the former drug enforcement administration heads criticized the obama administration for moving too slowly to file a lawsuit that would force the states to rescind the legislation. pot is still illegal under the federal controlled substance act. you may recall that the administration filed suit over arizona's immigration laws, so why the silence from president obama and attorney general eric holder now? we're back with dan henninger, mary anastasia o'grady and kim strassel. kim, does the administration believe in state's rights or not. >> this is remarkable as well, this is federal law. and you have two states out there that are -- have passed laws in total contravention of this, there isn't much questioning they need to do and yet, the justice department says we're reviewing the subject, we're reviewing the subject. of course, to answer your question, it comes down to whether they agree on the issue or not and we've seen that again and again. if states are doing something that the administration approves of, then they kind of close their eyes and wink. if it's something they don't agree w

and with that, the obama administration changed its mind in 2010, kt. >> right.ou: he does not, the good mayor, want to in any way disturb the tranquility of the obama administration this time. >> well, if it was going to be a problem with khalid sheikh mohammed, it's going to be a problem with this guy too. and all of the security issues, the expense of it, the vulnerability of new york and particularly now when we are told time and time again the latest threat is not al-qaeda in pakistan, it's not al-qaeda even in yemen to the united states, it's the lone wolf. and that's the guy you never see coming, and that's the guy that's going to head to manhattan. lou: i want to turn to hugo chavez who the funeral in venezuela today. the u.s. delegation led by congressman gregory meeks, former congressman bill dell a hand, wiewl castro there, sean penn, of course, and jesse jackson. jackson giving a eulogy. your thoughts, ambassador, on the representation of the united states in venezuela. >> well, i would not have sent a delegation from washington. that's what you have

first of all, what do you think teed off the obama administration? what did you write about them? ack to read my columns 95% were supporting president obama. i guess i criticized at times their handling of the stories. crisis management sides of the communication shop. i think that might have gotten under the skin of the person who made the phone call. >> all right. now, who is the white house guy who threatened the editor? >> i can't tell that you because the editor when he called me said i have to ask you to honor the request of the person who called me because he said it was off the record. >> bill: let me get this straight. your editor agreed to be threatened and not to publicize who is doing the threat? that doesn't sound right. that doesn't sound right to me man. i have been a reporter for more than 35 years. i don't give anybody off the record credence if they are going to threaten me. do you know what i'm talking about? >> well, he asked me to keep it anonymous and i have got to honor that. >> bill: you are an honorable man. okay. now, you are in -- clinton white house. the

obama administration wants to deport them back to germany and persecution. dale hurd reporters >> reporter: this family began because they didn't want their children exposed to witchcraft and sex education, both taught in schools. >> they were encouraged to ask the devil to help. >> we found out what is in the textbooks. exactly the opposite of what the bible tells us and teaches us. illegal in germany. persecuted, fines, jail or loss of their children. most home schoolers are left alone by the government. against home schooling. in those nations where it is illegal, home schoolers risk losing their children. two of the worst nations are germany and sweden. if you would like to see what it would be like if it was banned in america if it was banned, come to sweden. this family had to take their family to finland in exile. >> we were forced out of our country. that make as stronger impact than i can imagine. this is our country. now we are pushed away from it. >> sweden is the toughest places to home school. michael donnelly of the home school administration.

the obama administration handled this well. better than bush administration tid in second term.seemed to be to respond to every provocation with a pre-emptive concession. and the obama administration is not doing that. they are letting the provocations happen. they are putting pressure on china to get serious, but they're not responding in a public way seeking more talks. >> i think with all the rhetoric, the north korea reasons masking a deep -- north koreans are masking a deep insecurity and weakness. the ground is slowly shifting under the regime. the example of that the china vote and the security council. i can't remember where china has gone on the record in the mild sanctions way and voting the security council and publicly repry manding the statement with korea. >> those are rational answers but there is a third choice. he is nuts. after all, he and dennis rodman got along extremely well. there is a history of rulers who were nuts. rhaligula made a horse in to a senator so it has happened before. if it is, he can be irrational. the military will try to contain him but i

