mr. andrews. you have five minutes, sir. you will need to turn on the microphone, that little button in front of you. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking members and members of the subcommittee. >> if you would, mr. andrews, sorry to interrupt, but get the microphone right in front of you. >> i'm andy andrews, father of second lieutenant darren andrews who was killed in afghanistan while in the process of searching for bowe bergdahl. darren's first tour in afghanistan was in 2004 as an enlisted soldier. he developed a medical condition that required surgery so he was sent to germany and then back to the states. he applied to the program, he was accepted into it and enrolled in 2006 at texas state university to complete his master's degree. while enrolled in rotc. he was commissioned as second lieutenant in the u.s. army, stationed at fort benning, georgia, then briefly at fort richardson, alaska before being sent to afghanistan in april of 2009. we were able to talk to him by telephone whenever he got the chance to call. we c

mr. andrews. the committee will now hear from the specialist. >> ranking members of the subcommittee, thank you for allowing me to share the first-hand account of my experiences serving in afghanistan. one of the things that i , hegnize about bergdahl was always asking questions. he blended in when he needed to be. he was in the right place at the right time, right uniform. we train for an upcoming deployment to afghanistan. during this time, myself nor anybody i had spoken with could remember bergdahl walking off the base. this story has been repeated over and over again. i have no idea why. it did not happen. in march of 2009, our brigade deployed to afghanistan. bergdahl did not make the deployment with us. he got a staph infection. we were tasked with building and observation post. while we were there, we were on the front line, digging holes for bunkers, filling sandbags, hanging wire. told we could take some items of clothing off to keep us from having heatstroke. security was always in plac

mrs. andrews, i'm so sorry for your loss and mr.hair, i waive the rest of my time. >> the -- just so the record is clear, mr. andrews served in the united states air force so all four of you all, thank you for your service. >> thank you for your service, sir. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. panelists, i appreciate you being here. thank you for your service to our great country. mr. and mrs. andrews, thank you for the sacrifice of what you went through. i as a grateful citizen and member of this great congress and appreciative every day of the liberties and freedoms we get to experience because of the willingness of people to serve, commit, and dedicate to this country. i thank you. i think we should keep the narrative on the policy. the description of whether or not he was a deserter or not, as you brotdub -- up, specialist fuld, that will come out and go through its due process. whether -- mr. waltz, you said in your bio that you deal or provide strategic analysis and

mrs. andrews, i'm so sorry for your loss and mr.hair, i waive the rest of my time. >> the -- just so the record is clear, mr. andrews served in the united states air force so all four of you all, thank you for your service. >> thank you for your service, sir. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. panelists, i appreciate you being here. thank you for your service to our great country. mr. and mrs. andrews, thank you for the sacrifice of what you went through. i as a grateful citizen and member of this great congress and appreciative every day of the liberties and freedoms we get to experience because of the willingness of people to serve, commit, and dedicate to this country. i thank you. i think we should keep the narrative on the policy. the description of whether or not he was a deserter or not, as you brotdub -- up, specialist fuld, that will come out and go through its due process. whether -- mr. waltz, you said in your bio that you deal or provide strategic analysis and

mr. andrews, whose son was killed in afghanistan in 2009. and mr. full, thank you for your service. mr. andrews, i cannot imagine what it would be like to lose a child in the service of our nation. as a stepmother of a marine who served in iraq, and a mother-in-law to another marine aviator who served in iraq and afghanistan, i know the sleepless nights and the constant worry that air and space when their child or loved one is in harms way. our country owes the brave men and women who have served and earned her gratitude a debt that can never be repaid. it must start with being completely forthcoming with them. in 2011 while i was chair of the house foreign affairs committee, the administration gathered the chairman of the national security committees as well as the congressional leadership to brief us on a potential prisoner swap of taliban and terrorists for sergeant bowe bergdahl. although the meeting was classified, news reports from earlier this month indicate that the administration had a team of officials present the administration plan to us. at the time of the briefing, using al

