mr. sullivan: mr.president, i rise today in support of an amendment that i am hoping will be part of the energy bill currently being debated on the floor and being shepherded through the senate by my colleague from the great state of alaska, senator murkowski. i want to commend senator murkowski, the chair of the energy committee, energy and natural resources committee for the bill that she has worked on for months. incredible hard work. it's great to have her not only as the chair of this committee, important certainly for alaska but for the entire country, states like yours, president, and others that -- mr. president, and others that recognize how important american energy is for all our citizens. and one of the many positive aspects of the bill that we have been debating is that it's focused on cleaning up old regulations, cleaning up outdated programs, getting rid of some of the things that we don't need. and, mr. president, the amendment that i would like to introduce as part of the energy bill i

sullivan: how many soldiers of the 450 are out processing? mr. fanning: a combined total of over 15,000. sen. sullivan: when we talk about the 450, there are literally tens of thousands that are not deployable or capable of fighting. mr. fanning: that is correct. sen. sullivan: does it make sense that the army is proposing cutting thousands of healthy, deployable airborne infantry soldiers to make room for tens of thousands of non-deployable's that are counted as part of the 450? mr. fanning: it would be nice not to count them against the 450 and i don't think people realize what percentage is not deployable for reasons even greater than you have mentioned. article profiles, there are legitimate reasons. they are already deployed or training now. when we say we are heading towards 400 50,000 active component in the army that is not 450,000 people ready to be deployed. sen. sullivan: my time has expired but only get one final commitments. we have had a lot of commitments. your 100% commitment to make sure the very last soldiers that we are cutting

mr. brian sullivan and the second hour of "power." >> we are coming up on 2:00 on wall street and we have a big market story developing for you. crude oil remains in a free fall and as mandy and tyler told you, that is now bringing down the entire market, as it has for the past 12 months. stocks are near session lows, and this chart says it all. check out both the move in crude oil and the s&p 500. they are tracking together. oil now trading at levels not seen since december of 2003 and actually if you adjust up for inflation, it's even worse than that. now, that bearish tone in oil is not only spreading across the entire energy complex, but the overall market as well. and morgan stanley out today saying it is possible, not going to happen, but possible that crude oil could fall as low as $20 per barrel. by the way, morgan stanley analyst who made that call will join us on this show tomorrow. i want to show you, you often hear me talk about the screens we follow here. this is a company called fact set. it enables you to realtime track stocks. i want you to go into my fact set and look at

mr. fanning. i would like to begin by thanking senator sullivan for bringing to your attention some questions and comments that he has about our concern that we have with russia, especially in the arctic. i think many times, we do not focus on that because of the truly large challenges we see all around this world, but i do appreciate his comments and i do share his concerns that he has about the 425. i thank you for the commitment you made to him. i know one of your main challenges is going to be balancing the investment made against teacher threats alongside the demands we now face with readiness and modernization and forced structure. you said your top priority is readiness. you noted to me last month there needs to be more investment in facility sustainment. how do you plan to prioritize all of those remaining demands if we are going to be able to address needs in the future and be able to balance those? want to seee -- what your thought process is. >> we take risks in all parts of our budget right now area -- now. uncertaink at, is the fiscal environment that we have been planning. sometimes

mrs. clinton and jake sullivan, and she is trying to receive some sensitive talking points via secure fax, and she writes, if they can't fax them, turn into nonpaper with no identifying heading and send nonsecure. getting a lot of chatter from mrs. clinton's critics on this, but did the white house think it's appropriate to remove markings and send information in a knopp secure format. >> i'm not aware of the circumstances of what exactly transpired. my guess is the clinton campaign did some digging on this. so i'd refer you to them to get a better understanding exactly what it says about the way that secretary clinton handled sensitive information. >> surely removing markings that would -- any document from anybody in the administration that would be transmilted to remove the marking of the classification would not be -- >> it is not uncommon for the administration in pursuit of transparency to release redacted information that if unredacted were to otherwise be subject to some classification. so, again, without knowing the details of what exactly was being discussed there, it's hard for

