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To be doing everything i can to close it. It is something that continues to inspire jihadists and extremists around the world. Six years after first promising to close guantanamo, president obama is beginning to release more men from the 13yearold prison. This week, four afghans were sent home, but 132 men remain locked up. Will guantanamo ever close . Then we look at why a veterinarian from portland, oregon is still locked up in an East Timorese jail after getting into the wrong taxi in septemb...

Try to think about how we can structure ourselves in a way that wourld be most e fisht going forward. And to try to project where were going to adequately respond. Thank you, chairman. I look forward to members of this committee to look forward to make sure that were set p properly to deal with this threat. Thank you, chairman. But before i asked the questions, just to thank you for your appearance today. And members to submit those questions and have those back before we go on the agenda. And i...

Morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. You can join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook. Here are some of the our featured programs for this week on the cspan networks. On book tv, saturday at 10 00 p. M. Eastern author peter wall wallison says the housing crisis could happen again opinion direct toror of the Earth Institute. Saturday morning at 10 30 eastern a discussion on the last major speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther king jr. Sunday afternoon at 4 00, the...

Clancys the right person to get us there. Well he didnt know about this for five days. Thats true. It happened on wednesday which meant i didnt know about it for five days plus. And found out he said through an email. Instead of up the chain of command. That concerns me a lot that the agency needs discipline, and it needs an outsider in some position there to be sure that were not jeopardizing the president s life, by taking care of people who have been our friends for years within the service. ...

Is one that i have a lot of interest in. I want to make sure were getting it right. Because ive been out in major cities and ive seen the end use that is being made with regard to our grant money. For example, and in phoenix, the super bowl, three days before the super bowl i looked at our op center, the joint op center, state, federal, local, the fire chief was anxious to point out to me every single piece of communications equipment, every camera, every tv screen you see was funded by the depa...

Extent there is a free sample you would get, and we know from interviewing travelers that many of them that have had the opportunity to experience expedited screening through management inclusion and Risk Assessment rules have subsequent subsequently applied for the program. So its all subjective, its not negative. We are going to leave the rest of this hearing at this point to go live to capitol hill where Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson will be testifying on the 2016 budget address fwr...

Cooperation with the United States to be there. And this change of environment has occurred. And today the United States government and krs the government of afghanistan a really reliable partner. Commitments that are made are considerable. And the funding proposal of supporting Afghan Security forces by 2017, and it has reached to 4. 1 billion. Its nothing less. Its a significant issue. Its a very important issue. And also yesterday there was a new framework of our Economic Framework was laid o...

People, that the president is safe, the first familys safe, and the white house is safe. But its not an easy task. Its a challenge in an urban environment. A little earlier i said that when i looked at the memo, the email, the anonymous email, that it made me realize that or believe that we had an agency in war with itself. Yes, sir. Do you understand why i say that . Yes. Theres conflict within the agency. The idea the idea that someone would even create the email, would create it put it out th...

Any member the panel who chooses to answer. Is this a Technology Question . Mr. Coons that does suggest a first answer. Mr. Gates its exciting what well be able to do over the next decade. Id say were just at the very start of that. In the case of ebola, we werent able to track movements as well as we would have liked to. Having in place the ability to look at the data and make sure we werent violating peoples privacy wasnt set up. I think now that weve, in a delayed way, looked at that day that...

House. Lets begin with the decision to retain troop levels in afghanistan. Democratyou can also send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com cspan or journal cspan. Org. Lets show you a friend pages of the pages. Obama the slow troop withdrawal from afghanistan. The u. S. Will maintain current levels. Two will be out by 2000 troops will be out by 2017. What are your thoughts on this . The phone lines are open. Lets hear a little bit more from the president yesterday. [video clip] president obama you c...