so that's where my concern is. >> colonel pryor. >> i agree. i think one of the things that the entire ew profession is concerned about, if i were to compare and contrast what we used to deal with, from just as simple as a ground threat in the high day of the cold war to modify a ground threat to operate somehow differently in electromagnetic spectrum required changes the boxes and an actual building of something different, where as today the modern threats that i think we will be facing in that spectrum are change the software code and maybe changed remotely. so the ability to synthesize what's going on in the spectrum, take that in, develop a plan to maneuver around it and then employ against it, that is one of the most difficult things i think we will face in future. >> i think we're commercial industry going with frequency sharing. most promising. we talk about maneuver warfare in terms of electromagnetic spectrum. to date with frequency assignments and static frequency assignments more akin to trench warfare, but look at industry there's t

i'm thinking about pryor, begich, landrieu, hagan, tim johnson. they all have to vote up or down.hat happens is the house, which is run by republicans, they don't have to take on issues like that because they've already been beaten. >> here is the difference. the republican party is running people like mourdock and todd akin and christine o'donnell -- >> if you're lucky again. >> they're eschewing everybody else. when dick lugar and mike castle aren't conservative enough, what does the republican party do? they throw them out. we embrace folks from louisiana and arkansas, and they're not going to vote with us all the time, and we have to accept that fact. but the fact -- >> maggie, let me ask you this. what happens when they don't have these lucky jokers in the deck like akin and mourdock? they were really gifts to these people. >> they were. >> what happens if they don't show up in 2014 because people like rove and others have culled the herd? >> i think there's no question that democrats got lucky last year. republicans had a pretty poor crop of candidates. you had some candidat

i've got some correspondence year from usda, the committee that senator pryor and i will be working on, the ag committee on questions about on site inspectors, which if they don't show up at a meat processing facility, that facility can't open. other kinds of food processing, fda can come i occasionally, and that doesn't really implement, doesn't really impact whether that plant can be open or not. but if the usda inspector doesn't show up, the plant can't open. is there any way to prioritize those kind of individuals showing up so 100 other workers or 1000 other workers can show up that day? >> unfortunately, i don't think there is, senator. the way the budget is structured for the food safety inspection service at usda come is that 80% of their total funding spent on salaries and benefits for front-line personnel that are doing the very inspections you refer to. so it becomes a math asia ultimately. they're going to get a certain amount of budget come if we have is the question, will be canceled and there's no way in which to find other sources of funds because 88% of entire budget a

pryor was at the edge. as the chainsaw got thrust he put his arm up, basically a reflex movement to protect his face. the chainsaw went forward it cut him. it appeared to be very minimal contact, but obviously the weapon is so serious that it caused a very nasty injury. the wound had gown right through down to the bone. >> then the disturbed man decides to leave the pub. once he's back out on the street, someone calls the police. but the pub's patrons aren't about to let him get away. so they decide to take the law into their own hands. >> a few of the people in the horseshoe area, if you like, they picked up bar furniture stools and chased him outside. >> the exterior security camera captures a lone patron armed with only a beer barrel trying to stop the attacker. >> he throws the beer barrel at him. deflects it with a chainsaw. does it again, deflects it with the chainsaw. >> several more customers follow suit and go after the attacker. the patron then picks up the barrel a third time and delivers a blow,

this is where richard pryor started and lily tomlin and others. the first date -- the first week of was working there, i met a guy who is also starting up. his name was billy crystal. he lived about 3 tons over from where my parents live. he had a little blue volkswagen, used to pick me up every night. drive into the city. we would get on stage, do our jobs. he would drive me home. we would critique each other's jokes and our acts. i am about four months into this nightmare, this experiment of mine. one night at about 1:00 a.m., having the hardest time in the world making these four drunks from des moines laugh. i get off the state and -- i get off the stage and go to the board videos awaiting for billy. a man sits next to me and starts staring at me. staring at me. i finally go, what, what do you want? he goes, you know, you are the worst the media i have ever seen in my life. i said, thank you, i really need to hear this right now. thank you very much. he said, but your material is good. do you write it? i said, yes. he said, can i see more of i

