randy forbes, thank you for your insight.eaction from the white house as it continues on the senate side today. randy forbes from virginia on the hill. ♪ martha: well, there were some bright lights in the skies over florida hours before dawn, strange aircraft whipping through the treetops and buzzing houses. this is file video, because actually nobody caught a picture of this whole thing while it was actually happening, but try to imagine. folks say they were roused out of bed and wondered could it be visitors from another planet, and who would not wonder that, right? tear reck ma leak is the managing editor of space.com. let's set the scene. ocala, florida, there's a lot of air force bases, naval bases in the general florida area. both air force and navy were contacted, they said, no, we were not performing any drills at that time. but several people clearly said they saw something in the sky with a group of helicopters flying around it. >> that's right. martha: what do you think? >> that's right. it did seem something like

we'll talk with virginia congressman randy forbes. new information this hour. catholic cardinals meeting to set a date for the conclave to pick the new pope and signals the very beginning of a new era for the church. >> translator: i am no longer the pope. but i'm still in the church. i'm just a pilgrim who is starting the last part of his pilgrimage on this earth. >> pope benedict xvi began his retirement in seclusion at castel gandolfo. 15 miles south of vatican city. let's get to ben wedeman in rome this morning. hey, ben. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. the news here is that the dean of the college of cardinals, anga angelo saldono has invited the cardinals to begin at 9:30 a.m. on monday. 3:30 eastern time. a session beginning at 5:00 in the afternoon on monday as well this is really a critical gathering of all cardinals. not just the 115 cardinals who will be participating in the conclave, but also those who are over the age of 80, and obviously, the first business on the agenda, will be setting a date for the conclave. >> ben wedeman up

randy forbes is on that committee also and he and trey gazzi did a great job to drill the director theyt need to release them. >> bob: i.c.e. is subject to millions of sequestions ration. >> andrea: i.c.e. was given more money for detention than requested. they had plenty of money. >> eric: you mentioned political benefit in the first block. there is one now for president obama as well. there could be pain, even if it's prepain about the sequester. >> dana: a large constituency of the order who want them to stop deportation after the latter half of the bush administration. they were coming down for him. to let them go, it releasedleasd the pressure from that. in some ways the white house is willing to tais the heat. >> andrea: weird they would take the heat when they push for immigration reform. this thing doesn't help the case at all. >> greg: obama's governing reason is petulance. he like a sulking kid that won't come out because mom and dad took away the ipod. tall sequestions ration consequences are all in places that actually -- sequestration consequences hurt us and they don't hav

we will hear from randy forbes next. again, with been talking to reporters across the united states to learn how their states will be affected. mike from a public -- location joins us. when it comes to military -- guest: i am sitting here in hampton roads. it is a dark and overcast day. nothing has really changed today. today, i am expecting the maybe which is a huge presence here in hampton roads. you have heard the analogy of comparing sequestration to rolling downhill instead of falling off a cliff. we will begin to see some impacts in this region within the next month or so once the furloughs go into effect and the navy is forced to cancel contracts. host: not only the contracts themselves but what about residual businesses? how much are they depending on the military? guest: something i want to put in context, sequestration -- everyone said it is a bad idea to do it this way. what people might not realize is there are communities such as hampton roads, virginia, that are going to bear the brunt of this. nearly half

. >> i am randy forbes and i'm the chairman of the sea power forces subcommittee. people at our home in virginia fill there is way too much bravado coming out of the white house may be too much coming out of congress. nobody is sitting there at looking at the concerns that the have right now when they are worried about whether or not they can send their children to school and whether they will have a job next month are not. i want them to know that while the house of representatives has gone home and the senate has gone on, the chairman of the subcommittees have not. we're telling you we are continuing to work because we will come forward with proposals that helped mitigate these consequences for national defense and we think we will see them as soon as next week. the second thing is, we are tired of the definition we have seen of acceptable risk and we will change that. it will no longer be acceptable when the u.s. navy can only meet 51% of all of our requirements. it will not be acceptable risk for airports to have pilots flying planes that are older than them. i

