michael brooks, majority report.thank you so much. >> two years and four month since a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami brought the nuclear infrastructure in japan to its knees. the world watched as the japanese government tried to contain the radioactive materials from spilling out by the millions of gallons into the pacific ocean. we watched as elderly japanese people volunteered to wade into that toxic environment sacrificing their own lives to attempt to stop the leak and save the country. today, we are getting news that they continue in the latest report is that it's built 300 tons of radioactive water and it is in a puddle nearby and it is separate from the one we reported on last week. a puddle of the contaminated water is e-mailed and 100 million sieverts per hour. according to reuters, the water is so toxic that within one hour, a person standing one foot away would receive a radiation dose five times the average annual global limit for nuclear workers. after 10 hours, the person will go into showin

as well as the entire region moving forward i'm joined now by michael brooks he's a producer for the majority report and host of intersection michael thank you so much for joining me so locking reports are coming out today obviously from capitol hill like senator patrick leahy saying that the u.s. has an effect suspended aid to egypt while the white house denies that claim so what shall we first of all make of those contradicting reports. meghan it's great to be talking with you. you know obviously this is a fluid situation as they say it's kind of a cliche but it is there's a lot of moving parts senator leahy has actually said from the beginning he's been really clear on this that he thinks aid should be cut he said this as soon as the military deposed morsi back in july. and he's saying that it's a coup when the current aid that is scheduled to run through september thirtieth they believe this completed they cannot get any more money from the united states the white house is saying that they're still. you know teasing the situation out and trying to figure out how to proceed and als

the region and the world i was joined earlier by michael brooks he's a producer of the majority report and the host of the intersection and i began by asking him what we should really make of all these contradictory reports about whether or not the usa to egypt has really been suspended. you know obviously this is a fluid situation as they say it's kind of a cliche but it is there's a lot of moving parts senator we lay he has actually said from the beginning he's been really clear on this that he thinks age should be cut he said this as soon as the military opposed morsi back in july. and he's saying that it's a coup when the current aid that is scheduled to run through september thirtieth i believe it's completed they cannot get any more money from the united states the white house is saying that they are still. you know teasing the situation out and trying to figure out how to proceed and also that the sequester has impacted the aid and that's important to explain because a lot of our aid that we send to egypt actually goes through american arms manufacturers who build the weapons th

michael thank you that was michael brooks producer at the majority report thank you so much. and financial news the justice department filed a lawsuit against bank of america accusing the bank of defrauding its investors the justice department along with the security and exchange commission's says that the bank vastly understated the risk involved in its sale of residential mortgage backed securities ultimately defrauding investors of eight hundred fifty million dollars the lawsuit alleges that the bank made misleading statements to these investors and did not disclose important information about the details of the mortgages that comprise the securities now earlier i was joined by anthony randazzo director of economic research at the reason foundation he began by explaining just what these mortgage backed securities were and how they played a role in the financial crisis well sensually bank of america worked with third party groups who gave out mortgages and then they bought the mortgages from those third party groups put them into packages and allowed for institutional inves

. >> and with advantaged international studies along with michael hanlon of brookings, institutions sayinghe market should are more worried about an escalation more than anything else. let me asking you about that, michael. do you think we just get this measured response, as mik just pointed out, or do we get something more? >> i don't think we get anything more, unless president assad ms. calculates and responds in a foolish way after a likely american strike in the coming days. so if for some reason assad were to feel so beleaguered that he thinks he has no choice but to use chemicals to avoid defeat or feels promoted by a krucruise missile, all bets are off. he should take his lumps. recognize that the united states did not intend attacks on his key regime targets and basically proceed on with the kind of conventional attacks that have killed 99% of the victims in this war so far. >> michael, how important is it that the u.s. has a coalition of other willing allies to go in with this kind of action here? how prnt is, for example, that the u.n. get onboard? >> the u.n. is not getting on

let's get to michael o'hanlon, senior policy fellow of brookings and michael green, executive directorf truman national security program, and former army captive that served in iraq and afghanistan. michael o'hanlon, let me get to you first of all, is there any possibility at this stage the united states can stand down and back out of this without losing syria's face? >> i don't see any possibility. i listened to secretary kerry's speech. it was remarkably imfattic, resolute and frankly almost churchillian. it makes you wonder how they can get away with just doing a missile cruise ship. so i think there's virtually no doubt, even though president obama insists he still hasn't technically made up his mind, an attack will be forthcoming in the next couple of days f i had to guess. >> base on the poll ratings, it's clear the public does not want some prolonged kind of battle. i think it's clear the administration was assuring everybody this would be limited and narrowly focused. >> i think that's what they were trying to do. but every time you use force, you have to ask yourself, if my op

