please proceed. >> good afternoon, chairman whitehouse, mr. hatch and other members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to testify today. on an issue of great importance not only to my company and not only to my industry but to all segments of the american economy. eli lilly and company was founded and is headquartered in indianapolis, indiana, on may 10, just last saturday, eli lilly so but it's 138th birthday as a u.s. company. our mission is to discover and develop medicines that help people live longer, healthier and more active lives. are major areas of innovation include therapies of cancer, diabetes and mental illnesses. to fulfill this vision, lily must rely on intellectual property protection that includes patents, trademarks and trade secrets. unfortunately, like too many of america's leading innovator firms, lilly has recently the victim of trade secret theft. lilly as a member of the tech trade secret coalition a cross sector group of companies that support they harmonized federal civil remedy for trade secret misapp

so the whitehouse had no substantive input into the talking points. there have been allegations, charlie, that the whitehouse wrote the talking points. there have been allegations that the whitehouse -- >> rose: that means by cooking the books. >> cooking the books. there have been allegations that the whitehouse made significant changes that talking points, not true. there's been allegations that the whitehouse told me to make changes to the talking points, not true. none of that's true. none of it. >> rose: so when you listen to the director of the cia and acting director say that, what do you think. >> well the first question i would ask mr. murrow come up with susan rice's narrative. even the c.i.a. was not pushing that narrative. when you think about intel just last month he said he was shocked when she said at the morning talk shows this was a spontaneous reaction to a video because his intel, his information was wait a minute, no one is telling us that this was related to the video. hillary clinton said it was related to the video. the presiden

. >> thank you very much, chairman whitehouse. i'm the ceo of the center for responsible enterprise and trade, create.org. i appreciate the opportunity to testify. we provide resources to companies, large and small that help them assess their risks and develop strategies to protect their trade secrets and other ip assets. both within their organizations and in their supply chains. in today's integrated global economy, companies that succeed in turning their knowledge and know-how into competitive advantage are the ones that will create new jobs and drive economic growth. increasingly companies rely on trade secret laws to protect this knowledge also makes them prime targets for theft. recently teamed up with price waterhouse coopers to assess the economic impact of trade secret theft and device a framework for companies to mitigate threats the report makes clear that the trade secret theft amessage, if we are to energize our economy by enabling innovative companies to protect their trade secrets, we need to focus on two key goals.

. >> thank you very much, chairman whitehouse. i'm the ceo of the center for responsible enterprise and trade, create.org. i appreciate the opportunity to testify. we provide resources to companies, large and small that help them assess their risks and develop strategies to protect their trade secrets and other ip assets. both within their organizations and in their supply chains. in today's integrated global economy, companies that succeed in turning their knowledge and know-how into competitive advantage are the ones that will create new jobs and drive economic growth. increasingly companies rely on trade secret laws to protect this knowledge also makes them prime targets for theft. recently teamed up with price waterhouse coopers to assess the economic impact of trade secret theft and device a framework for companies to mitigate threats the report makes clear that the trade secret theft amessage, if we are to energize our economy by enabling innovative companies to protect their trade secrets, we need to focus on two key goals.

senator shelden whitehouse chairs this hour and a half long hearing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the hearing of the senate judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism will come to order. i am expecting that my ranking member senator lindsey graham will be here shortly but i just saw him on the c-span screen so i know that these on the floor and not here. but i have permission from the staff to proceed and he will join us as soon as his schedule permits. i also want to recognize in the audience ed pagano who has spent many happy hours in here when he was working for chairman leahy. it's good to have him back in a different capacity. we are having a hearing today that is entitled economic espionage and. secret theft. our hour-long adequate for today's threats. today the subcommittee is going to explore how we can better protect american businesses

i think the senators who are here, senator grassley, senator sessions, senator flake, senator whitehouse who will take over this hearing at some point, and had a chance to chat with administrator leonhart in the back, and i appreciate very much having you here. the hearing comes at an important time. our nation continues to struggle with an old and persistent problem, the seemingly unrelenting addiction to powerful controlled substances. but i think a lot about that problem is evolving and changing. the drugs of choice are evolving, along with the path to addiction for many americans. i said to ms. leonhart, it's a lot different from the days, decades ago when i was a prosecutor, or when senator sessions or senator whitehouse were. prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic levels, and overdoses from prescription opioids now account for more than half of all drug-related deaths. something we didn't see not very long ago. around the country law enforcement as a demonstrate a strong commitment to greater approaches to combating drug abuse. we seem enforcement alone is not enough. there's

whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: is the senate presently in a quorum call? the presiding officer: it is. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i'm here now for the 66th consecutive week that the senate has been in session to ask my colleagues here to wake uto the threat of climate change. the topic has become taboo for republicans in congress and so the discussion of climate change is somewhat one-sided around here. but the recent comprehensive national climate assessment shows americans are witnessing the effects of climate change in every state of our nation. colleagues, read the assessment. find out how climate change is already affecting every region of the country. in march, i visited iowa, where i heard over and over that iowans are getting ready for climate change. over the april recess, i spent five days traveling down the

well, the story behind that was that i went to work at the whitehouse in 1981. this was shortly after john hankly shot president reagan and members of his staff. john wilkes booth to avenge the south and reagan was shot to impress jody foster and you have the reason for the political assassin. but it was an attention getting to that. if you remember the traveling staff of mr. bush's. the french call it entriage. and you were given a briefing by the suspected service to see what to be looking for in an audience like this to be an extra pair of ear and eyes. it took place in a dark basement room in the old office building that is next to the whitehouse and looks like a cake. sitting in a dark basement watching home assassination movies. america's least funny home videos. and you had expert commentary by the agents and some of them had been at the attacks. and then we had this really arresting bit of footage of an attempt on president park of south korea. you surely remember president park. and he is at a podium much like this. slightly larger crowd. 5,000-6,000 pe

sheldon whitehouse chairs this hour and a half long hearing. [inaudible conversations] >> hearing will come to orderer. and i am expecting that the ranking member and senator lindsey graham will be here so shortly, but i just saw him on c-span screen and i know he's on the floor and not here.m his sta so i permission from his staff to proceed and you will join usj asoi soon as his schedule permis and i also want to recognize in the audience the gentleman who has spent many happy hour in. here when it is working forn chairman leahy and it's good to have him back in ant c different capacity and we are having a hearing today that is entitled economic espionage and trade secret theft and our lawstheft. threats. or today's today the subcommittee is going to explore how we can betterlort osetect americaner businesses fm those who try to steal theirope. valuable intellectual property. american companies are renowned as being the most innovative in the world and companies of every size and within every industry, from manufacturing to software to biotec

. >> angela merkel and president obama meeting face to face at the whitehouse. it's her first trip to washington since it was revealed the n sachlt was spying on her cell phone. the major issues? >> got to do something. >> the long road to recovery. millions returning home, surveying the damage left behind by those devastating tornados. >> backlash being felt after brunai en acts sharia code, it has some boycotting a hotel chain. i am stephanie sy. >> this morning, ukrainian forces trying to take back several eastern cities controlled by the pro-russian separatists. >> kiev launched military operations in the city of slovyansk. >> officials saying separatists shot down two army helicopters, killing one pilot and injure others. >> in donetsk where pro-russian separatists have taken control of the city's main train system. >> it began at about 4:30 a.m. outside slovyansk when units of the ukrainian army and to have launched the next phase in what kiev has described as an antiterrorist operation which has been in play in one form or another for several weeks now wi

whitehouse: it's a pleasure to be with you, senator, and your leadership is really remarkable. here's another example from my tour. this is broward county. if people say it's not real, ask the owner of this house. "for sale" sign. good luck selling that house with the ocean up through it. that was 2010. now broward county photograph, your commissioner, kristin jacobs, who was the mayor during this time, gave me these pictures. again, this is not -- this is tide. look at the sky. it's a beautiful day. this isn't rain. this is tide flooding in. and what it does to the cars. it's a mess. and as senator nelson described, because florida is this limestone kind of hard sponge, what keeps the salt water out is the pressure of the fresh water holding it at bay. there's no wall, there's no structure that keeps the water, salt and fresh, balanced. it's a hydraulic system. and what they've done is they've built these canals, a very complex system of canals, where they've raised the water so that they have pressure so they can push it back. well, as the sea level comes up, they're losing t

