>> to stephen kim, i would love to see some internal state department analysis on the state of north's nuclear program. james rosen. james: i will always honor the confidentiality of my dealings. bill: sure, if you do not do that, you are no longer a reporter, and you are one of the best. >> james rosen published parts of a classified report. >> another name has been added to those charged under the espionage act. >> stephen kim was an expert on north korea and he is now facing trial for allegedly leaking classified information to a foxnews reporter, charge he denies. >> foxnews reporter james rosen reporting the north korea would respond to sanctions with more nuclear test. [laughter] jon: that is the leak -- north korea answers everything with more nuclear tests. they have a nuclear test-based economy. [laughter] stephen: i did not consider the conversation to be so memorable, or so blatant in my mind that it was because of that conversation that these things are happening. >> we are now learning the obama justice department invoked the espionage act to justify its investigation. >

released a letter contrary to what the state department found stating that this was going to cause a greater impact to climate change. whenever the reality is this -- however, the reality is this pipeline does nothing to address the consumption of oil or increase consumption. it's an absurd approach. lastly, i'd say that -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for an additional minute. mr. graves: thank you. madam speaker, lastly i'll just say that this president for years has embraced an all-of-the-above energy strategy. all of the above. this pipeline fits that criteria. it's all of the above. perhaps i misunderstood and they were talking geographically above. it's coming from canada. it fits that one too. madam speaker, this project needs to move forward. it's been delayed far too long and all it's going to do by not building this project is cause us to rely upon venezuela and other nonallies for energy to power this nation's economy. thank you, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from pennsylvania

however the state department should have also been formally informed. latest donation raises more questions as mrs. clinton considers another run for president. it would be uncomfortable at best if a president hillary clinton had to make tough foreign policy choices about a country who does give her charity large amounts of money. >> absolutely, lae -- leland. >> any repercussions for the foundation not alerting the state department as they promised or as they should have? >> so far the biggest issues are the questions in terms of the public relation and optics involved around hillary clinton trying to roll out the presidential cane and having to answer the questions about why her foundation didn't abide by the same ethics guidelines that they voluntarily agreed to before she took the job. >> leland vittert life from washington. thank you, leland. >> trumed for 2016 the billionaire real estate mogul saying he is more serious than ever about a gop white house run. the 68-year-old saying he hired staffers in key primary states. he hired an election attorn

the white house and the state department have indicated that. there's no other information about her, her background. we're aware of it but not confirming anything publicly at this point about the 26-year-old aid worker who had been captured in august of 2013. evan, can you tell us anything about the isis report and what they are claiming and your efforts to try to verify the credibility of their claim? >> sure the claim itself appears and it's hard to tell because the main isis chat forum is offline, it appears to come from a legitimate isis media unit. it's a fairly short message. essentially says that continuous raids by the jordanian air force outside the city of raqqa killed this female american hostage. the hostage was identified, her phone numbers were provided and e-mail address and home address provided here in the united states. the only other form of verification or means of authentication of this message that was provided by the media unit were photos or alleged photos of the location in raqqa in which the supposedly the american hos

i would refer you to the state department or defense department or white house on that. >> and i wantedo ask you about the controversy critics saying that the president is being politically correct, parsing words and not calling the muslim extremism what it is and not calling it out. how do you respond to that? >> well i would say all members of isil are violent extremists but not all extremists are members of isil. the summit is about more than isil even though i isil is the most acute problems. the president and secretary talked about combatting violent extremism as this generation's greatest challenge and of course the biggest part of that is isil. >> and i know you don't do politics, you're in the diplomatic sphere now, but i have to ask you about a prominent critic seizing on this criticism of this summit rudy giuliani last night at a republican gathering said i do not believe and i know this is a horrible thing to say, but i do not believe the president loves america. he doesn't love you and doesn't love me. he wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and i was brought up thr

