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Press. that is part of how this place, this country, this grand experiment in self-government has to work. it doesnt work if we dont have a well-informed citizenry. you are the conduit through which they receive the information about whats taking place in the halls of power. so, america needs you and our democracy needs you. we need you to establish a baseline of facts and evidence that we can use as a starting point for the kind of reasoned and informed debates that ultimately lead to progress....

That is part of how this place, this country, this grand experiment of government has to work. it doesnt work if we dont have a well informed citizenry. and you are the conduit to which they receive the information about what is taking place in the halls of power. america needs you and our democracy needs you. we need you to establish a base line of facts, evidence that we can use as a starting point for the kind of reasons and informed debates that ultimately lead to progress. and so, my hope i...

In your review to adequately respond to cyber attacks? im talking about the capabilities, not the policy. >> senator, i want to be a little careful in open session talking about the full scope of american capabilities, but this is an amazing nation with incredibly smart people. and if given policy directive to achieve the objectives you are describing, i am confident america can do that. >> i think the chairman and the indulgence of the committee, and congressman, im sure you will do an outstand...

Senator. >> do we have the capabilities in your view to adequately respond to cyber attacks? im talking about the capabilities now, not the policy? >> i want to be careful in open session talking about the full scope of american capabilities, but this is an amazing nation with incredibly smart people. and if given policy directive to achieve the objective you are describing i am confident america can do that. >> i thank the chairman, the indulgence of the committee. and congressman im sure you w...

Senator. >> do we haves capabilities to adequately respond to cyberattacks? im talking about the capabilities now, not the policy. >> senator, i want to be care envelope sessiful i ful in open session talking about the full capabilities, but this is an amazing nation with incredibly smart people. if given policy director to achieve the objective youre describing, i am confident america can do that. >> i thank the chairman and the indulgence of the committee. congressman, im insure yousur an outs...

Hundreds more residents are fleeing mosul, and troops recaptured neighborhoods. the u.n. says more than 125,000 people have been displaced in all this, and about 2300 people each day are fleeing. iran has lost a pivotal figure in its modern history. the former president died. he was 82 years old. state media report he suffered a heart attack. he was the president from 1989 to 1997. becky ander s dederson has a lo at hishistory. >> reporter: the somber announcement, the former president dead at...

Insults there and his disability, thats a hate crime all the way. >> i hope god speaks to them all. >> that was blake mccoy for that report. now all eyes were on washington yesterday as senator john mccain convened the armed services committee. the director of national intelligence james clapper was critical in discussing the tenacity of russias attacks. >> whatever crack they can fisher or find in our tapestry, if you will, they would exploit it. and so all of these other moves, whether it wa...

There could be a point where theres some confusion. but i also think theres a lot of opportunity to generate revenue. energy alone and some of the things that donald trump has signaled hes going to do, with president obamas latest power grab of roping off the arctic sea for drilling, right? i think theres a lot of areas for revenue growth. there was also the report not too long agoing that the pentagon tried bury, the $125 billion in administrative waste. kennedy: almost a quarter of the militar...

Awaited secretary of state nomination. we have jackie kucinich, david gregory, and philip mudd. here it is right from the transition office. the announcement that the nomineeill be rex tillerson. they highlight in big ways his business experience. >> job creation. >> that he spent most of his career, they say, protecting the jobs of his some 70,000 employees, that he knows how to manage a major organization, which is critical to running this secretary of state, his tenacity, broad understanding ...

Conference today on foreign soil on the last leg of this trip but at that final press conference on foreign soil, nobody much wanted to ask him about peru. what everybody wanted to ask him about was domestic politics back at home and didnt seem to mind that at all. he jumped right in. >> i think nancy pelosi is an outstanding and historic political and we accomplished because of her smarts, her tenacity and legislative skill. i dont normally meddle with party votes and certainly on my way out th...