now, to one of the cpac speakers virginia congressman randy forbes. welcome, congressman. so am i wrong? >> no, judge, i think you are absolutely right. i think that is the thing that is frustrating most americans. they feel this administration has a totally different set of rules for them than they have for the rest of america and their words continue to evolve based on the group that they are speaking to at that particular point in time and americans i think are getting frustrated with it. >> judge jeanine: and you know, congressman, i mean it is just amazing that so many people in the administration can contradict each other and then in the end everybody said well, we just don't know. congressman, i will ask you to take a look at this. cpac just ended a few hours ago. senator rand paul from kentucky, of course, winning the straw poll with senator marco rubio right behind him. and i want you to teak take ak at this. >> our president fancies himself as the champion of the middle class. yet since he came on scene even those lucky enough to have a job they are working more

i don't think in fairness, i don't know one of these four are, but randy forbes from virginia asked howtions? the director didn't have any idea. >> did they give you notice they were going to release 2600 or 2400. >> we had a memo leaked to us. if it weren't for a whistle blower we wouldn't know this. and the victims of weren't notified. and victims of the offense were not notified and in the traditional criminal justice system you have to let them know. they were not notified. the governors of the states were not notified. the sheriffs were not notified and united states attorneys were not notified. >> greta: congressman, thank you. >> thank you. >> greta: and colorado getting ready for tough new gun control laws this a local sheriff says he would not enforce. and the sheriff is here to tell, but that. that's next. and also, congressional competition, the paul ryan taking on republican senator rob portman, what's that all about? you'll see yourself. and plus, did you wonder what's going on behind "the view"? how do the women really get along? along? you may soon get a chance to o what'

i want to bring in congressman randy forbes from virginia.n of the house armed services c-power subcommittee. sir, you want to protect the navy, understood and the navy is going to take a hit. my question to you, sir, is straight forward. are you prepared to raise taxes to protect the navy? >> stuart, i'm prepared to put anything on the table and do the analysis if it with stands the analysis, but the analysis we have so far it's not a taxation problem we have it's a spending problem and let me give you a couple of examples. the same debate in january and the president said if we raise the rates we don't have any problems and within days they've spent the money they have from raising the rates. second thing we know, when we have the 825 billion dollars stimulus bill. 347 billion of interest, i said at the time it was going to come off the back of defense. it's not just sequestration, stuart. we've already taken 587 billion dollars out of cuts out of the military and the military has born all the cuts. the last thing, we're not able to do the

joining us to talk about it congressman randy forbes and congressman schiff.nd it you you voted yes on the budget control act which leads us to sequester. did you imagine you would get to this point and do you regret your vote? >> i never thought we would get to this point. hard to regret pause the alternative is default on the nation debt. i never thought that the trigger would get pulled and we would have the really stupid across-the-board and i hope that they will be short lived and that in the next few weeks we can resolve this and bring about a sensible balanced plan that will make further spending cuts but also raise additional revenues in a balanced way because this really cuts the good programs with the bad. it will cost us if it goes into effect for the full year 750,000 jobs and part of the problem with that is not only are 750,000 americans not going to be working but also not going to be paying tax revenue and that is not going to help with the deficit and debt problems. a foolish way to go about deficit reduction. >> shannon: congressman forbes yo

we'll speak with him with randy forbes and robert moritz. >>> har tell shake, let's see it john bermanake. >> versions of it. >> right. >> because it's done on a plane, now the federal government getting involved. >> while it's flying. >> while it's in the air, we'll talk to the college students who made this, and why the faa is looking into the version of the harlem shake. >> i think i can suspect why they are doing this, right? >>> 42 past the hour. t the cardinals of the catholic church will begin meeting monday at 3:30 eastern. a second session at 11:00 a.m.. according to the dean of the college of cardinals. the meeting comes before the conclave to shoot the new pope and are expected to be forums to talk about the state of the church. comes up with an agenda. >>> 42 minutes after the hour. the white house getting into the legal fray over proposition 8 in california, urging the supreme court to overturn the state's ban on same-sex marriage. in the friend of the court brief, the obama administration says prop 8 violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. but the admin