it's something we're very focused on here at the state department. we have an international whole office on international women and girls. they talk about this frequently but we should all be screaming about how terrible this is. >> and i know the state department has a whole office as you point out, which we don't

it should be a joint decision between the pentagon and state department but instead it was just the statearines get on that plane, you have got to destroy your weapons. >> it doesn't paint a great picture. why is it happening? why does it matter? since 2010 we've been evacuated out of three embassies right now. this is a bad picture in front of us. general last night said this one is about iran. >> this is a strategic setback for the united states and our partners in the region because this is all about iran. this is iran gaining influence and control over another capital and country. beirut lebanon, damascus syria and now sanaa, yemen. the houthies will begin to look like hezbollah. they'll receive missiles rockets, sophisticated equipment. radical islam is on the rise. that's why this is a setback. >> there are many reasons. if you look at the map, you see iran's influence spreading. what are we talking to them about? number one exporter of terror and now they are taking over capitals. whatever you think about the last government, they were friendly to us allowing us to use that area an

state department. that is generating some serious outrage tonight especially among marines who are taught from day one never surrender your weapon. at least one marine telling fox news blank yeah, it -- me off. pardon me, his term. i'm not giving up my weapon to anyone. an afghanistan war veteran a fox news contributor. to try to picture the sight of american marines giving up their weapons in yemen a country the u.s. president just touted as an example of how well our counterterrorism strategy is going two months ago. the picture is really shocking pete. >> it sure is. so we're surrendering around the world. we're surrendering our embassy. and now we're asking u.s. marines to surrender their dignity. give up oaths they made, creeds that they lived by, and surrender their rifle. i'm no marine but i know a lot of them and fought alongside a lot of them. without their rifle they are nothing. they are taught you never give that up. so who came up with this plan? who truly believed it was the right thing t

state department have concerns that the requested interviews will pose precisely such risks. we also want to avoid interfering with the department of justice's ongoing investigations and prosecutions. >> joining us now, the chairman of the select committee on benghazi, congressman trey gowdy, who also serves on the judiciary committee, the oversight and government reform committee. mr. chairman, good to see you and if you will, characterize that answer from the state department, the assistant deputy secretary of state, on the witnesses. >> well, lou, thank you for having me on. that's just a boilerplate response you get sometimes from the administration that if you want to talk to a witness it's going to jeopardize their security or impact an ongoing prosecution, so the first thing you have to say is look, mr. state department official we have no interest in jeopardizing anyone's security, so we're not going to do that. you don't need to be concerned about security. secondarily, i know a little something about criminal prosecutions. the last thing we want to do is jeopardize

such meetings are fairly routine at the state department we regularly meet with political party leaders from across the world. >> michelle are their priorities mixed up and are they putting us in danger? theel he' meet with friends of muslim brotherhood but not netanyahu. >> they will not meet with our biggest ally at a time when terrorists are trying to can i go us. we are at war with terrorists they just killed innocent people in paris yet they will meet with the muslim brotherhood sympathizers of the muslim brotherhood. when the muslim brotherhood wants to kill us. their own slogan is jihad is our way. and death for the sack of ally is our highest aspiration. we should not be negotiating or talking to these people. >> in the last couple of years president obama has met with now the sympathizers of muslim brotherhood, glozell between between two ferns pump with a limp but when bb netanyahu comes here next month i think it would be a wise decision to make a little bit of time for our biggest ally in the middle east. no? >> well yes eric i would tend to agree with that but, you know the

state department program designed to counter i.s.i.l.paganda online. ♪ welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm stephanie sy. >> antonia and coming up, in the half hour of international news state department team tasked with fighting i.s.i.l. through social media, a tool that i.s.i.l. used effectively to recruit supporters. >> beat them at their own game and reducing waste by giving businesses, places markets and people to bring a left over food and one website says it's a step to solving the world's hunger program. >> we have developments in the fight against i.s.i.l. iraqi preparing for offensive to retake the city of mosul which i.s.i.l. captured last june and as david reports from the pentagon the u.s. is saying more about when the operation will take place. >> in a briefing for reporters at the pentagon a senior official at central command laid out the plan to retake the northern city of mosul in what most agree was surprising detail. the official spoken condition saying the target time for mosul attack was april or may before the su

