conservative senator strom thurmond filibustered as a democrat. thurmond spoke for many who recented the expansion of federal power. he later changed parties. today, the g.o.p. is stronger in the south than in the north. and the modern g.o.p. is still changing. this week, chairman will shorten the primary season, schedule the party's convention much earlier in june and slash the number of presidential debates from 27 two years ago to fewer than 10 in 2016. and with libertarians, tea partyers and more moderate establishment republicans debating the soul of the g.o.p., the party of lincoln will certainly continue to evolve. coming up, is television getting even trashier? we will explain, next. >> >> scared as hell... >> as american troops prepare to leave afghanistan get a first hand look at what life is really like under the taliban. >> we're going to be taken to a place, where they're going to make plans for an attack. >> the only thing i know is, that they say they're not going to withdraw. >> then, immediately after, an america tonight special e

conservative senator strom thurmond filibustered as a democrat. thurmond spoke for many who recented the expansion of federal power. he later changed parties. today, the g.o.p. is stronger in the south than in the north. and the modern g.o.p. is still changing. this week, chairman will shorten the primary season, schedule the party's convention much earlier in june and slash the number of presidential debates from 27 two years ago to fewer than 10 in 2016. and with libertarians, tea partyers and more moderate establishment republicans debating the soul of the g.o.p., the party of lincoln will certainly continue to evolve. coming up, is television getting even trashier? we will explain, next. >> >> join us on consider this... >> president jimmy carter joins antonio mora >> my administartion has a very strong human rights element. >> his perspective on the conflicts facing the world in the state of america. on al jazeera america al jazeera america. we open up your world. >> here on america tonight, an opportunity for all of america to be heard. >> o

how these risks are being shifted in the marketplace. 4 i'm -- >> i am going to recognize senator thurmond -- senator thune. we have five votes scheduled. we will work that out. recess ande a short come back and conclude the hearing. mulligan, we're still learning all the details of the target reach but we know that affected two types of data. one was the payment card data of approximately 40 million customers and personal data of up to 70 million customers. the question is, what steps have you taken to provide your customers the assurance that their personal information is going to be protected going forward. we have taken several steps. we immediately removed the malware from our system. we close the portal that created the access point print we narrow the scope of who has access to the system. the scope of who has access to the system. we have a review of our entire data security, processes, and controls. from that we will have additional earnings and we have taken steps that we have learned from their. we have in hazard data segmentation. perimeterrdened our and we have increased malwa

thurmond was eral unable to testify because of the heightened threat. today's hearing is particularly timely as north korea is again engaged in sabers rattling and dangerous rocket and missile launches, including one a few weeks ago. the regime has so far followed the same destructive policies as its predecessors, pursuing its nuclear weapons with careless disregard for the well-being of people in the region. even china, despite its long-standing relationship with north korea, has joined in the nation condemnation of north korean regime's dangerous behavior and has supported new sanctions. we look forward to hearing the general's views on recent developments on the korean peninsula and additional steps that might be taken to promote stability and peace. at the time of increasing fiscal austerity within the department of defense, china has announced it is increasing its official military budget for 2014 to almost 1 -- $132 billion which is a 12% increase over last year, making that country's military spending the second largest in the world after the uni

and for the thurmond. two weeks ago eman was caught on camera painting swastikas on the door of the synagogue the message he left was chilling death to the jews it's the first time in twenty years a synagogue was vandalized as you can see the graffiti has been painted over but the police only came today to investigate the incident two weeks after it happened ever since the unrest started a number of jews have been attacked while walking on the streets of kiev there are about one hundred thousand jews living in ukraine right now but one of the country's chief rabbis is urging them to leave that says members of the right wing's forbode a party are now part of the interim government and here we fell that nobody will do anything wrong to us because we are protected under the law in criminal law nowadays there is no i mean like you know because everything is changing so fast and i don't expect. anybody would protect the jews of anything happens and so these ukrainian jews who do not want to leave are taking mat

remember that 1948 was the year that strom thurmoned bolted from the democratic -- strom thurmond bolted from the democratics and went on to carry four states and strongly competed in many others in the presidential election. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to please consider the unintended consequences of the legislation before us, not only represent a permanent stain on the principle of separation of powers written by our founding fathers into the constitution but it would make it far more difficult to protect our citizens' civil rights and other constitutional protections. accordingly, i urge a yes vote to protect civil rights. and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. goodlatte: mr. chairman, i rise in opposition to the amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. goodlatte: mr. chairman, i oppose this amendment as it would allow the president to rewrite the civil rights laws on his own without any accountability in court. the amendment, i