mrs. secretary. we now go to mr. ingle of new york. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i had the honor of meeting with the ukrainian prime minister this morning. and he reiterated to us that obviously, the united states is indispensable in terms of ukraine. ukraine's freedom and the aspirations of ukraine to look westward rather than eastward. and an observation i've had for quite some time is that the european union in its negotiations for affiliation with the eastern partnership laid down a lot of stringent hoops that a country like ukraine would have to jump through before they could join before they could get the aid, before they could get whatever they needed. you contrast that with putin saying here's $15 billion, no strings attached. here's cheap energy. we're going to give you that. it seems to me that the eu has sort of failed in the past to really even the playing field and, of course, we're dealing with these countries that are right on the cuss cusp, not only ukraine but moldova, azerbaijan, armenia. does the eu finally get it? do they finally unde

mr. secretary. >> mr. secretary, as you know, customs processing of the nation's busiest airports during peak travel times remains a problem. this deters international terrorism to the united states costing our economy billions of dollars annually pity as you are aware, fiscal 2014 on the bus appropriations bill included funding for an additional 2,000 cpb officers. what is your plan for mitigating and eliminating excess of customs and immigration wait times at our nation's airports? and specifically approximately how many of the 2,000 additional cpb officers do you plan to deploy at our airports? >> congressman, i agree with much of the premise of your question. i agree that one of my missions as secretary of homeland security is promoting and expediting lawful travel and trade. so wait times at airports is a big issue. on will observe that in a lot of major airports wait times can spike up and down depending on time of day because very often international flights, and all it wants. i have seen this myself

mr. secretary. welcome to you. this is your first appearance before our subcommittee, your first opportunity to answer questions can on the fiscal year 2015 budget request from the president. i hope you'll find our hearings to be both constructive and beneficial to your mission as the secretary. this subcommittee is inclined to be candid and probing, but i hope our questions will be fair and reasonable. you have a difficult job, so even when there are disagreements, we still appreciate and respect your service to the country. look forward to working together. you've inherited a department now more than 10 years old. it's had its share of growing pains, but it's made significant progress in many areas under the leadership of each of your predecessors. i know your intent is to build on and hasten that progress. one area that's in dire need of progress is the morale of dhs personnel, which ranks among the lowest in federal agencies. i know from our conversations that that's a priority for you. and i lo

mr. secretary. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, just to maybe return to points that my good colleague from connecticut raised, i think the point of our dialogue was that there was a compromise that was struck in the bill that would reduce commodity programs for farmers by 7% and reduce snap program by 1%. some people thought that was lopsided. my only point that i'm trying to make, sir, to drive that home is that at least the 1% that is out of the snap program, that is merely an agreed to point, it should be fixed and it would save $8 billion and that would be the agreement. we'll leave that and i'll say support of farmers and support of the agriculture community is a long standing tradition of this congress and this country and without a healthy, vibrant agriculture community, without healthy, vibrant farmers there is no food in the grocery store for people to buy or for snap beneficiaries to purchase and so i think we need to be mindful. the 7% reduction, i would be hard-pressed to find any other program that's been red

mr. secretary, for spending the last three hours with us. we're glad to have you here today also as well as mr. young, thank you for being here, as well. we look forward to following up on some of these things we discussed today and all the best to you at usda and the subcommittee is adjourned. >> thank you. >> next, the russian foreign minister and secretary of state john kerry discussing the situation in ukraine. a house appropriations subcommittee hearing on the 2015 budget request for the agriculture department. >> alex smith, chair of the college republican national committee and natasha mckenzie discuss a new poll profiling millennial's in adulthood. syria,landis talks about the effectiveness of u.s. policy decisions there, and the influence of al qaeda. science students of yellow university describes his field experiment to test whether the offices of members of congress are more likely to grant access to contributors then constituents. we will take your calls and you could join the conversation on facebook and twitter. journal" is liv