actually, it's the obama administration that is raising that in the doma case.make a lot of headway with it. but it is, it is an issue in both cases. i guess the court seems to want to find a way to do as little as possible here. right? not to either decree nationwide gay marriage, or -- >> chris: to rule it out. >> or to rule it out. as i said before, the tricky path they are going to have to tread to get there involves making the two cases line up consistently. >> chris: i want to turn to james rosen's piece earlier in evening in the first segment, where he talked about if the court were to recognize same-sex marriage, that wouldn't the end of the issue. there would be all-kind of legal cases for instance if a university, religious university. notre dame let's say, has married student housing but they have it for heterosexual couples. do they have to provide it for same-sex couples? if they don't, can they be sued on that? this would open up a lot of issues. i wouldn't settle everything. >> it would mean the states would haven't to decide or have more referend

cyber defenses the pentagon plans to create thirteen off fence of teams while the obama administration wants to give all u.s. spy agencies full access to u.s. citizen financial data more in the cyber defense build up later in the show. and it was nearly ten years ago the iraq war started the u.s. invaded over claims the country was producing weapons of mass destruction but that wasn't the case along with the thousands of lives lost on both sides will look at the financial impact the war has had here in the u.s. . it's wednesday march thirteenth pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. will begin on capitol hill where hearings were held today on the issues of cyber security and transparency the obama administration has placed cyber security on the top of the agenda there is a heated debate over how to tackle the issue while protecting citizens privacy and when it comes to transparency the obama administration has vowed to be more open from the secret drone campaign to cracking down on whistleblowers some question just how transparent the administration really

had the head of amnesty international saying this was a stunning comic artists act by the obama administrationwhen at the last minute did an about- face and scuttle progress toward global arms treaty. so that people, especially the activists, cannot organize because it happened at the very end. nra and obama, here at home they seem like pampers i sat on each other, but they're the work together. >> the nra has peddled untruths about this international arms trade treaty since the beginning. it was suggested in some way with impact on their ability internally within the u.s. to bear arms, which is an absolute nonsense. so not only are the strange bedfellows on the international stage, but even what is happening domestically should be put in its place by the obama administration itself domestically. but it has used the nra effectively, and i think for domestic reasons in the lead up to the election, to prevent the passage of the treaty, and, yes, it was done in an enormous the cynical way at the tail end of the negotiations that led activist groups and civil society in an impossible position. eve

ske did so expressing concerns about the obama administration's use of drone attacks. the strikes have been a central part of the president's counterterrorism strategy. issues of legality and the lack of judicial oversight have been strofertion. joining us scott shane of the "new york times", rosa brooks a professor at law at georgetown and peter singer, he is director of 21st century security and intelligence at the brookings institution. here in new york michael boyle, he was formerly a counterterrorism advisor to president obama. i amleased to have all of them here to talk about this. i begin with michael boyle. explain how this became and why, you know, a crucial element of the battle against terrorism on the part of the obama administration. >> well, i think the obama administration confronted a unique series of difficulties when they came into office. the one thing is there was growing instability in pakistan which made rely on pakistan's government much more difficult. the second as we know hamid karzai in afghanistan has also been becoming more and more difficu

the obama administration should be able to release after the fact the name of administrations of some of the people targets -- the name of i want to end with a plea for more bipartisanship. republicans and democrats may not always agree, but these issues should not be used to divide the american people. we all faced a common threat from terrorism and need to work harder to find bipartisan solutions to these difficult problems. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman, distinguished members of the committee, for the opportunity to testify today. let me come straight to the point. the constitution does not require judicial process in the narrow circumstances for the reasons stated in the white paper. however, i believe a limited and carefully calibrated judicial role would be permissible as a constitutional matter and desirable as a matter of policy. how might this be the case? there are two very distinct scenarios at a rise. the classic scenario when we talked about armed conflict is that of a soldier in the field who encounters a situation that requires an instant judgment

you know i've got a real problem with you know ceding if the obama administration wants to go ahead with this and people on the right you know lindsey graham said john. change the world want to agree with it i mean all that does is kind of strengthen the libertarian base in the actual fiscal and so the actual true conservative base the republican party and i think that gives us a bridging issue to progressives out there that are kind of disillusioned by this you know the obama administration kind of breaking these promises of hope and change i mean these are things that the youth rebelled against george bush going and now you know some of history he just won from he just won from you know you disagree with the republican party to this is all obama's fault well i don't think it's all obama's fault obviously these are policies that were the same thing again and that began under these are policies that began under the bush administration they've been continue to kind of exacerbate what you're saying these are these are highlighting a fracture cleavage and i would say go and i think i think

