so i'm hopeful in the next administration and new congress we can do a better job and specifically we will be able to tackle those drainage dispute with the same level of collaboration that we have seen in the basin. with that, mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. denham: i yield to the gentleman from california, mr. hunter, as much time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hunter: mr. speaker, the parties to this settle mbt have been working towards a resolution for 50 years. before i get into the substance of this bill, i thank chairman bishop, chairman fleming and the committee staff in getting this bill to the floor. i thank my friends across the aisle. we are addressing an issue that dates back to the late 19th september try when federal government established reservations in what is now my district. the creation of these reservations included sufficient water. 1969, litigation arose surrounding whether the federal government had pro

about $5,800 this year. >> has the administration do you think lowered that number? in other words, increased access ? secretary king: we can get you a more specific number but we've increased access in two ways, one, by increasing the am of pell delearks amount of the pell grant by about $1,000 since the beginning of the administration. so folks who are eligible are get manager funding. but then the american opportunity tax credit is also helping thousands of families across the country, millions of families across the country, to bet aeroe-- better afford college. >> i wanted to ask you about a statement from senator warren today. she said, it has to do with college she said her staff did an investigation and found that the department is still intentionally trying to collect student loan debt from these students and she's asking that you stop that, even though the debts of these students are eligible to be forgiven. secretary king: i appreciate senator warren's leadership on behalf of students and borrowers and she's trying to help our borrowers. we, of course, are

that's how the administrative process should not work. if it's a good idea, tee up in a farewell in noticed proposed rule making we propose to do the following thing. that sort of shoe horn into, you know, the regulatory framework every other company which never had a say in the original proceeding. >> i would add to that and i referenced in my statement, you know, charter agreed to those circumstances, they were party to that. the rest of the industry wasn't party to that item, so, you know, they got something for it. you can say it was good or bad or whatever they made an agreement with those conditions and accepted them, nobody else has. >> this was sort of being forced. it's an mpr process, there's public input right there, though, isn't it? >> well, in the sense that the entire -- the entire foundation was this the charter merger. you heard from the dice today, the charger merger we were forward thinking when we proposed this condition. that's part of the original charter order itself. >> i think i've said this before and i'll say it

let me start with the administration is slow rolling us on the release of those documents.riginally they came out in there were 16, 17 documents that created a false narrative of what was actually -- what bin laden was actually doing. >> in other words he was more plugged in with other groups around the world? >> right. the original documents made it look like he was not. >> lone lion in the winter was the famous headline. wa we are finding as more documents come out, we are finding that bin laden had significant ties to iran. that iran was a tunnel for al-qaeda. bin laden told his followers not to attack iranians. i think as we comb through more of these documents and they become released to the public for historians to look at, we will learn more about bin laden and it's not going to be what was presented by the administration. >> that's fascinating about iran. there were some indications and suggestions but what you are saying is iran and al-qaeda had a symbiotic relationship? >> we know that from the few documents that have been released. >> do you think iran had any ti

that's the obama administration saying that, mr. chairman. how can they object to a little transparency there and yet allow this report to come out from the state department? it makes no sense at all. we heard some say this might take up resources at the state department. well, according to the congressional budget office, this comes in in thousands, not millions, not billions, not trillions, but thousands. and given that, the most important thing we do as members of congress is to provide for the common detention, including the common defense against the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism, i think it would be wise that we put the resources towards this report and it mate be a first because i never heard in the years i have been here any of my democratic colleagues ever be concerned about the resources of the united states of america that they have worked to give us the worst debt and deficit in the history of our republic and unsustainable debt that undermines our common defense. again, mr. chairman, this is a regime involved in cybe