also joining to take your questions is represent randy forbes, a virginia republican, a member of the arm forces committee. "washington journal" is live every day. >> the problem with banning any book is that once you ban one we don't know where it will stop. that road takes us back to totalitarian states. this book has been banned many time, especially in classroom, i think simple -- simply because a parent doesn't tuns novel. they haven't read it. there are cases where school boreds or parents have asked to ban the novel, it turns out they haven't read it. they take words or a phrase here and there or they hear a paragraph. i'm glad to say in every instance where centership of the novel has happened every instant i've heard of our parents go to schools and say this is important literature and you can't ban because you pick a word or two or a paragraph. in every days that i know of the banning has been overturned. >> more with him on centership and banned books as book tv and c-span look behind the scenes in albuquerque, new mexico. that is on sunday on c-span2. >> a joint economic h

. >> randy, steve forbes here. why is the fed in favor of 2.5% inflation?till believe inflation means growth? >> i think they want to make sure inflation doesn't get out of control and inflation expectations don't get out of control. so the lessons that paul volcker taught us haven't been lost. but also they want to snake sure we don't flip into a deflation situation. i think that's why there is an explicit 2% goal because japan, unfortunately, slipped into deflation and never credibly got out of it. now with the new central bank -- >> so in effect, we have to tax the people of 2, 2.5% a year because inflation is a tax, right? >> inflation is down below that level. >> but they want to bring it up to 2, 2.5, so that's a hidden tax, right? >> the goal -- >> is it a tax? >> the goal is to get close to 2%. certainly, depending on how you set your investments up. it could be something that you can lose. >> all right. i've got to leave it there. we can debate that. inflationnary tax. randy kroszner, thank you. bottom line, easy money from the feds. now, we do hav

. >> i am randy forbes, chairman of the executive forces subcommittee. people back it -- back at our home in virginia feel there is too much bravado coming out of the white house and maybe congress and nobody is looking at the concerns they have right now when they are worried about whether they can send their children to school. i want them to know that while the house of representatives has gone home, the senate has gone home, chairman of the subcommittees have not. we are telling you we will continue to work as we are going to come forward with proposals that help mitigate these consequences for national defense. second thing is we are tired of the definition we have seen of acceptable risk. no longer is it going to be acceptable risk when the united states navy can only meet 50% of requirements. no longer is it to be acceptable for our air force to be flying planes that are older than them. it is not acceptable for us to have an army that is cutting out 80,000 troops. no longer is it acceptable for us to find the lowest possible point for military an

also joining us is representative randy forbes of virginia, a member of the armed services committee. "washington journal" is live on c-span everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern. house speaker john boehner told reporters that in negotiations with the white house over the sequester he was ruling out tax increases. >> good morning, everyone. americans know washington has a spending problem. it is hurting families and small businesses and must be addressed. there are many people in washington who do not believe the government has a spending problem, the minority leader, the minority whip, who do not believe we have a spending problem. the president said to me in december we do not have a spending problem. in the four years since the senate democrats last passed a budget, government debt has ballooned to $16 trillion. i do not believe that that is a result of insufficient taxation. this year the federal government will bring in revenue more money in from taxpayers than any year in our history. the debt is a result, i believe, of spending that is out of control. i think the spending problem we ha

signed sincerely, randy forbes, ember of congress. the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, this is to notify you formally pursuant to rule 8 of the rules of the house of representatives that i have received a subpoena issued by the united states district court for the eastern district of california purporting to require certain responses to a questionnaire in connection with a civil case. after consultation with the office of general counsel, i have determined under rule 8 that the subpoena seeks information that is not material and relevant and that it is not consistent with the privileges and rights of the house. accordingly, i intend to move to quash the subpoena. signed sincerely, tray gowdy, member of -- trey gowdy, member of congress. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the gentleman from georgia, mr. woodall, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. woodall: i thank you, mr. speaker, and i thank the majority leader for allowing me to