state department releases hillary clinton's emails ever. we are going to have the latest on the situation. good morning, i'm cheryl casone. >> nicole: good morning, i'm nicole petallides. in the market after two straight months of gains investors pin the hope on december rally. let's check u.s. stock market futures right now. up 61, s&p futures nierl up 7. >> cheryl: in paris president obama and vladimir putin meet on the sidelines to discuss a strategy for syria. >> nicole: critical deadline to make a payment. congress taking up puerto rico's problems today, we will have the latest. >> cheryl: we will have the numbers for you. >> nicole: cleveland brown fans stunned. we will have all the highlights. welcome to fbn:am, first look at what's in today's markets and latest breaking news and what to expect ahead. >> cheryl: state department releasing a new bash of hillary clinton's e-mails and some of them related to u.s. consulate in benghazi. >> it's 5100 new prit emails. the state department redacted 329 of them because they retain classified

the state department issued 531,463 immigrant visas last year alone. those 10.5 million immigrants and nonimmigrant visa holders joined an estimated 20 million others who entered the united states without visas under the visa waiver program. our government issued 1.7 million crossing cards to mexican nationals in just the first ten months of fiscal year 2015. there are an estimated, we're guessing, close to 10 million border crossing cards in circulation today. on top of that more than a million nonimmigrant students are lawfully studying in the united states on student visas. some 2 million individuals were granted employment authorization in fiscal year 2015. it fiscal year 2013, the last year for which sta ttistics are available, the united states granted asylum status to 25,199 people. and from fiscal year 2008 to 2014 the number of individuals claiming a credible ferp of persecution in their home country increased some 921%. if we can put that graphic up, i would appreciate it. we are seeing a rapid rise in people coming to the you sta its claiming

of the office of the inspector general at the united states department of state. welcome all. witnesses are to be sworn before the testify. please rise and raise your right hand. all the witnesses answered in the affirmative. we appreciate limiting verbal comments to five minutes. your written statement will be entered into the record. you are now recognized for five minutes. >> bring those mike's right up close. there we go. >> chairman, ranking member, i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the us department of state project to build a new embassy in london. i am director of the bureau of overseas building operations, the single property manager for all us government diplomatic property overseas. managing the design, construction, acquisition, sale, and maintenance of that apartment's worldwide property portfolio. the worldwide property portfolio. the property platform supporting 275 missions and 190 countries with over $14 billion in projects in design and construction. like you come the state department is deeply committed to the safety a

department of state. as the single real property manager for diplomatic properties overseas, we manage the design, construction, acquisition, sale and maintenance of the department's worldwide property portfolio. that portfolio includes the property platform supporting 275 missions in 190 countries and has over $14 billion in projects and design and construction. like you, the state department is deeply committed to the safety and security of our personnel serving abroad. every new design and construction project that obo undertakes meets security and life safety standards required by law and our experts and the bureau of diplomatic security and within obo. we work all steps of the process to ensure security standards are met in our designs and security considerations are addressed in our operations. in 1960, the department of state opened a new u.s. embassy in london located on grovener square. security has evolved since then and it does not meet security and life safety standards. after more than 50 year

linick inspector general at the united states department of state. welcome all are presented when he rose all are to be sworn before they testified. please rise and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give up if you choose the whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. let the record reflect at all the witnesses answered in the affirmative. we would appreciate your limiting your verbal comments to five minutes. your entire written statement will obviously be entered into the record. ms. muniz you are recognized for five minutes. bring those mics right up close. we need to projection. >> thank you. chairman chaffetz, ranking member cummings and members of the committee i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the u.s. department of state project to build the new u.s. embassy in london. i'm lydia muniz draft of the bureau for overseas building operations. as a single real property manage for all diplomatic properties overseas obo manages the design construction acquisitio