and later, live coverage from the brookings institution as u.s. trade representative michael froman and others discuss extending a law that adds incentives to african countries that trade with the u.s. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> host: senator mark pryor's joining us on "the communicators" this week. he's chair of the commerce subcommittee on communications technology and the internet. senator pryor, your full committee recently approved tom wheeler to be fcc nominee. senator cruz, your colleague, has talked about putting a hold on that nomination. is there any word on that right now? >> guest: well, we're working on that. let me first say thank you for having me on, it's great to be on the show, and also let me say thank you to c-span for all the public interest broadcasting they do. it's great. i know you don't belief this, people in arkansas say, hey, i saw you on c-span, so i want to thank c-span for what they did k. let me get back to the tom wheeler nomination. basically, the

michael. >> so mike brooks, that's why i wanted to know, where these s.w.a.t. teams privy to this kind of information that quickly? >> command and control can be. you know, there you have a communications division of decab county police and fire department right there, so you're going to have a supervisor relaying the information on what's going on. it takes some time once you get containment, ashleigh, to go ahead and get that communication set up so you can get the direct feed in and possibly get a negotiator on the line to talk with the woman directly. but we had that dispatcher who also did a fantastic job. but i tell you, that's one of the most critical times during a situation like this, this negotiated surrender. she did a great job as being the go-between during this negotiated surrender, letting them know exactly what was going on inside there so there were no mistakes. >> all right. mike brooks, thank you for that. jay buzz, thank you as well. we have so something great tonight on "ac 360," a special reunion that will happen. the 911 dispatcher who wa

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i'm brooke baldwin. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company today. we'll start with israel. they say they are planning for future growth. the palestinians say they are stealing more land. >> this as they hannounce more settlement units. this is on top of 1,000 new units. >> settlements is major flash point. palestinians want that for a future state. >> middle east expert aaron david miller joins us from washington. i'd like to begin with you. tell us what israeli officials have to say about this particular decision. >> reporter: israel is saying in the case of the 1,000 settlements this were announced on sunday is they're going to be in places in parts of the west bank and east jerusalem which would be part of the state of israel whatever the negotiations lead to at their finality. they are saying this wouldn't be in palestinian territory but in territory they consider to be the state of israel. with the announcement today they would be building an additional 900 settlement units, as the israelis have said they need to grow their cities and provide homes for their people. th

libya, and as michael o'hanlon of the brookings institute pointed out today, when you attack an american you do much more than just disrupt the lives of those who work there listen. >> these embassies are abroad for good reasons. they're trying to represent our interests, trying to support reformists in the broader middle east who trying to bring democracy and human rights to their countries who are trying to oppose extremists. we enter act with these people, try to help thems' support them. when you shut down an embassy you can't do your work. >> they can't do their work, and in that sense, at least, even if they don't care oat an attack. shutting down the embassy is a small victory for the terrorists. >> shepard: thank you. have you heard about this? the most important story of the day. the day hugh of schmeat. a lab-grown burg that's right costs a quarter million dollars. a chef in london today cooked up a pattie. how does schmeat taste? that is next. >> shepard: an important debate oopingcuss, the debate over the program. we heard all the public outcry when he learned how the nsa kee

brookings institution fellow michael o'hanlon highlighted the report in arguing that these cuts to thefense budget are too damaging to military readiness. he discussed the pentagon report yesterday at the brookings institution. this is an hour and a half. >> to another panel discussion here at the brookings institution. this one is called "dissecting the pentagon's strategic choices and management review." i'm marvin kalb, and i'm resident senior fellow here at brookings and a senior adviser for crisis reporting which is hoe candidated just next door. -- located just next door. way back in august 2011, believe it or not that's only two years ago, congress passed and the president signed into law a legislative monstrosity called the budget control act. it was a way of doing something when nothing seemed worse. at least at that time. a joint select committee was set up to control the spiraling deficit, but congress warped that if the committee -- warned that if the committee failed to come up with a solution, sequestration would automatically follow meaning massive cuts in both defense a

with us now, michael o'hanlon, a senior fellow and director of research in the brookings institution policy organization. michael good, to see you. >> nice to be on, trace. thank you. >> trace: this has to be the most telegraphed military action i've ever seen. so we know it's coming. or presume it's coming. what we do not have is what the goal is once it comes, michael. >> well, you know, i'm a little more comfortable with what is being proposed than your previous guest, for example. i think we do know what's coming, not in targeting detail, but president obama has said that this is a shot across the bow. it will be a little more than that from what i can see in terms of five destroyerers being ready to fire up to several dozen cruises missiles but we're not after a major military effect. the united states is not getting involved in a civil war. secretary kerry said that. the goal is to cause enough pain and punishment that assad won't do this again and also get the message if we have to escalate down the road because he is foolish and does repeat the offense, then we can do that, to

