but i mean nia has a point here. look at the photo of the kids and the three potential accomplices and they look like kids. >> they do. >> you hear about the plotting and the planning. it's just like how would you even begin to catch that? it seems to by the hair of their chinny-chin chin. >> there are three options, one you have a big brother police state where all our internet activity is monitored. if you post a video on youtube linking to a radical cleric, a sign lights up in the homeland security department. that's one. another one is that we educate people and we, and the government gets better at getting information from communities. and you know, incidentally, think there are a lot of parallels here to the mass shooter phenomenon. someone is starting to display a pattern of behavior. we've seen several times that leads potentially in a certain direction and people have to be aware that that's what they're seeing and speak up. now that's also very delicate. you don't want to get someone this trouble, kind of o

your thoughts, nia.'t know whether you can get away from the dealing with the issue that's flown in his face right now. your thoughts. >> that's right. i think he's always had a sort of above the fray approach to politics in general. part of his brand was that he was a break very much from bush. now you have his supporters, the only sort of way they're able to defend him now is say bush did the same thing. he's really got to figure out a way where he can get that brand back, protect that brand. and, you know, his words in some ways seem divorced from feeling. it doesn't seem like there's a lot of outrage there about these scandals. and you have jay carney going out there looking a little, you know, sort of waffly out there. so i do think he's got to get something done. but the problem is always the same thing. i mean, he's got the same problem now that he had before, and that is a very poisonous atmosphere on the hill. and this, i think, is only going to embolden republicans. >> last question to you, dou

nia-malika. we've got some breaking news out of southern california. are some live pictures of another wildfire raging about 50 miles west of l.a. evacuations are underway. in a neighborhood, a university. we will continue to monitor these developments. we'll bring the very latest in a live report ahead. and also still ahead, settlement checks now going out to homeowners who fell victim to improper foreclosures. many are saying the amount they received certainly does not cut it. >> it's kind of like a slap in the face. we've been trying to work through this for letter the years now. >> another person said it is pathetic and insulting. we'll tell you the dollar figure some received. plus, a repeal on the decision. it is one of the things we thought you should know. . it won't take long, will it? nah. okay. this, won't take long will it? no, not at all. how many of these can we do on our budget? more than you think. didn't take very long, did it? this spring, dig in and save. that's nice. post it. already did. more saving. more doing. that's the power of

joining me, karen finney and nia malika-henderson. nia, what is president obama up to here?'s a governor's campaign going on in new jersey now. he can't be unmindful of that. >> you're right, he can't be unmindful of that. i guess at some point he had some sort of contact with the democrat there, but it wasn't the photo op he had with chris christie. getting out of washington is great for obama. you saw him out there tossing the football at the carnival game. he's got something of a mess on his hands in washington with the irs thing, benghazi, the ap, and fox stuff going on with department of justice. him being out in oklahoma first and then in new jersey, you get a different sense of this president and you also have an argument about government. it's an argument about bipartisanship, an argument that putting ideology aside and getting something done is good politics. >> listen to rush limbaugh's take on this meeting today in new jersey. >> bipartisanship here, obama has money, governor christie wants the money. governor christie needs the money so the people will be helped,

. >> nia malika-henderson, what are the chances that congressional republicans were taking notes whenes krauthammer was saying that and they will actually be guided by that in the future? >> absolutely no chance at all. i mean, you have darrell issa, like a kid in a candy store at this point, he really feels like this is his moment. he feels like he's got some lines of inquiry here with these three scandals that we've seen. you saw the president come out today and deal strongly with benghazi and the irs scandal. it was a drop the mike moment i thought at the press conference for this president. but on the other hand you have republicans who are already asking more questions about this administration, what they knew, who the irs low level aides got direction from. portman was on the radio saying i think you have a situation where you have some republicans who might be worried about immigration stands, their stance on same-sex marriage in the case of portman. these scandals give them opportunity to court and curry favor with a really far right wing of the base. that's why you see boehne

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young luke brings up the important question, nia of what speaker boehner will do?hrow the hastert rule out, as he has multiple times already and do what is actually the right thing? or is he going to let the raucous caucus going to get their paw prints all over this. there is some concern, if the house is going to be the determinant of the immigration bill, boehner is going to have to take a lead role to make sure anything substantive is in that bill. >> he has and you've heard him over the last couple of days say he's excitesed about the benghazi scandal and want waned to put a lot of attention to that. one of the things we've seen, obviously we've seen that he's broken the hastert rule. you saw with the violence against women act. one of the things they did there is they had two versions of the bill in the house. they voted on the senate bill, that passed. there was a tougher house bill that people also got to vote on, too. who knows if something like that will be able to happen. it's sort of a you know, sort of a win-win for people. and he's, he would break the

