i would like to focus on the difference between the federal and state system. i have great respect for federal prosecutors. they are not accountable like elected prosecutors. in each election cycle, the people of my community get to decide whether or not i am doing a good job. that makes for a healthier criminal justice system when i have to go to communities to understand what they care about, understand stories mother -- about their children who they feel should not be incarcerated. ,he federal system is diligent talented prosecutors that are not accountable except for the president. attorney, appointed by the president. that is not a criticism of the federal side, but a reflection of that we have accountability. ms. gertner: that can work in one of two directions. you can be accountable for the public in particular areas. criminal justice is determined whateverime du jour, the newspaper feels you have to do something about. you are accountable, but you need some independents. arguably, the federal system has independents. second to the mandatory minimum discu

gertner: you are dealing with the system that didn't have the kind of mandatory minimums that the federal system has paid on the federal side, you can give public defenders massive resources and it will make no difference. no material difference, rather, because no fabulous council will take the risk of going to trial when what tanks in the balance are these kinds of mandatory minimums. but it is also -- the funding issue is very interesting. massachusetts had a role -- rule that said they were going to this favor psychiatric puts at sentencing unless somebody had a mental issue. the kids who came before me were seen as problems before they came to me. not one of them was sent to a shrink. those other cans of things you have to analyze. you have to look at. they didn't speak the language of psychiatry. people took the social language of discipline to them. mr. vance: i think adam would agree with me that we are capable now of looking at where criminals are involved in their life. it could be that they go to the hospital for some injury. it could be they -- [indiscernible] we have to resou

i would like to focus on the difference between the federal and state system. i have great respect for federal prosecutors. they are not accountable like elected prosecutors. in each election cycle, the people of my community get to decide whether or not i am doing a good job. that makes for a healthier criminal justice system when i have to go to communities to understand what they care about, understand stories mother -- about their children who they feel should not be incarcerated. ,he federal system is diligent talented prosecutors that are not accountable except for the president. attorney, appointed by the president. that is not a criticism of the federal side, but a reflection of that we have accountability. ms. gertner: that can work in one of two directions. you can be accountable for the public in particular areas. criminal justice is determined whateverime du jour, the newspaper feels you have to do something about. you are accountable, but you need some independents. arguably, the federal system has independents. second to the mandatory minimum discu

talk about diversionary systems that we can use to get less people in the -- in the -- in the jail system, it needs to apply to all three. it can't just be for the use for the federalsystem. it has to go down to the state system. because many of the states, and all municipalities struggle economically. putting money into community-based organizations or to some of the things that the states and the counties run is very difficult. and so, if we could get some federal help with systems that are off-ramps for people that are addicted and off-ramps for people that are arrested for low-level crimes. because the arrests are not stopping. the chiefs in here represent tens and tens of thousands low-level drug offense arrests, my organization included. but we've got to have somewhere for them to go. it can't just be, you know, 48 hours in the local lockup and right back on the street corner where they came from. it just can't be that. >> john, have you got any requests of the president? >> the one thing that i would really emphasize, you know, so much of law enforcement really depends upon local law enforcement, and our partners in police departments and sheriff's offices a

if i look at the federal prison system i get a drug offender rate of 50% of people incarcerated in federal prison are drug offenders. i look at state prisons across the nation, i get 41% of the population being nonviolent offenders. we could probably if we stopped in for shrinking high rates of nonviolent offenders we could probably cut or prison population in half which would have tax benefits to us all. one of the questions he might think about when i was talking about international crime rate was so the incarcerate a row to lower rates in great britain maybe that's because they have less crime. no. not necessarily. for them but have a look at the assault rate in britain it's higher than the rate in the united states. if you've ever been to a soccer match in great britain you understand why. if i look at a faster rate in the uk, it's higher as it is in france. but the one thing that's the thing about our prime -- crime rates is we lead the world in one category, and that is drug offenders. just a couple of numbers to kind of hopeless to you. we incarcerate 560 people out of every 100,000

the first latina to head a federal law enforcement agency ever. [applause] that is very nice. largest law enforcement agency within the department of homeland security and the second-largest in the entire federal system behind the fbi. we need to honor the trailblazers. one of them