>> i believe that's correct, sir. >> today we see the state department contrary to federal law and statedepartment policy by starting construction on the london embassy before the required blast testing was completed. we've established that point and that's why we are here today. the state department has blatantly ignored its own policy and federal law and numerous recommendations, poor decision making has exposed the state department to millions, millions of dollars on cost and now you are starting to push ahead and start a project as we've seen so that there's no turning back. does that sound familiar to the foreign affairs security training center that you're trying to build in virginia right now? >> no, sir, it does not sound familiar to me. >> mr. starr, you could have renovated and redone the current london embassy for less than a billion dollars if you only slowed down and made sure it was done correctly. we've established that here today. we've established that. and then you know what bothers me so much about this is we are making the same mistake all over again. all you have to

this was fair warning given ahead of time, that the state department should not try to circumvent the united states congress, should not try to undermine u.s. sovereignty, should not go to the united nations to try to approve a deal, particularly a deal that profoundly endangers the national security of this country. the obama administration ignored my warnings, went to the united nations anyway, and i would note that under the terms of the congressional review act, the congressional review period has not yet run. the congressional review act says that that time does not begin to run until the president submits the entire deal to congress, and that statute defines the entire deal to include any and all side agreements. we know at least two side agreements governing inspections that have not yet been given to this body. and so accordingly, the congressional review period has not yet begun much less ceased. when i told secretary kerry if the state department circumvented congress and went to the united nations, that i would block state department nominees, that was not an empty threat.

alan bersin for the offense of policy of the united states department of homeland security. the honorable leon rodriguez, director of the united states citizenship and immigration services. the honorable michele bond, assistant secretary to have bureau of heir affairs at the united states department of state and the honorable anne richard, bureau of refugees and migration, the united states department of state. we welcome you all. thank you for being here. pursuant to committee rules, all witnesses are sworn before they testify. if you'll please rise and raids raise your -- raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. thank you. please be seated. let the record reflect that the witnesses answered in the affirmative. in order to allow time for discussion, please limit your oral testimony to five minutes and the entire written record -- statement will be made pafert of the record. then we will go to agrees there. mr. bersin, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> go

state department issued an additional 531,463 and the mp said last year alone. oes 10.5 million immigrants a non-immigrant visa holders joined an estimated 20 million others who entered the united states without visas under the visa waiver program. our government also issued 1,075,063 border crossing cards of the mexican nationals than just the first 10 months of fiscal year 2015. there is an estimated close to 10 million border crossing cards in circulation today. on top of that, more than a million non-immigrant students are lawfully studying in the united states on student visas. some 2,093,700,011 individuals were granted employment authorization and 2015 and fiscal year 2013 the last year for which statistics are available to the united states granted asylum status to 25,199 people and fiscal year 2008 fiscal year 2014 the number of individuals claiming a credible fear of persecution in their home country increased from 921%. at that graphic. i would appreciate it. we are seeing a rapid rise of people coming to the united states from stepping foot into our c

this story is about stuff that the state department allowed that was allowed by the obama administrationlissa: yeah. >> yet, why is the husband, the spouse of the secretary of state running around collecting these huge donations when, from people who have business before her? melissa: they got money directly. the foundation got other money. before this hillary clinton sat down and said when she was being considered for secretary of state that she would go above and beyond to make sure specifically this did not happen and they would avoid even appearance of emproprity. how do you defend this? >> no, i understand completely and i think peter squeezer's book -- schweitzer's book also did this, going into the clinton cash world. "wall street journal" report, peter schweitzer, they were both inconclusive in the end. melissa: what is inconclusive. >> it is not pay for play. melissa: how do you figure. >> there was no evidence it was directly linked. melissa: what would be evidence to you? you looking for email, listen hillary if i give you a million dollars will you shove this through and appr

