was the last member of theon's administration of to vote for war in the spring -- wilson's administration, of the cabinet, to vote for war in the spring. one of the reasons why he waited so long before he would finally vote for war was because he felt it would take an indoor miss and -- an enormous army, casualties as a result of that, to defeat the germans in the field. most of the other cabinet members did not agree with this. they thought the united states would just supply material aid menace, andu-boat that would be enough. daniels said, no, we are going to need an army. he thought one of the most important things the navy did was to get that army into the field. he claimed, now, in my research, i was not able to verify this, but he claimed that no u.s. serviceman or woman lost their life on a u.s. navy vessel while being transported to france. if that is true, that would be a .remendous accomplishment in any case, he did get the army over there. was eventually brought to a conclusion. the post-wart up settlements. daniels played an important role in the post-war settlements in two r

they have come up with a solution that makes the department of public health to relegate the administrative functions and there is some things that the department of public health and release program that is not a strength for us. i have these other staff with me if we have some specific questions or if you want some details. it's a way to shift the responsibilities to dhr where it is a strong point. we would like to keep the responsibility with the medical director thomas aragon. >> i just have a quick question. i'm glad we have this type of program in san francisco. i'm just curious, do you know how often this is being utilized? >> we do have some figures on that susan, do you want to jump in here. it's quite a volume. it talks about 35 members per month approximately. 25 new applications a month and we deny about 7. so quite a volume. >> great. thanks. any other questions? okay. thank you. any public comments on this item? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: i think this makes complete sense.

obviously the only administration doesn't want it to get to that point. they haven't wanted any tweaks at all to obamacare fearful that before the republican house and now the republican house and senate will tweak it so severely that it will be unrecognizable. this is the issue at hand. this is why the only administration has been scared to allow it to get to this point but on friday the supreme court said we want to hear the court, we want to hear the case and we're going to make a decision come summer time. >> what does this mean for the 11 million people who rely on obamacare for some form of insurance coverage? >> for some of the people it wouldn't mean anything. but for the people -- about half of them receiving subsidies, it means a lot. it means whether or not you're going to have the federal government help pay for your health care or whether or not you're going to have to get it on your own and have no means to pay for it. so it can mean, if you're subsidized by the federal government, it can mean a lot as to whether or not you can even afford th

the large claims have more control in place. you have administrators doing predisbursement audit and doing claim reveals and medical necessity reviews. the lower dollars are automated with the processes. we find that the side of the claim there are different characteristics as a result of the size of the claim. so we felt like we needed to break out and look at payment thresholds. that is why we needed to stratify the different claims in processing and we stratify the position without the sample because we are trying to keep it affordable obviously this audit and this is a good way, we feel like with our confidence level, the results are valid and we also, we mentioned that we break it into five strata categories. we have the ze -- zero pays, those can be any size. they are not going to be overpays because they are zero pays. we have seen $500,000 pay amounts and when we look other categories for strata level four, we find the errors and claims with the small payments are likely less variable than the errors with the claims with the large payments. ? i

he served in the kennedy administration. he is among, if not youngest survivor of auschwitz, having spent four years in the concentration camps. at the very end of the war when he was being marched on a death march out of the camps, the allies wereness have aing from one side, the russians from the other, he made a run for t and he found cover, despite the german fire. and a day later, having taken cover, he heard a sound, a rumbling sound. it was a large tank and as he looked out from his shelter, he looked out at the tank and instead of seeing the dreaded swastika, he saw something else, a five-pointed white star and he ran for the tank. the hatch opened up. he got down on his niece anticipated spoke the only three words in english that he knew and that his mother had taught him. "god bless america." and the gi lifted him from the ground into the tank into the united states, into freedom. it's those experiences from my parents, their lives, their service, that motivated me to come to this place and motivated me to want to d

martha: "the new york times" reported that he was pressured by inside the administration to step down. there's a lot of discussion after the huge gop wave election that some heads might roll within the administration. the president indicated that he didn't think that was necessarily going to be the case, but now we are learning that the resignation is coming today or has come today. you know, when you look back at this situation, you think about the things that chuck hagel as defense secretary and dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, have said about the battle against isis, both have said there could come a point when they might have to put boots on the ground or that they would ask the president for boots on the ground, and it appears that hagel may be taking the fall for some of the missteps with isis up to this point. we're going to get more information from the administration in terms of the why hagel would be deciding to step down, but clearly, this is

