pecially fred, my chief of staff, my political director and my special assistant. now let me say a few things. the way this case started was wrong, the way it was investigated was wrong, the way it was prosecuted was wrong, and the way it was tried was wrong as well. certain elements of the f.b.i. and of our state cannot understand or even worse accept that the latino kid from union city and hudson county can grow up to be a united states senator and be honest. i can't even begin to tell you how many people have come to tell me that the f.b.i. went to them and asked them what can you give us on menendez? that is not what the f.b.i. and the department of justice is supposed to be doing. and they are not supposed to be leaking to the press during the early stages of their my stigation which violated rights to a fair process. i have made my share of mistakes, but my mistakes were never a crime. i have learned through this process a lot about our system of justice. it is truly a system of justice you can afford. i understand why so many americans feel that justice is e

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the reverend mentioned them earlier, but we cannot say there names and enough. ,pecial agent david bagleypecial agent crystal greiner. .fficer kevin jobe for facing down danger, and meeting violence with courage, we are all grateful to you. your grace under pressure is an inspiration to us all. many of us will remember the attack on our heroes 20 years ago. on that tragic afternoon, detective john gibson was brutally gunned down in the line of duty. as we celebrate the heroes of alexandria tech, we must mark the sacrifice of those two brave men. a man lay down his life for his friends. there is no greater love in the that detective john gibson gave to our nation that day. we honor our special heroes today, we are paying our respect to all of the members of the capitol police house and senate. you, our recognition of the bravery we have seen is the recognition of the risk that you take. to make the capital of the united states and those who serve here both as members of congress or the senate, but also as staff, as press, and our visitors who come to see our great democracy in action. to e

afghanistan is john sopko, pecial inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, sigar, thank you for joining us. how your office came to be and what the role is. a pleasure to y, be here and i admire you for putting on the three hours on is our longest serving war and we need more i think focus on it, that is very important. sigar, was tobacco sounding acronym created in 2008, and realized thatress we were spending a lot of money there. of idn't do a very good job overseeing how the money was spent in iraq, they created a agency, we are inspector audits, s office, we do criminal investigations, about 200 of us, we focus on afghanistan and we only focus on reconstruction. ne of the reasons congress did this is because we've spent more reconstruction in afghanistan than we've ever done anywhere in the world. e spent more money in afghanistan than we did on the entire marshall plan to rebuild war ii.fter world so congress assumed and i think correctly, they needed a special agency just to look at it and we've been in existence since then. ost: you put out regular reports, the latest

host: guest is john sopko, pecial inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, state and federal prosecutor, oversight counsel on homeland security, house committee on energy and on erce, select committee homeland security and senate permanent subcommittee on investigations and partner at ken, howard and feld, you left the firm six years ago now to take on this position, does your of tion have a fixed length time? guest: no, i serve at the pleasure of the president and is temporary elf agency, we go out of existence when the amount of funds fall below 250, 7 billion in the pipeline, may be around for a while. are a temporary agency and should be. host: how many people work with office and doar's you have enough resource? 190 people,ve about i think our resources are adequate. keep getting asked to do more things by congress and that is job.of our as long as we are useful, we might need to address that, right now, satisfied with resources. we talked about challenges to your work, politico story recently, defense bill leashes afghanistan wash dog, the lead says lawmakers sopko, spe

host: guest is john sopko, pecial inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, state and federalrosecutor, oversight counsel on homeland security, house committee on energy and on erce, select committee homeland security and senate permanent subcommittee on investigations and partner at ken, howard and feld, you left the firm six years ago now to take on this position, does your of tion have a fixed length time? guest: no, i serve at the pleasure of the president and is temporary elf agency, we go out of existence when the amount of funds fall below 250, 7 billion in the pipeline, may be around for a while. are a temporary agency and should be. host: how many people work with office and doar's you have enough resource? 190 people,ve about i think our resources are adequate. keep getting asked to do more things by congress and that is job.of our as long as we are useful, we might need to address that, right now, satisfied with resources. we talked about challenges to your work, politico story recently, defense bill leashes afghanistan wash dog, the lead says lawmakers sopko, speci

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plans, pecially 401(k) you have options and funds you can draw.ow much education does a fund to provide and how much -- where else can you go as far as that?ing more about guest: absolutely. 01(k)'s put a lot of responsibility on employees. they have to figure out how to contribute. better, they also have to take into account other things going on in their lives. contributing, you figure out where to invest the are you w much risk comfortable with, what kind of options, what about fee? options cost more than others, so this is all of a problem. to , if you are able maneuver all this and get to retirement and you have a good money, you have to figure out how do you make that your last for remainder of retirement, how do you spend it down? purchase annuity with part of all of it, strategically draw that money down, take that money sxout invest it? are all things someone has to figure out. any employers will provide information to -- they'll bring information provide to participants, to workers to help them with this. many people, they don't, and rea

ost: taking us deeper inside afghanistan is john sopko, pecial inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, sigar, thank you for joining us. how your office came to be and what the role is. a pleasure to y, be here and i admire you for putting on the three hours on is our longest serving war and we need more i think focus on it, that is very important. sigar, was tobacco sounding acronym created in 2008, and realized thatress we were spending a lot of money there. of idn't do a very good job overseeing how the money was spent in iraq, they created a agency, we are inspector audits, s office, we do criminal investigations, about 200 of us, we focus on afghanistan and we only focus on reconstruction. ne of the reasons congress did this is because we've spent more reconstruction in afghanistan than we've ever done anywhere in the world. e spent more money in afghanistan than we did on the entire marshall plan to rebuild war ii.fter world so congress assumed and i think correctly, they needed a special agency just to look at it and we've been in existence since then. ost: you put out regular r