chirac, secretary powell and secretary principi, general meyers, members of the united states congress, my fellow americans, ladies and

this department has never been authorized by the united states congress. has never been authorized by the united states congress. every other department in the federal government has been authorized by congress except for this one. i think that is shameful. and that is embarrassing. and shame on members of congress. i intend and plan to offer for the first time a full authorization bill in this next congress. and we will see how that plays out. but i hope that will demonstrate the problems, and i hope that mr. hamilton, you and your colleagues on the commission, can help us with our leadership to demonstrate why this is important. this is not about me trying to have some power-grabbing jurisdiction, it's trying to make things more effective and efficient to protect the american people. >> i would make a couple of comments myself and then move on to the next question. first comment is that nearly every recommendation that we made was implemented by congress imposing a set of changes on the executive branch. and we were very appreciative of that. the only one

but most recently it has been the united states congress that has not approved of the reform that were agreed in 2010. this is a direct protest against the united states rather than the european. >> how do you see theocracy of the world bank and imf with what bricks is doing? >> the new development bank, as they call it, it's pretty much a parallel to the world bank. but we also have four regional development banks and the china development bank far has given . in this area there are lots of banks, and it's nice to have one more. it's not dramatic. while there arrangement is not really a competitor. it's supposed to be $1 billion. you don't know how they can be available. you don't know how it can be activated. and the u.s. on its own put up hundred billion dollars in credit swaps to western countries, not for the bricks countries. you can't say that this is comparatively small by that comparison, it's nothing what the imf does in its programs. >> let's bring you in on the conversation, what do you see as the major motivation for these countries striking out on their own and forming a

infmation that yourtant personal and permission don't tell the united states congress or the americane for two months and most importantly don't tell the justice department, that is a problem. private citizens under investigation by the fbi, they lose critical documents and not disclose that and wait two months, they are in big trouble. why isn't the commissioner of the irs in big trouble? we got the assistant attorney general to admit that they are going to investigate that fact. in essence they will investigate why he did not tell in a timely fashion. lou: that is iman the rear reassurances to come from the inigatin now i they're is a pattern, the discretion to of destruction whether intentional, willful, criminal, i don't know, but hard drives being destroyed whether the sec, irs, the administration seems to stonewall all of your committee's congress in every respect with each one of these scandals. >> that is why we need a special prosecutor. they voted for a special prosecutor. we need that. think about this. they started this criminal investigation 14 months ago. and in 14 month

chirac, secretary powell and secretary principi, general meyers, members of the united states congress, my fellow americans, ladies and gentlemen, it is a high honor to represent the american people here at normandy on the 6th of june 2004. 20 summers ago when another american president came here to pay tribute to the men of d-day, he was a kracourageous man hims and a gallant leader in the cause of freedom. and today we honor the memory of ronald reagan. mr. president, thank you for your gracious welcome to the reunion of allies. history reminds us that france was america's first friend in the world. with us today are americans who first saw this place at a distance. and the half light of a tuesday morning long ago. time and providence have brought them back to see once more the beaches and the cliffs, the crosses and the stars of david. generations to come will know what happened here, but these men heard the guns. visitors will always pay respects at this cemetery, but these veterans come looking for a name and remembering faces and voices from a lifetime ago. today we honor all the

that's a decision of the united states congress. that's the decision that we have made. the duly elected body that passes laws. and as such, they not having been given amnesty, the president of the united states is not entitled to do so. by declaration of duly passed law, people aren't entitled to come to america unlawfully, come to america and stay unlawfully. they are not entitled to do that. how simple is this? and they are not entitled to take jobs if they do. they're not entitled to certain government benefits if they come illegally. of course they're not. of course they're not able to work and take jobs and get benefits if they came to the country illegally. so, this is -- when this first got talked about in more general terms, 22 members of the united states senate wrote president obama and questioned what we're hearing. and the senators wrote this: these policies that you have done have operated as an effective repeal of duly enacted federal immigration law and exceeds the bound of the president's prosecutorial discretion. it is not the property of the executive t

