last few months 0-- it is not a political issue, it is unacceptable to every member of the united states congress. about our relationship between congress, the v.a. -- it will provide information to us when we need that information. i want to say that i believe that i think it is 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. the problem we are having with access, we will deal with the right now, short term. people going to private doctors and so forth. will have the doctors, nurses, and culture to make sure that every eligible veteran in this country gets quality health care when he or she needs it. >> you are suggesting that we shouldn't read too much into the bill, but give us a sense of what the biggest sticking point will be. let's be clear. eyed enough chairman miller would use the word -- the congress in my view is a dysfunctional institution. there are major issues were virtually nothing is happening. important legislation needs to happen. rather than go through why we didn't do this a month ago, the importa

[applause] meeks welcome you to the congress of the united states. to this visitor's center. -- this is he said not a normal afternoon. we are going to actually do business. [laughter] the is a comment on congress of the united states, ladies and gentlemen. [laughter] somebody is doing business in this building. [laughter] gregory meeks, a great leader. karen bass is here, former speaker of the california assembly. [applause] , i was almoste born in his district. i will tell you the story about that, but one of the great members, stand up. [applause] brad sherman was introduced. not sure if he is still here, but barbara lee, i want to thank you. let me mentioned are for and sudan, you are a very great part of that. i don't know that sheila jackson is a part of that or not. ministers here from various countries in africa, welcome, we are pleased to have you here, pleased to know you, please to work with you and do business with you. like a gregory meeks, we believe you are on the cutting edge of the future. we are going to be there with you as your par

united states as children to remain and work in the united states. in my view, closing the door on undocumented youth is un-american. we in the congress of the united states have a moral responsibility to protect the welfare and rights of vulnerable children and youth, including children and youth who are undocumented or fleeing from the violence and despair in their countries of origin. i close by urging my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to vote in strong opposition to h.r. 5272, extreme and highly partisan legislation that does nothing to fix our nation's broken immigration system. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia. mr. goodlatte: at this time, i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from idaho, mr. labrador, a member of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from idaho is recognized for three minutes. mr. labrador: mr. speaker, as i sit here and i listen to the other side talk about this issue, i wonder if they even understand what is happening at the border. in 2011 there were only 6,500 children coming to the border. in 2012 the president acted through dac

, because i was complaining as a state legislator, it just wasn't fair for you to ban the united states congress, that he cannot come into his district except on sunday. so when the governor told me, "if you want to go back i will remove the criminal bail." my wife and i went down there. it was abundantly clear that he was not coming back home. the political vacuum that existed by that time at harlem, it was the entire thing. he had no competition but he had a whole lot of people that were getting antsy because he was not home. did not know-- he me but everyone assumed that we politicians were together and they were ready to get rid of him and me and anybody else in the democratic ticket. i tried to explain it to him, but he assumed i wanted to the seat. quite frankly, i had never made any money. i was in the u.s. attorney's office, i got a chance to go into private practice. i went home and told my wife, i can see our way out of poverty. i could be a state legislator, practice law, go into washington. my mom was born in new york, i washington, d.c., for all practical purposes, was the south. i

the others are waiting for the united states congress to grant the necessary authority to the executive branch to proceed. with modifications, the trade reform bill passed by the house last year would do a good job. i understand good progress has been made in the senate. i am optimistic, as always, that the senate will pass an acceptable bill quickly as a key part of our joint prosperity campaign. i am determined to expedite other international economic plans. we will be working together with other nations to find better ways to prevent shortages of food and fuel. we must not let last winter's energy crisis happen again. i will push project independence for our own good and the good of others. in that, too, i will need your help. successful foreign policy is an extension of the hopes of the whole american people for a world of peace and orderly reform and orderly freedom. so, i would say a few words to our distinguished guests from the governments of other nations where, as at home, it is my determination to deal openly with allies and adversaries. over the past 5 years in congress and

his own disappointed you know he hasn't disappointed me what has this appointed me is the united states congress it's a tragedy what the congress has done in blocking very very middle of the road. policies that obama's putting forward obama's not some crazy left wing maniac obama is what we would consider a rockefeller republican these days the country is move so far to the right that we've got a president who is essentially a middle of the road slightly leaning to the right democrat and everything he puts forward is killed and it's killed only because they want to destroy obama now he may not have the the fire power you know in the rhetoric that he does on the campaign trail and he probably should have a little bit more of that when he's pushing his policies he doesn't but if you look at his policies and look what he's putting forward the congress i'm ashamed that what the congress has done is i've never seen anything like in our lifetime you talk about the one nine hundred forty eight do nothing congress that harry truman ran against they passed nine hundred pieces of legislation this congress

