. An than syria inthe weapon of the day world war i. Because of our work and the work of our partners, it has been prohibited in set except in a few incidences. We have to make sure, for the sake of our men and women on the front lines, or that we reinforce the prohibition. Seeing pictures of the children lying there dead is heartbreaking. There is no question. We still have the basic problem of asking the military to do more with less. The other day after the meeting at the white house, the president came up to me and said, i know how concerned you are about restriction. Lmi area i asked for a meeting with the president. I am waiting to hear back from the white house. I want to down and talk to them about this. I cannot guarantee we will get votes for it. I know a lot of people have the same concerns i do. If we can fix this, it may help some people in their vote. Look at the week ahead for congress. The Armed Service chairmans announced he will hold a hearing on syria. Andday, chuck hagel, general martin dempsey. Of chambers of commerce will go back in tomorrow 2 00 eastern time. Votes around 5 30. Also, debates on a resolution of authorized military force and area. It might come as early as wednesday. Live debate in the senate on c span2. In a house today on military action against syria is possible on the official agenda. Votes happening later in the day. Live coverage in the house here on cspan. For more insight into the week ahead, specifically related to congress and syria, we talked to a reporter. We are joined now by ian, a news editor. He joins us to provide a look ahead on syria. Ets start with the house what is happening in the coming days . Record. Ng on the behindthescenes, there will be a lot of lobbying. Right now, we only have 31 house members. The president has a lot of work to do to get more members to support his idea of a military strike on. A congressman has a hearing on tuesday, and then, eric house vote. Oned a meeting up for two weeks, why that long and should we meet up sooner . It is possible, but there is not much reason in the house it would fail right now. At least 139 members on our list who are saying they would vote against us right now. As i said earlier, very few members are willing to come out and publicly say they would they yes. Is a lot of feel behind the scenes work, a lot of classified briefings, a lot of phone calls by president obama lieutenants trying to convince people to support the idea of a military strike. What about the senate . We will see a vote this week. A vote on wednesday that would the procedural step to move limitedto authorize a military strike on syria. It is not clear they have the 60 votes necessary, either. We have 65 senators right now, undecided. 25 or so president obama has work to do. Is he meeting with them and what does he hope to accomplish . He is hoping to get as many of them as possible for support. Only nine republicans so far have come out. Senate republicans have come out so far and said they would support the president on this. You will probably need a few more than that. You will see a lot of liberal senators, voting against this. I am trying to shore up the numbers a bit. Is president obama making his case . That will be the story of the week. On monday, president obama is doing five television reviews. Tuesday, from the oval office. Lawmakers from the house and senate are hearing from constituents about. What they are hearing is, do not vote for this peer the president will try to shift Public Opinion as much as he can so senators and house lawmakers are hearing Something Different from constituents. Public opinion leaning largely against u. S. Strikes, how is that affecting how it might play out in the house or senate . Really see it in the house right now. It represents a smaller, geographic area. In tune with what they are hearing from to vigilance. Havekers in both parties said it is 101 against military action in syria. President obama is trying to do something to shift Public Opinion on this. Your time. U for thanks a lot. Wilson was so intellectual and was our most academic, most , the onlyresident with a phd. Most books written about him have been academic in nature. They have missed the very human side of this man. Was deeply emotional, passionate, romantic figure. He had two wives when this first wife died. He fell in love with a woman and married a second time. He wrote passionate love letters to each of these women. This was a will living, breathing, human being. I do not think we have seen that about him. Woodrowgraphy of wilson releases tuesday. Here more on cspans q a. Trying to maintain family time and protect their privacy, Edith Roosevelt arrest and repairs for the president , close enough to d. C. That he could get out there as often as needed, but far enough away that there was wilderness. This was a family place. It was unique for the roosevelts. It was a place with politicians and press and possibly a hubbub of activity. This was one place with private, family time. The roosevelts made it clear they did not want anyone but family here. Roosevelten edith as we begin season two of first ladies. Looking at the public and of the women who served as first lady. Monday night live. Next, immigration policy with a member of the House Homeland Security committee, and michael butler, a former Nationalization Services this is one hour and 20 minutes. Good evening. From the auditorium on the campus good evening and welcome to the president speaker series. On behalf of dr. John c johnson, the president , i am the moderator of tonights event. We begin our series with a look on the impact two experts will talk about that. First, we will look at the. Tuation in this will be a live broadcast, with a subsequent broadcast on cspan and youtube. We will begin introducing our two guest. An interview up front and then we will go to. This will be a live questions fu in the audience. Join us powerful guest tonight. Our first from in the middle here, the former mayor in pennsylvania, a congressman from the 11th congressional district, migrate privilege