mr. secretary. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator burr. senator stabenow. >> thank you, mr. chairman. first, i want to welcome you to that position and look forward to the basketball games. mr. secretary, welcome as always and to the senator from virginia, we're happy to have you, down at the end of the table. we appreciate you being on the committee. a couple of things, in addition to my questions, i want to say given everything that happened at the irs, i want to say you finally have the president's person since the irs, just for the record, was operating under president bush's irs commissioner through all of this and realizing there are legitimate questions and we all certainly want things to go well, i'm glad in the last couple of months we've finally been able to confirm the president's team and i'm confident going forward this will be addressed in a fairway. i just want for the record to say which we were operating. secondly, we're always going to have this debate about how to move the economy. just for the record also, legitimate differences, but i'm for whatever work

mr. secretary, welcome. mr. secretary, after lois lerner discovered the irs had been targeting the conservative organizations both you and the president stated that you were, and i quote on outraged by that behavior. do you stand by that comment today? >> i have stood by my comments about the actions taken in the reflected that judgment and they were unacceptable. they couldn't happen again. we put in place and acting director that did a fine job to bring things into order. we have a new commissioner in the irs who is equally first-grade and we are committed to running the best irs we can possibly run. i would equally convinced that there wasn't any kind of a malicious action. it was bad judgment, and that that judgment is unacceptable. >> i ask you because what you'vu expressed them seems at odds with the current attitude. ot win at the president has gone far to refer to those that disagree with you as a scandal, to be quoted. i would suggest you are either going further to codify that bad behavior into law. how

mr. secretary and welcome. mr. secretary after lois lerner disclosed last summer that the irs had been targeting conservative organizations for more than a year both you and the president stated that you were in that quote outraged by that behavior. do you stand by that comment today? >> senator i have stood by my comments that actions taken reflected bad judgments and they were unacceptable and they couldn't happen again. we put in place and acting director of the iras who did a fine job to bring things into order and we have -- we are committed to running the best irs we can possibly run. equally i'm convinced there was not any kind of malicious action there. it was bad judgment and that bad judgment is unacceptable. >> i ask you because what you express seems odd with the current attitude. if you and the president have referred to the iras persecution is those that disagree with you as a phony scandal to be quoting. i would suggest you were even going further than that in attemptinattemptin g to codify the bad be

mr. secretary, thank you for being here. the ukrainian prime minister says this morning that russia's actions amount to declaration of war and he says, we are on the brink of disaster. do you agree with that? >> well, it's an incredible act of aggression. it is really a stunning willful choice by president putin to invade another country. russia is in violation of the sovereignty of ukraine. rush is in violation of international obligations, they're in violation of its obligations under the u.n. charter, under the helsinki act. violation of obligations under the 1994 budapest agreement. you just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext. so, it is a very serious moment. but it's serious not in the context, bob, of russia-u.s. it's serious in terms of sort of the modern manner with which nations will resolve problems. there are all kinds of other options still available to russia. there still are. president obama wants to emphasize to the russians tha

mr. secretary. >> thank you mr. chairman. mr. cretary, just to maybe return to the points that my good colleague from connecticut raised, the point of the dialogue is there was a compromise that was struck in the bill that would reduce the programs for farmers by 7% and reduce the program by 1%. some people thought that was lopsided. the point i am trying to make to drive that home is at least the 1% out of the program that is merely and agreed to point that people that don't qualify are getting food stamps should be fixed and that was the agreement. we will leave that the way it is and i would also say that, you know, supporting farmers into supporting the agricultural community is a long-standing tradition of the congress and of this country. and without a healthy and vibrant agricultural community and to vibrant farmers, there is no food and grocer in the grocer people to buy order for the sheer ease to purchase. and so, i think we need to be mindful that 7% reduction i think it would be hard to find other portions of the budge

