mr. graham: absolutely. mr.mcconnell: we all remember that 10 or 12 years ago israel, which had previously occupied hamas for the purpose of trying to prevent these kinds of devastating attacks left withdrew as a solid statement that we're uncomfortable occupying. and all we ask in return for our removal of our occupation is a peaceful border. and the center from south carolina has just outlined, periodically this is what they've gotten in return for basically leaving gaza alone and giving it a chance, if it chose to, to have a normal, peaceful existence. and yet they choose to continue the conflict as the senator from south carolina indicated because they're not in favor of a two-state solution. they're in favor a one-state solution. mr. graham: well, senator mcconnell is dead on point here. land for peace. give the palestinians land and in return israel gets peace. they gave the gaza strip to the palestinians and what have they got then in return? 2,500 rockets in the hast three -- in the last three weeks terr

mr. graham: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. graham: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: yes, we are. mr. graham: i would ask unanimous consent to terminate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. graham: i believe the body has come to agreement on my resolution along with shore menendez -- along with senator menendez standing behind this conflict with israel with hamas. as i speak, apparently there is a ground action going on by the realize in gaza. from my point of view, do what you have do to defend yourselves. i can't believe they've actual whraited this long. i can't imagine what the american response would have been if one rocket had come from our neighboring nations toward our country. we would not be so restrained. a two-state solution seems it be a very reasonable approach. the problem with hamas is the president of the senate -- as the president of the senate knows, the presiding officer, is that hamas doesn't recognize israel as an entity. pretty hard to negotiate with somebody who do

mr. graham: well, i would say that if there was a group of people in the world to be suspicious of, i would put iran pretty close to the top of that list. the international intelligence community believes that they have tried to militarize their program, nuclear program, in the past and senator rubio made a good point. they deny this. but before you go forward, you'd want to answer that question, were they engaged in militarization of what was claimed to be a peaceful nuclear power program? secondly, why would you go through all of this upheaval, build a nuclear power plant secretly at the bottom of a mountain if all you wanted to do was have peaceful nuclear power? none of this really adds up. and why do you need an icbm if all you want to do is produce peaceful nuclear power? having said that, suspicion is warranted here, but more than anything else, the final deal that may be reached should come to this body because i would suggest of all the problems in the world today, this is the top of the list for me. if they did break out like north korea, if a bad deal turned into a dangerous deal

mr. graham: thank you very much senator corker. senators mccain, rubio and corker on the foreign relations have revived the committee along with senator menendez. the committee is probably the most effective it's been in a very long time. you're doing a lot of things in the bipartisan fashion. i hope one day this becomes a bipartisan piece of legislation. but credit to the three of you all for coming up with this idea, i'm glad to be part of it and i'd just like to hear from senator rubio about his view of why this nation -- this legislation is necessary. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: thank you, mr. president. i appreciate the opportunity to speak for a few moments and i want to thank both the senators from tennessee, south carolina and arizona for allowing me to join them in this effort. for those watching at home i know so many other issues are going on around the world, we see things are going on with regards to israel over the last few days, certainly the shootdown of that airplane by ukranian sepa

mr.. g. believe roe v. wade should be overturned? >> yes. >> thank you. >> yes, i believe unborn children should be protected. >> thank you. senator graham. >> thank you. thank you very much, mr. chairman but i want to thank you for having to sing because i think it's an important topic, and i would join with ms. devices recommendation that we have a hearing on my bill which is a pain capable unborn child protection act, 1670, and have a joint vote on the senate floor and see what everybody falls out on it because it's a subject worthy of debate. let's see if we can find some common ground here about how these laws work. ms. tobias, is it your understanding that 1670 would prevent a ban on third trimester abortions that protect with exceptions for the life of the mother and rape and incest? >> 1670? >> excuse me. the other one, 1696. >> the one today. >> yes, i'm sorry. >> yes, this bill would limit, would prevent a ban on abortion in the last trimester. it would prevent -- >> ms. northup, do you agree to? >> the bill has provisions that track the constitutional standards that you say that there needs to be an exception for a woman's lif

