i want to ask a couple of questions before yielding to my friend and mr. wolf, in your testimony, miss geng, you make the statement that it's no small irony that while you are speaking here on capitol hill, chinese vice president is just up on pennsylvania avenue meeting with president obama at the white house. you did point out your disappointment that you believe that your husband's plight has been downplayed by the white house and i would say for the record, i want this clear. i have been in congress 32 years. mr. wolf and i have been. we have never saw human rights issue as partisan issues. if george bush was dropping the ball as we thought he was doing especially in the run up to the olympics with regard to human rights in china, we spoke out very, very loudly and went before the olympics to raise individual cases and set up a meeting with the white house with six dissidents before bush went there including harry wu and others to ensure the human rights focus never left. i have been concerned and i say this and i know it is shared by many others that the a

. >> mr. wolfyracuse, he has all four teams going in, but syracuse is his winning team and i wonder if he knew that the ineligibility of that center would play such a big role in syracuse's run to the final four. >> we'll see, wolf blitzer, coming up here on the sit room. >> i went with my gut, i went with my heart. i'm from upstate new york, syracuse is in upstate new york, i figured if i changed it and decided i was going to do something else, it would be bad. so i stuck with syracuse, i'm going with syracuse, i'm in it all the way with syracuse. so that's good, right, brook? >> i do have crazy love for you wolf blitzer. but i don't know about that. anyway, what are you talking about on the show today. >> we got a lot of hard news coming in at the top of the hour, two hours worth, including all the political stuff going on and there's a lot of political stuff going on, the actrimony. and where is newt gingrich, why isn't he campaigning in illinois as he should be if he's serious about winning the

mr. wolf: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. mr. speaker, just today we heard reports that two more american service members in afghanistan were gunned down by the very security forces they are helping to train. unfortunately this is not an isolated incident. last week two army officers were gunned down inside the afghan interior ministry. attacks by afghan soldiers and security forces have accounted for nearly 70 deaths since 2007. u.s. military did a report on this phenomena referred to as green on blue attacks and determined that they are turning into a growing systematic threat to our military personnel in the region. these are not u.s. deaths from combat or taliban or other insurgent groups although some of the perpetrators likely hold taliban sympathies. these attacks are by the very forces that our military is trying to train to take control of their own country. a significant component of the obama administration milltary drawdown strategy. what are american forces to do when they doubt whether they can trust those who wear

now i would like to yield two minutes to mr. wolf of virginia. mr. wolf: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. i rise today to pay tribute to the life and legacy of congressman donald payne. as a public servant, he has consistently stood with the forgotten people an causes. he has championed their plight and advocated on their behalf. perhaps none more so than the long-suffering people of southern sudan. for years, he advocated for the people of south sudan who endured great hardship at the hands of the government in khartoum. he was also the leading voice in urging states to divest from companies doing business in sudan in light of the human rights abuses there. he was author of a congressional resolution calling attention to horrors in darfur. the list goes on and on. i had the honor of being with him in kenya in 2005 for the historic signing of the comprehensive peace agreement which marked the end of a brutal civil war between the north and south which spanned 21 years and claimed the lives of more than two million people. congressman payn

. >> time now for "the situation room" and mr. wolf blitzer. wolf! >> don, thanks very much. happening now, mitt romney and the etch-a-sketch. an off hand remark goes viral. new ammunition. >> a hezbollah threat in the united states. one u.s. lawmaker says it is right here in the u.s. and the possibility of an attack, he says, is real. and broken toilets turn a 13-hour flight into a two-day odyssey leaving hundreds of passengers trapped in alaska. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> major new backing and a brewing new controversy for the republican presidential candidate mitt romney. he's picked up one of the most sought-after endorsements of the campaign, but a remark by one of his top aides is now threatening to overshadow it. our national political correspondent jim acosta is with romney who is holding a town hall meeting outside baltimore. jim, what happened? >> reporter: wolf, as you just mentioned mitt romney is about to hold a town hall meeting just outside of baltimore. the maryland primary is coming up in about

