however, last year we had the chairman of the joint chiefs, admiral mike mullen, testify that with isi support, the connie operatives planned and conducted a truck bomb attack as well as an assault on our embassy. we also have credible evidence that they were behind the june 28th attack against the intercontinental hotel in kabul and a host of other smaller but effective operations. in short he said the connie network acts as an arm of pakistan's interservices intelligence agency. which takes me to my next question. we're giving all this foreign aid to a country that is come police sit in working with the terrorists who are killing americans. i understand all the implications. zardari referred to our relationship as like a bad marriage but divorce is not an option. but when it comes to the funding, we're looking at crafting legislation that would essentially require the state department to certify that they are not working with these networks, including hikani. if that cannot be certified the foreign aid will be cut off. i wanted to get your thoughts on that legal conclusion. >> well,

story when stan crystal gets in trouble when he's called by bob gates and joints of chiefs and mike mullens to come to the white. >> the day that the rolling stone article broke stanley mccrystal called pa trifs and he was at an executive board meeting kind of the senior officials in the government who were working on global look at how to do it cooperate tougherly. and it was hosted by director panetta at the time. petraeus received the call and crystal tells him this article's coming out, it's not good. i think you know, there's probably probability that i may be on the way out. and then admiral mullens calls petraeus the next night and says your name has been throinl in the hat. i don't know if you recall petraeus' name was null really thrown in there. but he knew in the back of his mind that it was an option. so he's driving to the whitehouse for a routine meeting, the national security team on afghanistan and he's sit downstairs and he gets beckened by someone from upstairs to say the president wants to see you in the oval office. he goes upstairs and some of the yearn leaders are comi

senator collins mentioned what mike mullen said. she pointed out that we are being looted of valuable possessions on an unfathomable scale. the recent cyber threat is a life-and-death issue is the same reason a burglar in our house is a life-and-death issue. if a recentcriminal has broken into your home, how you know what he wants to do? you don't know. he is in the building, in your home, where we are now in terms of the country. that is the situation we face. cyber burglars have thrown in. mike mullen has said exactly what senator collins indicated that the only other threat on the same level to the cyber threat is russia's stockpile of nuclear weapons. fbi director mueller -- the first thing after 9/11, we had to pass was a law saying that the cia and fbi could talk to each other how pathetic could that be, but that is where we were because of stovepipes of that sort. director moeller testify to congress recently that the cyber threat will overcome terrorism as his top national security emphasis. it is all very serious, and you c

senator collins mentioned what mike mullen said, and she pointed out that we're being looted of valuablean unfathomable scale, but that's not the end of the problem. the reason this cyber threat is a life or death issue is the same reason that a burglar in your house is a life or death issue. how do you know what he wants to do? is it take your belongings, is it something more? you don't know. he's in the building, in your home. that's where we are now. in terms of a country. so that's the situation we face. cyber burglars have thrown in. mike mullen has said exactly what senator collins indicated, that the only other threat on the same level to cyber threat is russia's stockpile of nuclear weapons. fbi director mueller, remember the first thing after 9/11 we had to pass sadly, pathetically, was a law saying that the cia and the fbi could talk to each other. how pathetic could that be? but that's where we were because of stove pipes and things of that sort. director mueller testified to congress recently that the cyber threat will soon overcome terrorism as his top national security emph

mike mullens described him as having the ability to risk the lives of our soldiers and citizens. union workers should have a stay on the political causes their union money dues go to. lawmakers looking into whether unions are complying with the laws. jim angle live in washington with more. >> reporter: the issue is pretty simple. where the workers -- whether workers should have union dues subtracted from their salaries whether they like the or not and how much power they have to keep the unions from spending their money on political campaigns they don't agree with. >> when i find my union dues go to political purposes i greatly oppose. >> my union was using my union dues to push a political agenda i oppose. >> do workers have a right to mow more about what it's being used for and whether it has to be taken from them? >> reporter: the states regulate part of them. in 277 of them unions can automatically subtract money from workers' paychecks whether they join or not. but the supreme court has ruled that workers who have money taken from their checks also have the right to keep the

