leland vitter is live with much more. >> reporter: this is very much a country on the brink of war, about 5 to 600 yards from my shoulder is the gaza border and we've seen tanks and army person nell carriers maneuvering and the palestinians are taking potshots around this position trying to see if they can't hit a israeli tank platoon. it's been a bloody day through the air war with rockets flying over our heads and the israelis coming in for air strikes on gaza. at least a dozen people killed inside the gaza strip. many of those civilians, including two kids and a dozen israelis injured from the rockets flying out. >> this is quite literally the tip of the israeli speer, citizens soldiers, engineers or accountants drafted into service. tank platoons are just waiting for the go order and it's literally go over that hill into gaza. day five of heavy israeli air strikes on gaza began before dawn with bombs targeting a pro hamas tv station and flattening a number of buildings where rescuers combed through the rubble for survivors. the attacks have killed more than 50 palestinians, half civil

david vitter actually got re-elected with 67% of the vote.lking about character. we're going to the point of character. that is a huge challenge. >> sean: i'm talking about mel saying i hit the lottery. a guy running prostitution out of his house. then gary studds. remember him, years ago? all those guys got re-elected, right? >> here's the thing, look who he's replacing. jesse jackson jr. millions of dallas misspent. dollars misspent. poverty rate, what that district is doing, you know what, they would go, because of identity politics and the chicago machine, and either elect this marionberry-like reject. i guess r. kelly wasn't available. >> i got to tell you -- >> that's what we're dealing with. >> sean: war on women, right? >> no. first of all, we have to talk about the facts. i appreciate the fact that david is bringing up real challenges in chicago, because there are kids who are in chicago, who are hungry and hopeless, who are fighting for their lives. and jesse jackson jr., we need to send our prayers out to jesse jackson jr., because

in southern israel, leland vitter, fox news. >>> the iraqi government released a terrorist from custody. vice president joe biden called iraq's prime minister this week and told him not to release the terrorist, but the prime minister said that iraq no long her legal grounds to hold him. he is now back home in beirut. a development as senator mccain and lindsay graham are calling the results of this administration's failed foreign policies. >>> new developments in the consulate attack in libya. the white house said it never altered the cia's talking points, blaming the attack on al qaeda. former cia director petraeus told congress on friday the agency always knew that terrorism was involved. he's more. >> reporter: the mystery of who changeed the ci attacking -- on the libya attack deepens today as the white house weighs in and said no one there made the controversial changes. according to sources on capitol hill, former cia director general david petraeus told lawmakers on friday that the original cia unclassified memo said it was an al qaeda-linked terror attack. but that al qaeda par

senator vitter and i are going to work together on it. he's going to be the new ranking, and he's very encouragerring about this -- encouragerring about this bill. so i think we're going to work across party lines on this water bill. i want to call on senator reid, you each have ten minutes. say what's in your heart, say what you want history to record about this storm. >> thank you, madam chairwoman, for your kind invitation to testify today and for your incredible leadership on this issue. i want to recognize, obviously, my colleague, senator whitehouse, who's been such a powerful force not only dealing with hurricane sandy, but so many other issues in the state of rhode island. later today you'll aerofrom my colleagues in the house, they, too, have been actively engaged in weathering the storm and then dealing with the after effects. rhode island suffered significant damage. a major disaster was declared in four of our five counties, the south coast of washington county which includes the commitments of wesley, narragansett pounded hea

i agree with a fair amount of what senator vitter jt said. i think the president having been reelected will be more willing to take on entitlement reform. doesn't have to worry about offending his base so much. the fact he is elected the republicans don't have to focus on trying to defeat him quite so much and i think he will be interested in his legacy. he has to get this de otherwise it haags over everythinghe next four yes. you look over that, i think there is window of opportunity next six months to hammer out some difficult, don't get me wrong, a lot of brinkmanship, right to the 11th hour but actually make some major progress on these fiscal issues. melissa: what do you think the final deal looks like? you heardd what senator vittert said. to me while that might sound practical it does not sound like something democrats will accept here in the wake of what they think is a mandate. seems like democrats want to die on the hllf this marginal tax increase of people either ove 250,000 couples or over a million. do youhink that is essential t

on the scale that ousted cia chief david vitter as goes beyond a secret mistress it's now a matter of national security and political intrigue. me out of the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program now the arab league has hailed the formation of syria's new rebel coalition but stopped short of recognizing the group as a so with voice of the syrian people leaders of serious exiled opposition beset by mutual suspicion and infighting formed the new united bloc on sunday following relentless pressure from the west and its allies his family is now saying international recognition to remove obstacles and sending arms to rebel forces six gulf states have already given their full backing to the coalition but some experts believe the oil rich nations are simply pursuing their own agenda. and i'm glad to see that this collection of corrupt dictatorships is instructing the syrian people as to who their representatives ought to be about the representatives of the saudi arabian people of the border. any and people or people of qatar charge of the rest of th