mr. wolf: i tell the gentleman, i am opposed to obamacare and voted against it 26 times. america is in trouble. america is facing economic collapse. we have $15.2 trillion debt and by the end of this year, when you hang your christmas tree lights up, with christmas tree lights made in china, it will be at $17 trillion -- $17 trillion. we're borrowing money from china, with catholic bishops under house arrest, protestant pastors under house arrest. when i go in any high school in my district, i ask the young people is social security system sound and will be there when you retire? in the last three years, not one has raised their hand. the seniors in my congressional district know more than this congress and more than this administration. the president has walked away and has failed the congress, both political parties have walked away and failed. i congressmen my friend, mr. cooper, and mr. latourette and ask for a yes vote on the simpson-bowles commission. i yield back the plans of my time. the chair: who seeks recognition? >> if no one else is seeking time, i yield one

transparent beginning on the jim's president who ran the bank for a long time for about ten years prior to mr. wolf wits. there was a concerted effort to reach out to nonfwovet organizations, reach out to various stake holders and make the bank more responsive but also better understood. and i think that the success, tremendous success of emerging markets in the course of the last ten years has also made people a little less sensitive to the problems and the issues that might arise. and i don't think the world bank should take a lot of cret for that success but it certainly deserves some credit. host: our guest currentlyly at the carnegie endowment, formerly served at the world bank. also the author of juggernaut. tell us a little bit about the book. guest: the book really is about the -- how the rise of emerging markets is transforming the world economy. and how it is doing that across each of the four main channels of demrobalization, trade, finance, migration, and also the impact on the global comments. and the main message of the book is actually very perntnent to the work of the world bank bec

wolf. >> thank you, mr. smith. i think this administration has been a total failure and quite frankly, i think the groups around this country should know this and not pretend it is not true. christians in egypt should know this administration has failed them. iraqi and syrian caldian should kn know this administration has failed them. the vietnamese in vietnam, both buddhists and catholics ought to know this administration failed them. of course, the catholic bishops in china and their protestant house leaders in china should know this administration failed them. the dalai lama ought to know this administration failed them. 11 -- 11 buddhist monks and nuns have set themselves aflame. i want to bring it back to this and i did not know you had made a request. i would like to ask both of the wives if they would say publicly, i see the media here looking, but what would you say because there is still an opportunity to meet after the vice president from china leaves. what would you say if you had an opportunity to meet

mr. wolfstreet journal" reported that, quote, the network business has thrived at the expense of struggling western network companies and is quietly building and investing its own brand of high-end smart phones and tablets. but many americans may not be aware that numerous government reports have linked the corporate leadership to the people's liberation army, raises serious concerns about its products being used for espionage by the chinese government. last week respected national security reported bill wrote new information about chinese telecom companies report the chinese military and information warfare programs is raised fresh concerns. that is why both the bush administration and obama administration have reportedly intervened to stop and block their growth. wawe is controlled by the same government that jails kathy bishop -- catholic bishops and protestant priests. it is providing the very rockets that sudanese president bashir is using to kill his own people. the speaker pro tempore:

wolfe. >> i want to thank you, mr. smith and also senator brown, for your work on these issues. i do have a statement i want to read and say. i woke this morning to read a thoroughly unsettling piece by a chinese dissident in "the washington post." he opens with the following. he said "chinese dissident writers exiled to the west today get a very different response than soviet writers received not long ago. i would even go further than mr. yu. chinese defectors get a very different response as evident by a story that broke days ago about a senior communist party official in china that reportedly attempted to defect to the u.s. and was turned away after his request for asylum was rejected. returning to yu ji, the soft-spoken man i recently met, endured beatings and torture from chinese police. he asserts that china is a greater threat than the soviet union ever was, but now the west, he says, lacks visionary politicians such as ronald reagan to stand up to that threat." i could not agree more. and in fact, just last week along with a number of other members, we urged president ob