coming up on al jazeera america, a focus on youth concussions at the whitehouse today.hy the president says the problem goes well beyond football and how drones are being used to save lives in the event of hurricanes. crimes did flawed lab work take away their freedom? >> i was 18 when i went in... when i came out i was 50... you don't get it back... >> shocking truths revealed >> the system with joe burlinger only on al jazeera america a pen >> talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america >>> president on is obama says athletes and coaches need to stop playing through the pain and pay attention to the risks of concussions. >> we have to change a culture that says you suck it up. identifying a concussion and being able to self-diagnose that this is -- this is something that i need to take care of doesn't make you weak. it means you are strong. the white house held a news conference today calling for more research and better safety equipment. organizers hope to use the president's influence to encourage more young athletes to report head injuries. as many as 250,000 peo

senator whitehouse and i have both raised this, and will you, so will you cooperate with our committee'ssight? will you advocate within the executive branch for additional transparency with respect to dea's investigative efforts? >> senator, i'm limited in what i can talk about regarding those programs, but just be assured we have had oversight of those programs since 1992, and we will work with you. i know that we've, we've come up to brief some members of this committee, and we'll continue to look at ways to improve. and if it's found that additional oversight is needed, we welcome a look at what we've been doing. >> well, we'll -- and i think senator whitehouse and i and others will continue to ask questions about that. we, i always worry that things are so classified. i realize that a lot of things should be. but sometimes things are classified because they don't stand the light of day. and we want to make sure that's not the case. and i know that in some of these practices have been suspended by the department of justice pending review. and that's what i mean about the facing the li

for more, let me bring in senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. senator, thank you for your work and stance on the environment. you're way ahead of the curve. you're in front of a lot of lawmakers in this country. i want your response, senator, to this keystone minimum wage compromise that's being floated. >> i think the keystone project should fall on its own merits. the effort that the coal and oil industry is making to big foot it through congress with the old-fashioned techniques of arm twisting and bullying and throwing money around is really -- it's unpleasant to watch and it's wrong on the facts. it's really a contest between the science and the truth and taking care of our children and grandchildren and knowing what we know and a lobby that simply can't say enough and is using every tactic it can get its hands on to try to bully its way through this issue. and at some point we've got to stand for something and at some point we've got to stand up for what's true and for what's real and for what's going to matter to our grandchildren and not

senator whitehouse. >> thank you chairman. welcome is burwell. in the your summary of your very impressive career you describe yourself as having had the opportunity to lead large and complex organizations. in each of my worlds i focused on building strong teams forging relationships and delivering results. has it been your experience in delivering those results that having solid clear performance metrics is an advantage? >> it's an advantage to know where you are headed. >> that's part of the accountability you just described to senator hagan correct? >> yes. knowing where you are headed and how you measure with you get there not as important parts be under the affordable care act we have made significant progress in cleaning up some of the mess in the insurance market abuses like people being chucked out for their policies were denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. that has been good. the access issue has been moved in a very good direction with 8 million people signed up. that leaves the third big issue which is the cost of the

this is a live look at the whitehouse.ny moment now, we expect the president to speak about the release of sergeant bowe bergdahl released today after five years of captivity. his family, as we learned, is expected to be there when the president speaks, we, of course, will bring it to you live right here on al jazeera america. defense secretary chuck hagel accused china of destabilizing southeast asia today. the comments sparked a war of words. one chinese individual said if you take china as an enemy, china will become the enemy of the enlist. hagles remarks were made at an asian security summit in singapore. >> that's where we find al jazeera's scott hideler. >> u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagle using blunt language in dealing with china and what he sees as possible destabilization of the region when china is dealing with that i see territory y'all disputes. he thinks that what we are doing is something that could impact the international community. >> china has called the south china sea a sea of peace, friendship,

the whitehouse is believed to be organizing a number of events to give the report greater exposure. it goes to know to say a draft version of the report says americans are noticing changes with summers hotter and periods of heat last longer than any living american experiences. average temperature in the united states has increased by 1.5 since 1895 with more than 80% of the rise since 1980. the last decade was the hottest on record in the united states. that from a story in the guardian on a reported to be released tuesday. and now our report about congress' efforts to block the epa's greenhouse gas rules. his remarks are 20 minutes. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. happy monday. i hope everyone has recovered from prom and had a fine time on what turned out to be a beautiful weekend weather wise. as you can see i have the senior advisor to the president. he is no stranger to many of you. he is here to talk about energy and energy efficiency issues and he will make a presentation at the top and stay for questions. if you could direct questions to him at the top and we will l

whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business for up to 20 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i'm here as regular viewers of the c-span network know now, for the 65th time. every week that the senate is in session, to ask my colleagues here in the senate to wake up to the realities of climate change that surround us. here's what we know. we know that the oceans and atmosphere are warming. by the way, that's measurement, not theory. we know that sea level is rising, again that's measurement, not theory. and we know that oceans are becoming more acidic. again, a simple measurement. the potential that these changes have to disrupt economic growth and to disrupt groabl commerce are the subject -- global commerce are the subject of my remarks today and it is those changes that make investors and corporate executives take climate change seriously. we may not take climate change seriously, but corporate executives do. a world of shifting seasons a

she hosted school nutrition experts at the whitehouse tuesday. >> the last thing that we can afford too right now is play politics with our kids' health especially when we are finally starting to see some progress on this issue. >> the house is also looking to change the summer food program for kids living in poverty. every year when schools let out, millions of children go hungry because access to school-provided breakfasts and lunches suddenly ends. the house changes would include a 10% cut in funding and specify what areas can offer the program, in this case, rural appalachia, not urban areas where the need is just as great. >> it the owners and bosses of companies that make french fries and frozen pizzas, the big makers of basic ingredients like potatoes and cheese, the people who prepare and serve school meals all found aspects of the hunger-free kids act of 2010 something to complain about. a requirement to feed kids healthier, fresher food had allies and enemies. what's up in the country's school cafeterias? >> this time on "inside story" wohl begin the conversation at the schoo

we will start here. >> recent whitehouse fellow. how overtime has leadership changed when you see like 50 years is two generations. i think a big reason is millennials are critiqued for not appreciating institutions and i am curious how you have seen the leadership change, if at all. >> one amazing thing is you have to be born at a certain time if you are going to have a leadership profile. if you look at 500 years, what constituted someone has a leader in 1500 looks very different than 2000. you needed to be physically strong and be a warier. that is what allowed folks to be seen as a leader. in 1700, it was education. being the most learned person in the community gave you something others didn't have. today it is the ability to persuade. extraordinary how persuasion and the coin of the realm. your point is interesting because while it is true that some people from this generation don't like burockacy they are committed to institutional building than other generations. one thing i am excited is the entrepreneur edge we see and the

in particular, our colleagues on this side of the aisle, senator manchin and senator whitehouse. on the other side of the aisle, senator hoeven. all of them were very involved in the kind of nuts and bolts of redoing this legislation. and, suffice it to say, i think the three of them would be the first to say that they don't agree on every possible energy policy kind of matter. and yet the three of them came together, worked with this coalition of groups that i have described, and made a significant improvement in the bill -- in the already good bill after september, and, as a result of their work, we generated financial savings that made it possible to include the isakson-bennet legislation on residential mortgages, which i would submit, mr. president, is a very, very significant and positive development in the energy efficiency field. this is not a small matter to really take bold steps to improve energy efficiency in residential mortgages, the way our colleagues, senator isakson and senator bennet, have done in a bipartisan fashion. so, the reason that this -- so the reason th

senator whitehouse. >> welcome. this is a terrific panel, and i thank chairman feinstein and our ranking member, senator grassley, for pulling us together. this is a very important topic. 38 rhode islanders died of opioid overdoses in the first six weeks of this year. if you expand that to the population of the country and to a full year, that's 100,000 americans dead per year. it's really very serious, and some good steps have been taken. the state police, for instance, have just issued naloxone to all of their folks and recommended that local police departments as well as the emt first responders have it available. so i think we're responding in some good ways. one that worries me a little bit is something that's been raised a bunch here, and that's these prescription drug monitoring programs. i fought for years with mr. rannazzisi, your agency, dea, to try to get scheduled narcotics onto electronic prescribing, and after senator klobuchar, you will be glad to know it wasn't just you, years of bureaucratic battle,

before joining the news hour, she was a whitehouse reporter and cheief corspondant. and won an emmy award and shared the george polk award for coverage on terrorism. last year, we reported from ukraine in crimea and saw the issues up close and personal. it is my honor to welcome margaret. >> thank you very much and welcome to you who have been here. and we have an overflow room i understand. as jane harman and secretary hagel iterated this morning, i am remind you that we are here to look at really 20 years ago, this decision was taken in january of '94 at a nato summit to offer a partnership of peace to anyone who would like to have a closer relationship with nato. as everyone on the panel knows poland, czech republic and hungerary were hammering to joining. beginning in '97, nato started offering membership to those countries and today it is 12 larger than it was at the time. this obviously sticks in the president's craw. in the four hour telethon he talked about it repeatedly saying we were promised after germany's unification nato wouldn't expand eastward but the