this is a new, dangerous phase that the united states of america is entering into. and so our congress, our white house, our policymakers must work together to understand these very significant challenges to the safety of the united states. jim mentioned cyber security and how important that is. we have a litany of different areas that our policymakers must pay greater attention to. and last, as a former member of congress, someone who served in the great midwest for six terms and someone who believes that as our founding fathers called it the first branch of government. sadly today it's the last branch the people in our country are looking for to solve our problems. that cannot be the case as we see these challenges. cyber, isis, al qaeda, poised and ready to attack our country again and possibly create another 9/11 type of attack. so we encourage congress, and we'll have panel on this, to take this seriously, to reorganize the massive beaurocracy that they have on the department of home security that is bigger oversight today of what we have for oversight, i believe, for department o

>> senator, united states congress and the united states senate has oversight authority. has legislative authority. you are free to decide what action you think is appropriate for any executive branch decisions by any administration. and i understand those prerogatives quite clearly. and i will commit to you that you will not be surprised by reading in the newspapers, decisions or judgments that we have made that we'll keep you completely informed about what we're doing in those noesh yagss as we have throughout these last six months. >> thank you. i naomi time is up and i think the world understands that is zero commitment. it's not in keeping with what secretary kerry said on april 8th. and i know the goalposts keep moving and i think you can continue this hearing as evidence of why so many of us have the concerns we have. again, we wish you well. >> senator? >> thank you, mr. chairman. hit the let me thank both of our individuals with us today for your continued service to our country. these are extremely challenges issues. >> going back to the negotiations in the orig

if it's not working, we should maybe ask the united states congress to present us the status of which -- from this time receive israel, japan, south korea and finishing to filipino, are the united states partners as a major -- to help us to solve the security problem. we should understand that we should act effectively to stop the danger for the global security. ukrainian army do their best and during their last weeks, we demonstrate a significant progress, shrinking, shortening two times the tir tear tory of the anti terroristic situation. i as a president present a peace plan. we declare a unitlateral cease fire for seven days. they continue for three more days. but every single day of cease fire, my country lost from three to 19 soldiers, every day. we have more than about 1,000 wounded and this is a very high price for the -- for solving of the conflict. but i'm absolutely sure that our actions should be effective and we should be together using all the opportunities, starting from the u.n. security council, from the european union council, from the global solidarity starting from

maybe the creation of this brics development bank will be just the wake-up call the united states congressbut given that it is the united states congress, i wouldn't bet on it. next on "gps," the american economy. is it as rosy as it seems? is it a facade? what about obamacare? paul krugman will tell us how he sees things when we come back. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow. that's why i always choose the fastest intern. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. the fastest office plant. so why wouldn't i choose the fastest wifi? i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. >>> the world may be in crisis but the american economy has been steadily recovering. the unemployment rate, consumer confidence and new home sales are all better than they've been since 2008 and the stock market keeps hitting record highs. on the other side, the unemployment rate is skewed because there are so many people who have simply given u

i'll put it into context of what we've achieved around marriage equality and through the united states congress the legislation we have so many challenges of the communicated. we know that hiv is not over that people have still struggling and getting sick and our transgender brothers and sisters are struggling with health care and their personal safety but if there is no one thing i've learned about your community this lgbt community knows how to take a punch and keep moderating they've skiefrd the aids epidemic and harry's tragic measured and shepherds murder and this stamp is another step forward i'm proud of where this community is come from and where it's going so let's keep fighting thank you. thank you >> thank you supervisor wiener i want to thank you all for being here not only, of course, the post office and our mayor and the incredible hard work with stewart milk and other thank you for continuing to spread the message worldwide. i know that supervisor wiener acknowledged a couple of foreperson folks but thank you carol who served with harvey milk (clapping) and, of course, bev who re

