today is jimmy wales free speech activist enter printer and as he's best known co-founder of we keep mr welles it's great to have you with us today thanks for having me so i'm going to start of with a quote the internet our greatest tool of emancipation has been transformed into the most dangerous especially tater of totalitarianism we have ever seen these are the words of julian assange from his book cyber facts freedom and the future of the internet do you believe there is an effort in left online. yes i do i think there's significant freedom left online. and i don't agree with julian assange says quote i think that although obviously we should be quite concerned about a lot of the recent. revelations about spying and so forth the internet remains the most powerful tool for the spread of freedom in the world today are but in your estimation how much of internet is being controlled right now. virtually none of it you know in general the internet is a very open place where everyone is able to communicate and talk to each other governments try various ways to try to control it but they're almos

that will have an impact on our economy as well. mr. lamalfa: we're both from longtime farming families, and when you are a farmer, anybody in a small business that might be multigenerational, but especially on the land, you develop a bond, a love of the land, that you don't really put a price on. i think most farmers, they'll farm until they can't farm anymore either due to age or regulations taking it away from them, whatever. how do you put a price on, in my family, we're raising the fifth generation, you and your neighbors have multigenerations as well. how do you put a market price on your legacy? you know. somebody coming in from sacramento or washington or whatever saying we think it's worth that. it might be worth infinitely more amount to you, your family and the generations behind you. how do you quantify that? mr. valadao: you can't. when it's a project necessary for the benefit of the country, benefit of the state, one that makes sense with a good plan behind it, it's a little easier to swallow but when you see this project

mr. santo as well as five degrees. -- even as temperatures sank to five degrees. days a year. i don't think i'm contagious. another, the wind has diminished. a pretty decent warm is on the way. let's get started with pictures. starting with current temperatures, it is plenty cold. temperatures in the teens. double digits across the region. 10 in gaithersburg. 19 in quantico. 18 at reagan national. floorboard, look at the averages. we did not tie the record low. we missed that by one degree. there are some records today. these are the records for the lowest high temperature day. only hitting 16 at baltimore. that was a record low. we missed that by five degrees. these cold debentures are going to continue through the morning hours. the polar vortex, the thing everybody is talking about, it was far to the south. see live set you can northeast. it will start to warm up around the area. we can show this in a couple of ways. 15-20 degrees warmer in spots than they were yesterday. the warm up is beginning. this temperature shows how much warmer it is right now and it was this time y

mr. leon proved that very well in the below hearing regarding his waybills. one of the things you should know, one of the important things about that driving requirement is that had mr. oha been a regular driver in his vehicle, in his ramp medallion vehicles, he would have recognized very early on the issues that he was having regarding the wheelchair pick ups. it's something that many of our medallion holders make an attempt to try to rectify. they'll try to get in that car on their own and do the pick ups themselves. mr. oha is the final responsibility, he's the person i have to call to say hey, make sure you drivers do this. he's the medallion holder. we cannot subsidize that company any longer. it's merely some colors with a phone number that no one can possibly use. thank you. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, then you have three minutes of rebuttal. >> again, heidi, first i'd like to point out that this company was first conceived in 2006 and all taxi companies do have problems, they all have a certain level of violations, certain

mr. peterson: well, mr. speaker -- go ahead. you going to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for two minutes to close. mr. mcgovern: mau, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, first of all let me say that -- thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, first of all let me say that i'm grateful to mr. peterson and chairman lucas. i appreciate their dedication on these issues. it's good to be on the agriculture committee and proud to serve with them as well as with other members on each side of the aisle. unfortunately, i cannot support this bill. mr. speaker, let me speak to my fellow democrats. last night we sat in this chamber and we listened to the president give his state of the union address. and when he talked about raising the minimum wage, we all stood up and cheered. when he talked about the need to address income inequality, we all applauded, but cheers and applause are not enough. and i ask my colleagues to think back, to remember listening to their parents and grandparents talk about how franklin roosevelt always