the job done. he wants to degrade and destroy isis. really? >> this administrationmore clueless than we thought if they think the midterm leighs were the result of bad policy by chuck hagel. what this is schizophrenic governing. three days ago, we'd white house decide to increase forces in afghanistan with what everybody has said was a win by the pentagon. three days later, we fire the secretary of defense who arguably advocated for that policy as the one supposed to implement it this is the fourth defense secretary in six years for this president. he finally needs to go get a dove be the defense secretary, that is what he wants, he wants someone that wants to pull us out of everywhere. >> what do you think of that, julie, obviously,, isis airport going away. >> i have to go back to partially agree with what david just said, i have to go back to the concept i'm not sure so sure what the foreign policy has been, in the second term. to blame senator hagel for that doesn't make sense to me. what we should really have is an articulate strategy or vision from this admini

and about to hold a hearing in the obama administration handling of the campaign and the top two militaryeaders are expected to testify and hagel and general martin dempsey and we are live in washington with a 16 year veteran of covering the pentagon and good to see you again and what can the top military brace, what can they expect? >> we have very divided questions between democrats and republicans on the committee and expect some republicans to be pressing for whether or not there should be american boots on the ground as they say ground forces that would actually engage i.s.i.l. on the ground because of the lack luster and embarrassing of iraqi troops in the face of islamic face militants and democrats on the community to side with the administration policy of training and assisting and advising the iraqi forces stiffening them but keeping u.s. forces out of any sort of ground combat role. what you will hear probably from the secretary is that there is no quick fix in the fight against i.s.i.l. in iraq and also in syria, that it's an operation that will take some time, patience and pe

the obama administration has the best attendance record in asia of any u.s. administration. they have made every regional forum, held far more consultant meetings with japan, australia, and korea. the president now attends regularly the east asia summit. in terms of showing up, pretty consistent and a high attendance record. the defense department, although it is in a smaller and shrinking budget, shifting relative resources to the pacific, especially the navy. tpp is clearly being prioritized over the other aspects of the trade agenda. despite questions of implications about the pivot and president obama's leadership, in our survey of strategic thinkers in asia, which we published last spring, it was striking that a significant majority of elites in asia think the u.s. will be the leading power in the region in 10 years. outside of china one or two other countries, a significant majority, particularly among our allies said they want the u.s. to be the leading power in asia in the coming years. there is a lot of opportunity for the rebalance of the pivot to succeed, but there

this started with the clinton administration and then the bush administration that we have the extraordinarily successful visits with the agenda that works across every issue of importance to us with india to carry forward. then to work together in the months ahead. we have seen countries make fundamentally important decisions about macroeconomic policies to improve governance to deal with security challenges and there is a lot to work with see you are right we should not lose sight of the good news especially if we could major not only will that consolidates the serve as the model of lessons learned inspiration for other places >> and one other brief point to see if there's an additional round one of the things we have been struck by is american and four policy around the east tour west access worried about the soviet union even with the policy with the monroe doctrine we engage in activities. the concern is the crisis the undocumented kids come in big numbers in then the attention moves away but the reality of the trade partner news on the east west access this is a more north-south in east-

will replacing him inject life into the administration? >> also will the obamacare architect explain himself at a capitol hill hearing? congressman darrell issa asking jonathan gruber to do just that finally. >> on the hill. and the president is wondering if hillary clinton will pass voters', quote, new car smell test. it's sod to me. how his policies could be hurting her likely presidential run. >> an awful comment. plus, were you born to be single? scientists said they've found a gene that may actually doom romance -- >> but i'm married. that's a so awkward. i hope that's not true. all that plus our hashtag one lucky guy. "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. jon: a lot of people don't have the new car smell because they can't afford new cars in this economy. >> that'd be a good line for hillary. jon: harris, andrea, thank you. heather: well, a fox extreme weather alert to bring you now, it's a wild temperature shift that could spark flooding around buffalo, new york, the area that got seven feet of snow, and now they've had quite a bit o

