for the record, i would like to introduce a media note from the state department. april 15, in conclusion the u.s. department expects to make a decision whether to grant or deny the mets before the end of 2011. another comment the executive office of the management of budget saying the same thing. they are working the state department. all are working diligently and will have all of the information they need. there will be able to make their decision by december 31. -- they will be able to make their decision by december 31, 2011. we are using the state and nebraska as the excuse to delay the decision until after the election. it is not in a coincidence that -- any coincidence that they feel like they would be in a position to make a decision within 60 days of the election. they said in the first quarter of 2013. it flies in the face of all their previous statements. i read a quote from an environmental news service. it is after the nebraska legislature met. "i am confident that the departments and nebraska authorities will be able to work together in preparing any

and what additional issues did the state department not have time to consider? >> in november when we identified the need for additional information and in-depth analysis of alternative routes that would avoid the ecologically unique area of the sand hills in nebraska, we recognized there are many pieces to that information. the first peace which we don't have yet is to identify what those alternative routes may be. we don't have a complete rout for this pipeline which goes through the whole part of the central part of the country. that is one thing we don't have. we also don't have the level of detail. if we were to have a route we would have to get in to the level of detail regarding all the different kinds of information. the topography, number of bodies of water crossed and any aquifers. and we would also have to look at any endangered species issues and of course we would have to interact with the community along that new route to hear their concerns and understand what any issues might be. that overall process would take several months and the estimate tha

for the record, i would like to introduce a media note from the state department. april 15, in conclusion the u.s. department expects to make a decision whether to grant or deny the mets before the end of 2011. another comment the executive office of the management of budget saying the same thing. they are working the state department. all are working diligently and will have all of the information they need. there will be able to make their decision by december 31. -- they will be able to make their decision by december 31, 2011. we are using the state and nebraska as the excuse to delay the decision until after the election. it is not in a coincidence that -- any coincidence that they feel like they would be in a position to make a decision within 60 days of the election. they said in the first quarter of 2013. it flies in the face of all their previous statements. i read a quote from an environmental news service. it is after the nebraska legislature met. "i am confident that the "i am confident that the departments and nebraska authorities will be able to work t

linder is near is because our state department, dr. nes objected to him being on the panel because it was beneath them to have a state official. so that's why he is not here. and that -- >> to my friend yield for just one second? >> i have a lot of questions. there's an e-mail chain verifying. >> i will talk to you afterward. >> i may have put a little editorial to it. but let me just a that i am profoundly disappointed that the state department objected to mr. linder being on the panel. and, therefore, he is not. now, for the record, i would like to introduce a media note from the state department, april 15, saying in conclusion, the is department, state department expects to make a decision whether to grant or deny the permit before the end of 2011. another one making the same statement of march 15, 2011. executive office of management of budget from the white house saying the same thing, that they're working, the state department, at all will have all of the information they need and will be able to make their decision by december 31

at a town hall meeting at the state department today, she also touched on u.s. policy toward iraq, afghanistan, and other parts of the globe. [ applause ] >> good morning, everyone, and welcome to the secretary of state's town hall meeting. just one brief technical reminder. this session is being broadcast not only on the state department's internal closed circuit system, b-net, but also is being broadcast by a number of networks. so please always be diplomatic in your questions and in your performance. and with that, briefly, it gives me great personal and professional pleasure to introduce the secretary of state, the honorable hillary rodham clinton. madam secretary. [ applause ] >> well, thank you very much, pat. i am delighted to be with all of you again this morning. the way down the hall i saw the overflow crowd. so i want to greet them. they're clustered around some of the tv screens out there. it's wonderful to have this opportunity so soon in the new year to speak with you face-to-face, to have a chance to bring you up to date and also answer questions.