this is a new dangerous phase that the united states of america is entering into. and so our congress, our white house, our policymakers must work together to understand these very significant challenges to the safety of the united states. jim mentioned cyber security and how important that is. we have a litany of different areas that our policymakers must pay greater attention to. and last, as a former member of congress, someone who served in the great midwest for six terms, someone who believes that as our founding fathers called it the first branch of government. and sadly, today, it's the last branch that people in our country are looking for to solve our problems. that cannot be the case as we see these challenges of cyber, of isis, of al qaeda poised and ready to attack our country again and possibly create another 9/11 type of attack. so we encourage congress, and we'll have a panel on this, to take this seriously, to reorganize the massive bureaucracy that they have on the department of homeland security that is bigger oversight today of what we have for oversight, i believe,

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also saw some 17-year-olds that i thought looked more like a threat to coming into the united states. >> congress debates a solution as some compare the crisis to an invasion. >> stop the invasion into the united states. >>> then, more shocking evidence of colleges covering up sexual assaults on campus. amid a growing firestorm, we take a look at why police are cut out from campus investigations across the country. >>> plus, deep thoughts on how to spend taxpayer money from dick cheney. >> turn around the whole trend with respect to the united states military, that ought to be our top priority for spending, not good stamps or highways or anything else. >> "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. tonight, breaking news of a proposed cease-fire to end crisis in the middle east. as the death toll in gaza nears 200. the violence between israel and hamas threatens to spill past the borders of the region, reaching as far away as los angeles and paris. l.a. yesterday, a federal homeland security officer opened fire after a truck full of pro-palestinian demonstrators sh

deliver what members of congress have said will the administration come back for statutory relief would is the mechanism if it is reached? >> i can assure every member of the united statesnate and of the house of representatives that congress is a constant topic of conversation by the iranians. they are well aware not only in terms of oversight or legislation but we have been clear initially there is only suspension of our sanctions regime and the international community to lift the sanctions we must return to congress will only come when certain benchmarks reached because this has to be the agreement and only if the united states congress and governments believe the compliance is real and sustainable over a period of time. >> if the agreement is reached it is verifiable we will follow through i hope they also understand if we don't reach the agreement fits existing sanctions will be enforced and additional ones added ambles sides need to be interested. >> in the course of the joint plan of action we have committed to use certain sanctions as well as in good faith to fill our commitments on the release side to take seriously what we have committed to so the iranians can

without much help from the united states congress. i know i'm preaching to the choir when i talk but importance of infrastructure. almost everyone of you in this room i've had private conversation with about a major infrastructure project in your state from a highway to report to a canal that would have a significant economic impact on your state, if you have the resources to be able to do it. these are the projects which would pull millions nationwide, billions of dollars off the sidelines, not just federal dollars, billions of dollars off the sidelines, creating a virtuous cycle of more efficiency, more productivity, more jobs in your state. i stood on the water's edge with the governor on ally and governor haley -- governor on ally and governor haley discussing the need for modernizing out east coast ports. to accommodate these really new massive can. >> ships. i took several of my colleagues down to the panama canal to witness the construction. it looked like the great pyramids. they are gigantic. they will accommodate ships that a

from this right now, that that is cleanly in line with the easily understood intent of the united states congress. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," connecticut congressman jim himes looked at intelligence gatting for the foreign con -- conflict and tim huelskamp discussing the veteran's affairs department as arings get under way for veteran's secretary nominee. will talk cmahon about syria's chemical weapons. now before the house of representatives comes back, a discussion on the unaccompanied immigrant children at the u.s. southern border and what's needed to address the problem. a portion of our conversation from today's "washington journal." "washington journal closed quote continues. host: joining us now, thad bingel. he is a founding partner with the command consulting group. tell us about your job at customs. what did you do? the personarted as in charge of the interactions with the senate and the house. after about two years, i became chief of staff. i reported directly to the commissioner. at a time of rapid growth. we were doubling the size of the border patrol. a lot of focus on bor