rosenburg, you were up there for the obama administration. none of this is true because we are hearing it in the community. that may be the case. all i am asking is to accept that what i am saying could be true. >> the fact that that is not getting into the communities. we work with the families and that the great for us. >> so help us. i have to go face-to-face with them and navigate the confusing system. >> data like that that i don't have the time, i would appreciate the resources if you make sure that is shared. >> you should look at it. there is still a lot of fear in the community. people with long convictions or long ago removals are seen as priorities. it can be somebody with a long record and especially the inrestatements of removal. including those who are reentering the united states. they have previous removals and convictions and you see them in t the data that they shifted. it takes time for the changes to filler in because there was this close collaboration between local law enforcement and immigration that provoked a lot of fea

that is a much a focus of the secretary end of the administration. second, i think you're right to underscore this because went to sustained investment we made in afghanistan. wemade a commitment to help develop the afghan national security forces. we get other countries around the world to do the same thing. countries that commitments in pledges in chicago and tokyo militarily, on the financial assistance site. those have to be sustained. in fact, if you look at the assessments that have been done, our analysis and the analysis of lligence community's, is the single most important factor in helping afghanistan continue moving toward is sustained support from the international community. we hear very much what you're saying. we agree with you and i think there's a vital role that we can play together working with the committee to make sure that we are doing justice to that. >> there were early signs of success in the coalition government, the signing of the bilateral security agreement, the signing of the status of force agreement, but we initiation o

in his acceptance letter, fremont attacked the lincoln administration. the ordinary rights, he said, secured under the constitution and extraordinary powers have been usurped by the executive. today, fremont said, we have in this country the abuses of a military dictation without its unity of action and vigor of execution. this criticism of the lincoln administration was widely regarded as a bid for support from democrats who had been denouncing lincoln as a tyrant regularly. many abolitionists, however, found fremont unappealing. and particularly female abolitionists. lucy stone had expected the largest anti-slavery utterance from fremont but was disappointed only to get a simple announcement that slavery was dead. she objected strenuously to the cleveland's convection selection of john cochrane. you were pointing out the selection, pendleton was pretty alienated to voters in the union ranks. an awful lot of people were turned off, abolitionists, bion cochrane. they wondered how a man who voted for democratic presidential candidates, franklin piece in 18

he calls him snobbish, but how reflective are his comments of the intent of the administration? and how much are americans going to read into it and have a real distaste for the aca bases on this. >> it is total silly season. the less effective they will be in getting the types of changes they want to see through the law. this was debated every issue talked about was debated myself, and tevi believe. and many many other people, we talks about the transfer to young and old, we talks at a locket of thing i work in the immaterial ployier community, so what we learned as an mit professor is an elite snob that's not learning anything at all. >> you agree, it doesn't matter? >> i don't think it matters that much, i think the consequence of the silly season, which is right to characterize it that way, is there are a series of challenges next year, democrats and republicans. in addressing marts oif law that need to be revisited. to the extent that is difficult to do, when people are trying to relitigate what somebody said or didn't say four years ago, whether somebody was central or not,

as you know, the administration took sanctions of its own. and we would look forward to working with you to go further. i think there's still an opportunity to bring the opposition on to the commission that has congress do that before it gets pushed to the supreme court where, of course, nothing will happen. i think that's worth a shot and i'd like to work, if confirmd, with you on that. he needs oil at about $85 a barrel and it's, of course, lower than that, to make good on his con trakt. last thing i'll say on this, my cousin went to school with leopola lopez. so i hear from her regularly about his status in order to help him. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i, too, want to share compelling stories of your family and, again, for your desire to look this way. there has been some concern about the president's desire, it seems, to have people that are very close to him and various positions and to be very insular. and, while your role in your current job is one to champion the administration's policies, as you mentioned in your opening statements,

the rise offi isil. thus far this administration has fallen well short. that's the statement released by house speaker john boehner. but as it relates to isis or isil, mark, the administration was clear this would not be a one, two, or 30 day campaign. they saw it as a couple of years. fighting the forces on the ground and trying to secure that region. >> tamron, this is the big explanation here. and chris was alluding to it. chuck hagel when he was announced to be defense secretary was seen as a person who is going to draw down the iraq and afghanistan wars and manage the cuts in military spending. and who better to have a former combat vietnam veteran to be able to lead that. someone who had relationships at the united states senate who is well known on capitol hill given he was a former u.s. senator. now all of a sudden two years later the situation is drastically different. you're fighting isis. there is whether or not the united states gets in syria. as ayman was alluding to, do situations in iran starten to heighten. this is a much different terrain