at a talk, state department undersecretary richard stengel says he knows his department has work to dolenge, a difficult challenge for government because government doesn't always move rapidly and nimbly. >> reporter: abu hurriya says if we don't want more attacks like chattanooga, boston, san bernardino, the government must catch up to terrorists online. no more videos that look like this. >> if we juxtapose that against the propaganda of isis, we find it can't compete. >> elizabeth the state department has a tough job. people attracted to the isis won't trust the u.s. government. give than mistrust, how can the state department reach these people? the state department says they understand this and that's why they're reaching out to governments in the region and large groups to get them to share so they can do this social outreach. i was talking with other experts who said the state department and u.s. government should support individual intellectuals and scholars respect bid the muslim community. >> elizabeth cohen, thanks so much. >> thanks. >>> up next, the feds now offering a rew

policy. >> it runs counter to our actual policies here at the state department and in the immigration and naturalization service which focuses on non-discrimination and equal treatment for all. that's not just a policy issue, it's part of american values. i would also say while we don't want to get involved in campaign rhetoric here, we stay out of the politics, we do know that our friends and partners all around the world listen very closely to the discourse here in the united states, whether it's political campaign or what not, and so people pay attention to what's being said here and comments like that are not helpful. >> the u.n. says counterproductive. do you think it emboldens isil in any way, that type of rhetoric? >> well, it certainly isn't helping. obviously a terrorist like isil want to provoke. they want to get a reaction from the west and when comments like that are made, it leads to reactions they prefer or want. on the resettlement program, no other traveler to the united states, no other traveler is as screened and carefully scoot needs as refugees. >> he says the prog

. >>> tonight, "on the record," either the state department is incompetent or the state department is deceiving the american people. contrary to what the state department claimed, the jihadiist terrorist tashfeen malik did not have a vigorous vetting. a quick look at tashfeen that leak on social media might have saved the lives of 14 innocent people the people she gunned down. here is the state department talking about the background check that missed something you could have googled. >> are you satisfied that malik's application process followed the proper protocol. >> yes. >> how can you say that? >> because we stand behind our screening process. >> it's a very rigorous process by which a fiancee can come into the country. as i said before, i know we have said in other venues it's a very rigorous, thorough screening process. there is extensive amount of backgrounding that's done. >> so answer this, is the state department incompetent or deceiving the american people? fox news adam housley is live in san bernadino. adam? >> yeah, greta. you know it's funny you mention this come up no

these are dated by the state department website prior to the certification. that is what the inspector general, it did not come to our attention but for the inspector general you don't seem to agree and we are confused. we're to believe that is not a construction? that seems like a lot of work in a lot of construction and you don't believe that its construction? >> i agree it is a lot of work but under the definition we have used for years with diplomatic security, we do site pilings and recap of this to stabilize the earth before we come out of the ground. this exact process has been followed but standard embassy design over 10 years that is the same process to award contracts to do this site to work then to come out of the ground after certification. >> we have never built a building like this or a blast wall. it had not been certified for tested. people on the grounds and we have never built anything like this. the point the inspector general is making, you were taking a huge risk. that looks like construction. you say it is done in the past it is not cons

the state department had begun purging gays from its ranks in 1947. the public witchhunts began in 1950 after senator mccarthy singled out two cases of sexual subversion in the state department, which led the state department to purge itself of gays, firing 91. soon after this, americans focused on the topic for years. one american wrote president truman, quote, if the state department can acquire and harbor 91 homosexuals who presumably had something to do with shaping our foreign policy or slanting the information on which it is based, the state department is capable of anything. the lavender scare long outlived the red scare. in short order, j edgar hoover's fbi responded. it had to respond. it was responsible for domestic security and for protecting americans from subversive influences. to demonstrate to the president, the fbi was on top of the issue, in april 1950 hoover forwarded the white house a list of 393 people arrested in the capital "sexual irregularities." hoover created the first version apparentlyhoover created the first version of the

states. there is a very careful vetting process that includes national counterterrorism, department of homeland security so we can make sure we are carefully screening anybody to the united states. >> are you confident enough in our vetting process as the united states brings syrian refugees into our country to pledge that this will will never happen here? >> with respect to refugees, we have the most extensive security vetting that we have ever had to deal with syrian refugees coming to the united states that involves not just the department of homeland security and the state department, but the intelligence community, national counterterrorism center so anybody who comes to the united states, we are carefully vetting against all our information. >> i think that's the challenge we're all talking about is that we can only query against that which we have collected. and so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in syria in a way that would get their identity or interests reflected in our database, we can query the database until the cows come home but nothing would show up because we hav