mr. secretary, general dempsey, and mr. hale for your extraordinary service and your focus on this strategic priorities, which i believe are the right ones for this nation, for example, on the need for additional submarines at the rate of two per year in production for the focus on air superiority and joint strike fighter. and the consequence stration -- contration on the needs to keep our national guard and our reservists forces strong, and other strategic interests that have been the subject of questioning so far. and i could -- quick question about them as well. i want to if he cuss for the moment on one happen, happens to be a resident of connecticut, mr. monk, who enlisted in the united states marine corps in november of 1968 at the age of 20. went to paris island. served in vietnam. from july until november of 1969. where he was barraged by mortar fire, attacked by guerrillas, gassed, subject to rifle fire. he received a high proficiency rating for his conduct and performance on the field, and some months after leavin

mr. secretary, i.c.e. deported 368,644 convicted criminals and noncriminal immigration violators, all of whom met the definition of mandatory detentions. you have a tremendous number of people here in the country who were -- just looking for that number -- that had folks who have, for example, been accorded due process, entered the country illegally, exhausted their appeal and received a final order or removal but remain in the country in defiance of that order, and at the end of july july 2013 there were 872,000 individual0s on i.c.e.'s docket in that category. they've gone through the whole process and they have been ordered removed, and the vast majority of those just simply disappeared. so in light of that, what are the assumptions that you're making that would justify the agency recommending that you only need 30,539 detention beds? since you obviously have plenty of customers. >> well, obviously -- well, a couple of comments. obviously not everyone among the 368,000 that were removed in fy13, had bee

mr. secretary. i am going to just give you my questions and then have you respond given the time constraint. it is good to hear that you support the legislation. it is my understanding that dhs is currently engaged in a working group whose recommendations would be coming out in may. i want to get your feedback as to whether you think it would be great for us to be informed by what the working group comes out with as we move forward to bring forth legislation. i want to raise the issue of personal -- personnel surety. this is the direction that nppd is going with components that raises issues of long-standing concerns of this committee. lack of standardization in the area of personal surety requirements across critical infrastructure sectors. if you would address that. finally, just a comment. i want to applaud you on your commitment to comprehensive immigration reform and add my voice to encourage you to prioritize those who we are looking at in terms of their immigrant status when we are looking at

mr. secretary. i could i, just to make sure understand the line of questioning -- you mean the men and women in blue. the men and women in green is border patrol. the men and women in blue are cbp officers. >> i am talking about cbp. >> ok. clarification, the abu dhabi preclearance facility is the only one anywhere in the middle east or europe that is part of an island? and then canada on some of the islands. there are no others on the european side except shannon, correct? >> of fee that they are talking about -- >> mr. chairman -- >> >> the fee that they are talking about, that is the fee that has been in effect since 1980. >> that is what i mean. an increase to the fee. >> that is a pretty long-established fee. >> yes, sir. i know about the fee, but my understanding is that there is an additional fee being proposed. do we know what that is? >> to finance tsa. >> but do we know what it is and how much it generates? >> the aviation security fee. >> we know what they are. really excited about these

mr. secretary, thank you for being here. as you said in your opening prepared remarks, what we do in the world matters, and what you and the people on your staff and team do here and around the world are crucial. we're here talking about the fiscal year '15 budget, however, global affairs don't necessarily follow a fiscal year calendar. there are three deadlines looming in the coming months that i think are incredibly important. first, in the spring the current round of negotiations between the is rallies and palestinians. june 30th is the deadline for the removal of chemical weapons from syria. july 20th we then see the conclusion of the six months on the joint plan of action with iran. at the same time around that region we have a series of very concerning trends with egypt and its government, the chaos in sinai, the pressures on jordan because of syria, what's happening in turkey, even what's happening in subsahara and africa leading to refugees in the region. so my questions in a very brief amount of time is all of these

mr. chairman. madam secretary, we just heard from mr. becerra who criticized critics, characterizing it as misinformation -- or disinformation and scare tactics. yet that wasn't what we heard from mr. doggett. mr. doggett was essentially admonishing the department for a lack of information and a lack of accountability. i want to associate myself with the spirit of mr. doggett, and also bring in one of the things that dr. price was trying to articulate, and that's this. wouldn't it be great, madam secretary, if dr. price and the question that he asked you able to say here's the answer. here is the answer, we made the inquiry into see, i don't have that information, i'm just the secretary of health and human services. that is with a private insurance company. that was your answer. wouldn't be a great thing if you were to say here's the information and here is the answer? and the problem is, at least as far as the construction of the affordable care act as it is currently constructed, some of this information you may not know, some of it yo

