i think, frankly, one thing that the fbi needs to -- i would encourage, and director mueller is a man with whom we have great disagreements. we've sued him dozens of times,

end quote, richard mueller, dr. richard mueller, op-ed "new york times," july 28, 2012 mr.president, i am not going to tell you that every single serious scientist in the world agrees with dr. mueller or agrees with me or agrees with the vast majority of scientis ss that global warming is real and primarily caused by human activity. but i will say that, according to the national academy of sciences, approximately 98% of active climate scientists who publish peer-reviewed papers agree with the assertion that global warming is occurring and human activity is a significant driver of it. not 100% but 98%. and when we talk about scientists publishing with peer review, what we are saying is that their papers and research were reviewed and examined by other expert scientists in their field. that is the great thing about scientisscientists -- about scid peer review. the process invites criticism and invites other scientists to prove your idea is wrong. when we say 98% of active climate scientists agree about global warming, we are talking about scientists whose work has been examin

here is john mueller. >> reporter: they don't know they are viral video stars but they are happy to be. the cubs went searching for food in this dumpster and got stuck inside. surely shank heard cries for mama in the night. >> you can tell it was just, i knows i want to get you out. >> reporter: mama bear might have been stumped but come daylight, shirley knew what to do. with her daughter shooting video from the porch, shirley's husband backed up the truck and shirley places a ladder inside the dumpster. they climbed the stairs and lowered themselves down. get a load of one of the cubs who decides he wants to go back in for a second. but at last the bear family is together again. >> they were all as close as they could get to her. >> reporter: the shanks rescued the cubs before and dubbed them the three stooges. >> it's constant rolling on each other and tumbling, we have seen them roll down the hill multiple times. >> reporter: the three stooges mom has a nickname, she is fertile meritel, always followed by new cubs. thanks to this family's courage, ingenuity and camera, the bears ar

. >> that's what director mueller testified to when he was testifying to the senate judiciary committeeh 2011. he testified that they had created a technology base with dod and they could get all past e-mails and future e-mails of money. >> the nsa assume late it. the fbi has access to it and the fbi should be bound by the fourth amendment. i'm looking at the transport here from the testimony of the general keith alexander. are you saying he's misstating what they're up to? >> the fact that they have a nsa room at the at&t building in san francisco where they documented the fiber optic lines going into a device, that device is what translates all that data into meaningful readable text. that's going to nsa. that's documented in court records. plus in "new york times" reported in 2010 where nsa had overcollected on u.s. citizens. >> eliot: look, i got to interrupt you. we're going out at 9:00. can you hang around and we'll do a bit more in our web

. >> good morning, i'm john mueller in for rob nelson. >> i'm sunny hostin in for paula faris. we'll get to concerns about olympic security in a moment. >>> also coming up, getting to the bottom of kenny kenny's auto wreck. >>> also this half hour, extreme weather turns deadly in one city. the lightning strike that killed two men playing soccer in a storm. >>> later, a beauty pageant breakthrough. i love this. the contestant who broke a barrier and inspired a lot of people along the way. >> that is a very inspirational story. >> yes, it is. >>> first, we'll talk about the upcoming olympics. today's supposed to be the busiest day of arrrrivals for t athletes, plenty of them moving straight into london's olympic village when opens today. >> but organizers are scrambling for answers following a report about lax security at london's heathrow airport. here's abc's kyra raud yeah. she's there. >> reporter: the or the from "the observer" newspaper is damning. suspects on the terror watch list waved through immigration. inexperienced officers blamed for repeatedly failing to catch them

later this month, the new joint venture with the theo mueller group will bring three types of yogurt,in grocery stores in 17 cities across the northeast and mid-atlantic, including d.c. and baltimore. executives say the project is designed to diversify the port follow jo. >>> paying you to get off the plane a little faster. in a surveyor on airfairwash dog.com, 16% of people said they would be willing to pay to be at the front of the line. most said they would be willing to fork over $10. a few people said they would be willing to go as high as $20. >> the thing is if you're sitting in the back, do they get you up first? because everyone gets up. >> when that bell rings. >> you would be fighting your way -- >> summertime, ice-cold frozen drinks. when it comes to fruity smoothies, through a new one on the block. >> yeah, burger king is advertising real fruit smoothies, soliz crenshaw made it her latest taste test. >> if it's new, smoothies are a $3 billion industry. according to thesh so when duringer king released its menu and ad, it put it up against mcdonald's and of course smoothie