wave of the future is wind mills and green energy but the market isn't moving that way so we need whitehouse, congress, and department of energy to push capital in the right direction. talk to me about wind mills and whatever the new trends in green energy are. and i say this as someone who admires green energy. there is an oil refinery in texas that runs on wind. no people lots of wind. western pennsylvania, the gas wells pumping the gas from the fracked wells run on solar. talk about ilan musk as well. >> guest: the last section is written about the people seeking the subsidies. with world war one and two we learned the wrong lesson. the budget declined by 50%. in world war down from 73% to 25% cut. so it wasn't a state directed recovery. it was a private directed recovery. we come out with the wrong lessons. and in the '70s, we had an energy crisis. the market would say rather it is ethanol, solar, wind energy, but the price, as oil rises becomes more apparent. henry ford thought ethanol would prevail and he built the tanks for both. but there is something about being efficient to process

speeches he knocks it out of the park anybody who doubts his commitment wednesday moved into though whitehousea lot of them are on a new tube to hear the speeches that are incredibly moving. i think he misunderstood and deserves more credit than he gets but for different reasons. >> how does that affect the passage of the voting rights act? >> didn't actually represent >> the voting rights act for that reason partly you had a number of southerners that i think were transformed by the experience of the civil-rights act including al gore sr. and of moderately younkers senator who saw this one step past was not so bad face of the emergent south that was biracial and he realized a five-year another 20 years i cannot be voting against civil rights. but floating rates was somewhat different it made it easier but something very specific with that context of the selma march and john said gave another of his very moving speeches where he finished eat each -- each to say we shall overcome you. and this sequel that is the guaranteed hit. that said as well as a general conservative turn by the public in g

the current housing chief shawn donovan will now direct the whitehouse office of management and budget. >> chief washington correspondent james rosen on the next step for a troubled country. >> both candidates in egypt's presidential election are spoms -- are poms -- promising to restore the law. >> the war against corruption is a prerequisite to winning, our wark the war on poverty. >> there is an overwhelming victory for a former military chief who staged a coup last august. >> people in the world realize what happened in egypt was the will of all of the egyptian people. >> with egypt already dependent on aid from the u.s. and gulf allies, el-sisi has unveiled a plan. >> what is needed right now is quite incoherent. they want to push egypt in a more democratic direction. they depend on egypt for a strategic relationship. >> analysts say president obama has confounded both ordinary egyptians and the country's political class. >> he seems to be very unclear. as if he doesn't have a middle east policy, so he needs to set it out and follow it. he can't keep betting on whatever source see

whitehouse: and i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. rubio: thank you, madam president. i'm here on the floor today to talk about an issue that has received a tremendous amount of attention, and rightfully so, over the last few weeks and it's the outrage of what's happening at the veterans administration. let me start at the outset by saying that while certainly people need to be held accountable to this, this should not be and really is not a partisan issue. i think we all have a deep commitment to service -- helping our veterans, the men and women who spend time away from their families and put their lives on the line to defend this country, to whom we make some fundamental promises. that when they come home, they will be taken care of, especially those who have been harmed while in th

i asked her about missteps she made in the whitehouse and what she learned and she said i learned your life is a symbol and people pay attention to symbol and i said what does that mean and she said do you remember when hurricane katrina hit new orleans and i did. i was serving as secretary of the state. and i had nothing to do with this. i was in new york for the opening of the general assembly of the united nations as the secretary of the state should do. i realized i had not packed an appropriate dress for a reception i was going to and my staff was happy to go get me won and i said i have a spare hour i will do it. she took the hour, ran to sax fifth avenue and picked out a dress and hopped in a cab to get back to the u.n. but when you are secretary of state you are being watched all of the time and a reporter snapped a picture of dr. rice with the shopping bag on the same day there was a picture of the devastation in new orleans. and she said i realized you have to read with your life. the forth approach to leadership we thing that sets people apart is platinum leadership. i inter

