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later southers told the committee that he personally had looked into those confidential records, what he now calls a grave error in judgment. southers wrote to the senators, quote, this incident was over 20 years ago, i was distraught and concerned about my young son and never in my career since has there been any recurrence of this sort of conduct. southers says the initial recounting to the senate committee was an inadvertent mistake, gregg. >> the republicans say they have other concerns about the nominee, correct? >> right. south carolina's republican senator jim demint says he wants assurances that southers will not support tsa employees seeking to unionize, if he's confirmed. listen to this. >> this is the last thing we need to do right now. our airport security needs to have maximum flexibility, the ability to move people around and change protocols and it makes absolutely no sense to submit security of our airports and of the passengers here in this country to collective bargaining with unions. >> senate democrats say they intend to bring southers nomination to a vote when the
later southers told the committee that he personally had looked into those confidential records, what he now calls a grave error in judgment. southers wrote to the senators, quote, this incident was over 20 years ago, i was distraught and concerned about my young son and never in my career since has there been any recurrence of this sort of conduct. southers says the initial recounting to the senate committee was an inadvertent mistake, gregg. >> the republicans say they have other...
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he originally blocked southers nomination over concerns he might unionize tsa and now essays that southers shouldn't be confirmed if he can't tell the truth. the white house is standing by its nominee and spokesman nick shapiro tells fox, southers never tried to hide this incident and has expressed that these were errors made in judgment that he deeply regretted and error made in account of events that happened over 20 years ago. congress gets back just over two weeks from now. for southers to become the tsa head, the senate has to approve his nomination. shannon. >> shannon: thank you very much, caroline. well, captain sully sullenberger was once again at the helm this time leading the tournament of roses parade in california. the pilot for safely landing his plane in the hudson river, he served as the grand marshal. the theme was an above the rest. i think we agree he is. radio host rush limbaugh is out of hospital and planning to head back to work soon. the 58-year-old says that tests showed nothing is wrong with his heart. severe chest pain landed him in the hospital in hawaii on wedne
he originally blocked southers nomination over concerns he might unionize tsa and now essays that southers shouldn't be confirmed if he can't tell the truth. the white house is standing by its nominee and spokesman nick shapiro tells fox, southers never tried to hide this incident and has expressed that these were errors made in judgment that he deeply regretted and error made in account of events that happened over 20 years ago. congress gets back just over two weeks from now. for southers to...
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he originally blocked southers nomination over concerns he might unionize tsa and says southers shouldn't be confirmed if he can't tell the truth. the white house is standing by its nominee. spokesman shapiro tells fox, southers has never tried to hide this incident and expressed it's errors he made in judgment and an error he made in account of events that happened over 20 years ago. congress gets back over two weeks from now. for southers to become the tsa head, the full senate has to confirm the nomination. >> thanks. you can bet national security will be a hot topic on fox news sunday and john brennan, who is the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, will be among the guests. check your local listings for the time tomorrow morning on your local fox station. >>> villagers in pakistan are mourning the victims of a massive bomb not guilty a sporting event, they had gathered to pray and carry the remains of their victims to their grave sites. nearly 100 people were killed when a bomber drove his vehicle into a crowd at a volleyball game and blew himself up
he originally blocked southers nomination over concerns he might unionize tsa and says southers shouldn't be confirmed if he can't tell the truth. the white house is standing by its nominee. spokesman shapiro tells fox, southers has never tried to hide this incident and expressed it's errors he made in judgment and an error he made in account of events that happened over 20 years ago. congress gets back over two weeks from now. for southers to become the tsa head, the full senate has to confirm...
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a day after the vote, southers admitted he did searches himself. republican from maine said he had concerns but now says is satisfied with the explanati explanation. but jim demint isn't. he blocked southers' nomination over concerns he might unionized tsa and now says he shouldn't be confirmed if he couldn't tell the truth. and the white house is standing by the no, ma'minenomi. >> cons gets back over two weeks from now. for southers to become the tsa head, the full senate has to approve the nomination. >> julie: caroline shively, thank you. some people want him dead and it's all because of something he drew that ignited outrage across muslims all around the world. but the death threats against the danish artist, it's now taken to extreme. this is kurt wester westergaar his granddaughter managed to press alarm and flee to safe room as a man came after them with with an axe and knife. police shooting the alleged attacker. today the suspect arrive in court on stretcher to face two count of attempted murder. and they say the 28-year-old somali man ha
a day after the vote, southers admitted he did searches himself. republican from maine said he had concerns but now says is satisfied with the explanati explanation. but jim demint isn't. he blocked southers' nomination over concerns he might unionized tsa and now says he shouldn't be confirmed if he couldn't tell the truth. and the white house is standing by the no, ma'minenomi. >> cons gets back over two weeks from now. for southers to become the tsa head, the full senate has to approve...