the outgoing chairman referred to the obama administration policy as minimalist. and he said he thought some of the best options had been taken off of the table, and but ruling out the use of american troops in a combat role in iraq, but the plan that they have outlined is a long-term plan that they said is going to take time, patience, and also going to take some will of the iraqi people to stand up for themselves and actually form a unity government, and at this point a lot of those things are still unknown. >> i was curious that it was the congressman from north carolina who pointed out the statements of then secretary donald rumsfeld, pointing out that as a nation we have been here before. did that surprise you? >> well, no, i think there are a lot of people who in reck troe speck looked at the u.s. intervention in iraq and decided it was a big mistake. and if we had known the outcome, it wouldn't have embarked on this adventure. but that's i think a question for historians to debate for a long time. the administration, though, has conceded that -- the authorit

and raises questions about the direction of the administration's foreign policy last two years. for more, i'm joined by "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor, dan hen ger, brett stevens and matt. many on the right and the left in talking about hagel's resignation, basically say the problem with obama's foreign policy isn't hagel. wasn't hagel. it's in the white house. >> the thing is, chuck hagel's really a nonentity as chief in the pentagon. he started out badly as a member of his confirmation hearings, could never articulate the policy and after he was thrown over, wasn't really up for the job. of course, they picked him for the job in the first place. that's the white house spin. but is that fair or is the real problem the white house wanted to make all the decisions, they hired him -- maybe our policy needs to change and he's representing the generals who didn't like the foreign policy. >> how much support at the pentagon, he was really not going to go down as one of the stronger secretaries of defense. but yet, he was in immaterial to the failures of the foreign

so we are going to release the administration witness, secretary cohen, at noon. we will convene the second panel at that time. then the hearing will be gavelled down at 1:00. please know this will be our first hearing on this vitally important topic. it will not be our last. so members who don't have an opportunity to ask questions, if need be, we can call the witnesses back in the future. and at least for those on the republican side of the aisle, once we have the second panel begun, wherever we last left in the cue, those who didn't have an opportunity to ask questions, we'll start with you on the second panel. i now wish to recognize myself for one minute for an opening statement. the 9/11 commission estimated that al qaeda's brutal evil attack on 9/11 cost the terrorist half a million dollars. so terrorists were able to murder 3,000 of our fellow countrymen and inflict immeasurable suffering upon our nation. today we face another terrorist enemy for which a half a million dollars appears to be pocket change. organization that reportedly raises between $1 and $

the u.s. and israel is getting ugly. one obama administrationfficial quoted in a recent magazine article making a derogatory comment about israeli prime minister netanyahu. the thing with bebe is he's chicken [ bleep ] the unnamed official said adding, quote, he's got no guts. refusing to make a deal with the palestinians or arab states. >> afternoon, everybody. >> reporter: not surprisingly the white house was on the defensive. >> comments like that do not reflect the administration's view and we do believe they are counterproductive. >> the relationship is not in crisis. the relationship is actually fundamentally stronger in many respects than it's ever been. >> reporter: netanyahu fought back that he was under attack for simply defending israel but he praised his country's deep connection with the u.s. that deep connection, however, is being severely tested >> when we disagree we raise it as friends do but we believe the best place to do that is privately. >> reporter: tensions boiled over earlier this year with the collapse of the arab-israe

and the response they get back from the administration, it's very, very difficult for the military to get their point across, it is a highly politically charged environment. >> major general bob scales and friend, thank you very much. a programming note for our viewers. hear from the navy s.e.a.l. to swh shot and killed osama bin laden. that's followed by a special edition of hannity on this sunday. shawn will -- after days of fallout, the president is responding for the very first time about the scandal over former obama care advisor jonathan gruber, how the president is downplaying gruber's role in writing that big piece of legislation, health care reform. >>> and it could be a very big, important week for our nation on the matter of illegals coming into our country, the president has promised to take hiss executive pen and take action that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to stay in the united states. it's being called a kind of executive amnesty. ♪ americans drink over 13 billion gallons of sugary beverages every year. over-consumption may link to obesity. but there is a