if the subject becomes involved with the state department of its activities. sew cia came up with a plan. they would protect him and not tell the israelis or the justice department or not tell anyone else. wouldn't tell the nazi hunters that eichman's former aide was living a quiet life in new york city. but there was one condition for their protection. they told him that he had to drop that bid for the state department job because they couldn't risk his name being tied to eichman and the cia. and in closing, let me read you from a series of remarkable meetings and horrifying meeting that the cia held with him in 1961. and so on the spring evening in new york city, two cia officials who worked with him during the spy days in eastern europe sat him down to deliver the ultimatum. either relinquish the state department job or risk the messy consequences. despite the ominous message he struck a cop sill yaer to tone. he cia val i'd his, quote continued friendship. agency officials felt duped by everything they were learning about his close ties to eichman his handl

>> i was not. >> was anybody in the state department involved in the negotiations? >> i can't speak for the secretary of state. i know that no one in my bureau was involved. >> who were the lead negotiators for the united states? >> to the best of my knowledge they were the nfc personnel that you mentioned at the beginning of the hearing. >> who were the lead negotiators for the cuban government, diplomats or members of the military or intelligence. >> i don't know that. >> ok. were you consulted or regularly briefed by the negotiators for your input on the policy changes? >> what i can say that is when we were talking about securing the release of alan gross the state department was in the lead on that part of the gross detention. we were in the lead on the conditions of confinement. we were in the lead in contacting his family and working -- >> what about the policy changes? >> well, there has been a pros of looking at potential policy changes with cuba that had been going on throughout the administration that have brought many agencies together. much of that discu

the state department is ramping up anti-islamic state messages on social media.ccording to the "new york times," islamic state is wing the online propaganda war issue anding as many as 90,000 tweets each and every day. so the obama administration intends to send out more tweets like this one, quote -- that from the same state department account that last november tried and largely failed to call out the islamic state for publishing these pictures, one of which is i believe of hungarian porn, as you can imagine, far more attention was given to the fact that the state department knew the islamic state was using an image of hungarian porn rather than the fact the islamic state used image of hungarian porn as propaganda, and the administration has gotten the idea that this little item would work just the same or perhaps better than messaging at home. you know, like the war on women, or its campaign slogan it is far better at propagandizing the american people than the radical islamist terrorists that they won't name. our quotation of the evening, from american author

it's something we're very focused on here at the state department.e have an international whole office on international women and girls. they talk about this frequently but we should all be screaming about how terrible this is. >> and i know the state department has a whole office as you point out, which we don't pay enough attention to i feel. we in the media. thank you for pointing that out as well. we have a new poll new nbc news poll which to some surprise shows a strong amount of support even for ground forces, 26% for large ground forces, only 26% saying no ground forces at all. my own interpretation would be that this is the result of some of the atrocities that have been reported and the beheadings that this post-paris and what happened to our own hostages has really united american public opinion more than some might have suspected against taking this on. >> well i think there's no question that when you see american citizens be headed and the atrocities that have been shown on television and we've talked about for the past couple of months