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator mccaskill. senator graham? >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you for the service to our country and our families. are you familiar with par 1, senator campbell? >> i've been to par 1. i don't know i went to the justice center. it came about after i left. >> i urge you to go visit. it's probably the crown jewel of criminal justice if thn that paf the world, and it's a very modern facility, well run, and the hope is that in the future when an insurgent is kpcaptured they will not be put in a conventional jail. if they're really a threat to afghanistan, they'll go to the justice center where they'll be secured and they'll have well-trained judges dispose of their cases. i would urge you to take a visit. i think it's very important in defeating the insurgency. >> i will do that, absolutely. >> in defeating the insurgency, they have to believe they'll get killed or captured. is that fair to say? >> they have to understand that there is going to be some sort of repercussion. >> and if they get captured, they're likely to go to jai

graham. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to acknowledge your work on this issue and everything related to cyber threats. there is no stronger, clearer voice in the senate than sheldon whitehouse in terms of the threats we face on the criminal front and the terrorist front that come from cyber misdeeds, and congress is having a difficult time organizing ourselves to combat both threats, but to make sure this is not an academic exercise, i guess it was last year, it might have even been a bit longer, but the department of revenue in south carolina was hacked into by -- we don't know all the details, but a criminal enterprise that stole thousands -- millions of social security numbers and information regarding companies' charters, revenue, and that's required the state of south carolina to purchase protection. i think it was a $35 million per year allocation to protect those who had their social security numbers stolen we believe by a criminal enterprise. it happened in south carolina. it can happen to any company,

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator hirono. senator graham? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. dunford, you've done an outstanding job in any assignment you've done. the president has made a great choice in commandant, and you deserved it and earned it into your family. thank you for your service in our country. as to afghanistan, do you agree with me that if there is a failure to get this election closed out in an acceptable fashion where somebody acknowledges defeat and there is a form of unity government thereafter, no amount of american troops is going to make afghanistan successful? >> i agree with that, senator. >> if that didn't happen, i would be the first one to say get the hell out of there. so to the afghans, in case you're listening, that's for you. that can all be accomplished and i think it will. ct and training numbers. you're okay with the numbers in 2015, correct? >> i am, sir. >> you're okay with the original approach in 2015? >> i am, sir. >> let's talk about what we lose over time. we have about 7,000 special forces tied in the mix right now on the ground to

the security service but the last contact is that eleven pm local people including graham a reporter into or the moment mr grant only. we have information then being held captive by ukrainian security service that's according to anti government forces we can verify this moment what you. have denies detaining the journalists all that they ever did in may graham was seized by security forces in the east of ukraine he was questioned on espionage links and then released after about thirty six hours r.t. is trying to get in touch with him but we've not been able to track him down so far and choose the evening he said he was going to don't yet port despite artie's warnings of the high risks at night we received a text message from graham saying that everything was fine and that he was not was the last that we had from him. more updates on our website it's got twenty four seven updates on what's happening in ukraine the question best to geisha the ongoing unrest and our missing correspondent you can find analysis videos and background at r.t. dot com. to the middle east now these are some of the latest pictures

. >> alexander graham bell said, mr. watson, come here, i want to see you. samuel morse keyed in, from the bible, what has god wrought. what did you say and who did you talk to? >> i have no idea where the idea came from. it occurred to me that our enemy was bell systems. and the guy that was running the bell system program, by no means an enemy, but he was certainly a rival, was a guy named joel engel. joel, i apologize to you, if you are watching this broadcast. i called joel. amazingly enough -- talk about a historic moment. he answered the phone himself, which in itself was an unusual event. i told him, joel, i am calling you from a cellular phone. but a real cellular phone. a personal, portable, hand-held cellular phone. and there was silence at the other end of the line, for obvious reasons. and joel was very polite to me. he still is. but that turned out to be a historical moment, at least for me. ask how long did it take him to pick himself up off the floor for the event? >> how long did it take? >> to get him off the floor. how important was the com