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southers. and i think the issues have been looked at repeatedly. senators are comfortable with it.nd again, it's unfortunate that there is one hold. >> chris: i don't have to tell you we have a little over a minute left, politics has reared its head in the discussion this week about the response to christmas day attack. this week, vice president cheney had this to say about president obama. here it is. >> he seems to think f he closes guantanamo and releases hardcore al-qaeda trained terrorists still there, we won't be at war. he seems to think if we get rid of the words "war on terror" we won't be at war. but we are at war and when president obama pretends we aren't it makes us less safe. mr. brennan, your response? >> it's disappointing to me that either the vice president and others willfully mischaracterized president obama's position in actions or they're just ignorant of the facts. in either case, it doesn't speak well to the reasons they went out and said these things. i came back into government for the express purpose of making sure that we can make the country safer than
southers. and i think the issues have been looked at repeatedly. senators are comfortable with it.nd again, it's unfortunate that there is one hold. >> chris: i don't have to tell you we have a little over a minute left, politics has reared its head in the discussion this week about the response to christmas day attack. this week, vice president cheney had this to say about president obama. here it is. >> he seems to think f he closes guantanamo and releases hardcore al-qaeda...
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i happen to know the tsa nominee, erroll southers, assistant chief of police at los angeles airport,ar career in law enforcement. he is also a counterterrorism policy expert and he is superbly qualified. and he is being held up over this issue of unionization. i happen to think giving union rights to tsa screeners is not the right thing to do but that's not southers' position to be rethought. only when you have confirmed leadership do you make the game-changing changes in terms of technologies and procedures that obviously need to happen at tsa right now. >> what are you picking up from some of the line workers? i'm trying to think of the proper way to describe them but at the department of homeland security, people who don't get the head lines, they aren't in the upper echelons but whose sole job it is to collect this information and sift through it and communicate with each other. how upset are they over all of this? >> i think that's a good question, david. one of the things we have to understand is that our security and intelligence officials have to be right every single time, 2
i happen to know the tsa nominee, erroll southers, assistant chief of police at los angeles airport,ar career in law enforcement. he is also a counterterrorism policy expert and he is superbly qualified. and he is being held up over this issue of unionization. i happen to think giving union rights to tsa screeners is not the right thing to do but that's not southers' position to be rethought. only when you have confirmed leadership do you make the game-changing changes in terms of technologies...
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the administration has nominated former fbi agent erroll southers for the post but south carolina senatorim demint has put a hold on that nomination. rick nelson is a former navy helicopter pilot with over 20 years of intelligence experience. rick, you say underestimating the importance of leadership in an agency like the tsa is a huge mistake. >> oh, absolutely it is. in times like this, you've got to have necessarily have strong leadership in place. as the president has said in his remarks, there's some systemic failures that occurred on christmas day, and for those systems to be changed, it's going to require strong leadership at the department level. and it's going to require the president to have his individuals and his leaders in place to do that. >> what really is going on at the tsa? when you look at recent events, you have the christmas day attempted bomb we are explosives sewn into the underwear. we have the newark airport security breach where the tsa worker leaves his post for about 90 seconds and this guy slips by. what's going on? >> again, i think it's an issue where you st
the administration has nominated former fbi agent erroll southers for the post but south carolina senatorim demint has put a hold on that nomination. rick nelson is a former navy helicopter pilot with over 20 years of intelligence experience. rick, you say underestimating the importance of leadership in an agency like the tsa is a huge mistake. >> oh, absolutely it is. in times like this, you've got to have necessarily have strong leadership in place. as the president has said in his...
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erroll southers a top official with the loangeles policeepartment. but he said today opnents had politicid his career. republican sator jim demint d blocked action on southers over concerns he wouldrant collective bargaining rights to t.a. employees. the suspect in aass killing in virginiaurned himself in early today, after an all-night manht. chstopher speight allegedly gunned down eight people o tuesday,hen fired at a police helicopter as he ran int the woods hide. the scene unfolded just outse appomaox, virginia. police fnd three bodies inside spits home, and four outside. an eighth victim was found barely ave near the house, but di later at a hospital. state poli said today they're still looking for a motive a a weapon. >> we are in process of searching for high pered rifle based on invtigation into the shotthat were fired and struck the helicoer tuesday afternoo he wald out of the woods and did not have a weapon inis possession and turnehimself in swat team members assigned thatarticular locati. >> sreenivasan: lice and bomb teams searchedpeight
erroll southers a top official with the loangeles policeepartment. but he said today opnents had politicid his career. republican sator jim demint d blocked action on southers over concerns he wouldrant collective bargaining rights to t.a. employees. the suspect in aass killing in virginiaurned himself in early today, after an all-night manht. chstopher speight allegedly gunned down eight people o tuesday,hen fired at a police helicopter as he ran int the woods hide. the scene unfolded just...
