mr. mccain: mr. president the? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: i congratulate my khraoe colleagues for taking that -- my three colleagues for taking that trip. it is of the utmost importance that my colleagues are able to see the situation on the ground, meet with our leaders, meet with the leaders of afghanistan and pakistan, be with the men and women who are serving in the military. and one thing i know is that the word spreads. word spreads throughout the men and women in our military that you took the time from your schedule, from our recess to be with the men and women who are serving. there's no better way to express your appreciation. but also it is very, very much noticed by the men and women who are serving over there. and i know that my colleagues come back better informed. and also as the situation in afghanistan continues to evolve, would be much more qualified and informed as we engage in what is appropriate for the united states senate to engage in discussio

mr. mccain in there we would be bombing iran right now. i think if you look at the lesser of two evils, i would never put mr. mccain and they're especially with sarah palin. as vice president. if he would have died, he is old enough to die, i don't want to see him die. >> host: one quick question. you voted for obama. what is one area he has disappointed you most? >> guest: i think the first thing he should have done, personally i think if we make our solar power and wind power we can stop the dependency. >> guest: no. wind and solar power is a fantasy most is provided by oil, coal and nuclear we should continue to ramp that up. all of these policies and i think young people in general are skyrocketing past 20% among the black men unemployment rate is 50% these are results from the failed policies of this obama administration. >> host: maggie is on the democratic line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. bless your heart and enthusiasm i have fillings and my teeth debtor older than you. your concept of republican conservative began beca

mr. mccain: mr. president, as is well-known by my colleagues and most americans, over the weekend -- over the last several days the governor of arizona signed legislation which is controversial, which is designed to affect the issue of illegal immigrants into the country across the arizona border. that legislation was enacted by the arizona legislature and signed by the governor because of the frustration that the governor and the legislature and indeed the majority of my constituents have incredible frustration over the federal government's failure to carry out its responsibility to secure our border. and many have viewed this as a civil rights issue. there's no intention whatsoever to violate anyone's civil rights, but this is a national security issue. this is a national security issue where the united states of america has an unsecured border between arizona and mexico, which has led to violence, the worst i have ever seen, and numbers that stagger those who are unfamiliar with the issue. numbers

mr. mccain in there, we'd be bombing iran right now, you know? you know, i think when you look at the lesser of two evils, i would have never put mr. mccain in there. especially with sarah palin as vice president. if he would have died and he's old enough to die >> host: one quick question you voted for president obama. what's the one area where he's disappointed you most? >> caller: i think the first thing he should have done after the banks is jobs. you know, i think -- personally i think if we start making our solar power and wind power that we can -- we can stop this dependency on --. >> host: let's hear what jason mattera has to say. >> guest: wind and solar power is a fantasy. most of our energy is oil, coal. and we should ramp them up. i think young people in general should have most buyers remorse. unemployment is skyrocketing 25%. and black men 50%. these are policies. these are results that are caused by the failed policies of this obama administration. >> host: maggie on our democrats line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. jason,

mr. mccain: mr.ng officer: without objection. mr. mccain: mr. president, as is well-known by my colleagues and most americans, over the weekend -- over the last several days the governor of arizona signed legislation which is controversial, which is designed to affect the issue of illegal immigrants into the country across the arizona border. that legislation was enacted by the arizona legislature and signed by the governor because of the frustration that the governor and the legislature and indeed the majority of my constituents have incredible frustration over the federal government's failure to carry out its responsibility to secure our border. and many have viewed this as a civil rights issue. there's no intention whatsoever to violate anyone's civil rights, but this is a national security issue. this is a national security issue where the united states of america has an unsecured border between arizona and mexico, which has led to violence, the worst i have ever seen, and numbers that stagger th

mr. mccain in there, we would have been bombing iran right now. if you look at the lesser of two evils, i never would have put mr. mccain in their, especially with pailin as vice president. -- palin as vice president. if he would have died, and he is old enough to die, and i do not want to see him die -- host: you voted for president obama. and what is the one area that he has disappointed you most? caller: i think the first in each of have done after the banks is jobs. personally, i think if we start making solar power and win power -- wind power and then we can stop this dependency. guest: no, wind and solar power is a fantasy. most of our power is provided by coal and nuclear and oil, and we can continue to grant federer. most places, -- to ramp up up. most places, their unemployment rate is skyrocketing. . [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> jobs, jobs, jobs. that's what this is about, but it is hard. that's why the recovery act, we invested billions of dollars in

