>> we know there are five young men from northern virginia, between 19 and 25, all of them u.s. citizen. one of them a student at howard university. the parents became concerned about the young men's whereabouts. apparently they told the parents they were going to a conference. but when the parents tried to call them on the cell phones, they got a ring that sounded like they were overseas. they were concerned. they went to their religious elders. that information eventually made it to the fbi. the fbi launched an investigation. one law official tells me that the names of none of these young men had shown up on their radar before. the names of the individuals were passed on to pakistani authorities as persons of interest and then we have the arrests in pakistan. the pakistani authorities are definitive that indeed the young men they picked up were the men missing from virginia. they say they tried to hook up with terrorist groups in pakistan but were not successful in doing so. the u.s. officials are not going that far. their operating belief is that these are the five young men

thought he should be hanged for his desertion of the union army and his leadership of the army of northern virginia. so banks came to arlington on the day it was officially begun as a cemetery, june 14, 1864, came to this part of the cemetery. looked around and was upset that there were no graves around the lee mansion. so his next act was to go up the hill where we will go shortly, and to begin to put burials right up next to the mansion. he didn't want the least to be able to come back after the war was over. so you will see banks strategic approach to the creation of arlington cemetery. up the hill and mrs. lee's garden. >> we are now up on a hill overlooking washington, d.c., at the lee mansion. and i am aiming the camera at mrs. lee's camera spirit this is mrs. lee's garden, the highest point of arlington national cemetery. this was the home of robert e. lee, marylee, before the civil war. and at the height of the civil war in 1864, the first of military aerials were made in the cemetery. the lower cemetery out of sight of the mansion. quartermaster general didn't think that the graves were cl

the pakistani kids here in northern virginia didn't tell their parents. that tells you something right away. the community base of support in europe for this problem of radicalization is very different than here where the problem as i said exists on the margins and the parents actually turn them in or their pierce will turn them in. the process of becoming american is determinative and the more compelling force and the antidote to this radicalization and a sense of alienization. at the end of the day, what we have to do is more of what we do and do it better instead of less. >> the reason i asked the question, when you saw the recent incidents around the country, i was under the impression that europe is more susceptible and given what happened in the recent weeks and months, i started to question that. >> that's why i suggest if you look at each one and take them apart and see where the patterns are, the ft. hood is different than minneapolis. i would say that one of the things from somali experts and people in the community said since the withdrawal of

pretty much across northern virginia in to western maryland and over the district. 31 when you wake up. this low comes up the coast and it's going to bring warmer air up to 40s with rain in the afternoon. to the north in new york state and central pennsylvania you will get snow out of this. tomorrow night, new year's eve, we will probably have snow mix in with rain. we're not looking at accumulations but the roads will be wet and many times that happens and it gets problematic around here. on friday, leftover rain or snow showers. 38. the next weather headlines will be those really gusty winds again on saturday. look at saturday an sunday's high temperatures. trapped just above the freezing mark. let's see if patranya bhoolsuwan has good news for your wednesday drive. >> good morning. well, the weather is not too bad this morning and so is the traffic. moving well here. we have a disabled vehicle at route 50 inner loop at in virginia as you head out in 95. you will none to that blocking the right lane. after that it is clear to 66. jump on 66. moving good from centreville to the beltwa

we saw that recently in northern virginia where the families of five pakistani young men who disappearedorted that to the fbi. in saudi arabia there is a program by the ministry of the interior to encourage families to report disappearances and radicalization of young men there. this is an important tipping program so law enforcement and administration officials know who to target. what happened to that information when the father first, can we confirm he did, in fact, report him missing and radicalized to u.s. security officials or the us embassy. if they got that information what did they do with it? often times the mere fact of radicalization may not be enough to connect him to a threat to aviation. he should have been a selectee so he should have gotten special scrutiny if he tried to board an aircraft. >> larry: eric margolis, how do you win a war on terrorism? isn't a terrorist born right now today? >> i think it is wrong to call it a war on terrorism. it is a police action on terrorism. it is not a war it can win. as long as the u.s. is deeply involved in the affairs of the third