the state department has the system in place.written these accomplishments for almost a decade when i was at the state department. you are tasked with trying to come up with some sort of positive spin on every single policy and people sit around and they write. this i talked to somebody who is the nearest bureau who which is the bureau that wrote this today. they said there was a lot of chuckling going on when the first draft came forward. every one at the state department outside of the political appointees by president obama knows that syria is a disaster. the most that they can say right now is that they have found a time for a meeting. they have scheduled a meeting with all of the players and everybody has agreed to come to a meeting. there is no success yet. >> they have a plan to schedule a meeting. that's what it is. now, i want it read some of these other accomplish manies because these are just hilarious that they are touting. are you ready for this one? hosting a summit on countering terrorism. hosting a summit. all rig

at a talk this week, state department undersecretary richard stengel says he knows his department hask to do. >> it's a big challenge and it's a difficult challenge for government, because government doesn't always work move rapidly. and nimbly. >> reporter: abu says if we don't want anymore attacks like in san bernardino, chattanooga, boston, the government must learn to catch up to the terrorists online. no more videos that look like this. >> if we juxtapose that against some of the propaganda of isis, we find that it can't compete. >> elizabeth cohen, cnn, atlanta. >> let's talk more about this with cnn law enforcement and military analyst, jonathan gilliam. jonathan, hearing that, how alarming is it to you that this person is saying, you know, the u.s. is outdated in its video production quality and that is key in recruitment and that's the upper hand that isis has? >> well, i think that was probably one of the best interviews and overall segments i've seen explaining how the breakdown from experts that we have running these different agencies, how big this breakdown is when you g

state department undersecretary richard strengthle says he knows his department has work to do. >> itis a big challenge. it's a difficult challenge for government. because government doesn't always move rapidly. and namably. >> reporter: abu says if we don't want any more attacks like san bernardino, chattanooga, boston, the government must learn to catch up to the paragraphs online. no more videos that look like this. >> some of the propaganda of isis, we find it can't compete. >> reporter: the state department says they know if someone's everybody thissing about committing jihad, they're probably not going to listen to online messaging from the united states government. that's why the state department says they've reached out to partners outside the united states to get out that anti-extremist message. poppy. >> fascinating report. thank you very much for that. still to come, this. >> are you referring to closing down actual portions of the internet? some say that would put the u.s. in line with china and north kor korea. >> well, look, this is so easy to answer. >> we will bring yo

they have a visa from the state department.he state department says oh we better revoke that because of terrorist ties. but they don't go get them. they don't send out a dragnet and deport these people. 66,000 times we had people that were here illegally. had committed crimes. had been convicted of those crimes. and they just released them. they didn't deport them. >> there is one part where i heard the testimony said we have strong robust vetting. >> that is. >> not only -- and i said the state department, a day or two after san bernadino said that the woman who came, one of the killers, the word they used is she had a rigorous screening. turns out she had a phony address. really lying to the american people. >> you knowu what most of this happened is on the telephone. we had last year 51,000 people step foot in the united states, claim asylum, and there are 40 people homeland security. they have 250,000 employees. only 40 of them actually vet. those 50,000 and most of them do continue othe telephone. there is no way. they're

you heard air kachlt does hillary clinton's record in the state department reflect how she'll serve asresident? >> absolutely. look no further to her record. as secretary of state, if it wasn't for bad news, there wouldn't be news with hillary clinton. everything she touched was a complete and utter disaster, starting with putin. remember the phony reset button. and the russians turned it into a reject button. nothing hillary touched even turned out one quarter the type of policy that would be effective. you look across the middle east, complete meltdown in the middle east. why? she supported the president's policy of precipitous withdraw from iraq and the red line in syria was rejected by the president after he said it which allowed the crisis of isis to spread not only in iraq but in syria and other places. >> you know what, brad? i want to sbro rupt you for a second, hagel said he okayed a plan to strike damascus after the red line was crossed, but obama told him to stand down and for him to stand down his people. does that surprise you? >> no, it doesn't surprise me because our pre

