>> thank you, mr. smith i wanted to hear a little bit more about your thought process and if we could, hear your thought process starting all the way back to four years ago. what amount of knowledge you had around this? this ordinance that was ultimately preclude you from responding to any rfq or any rfp? >> so i guess that the question is why now? what happened for the first few years and was it a consideration and were you knowledgeable of it and when did you become knowledgeable of it and how did that weigh into your deliberations to stay on the commission? >> in the beginning, i did not think about it because i did not know it was civic design review. i had no idea, because i never, i thought that we were being reviewing our murals and i didn't... i was sort of, you know i didn't know. then, as i, and then i was given the chairmanship and then as i, i think that i just over time, watched the way that projects got designed and managed and you know, you sit there and you think about it and sometimes you go

and i do have to say as i have said earlier to you mr. smith. that is seems that if you are doing quite a good job and seem to enjoy it. and the art commission is lucky to have you in that position with your expertise and i do believe that just in a less formal way, you do have a little bit of a competitive advantage knowing what you do and the kind of decisions that you are making and what you have learned, that can be applied within your profession. if you were forced to make a choice, i suppose, and you will make that choice whether to stay on the commission, or to leave the commission, and then try to get your firm to get city contracts. but i think that as a said before, it is the wrong message that i at least would want to send to the public in this particular situation. >> yeah, i would tend to agree with you commissioners. i was not completely clear, it seems like it was an interest and i would be more compelled if it were a financial hardship and that is where i was sort of heading. and you said that you are doing fine and you are doing

. >> mr. smithplant and the response from smith's attorney. >> a is aldon smith at risk her? >> certainly. this is a civil complaint. >> reporter: smith's attorney responded with this legal filing in smith's defense. it says plaintiff ronndale esporlas knew the dangers and ricks he was undertaking when he attended that party at smith's 8,000 square foot home in june of last year. the attorney wrote injuries were caused by persons other than aldon smith. >> my take is there's potential liability for mr. smith. >> reporter: what's your biggest concern if you're defending mr. smith? >> the press this case is getting. >> reporter: pic cone says the legal wheels start turning, a process that will likely take several months and could last more than a year. what's your insight based on your experience? >> this case is going forward. this is not going to get thrown out anytime soon. >> reporter: with the pending litigation, smith's attorney has declined any further comment. calls attempting to reach walker

. >> stephen: inspiring, just like the seen in "mr. smithngton" where jimmy stewart gets some bad acid and talks to a coat rack for 12 hours. but, folks, cruz didn't just criticize obamacare. he offered a practical alternative. >> so i want to point out just a few words of wisdom from dwuk dynasty. you put five red necks on a mower it's going to be epic. redneck rule number one-- most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords. >> stephen: see, america, you don't need health care. if you have a medical emergency, just go to home depot. this courageous man is fighting to defund obamacare by filibustering a bill that defunds obamacare. and what makes it truly courageous, the bill was his idea. and it's not really a filibuster. cruz knew in advance he'd have to yield the floor by noon today. i believe the room was booked for danny goldstein's bar mitzvah. mazel tov, danny. but if it's not a filibuster, then what do we call it? >> it is important to note this effort from senator cruz is technically not a filibuster. >> what looks lik

likely taking into the weekend, perhaps a filibuster, an old fashioned mr. smith filibuster. they will mount one do anything they can to stop obamacare as they call it from being funded. the bottom line here is the senate is not expected to act finally on their version of a bill taking out that defunding of obamacare and sending it back to the house, sunday evening. township the house isn't going to have a lot of time and speaker boehner won't have a lot of choices del. >> what exactly happens if there's a government shut down? >> one thing is, we've gone through the looking glass in terms of absurdity or this ideological test. if the government shuts down, in past shut downs there's been some studies. in the long run it actually costs the government money because of shut downs and the need to prepare. we talked to chuck hagel regarding shutting down his branch. most is mandatory spending, obamacare will go forward. that is the entire point of this exercise for conservatives. they say they will fight with every ounce of breath, but what they will be filibustering is the house

mr. smith: mr. chairman, thank you for considering my amendment today to house resolution 1526, the restoring healthy forests for healthy communities act. let me begin first by saying i fully support increasing the timber harvest on federal lands. and i'm excited for the opportunity to create jobs and stimulate the economy in my rural missouri district. the issue that my amendment deals with, prescribed fires within the mark twain national forest, is a symptom of the larger problem, that h.r. 1522 seeks to fix. to put it simply, our national forest system could be better managed. 50 million board feet of timber with an estimated value of $4.75 million dies every year in the market twain national forest -- mark twain national forest. only 38 million board feet of timber with an estimated value of $4.37 million is harvested. there are individuals ready, willing and able to harvest the timber. but they are prevented from acting by the federal government. the forest service head made the harvest -- has