agreed on is that the president of the united states exceeded the authority granted to him by this united states constitution and that the united states congress did absolutely nothing so the hat in and supreme court, two years later, had to make the decision that it was wrong. i get the balance of powers, mr. speaker. i get it. i get that the congress is here as article 1 and we make decisions and then our bills have to be signed by the president there in article 2. i get it, that if we pass the wrong kind of legislation, it's unconstitutional, the courts in article 3 get to make that decision. but we have a responsibility as the 435 members who serve in this chamber, who are not the bosses of this country, but who are the servants of the true bosses of this country back home, we have a responsibility to maintain the authority on capitol hill that the constitution provides. last week the courts said unanimously, 9-0, that the president can't just decide what the law is and what the law isn't. that the law exists independent of the president and his job is to follow those laws. that's pretty clear here. you get into article 2, in fact, we all

this is unacceptable to any and every member of the united states congress. not going to be manipulation of data. there's not going to be lying about wait lists. there's going to be a better relationship between congress and the v.a. they're going to provide information to us when we need that information. i want to say what i believe, and i've said this many, many times, and i think it's absolutely true in vermont, and i think it's true in many parts of this country that when veterans get into the v.a. system, they feel pretty good about the quality of care they are getting. i hear this all of the time. problem we're having with access, we're going to deal with it right now short term with emergency care, people going to private doctors and so forth. longer term, i hope the v.a.-the doctors, nurses -- will have the doctors, nurses and culture to make sure every veteran gets timely and quality health care when he or she needs it. sir? >> i know, chairman miller, you were suggesting we shouldn't read too much into the delay here, but give us a sense of what rea

as you notice, the crisis has given rise to a roiling debate in the united states, not only in the congress where there are divergent opinions over how to respond, but in the cities and towns across the united states that have been asked to shelter large numbers of children pending the review of their cases. for all the hardships that have been suffered by these young people and the divisions here about how to respond, i see one silver lining in this crisis. it has focused renewed attention on the insecurity and lack of opportunity that affect millions in central america. i can recall, and there's some veterans of previous eras in u.s. relations with the region, i can recall no time since the 1980's when so much u.s. ed and policy attention has been paid to the region. we may have differing opinions on what is responsible for the surge in these miners, but there can be little dispute over the objective conditions from which they come. according to our own department of homeland security, seven dorian children come from extremely violent regions where they perceive the risk of traveling alon

tim and i both sat in the congress of the united states for 12 years, both six terms, right? proud to have done it. and tim and i would -- lee hamilton would tell you. on the way to the floor after we vacated committee or subcommittee hearings, people would be expressing their profound distaste and displeasure, there are too many committees among too many subcommittees. i go in for half an hour, 45 minutes, particularly when c-span's there, do my thing and move on. they don't, they do not develop. there are not enough people who develop centers of excellence in their individual committees. that's not a criticism, that's a fact of life. and so what the bipartisan policy center is simply saying in a post-9/11 world where the threat has evolved both in terms of numbers of al-qaeda-like organizations, basically, the connective tissue of al-qaeda is now in about 16 different regions, 16 different countries. and one could argue that the threat, the terrorist threat today is even greater than it was on september 11th, september 12, 2001. and so it's a matter of turf on the hill. the

again no documents produced to the united states congress.n this, you say, all facilities will be delivered on the same, if not shorter schedules. there is no evidence to the contrary. do you have any examples of -- of a design excellence building that is coming in on time or, say shorter schedule, than standard embassy design. do you have any examples of any building that has been built for less than money, less than, the mun in money that we would have spent under standard embassy design. >> thank you for the question. as the committee knows the process to. >> no, no, no. i have five minutes. i got like 100 questions. do you have a single example of success as you have stated it? >> yes. >> which one? >> there are early excellence initiative projects. there was one in 2011, one in 2012. >> i need the names of these facilities. >> we can submit that for the record and take a bit more time to go over all of those. >> hold on, i'm sorry. i have taken up a minute and a half. you're going to give us the names of these buildings and when will you