mr. potatohead next. wolf, back to you. >> very funny. thanks very much for that. by the way, as joe just said ohio art, that's the maker of etch a sketch has to be loving all of this uproar. not only the stock price. sales have soared more than 3,000%. on amazon.com where the toy is now number one on the so-called movers and shakers list. love the etch a sketch. >> let's get more now with the chief political analyst gloria borger. she's watching this going? this is old school. >> this is smart strategy for gingrich and santorum to jump on the etch a sketch issue. >> it has a perfection all its own wolf, right? it is just too easy a metaphor because what the etch a sketch is it embodies the problems that conservatives have with mitt romney which is that you can draw a picture and then if you need to change you just shake it up and appeal to the next group and conservatives have always been skeptical about mitt romney because he's changed positions on issues like abortion, for example. he's moved to the right on immigration and this just helps rick santorum and newt

mr. richard wolf. dr. paulau cuello. mr. damien lewis. >> [inaudible] >> what do i want to tell them? [inaudible] there was that moment in the new york times op ed, it seemed we crossed into the cultural zeitgeist. president obama's foreign policy -- when does he watch tv? that is what i'm going to ask him. [inaudible] >> mr. warren buffet. mrs. buffet. -- mrs. astrid m. buffet. the honorable tina chen. mr. john w. thompson. mrs. sandy thompson. dr. amy -- dr. michael doyle. the honorable eric holder, attorney general. the honorable kathleen sebilius, it secretary of health and human services. the honorable rajiv shaw. mrs. shaw. mr. joe lamont. mrs. andra lamont. mr. anthony gardner. mrs. alejandra gardner. mrs. carol penske. mr. david penske. mr. raj fernando. mrs. jennifer -- the honorable martha johnson. mr. steve johnson. the honorable camilla harris. mrs. mike harris. -- maya harris. the honorable wendy sherman. mr. stokes. -- bruce stokes. the honorable brooke anderson. mr. james -- ms. ann windosr. -- anna wintour. mr. shelby bryant. mr. harvey weinstein. ms. georgina chapman.

mr. hammer hands? >> okay. our own wolfut from alec baldwin's character don hay, he was trying to call attention to his wife's kidnapping in north korea. wolf actually traveled to north korea, we have pictures there, just a little over a year ago. >> i would have been happy to help him get his wife out if i could have. it's always my pleasure to get a shout out on "30 rock." alec baldwin, pretty good actor. >> very good actor. very proud of you. >> what did he say my real name was? >> you know, i didn't catch that. i have to say, i want to go back and watch the whole show now and a lot of your wolf fans will probably have to do the same thing so we have the whole context of the show. >> good. we'll find out, if he knows i'm anxious to know myself. appreciate it very much, lisa. >> some americans facing foreclosure may be able to stay in their homes by becoming renters. we'll explain and 911 calls record a man's confession that he ended his sick wife's suffering. >> 911. what is your emergency? >> i just shot my wife. hohow

we are watching many chasers here, wolf, there's one right here. mr. twister, zack roberts.bout a dozen cars east of this location. we'll watch these chasers, we'll get some video on tv if we do see anything on the ground. we have chasers on the ground to the west all the way into dallas ft. worth. that will be the next big city that gets hit with hail. >>> meanwhile apple rings up massive sales of ipads, iphones, but should it be employing americans to make those devices right here at home instead of paying cheaper wages in china. >>> and the neighborhood watch captain who ended up shooting an unarmed florida teenager. you're going to hear those 911 tapes. >> they always get away. >> are you following him. >> yeah. >> okay, we don't need you to do that. >> okay. ♪ there's another way to minimize litter box odor: purina tidy cats. our premium litters now work harder to help neutralize odors in multiple cat homes. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. >>> apple has just announced 3 million of its new ipads since friday. and today the company also revealed plans