mr. chairman. well, notwithstanding our diversity which you just signaled, we began this process with great admiration and gratitude for the intelligence community and we'd like to start by honoring their extraordinary work in keeping the nation safe. the risks associated with terrorism and associated threats are real and one of our main goals has been to suggest reform that is are compatible with combatting those risks. after extensive discussions and consultations during the last months, the gratitude and admiration that we had for the intelligence community has only increased as a result of interacting with them. we found the highest levels of professionalism. we found no evidence of political or religious targeting or targeting because of people because of political dissent. the focus genuinely has been on national security. we are also grateful to them for their help and cooperation on a very tight time schedule and they provided us with great access to information making our report possible. we're

well, you know, mr. president, that's an idea i proposed to the president at the white house health care roundtable back in february of 2010. after 25 years of practicing medicine, i know that for some people, catastrophic coverage is the right option. for many people it is. it encourages patients to be smart consumers of medical services. but at our meeting four years ago, president obama suggested that these plans were suitable only for the wealthy, that they really weren't good ideas. he said that letting people being smarter consumers wouldn't help. now he's changed his mind. don't expect him to admit that republicans were right all along. the president says, well, the republicans have no ideas. if they have some ideas, they can bring them to him. there are a number of different bills and proposals by republicans. the president seems to just want to ignore that just as much as he wants to ignore the problems and the misery that his health care law has caused for so many people all around the country.

while sought after for creating nuisance sculptures he maintenance small-scale skurlz please well, mr. cliff >> thank you and thank you congresswoman pelosi and mayor ed lee for your comments. this building and project represents many things i want to talk about the roll of art in the contemporary society. within their design convalescence program. this court yard was done within the program. this program offered the opportunity to work with architect and engineers and significant collaborations that integrate art into the general mifgsdz public buildings. during this collaboration i had the pleasure to work with jennifer and ken barker in washington and don davis. as well as others from the construction site. and we also had an excellent contractor. that my most significant professional collaboration in the project was with two people don doug last from the fine arts program and cliff low. cliff lows sensitive were structural for me to create the landscape ribbons. don douglas demanded the best quality. the sculptor in this court yard called ribbons is the heart and soul of the build

it's violating our constitution amy republican congressman peter king of new york going over well says that mr paul is stroke is stoking paranoia and his steria in connection with this and he claims rand has not been able to cite one abuse by the n.s.a. what's your reaction well in fact the n.s.a. in own internal audit found thousands of abuses by n.s.a. and i say employees when it came to using this data and they saw that there was very there was a lack of oversight and management at the n.s.a. most of the abuse had to do with employees spying on former lovers you know out of revenge and so forth not necessarily the type of surveillance that we're fearful the government might be imposing on us as american innocent citizens but i think rand paul as well as edward snowden at least in this narrow sense of the n.s.a. surveilling america innocent american citizens on a massive scale is a very worthy topic of debate and of reform rigidity of things snowden has hurt the obama administration oh no i wouldn't say that he's hurt the about ministration i said would he's hurt all americans by sort of rev

series some of them are about their children and out of the education but like everybody there mr cherry well he will do some searches hours in the halls and i brought up what i've been interviewing hamlet's but who has become really in harness i found columbia presbyterian church and i came and i started eating here and as i started eating here i started to see the service that was being done here in the midst of that i found out there chef this michael was given a call and then because. i joined the class and for him i did this to myself i get to become a call and it will show what has been a hard year but i joined doing what i. i do give him a bad person and give him service in the community as it is he will be doing. is a wonderful feeling to know that you can jot down and slowly but surely very says so. and through all of that i was able to create a catering flow because we know their oil and the way they are in order to keep something we share is simply in the apartment i put a pot of hot water. just so we don't treat. the stuff on it being there when it comes to the debate. as to the l

>>i think that came well with mr. rose's comments as well. let's move on to public comment and on items one and two. anyone wish to comment on these items? no customers. okay. public comment is closed. so i'm sorry was there public comment? >> [inaudible] >> please come on up. >> good morning chairman and members of the committee. i am rachel richmond, the policy director of professional engineers local 21 and this is kim carter who represents the people who work at the crime lab. we are in very, very strong support of this bond, particularly the portion that will build a new crime lab. most people think of the crime lab -- they think of the tv show csi but our crime lab doesn't look remotely like that. our members who work at the crime lab have been working in intolerable conditions for a decade waiting for a new lab. it was supposed to be in a prior bond but at the last minute remove d. this bond and crime lab building will allow for full staffing and drug testing on site. it's currently contracted out and that will save the city money. i c