chief white house correspondent ed henry tells us tonight how the obama administration is dealing withs. >> at the first cabinet meeting since the sequester hit, president obama declared a budget cuts are of deep concern. since the sky is not fallen, not yet, mr. obama also continued to try to carefully calibrate expectations. >> we can manage through it. we are going to rely on the outstanding leadership of all the agencies to make sure we do whatever it is that we need to get done to help america's families. >> that came as the education secretary arnie duncan declared "language is important "as he apologized for his comments that drew four pinocchios from the "washington post." >> i said pink slips, that was probably the wrong word. it should have used job eliminations, position eliminated. you heard repeatedly that, i should have been clear there. >> the white house is also dealing with the president's own comments that initially drew two pinocchios. after the news conference on friday that mentioned custodians workin working in the capital. >> janitors, security guards. they just

obama administration saying it is discrimination, which it is.th times saying the united states is set to a horse processing plant. bob woodward said he was threatened by gene spurling by his comments about the sec ester. the white house denies he was threatened. if you read the e-mail, you know he was not threatened and veteran reporters in the white house are telling bob woodward to get a life. no big deal. all of that coming up nix right here on current tv. >> go ahead! (vo) current's award winning original series is back, with a world premiere episode. it's a pretty, little town, with an ugly reputation. >> you just google harrison, what will come up is the klan. i'm all for that. >> the kkk doesn't speak for us at all. it speaks against god. (vo) which side will win the soul of harrison? >> we're never gonna move. hey, i'm joey aragon. see that film? people call me about this every day. my dishwasher must be broken. you know, it's not always the machine. it may be the detergent. add finish power up to boost your detergent and you'll see a hu

despite that the obama administration has held up the project citing environmental concerns.en is joining us with washington with more details. james? >> heather, good afternoon, about two weeks remain in a 45-day period of public comment on the latest environmental impact study released on keystone and after that in mid april. the ball will be back in the administration's court. portions of the 175-mile pipeline are being built and portions held up by the obama administration, citing, as you say, environmental concerns. as envisioned by the trans-canada corporation the pipeline would be the second of two. the first is already pumping close to 600,000 barrels of oil a day in from canada. and the second would bring online an estimated 830,000 barrels a day. >> it's now been more than 1600 days since the initial permits were filed for building the pipeline. to put that in perspective, it took the united states a little more than 1300 days to win world war ii. and it took lewis and clark about 1100 days to walk the louisiana purchase and back. . >> reporter: aides to president o

they jeopardize safety, and of course, the obama administration, really, they were raising major alarm bells and then had to step back and say okay, it's not going to be the apocalypse as president obama said. >> let me just jump in. i only have 20 seconds. health care. how will the sequestration affect health care? >> on health care issues, that's at the state level where a lot of these cuts, whether it's -- whether it's in some medicaid but not major. they're not major cuts. this is not entitlement reform. these are cuts that basically where services have to be prioritized. they won't raise the medicare age or anything like that. it remains to be seen what kind of effect it will have. >> bob cusack, all issues important to the american public. thanks so much. >> see you soon. >>> fox news tonight has an in-depth look at the budget crisis. john roberts anchors a special, showdown on debt row. it looks at what is going on behind the scenes. here's a preview. >> john boehner is a great speaker. he's too nice a guy. barack obama comes, he's a bare knuckles street fighter. is that what th

people within the obama administration who all seem to think the children are a commodity that education is a commodity the children are products on an assembly line and we can just tweak the assembly line just right or am i getting this wrong is well i think i would actually put john stossel in a different position than the obama administration having said that there is too much of vexation and measurement and competition and what the evidence has said is that that doesn't really work measurement doesn't actually help improve children's education data is important to in inform education but not to drive it and what we've seen is that these mass closing of schools take take washington d.c. they said it was going to save nine million dollars it actually cost forty million dollars there's a study out of chicago that says that the mass closings there have actually made education worse for kids we see the same thing in new york with the mass closings of schools it push huge pressure on the schools that kids were going to hugely increasing in rome and and then we saw a drop in attendance and

with the obama administration has done here is very carefully woven a position that says, you do not have to look at the whole country. just look at california and other states like it. they give all the same rights to same-sex couples except marriage. in other words, what they argue is, that is a stamp of inferiority. can wait on the other states. that is a way of saying you do not have to wave a red flag at mississippi and alabama and wyoming right now. wait. do this now and let the world catch up to you, and then we can move on. that is essentially what that brief is saying. >> but it is precisely because there is this rapid change, unprecedented, that i think the best course is to learn the lesson of the abortion decision. let the social changes happen. they are so rapid, the changes in public opinion. ruth bader ginsburg said before she got on the court that the court decision on roe v wade prevented social opinion from reaching this place on its own. let it happen organically and we will not have demonstrations in half a century as we do in the abortion case. >> charles is so r