mr. oil himself, brian sullivan. >> turning into that, mandy. thank you very much.oming up in the next hour, we are going to show you a small list of oil companies that maybe can weather the storm. we ran a screener for companies with low to no debt and good cash positions. we're going to show you that list exclusively at the top of the hour. plus, we're on the hunt for some other big opportunities in the sea of red. wells capital's jim paulson ahead with some really sound advice and we, of course, are counting you down to the oil close. crude below 30 bucks a barrel. where will it end the week? stick around to find out. "power lunch" will be right back. >>> welcome back to "power lunch." i'm mandy drury. here are this hour's power points. a massive sell-off on the street. the dow is currently down 450 points. energy and materials leading the declines with intel the biggest loser on the dow. so as we're looking at a broad market sell-off under way on the street right now, we're going to bring you the big cap tech names in the nasdaq 100. we know the nasdaq 100 is do

sullivan. >> thank you, mr.hairman and general like my colleagues i want to congratulate you for the nomination and your service and the service your family, we know what a sacrifice that is for you and especially for your family. i wanted to ask a little bit, you know, on this committee we hear a lot about counterterrorism missions and we sometimes here about counter insurgency missions so the ct versus the coin approach. i think sometimes it confuses people. i think it sometimes confuses the american people. ho see the definitions. how do you define the ct mission. how do you define the coin mission. then what are the troop levels that we need from your perspective in afghanistan to accomplish either or? >> well, thank you, senator for that question. on the ct mission, the counterterrorism mission in afghanistan for many years we had a comprehensive counter insurgency strategy. this was part of president obama's policy announcement in 2009 and then as we transitioned to resolute support in 2014, we transitione

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mr. fanning. i would like to begin by thanking senator sullivan for bringing to your attention some questions and comments that he has about our concern that we have with russia, especially in the arctic. i think many times, we do not focus on that because of the truly large challenges we see all around this world, but i do appreciate his comments and i do share his concerns that he has about the 425. i thank you for the commitment you made to him. i know one of your main challenges is going to be balancing the investment made against teacher threats alongside the demands we now face with readiness and modernization and forced structure. you said your top priority is readiness. you noted to me last month there needs to be more investment in facility sustainment. how do you plan to prioritize all of those remaining demands if we are going to be able to address needs in the future and be able to balance those? want to seee -- what your thought process is. >> we take risks in all parts of our budget right now area -- now. uncertaink at, is the fiscal environment that we have been planning. sometimes

sullivan. >> thank you, mr. chairman.general, like my colleagues i would like to congratulate you for the nomination and your service and the service of your family. we know what a sacrifice that is for you and especially your family. i wanted to ask a little bit, on this committee we hear a lot about counterterrorism missions and we sometimes hear about counterinsurgency missions. so the ct versus the coin approach. i think sometimes it confuses people. that sometimes confuses the american people. can you explain to us how you see the different missions? how to define the ct mission? how to define the coin mission? then what are the troop levels that we need from your perspective and afghanistan to accomplish either or? >> thank you, senator, for that question. the ct mission, the counterterrorism mission in afghanistan for many years when a comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy. this was part of president obama's policy announcement in 2009, and as we transition to resolute support in 2014, we transitioned from a u.s

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sullivan. >> thank you. i want to zphriment dr. shulingen. mr. secretary i've spent a lot of time with him in the last year. we have a lot of work to do but i think somebody is doing -- >> i apologize it coin siding with your service in the military. >> sometimes you can't always pull it off but we will get you up there next time when i'm there. but i do appreciate the fact that both o have been up there recent lifment we went all over the state. and thanks again for allowing me to hold a hearing up there. and you saw the level of frustration. you saw that the choice act, which in many ways got ideas in the choice act from what was working in alaska came in and when it was implemented in alaska just kind of was a fiasco. i think everybody recognizes that. so then you committed to this pilot program in alaska that was going to be up and running initially you committed to me in november. we miss that had deadline. not we, you. but starting to take hold. i would just like an update on where we are on that pilot program. mr. secretary from a broader

mr. fanning. i would like to begin by thanking senator sullivan for bringing to your attention some questions and comments that he has about our concern that we have with russia, especially in the arctic. i think many times we don't focus on that because of the truly large challenges that we see all around this world. but i do appreciate his comments ju$at he has about the 425. so i thank you for your commitments that you made to him. i know one of your main challenges is going to be to balance that investment made against future threats alongside the demands that we now face with readiness and modernization, and force structure. and you've said that your top priority is readiness. you noted to me when we met last month the need for more investment in facilities sustainment. how do you plan to prioritize all those remaining demands? if we're going to be able to address needs in the future and be able to balance those? i want to see what your thought process is on that. >> sure, senator. i think that we take risk in all parts of our budget right now. and what i look at, having seen this happen inc