at the request of the administration. to the request or the tweak the bill was one that we welcomed, that was based on conversations with the administration, but was not sufficient to satisfy the significant concerns that had been raised by white house lawyers, that had been raised by republican national security experts, that had been raised by european officials, that had been raised by american business leaders, about the potential unintended consequences of this bill. so, the fact that there were some changes that were made early on is evidence of the kind of ongoing consultation that's been taking place. but the changes that were made, as i said back in the spring, were insufficient. so i think that is pretty good evidence that there was a good-faith effort on the part of the administration to bring about these changes. but they were insufficient to address the concerns that were raised by experts in both parties. and some of the closest allies of the united states. reporter: i think maybe that's the crux of it. which

a lot of questions the obama administration has not answered. there are at least three things that we do already know. number one, we know that cash is the preferred currency of terrorists. number two, we know the obama administration's payment to iran was structured in such a way that it makes it easy for iran to move that money anywhere it wants for any purpose it wants. and three, we know that much of iran's terror activity is fueled by the vast sums of personal wealth acquired by its senior political and military leaders. mr. chairman, iran's economy is characterized by high levels of official corruption and substantial involvement of its security forces. particularly, the islamic revolutionary guard corps and that nation's business sector. many members of iran's senior political and military leadership have acquired significant personal and institutional wealth by using their positions to secure control over major portions of the iranian national economy. in fact, it is estimated that iran's top political and military leaders control 1/3, 1/

the george w. bush administration. his new book is called "true faith and allegiance: a story of service and sacrifice in water and peace." and he is interviewed by brent kendall of "the wall street journal." >> host: alberto gonzales, currently in law school dean, former attorney general and counsel to george w. bush. texas state supreme court justice and the author of a new book, a memoir recounting his life both in texas and working for governor bush. here in washington. welcome. >> thank you. good to be here. >> let's start with why the boat, why now. what motivated you to write it? i know many of your colleagues have written books about their time there. what prompted the book? >> guest: you know, something i've been working on for many years with obviously several distractions in the interim. i thought coming up on the 15th anniversary would be a nice mark to try to hit somebody by the fact that you are right, there've been several memoirs written. people space-bar this has been out there and i thought it might be

1 were any concerns raised by the administration? >> we have multiple concerns with the iranian government. >> what overrode those concerns? >> as i noted, we have tried to take step-by-step on multiple lines of effort, areas where we think we can advance u.s. interests. we do so in a concerted and thoughtful way. we have done that with respect to the most immediate threat, the iranian nuclear program, with respect to one of our top priorities, bringing home our american citizens and with respect to the claim, we did so in a way that saved american taxpayer dollars. >> you're talking about saving taxpayer dollars. if we look at national security adviser susan rice, she admitted that some of the iranian money could be used for terrorism. is that a concern that you took into consideration? >> we are constantly concerned with what iran might do with respect to its support for terrorism and we have a variety of tools to counter that, robust sanctions passed in this very pass, that includes designations of entatitentatties like the quds fo

in fact, in the administration that the judge served in, the bush administration, not only was the lawf this country characterized as allowing -- as recognizing the tort exception, which it does statutely, but the bush administration said that would apply to terrorist actions like 9/11. >> you are a democrat. what do you think about the president of your party, president obama, vetoing this bill? what are the 9/11 families saying about this back and forth? >> the 9/11 families are incredibly distressed that he would veto this. by the way, all of these arguments put forth by the judge and his colleagues, put forth by the administration, put forth by the kingdom of saudi arabia, these are arguments that have been put out there for 6 1/2 years. this bill did not come on the scene a month ago. this has been working its way through the congress for almost seven years. it has been passed by the united states senate unanimously twice, reported out of the judiciary committee unanimously in the senate three times. it enjoyed unanimous support in the united states senate. it enjoyed unanimous st