today, the obama administration filed a brief asking the u.s. supreme court.x marriage- proposition 8. the administration argues. that denying gays and lesbians the right to marry violates the constitution's equal protection clause. the brief also argues, discrimination based on sexual orientation requires extra scrutiny by the court. while the friend- of- the- court filing. does not explicitly call for nationwide gay marriage rights, experts say, it does point the court in that direction. meanwhile. the group called - "protect marriage". released a statement in response. it said in part. quote - "today's unprecedented move by the obama administration to intervene against proposition 8, is very disappointing. the president has disregarded the rights of each state to decide for itself. whether to re-define marriage. the statement continues - "we are confident that the supreme court will recognize the limited role of the courts in this debate, and uphold the will of california voters. to protect traditional marriage." >> there is a new i-phone case on the market

directly ahead, why is the obama administration using sequest tration to punish kids like these? he white house is our house. >> kimberly: they plan to visit the white house was public obama pulled the plug on tour. eric bolling has a proposal the president might want to consider. you'll hear it next on "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪music plays thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for proving there's nowhere we can't go. but, at some point... giant leaps gave way to baby steps... and with all due respect, you're history. if you taught us anything, it's that you can't cling to the past... if you want to create the future. that's why, instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. pushing u.s. aviation to new heights. all 80 thousand of us. busy investing billions in the industry's boldest moves. it's biggest advances in technology. bringing our passengers the best, the most spacious fleet in the sky. and earning more awards than any other airline... to show for it. so rather than simply saluting history... we're out there making it. ♪ ♪ >> eric: welcome back, every

>> more important is that the obama administration rejected. they readily said in court doma was not driven by animous. in fact, they said doma-- what is called rational basis reviewsh the federal standard under equal protection when we evaluate laws-- the obama solicitor general, verrilli, said if rational base review is the tet doma would survive. this lou-- they said congress made a mistake in passing it but was not trying to discriminate. >> woodruff: so what role do you see discrimination playing in the outcome here? >> i see it playing a role. in 1996, it was really clear that the law was you take state marriage laws as you find them. you fold married people-- whether they have differences in racial restriction in the past or first cousins, second cousins if you were married in the state, they changed the rule to make sure married same-sex couples would not be included. quiet becomes is there a justification for making a new rule? and the justification that's been advanced by mr. clement is really around this idea of uniformity, that it's

it seems to me the critics of the obama administration can't have it both ways, they can't say this is an anti-energy, this is an anti-energy administration when you have a department coming out with this report. the critics of the obama administration can't have it both ways, seem to be pro energy to me. >> brenda: gary b, which way do you have it? >> look, if obama signs it off i'll give him props for being pro energy, but this isn't just about the keystone pipeline. i think this is the tip of the iceberg, yes. if the administration really is pro energy, then they're going to do stuff like open up anwar and allow more off shore drilling and give back some of the permits they took away. that'what i'm looking for. there's estimates all over the place, how many jobs this is going to create. julian's probably right. oil prices probably uneffected for the short-term. long-term all positive. >> brenda: jonas, is it all positive? >> look, this is dirty fuel, tar sands, no question about t the only part we can control are the pipeline in america, and some ways it's an improvement over the al

i guess the obama administration didn't get that memo. joining me now are two men working to protect them iowa congresswoman stephen king and house judiciary member -- arizona sheriff paul babu. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, judge. >> your committee contained an ice document that is very revealing on the issue. tell me about this. >> as near as we could tell they made a decision they were going to release 2000 and that took place and is taking place before the see quester kicked in. now the plans are to release another 3,000. out of the 34,000 they are designed to have as you can see they are seeking to punish repup cans trying to get the lesson releasing julie. we will have hearings before the judiciary committee. we don't want to see the charges up against the immigrants that were already adjudicated for dpeert tation. they are criminals. it reminds me of when cast toe released from the jails the miss ditch and deranged and put them among people that came to the united states. >> why would the obama administration, these ar