i want to bring in michael o'hanlon senior fellow at the brookings institution. the u.s.closed on sunday as you know, stretch from abu dhabi to tripoli. does this lead you to conclude that there is a regional terrorist threat or one that is just much more general? >> it's a great question because you would have to infer that it's regional if it doesn't include south asia where there are obviously a number of similar potential problems at various points over the years or even in some of the country further north near russia that have jihadist organizations of one type or another. it's fairly hard to take this kind of a general warning which has vagueness and figure out just where you've got to preemptively shut down operations. it's i'm sure a tough judgment call for whoever had to make it. >> your colleague paul pillar has written, and i'm quoting him that will terrorist attacks rarely grow out of popular demonstrations but popular anger has a great deal to do with stimulating terrorism. so mike, do you think the closure of u.s. embassies may be a response, for example,in

satellite corp. 2013] we will have a discussion on the defense institute at the brookings institution and later, michael hayden. >> some people say if we cut the military we will not have the temp tatian to fight as much. if we have a smaller military, we will be disinclined to get involved. i don't want to fight the chinese. if you look historically at when we fight, i don't see a correlation between higher defense budget and greater likelihood of intervening. the world wars begin when we were not prepared. the korean war began when we were not prepared. the vietnam was more complex. to the reagan years, in many ways, the reagan years, people can correct me afterwards, they are seen as the golden years of american defense also because we built of the budget and did not use the military. isn't that a wonderful outcome? was ronaldnk it reagan's great judgment that led to that that there was no correlation between increasing the budget and increasing the proclivity to engage militarily. >> a discussion on upcoming defense department discussions at 10:00 a.m. today. then the history of the muslim brotherho

i'm brook baldwin sitting in for sus suzanne malveaux. >> i'm michael holmes. a republican senator has a message for president obama. it's time to get tough with russia. the strained relations have taken a turn for the worst. john mccain thinks president obama is under estimating russian president clad mirrvlad. he said he compared him to a board kid in school. >> the president comparing him to a kid in the back of the classroom is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who vladmir putin is. he's an old kgb colonel that has no illusion about our relationship. does not care about the relationship with the united states and continues to oppress his people and the media and act in an unhelpful fashion. >> president obama cancelled a one-on-one meeting with putin but mccain says that's not enough. by granting asylum to edward snowden he's poked his if you think finger in obama's guy. >> president obama says he opposes any boycott of the winter olympics because of russia's new law against gay propaganda. the law has exposed a deep divide over day

let's talk about it with mike o'hanlon at the brookings institution. so, michaelning, the evacuation of personnel from our embassy in yemen. it still seems far away though. you know, this is not -- in distant countries what do you make of the threat that this announcement from the state department poses to us here at home? do you think there's a heightened threat for us here on our soil? >> you know, jenna, it's a great question. and i don't know the answer. clearly, this specific intercept was about zawahiri, al-qaeda's leader probably over in pakistan, talking to the leader of al-qaeda in yemen and trying to orchestrate and coordinate a specific attack probably in yemen it now appears although, of course, we closed the 19 embassies and consulates or a few more than that at one time throughout the broader middle east. so there was some specificity to that particular attack. but anytime you hear this kind of chatter, it makes you wonder if the overall movement is trying to get more energized and attempt something even here, or maybe there could be an airplane in t

michael l. hamlin with the brookings institute, thank you for joining us. i will send it over to you for your impressions, secretary of state and how does a dance is our situation with syria. >> excellent and emphatic speech and it left extremely little doubt that the united states will take military action and i would also add to your correspondence, very good report the one more reason for downplaying the u.n. is we don't want to wait for their report. and they are still in syria and props coming out in the next few hours and i would expect the administration would wait for them to leave before striking. i don't expect the administration to delay much longer, there will be strikes in the course of the weekend. mr obama traveling overseas on tuesday, headed for russia. and and he left no room for the president. he said shea and on those who would be indifferent in the face of this atrocity. having said that kind of statement, i don't see any plausible case the administration will fail to act militarily. cheryl: what is the risk of doing nothing? we have to

our other expert is michael o'hanlon, a senior fellow at brookings. although he has written many books, he is most recently the author of "healing the wounded iant." our panelists authored an op-ed in the washington journal, urging congress to reverse sequestration, or watch military readiness go into decline. mckenzie, why don't we start with you? i will ask you a couple of questions, and then we will go to the audience. we are going to finish at 11:30. .> thank you for monitoring -- for moderating. it is a pleasure to be up here with you and my good friend michael, who recently authored but we were also together with secretary hegel and his team last week, at the briefing about these choices and the outlook. i am sure we will talk about what was discussed in that conversation. i think you have set the ground very well. that important to remember sequester is not the starting point. so much in washington feels like we are always starting at square one. but sequestration is the fourth year of budget cuts. the drawdown has been well under way. our spen