>> so the state department stepped in and talked to the school, and they changed their mind but in 2013nt of homeland security clarified the 2012 ruling -- this is their line iranian citizens are ineligible for u.s. visas if they can seeking higher education in preparation for iran's nuclear science or nuclear engineering fields. it's pretty plain right there in writing. they say they're not allowed. >> so what the university said is it's too difficult to get through the bureaucracy to clear anybody so instead we'll ban them. what do you say, dana? >> not having a clear policy leads to very sloppy results and i think out of the sectors that eric just listed petroleum natural gas, nuclear science nuclear engineering, those are the fields that you would study if you came to study chemical engineering in the united states. i think it's a mess. >> and you think they shouldn't have reversed course or not? >> if an iranian wants to come here and study, i think that we should allow them to study and convert them to be working for our cia. >> interesting. >> let them stay here. >> i was thinkin

state department here in washington, d.c.ust a few minutes away from president obama, he's getting ready to address a global audience. leaders from the united nations, 60 other countries, a summit for countering vie lnt extremism. we want to welcome our viewers and others around the world to this special report. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. this morning the president will call for a global effort to get to the root of extremism with groups like isis and al qaeda. on wednesday the president said the united states is not at war with islam, but the people who perverted islam. he's being deliberately vague and certain of his wording, not linking extremism to the muslim faith directly. let's begin with our colleague and good friend chief washington correspondent jake tapper. yesterday he was largely addressing the domestic effort to counter violent extremism. today he's going global. >> i think yesterday's audience based on conversations i've had with sources close to the white house, was largely the american muslim community,

that's out of 24,000 employees in the entire state department worldwide.ir goal point out the hypocrisy of isil. in arabic and somali and english, frequent tweets contest isil propaganda. but after the u.s. posted this video, a youtube viewer called the u.s. quote, the satan of the west. the messages has another target experts say, people that know and live with vulnerable young people. >> they are more tuned in to perhaps what this individual is considering doing, and they have tools at their disposal to try to conduct an intervention. >> reporter: the narrative that isil al-qaeda and other groups are selling can be seductive to the young and naive. >> we have seen the daily on slot and a real opportunity to use the tools of engagement to expose their deeds and disconnect between their words and their actions. >> reporter: some critics say it is a waste of time and legitimizes isil and other groups but officials say rather than scaling the program back they are planning too expand it. experts say it's difficult to gauge how many people might be persuaded

>> it was not the state department. they have said it wasn't the state department. it was not the ambassador. they talked about protocol followed. with nonstandard protocol. i don't have anymore details for you. >> why didn't we send them out in military transport? >> this was the way we determined was best way to bring our staff out of yemen. we can bring, we use military equipment and assistance when we need it. we work with dod on every plan implemented around the world. >> let's talk about isis. just yesterday president obama said about isis that they're losing morale and that isis is now on the defensive. and yet, today there is a report isis is now completely taken over a town in iraq that is about 13 minutes away from a u.s. air base where marines are stationed there. and in addition there is a report in the pentagon confirmed this, that isis spread to afghanistan they describe it as sort of the beginnings of isis. but that doesn't seem to jive with president obama's statement to us that isis is on the defensive, morale is low. he seems to be giving us impres

one of our top priorities is to complete a state department authorization that helps the department become more efficient and effective within a sustainable budget. chairman purdue will be taking on that effort. i know we met yesterday with the state department, had a good meeting to launch that. and i think all of us want to make sure that as we're dealing with many crises we're dealing with around the world that the state department is set up in a way to leverage our efforts and to ensure that we're doing on a daily basis everything we can to make sure that we continue to pursue our national interests in so many ways. and that's the purpose of doing that. obviously, the president has sent forth a budget that increases spending $74 billion. and i think all of us understand that's not where we're going to be. i know you're here today to talk about your component of that. but we all know that's not where the budget is going to end up. it's going to be at a greatly reduced number. so we know we have some challenges in front of us. and we appreciate, again you being here for us to not be able

hillary clinton state department spent $650,000 on ads to get more facebook friends for the state department facebook. all along, letting people go. security after security. there is a 16 person security detail led by colonel wood. he said we ought to stay. the ambassador thinks we ought to stay. the cables become more frantic. they are sent home saying we think that we are at risk for an all-out assault. 9/11 comes. the attack said nothing to do with the anniversary. the ambassador says -- he sends more cables home. the attack happens. being killing of the ambassador happens. we have hillary clinton and i asked her, did you read the cables? she brushed me off as if, i'm too important to have read those cables. maybe you didn't read the cable asking for more glassware in bulgaria. this is a cable saying we have a life and death problem here. you didn't read the cables. i looked at her, and said to her, by your actions, by your dereliction of duty, by not providing security for americans, you have absolutely precluded yourself from ever being considered for higher office. [applause] to get bi