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that is from 20 years ago when southers was an f.b.i. agent and accessed confidential information about his ex wife's boyfriend. he asked a police officer to get those records. after the vote he did the searches himself. susan collins a republican from maine says the post she had suspicions, now she says she is satisfied with his explanation. fellow republican is not convinced. he blocked over concerns that ee may uin onize tsa. white house is standing by the nominee. spokesman nick shapiro says southers has never tried to hide the incident and expressed these were errors he made in judgment and deeply regretted and it was an act of events that happened 20 years ago. conscious comes back two weeks ago but they still have to approve his nomination. >> julie: thank you. >> gregg: a lot of finger pointing in the days following the failed attack on the u.s. bound jetliner. much of it taking a partisan tone. some republicans blasting the obama administration over a series of security and intel missteps and democrats taking shots at the gop. p
that is from 20 years ago when southers was an f.b.i. agent and accessed confidential information about his ex wife's boyfriend. he asked a police officer to get those records. after the vote he did the searches himself. susan collins a republican from maine says the post she had suspicions, now she says she is satisfied with his explanation. fellow republican is not convinced. he blocked over concerns that ee may uin onize tsa. white house is standing by the nominee. spokesman nick shapiro...
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republican senator jim demint is holding up the approval process for air roll suters and -- eroll southers, the senator has reason to be concerned about the approval process. >> it will be focused on job security and things like that, benefits instead of improving procedures and is a political thing, more dues and contribution for the democrats and we have seen what unionization has done to the teaching in america's schools. and saw what had been the private sector, auto industry and steel industry and on things other than the main job at hand and will be blocking ten knowledge that can improve procedures in the future. >> and that is exactly why congress took it out of the provision when they started the tsa to begin with, unionization. >> they took it out because there was a knee-jerk reaction against unions of any kind from a certain part of the government. but i think what steve is talking about is important here, we are not getting exactly the best and brightest who want careers in the tsa at this point and i'm risking my own flying convenience but... >> you'll be stopped at every air
republican senator jim demint is holding up the approval process for air roll suters and -- eroll southers, the senator has reason to be concerned about the approval process. >> it will be focused on job security and things like that, benefits instead of improving procedures and is a political thing, more dues and contribution for the democrats and we have seen what unionization has done to the teaching in america's schools. and saw what had been the private sector, auto industry and...
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southers says the incorrect testimony was inadvertent.emember what he had done back in 1988 even it got him a censure from the fbi. susan collins from maine, says she suspected it at the hearing, but approved it. now see says she's satisfied with the explanation. >> jim demint isn't. originally blocked over originally fearing he'd unionize tsa. now concerned he can't tell the truth. hair i reid pushed for a quick firm confirmation vote, but he might have a fight on his hand. >> i always think of recess from elementary school. not the same thing. >> on the playground. i wish i got two or three weeks off for recess. >> that would be nice. in the meantime, your headlines. what's happening at this hour, start with a fox news alert, there's a new warning from iran. the country says the west has until the end of the month to accept tehran's counter proposal to u.n. drafted plan on nuclear exchange or iran will begin making its own nuclear fuel. the proposal says the west must sell tehran the fuel or swap it for iran's enriched uranium. if no de
southers says the incorrect testimony was inadvertent.emember what he had done back in 1988 even it got him a censure from the fbi. susan collins from maine, says she suspected it at the hearing, but approved it. now see says she's satisfied with the explanation. >> jim demint isn't. originally blocked over originally fearing he'd unionize tsa. now concerned he can't tell the truth. hair i reid pushed for a quick firm confirmation vote, but he might have a fight on his hand. >> i...