mr. secretary, you said last week that crimea is ukraine.oreign minister lavrov just told reporters that crimea is more important to russia than faulkland is to russia. [ inaudible ] and if not -- or even if so, why wouldn't greater ah tawny -- why would it not set a dangerous precedent for the rest of the nation in terms of appeasing russia. >> the issue of additional autonomy for crimea has been on the table prior to russia making these moves. so that's really a decision for the ukrainian government to make, number one, number two in his visit to washington, prime minister yatsenyuk made it very clear they are prepared to provi provide additional autonomy. and they in fact i think see it as strengthening. but we don't know what president putin is going to decide. what was made clear today in the context of president putin being unwilling to make any decisions until the vote has been taken. he has said once that vote is taken, he will make a decision with respect to what will happen, and i would say to him today as i said to foreign ministe

mr. secretary, you said last week that crimea is ukraine. we were told crimea is more important to russia than the falklands to britain. given that, did you get any indication from mr. lavrov that not annex crimea and even if so, why would not greater economy that kiev said it would allow, why would it not set a dangerous precedent for the rest of the region? >> the issue of additional autonomy by crimea is one that is constantly on the table. it has been on the table prior to russia making these moves. that is really a decision for the ukrainian government to make. in his visit to washington, the prime minister made it clear that they are prepared to provide additional autonomy. they see it as no threat to the integrity and sovereignty of the ukraine. i think they see it as strengthening it. we don't know definitively what president putin is going to decide. what was made clear, any decisions regarding the next steps until the vote has been taken, he has said that once the referendum vote is taken, he will make a decision with respect to wha

mr. secretary. i would like to take it one more set of testimony and then recess briefly for the vote and come back. i appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today about security threats in the middle east and how our regional defense policy addresses these challenges. deputy secretary burns described that sectarian extremism a destabilizing influence in the region. that is why our strategy is centered on cooperating with regional partners. the historic transformation in the region offers the united states opportunities and challenges. qaeda,to combat al second, to confront and external aggression directed at her supportthird to continued energy in the region. are addressing questions from our regional partners about our intentions in the region. we are working hard to sustain our military capabilities in the region. the united states has enduring security interests in the region and we remain fully committed to the security of our allies and our regional partners. more than 35,000 personnel i

mr. secretary, we always appreciate your time.hanks so much. >> thank you, david. >> now i want to turn to republican senator marco rubio of florida, a member of the senate foreign relations committee. senator, welcome back to the program. >> thank you, good prng. >> how did we get here. >> do you agree with om so of your colleagues who say it's the weakness of president obama and the united states right now that emboldened president putin of russia? >> i think our policy towards russia under this administration deserves heavy criticism. i usually shy away from that when it's important for the nation to speak with one voice. i'm enkirnlged which what i heard secretary kerry say a moment ago. there already things i would like to see us do in addition to the steps he outlined. as we look forward to our future relationship with russia, it's important to learn from the errors of the last few years. i think we have not accurate lit assessed clearly what it is russia's goals are under vladimir putin. they're not interested in building a

mr. secretary, thanks for joining us this morning. we have reports. russian forces surrounding ukraine military bases. they say they are on the brink of disaster. is he right? >> we hope not. we hope it's not going to be a disaster. what has happened is a brazen act of aggression in violation of international law, in violation of the u.n. charter, in violence of the helsinki final act, in violence of the 9 1997 ukraine/russian basing agreement. russia has engaged in a military act of aggression against another country. and it has huge risks, george. it's a 19th-century act in the 21st century that really puts at question russia's capacity to be within the g8. >> all those violations, sir. what's the penalty for what russia has already done? >> well, we're busy right now coordinating with our counterparts in many parts of the world. yesterday the president of the united states had an hour and a half conversation with president putin. he pointed out importantly that we don't want to be a larger confrontation. we are not looking for a u.s./russia, east/w

