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Type situation. accountability is not expected. you have people tasked with orders expected to completely fail or not live up at all to the money youre pouring into them. in government you basically need the equivalent to start-up initiatives. things that are smaller, less bur oktized and particularly in a situation like this. one thing i could say that was very encouraging, i think this was the most receptive panel that ive ever testified before. in fact senator johnson who was chairing the pan...

We launch today the find your park campaign and we hope that every american will find their park. >> and its just the nations treasures. >> absolutely. >> thank you so much. >> thank you g. to see you. and developing right now in indiana, draft legislation will be sent to committee to change indianas religious freedom law. the press conference continues to play out and while the house speak sir not specifically saying what the fix is it is expected to include language that protects the lgbt co...

Up in october. so the reaction and the ripple effect it continues. is the governor and those within the state of politics concerned about the footprint this law is leaving behind? >> sure. well thomas thanks for having me on. i appreciate it. you know i think that nobody saw, certainly none of the republican leaders here, saw quite the fallout thats happened over this. you know, whats interesting, what happened today is when pence went on this week yesterday, and ducked the question six times, h...

Optimistic about the outcome. but that this group in paris would use every diplomatic opportunity to find a resolution to the crisis and this would be a test to see if russia is, indeed, prepared to sit down and talk to ukraine. chris? >> michele, washington can plan but vladimir putin seems to be driving the situation. his latest move not a step towards but away. russian politicians has a new law that allow russia to seize assets of european companies if sanctions are put in place. phil black i...

The question is, what will his next move be. lets bring in phil black live from moscow. >> here, politicians are working on draft legislation that would enable the russian government to seize money and property belonging to american and european companies if they do put in place sanctions. its one that would impact many of american companies that have invested billions here. history shows it is something russia is prepared to do. it often takes an asymmetrical response to sanctions. one response...

I find most challenging every single day. >> that was president obama today in stockholm, sweden, insisting the international community cannot be silent after the syrian chemical attacks. back here at home, it is another busy day on the hill as the presidents team is trying to sell congress on this authorization of force. secretary of state john kerry, defense chief chuck hagel and general martin dempsey were all briefing congress, both publicly and in closed-door hearings. meanwhile, the senate...

Going. again, ed henry told us at the top of the hour that the working bed deadline were working with in terms of congress reconvening is september 9th. they could come back early. we havent seen that since 2005. but it could happen, and well talk more about this as the hour goes on, but the president now reaching out in this letter form with his draft legislation of what it would look like. probably enumerating, were e dont know because we dont have the whole text yet, emumerating what exactly ...

Youve had a chance to look now, bob, at what the president is asking for in a draft legislation i told viewers about ten minutes ago. what does it say? >> it gives the president flexibility of what kind of military operation he could seek. it does not say exactly how they would strike and trying to basically convince congress this is not going to be boots on the ground, open-ended. it asks are to the authority but also gives the president the ability to decide what the military conflict is. whet...

>> good evening, senator. thank you for having me. >> scott: good evening. >> the way i see it senator rubio says hold on, we need to take a step back and were working on this. but its only 8 senators who are going to come forward with draft legislation. and we still have 90 senators who need to look at this and the american public who needs to weigh in. and on the whole pathway to citizenship, thats a misnomer. what we support is earned legal status. and i think that defining it that way is muc...

>> brett: head of the gulf oil compensation fund says he expects the region to recover within three years. kenneth feinberg says a 30% restoration is likely this year and full recovery in 2012 except for oysters. final settlement offers will be twice documented lawsuits for most claimants. oyster harvesters will get double that. environment protection agency is pushing for a first drinking water standard. many republicans want to hamstring epas authority to regulate other pollution. jim engle ex...