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nia, i think it will surprise many that mark sanford wasn't running against nancy pelosi. he talked more about nancy pelosi in the recent last days of the campaign than he seemed to talk about elizabeth colbert busch, then whirled around, accused democrats of making it a national referendum. did you follow that and what did you think of that? >> i think in that speech, rather than thanking god, he should have thanked nancy pelosi. that very much worked for him. it was like he had an epiphany one night, let's make this about nancy pelosi, let's make this about unions, let's make it about all of those sort of boogy man liberal ideas and figures and it very much worked for him there, and i think you did have in colbert busch someone that wasn't a strong candidate. here was a person who i think her initial feeling was that she could sort of campaign by not campaigning, make mark sanford get out there, trip up on the appalachian trail by himself, then he sort of turned it on her, made it about nancy pelosi, and she was left out there being the aggressor, trying to bring up his

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nia-malika henderson also with the "washington post." you two young folks, i have to say, i think about clinton, nobody remembers, chris, he was impeached. they remember how popular he was. he must be the most popular impeached president in history. people have almost put an asterisk next to that impeachment because they think it was purely partisan now, maybe an us pleasant letter may have been a more appropriate action by the house in those days. we don't like your monica thing, but let's move on, would have been better. but this time, these hard cases like inhofe and chaffetz, bachmann. they go right to ten. impeach. is this serious, or just them? that hard group of people that always go hard right? >> look, i think there are people in both parties who if there's a certain president in the white house who isn't your party, anything he or she does is sort of -- you immediately, as you point out, chris, sort of go to town. here's what i would say. there's a large group of people including people i quote in the story you mention who say

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nia malika-henderson, when did john boehner get obsessed with this. word was months ago he kind of wanted it to go away, they played it for all it was worth. >> that's right. at first you had romney playing it for all it was worth for awhile during the 2012 campaign. eventually he sort of let it go. >> getting a little embarrassed bill quiet you down on that subject. >> much to the display of john mccain and lindsey graham who wanted him to push further. john boehner realizes the base has been chomping at the bit around benghazi the last eight months. you had the president come out today say there is no there there. that's true. as much as they pushed this investigation along, had these hearings, issa said it was one of the most corrupt administrations in american history, here he goes with the benghazi hearings to prove his initial assessment. but again, there isn't much there that has come out of the latest hearings around this. and i think what you have here is we're seeing sort of a bureaucratic knife fight between the cia and defense department t

joining me now is nia malika henderson. this talk has a major effect.irst, the image of this all male panel saying what they said is stunning. how do you react to it? >> it's competely out of touch. it's not place in this debate right now. when you find out that 40% of women are basically heads of households in america, your first reaction should be what policies are we doing to ensure that we're supporting these women. what policies are these women, especially poor women who don't have a choice that they are protecting their families and their kids at home. instead they sent us back to the 1950s and reminded women why we're not part of the republican party. >> nia, another fox host piled on merely 24 hours after that panel. watch this. >> if you're a single mom, breadwinner of the family and you get pregnant aren't we pushing towards more abortions. seems like we are. >> these are just tv talkers but they represent a lot of thinking on the right. >> i think that's right. i think they instead of using this as an opportunity to talk about policy and talk

the nia has given over $400 million for backlog because this is a situation that faces every crime lab. and cases which pose the greatest immediate to public safety including crimes involves violence and cases they we out source are routinely crimes against persons, property crimes, vehicle thefts. we also reluctantly on behalf of the staff out there send sexual assault cases out to our out source vendor laboratory. we have a system set up in place now where we have a cue for sexual assault cases. we have 9 criminalist in the laboratory doing independent casework. so we get a number of request every week. once that number reaches 9, if these cases can't be immediately assigned they are out source. the strategy behind that is to reduce the amount of time that it takes the get test conducted and turned around. >> what is the difference in the statistics of how much is being outsourced now versus two years ago, for example? is that declining or because the turn around requirement is tightening? >> i think that's what is most telling is the number of capacity and request and our numbers ha

. >> interestingly enough, nia, i want to go to you right off the gate here. what i find interesting is that with this being pushed back to the fall, paul ryan said this, "the debt limit is the back stop. i like to go through regular order and get something done sooner rather than later but we need entitlement reform." the debt limit is the back stop, pretty much admitting that only through crisis can actual action occur. i mean we've admitted that now. >> that's right, and you know, there were some thinking that people were sick of crisis, obama had the early dinner with republicans, listen, we're tired of governing through crisis, but it looks like this is where we are again. i mean my sense, i think obviously if you talk to regular voters, people are sick of this governing with a gun to your head but it looks like this is what the leverage that republicans have always had with the debt ceiling limit and looks like that's where we are again. >> ben for all of the talk we've heard from regular order and this idea of pass the budget and we'll come together, th

we think these are important issues and important to discuss. >> and nia malika, we've had the return news. and now mitt romney weighing in on the president's performance in "the wall street journal" in an op-ed saying we are now over 100 days, we've yet to see any particular agenda. that's my view that the extraordinary disappointment of the president's second term is where the opportunity was greatest. he has proposed the least. he continues to campaign. as if there is no another election and there isn't. >> and that was similar to what he said when he first came out. a couple of months ago. and ann romney on, i guess it was cbs this morning saying she was looking forward to 2016 and paul ryan unclear where they go from here. is it one of the situations where every couple months they'll pop out and say something and critique the president? do they have a larger role to play in the republican party? as they revamp what they want to do going forward. >> unlikely. >> immigration -- i think that's right. unlikely. what are they up to? i think romney has had these meetings with leaders w