fox's hema mueller explains the bear on a mission. >> i think he got in here and then couldn't get outs what happens. >> reporter: for lynn wagner, this was a morning unlike any other. >> the car was rocking and what do we do? we all came out and gawked, you know, oh, my gosh. >> reporter: the a 300-pound bear was trapped in the kia sorrento. and it must have been attracted by the smell of food. >> and this is some dried oat meal in there. >> that and protein mix he drinks and not really any other kind of what you would call fresh food or stuff and to -- with food. >> reporter: the bear fought hard to get out and all the the while rip error error -- ripping him to shreds. >> i could never have imagined that capability in a car. it's gone. it looks like a bomb hit it. >> reporter: she called 911 and parks and wildlife came out and they opened the back door. >> and that bear came straight at me and went that way. and that bear was like thank you, i'm free and i will see you later. i am out of dodge. that is all that bear error error cared about. >> and car doesn't belong to the wagners b

then at least ten cartoons with bugs and porky and -- beep beep -- and lash larue, or johnnie wise mueller went home, you got something to eat, went to the playground, and played some basketball, then you sat around on the front steps, caught lightning bugs, and waited for your parent. if they had any moan left, they went to the movies to see barbara stanwyck, and the first thing your mom did was go upstairs and take

director robert mueller. white house homeland security advisor john brennan, and the white house counsel. they told him it didn't appear the incident was connected to organized terrorism. mr. obama and vice president biden were briefed by the same group after he got back to the white house, which is after he had spoken to the mayor of aurora and the governor of colorado to offer federal assistants. he ordered flags to be flown at half staff. in his comments, romney said evil is overcome by the goodness and compassion of a wounded community. >> there will be justice for those responsible. but that is another matter for another day. today is a moment to grieve and to remember. to reach out, and to help. >> mr. obama said one of his first reactions was that of any parent whose children often go to the movies. >> michelle and i will be fortunate enough to hug our girls a little tighter tonight. i'm sure you will do the same with your children. >> the president has no scheduled campaign events until monday in cali

but if you talk to, you know, bob mueller or keith alexander here or dave petraeus, i mean, we've known each other all for a long time. we are not only colleagues, but we are friends. and when you have that trust, everything else is easy. and we built that trust up over many, many years. >> and how good is this the intelligence? because without good intelligence, in the bin laden raid, if you didn't have good intelligence, you wouldn't have known anything. but when you go into a mission in afghanistan or any place elsewhere in the world, do you have confidence in the intelligence you're getting? >> we have the best intelligence agencies in the world, bar none. and there is nobody even close to us. >>> coming up, stress, suicide, and war. admiral mccraven talks about the pressure on today's servicemen and women and what he's doing about it. >>> plus, gays serving openly in the military and whether it's had an impact on operations. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." imimagaginine e ifif y yod alalwawaysys s seeee l e [m[mususicic]] inin t thehe b besest t lil. eveverery y titim

john mueller might want to consider moving a giant tree fell on to his home this past weekend. it is the same spot where a tree fell on to his house during hurricane irene last year. >> i'll start over again. >> what's your reaction to the fact that you had just finished repairs, what, two weeks ago? >> yeah, well, it's part of life. you know, the challenges. you just -- you play the hand you're dealt. >> euler has a good attitude about his bad luck with trees. several homes in his neighborhood also have downed trees and no power. for continuing coverage of the aftermath of the storm, stay with news 4 and nbcwashington.com. >>> aroutoday the future of met silver line will be decided. the board has to decide by tomorrow whether to bring metro into loudoun county. proponents say the plan is too expensive but county leaders met to discuss a financing plan and it appears that the board is poised to back thisproject. >>> 5:06 is your time. 78 degrees. the price of winning over voters. the presidential candidate getting the most help from the common wealth. >>> still wait for power t

