, former director of the cia, michael hayden, who now both work as principals of the chertoff group, a strategic advisory risk management security firm. and from new york, the mayor of new york city, of course, during the 9/11 attacks, rudy giuliani, now head of giuliani partners. welcome to all of you. general hayden, i want to start with you. the news that mr. donilon talked about -- this is the largest trove of data from any single terrorist that the government has found. what are you learning now that we didn't know before? >> well, i think they're going after -- several things, david. the first thing you want to find out is imminent threat information. the second layer of detail you want to find out is locational information and al qaeda leadership. and then the third, and this is the long-term effort, you're essentially creating an encyclopedia of how al qaeda operates, what their system is, their tactics, their techniques, their procedures. this is wonderful not just in its size, but we have not gotten what we call sse, sensitive site exploitation, going in and getting materia

all these members of congress michael chertoff himself was sitting ten feet from me through the dinner i mean he walked through and he didn't have to go through one of the pointed scanners that he's the lobbyist for the selling anyhow do you think that the department of justice is bluffing when they say that they're going to restrict air travel in and out of texas vs passed this law. i certainly do and. first of all didn't even read the legislation they said we were going to shut down all searches that's absolutely false we're going to draw a line in a search without probable cause like they perform at the airports or to the courthouse or to the capitol here or any public place where you access for transportation or public building that you can't touch their private your privates without probable cause that it's either got to be there or a body cavity and i think it's completely reasonable and it doesn't by any federal statute and that's that's the other absurdity of it is is that you know as we speak right now there are people on airplanes someplace who are smuggling either drugs or d

and his wife for an hour we did not have to go through a scanner even though i september for michael chertoff we did not have to take our shoes off i didn't take my belt off there were they look they're a person that was that there was no. pussyfooting around over there or what i thought you know i came back from germany a couple weeks ago and and and you know i got to the thing and said you know me take my shoes off and the woman laughed and said we're not afraid i mean you know isn't it time for us to set aside the security theater the bush put together and and and and just look at some good serious police work that's exactly right yes we need to look we've got musing intelligence assets we need to use them in many of these cases that you know a great case being needed al-hassan of the fort hood shooting we had a f.b.i. joint terrorism task force that was on it and yet we. still allowed him to go and buy weapons and tell people we know in many cases who these people are and so what we need to do as you would do with good police work is we need to go and make sure that these that there is a

i am michael chertoff. i am the chairman of a group called chertoff group.omeland security secretary. >> i am chanelle hardy. >> good morning. i am ken yancey. i am the ceo of s.c.o.r.e. >> my name is maurice jones. i am been ceo up a local construction company. we have experienced a situation with ciba security. for our company, i want to let you know that what is out -- without the broad band, we would have suffered a lot of inefficiency without being able to communicate with our superintendent and things of that nature. without the benefit of high- speed technicians -- high-speed connections, we would lose money in ways we would not be able to quantify and i would not be here in front of you today. with that being said, cyber security has its growing pains. one of the issues we experienced was due to those growing pains. our experience started with getting a phone call first thing in the morning from a reporter asking us if we knew we had experienced a financial loss. at that time, we had no idea what happened. as the present and i started to sit down and

among the guests, white house national security adviser, tom donilon and rudy jewgiuliani, michael chertoff and michael hayden. >>> record water levels among the mighty mississippi. they are expected to be broken as the mississippi continues to rise this weekend. many residents who have never seen much flooding before are facing the painful possibility of evacuating. in memphis, tennessee, several homes are already flooded and evacuations are taking place. >> i have a lot of my mom's stuff in there. i don't know if i can even get in. you can only do what you can. >> let's go live again to nbc's jay gray in memphis for us. jay, it's an incredible scene there. we're looking at beale street, the famous beale street. it looks like a river. >> it is part of the mississippi river. over its banks and into the middle of beale street here. just talking with julie mart front weather channel, she says we're going to see showers here today, exactly what they don't need as they deal with all of this water adding to the misery. look, it's not even forecast to crest, the mississippi, until sometime wednes

secretary michael chertoff and general michael hayden. if it is sunday, it's "meet the press."ck your local listings. >>> residents in the midwest are agonizing over whether to flee the rising mississippi river and only appear it is situation will indeed get worse before it gets better. because that river is not expected to crest until next week. farms, small towns, areas already under water. that dlus parts of memphis, tennessee. joining me live on the phone is john thatcher with the mid south red cross. john, good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> i'm glad you are here. give us an assessment how things are in memphis. how bad is it? >> right now we are experiencing 46.8 level here in memphis. expected crest will be 48 feet on may 11. we did receive some good news yesterday. initially the crest was supposed to last four to search days. er in now saying it will lapse around three days. but we -- we are above flood stage in memphis, tennessee, 34 feet. that's expected to remain the case well through the end of may. so all throughout west tennessee we are -- we a