and raises questions about the direction of the administration's foreign policy last two years. r more i'm join by wall street journal columnist dan henninger, brett stevens and editorial board member matt kaminski. what's fascinating here, many on the right and left in talking about the hagel resignation, base he canally say the problem with obama's foreign policy isn't hagel, wasn't hagel, it's in the white house. >> the thing is chuck hagel is a nonenty as a chief at the pentagon. he started out very badly at his confirmation hearings, could never articulate the policy and then after he was thrown over the white house spun he was really not up to the job, they picked him for the job in the first place. but he was not the problem with the foreign policy -- >> you say he's a nonentity. that's the white house spin. but is that fair or was the real problem the fact that the white house wanted to make all of the decisions, hired him as a so-called implementer of the policy and as the world changed, he decided, maybe our policy needs to change and started representing the generals w

we'll take the president's request, the administration's and sift through it. we will be supplying funding, you know, for this, but not, i don't think at that level. >> you know, it occurred to me too, we listen to the world wealth organization, the united nations prattle on about crises, telling us what's happening in sierra leone, in guinea, in liberia, and some of our own doctors, including tom frieden at the cdc were warning us what was coming. we were waiting on basically the world health organization and the u.n. steak,ed we're the ones doing the work now, cleaning it up, and fixing it. why is the united states so hesitant to take care. if we're going to spend this money and take risk and put our men and women at risk why, do we want to give the credit to the united nations and to the world health organization, when we could be doing ourselves a lot of good so people know where the help truly does originate? >> lou, we should have stepped in much earlier, when this thing was smoldering before it erupted into fire. it's interesting, it doesn't matter what y

i was using democratic sources inside the administration, i was using documents from the obama administration. it wasn't a phony republican scandal. these were in some cases lifelong democrats that were giving information because they thought something had gone drastically wrong. but, again, the light switch went off, you know, as this got to be more and more sensitive story and as the election got closer and as the pushback became stronger and the story was controversialized, oh, republican scandal and conservative reporting, they didn't want those stories even though i thought much more had to be done on that story. so i published a lot on the web. i didn't stop investigating. my producer and i published on the web and kept going. >> host: right. is the idea here that there's this presidential election going on, we don't want to put our thumb on the scale in in any wa? >> guest: you mean cbs? >> host: cbs, right. >> guest: i don't know what conversations they had. they never said anything like that to me. they just thought the story was so well covered, what else was there left to say, you

we begin with breaking news in a major shakeup in the obama administration. defense secretary, chuck hagel, is stepping down. hagel, the only republican on the national security team, is expected to join the president next hour in making that official announcement. hagel and the president have been discussing his departure over the last several weeks. let's get to the pentagon and barbara starr. although the white house is saying it was a mutual decision, you say it's not? >> well, carol, good morning. the white house and officially here at the pentagon the sword it was a mutual decision between the president and secretary hagel for the secretary to go. but in reality, the political reality, several officials now tell us here at cnn is that hagel basically was forced out, pushed out, whatever you want to call it. the secretary and the president had been talking over the last several weeks about what the president wanted to see in the final two years of his administration in national security. they had been talking about it and, you know, once you start talking

the administration has requested authorization for the effort against isol. the president and the administration has been very clear that we are stronger when congress as you say has its back bone into this. and i think the administration is looking to work with congress for authorization for this. >> time of the gentleman has expired. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from florida, mr. posey for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, is isis engaged in any narco-trafficking? >> congressman, not that i am aware of sitting right here. but let me ensure that that -- this is not something i don't know about but i am not aware of any narco-trafficking by isol? >> i know they have given the taliban credit for almost 100% of the heroin trade, and the colombian rebels, almost 100% f the cocaine trade. and you know, one way to go after terrorist funds is for americans who are victims of terrorism to see their attackers and go after their frozen assets under section 201 of the terrorism risk insurance act. tria. the plaintiffs cannot, however, c