when senator whitehouse says it's the worst ever, i said, there's a radar fence on the east coast becausehode island was getting slammed by so many hurricanes, their senator in 1961, theodore green, supported the radar fixed because he got sick of them coming up the eastern seaboard and we didn't have the type of data to be able to see those things. so yaw have to understand, things were far worse in the 1950s. we're in a similar climate cycle. we'll be coming out of that and then go back to the relatively benign years as far as hurricanes, but that several years off. i've seen it before. if it's the same thing, why not say, well, the same thing can happen? >> the ""newsweek" cover" the big freeze to come. >> you'll see that 15 0 years you'll see it again. >> thank you. >>> other years after lbj ushered the great society in, are we just now tapped out in honestly, the off-season isn't really off for me. i've got a lot to do. that's why i got my surface. it's great for watching game film and drawing up plays. it's got onenote, so i can stay on top of my to-do list, which has been absolutel

the british marched on washington and burned down the capital and whitehouse.e a good commander and chief? >> he was patient. like lincoln, he had trouble with generals. in the war of 1812 the generals were people that served in the revolution and they were getting long in the tooth. and they were not as brave maybe as they might have been in their younger years. one general who was supposed to invade canada to go over the border near detroit became so alarmed at the rumors that turned out to be true actually that the british had formed a strong alliance with the indians who were great warriors that the americans might have to face this and he turned around and defeated detroit. he didn't just invade canada he gave the british detroit. so generals were a problem as they were with lincoln. not so with admirals. the navy then started under john adams with six spigots and they have 8-9 by the end of the war. the british had more than a hundred frigates. but the navy trained all of the time and brought newer and younger brood to man the ships. the navy kept going a

and in the whitehouse about qatar is expressing its power in terms of who it sports. there is some concern about that. they've had to express that to you the prime minister. >> well, let me tell you one thing, i cannot talk about when i was in job if somebody told me something or not. but what i can tell you right now that the relation with the united states is let me put it like this, it's a good relation. and there is always consultants as far as i know, we consult each others. in integrity and not interfering and quality. quality is we know the size of the united states. but i believe qatar wise enough not to do something would harm united states. i'm sure that in many cases during our time let me put it, we inform united states about important things important information, let me put it this way. it's a not in our favor to see anything, this is my own position, it's not in our favor to see you in a problem. >> rose: having the base in qatar works out just fine for everybody. >> it has been done at the time where inside respect and there's an agreement and this agr

mike vick vick viquiera is at the whitehouse. >> another black mark on an agency that once enjoyed a spotless reputation. the allegation: secret service agents pulled off their white house posts and sent an hour away top patrol the home of their director's assistant. within hours of the report, there were calls for another congressional inquiry into the elite agency. >> you have to ask if there is a leadership culture that needs to be ripped out at the secret service. >> the washington post reports that in june, 2011, as president obama was about to board marine 1 on the south lawn, two prowler agents were ordered to laplaita marilyn, home of lease a jope. she had a dispute with a neighboring family and fet threatened. she happened to be the administrative assistant to mark sullivan, then the director of the secret service. >> when you have someone removed from a post who is primary responsibility is to protect the president and the white house's occupants, that is very, very concerning. >> but a secret service official disputes much of the report saying the prowler unit is not assig

but i don't think russia was high on the priority list of foreign subjects in the whitehouse by any stretchf the imagination. not with syria, not with getting out of, particularly getting out of iraq and afghanistan, that's what dominated things. the so-called pivot to asia. >> rose: and concerns about terrorism. >> absolutely. russia was not the top priority. but again, this is not to be protect oif of the president of the united states. there are tactical errors by the european union and the united states. but we should not, again we call things by the proper name. the primary actor in this, in the ma levellent sense in my view is putin. he stabilize the he is to some degree. i'm hoping he backs off. i'm hoping sunday's election in ukraine goes well. it seems to me for russia to call ukraine fascist is preposterous. fascist countries don't call democratic elections, doesn't happen. and that's what's meant to happen on sunday. the likely victor is problematic. this is petro shenko. it's been terribly disturbed by the leadership since 1991. corrupt on the left, right and center. i want to s

. >> angela merkel and president obama meeting face to face at the whitehouse.t trip to washington since it was revealed the n sachlt was spying on her cell phone.