mr. andrews served in the united states air force. so all four of y'all, thank you for your service. >> thank you for your service, sir. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida, mr. yoho for five years. >> thank you, mr. chairman, panelists, i appreciate you being here. thank you for your service to our great country. mr. and mrs. andrews. thank you for the sacrifice of what you went there. i as a grateful citizens of this great flation and a member of congress, am appreciative every day of the liberties and freedoms that we get to experience because of the willsness of people to serve, commit and dedicate to this country. i thank you. i think we should keep the narrative on the policy. the description of whether or not he was a deserter or not, as you brought up, specialist, that will come out and it will go through its due process. mr. waltz, you want in your bio, you state that you deal or provide strategic analysis and policy development for other countries. was the transfer of one american soldier for five taliban a wis

mr. andrew was convinced at this point that his insurance salesman, mr. pavatt, and his wife were having an affair. >> 48-year-old james pavatt taught sunday school with brenda, and they flaunted their relationship, even in front of rob's children. >> james and brenda had a very interesting relationship. i mean, even prior to rob's death, the two of them went on a vacation together down to texas with the children. i don't know of any husband who would willingly just say okay to his wife going down to mexico with a complete stranger and taking his kids with them. >> just a few months before his murder, rob demanded that brenda end her affair with pavatt. brenda refused and filed for divorce. rob immediately changed the beneficiary of his $800,000 life insurance policy. >> mr. andrew made the beneficiary, i think, his brother, for the benefit of the children. since the children were minors, he had to have an adult as the actual named beneficiary as the trustee of that money. >> after rob's death, police were surprised to learn that brenda was again the sole

mr. president, stop negotiating for us. as to the andrews, as abraham lincoln said in a letter to mrs. bixby, there's no words we can express to you, but to generally relate our sincere appreciation for your sacrifice. thank you very much. i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. rohrabacher, for one minute. >> i thank you very much. president obama has put american military personnel, u.s. diplomatic personnel and american businessmen and tourists at risk by releasing five terrorist leaders in exchange for a captured american. we have given terrorists the incentive to capture and hold hostages more and more. i would say that what we have to realize is that our president has just made a decision that will result in our country and our people being less safe than had he not made that decision. and, yes, president bush released 500 taliban that had been held in gitmo, but let me note he did not make a deal for them. he did a survey to find out if they were the least threatening of those people who were being held. thad he done a deal for

mr. andrews, whose son was killed in afghanistan in 2009. for yourull, thank you service. mr. andrews, i cannot imagine what it would be like to lose a child in the service of our nation. as a stepmother of a marine who served in iraq, and a mother-in-law to another marine aviator who served in iraq and afghanistan, i know the sleepless nights and the constant worry that air and space when their child or loved one is in harms way. our country owes the brave men and women who have served and earned her gratitude a debt that can never be repaid. it must start with being completely forthcoming with them. in 2011 while i was chair of the house foreign affairs committee, the ministration gathered the chairman of the national security committees as well as the congressional leadership to brief us on a potential prisoner swap of taliban and terrorists for sergeant bowe bergdahl. although the meeting was classified, news reports from earlier this month indicate that the administration had a team of present the administration plan to us. at the time of the briefing, using all permission

mr. chairman, ranking members of the subcommittee's. andrews, atuld, mr.icrophone right in front of you. >> i am the father of sergeant killed in the process of looking for sergeant bergdahl . he developed a medical condition that required surgery. he was sent to germany and then back to the states. he applied to a program and was accepted. at texased in 2006 state university to complete his master's degree while enrolled in rotc. he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the united states army. the forto f -- alaska being sent to afghanistan in april of 2009. we were able to talk to darren by telephone whenever he would call. his birthday is on the third. he told us that they had been out looking for the last 24 hours for the soldier who had walked away. i asked if the soldier had been captured while on guard duty. he said that he did not think so. all that his year -- all of his gear was found neatly stacked. the soldier's name was not mentioned. darren could not tell us where he was or what they were doing. when we talk to him in the next few months