to see if we had the power to do the things they are doing was in the implementation of the federal highway system where they call it the federal defense highway system and said we need this so he can defend the nation adequately and move troops times of emergency and justified it on that basis. nfa,bob spoke about the a said we cannot regulate because because of the second amendment, but perhaps we can tax them, and they applied a $200 tax which at the time was a that wouldry, so regulate them almost totally without infringing on the second amendment. it was a relevant way to do it with a figurative to get away with it. now government just does what it wants regardless of the 10th amendment that says you cannot and they just do it and there is no reality controlling them, and founders are right. no moral people in government or very few, and government has run mok, and we find ourselves in a dastardly state of affairs. more horses.ke two i do not know what you people are so shy. we have one question here, and and thatquestion here, he will allow c-span2 take down and then we will go into resoluti

the system. where do you think -- >> it accrues to prosecutors differently in different jurisdictions and different than the federalystem. new york state sentencing laws are not like those in washington state. the powers of the prosecutor really rest principally in discretion, whether a prosecutor decides if he or she is going to charge this crime versus another or whether that prosecutor decides a charge not be brought. but where i think sentencing should land is i am comfortable with having judges have the power in broad ranges. in new york we have some of the widest ranges in the country. for nonviolent, judges have the discretion to give one to 25 years, and i think it is

namely, driving along on the federal highway system. now, how's that for complication? we're here today because we have not adequately addressed the federal highway system's responsibility, and that begins in this house of the congress where all financing, according to our constitution, is supposed to originate. but at the -- if the ways and means committee isn't taking it up, there's no opportunity for the house to take it up. don't brag about this rule today. it's a bad rule and we should vote it down and get to financing the federal highway system the way it's supposed to be financed. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. the gentleman from georgia has six minutes remaining. mr. woodall: mr. speaker, i yield myself 15 seconds to remind my friend during the congress before i arrived when he was chairman, four different extensions of the highway trust fund. not one of them funded with a change in the gas tax. be happy to yield to my friend. mr. neal: i thank the gentleman. we held the hearings. we had the ch

one of the other things that is really fascinating is if i look at the federal prison system, get a drug offender rate of about 50% of the people in federal prison are drug offenders. drug offenders. look at state prison, i guess about 41% of the prison population for those states being roughly nonviolent offenders. slash this in half, if we stopped incarcerating high rate of nonviolent point offenders we could cut our prison population in half, which would have substantial tax benefits. one question you might think about when i was talking about international crime rates was, okay, we incarcerate at lower rates in great britain but maybe that's because they have less crime. no. not necessarily. for example, if i look at the assault rates in brian, it's higher than the rate in the united states. of course if you have ever been to a soccer match in great britain, maybe you understand why. if i look at the theft rate in the uk, it's higher. as it is in france. but the one thing that is fascinating about our crime rates compared to most other modern industrial democracy wes lead the world i

where they called it the federal defense highway system and said we need this to defend the nation adequately and justified it on that basis. when bob spoke about the nfa, they said we can't regulate guns because of the second amendment, but perhaps we can tax them and that would be okay. and they applied a $200 tax, which at the time was a year's salary. so that would regulate them almost totally without infrin infringing on the second amendment. was sort of a roundabout way to do it. so now government does what they want regardless of the constitution. no moral people in government, or very few, and government has run amuck, and we find ourselves in a dastardly state of affairs. >> we're going to take two more questions. i don't know why you people are so shy and you don't line up when i tell you to line up. we have one question here and the next question here. and then we're going to allow c-span to take down their cameras. then we'll go into resolution. yes, sir. >> thank you. my name is byron baker from sun city west, arizona. i have

