They were not changed. [indiscernible] he read them, i did not see them. There were three basic points. There was a demonstration that grew into a larger violent attack. Very early, we are still trying to figure out what is going on. I forget what 0. 3 was. We did not know who did it. To. Point today we still do not know exactly who did it. It is not a peer it was preplanned. Truck bomb and fall that was clearly an al qaeda planned attack. This was a group of armed terrorists and libya who in a matter of hours there together and armed assault. But we are trying to figure out is what kind of terrorist attack it was. It is regrettable this has become so partisan and political when we have serious questions to answer. [indiscernible] time. We will get a chance to see it. Anyway, we had time. We just did not have enough time to show it. Apparently it takes half an hour. I think it was just for the chair and rankings on the key committees and subcommittees on Armed Services and pre tell. [i
Congressional leadership. I want to thank them for their time. We are well aware that we have important business to do. We have to make sure that taxes do not go up on middle class families. We need to make sure our economy remained strong and we create jobs. That is an addendum that both parties and independents and people throughout the country share. Our challenge is to make sure that we are able to cooperate together, work together, and find Common Ground. Make the compromises and find some consensus. I think all of us agree. We need to be focus on them and not on politics in washington. My hope is that this will be the beginning of a free fall process fruitful process and we are able to balance our deficit in a balanced way. We will be focusing to make sure that middle class families are able to get ahead. I want to thank all of the leaders for coming. With that, we will get to work. Thank you. There is one other point i want to make. Tomorrow is House Speaker boehners birthday. F
But look in the mirror and hate yourself, not the people who are doing this work. It is the job of these senators to question policy but attacks are thats what you do instead of dealing with the policy issues. We have have a very distinguished member with us, a good friend of all of us, someone who deals seriously with policy issues and is joined us today and that would be january from illinois. Also i think today of most significance i believe is my role on the Intelligence Committee. All of us were given a briefing based on emerging information from the Intelligence Committee. Susan rice, i do susan rice went on television based on the information that was available at the time and the briefing that she was given information and intelligence that she had no part in collecting. The kind of statement that is anyone who had been given those briefings would have made in public. Obviously, this was on an unclassified buys sis but she was given information that she had that has subsequentl
Three days. Not only of what is happening in the white house and congress as well. Here is how you can call us host also on social media host some of the headlines reflecting what has been going on here over the past three days. Here is the wall street journal, their headline going to the Washington Post was quot ,d then the Washington Times reaction to last nights meeting , according to boehner, he sums it up this way they will not negotiate. To give us the latest we have and servesroll call as a staff writer. The meeting last night, what was actually accomplished and how did all the sites play out what happened last night . Guest well, good to be with you. Outgeneral sentiment coming of the meeting perhaps best summed up why Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell of who appeared on the cnbc Program Shortly after the meeting. Cordial but unproductive. It went on a fairly long time. But as you just noted in the headlines, a fairly good summary of what seems to have gone on, that the re
Please let us know and whatever per whatever appropriate form we have and whether or not wouldnni arab countries follow soon. Could you get that pretty quickly . , we will try to provide a written assessment of that. If in fact enrichment of uranium spread throughout the , would you agree that that would be a very bad scenario for the National Security of the United States and israel if nations throughout the mid east turned to enriching uranium . Yes, particularly if it were for other than peaceful purposes. You think iranians are trying to hold a bomb before we get involved . Made theave not determination to go to that step. Aey have approached this from threshold capability. For the iranians the decision is a political one. They certainly have the expertise if they so chose. Would it take them if they made that decision . Them a that depends on a lot of factors and closed sessions. Gentlemen, we appreciate your testimony, your service. I joined a number of colleagues who have asked