i was in the carter whitehouse. we were on the way to loosing the u.s. senate and loosing over 30 seats in the house. so everybody who was supposed to come to the party was like me. we had lost our jobs. there was no reason to celebrate. but fast forward to june 2000, in burrlerlin, leaders of 14 countries, led my bill clinton and tony blare, signed a progressive declaration defining their common themes for governoring -- opportunity, responsibility and things and communities. president clinton was completing his second successful term as president and the new democrat philosophy was modernizing progressive politics all over the ground. i dare say we saved progressive politics because my book tells the story of that political journey from the wilderness in 1980 to a politics that led most countries in the democratic year of 2000. i wrote it in part because political memories are short. "the new democrats and the return to power" control the whitehouse and have a demographic advantage in elections. but just a quarter of a certainry ago the situation was r

she should not be worried about going to the whitehouse. she should be worried about going to the big house. unfortunately, we have an attorney general who would never prosecute anyone for these violations because he too is a criminal and guilty of the same charge. he green lit the fast and furious program. and you might thing running guns to mexican cartels with no tags or monitors on the guns. when you run guns to the mexican cartel and the only place they are going to show up is crime scenes. you might think that would result in homicide like the killing of a border patrol. and you might be the head of the doj and if you were involved you were promoted. no body responsible for this has gone to jail or been fired. violation of internal revenue laws. this is a violation of there code. it as a violation for politicians and politically motivated bureaucrats to get involved. the violation of law. but it is a phony scandal according to the president of the united states. this administration is anti-traditional marriage so the irs linked the in

you don't play it safe and win the whitehouse.aybe you get the nomination but you have to let it fly. >> host: the benghazi investigation -- what is the timeline for that? >> guest: we heard they are 90% plus staffed up. so now it is a question of do they do investigations? do they do behind the scenes investigation or do they have hearing in the fall? i would bet they don't have hearings. the certainly many on the right favor this investigation. they feel like there hasn't been an independent investigation. democrats say there have been tons. it remains to see what the plans are. and the relationship between goudy and cumminings is good. it is better than the reform committee with darrell issa who has been doing work on the benghazi issues. >> host: let's talk about primaries this season. and hawaii last saturday. this was the headline: does the senator have edge with remaining vot voters? >> guest: he was put into office by the governor of hawaii who is a long-term house member. he just lost his primary, democratic primary -- >>

. >> senator whitehouse? >> think the term and very much for holding this hearing and i want to thank the chairman for allowing us to go forward because this is really an extraordinarily important issue for all of the work and the the fuss and the fighting fast and the fighting that has surrounded the affordable care act their remains in very large financial problem in the health care system that it costs about 50% more than the most inefficient other industrialized countries with your system in the world. we have an inefficiency premium of about 50% over the major economies that we compete with and the end hundreds of thousands of american lives for all the good the affordable care act did those two problems remain before us and i'm delighted and i in particular want to welcome the doctor that we've never met before. but he's the architect. on the quality institute ... keystone principles and applied it in our intensive care units and dramatically reduced the intensive care unit statistically zero. interesti

senator whitehouse? >> thank you very much, madam chair. while my friend senator sessions was speaking, i pulled up a story from the birmingham news. now it's two years old. it's from 2012 and at the time it was about a guy named bart slossum which was one of two residential customers of alabama power who were selling solar electricity back to the grid. he's, quote, wondered why there's no photo voltage presence in alabama and it is full of sun, he said. the story goes on, across the country and across the globe, solar energy is spreading spurred by equipment and generous incentives from governments and utilities and drivers across the border in tennessee and solar arrays are sprouting in the field. the sunshine state is a national leader in the production of power from the sun and georgia came online this summer with planned future projects expected to boost that state's generation by 2015 and alabama finishes at or near the bottom so it seems that there might be some potential there for investment in solar. >> it would be great if we coul