mr. secretary. i want to take in one more testimony and recess briefly for the vote and immediately come back. >> thanks. mr. chairman, senator corker, members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today about the security threats in the pleas and how regional defense policy addresses challenges, and i'll keep the comments brief. deputy secretary burns described, sectarianism and extremism pose threats to the well being and aspirations of the people in fact middle east. the security and stability of the partners and u.s. national security interests is why our regional defense strategy is centered on cooperating with regional partners. the transformation witnessed in three years officer -- offers the united states challenges. first, to combat al-qaeda, movements, and second, confront external aggression directed at the allies, and, third, ensure the free throw of energy from the region, and, fourth, prevent development, proliferation, and use of weapons of mass destruction.

mr. secretary, it was not predicted by our intelligence and that's already been well known, which is another massive failure. >> this wasn't sudden or new, that we didn't know what was going on. >> reporter: house republicans say they'll support economic sanctions if that's what the president wants. >> to give the administration the necessary tools it needs to tell mr. putin to stand down. >> reporter: but the obama plan is still a work in progress. >> so far beyond notifying congress that he wants humanitarian aid for ukraine, the president has merely put the extra warplanes on the russian border to signal american anger over ukraine. i'm steve handelsman, "news 4." >>> president obama is on the road pushing his message on the federal minimum wage. he wants it raised to $10.10 an hour. before his speech the president stopped for lunch and spoke with employees at a sandwich shop. then at central connecticut state university he said no one working full-time should be living in poverty and the boost in pay would be good for business. >> what happens if workers got a little more money in their

mr. secretary, thank you for hearing the request of this committee and acting. st year, secretary kerry testified that the u.s. is the guardian of global security. today, u.s. guardianship is frayed. committee members are very concerned that iran negotiations will leave the iranian regime alarmingly close to a nuclear weapon. syria, according to the united nations, is the worst humanitarian crisis since rwanda. libya is failing and forgotten. in egypt, we haven't push add economic reform agenda based on individual property rights that is desperately needed there. for asia, a senior pentagon official asserted the other week that because of budget constraints, america's high profile pivot to asia is being looked at again because candidly, it can't happen. mr. secretary, as always, the committee stands ready to work with you on these and other critical issues. the department must do a better job of holding foreign assistance recipients accountable, insuring that they are meeting bench marks for reform and development especially in krupps like afghanistan where so mu

mr. secretary here. your department has awesome jurisdictional responsibilities for all the food in america, for all the development of rural america, and essentially for all our ag interests around the world. and i think, frankly, with your background as a mayor, and a governor, that you really know how to handle your job well. i think you do a very good job. i would be interested in a comment or two. last year we were able, in this tightening to give flexibility to the department of defense in how they spent sequestration funds. essentially rather than just us putting it all in a category, and across the board cuts and things like that, we gave them the flexibility to make those determinations. and i'm wondering if there's any unfunded balances that -- unobligated balances that you might have some ideas about how to use your -- give you some flexibility to use those in a limited budget as the chairman indicated. so, i have lots of questions. it's a very exciting department. and essentially i think a lo

mr. secretary -- thank you, mr. secretary. >> i do not know if i will ask the exact same question, but i will yield to you first. if you do not cover the issue, i will do it later. >> as i finished my first round ,f questions, i was asking you what is it that would be an indication of support for the president's budget that would trigger the willingness of the department to move forward on those priorities when it is not likely that the senate will pass a budget? i do not know if we need to get into that when now, but that is something we need to continue to discuss and explore. i want to ask a question about the worst-case scenario. i am opposed to sequestration. i overcome the budget committee with my colleagues to provide as much sequester relief as we could find. i will keep doing it. worst-case scenario, if congress does not provide an indication of support or actual support in lifting sequester cuts, it would still be the case that there is statutory requirement for 11 carriers that absent a change in the statu