and pleasure to introduce the congressman. [applause] right is a former ins agent, a columnist, a much sought after speaker, and he has testified on ilLegal Immigration. [applause] welcome. Thank you for being here tonight. Let us begin before we get to the subject and talk about the situation as it exists in syria. I know you have been getting calls wondering how you will vote. The president says he will put it to congress and decide if we send missiles into syria. How do you feel . I i am very happy the president decided to consult with congress before taking any action. Back home, in my district, i do not know if i have gotten any phone calls from anyone who wants to go to war. I will wait to get a classified monday. When i get back there are a number of factors that need to be discussed. I am anxious to hear what the strategy and goal is, if we do strike syria. What is the end goal and what is that purpose . The factors that make this such a difficult weision is that the rebels know are mixing with al qaeda members, mixed in with the rebels who we are supporting against assad. We have israel, a threat of retaliation against israel, our traditional allies not with us. It makes the decision for me very difficult as to what the purpose and goal is. With that being said, i will keep an open mind and listen to the information that is brought move. Before i decide our knowing some of the leadership in the house and senate have already joined the president , that make your decision board of the . Not at all. Washington did not send me there. The people in my district, that is how i got there and that is whose voice i am bringing to with me. N some of the classified information i will not be able to share with constituents back home will make the decision more difficult. You have to take that into account. Some of the unknown that the public may not see. We have talked over 10 years. A National Radio program of your own. You and the congressman have traveled around the country and immigration. Egal first, your thoughts on syria . Wax a tough situation, as we have seen, in afghanistan and aaq. We know iran is playing heavy role into the situation. The congressman made the point about concerns about reprisal but reprisals against israel. When i covered a terrorist plot in the 1970s. My concern is that america might also face reprisals at home. We know there is a growing presence of iranian shock groups. We know they are here. Less than a year ago, there was an attempt made to killed a saudi ambassador. What people really need to understand is the oceans do not really give us much buffer. That is why i always make the point that while people always talk about california, mexico, 50 border we have states. We really have a problem in the fact there are millions of foreign nationals living inside the United States today whose identities and ultimate goals are unknown and unknowable. There may be people waiting for a phone call. A followup and then we will move on. Some wonder if we do nothing in. , that ends a google to the iranian government that we may be week. The president has drawn the red line and they have crossed it. It puts the United States in a very bad position on how we are viewed globally on whether or not the United States is credible. It is veryoubt, important we speak with one voice. That will way into the decision. The problem is what happens if america ask and it does not stop the problem. There are tough decisions to make. I have to say something. This is one of the reasons i am proud to consider him a friend. About hissked him leadership, his answer was that he speaks to his constituents. He truly does represent his constituents. We will show some quotes based on some of the writings and things said to tell the story of how this particular president speaks really happened. Several years ago, we learned about a van mayor in pennsylvania. I will ask the congressman to tell the story, but first, less is more. Llegal is illegal he made a statement may 3, 2007. What were you addressing . Why did you say it . Immediately, i created the first law in the country dealing with and the world media was at my doorstep asking why i am doing this. To me, there was no gray area. I did not he one. I said, because illegal is illegal. This was not antiimmigrant. We are not talking about immigrants coming here, but people who entered the country illegally. How many people were there when the problem started . 50,000 . 30,000 people. Thats ok. What happened. All the aur city haven . The question i needed answered, we why hazleton . 2000 miles away from the southern border. The last place you would think to have an eagle immigration problem. It took me a while to actually come to the final determination that we have a problem with ilLegal Immigration. 2000. Elected mayor in it was a city that was bankrupt. A very safe, quiet city. One murder every seven years. The six years in between, they would talk about that one murder. Senior citizens like to sit on their porches and talk to their neighbors. City began changing in 2001. I had my First Encounter with ilLegal Immigration. I was called to an apartment with nine men sleeping on the floor in mattresses. Forapartment was not fit human beings, let alone for animals. You do not want to watch human beings exploited like this. We called ins. At the time, they were still ins. Us to simply tell them to move on. I did not agree with it, but that is what we did. Friday after that, on a night in october, which are big nights, High School Football nights, after the football games, the students would go awntown and hang out at local pizzeria. This friday night was different. Hector, and illegal alien on a drug deal gone bad, shot two people 100 feet from where High School Students were standing outside, killing one and wounding another. That murder terrified our city. Alien inother illegal the city. I thought that was not usual. This was happening over and over again, until i realized we have a problem with ilLegal Immigration. Our population grew by 50 , a huge group growth for a city. Our tax