mr. fu? >> one more point to bring the true change to china, i think it's very important for congress to work together to pass the global internet freedom act. i thank the leadership of congressman wolf for this. that will provide a tremendous efficient tool to break down this firewall in china. and certainly, it has improved the chance for rapid democracy in china. thank you. >> as you know, mr. fu, that bill, the global internet freedom act, we hope to be marking it up soon in my subcommittee. it's an idea whose time has come. the enabling of high-tech -- to enable dictatorship to find, apprehend and incarcerate people of faith, the christians, the wig egers and to destroy dissident movements throughout the world calls out for this legislation so i hope to have this bill out of committee shortly so i thank you for bringing that up. i'd like to thank our distinguished witnesses aagain and without further a' dieu, the hearing is adjourned. >>> on "washington journal" tomorrow morning, the president of the business round table, john engler, looks at the president's speech to top ceos and tom zeller looks at america's poor and middle class and andrew weiss will discuss how the election

mrs. pull is in critical condition. a reward is being offered. >>> wolfa with me, obviously we know why. it is super tuesday, after all. ten states holding primaries, caucuses. i just saw gloria borger, she said we would be here until potential 2:00? >> take out the word "potential "potentially." >> who better to spend my evening with. huge night. top of the talk is ohio? >> ohio, ohio, ohio. if santorum can win in ohio, and our last poll shod neck and neck, if he wins, he'll survive. if romney wins in ohio, it's going to bolster this notion that it's all his for the taking, if you will. ohio is going to be critical. >> then you look at the south, of course gingrich needs to win his home state of georgia. >> he probably will win. >> he probably will. the next question is tennessee. romney hasn't won -- >> tennessee is like ohio. it's snick and neck between santorum and romney. gingrich is not necessarily all that much of a factor in tennessee right now, which is a surprise, because you would have thought in the south he would be doing better, but at least

. >> reporter: amazing spirit, wolf, as you're seeing right there. mr. benton and i talked about.e same age as my father, and a navy aviator like my father was. there are certainly fortitude and spirit there for the men who have gone through that. anyway, the skies are getting dark north and west of my position, wolf. it's going to be a long night. we're not done with this yet. they're trying to clean up as much as possible and get hompeo who have lost homes into safe places. >> rob. thank you very much. thanks for that interview. he's a remarkable man indeed. we wish him and his family only the best. much more on the breaking news coming up. also my interview with rick santorum. that's coming up in the next hour as well. lots of news happening today right here in "the situation room." [ horn honks ] hey, it's sandra -- from accounting. peter. i can see that you're busy... but you were gonna help us crunch the numbers for accounts receivable today. i mean i know that this is important. well, both are important. let's be clear. they are but this is important too. [ man ] the receiv

mr. president. >> thank you very much. thank you, everybody. >> wolfas trying to read between the lines here. israel refusing to rule out an attack on iran's nuclear facilities, the president preferring peace over war, but also making the point he will not -- he will take no options off the table. so a lot of people wondering, a new middle east war in the coming months? >> let's hope not. let's hope that they can, as the president says, resolve this diplomat clirks that the sanctions will work, that the government in iran will realize that it's in its own best interest to try to deal with the international atomic energy agency and scale this crisis down. i'm not holding my breath. not sure the iranians will do that when the president of the united states says the next few months will be very difficult months, he knows what he is talking about, because it is one thing for the u.s. position, which is the u.s. will not allow iran to have a nuclear bomb. the israeli position is a bit different. the israeli position is the israelis will not allow iran to ha

wolf. i have seen mr. romney where he did not take a paycheck as governor. he clearly took the deficit when he entered office as governor of massachusetts. he left with a surplus. he also pushed through less intrusive government on small business for the subchapter s corps as far as the workers' comp. if you're just one person, you did not have to pay for the costly workman's comp for family businesses and just single soul proprietor ships. which was clearly a very good thing to make business a little more prosperous in the state of massachusetts. clearly, his other two rivals in the presidential election, gingrich, he deftly took $1.6 million from fannie mae and freddie mac, whichever one it is, as a consulting fee. so we have seen him in the government's -- feeding out of the government trough. santorum, i do not know too much about him, but i clearly see mitt romney as a pro-business candidate. and a true conservative. he was pretty much banging heads with the liberals of massachusetts. john kerry and barney frank want to make the inner city dependent on