the overall program, though, is when you add together the costs of state department, department of homeland securityn and health and human services that provides assistance to the states to help refugees once they're here, is close to $1 billion. >> i heard a number about 84,000 per refugee, does that sound reasonable? >> i would have to double-check that. i didn't have that number. i should have. >> what percentage of 10,000 refugees would be fighting-age men? >> so far we are putting a priority on bringing people who are the most vulnerable. so, we have only brought 2% of -- so far only 2% of the ones we've brought, the syrians we've brought, are fighting-age men who are traveling without any family. >> uh-huh. >> so it would be a slightly -- it would be a higher percentage in terms of fighting-age men who are traveling with family. the 2% number you may have heard are the ones who come as single without family, no attachment or ties. >> i hope next time america gets attacked that our fighting-age men don't want to resettle somewhere else. i hope they would stay and fight for our freedom.

you are in a high-powered job with the state department and you are commuting.our family is back in princeton, new jersey. is there a particular moment where you went, this isn't working. something has to give. anne-marie: i would say for two years i had been in this constant tug-of-war where i left the work and this is what i wanted to do and i would get these phone calls and my son was being a teenager. acute case of teenage head. i was saying, what am i doing here? why am i here? that was not new. what was really the moment was -- and i describe this, when secretary clinton's chief of staff asked, do you want to put your name in -- there are only a couple of jobs above mine and they were all good. at that moment, it was -- i up, maybe i could go andy and the boys can come to washington, but i knew that was not going to work. that was the moment that i said no. two years later i did not the my name back in. that was equally a surprise, because at that point i decided that i wanted to be home. mary louise: here's my confession. in anticipation of interviewing y

jennifer: tom, the state department developed grants for schools around the country to develop anti-extremism medium campaigns -- media campaigns. one group at unh rolled out their campaign to prevent impressionable young people from being radicalized online. they call it the pax pledge, the latin word for peace, also an acronym for people against extremism. it is aimed at the venting young people from being targeted by extremist groups. >> if you have a young person who is not very popular, sitting at the back of the room, they want to become part of something. jennifer: pax gives them that something. students reveal a quarter of they are lonely and over 90% have been contacted by people they do not know and they do not tell their parents. >> that is terrifying they are being contacted by strangers. some of them are reaching out people. we want to put an end to that. jennifer: using multimedia plan with tools for teachers and parents, a presence on facebook, the web, twitter, and instagram. >> it gives young people an opportunity to join something positive. we give them the pledge. they take

you heard air kachlt does hillary clinton's record in the state department reflect how she'll serve asresident? >> absolutely. look no further to her record. as secretary of state, if it wasn't for bad news, there wouldn't be news with hillary clinton. everything she touched was a complete and utter disaster, starting with putin. remember the phony reset button. and the russians turned it into a reject button. nothing hillary touched even turned out one quarter the type of policy that would be effective. you look across the middle east, complete meltdown in the middle east. why? she supported the president's policy of precipitous withdraw from iraq and the red line in syria was rejected by the president after he said it which allowed the crisis of isis to spread not only in iraq but in syria and other places. >> you know what, brad? i want to sbro rupt you for a second, hagel said he okayed a plan to strike damascus after the red line was crossed, but obama told him to stand down and for him to stand down his people. does that surprise you? >> no, it doesn't surprise me because our pre