it's interesting to watch who's applauding and who's not but the senate democrat -- mark pryor from arkansas, mary landers from louisiana, and a few others, will not want to vote on this because they're up for election in 2014 so we focus on republicans but it was a message for democrats, as well. john: he friday congress doesn't move, i will. eamon, i want to talk to you about the specifics. we'll talk about what was in the speech. let's talk about minimum wage. this was new in the speech although he supported it before. what's the economics behind that, what are the chances that minimum wage is going to come and is it a good idea? >> it's probably a long shot politically to get this thing done. minimum wage now is $7.25 an hour. the president would like it to go to $9 an hour. a lot of states have minimum wages higher than the federal minimum wage now and what a wage should be in a given market varies across the country a lot based on the economy in that local area. typically you find big companies have more ability to absorb the costs of minimum wage increase and it's the small business l

. >> greg is sitting in this giant chair that is out of a richard pryor movie.le to curl up in a ball like a baby rabbit. >> it doesn't matter to him if the person in front of him reclines his midget legs don't care. >> he probably sees the cherry kleining way up -- the chair reclining way up there and says oh someone's tired. >> they don't even touch the ground in an airport seat. >> i have a sensitive coccyx which is the area of the tail bone and i can't sit up like that. >> buy a pillow and then go cry about it. >> i do bring a pillow, andy, and i pay for the pillow just like i pay for my chair. joy jedediah, i -- >> jedediah, i expected this from somebody like greg, but thought from you. >> i can't fall asleep if my head is upright. >> then don't fall asleep. >> i am not going to pay that much money to go where i am going and have my rights restricted. if i want to lean back i will lean back. >> the option is afforded to me when i buy the ticket. >> but you know what right is also afforded to you when you buy a ticket? the right to use your tray table, and t

diane pryor rode on a bus for 21 hours from detroit just to get here. >> i love it.s is so much excitement. you can feel the energy in the air. electrifying. >> reporter: non-stop. beads aren't the only things falling from the sky this year. a lingering rain continues to fall as well. pushing some inside to continue the party while outside clouds haven't scared off the crowds. close to a million poured into new orleans and will spend $144 million during the festival. whether it means adding rain boots our an umbrella, most here are not wore bead getting wet. >> do i look worried? >> reporter: no, she doesn't. not many do. after all, liquid is a pretty big part of every mardi gras. >> a live look at bourbon street. most don't even realize when it is raining. they don't seem to care very much. i'm jay gray. back to you. >> hard-core partiers. rain doesn't dampen them. alcohol and a pew beads will help. >> not one single person that had an umbrella open. they don't care. >> they are hard-core. they don't care. this is the same system moving up our way. >> that it is. it

there's democrats, obviously, pro-gun democrats like kay hagan in north carolina and mark pryor in arkansas probably a path of resistance for the president on some of these issues but the background check goes in to exactly what i was talking about. the background check albeit cumbersome for those that follow the law does have somewhat of a reputation of stopping criminals from getting guns. there will always be an element of citizenry criminals that go around the types of laws because they don't care about them in the first place. >> but the nra once supported it. >> you're right. >> mark, the hot water's not just on the nra. you have the mayor of minneapolis coming on msnbc earlier today and going as you heard straight on with harry reid. challenging him on the fact he's not read the bill and, again, stumbling through the answer in that interview we saw harry reid not take a definitive stance on assault weapons ban and he has an r-rates with the nra. you have some democrats also if you will in hot water when it comes to moving this conversation forward with action. >> well, i think ultima

max baucus, mark, kay hagen, mary landrieu, and mark pryor.you talking to them about specific measures in trying to get them to really stand up for some of the safety measures? >> we just had several families who lost loved ones in newtown, connecticut, down here on capitol hill yesterday, and we took them around to every one of the offices you mentioned to meet with the members of time possible, if not with all of their stats, to talk about -- to put a human face to this, to no longer make it about statistics or data, which we do have, but to put a real human face, to understand the realities of this decision making process and what the implications are if certain votes go certain ways. this is a really life or death issue. you know, we want to take the voice of the american people and close that gap between what our elected officials are doing for us and we basically have to fundamentally change that paradigm and we're seeing it change now that they can make a vote for our public safety. they can make a vote on sensible gun policy, and we'll

