mr. wolf: secondly, i want to personally thank mr. rogers and his staff for helping with regard to this amendment with regard to radicalization. and also want to thank mr. ruppersberger. also as somebody who served here for a number of years, i want to say i don't think there have been two fine chairman and ranking member of the intelligence committee since i have been here. i think it's very impressive to see that. i just want everyone up here, particularly in the country, to know that. very briefly this amendment deals with radicalization. i won't go into the whole statement, but i would just read several examples of radicalization that have taken place in northern virginia. in october, 2010, someone from my district in vienna was arrested for plotting attacks for plotting metro stations to find optimal times to kill as many team as possible. in july of 2010, zachary, a graduate of observington high school, close to where i live, was arrested. late laster he pled guilty to providing material support to terrorists communicating threa

mr. wolf: thank you, madam speaker. before i begin i want to thank foreign affairs committee chairman, ros-lehtinen, ranking member, mr. berman, the human rights subcommittee chairman, mr. smith, who has been a champion on all these issues from the very first day he got in there and their staffs. i think sometimes it's profound. the staffs have made all the difference in the world. i want to particularly thank the chairman's staff, and doug for their help. and also the leadership on both sides, my side, and the leadership staff who have really tried to work this and get this thing through. i'm going to say some things, hopefully not too controversial, but i do want to thank them for getting this thing out and getting it moving because if it didn't move today it may very well come to an end. i rise in support of this critical legislation to re-authorize and reform the u.s. commission on international religious freedom. the sad truth, though, madam speaker, this bill has been held hostage, hostage by the other body. keep t

mr. wolf: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in strong support of h.r. 2698, to provide the continuing resolution for the initial weeks and i want to be sure that we keep the government open and by passing this bill we will keep the government open. this bill is needed to keep vital government services and programs operating past the end of the fiscal year on september 30. as the gentleman from kentucky has stated, the committee on appropriations has made great progress in moving 11 of the 12 annual bills. however, additional time is needed for the consideration of the other. this continuings remainlusion for anyone who questions it conforms to the spending reduction targets that were agreed to by the house, the senate and the white house. it's exactly the same number and so no reason to vote against this. specifically the bill sets an annual rate that reduces overall discretionary spending by $1.5 -- 1.5% from fiscal year 2011. in addition, the bill provides disaster funding to provide much-needed assistance to individua

"the situation room" with mr. wolf blitzer begins right now. >>> a decade after 9/11, america is once again on alert. stepped up security in new york and washington, d.c., as authorities investigate a possible al qaeda terror plot tied to the anniversary. >>> desperate hours aboard air force one, circling over america, trying to find a safe place for president bush to land on 9/11. my interview with the pilot of air force one, he flew that critical mission. >>> president obama's new jobs plan, certain to be a hot topic when the republican hopefuls gather here in tampa. for monday night's presidential debate co-hosted by cnn and the tea party express. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." checkpoint searches and an urgent scramble for intelligence. america, once again, faces a terror threat. this time, authorities say they have credible and specific information about a possible al qaeda plot tied to the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 at

mr. wolf, thanks so much for being with us.preciate that. thank you very much. >> you have tried to turn this pain into something positive for other people. tell me first what you think needs to be done. what more needs to be done for the victims and their families? >> well, i'm not sure how to answer that question, because so much has been done already. revival of our spirit is very important and when we come into the tenth anniversary like this, just the reporting on it, the intense reporting, tends to bring things up and causes many of us to relive it, which brings up all the pain all over again. and i think that the memorial that's going to be opened on saturday or sunday, rather, the national september 11th memorial, is absolutely beautiful. i was privileged to have seen it already and it is gorgeous. i think that really, as we move on here, people just need to understand that they need to get to the point of being able to remember without reliving. i think it's up to us, really, right now, and not something that other peo

mr. moderator wolf blitzer have up his sleeve? maybe he will give us a hint or two, next. growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. >>> trending today, superstar serena williams and her red-hot temper got her in trouble before. remember a couple years ago? here we go again. this is when serena williams lost the u.s. open, women's single's final but it is what happened earlier that got her boos from the crowd. and as we just learned here, a couple thousand bucks in fines. first game, second set, williams pen allized for a hen drans rule. here is how she ponded to the umpire. and it didn't end there. there were more angry words from serena williams. she went on to lose the set and the match. talking to reporters afterwards, s

wolf blitzer earlier today. it seems president clinton also thinks mr. netanyahu has been too intransigent. >> sooner or later everybody has to come clean. if they have no intention of having a reasonable settlement on the west bank and they should say that so the palestinians can get on with their lives and should live with the consequences. but meanwhile, the united states will veto this because we have to keep open the possibility of a negotiated peace. and the people in the arab world that understand that, it will be fine with it. we need to contain the fallout, make something good happen. >> and -- for a former president there who thought he was once close to an israeli/palestinian agreement, that's a very small, if you will, goal, contain the fallout. >> and he is -- you know, he's really making a charge about netanyahu saying, you know, there is talk that he really doesn't want this two-state agreement and ought to come out and say it. i mean, it is very clear to me and, of course, don't forget bill clinton is married to the secretary of state of