and that's one of the things i enjoy about serving the united states congress is meeting the congressmen from all the other states that can educate me and america about what's going on in their state and help me about america's energy needs and become energy independent to do all the things that we have talked about here this evening. you know, people back home may say what have you done in congress, what have you done in the house to address these issues? we have sent numerous bills over to the senate where they languish in harry reid's office. the majority leader fails to bring the bills. even if you differ, bring them up and bring them in a committee hearing, let's have a markup and change those bills and change whatever meets your desires or lack delf in the senate and we will go to conference and work something else. we have a log jam. all these bills are behind the dam and we could unleash that energy independent potential that you have heard talked about here tonight. we passed an offshore lowering energy to fuel america's works act. i commend the chairman, doc hastings on his wor

the first african-american from the deep south since reconstruction to be elected to the united states congress. in 1977, he became the first african-american to serve as ambassador to united nations. in 1981, he was elected mayor of the great city of atlanta where he served for two terms. continued his has service to the civil rights cause as a college professor of georgia state university where the policy school is named in his honor. he has established the andrew young foundation and remained active in local, national, and global affairs. vastcognition of his contributions, ambassador young was awarded the presidential medal of freedom, the highest civilian award the united states has to the stowe. he has received honorary degrees from more than 100 colleges and universities in the united states and abroad. his when you thought inventory of accomplishments could not extend further, ambassador young has earned the title of filmmaker, devoted husband, amy award winner, author, and proud father and grandfather. , on behalf of a grateful nation and everyone here today, i want to thank you for yo

she represented her community in the00 to 2005 and was united states congress from 2006 to 2012.she was consistently ranked as one of the nation's most centrist members of congress. married marky kelly, who flew 39 combat missions in operation desert storm. as an astronaut, he flew his first of four missions above space shuttle endeavor, the same shall he commended on his final flight in 2011. he is one of only two individuals who have visited the international space station on four different occasions. giffords was wounded, she and mark became known for their story of hope and resilience. we are grateful to congress woman giffords and mark kelly for joining us for a conversation with hannah rosen -- with hanna rosin. i would have one other thing to add. this is the fun element to it. i'm a fan of bono. i've interviewed him a few times. i've gone to bono's concerts. mark has deflated me. how many of you went to a bono concert? remember when he was speaking to gabby from space, and we all thought it was live? nonetheless, it was taped, but it was a magical moment. it was astoundin

most told me they don't know what is going on in congress in the united states or their own countriest say the situation back home is too dangerous and they are very determined to change it. >>> still to come on this al jazeera news hour, farah will have all of the sport for us, including nba superstar lebron james keeping the world hanging as to when he'll next play. and banned in brazil, but bound for barcelona. liverpool agrees to sell troubled striker, loui suarez. snrz ♪ >>> let's get you all of the sport now. and here is farah. >> thank you so much. liverpool has agreed to sell loui suarez. he will join on a five-year contract. he'll wear the number 9 shirt at the new camp. the 27 year old scored 31 goals for liverpool last season, but is currently serving a four-month worldwide man for biting a player in the world cup. >>> chilean striker has moved to the british team arsenal. sanchez took part in the brazil 2014 world cup, scoring two goals for his country. he also scored 47 goals in his 141 appearances with the spanish club. >>> the german team have made a publish plea to the

had coming who was going to come testify before the committee despite a subpoena for the united states congress decided not to show up and chairman issa did the right thing and adjourned. we'd like to ask more questions and her name is ms. lerner. not lois lerner. she's very are competent. we like her and does a good job. we didn't have a good chance to dive into it. >> the white house says you have no authority to subpoena her. are right? >> what we said -- look, we issued a subpoena . we had been trying to get the information. remember, this ises new. they had this under other administrations and abandoned it. now the obama white house has started the white house office. political strategy and outreach. four government employees with federal taxpayer dollars started. we want to bring the director. now the white house is claiming something new we haven't seen before. they said they have immunity. they don't have to testify. they are not claiming executive privilege about content. they are saying they don't have to testify because they are an adviser to the president. >> what's next? >> take it