mr mean you. here has admitted to detaining and interrogating graham but have a listen to what the security service had to say before when the reporters whereabouts were still unknown. i know he's been taken hostage there is no information on his were boats or whether there is a bounty on his head the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. according to graham has been deported for quote national security and territorial integrity concerns that reasoning is something geo political analyst patrick hannifin is not too sure about i think they're very nervous in the ukraine because they do not want information to escape the type of information that graham phillips is reporting about the true nature of the conflict what we have is clearly a civil war by anyone's definition except for the western media and politicians in europe in the united states are still calling it as as the government in kiev is an anti terror operation meanwhile civilians are being targeted that's the very thing that they're graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think the policy. of transparency is something th

mr mean you wouldn't. ukraine's security services initially denied having graham phillips in custody and rejected allegations of targeting journalists but they later announced that phillips had been deported as a statement that ukraine's security forces made to when no one knew where the journalist was. there is no information as were both where there is a downturn is heard ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. jay political analyst patrick henningsen told us why he thinks ukraine security forces were not forthcoming about holding the british journalist. i think they're very nervous in the ukraine because they do not want information to escape the type of information that graham phillips is reporting about the true nature of the conflict what we have is clearly a civil war by anyone's definition except for the western media and politicians in europe in the united states are still calling it as as the government care there's an anti terror operation meanwhile civilians are being targeted that's the very thing that they're graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think just like a policy ou

mr. speaker, do you agree with senator graham who said yesterday if republicans do not go ahead and approve this funding, they're going to get blamed for perpetrating the problem. do you think you have to fund this? >> this is a problem of the president's own making. he's been president for 5 1/2 years. when is he going to take responsibility for something? >> if that's not a call for executive action, i don't know what is. in austin, texas, the president said this about the job that john boehner has been doing. >> when folks say they're frustrated with congress, let's be clear about what the problem is. i'm just telling the truth now. i don't have to run for office again, so i can just -- you know? they said no to fixing our broken immigration system that we know would strengthen our borders and our businesses and help families. the best thing you can say about this congress, the republicans in congress, and particularly the house of representatives, the best thing you can say for them this year is so far they have not shut down the government or threatened to have america welch on our obl

mr. chairman. >> thank you senator hirono. senator graham. >> every assignment you have taken the president chose you wisely and the next commandant of the marine corps. you deserve it in the deserve it and he earned it into your family thank you for your service to our country. as to afghanistan do you agree with me that there's a failure to get this election closed out in an acceptable fashion where somebody had knowledge is there's a failure to form a unity government thereafter no amount of american troops is going to make afghan successful? >> i agree with that senator. >> invective that didn't happen i would say -- be the first one to say get the hill out of there and that is my view. let's assume that can all be accomplished and i think it will. ct, train advise-and-assist numbers. you are okay with the numbers and 15. is that correct? you are okay with original approach being emplaced? >> i am senator. >> we have about 7000 special forces types in the mix right now on the ground today. >> we do sir. >> mine by january 2015 will be 30

graham. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to acknowledge your work on this issue and everything related to cyber threats. there is no stronger, clearer voice in the senate than sheldon whitehouse in terms of the threats we face on the criminal front and the terrorist front that come from cyber misdeeds, and congress is having a difficult time organizing ourselves to combat both threats, but to make sure this is not an academic exercise, i guess it was last year, it might have even been a bit longer, but the department of revenue in south carolina was hacked into by -- we don't know all the details, but a criminal enterprise that stole thousands -- millions of social security numbers and information regarding companies' charters, revenue, and that's required the state of south carolina to purchase protection. i think it was a $35 million per year allocation to protect those who had their social security numbers stolen we believe by a criminal enterprise. it happened in south carolina. it can happen to any company,

mr. president. >> the republican leader. >> briefly, want to commend senator graham for his suggestions.ll three of those suggestion idaho be carried out this week. time is of the essence. and in listening to the litany of the actions of the palestinians that you recounted and that we all remember going back almost to the founding of the state of israel, i'm reminded of what one of israel's early foreign ministers once said about the palestinians. said, you know the palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. >> sad but true. >> sad but true. i recall when prime minister barack was in office at the end of the clinton years. the administration brokered a deal that israel was willing to offer and the palestinians said, no. probably a deal they couldn't have gotten today. so we see this lit notify opportunities wasted over the years, and the people who suffered as a result of it obviously have been the palestinian people. >> absolutely. and with that i would like now to turn over the debate to a good friend from new hampshire, senator aot, who has been one of the leaders