people went in for a ten minute meeting at the whitehouse and they would stay in for 40 and not get a word in. he was a great talker and it was part of the distraction of getting people to focus here rather than here. at the end of the 45 meeting he would say from behind the desk of the oval office i have to run along now. no running for fdr. he never appeared in public as a wheelchair. there are only a few pictures of him in a wheelchair. he shielded his movements. when he had to move from a car or back in one or out of a train or in a train or up and down steps. when he had to be taken to a place where he had to be helped or lifted into a chair the movements were concealed. not from friends and family but most other people. these things fuel the deception narrative we all carry wrong. but it is wrong to think of them as a deception. you cannot deceive people about what they know. and everybody knew that fdr had polio. everybody anyhow that fdr had been paralyzed by infantile paralysis. how do we know this? by the third thing he did. he embraced his comeback from polio as the core of

senator whitehouse. >> thank you very much, chairman. the clear accountability that everybody i think it raises a very important signal is hard to develop without clear data. and i'm concerned that there is kind of a power of babel problem data provider has to report through multiple means of reporting to the federal government. i think in every state multiple means of reporting to the state government, through whatever reporting mechanism the individual insurers that they do business with have built into their systems, through whatever local systems might have been set up if there's a regional or municipal quality initiative, and potentially through their aco process and some of the quality improvement process. by the time you've loaded up all that reporting, two things that happen. reporting begins to eat up the actual repair, and the noise overtakes the signal. so if the hospital gets a bad report, the first thing that i hear them say is oh, that data is not good. if you look at this we're actually doing better over here. so while we

. >> good afternoon, chairman whitehouse, i am pleased to be here today with you to discuss the fbi's efforts to combat economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. the fbi considers the investigation of theft and trade secrets and economic espionage a top party. in 2012 alone, the national intelligence executive estimate a range of loss to the us economy approaching $400 billion. to foreign adversaries and competitors who, by a legally obtaining a broad range of trade secrets, degraded our nation's advantage in innovative research and develop an in the global market. this loss threatens the security of our economy and preventing such laws requires constant vigilance and aggressive mitigation. the fbi is diligent in working to investigate and apprehend targets pursuing economic espionage against us-based businesses, academic institutions, clear defense contractors and government agencies. it has made significant progress in putting some of the most egregious offenders time bars. economic espionage and theft to trade sigtarp recently to the insider threat and the growing trend of cyb

there is no national security council staff in the whitehouse.the whitehouse with any substance responsibilities. that is all out in the department. he made the decisions and shaped the policy by himself essentia essentially. no cia or oss. this means of getting intelligence was calling his harvard classmates saying what have you heard and what is going on over there. everything was ad hock or as we would say everything was loose. there was growing pressure to state his intentions on what he is going to do regarding the election in 1930. letters and telegrams kept coming in urging him to address the third term. the president started calling him a spynx because he would not address it. the press taunted him, oh great one, will you run. and then they rolled out an eight foot tall sphinx and the place broke out in laughter and no one laughed harder than fdr. he liked it so much he bought it. it is on display for the first time since 1939 in hyde park now. there are two major story lines here. war breaking out in europe and will he run. the real war

and he looked himself in a cage in front of the whitehouse last year with this hemp plant. this is where i want to apologize for my mother. what are you going to say at the bridge club meeting -- saw your son holding the cannabis plant on the booktv. but no, i am proud to do that. my kids have a great time visiting the hemp field and mike said his grandkids are having a great time this year. so david bronner is arrested in front of the whitehouse. and he is saying it is happening now. thank you again, colorado. as far as the hemp brand goes, that kind of rightiousness is like arm and hammer baking soda that is like a natural way to clean your fridge or counter and hemp has that brand, too. and that is the bottom line reason to make sure there is never any genetically modified hemp. franken hemp that is off-brand and this has been a movement for 77 years to get the plant back to the economy matters. and we should stick to that. for those who come knew to the plant, i should mention hemp prohibition was an accident and a typo. when the misguided marijuana tax app was inputed