madam's list a couple years later vitter they all do it just some are smart enough to come see me and others just get themselves in trouble tiger woods all these different people it's just amazing it's kind of amazing to me what betray is that who really cares relax america it's just sex because patris was not a military man he didn't he had no code that he had to live by this is a problem for him his wife not the rest of the world. going to direct this next question to courtney over there you know it was once a really big deal in the united states say if it became public that there was infidelity or affairs that could break your career in the political world so corny do you think that people's perceptions have changed and if so why. i think that it has and you know because there are brothels that are legal in nevada and i think they should be legal everywhere because things like this need to stop happening you know he was in the army when this happened or before this happened and then after it happened he was out of the army and he didn't do anything illegal so obviously we need to r

leland vitter reports from southern israel. [ sirens ] >> reporter: the violence in the middle east continues to escalate. militants in gaza have unleashed hundreds of rockets against israel, including new longer range weapons aimed at tel aviv. in response the israeli military has deployed an iron dome rocket defense system. >> there is a possibility it will hit inside tel aviv, the dome brings down this probability to a very small probability. you cannot play games. >> reporter: a convoy of israeli troops and tanks could be seen driving toward the border. they showed the navy hitting a hamas building close to the home of the gaza prime minister. israel bombarded the gaza strip with hundreds of air strikes, targeting the prime minister's headquarters and police compound and smuggling tunnels. >> all night we were worried whether they will shell or not or target our house or not and if anything will be left for us or not. when we came in this morning sh we found nothing. there was a house here and now there is no house. >> reporter: eyewitnesses say they were hit by an israeli strike. >> now

leland vitter is on the ground and has the latest. >> reporter: along the gaza border, you get both sidesthe violence. you hear the pounding of the israel air strikes and black plumes of smoke coming from gaza and the white plumes, the rocketly

fox's leland vitter has more. >> reporter: the violence in the middle east continues to escalate.hed hundreds of rockets against israel, including new longer- range weapons aimed at tel aviv. in response, the milliary is now deploying an iron dome rocket defense system. >> and that will hit inside tel aviv. the iron dome brings down the property to a small probability. you know, you can't play games. >> reporter: a convoy of israeli troops and tanks can be seen driving south. israeli defense force distributed video reportedly showing it's a navy hitting the hamas building close to the home of the gaza prime minister. israel bombarded the trips -- strips with hundreds of airstrikes, targeting police headquarters, a police compound and smuggling tunnels. [ speaking in native tongue ] [ through translator ] >> all night, we were worried if they would shell or not or target the house or not or if anything would be left for us. when we came in, we found nothing. >> reporter: eyewitnesses say a residential -- hit in gaza city. [ speaking in native tongue ] [ through translator ] >> now

david vitter is still in the united states senate. newt gingrich ran for president.er. i'm not saying it's right. i'm saying this one affair and petraeus, we could not accept petraeus as the c.i.a. director? was he a good general? yeah, he was a great general. did he do a good job in iraq? he did a great job at iraq. was was he doing a good job at the c.i.a.? yes. end of story. we place too much importance on this. it just seems to me as americans we were still living in the victorian age and that's why petraeus felt that he had to resign. sad day. for this country. i believe. 1-866-55-press. invite you to join in and we'll be joined by joe cirincione. hopefully when we come back here on the "full court press." >> announcer: chatting with you live at current.com/billpress. this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and current tv. in 24-hour, around-the-clock cyberwarfare operations. you're about to watch an ad message created by a current tv viewer for capella university. matter. education is the key. it is the vehicle. it's the way in which we evolve. every

yesterday we had 20 -- >> leland vitter we just lost him there. is on the way to the scene of that bus bombing or explosion. >> a cease fire or some sort of adeal. more on that lart. in the meantime the director of national intelligence james clapper is changing his story about who removed a reference to al qaeda from the talking points on the benghazi terror attacks that left four americans dead. peter doocy is live for us in washington with the details. what now? >> in the last week we have heard two different stories of the number one intelligence officials on thursday behind closed doors he told congress whoever took the phrase al qaeda out of the cia talking points about the benghazi attacks that were giving susan rice worked outside of the intelligence community. on monday a spokesman came out and said the changes were made within the intelligence community. >> i think clapper has to say and has to say publicly whether he advocated the youtube video theory whether he pressed it on the white house and others in the intelligence community if s