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mr. speaker, do you agree with senator lindsey graham who said yesterday if republicans do not go ahead andove this funding, we're going to get blamed form perpetuating the problem? do you think you have to approve this funding? >> listen, this is a problem of the president's own making. he's been president for 5 1/2 years. when is he going to take responsibility for something? >> mr. speaker, madam leader said that the gop highway bill would put the country into a rut. there's a bipartisan proposal coming out of the senate for the senate highway trust fund of possibly raising the gas tax. would you support raising the gas tax? >> i have never supported raising the gas tax. we're not going to get to a long-term highway bill here over the next couple months. that's why the ways and means committee in the house, senate finance committee in the senate, are working on a proposal to extend the current highway program for another 6 to 12 months. i believe that the house ways and means committee is acting as we speak and i expect next week this issue will be on the floor of the house. >> you said

mr mueller and the. drawing wide attention to events in eastern ukraine is just one of the reasons why graham phillips was detained that's according to legal experts alexander macoris. first question that he was working for ought to be an eighty's or a russian television station simply did he was broadcast to me and so it was exactly an english speaking audience to me so you so because this is a very good journalist and it was broadcasting things that the ukrainian authorities don't want the world to see and he was doing that as i said in english and that was obviously unacceptable to them so presumably they would be treating our journalists who work for the russian television stations or news media organizations in the same work i find it actually very worrying. graham has been posting online about his treatment of the hands of ukraine's security forces he spared no details on what he and his fellow journalists how to enjoy follow his twitter feed for more details of his experience. now ukrainian media are reporting that a team of forty dutch police and twenty investigators have arrived in eastern ukrain

mr. chairman, in your response to senator graham's proposal, you made clear your opposition to his bill, you went on to say, and i quote: i am more than happy to cast a vote on it along with the women's health protection act, and i hope they will be considered. this issue deserves to be before this body, end of quote. we agree. we challenge you and the leadership of the majority party to allow the american people to see where every senator stands on both of these major abortion-related bills. let the american people see which bill reflects the values of each member of the united states senate, life or death for unborn children. thank you. >> thank you, ms. tobias. ms. taylor. >> thank you so much. good morning. my name is chris taylor, and i am the state representative from the great state of. i so appreciate the opportunity, chairman blumenthal, to testify in strong support of the women's health protection act, and i thank ranking member grassley and committee members for this opportunity today. i also want to thank my senator, tammy baldwin, whom we are very proud of in wisconsin, for

mr mean. definitely not a pleasant place to be. political analyst patrick henningsen joins is now to give us some insight on the arrest and deportation of graham phillips either patrick before we have a chat about this and what was behind the ukraine security service just about twenty four hours ago said point blank they do not arrest detain journalists let's listen let's take it from there. i know it's been taken hostage there is no information on those were boats or whether there is a bounty on his heard the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. well that's the official line anyway patrick so if they don't apprehend journalist detain journalists protect journalists whatever you want to call it what will they do with graham. well firstly they should know graham phillips by now because this is not the first time that he's been detained by the s.b.u. the ukrainian officials but i think they're very nervous in the ukraine because they do not want information to escape the type of information that graham phillips is reporting about the true nature of the conflict what we have is clearly a civil war by anyone's definition except for the

mr sharon thank you very much for your time and thank you for joining us here on r.t. international is appreciated. now news just in a ukrainian correspondent who was where the british journalist graham phillips at the time of his disappearance has been released contacted the on a news channel and told them that graham is still being held by the security service and we'll have more from him in the next how our hay on international. coming up next it's wild paulton looks at our designs effect our society. joins us this month in fossil on as we follow the international teams vying for racing glory ultimate. one holds how much we delve into the mysterious cost of a cult classic under sponsorship deals away from the heart clearing the roads for the global. technology. we've done the future. of. the. long. hello and welcome to worlds apart the pledge to make the world a better place is one of the most overused tropes of our time politicians activists to bill terrorists have all attempted to do it in the old way our guest today is one of the world's most celebrated industrial designers and changing the world is also part of his life manifesto. welcome to the wilds of parts thank you thank