"not exactly a mr. smith moment, end quote. all right, joined now by nbc's political reporter casey hunt. i don't know how you keep it together. we appreciate you getting up with us. the front page of "the dallas morning news" he leads lonely attack on budget bill. he is alone on this. why is he doing it? >> he has become a hero to the conservative grass roots over this and, brian, you have to remember what's going on here. these third party conservative groups like the club for growth, heritage action, those are the people who got him elected and other senators elected like mike lee and marco rubio as you heard him just talking about was actually the establishment basically rejected early on and they went on to win. so they don't feel beholden in any way to their party leaders and you're seeing that play out on the floor and cruz is being played out as a grassroots hero on right wing blogs as much as his critics say he deserves to be ridiculed because he can't actually change the process going forward and those critics would a

. >> not a good day if mr. smithil. >>> oracle team usa now sailing at least one more time out of the san francisco bay this year. fresh off managing to avoid elimination at the america's cup. yesterday's race, the 12th race. postponed twice because of all the high winds out there. well, the weather finally slowed down and allowed the two teams to compete. when they did, it was all team usa leading it from start to finish and beating emirates team new zealand. now, they're still down big-time, down eight races to two, but the americans know they need to keep on winning just to stay alive. it's do or be done time. the kiwis, hey, they only need one more win to capture the cup. race 13, wind permitting, will be scheduled from 1:00 this afternoon. if you can't be out there to see it in person, catch it live's on cozi-tv. that is comcast channel 186, and also on air at 11-2. >>> mother nature has thrown a change-up for us. >> oh, yeah? >> that's right. >> she's got a good arm. >> rob, you know, it's my mom's birthday. le

. >>> mr. smith goes to washington for the tea party right now. senator, ted cruz, has been holding the senate floor since after 2:00 yesterday afternoon, all to show how much he wants to block president obama's health care law from taking hold next week. and abc's jeff zeleny tracking it all night long. jeff, you look okay. >> reporter: good morning, george. this freshman firebrand from texas is really holding an all-night crusade. but this is no ordinary policy debate. he talked about dr. seuss. and in the wee hour, he invoked the reality show, "duck dynasty." let's get to it. >> most americans could not give a flying flip about politicians in washington. i will embarrassingly admit that i took the coward's way out. and so, went and purchased some black tennis shoes. i'm a big fan of eating white castle burgers. redneck rule number one, most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords. do you like green eggs and ham? i do not like them, sam i am. i do not like green eggs and ham. thank you. thank you, sam i am. >> reporter: and there

they did a nice job to mr. smith limiting him to three tasks. last year by torrey smith. now dominique rodgers-cromartie comes over here and jack del rio said if you are not ready to be coached, don't come here. you did not play well last year in philadelphia. i can fix it if you're willing to be coached hard. that's what he's done. >> al: dlals claallas clark. third and seven next. i'll tell you, it's been a coverage to watch. there's identified backers. after champ returns. >> cris: he throws and that's caught. the first down as dallas clark made the catch outside the 20 yard lines. 2 1/2 to go, 2/14. >> did a good job of working back. the only thing that saves you, you see some of the infighting. it's all undercut. >> al: ravens first down. getting there simultaneously with the ball was duke ihenacho making contact with dallas. an illegal second down. when you watch a film of him he comes out of nowhere. think of guys like john lynch that could start 15 minutes off the ball and make it a play. >> al: mike adams. second down and 10. incomplete

