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President still needs permission to go ahead with hires like this. he cant just pick the appointees he wants. he can only nominate people. the president has to ask the senate to let these guys have those jobs. the presidencys power to do even the very mundane stuff of governing is pretty sharply constrained in lots o waging war since 9/11, though, is not one of those areas. three days after the 9/11 attacks, congress passed a very short piece of legislation that authorized the president of the u...

Markets and create huge damage to our economy if this would come to pass that united states would default and pretend that this was some kind of safety net. >> congressman chris van hollen, always good to have you on the program. thank you. >> good to be with you. thanks, chris. were watching another story out of d.c. the house homeland security committee holding a hearing on the boston marathon bombing right now. the focus is on the response from law enforcement and emergency responders along...

Ninth or so hearing the house has had on that issue. maybe its time we look at how to protect our embassies the best way we can rather than going theough and rehashing some of the same old stories. >> now just a few of the insensitive remarks democrats have made when speaking about the terrorist attacks in benghazi who killed four brave americans. the last comment was made just today in front of the victims family members, including my next guest. my friend charles woods is back on the program. ...

Congressional meaning. some express worry that federal officials were not sharing enough information with state and local enforce many, even going so far as calling it a failure that is indefensible. >> my fear is that the boston bombers may have succeeded because our system failed. we can and we must do better. >> i guarantee you that if we fail to act, we will be discussing this issue again. >> i believe that though it would not have been easy, it was possible to have prevented the terrorist a...

The terrorist attacks that occurred on september 11, 2001. three days after 9/11, president bush got that authorization. within weeks, we invaded afghanistan, where we still have today, but that authorization is still in effect now, 12 years later. it is still the underlying permission cited by both president bush and by this president for military actions of lots of different types all over the world. were now nearly 12 years out from that decision by congress. washington is still today operati...

Investigation or trying to stall it. there is no evidence to that that i can see. >> what should change when it comes to diplomatic security? >> diplomatic security in an age of terrorism, especially in a place in the middle east where we had a number of terrorist attacks, has to be job number one. it always has been for the last 15 or 20 years. obviously were going to have to look at consulates in the arab world, places like benghazi, where we dont have adequate resources to fully staff a place...

On your own name and youre losing that competition to music festivals at california wineries from seven years ago, you may be a very esteemed potential tax court judge, but you are not a high profile guy and your nomination is not a high profile thing. but even for nominations like this that are relatively insignificant in the greater scale of governing, the president still needs permission to go ahead with hires like this. he cant just pick the appointees he wants. he can only nominate people. ...

Know, you have attributed to islamic inspired terrorism, inspired terrorism or islamists inspired terrorism, has, bears some relation in one way to the hearings yesterday on capitol hill. the, your speaker boehner has called on the president to release e-mails from one of the high level state department officials, blaming the benghazi terror attacks, describing them as, terrorist attacks, islamic terrorist attacks on our diplomatic facilities in libya. do you concur? should those e-mails be fort...

Translates into day of the day. celebrated by millions. their request was met by harsh criticism at trying to capitalize on the tradition is culturally insensitive. disney backed down. in 2009, you may remember in the days following the osama bin laden raid, disney tried to trademark seal team 6. it eventually with drew that request, too. our top story at the bottom of the hour, three state department employees told a congressional hearing today their version of what went on during and after l...

Forward? >> investigators do. they will talk to physicians who and minuted them. cleveland is a big city. they probably have experienced investigators who, though they may not have confronted something like this, are familiar with traumatized victims and how to get information out in a timely manner without adding to the trauma. you have ten years worth of information to come out of these three women. >> steve: you got to figure theyre starting to tell their stories to the cops this morning. >> ...