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Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown john brennan, president obamas choice to head the c. I. A. Faced a volley of questions from senators today about counterterrorism policies, including waterboarding and drone strikes. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Suarez and im ray suarez. On the newshour tonight, we excerpt todays testimony, which was interrupted from the start by protesters from the antiwar group, code pink. Brown then, we get the latest on the massive manhunt for a for...

I think i first learned about l when i was in congress and i have the opportunity to be able to learn about it. I stayed with several members of us who stayede of in washington. We stayed together. I think its fair to say it was animal house on capitol hill. [laughter] one of the members as pointed out in the photograph was chuck schumer, someone you all know and has a tremendous passion for israel. The bottom of the house in this living room area and we made a bed. I tried to get him to say a h...

This committee, both perspectives is great. Whatever we do will impact business, it will impact individuals, will impact our competitive nature around the whole planet. With that, i yield back to the chairman. Chair recognizes mr. Clever. Thank you, mr. Chairman. To the Inspector General. There have been problems, obviously, with xm bank. Has there been something so egregious and monstrous that congress should give the xm bank a certificate of distinction . Offersly the decision if xm bank is st...

He has been on the floor for 5. 5 hours. We will show you some of his speech over the next couple of hours. You can continue to watch it on cspan two. We have put up a poll. Speech ond cruzs defunding obamacare. Here is the poll. Do you support ted cruz as he speaks in the u. S. Senate to defund Health Care Law . 1225 are in support voting against 394. We will also give you a choice chance to weigh in on twitter. Were also looking at some of the congressional reporters. This could be a late nigh...

Other jurisdictions besides seattle, they will refer another database and that is what they did. We did not go in this particular case essay will you depart from your policy . This is, again, something we need to take a close look at and will be as part of the president s review. Isis problematic that there information written on a piece of paper somewhere that we did not have access to. Shocking it incredibly that we wouldnt pursue a Police Report in any of these arrest situations because the n...

To our economy that comes from foreign direct investment. That that is why manufacturing, or Energy Companies for many of countries are setting up shop here in the United States every day. Our trade agreements are built on the premise and shared prosperity, we have deals that go both ways. Those create good paying jobs all over the world. They offer american firms unprecedented global access. It also opens our doors and our markets to foreign firms. This is the direction of the world. This is th...

I have been there perhaps 12 times or so. The staff later will tell me if it is really a 11 or 13. Weve been there a lot. Strikinges are pretty especially in the last few years. That is not the impression the American People have. That, to me, is the obvious fact that things have changed and changed for the better in afghanistan. First of all, its more secure. We and our allies have made a the growth, the strength of the afghan army and the police now which has grown in a much more capable and r...

More acutely than we do in terms of their citizens having an easier route and path to travel to syria and iraq. They sare the same sense of threat. So the information that were able to share about individuals bhoove traveled to syria or iraq can be used to potentially add to our listing and screening systems and give us one a significant leg up in our effort to disrupt travel when the individuals seek to leave syria and iraq. Thats not a fail safe. Its by no means the only pillar of a defensive ...

Provision that kept trillions of dollars in corporate wealth flowing into federal campaigns. I think that is a misleading description of the case. As i read it, the Citizens United case involved a nonprofit organization, not a wealthy forprivate corporation, and the case did not involve Campaign Contributions at all. Am i right . It left standing the contribution sections. We have seen a flood of corporate wealth flooding into campaigns since the Citizens United decision . We have seen a lot of ...

Counterterrorism capabilities to prevent isil attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to cut off its funding, improve our intelligence, strengthen our defenses, counter its warped ideology, and stem the flow of foreign fighters into and out of the middle east. And, in two weeks, i will chair a meeting of the u. N. Security council to further mobilize the International Community around this effort. Fourth, we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to innocent ci...