mr. secretary, has been willing to serve in so many ways for this country. you are doing a splendid job for the navy and the country. would you all with your applause please say thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> on the next "washington journal" the upcoming primaries in texas and illinois and special election in florida. we will talk with david wasserman. then a look at proposed changes to nutrition labels. we will be joined by the american university anastasia snelling. then we will discuss pentagon efforts to discuss technology programs. "washington journal" is live every morning 7:00 a.m. eastern with your calls, tweets and facebook comments on c-span. >> in terms of fund-raising is this a technique you hope will be a truthful technique in fund-raising fund-raising? >> i don't think that is any of your business. >> i think the glamour of reagan had less to do less with his hollywood roots. it was not that it was the glamour of hollywood but it did have

mr. conaway. >> thank you madam secretary and general welsh, welcome as well. i want to also associate with mr. forbes comments. i worry we have a school that is training leaders to lead men and women into come balt we have individuals who are so insecure and so insure of themselves that they can't coexist with the free expression of traditional religious views like that. that they lack self-purpose to be able not be offended by something like that. i wonder if they're the right folks for that business? madam secretary, in all likelihood you will be the last secretary of the air force for this administration. 2017 is coming on us from audit standpoint. i appreciate mixing audit status as in opening statements. we reached point, we have the person we can hold responsible whether the air force succeed or not, on this very important issue and i would appreciate your full-throated support for that initiative. it is going to be hard all the other things you're trying to deal with, sequestration, uncertainties in budget, all nonsense we put you guys through, the air f

mr. chairman, madam secretary, we just heard from mr. becerra, who criticized critics, calling it disinformation and scare tactics. yet that wasn't not what we heard from mr. doggett. he was essentially admonishing the department for a lack of information and lack of accountability. witht to associate myself the spirit of mr. doggett and bring in one of the things from dr. price, that he was trying to articulate. would it not be great, madam secretary, if the doctor in the question he had asked were able to say -- here is the answer? ?hen he made the inquiry that he was just the secretary of health and human services, private insurance was her answer moment ago. would it not be a great thing to say that this is the information and this is the answer? the problem is, as far as construction of the affordable care act, some of the information you may not know. it is because the limitations of the act itself -- we have an inspector general, and your own inspector general general is ofy able to go ask inquiries health and human services. that

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mr. secretary. chairman sanders, we have two different programs, one with the indian health service which has been very valuable in serving an incredibly needy group of veterans. that is that we will pay the indian health service to provide services. >> so walk into an indian health clinic. >> this is our paying for veterans to be cared for in the indian health service or travel clinics. not non indians. native americans. we pay the bill, they get treated in their own -- >> i see. >> that's correct. it is not program that is involved in the federally qualified health care program. we're piling contracts with 24 of those around the country to see how it works in terms of the a exchanges of money. i fully expect it will expand the program has to prove successful. >> let me understand. native -- and native american can now go into the indian health service, and that services pay for. >> if they are a veteran, eligible veteran. >> right. and you have no pilot with a number of around the country. >> righ

mr. secretary.as there anything in your direct conversation with sergei lavrov today that makes you believe that russia is no longer creating a pretext for further invasion? and did you hear anything that would assure you, make you rethink the u.s. threats to put sanctions on russia? that threat seems to have been weakened by european reluctance. >> i don't think it's been weakened at all by what you call european reluctance. the conversations i had today with the foreign minister of germany, the foreign minister of france, foreign minister of great britain, with the e.u. representative and with a number of other foreign ministers indicated to me that people are very serious about that. there's been no movement away from the possibility. and everything i said yesterday and the day before and through the week stands. that is where we are. but we are pursuing as president obama indicated he would like to, in his comments yesterday and the day before, as i indicated on sunday, in my comments on televis