in some cases benefited from state department actions of those that paid him.s also donated millions to the family's charity. clinton campaign says no evidence exists to link any actions taken by her state department to any of the organizations that hosted bill's speeches. "wall street journal" reporting it found no such evidence. melissa, when this story began breaking meghan you are shaking your head. >> this is ridiculous. melissa: let me tell you about one of the details. the be a but daub by government and the airlines were trying to get ability for their passengers and their citizens to clear customs in abu dhabi, get on the flight, fly to the u.s., get off and go straight to baggage claim. it is huge advantage. only happens in ireland, canada and three caribbean countries. petitioning for the state department and homeland security when hillary clinton was secretary of state. at the time they were trying to get privilege and unions and airlines fighting it like crazy. it essentially means they would own the air route if they give their customers convenien

a court order to the state department to produce these emails in batches once a month.he state department let it be known today that they didn't quite get their work done this month. they said they had very pressing holiday business to do. and they were short-staffed. so they didn't get everything done. it's a smaller batch than usual. >> do you think this is still a huge problem for her? or has she turned the page? >> she's largely turned the page on this issue because there's been no blockbuster in the emails that have been released so far that shows that she, herself will entry did or did not do something that's really consequential. there's been lots of interesting news in the emails, but nothing really huge. we've got a couple more of these batches to go, including another one next week so if there's still a blockbuster, it might yet come. but she closes out this year, which was defined at the beginning by her email fumbles and all the questions that surrounded whether she -- >> clinton foundation. >> exactly. this he were sort of all wrapped up together. in a big

i see our state department has up primary obstacle for somewhat better middle east. it will never be perfect. the state department claims and the spin on syria and iran are absolute nonsense and i think the american people deserve better. lea: thank you for your time. eric: of the investigation is underway into a deadly plane crash after a small plane slammed into this building. what investigators say may have caused it. lea: accusations of spying on school children, how the tech giant is collecting information on students. we have over 15,000 activities that you can book on our app to make sure your little animal, enjoys her first trip to the kingdom. expedia, technology connecting you to what matters. .. eric: not the pink panther but google accused of spying on our kids, privacy watch the group claims the tech giant is using search engines and chrome but computers in classrooms to collect information on students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. charles payne is the host of making money and joins us now. people forget with all these sites, you do i accept a

i'm edward ramotowski, assistant secretary of state for visa services at department of state. with respect to the san bernardino case, yes, indeed, that was a fiancee visa which is a type of visa issued to the fiancee of a u.s. citizen for the purpose of coming to the united states to get married within 90 days. and i can confirm the department has already said all applicable security checks were done for that individual, ms. malik. that includes a visa interview, facial recognition screening. it includes interagency counterterrorism screening. it included a review by the visa security unit of immigration and customs enforcement which has a detachment in islamabad in our embassy there. it included full biometric fingerprint checks. and in all cases, the results of those checks were cleared. there were no indications of any ill intent by that individual at the time the visa was issued. >> there have been public reports there was some information that was wrong on the application, i believe on an address. can you share what type of information or investigation are done on applic

i'm edward ramotowski, assistant secretary of state for visa services at department of state. with respect to the san bernardino case, yes, indeed, that was a fiancee visa which is a type of visa issued to the fiancee of a u.s. citizen for the purpose of coming to the united states to get married within 90 days. and i can confirm the department has already said all applicable security checks were done for that individual, ms. malik. that includes a visa interview, facial recognition screening. it includes interagency counterterrorism screening. it included a review by the visa security unit of immigration and customs enforcement which has a detachment in islamabad in our embassy there. it included full biometric fingerprint checks. and in all cases, the results of those checks were cleared. there were no indications of any ill intent by that individual at the time the visa was issued. >> there have been public reports there was some information that was wrong on the application, i believe on an address. can you share what type of information or investigation are done on applic

department of state production to the senate judicial committee only. not authorized for public release. well, young email reproductionso from the department of state contain a water mark in red capital letters saying the emails were not for public release, across the entirety of the document. it had the water mark and the large bold letters. within 24 hours, the information was public and reporters began calling with questions. within 48 hours, stories were published based on the emails given to the judicial committee that falsely created the appearance of impropriety by miss abed in-- miss abedin, and i mean false. how did the reporter get documents that were solely in the possession of the judicial committee staff? as i have said before, miss abedin is an american success story. she has reached the highest levels of politics as an aide to secretary clinton for decades through hard work and loyalty. john mccain said about her miss abedin is an honorable woman, a dedicated american and a loyal public servant, close quote. she doesn't deserve the treatme