this incident in northern virginia which was the focus of our attention until yesterday largely good news for you. good news because whatever these young men were planning did not and will not take place because of the discussing. but their family members reported their concerns to the local muslim community, imams and in turn imams and the muslim organizations did what they are supposed to do and communicated with the authorities. that's what happened a number of young so mall i didn't -- that's right. the old ant dote for terrorism will have to come from those inside the muslim community. not i or the president. we don't have any credibility. but we need the vast scrort of muslims, law-abiding citizens to communicate to the kindly snort -- host: our next call for clark kent ervin comes from new jersey. colleen on the republican line. caller: thank you c-span for taking my call and thank you, very much for serving for your service. it is greatly, greatly appreciated. especially here, i'm sure you know berk lynn county is within 7 miles of new york city. and we still duck when planes

the men reportedly met here in northern virginia when they were members of a youth group sponsored by their mosque. >> our group discussions never talked about politics, never talked about ongoing conflicts, never talked about fighting against anyone indirectly or directly. on the contrary we always promoted compassionate toward others and being good stewards of humanity. >> sreenivasan: officials in both the u.s. and pakistan have said they expect the men would eventually be deported back to the u.s. but charging them in pakistan would likely delay that process. as the year comes to a close, u.s. military deaths soared in afghanistan, where the war is escalating. but fewer troops died in iraq, where the operation is winding down. in afghanistan, 318 american troops were killed in 2009. that's more than double the number who died in 2008. in iraq, 150 americans lost their lives this year. that toll is nearly half what it was in 2008, when 314 u.s. troops died. 2009 ended with some positive economic news. the labor department reported new claims for unemployment fell unexpectedly to th

pakistan arrest five northern virginia man, probe's possible jihadist ties.l peace prize. york city, -josh, democrats line. caller: i am prouli of this president. it was ançwi interesting choiceo present him with the nobel prize, but there -- it is important to realize that his receiving the nobel peace prize would not have happened if it were not for the last eight years of george w. bush and his reckless abandon of peace. i think that is important to note because a lot of people are planning obama that he should have turned it down, or perhaps not have gone, which would have been ridiculous. host: huntington, west virginia, ravi, republican line. caller: i saw the speech that the president made this morning accepting the nobel peace prize. it was a very, very good speech. i am a republican, but words, you know, it is just words. that is all it is. come back to this country and work on unemployment. i was thinking, these officials in d.c., they are elected officials. the american public with them in. these people that are laidÑi of, now let's go to the senat

the reason why the pakistanis are so interested in holding on to these americans from northern virginiaile, to find out about this radicalizer -- when someone can speak a language in speaker slang and draw you to a radical cause, how effective that can be. in minneapolis, we saw similarly, the individual of smalley descent radicalizing -- of the somali descent radicalizing people. there were cases in texas, cases in illinois, where people thought they were going to blow up federal buildings and only did not because u.s. law enforcement figure out what they were up 2 and give them fake bombs. host: 1 the fort hood shootings happened, were you surprised? guest: a think everyone was surprised -- host: surprise that major nidal hasan had not been caught earlier -- guest: you get shocked when a tragedy like this happens, and doubly shocking when he gets of the details. we don't want to preempt the investigation, we already know that he provided a power point invested -- power point presentation to colleagues were he said that suicide bombers was a legitimate thing. some of the reviews by sup