leyland vitters. fox news. >>> backlash is building over the release of an accused terrorist by the iraqi government. the vice president called iraq's prime minister this week and told him not to release him. but the prime minister said they no longer had legal grounds to hold him. iran has been pushing for the release. he's now home back in beirut. senators john mccain and lindsey graham are calling this "a result of the obama administration's failed foreign policy." >>> the white house says it did not change the cia's talking talking points in libya. at some point it was changed to extremist organizations. friday former cia director petraeus said the cia always knew terrorism was involved in the attack. >> the issue is from what was released cia friday afternoon to the moment it was changed to the sunday morning talk shows, there's a gap of 48 hours we need to account for. >> all the intelligence community have told us that initially they recognize there were extremists and terrorists involved but t

tommy vitter, spokesman for the national security council coming out with a statement moments ago, general allen, his nomination to be the supreme allied commander in europe, basically in charge of all nato troops, that confirmation has been put, that nomination has been put on hold pending the outcome of the investigation into his possible involvement with all of this. jenna. jenna: for more on the fallout potential i of this scandal about the former cia chief, david petraeus, let's bring in bill mcgirth. former speechwriter for president george w. bush and. bill, in your column today, titled, sex, lies and gmail, you say there is essential question before we can examine the political fallout. what is that central question amidst all these twists and turns? >> well the central question for me is what happened in benghazi which involved the death of four americans including the first ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979. we know it's been a mess. we know the cia was heavily involved and on the ground. we know there are contradictary stories and and general petraeus early on in

we immediately reached out to senator vitter's office and he was able to put us in touch with the right at amtrak and they jumped on board quickly and we were able to get it together, mobilized our community to start accepting donations and we were overwhelmed by the generosity of the north shore residents. >>shepard: how did you get a sense for what it was that people here needed? >>guest: we were working with officials here because one thing we realized after katrina people were reaching out to us and shipping stuff, but if you don't have someone on the receiving end to orchestrate the delivery and the storage and delivering the supplies it doesn't do you any good. donna reached out to the people up here and dealing with a councilman who was fabulous orchestrating a smooth delivery, and that was key to the success of this operation. >>shepard: and hoboken is across the hudson river from midtown manhattan, one square mile town that flooded. it is incredible what happened. >>guest: it was amazing all of the flooding they had and those were the images we saw. i have a friend that lives t

legal land vitter -- leland vitter toured some of the damage along the border this morning. >> this isjust a couple of minutes afterwards. it was near our hotel where this happened. another ten or 15 feet and that rocket would have been inside the house. the problem for the israelis is the iron dome has been so effective in intercepting missiles, they have to make sure people around here take cover when these air raid sirens go off. we're heading right now from one location to another. you probably just heard the iron dome go off. a fellow is taking cover there which is about the best thing you can do in open areas. the key during one of these sirens is to try to find a place to lay down and tuck in somewhere like this rock. this is a fact of life. from the time the sirens go off to the time you need to be down is 20 or 30 seconds. this shows the power of these rockets through the roof of this apartment building, through this next floor with the steal reinforced ceiling and here to where it almost when down yet another floor in this apartment. almost everything a total loss. a lot of i

joining us live from israel,lyland vitter. it's been a wild couple of days. >> for sure.days. the funerals for those militants in gaza is over and with that brought a another of barrages of rockets here. hamas promised that the israeli attacks would, quote, open the gates of hell and this morning we got a chance of what it looks like inside an apartment building where one of these missiles struck coming out of gaza, hit the apartment building, killed three people and critically wounded a baby who was sleeping inside. injured about ten other people inside that apartment building. when those air raid sirens go off, you get a sense, 'cause you see everyone run, just how random these missiles are and then obviously their deadly effects. they're packed to inflict the maximum amount of damage. this began 24 hours ago with an air strike by the israelis against the head of hamas' military ring and the israelis continued systematically taking out jihad leaders as well as going after their weapons storage facility. that's where you're seeing these huge explosions. the next 24 hours

lugar: i would like to recognize senator vitter on our side. mr. vitter: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. vit i have thank you, mr. president. -- mr. vitter: thank you, mr. president. i rise to note brave concern on behalf of a constituent an of me and miss family, a businessman from slydel, louisiana. he has been held against his will in the custody of south sudanese officials since october 14 for several weeks now going on a month through thanksgiving. mark mccabe is a businessman. he was in africa, south sudan with business partners pursuing business opportunities, doing everything by the book legally, ethically. and, apparently, for reasons we don't yet fully understand, business competitors or business entities of his had some sway with south sudanese officials, particularly in a particular portion of the government with the security force, and he was taken into custody. he was charged with vague, very serious crimes, and he's been held against his will for these many weeks. well, mr. president, i won't go into all the detable, but i