mark pryor, mark begich from alaska. i don't think he wants to even bring it up for a vote.might because it might be better for those guys being on record voting against it, but that's kind of risky, so we'll see. >> i think it's tricky for him. >> it is. >> how does he hold the majority of senators when you see every time you have a gun issue the middle of the country, from california to new york, is against you. >> everybody a looking back at what happened in 1994 saying it could happen again. the numbers this time are entirely different than they were in 1994. they're overwhelming in favor -- >> you know the intensity issue. who gets out and votes on this. >> but the people who are going to vote against somebody for voting in favor of responsible gun control are already voting for republicans, so, democrats, you have nothing to fear but fear itself. >> you want heidi heitkamp and jon tester to run on this issue? >> everybody knows nobody hunts with an assault weapon. if there's anybody out there that hunts with an assault weapon, please come hunting with me. >> i don't se

pryor, he worked at equifax where he was instrumental in building the engineering operations and compliance teams. he helped build one of the largest and most important data loss solutions as well as the highly regarded programs. welcome. >> thank you. session four heading up this committee. welcome. i am honored to be geared to speed about something i am passionate about. it is nice to hear that a lot of these are similar. we asked to come in here and talk to you about what we do after. we were told that previous comments is spent time on threats. from this conference and happy to do that for you. and going to give you a framework for some good questions from those who are responsible for security within your organizations. i want to get a little bit of a framework. there has been a lot of breaches the last couple of months that are out there. i will spare repeating the names. more importantly we know there are more that do not know they're being attacked today. they have not decided to publicize for what ever reason. i want to focus on a few common things you hear. i have gone through all

pryor: mr.alifornia for her remarks, and also want to finish one point that she was making there at the end. but before i do, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the final 20 minutes prior to the vote be equally divided and controlled between senators levin and inhofe. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. pryor: i want to thank senator boxer for her k0789s on balancing the budget. one of the things we need to understand is that we can do this. it wasn't that long ago when president clinton was elected and he focused on balancing the budget, he made it a priority of his administration. he made it a democratic priority for the democratic party, and they passed the budget, the balanced budget act of 1993. it passed without one republican vote in this chamber and without one republican vote in the house chamber. but nonetheless it did pass, it probably cost some people some elections, a couple years later but nonetheless was the right thing to do, got us on course to fiscal stabilit

we share the same concern echoed by senator pryor family then. so why does the postmaster general now believe he can eliminate mail delivery without congressional approval? beyond questioning the legality of the action, there is also good reasons to question the postal service claim of how much money was saved by reducing service. in a recent letter to postmaster general donahoe and regulatory chairman and congressman gerry connolly expressed their concern with the usps did not consider the impact of eliminating service on rural and remote communities. we believe since they deliver remains a critical strength, that will enable it to grow business in both the revenue over the long run. indeed, the postal service can ill afford to eliminate fixed e-mail delivery. the nrlca believes any savings by reducing delivery days will be offset by the lost revenue that will occur when consumers and businesses flock to the postal service's competitors to have their mail packages and products delivered. less service equals less mail equals beginning of the hand

they weren't aristocrats, but they had -- the machiavelli's produced 54 pryor's up to nicholo's's time which meant they were city councilman and they had strong republican traditions within the family. geronimo had been jailed, tortured and executed three generations before nicholo and francesco wrote treatises against civic freedom. this was a world that's niccolo machiavelli inherited. his own father was a rather bookish lawyer, ineffectual, impoverished, really one of the lesser lights in the machiavelli clan, who had in some ways made a little money by writing indexes for other books including he gained some degree of interest in books from his father. his interest in politics from the family that had long admitted to political behavior but at the same time he was no longer really in the mainstream of florentine. his own family, he was married and he had seven children halloween -- although we know despite the fact he was reasonably affectionate with his wife numerous affairs and madly in love with the quarters on it one time and his letters as i think the passes i just read from "

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these sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness, they'd devastate pryor tips like education and energy and medical research, they would certainly slow our recovery. and cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs. that's why democrats, republicans, business leaders and economists have already said that these cuts, known here in washington as the sequester, are a really bad idea. now, some in congress have proposed preventing only the defense cuts. by making even bigger cuts to things like education and job training. medicare and social security benefits. that idea is even worse. [ applause ] yes, the biggest driver of our long-term debt is the rising cost of health care for an aging population. and those of us who care deeply about programs like medicare must embrace the need for modest reforms. otherwise, our retirement programs will crowd out the investments we need for our children. and jeopardize the promise of a secure retirement for future generations. but we can't ask senior citizens and working families to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction whil