that may be a concern that the administration has. say that russia is hacking and all of the russian connections with donald trump's business, they may feel that they are putting their hand on the scale. i think they can deliver nonpartisan information and they should not shy away from doing that for fear that some will our group -- argue or perceive it as being partisan. damian: edward snowden is in russia right now. there is a new movie out about him. snowden has made another appeal to get a pardon from president obama. there being any resolution or development on this issue during the obama administration? congressman schiff: we had a hearing on a two-year investigation we've been doing into the snowden case. we are in the process of which i hopeummary will be public in the next 24 hours. havees through what we unclassified at this point. we think the american people need to know about snowden. one of the things that leaps out to me because it is so at odds with the narrative as he tells it, the vast majority of what was taken has n

if so, the administration is not being truthful. arrivedlions of dollars , this would be a pretty astounding revelation. now to the question of ransom. if iran was able to receive some thetions relief, why was $1.7 billion paid in cash? for example, in february of 2014, the bank of japan wired or hundred $50 million to an iranian central bank account in switzerland as part of the interim agreement. there is no reason the administration could not have found the 1.7 billion dollars immediately to the same account rather than sending cash. perhaps iran just wanted cash. one senior official said, "sometimes the iranians want cash." is this an admission that cash was in demand? in million cash delivery january. if washington needed iran to receive the funds immediately, was cashed the only way or could they have wire transferred that money immediately to the same central-bank of iran accounts. the administration calls it leverage. iranian officials call it a ransom. it is that opinion that i think matters. this might explain the reasons w

fivewages have gone up times as much in the eisenhower administration and the truman administration. what about the prices you pay? up -- pageyou went went up five times with the truman administers and then eisenhower. this means that the average family income went up 15% and eisenhower years against 2% in the truman years. this is not standing still. as good as this record is, may i emphasize it is not enough. numberord is nothing -- something to stand on, it is something to build on. in building on this record, i believe that we have the secret. the secret for progress. we know the way to progress. i think, first of all, our own record proves that we know the way. senator kennedy has suggested that he knows the way. i respect the sincerity with which he makes that statement. on the other hand, let me look at the various programs that he offers, they do not seem to be new. the programs of the truman administration. during the course of the evening, he might indicate those areas in which his programs are not in -- our new. what kind of programs have been brought? programs that will ex

the first question. clearly cyber has been a big focus of this administration. everyone reads a newspaper every day understands that this is -- or maybe not reads the newspaper. goes on your iphone every day and understands the urgency of this issue and also how it's rapidly evolving in terms of the threat to the united states and whether it's our economy or increasingly, our hard security. and this administration has done a lot to try to up our game on cyberissues. and certainly this is something that president obama cease as an issue of the future. he was just asked about it in the last 24 hours at a press conference related to these reports about possible russian influence on our elections through cybermeans. he has taken some concrete steps, creating a cybercommand with the department of defense. dod has released a couple public cyberstrategies. this is kind of an interesting thing for obama too. and the critique about obama is that oftentimes he's portrayed as someone who is uncomfortable with the military, doesn't like to use force, uncertain of leadership,

if so the administration is not being truthful about the 1.7 billion. billions of dollars arrived on pallets this would be an astounding revelation. >> the numbers keep getting bigger, first 400 million, then 1.7 billion now 33 billion. my next guest testified about the money iran is getting, he's foundation for defense of democracies, mark dubo vits joins me now, 33 billion in cash and gold, that's quite a difference, mark? >> it's a big difference. the administration is not coming clean with how much money was sent to iran in cash and potentially gold. trying to piece together from what they have admitted in trying to establish a number and looked at the fact they admitted $11.9 billion as part of the interim agreement. claimed the iranians repatriated the agreement. the iranians are claiming $33 billion. i'm saying worst-case scenario the administration green lighted the transfer of $33.6 billion. i don't think it will be that high, but talking many billions, not just 1.7. liz: mark, you are really respected and held. >> high regard on capitol hill,