mr. mccain in there, we would have been bombing iran right now. if you look at the lesser of two evils, i never would have put mr. mccain in their, especially with pailin as vice president. -- palin as vice president. if he would have died, and he is old enough to die, and i do not want to see him die -- host: you voted for president obama. and what is the one area that he has disappointed you most? caller: i think the first in each of have done after the banks is jobs. personally, i think if we start making solar power and win power -- wind power and then we can stop this dependency. guest: no, wind and solar power is a fantasy. most of our power is provided by coal and nuclear and oil, and we can continue to grant federer. most places, -- to ramp up up. most places, their unemployment rate is skyrocketing. these are results that are caused by the failed policies of this obama administration. host: a call from new jersey, maggie on the democrats line. caller: jason, bless your heart and enthusiasm. i have feelings in my teeth that are older than

mr. mccain, this is a reversal in the past. owe opposed troops down there.he senator and i debated the issue a number of times as you may remember on the factor. what has changed? joining from us washington is senator john mccain. before we get to the border, senator, am i wrong what's driving political cynicism across the country. >> no. you are exactly right. except i would like to make one additional point and that is there has never been any real outreach for bipartisanship by this administration. it came with 60 votes, which they don't have anymore. overwhelming majority in the house. and they have decided they would drive things through. hopefully to pick up republican senator or two. but the fact is, there has never been genuine outreach to try to get things done on a bipartisan basis. >> bill: when bill clinton was president, did he outreach. >> yes, he did. yes, he did. yes, he did. >> bill: in your experience then, this is a totally different ballgame right now? >> listen, we had some very spirited discussions and disputes with president clinton. b

mr. chairman. senator mccain, good morning. as you mentioned, the primary of the city up nogales arizona. before i start with the key issues here today, i will raise with you, i want to thank -- onto thank you for this rare occurrence in opportunity to participate in this hearing. with that being said, allow me to get to the heart of the matter. gentlemen, nogales needs your help. nogales is a community that is extremely dependent on the border and our neighbors to the south or the ability to cross the border effectively, efficiently and in a secure and safe environment is vital. since september 112,001, we have all recognized that our world is different. we mount a flick at security at the same time that we look at commerce, trade and tourism. but that is also the key point that i would like to make today, that we must not lose sight, that we are working to secure the homeland so we can conduct our normal lives. we have all seen or experienced an increase on violence on border communities. from the u.s. embassy and war as he b

mr. mccain: i thank you. today is april 15th. perhaps the most dreaded day of the year for the american taxpayer. at some point today millions of people will engage in a painful, complicated and uniquely american exercise, filing their federal tax returns. according to the tax foundation, americans worked well over three months -- over three months, from january 1st to april 9th before they earned enough money to pay tax obligations at the federal, state, and local level. congress has succeeded in establishing a pattern of taxing and spending to the point that the average american must work a full 99 days of the year just to pay their taxes. sadly, while we continue to spend and spend and spend here in our nation's capital, the tax burden carried by the average american gets heavier and heavier and heavier. on september 12, 2008, dover, new hampshire, candidate obama said this and i quote -- "i can make a firm pledge under my plan no family making less tha than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase, not your income ta

mr. mccain, it's a 35,000-acre remote cattle ranch. there's jackrabbits, rattlesnakes, a few cattle grazing on that parent has to. illegal aliens and drug smugglers out there, and that's it. this would be someone walking into wal-mart to go shop at something. so with that said, we do know come have reason to believe this man was a scout for a drug smuggling organization, and that's about the extent i can talk to you about what we know about for this individual is. it was said earlier, it was the word, term just about people feeling across the board. there was a time that was the case. today the people who are crossing the border illegally are led and they led by the ruthless, armed and well a quick individuals who are prepared to do whatever is necessary to protect their financial interests in that smuggling operation. a a few years ago, we would jump loads of dope on defense, people would just give it up and run. the people to enter the country illegally are coming on and on and looking for rides. today everything is much will organiz

mr. mccain against the value added tax. host: next is the call from montgomery county, maryland. frank, a republican, go ahead . caller: as a country, we need to think, what is a tax? what is the definition of a tax? a tax is a penalty on behavior. something like cigarettes, speeding, smoking -- you tax it and u get less of it -- and you get less of it. what exactly are we trying to tax? we're trying to tax sales in this country. what affect would that have on the economy? it would hurt the whole economy. when we think about the united states, what do we stand for? i thought we were created to be different in europe, to be different than the europeans. when this president and this administration tried to change everything to make it look like the europeans, they will have no choice. we will have no where else to go to be free. it taxes a behavior which is productivity and sales. it will have a negative affect on the country. host: on twitter -- speaking of wall street, in 10 minutes, we'll be joined by louise story, a business reporter for "the new york times" and kara scannell,