mrs. andrews, we want you to know what you're getting ready to hear and this is what happened.y clarified the information at that time. >> so your son was trying to save her son. >> no -- >> her son was trying to save your son. >> yeah, correct. >> yeah. >> have either one of you guys heard from the president of the united states? >> no. >> we got a letter. >> he wrote a letter? >> well, no, he didn't really write a letter. he probably has a thousand letters on his desk and he takes his stamp and signs it and has someone put it in an envelope and send it to you. >> that's exactly what it was. it was a form letter. >> form letter. >> no call. no, you know, i'm sorry. no nothing. >> you know, i know how president bush did it. it was very different. and i saw him with gold star families, and i saw him come out of a room crying at the time. it wasn't reported. i didn't report it because it was a private meeting. >> i met with president bush. >> he contacted you? >> i did. he did and we attended a gold star mother's sunday at his home in dallas. >> and he was not president when your

mrs. andrews. thank you so much, again, for being here and we apologize for your loss.ow is a reporter from the "new york times." he's done some deep digging on the claims that sergeant bergdahl caused the deaths of fellow soldiers. andy, good to see you again. in the headline of "the times" "can gi be tied to six lost lives, facts are murky." how come? >> we wanted to take a step back and look at the secret military dispatches being written at the time both before and after bergdahl's abduction. to try to bring readers back to what afghanistan and in particular this eastern province right along the pakistan border to see what the war was like both before and after. the reason why that's important is that in that area you had a haqqani network commander. the haqqanis you may know are deeply tied with the taliban. they were bringing over pakistani insurgents. they were having a lot of activity in that area. mortar fire, small arms fire. this was in both the months leading up to bergdahl's kidnapping as well as afterward. so you read the secret dispatches and what do you

i believe it's your responsibility commissioner andrews that when mr. pill paul comes up to the microphone and introduces himself david pill paul member of the sunshine task force and sales to mention he's speaking in his role as private citizen it's your responsibility commissioner andrews to immediately cut him off and rule him out of order. he's not permitted under the s i a to hold himself out as an agent of the task force and if at the continues i think it's your responsibility to cut him off and not wait until two hours into a hearing as you the on april 28th when you wait until two hours and 8 minutes into the hearing to inform him no one is soliciting our input mr. pill paul. thank you. >> commissioners ray for san francisco of open government i've asked you to review the recording when members of the public raised the issue radz documents provided to the members of the commission some of the comments were inappropriate the sunshine ordinance which like it or not this ethnics has an obligation to enforce and requires it provides documents to the

mr. andrews, last word. >> i believe america is less safe. i believe these five guys are going to come after this. was a mistake to release them and it did not serve our national interest in any way. >> thank you for being here. the committee is adjourned. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> on the next "washington journal," military and diplomatic options for responding to violence in iraq with republican congressman scott perry. times" senior correspondent on this week's federal reserve meeting. journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. like the idea behind 250 in 250 is instead of trying to tell era by era, we would miss vitally important things. instead of trying to do that and failing, we decided would've we just gave snapshots of st. louis history that would give people a glimpse of all of the diverse things that would happen here and they could use their imagination to fill in the rest? 50 people, places, moments, images, objects and tried to

to homicide we have no enclosure i bring the names of the people thomas hannibal and andrew and jason thomas and mr. hunter and marcus hunter are all the men that walked up that day and the perpetrators of killing my son ways they couldn't get the people they wanted they turned the guns on my 17 year-old he was die to grate i'm still in pain. what do i do i need some closer i have none this is my therapy to come here instead of sitting at the doctors officer or sitting in front of a thooefrt to hear my time is up are i want those people that killed my son in jail i want them in jail so i can go and show them the love i was going to give to my son i want to talk to them and tell them that. i want it done this is not just other family members that i carry with me everyday. of those other mothers in i can stand here and do this imagine excuse me. those are the pictures that i took down to city hall and stand on the stairs and watch the mothers and say can you carry my sons picture i say yes give it to me if we can't stand together i can help you i am helping myself. something needs to be done. i'm sta