. >> that's the sound of pro palestinian rally in front of the whitehouse today.ts want israel to stop attacks in gaza. a smaller counter pro israel protest occurred nearby. >> the familiarityly of the man that died as new york city police were arresting him held a rally today. if the first time they've spoken since the medical skainler ruled eric garner's death a homicide. he died when a police officer put anymore a choke hold. al sharpton was at the rally and called on police arrest the officer involved. >> a man in seattle tried to record lightening with his smart phone and ended up with more than he could bargain for. >> oow, ow. >> suvrj electricity. >> he was struck by lightning when trying to record. it he wanted to capture it because he thought it was rare to see lightning when the sun was out. he was not hurt but had a difficult time trying to put into words what happened to him. >> electrically flowing through my body yeah just i cannot describe it it was like amazing. >> firefighters and medics checked him out. >> firefighters and medics checked him out

you remember john kerry throwing somebody's vietnam medals over the whitehouse lawn. with obama it was perfect. you had a 14-year-old with no record. and he is very likable. you have to admit he is a charismatic person. people thought john f kennedy was charismatic but obama is the best they have produced in my lifetime. i think the only people fainting at a hilary clinton rally are the chubby girls that cannot take the heat. but americans keep telling the pollsters they like obama personal. he is the person you wish you could like his policies. he would probably make a great next door neighbor unless you were chinese and he would always be over borrowing something. i think after the mess of the past eight years the republicans have a good chance provided they run someone better than todd aikin. especially if they talk about obamacare. i think there is one million hours i added up trying to find a health care plans. i am self-employed so i am subjected to the provisions and the entire time i was mumbling about my liberal friend who is a hypochrondriac and wants the en

the president is back at the whitehouse tomorrow before returning for the second week of his vacation on tuesday. this is from one of our viewers on the earlier conversation dealing with the voters' rights act saying challenging a voter's self identification should only happen in a problable caused of fraud context. some news from helena montana as montana democrats c announced a replacement with is it senator walsh announcing he would not seek a full term following charges of plagarrism and it was announced amanda curtis, a first-term representative from mont montana will be on the ballot. she will challenge congressman steven danes in the senate race. story inside "the washington post" john from herndon, girnling. good morning. caller: good morning, sir. thank you for taking my call. host: sure call the on caller: call i think twe shoul learn how to respect each other and talk to each other. the problem is when our politicians attacking the president, the name calling doesn't solve the problem. this country, everybody has a problem with race. i want to go back to the first. i think

the segment the republicans need to do better among that if they have a chance of capturing the whitehouse in 2016 and years ahead. this problem isn't going away for republicans and it will probably just get bigger until they figure out how to talk about immigration and important issues to latino voters. the republicans don't need to win the majority of the latino vote but need better inroads. >> host: adam from the independent lines. >> guest: how do you feel about the independents coming out is in the senate? jesse ventura interest me. i would love to see him run. i see a desire for people want to embrace the independent party. let's look at this. we have the bushes, the clinton's and hillary is going to run in 2016 and i think people are kind of getting tired of it in a way. >> guest: there is no question that there is a dynastic element to american politics if you have a clinton and a bush running again. that is unappealing to a lot of voters. there might be hidden advantages but at a gut level there is no question it is unappealing. you mentioned jesse ventura -- i have not heard his

this portion of the hearing begins with chairman's sheldon whitehouse introducing the witnesses. >> the honorable william was the inaugural epa administrator under president nixon and was brought back as epa administrator under president reagan. he banned the use of the pesticide ddt. lee thomas served under .resident reagan governor christine todd whitman under governors bush. rightly isle william an epa administrator under the president george h.w. bush and worked to amend the clean air .ct to control acid rain dr. daniel botkin. the honorable louvre strange -- luther strange is alabama's attorney general. i welcome a colleague here. and dr. joseph mason is a junior louisiana bancorp's association in doubt professor of banking at louisiana state university and senior fellow at the wharton school. i welcome our panel. we will begin with the honorable dr.. >> thank you, senator whitehouse and other members of the subcommittee for convening this panel on the matter of enormous importance. i am pleased to be here and reassure some of you i am still alive. it is several months ago after sp

i have not gotten my invitation to the whitehouse, you know?n we think about the civil rights movement it was always contested. people had a view of freedom thad that didn't include ella baker who was the lead organize of the student non-violent cordinator and told the students on easter weekend it was more about a hamburger and the reason she told the students the sit-in was about more than a hamburger is because by april of 1960 new york times and mainstream media were trying to say the movement is about people wanting access to lunch counters. ella baker said this isn't about lunch counters or hamburgers. this is about democracy. james baldwin writes in 1961 that the young people who are organizer and in demonstrations all across the south at lunch counters are doing it to do more than what baldwin calls sip tasteless cups of coffee at sleazy lunch counters across the south. that is james baldwin not we. what is important when we think about stokely carmichael and the civil rights movement and where we are today in the context of american ra

