san francisco. you remember three people died when asiana airlines jet slammed into the runway earlier this month. now the feds say the pilots with foreign airlines can no longer land side by side with another plane on the airport's two main parallel runways. the faa indicates the new rule is aimed at minimizing distractions. its did not effect domestic carriers at all. once airline passengers board a pla

mica, is recognized for one minute. mr. mica: mr. speaker, it's a great honor today to introduce to the house our guest chaplain, dr. john reynolds of orange city, florida. to our good fortune in florida, he was invited by four families to find a commurch in orange city, florida, in -- church in orange city, florida, in 1996. it now has 1,500 members, one of the largest congress recombations in volusia -- congregations in volusia county, florida. in addition to his pastorial work, dr. reynolds has preached at conferences across the nation and foreign countries. his leadership and willingness to help others is an inspiration to all. dr. reynolds graduated in 1964 from tennessee temple college in chattanooga and started his church ministry. he returned to temple baptist 1968. y and graduated in his life experiences include many positions which include president of a christian recording company, vice president of development and -- of his alma mater and minister of music. dr. reynolds is married to his lovely wife, beth -- becky, and n

. >> reporter: congressman john mica, a long-time critic of the tsa called for the audit. >> why are there so many cases and then what is tsa doing about it? the report says they really can't get a handle on it. that raises a lot of issues. >> well, the government wants the tsa to make improvements to how they monitor allegations of misconduct. we did reach out to the tsa and they tell cnn that they're already working to implement the recommendations. carol? >> ren rene marsh reporting liv this morning. >>> signs the anthony weiner campaign is imploding. now communication director has apologized after bashing and i mean bashing a former campaign intern. in an interview with the liberal blog talking points memo barbara morgan called weiner's former intern and forgive me for saying this, she called that intern worse, trust me, i can't say the rest on television. morgan was upset the intern spilled inside information to "new york daily news" and thought her mean comments were off the record. in the meantime, weiner released a new campaign ad insisting he don't quit. >> sometimes people

nobody more vocal than john mica of florida who wants the agency private advertised. >> there's been incidents that have been embarrassing and that -- orlando airport, they featured, which is one of my airports, local airports, employee was caught in a media sting, stealing a computer. there's another case, i think in your report, mr. lord, of, again, theft there. we have the newark situation was so embarrassing, the supervise was advising the tsa employee on how to steal contents of passengers' luggage. >> the court speaks to quantify the misconduct it finds. the largest category of misconduct was showing up late for work and improper ollie. screen screening and security issues accounted for 20% of the infractions. of the officers found engaged in this conducts, 47% reprimanded. more troublesome for congress, the lack of a standard for punishing bad apples. people who fail to detect bombs in covert testing are usually not dismissed but allowed to redo their training. yet the tsa maintains this conduct is rare. it employs 60,000 people and found 97 cases of misconduct. one member --

mica deserves a yes or no on that. >> i am not sure he asked me if we were friends or if i would characterize that on my 10 years of working with him. i would say we have a good business relationship, and i would consider him a friend under my definition. but to be clear, i wish he was here to testify. i am a small-business owner owner and in here willingly and actively participated. i have attended everything you asked me to attend. we made every employee available to you and turned over an immense amount of documents, including the text messages you referenced. i would say we have fully cooperated. >> this is not my time, so ms. norton if you would be indulge in for one more moment. we have no objection. from the get-go, you have asserted you believe you did nothing wrong. one of the reasons for this hearing today is we believed from a irs execution of contract, it was not appropriate. we intervened when we believed that. obviously we have the sba here today and the veterans here today because we believe there needs to be a reform in a portion of the process under which you were given that