>> yes. " the next thing that happens is that at some point, this individual comes to northern virginia. i have a letter that you wrote on may 14 to the assistant superintendent of the commonwealth of virginia department of education, putting that department on notice that this individual that you discovered is now teaching. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> we have a letter dated today written to the chairman in which it explains that one of the witnesses that was going to testify is employed by the same system and thought it would be inappropriate to comment on the case without knowing all the facts. i completely understand that. that letter from the american association of school administrators reports that the individual in question here was immediately placed on administrative leave pending investigation by the loudoun county schools. there is the next problem. i assume that we cannot know whether or not the loudoun county district had knowledge of this individual's background. is that correct? >> we do not no conclusively but we believed they did not. >> if your assumption i

the pakistani kids here in northern virginia didn't tell their parents. that tells you something right away. the community base of support in europe for this problem of radicalization is very different than here where the problem as i said exists on the margins and the parents actually turn them in or their pierce will turn them in. the process of becoming american is determinative and the more compelling force and the antidote to this radicalization and a sense of alienization. at the end of the day, what we have to do is more of what we do and do it better instead of less. >> the reason i asked the question, when you saw the recent incidents around the country, i was under the impression that europe is more susceptible and given what happened in the recent weeks and months, i started to question that. >> that's why i suggest if you look at each one and take them apart and see where the patterns are, the ft. hood is different than minneapolis. i would say that one of the things from somali experts and people in the community said since the withdrawal of

i am board member of northern virginia community college or recommend -- or represent -- as you indicated, the co-founder of the college consortium, which is comprised of 41 presidents of colleges fromthe have the highest incidence of autism in the country. he is an active member of for a consortium, as is the president of heinz college, the largest community college in mississippi. both of these leaders could not be here today because of previous a scheduled board meetings. we do have some college presidents that are here. the first one is behind me, he is determined of taft college and is the chairman of our consortium. the second president we have is dr. wayne burton, the president of north shore community college based in massachusetts. we have steve, the chairman of passaic county community college. we have one of the foremost post secondary programs in the country for students with autism. if you look at my testimony, the summary of the results that taft has rachieved, it is astounding. we aspire to the programs as effective as the taft program. this hearing has a particular poignan

i have cut two daughters and a son and my wife beckham in northern virginia.at motivates me -- i have got two daughters and a son and my wife back home in virginia. but what motivates me is the mission and i have seen the same level of determination in the eyes of the soldiers and service members when i went to talk to them yesterday on christmas eve. it is a large ship, but we are prepared to face that a hardship because it is an important mission. i would like to thank the caller for his support. i brought in a couple of the cards around my front door in my office. i want to thank the first presbyterian church of clarksville, georgia, for their well wishes. i would like to thank mr. william sayers, who sent me this can of christmas cookies. i have no idea where he lives or what organization he belongs to, but it was "dear soldier" and i hope he is listening here today. lastly, i would like to thank the kindergarten class in hazleton, pa.. those kids, probably with the help of their teacher, 10 kids in the class said mary christmas to the american soldiers. t

i have cut two daughters and a son and my wife beckham in northern virginia. but what motivates me -- i have got two daughters and a son and my wife back home in virginia. but what motivates me is the mission and i have seen the same level of determination in the eyes of the soldiers and service members when i went to talk to them yesterday on christmas eve. it is a large ship, but we are prepared to face that a hardship because it is an important mission. i would like to thank the caller for his support. i brought in a couple of the cards around my front door in my office. i want to thank the first presbyterian church of clarksville, georgia, for their well wishes. i would like to thank mr. william sayers, who sent me this can of christmas cookies. i have no idea where he lives or what organization he belongs to, but it was "dear soldier" and i hope he is listening here today. lastly, i would like to thank the kindergarten class in hazleton, pa.. those kids, probably with the help of their teacher, 10 kids in the class said mary christmas to the american sold

. >> the house homeland security committee could issue subpoenas to the northern virginia couple who made it past security at last week's white house dinner. the moves after the salahis said they would not testify at this hearing. the committee did hear from secret service director mark sullivan. this part of the hearing is 90 minutes. >> the committee on homeland security will come to order. the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the united states secret service and presidential protection, an examination of a systems failure. good morning. i want to thank the witnesses for agreeing to testify here today. some people have asked me why we're having this hearing. . .. >> we are not concerned about agency embarrassment, discomfort, or shame cannot serve as a substitute for performance. the security gaps at issue cannot be explained away as missteps by a few front-line employees. there were undeniable planning and execution failures of the entire secret service apparatus. with the security failings that seem to hang over that evening like a fog, we are all fortunate that