certainly the judge is not gonna say, "what's your diagnosis, mr. smith? you broke the law," all right? it's not gonna go down that way. you can read up on the literature a whole lot, and what you're gonna see is a whole lot of theories about why this is happening and very little talk about what to do about it. >> yeah, it's true. >> you can read for weeks and not come across something that says, "tonight, when this kid does this, you do this." but that's what i do for you in the total transformation program. >> it wasn't a matter of a.d.h.d. it wasn't a matter of her focusing ability and things like that. it was just a matter of getting herself under control, learning how to deal with feelings and problem-solving. she couldn't think a problem from one end to the next, and i didn't know that at the time, but i do now, and it's certainly been a breakthrough for us. >> so, as a parent, you have to decide, is that kid gonna control you, or is he gonna learn how to control his own behavior? in the total transformation program, i show you how to teach that kid

so she reached out to his best friend, mr. smith, who was a yale-educate physician who was also in the revolution and also a great friend. she said, i have this, i know there's something growing. t very painful, and i feel that we need to to something about it. well, he came to see her and he agreed. he said, we need do something. i'm not the best qualified, but i'm going to come back in a couple of weeks with a surgeon, we will take this out. so she wrote sam houston and said, you know, i'm in pain. i'm going have a little surgery. it's going to be quick. it will take two minutes and not worry. well, she had the operation to take out the breast tumor, and because she had been so strong with her husband sam that he not drink, she refused to take the alcohol that dr. smith was urging on her to dull the pain, and she refused to take it, and dr. smith wrote to sam houston and said, she took it like a soldier. she bit on a cohen, and endured this and survived and had more children and they had -- she had a long and regular life. but, of

sports psychologist say the 49ers as tome and organization have already taken the first step to help mr. smiththey close rank to give him support. head coach harbaugh made that clear at his monday news conference. >> we are very supportive of him as we are of all of our players. all of our coaches and personnel. >>reporter: but now faces the hard part. experts say he has to want help. sports psychologist adam has worked with many athletes with similar problems. rehab is examining the pavement in terms of his using his past experience and drive his current experience and see if maybe that can help him move forward and understand the responsibility that has not only to himself but to the team and organization so ultimately he can't make an impact later on. >>reporter: line back we are a hilton mansion and big paycheck may have it all but there was a shooting and stabbing at his house followed by friday arrest for drunk driving and possession of drug. >> as long as they are willing to work towards getting better and being better team mates, better members of the community and i believe that al wa

and i don't know if you saw mr. smith goes to washington. >> sean: i have. >> in that movie when jimmy stewart's character said a lost cause during his own filibuster, a lost cause is the only one worth fighting for because a lost cause is the only reason you fight for such a thing is for one reason, one plain, simple reason that, is, love thy neighbor n a world full of hatred that one politician who understands that virtue love thy neighbor is going fight tooth and tail until his political death, if you will in order to dot right thing n that, he has a great trust so. are people going to trust that virtue? love thy neighbor, in this case, loving the country so we won't be insolvent under obama care or are you going love this deceptive program they passed not knowing what it was entailing oos thoos reminds me a little bit, do you remember when reagan challenged gerald ford in 1976 and a lot of republicans were angry and came very close, very close in that battle againstford this seems to be a real showdown in the republic

what i mean this is not a filibuster in the sense of mr. smith goes to washington. he won't be speaking on end. there is a definite time limit on this. we don't want to get into all the rules but tomorrow morning at noon there is going to be a vote. at that too whether ted cruz is still on his feet, whether he lasts that long, the vote will go forward and the first of procedural votes. to get you caught up on our story last friday when the house of representatives led by conservatives sent this bill over that extends budget until october 1 and defunds obamacare, senator cruz intends to fight with every beth that he has, but this is not this kind of filibuster where he can stall the proceedings. yes, it will drag out the course of the next days and into the weekend. that is the house of representatives will get it one day to go before a potential shut down on october first. unclear what they can do about it even if they choose to do something. we're heading perilously close to that cliff. >> does senator cruz even the support of other senator republicans for what he'

we need to go to mr. smith chairman of the africa sub-committee. >> thank you. it was said it was alarming that president obama did not long put into place with our allies and partners a plan for international action. it was alarming that we failed to do what ought to have done. i have three specific questions. i would ask that you answer all three to the best of your ability. yesterday, you testified the obama administration wanted to make him, that is assad regret the decision to use chemical weapons as he's done on august 21st. first question, do we have clear proof that assad himself ordered it? second question, in an interview with chris wallace on sunday you should that at the very insignificant the planes were in the air on kosovo, there was a vote in the house of representatives and the vote did not carry. that is true. the house of representatives voted against it. your word very instant is certainly an elastic term. the vote was a full month later claiming that nato's bombing began on march 24th and the house voted against it on april 28th. there were