she played a leadership role in the administration's development of the u.s. national action plan on women, peace, and security. president obama also appointed here to serve as the u.s. representative to the u.n. commission on the status of women. during the clinton administration, she served as assistant to the president and chief of staff to the first lady. she also led the effort to establish the president's interagency council on women and was instrumental in the adoption of trafficking victims protection act of 2000. she's the co-author of fast forward, how women can achieve power and purpose. moderating tonight is claire shipman, expert on confidence at women's leadership. her latest book, "the confidence code," a "new york times" bestseller. shipman is a contributor to abc news, has covered the white house for nbc and cnn and started her career with five years at cnn's moscow bureau. throughout the event tonight, please be sure to tag all of your tweets, with the #gu first ladies. thank you and please enjoy. [ applause ] >> well done. thank you all. tha

it's a store near to think of the policies of this administration. it was secretary of state hillary clinton. the picture of the middle east on the day they took office and look at the map of the middle east today, it does not look like the same place. civil war in syria. rise and role of the isis caliphate. civil war in libya. terrorist forces that have overrun the hard-fought gains that were secured in the last republican administration by our soldiers. libya, the wider middle of a greater and more emboldened russia and china, activities in the south china sea. russ's interventions in ukraine. it all has a big familiarity to it. vague familiarity to it. that the examples truth of history, reagan knows, donald trump knows that weakness arouses evil. week foreign policy by the united states of america embo ldens our enemies and abandons our friends. those days are over starting november 8. [applause] but semi my to those times as well as the times we live in -- similar to those times as well as the times we live in. policies that have stifled the amer

in the truman administration. what about the prices you pay? we find that the prices you pay went up five times as much in the truman administration as they did in the eisenhower administration. what is the net result of this? this means that the average family income went up 15% during years versus 2% in the truman years. this is not standing still. is, as good as this record let me emphasize that it is not enough. toecord is not something stand on, it is something to build on. and with this record, i believe we have the secret for progress, we know the way for progress. ouri think, first of all, own record proves that we know the way. senator kennedy believes that he knows the way. withpect the sincerity which he makes that suggestion. but on the other hand, when we look at the various programs he offers, they do not seem to be new. they seem to be simply retreads of the programs of the truman administration which preceded it. and i would suggest that during the course of the evening he might indicate those areas

the george w. bush administration. his new book is called true faith and allegiance, the story of service and sacrifice in war and peace and he is interviewed by brent kendall of the wall street journal. >> alberto gonzales, current law school dean, former attorney general and advisor to george w. bush. texas court supreme court justice and author of a new book , mm moore recounting his life both in texas and working for governor bush. he spent time here in washington, welcome. >> thank you, it's good to be here. >> let's start with why the book, why now, what motivated you to write it? i know several of your colleagues have written books about their time there. what prompted the books? >> it's something i've been working on for many years. obviously there were several distractions that i met in the interim but coming up on the 15th anniversary would be a nice worker to hit. i was also motivated by the fact that there have been several memoirs written and people's perspectives have been out there and i thought it might

, and i'm very proud of it, is the first administration that has taken an antitrust action against companies in this country that have allegedly cooperated with the arab boycott. just on monday of this week i , signed a tax bill that included an amendment that would prevent companies in the united states from taking a tax deduction if they have in any way whatsoever cooperated with the arab boycott. and lastly when we were trying , -- and last week when we were , trying to get the export administration act through the congress, necessary legislation, my administration went to capitol hill and tried to convince the house and the senate that we should have an amendment on that legislation, which would take strong and effective action against those who participate or cooperate with the arab boycott. one other point. because the congress failed to act, i am going to announce tomorrow that the department of commerce will disclose those companies that have participated in the arab boycott. this is something that we can do. the congress failed to do it, a