mr. secretary. the project was ranked 196 in fy '14. not on the list this time. mr. chairman thank you. >> if it's okay with the members speed mr. chairman, could i just to give general shinseki an opportunity to respond to the question -- i didn't i do know whether you had a response on the issue of discrimination -- i didn't know. you may have been, you may have been interrupted without having a response soap -- >> well, i would say that speakers and i want to apologize before my friend from kansas lease. i want to say that i apologize to him. senator moran, my apologies to you for keeping you longer spent you set the precedent and i -- >> you took advantage of it. sorry, general. >> i which is the our approach has been and didn't begin with my arrival that va is a welcoming plaques and we generously have taken care of veterans for many generations now. and i think if you look at the decisions that have been made at least the last five years our effort has been to provide veterans the care and benefits that they've earned without drawing any walls around the statem

mr. secretary henry paulson. mr. nk you very much for coming back on. >> larry, good to be with you. >> are we in a recession right now, sir? >> well, larry, what i'm saying is we're clearly in a difficult period. >> governor chris christie, welcome to "the kudlow report." we're honored, sir. >> happy to be here, larry, thanks. >> alaska republican governor sarah palin. governor palin, thank you ever so much for coming on. >> mr. geithner, thank you very much. >> good to be here, larry. >> ex-chairman and ceo fred smith. if there's a better businessman in this country, i don't know him. fred, welcome back to the show. >> thank you, larry, for that kind introduction. >> donald trump, welcome back to "the kudlow report." i appreciate it. >> good, larry. >> massachusetts governor mitt romney. governor romney, welcome back to the show. >> thanks, larry, good g. to be with you. >> i'm wliev live at the republican convention in tampa, florida. >> mr. cantor, we appreciate it. >> budget chairman paul ryan, we appreciate your

mr. secretary, i thank you again for taking my question about the death of schwerner, goodman and cheney 50 years later. reich, there is a dvd out , a companion to the text which you can find on itunes, ondemand and netflix. it is called "inequality for all." i think it will be looked at years from now as classic. thank you for your insights. the two have you back on this program. coming up, musician benmont tench of tom petty and the heartbreakers out with his own cd, his first ever. stay with us. more: benmont tench has than 40 years of recording to his credit, playing on records for johnny cash, u2, bob dylan and is a member of tom petty and the heartbreakers. after all those years, he finally has come out with his own cd. it is called "you should be so lucky." it features some of his friends, people like ringo starr. let's take a look at a cut from "you should be so lucky." ♪ sky ♪nica looked at the ♪ turn her back to the moon as it started to rise ♪ ♪ she said not every word in this world is a lie ♪ the wind is blowing cold on the waterfront tonight ♪ tavis: benmont tench, good to h

mr. secretary. >> good morning, charlie. how are you? >> rose: let me start with the way united states is handling this crisis. what are your impressions of what the president has done so far? >> well, i don't have any substantial disagreement. but the way the administration has been handling it so far, charlie, although i will say this. i'm not sure that all of this would have happened had we, you know, stuck with our so-called red lines that sort of thing. so i sort of support the idea of moving carefully with this, moving prudently. this has all the potential of spinning out of control. it is clearly the most serious east-west confrontation since the end of the cold war. and for someone who was the last secretary -- last u.s. secretary of state during the cold war, it's very disappointing to me to see that we're moving now from cooperation with russia to confrontation again. that's very, very disappointing. >> rose: what are the risks? >> the risks are very substantial. i mean the risks could involve more than just a small new cold wa

mr. secretary, are you saying that vladimir putin will be isolated by his actions, but today he seemed defiant, speaking for hours, and taking questions, and saying among other things that russia reserves the right to take any actions, and he described events here as an unconstitutional coup. he denied that there were any russian troops in crimea, and he blaze the crisis on the u.s. >> he really denied that there were troops in crimea? >> reporter: yes, he did. he said that the united states was acting as though it was conducting an experiment across the ocean on lab rats here. he showed no signs of being willing to step down, except to desolate the military presence in crimea. there have been shots fired today, russian ships along the isthmus between ukraine and crimea. so with all of that. what is the reaction? and also. >> not at all. i thought i might bump into her, but i didn't. i had meetings with the current group that represents the parties that have come together. and most likely -- who i've been in touch and working with, that with in munich previously, so we continue that conversati