comeing to a position that is more progressive than the obama administration. wonder why i think obama is a right-winger. i talked to sherrod brown more about the grand bargaining and medicare. listen to the details here. where is the red line and what is the president going to do. >> alan grayson's letter on the house, the house side, he said he wants progressives to sign on saying no cuts for social security medicare, medicaid under any deal. do you agree with that, or do you think that that's putting too harsh of a red line. >> i want to trust the president mostly on this, but i also draw the lines, too. for instance, i was in youngstown in a town hall maybe two years ago and a woman stood up, she said, i'm 63 years old. i just want to stay alive for another year and a half so i can get health insurance. that's what her focus in life was, to stay alive. we have no business raising retirement age for social security and medicare. >> that's a red line? >> people who dress like this and work wherever, they can work until maybe 70 sometimes. but a lot of us, cou

the obama administration then declined to defend the law further. with that, house republican leaders intervened, asking the supreme court to uphold doma. today, even some who support the law said they'd favor legal rights for same-sex couples, but not actual marriage. jim mcdonald is from alexandria, virginia. >> if people in civil unions were to get federal benefits that were equivalent to what married people get, that doesn't bother me at all. but the word marriage, i think needs to maintain it's traditional meaning. >> reporter: the court is expected to decide the "doma" case and yesterday's case involving proposition eight in california by june. >> suarez: marcia coyle of the "national law journal" was in the courtroom this morning and is back with us tonight. for people who don't follow this very closely, know that the two big arguments had to do with gay marriage, what are the main differences between yesterday's argument and today's? >> well, i think there is an inherent tension here for those who support gay marriage. in the doma case today

the obama administration walked into it. earlier this week, representative andy harris, a doctor from maryland -- [applause] >> right? i just moved here and i'm from california. i feel right at home in maryland. you have to watch out. he was on the appropriation committee and he had the president of the disease control center in front of him. you sent out this pamphlet and you're cutting because of the sequestration and 250,000 children in maryland would go without immunization and i have the obama budget in front of me. you were going cut $58 million and no children were going to be -- go out immunization. that proves they are lying to you. number two, they are using children to prey on you and number three, you can cut thout these affects being as disaster ours. call the president out on here and you'll see how the president is manipulating you through the media. is president did not run the election on gun control. children in his own home district are getting slaughtered on a nightly basis and he says nothing about that.

hated the institution but engage with it at a granular level in which the attitude from the obama administration has been we love the institution but actually got another thing going on. is actually a very open question at this point which of these two ambassadors, which of these two administrations is actually size up and sort of price the un more accurately, the ones that engage with it in order to sort of really make sure that it doesn't do anything the u.s. doesn't like, or one which apparently on the surface has much more love for but is much more disengaged. is not fair to ambassador raise at this point where her engagement is exactly where it should be, she is living day and night in the security council which is exactly where she should be. and they were unfair criticisms in the first two or three years of the first obama term. >> host: when has the un sought legitimacy? >> guest: most of the time as a parallel to action that it was planning on taking any way. in iraq, we sought legitimacy for something the entire world knew we were going to do now matter what. the u.s. seeks the jealous

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welcome to the newshour. >> thanks so much. >> so why is the obama administration doing this, putting these proposals out there? >> there are a couple of reasons. one is the fact that they are requiring vehicles to be cleaner in the years ahead. they've basically reduced greenhouse-gas emissions from these vehicles. and so you will see between 2016 and 2025, the vehicles are going to become much more efficient, get more piles -- miles per gallon. so one of the things automakers are asking for is for cleaner fuels because the sulfur in gasoline really affects the catalytic converter and makes it less efficient, results in more tailpipe emissions. so they actually have an incentive to have cleaner fuel. >> so i was going to say, it is interesting who is in favor of this, it is not just the environmental advocates, it's the car manufacturers. >> absolutely. the car manufacturers who already basically have to comply with these rules in california, which is a huge part of the u.s. market, have asked for uniformity. and so they were actually in the office of management of budget just this m

and stanley kurtz "spreading the wealth", this isn't just based on your book, but what the obama administration week. >> that's right, it looks like president obama's plans to fight global warming are going to hurt american suburbs because the obama administration believes in something called smart growth. the idea of smart growth policies is, get out of your car, don't move to the suburbs, you should live in a tiny densely packed apartment building in the city where you can walk and take public transportation and don't drive. that's smart growth. and the obama administration is gearing up to impose the smart growth on the country and that would be bad for america's suburbs. >> megyn: how would they do it, make us move from the suburbs to the city? most of the people who live in the suburbs like the suburbs and don't want to live in the city. how would they make us do it it? >> several plans, part is to stop people from moving to the suburbs in the first place and in the end it might get people who live in suburbs to head to the cities. last week the energy department released a series of repor