>> my sympathies and my heartfelt condolences go out to mrs. smithr the loss of sean but i'm trying very hard to explain that in the real world, not the world of television or "24," things move very slowly. in 1993, a hezbollah mastermind. >> i don't want to hear that. why do navy s.e.a.l.s say we were ready, they told us to stand down? >> i was told the same thing. >> okay. they are telling me in the ear we've got to go. great book. i did read the book. pat smith, our love to you and hopefully we'll see you soon with some answers. >>> and coming up, we continue our coverage of benghazi and we've got some military analysts who want to respond to this segment. >>> and vote in tonight's instant poll. why does obama really want to strike syria? facebook me or tweet me @judgejeanine. thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions... in everything

and i don't know if you saw "mr. smith goes to washington" mark levin reminded his viewers of that. when he said a lost cause during a filibuster, he said a lost cause is actually the only one worth fighting for because a lost cause, the only reason you would fight for such a thing is for one reason, one plain, simple reason, and that is love thy neighbor. and in a world today that is full of hatred, that politician who understands that "love thy neighbor," is going to do the right thing until the death, is love his neighbor. so that virtue, love thy neighbor, the country, so we won't be insolvent under obama care, they passed it not knowing what really it entailed. >> you know when reagan challen challenged the sitting president, gerald ford in 1976, and a lot of republicans were angry. he came very close, very close in that battle against gerald ford. this, to me, seems to be a real showdown between the republican party and the conservatives and the more establishment types. my feeling is that every republican stood with cruz, if they would stand with him here, they could effectiv

. >>> and then 24-hour talk in mr. smith goes to washington. >> you think i'm licked.'m not licked. i'm going to stay right here and fight this lost cause . >> real life senators hated that film when it came out and tried to ban it in other countries. i guess it hit too close to home. in 1913 former president teddy roosevelt's 90 minute speech saved his life before he got to deliver it at a campaign stop in milwaukee. he was shot in the case but the bullet was stopped by the glasses case and the 50-page speech that was folded over in his pocket. he told the shocked crowd, quote, it took more than that to kill a bull moose. the bullet stayed lodged in his rib cage until he died six and a half years later. >>> college athletes demanding their right to get paid, but that's all i have an real money. victoria azarenko ç] >> college sports generate more than $6 billion a year. but where does that money go and is it properly benefiting college athletes? 28 college football players wore the letters" apu" on their uniforms, standing for all players united. a controversial movem

any long speech brings jimmy stuart's crusade against graph with a 24 hour talk in "mr smith goes to washington". >> you all think i'm licked. well i'm not licked. and i'm going to stay right here and fight for this, even if this room is filled with lies like here. >> real-life senators hated the film and tried to ban it in other countries. i guess it hit close to home. in 1912 teddy roosevelt's 90 minute speech helped to save his life before he delivered it. an attempted assassin shot him in the chest. the bullet was slowed bys hi thick coat, steel enforced glasses case and the 50-page speech in his pocket. roosevelt refused a trip to the hospital so he could deliver the script. he told the crowd, "it takes more than that to kill a bull moose", he lost that, but not the bullet which stayed lodged in his rib cage until he died 6.5 years later. >> coming up - college athletes demanding their right to get paid. but should they? kevin ware >> college sports generate more than $6 billion a year. where does that money go, is it properly benefitting college athletes. this past weekend in a

moore getting back in the car with mr. smith. >> so did you tell him, "yeah, he's still living?" ury hears dee dee moore continuing to instruct smith to tell people shakespeare was alive even though he now knew his gentle friend was dead. >> yeah, i told him he's still living. i said, "anybody wanna know if he's still living? yeah, he's still living." >> reporter: prosecutors say the recordings show dee dee's efforts to cover up murder. >> i guarantee you that ronald has killed him. i just know it because the man threatened to kill my son. >> reporter: here she sounds confused. she's telling greg about ronald the supposed drug dealer who she claims killed shakespeare. but she probably forgot she had already asked him to pretend to be ronald. >> they were doing a big drug deal and i think ronald killed him for the money abraham had on him. >> you call ronald and you tell this mother [ bleep ] listen here we gonna get you out of this [ bleep ] we need to know where this mother [ bleep ] is at and if he did it. >> reporter: it may be hard to follow the plot of the play in dee dee's m