mr. gross man's lawyer michael absolutely obsoleted deputy city attorney andrew shins garbage. there's nothing in the city chart that protects city attorney i mean attorney-client privilege not a peep. that was the root of mr. gross man's case the superior court was right to order the immediate release of the 24 documents withheld from mr. gross man should not have dragged on for two years before arriving as that hearing tonight and you're going to go into closed session god, only knows what. if the commission has too long of a history giving us reasons not to building you. mr. gross man should prevail other than the merits of his case and the appellate court should get over itself trying to hold attorney-client privilege immulberry it's not when it comes to narrow area of law focused on public utilities access. mr. gross man is not waging a battle to get at some kind of documents that will give him a road map he's after public records what part of that don't you get? >> it somewhat baffles me what you think you're going to do in closed session to be honest with you. you can't a

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mr. herrera is outside of our. >> completely outside our jurisdiction we'll have to refer that. >> commissioner andrews >> can you remind me of the process around budget dean season did you submit anything to the mayor's office. >> quite a bit we had a commission discussion about this several months ago. our budget submission this year boiling it down to the bottom line we requested that we get the same budget that we had this year including the ad back it the board of supervisors had added so that's our request. ultimately what the mayor's office does obviously is up to them and, of course, it going to the board. and just is adding to the record there's money for the campaign by the way, that's statutory that's an be automatic funding approximately $2 million >> any other questions on the executive director report. no public so no public comment the next is items for future meetings. public comments >> i have a comment on the subject for future meetings. >> a question more than anything else there's have been statements made at the last two meetings for topics do we keep track of those and if so can we get a lis

mr. speaker. andrew tomarici is a 25-year-old united states marine from south florida who served our country -- our country bravely and honorably during two combat tours in afghanistan. andrew was meritoriously promoted on the battlefield to sergeant during his last tour which shows the true character of this young man who once told his mom that he was, quote, nudged by god, end quote, to join the military. andrew suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder and was invited by a fellow marine to seek treatment in san diego. he accidentally ended up at the mexican border where he was arrested by mexican authorities for possessing firearms. andrew's mistake was taking a wrong turn. the administration's mistake is to let him languish in mexican prisons where he face threats and abuses. president obama and vice president biden both had opportunities to demand his release, but they shirked their responsibilities and obligations to this young man and his family. mr. speaker, it's time to bring our marine home no

mr. lincoln's decision to replace his incumbent with andrew johnson. i do know that he thought it was a good decision. ,ere, he had a tendency governor who was prounion, even in a state which had seceded from the union. me that always struck perhaps it should not have been to believereason that that was the cause of lincoln's change of mind. >> i think we have reached a new height. >> was the kansas-nebraska act returnedst change that lincoln to politics? this was the biggest event not only to change lincoln's location, to going back to politics but i would say that it was probably the most inflammatory legislation ever passed by the congress of the u.s. recent congresses to the contrary notwithstanding. question.a bull's-eye one can almost see the great republic turning on a hinge with the kansas nebraska act. lincolne rise to mr. and he was known only in a county in central illinois. most illinois was the most the north. states of it cause lincoln in a state which was primarily a democrat sympathetic to slavery states to win as a week. a very bold mo

mr. valuation. so you tell me if i'm right or wrong. $18 billion, too much or too little? >> andrew, i read your piece and i think you remind me a little bit of sort of 1998 when the globe came on and the speculations that all the wonderful market share they can -- >> i'm sure the. i'm hurt. >> all the businesses -- this was even the discussion that yahoo! had and at that time, even had some revenue. we saw it go to 250 times revenue and come back to earth. listen, think uber6 is a fantastic product i use it all the time, except when i'm in las vegas or miami, which unfortunately, it doesn't work at right now. but the bottom line is to speculate this early on that they are going to have such a global market share is extremely, aggressive of you and very optimistic, i might add. the world is a competitive place, andrew, in case you hadn't noticed. >> i know you think i'm a professional scenic, to be optimistic, i think i would get kudos. where are you guys? >> i'm fan of uber, use it fairly frequent any new york but my hometown of atlanta, where there is barely any transportation, a