- thousand dollars of damage to the hoskins cemetery. 3 3 it's now being called the day the federal justice system failed.tonight...the omaha police officers association says justice has not been served.e group is upset that *jalita johnson* - the woman convicted of buying the gun used to kill omaha police officer kerrie orozco - has been senteced to just one year of probation.investigators say johnson bought the gun in georgia and then gave it to marcus wheeler back in april. one month later - police say he used it when he shot orozco police union says the e judge in johnson case could have sentenced her to ten years in jail and fined her 250- thousand dollars. 3 "wither you like police officers or not, wither you like kerrie or not, it's about gun violence. and if we are going to slow down and stop gun violence straw purchasingng is the number one cause of a lot ofofhese prohibited people having ns in their hands."johnson was also sentenced to 40 hou of community service and house arrest. 3 3 3 chad, the fact that it's almost dark already tells me it's november... but the temperatures make it fe

the private system begins to flourish. the old system did work and that's why we need obama care, but half of the money and the old system was regulated by the federal government. we have not had a private system in america appear with vast majority of the state, local, federal government has their tentacles and it. what i want to try to do was get the bureaucrats held of the design of the healthcare system and put the resources in the hands of the patient. that is one of the reasons as you mentioned in the intro, the author of health savings accounts, which is the ultimate empowerment of patients to give them the ability to make healthcare decisions. give them the resources. give them the savings account to be able to decide what care they will get, what doctors are going to go through. all of those things are possible we have technology and are smart phones allows access to information that we can start using to empower consumers in healthcare, other areas but health care. public, trust the market place and support to it. i'm very much supported to make sure everybody has access to it it. that's why i've always apart a tax credit for the uninsured

it's supposed to be part of the federal system for the state system and do they try it and what can work? it seems like a good thing they would learn because that is a huge part of what sort of creates a coming apart at some go to computers and others don't. are they care they are based, are they just -- can you teach somebody something .-full-stop or is it to lead by the time -- what would you want to see? these are eight discourses. they are taught by inmates. most of the program is taught by inmates and so i didn't take hydroponics but i could take a class on current events or crochet and get credit and it was all busy work and it was just the prison administration wanted to show that they were keeping us busy. when they go to the review you would give them a certificate i'm so busy working hard rehabilitating youth. they felt so good about this column of the road and on. but i talk about it and i think that it's so corrosive because these are people that need to learn the rules. check was saying there are people that do these things that are -- i didn't really care about that. it's j

tim murphy started his push to get through the house a complete overhaul of the federal laws with the broken federal health systemats are suggesting that these problems come down to guns. the real problem is a broken system that prevents people getting care fro loved on ones. republicans should be putting all of their weight behind this one. >> the break is supposed to be a deal between china and the u.s. on carbon. this week we learned that chinese coal use was actually 17% higher than reported in the official statistics to give you a sense of the scale. 17% in china is equal to 70% of all u.s. carbon emission. so this is actually a hit for the rule of law and political accountability which china lacks in the u.s. >> jason? >> this is a hit for jeanine hampton. the tea party republican who was elected lieutenant governor of kentucky. the conservativism equals racism. it's good news for the black electorate. this could help that. >> thanks, jason. thank you all. this is it for our show. we hope to see you right here next week. >>> hello, everyone. i'm arthel neville. welcome to "america's news headquarters." >> i

attics, i think, then people would think, at least in the federal system. there were only a couple people that came in that were really strung out and in the throes of addiction. there were people with dependencies that needed help, but it's not why they committed crimes. they were trying to make money because they were selling drugs. but the thing that i felt was missing the most was some sort of cognitive behavioral therapy. some sort of, you know, the psychological therapy. come from communities where that is frowned on, and there are people everywhere who frown upon this. but the laptop -- the lack of impulse control, a lot of the behavior is antisocial. that is what got them into this position. now they're going to the most antisocial place in the world, where you are walking around with headphones on, screaming your music to know when, and no one can tell you to be quiet because no one is going to screw with you. it just perpetuates the worst behaviors. fights youot of the would see would be overturning the tv channel or someone calling a foul on a bas

one of the things that is odd about living in california is that in california we actually have all three species of campaign systems. we have the -- kind of the federal system, which is restricting of contributions and types of contributions. you have some ultra-orthodox municipal elections, where there is actual ceilings in the amount of money can spend. .nd there are matching funds and that we have the initiative system, which is literally the wild west. you can raise any amount of money, all you have to do is report it. areink as long as there truthful reporting and people can figure out where the money is coming from and how much money is being spent, i think voters are very smart. in california, as everyone knows, we have a history as a stage going back decades of not electing self funders because voters are very, very aware of money and politics and will base their decisions upon that. ben, the whole issue of welfare organizations spending a lot of money, i don't know whether you have clients who were in this space, but to what extent from your analysis of elections and the fairness of elections -- is that a problem? or is that not? mr. ginsber