that he is putting himself through a great personal sacrifice, ala-mr. smiths to washington in order to accomplish something against health reform. if that's what he's thinking people might misunderstand about what he's doing, miss own side is making sure people actually know what's going on here. one republican leadership source in congress musing out loud to abc news today saying that ted cruz should probably be expected to only go on long enough today to reach the prime time audience on the fox news channel. a senior house republican aide telling talking points memo, quote, i don't know how the senator makes it down a flight of stairs, because he is completely incapable of thinking one step ahead. this comes on the heels of an unnamed adviser to republican senator john mccain, telling "gq" magazine that senator mccain, quote, f'ing hates ted cruz, although he fully spelled out the word that i am suggesting here by saying f'ing. another house aide telling the national review online that, quote, nancy pelosi is more well liked around here than ted cruz is. me

we have an actual mr. smith coming to washington. scott smith. a mayor from arizona.have more first read coming up on the shut down politics, deadline is approaching. two weeks. the government technically runs out of money. the president is turning up the pressure on republicans to see how all this turns out. first the trivia question, who was the treasury secretary when the federal income tax became law? first person to tweet the correct answer on "the daily rundown" gets the shout out. the correct answer is coming up on "the daily rundown." geoff: i'm the kind of guy who doesn't like being sold to. the last thing i want is to feel like someone is giving me a sales pitch, especially when it comes to my investments. you want a broker you can trust. a lot of guys at the other firms seemed more focused on selling than their clients. that's why i stopped working at my old brokerage and became a financial consultant with charles schwab. avo: what kind of financial consultant are you looking for? talk to us today. help keep teeth clean and breath play close.fresh and close

hello, this is mrs. smithorked for you for three weeks and she hasn't advanced and i'm wondering why. >> that's what it's going to boil down to. >> privacy concerns. >> shathey're going to shut the door to that soon. >> let's move to another topic. a federal judge ruling exotic dancers in new york city are protected by labor laws and entitled to at least the minimum wage. this after a class-action lawsuit brought by strippers at rick's cabaret in midtown, manhattan. i mean, i guess they should get the minimum wage. they're working. right? >> i thought they already were? >> yeah. i guess somebody wasn't paying them. >> i just assumed that. i mean you know frankly i don't spend a lot of time thinking about this. >> well i do. >> okay. bob, you go next. >> i walked right that. keep the pictures up, please. they're not -- they are not independent contractors. they're employees. they are required to be there at certain hours. and that's a definition of an employee. an independent contractor doesn't have -- my wife

whether he's right or wrong or changes anything, and the "green eggs and ham" and anybody that watched mr. smith goes to what ug when you're on a 21 hour run you read anything from the bible and constitution but don't you think hypocrisy on the president or many republicans as well, the way they flip flop based on who is in the white house don't you think that is a horrible situation, john? >> yes. look, everybody's played politics with the debt limit. it's been the thing nobody wants to vote for. a responsibility of the majority to handle. and that's why it's always been raised. >> i understand why they do it, john. why doesn't it bug you more than "green eggs and ham." why aren't you rallying how the president and many republicans have switched their votes depending on who is in the white house. if it's only a political vote isn't that a huge story that nobody seems to ever really harp on? the president said it was unpatriotic when he was asked to raise the debt ceiling under "w." >> well, it's tough to make any sense out of washington these days, rick, i think. >> i think people have raised t

mrs. patricia smith, mrs. harles was who are here to specify about their sons who were killed in the ghazi. shawn smith and tyrone woods. nobody can fully comprehend the anguish they are suffering. i know from my own experience that losing someone so young and so promising is one of the most difficult things we ever experience in life. sadly, there are no mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, who were all grieving after the shootings at the navy washington yard, less than a mile from the server. our hearts go out to those families as well. in addition, although ambassador stevens family was not able to attend today, and the dougherty -- they sent a written statement as did karen dougherty's sister of mr. chairman, i'm very, very pleased in a thank you for not only reading the defense into the record, then making sure that they are part of the record. i look forward to hearing that testimony and i hope we can learn more about who these very brave word. i want to learn more about their hopes and dreams and s