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 cybersecurity. and how important that is. we have a litany of different areas that are 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, if 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. 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 a panel on the to take this seriously, to reorganize the mass of bureaucracy they have on the department of homeland security. that is bigger oversight today of what we have for oversight, i believe, for t

that is deliberately arrived at, and one that will be made in close consultation with the united states congress>> in conclusion, he says we don't want to just drop bombs in syria and see what happens. later he did say the president has been discussing a rage of options in syria with his top advisors, david. >> a lot of concerns from nato, the united nations, and others regarding what is happening in ukraine. what is the latest on that? >> the latest is what the president said yesterday. there is going to be no military action on the part of the united states against what is clearly now -- what many people are clearly calling an invasion. the president chooses to use the term incursion. that was part of the president's point in coming out and appearing before the press yesterday, that maintains the line. while at the same time, david, the president insists that the economic sanctions which have been slowly ratcheted up, against vulnerable portions of the russian economy are really taking their toll. devaluation in the ruble. capital flight from russia itself. and that has not deterred putin from

that is deliberately arrived at, and one that will be made in close consultation with the united states congress. >> reporter: and what sort of time frame are you looking at? >> i wouldn't speculate about time frame at this point. the president has been deliberate about this process. we'll continue to be, and i think that was evident from his answer yes. >> reporter: and on the immigration order question, are you thinking about delaying it for a little while because you don't want to impact the discussions over the cr that could trigger a budget shutdown -- government shutdown. >> i don't have an update in terms of timing. you a did hear from the president yesterday where he reiterated his strong commitment to take action within his authority to solve or at least address so many of the problems created by our broken immigration system. there is legislation that has passed through the senate that would have addressed so many of these problems, unfortunately we have seen republicans in the house engage in a political strategy to block that piece of legislation from even coming up for a vote. the p

solidarity for the tens of thousands of people in central america who have fled to the united states. >>> congress goes on a five-week recess in a matter of hours without dealing with the immigration process. the deal in the senate died. there is little hope for compromise. the senate did pass that $16 billion bill that will reform health care for veterans. it now heads to the president's desk for his signature. lawmakers also approved a $10 billion transportation bill to keep federal highway funds from running out. >>> our republican congressman is apologizing tonight after he was caught on camera twisting a staffer's arm. this video was shot today by an nbc producer on the hill. representative don young of alaska was trying to enter a gop conference meeting when a policy adviser stopped him. he was trying to direct young to enter a side door. young grabbed and twisted his arm. the congressman said he was caught off guard and didn't know the man but apologized for reacting the way he did. >>> sheahere's a story you saw t on 4, a d.c. official under investigation for a possible hate crime. police

and having the conversation, and a few telling us what you're going to do. >> senator, the 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 his vision by any administration. i understand those prerogatives quite clearly. i will admit to you that you will not be surprised by reading in the newspaper a decision or judgment we have made, that we will keep you completely informed about what we're doing in these negotiations as we have throughout these last six months. >> thank you. i know my time is up. i think the world understands that is a zero commitment. it is not in keeping with what secretary kerry said on april 8. i know the goalposts keep moving. i think you can continue this hearing as evidence to why we have so many concerns. again, we wish you well. >> thank you, mr. chairman. both of the individuals here today, i thank you for your service to our country. these are extremely challenging issues. going back to the start of these negotiations and the ne