federal prison. these guys that tried to blow up in '93 the world trade center, they're all sitting in federal prisons. you're absolutely right. the federal system do this we should try them here, convict them here and serve time in supermax. >> i do not think they should be incorporated into our prison system because this gives them an open door to change more -- >> they're all in solitary. these guys are all in solitary. >> you're a judge, you know in prison people have ways to get stuff around and -- >> i hope you never have to go to florence, colorado. it is 450 feet below the earth. >> my fear they will get more people to become terrorists. >> that is legitimate fear. >> that is what my fear is. you bring them here. i think they should be isolated far away in gitmo where they belong. harris: we'll move on. we're coming right back on "outnumbered." by the way the university of missouri which we covered a little bit earlier, not the only school where racial tensions have been heating up. it is happening at yale university. we were just saying that. >> right. harris: could it happen someplace else, not a public school? we'll talk about. this o

now they argued that the governor's recent remarks represent a misunderstanding of the federal screening system for anyone coming into the country. patterson's mayor however told us that they're welcome and governor christie's comments are more in line with his run for the white house, not for his work in new jersey. >> do you feel like this is only an issue because he is running for president? do you feel like as new jersey's governor, this is not an issue to him? >> i can't speak for the governor. i'm going to say that i couldn't believe so, that because he's on a national spotlight, this has been a discussion that yields favorable to the republican party. and so, we here in patterson, again, we're proud of our diversity. we believe that our diversity is what makes us strong. we're proud of a syrian community that has been here in patterson since the late 1800s, a productive member of our community, and so, we will eagerly await this family of seven to arrive, and do whatever we could to make a pleasant stay. >> reporter: now we just received this statement from governor christie's office say

it's easy to say you'll dismantle obamacare but when you're putting people into the federal system ratherhem participate in a kentucky bred and specialized program, it just makes no logical sense. >> also when i look at the data in kentucky, before obamacare i think you had like 20% of the people uninsured and obamacare brought it down to 9%, so i mean, are you risking, are you willing to risk, and of course i'm referring here to the governor-elect bevin, are you willing to risk the insuring of people and health care people just to score some political points? >> well i don't know who is scoring points with, because there are more people insured in kentucky under the affordable care act than voted to are him on tuesday, so he's a very great political risk if he tries to take insurance from that many people. >> big picture, does this show what bev inis doing and hedging his bet on medicaid does it show the republicans the gop and conservatives in general have a hard time trying to turn around obamacare when they get to the politics of it, when the political rubber meets the political road?

wants to accelerate the release, we're talking about people who served 75% of their term, in the federal systemen 85%, they have to let you out. if the president wants to accelerate those releases and they're nonviolent, didn't harm anybody but themselves, the president is using federal sources in an appropriate way, because those jail cells should be filled by more dangerous people, not by these. >> but what assurance do we have that these are -- you picture like the college kids smoking pot and you say he got locked up for 20 years, that should be reduced. but that is not who we are talking about. some of them shot at people, arrested for assault, pleaded down. >> if violence is involved, they are not appropriate candidates for early release. if the president is releasing people who were convicted of crimes of violence, i understand what the commissioner said and he's right. we both spent a portion of our lives in the criminal justice system. often you're charged with a crime and you plead to something that bears no resemblance to what you've been charged with. if violence was involved, they

the federal reserve system is an agency of congress. as such, it is not infallable and its independence should not be unlimited. let's restore proper congressional supervision and provide the american people with transparency. i urge my colleagues to vote in support of h.r. 3189, the fed oversight reform and modernization act of 2015. and with that i yield back. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from california is recognized. ms. waters: thank you very much, mr. chairman. despite what my colleague on the opposite side of the aisle, mr. huizenga, has said about us not doing what's in the bill, we know what's in the bill and this congress should be frightened about what you are attempting to do with establishing this simple monetary policy rule that is unworkable. this is dangerous. i yield to the gentlelady from new york four minutes. she's the ranking member of the subcommittee on capital markets of the financial services committee, mrs. maloney. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. maloney: i thank the gentlelad

