as quote the only means to resolve any problems or disagreements unquote. >> question. egyptian president morsi overplayed his hand mort? >> he is certainly at the border lynn of overplaying his hand. he is losing a lot of support. the country is in terrible shape economically. even more extreme in the country are opposed to him. he has lost the center he has real problems in maintaining his position. i don't think the egyptian army has yet made clear where they will come out on all this because that is going to be the determining factor in who comes out ahead. he only survives if the army stays with him. pat? >> the muslim brotherhood is losing support and the hard right muslims are getting together with the ta heir square gang, and the military guys have said look we are in real danger of having a collapse of the state. that is why i agree the united states should maintain its lines to the egyptian military, send them the jets, because they may wind up as the guys on top as the primary country in the arab world. >> what about the role egypt played in the breakout of t

the report details, quote, sexual violence, abuses against children, unquote.e authors of the report, a former chief u.n. war crimes prosecutor says syria should be refused to the icc, the international criminal court. those responsible for such crimes, he says there is a list of the high-level perpetrators, should be prosecuted. >> i would say as a defender of justice, it must be imminent, urgently, because crimes continuing committed in syria and the number of incidents are increasing day to day, so justice must be done. >> the u.n. panel also had this recommendation to the international community. quote, curb the proliferation and supply of weapons, unquote, into syria. >> question, one round robin. the timing of the report helpful or unhelpful to diplomats trying to bring an end to the fighting in syria? mort. >> i think it's helpful. it will inspire some other country to get involved that in war. >> eleanor night. love the u.n. but i think it's largely irrelevant. the next step is really up to our new secretary of state, john kerry, and whether he can draw

unquote.n a state of the union address tuesday president obama had this to say. >> provocation of the sort we saw last night will only further isolate them as we standby our allies, strengthen our own missile defense and lead the world in taking firm action in response to defense and take firm action in respnorth threats. >> this is north korea's first successfully launched a long range rocket, raising fears north korea now has the capability to hit the united states. question. what is the real story behind kim jong un's nuclear test? mort? >> he is making an extraordinary statement a small country like that able to develop this kind of weaponry and rocket try and make it all work. it tells you about where the world is going but he is telling everybody don't mess with us okay? and a lot of people do want to mess with them. the president said we will standby our allies a lot of allies in that part of the world do not think the united states is standing behind them. >>> why should the united sta

federal reserves describes as quote weather related disruptions and other transitory facts unquote. central bank is keeping monetary policy on hold. and says n worth of long-term securities a month, until there is a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market. also, the cut back in department of defense outlays, is likely to fuel concerns about the size of a slow down and the full economic fallout of the large quote unquote sequester cuts scheduled for a month from now, the start of march. the president's press secretary said this about the sequester. quote, across-the-board cuts to education, to research and development, would have repeat, would have, damaging effects on our economy and our long-term economic prospects. unquote. a growing number of analysts believe the political will to stop the sequester is lacking. it will take effect, at least temporarily, they believe, and that will pose a further the f of this year. question. the fed is saying that the fourth quarter contraction october, november, december of 2012 was due chiefly to quote unquote transitory fac

less than a million dollars are for the most part unlikely to be considered so what is the quote unquote price tag for the highly sought diplomatic posts according to this

statements he had taken from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream his views are in the senator's case kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways than it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of an ill targeted vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of

ok tony don't you think maybe in the longer term this is a good this crisis quote unquote crisis is a good idea because it makes people more fiscally responsible because that's the only thing that threatens the united states itself. well i'd like to believe that a problem is like i said general eisenhower warned us in his closing speech about the military and industrial congressional complex that's why his mission if not to break senator patty murray from from from from washington state democrat pat toomey republican senator from pennsylvania both have boeing is a commonality so you've got people who are actually are more worried about their reelection than what's doing what's best for the american people because when i sat in the super committee i predicted they would actually do anything productive actually rein in these issues regarding the defense side of the house with that said boeing is actually the most creative of the super contractors because they actually had done a small burger the president comment that the fact that they're going to basically accept that they have to cut