congress needs to act about the path to fixing this lies in the united states congress and it is time they step up to their responsibilities. >>> as it became clearer and clearer the base of the republican party wasn't going to allow a vote in the house on comprehensive immigration reform to pass the senate the pressure came from advocates on the white house to do something executively. it seems like the announcement yesterday the president made is in line with that but the call has been made to basically stop deportations. people call the president deporter in chief and point out historic levels of deportation. what do we expect to see in the way of executive action? >> understand that the president made this announcement because the speaker of the house told him he has no intention of moving immigration reform this year after waiting a year since the senate passed the bill the president said it is time for him to consider his options. he does not have legal authorities that match what the congress can do or what the senate did last year. so while there are advocates would like him t

the only difference is we have the president of the united states and members of congress and folks in the media saying we need to get them here and turn them into citizens. that's what's creating this crisis. >> do you agree with that? >> i don't. i think he's absolutely incorrect on the law, number one. let's establish what the law is. we passed the law when we created homeland security and it said that unaccompanied minor when is they arrive in the united states, are within 72 hours to be released by the border patrol. and handed over to the refugee division. that's the law. and they are supposed to be put in the least restrictive. that happened when there were calmer times. when reasonable people sat around the table and said this is how we should treat children. look, that's not only 2002. in 2008 we passed an antitrafficking law. i got to tell you, michele bachmann voted for it. mr. gomer from texas who thinks every immigrant that comes here -- if i could just finish. even steve king who talks about

manner for a man who is grinding of evidence, presiding over an incredible stonewall of the united states congresspeople. your thoughts? >> you can almost hear the shredder in the background while they are speaking. this is a guy who live to the congressional committee when it was suggested that maybe the irs owes the american people and apology. he reminds me of the political leaders from my childhood. unfortunately the political leaders i have in mind were speaking russian in my childhood his gastrectomy as the ultimate bureaucrat apparatchiks, and he is not serving the best interest of the american people. i call that a generous understatement. i did not believe a word he says. lou: you get the last word. >> you know, he is doing his job that job is to cover it up, and the more befuddled he seems that cover-up just slips along right before our very eyes. lou: john gibson democrats plants, think you both, gentlemen. now for our order of the evening inspired by one of our viewer e-mails. the word has a certain old-fashioned ring to it, the act of giving false or deliveries statements, lying, prev

the department has never been authorized by the united states congress. very other department has been authorized by congress except for this one and i think that is shameful and embarrassing and shame on the members of congre congress. we will see how that plays out but i hope that will demonstrate the problems and i hope that you and your colleagues in the commission can help to demonstrate why this is important. it's not about me trying to have a power grab jurisdiction but it's to make things more efficient to protect the american people. >> i will make a couple of comments and moveon. every recommendation that we made was implemented by congress and in opposing a set of changes on the executive branch and we were very appreciative of that. the only ones that were not implemented it had to or would have required congress to impose similar changes on itself and that is just not right. this has real consequences. when i was the attorney justice, i knew what the chairman and the ranking member in the house and the senate of the oversight committees though

they have left more undone than any other congress in the history of the united states of america. including our basic responsibility to have american ambassadors around the world. but even for a congress this failed and this reviled by the american people for it, the one thing they all say they supposedly care about, they supposedly want to get done, is take care of our veterans and fix the outrageous problems they have all been complaining about in which veterans were not getting care. congress now has four days to do it. all of the major veterans organizations in the country say it looks like it's not going to happen unless something changes. they are sounding the alarm this week. this congress is quantitatively speaking the worst congress ever. but if they cannot get this done, if they cannot get it done for veterans, they are not only worse than ever before, they are worse than anyone thought possible. this is astonishing if they cannot get this done. can they get it done? joining us now is the chairman of the senate veterans affairs committee, senator bernie sanders of vermont