if we agree the criminal justice system could be better, what do you think about that? steve: i do not think the federalsystem is broken. let me say this. with respect to the criminal justice system, congress passed a series of laws that allowed us to put major drug traffickers and violent offenders back in prison. we started to fill the prisons up and by 1991, we saw historic violent crime rates that were asked loading and a start to come down. we have continued to put violent felons in prison and as we did that, violent crime continued to come down until right now, and you have heard it from other speakers, we are experiencing historic lows in violent crime. are mosttoric laws beneficial to the communities that were hit hardest in the early 80's and those are areas that were ravaged by these drug traffickers. john: let me also say something. the corrosion in this discussion and the reason it may be unhelpful -- unhelpful is there are embedded falsehoods in this. there was a reference this morning -- i saw some of this on the streaming feed. low-level nonviolent drug offenders are not filling our priso

the federal government. joining the gao in 1979, he has led numerous reviews of information technology systems and management at a variety of federal agencies. welcome. mr. clancyecognizes for his opening statement. good morning, mr. chairman, chairman langford, chairman perry, chairman

plug on that exchange, there's going to be some disruptions as they have to move over into the federal system. so even if that wasn't the reason that bevin was able to win the election, it's one of the most important consequences. >> yeah, and i feel like it's sort of a risky proposition for newly elected governor, bevin. the idea of flipping the state as matt says, is one that seems like there could be fairly serious reper suggestions, especially in an election year. >> look, i think what's fascinating is a larnler picture you're pointing to. there's sort of a dichotomy here. democrats have won the last two presidential election, but it's been an absolute devastation across the country. most times, off-year elections don't go well for the party in power, but this is more than twice the normal losses that have been sustained. it's historic. we never had these kind of losses. 12 governors, 13 senators, 16 members of congress, over 9 murks state legislators. i think that there's a split here that's occurring. personally, i think a lot of it is driven by economics. you still have, as david was p

and they have no way of testing it because district judges -- in the federal system -- will not dismiss indictments for insufficiency. now my law clerk james burnham has written a piece in the green bag which i recommend to everybody here suggesting that in federal court and presumably state court as well that district judges take close look at indictments and force efficiency and that be appealable so a defendant can know whether in fact he's facing a crime. so i think i would make those two changes. and at that point the defendant can know, in fact, what he's being charged with is, in fact, a crime and, second of all, that he has all the exculpatory evidence. >> okay. i think i see paul larkin in the back. >> paul larkin, heritage foundation. >> wait for the microphone, paul. >> paul larkin from the heritage foundation. i want to ask judge wilkinson a question, because i think a lot of the arguments you're making go to blue collar crimes, where there's clearly a question that the defendant may or may not be the one who committed it, but there's no question a crime occurred. in the whi

i asked him how long did it take to get the federal permits, to go through the federal permitting system to build this additional runway at the seattle airport. his answer? 15 years. 15 years, to get the federal permits to build a runway. you could have heard -- well, you did hear the whole committee, the whole audience, they just gasped. and then he said -- quote -- they built the great pyramids of egypt faster than that, unquote. this is what's going on in our country, and we're to blame. this town, it's happening all over the country, mr. president. americans need to know this. permitting a desalinization plant which would provide much-needed freshwater to help drought-stricken california, it only took nine years to permit that. simply raising a bridge in new york, not building a new bridge, razing a new one, took five years, the same bridge, and 20,000 pages of federal permitting requirements. the average time it now takes in america to approve to get federal approval for a major highway project is more than six years. six years. again, not to build a highway but just get the federal

the state security, the justice system, the federal police all probably didn't pay enough attention or do enough to check these radical movement. >> reporter: adding to the complexity in belgium there's the country unique political set up. this place is the national parliament, but it is just one of five parliaments in brussels. apart from the european parliament there's one for the dutch speaking region, french speaking community and one for the brusselss region. some politicians who want belgium to split into two parts have accused the south of being too slack when it comes to tackling terrorism. this journalism says it's not entirely fair. >>> it hasn't put its money in prevails. it has kept its money and at the same time the problems in brussels grow and grow. the other is another strange situation, is that it's 5 kilometres from here, from molenbeek, so you can't say we're not responsible for molenbeek. it is in our country, molenbeek is part of us. >> reporter: for the opposition greens, part of the problem is depravation and the lack of integration programs for immigrant communi