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mr. sanford: i thank the gentleman. i rise in support of this measure for many different reasons. let me just touch on three. one, gordon sullivan was former chief of staff of the united states army and he once observed that hope was not a method. and irregardless of the good intentions behind the affordable care act, i think from an actuarial standpoint if you look at it you have to say that hope was indeed part of the method. i say that because if you look at the number of young people that were anticipated to sign up, already 7.5 million folks have said no. i'm not signing up. i would rather take the penalty than sign up. what that creates is a big liability for the taxpayer. two, i make the point that there's been real implication for the small businessperson. we have a company back home in charleston by the name of east bay delis. the owner came to me and said i was going to open up a couple more shops but given the costs i have seen with the affordable care act for my small business, i'm not going to do that. 90 employees that won't have jobs as a consequence. finally, our health care system has been predicated on a doctor

mr. fanning. i would like to begin by thanking senator sullivan for bringing to your attention some questions and comments that he has about our concern that we have with russia, especially in the arctic. i think many times we don't focus on that because of the truly large challenges that we see all around this world. comments, and i do share his but i do appreciate his comments, and i do share his concerns that he has about the 425. modernization and force structure. and you've said that your top priority is readiness. you noted to me when we met last month the need for more investment in facilities sustainment. how do you plan to prioritize all those remaining demands? if we're going to be able to address needs in the future and be able to balance those? i want to see what your thought process is on that. >> sure, senator. i think that we take risk in all parts of our budget right now. and what i look at, having seen this happen incrementally, and part of it is the uncertain fiscal environment that we've been planning is is looking and sometimes we lose sight of the aggregate risk. and that's r

mr. smith won't back down even though he's not the largest shareholder but he's certainly one of the more vocal ones. >> david, thank you. david faber joining us from new york. now down to brian sullivanrview with the ceo of the original f.a.n.g. stock. bri? >> you talk about f.a.n.g. stocks all the time on "fast money," 5:00 p.m. by the way, this is their ticker, fang diamond back energy. we're joined by travis stice. they're one of seven companies nonrefinery whose stock is higher over the past 12 months and this is not only an exclusive, it is travis' first time on television. i would promise to be gentle but this is not a market you can be gentle in. >> fair enough. >> what have you guys done right that you're one of seven stocks up when 181 are down over the past 12 months? >> well, there's a lot of smart people even here at this conference that are spending a lot of time trying to forecast what the price of oil is going to do. the one thing i'm convinced i d is i don't know what the price of oil is going to do but what diamondback energy has consistently demonstrated is a relentless focus on execution, extremely low cost operations, and a pristine balance sheet, and we think tha

sullivan's apparent reluctance to work around the secure fact system makes it all but certain that the material was classified at some level and hillary clinton knew that. just breaking news of interest. but, mr. speaker, a matter of grave concern continues to rise, stemming back from a man was born, named abdul rahman al amoudi. and this is from discoverthenetworks.org. mr. al amoudi immigrated to the united states in 1979. that would be the same year, mr. speaker, you will recall, that radical islam declared war on the united states, attacked ur embassy in tehran, took over 50 americans hostage, and held them for over a year. that same year, that year, 1979, is the year mr. al amoudi became -- he came to the united states and then he became a naturalized u.s. citizen in 1996. in 199 -- i'm sorry, 1981, he founded the islamic something -- society of boston. it's not in this article, but i've also seen the documentation of his founding. and it's, i think, worth noting that the islamic society of boston that mr. al amoudi unded, founded the two mosques in boston, one of which produced the tsarnaev brothers, where they worshiped and earned more about islam. this article says, from 1985 to 1990,