mandel and carry it on with the extraordinary professionalism that has always exhibited and kate mueller you have to google that later if you like. you have been set up for success and you will be a fantastic command team for the men and women of the defense intelligence agency. beyond your remarkable leadership, we honor your 38 years as a truly grateful for and family man. will rogers said all a man can hope to do in life is leave the wood pile higher than he found it. you left our profession better and higher than you found it. marta, x and my gratitude for your rock steady support and patience, service and sacrifices and especially for the family you raised. everybody said something about their connection to auburn university. i would like to highlight that there's a young auburn university farming could that. let's give them a round of applause. [applause] your ability to connect with families across our force and those with unique and special missions have been inspirational. we thank you. i offer our special thanks for your sacrifice over the years. i know you have given great str

director, bob mueller, an extraordinarily great public servant, says the threat our nation faces from a cyber attack will soon equal or surpass the threat from al qaeda and more traditional forms of terrorism. navy admiral mike mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs, said the cyber threat has no boundaries or rules and the reality is the cyber attacks can bring us to our knees, unquote. according to our director of national intelligence, james clapper, russia and china are exploiting our vulnerability. his unclassified assessment is entities within these countries are already -- quote -- "responsible for extensive illicit intrusions into u.s. computer networks and theft of intellectual property" -- end of quote. we've got to respond to this, mr. president. and we have to do it quickly. i want thank senators lieberman, collins, feinstein and rockefeller for putting together this bill. the cybersecurity act of 2012. they've introduced an approach that is balanced, bipartisan, and responsive to legitimate concerns raised by the intelligence community, private city, -- industry, and privacy

>> director mueller, the current fbi director, is apolitical. he has served both a republican and a democrat now. he is a former prosecutor like me. he is a top-notch guy. so he will give these recommendations serious consideration but the fbi is a big ship and it is hard to move that ship left or right. and so his tenure runs out within a year or two. and so we'll see whether they take lock, stock and barrel, all 18 recommendations or some, and then how long it takes to implement them. rick: a couple of points that catherine and her team uncovered in her five-year long investigation, five-month long investigation, hasan was in contact with a known terrorist, via e-mail, al-awlaki and that was never reported to hasan's superiors. >> right. rick: how does something like that happen? >> it is inexcusable. you often hear about the wall between the intelligence community and law enforcement community before 9/11. the wall you see here is a political correctness wall, where information that should have flown from one investigative agency to the relev

he served as the fbi director robert mueller chi of staff and george dalia boesh's de fhe university and california berkeley. mr. nathan sales is an assistant professor of law at george mason university school of law. before comingto gerge maso seals a theussn cry podeel he eatment of homeland security. he previously served as the council and then senior counsel in the office of legal policy at the u.s. department of jstice. as fellow atgeorow ery n i00 and 2006. in 2003 through 2005 h practiced at the washington, d.c. law firm. the court for the honoable david ofte. cout o heeihidergraduate degree from miami university and duke. colonel kenneth allard is a commentator on foreign policy and security issues. for more than a decade, he wasa atryaay ohe c news, msnbc and cnbc. in 2006 he joined the faculty of the university of texas san antonio as an executive in residence at senior lecturer at magent s tar nu seers intelligence officers as well as tours of duty as an assistant professor at west point, special assistant to the army chief of staff and theean of students at the national w

that is the assessment of the director of the federal bureau of investigation, robert mueller. in fact, he's not alone. there's an overwhelming bipartisan consensus among officials in the intelligence, defense, and national security community that america is incredibly vulnerable to a cyber attack that can be launched at any moment from anywhere in the world. michael hayden, the former director of the national security agency, michael chertoff, the former secretary of homeland security who served under president george w. bush, agree. they and many other officials have joined current secretary of homeland security, janet nap, the current -- janet napolitano, and keith alexander and others in warning as follows "the cyber threat is imminent to america. it poses as serious a challenge to our national security as the introduction of nuclear weapons in the global debate 60 years ago." the experts are sounding the alarm, calling us to take action now. to prevent a catastrophic cyber attack that could cripple our nation's economy, cause widespread loss of life, sadly, send our econom

tional security operational neelncmmyxist to mke h crt pcte ic le as fbi director mueller rently testified quote, leaks such as this threaten ongoing operations, puts at risk the lives of sources, makes it much more difficult tecit parss i ore nsnt l like this is taken exceptionally seriously and we will investigate thoroughly. director moment on to say quote i don't want to use the were devastating the fizz of the geac ou bl bes your ability to recruit sources is severely hampered. so it is also, so it also has some long-term effects, which is why it i so important to make certain that the persons who are responsible for theeak brouttoje,te. clfi information claim to promote increase government transparency. but i wonder if their real motivation is self-promotion and increased circulation. they claim to be inur ve gnmwogg thr actions may be wrong or damaging to the country. these leaks have also resurrected debate on first amendment protections afforded to media publications. whatre the bounaries of free speech? how do w aacetisd thgve otcenatio i hope the justice department will bring th