the-art detection system in the port of boston. there's definitely money needed to fund these programs. the clarity on who's paying for the systems, there are a federally mandated system. the ports believe the federal government should pay to fund these projects. if dr. flynn is willing to put $10 to $15 on each container, i assume you have an opinion on that? i will go back to where i started. we make choices. we are looking to spend $3.5 defensefor a missile system for that east coast to the iran uranium from nuclear weapons, which presumably will not be available for decades. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield. hahn ister: ms. recognized. rep. hahn: i've read with your written. i represent the port of los angeles and am concerned. do you believe that scanning at the point of origin is effective , one hundred percent, or should we invest more in scanning at the domestic courts? -- domestic ports? >> it is not so high we should be looking at dealing with it across the board. this ranks up there to the consequences. i spent a good amount of time in the port of l.a. and long beach, and you get a sense of scale. what the problem would be in the dirty bomb

says these vehicles would cause an additional $6,000 per vehicle per year damage on the federal system and they would be charged $200. i don't think there's that's a fair return to the taxpayer -- i don't think that's a fair return to the taxpayer. i reserve the balance of my time. i urge people to oppose the amendment. mr. rooney: mr. chairman, if the gentleman has no more speakers, i will yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. defazio: i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from oregon yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from florida. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. mr. rooney: i'd ask for a recorded vote. the chair: under clause 6 of rule 1, further proceedings offered by the gentleman from -- 18, further proceedings offered by the gentleman from florida will be postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number 40 printed in part b of house report 114-325. for what purpose does the gentleman fr

the thing about the federal suream is it is making that states are investing in a national transportation systemabout 25% of our roads are eligible for the federal aid program, but they carry about 80% of all of our traffic. ,e ship about 70% of our goods our freight is by truck. we need those roads and bridges across the entire country to get goods to the store. host: you can join the conversation as well. we are opening of the phone lines for your questions and comments. democrats can call (202) 748-8000. republicans, the number is (202) 748-8001. .ndependents, (202) 745-8002 you can also find us on social and be you. send us ar your thoughts on twitter, @cspanwj. e-mail atnd us an journal@c-span.org. alison premo black am i want to ask you about some of the economic impacts that you mentioned about central funding for infrastructure projects. you briefly put together a study that found that employment and purchases generate 510 billion dollars in annual economic activity. tell us a little bit about what is behind those numbers. guest: that is all loads of transportation. havedition to that, y

testimony from the federal reserve's supervision and regulation of the financial system. threerecognize myself for minutes to give an opening statement. the dodd frank act requires the federal reserve vice chair to testify before our committee twice a year regarding the supervision and regulation of financial institutions. passage ofafter the dodd frank, no such person exists. president obama has been unwilling or unable to follow the law and appoint a vice chair. we can no longer wait for the president to do his job so that we can be allowed to do ours. thus, chair yellen appears before us today in substitution. dodd frank rewarded the federal reserve with the vast, new, sweeping regulatory powers despite its contributions to the last financial what is clear is despite the largest monetary stimulus in our nation's history, middle income are not getting ahead and the poor and middle class are falling farther behind. the gdp is coming in at 1.5%. every man, woman, and child is thousands of dollars poorer than they should be. millions could be fully employed, who are not. mi

the first latina to head a federal law enforcement agency ever. [applause] that is very nice. largest law enforcement agency within the department of homeland security and the second-largest in the entire federal system behind the fbi. we need to honor the trailblazers. one of them is quite keen torres. he was killed while attempting to make an arrest. if you ever get to washington, you can go to the national law enforcement officers memorial. his name is there. he was in monterey county in california. barbara ponce. to leave thec peace officers association. her career began two decades earlier. she was with the sheriff's department. women were not considered suitable for patrol duties. they might be distracted by putting on their lipstick. she change that. she took on the role of leadership. these people are true trailblazers. i just give a tip of the hat to them. as many of you know, i am from texas. we have a lot to brag about. we have the largest state capital in the united states in austin. we have the greatest speed limit, 85 miles per hour. between austin and san antonio. who werewo presidents born in texas, neither of whom is named bush. lyndon johnson and dwight eisenhower. we have an extrao

