All about the cyber fraud industry. Identity theft expert, Robert Sissel lawn know and former director of the nsa, come layton. Thanks for joining us. Robert. Let me start with you. What is disturbing about the scandal if all true and as reported, is that this is a new wrinkle. It is not identity theft. It is really selling your information so predators can come in and boiler room style try to take advantage of you. Yeah. This does remind me of the movie, boiler room, where they get sucker lists and call people with fake investment scams. Over time they bait and, bait them and switch out the opportunity for a scamming investment and the potential victim loses. That may be the case here too. Melissa yeah, colonel layton, what do you think about that . Well i agree with robert. There are a lot of issues, melissa, where you really talk somebodys identity in a case like this and do all kinds of things. For example, what you can do is find out exactly how much they have in their bank accoun
To pick but isnt janet more of an obama like than Larry Summers and the others . The president had Larry Summers worked for him and when summers came under criticism on capitol hill last weekend, meetings with democrats, the president defended him very hard the speculation summers may have the edge in this contest. David interest in. Were going to get questions of Corporate Taxes are going to go down, that sort of thing . Youll hear about lowering Corporate Tax rates in exchange for funding by republicans approval for funding his stimulus programs infrastructure programs and other things that he wants to help to try to stimulate the economy and increased job creation, david. David there is the question of what he calls these phony scandals, the irs, the use of u. S. Agencies even the sec for political tools, political purposes. Will the president speak out on that at all . I suspect he will get a question on that one. It is still dogging this white house and still of course top of mind
1 15. Up until then from this mornings washington journal, senator sanders from vermont. Host senator bernie sanders, senator from vermont, here. Thank you for being here. You served on the Budget Committee. We saw senator patty murray, the chairman, introduce her budget plan. Heres the headline in the Washington Times there are no sacred cows that calls for 1 trillion in new taxes. Whats your takeaway . Guest well, what it does is also call for substantial cuts, but it deals with deficit reduction in a balanced way. What the republicans want to do is do deficit reduction simply by cutting, cutting, cutting. Doing away with medicare as we know it. Right now converting that into a voucher system which we very, very onerous for senior citizens, making devastating cuts in medicaid which means that millions of millions of American People and kids will lose their Health Insurance. Massive cuts in education, in nutrition. Basically every program that in the middle of a terrible recession wor
Case. But as to the climate in the military, the fact victims feel they cant come forward clearly this has to be addressed. I want to thank you, maam chairman for bringing this to the nations attention. The committees attention, and i look forward to finding a way to continue the progress it seems to be made. Thank you senator graham. I am extremely disturbed based on the last rownld of question and answer that each of you believes that the convening authority is what maintains discipline and order within your ranks. If that is your view, i dont know how you can say in having 19,000 sexual say all assault and rapes a year is order. I dont understand how you can say of the 19,000 cases to have 2400 even reported because victims tell us they are afraid to report because of retaliation and the blame they will get and the scorn they will get from the colleagues is order and discipline. I cant understand how 2400 cases only 240 of which go to trial can be result in you believing that author
Of course, he didnt keep any of those promises as it turned out and what about the pesky nsa story . You cant keep this promise to the American People, if you like the last few weeks, has it been as i said a comedians dream . They said that about everything. Its always a comedians dream. Thats what we do, we work hard and that the our job. Its not crazier than a month ago. The republicans were on the the hot seat and washington is always a comedians dream. Thats why i got into this business. Is it any worse than its always been . In reality, youve covered this for so long. What do you think . The country in general is on a decline. I do. As british, you probably understand that. Yeah, i think i remember 20 years ago, the first issue is are people getting stupider . They were then and still are. I cant imagine how stupid they must have gotten. Its sure hard if youre a politician, not that im really that sympathetic to them to try to get information into peoples heads. I dont think obama