revenue remained the same. That is something we wanted to discuss tonight. How do you provide services when your revenue is broken . On the first page of the lawsuit, i described how ilLegal Immigration diminishes the quality of life in the community for that very reason. When you when you can no longer provide the leverage level of services to the public to keep them safe, take care of the people, the issues, code violations, you begin to lose the quality of life of small town america. I could no longer do it. We did not have money to hire more police. What i did, once i realized the problem was much bigger than what we could handle, i went to washington in december 2005 and met with the department of justice. It was a great day. They brought in all these experts to talk to me and the thece chief i explained problem and talked about the game the gangs, i talked tout our lack of revenue deal with the problem. What i got was a knife a nice coffee mug, a pat on the back, and i realize the federal government, who caused the ourlem by not enforcing laws, would do nothing to resolve it. Vice is the makeup of illegal aliens varied or is it largely hispanic . Very diverse community. We made people from romania problem ofe main those in the country illegally or from the dominicans, which was very interesting, especially sitting on the Homeland Security committee. When i talk about ilLegal Immigration, the focus is always on the southern border. I know better. 40 of the people in the country illegally did not rock that border and did not cross any border. Ity come here on a visa and expires and they melt into the system and disappear. We have no way to track them. Many people in the country illegally did not cross the southern border. They entered through our airports. When you were the mayor, i was on a flight back to daytona aach seated next to a non catholic nun, and i said, sister, how is the mayor doing . She said, hes by himself than we do not go out at night. How how prevalent was the feeling among residents when you are mayor toward the end, knowing it was an almost insurmountable problem at that point . It came to light for me one morning when i drove to city hall and went to get into my parking spot reserved for the mayor, and i could not get there because there was an elderly woman waiting for me. She started hitting me in the chest with her finger and said, you better do something. I can no longer sit on my porch any longer. I am afraid to go out. I walked up to my office and, being born and raised in hazleton and being the mayor, i was proud to be the mayor of the city i grew up and to realize Senior Citizens could no longer enjoy that this was how they were living, and they could no longer enjoy being outside, i never realized i had to do something. I was standing alone. To not get a politician come near me for weeks. It was refreshing. No one came there to campaign. Quest that is right. I skipped it. They did. Not only president ial candidates. Senator clinton, senator obama, and senator mccain, pennsylvania was six weeks alone in the primary. Everyday, i picked up the picture the paper and see one of them close but never stopping there. After a while, i got to inking maybe it was me causing them not to stop, because i do not think anybody wanted to ask the question, how do you feel about what i did. I stood alone, until we were who suedllegal aliens the a. C. L. Will lu, and ice i thought i was standing by myself, but there were millions of americans standing with me. Should i talk about going to washington in december 2005 and coming home with a coffee mug. We had arrested a 14yearold for selling drugs in a playground. It was a playground i grew up on. He was selling cocaine. When i arrested him, he had called his lawyer who he had on the dial, which i thought was an usual for a 14yearold. He was in the country illegally. I felt like i had lost control of the city. That night, i got a call from the chief of police at 1 00 in the morning. In the headen shot while working on his pickup truck last night. Arrested seven times before he became came to hazleton. Shot and killed him in the face. Thosers to apprehend involved. We spent half our years in the budget. I sat with him who wanted to know why this man still stood in the country. I had enough. Washington was not going to do anything else. Andok an oath to protect defend the people in my community. Punishing businesses that knowingly hired illegal aliens, and landlords who knowingly hired illegal area aliens, because they are illegal. Those who sued the city were illegal aliens. I was told they would a corrupt our city and get me out at election time if i did not back down. I said, i will get another job if that happens, but i will not act down. Court. To we had no money. I said there were millions of americans who stood with me and i knew that because i began getting checks around the. Ountry i remember a veteran sent me seven dollars and said, this is all i have in my wallet. Continue to fight. We went to court. The plaintiffs had to ask the judge if they could have their names kept anonymous because they did not want the public to know who they were. The judge granted the request. We were not allowed to ask their names. They asked if they could not have to come to go to the courtroom out of fear of being deported. They did not have to. He judge granted that request i believe illegal aliens were given more rights than you and i are given. We cannot sue the city and remain anonymous. The judge ruled in favor of illegal aliens are they city schools . What is the Financial Impact . English as the second language. 500 in the year 2000. In 2005, the budget for english as a second language was 1. 5 million. That is how fast the population grew. Just as a comparison for our audience, the impact for ilLegal Immigration on Public Education is almost three quarters of 1 billion per year. That is to edu and feed illegal immigra ia for Public School s. Everyone educated for Free Education regardless if they are here illegally. Around that time, you are striking up a relationship. W