the state security, the justice system, and the federal police probably did not pay enough attentionor do enough to check these radical movements and their preacher. >> this place is belgium's national parliament. apart from the european parliament there is one for the dutch-speaking region of flanders. one for the french-speaking community and one for the region. >> those who want belgium to split into two parts blame the police for a slack. >> flanders has not put its money in brussels. it kept its money. at the same time the problems in brussels would grow. flanders in another strange situation is five kilometers from here, so you can't say we're not responsible. it is part of our country. it is part of us. >> part of the problem is depravation and lack of programs for communities. >> they were known. they were known, but the data, we didn't have the manpower to analyze the data, and we see there was a difficulty getting the data from one service to another. >> the threat level has been lower, making people here feel truly safe and there may be less finger pointing and a lot more

very few things happen the way they do in other federal systems. ot of gridlock and a lot of lackluster performance. that has been the problem. we have seen this most importantly in the integration of foreigners into the mainstream society, and also the administration of justice and police work. that is where the shortcomings are. it is partly built into the kind of very difficult political construction that belgium is. but then again, the belgian phenomenon is not really a belgian phenomenon alone. we have seen similar shortcomings in france, and germany, and elsewhere. here the population is smaller and the percentage of people who are radical and have radicalized themselves is quite high, but the phenomenon is by no means exclusive to belgium. tom: jan, thank you so much. jan techau. "the big short" last night. has hiss joins us and harvard tie on. had the harvard football coach on for so many times this past season. we talk about francois hollande and other leaders. he's a true leader who has led these people, nine straight victories. short," th

it's supposed to be part of the federal system, the state system and, i mean, do they try it?what can work? i mean, computer seems like a good thing that would learn because that's a huge part of what sort of creates a coming apart in society is that some of us have good ability to deal with computers and others don't. are there career-based things? are there -- could you teach somebody some impulse control, or is it too late by the time they're there? what would you want to see? >> okay. well, i would just say the courses that jeff talked about, we had similar ones. these are called ace courses. they're taught by inmates. most of the programming there is taught by inmates. and so i didn't take hydroponics, but i could take jeopardy. i could take a class on current events. or crocheting. and get credit. and it was -- it was all busy work. and it was just the prison administration wanted to show that they were keeping us busy. and most of the guys wouldn't even go to the class. they would just sign the attendance form to say that they went. then they'd get their certificate. an

we need to have confidence in the federal system. neil: you have no choice. ur concerns, but this is a federal issue. if we say that we are going to be putting thousands of refugees in your neck of the woods, among north carolina being your neck of the woods, you just have to deal. what are you going to tell them? >> it is that way right now. we are requesting feedback and input. >> what if they don't satisfy? >> the good news is yesterday the president was lecturing us and calling us shameful. now they are setting up a meeting. there is a lot of concern. not just among governors, but citizens of the united states. we just saw a country have an act of war against them just like the united states did on 9/11. this is a friend in this is waking up people's eyes. the incidence of terrorism are at our shores. they are in europe. they could come back to us at any point in time. we have a strong ice is present among several countries. asking commonsense questions common sense questions in which we need a surety and the president. neil: maybe what happened at once wh

the european federation of journalists said the licensing systems would have an impact on the independence and pluralism of media in greece. the syriza campaigned on a promise it detroit unholy alliance of banks and businessmen in greece. in "the listening post", we did a slew of stories about state or publicly owned broadcasters struggling. bbc, rtve are in that category as is canada's c.b.c. the canadian broadcasting corporation was born. output spans a likely populated country and given that canada borders the united states, a superpower, the mother load of news and entertainment programming in the same language, the cbc's output must be canadian. that's not easy. nor have the past few years been kind tore big on airlines mired in conflict -- been find - four big on-air personalities mired in controversy. c.b.c. had an election to cover. the prime minister elect justin trudeau said he would restore the cbc's funding, it's relevant. politicians have been known to promise all kinds of things. >> reporter: election night in canada, and for many, the c.b.c. is still a network to tune into.