the administration is asking for over $6 billion in emergency aid for ebola. among the proposed spending, 4.64 billion in immediate spending to fight the epidemic in west africa, to shore up u.s. preparedness and speed the development and testing of ebola vaccines and treatments. jeh johnson, the homeland security secretary and other administration officials now prepared to testify before the senate appropriations committee. the hearing should get under way shortly here on c-span3. a [ gavel bangs ] >> good afternoon, everybody. the full committee of the appropriations committee will come to order. the purpose of today's hearing is on the united states' government response to fighting ebola and protecting the united states of america. today, we will hear what we are doing and we will hear what resources are needed to do that fight. first of all, the -- congratulations are in order to some of our checks who have won we want to acknowledge senator reid and senator con's victory and on this side, we want to acknowledge the victory of senator cochran and senator co

the george w. bush administration's attorneys had. so the holder memo in january or february of 2009 was extremely supportive of public disclosure and there's a wide spectrum of opinion of how effective that was. dogs bark and cows moo and administrators don't like to disclose things, regardless who is at the top of the agency. from my perspective as a viewer, the holder memo has not been implemented. but i am encouraging our colleagues for comments. bernie? >> i don't have any strong feelings about it, but i think it would be hard to be more conservative as far as providing documents on the bush administration. so my sense is that the administration is a little bit more willing to provide documents that they would have an argument for withholding under foia. i certainly don't have any kind of empirical evidence to support that. >> harry? >> i think this is a perfect example of the saying, he talks a talk but doesn't walk the walk. the obama administration -- i would say that the holder memo which implements a memo that came out under

in spite of the administration at document funding in the administration it wasn't a phony republican scandal. in some cases they were lifelong democrats giving administration because they'd gone drastically wrong. but again the lights went off. it got to be more and more sense of history as the election got closer and the pushback was stronger and a phony scandal and conservative reporting. they really didn't want more of the stories even though i thought much more had to be done on the story. so i published a lot on the web. i didn't stop investigating and i published and kept going. >> host: is the idea that there is a presidential election going on and we don't want to put our thumb on the scale in any way? >> guest: i don't know what conversations they said. he never said anything like that they just said they thought that the story had been so well covered and what else was there left to say. they never said anything like that. maybe they had discussions among themselves like that and told themselves that on the but on the other hand they took other actions i would argue that it

the administration has requested authorization for the effort against isol. the president and the administration has been very clear that we are stronger when congress as you say has its back bone into this. and i think the administration is looking to work with congress for authorization for this. >> time of the gentleman has expired. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from florida, mr. posey for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, is isis engaged in any narco-trafficking? >> congressman, not that i am aware of sitting right here. but let me ensure that that -- this is not something i don't know about but i am not aware of any narco-trafficking by isol? >> i know they have given the taliban credit for almost 100% of the heroin trade, and the colombian rebels, almost 100% of the cocaine trade. and you know, one way to go after terrorist funds is for americans who are victims of terrorism to see their attackers and go after their frozen assets under section 201 of the terrorism risk insurance act. tria. the plaintiffs cannot, however,

consider the cost of the administration's position. senator shumer asked the government to reimburse new york $20 million for the costs associated with the healthcare work terz toog to prevent an outbreak in new york city because of the case of dr. craig spencer. the taxpayers have every right to ask, wouldn't it have been cost-effective for them to require all healthcare workers to adhere an isolation policy? we all niece honesty and humility today. the american public is fine with a doctor who says this is sfienl based on we what we node but as the facts change, then we have to change our approaches. the public expects that. anthony fauci said we should not look at the what ifs. i disagree. that's what we need to do, what congress needs to do and everybody involved with this needs to do. what if the outbreak migrates to other countries. what if it extends to other continents? if we get new information that says a change in policy is needed, tell us what you have learned and why a change is required. we have a set of screening protocol

the administration drug its feet. it drug its feet for about a year, so now the comeuppance is eastern syria and western iraq are in the hands of the islamist radicals, and the question is will we now begin to discuss with others in the region, the steps that might bring them into the effort, including turkey. and they've indicated, look, we want to see a strategic plan, before we get engaged here. we're still, as you and i discussed, we're still not selling to the kurds the arms that they would like to have for their 190,000 soldiers there that are strung out across a 600 mile border, fighting this isis. fighting them without the anti-tank missiles, the artillery, the mortars, the tanks that they need. let's sell them the equipment. let them do the fighting, but let's get the administration off the dime on a plan here that's going to work and is going to have our allies or others in the field pick up the burden of carrying out the struggle. lou: mr. chairman, have you spoken to the complexity or part of the complexiti