i have worked state department contracts state department contracts prior to cia contracts and it was very low, very undermanned especially with the high-ranking and like ambassador stevens. it seemed odd to us. >> host: here's the cover of the book. it's called "13 hours" the inside account of what really happened in benghazi. the numbers are up on the screen if you would like to die lan and top with kris paronto and mark geist who were on site in benghazi at night. 585-3891 for those of you in the mountain and pacific timezones. what time did the incident occurred? i hate to call it an incident that invasion? >> guest: in fact there were several timelines. my timeline when i looked at my watch and i say this to everybody i have been interviewed by and the house and tells subcommittee. it was 9:32. that's what i have in my watch when we were called and began and we found out about it. again there are conflicting timelines. i don't know what to tell you about those. allah knows what i saw my watch. >> host: at the time you're at the annex a mile and a half away from the compound. what

tuesday the state department ordered everyone out. now new reports portray what may have been a hasty getaway. this is new video of at least 20 u.s. embassy vehicles left behind and reportedly seized. some evacuating americans reportedly leaving their keys in the ignition. last night we reported on u.s. marines destroying their own weapons before boarding private planes and leaving yemen. no military transports were provided. why not? u.s. ships are positioned off the coast. now yemeni officials at the airport say the operation was not planned. >> translator: they arrived in their cars and entered the airport's parking lot. and it was not planned. but we seized the cars and their belongings. >> then today in southern yemen more troubling news. this unconfirmed photo apparently showing al qaeda raising its flag over a yemeni military base. al qaeda. and tonight new questions over whether yemen is becoming yet another terrorist safe haven in an increasingly chaotic middle east. earlier tonight i spoke to state department spokesperson je

the state department and clinton have no -- she doesn't want to negotiate at all.t's been very bad. >> former democratic congressman and fox news contributor dennis kucinich reached out to the gadhafi regime during this time. he joins me now. good evening. am i correct that no one ever intended these tapes to be released? >> well, first of all, i don't know where these tapes came from. and the other thing is that the gadhafi regime had contacted me after i had gotten legal advice from the general counsel of the house of representatives. i took the phone calls. i was told by an intermediary that gadhafi was on the run and was using a burner phone. so that raises questions about where those tapes came from. >> but at the same time, those tapes have been validated by those individuals in the phone calls, and you yourself admit that you were in one of those tape-recordings, correct? >> i validated a discussion in which gadhafi told me -- >> who was the son. >> the son of moammar gadhafi, told me the following. he said first of all, the violence was initiated by protest

you would imagine somebody is in hot water at the state department. >> the problem some say isn't so much that the state department would meet with them, it's the optics of all that they claim and one on-line photo in particular. it's of an attendee in front of the state department logo showing the well known four finger symbol tied to the brotherhood. >> in a country like egypt where there are all sort of conspiracy theories about what america's role is in the country, that sent the conspiracy theory mill going crazy. >> the state department was asked today about its comfort level with what happened. the photo and subsequent call for violence by its leaders urging a long uncompromising jihad during which we ask for martyr martyrdone martyrdom. >> there are no questions about what happened afterwards. >> nothing has changed about our decision to have the meeting, no. >> today marks two years since the deadliest sniper of american history was killed at a texas gun range. governor abbott declared today chris kyle day in texas. kyle's story inspired the film "american sniper." he was ki

kerry, would you please commit to me and to congress that these funds will be released by the state department and the united states will continue to play a strong and active role in the northern ireland peace situation? >> mr. lee zeldon of new york followed by minnesota, and that's it. >> thank you mr. chairman. mr. secretary, there was a letter that was sent from the other president to congress with the authorization for the use of force. if i could just read a couple of sentences from that letter. the authorization i propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances such as rescue operations involving u.s. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against isil leadership. it would also authorize the use of u.s. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended such as intelligence collection and sharing missions to enable kinetic strikes for the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice. this is the letter from the president four or five