national security spokesman tommy vitter gave this explanation.ost senior people in government worked on this issue from the minute it happened, that includes the secretary of defense, chairman of joint chiefs, secretary of state, national security advisor et cetera. fox news learned u.s. military intelligence was reporting early as 7:00 p.m. eastern less than four hours after the attack began that ansar al-sharia carried out the attack on the consulate. the intelligence was relayed to the military with no caveats cording a source familiar with that intelligence. further two state department cables showed stevens's team warned washington or tried to warn washington at 6:43 a.m. in the morning they had concerns that members. libyan police sent to guard them were photographing the compound. this important was photographing the inside of the u.s. special mission and furthermore this person was part of the police unit sent to protect the mission. u.s. intelligence officials tell fox that there were reports from eyewitnesses in benghazi that a libyan m

inhofe amendment numbered 2973, boxer amendment 2980, casey amendment 2994, be toomey amendment 2974, vitter amendment numbered 30 6, shaheen amendment numbered 3098, coburn number 3186. and i understand from senator mccain, i understand from senator mccain these amendments have been cleared on his side. i understand that these -- and i now ask consent the senate consider these amendments en bloc, the amendments be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, it's so ordered. the amendments are agreed to en bloc. the senator from michigan. mr. levin: what is the pending matter? the presiding officer: it is now in order for the senator from new hampshire to offer an amendment. mr. levin: and there are 20 minutes equally divided, i understand? the presiding officer: there will be. mr. levin: i would -- oh, the senator from new hampshire is ready to proceed. the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. ms. ayotte: i ask unanimous consent to temporarily set aside the pending amendments so i may call up my ame

the panel and the aba international section for putting on this terrific program, a topic i could vitter to be one of the biggest, scariest topics of our time. for those of you that are familiar with this topic, you may share some of my sentiment. i'm reluctant to say this on the public record, but quite frankly i'm terrified. i trust at the end of this you will be as well. the first time that i realized the cyberwar and terrorism is a hot topic is in the national research count will put out to scholarly publications on cyberwar, while at the same time "vanity fair" had cyberwar on the front page along with the british royals. that tells you they are covering both ends of the spectrum. as we know, the director of national intelligence, mike mcconnell famously said we would lose a cyberwar if it took place. the canadians would win, but i'm not so sure about the americans. this seems like an obvious question. cyberwar and terrorism.? well, did we have mr. carney in the audience? to win if you agree with mr. carney that there is no substantive basis for the cybersecurity threat by notetaker

john vitter says axel in not. >> -- john boehner says clearly not. >> it is a lot easier to say at this level of generality. it becomes harder to enacted. the number of times of with the head of the cbo, senator so and so would call me up and say i want to talk about tax reform and i would walk in and the head is one talking point which is brought in the base and lower the rate. what are you willing to scale back? mortgage interest, cannot touch that. charitable, cannot touch that. you go down the list. one of the reasons of these new ideas being attractive is a are obscuring what has to be cut back. >> there is still a hard choice there. >> we are not saying we are going to cut out your ability to deduct your mortgage but i will get to keep my ability to deduct my local tax. everything goes into a pot. everybody gets to keep their deductions but you cannot be too greedy about it. it does have to limit the amount they can benefit from it. >> that is the selling point. >> the notion here, can you do this and have the only effect of the wealthiest americans -- affect the wealthiest americ

the vitter amendment number 3087, as modified by changes at the desk. the klobuchar amendment number 31026789 the klobuchar amendment number 3105. murkowski amendment number -- i lost track -- 3135. the warner amendment number 3145. collins amendment number 3196, as modified by changes at the desk. the barrasso amendment number 3198. the klobuchar amendment number 3234. the reid amendment number 3244. the mccain amendment number 3247, as modified by changes at the desk. the alexander amendment number 3258. let me repeat that. the alexander amendment number 3258. the levin amendment number 3280. the begich amendment number 32 3290. mr. mccain: those have been cleared by our side. mr. levin: now i ask consent that these amendments be considered en bloc, the amendments be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? hearing no objection, so ordered. mr. levin: again, i thank the presiding officer. mr. mccain: mr. president, i'd also like to thank the presiding officer for his patience and long peri

amendment is also offered by senators lieberman, inhofe, risch, lugar, wicker, ayotte, collins, and vitter. i do understand it has been cleared by both sides. i do appreciate the cooperation with senator kerry. the amendment provides that the administration shall brief the appropriate committees on the dialogue between the united states and russia on issues related to or limits on or controls on nuclear arms, missile defense systems or long-range conventional strike systems. i think it's the administration's interest to consult with the congress and keep us adequately briefed on these discussions because they could, of course, eventually lead to an agreement which might then require the advice and consent of the senate. i note former senator arthur vandenberg once said if i'm going to be on the crash landing, i want to be on the takeoff. meaning it's much easier for the administration to obtain our consent if they seek our advice during the consultation process. i will confess this amendment was prompted by recent press stories, including one on november 8 which reported that our ambassado