if the database state department lookout supports some other ways. in triple lost or stolen travel documents, so it is law enforcement databases and of course -- >> people are getting the cart ahead of the force. does the screening of of all present trouble and how far back does it include? >> i'm trying to flush out the individual screening and do they need to take a look at things we need to do? >> i think sean is probably the best person to handle it but there is some screening that goes on after the specifics of the program and its identical to those that go on for the visa. but complement another protocol for all travelers to the united states and that does take into account travel history so that fits into the larger security work. >> how far back does that go? >> if there isn't access to the united states we wouldn't have that but that is regardless of the visa. some information sharing agreements we do have that gives access to travel to the united states through the intelligence committee or the law enforcement networks but it's not -- we do

department of state. mr. gregory starr assistant secretary of the bureau diplomatic security at the department of state. and steve linick, inspector general of the office of inspector general at the united states department of state. welcome, all. all witnesses should be sworn before they testify. will you please rise and raise your right hands? do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. let the record reflect that all the witnesses answered in the affirmative. we would appreciate your limiting your verbal comments to five minutes. your entire written statement will obviously be entered into the record. >>> ms. muniz, you are now recognized for five minutes. bring those mikes right up close. we need the projection plus we need it for the -- there thank you. >> thank you. chairman chaffetz, ranking member cummings and members of the committee, i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discu

the state department says the average years. again - the proposed gage of eight immigration bill would not change any of that. meaning all syrian refugees - even isis terrorists - would need to go through this screening. that's why ted cruz gets an 'f' on this claim. this morning, the cruz campaign launched an almost identical version of the ad - but without saying refugees would skip the screening process. that improved the rating. the bill is designeneto jump start the refugee process in a humanitarian crisis - much like what is refugees admitted would still need congressional approval. and claiming the bill would let the president admit isis terrorists into the country is fearmongering. that is why the revised ted cruz ad sti get's a 'c' the dubuque school district wants to know thth concerns parents and others have about the city's schools. find out how you can share them and learn more about the district's teacher leadership program, coming up. stay with tv9. " air force master sgt. timothy sends holiday greetings. " distri

that's not the sort of thing the state department can do.t get in a twitter war with an isis representative, a jihadist or radical the same way that an independent marketing firm, someone with none mouse or particularly enlightened supporter of freedom and democracy can do. it's going to take something very differently from the strategy that's in place. >> thank you so much for your insights on this. >>er republicans saying they are in tent on winning over latino voters. 13 million latinos expected to go to the polls next year, but there are some republican contenders like donald trump that have been less than friendly and ignoring real issues latino voters say they want ads'd. >> latinos in new york, i don't think we have anything to get from the democratic parties. they have been taken for granted. >> many latino voters feel they've been played like a political toy among democrats and with republicans feel that the party's openly hostile to them. 45% of latinos thought republicans were hostile towards them, 39% said they didn't care about

does hillary's record in the state department reflect how she will serve as president? >> look no further than her record to see what kind of president she would be. erg she touched was an utter disaster starting with putin. remember the phony reset button? the russians turned it into a reject button. nothing turned out to be the type of policy that would be effective. you move across the middle east, complete melt down in the middle east because she supported the policy called precipitous withdraw in iraq. it was rejected by the president where i allow -- which allowed o go into other places. >> hagel said he had okayed to plan to strike damascus after the red line was crossed. obama told him to stand down his people. did that surprise you? >> no, it doesn't surprise me because our president doesn't mean what he says has he has no interest in winning. what his interests is containing. next year it will be somebody else's problem. that is the president's policy. i inherited a problem. you are going to inherit a problem. this president did not go in to win. it wasn't his