. >> a senior state department official has an arraignment hearing this afternoon. police say after an on-line investigation, he has been charged with solicitation of a minor. mike conneen has reaction from neighbors and the state department. >> no one answered the door today at the d.c. home of 44-year-old daniel rosen, seen here in the you tube video. 24 hours earlier around noon tuesday, police say they arrested him here at his house on the 3200 block of adams mill road northwest. they accuse him of engaging in a series of on-line exchanges with a detective assigned to the fairfax county police department's child exploitation unit. hearing the accusations, his neighbors are in disbelief. >> never seen any kids go there. shocking. >> the location doesn't bother me as much as the fact that it happened. >> fairfax county police say rosen worked here at the state department as director of counterterrorism and in a statement, the spokesperson said the state department was aware of this arrest. her statement adds "his security clearance will be suspended and he'll be p

they recently received two state department grants. v-15 and one voice are talking about merging, the plan is to merge prior to to the march election. and v-15 has entered into a contract of political consultant firm called 270 strategies, which has over a dozen individuals who are in leadership positions for obama's re-election and original election including jeremy bird who in 2012 was the national field director. >> let me ask you, one voice got that money from the state department prior to even the announcement that israel was going to have this election. so it's not like that money went to this specific cause. so who cares? >> well the second grant was recent. they just received the second grant just a couple months ago. i think it was around november 2014. and they are advertising on their website that they are partners with the state department. they clearly are merging with v-15 in their effort to oust the prime minister. >> you think they should have to give back the money? even if it wasn't designated for this purpose that th

on march 1st, 1976, he checked out of the state department in the afternoon, got in his station wagon, suburban washington. >> it was approximately 6:00 p.m. that bishop was spotted in a sears department store where he purchases a 2 1/2-pound mini-mall sledgehammer. bishop walked away from the counter, then came back with a gas can. and purchased that. then went and filled his family station wagon with gas and also filled the gas can. >> a young lady stayed with the bishop family a number of days earlier, and they would have family dinner at the same time pretty much every day. but he never said anything at the dinner table. he was quiet. he was aloof. on march the 1st, after dinner, mr. bishop's mother takes the dog out for a walk. neighbors actually see her out that evening walking the dog. >> the wife was downstairs in a study area. >> two of the boys were in one room in their pajamas. the teenager is actually in his own room. >> he then used that mini-hammer, that sledgehammer, and used it to bludgeon to death his wife first. they found her notes there on the shag carpet submerged

let's keep talking about the state department's comments on isis.t's your reaction to the comments she just made? we can't willkill our way out of war but we should help them get jobs? head to our facebook page to weigh in at #keep talking. >> time for a look at who is talking retired general jack keen issuing a stern warning about isis and how powerful the terror group has become. >> isis is now the new face of radical islam. they are the most powerful influential radical islam movement that has ever existed. more than 9-11, al qaeda. the evidence is clear. what is happening with the so-called affiliates around the world is they want to be a part of isis. they are changing their stripes. it is not that isis is gone to libya or it's going to afghanistan. it's the fact that the radical islamists who were already there want to be a part of this movement. why is that? they fundamentally believe isis is winning. it is hard to beat and win against isis if you are not killing and capturing them. >> all right. back to weather. washington, d.c. seeing one o