>> you are the deputy director of the national drug control policy and that office is under the whitehouse, right? when the president said -- where is the statement. referring to marijuana as more dangerous than alcohol -- what was your reaction? >> i think the administration's policy is consistent. >> but he is the chief executive and the office that you are in was setup under the whitehouse to report to the president and he just got through saying it is dangerous and we continue to spend resources to try to stop children and others. you always said since the beginning of 2007 to most recent statistics we have seen an increase in ad les -- abuse -- and the president said it is forward to go forward because it is important for society not to have a situation where a large portion of people have broken the law and only a few are punished. this is in conflict with what you were doing; using taxpayer dollars avoid. you also testified 314,000 -- is that in treatment for marijuana? which is only surpassed by alcohol abuse. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> we have more use. is there anybo

i became especially interested because of my service in the whitehouse and presidential leadership and making and i feel f fortunate i came across this to write about. i didn't know much about fdr when i started the effort. but i came across someone who did know him very well and that was francis perkins. she was the first woman to be a member of cabinet and was fdr's secretary of labor and knew him in 1910 when he showed up as a young and somewhat arrogant legislator. here is what she had to say: franklin roosevelt wasn't a simple man. that quality of simplicity that we delight to think marks the great and noble wasn't his. he was the most complicated human being i ever knew and out of this nature sprang much of the drive that brought achievement. it made it possible for him to have insight and imagination into the more varied situations thrusted upon him. as kevin said in the introduction there has been thousands of books written about fdr. probably second to lincoln. why do we need another book? it is as a fair question. most of the books are written about the new deal years or his

our requests to the sense the presence asking the whitehouse to free up federal money to help in the recovery. a hunter in some buildings have been red tag and more than 650 buildings are yellow attack. one historic map the church is not beyond repair. and 18 semaphore presbyterian church is one of the red tagged buildings that survived the earthquake. there is enough damage and to keep them from worshiping for several months but is repairable. piquancy their holes in the roof along with broken glass all over. services temporary have moved to the gymnasium and they're looking to repair the building. the red cross evacuation center remains open for people in need of assistance. more than 200 members of its work force have been helping and giving away supplies and meals. people being served of the red cross still some problems for food and water due to the earthquake. since sunday night many people have stepped up the crosswalk me to the church. fold guys aren't and wyoming said it could predict earthquakes has predicted this one. before the quake hits the geyser teams * from an averag

this portion of the hearing begins with senate environment sheldonttee chairman whitehouse, introducing the witnesses. william riley worked to amend the clean air act to control acid rain. is from the university of santa barbara. hermaneph mason is the louisiana bankers association endowed professor of banking at louisiana state university and whartonellow at the school. .e'll begin with the honorable sessions,ou, senator senator whitehouse and other subcommittee on convening this meeting on a matter of enormous importance for our future. after talking ago with one another, the former e.p.a. administrators sitting in front of you found we were convinced by the overwhelming of scientists that the earth was warming and that we humans were the only controllable contributor to this phenomenon. we all signed an op ed piece recommended that america get serious about reducing our contribution to changing the climate, american sitting back and accepting the avoidable consequences. if anything, new reports in the last several months have made the need to act even more urgent. it hard to believe

claire underwood from house of cards were not fictional i don't know if i would want her in the whitehouse but i bet she could get there. >> that is what i mean by severely compromised. >> she would kill a few people along the way. >> finally, i would like to return to a question. particularly women who came of age in the '70s before it never occurred that the word feminist had something with a negative connotation. so you are in a classroom and so are you and i don't know how much interaction with younger women you have when you here i am not a feminist but -- what your reaction? do you have a rant? >> i assign them a place in the sun and they to -- have to do a report on it. >> in the '70s i wanted to go out and interview blue call -- coller workers. it was an upper class movement as it was during the victorian. the sisters came from total trash and were looked at like associating with them was a problem. but i said i want to go out and i went out to detroit and i started interviewing woman and it wasn't i am not a feminist but it was i am not a woman's liberationist and i kept hearing t