even the president's own state department has indicated seeing how to move forward. t is clear that it would create 100,000 new jobs here in the united states. we also see this morning that the canadian arctic conversations with the chinese. if we don't build this type went to bring back canadian oil and pick up the north dakota oil and deliver to our refineries are in the gulf coast, that oil is going to get shipped out to the pacific ocean and sold to the chinese. this is not good for our country. the president wants to put the sauce until it's convenient for him to make a decision. that means after the next election. the fact is the american people are asking a question right now. where are the jobs? the president has the opportunity to create 100,000 new jobs i must immediately. the president should say yes. thanks. [inaudible conversations] >> remarks from house speaker boehner from earlier today. we are live now on capitol hill, where house republican leaders are about to respond to the president's decision to block construction of the keystone xl pipeline. we e

the state department made it clear the rushed and an temporary deadline insisted on by congressional republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline and our environment. the secretary of state has recommended the application be denied after reviewing the state department's report, i agree," writes the president. and he says "this announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline but the arbitrary nature of the deadline that prevented the state department from gathering the information to approve the project and protect the american people. i am disappointed republicans force this decision but it does not stop my commitment from american made energy," and he says "under my administration, domestic oil and natural gas production is up, while imports of foreign oil are down, if the months ahead we will continue to look for new ways to partner with the oil and gas industry to officer our energy and security including looking for new ways to partner, including the potential have the manufacture a pipeline from oklahoma to the gulf of mexico as we set higher standards for

that review process is run by the state department. it was being run by the state department. a change in the route was made because of concerns expressed -- legitimate concerns expressed by stakeholders in nebraska and elsewhere. and because of that, the process had to be extended. that's how it's supposed to work. there are a lot of factors to weigh in these kinds of decisions, including national security factors, issues of the health and safety of our children and the residence of folks in the area of any proposed pipeline, economic impacts, job impacts, the effect on our energy security. and that's the kind of process that the state department oversees. it involves input from many agencies. and that's the way this should proceed. it should not become, as you say, highly political in the way that it has become because of the decision to insert an extraneous provision within a tax cut bill. >> i understand there is a non- political process, but given that we're in a reelection year, isn't it impossible for this not to take some sort of a political -- >> it's up to others to

the state department objected because they don't sit on the same panel as a state witness. so the head of our nebraska department of environmental quality is not worthy enough to sit there, and because of then time constraints, his ability to answer our questions had to be deleted from this panel, and frankly, i'm disturbed by that. but we're going to get into the full excuse of using the state of nebraska has the reason, reading your testimony, as the reason for the denial. in fact, the bill was written so you wouldn't have to make that decision, and we'll get into those statements. i yield back. >> i might say also that last night the president, in his state of the union address, talked about the importance of infrastructure for america to remain competitive. >> i'm really going to have to say that regular oil -- the five minutes is up, so we should proceed before regular oil is up. the time is up, mr. chairman. >> well, i think when you said that, there's still 30 seconds left. >> i looked at it, and it was five minutes. >> we will enforce the five-minute rule and recogni

this is the largest postconflict operation the state department has ever tried to lead and manage. it's hard. many of you have spent time trying to help us with this transition. but i think when i see the president tomorrow, i will mention to him the importance of also having presidential attention to our members of the civilian side of the ledger who are still in iraq and who are still facing a lot of threats and dangers. and he is very mindful of that, very grateful for it and i think will look for an opportunity to try to raise it to a higher visibility. so i thank you very much. and of course afsa has been a good partner in all of this work and we continue to appreciate your support and your constructive criticism. thank you. [ applause ] >> madam secretary, another synthesis of two similar questions about the future of the state department and you in 2013. the state department has been very fortunate to have an experienced, intelligent, productive and passionate secretary these past few years. with the election season -- [ applause ] >> can we put that first part of the questi

>> the committee summoned the state department official to explain the new delay after they had alreadyiven the environmental green light last august. protesters raised concern over the aqua forein nebraska so in november they withdrew approval citing the state's concerns. >> the people of nebraska felt so strongly about the issue, the legislators met in the special session to draft a law to ensure the sand hills would be protected. >> the state quickly agreed to find a new route which the governor says would be easy. >> the state department approved route environmentally sensitive and in my view he should have said yes, to allow it to move forward. >> many argue president obama's delays are to avoid angering the environmentalists who oppose to pipeline or the unions which favor it. governor heinamen will complicate that strategy approving a new route by september. >> i would send a letter back to the president of the united states saying we approve it and if he were decisive, he can turn around and improve it shortly thereafter. well before the november election. >> the legislation tha