i s representative, spokesperson for the united states state department. i was shocked at that. >> i saw the president of the united states did not declare war without limitation geographically or on a time basis we have to kill thlast we need a broad strategy we need congressional approval, we need a strategy first to get a maoad national and inteed a ational conse? >> us. stuart: maybe you will be part of hillar ses camp pernd' you never | wenow. go i doubt it. i will be with you, that is for sure. stuart: a train carn'sing that oil der perled in western kenya, grease into flames potentially contaminated the lat unfpply. look at those flames. more on that next. oin the world is filled with air. but for people with copd sometimes breathing air can be difficult. if you have copd, ask your doctor about once-daily anoro ellipta. it helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. anoro ellipta is the first fda-approved product containing two long-acting bronchodilators in one inhaler. anoro is not for asthma. anoro contains a type of medicine that in

i am of that opinion as well. >> host: at the state department what did you work on? >> guest: i worked on the internet freedom. there is $15 million every year that the state department alone awards in grant to support free internet users with research digital training and other activities. usdi has a similar program as well and other divisions engage in such as well. i was part of the team that helped manage the grants. one way i can described it was there was an article saying the nsa is trying to break the ground while the state department is supporting it i was trying to support it. >> host: has the internet freedom initiative been successful? >> guest: i would say it is making progress. internet freedom is in jeopardy and being attacked on a number of fronts. you can look at stats of others doing mapping on this. internet freedom isn't in a great place. it is in a good place in the united states but in many other places around the world people are not free to say what they want or access websites they want or use applications they would like. i think we have a l

actually know about being in that position, what about this messaging with the white house, the state department, the department of defense evening, they all seem to be on the same page don't call it islamic extremism no matter what you do. how does that work? >> i think this is coming directly from the top, this is from the president himself saying this is not what we're going to say, and now, we have seen this before he has dug in his heels so much, and example would be obama care he insisted everyone call it the affordable care act, until he thought it looked like it was going to be successful. then he suggested everyone should call it obama care. in this case, i do in the think that the president is ever going to relent on this matter. >> but this could be so much more deadly than even obama care. >> that's why i think you're seeing absolute alarm in the bureaucracy, on capitol hill and -- 50% of the american public are saying -- isis has grown in territory in iraq syria and now in libya, in one month, you have two years, you can't wait two years like a new policy. >> you think he's going to

that is, the state department right now has an overreliance on oco and carryover balances. there is a great concern that those over balances create a lack of discipline in the department. with strategic planning efforts, with the diplomacy and -- for those not being linked up in an appropriate way seem to miss an opportunity that we are aligned properly. we have a massive increase in peacekeeping with the share of funding. and we have a failure to read prior torus -- reprioritize. it is very difficult to see the resources that are being put forth to do with that. so a look forward to your testimony. i know that there will be a lot of questions, not just about the budget, but other activities that you have been dealing with. we thank you for taking time out to be with us today. and with that i would like to recognize the distinguished ranking member, senator menendez. >> thank you. i see you have a big binder hopefully it has all the answers that we want to hear. as we meet, it is a challenge -- it is a challenging time for states of budgets and for the nation. negotiations a

t the state department has not confirmed that. a state department spokesperson says that rosen's security clearanc has been suspended and he's been put on administrative leave. the hearing will determine extd to fairfax county. chris gordon is at the courth and will have a live update at 5:00. i'm wendy rieger at the live desk. >>> e men arrested in the u.s. fe with isis. >> she's a mother and police officer. she's claiminboss a police chief, discriminated against her. > as winter weather way, stay with us on air this hour and we'll send you weather and school closurs c >>> new details about a lawsuit filed by the only female officer against a local police departme. carissa lewis works for the morningse pol department in maryland. her suit alleges discrimination along with other problems. many of which are directed at chief amos dam ron. our prince george's county -- tells us about what's going on and shs bee working to get reaction from the department. l have that story coming up on news 4 at 5:00. >>> we're learninw details abou