he would go from whitehouse press secretary to a leading figure against gun violence. yesterday at the age of 73. >> it is one of most enduring images in american history. president ronald reagan shot outside a washington, d.c. hotel. gun man john hinkley intended to shoot ronald reagan. brady's brain damage did the talking for him as he and his wife became advocates for gun control, lobbying for the brady bill, establishing a system of background checks for gun buyers for the first time. bread's -- brady's republican boss back his efforts. he faced steep opposition in front of the nra. >> they are going to throw every roadblock in the way. >> in 1983, success, the brady bill became law. in 2011, the 30th anniversary of being shot, he made an emotional return to the white house briefing room. >> this room was named in his honor so that he will always be remembered. remember the brady was before he was shot. clever banter with reporters. >> he is somebody who i think really revolutioned this job. >> and for his enduring courage with his trademark thumbs up. dana bash, c

tonight, a top-level meeting at the whitehouse on how to deal with the group.ons peacekeepers capture an armed group on the syrian border with israel. the u.n. says dozens more are also trapped,

laura bush set a high bar for me during her time in the whitehouse and he has continued to do outstanding work around the world since she and her husband left washington. i consider her not just a role model but also a friend. and i am thrilled that our conversation today will be moderated by another woman i greatly respect and admire, our friend cokey roberts. i will have them come out to the stage with that so we can have our conversation. thank you so much for joining us and enjoy the rest of your day. [ applause ] >> well, i am so excited that we get to do this again. >> we did this last summer. >> and thank you so much for that. it was a wonderful, wonderful experience for all of us to be there with you. so thank you for >> hoshosting it last year and this year. i remember as i recall when last year you were getting blow back about your bangs. >> that is over now. more important issues. let's see what they say about this one. >> but you had bangs in the program. i remember. and since then your daughter has turned 16. >> yeah. >> i know but i have to tell you i am envious to have it h

the whitehouse is making the case, the pentagon is making the case that this is a very limited military action. no boots on the ground. this is solely air strikes, but any use of military force, of course, in a place like iraq, any use of u.s. military force has massive repercussions. the pentagon, of course, trying to put this all in a box, again saying it is limited action. hard to see where it all ends at this point, wolf. >> all right. barbara, stand by. i'm going to come back to you shortly. i know a lot of americans are asking serious questions right now. what is going on? why is the u.s. taking military action? precision air strikes going on right now. sunni extremists have been operating for months now in the region. u.s. interests in iraq are said to be directly in the path and that's why the u.s. is involved. all this coming with what the u.s. now fears is the potential for genocide against christians, yazidis other minorities inside northern iraq and that's why the u.s. is now acting. joining us now is susan johnson, thanks very much for joining us. are you afraid that iraqi

tonight, a top-level meeting at the whitehouse on how to deal with the group. united nations peacekeepers capture an armed group on the syrian border with israel. the u.n. says dozens more are also trapped, plus, a u.s. senator fires back at male colleagues over alleged sexual harassment at the capitol. tonights, a dramatic escalation of the crisis in ukraine. nato released these satellite images saying they showed russian combat units on ukrainian soil. it said at least a thousand troops are there. maybe more. today, a top pro-russian separatist said up to 4,000 russian soldiers have fought in the con forklift. nat 0 has called an emergency meeting with ukraine. >> that's set for tomorrow. in the capitol of kiev, officials are calling russia's actions a direct invasion. ukraine's president cancelled a trip totie today to meet with his national security team, also this announcement from ukraine, a military draft suspended last year is starting up again this fall. paul brennan reports from mariupol, ukraine. >> the evidence is mounting and for the first time, th

the whitehouse mandated everybody do a summit on mental health last august. so they did it. and they were supposed to meet with stakeholders and set the agenda and work together to hold the summit. that is not what happened. they had a pre-determined message and told us what we ought to think. that is not a summit. that is not a partnership. and once we change this at the local level then we will start to turn it around. i will say that under the acting secretary, there is a winds of fresh thought wafting through vermont, hasn't gotten out to the field but it is wafting through. so people are doing what they should have been doing all along. not that we call the shots but they ask our opinion. as an example, on the scheduling system. some people were not going to ask our opinion and the acting secretary made him ask us what it was like because we know what the folks go through. if you want to change the va you change that particular part of it. forcing va to listen to the stakeholders and to do patient-centered care or veteran-centered care and you have to respect the vetera