i am michael chertoff. i am the chairman of a group called chertoff group. was the homeland security secretary. >> i am chanelle hardy. >> good morning. i am ken yancey. i am the ceo of s.c.o.r.e. >> my name is maurice jones. i am been ceo up a local construction company. we have experienced a situation with ciba security. for our company, i want to let you know that what is out -- without the broad band, we would have suffered a lot of inefficiency without being able to communicate with our superintendent and things of that nature. without the benefit of high- speed technicians -- high-speed connections, we would lose money in ways we would not be able to quantify and i would not be here in front of you today. with that being said, cyber security has its growing pains. one of the issues we experienced was due to those growing pains. our experience started with getting a phone call first thing in the morning from a reporter asking us if we knew we had experienced a financial loss. at that time, we had no idea what happened. as the present and i started to si

city, rudy giuliani, former director of the usa and former secretary of home lapped security michael chertofftable as well all coming up this morning on "meet the press." >> you bet, david. thanks. >> that's going to do it for us. thank you so much. >> i'll see you later tonight. until then, so long and happy mother's day.

among david gregory's guest, tom donilon and rudy giuliani and michael chertoff and former cia director general michael hayden. if it is sunday it is "meet the press." check your local listings. >>> preparing for the worst engineers say farm, small town some urban areas can see extensive flooding from the rising mighty mississippi river. and parts of memphis, tennessee, already under water and force something residents to evacuate. >> i wait until the water goes down to see what i can do. i have never been in nothing like this. in is all new to me. >> jay gray is live in memphis. with another good saturday morning to you, jay. we look at this area and really memphis has escaped pretty unscathed in terms of flooding. s that woman was saying she never experienced anything like this. >> yeah. absolutely. this is new experience for a lot of people in memphis and not one they will forget any time soon. we are looking at epic flooding for this area. the frightening thing this is the beginning. middle of beal street where the water continues to rise. and this the s the start after big weekend

we'll hear from new york mayor rudy giuliani, michael chertoff as well as general michael hayden. >>> small towns and some urban areas could see extensive flooding from the rising mississippi river and parts of memphis, tennessee are already under water, force something residents to evacuate. >> i don't know what i'm going to do. i have to wait until this water goes down to see what i can do. i've never been in nothing like this. this is all new to me. >> nbc's jay gray is live for us in memphis, right there along beale street. i know we're seeing incredible pictures of the flooding there. how bad is it? can you put it in perspective for us? >> i'll try to, alex. it's bad and getting worse. especially now, we're starting to see some of the rain we talked about during the day here. it's going to fall for a couple of hours were we're told exactly what this area does not need. we're in downtown memphis, standing in the middle of beale street. the mississippi river has come over its banks and into this area. in the suburbs it's even worse. there are entire neighborhoods that are have alre

cia during the bush administration, michael hayden, and former director of homeland security, michael chertoff impact and what it means for president obama in 2012. all coming up this morning on "meet the press." >>> a new york-based game company has released a new video game called the death of osama bin laden. he players have five minutes to navigate a maze of rooms to get to the al qaeda leader. they also have to gather the intelligence and destroy the downed helicopter outside bin laden's compound. the company has also released games based on other military missions, including the capture of saddam hussein. >>> of course, the good folks at "snl" couldn't pass up the chance to talk about osama bin laden's death. >> that's right. they decided to imagine what it would be like if a tape were found of bin laden's last will and testament. take a listen. >> place of burial, i leave the decision to my executors provided that wherever it is, they do not bury me at sea. as my family well knows, i have a deathly fear of being eaten by fish. so i'm very serious about this. do not bury me at sea. >> "s

the former homeland security secretary, michael chertoff, former cia director and former mayor of new york city, rudy guiliani. at 1:00 p.m., on abc's "this week," christiane amanpour talks christianetom donil -- talks with tom donilon. at 2:00 p.m., on "fox news sunday," chris wallace talks with donilon. at 3:00 p.m., on cnn "state of the union," nato's secretary- general and former virginia republican congressman tom davis. finally, at 4:00 p.m., on cbs "face the nation," the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and the former secretary of defense, donald rumsfeld. the shows are brought to you as a public service by the networks and by c-span. the re-airs begin at noon. listen to them all on c-span radio on 90.1 fm in the washington, d.c., area. go online to c-spanradio.org. >> this weekend, the university of las vegas professor, david schwartz talks about the las vegas strip, an examination of the civil war's underground railroad. it the complete schedule -- get the complete schedule online or have it e-mailed to you. the congressional chronicle has new features to ma