obama even knew about the nsa's reach when merkel was to be a primary target of the agency the whitehouse was adamant he had no idea there was this level of personalized surveillance against allied leaders. >> rose: did you find that surprising that he did not know. >> i wouldn't find it surprising he didn't know at the granular level every target that the nsa chooses. it certainly must be the case after five years in office he had a pretty good sense of the reach of the nsa. >> rose: at some point, you have to say how did you get that. >> there has to be all sorts of indications in every presidential daily briefing there's a very wide reach of the nsa. certainly far wider than he would have known as a senator not on the intelligence committee. >> rose: do you think it's changed the opinion of the american public. >> i know it has. one of the most extraordinary polling results to me since we started doing the reporting and frankly one of the most gratifying is that every year since 9/11 has asked americans do you fear more the threat of foreign terrorists or the threat of government to yo

[inaudible question] >> you know, the story of johnson in the whitehouse is a shakespearean supporty in itself and the changings he went through -- story -- he is a larger than life figure already and in a detailed books were about four in count to get up to that point. and there have been great books written just about that appearance. the experience of vietnam was sobering for him. he himself felt he was trapped and he could not pull out of vietnam and he had to keep going deeper but didn't want to be and saw the large parts of the public turn against him. a lot of the character flaws or character details that were petty that he exhibited up to the assumption of the presidency became magnified as he assumed the power. his aggressive suit of martin luther king is an example of this. king came here to the church up the road and gave a deep indictment on johnson and the entire country on the vietnam war. king was against the war and against war in general but as the war went on he became increasingly vocal against the war and by '67 he broke with the president and the president ordere

an option which -- he came to the whitehouse to convince them and was frustrated and then went on 60 minutes and presented it as what i call the d gone options. i paged through your book and you refer to supporting the opposition and you mentioned covert operations but the rich idea of empowering people fighting to be free is something we the united states haven't been good at. and i think it isn't in your culture with our military statement or cia culture. and i think this is a third option that i would like to throw at you. the one-time we tried it when congress is the grassroots revolted against the resistance in the 1980's and i was involved in that. we won. we forced the soviets out with and that led to six war saw countries and six republics going free and that is what they need. so i would like to throw that at you and get your comment on it. thank you. >> good question. i talk a little bit in the book about the iranian election in 2009 because in the summer as you will recall this was in the president there was elected for a second term and he was running against the green mo

the editorial goes ton say, "the whitehouse and mr. reid's dominant liberal wing won't take the chance that a bipartisan coalition might pass these amendments, most of which the house has passed or soon would. president obama would thus face a veto decision that would expose internal democrat divisions. so mr. reid shut down the amendment process, as he's done, as i said, in every case except for nine -- nine lonely votes. the he would goes on to say, "it is important to understand how much mr. reid's tactics have changed the senate. not too long ago it was understood that any senator could get a floor vote if he wanted to. the minority party, often democrats, used this right of amendment to sponsor votes they would sometimes put -- that would sometimes put the majority on the spot. it's called politics, rightly understood. this meant the senate debated national priorities and worked its bipartisan will. harry reid's senate has become a deliberative obstacle to democratic accountability," and sadly so, i might add, madam president. thi

. >> chairman feinstein's senator whitehouse and senator klobuchar thank you for the opportunity to discloseur nations opioid epidemic. the increasing use of heroin in suburban rural counties across the country is easily explained. if you speak with the new heroin user they will tell you that they began using heroin after becoming addicted to opioids painkillers. this phenomenon is not new. people have been switching from painkillers to heroin since the epidemic again 18 years ago. like heroin opioid painkillers are made from oak wood and the effects the world's oxycodone and 99% of the hydrocodone supply. on what basis is a concluded that we need more opioids? to end this epidemic i think we must accomplish the same two things we must do for india disease epidemic. one, that we must prevent people from developing the disease in the first place and two we must see the people who have the disease are able to access effective treatment. to prevent people from getting the disease in the first place the medical community must prescribe more cautiously so we don't addict their patients and indire