. >> my thanks to sheldon whitehouse.eople who know the halls of capitol hill, kasie hunt with nbc news, sigh el ka pure from "talking points memo" and frank porter with nbc news. you heard sheldon's response when i asked about john brennan. doesn't sound like a guy who has any confidence in the cia director. rand paul coming out, a couple democrats coming out, those calls for resignation, are they going to start cascading, frank? >> i think so. on the house side you haven't seen these calls for resignation. i asked house intel chairman rogers whether he felt brennan should resign. he said they're not ready to call on that yet. but i think once this report comes out, i think that members are going to look at these programs and they're going to see that there are questions about whether or not brennan was associated with these programs when they were being implemented. >> this goes back to the bush ear rarks but brennan was there. >> exactly. i think those calls could start cascading. i think that those who are outraged by

malcolm, i know you wanted to follow up on something senator whitehouse was focusing on when his time ran out. , i am to get at the issue a supporter of senator blumenthal's bill. i think temporary restraint orders are important. let's set that aside and talk about permanent restraining orders in the federal law. they are where you cannot get a gun at all you do you support that? >> i do. >> great. i want to get at the history just as mcafee and the sheriff a big part of my bill was extending the to victims who are dating partners. do you support that piece of it? >> after there is a full hearing. >> by nature, there is a full hearing when you get a permanent restraining order. >> i think that is fair. i don't think it should be retroactive to anyone. after a full hearing, that is reasonable. >> the other thing i was thinking about was the numbers on the reduction of crime rates. i know some of the work we have done with violence against women and the word justice mccaffery , theone in law enforcement sheriff talked about what they have been doing in wisconsin under his leadership has

that all of us start understanding the issues and demanding change that people in congress and the whitehouse are going to want to respond to it. so, you know, for better or worse, it sarts with changing the conversation and understanding the issues and then we can expect action in washington. >> you got the central challenge right. it isn't a technological challenge. the technologist are doing great work and technology is going to race ahead. that is one prediction i make about the future with hundred percent confidence. the central challenge is the other elements of society are not changing as quickly. our organizations, education system, political process and other important parts of society are not geared up to change as quickly as technology does. we have to address de. we have to speed up the clock speed of our other institutions. and let me emphasize we are vore more problems as they align and the answer is to speed up the response to it. if we don't do that there is more pressure and ludites that want to stop the technology and we think that is a terrible outcome. >> why are we writin

authorizes funding has just broken for a month-long recess and president obama, himself, is not at the whitehousethis morning, playing golf and later, at camp david to celebrate his birthday. far away from the noise of these protesters. >> lots of emotion there a cease-fire remains elusive. john terrett with part of the story: what can you tell us? >> just a quick word about that protest. they took over the whole of k street, the lobbying street in the washington, d.c. it was an extraordinary scene. it's not getting much coverage, though other than here on "al jazeera america." as far as the diplomatic process is concerned, the e job descriptions are in the process of concocting a peace plan. they are beginning negotiations that they hope will lead to something meaningful. now, that said, there will be a palestinian delegation on the ground in ecairo but not hamas and not the israelis. world leaders hope something will happen that will bring those two sides together. richelle, remember, cairo is the capital e egypt and the only arab nation to have signed a peace deal with tel aviv. the new presid

. >>> all eyes are on the whitehouse for any response from president obama regarding the brutal killingf james foley as the boem administration works to authenticate the video depicting foley's beheading. joining me now is will cain and ma leah -- maria cardona. >> a former deputy director of the cia called this isis's first terrorist attack against the united states and that's really stuck with me. >> it's hard not to feel this is a personal attack, directly on us. you know, isis needs to understand something. the united states of america is not a fearful people. we are a analytical people and our lack of desire being vested in syria and iraq because we necessity dplect to see -- neglect to see a strong national security interest. but war is political. we are the check on our own government and what we decide to get involved in and when you do this, you make every one of us in this country somewhat divorce ourselves from that annuality annualityics. i've been part of this people why should we get involved, how does this affect america? here's video of how it affects us. you can't scare