in fact, in the administration that the judge served in, the bush administration, not only was the law of this country characterized as allowing -- as recognizing the tort exception, which it does statutely, but the bush administration said that would apply to terrorist actions like 9/11. >> you are a democrat. what do you think about the president of your party, president obama, vetoing this bill? what are the 9/11 families saying about this back and forth? >> the 9/11 families are incredibly distressed that he would veto this. by the way, all of these arguments put forth by the judge and his colleagues, put forth by the administration, put forth by the kingdom of saudi arabia, these are arguments that have been put out there for 6 1/2 years. this bill did not come on the scene a month ago. this has been working its way through the congress for almost seven years. it has been passed by the united states senate unanimously twice, reported out of the judiciary committee unanimously in the senate three times. it enjoyed unanimous support in the united states senate. it enjoyed unanimous

law making is done by the presidential administration now. there is little that is left to doochlt it is just the decorative appendage. the elections in the united states are capturing attention everywhere. in recent months i have been in pakistan, sweden and traveling and what i seen those are the elections everyone is focusing on and it is because of trump. this bizarre candidate and people can't believe it all around the world. in addiction to the fact at igor said trump is talking a lot about russia. in answer to one of his other questions which is why russia is getting so much attention, and it doesn't seem to harm trugs to be pro-russian, i think it is because hillary clinton hasn't picked up on it. when trump called for the russian government to spy on and hack into hillary clinton's e-mails, he was joining people to engage in treason. this is americans to actually geographic along with this kind of thing. this is the guy who is doing something so bizarre by american electoral standards is one reason why russia came to there floor. he i

in europe what is the obama administration's answer? it's something like the new cold war and sustaining nato and the unity around sanctions over ukraine until the russian policy in ukraine changes but if you look at the middle east, it's something different. it's probing for cooperation and it's assuming that there can be some potential alignment of u.s. and russian interests for all the discomfort. third, if you take a whole set of nuclear issues particularly the nuclear arms control, the assumption of the obama administration is there should be a possibility working toward a cooperative approach and in fact there has already been substantial cooperation on nuclear issues. we are okay on the nonproliferation but we are not interested in the arms control. and the final element of the obama administration policy is personality is a bit of a turnoff, putin's personality, but it's not a fundamental obstacle. it's a bigger problem than before and yet, there was an agreement. there is no agreement on ukraine, and there wasn't an agreement on

because the gao federal inspectors slap the administration for misusing funds. collects fees from private insurance companies and are supposed to put a good chunk of that back into the federal treasurely ri. but the department of health and human services instead redirected funds to the providers. and federal inspectors say that should not have happened because it is illegal. hss maintained it has the flexibility to do that. now this government watchdog says it does not. that will put more pressure on the administration and drive discussed in the last segment of our show. meanwhile, more developments from new york to florida as it relates to the trump foundation. we learned through a city attorney for palm beach the attorney general for new york has expanded the probe into trump's foundation after the washington post first reported that trump used charity or foundation funds to settle legal disputes for his private businesses. the trump campaign said the washington post article was bet that his foundation and clinton's foundation and concerns that trump has she m

policy, given the administration's recent actions, we have to make this prohibition explicit. this amendment will support and strengthen the good work of chairman royce in h.r. 5931. think about this timeline. the u.s. wires $400 million in cash from the swiss national bank and then physically transports it to another city to hand off to iranian officials all in three days. three days. three days before iran releases four american hostages. but it gets worse. less than a week after this, the u.s. again sends hordes of cash to iran. -- we only know this timeline thanks to multiple and consistent inquiries from myself and other members of congress and yet there are so many details we still don't know. for instance, on april 5, 2016, white house spokesman josh earnest in response to a reportary's question on whether the obama administration misled congress about the iran deal stated, quote, i don't there is any evidence to substantiate this claim. i think you should take a rather dim view of this congress because congressman pompeo didn't approve this bill and he certainly didn't