united states george bush, stay in your constitutional lane. obey that simple document that is our united states constitution. if you want something done, go to the congress to get it done. do not do it by yourself in the white house. don't pick up your pen. don't pick up your phone. get in your car and drive down to the united states congress, and every single time then-senator barack obama said that, he was right. and there were far too few republicans in this chamber, far too few republicans in the senate who stood up and agreed with him. as republicans we had a war on our hands. the nation was in crisis. national security crisis. terrorism on our shores like we've never seen before. and we thought, you know what -- and again i wasn't here then. i can only imagine what was going on in this body. only imagine what those with voting cards were thinking. but i imagine they were thinking, i hate to criticize my own president in these tough times for america. maybe it would be better if i looked the other way. maybe it would be better if i just turned my head just this once irrespective of what the constitutional guidance requires. and if that was the thoug

so really, the true solution lies with the united states congress. ited states congress must legalize marijuana, get the federal government out of the prohibition business, and take it off of schedule 1. marijuana is scheduled as the most serious type of drug under federal law? that's insame, utterly consane. >> mason, i want to give you -- i just got the wrap in my ear. do you have one sentence you want to throw back out there? >> you know, everyone in this country is coming to realize that marijuana prohibition is just as big a failure as alcohol prohibition. marijuana is a less harmful substance and there's no reason we can't start treating it that by by regulating it and taxing it as colorado has begun to do. >> got to go, thank you so much. >>> good afternoon. you are in the "cnn newsroom." i'm annika barrera in for don lemon. >>> tears in court as damning allegations emerge about this georgia father accused of murdering his 22-month-old son. police say he was sexting with a half dozen women while his son died in an suv under the blistering georg

development in the hit of defensive warfare with the help of the united states and i thank the american people and rebound, the united states congress for helping us fund this amazing development. the other reason we are succeeding, and you have to understand some of the rockets piece through the shield and the reason we succeeding is because we are targeting the rocketeers, firing from the homes, the command posts of the hamas and islamic jihad army. that is where they have the secure communications and weapons and rockets hidden, so on, obviously, we not going to give them immunity so we have to minimize the fanes. with this kind of enemy we take whatever necessary means necessary. i tell you, we have tried surgical action and it is very tough. there will always be civilian casuals and we regret that. we have to defend our people and that is what we will do. >> how likely is it you will need an amount of ground invasion to accomplish the mission you have describeed? we will take the means necessary. this can be achieveed through diplomatic or military means, whatever military means we will do what is mess and what any country woul

i think it's time for the united states congress to step up its support for the ukraine during this troubling time and maybe we can try to get something done along those lines before we break for the august recess. >> senator, i appreciate you being with us here on what is certainly a busy day for you. i would be remiss if i didn't ask you about the other big story today. secretary kerry asking for a precise operation. what is your view of this operation at this juncture and do you think the obama administration is striking the right tone and the right pressure on the israeli government at this time? >> well, hamas had the opportunity to engage in a joint cease-fire, and they turned down that opportunity. even worse, they have been using civilians as shields, storing missiles in elementary schools. there's a lot of culpability here when it comes to how hamas has conducted itself in the past 24, 48 hours. on the israeli side, if this is truly about clearing those tunnels, this needs to be a very targeted and time limited military exercise, and i hope, i trust, that the israelis know that when

united states. he seemed to be quite frankly more interested in partisan politics and blaming the president than taking the responsibility for the unintended consequences of the piece of legislation that he championed in the united states congressuite a shame. i think it is the reason many americans have set up on the house and senate because they don't get anything done. we are in the midst of a terrible humanitarian crisis. >> donna, we saw the illustration in the way in which this is used by both parties to stoke their respective base in the mid term. if the status quo continues, who wins and who loses politically speaking? >> i want to say this, as an american, this is about our values. this is not about our partisan politics. it is about who we are as a country. you have refugees from central america, many children, they are human beings. they are like our own children. we need a surge of values and dealing with the crisis in a humanitarian way. i agree with everything michelle bernard just said. many kids are being exploited. we don't know where they may end up. right now, they are being held in the federal detention centers waiting for hearings and waiting to be deported. they are children. we should treat them with dign