. >> brookings institution fellow michael o'hanlon talked about how sequestration in next year's budget will affect the military. here's part of his comments and you can watch the full evin at c-span.org >>> if you look at the 2014 budget, the cuts the would be required by sequestration are so harsh for that year and there is no way to face them realistically. it's even worse debacle when the ten year horizon. the payment that occurs force even lower than what we are going through this summer and compounds what we are going through this summer when half the air forces and flying for example piling up and we are not fixing the stuff we need to keep safe for our forces of the congress may ultimately save $52 billion in 2014 to defense cuts need to be softened a little bet. i want to anything that is changing the basic logic of sequestration. the specter of sequestration is so horrible for the armed forces. >> we recently spoke to ann romney, of a life of the presidential candidate mitt romney about person to be published cookbook, "the romney family table." this is from the 2013 bookexpo

brookings institution here in washington, d.c. we will shortly be hearing from u.s. trade representative michael froman. .. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> can you hear me? so i'd like to welcome everyone to brookings. i'm a trustee, and weir very honored to have ambassador froman with us today. ambassador froman just assumed the role of u.s. trade representative in june, and before that, he servedded in the white house as the assistant to the president and deputy security advisers for economic affairs. ambassador froman is a long time friend of brookings, spoken here many times, been a participant at the bloom round table on global poverty for many years, and it's currently taking place, and other senior brookings leadership are there, and so i'm very -- i know that they are sorry to miss this morning's session. this is the first time ambassador froman is speaking at brookings in this capacity, talking about the africa growth and opportunity act, also known as agao. it was signed into law in may 2000 and offered african countries that open their economies trade incentives with the un

michael fullilove with his "rendezvous with destiny." [applause] >> thank you for that very nice introduction. i'm delighted to be here at brookingsinstitution of which i am extremely fond. as martin said i came to brookings for a couple of years to watch president obama in the democratic nomination and then in a presidency the presidency and i have been proud with my association to the institution is as a nonresident fellow and to a number of my brookings colleagues in the room thank you for joining us. thank you to those who have come from outside brookings. i know you mainly came to see curt but thank you anyway. i'm delighted to be on the stage with martin and dyke and curt. martin is a member of the australian diaspora. he is a high u.s. official but padilla still claim by us. curt is a much admired policymaker on in my part of the world. of course we recognize him very much appreciate his role. his association with the region goes back many many years indeed. both martin and curt are connected with the institute. martin is one of my board members and curt will be joining us as our natural distinguished international fellow s

. >> michael youssef, thank you very much. >> thank you, brooke. >>> just into us here at cnn, i mentionede the break an ak tres from "that '70s show" has died. lisa robin kelly played lori on the popular sitcom. her representative told cnn that kelly died yesterday and that she had voluntarily checked herself into a treatment facility early this week. kelly had been battling addiction problems the last couple of years. the cause of her death has not been released. lisa robin kelly was 43 years old. >>> coming up, she spent nearly two years in a coma, is paralyzed from the waist down, and confined to a wheelchair. victoria arland overcame the odds. she is now a world class swimmer hoping to compete in the paralympic championships. but the ruling committee is basically telling her she can't compete because she is not permanently disabled. we're going to look into her story, next. >>> all right. a lot of people talking about this one. the american paralympic gold medalist swimmer who is now banned from competing in this week's montreal games. the international paralympic committee told victo

brooke whispered to me. it was very pro muslim brotherhood that surprised me. >> he is not much different than michael bloomburgis is his former stop and frisk. >> bill, hooters has also asked you to stay out. not because you are a harasser because they want you out of everyone's lives. >> they won't hire me which is sexist. they are dumb. they are dumb, dumb, um did. if they really want to help their city, the city of san diego, what they don't say is filner is banned from hooters, period. filner is banned from hooters until he resigns and then he can have all of the boobs and wings he wants. take one for the team. use that as a bait and get him to come to hooters. >> this guy has got to resign. i can't understand what is he thinking? he has to resign. he is a despicable human being, isn't he, brooke? >> are you judging him before he has been found guilty by a court of law? >> how many people have come out? 13 women now? this stuff isn't pretty. this guy is pretty bad. >> but also there is a movement now to get every single establishment to ban him, all restaurants. >> that's fun. >> that's overkill. thews --