among the guests, michael chertoff, michael hayden and white house national security adviser tom donilon. >>> now we want a check of the top news stories with natalie at the news desk. good morning. >> good morning, david. good morning, everyone. >>> many residents of the mississippi delta are being forced to evacuate as the river rushes south and the water is rising. nbc's ron mott is in memphis, tennessee weather the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a lot of damage has been done in the north. here in memphis and points south along the mississippi river, people are bracing for much of the same. for the second straight spring john and dora richards have watched as river water inched toward their house 80 miles north of memphis. unlike last year when flooding seeped inside the home they are feeling lucky. >> the last two years you thought, well, in the morning am i going to put my feet in water. >> reporter: while the worst appears to be behind residents and businesses here weather the fork of the river cresting thursday, the situation upstream is more dire, especially for

i'm michael chertoff, chairman of the firm and secretary of homeland security from 2005 to 2009. >> good morning, i'm the senior vice president for policy research and advocacy at the national urban league and national policy institute. >> i'm al kinney directer of defense cybersecurity for hp. >> i'm ceo of score. >> good morning, and first of all, i want to thank the chairman for having me here to today to talk about my experience. i'm maurice jones, the owner of the local construction company and employee anywhere from 150-3000 employees depending on the economy. as the chairman said, we experienced a situation with cybersecurity. for our company, first of all, i do want to let you guys know that without the broadband technology and things of that nature, we would probably suffer a lot of financial losses because of inefficiencies with being able to do our jobs. small businesses are very essential to communicate with our various foremen and superintendents and things of that nature, and without the benefit of high-speed connection and broadband technology, it would not happen. we woul

i am michael chertoff. i am the chairman of a group called chertoff group. was the homeland security secretary. >> i am chanelle hardy. >> good morning. i am ken yancey. i am the ceo of s.c.o.r.e. >> my name is maurice jones. i am been ceo up local construction company. we have experienced a situation with ciba security. for our company, i want to let you know that what is out -- without the broad band, we would have suffered a lot of inefciency without being able to communicate with our superintendent a things of that nature. without the benefit of high- speed technicians -- high-speed connections, we would lose money in ways we would not be able to quantify and i would not be here in front of you today. with that being said, cyber security has its growing pains. one of the issues we experienced was due to those growing pains. our experience started with getting a phone call first thing in the morning from a reporter asking us if we knew we had experienced a financial loss. at that time, we had no idea what happened. as the present and i started to sit down

guest: she is referring to former homeland security secretary michael chertoff. i am not sure what their stock portfolios look like, but i have heard they invest heavily in various technologies that they have confidence in. they do not own those devices. under no way do they do that. there are established companies that have been supplying them since 9/11, since before 9/11. a lot of -- they started supplying stuff for civilian airports. they do not outright manage or own any of these companies. host: since the creation of tsa to now, what has changed with the way it has operated have there been significant changes? if so, where? there have been ways in which the whole body imaging, the enhanced pat downs, tsa is responding to what they say as will come threats per where they say al qaeda or other terrorists have -- they're beefing up, if you will. i think there is a lot of hope that tsa, the technology will solve a lot of these problems. that you will be able to scan people more effectively and thus be able to defeat the work around. by calling for enhanced upto

fomer homeland security security secretary michael chertoff take part in the discussion starting liveogation methods used by the cia leading up to the raid on osama bin laden's compound. that's what former attorney general michael mukasey, along with other former justice department and cia officials, live at 1:30 p.m. eastern, also on c-span. >> i'm newt gingrich, and i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states because i believe we can return america to hope and opportunity. >> with a field of republican presidential hopefuls beginning to take shape, follow the candidates' announcements and speeches on their road to the white house and look back at their careers online with the c-span video library. search, watch, clip and share with everything we've covered since 1987. it's what you want and when you want. >> from today's "washington journal," a look at the future of u.s./pakistan relations following the osama bin laden mission. this portion is about 20 minutes. to welcome shuja nawaz, the south asian director for the atlantic council. i want to share with you the

wraps up the discussion with fcc chairman julius genachowski and former homeland security head michael chertoff. four other topics on security, check out our homeland security series every morning this week starting at 9:15 eastern. the topic tomorrow deals with several rights and liberties. -- civil rights and liberties. we will take you right to a discussion hosted by the american enterprise institute started at 1:30 eastern followed by a look back at senator john mccain's stance on torture from may comments he made on the floor last week. mother live discussion from the woodrow wilson center in washington about the military operations approved by the u.n. and congress moderated by john yu who wrote "the tortured memos." also, we will talk with a former cia director porter goss will be at the panel starting at 4:00 eastern. >> follow the house and senate when you want -- the comprehensive resource on congress, congressional chronicle has daily schedules, a full list of members, each day's committee hearings, plus video of house and senate sessions and progress of bills and notes. congressiona