well, mr. president, what they have to know, among other things things -- each of us can be pretty -- what's the right word? demanding, i don't know if that's the right word, but we all -- senator mcconnell and i -- these podiums are here all the time, but we're the only two, so when a senator comes to speak, they need a podium. but they have to get the right podium, and the pages have to know when a senator wants to speak what podium they get. is it going to be a little one, middle sized, half middle sized or big one. anyway, they have to know that. they have a big chart up there to make sure they don't make mistakes. they make sure we have water. i don't like warm water, i like cold water, i don't like ice. i learned from the page the other day we all have our demands for water, sparkling, half sparkling, half regular, half tap. so, mr. president, i am so grateful that they took the time to leave their homes to come here to go to school. to be students at the united states senate. mr. preside

well, mr. president, if you're that willing to pick up your pen, then pick it up and sign the keystone pipeline permit so we can start creating jobs in this country. mr. davis: and get 40,000 people off the unemployment rolls and into good paying jobs that are careers. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? mr. johnson: to address this body for one minute, to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. as a member of the safe climate caucus, i urge my republican colleagues to lift their heads from the sand so that they can see the effects of climate change throughout our country. scientists agree that climate change is causing the extreme weather that is devastating our citizens and our economy. the republican response has been to deny the science. year after year republica

mr. duffy? >> no? >> okay. >> well, mr. duffy, let me ask you the same question, that i just asked to see just exactly how far the negotiations have gotten, all right? >> and were there any designs shown at that meeting for the appellant foundation? >> there, i think that there are some meetings that there was no one from dbi and there was a meeting out there and at that time there was no, there was no design from any side, and subsequently 3032, and went ahead and got their design done and got their permit that and is peeled and i think that the meeting that they are referencing happened at the engineer's office and not then, we would not have been present at that time. >> okay. and i would say one thing, you know, in san francisco, we deal with these under pinning permits a lot. because of the lot lands and the excavations they are normally, and what happened in this case was that we obviously had the collapse and that started the mistrust and the doubts, and if this was done right, and this could have been addressed earl

mr. whitehouse: well, one of the most prominent one is george schultz, who served with great distinction under i want to say three republican presidents. mrs. boxer: yeah. it's true. mr. whitehouse: and i happened to run into him within the last 10 days and i said, thank you for your work on carbon. it's important. he said, it's important. he said, we have to do a carbon fee. he said, revenue-neutral. i said, yes, we have to do a revenue-neutral carbon fee. revenue-neutral carbon fee means that the money that's generated by the polluters paying for the harm that they do to all of rest of us, which they otherwise get away with for free, goes right back to the american people. it is revenue-neutral. it doesn't go into the government and raise the size of government. it goes right back. you could do it by lowering taxes. you could do it by paying off every student loan in the country. you could do it by giving seniors a raise on social security. what a good discussion that would be to be having right here. but we can't have that discussion because the other party is trapped by the polluters,

mr. polis: well thank you, mr. speaker. i am proud to yield three minutes to the gentleman from maryland, the democratic whip, mr. hoyer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for three minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i appreciate this opportunity to comment not only upon this rule, which provides of course for mostly closed rules, no amendments, no ability to change or modify, particularly two bills that had no hearings, went to no committees and were reported out, doing stuff that did for 2013 almost without exception. but what i really rise to say is that i want to urge every member to vote for -- against -- excuse me -- the previous question. now, mr. speaker, i know the american public will hear previous question. what does that mean? the previous question, if defeated, will give us the opportunity to put on this floor what the overwhelming majority of american people want on this floor which i understand the gentleman from michigan, as i just was walking in, he just

mr. david pilpel. as you well-know complainants start out filing a complaint. they spend endless hours waiting for their items to be scheduled and calendared and they go through a rigorous process of evaluating alleged complaints, but when the sunshine task force finishes their determination they do not title and forward to you an alleged order of determination. they send you an order of determination. don't put the word "alleged" in your title of the new proceedings. because the point the sunshine case ends up in a referral for enforcement, at ethics, it's no longer an allegation. thank you. >> on the -- with respect to the title of the ordinance, or our response to the ordinance and our handling of the ordinances, i think the titles are fine. i don't know if any other commissioners have thoughts. my view is that we do handle some sunshine complaints directly. we handle some that the task force would have made a determination on, but ultimately i think the regulations are clear and the title accurately reflects more or less what we're trying to do with them. t