and state departments. you have been watching our report. what did you make of it? vikram: i think it's the first time we've seen a civilian aircraft having this kind of an encounter over these disputed territories, and i think it gives us cause for real concern. the difference in opinion between china and the rest of the region is extremely start, and this kind of confrontational engagement with a civilian aircraft passing near one of their artificial islands, and it's important to call them artificial, i think it is worrying. katty: other countries have been building up on the spratly islands, on those reefs, but there doesn't seem to be much concern about them. vikram: the concern isn't necessarily the building. katty: the chinese say they are there to protect the reeves. -- the reefs. there to protect the reeves. -- the reefs. vikram: for the fish and the coral, it's not such a good deal. the difference is how the countries are behaving. other countries have said they have a 12-mile nautical sea off these reclaimed islands and reefs, and it's important to know t

the state department should redact them. you said no scandals or e-mails that wi bring hillary down. democrats don't care. >> she is competing against bernie sanders. they plucked someone out of my jewish grandfather's pea knuckle game. maybe some real competition. >> and he is not serious about being president. charles you said hillary is not bill and bill was talented. >> i maintain he is not talented. he completely lost his political mojo. i think he was extraordinary. the fact was when he was running for president he was remarkable. it is not to say she was the favorite, but it is more of an indictment sm. >> i agree with your accent. >> tom you asked why hillary was calling the nfl about the concussion. >> that is the last place. >> asking roger goodell for pr advice, she should be i'm pieced . godfried, you said her middle name is rodham? >> actually it is diane. she used her maiden name before the clinton. >> i think that rodham needs to stay if there. >> it is one thing when they introduce her. hillary rodham! >> if

to the shock and horror of the state department, he had long opposed the state department, centrists that existed, there was genuine terror at helms taking over, which she did in 1995. there is a big change in helms that takes place when he moves to the foreign relations committee chairmanship. gone for the most part are the tactics that have been practicing for most of his career. after he focuses on policy. he lays the basis to the foreign policy of bush, emphasizes unilateralism, the post cold war policies that rely exclusively on american power and sovereignty. helms had a great this date for the united nations, and a mistrust of arms control, and lead efforts to defeat to major arms-control treaties. the chemical weapons convention, which was adopted, and the comprehensive test ban, which was defeated. in many different ways helms lays the basis for a fundamental foreign change that takes place for better or worst after the election of george bush in 2000. these are elements of the helms legacy. the other thing i would add is a people legacy, scores of people who work for jesse

get married and remain in the united states and they have 90 days to do that we give them a one entry visa and they have 90 days to add their entry to marry or departmost of them having married remain in the united states and therefore they get in touch with the director's colleagues to address the status and they would provide proof that they have married. we don't interview the spouse just the application for the fiancÉ on immigrant visa. my question to you, they've directed the state department to review. what is the review and when will it be completed and what is the objective, can you outline that, please? >> it is an interagency effort we are working very closely with and other parts of the government to take a look at every single element. we are examining have to see what more can we do there. then we have invented and transferred to the embassy. it is under the direction of my colleagues. >> my understanding is that we hope to be providing a review to the nsc in january. i'm going to recognize myself for questioning and then we will do one more democrat and then we will recess until approximately 11 a.m. or whenever the votes conclude. wi

and we'll continue to look at these programs all around. >> and kerr saying the state department isking at all screening processes in light of the san bernadino attacks. but there haven't been any major changes just yet. >>> a muslim doctor on his way to texas says he was unfairly detained, a an anesthesiologist says he feels held back in november after he landed. he believes another passenger became suspicion because of his appearance. he blames what happened on fear. >> if we send a message or a signal to other muslim countries that we don't like your people in our country, it's a clear signal that, hey, it's almost like a shove and we need to be very careful. >> instead of getting angry he rope awrote an o p.e.d. piece cautioning against innin imflamy red rick aimed at muslims. trump's comments following the san person dearn owe shootings. it's now been a week since the attack and we know the shooters had target practice days before they opened fire, al jazeera's melissa chan has more. >> we are continuing to be ex-treatmently ma showed cool extremely methodical. we have transpor