senator mccain. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. bersin, i think he can provide you with information with that leash circumstance late in evidence why is it shows there was this murder of rob cramp was done by someone who had entered this country illegally and very likely has to do with drug trafficking. haven't reached a total conclusion, but certainly there are signs that sheriff deaver will inform us. do you believe that violence has increased or decreased on our border in the last year? >> with regard to the so-called spillover from mexico, the mass violence, we have not seen that. we're prepared for it and we understand the risk, but we have this phenomenally, senator mccain -- >> them in direct you right there. sheriff said to another law enforcement people will tell you there's been significant change in the behavior of the chair traffickers and that is that they're prone to violence. they're prone to trying to cause action in some freeway so they can get away. they have become much more aggressive. their weaponry and sophist

republican john mccain: >> mr. chairman, i don't know if goldman sachs has done anything illegal, but from reading of these emails and the information this committee has uncovered, there is no doubt their behavior was unethical. the american people will render judgement, as well as the courts. >> brown: committee chairman carl levin, a democrat, said the company's behavior called into question the conduct of all of wall street. >> wall street is on the wrong side of this fight. it insists that reining in those excesses would unduly restrict a free market that is the engine of american progress. but this market of ours isn't free of self-dealing or conflict of interest. it is not free of gambling debts that taxpayers end up paying. >> brown: with that, the first panel of current and former goldman sachs executives got their say. >> the culture at goldman sachs was one in which excellence and integrity are expected. >> we provided significant liquidity to our customers in a difficult and challengixng market, while al

. >> here's john mccain, a new look. he was mr. immigration. here he is on "bill o'reilly." t now. here he is. let's listen to john mccain. >> the state of arizona is acting and doing what they feel they need to do in light of the fact that the federal government is not fulfilling its fundamental responsibility to secure our borders. >> what about the racial profiling? you know that's going to happen. it has to happen. >> i hope -- i would be very sorry that if some of that happens and i -- i regret it. >> okay, congresswoman, what do you think of john mccain, the new john mccain? >> well, i think -- he's obviously trying to win a primary where he's got a very conservative, you know, person who's very, very -- got some very strange ideas. i know i have served with that person here in the congress. i hope that john does beat him and then john comes back as a senator and gets back to the issue of -- of really being middle of the road here in helping us to push real and good immigration reform because that's what we need. we don't need to be profiling people. we don't need to be

live is gary, a former gubernatorial candidate and taylor griffin, a former advisor to the mccain campaign. mr. griffin, as long as there is this $50 billion fund in the dodd bill, doesn't that mean in truth that there will be bailouts? is it disingenuous for the president to claim, therefore, that there is no bailout in this bill? >> they are admitting that in a way, now they are talking about removing this fund. actually the argument on the republican side goes beyond the $50 billion fund are also provisions that would allow loan guarantees, taxpayer backed loans to failing firms from the treasury and from the fdic, they are not taking about taking those out there. >> is a good argument as senator mcconnell just said. the obama administration's response, no, it's not true, it's deceptive argument. the truth is, there is something there and something we should be concerned about. republicans are saying, let's take care of the problems. let's get a good bill passed. we'll stand behind that, but we're not going to stand behind something that is just has this kind of stuff in it. >> gregg: here

. >> reporter: on "fox news sunday," john mccain said the secretary's concerns did not surprise him. >> i didn't need a secret memo from mr. gates to ascertain that. we do not have a coherent policy. that's pretty obvious. >> reporter: what is obvious to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is the need to organize a coalition to impose crippling sanctions on tehran. >> if you stop them from importing, find petroleum, a fancy word for gasoline, then iran doesn't have the refining capacity and this regime comes to a halt. >> reporter: netanyahu and mccain are among those who do not believe china and russia will agree to tough new sanctions. if there are new sanctions and they do not work, gates and mull listen be responsible on advising the president on how best to contain what will likely be a nuclear iran. bret? >> bret: mike emanuel live at the pentagon tonight. thanks. the senate homeland security committee continued investigation in the fort hood shooting from the obama administration. lieberman and collins want to know what they call the warning signs of maj major hasa extremism were not recognized. we have look