one opposition leader mr said yesterday ukraine's president counseled me saying do you think do believe today's clashes could have been avoided if the in aqaba she agreed to talk. well the answer if i may say so is that what mr mystically h.b.o. is demanding is actually x is actually extraordinary what he's saying is he will only talk with those representatives of the government namely the president himself that he wishes to know misty in a covert has a cat is the president of the country he has all sorts of other things to do he has delegated a very important man the head of his national security council to negotiate on his behalf it's not for the mystically go or for the opposition leaders to say that that's wrong or that they're just not going to negotiate with him this is been white the way through this whole crisis right from the beginning the opposition leaders have approaching will an extraordinary sense of entitlement insisting at all times that things be done the way they want them to be done now that is not the way to achieve compromise or to negotiate. looking at the situation as it is from your point of view now do your thing while can you actually rule

mrs. clinton do? >> not wellink, hillary clinton was secretary of state, there were 70,000 employees who were there, the guy in charge was the under-secretary of state, the number two official at the department. he reported to her, and apparently never bothered and she never asked what is happening with security at our embassies. and another big difference, no one has been held responsible for this at all. nobody has lost their job or been fired or tossed out of the department and pensioned off. nobody, and secretary clinton does bear the final responsibility. the most damaging thing of this report today is it said this could have been prevented and it could have been prevented by the actions of the -- that is the responsibility of the secretary of state. but look, there are other problems imbedded in this report. and the differences between republicans and democrats are going to keep a lot of these things from being brought forward. because you have to have unanimity to put it in the report or you have to put it

this is a very, very dangerous situation for us as well. >> mr.ambassador you can also advise this but they need to be taken, wasn't this knot signing the informs agreement, on the part of prime minister al-maliki, if that agreement had been signed? >> we would be having it differently, it's a shame that the iraqis didn't agree with us. but it wasn't just nouri al-maliki. it was apardon from the kurds. what they did not want was immunity genetics legal action against the iraqi government. this is a problem around the world. >> you don't have a problem with the united states holding out for that? >> i don't have a problem with the united states holding out for that, that's true. >> it is a very volatile situation and a very nasty mix that is being stirred in that region, iraq, syria and lebanon as well. mr. ambassador, thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> as the violence escalates in south sudan, will new negotiations bring peace? hours away from the bcs championship game, florida state head coach jimbo fisher focused on more than th

evasion and they gave in still being played on a wall street that's all but let's start with mr dawoud all's well because he ruffled. feathers this week by warding that the u.k. could be forced to quit if the organization does not reform and here is what the chants not want exactly the main points now he has been frustrated by what he sees as the storing of the free trade deal between the e.u. and the us by e.u. lawmakers themselves and the g.o.p. is being a show not by economies like china and india now the british public will get to decide in twenty seventeen in a referendum if they want to continue as a member of the e.u. now the main sticking points for the british people are immigration social security and interference from. also as a british law especially when it comes to human rights now the czech republic is in a similar situation to britain in the fact that it's in the e.u. but it doesn't have a year as its national currency so i also feel the president of the country applecart a form what he makes of those bones warning. more or less grevious such a statement the issue is whether there

> ifill: is that something you found in your investigation with secretary, then senator hagel as well, mr. blair? >> well, we didn't look into this dimention very thoroughly. but i stay very close to the ground on these questions, in close contact with former and current launch control officers and my view is that these men and women are every bit as capable and proficient, competent and dedicated as previous generations of launch officers, including my own generation. i would like to make a point about the notion that this is a scandal of unprecedented proportions. that's the way it has been portrayed by the air force. but the truth of the matter is, is that a sub culture within the minuteman force has evolved over decades. in which cribbing is wide spread. i have known hundreds of officers personally on active dultee and all of them cribbed at one time or another in my experience. >> ifill: you say cribbed n this case it was texting the answers to those taking the proficiency test. >> texting is something, basically one used to look over the shoulders of each other and help each other.