would any concerned raised by the administration? >> we have multiple concerns with the iranian government. >> what overrode those concerns? >> as i noted, we have tried to take step-by-step on multiple lines of effort, areas where we think we can advance u.s. interests. we do so in a concerted and thoughtful way. we have done that with respect to the most immediate threat, the iranian nuclear program, with respect to one of our top priorities, bringing home our american citizens and with respect to the claim, we did so in a way that saved american taxpayer dollars. >> you're talking about saving taxpayer dollars. if we look at national security adviser susan rice, she admitted that some of the iranian money could be used for terrorism. is that a concern that you took into consideration? >> we are constantly concerned with what iran might do with respect to its support for terrorism and we have a variety of tools to counter that, robust sanctions passed in this very pass, that includes designations of ententatties like the quds force,

the administration says they had to use cash because of international sanctions. republicans on the hill have introduced legislation to ban all payments to iran and to compensate victims of terror. >>> both presidential candidates are hoping to prove their worth today. answering questions from members of the military tonight during the first ever commander in chief for him. nbc news will host a forum the candidates will not be on stage together instead they will appear back to back with clinton going first. the audience will most likely as trump proposes an increase in military spending. yesterday he talked about the backing from a list of military leaders. 88 leaders are on the list but clinton says her list is bigger. today she released a list of 95 liters who support her. the form begins at 6:00 on nbc. >>> walt disney world is cracking down on those who gh scanning the fingers of small children before entering the themepark. the finger spanning -- scanning policy was implemented for adults and kids older than 12 result. this one is for children under three. par

and i would hope the administration would take it seriously. and would understand the effect of the coming economy. many a very well aware that this administration will be out of office when most of the economic effects will be felt. but the economic effects will most certainly be felt by this economy, and the long-term effect for those individuals graduating college right now, trying to land their first job in into management, will be even tougher based on this one rule. there's no reason to do that to the next generation of leaders. there's no reason to raise tuition at every college. there's no reason to do this rule right now. i would challenge it to be readdressed, and at a minimum to be delayed for six months. with that, i'd yield the floor. i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. gra

i won't seek to draft the first draft of the obama administration. it is identity that has to serve as the foundation of our approach to the difficult immigration issues we confront. we have to give thought to the fundamental and foundational question of who we are as a country and who we should be. and how we answer that question on the subject of immigration should be our guide post in traveling through and managing the very, very difficult and sensitive and too often divisive challenges that we face. and so let me give an example or two. the syrian refugee crisis. there were and remain at least two different approaches or priorities another and people ce down on different sides of that tension. on the one hand, there are many who believe that it is one of our proudest traditions as a country to be a place of refuge for those in a place of need and certainly the individuals fleeing the horror that too often occurs in syria would qualify in that category. there is a strong sentiment among many that we need to open our arms more widely and more recept

at the request of the administration. the request, or the tweet to the bill was one that we welcomed that was based on conversations with the administration but was not sufficient to satisfy the significant concerns that have been raised by white house lawyers, that had been raised by republican national to the experts, that would be raised by european officials, that had been raised by american business leaders about the potential unintended consequences of this bill. so the fact that there were some changes that were made early on is evidence of the kind of ongoing consultation has been taking place. by the changes that were made, as i said back in the spring, were insufficient. so i think that is pretty good evidence that it was a good faith effort on the part of the administration to bring about these changes. but they were insufficient to address the concerns that were raised by experts in both parties, and some of the closest allies of the united states. >> maybe that's the crux of it, you know, you guys have said ma

charlie, the administration is denying these claims. do you think it's time to toss this bad deal overboard? >> i think it was time not do to do the deal. i wasn't a zealot against the deal. iran's population is -- a lot is secular. these are -- this is a culture, an advanced culture for many years. this isn't like the stone age. it's ruled by a bunch of lunatics. it's ruled by people who want to destroy us and kill us and kill israel. to cut deals with people like that, that's worse than the mafia. the mafia believes when you -- if you knew bob guys they believed basically among the families and peaceful coexi coexisten coexistence. they will rip everybody off and coexist while doing it. this is a regime intent to kill its enemies and finances its enemies. someone who would love to have a detente with iran as russia it's insane. russia wasn't an insane country at the time. >> not to mention death to america is the motto. >> gary, this deal is struck, the side deals, secret side deals, has to deal with letting iran pre ses more lower gra