mica. >> thank you, mr. chairman.let go back to the identification that are used for entry at the border. either of you gentleman, mr. fisher, mr. murphy, are you familiar with any of the technical boards that approved the credentials that are used for crossing the border, mr. fisher? >> i'm not, no. >> mr. murphy? >> no , sir. >> this is why it's so difficult to conduct this hearing without someone responsible from dhs who can answer these questions. we have at least about five documents i cited. none of them have dual by biomettic capability. the accounting commission and the chief -- did you know mr. fisher the documents can be used by themselves either global entry, an ne x is or century? >> i don't know that sir, it's not my area of expertise. i'm not able to question whether or not there's any coordination in the development of the documents. and what they dane or the capability they contain. how many individuals were apprehended last year, maybe you have already told the subcommittee crossing the borders illega

mica. >> thank you mr. chairman and first of all a comment observing this process today and to the past couple of months that we have been working on this. i am disappointed that the ranking member on the other side of the aisle has chosen to continuously try to close down this process of discovery to get to the bottom up what did place. >> would the gentleman yield for just five seconds? >> that's absolutely not true. >> first of all i did not yield but he said that. we started this the 22nd of may. on that night of june mr. cummings said, and you can put it up on the screen. based on everything i've seen the cases solved then it started almost immediately to try to close this down. when they couldn't do that they tried to discredit the chairman and then they released time and time again as we interview folks different transcripts taking parts out and trying to begin discredit the process. when they couldn't do -- discredit the chairman and we proceeded in a very orderly fashion now they are attempting to

. >> reporter: congressman john mica a long-time critic of the tsa called for an audit. >> why are therereport says they can't get a handle on it. that raises a lot of issues. >> reporter: the government wants tsa to make improvements on how they monitor allegations of misconduct and how they follow up after investigating. now, we reached out to the tsa and they tell us they're already working to implement the recommendations. chris? >> renee, thank you for that. >>> a michigan mother has been sentenced for trying to hire a hitman. michaela has that story. >> julia didn't know that the hitman she happened to be talking to was an undercover cop, the camera happened to be rolling incredibly before she was sentenced, though. her husband forgave her and even asked the judge to show her mercy. >> wholeheartedly forgive my wife for all she has done in this act of hatred. >> reporter: the act of hatred planning his murder. she was caught twice in april trying to hire a hitman to kill her husband, 27-year-old jacob. >> i'm just going to take him head on and shoot him right in the face. >> okay.

workers like dave reese, a union called mica -- coal miner in west virginia who was refused a job when his company was purchased. the nlrb has ruled twice that the new company's refusal to hire dave and any of his fellow union supporters was illegal and violated their rights under the national labor relations act. dave and his colleagues have been waiting over eight years for justice. three of his coworkers have passed away during this period. who has a 16-year-old son has needed several surgeries for a life-threatening heart condition. his son's health care costs would have bankrupted the family if the surgeries have not -- had not been covered through the state's program and medicaid. dave is currently doing odd jobs to make ends meet and take care of his family. twice, the board said he had been unjustly let go. enforcement of the reinstatement remedy from the board, you will be forced to live on $500 per month when he retires. ers, dave other minre just wants to go back to work. he has attempted to find out -- find other jobs, but when the company find out how much union time he ha

this is where mica nadian neighbors tell me, oh, your health care system in america is nothing but medicine for profit. and could you address that for me, please? guest: well, we do help a lot of people all over the world. the problem is it's probably less than 2% of our federal budget, and we look at every day in congress on how we can cut foreign assistance to countries that either don't need it or we shouldn't be providing it to them. but that is a very small part of what the health care costs would be to cover our huge number of uninsured in our country. so, you know, i wish we could trade that but that wouldn't be -- that's not possible. host: danny is up next from louisiana, independent line. hi. caller: hi, good morning. guest: good morning. caller: i would like to first of all like to make a statement and ask you a question. the last gentleman was a doctor, there's a lot of republican doctors, wealthy doctors that are all of a sudden in congress and they're fighting this thing. i'd just like to say what happened to the health care in america that was called h.m.o.'s? back in the 198