as the mass hunger strike of going ton of nias the three month mock twenty three detainees are now being force for out of the facility and more than one hundred captives have officially joined the protest against mistreatment and indefinite detention without charge a lawyer for one of the prisoners told us here at r.t. that u.s. officials are making no efforts to resolve the life threatening crisis. my client's actually very bad condition he's been forced on it now for about two weeks his signing passages are infected and the forced to use more and more people every time i'm always amazed when i come to guantanamo bay reading the mainstream or the effort to avoid. trying to resolve the hunger strike one here i've seen a limited choice she performed in fact you know the prisoners report nothing happening and very solitary confinement no effort whatsoever to keep on top of the men who are suffering well i guess that's why you have an offshore prison so you can pretty much do what you want to release to the media whatever you want it to be between being a client today i've been here eleven

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or how do you see boss nia herzegovina, how do you see the prospects of serbia? can we expect next nato summit will be enlargement summit? thank you. >> mr.-- [inaudible] >> thank you, chair, secretary general. three questions. what should nato, in your opinion, do to promote nuclear disarmament? second, there's an arms race, an incipient arms race going on in east asia, and we are feeding into that with our arms exports. what's your opinion on that? shouldn't we be more cautious in our policy regarding arms export to that region? and, third, beyond missile defense what is, according to your opinion, the top of the agenda that we should pursue as europeans and particularly u.s./nato with regard to security cooperation with russia? and in this context i'm sure you've seen the report by four elder statesmen, you know the names, on building mutual security in the europe atlantic region. what's your opinion on that? thank you. >> thank you. mr.-- [inaudible] >> yes. as you know, last year there was this well known -- [inaudible] terrorist activity on a large scale on

you haven't been around nia as long as i have, but mr.ma's comment, i have to say reminded me of bill clinton's back in 1995 after the gingrich revolution when he had to declare at a news conference, the president is relevant. how much trouble is this president in right now? >> i think back to the white house correspondents dinner where he had that self-mocking thing where he put up the bush library is w. bush's legacy and his legacy would be the blame bush library. so he went on in this press conference. i kept thinking his legacy could be blame congressional republicans legacy library. the chattering class will say that he's, you know -- they will paint a death nel for this president. i think it's somewhat exaggerated, but i do think it's problematic. gun control, you couldn't even deliver the democrats in the senate. that strikes me as troublesome. the other thing that strikes me is that it's so small bore, where we are right now. with this president and going into a second term. i mean, you -- you look at this fight over sequestration

nia, i want to start with you.oups give republicans a hard time at town halls. a little bit of a change of pace. >> that's right, because we saw that with health care before with the tea party giving democrats a hard time around health care. i think when you look at her, here's a person who's a rising star in the republican party. she's looking at 2016. >> but which way? which race? >> i think she's a rising star. she's looking at 2016, the republican primary, not this 2016 race in the senate. the reality, though, for that 2016 race in new hampshire is new hampshire a blue state. >> well, it's bluer. >> yeah, and republicans in new england are a dying breed. she's got some issues. >> i thought she would be okay in this perspective, it's a live free or die state. they don't necessarily want a lot of government intervention. >> i think she's under an enormous amount of pressure. today she was looking for -- or last night she was looking for a fig leaf in the mental illness caveat. >> she wants in. >> she wants in, ye

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nia, missed you lately. you've been doing other shows. seriously now, the president's two goals, defense and offense. does he start doing stuff and hope this other stuff will start rattling away from him or does he have to put out all these fires? does he have to deal with clarifying benghazi, putting the blame where it belongs and dealing with this whole question of the fbi going after a major news organization? does he have to do something else to put them in perspective? >> i think in many ways, he's got to do both. he's got to get out front in these scandals. show some leadership. have a buck stops here moment, but he's also got to do his day job. he's got a meeting with a turkish leader. he's going to go to baltimore and talk jobs, but until he's able to put a better framing around these scandals, it really threatened to engulf these next few weeks if not months. he's going to have trouble sort of setting the agenda. that's the problem. the president wants to be in a place where he is setting the agenda. everybody was talking about t

joining me, "the washington post" nia-malika henderson. this is what cuts look like. at the end of the line you often don't think about when the conversation is abstract. >> that's right. and you saw last month that ray odierno, he testified that they initially wanted to hire about 850 additional workers. to oversee some of these problems and to close the gap there where you have so many incidents and very few people actually reporting. but, again, with these cuts, the pentagon is facing about $8 billion in cuts and they're very steep cuts, right? they happen from now until september. so it's not just the money that they're talking about. they're talking about pulling this money out very quickly. you imagine that programs like this, not only the military level, but also at the civilian level, will be hurt. >> congresswoman jackie speier is joining us now. i'm thrilled to have you, congresswoman. i think many in the country, i'm so glad chris is doing this, because i think many in the country think we threw a sequestration and nobody came. in other words, we heard the

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