0 and durations of calls. they are not looking at people s names and they are not looking at content. i with respect to the internet, emails, this does not apply to u.s. citizens and does not apply to people living in the united states. if people can t trust not only the executive branch but also don t trust congress and don t trust federal judges to make sure that we re abiding by the constitution and rule of law, we re going to have some problems here. megyn: doug mckelway live at the white house. reporter: if this is the first time we heard from the president since the story broke the data mining calling your terrorists from yemen or olgd a pidz from papa john s. they are trying to reach meta data. it s complex term but suffice it s about data about data. he want to reassure americans that they are not listening your phone calls or reading your emails or viewing the web pages that you are viewing. nobody is listening to the content of people s phone calls. this program, by the
no journals would be prosecuted. this is one hour woman 10 minutes. the commerce and justice subcommittee will now come to order. we will take the testimony of the attorney general of the united states. the committee wishes to welcome the attorney general, and we know he will be testifying on the department of justice s budgets, its priorities for fiscal year 2014, and also the impact of sequester this year and next year in terms of the impact of the department of justice, its mission, because of its impact on its employees. we will be listening to the doj inspector general testifying for the first time about oversight in terms of management issues. we are doing this every one of our hearings we invite the inspector general to come so we have a better sense of not only how this department spends money, but how we can be a more efficient and get value for our dollar. today we will discuss how the department of justice s 2014 budget strengthens national security and count
amendment is not agreed to. the recorded vote is requested. the chair now recognizes the gentleman for the explanation and presentation of his amendment. thank you, mr. chairman. another set of issues surrounding guantanamo has to do with the cost to the american taxpayer of continuing this situation. and the purpose of my agenda my amendment, rather, is to not compound the mistake that s already been made. guantanamo was deliberately created as a nether land in the law that was neither subject to the geneva convention or the u.s. constitution so we could make up the rules as we went along. a lot of people that know more than this than us have concluded it was not a good idea, general petraeus, admiral mullgeneral petraeus said guantanamo had become a recruiting device for extremists around the world. we just had a stimulating debate what to do next with the people that were detained there and is something we have to decide. here s something else we have to decide. we hav
a state getting and the irs was the only player left that had to fill out a two page form that they could doug shulman in a lot of that they do in a lot of other cases to move the asset for fitture along? whose doesn t move with you virginia s. given how little is necessary to accomplish this and that all of the other players had done their job to finish out the case and finish the distribution of the asset forfeiture. while the federal government got and kept their billion dollars. billion with a b. virginia was trying to get about 100 million today s $125 million we earned with the investigation from a criminal defendant that was sitting in treasury accounts and the irs was the only block. they were the only block left and after eight months of incompetentence it starts to look like more than
about when the white house knew about the scandal. and the campaign manager publiclied a vited me was? some of the private meetings with the disgraced former irs commissioner shulman at the glows there was a number of times mr. shulman was cleared in white house. many of the meetings were for healthcare implementation. i was in there with him. that fairousing that fairou going on. this is a fabricated debate. watch this from nbc news. the irs is being used in the same way they tried to use the president s birth cert cal. for republicans like darrell issa the irs stands for something inflammatory. the three letters are now on fire with political corruption and malfeasance burning hot just like the suspicious fire that engulfed mr. issa s