mr. smith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i thank you for this hearing. i thank the witnesses, secretary considery secretary hagel, general dempsey, for being here and for your outstanding leadership on this crisis and on many, many difficult issues we face as a country. i think there is no question at this point that assad used chemical weapons in syria. the evidence, the intelligence case that's been made has been overwhelming in the hearings i have been to on this, of course, is on the heels of a civil war in which assad has killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 of his own civilians which is a series of abhorrent acts in and of itself. the challenge for us on this panel and for the people who are testifying today is how best to respond to all this, how best to hold president assad accountable for all of this. there is no question, and i agree completely, that trying to control the proliferation of chemical weapons is a goal we must have as a nation and must go forward, but can a one-time limited military strike accomplish that? and i think wh

>> well, certainly with regard to the idea this was driven by the video which is what mrs. smith asking. that was -- that's been proven to be false. if hillary clinton's her testimony, she said it was -- >> did she lie under oath, congressman? >> well, she didn't lie under oath i'm aware of because nobody's been able to put her under oath in the sense of asking the kinds of tough questions that the arb should've asked her. in fact, nobody took testimony on this review board of hillary clinton. that was one of the questions that was raised, why not? >> the other question is, where was the president in all of this and the arb never interviewed the president. never even asked him. we know that he was not in contact after 6:00 p.m. with the secretary of defense. and we assume he went to bed. well, americans were under sieged being slaughtered and others were injured. shouldn't he have been interviewed, as well? and doesn't that suggest to you that this arb board just plain incompetent? >> well, the appropriate question from the arb do work their way up the line. and that was what we

mr. smith. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i thank you for this hearing.r witnesses, secretary carry kerry, secretary hagel and general dempsey on the many difficult issues we face as a country. i think there's no question at this point that assad used chemical weapons in syria. the evidence, intelligence case that's been made, it's been overwhelming in the hearings that i have been to. this, of course, is on the heels of a civil war in which assad has killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 of his own civilians which is a series of abhorrent acts in and of themselves. the challenge for us and this panel and the people who are testifying today is how best to respond to all this. how best to hold president assad accountable for all of this. there is no question, and i agree completely that trying control the privilege racing of chemical weapons say goal that we must have as a nation. we must go forward. but can a one-time, limited military strike accomplish that? and i think what our committee wants to hear today how will that happen? how will this

pool, my third-grade teacher was talking to the principal, mrs. smith, and she said, wayne dyer was in this classroom, and called me a scurvy elephant. so she got on the phone, and she called up, and the principal said, oh, that's wayne, he gets everything mixed up. she didn't say that he was a scurvy elephant in her classroom, she said that he was a disturbing element in her classroom. a disturbing element is someone who has in their imagination the possibility that they can do anything, that all things are possible. again, it's one of those great lines from the new testament, with god, all things are possible. now you tell me, what does that leave out? what does all things are possible leave out? that doesn't leave out the possibility that we can defy gravity, that we can soar, that we can heal ourselves, that we can create magnificent prosperity in our life, that we can change the world. i said at one of the breaks here, to the audience here tonight, i really believe that if this message gets out there into the world, we can shift the consciousness o

stuart: jimmy stewart and mr. smith ending is 21 hour marathon speech against obamacare and rich edson joins us with the first on fox business at work house republican about reveal the debt ceiling view, rich edson join us from the white house. rich: moving on to the next flight. republicans unveiling their bill to increase the debt ceiling some point this week. 01 year debt ceiling height through december 31st, 2014, 1-year delay of the health-care law, tax reform put on fast track, approval of the keystone pipeline and a real grab bag of economic proposals, choose from these policy options including offshore energy production, energy production on federal lands, eliminating certain provisions of the dodd-frank law, bailout fund for example, increases in medicare means testing, medical malpractice reform, a number of other republican proposals to put in this. they won't get all of this, this is their opening offer but the administration says they refuse to negotiate so the house will work on putting this through to the

as you heard mrs. smith testify, no one was held accountable. no one has lost any pay. some were even promoted. no one has been arrested in the case. the review is pretty much a whitewash. lower people were sort of thrown under the bus, but no one has been held accountable. it is frustrating for members of congress and also for the families of the victims. >> and the state department had no comment about thursday's testimony. representative darrell issa says this was obviously not a gotcha panel because nobody was gotchad. and now some will recommend better security practices. is that enough? >> well, mr. issa and i, we have actually visited the middle east. we have made sure that some things are in place that the state department didn't do so this doesn't happen again. but we want people held accountable a and responsible. we have one mother and other families asking for answers. it is our job as members of congress to find out who is responsible, hold them accountable. it is the administration's responsibility and the president's responsibility to go after and bring t