the folks at the whitehouse say, look.he president is going to stay very much engaged with him in martha's vineyard is the national security visor and the deputy national security advisor, no doubt the president will be getting daily if not more often briefings and the president is coming back to washington next sunday for two days of meetings. now, this was planned before the moved in to iraq by u.s. military forces, but no doubt, that will also now be on the agenda when the president comes back to washington. so, we can assure you that he will be engaged while he is on vacation. >> basically, let'sa, the white house is wherever the president is? >> exactly. >> okay. >> it's a very -- it can be very mobile. >> yes. lisa stark, thank you so much. fighters with the islamic state group crossed into lebanon today. the group exchanged fire with lebanese villagers before crossing back across the border between is government and security forces on the other side of the border earlier. it is unclear if anyone was killed in this f

and he looked himself in a cage in front of the whitehouse last year with this hemp plant. this is where i want to apologize for my mother. what are you going to say at the bridge club meeting -- saw your son holding the cannabis plant on the booktv. but no, i am proud to do that. my kids have a great time visiting the hemp field and mike said his grandkids are having a great time this year. so david bronner is arrested in front of the whitehouse. and he is saying it is happening now. thank you again, colorado. as far as the hemp brand goes, that kind of rightiousness is like arm and hammer baking soda that is like a natural way to clean your fridge or counter and hemp has that brand, too. and that is the bottom line reason to make sure there is never any genetically modified hemp. franken hemp that is off-brand and this has been a movement for 77 years to get the plant back to the economy matters. and we should stick to that. for those who come knew to the plant, i should mention hemp prohibition was an accident and a typo. when the misguided marijuana tax app was inputed

this portion of the hearing begins with chairman's sheldon whitehouse introducing the witnesses. >> theonorable william was the inaugural epa administrator under president nixon and was brought back as epa administrator under president reagan. he banned the use of the pesticide ddt. lee thomas served under president reagan

it has been a challenge for federal leadership on capitol hill, even at the whitehouse.ritual adviser to president obama. given how fast things developed today, do you think local authorities have been effective in dolling out those developments? >> no. local authorities have been horrendous throughout this entire situation. wednesday night, i took to twitter, as we all watched from our living rooms and on our computers and twitter the hell that was going down in ferguson, asking where's governor nixon? where is the mayor? where is ferguson police chief jackson? they were nowhere to be found. in a situation like that is when you need to see leadership. the elected leadership, particularly the police leadership to show that, you know, they have things urn control, are getting things under control. the one person who made it clear to people they were on top of things was senator claire mccaskill, who at 9:22 tweeted this shouldn't be happening. she was working withing the phones. she was going to meet with the attorney general the next day to do something about what we wer

at the whitehouse, president obama would not say russia had i knowveyeded ukraine but was continuing actions that had goeg on for months. >> russia has deliberately violated the territorial integrity of ukraine and the new images of russian forces inside ukraine maybe make that plain for all of the world to see. >> the president hasn't ruled out military action but says the u.s. and al i recognize would take steps to punish shapiro for actions with additional sanctions. meanwhile, russia's united nations ambassador blamed ukraine and its supporters for the escalating crisis. >> the current escalation in the southeast of ukraine is a direct consequence of the reckless policy of kiev, directing war against its own people with the support and under the influence of a number of states, the kiev authorities have torpedoed all political agreements on resolving the crisis in the ukraine. >> for more, joined from toronto by a ukrainian canadian journalist who worked as moscow bureau chief for the financial times and serves as a liberal member of parliament for toronto's center. good to see y

claire underwood from house of cards were not fictional i don't know if i would want her in the whitehouse but i bet she could get there. >> that is what i mean by severely compromised. >> she would kill a few people along the way. >> finally, i would like to return to a question. particularly women who came of age in the '70s before it never occurred that the word feminist had something with a negative connotation. so you are in a classroom and so are you and i don't know how much interaction with younger women you have when you here i am not a feminist but -- what your reaction? do you have a rant? >> i assign them a place in the sun and they to -- have to do a report on it. >> in the '70s i wanted to go out and interview blue call -- coller workers. it was an upper class movement as it was during the victorian. the sisters came from total trash and were looked at like associating with them was a problem. but i said i want to go out and i went out to detroit and i started interviewing woman and it wasn't i am not a feminist but it was i am not a woman's liberationist and i kept hearing t