political theater this whole idea that we're not deploying the truman battlegroup because of quote unquote cuts is insane the the the money is used for operations on am budgets are not being cut remotely and the bottom line is this as always the wars in afghanistan the wars in iraq were paid for by a burden see funds my goodness sake if the navy actually needs to actually continue its operations you could always go to congress and ask for emergency appropriations so we're not even there yet this is all theater and it's not even good theater at this point in time ok doug theater ok but it seems like bad theater to me go ahead . moore this is very disappointing but we should be surprised stray shit is really a measure of the level of political cowardice that we have inside the beltway no one wants to tell the american people the truth which is we have discretion that where we've got to ultimately reduce the size of our government and reduce spending across the boards we're at least twenty years overdue for fundamental change in the way we organize our forces to defend the united states and w

political theater this whole idea that works not deploying the truman battlegroup because of quote unquote cuts is insane the the the money is used for operations on am budgets are not being cut remotely and the bottom line is this as always the wars in afghanistan the wars in iraq were paid for by a burden see funds my goodness sake if the navy actually needs to actually continue its operations you could always go to congress and ask for emergency appropriations so we're not even there yet this is all theater and it's not even good theater at this point in time ok doug theater ok but it seems like bad theater to me go ahead . more of this is very disappointing but we should be surprised is really a measure of the level of political cowardice that we have inside the beltway no one wants to tell the american people the truth which is we have discretion that we're got to ultimately reduce the size of our government and reduce spending across the boards we're at least twenty years overdue for fundamental change in the way we organize our forces to defend the united states and we're at the end

political theater this whole idea that works not deploying the truman battlegroup because of quote unquote cuts is insane the that the money is used for operations on am budgets are not being cut remotely and the bottom line is this as always the wars in afghanistan the wars in iraq were paid for by a burden see funds my goodness sake if the navy actually needs to actually continue its operations you could always go to congress and ask for emergency appropriations so we're not even there yet this is all theater and it's not even good theater at this point in time ok doug theater ok but it seems like bad theater to me go ahead . moore it is very disappointing but we should be surprised stray shit is really a measure of the level of political cowardice that we have inside the beltway no one wants to tell the american people the truth which is we have discretion debt where we've got to ultimately reduce the size of our government and reduce spending across the boards were at least twenty years overdue for fundamental change in the way we organize our forces to defend the united states and we'

have inadequate responses and a lack of intent to comply with the sunshine ordinance in the future, unquote. i would be more than happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. public comment on this matter? >> my name is robert clark. i'm a witness to the fact that mr. lazar did not stay for the meeting that he claims he was at. my brother was talking and he ran out of the meeting, took his representative with him and they never returned to the meeting. that's why the meeting was postponed for another month to give him an opportunity to be there. that it's an outside right lie. i don't know about his other question, but all the ones that my brother and i have filed against him, he's been found in violation. if he just responded to the questions we were asking. the representative, he kept sending to the meetings had absolutely no not knowledge on the issues and they told him not to come in anymore and they wanted mr. lazar himself to come to those meetings and for him to stand up here today and lie to you, if anything else i request that this commission listen to those two meetings continue t

unquote. the mission statement i just quoted translates into a comprehensive effort to penetrate to influence, otherwise subvert our american civil society. a form of government, a governing institutions. that explanatory memorandum i just quoted from was written on may 19, 1991, by a top muslim brotherhood operative, -- operative. now, though the justice department has established in federal court during the holy land foundation trials in dallas texas, that the groups identified by the muslim brotherhood in their memo are, quote, their organizations, end quote, a number of them and their successors have been treated by the obama administration as key interlock tors -- interlocutories in dealing with jihad. and believes in this administration, believe that these muslim brotherhood front organizations are legitimate representatives of the muslim -american community. they have enabled the muslim brotherhood to recruit and to show others, look, we are the ones that the white house trusts. we coul