but when you look at what pa tray yus and add mierl mike mullen said back in the summer, they were -- little bit of what they said. >> the ultimate decision was more aggressive formulation, if you will, in terms of the time line than what we had recommended. >> what i can tell you is the president's decisions are more aggressive and incur more risk than i was originally prepared to accept. >> they used the word, sir, at the time, more aggressive, more risk. what's changed? >> well, i think we finished the fighting season. we've seen the results. we know we're working with the pakistanis a little bit on this. there may be some discussions going on with the taliban at some point, we're not sure. but i think that when you look at the broad stretch american policy, the president has to decide not just on what's going on in afghanistan, but he has to balance all the other national security and national priorities. so he makes the decision. any general is always concerned about increasing the risk, and when i was in nato when i was running these operation, i felt exactly the same way about

fbi director mike mullen, the first thing after 9/11, we had to pass sadly, pathetically, was a law we say that the cia and fbi could talk to each other how pathetic could that be the that's where we were because the stove pipes and things of that sort. senator mahlon, i mean director miller testified to the congress recently as cyber threat would soon overcome terrorism as his top national security emphasis. so, it's all very serious and you can't exaggerated and it could happen. so then you think about how people could die. a cyberattack on air-traffic control system. i was talking to secure a napolitano just before this hearing. often over big cities it gets very soon be. people don't like to be in a soupy weather. they can't be above or below. but if they are protected because the air traffic control system we will put in a modern one with the same situation to prevail. the cyber hackers can take that out. they can take the city or a group of cities, they can take out the capacities of the planes are literally flying in the dark and they will fly into each other and kill a lot of p

admiral mike mullen, former joint chiefs chairman, said that a cybersecurity threat is the only other threat that's on the same level as russia's stockpile of nuclear weapons. loose nukes, if you will. f.b.i. director robert mueller testified to congress very recently that the cyberthreat will soon overcome terrorism as the top national security focus of the f.b.i. think about that. cyber will be as dangerous as terrorism. cyber threats and the widespread prospect of a cyberattack could be as devastating to this country as the terror strikes that tore apart this country just ten short years ago. so how is that possible, you ask. think about how many people could die if the cyberterrorist attack attacked our air traffic control system, both now and when it's made modern, and our planes slammed into one another, or rail-switching networks were hacked, causing trains carrying people, and more than that, perhaps hazardous materials, toxic materials to derail or collide in the midst of our most populated urban areas, like chicago, new york, san francisco, washington, d.c., et cetera. what

fbi director mike mullen, the first thing after 9/11, we had to pass sadly, pathetically, was a law we say that the cia and fbi could talk to each other how pathetic could that be the that's where we were because the stove pipes and things of that sort. senator mahlon, i mean director miller testified to the congress recently as cyber threat would soon overcome terrorism as his top national security emphasis. so, it's all very serious and you can't exaggerated and it could happen. so then you think about how people could die. a cyberattack on air-traffic control system. i was talking to secure a napolitano just before this hearing. often over big cities it gets very soon be. people don't like to be in a soupy weather. they can't be above or below. but if they are protected because the air traffic control system we will put in a modern one with the same situation to prevail. the cyber hackers can take that out. they can take the city or a group of cities, they can take out the capacities of the planes are literally flying in the dark and they will fly into each other and kill a lot of p

former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen said that the debt is the biggest threatur national security. well, how could that be? well it's because as admiral mullen knows and as we are now learning, that when you live in a fiscally constrained times, that some of the first cuts that occur are to the defense department. in fact, while the defense department incurs roughly 20% of discretionary spending, it as hast so far been planned for 50% of the cuts, increasing the national security risk to every american. after promising the american people that he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, the president's most recent plan means that america will have an annual deficit of more than a trillion dollars for every year of his presidency. that's right a trillion dollars of deficit for each of four years of his first term in office. this is unprecedented, and this is dangerous. it's dangerous to our prosperity and to our nation's future. and while the president seems to be unwilling to come to grips with the nature of our debt crisis, my constituents i