nobody from the administration went to san bernardino. first place they went was to the adams center in washington, d.c. majid, standing behind him is one of the top level members of the muslim brotherhood, a former isna president. we're so off balance here that when crises erupt the administration rushes to the aid of the muslim community and doesn't even pay any attention to the families of the people who actually died. and what is this one? dhs, 500,000 foreigners have overstayed their visas in 2015. did you know that? not only are we not knowing who they are when we give them the visas, but the ones that are here, 500,000 of them have overstayed. our entire visa structure and law enforcement structure is a shambles. it's not too late. the people have taken the vow are more than willing and capable to do their job, but take the handcuffs off and the blindfolds off and let us do our jobs and we're very capable of doing it without violating anybody's civil rights or civil liberties. [ applause ] i'm going to go ahead and finish up. by the

the obama administration jumped in. the departments of army, justice and interior issuing a joint statement, saying they, quote, voluntarily pause all construction on army corps land, pending further review. stopping the pipeline in its tracks. to proponents of the project, it is a reminder of the keystone pipeline and classic case of influence pedaling and overreach by the federal government. >> all the procedures have been met, challenged and withstood the challenges and we need to move on and if we meet the cite ter cra in t -- criteria, we need to uphold the law. >> this is an issue for all of us and for your children and grandchildren. >> reporter: from the dakotas, protests for and against the pipeline have reignited a debate over the government's role over the use of public land for enterpri enterprise. at issue, the dakota pipeline, a $3.7 billion project that will span 1,200 miles from north dakota to illinois, carrying 170 barrels of crude everyday to facilities. in washington, former democratic presidential ca

the george w. bush administration. his new book is called true faith and allegiance, true faith story of service and sacrifice in war and peace. he is interviewed by brent kendall of the wall street journal. >> host: alberto gonzales, currently law school dean, former counsel to the president of george w. bush, texas bush, texas state supreme court justice, now author of a new book, memoir recounting his life both in texas and working for governor bush in texas and his time in washington. welcome. >> guest: thank you, it is good to be here. >> host: let's start with why the book, why now, what motivated you to write it. i know several of your colleagues who work within the bush administration have written books about their time there. what prompted the book? >> guest: it is something i've been working on for many years. obviously i've met several distractions in the interim. i thought coming up on the 15th anniversary would be a nice mark to try to hit. i was also motivated by the fact, you're right, there have been sev

this is why the administration must conclude this m.o.u. with israel and it would send a strong message to the people of israel that the united states continues to stand by them and support them. but, mr. speaker, it would send an even stronger message to those that seek to harm israel, by signifying that the united states is committing to fully, to fully support israel's defense and security needs. so i urge my colleagues to support this measure. i call upon the administration to put the politicking aside, get this agreement done, secure israel's safety and our own interests and we are going to hear a lot of support for this resolution and we've heard about the many threats facing israel, and i spoke about the nuclear threat and how it's placed israel in greater jeopardy. but what we don't hear too much of, mr. speaker, how the u.s. law, l has by we are supposed to ensure. when the administration signed that deal with iran, it had to sell it to the international community. how did it do that? well, in order to sell the deal to our allies in

the playbook. as a result, this administration has left the united states vulnerable. i look forward to hearing more about the cyber operations against isil and the challenges, opportunities and constraints you are facing on the cyber front, senator reid. >> thank you very much, i will join you in welcoming the secretary and admiral rogers back to the committee. thank you for your service. this is a third committee hearing foocussed on the encryption issue and its impact on national security. the rapid growth of sophisticated applications and extremely secure physical access controls to smartphones and computers has an adverse impact on law enforcement agencies at all levels and impairs the ability intelligence community to detect and counter cyber threats to the nation. at the same time, this security technology helps to protect individuals, corporations and the government against seeker crime, espionage, terrorism and aggressi aggression. while fbi director comey has talked about the danger of going dark, michael chertoff has advised against -- and these experts argu