. >>> mr. smith goes to washington for the tea party right now.as senator, ted cruz, has been holding the senate floor since after 2:00 yesterday afternoon, all to show how much he wants to block president obama's health care law from taking hold next week. and abc's jeff zeleny tracking it all night long. jeff, you look okay. >> reporter: good morning, george. this freshman firebrand from texas is really holding an all-night crusade. but this is no ordinary policy debate. he talked about dr. seuss. and in the wee hour, he invoked the reality show, "duck dynasty." let's get to it. >> most americans could not give a flying flip about politicians in washington. i will embarrassingly admit that i took the coward's way out. and so, went and purchased some black tennis shoes. i'm a big fan of eating white castle burgers. redneck rule number one, most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords. do you like green eggs and ham? i do not like them, sam i am. i do not like green eggs and ham. thank you. thank you, sam i am. >> reporter: and ther

mr. smith, chairman of the foreign affairs subcommittee on africa, global health, global human rights, and international organizations, and i would add, spreebling, -- mr. speaker, the author of important state authorization and embassy security laws in past congresses. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: i want to thank chairman royce and ranking member eliot engel for crafting this extraordinarily timely and important legislation. this is an important bill and it must be passed and signed into law. mr. speaker, on tuesday of this week my subcommittee staff director and i returned from a four-day trip to nigeria, including the city of jost, the scene of recent firebombings of christian churches by a terrorist organization that has killed thousands of nigerian christians and some muslims as well. ike al-shabab, poses serious and escalating threats to africans and american personnel overseas. the embassy security act like the security embassy construction from 1999,

the chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri, mr. smith, for five minutes. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, deficit day is the symbolic day each calendar year when the federal government runs out of money and begins adding to the already enormous debt. despite the $2.7 trillion the government is estimated to collect this year from taxes, tariffs, fees, and other sources on a calendar-year basis, the money ran out this past wednesday, september 25th. as of debt limit approaches in mid october, the federal government continues to spend money it does not have on things that americans do not want. washington is projected to spend over $10 million day until this point until december 31, every dollar it spends from this point on adds to our enormous national debt. which is already nearly $17 trillion. in the last four years, congress has raised the debt limit seven times. today the debt for every man, woman, and child averages over $53,000 per person. mr. speaker, families and small businesses from across the united states are forced to live within their

mr. smith. hearing you for this and i want to thank our witnesses, secretary kerry, secretary hagel, general dempsey come and for your leadership on this. i think there is no question at this point that assad used chemical weapons in syria. the evidence and intelligence and has been made has been overwhelming in the hearings that i have into on the heels of a civil war in which assad has killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 of his own civilians which is a series of abhorrent acts in and of themselves. these challenges for those best tong today is how hold president assad accountable for all of this. there is no question and i agree completely that trying to control the proliferation of chemical weapons is a goal we must have as a nation, but can i one time limited military strike accomplish that? i think what the committee wants to hear today is how that will happen, how the one-time strike will be enough to hold assad accountable while not creating more chaos and running the risk tha

mr. aldon smith was the driver of that vehicle.through vary investigation, determined he was driving under the influence of alcohol. >> reporter: smith is also accused of possessing marijuana. police say smith had to take a breath or alcohol test and was booked into county jail. he was released on less than $6,000 bail and headed to 49ers paractice in santa clara. coach harbaugh said smith did not appear distracted during practice and will play in sunday's game against the colts. >> he'll be back to work playing on sunday. >> reporter: harbaugh said he was disappointed to learn of the new charges against smith and said he encouraged him to get back to work and face his teammates. teammate vernon davis said he had not spoken with smith about the accusations and was aware of them and hope smith was awaill from his mistakes. >> i can talk to him. someone who's older than him, i can talk to him like i always do. >> reporter: for now, smith will continue to play and wait to learn if the nfl will take any action against him. another 49er