united states congress has vote today provide israel with an additional $225 million in military aid. house of representatives passed the bill by an overwhelming majority just after the senate gave its approval. the extra money will help fund the iron dome which stops rockets coming from goose a. it intercepted three. >>> let's bring you some other news now, 65 people have died, more than 120 others injured in an explosion at a car park factory in the eastern chinese city. the blast happened at a workshop in the factory that polishes wheel had yo hubs. the plants provides car parts for general motors in the u.s., adrian brown has been following developments from beijing. >> reporter: we still don't know what caused this explosion. it happened at a metals factory. now, this metals factory is part of a vast industrial complex and there were several hundred people in the plant. pictures searching on china's equivalent of the twitter show badly burned survivors sitting in groups outside the factory. also pictures of torso in the back of a pickup truck that are charred. most of the people

and he has -- gwen: rules we've come to know in the united states congress. >> he's a lawyer. a very, very skilled constitutional lawyer who's argued before the supreme court and where does it say he's not allowed to run the house caucus if boehner in his view isn't doing it? so -- but ted cruz's end game here is essentially that he's running for president. for all intents and purposes. we know that that is what he's going for. and so his whole image is predicated on this tactic of stick being his finger in the eye of leadership. he has this joke he loves to tell on the trail about how when his little daughters gang up on him and attack him he feels like he's around mitch mcconnell and so he gets a lot of political mileage out of this. and he expects that he can translate that into a large vote with the republican base. >> real quick, on senator cruz, i think he's a very cagey political operator. i sat down with him on thursday afternoon. and i asked him about his meddling in house affairs. and he denied that he did anything directly to cause boehner's bill to stumble. and i t

it should not have its hand on the united did congress. -- united states congress. they have corrupted our foreign policy, our political leaders who speak their party line, they do not speak their conscience. john kerry, our secretary of e spokesman of our government, when he thought the mic was off, he said it is point d of a pin operation. leaders, our appointed leaders, when they are themselves they speak the truth. i want them to speak the truth to america, i want them to be free of the party lines, i want them read pledged their allegiance to america and american values. so, we are not done. save gaza, call this number. this is the white house number. please call the white house, express your dissatisfaction and demandedicy, that they stop the blockade on israel. they are more about organization. contact this website. american people need to know more about this issue. it is for people to learn about the facts and to counter the lies and the propaganda. thank you very much. peace. >> free, free, palestine. for others and sisters the next person i want to bring

ago, six members of the united states congress , wrote a letter to eric holder, urging that the departmentf justice get involved and investigate the case of eric garner and the nypd because of their broken window policing strategy. >> we have to accept this. struggle, too many tears. many victims have fell victim on the police who are supposed to serve and protect. we live in national competition that will continue to go on. the former governor of the state of new york. this is the 24th anniversary of the unfortunate murder of --. ofs is the 50th anniversary a terrible crime committed by a policeman when he shot a 15-year-old boy named james howell in harlem. it started the harlem riots. i want you to know that there was a case 72 years ago in the summer of 1942, that is when my father was the store with in front of all of his -- when my father was pistol whipped in friends.all of his >> may i bring on the president of united federation of teachers. >> it is time to teach. i want you to say it. it is time to teach. follow -- for us to something goodt to come from this. it is time to teach.

what's important is that the united states and the united states congress under this administration has helped finance the iron dome program which has saved thousands of more lives and prevented an already horrifying escalation of hostilities from escalating even further. so i'm going to continue to focus on technologies like the iron dome program and i don't care who said what. i care about the deed and that we are in very good shape with israel on military and intelligence cooperation. >> congressman, are you not bothered at all by the time line of how this war began? the capturing, the kidnapping of these three israeli teens and apparently the israeli police knew that they were likely dead and yet the search went on in the west bank and it was in response to that aggressive search even though the israeli government seems to have already known that the teenagers were dead. it was in response to that that palestinians were killed and that hamas then started launching rockets. does that not bother you at all? do you not have questions about israelis after that? >> what bothers me is tha