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trade representative michael froman spoke today at the brookings institution in washington, d.c.mments at c-span.org. >> new jersey voters go to the polls a week from tomorrow to pick a democratic candidate for the late senator frank lautenberg see. we will have live coverage at 7:30 p.m. tonight. cory booker faces congressman rush holt. status and remember sheila alber and congressman frank pallone. that's at 7:30 p.m. on c-span. and all this week at seven eastern here on c-span2, encore q&a. tonight, charles bolden talks about his experiences as an astronaut. >> i've been pushing for this in the senate that we would move cybersecurity legislation. it's big, complicated. it means different things to different people, but we need to get this done. and actually as hard as it is to say the house is done something right, they are fun. but they've actually passed some of this and i think that we ought to look at what they've done and certainly if want to take a stab at doing our own thing innocent, that's great, that we need to get moving on this in the senate. this is a real threat,

brooks. thrilled to be joined by a faith community leader and school board trustee, pastor michael evans. my incredible sbufl sister in texas senate who was the one who asked finally at 10:30 that at what point would it take for a woman's voice to be texas senate. who t frost, joel burns represents my old city council justice in ft. worth, of the piece, serge you deleon. at the head table, we have amazing people with us. a little n introduced bit to them. obby patton truly defines what means to be a texas success pioneering true entrepreneur. arris county sheriff adrian garcia and dear friend and senate colleague, rodney ellis. in the remember afternoon of the filibuster, a ator ellis helped me with back brace on the senate floor. say think it's fair to that from this point forward know that senator ellis is has our back. [ applause ] these leaders, amazing leaders, part of the growing movement state that is more star and less "lone" and they're roud to talk about how great texas is, they're also ready to alk about how it can be even greater. the majority of texans are ready that conversa

michael to fullilove for his "rendezvous with destiny." [applause] thank you for the introduction. i'm proud to be yet broken this which i am extremely fond. as martin said i came to brookings to watch president obama when the democratic nomination and then win the presidency and i've been very proud for my time in the association with the institution since then as an on a resident fellow and it's a great to see a number of colleagues in the room thank you very much for joining and to those that have come from outside of brookings showing great fortitude in doing that. i know you are mainly here to see kurt, but thank you any way. i'm delighted to be on the stage with the two friends and colleagues of mine. martin is a member of the australian diaspora and american citizen and a high u.s. of koschel that he is still claimed by us. kurt is a much admired in my part of the world. of course we recognize very much and appreciate what of rebalanced and the region goes back many years in deed. martin and kurdish are connected with the institute. martin is one of my board members and kurt will be joining us likely this year as our inaugural distinguished fellow. i am honored very

brooks. i am thrilled to be joined by community faith leaders and also a school board pastor michael evans. y incredible sister in the texas senate, latishia, that at 10:30 that night at what point would it voice to be man's heard in the texas senate. congress member frost. and city council george burns, old city sents my council in fort worth, justice dellion, ce, sergio and at the head table we have people. you have been introduced to them. obby patten truly defines a texas success story and true entrepreneur. county sheriff, adrienne garcia, and my dear colleague, ellis. during the mber afternoon of the filibuster, a ator ellis helped me with back break on the senate floor. nd i think it's fair to say that from this day forward, texas women know that senator ellis has our back. [applause] these leaders, these amazing part of the growing state that build a is more star and less lone. and while they are proud to talk texas is, they are also ready to talk about how greater. even the majority of texans are ready to start that conversation. but their voices are too often rowned out by the sho

we went to michaels and got the rainbow loom and our neighbor comes in and says, our next door neighbor says lucy what are you doing. she said i'm making a rainbow loom bracelet for brookewhat? she does 75 to 100 a day. >> somebody had to pay for that vation. >> use my first name. brooke. that's sort of a hybrid. >> she gets to live for free in the apartment. >> come on. >> here's your rainbow loom curtesy ofucy g. >> that's perfect. it can't be the same color. it's an accent. >> i said you have to make one for al rok and she said i'm just so tired, dad. she had been working a day in the shop. >> i can wait. >> so tomorrow you'reetting yours. >> iwill be worth it. i love them. >> good. so we talked yesterday about the my iley cyrus thing at the vmas. miley cyrus's mother on the show -- >> hannah montana. >> boy it took off, your comments took off. >> there's been controversy, things have not changed. but i do think that she is -- you can't keep her hannah montana forever. she obviously doesn't want to. she is expressing herself. she is not a baby. she can do what she wants. i just hope the parents of her younger fans are talking to their children about it because that t