how they impact our relationships around the world that just don't have a specific comment on mr went well according to this article some units of chinese army are the targets of the us surveillance program still took on us and did an activity common free and that specific report. i think the present will speak at length about the teaching of reading. on the new york times reported that the nsa has implanted soft landing in the one hundred thousand computers around the world that allows to you last took like surveillance on those machines. the times cites an essay documents computer experts and u s officials in its report about the use of secret technology using radio waves to gain access to computers and other countries have tried to protect from spying or cyber attacks the nsa cause cfa and act in defence and has used technology to monitor units of the chinese army of us military drug cartels tray institutions inside the european union and sometimes the us partners against terrorism. like saudi away vs india and pakistan well how what is holding its breath for the end the inning after no

mr. scorsese. tell me more. >> well, listen. this guy -- >> whoa. you guys are just preparing now or what? that's what all this is? >> yeah. i apologize. so mr. scorsese, tell me about this movie. >> well, look, it takes place on wall street. this guy -- >> hold on. i think we have a clip of the movie. roll the clip. >> okay. >> what can i bring for you on this glorious afternoon? >> well, here's the game. >> which one is the werewolf? >> no, there's no werewolf in the picture. there's no werewolves. it's leo dicaprio, matthew mcconaughey, and it's "the wlofl of wall street." it's a picture about guys on wall street. >> no werewolf? >> no. >> stop the clip. stop. mr. scorsese, i apologize, we ran out of time. this shot took us too long. >> tracking shot took too long? >> yes. >> what are you going to do. >> sn. >> i'm sorry, mr. scorsese. i have to call a cab for you. >> no, i don't need a cab. >> next time. >> no, i have a limo back there. i'll go back that way if you want. >> i'll call a cab. here. let me call a cab for you. okay? >> okay. all righ

of mind later we'll have a debate about all of this too what's the current state of mind of mr snowden. well you know his morale is pretty good. he is so grateful for the support that he's received recently from some of the world's leading newspapers including the new york times that called for him to be treated we need only to be given clemency but even more than that he's grateful for the global debate that his disclosures have set off and that our open courts are reviewing the programs that he revealed and now congress is considering historic legislation even the president's own advisers are telling him that the n.s.a. has gotten out of control and needs to be reined in that was what hope to accomplish and that's what he has accomplished so that's what he meant when he said his mission has been accomplished yeah i don't think that he meant the mission accomplished this wasn't the president on the aircraft carrier saying the war is over what it was just starting what he meant by that is that his job is done his job was to bring the public into the debate to take these secret programs and b

despite the formal protest support for the party with mr ong. well many of them by some as i checked they haven't been paid in two months. i must understand that demonstrations in the capital bangkok that the government acting tough fight. one of heidi's on record intact mikey boy in the north central and northeast who joined the boys team and not that upset because you know what a tough man does not halt the polity four continents was consoled. not wanting to allow elections to appreciate my house look in the two leaders of the pro government factions test recordings we're looking at nationwide fight in the military launched deny that the union got to come the end of this is the cctv means i need to meet in beijing. thanks alicia the new. the event the sea. how how the next chill until wednesday aintree grand victoria the company felt great terrible. we made a striking modern kitchen. the imperial war museum north the power. a vibrant cosmopolitan metropolis. i think of july don't ever tell her. we have the money to spare. there are boundaries. by a

sun rouhani as well as israel mr netanyahu people want to know if they're going to be communicating with each other and if mr rouhani is going to be able to woo some investors so as you can see it is a part agenda here in davos plenty to concern ourselves with stagnate growth being top of the agenda ready in terms of the thing it's all about five years on from the financial crisis what kind of an economy are we dealing with now that is the question so it's all about challenges going forward. the planet's richest eighty five business men control as much wealth as a half of the world's entire population this according to a new report by oxfam presented at davos max lawson who's the head of advocacy at the charity organization a bit skeptical about any progress being made in the annual forum despite their proclaimed goals you've got people having more money than they could spend in ten thousand lifetimes when you have a billion people living on less than a dollar a day there's a lot that could be done on the international level t