in 1972, he game the first african american from the deep south to be elected to the united states congressd in 1981, he was elected mayor of the great city of atlanta where he served for two terms. in atlanta, where he resides today, ambassador young has continued his service to the and in 1981, he was elected mayor of the great city of atlanta where he served for two terms. in atlanta, where he resides today, ambassador young has continued his service to the civil rights cause. as a college professor at georgia state yumpblt, where the policy school is named in his honor. he's also established the andrew young foundation and he has remained active in local, national, and global affairs. in recognition of his vast contributions, ambassador young was awarded the highest award that the united states has to bestow. and he has received honorary degrees from more than a hundred colleges and universities across the united states and abroad. just when you thought that his inventory of accomplishments could not extend any further, ambassador young has earned the title of film maker, devoted husban

last few months 0-- it is not a political issue, it is unacceptable to every member of the united states congress. about our relationship between congress, the v.a. -- it will provide information to us when we need that information. i want to say that i believe that i think it is 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. the problem we are having with access, we will deal with the right now, short term. people going to private doctors and so forth. will have the doctors, nurses, and culture to make sure that every eligible veteran in this country gets quality health care when he or she needs it. >> you are suggesting that we shouldn't read too much into the bill, but give us a sense of what the biggest sticking point will be. let's be clear. eyed enough chairman miller would use the word -- the congress in my view is a dysfunctional institution. there are major issues were virtually nothing is happening. important legislation needs to happen. rather than go through why we didn't do this a month ago, the importa

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we don't have an ambassador to turkey right now, because the united states congress is a worthless nonfunctioning excuse for a branch of government. we have no ambassador, that's not anybody else's fault, that's our fault, amazing. meanwhile, the defense department today announced that they're in full swing. another series of air strikes. there have been 101 declared air strikes since august 8th, that's not to mention the u.s. unmanned aircraft drones, and manned aircraft. planes with pilots in them, that are currently flying over syria that are doing surveillance flights. possibly in advance of air strikes too, depending on how the debate goes in washington. adding to the whole emotional pressure of this debate, today an american mother named shirley sotloffe, she appealed directly to the leader of isis, she called him by his chosen, self-bestowed title. asked him, pled with him in religious terms that he should please show mercy, free her son. her son is a 31-year-old journalist who isis is believed to be holding somewhere inside syria, steven sotloffe. he's the second man who isis pictured in

united states. because of the overwhelming support for israel in the united states. congress, i should say, that support has begun to drop pretty dramatically among the american population itself. programs not white evangelical conservatives but among democrats, independents, especially among young people, even among american jews as peter has written about in the past. support for israel seems to be diminishing, not increasing. >> we should point out, of course, that the casualties are almost entirely, 96%, as you say, palestinian but that's not for lack of trying by hamas and other militant groups that continue to send rockets and mortars into israel. but absolutely, there is a lop-sided body count in this. peter, what needs to happen next for this cease-fire to hold? just the next three days? >> there is a lot of i agree with him about but i don't think i could support an arms embargo to israel. to me it seems america should support israel but oppose israeli settlement building which i think undermines security. for this cease-fire, i think you will have to, i think the ul

americans ideas about this landscape for the role it played in the union congress vision for the postwar future of the united states. came upnows exactly who with the yosemite grant idea or why. kennethia senator john introduced the bill to congress but he referenced a group of of taste andn refinement whose names and therefore motivations have been lost to history. i want to say that has not stopped plenty of my colleagues historians from speculating very firmly about what their motivations were even though we don't know who they are. that makes for some interesting conversations. now you know a little about the grant itself. i always tell my college students to pose the so what question. to these details tell us about the grants and america's relationship with the environment? can humaneper, how stories in particular help us understand this moment in history that has implications for us a little bit better? hey, new slide. no? that's interesting. there we go. ok -- last 20 or sohe years of my life researching and writing about a particular gentleman minute -- named james hutchings who was the first publicist of y

bald face of the united states congress.ke also in violation of court orders by failing to disclose that backup system. >> you can look at the two court orders issued by the court once we discovered the melson been supposedly lost. he specifically directed the irs to submit testimony under oath about efforts to get those in melson where there were. two times they file information, two separate requests. the judge was quite specific. of what all the info. it declined to provide the information about the back of systems. we ask them sense, will you amend their declarations of the report to the court that was given? they said no. this is extraordinary stonewalling, even for this of ministration. lou: and the judge in this case, of this judge insist that the truth be told? that the court be honored by at least a chip of the hat from an organization this administration that refuses to obey law. >> you know, i think we have a good argument that the judge needs to allow us to give more information, put some of these officials under