the management of iowa's medicaid system. they traveled to washington d-c today to speak to white house staff and the federal agency that handles these decisions. branstad wants to hire an outside company to manage the system, which includes hawk-i coverage for low income children. but it still requires approval from the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services before it can take effect january 1st, 2016, as proposed by the governor. we spoke to one of the state senators from d-c today. "what's scary is that this did not go through a legislative process.560,000 iowans, 4.2 billion dollars. we could have worked on this, we could have talked about this, we could addressed situations like this, and we didn't. and, so now, this is what's scary." stephanie: the governor sent us a statement today saying quote "iowa is taking a thoughtful modernizing including a two- year phase-in for our most vulnerable medicaid patients. " governor branstad has defended the plan by saying 25 other states have moved their medicaid systems to privatized, managed care. stephanie: waukee is one of the state's fasting growing suburbs... and cit

and not just the federal system but the state and local system. the danger of that, of course, is to make everybody in the criminal justice system and the institution of government seen as aggressors, perpetrators of wrongdoing if not victimizers of citizens, the very citizens they're sworn to protect. this corruption -- i agree with the earlier statement. i think we know trust is the basis of our government as well as law enforcement. this is the fundamental corrosion of the institution of justice and the relationship between citizens and communities and the criminal justice system. to see these acts of protection as acts of wrongdoing. that's what's really going on here. and it's unfortunate and it's wrong. and it's false. and it's a situation that has led to reducing penalties, reducing mandatory minimum sentences that have protected many people from crime, have broken down drug organizations that have victimized the least powerful in our communities. you will be asked to look at changing the structure of relationships between the federal and s

. >> one of the features about the federal reserve system is they have 12 reserve banks and one in cleveland i mean, your concern is -- is not wrong at all and, but i think what was happening well before the crisis was that there was a perspective that was shared not just by the fed, but others that the financial system should be more -- less regulated so it could be more dynamic. we know now that there were a lot of problems with that. if banks had sufficient capital that you didn't have to watch them too carefully. regulations shouldn't be to burdensome. >> was not done right either. >> i'm not debating you. >> i understand. let me ask you in a different way. why did tarp with bank bailouts work better than what we tried to do with other homes, particularly your conception if you will and pushing through congress to a bunch elects in congress that didn't want to do them, why did that work better than what we should have been done or tried to do for homeowners? >> first, we needed to stabilize wall street because we were afraid that the effects of collapsing financial system on the economy

investors will be watching today's testimony from janet yellen on how the federal reserve oversees the financial system. a check of the stories trending on the eyeopener this morning. randy: a parachute that save as pilot's life and his plane. look at the video. former wal-mart c.e.o. bill simon was piloting the small plane when oil pressure over arkansas. luckily he had a backup parachute for the entire plane that's built in. he and three passengers suffered only minor injuries. emily: the popular irish beer guinness is going vegan and making changes to the 265-year-old recipe starting next year. vegans long urged guinness to stop using small traces of fish bladder in its product which help clarify the beer and settle the yeast. guinness will opt for a alternative vegan friendly product. the taste is not expected to change. randy: an iconic gum wall in seattle is about to get a scrubdown for the first time in two decades. it's 20 years worth of chewed, sticky gum and really hard gum stuck to the wall on pikes place market. the steam cleaning will start november 10 according to a preservation group for

. >> one teacher of the federal reserve systems is that we have these 12 banks around the country and there's one in cleveland. they would report to us what was happening in cleveland with housing and the like. your concern is not wrong at all. but i think what was happening well before the crisis was that there was a philosophical perspective that was shared that the financial system should be less regulated so it could be more dynamic and so on. we know there were a lot of problems with that. greenspan's view was that if banks had sufficient capital, you didn't have to watch them to carefully. the regulation shouldn't be too burdensome. while it wasn't done right either. let me ask you in a different way why did tarp funding, why did that work better than with what we had to do with other home programs? clearly your conception if you will in your pushing through congress that didn't really want to do this. why did that work better than what we should have been doing or try to do for homeowners? first we needed to stabilize wall street because we were afraid the effects of the collap

the mbta commuter rail system safer, following that deadly crash in pennsylvania last spring. phil: a safety system called positive train control is designed to save lives on the tracks. there is already a federal law requiring train systems to install the safety mechanisms by the end of this year. congress has now passed an extension on that. but mbta officials say it' s an unfunded mandate and their focus