. >> reporter: because it would cross international borders, the state department has the final say. last thursday the white house spokesman suggested there's deep reticence is approve it. >> to put this artificial 60 day deadline, if you will, on the process, and the state department has made it clear that does not allow for the kinds of reviews that are necessary. >> the president is saying no to a project that would bring more than 700,000-barrels of oil a day from canada, and he's virtually assuring continued reliance on the middle east. that makes no sense. it's a matter of grave concern for our national security, particularly with what's going on in iran. >> reporter: convinced the state department will reject the pipeline, the senator has written legislation to allow congress to approve it even if the obama administration rejecting it. environmentalists are preparing a rally later this month targeting supporters of the pipeline. >>> are you ready? minutes away from sunday sports xtra, including a big night for the ravens. >>> first, the latest on this freezing weather. >> defi

late bring the former chief spokesperson for the state department, former assistant secretary of stateublic affairs, the oburglar -- omar bradley chair at dickenson college. what's going on here? >> in the past user you have the military was the savior of the revolution, protected the people, and now they're jockeying for privileged positions in the new egypt and doing so at the expense of promotion of democracy. >> how does it help their cause to keep americans, especially such a high profile american, from leaving the country? >> i think it's a sign of some desperation, probably some disconnect. they're looking at their own situation. never been accountable before to anything other than the president of egypt. now you have a new parliament seated in egypt. the parliament has, as it happens in our country, is looking at perhaps overseeing the military's budget, and obviously the military's responding that they want to have their privileged positions in society. they run 40% of the egyptian economy and want to hold on to that piece of the pie. >> we have threatened to withhold the mone

there you heard the state department official saying that they still need time to talk about the routes of nebraska which is really at the center of all of this came up with a different route. took it away from different sensitive environmental areas. as you look at the map they came up with a new route. the governor said they were ready to go forward. the state department approved the more environmentally-sensitive route but they came up with a different route and he will put it in by september. the hearing was quite something. back with the panel. charles, you heard senator waxman point to koch brothers and the republican contributors said they might have interest in the pi pipelin. >> we can't let the moment pass without concentrating on the waxman election. this will be a new criteria for evaluating a public polic policy. thousand to create thousand of shovel-ready jobs to reduce our dependence on unfriendly sources of oil. to mend our alliance with canada to have for us and secure source of oil long range and deny strategic asset to china. that is something we ought to reject becau

the state department has been very fortunate to have an experienced, intelligent, productive and passionate secretary these past few years. >> just a couple of minutes left in the remarks from secretary of state hillary clinton. you can see it in its entirety on our website cspan.org. we're going live to the center for strategic and international studies here in washington for a panel discussion on the newly released 2013 defense budget. this is just getting under way. >> seven people who are retired and don't have anything else to do except goevts, this looks li 12-step recovery team that's been through this before and the question is, will we get it bet are or right this time? i'm john hamry here at csis welcome and thank you to all of you for coming. i feel like that groundhog movie, woken up again and here we are. this has been promised for several years, but it looks like now we're there, and the question is, are we going to do it better this time than we did the last time? you know of course everybody says we won't do that again, or are we going to make the same mistakes all over agai

the state department says pakistan rejected visit by the american envoy to the region.istan wants to complete review of relations with the u.s. before the trip. it comes in response to american airstrikes that accidently killed 24 pakistani soldiers in november. if you have been on the internet today you probably noticed changes. correspondent claudia cowen reports on an industry protest against new proposed restrictions. >> supports say it's the biggest internet site ever. scores of website going dark, blacking out the names or posting banners to draw attention to sopa, the stop online piracy act. its partner in the senate hi hippa , protext intellectual property act. they are designed to crack down on sites stealing content, be it music or movies made in the u.s. >> we have sites located outside the united states stealing intellectual property, not only from the entertainment business but from millions of others that work in the copyright property of our country. >> bills would require the web company to block sites that share stolen content. mostly offshore operation

>>guest: the state department cannot sign off on a permit until there is route in the permit electionone. >>neil: so if someone submits a route or you get around that and they table and lock at that, you are saying that is nebraska's fault not a washington, dc beholden to environmentalists? >>guest: when nebraska permits a route like we have in montana, south dakota and kansas there is a permit application that can be taken to the state department. this is smoke in washington, dc. we need the pipeline. i guarantee you i bet you $100, not $10,000, i get you $100 we build the pipeline because america needs it. >>neil: so it is in washington's home and unless that happens it will be on washington's desk that it didn't happen? >>guest: as soon as trans canada can deliver a completed permit application that includes a full route, then the washington, dc, can act it on. they have a permit they cannot act on right now. >>neil: i know you like the democrat and you are liking the president so you are absolving the president for screwing this up? >>guest: i hold the president responsible for a