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two years as a lame duck with no support or leverage from the united states congress.ot registered to vote, do it. if you've not made definite plans to get to the polls in person or election day, earlier when that's permitted or by absentee, get on your horse. get it planned, get yourself organized or don't complain about the direction of this country. the one lesson we learn again and again is it matters who is elected, whether in a small suburb in missouri where you have an african-american population not represented in the government there, or in the american presidency. it really matters that george w. bush was president in the early years of this century. it took a w. to be so influenced by his vice president, so moved toy ideologues to take the country into iraq and blow up iraq into the jungle it is today, and took barack obama to shake this country from the inability to deal with the country's health care challenge. all before him, both parties had failed, he delivered. yes, it matters locally who's calling the shots. get your plans together. get your heart, mi

if it was on a military base and they were doing that or in the cafeteria of the united states congress, yes, that's an open and shut case. here you have a small mom and pop store and they're making a decision to treat people a certain way and as you just pointed out, it's not that they're saying only if you're catholic or only if you're muslim. if they saw anyone giving grace to whomever, don't they have a freedom? that's my argument. my argument would be don't they have freedom of saying, hey, i appreciate what they're doing. i'm going to show my appreciation by giving them a free bowl the oatmeal. >> you say even though it's a privately run business that they probably would have been -- >> an individual would go in and say i don't believe in god or anyone. i believe this food is before me because i worked hard and someone made the food and i paid for it and so i'm eating it and i shouldn't have to pay 15% extra that the guy next to me who is genuflecting is not paying and ultimately the judges would find in favor of the person who had to pay the extra 15%. >> i'm surprised we haven't

clue in the majority opinion of the supreme court which use this case to affirm that the united states congress had the power to do whatever it wanted with public land. regardless of who lived there. this included granting large tracts of land to railroad corporations, industrial cattle ranches, and other corporate interests regardless of who sold the land previously. if the property had not been surveyed and they did not have a clear title, they could lose it to more powerful interest. nowhere does this opinion say anything about environmental preservation or even national parks even though it was written in the same year that yellowstone national park was created. the case was an affirmation of the triumph of the post-civil war government. his claim to private property within the grant, a claim that would undermine the power of yosemite's commissioners to control that development. the civil war is critical to understanding the grant. the civil war was the most violent and traumatizing experience in all of american history. images of yosemite hutchings happened to be married to her. the rest o

you will call for better or worse, petition the united states congress. you may not like the answer that they cannot put your petition, but that is a unit of agency, an entity that will be able to redress wants and needs and be responsive to these things. and so on one level i do think that even in the company now we're in comminations matter and that this nation in particular matters especially. particularly if you care about global thinking a global mindset. you should be super dedicated to making sure that the experiment called the united states works. the experiment called the united states actually delivers on its promise. we have a promise of everything errors in a year earlier. that is only in theory. in practice we have continuously, severely fail to live up to. if we ever actually get in right and make american citizenship fully lived up to its full birth of potential but would be the closest thing of this planet to global services. that would be the closest thing this planet will have yet seem to transcending nation, a tribe, creed and religion.

. >> bill, given the failure of the united states congress in any way to act, what do you think president obama could do? some of the specifics of a more progressive policy on climate change would be. >> president obama could have said for great the just said three years ago or four years ago, we are not going to build the key stone pipeline. that would've been a signal to the rest of the world because it would've been the first summer world leaders said, here's a massive project we're not building because of its effect on climate. instead, he has delayed and passed along from one election to the next and try to avoid any political pain. there are many other things he could be doing, including pushing hard for serious price on carbon. which is not necessarily a political impossibility. "the is an editorial in cap and dividend proposals that .ould put a big tax on carbon it is the kind of thing that would might strike a quarter pushed hard. hardould be working figuring out how at every turn to expedite and speed up the deployment of renewable energy. the president made a big point of how h