so unless there's a fundamental change within the administration, i don't think the next secretary ofcessful either. >> do you think there was some specific reason behind the timing of it all? >> i think in part due to the president's party in the last midterm elections there was going to need to be an appearance of there being some type of change. it seemed secretary hagel was the guy used as a scrape goat. there really is no change in strategy or change in outlook. there's just a change in personnel. >> and a change in spending with the $3.2 billion in additional funding requested. >> there has been a request coming from the administration for increased activity and increased costs associated with iraq and syria. i think again it's difficult when you have a change in the lead person whose job it is to come congress and sells the need for that increased funding. we're going to be starting all over again. >> thank you so much for giving us more insight on what's happening behind the scenes there. >> thank you. >>> we're now learning that black friday shoppers did not spend as much as

-- >> the bush administration? i had the same objections you had, fareed. >> but he loved the aggressiveness, he loved the expansionism, he loved the high gem mini. bob's problem with the syrian intervention is that it is 23409 vigorous enough. the problem is not barack obama has invaded syria, he needs to do it more wholeheartedly, lots of troops, more ground forces like we did iraq and that worked out so well. yes, i was one of the people who thought getting rid of saddam hussein was a good idea but $2 trillion, 175,000 troops, 5,000 troops dead and 400,000 iraqis dead and wounded later. i learned something and i don't want to replicate that lesson in syria, the neighboring country. >> you're applauding because it's fun and because it's easy to switch the subject. they would like nothing more to make -- than to make this debate a referendum on the bush administration. you notice how we've somehow slowly worked our way into a conversation about bush. this is not a -- >> wait. >> you can't -- i mean, who are we comp

and you can set up exceptional reporting requirements that the administration has to report to us on what it's done and what we are doing about it and why we shouldn't give up and just cut this off. and largely this is in the realm of arm can control the treaty. the arms control treaty. and beyond that you could give the president more sanctions and so you would give them more sword hangs over people. but it would still be up to them whether to cut it. and so there are things we could do. i don't think in congress or the administration that anyone has set out and said, okay, let's work together to come up with this. i think it would be very interesting as a staff exercise to have us work on that if you could come up with some good legislation sometime in the spring time. and my friends tell me that they don't expect anything to happen in the lame-duck session are you so we are looking at next year rather than the end of this year. >> thank you very much. i'm going to ask a couple questions, then we are going to open it up. first, i agree with jerry that the main reason we don't have a

. >> item 15 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to authorize the director of health to enter into managed care contracts with the provision of serve is he to individuals covered under federal and state programs. >> colleagues, same house same call? this ordinance is passed on first reading. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 16 and 17, mr. president, are two resolutions to retroactively authorize the recreation and park department to accept and expend a grant of $117,000 from a release construction for improvements to pathways and a grant of 248,000 from o.c. jones and son for the renovation of the baseball diamond at hertz playground from [speaker not understood]. >> colleagues, same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] ~ >> aye next item. >> item 18, sap and expend the grant in 7 99,000 sebastianverx considerx for disease program entitled eth 500s racial approaches to community health heart healthy s.f. . >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 19, resolution to support the consolidated plan goals for the federal f

we don't change the objectives from one at straer -- administrator to another. >> thank you, we just wanted to get that into record, there is a variation and we don't know the total impact and there needs to be some articulation and if we go forward to talk about performance guarantees with the administrator, this should be noted. >> any other comments by commissioners? >> seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? >> yes? >> >> to close out the audit we had final recommendations to go over on page 13. these are going over the last meeting. >> great and we have received them if they have not changed. is that right? >> we did add one recommendation regarding a second review for claim denials over $10,000. we had one audit error over $200,000 denied in error. we are recommending a denial audit put in place. >> that was my recommendation. >> i can see why we would do that because someone was very unhappy that it was denied in error. so this is where the process is. so uhc, i'm sorry i have forgotten your name, i apologize, does your report of the last time address this findin