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yet during that entire period with the arguable exception of andrew johnson, no president ever attempted to make a recess appointment. >> mr. francisco, tell me if i'm wrong about this, but it seems to me that intrasession recesses really only arose in the 1940s or so, right? there's the period with andrew johnson, and andrew johnson used intrarecess, intrasession recesses to make a lot of appointments. other than that, intrasession recesses of more than three days that are not christmas simply do not exist. so that as soon as intrasession recesses came to be, presidents started making appointments in them. >> let me address it this way. i'm not sure i agree with the factual understanding, your honor. there were intrasession recesses longer than three days prior to 1867. i think there were some ten of them prior to 1867 including seven that were longer than ten days. and bear in mind -- yes, they were christmas recesses, but so were the ones issued in this case. they were recess christmas appointments. but i do take your point that intrasession recess appointments did not become very common -- i should say it this way, app

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mrs. obama are due to depart from the white house here and hop onboard marine one and head over to andrews air force base for a trip to north dakota meeting with native american groups before going to california to deliver the commencement address at uc irvine. how the weekend proceeds after that, we just don't know at this point. does the president stay out there all weekend long? could there are changes to his schedule based on what's happening in iraq? we don't know the answers to those questions. john, a very critical moment at this white house as you know you covered a lot of these issues. this is a president who campaigned against the war in iraq. promised to end the war in iraq and did so nearly three years ago. a very big political moment for this president at this point, john. >> jim accosta, the president on the road over the weekend but will make these decisions as you say as soon as this weekend whether to carry out any air strikes. thank you, jim. joining me from washington, retired army brigadier general who served in iraq for a number of years and on the phone, former new me

mr. mcmillan just a few weeks ago and clearly this is something they're thinking very hard about and what's been, andrewty tough challenge coming to brick and mortar retail. >> i want to know, sarah, how much -- given that the margin compression -- how much does this thing cost? these guys, these guys are supposed to be cheap. this looks expensive what they're doing down there. >> reporter: very expensive but it is an annual tradition. they don't put out the number. they don't break out the number. there were a few presentations about the cash that walmart accumulated and what it's doing, investing in the business, investing in technology. returning cash to shareholders. but yes, this is an expensive day. we don't know what it costs but the folks coming out here, the 14,000 associates and investors had a pretty good time and it does a lot to boost the morale and get them excited even if the share price is underperforming. >> okay. sarah in fayetteville, appreciate that. >>> want to see a dead body or how your coercion could be in "game of thrones." plus, investing in the future of health care technology

andrew... >> that's who i am. my name is madoff. and i'll live with that for the rest of my life. >> speak out about crime, guilt, suicide... >> mr. madoff, what do you have to say for yourself? >> and the day bernie admitted to committing the largest financial fraud in history. >> and he said, "i have a confession to make. i've been running a ponzi scheme." [ticking] >> do you think you could pull off this scam today? >> given the same security measures? >> yep. >> easily. piece of cake. >> sam eshaghoff's scam was getting paid thousands of dollars to take the s.a.t. test for other students. he did it at least 16 times, scoring in the 97th percentile of the country. >> i would call him an academic gun for hire. that's what he was. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm bob simon. in this edition, we examine two very different kinds of fraud. bernie madoff's wife and surviving son break their silence about wall street's most infamous criminal. and later, we visit a high school con man who figured the best way to make the grade was to cheat the s.a.t.s but first, in december 2008, bernie madoff confessed to running a $65-billion pon