we don't have one and you're in the united states congress. even though i'm holding one that i got off of al jazeera are. you have patrick kennedy in off significant post go on cbs news and say he disagrees with this report. i think it's part of our business to understanding with what does hi disagree with and what does he agree where? if the very person that's implementing this office isn't totally familiar with it, isn't necessarily implementing it, there's a problem. there's a problem. >> again, i would like to restate. it was a ds management report. it hit and touched on ds diplomatic security would be better positioned to answer that question. >> i think they would be in a great position to answer it and i think next time we have this panel, we should include diplomatic security. if i had to do it over i would include diplomatic security here as well. >> would the gentle lady yield to me? >> yes. >> thanks. >> one question, mr. green. again, trying to get to the bottom line, security. when you did your surveying, what exactly -- exactly -

united states senate either went on the record or background saying the president did a lousy job and we have no relationship with him whatsoever. if that was simply a problem with the united states congressoncern is that we had the same gap between the president and foreign leaders. they have no relationship with him. he does not engage with them. he does not talk to them. he has not rallied them to our interest and their interests. >> how do you analyze -- look, i was -- you were in the white house. i was never there. but my instincts, i always have a sense of urgency about everything i do in life. he doesn't have that urgency. >> no. >> he seems detached. i don't know how you go from giving a three-minute comment about james foley being beheaded to minutes later, you know, high-fiving alonso morning and going to play golf. i -- why didn't he go to the situation room. >> i have to defend him a little bit. i understand making mistakes like that. we made a mistake like that. president bush made a comment about israel and then said watch this drive. that caused him to say, you know what, i better give up golf as long as i'm president because it sends a wrong message to our troops. presiden

congress. >> when it comes to the interest of the american people, the brea interest of the united states, we'reoing ask for permission from the syrian regime. >> rooting out a cancer like isil won't be easy or quick. >> joining me now nbc senior political editor murk mur ray. we're awaiting the briefing from the white house. let's talk about the president's press conference yesterday. lot of commentator are picking up that he doesn't have the strategy yet. you have time magazine as well as the washington post having both called his choice of words a gaffe. how about you? what is your read on what the president said? >> in our current media environment we say a particular word or phrase that get you in hot trouble. that's something that administrations, politicians, communication advisers want to be able to prevent that one isolated quote can you get in trouble. i think it's important to put it in the context. it wasn't necessarily that we don't have a strategy yet for how to deal with isis in its entirety. it was more about in syria. syria is a tricky situation. you have the assad regime and co

this president is destroying the united states congress with the help of his party, with the help of harry reid in the senate, whether it's the filibuster rule, whether it's treaties or what have you, we've never seen anything like this in american history. even franklin roosevelt's vice president rejected the speaker of the house when he tried to pack the supreme court. we do not have these ethical leading democrats anymore who are standing up to this president. this president does not want to work with congress. he does not want to rally the american people. he wants to go it alone. he's incapable of going it alone. he's doing enormous damage to this country. he's e vis rating what's left of the constitution. let me be very clear about this, he is attacking american sovereignty. with this u.n. deal that they're talking about, with the open borders and the executive fiat that he's talking about, these are all efforts to destroy american sovereignty by barack obama. >> you wrote this in one of your books, it's a post constitutional america. which is a pretty frightening thought. if y

it won't be easy, but the constitution demands that the american public and the united states congress give the president an authorization and i hope that we have that debate in september. >> senator, thank you very much. >>> as the president's national security team wrestles with the decision on how to confront isis, the terror group released two more gruesome videos. one is of syrian soldiers stripped and a forced march through the desert. later they were executed. we won't show you that, obviously. another shows kurdish soldiers being beheaded. the same manner as american journalist james foley. also dreadful. this as we've confirmed foley and other americans held by isis were tortured. unlike their european counterparts, they were waterboarded as well while being held in that isis prison facility near raqa in northern syria. >>> and andrew lipman spent more than 30 years working for the cia. retiring as the principal deputy director of the national counterterrorism center and is now a senior policy analyst at the rand corporation. thank you very much for joining us. is isis differe