at the state department today, hillary clinton meeting with members of the state department to talk about number of issues. including her warning for iraq not to "blow this opportunity." she called on iraq to take this opportunity as the state department oversees a lot of the operations now that the military is out of baghdad and elsewhere in iraq to move ahead with its democratic movement. she also made some political news saying she is ready to step off the high wire act of politics and to step down after serving as the first lady, senator from new york and now secretary of state. she again reiterated

now the state department is looking to possibly use surveillance drones and other problematic areas they're thinking about indonesia they're thinking about perhaps pakistan do you think that this is something that we're just going to see expanding more and more and more even though we're technically not at war there anymore we're just going to keep flying surveillance drones. without question and you're absolutely right we have seen this under the obama administration where in fact we have more than tripled the number of surveillance routes that we run through through various predator drones and some of the others as well so we're starting to see this not just in iraq and afghanistan but of course pakistan has increased dramatically most recently we've heard about the crash of that one drone in iran solely seen that the real possibility that we're going to start seeing this in places like the philippines the places like indonesia malaysia and other areas of yemen which we've already seen some of the again these numbers continue i mean and you realized that because it's easy it's simple and

. >> earlier today secretary of state hillary clinton held a town hall meeting for state department p employees. she talked about recent violent episodes in iraq and commented on the state department's quadrennial diplomacy and development review. this is a little more than an hour. [inaudible conversations] [applause] >> good morning, everyone, and welcome to the secretary's town hall meeting. just one brief technical reminder, this session is being broadcast not only on the state department's internal closed circuit system, b net, but also is being broadcast by a number of networks. so, please, always be diplomatic -- [laughter] in your, in your questions and in your performance. and with that, briefly, it gives me great personal and professional pleasure to introduce the secretary of state, the honorable hillary rodham clinton. madam secretary. [applause] >> well, thank you very much, pat. and i am delighted to be with all of you again this morning. on the way down the hall, i saw the overflow crowd, so i want to greet them. they're clustered around some of the tv screens out there

buchanan's family is meeting her there. >>> the state department is demanding that egypt release six americans that it's preventing from leaving the country. the group includes the son of transportation secretary ray lahood and others who work for u.s. organizations promoting democracy. the travel ban is tied to political events that led to the overthrow of hosni mubarak. the generals who now lead egypt accused foreigners of being behind the anti-government protests. >>> so if you tweet, you will be interested in this story. twitter can now censor messages on a country by country basis. the new technology is raising free speech concerns. here's how it works. the tweeting containing material that breaks a law in one country can be taken down there. but seen elsewhere. twitter will post a notice whenever a tweet is removed. >>> coming up on the morning news, the government is owed billions in back taxes by its own employees. plus, a disaster caught on tape. people are seen fleeing a massive building collapse. this is the "cbs morning news." this is the "cbs morning news." okay, team! a

. >> and state department named a career diplomat preventing the sale of blood diamonds. she will head the international body known as kimberly process agency created to keep blood diamonds off the market. she's the former u.s. ambassador. the diamonds are sold to finance insurgence yeez of war lords. >> still ahead police catch a thief who says he stole for companionship. but first... >> was my honor to do that. >> a here hero gets a promotion he earned almost 60 years ago. ha you called to switch us to anthem yet? honey, how can i call now,

department she oversees. here's more from today's q & a by the secretary of state with state department employees. >> madame secretary, i'm on the board of executive women at state. fewer women are applying for senior positions in the department and women at every level are having difficulty with maternity and elder care issues. workplace flexibility system inconsistent from office to office. how can women work with you to help address these problems before you leave? >> well, this is a matter of great concern to me because obviously, balancing family and work responsibilities is challenging, and the challenge falls disproportionately on women in the workplace and it's no longer just a question of one's children. it's also one's aging relatives who are often part of the care giving responsibilities that are assumed. and i really want to do more on in this year. you know, i think we've got a variety of policies in place that are trying to make the department a more family friendly work environment. i know some of you have raised on the sounding board and through your chains here the question about more telework. we ve

and the thing is here that the state department has done the review. you know, the president right now is trying to give some indications that now february 21 might not be enough time for him. when in fact he's had much longer than the normal process for any review. mrs. blackburn: bleak if the gentleman will yield. mr. scalise: i'll yield in one moment. there's also the fact that china is out there saying they want the oil. so as america, through president obama, saying that he doesn't want to do it or he wants to delay it until after the election, where canada's indicated they can't wait until after the election in november, they've got to make a decision. and they want to send the oil to the united states of america because we're great trading partners. but if the president, president obama, keeps saying no, china right now is saying they want the oil. so we don't have an unlimited amount of time for the president to keep cowing to his radical environmentalist friends. the decision needs to be made and february 21 is that date that's currently avail