we were given information about cobra from the administration. even with that, we were giviven false information. the reason was given as a result of reduction of hours. it was their action against us. we have also filed for unemplployment. which is what we are allowed to do in the event of a lockout. i have never filed f for ununemployment in my l life. it is galling to have to do so. i spent eight years working on a masters and a phd. i just achieved full professor status. i don't even know the the status of that. amy: what are your plans as a student? >> we're going to continue to stand behind our faculty and rally outside and demand to end this lockout. we a ask everyonone to support - all family, friends, parents, everybody to come out. amy: thank you for being with us, srividhya swaminathan, chair of the english department at long island university brooklyn. and kiyonda hester, student and organizer at liu brooklyn. when we come back, woman 15 years ago who said no to war on the floor of the house. we will hear her speech and speak with her,

i believe that is consistent with the bush administration, the george h.w. bush administration did in seek of americans held hostage and others held hostage in lebanon in the late 1980s and early 1990s. it doesn't always payoff. it didn't payoff as we had hoped with the release of hostages from lebanon. it did in this case clearly payoff with the release of the four americans and a fifth american who had been held at the same time. >> at a cost of $400 million? >> at a cost of resolving a debt that we would have had to resolve irrespective of the release of those americans. i would rather clear the underbrush as president bush said when he talked about similar actions back in the late 1980s and see the return of americans held unjustly than to resolve a debt and not see the return of these same americans. >> do you believe there was any discussion of the prisoner exchange in the jcpoa. >> i believe what i read in the media consistently this is that scare kerry and officials raised the case of these americans time and time again on every occasion when they met

the agreement was entered into by the carter administration. it was endorsed by the reagan administration and debated by both houses of congress. in the end, it was determined that the accords and the tribunal process were of great benefit to the united states and u.s. nationals. in the first 20 years of the process, it focused primarily on resolving claims of u.s. nationals for debt, contract, appropriation and other measures involving property rights. received over $2.5 billion in awards and settlements from that process. there was significant government to government claims also filed at the tribunal. the majority and certainly the largest were by iran against the united states including iran's large contract claims arising out of its foreign military sales program. like other fms customers, iran paid money into a trust fund used to facilitate prompt payment to the u.s. contractors working on iranian contracts. by january 1979, iran had already been struggleing to make the necessary payments on its contracts. in february 1979, iran and the un

the agreement was entered into by the carter administration. it was endorsed by the reagan administration and debated by both houses of congress. in the end, it was determined that the accords and the tribunal process were of great benefit to the united states and u.s. nationals. in the first 20 years of the process, it focused primarily on resolving claims of u.s. nationals for debt, contract, appropriation and other measures involving property rights. received over $2.5 billion in awards and settlements from that process. there was significant government to government claims also filed at the tribunal. the majority and certainly the largest were by iran against the united states including iran's large contract claims arising out of its foreign military sales program. like other fms customers, iran maid money into a trust fund used to facilitate prompt payment to the u.s. contractors working on iranian contracts. by january 1979, iran had already been struggling to make the necessary payments on its contracts. in february 1979, iran and the uni

the bush administration and negotiated in the obama administration. it just speaks to the difficulty. what is changing is the technological development if you will of the system which now very directly is coming into the horizon of threatening u.s. citizens. literally the continental united states. we just cannot see ourselves getting to accepting that in any way, shape or form. and maybe that changes the view of how this should be negotiated. >> a with that it looks like -- and we want to thank everybody and i want to thank -- [applause]. with like to thank you for moderating, thank you all. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] . . us today, the minister of foreign affairs appointed by president in december of 2015. she brings extraordinary experience to the ministry, management, economics, technology and international relations. you all have a copy of her impressive resume and we have only one precious hour so i am going to limit my introduction most done diplomatically to just a