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that chamber wolf was one q how much of that deal did you show to your clients after two twenty two two thousand and seven. mr chairman i don't know. yeah they always plug earlier i spoke about all of this there with she's author of the very popular financial blog naked capitalism and author of econ how unenlightened self-interest undermines democracy and corrected capitalism this executive director of goldman sachs who has been there twelve years and comes out with this just scathing review of the firm very publicly which is kind of counter to what traditionally is the culture acknowledgements act so i'm told let's read a little bit of it and then i want to ask your input so he says one of the excerpts to put the problem in the simplest terms the interests of the client continue to be side land aligned in the way the firm operates and thinks about making money goldman sachs is one of the world's largest and most important investment banks and it is to ensure girl to global finance to continue to act this way now of course the question that comes about you know there was plenty of evidence in the wake of the

mr. borgnine. >> let's not talk about borgnine. >> i know. >> air wolf. >> there you go. >> pleasure. >> thank youd more delegates are up today for grabs than any other day of the year. we'll break down the numbers and tell you where each candidate stands at the top of the hour. >> plus disorder in the court! and the bailiff didn't stand a chance. >> uh-oh! ok, guys-- what's next ? chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast spes. we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small sinesses that want to grow use 4g lte technology from verizon. i wonder how she does it. that's why she's the boss. because the small business with the best tecology rules. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 1-800-974-6006. we could eat whatever we wanted and still lose weight. weight watchers online was so easy. you look up a food, you eat the food, you track the food. weight -- comes right off. you have lipstick on your teeth. o

mr. verilli in this case, that doesn't necessarily mean that that justice is going to come down on the other side. isn't that right? >> it's true, but it's not very true, wolf supreme court arguments in the late 1980s you would see justices sort of play devil's advocate and say isn't it true this, true that. and that wasn't reflective of their feelings. starting under chief justice rehnquist and continuing under chief justice roberts you don't see that much on the part of the justices. it's pretty much what you see is what you get. yes, it is true that sometimes we're surprised by the justices' votes after hearing their comments at oral argument. most of the time and it's not all the time but most of the time the questions that the justices ask at oral argument are very good predictors of how they are going to vote. and based on that, based on what we saw today, i think this law is in grave, grave trouble. >> let me ask you one follow-up on that, jeffrey. what if the four liberal justices all vote to uphold the law, and the chief justice roberts agrees with them because you were suggesting earlier that the questions he was asking of clement and verilli seem

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wolf in sheep's clothing. vote no. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. walden: thank you, mr. speaker. i've never heard a finer defense of a broken bureaucratic process than i just heard. let me point out that the national association of regulatory utility commissioners, now, these are the folks that stand up for consumers and rate payers, again, support many of the proposals in this bill. specifically they point out that the minimum 60-day comment cycle is good, that the mandating that all commissioners have adequate time to review a draft decision before voting on it is good, and to require the actual language of a proposed rule to be published for comment is a good idea. and again the president's own executive orders ask for these things in many cases to be done to the other agencies but he can't do it to this one. it's our job to do it here, to fix and reform and drive for accountability and transparency against those who defend the bureaucracy as broken as it is. i yield to the gentlewoman from tennessee. the chair: the gentlelady from tennessee is

mr. speaker. we need to let our government and the world know that people care and we demand protection for these people from khartoum's murderous policies. this is why i and my colleagues, congressman frank wolf and mike capuano, are introducing today the sudan peace security and the accountability act. this bill calls for a comprehensive approach towards sudan to address and end the massive human rights violations that are taking place across that country. . no lopinger should we allow president bashir to black male the community by threat yep -- blackmail the community by threatening them. we need a comprehensive strategy and comprehensive sanctions against khartoum if the violations continue. we need to let other countries know that if they welcome and provide comfort to president bashir and members of his government who have been indicted for crimes against humanity, including genocide, that they, too, will face sanctions. we need to provide the obama administration with all the tools and all the authority they need to seek a comprehensive peace in sudan and human rights violations and bring those guilty of crimes against humanity to justice. for decades the powers that be in khartoum hav