mr. sperling, they're essentially saying we can't get our way entirely. itis challenge. the president is going to do business. remember, wolfoval of the president is weighing down the economy. the approval of the congress saul most subterranean. the republicans know that. they're on the ballot trying to defend that republican majority in the house. to be fully obstructionist is heading into the campaign year afoul of the american people. there is an opportunity to do business down the road. the republicans will say no to the president's specific proposals, especially the ones they can call stimulus, but look for potential compromise down the road. leader kantor today saying we're not flatly opposed to infrastructure spending. we just want to see how do you pay for it. you heard kate talking about speaker boehner, no one republican response. part of that is a slight to the president. all these members of the house are up for re-election. some need to say i'm open to some of the president's proposals because their district may not be conservative as one of their republican colleagues. by letting them all respond individually,

. >> let's get a quick check, shall we, with wolf blitzer and see what they're work on for "the situation room." mr >> we have a lot coming up, including the latest on jobs, jobs, jobs. zero jobs created in august, as you well know, brooke. we're going in depth and take a closer look at what's going on. what can the president do to turn the economy around. what should he say in that big speech thursday night before a joint session of congress. robert reich will be here, steve moore, the editorial writer for "the wall street journal." they have very different views on what should happen next. we're going to go in depth with them. also, joe walsh, the republican congressman from illinois, he's caused quite a bit oof a stir over the past 24 hours, brooke, as you know, because he says he's not even going to show up when the president of the united states delivers that message before the joint session of congress. he's going to stay in his district of illinois. he says it's a waste of time for him to be there. he said he would simply be a prop so he's not even going to show up. we're going to talk to hi

mr. cain. >> many african-americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. for two-thirds of them, wolf, that is the case. now, the good news is, i happen to believe that a third to 50% of the black americans in this country, they are open-minded. i meet with them every day. they stop me in the airport. and so this whole notion that all black americans are necessarily going to stay and vote democrat and vote for obama, that's simply not true. more and more black americans are thinking for themselves. >> well, did he go too far with that comment? cynthia tucker is a pulitzer prize-winning columnist and michael steele is the former chair of the republican national committee and a msnbc political analyst. let me ask you first -- well, i'll start with you. i don't know how to register these things. everybody says maybe they should be, maybe they shouldn't. black voters are brainwashed into voting democrat. does that say something about the vote or cain or what? >> well, it was -- cain was certainly condescending when he suggested that black voters only vote for democrats because they have b

. >> wolf, just keeping a close eye on obama and what he is doing over the holiday, i had a chance to talk to mrnd there are a lot of obama supporters that think that he has rolled over on a couple very important issues. we know the president has a big speech on a jobs plan for thursday evening. what do we think the president needs to come out and say and win some of the support he has lost? >> he has to come out with a specific plan to create jobs, even though the big chunk of that will not win republican support in the house of representatives or the senate for that matter. he has to layout his agenda. he not only has to layout a good speech with substance but has to put it on paper and submit formal legislation. a document, if you will, the congressional budget office can then score to see how many jobs it might create and how much money it would cost and how it would affect the deficit, and what would it do to taxes. he has been hammered as you know, not only by republicans, but from some democrats, especially on the left who have been disappointed where he has not been as tough or specific

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mrs. salahi. >> i see. well, we'll continue to follow it. hopefully, she's okay. thank you very much and that does it for me in atlanta. thank you so much for watching. now, to wolf blitzer. "the situation room" starts now. >>> rick perry prepares to meet with a man who might have been his primary rival. this hour, i'll speak to trump about his advice for perry and the state of the race right now. also, we're learning the back story behind ron paul's drama. he's getting flak for an answer to a health care question. turns out the scenario is similar to a real life death in his political family. and president obama's attempt to promote green jobs turns into a bigger embarrassment. first, the company he visited went bankrupt, now, it's been raided by the fbi and u.s. taxpayers may be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> right now, republican, rick perry, is trying to cover a lot of bases and burr niche his status as the front-runner. he's been reaching out to voters in a battleground state. a sign of confidence that his rivals are trying hard to tear down. jim aco

mr. speaker, last night roger was honored for his 20 years leadership as defenders ever of wildlife, where he became a key pillar of the american environmental movement. the successful reintroduction of the gray wolf in the american west is an example of his tenacity, skill and vision. whether roger was fighting to protect our environmental laws from assault or using them for their intended purposes, he showed how even in difficult times people would respond to protect what they cherish. that is how we built defenders of wildlife in the formedible political and policy force, increasing the membership 1,500% to almost a million people. whether it's taking his phone call, taking a visit or exploring the refuge with roger, his passion was clear to me. roger provided leadership that matters which speaks volumes today and will far into the future. thank you, roger. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this week president obama went to new york to address united nations general assembly. he did so remarkably fo