moussaoui was in northern virginia for over four years. he will be -- he will say things and do things that will be unconsiderableable. as you vote for this bill, you are in essence allowing that to take place. it's crazy. it's absolutely crazy to think you can try khalid sikh muhammad. then they are going to bring others in. so muhammad gets civilian trial when a young 19-year-old person in the army, man or woman, who does something wrong, has to go through a military court-martial. for that reason the bill spends too much, but for those reasons, and i believe that by bringing khalid shake muhammad and the others here, we may very well endanger people and bring about another attack. secondly, to spend all that money to protect khalid sikh muhammad when he could have been tried down at guantanamo bay just doesn't make any sense. no one believes that that makes sense. lastly, to send people to yemen and this other place. i think will endanger the country. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachu

the scene outside a snowy northern virginia, about 2,200 people lining up to get an autograph of sarah pay lynn. -- palin. >> from "the new york times" this morning, number one is "going rowing" -- "going rogue" by sarah palin. giving the gemente democratic hurem -- humor was barney frank. she says, if the election had turned out differently, vice president biden would be out selling his book "going rogaine." caller: i'd like to tell the president, i'm on disability and medicare. the last time i saw my doctor on 11-18 last month, he told me if the health care bill passes, he's going to drop me as a medicare patient. medicare told him they will only pay rd 15 a visit, and he can't afford that. so what am i supposed to do? i would like mr. obama to tell me if he can write my prescriptions to keep me alive, because i need those prescriptions. i haven't done nothing wrong. host: what's your condition? do you have any preexisting conditions? caller: yeah, i got shot back in the 19 p 70's, i've worked most of my life. i'm 53 and disabled. the old gunshot wound came back to haunt me, so i had

host: the papers this morning has the photos of the five muslim students from northern virginia who weretioned by the f.b.i. about a possible conconspiracyy against the united states. here's the photoses of them. there's an analysis piece this morning if you go to the pages of the "new york times." this is scott shane writing. there's a longer piece you can find in the "new york times." up next on our republican line. caller: good morning. thank you. i have quite a few things on my mind i would like to say. i'm not an internet person. i'm disabled. but i don't know where he is moving to. i can't believe, you know, the things that are going on now. and i'm not a tea party follower but i understand why these people are doing what they are because they're looking at the tv and they cannot believe the way the government is taking over everything. you know, just like the bailout for automobile dealers. well, i happen to know personally that it was the republicans put out of business and his business was doing fine. i don't understand that. i think they're doing things like that on purpose. an

this incident in northern virginia which was the focus of our attention until yesterday largely goodews for you. good news because whatever these young men were planning did not and will not take place because of the discussing. but their family members reported their concerns to the local muslim community, imams and in turn imams and the muslim organizations did what they are supposed to do and communicated with the authorities. that's what happened a number of young so mall i didn't -- that's right. the old ant dote for terrorism will have to come from those inside the muslim community. not i or the president. we don't have any credibility. but we need the vast scrort of muslims, law-abiding citizens to communicate to the kindly snort -- host: our next call for clark kent ervin comes from new jersey. colleen on the republican line. caller: thank you c-span for taking my call and thank you, very much for serving for your service. it is greatly, greatly appreciated. especially here, i'm sure you know berk lynn county is within 7 miles of new york city. and we still duck when planes c

the health homeland security could issue subpoenas to the northern virginia couples that made security at the house dinner. after the salami said they would not testify at today's hearing. the committee did hear from mark sullivan. here's a portion of the hearing while the senate is in recess. [inaudible conversations] >> the committee of homeland security will come to order. the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the united states secret service and presidential protection and examination of assistance failure. good morning. i want to thank the witnesses for a green to testify here today. some people have asked me why we are having this hearing. let me be clear. this hearing is not about crashing a party at the white house. neither is it about one of the celebrities for reality television. on the contrary, this hearing is about real world threats to the nation. we cannot forget that amid all the uproar the most important and indisputable fact is that a couple gained unauthorized access to the white house grounds because no one from the secret service prevented them fro