[inaudible] whitehouse-collins on low income housing retrofits. landrieu-wicker, energy star food party testing. landrieu-wicker on green federal buildings. -- [inaudible] amendments on energy efficiency and federal buildings and residential buildings. and a sessions-pryor amendment on third party testing. last month shaheen and port man released a new portion of their bill, 14 cosponsors, seven on each side. it's sponsored by the republican side, and the democrat side. mr. president, it would be hard to find a more partisan, consensus piece of legislation. but always, mr. president, always this is a bipartisan piece of legislation. but always it's the -- [inaudible] okay? try to figure out where i put that shall. is it here, is it here? where is that dollar -- >> would the majority leader yield for a question? >> i will yield in just a second. mr. president, this is what i talked about earlier. we have been going five years with this, five years trying to stop anything that obama wants to do. obama would like to see this passed. so would a bipart

we started out with the deputy director of the whitehouse policy on drugs and we testified to a number of items in conflict with statements we have heard from the president in fact even from the president of the united states about the impact of the current marijuana that we see in the market place. it is physical impact, it is also impact on the performance and even the intelligence of individuals that sat at this table and told us reasons why we should not lesson penalties and why we should again look at what is being done around the united states. much in conflict it to some agencies of the administration who are now in turmoil trying to figure out how they comply with changes. i will be it the district of columb columbia, colorado, or 20 other states that have passed laws. in fact, with many local and federal law enforcement agencies, and i would ask the staff, do we have a list of -- and in the district of columbia we have this pretty extensive list of enforcement agencies in the districts starting with the united states capital police, the united states secret service, supreme co

she served as the ambus basder to nigeria and served during the clinton whitehouse.e have a distinguished panel. i will turn to the our guest. >> thank you for the chance to testify on behalf of catholic services. i am scott campbell the region director covering the seven african countries. we are present in about 100 countries around the world and providing assistance and development programming. we have been in c.a.r. and our work is funded by the use government and sierra's private fund. i was in cer for three weeks in march and before that in january. i met my colleague rose during the second visit. i would like to share a few ideas about what has transpired in the country and how we are prioritizeing the work. crs is present from the whole breath of the country from the southeast and in the lar affected areas. and we have a very important u.s. aid funded program there working communities affected by the lord's resistance army. we are present in the capital with our partners in the south provinces and in the northwest as well. during my most recent trip i was in

. >> thank you very much, senator whitehouse. never miss ann, i opportunity to say something when given the opportunity, and since i feel like i have lived with this issue as long as anybody in congress now, mr. zeller, thank you for the job you are doing there. mr. chairman, i remember when opportunities for harm reduction goal andal -- were the could not be achieved because technology did not allow us to get there. i remember when r.j. reynolds spent several decades and came that i guessoduct was a precursor to some degree of the electronic cigarette even though it operated differently, ,nd esther zeller -- mr. zeller .ou might remember that there became a real opportunity for individuals to use a product that got what they were looking for without a combustible. how quickly we have moved to a point where now harm reduction is no longer a goal. technology allows us to get there. trust me, mr. chairman, we can work out these things about flavors and all of this. but for god sakes, let's not say we are not going to let technology

whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i have come directly to the senate floor from a terrific event in the dirksen building where hundreds of people who are concerned about what carbon pollution is doing to our atmosphere an oceans gathered to wake congress up. at 5:00 a whole bunch of alarms went off down there, and it was a vection siting, very enthusiastic moment with more than 40 members of congress showing up to reflect our miment to getting this done -- our commitment to getting this done. one of the things that i told people at that rally was that we're close to turning this issue a around. the barricade of special interest propaganda that has surrounded congress is eroding away. the denial castle is built on sand. and the sand is eroding the foundations for that propaganda are washing out from underneath it and its collapse is soon. so why do i say that? i say that for several reasons. the first reason that i believe we're close it a win is that for a long time the big polluters have had a free shot at the atmosp

whitehouse-collins, every one of these bipartisan, on low-income housing retrofits. landrieu-wicker-pryor, amendment on green federal building. hoeven-pryor, amendment on water heaters. hoeven-manchin-isakson-bennet, amendments on energy efficiency and federal buildings and residential buildings. and a sessions-pryor amendment on third-party testing. last month, shaheen and portman reached a new version of their bill to incorporate all these changes. the bill has 14 cosponsors, seven on each side. it's sponsored by the republican side, portman, ayotte, collins, hoeven, wicker. on the democrat side, shaheen, bennet, franken, manchin, warner. mr. president, it will be hard to find a more partisan consensus piece of legislation, but always, mr. president, always this is a bipartisan piece of legislation. but always it's the shell game. okay, we have got it here. try to figure out where i put that shell. is it here, is it here? where is that dollar? is it here, is it here? i will yield in just a second. mr. president, this is what i talked about earlier. we have been goi