. >> it goes back to the days of richard pryor making fun of himself and making fun of his culture. comedy, sure. i can understand the sensitivity, but it goes to comedy. i have to agree with richard from the perspective. e had control. they department have to air it. they chose to air it. >> let's look at the source. david brings up the point. joan rivers is jewish. she is not a poll jiing, but said this to the hollywood reporter. my husband lost the majority of his family in often wits and i can assure you i made it a point to remind people of the holocaust through humor. she is jewish. does it make it better or worse? >> hang on a minute. >> i don't agree. she is an equal opportunity comedian, but she doesn't have to be mean and insensitive. >> i was going to say that e is loving this. they are getting the best publicity and talking about it here today. this is joan rivers. they know who they are dealing with and know what they are doing. a lot of people laughed at that joke. it's so outrageous, you know she can't be serious. she makes jokes like this all the time. >> go ahead. >

i'm not satisfied with your answer to senator pryor's questions, postmaster. first of all the legal opinion which you sent to the committee, i guess, i haven't seen it, mr. chairman, do we have that legal opinion? if so can the rest of the members get a copy of it? >> i'll ask our staff. do we have that legal opinion? >> again i would be more than happy to have the attorneys come up and spend time with you, too. >> a copy of the opinion would help. you ask us not to act which strikes me what difference does it make whether we prohibit the -- what you're saying you're going to do or not. because apparently you believe you have the legal authority despite what congress has said to cancel the six-day. >> what aim asking is is that congress would not implement any language that would prohibit us from moving away. >> i'm asking you, what difference does it make? whether we put that language in or not because you apparently believe it despite that language, you have the legal authority to cancel that six-day. >> that's our interpretation the way the law is written t

it was a diverse group of senators including senator mccain, senator kyl, senator pryor, senator schumer. it was a group -- senator levin was our leader on the democratic side. we came up with reforms that i think will help. the cannot filibuster bringing a bill to the board. rather now where the minority cannot vote against cloture because they are doing it on a procedural basis. the bill will now be before us. it will get started in debate and voting on amendments before we have to worry about whether we need 60 votes for the threshold. secondly, there is a limit on how you can filibuster. we can bring the president's judicial nominees up in a much quicker way. there, you have eliminated two of the potentials on going to conference. getting into conference is particularly important in going to this congress. the most significant reform, we have dramatically reduced the power of an individual senator. if you are going to object, you need to do it on the floor of the u.s. senate. you can no longer be in your hometown calling the cloakroom and st., i want to put a hold on the bill. you ha

. >> richard pryor had an element of truth. every joke has a little bit of truth in it.o that. have we gone to the point where we can't make these jokes because every time you make a joke, something is going to happen. >> or if it's not your personal truth, you refuse to see the greater truth in it. >> here is the thing, what you are saying, we basically have gotten to that point. at this point, if you talk about anything, there's going to be a group that is touched by that thing you say. if you said this thing and don't acknowledge me -- i do. i'm speaking from this perspective. does it matter? you are now banned by that group and have to apologize. you have to say listen, i'm not apologizing. the joke is the joke. i -- if you are bothered by it, i accept you are bothered by it. understand this is part of my truth. i am not making fun of you. i'm talking about what i'm dealing with now. just like wanda sykes. >> you started with there's a rule. if i think of is there a race joke rule, i'm probably going to go with black face for me is a rule. a bit of a line. yet, there

i am not satisfied with your answer to senator pryor's questions.the legal opinion which you sent to the committee, mr. chairman, do we have that legal opinion, can the rest of the members did a copy of it -- get a copy of it? >> i would be happy to have the attorneys come out and spend time with it too. >> you asked me not to act. what difference does it make, whether we prohibit what you say you're going to do or not? apparently you believe you have the legal authority to spite what congress has said, to cancel the six-day. >> what am asking is a congress would not implement any language that would prohibit us from moving away. >> i am asking, what difference does it make? apparently believe that despite the language, you have the legal authority to cancel the six-day. >> that is our interpretation that we can move. but i am asking is, please to not put language in specifically that says that we cannot do it. i would obey the law. >> you have said congress must act. we did act. despite what is in the law, your lawyer is apparently saying the you c