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southers, to help focus the nation back on security. and get this politics, particularly union politics out of our security apparatus. >> senator jim demint, thanks for your time this morning, i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> let's get a check of the rest of the morning's top stories, ann curry back at the news desk, back to you. >> happy new year to you, meredith and matt and to you. in news, the christmas terror scare is on president obama's agenda as he heads back to the white house this morning from his vacation in hawaii. we've got nbc's chief white house correspondent, chuck todd, joining us from honolulu. the president is actually facing a number ever big issues this week. >> reporter: he sure is, ann. when he left he delayed his start of his vacation by a day, because he with a trying to get health care through the senate. well now he left a little bit early on his way back to washington. he should get there by lunchtime today. because of all the things on his plate, including that terror agenda, tomorrow he's got the big meet
southers, to help focus the nation back on security. and get this politics, particularly union politics out of our security apparatus. >> senator jim demint, thanks for your time this morning, i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> let's get a check of the rest of the morning's top stories, ann curry back at the news desk, back to you. >> happy new year to you, meredith and matt and to you. in news, the christmas terror scare is on president obama's agenda as he heads...
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michael, the president of the united states nominated a fellow by the name of erroll southers to be thehe's a former fbi agent, recently admitted that as an fbi agent he went in and he looked at and removed a secret criminal records on his ex-wife's boyfriend. is a person like that qualified for a national -- there he is. is a person like that, with a background like that, admission like that qualified to receive a national security clearance? s>> i think it depends on which department. certainly at the agency, they would be unlikely to grant individual clearance, sir. >> so he probably should haven't a job where you have to have national security clearance? >> i would think so. he would have access to an extraordinary amount ofdy the about individuals -- of data about individuals. but i think the other guest is far more qualified to talk about that. >> my other guest. mark, you know this. he is in favor of the union of the tsa. that's probably why the president nominated him, right? >> actually, judge, he's not saying. that's one of the issues surrounding the nomination in the senate.
michael, the president of the united states nominated a fellow by the name of erroll southers to be thehe's a former fbi agent, recently admitted that as an fbi agent he went in and he looked at and removed a secret criminal records on his ex-wife's boyfriend. is a person like that qualified for a national -- there he is. is a person like that, with a background like that, admission like that qualified to receive a national security clearance? s>> i think it depends on which department....
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. >> reporter: it took president obama eight months 20 pick somebody to lead the tsa, but erroll southersead of intelligence at los angeles international airport has been in limbo since september. republican senator jim dement is blocking the appointment in protest of white house plans to fully unionize the tsa. >> there's a constant need to adjust and to be flexible, to use imagination, to change things. we cannot ask a third-party union boss whether or not we can move a screener from one station to another. that's what collective bargains does. >> reporter: just two weeks ago the acting administrator of the tsa was hauled before a congressional hearing to explain how one of the agency's passenger screening manuals got leaked on to the internet. at the time, game rossides a hold jover from the bush administration insisted the flying public was safe. >> where are we with respect to security as relates to the traveling public? >> madam chairwoman, the system is very strong, and i am very confident in saying that. >> reporter: tell that to the 9/11 commission, which warned five years ago th
. >> reporter: it took president obama eight months 20 pick somebody to lead the tsa, but erroll southersead of intelligence at los angeles international airport has been in limbo since september. republican senator jim dement is blocking the appointment in protest of white house plans to fully unionize the tsa. >> there's a constant need to adjust and to be flexible, to use imagination, to change things. we cannot ask a third-party union boss whether or not we can move a screener...
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senator demint, you've been holding up the vote on erroll southers, the man nominated to run the transportationrity administration because you don't have assurances he won't yunize the tsa. there are also ethical concerns you have. but lots of your fellow republicans say he's perfectly qualified for the job. is this the right time to be holding up the nomination of the head of the tsa? >> well, unfortunately, the president waited eight months to even nominate a head of the tsa and then they wanted him passed without a good vetting process. they wanted -- they didn't want any debate or a roll call vote on the floor. and as it turns out, there are some things about mr. suthers that need to be considered. i asked him to be definitive if it was sbend intent to have collective bargaining. all the members of the employees of tsa are free to join a union now and the union can advocate for them, but collective bargaining would bring the security concerns of tsa under the authority of union bosses. >> isn't that what the department of homeland security does, it's not up to him, it's up to his boss? >> i
senator demint, you've been holding up the vote on erroll southers, the man nominated to run the transportationrity administration because you don't have assurances he won't yunize the tsa. there are also ethical concerns you have. but lots of your fellow republicans say he's perfectly qualified for the job. is this the right time to be holding up the nomination of the head of the tsa? >> well, unfortunately, the president waited eight months to even nominate a head of the tsa and then...