in streams and ponds. >>> quote, unquote, because i think a lot of you will think it was used to raisehe recyclable bags. >> so right as predicted, not that big of a deal. >> thank you, brian. it wasn't too big of a deal, but the it may be more this week, brian. here's what we have to love about february. as we begin the month, ground hog's day tomorrow. punktawny phil will probably see his shadow. the sun goes down at 5:30 today. we are gaining daylight. the average high temperature is 51 degrees. so, if you are feeling chilly today, it's going to be a changeable month. we did have snow to start the day. it ended up being .2 at reagan national. we had a half inch to an inch in the gaithersburg area. a little more in frederick. so hopefully didn't cause too many problems, but i understand for some people early on, it was slipping and sliding. we're looking at the weekend here. it's going to be a chilly one. with another fast moving clipper coming through tomorrow night and into the first part of sunday and maybe a couple off and on snow showers on sunday. so again, we're thinking this

now was not the time unquote. he referred to wall street donors is as quote obscene unquote.in late 2008 in early 2009 american taxpayers provided over $45 billion, that's what the b, and direct assistance to citigroup and hundreds of billions of citigroup assets. at the same time in january of 2009 mr. lew reportedly received over $940,000 in compensation. most of which was a bonus for work performed in 2008 when citi was on the verge of collapse. the bonus came a day before the city received another infusion of billions of dollars of tax money to prop the company up. that was the day before citigroup received the infusion of billions of dollars that he got that bonus. there is at the very least a contradiction between the presidents rhetoric with regard to wall street in his decision to appoint mr. lu to be treasury secretary however rather than acknowledging any such contradiction mr. lew simply told us all his compensation was in line with what other similarly situated executives receive. as i've said before that justification seems a bit like saying gee dad everyone is d

mainstream his views are in the senator's cape kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways than it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of will try to do vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate. had taken before it was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison afghanistan the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well show how eager many many in washington are to discuss new wars without even having finished the old ones. head fo

others are for the most part unlikely to be considered so what is the quote unquote price tag for the highly sought diplomatic posts according to this study friends and monaco topped the list with a level of personal contributions at six point two million dollars quote unquote the price for a position in the u.k. the authors find appears to live between six hundred fifty thousand dollars and two point three million dollars a posting in luxembourg is valued as three point one million dollars and appointment to portugal was predicted to have a value of around six hundred thousand dollars like all modern presidents before him president obama has appointed friends and donors to about thirty percent of diplomatic posts while seventy percent of the posts go to career diplomats so judging by this research career diplomats go to places like yemen while big donors go to a monaco nobody of course calls it bribery here these are just respectable donors who get what they want when they pay the price this is odd see now israel is reportedly intending to create a buffer zone stretching up to sevent

less than a million dollars are for the most part unlikely to be considered so what is the quote unquote price tag for the highly sought diplomatic posts according to this study friends and monaco topped the list with a level of personal contributions at six point two million dollars the price was quote unquote the price for a position in the u.k. the authors find appears to live between six hundred fifty thousand dollars and two point three million dollars a posting in luxembourg that tiny but very wealthy european country for example is valued as three point one million dollars dollars in direct contributions and appointment to portugal was predicted to have a value of around six hundred thousand dollars like all modern presidents before him president obama has appointed friends and donors to about thirty percent of diplomatic posts while seventy percent of the posts go to career diplomats so judging by this research career diplomats go to places like yemen while big donors go to monaco nobody of course calls it bribery here and these are just respectable donors who get what they want

unquote. the law further declares that its purpose is in part, quote, "to provide technical and financial assistance to state and local governments in connection with the development and execution of their air pollution prevention and control programs." unquote. also section 101 of the federal water pollution control act declares, quote, "it is the policy of congress to recognize, preserve, and protect the primary responsibilities and rights of states to prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollutio pollution." well, unfortunately, the e.p.a. is not honorin honoring that la, although it is abundantly clear, and instead treating state agencies as second-class citizens. for evidence of this, we need look no further than the text of a recent court opinion. in a case last year involving the clean air act, the d.c. circuit court of appeals ultimately struck down an e.p.a. rule known as "the cross-state air pollution rule," or the transport rule. and here's what the court said. quote -- "the federal gover