as you know, in his new role, senator pryor? >> thank you, madam chairwoman. let me just follow up on one of senator blunt's points he made about the department of agriculture, if i may. you know, the law on meat inspectors says that the inspectors -- that the plants can't operate unless the inspectors are there. so closing these plants for 15 days could result in reduction of sol volume of 200 pounds of meat, 2.3 billion pounds of poultry and more than 200 billion pounds of egg products. so this is going to adversely effect every consumer in america, it's going to be very disruptive to our food supply and the chain that we have here in this country, and it's basically the bottom line is it's just bad for the economy. also something i think senator blunt did not cover but i would like to, there's going to be over 100,000 very low income residents in rural america that will lose their rental assistance that enables them to stay in safe and affordable housing. these families are generally female-headed households, or they're households welledderly or disabled --

this push from the white house, will the president be able to convince senators like reid, like mark pryor from arkansas, like mary landrieu from louisiana, et cetera, to go along with the kinds of gun regulations they have not supported in the past and then once that happens, can he create pressure among house republicans? again i think where he might be able to get something done is with an expanded type of background check, banning assault weapons, i just see as a nonstarter completely. jon: david drucker from "roll call". david, good to have you on. thank you. >> thanks a lot. jenna: the pakistani girl who survived being shot in the head by the taliban is speaking clearly and has now released her own video statement. the brave teenager's message to the world, a show of resilience for you this monday next. >>> also last night's battle between the ravens and 49ers set a new record for the longest super bowl ever, thanks in part to this, the blackout during the third quarter. we're going to take a look what may have caused the outage. is it beyonce's fault, jon? that is the big question.

literally running from the airport to get here because they had plane troubles, and i saw senator pryor was in the same situation. so let me first of all thank the leadership for holding that vote open so that i would not find myself in the embarrassing position of not voting to confirm my best friend from oklahoma. so we are in that situation. let me just say that i'm very proud that he's -- he actually started on the tenth circuit as a clerk, so he really knows this stuff. he has been there for a long time. as part of his profile, it's simply to say that as a future goal, he intended to improve. he's actually made that statement. and i believe that always working to improve has been a defining characteristic of judge bacharach's career. he graduated in the top 4% of his class of law school and he received all kinds of academic rewards and maintained memberships in the highest orders of law school students. he began his legal scholarship in law review and has continued writing a number of law journals. as i said, he actually started in the tenth circuit working as a law clerk for the c

no republican ever said do you have a pryor tiization system where you look at the cables from hot spotsnow the defense secretary and the general can say, well you know we didn't hear from the state department there is a lot of subject lee blaming the state department and even senator james inhofe the ranking republican on the committee says we have the wrong witnesses. i think this is the swan strong as far as the investigation of benghazi. >> how are they doing? we heard defense secretary panetta say essentially it was a bridge too far, there wasn't enough time to mount any kind of military response to these attacks. is that going to be the end of it? >> senator john mccain was sharply refuting that saying there were hours between the two deaths that, six or seven hours passed before two americans were killed. so there could have been time had there been more coordination between the defense department as well as the state department. so, you know, that's where mccain, and i'm sure graham are going to be hammering them. but it really falls on the state department and that's why hillary

this year it was mark pryor, democrat and jeff sessions the republican. it is a wonderful affair.it tinged off into politics gave a lot in the media an opportunity to continue fan the flames of division. it is really unfortunate. ben carson is wonderful guy with a personal story. i wish the media had spent more time focusing on his personal story of all of the obstacles he has overcome instead of the political side. that is the problem when you bring politics into this breakfast. that's what you get. jon: alan, february 11th. are you going to agree with cal again? do we put this date on the calendar? >> i would underscore everything about this date. i think cal was right in what he said about car son's speech, first part being very appropriate. second thing less appropriate. i think the president would be wise, any president, whether president obama or any other executive, or anybody in public life to criticize the media. don't go after the people who rather big bullhorn and especially when he is singles out individual networks. i wouldn't do that because why pick that fight? the