>> both the state department and the of the have issued statements on this decision, saying they're not supporting the pipeline extension for now, the statement said the arbitrary deadline insisted on republicans -- this announcements is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline, he said, quote, i'm disappointed that republicans in congress forced this sdipgs. in other words, wolf, the president is saying he's open to reconsideration the application for the pipeline at another time. so now let's talk for a minute on why this decision now. the politics are one. with people in communities along the pipeline's path, whether they're in red or blue states, but the main point on the politics, the sense is the president already took the political heat last fall, so the white house knew they were going to say no to the extension eventually. they decided they may as well do it now and get it over with. wolf? >> as you know, though, republicans, a lot of other folks are saying it will cost american says tens of thousands of jobs. >> it depends on who you asked. transcanada said 20,000 jobs if

>> when i was in the state department, there were 20,000 israeli settlers. people back then in cia and state department were writing the annexation that no good could come of this. the senior levels did not want to hear about it. it was a political bargaining chip. now have over five and a thousand settlers. -- 500,000 settlers. the road map came from the main parts. palestinians did the security part. and then the settlement activity on the part of the israelis. my comment is why do we think anybody is going to trust us in future? >> do you expect me to answer this question and 30 seconds? >> you touch quickly on is really isolation. -- israel isolationcan you put this in a bigger range of? is a complicated? is it a priority? most of the leaders are no longer there. >> why should anybody trust the process and democracy and israel? >> you have 43 seconds. >> you get more time. >> thank you. >> you can instantly and in 30 seconds. -- intimidate me in 30 seconds. the first known as the arab spring initiative. initiative. it is human nature when there is turbul

much more than the state department people. and if they were getting nervous and said she had to do something, then maybe he did. then he found out the white house press room and the white house mail room was receiving lots of black on brothers, saying that kennedy was like that. he couldn't take it. so he decided to do something. incidentally, the person who was the head of us i6789 a at the time was edward armareaux, he happened to be in berlin at the time and he came up. the american people were very upset. kennedy had to do something. so he called a man whose name he knew call lucias clay who ran the berlin airlift in 1948 and 1949, a prominent republican, more responsible than anybody else for the nomination of general and president eisenhower. and he wanted somebody from the other party to be with him and he asked clay what he should do. this is a very serious moment. if you don't react they'll just keep piling in. what should i do, kennedy. what you should do, send an extra brigade. to show that i take this seriously and

state department last april that prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the u.s. state department has pumped in at least six million dollars secretly on covertly into syrian opposition groups since two thousand and sixty arab league mission there is is pretty much pre-ordained no matter what the mission itself comes out with if there is even one dissenting voice the one dissenting voice will be given all of the media attention so it's a it's a question of which way the powers that be have decided this is going to go in unfortunately it looks like it's going to stack up in the in favor of military intervention once again i thought it was the view of james kopp an independent news journalist based in japan. but a professor of international relations mark almond says even those opposing assad still prefer him to the idea of a foreign intervention and the risk of more bloodshed but the problem for president assad is that the main centers of resistance to him all based around the borders and that also however is a sign of the limitations on the support for an insurrect

you recently covered the state department with me. e traveling come ppartn around the world. how is the government going to balance this, the treasury department is trying get china and others in line, and resistance from china, to squeeze the financial flow just enough but not trigger a global energy crisis that could derail the economic recovery? >> it's a sensitive task. the president wants to inflict enough pain on the iranians that they change their direction. that is not an easy task. he has to worry particularly in an election year, that if he constricts supply of oil and drives up oil prices it could hurt him. he is not helped by republican candidates, led by mitt romney are already accusing him of being weak on iran. if there was a president romney, he is, saying that he would use military force. this ises the li-- this is the line the president is walking. >> and now he has the keystone pipeline problem, he will have them saying you are not helping us become energy independent, it would bring down the oil from canada to the r