claire underwood from house of cards were not fictional i don't know if i would want her in the whitehousebut i bet she could get there. >> that is what i mean by severely compromised. >> she would kill a few people along the way. >> finally, i would like to return to a question. particularly women who came of age in the '70s before it never occurred that the word feminist had something with a negative connotation. so you are in a classroom and so are you and i don't know how much interaction with younger women you have when you here i am not a feminist but -- what your reaction? do you have a rant? >> i assign them a place in the sun and they to -- have to do a report on it. >> in the '70s i wanted to go out and interview blue call -- coller workers. it was an upper class movement as it was during the victorian. the sisters came from total trash and were looked at like associating with them was a problem. but i said i want to go out and i went out to detroit and i started interviewing woman and it wasn't i am not a feminist but it was i am not a woman's liberationist and i kept hearing th

that is somewhat due to obama being in the whitehouse. going back in general to the issue of term limits -- i think one of the issues people are speaking to is election reform in general and primaries and how we nominate people and how we do redistricting. and what you have, i think, is congressional district now is roughly 900,000 people and most of them are carved up in the way and are overwhelmingly partisan and you have low voter turnout in primaries. so your representative only needs to worry about 50,000 of the people because that is who shows up at the primary and reelects the congressman. i think it is important more people participate in the process and i think there is ample room to change the way these congressional districts and elections are how we deal with them and i think it would be more responsible. >> host: we are calling this week campaigning 101 and the issue of crisis management. rob jesmer, republican strategist and celinda, democratic strategist. david is on the line now. independent caller. >> caller: i am disturb

. >> chairman feinstein, senator whitehouse and senator klobuchar, thank you for the opportunity to discussr nation's opioid addiction epidemic. the increasing use of heroin in suburban and rural counties across the country is easily explained. if you speak with a new heroin user, they will tell you that they began using heroin after becoming addicted to opioid painkillers. this phenomenon is not new. people have been switching from painkillers to heroin since the epidemic began 18 years ago. like heroin, opioid painkillers are made from opium, and the effects they produce in the brain are indistinguishable from heroin. what this means is that when we talk about opioid painkillers, we are essentially talking about heroin pills. that said, these are also imported medications for end-of-life care and when used to treat pain on a short-term basis, but these noncontroversial uses, cancer care or short-term use for acute pain account for a small portion of our overall consumption. the cdc has been perfectly clear about the cost of this crisis. the chart with the three lines rising behind you is

senator whitehouse is big on that haystack. you cannot build a haystack to find a needle. don't we need on this information so we can find the needle that we are looking for in a haystack. the general warned allows you to collect a lot of information to find evidence of wrongdoing, and i would say that is part of the criminal matter under u.s. law in the fourth amendment. there is no automation exception. if the government were to put cameras in all of our bathrooms and to record us, they would say we do not access, we are only going to access it when we suspect there's activity, and we're going to look at general patterns of behavior. that would be a privacy violation. you build this haystack using computers and assume there is no human intervention, that is not established as an exception to the fourth amendment. while i understand your concern with privacy -- with regard to health law, looking for patterns, when it comes to criminal matters where you can imprison people or kill people, this is something very different from that is where constitutional protections come i

you remember john kerry throwing somebody's vietnam medals over the whitehouse lawn. with obama it was perfect. you had a 14-year-old with no record. and he is very likable. you have to admit he is a charismatic person. people thought john f kennedy was charismatic but obama is the best they have produced in my lifetime. i think the only people fainting at a hilary clinton rally are the chubby girls that cannot take the heat. but americans keep telling the pollsters they like obama personal. he is the person you wish you could like his policies. he would probably make a great next door neighbor unless you were chinese and he would always be over borrowing something. i think after the mess of the past eight years the republicans have a good chance provided they run someone better than todd aikin. especially if they talk about obamacare. i think there is one million hours i added up trying to find a health care plans. i am self-employed so i am subjected to the provisions and the entire time i was mumbling about my liberal friend who is a hypochrondriac and wants the en