mr. putin praised the talents of joseph gobels, the great nazi propagandaist. >> the question is what to do about this? just a short time ago on cnn senator lindsey graham was talking to carol costello. he said i want russian people to feel pain in response to the pain they have caused? my question is does vladimir putin respond to any pain amongst his people? >> we don't know for certain and i don't think the goal should be to punish russian people. the goal should be to punish mr. putin, and i think that mr. putin should be forced to choose between having a viable economy and destabilizing ukraine. i think europe has been very weak on sanctions and mr. putin has counted on that. but if europe were to join us with the strong sanctions we made last wednesday, and perhaps the two of us together, the e.u. and the united states were to target the russian financial sector, the financial sector of their economy, mr. putin would have a serious choice to make between the economic stability of his country and aggression in ukraine, and that's what our policy should be. >> you also mentioned you don't want to punish the russian people themselves, but all of thos

senator graham, said that wasn't necessary. it's truly an emergency, mr. gram, said, it would be better if it were paid for but we can't find -- if we can't find a way to pay for it i think we need to go ahead and allocate the resources because this is not a good situation. mr. obama isn't visiting the border despite repeated calls from the republicans to do so. the president also extending an invitation to texas governor rick perry to join him, which mr. perry accepted. you heard our guest early in the morning talk about that. from oak park michigan, good morning on the republican line. go ahead. >> caller: how you doing? so the first thing i wanted to say was, you know, $3.7 billion, that's an astronomical amount of money. people don't understand that, you know, when they talk about money. that's $3,700,000,000, okay? and just to send people back, that seems like -- that's a ridiculous amount of money, okay? that's number one. and you got people calling in and talking about we should work with obama. obama is in the white house. he won't go down to the b

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mr. secretary, is this problem a result of failing to pass comprehensive immigration reform or is it something else? >> senator graham, if i may, to your prior question also before i answer this one, i do not think that removal of the parent who probably has been in the interior for years is the answer to dealing with this current situation. >> mr. secretary, it's all about signals here. you're right, you're trying to say we're going to tell people back in these countries stop this and the best way to stop this is to send the kids back. i don't think -- you're reinforcing another bad problem when you don't check the legal status of the person, there is zero hope they're ever going to get into the legal system because the person that you've turned the child over to is illegal themselves, and you're just compounding a problem. i'm pretty far out there on reforming immigration, but i think you're reinforcing bad behavior. now to my point, is this problem a result of a failure to pass illegal -- immigration reform or is it something else? >> i believe it is essentially three things, the conditions in the central american

mr. president, on another matter entirely, ... today i want to honor the life of one soldier from kentucky, who gave his life and service to our country, specialist kevin j. graham of benton was killed in kandahar, afghanistan, on september 26, 2009. when the enemy attacked his vehicle with an i.e.d. he was 27 years old. for his service, in uniform specialist graham received many medals, awards and decorations, including the bronze star medal, the purple heart, the army good conduct medal, the combat infantryman badge, the national defense service medal. the afghanistan campaign medal with bronze service star, the global war on terrorism service medal, the army service ribbon, the overseas service ribbon, the nato medal, the expert marksmanship badge, the national defense service medal and the army service ribbon. soldiering was not simply a vocation to specialist graham. it was a way of life, and it was a calling. from a young age, friends and family recall his strong desire to become a soldier. before he went into the army, he would see guys in uniform and say he needed to be doing something like that, says the reverend jonathan goodman, kevin's pastor from be

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mr. graham: i learned something. mr. corker: but my hope is that before any type of sanctions relief takes place, that congress will have the opportunity to weigh in. i had a long conversation yesterday with our lead negotiator. i shared the same concerns, that i just feel the moment slipping away from us. i think all of us want to see a diplomatic solution. i don't think there is anybody on this floor that wants to see anything less than a great result diplomatically. we are losing our leverage. time is slipping away. the coalition is dissipating. some of the parties, as you know, have differing interests now. we have had some conflicts arise over the course of time where some of our partners, some of our partners in these negotiations were at significant odds over it. with russia right now we have the issue in ukraine and crimea. with china, we have issues in chien and the east -- in china and the east china sea. all of this is giving me doubts about reaching a diplomatic solution, even though i want more than anything