it appears one reason the pakistanis are interested in holding on to these americans from northern virginiaor a little while is to figure more but this individual, the radicalize our. you can see how powerful it would be to have so on -- to evzone who understands american society and can speak your slaying and can draw you in. individuals of somali dissent in minnesota area, radicalizing people on the street. there was another case on line in north carolina. individuals were going the gaza, tried to fight people there. when they could not, they would try pakistan. cases in texas and illinois where people thought there were going to blow up federal buildings and not because u.s. law enforcement give them big bombs and arrested them, assuming they had the call button on the cellphone, thinking they would blow the building. host: were you surprised at the fort hood shootings? surprise is that major nadal hasan had not been called earlier? guest: you did surprised both ways. it is a shocking system. it is doubly shocking when you find out some of the details. we did not want to preempt the inve

faith and the honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of virginia to, by these presents, solemnly in the name of god and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together in a civil body politic. that was the pilgrims on the mayflower, november 11, 1620. i've had people, i've met from harvard university, who are not familiar with their history and the fact that harvard university, september 26, 1642, this was part of their code, it was part of their handbook, quote, harvard university, let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies his to no kind and jesus christ which is eternal life and therefore to lay christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. and seeing the lord only gives wisdom, let everyone seriously set himself by prayer and secret to steek it of him. proverbs 2: 3, unquote. that's harvard university at its founding back in the year around 1642. and george washington's own personal prayer book which he read from daily, this is one o

representing a manufacturing area, the cleveland fed includes pittsburgh, ohio, the northern panhandle of west virginia. it's clearly one of the feds of the 12 districts, it's clearly one of the ones most focused on manufacturing and i talked to her, as many have, using her influence particularly for the problem that senator merkley mentioned that, is credit, getting credit to small business, especially credit to manufacturing, especially credit to the supply chain for auto manufacturing as that supply chain begins to transition into alternative energy, those companies that make glass for automobiles can m so far, obviously the banking system has not done nearly as well as all of us hope in unfreezing that credit, xdespecially getting it to manufacturers. i hope that chairman bernanke understands that. i think that he understands that. i hope that he understands the urgency of using the powers of the fed, using the powers of the cleveland fed and the others to encourage member banks to do what they tend to unfreeze credit and provide that credit to local small business especially. i am going to vote fo

representing a manufacturing area, the cleveland fed includes pittsburgh, ohio, the northern panhandle of west virginias clearly one of the feds of the 12 districts, it's clearly one of the ones most focused on manufacturing and i talked to her, as many have, using her influence particularly for the problem that senator merkley mentioned that, is credit, getting credit to small business, especially credit to manufacturing, especially credit to the supply chain for auto manufacturing as that supply chain begins to transition into alternative energy, those companies that make glass for automobiles can make glass for solar panels, those companies that make gears for trucks can make gear boxes for wind turbines. so far, obviously, we've not done the banking system hasn't done nearly as well as all of us hope in -- in unfreezing that credit, especially getting it to manufacturers. i hope that chairman bernanke understands that. i think that he understands that. i hope that he understands the urgency of using the powers of the fed, using the powers of the cleveland fed and the others to encourage member bank

this includes ohio, and the northern panhandle of west virginia.this is one of the districts that is most focused on manufacturing. i have spoken to her, as many have, particularly for the problems that were mentioned. this is giving credit to the small businesses and manufacturing. to small business, especially credit to manufacturing, especially credit to the supply chain for auto manufacturing as that supply chain begins to transition into alternative energy, those companies that make glass for automobiles can make glass for solar panels, those companies that make gears for trucks can make gear boxes for wind turbines. so far, obviously, we've not done the banking system hasn't done nearly as well as all of us hope in -- in unfreezing that credit, especially getting it to manufacturers. i hope that chairman bernanke understands that. i think that he understands that. i hope that he understands the urgency of using the powers of the fed, using the powers of the cleveland fed and the others to encourage member banks to -- to do what they can can t

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