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on friday jim demint who earlier delayed souther's nomination, if he can't tell the truth, he should not be qualed and should not be confirmed. and they add that senator collins that raise suspicions about southerners' statements to the senate homeland security and says that on friday she is satisfied with his nomination. and on that security, as we wait for your phone calls to come in. "the new york times" has this picture from newark international airport, that experts are ready but not to overreact. and the headline says what to expect as airport security rules are tightened. the best way to prepare for the rules, pretty much as you did for the old rules. that means becoming familiar with the rules of what is allowed in carry-ons and checked bags. the rules about liquids and holiday foods and gifts, don't wrap them is available at www.tsa.gov. first call, ann , have you been to the airports? caller: yes, i flew back yesterday. host: where were you going and coming from? caller: i was going to dallas, texas and flew through l.a. host: what did you encounter that was new and differe
on friday jim demint who earlier delayed souther's nomination, if he can't tell the truth, he should not be qualed and should not be confirmed. and they add that senator collins that raise suspicions about southerners' statements to the senate homeland security and says that on friday she is satisfied with his nomination. and on that security, as we wait for your phone calls to come in. "the new york times" has this picture from newark international airport, that experts are ready but...
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attorney general souther's of colorado. >> chairman angelides and members of the commission i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today and described activities of my office, much smaller office and generageneral magic and. in the midst of an in response to our country's financial crisis. i've had the honor and pillage of serving as colorado's attorney general since january of 2005. that means i came into office just as we were starting to hear rumblings about problems to come in the colorado housing market. in my view, which is largely hindsight, the states were not well equipped with legal tools to deal with much of what has transpired. over the ensuing five years. like many states, colorado had passed legislation in 2002, dealing with so-called predatory loans, model in part after the federal home ownership and protection act of 1994. unfortunately, like its federal counterpart at the time, colorado's limits on balloon payments and prepayment penalties and its prohibition on negatively amortized in mortgage loans apply to such a small subset of the highest cost loans that
attorney general souther's of colorado. >> chairman angelides and members of the commission i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today and described activities of my office, much smaller office and generageneral magic and. in the midst of an in response to our country's financial crisis. i've had the honor and pillage of serving as colorado's attorney general since january of 2005. that means i came into office just as we were starting to hear rumblings about problems to come...
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president obama's choice to head the transportation security administration, aerroll southers, has withdrawn his nomination. his confirmation was blocked by republican senator jim demanint who is concerned that he would allow tsa employees to join a labor union. this comes as congress begins hearing testimony this morning about how a man was able to carry out a bombing attack on christmas day on a northwest airlines flight. you can hear live coverage of the senate homeland security proceedings at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span radio. defense secretary robert gates, speaking earlier in india, says terror groups working together around the afghanistan/pakistan border benefit from each other's success and pose a threat to the entire region. he listed several terror gripped he says operate under the umbrella of al qaeda, including the taliban and a separate group blamed for last year's attack in mumbai, india. he also said india and pakistan should cooperate against a threat that affects them both, urging both nations to speak frankly and help one another. the labor department says wholesale price
president obama's choice to head the transportation security administration, aerroll southers, has withdrawn his nomination. his confirmation was blocked by republican senator jim demanint who is concerned that he would allow tsa employees to join a labor union. this comes as congress begins hearing testimony this morning about how a man was able to carry out a bombing attack on christmas day on a northwest airlines flight. you can hear live coverage of the senate homeland security proceedings...
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attorney generalsitters -- attorney general southers of colorado. i appreciate the describe my office, a many smaller offer. in the midst of the response. i'd had the honor and privilege of serving as colorado attorney general since 2005. that means i came into office just as we were starting to hear about problems to come in the colorado housing market. in my view, which is largely hindsight, the states were not well equipped with legal tools to deal with much of what has transpired over the ensuing five years. like many states, colorado had passed legislation in 2002 dealing with so-called predatory loans. in part after the federal home ownership and equity protection act of 1994. unfortunately, like it's federal count part at the time, colorado's limits on blue payments and prepayment penalties and it's prohibition on the loans applied to such a small subset of the highest cost loans that it proved to be very little deterrent to abusive lending practices. loan originators were able to push more exotic loan products who's rate and low minimum paym
attorney generalsitters -- attorney general southers of colorado. i appreciate the describe my office, a many smaller offer. in the midst of the response. i'd had the honor and privilege of serving as colorado attorney general since 2005. that means i came into office just as we were starting to hear about problems to come in the colorado housing market. in my view, which is largely hindsight, the states were not well equipped with legal tools to deal with much of what has transpired over the...