and some people are surprised at that and they say oh, bob mueller, the director of the fbi, in his public report in an open hearing to us pointed out that there have been some 20 arrests this past year of people engaged in the pursuit of a terrorist plot against this country who have been stopped. i think that's very important. i think it's important that we continue it. it is my belief people will come after us if we can, if they can. therefore the safety of this nation, the protection of this nation is really our first challenge and our main goal. so i think that is very good. i think to show the difference you can look at the a bottom at that bad -- abottabad take down, the care that was taken with intelligence, the specialization of the people who participated. and the fact that it was done without an american life lost in the process. there is no question that it's created friction with pakistan but it's very difficult for most of us to believe that osama bin laden can live in a relatively large compound in a militar military-related community for over five years and that community d

director robert mueller has warned that the cyber threat will soon equal or surpass the threat from terrorism. he has argued that we should be addressing the cyber threat with the same kind of intensity that we have applied to the terrorist threat. this vital legislation would provide the federal government and the private sector with the tools needed to help protect our country from the growing cyber threat. it would promote information sharing, improve the security of the federal government's own networks, enhance research and development programs, and most important of all, it would help to better secure our nation's most critical infrastructure from cyber attack. these are the power plants, the pipelines, the water treatment facilities, the electrical grid, the transportation systems, the financial networks upon which americans rely each and every day. the fact is the computerized industrial controls that open and close the valves and switches in our infrastructure are particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks. indeed, the internet is under constant siege on all fronts by nations like chin

bob mueller testified, "the cyber threat which cuts across all programs will be the number-one threat to our country." we are dealing with the number-one threat to our count country. i am pleased to be an original cosponsor of the cybersecurity act of 2012 with senators lieberman, collins, rockefeller, and carper, and i'd really like it thank them for their tireless work on this legislation over the past several years. this act has seven titles, each of them addressing a key gap in our nation's cyber laws. i'd like to just -- i'd like to just take a moment to describe the critical infrastructure provisions in title one, but i'd like to focus most of my remarks on the information-sharing part of the bill. which make up title seven. title 1 covers critical infrastructure protection, which means protecting the public and private infrastructure that underpin our economy and our way of life, a big, big deal. a cyber attack against these networks could open a dam, crash our financial system or disabled the grid, could stop all planes, it could interrupt the f.a.a., on and on and on. althoug

the director of the f.b.i., robert mueller, said that cyber threats will soon overtake terrorism as the most significant threat to our national security, and in the minds of some, mr. president, it's difficult to separate cybersecurity and with a people are trying to do and try to do every day, it's the same as terrorism. it's just a different form. a bipartisan group of national security experts led by former executive homeland security michael chertoff -- by the way, a republican -- and former director of national intelligence mike mcconnell appointed during the republican administration said cyber threats -- quote -- "represent one of the most serious challenges to our national security since the onset of the nuclear age." the ranking member of the armed services committee, senator mccain said -- quote -- "we must act now and quickly develop and pass comprehensive legislation to protect our electric grid, our air traffic control system, water supply, financial networks and defense systems and much more from cyber attack." that's a direct quote from john mccain. and he's right. we nee

general stephen mueller and then mr. steve massey of a family friend who is a very proud virginia native and a great patriot. betty and i have been married for 34 years and i've always found our relationship fascinating because she needs me for absolutely nothing. and i need her for everything. she is the most beautiful, talented intelligent woman i have ever known and she has raised our great children mark, john, matt and liz while i wander the world. sheave rocks and if you are confirming her this morning we would like to take about five minutes by an confident you will be more delivered with me. mr. chairman, thank you so much for allowing her to be here. it is a tremendous honor and a humbling experience to be nominated by the commander-in-chief to serve as the chief of staff by the united states air force and i would like to thank the president and secretary leon panetta and adamle for their confidence. i'd also like to thank general schwartz for his leadership of the air force for the past four years. i believe tha