you are seeing candidates like john mccain who are having a hard time. you see mr.rman say that he is concerned. is the volume higher than it was before? absolutely. he is concerned about the left's extremists that might have environmental issues and they want to go to the next level. the responsibility site i hope can rise up and we will have leaders. i hope that we won't have an incident for that leadership to prevail and for those voices to stay stop. let's be americans and let's know where the stop sign is. where do we yield to fall where do we stop? i know in my next six or seven months, i will not get rallied up and say that if anyone is walking around with tea, shot them down. let's let america be americans. let's make sure that we have responsibilities. >> as you were talking about responsibility of leadership, the assumption of, we're talking about republican and conservative leaders have been an obligation to draw boundaries. president clinton went to michigan state and spoke directly to the most disaffected elements of society. is there a place where the

mr. obama says is a sweeping new federal law that covers border protection. that's a tough sell any time. just ask george w. bush or john mccain for that matter, an especially tough sell in an already heated election year, let's break down the new policy terrain and the crackling new political environment with four people who know it well. robert orkwis has warned republicans not to alienate the growing latino population. frank sherry is founder and executive director of america's voice and immigration advocacy group that shares the president's views. and maria cordona who has served as federal communications director. let me start with a show of hands, does anyone here think this arizona law is a good idea? that's four nos, half, if i could. >> why? >> if i could, first of all we haven't really seen the details thon. there's been a quantity tum leap here about racial fro filing. we don't know if that's the case. we need to see that the actual federal law will be enforced. there's an incident that's followed by reasonable suspicion then additional steps can be taken to see if the person is in our country and that will enforce

you are seeing candidates like john mccain who are having a hard time. you see mr.ieberman say that he is concerned. is the volume higher than it was before? absolutely. he is concerned about the left's extremists that might those that are on the right feel that he or she need to make an name for themselves, even though it may not be a lot to stand on. the responsibility side, i hope it can rise up and that we will have leaders. i hope we do not need an incident for that leadership to prevail and come out with those voices to say, stop, let's start the job here. let's be americans. let's know where to stop. that is where it is. where do we yield? where do we stop? in my next six or seven months, i am not going to get false all riled up and say, anyone that is -- folks all riled up and say, anyone -- shot them down. no. let's let america be america. let's understand that we have responsibilities. we're not like other countries. >> i will bring in the audience for questions in a moment. we talk about the responsibilities of leadership. the assumption is that we're lar

mr. levin, senator levin. the ranking member is senator mccain. it was unanimously reported out by the committee.by all republicans and all democrats. it is a nomination supported by senator levin, senator mccain, the chairman and the ranking member. and, yet, that nomination was sent to the floor of the senate nearly six months ago and has yet to be acted upon because there is a hold on it. what is called a hold. i have spoken about this before last week. we have a member of the senate who said to the corps of engineers, i'm going to stop this general's promotion to major general until the corps of engineers does the following things that i demand from the corps of engineers in my home state in louisiana. this is senator vitter of louisiana. i did say to senator vitter, i would not come and speak of another senator until i told him i would do that. i told senator vitter i would be critical on the floor of the senate to what he was doing to general walsh. a patriot, someone who served 30 years for his country in the united states army. someone who has gone to war for his country. he's had a unani

mccain, give us mitt romney. democrats and republicans are people that need to work together, they have to drink about what they're doing for the united states. mr. obama is taking the country down because the democrats are letting him. guest: i would probably, specifically distance myself from any characterization of the president's race and what it means. the president is certainly a person of great intellect and ability, so i will leave that part not discussed. but one point that the caller did make that i want to associate myself with, we are all americans. with the challenges we are facing overseas, of what the american people are looking for is for parties to work together to solve common problems, not for continued fighting. while political parties my bell believe from the point of view of washington that hyper- partisanship works coat -- politically, most voters have said -- enough, already. we are to into problems of the economy, health care, and our role in the world rather than working the other. host: have you had any response to the reception from the questions on health care coming from the house? guest: what i am hearing from demo

mccain, mikulski, risch, thune, vitter, and wyden. that is quite a cross-section of political views in favor of bringing transparency to the fed. mr. president, what my amendment will do -- and we intend to bring that amendment to the floor during this debate -- is, in fact -- would require the federal reserve to release all of the details about the more than $2 trillion in zero interest loans the fed provided to large financial institutions, and also it would call for a g.a.o. audit of the fed. and the bottom line there, mr. president, is that it is imperative that the g.a.o. conduct an independent and comprehensive audit of the federal reserve within one year, and that's what our amendment does. it requires the federal reserve to disclose the names of the financial institutions that received over $2 trillion in virtually zero interest loans since the start of the recession. and, mr. president, this is an amendment that i think plls of people -- millions of people wander -- this amendment both in the house and the senate brings together some of the more conservative members and some of the more progressive members. in the house, t