. >>> and a state department spokeswoman is being criticized for comments she made on my program. >>>nd john boehner blind-sided the white house last month by inviting netanyahu to address congress. a new poll shows nearly two-thirds of americans say boehner shouldn't have sent that invitation. >>> finally, the man responsible for all-time hollywood classics from "diner" has a new movie out starring al pacino. he'll be here in a moment. and this is "hardball," a place for politics. [ kevin ] this is connolly cameron, zach, and clementine. we have a serious hairball issue. we clean it up, turn around and there it is again. it's scary. little bit in my eye. [ michelle ] underneath the kitchen table underneath my work desk we've got enough to knit a sweater. [ doorbell rings ] zach, what is that? the swiffer sweeper. the swiffer dusters. it's some sort of magic cloth that sucks in all the dog hair. it's quick and easy. pretty amazing that it picked it all up. i would totally take on another dog. [ kevin ] really? ♪ ♪ doug, we have the results, but first, we have a very special guest. com

taking on these comments and the communications coming out of the white house the state department. >> i've been nearly unable to breathe since i saw that, and i would tell -- you've got to go back and watch the entire state department and white house briefing because you cannot believe that they're actually saying what they're saying. they're arguing about the president's adverbs. then after they leave the podium, after those performances they both go back to their desk and they tweet something that says, we have been perfectly clear all along that it was an act of anti-semitism. okay. so is tweeting better than speaking? in this world now are we just supposed to say, okay, let's go to twitter and not believe that what you said at the podium five minutes ago is what the president has asked you to say? the other thing that bothered me, and i don't know how this happened, so that interview that the president gave was on january 23rd. vox then does a whole bunch of hocus-pocus editing makes him look slick. then they don't release it until february 8th or 9th. if you are a staffer for th

chairman. >> this morning we are pleased to be joined by witnesses from the departments of state and reasury and commerce. ms. roberta jacobson served as the deputy assistant secretary for canada and mexico. mr. john smith is the deputy director of the u.s. department of the treasury's office of foreign asset control. previously he served as an expert to the u.n. al qaeda and taliban sanctions committee from 2004 through 2007. mr. matthew borman serves as the deputy assistant secretary of commerce for export administration. without objection, the briefers full prepared statement will be made part of the record. members will have five calendar days to submit statements and questions and any extraneous material that members want to put in the record. if you would please summarize your remarks in five minutes and then we will hear from the other witnesses. >> thank you. thank you for the opportunity to testify on a new approach to u.s.-cuba policy. i want to say that i appreciate this committee's engagement in the western hemisphere and i know all of your strong commitment to democratic

these are live pictures from the state department. introducing the president and when he does we'll go to those comments. while we wait i'm joined by "daily beast" columnist dean obadala. tell me about the conversations from yesterday. >> an all-day event from 8:00 in the morning to 5:00 p.m. with president obama being the conote speaker to close out the event. it really was -- the focal point was showing the three pilot projects that the federal government has teamed up the muslim american community in minneapolis, los angeles and boston, and they are working together to counter radicalization in a way that deals with trust between the communities. it's not engagement like whole scale surveillance of the muslim community that we saw like here in new york which caused us to have an adversarial relationship with the police, this one is much more mutually beneficial. speakers like congressman ellison and franken from minneapolis, minnesota, minneapolis with the somali community, so that was a big part of it. also to be frank i learned a

and the state department plays a key role in combatting them. i recently sent a letter to the white house expressing my concerns over the department's desire to resettle tens of thousands of syrian refugees here in the united states. i am worried that isis could exploit this effort in order to deploy operatives to america via a federally funded jihadi pipeline. before closing i'd like to again reiterate what i said at our organizational meeting last month, mr. thompson, we look forward to working with you to accomplish our shared goal of protecting the homeland. and with that the chair now recognizes the ranking member. >> thank you, mr. chairman. for your comments, as well as for holding today's hearing. i'd like to also welcome director rasmussen for his first appearance before this committee as the director of the national counterterrorism center. as well i'd also thank the rest of the panel for testifying about the federal government's effort to identify and deter foreign fighters and the government's efforts to counter violent extremism. i'd