Powerful Senate Banking committee, senator Richard Shelby will be among our guests. Also tonight Hillary Clinton says shes willing to testify on benghazi. We will be talking with the chairman of the House Select Committee on benghazi. He says the Obama White House is still stonewalling his investigation and the American People. He joins us. And the president s choice to lead the department of justice says that Illegal Immigrants have the same rights as american citizens when it comes to the right to work in america. Really. Well take that up along with a lot of other issues. Billionaire media mogul is with us on a battle we started fighting with the Bush Administration and that battle goes on today. A president who continues to choose Political Correctness over straightforwardness and National Security. Our first guest says sanctions brought the iranians to the negotiating table in the first place and avoiding future sanctions is the only reason for them to enter an agreement to prevent them from developing Nuclear Weapons. Joining us is the chairman of the Senate Banking committee Richard Shelby. Good to have you with us. Senator bob menendez said clearly a week ago the president sounded at times as if his talking points were from tehran and is now lined up with the president. What do you make of it . I think its obama democratic politics. I would hope that we could come up with a bipartisan approach to sanctions. We have in the past. But negotiations have been going on a long time. I think they are too protracted. I dont know anything good will come out of it. But i think obama is chasing a deal. Hes wanting some kind of deal with iraq but a bad deal is a bad deal and i think that sanctions worked, they will work harder and thats what brought iran to the table thus far. I believe it will keep them at the table or they will pay an awful price. The awful price they paid so far is the return of about 8. 5 billion that have been released by the administration, most recently just under half a billion dollars, another 3 billion or so to be released before the june deadline, at least as deadlines go with iran. They are not so quick to honor them or to meet them. Well that is what will be the impact . Well, you are absolutely right to point that out because thats a big apple or a big carrot they have been given iraq i mean iran to get them to the table. I dont see any real concrete evidence of iran negotiating in good faith. I think this could be an existential question for israel, our ally in the area. This is serious, serious buness eryeris sine. Ou y,iran soluly opsed tery esten of israel. Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of israel, very clear and eloquent on the issue of how important it is that iran not, not continue to develop its Nuclear Weapons. Where will we see the United States ultimately come down on this . Another deadline comes and goes, its extendeextended and theres a vote this week. Where does that vote take us . Well im hoping that what were going to do in the banking committee, which i can speak from, thursday which is just a couple days from now we are going to have a markup on some legislation to make it tougher and tougher as far as sanctions are concerned on iran. Thats something the Obama Administration doesnt want. They have said that, they put pressure on their fellow democrats not to support it but we are going to bring it out and we are going to let people vote up or down on it. I hope they will vote the right thing, not the political thing. And the political thing seems to be driving much of this, as the administration continues to suggest that each of these deadlines i referred to are just simply vague abstract markers that can shift at any time at the administrations whim, or the iranians insistence. March 24th says senator menendez. Thats as far as hes going to go. At least its an unofficial deadline or marker as you suggested that hes put down. Each time there has to be some sort of concrete progress. Any idea how they would define it . Any idea how you would define it . Well i would if we had a real comprehensive agreement that would keep iran from building a nuclear weapon, that would be one thing. I dont believe this is going to happen. I think they are just stalling for time time, negotiations, promises that they wont really ever fulfill not the serious ones. I think that irans going to eat our lunch dealing with these negotiations or having no negotiation, just string us out. Maybe im wrong. I hope im wrong. But i believe history will probably show that we are probably right. Irans Deputy Foreign minister saying that he had informed israel that there will be consequences to their acts including a strike in which an iranian general was killed. The United States now in the position of carrying messages for the iranians to the israelis . How unseemly will it get . Well, its baffling to a lot of us that this administration would not stand up with this ally. They claim they are, but when the sanctions proposals get tough, they want to put them off. They dont want to deal with it now. They want to negotiate some more. Well weve been negotiating and we have been negotiating. Im afraid that irans going to get what they want, stall for time and we are going to be out in the cold. Senator Richard Shelby always good to talk to you. Thank you. We appreciate you being with us, mr. Chairman. Former cuban leader fidel castro breaking his silence at least on paper over normalization talks, writing a letter over the matter, releasing one, at least. The 88yearold still hasnt been seen in public in more than a year. No date has been set for a second round of talks between the United States and cuba. The president s unilateral efforts to normalize relations driving a surge as well and the illegal immigration of cubans to this country. The federal government reported coast guard interceptions of cubans on boats and rafts has risen 117 from a year ago and interceptions of cubans at the miami airport and along our southern border have risen 65 . We are coming right back with much more. Stay with us. The white house relents, releases more than 15,000 benghazi documents. In my world, wall isnt a street. Return on investment isnt the only return im looking forward to. For some every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. Which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. Our commitment to current and former military members and their families is without equal. Start investing with as little as fifty dollars. The benghazi stonewall goes on. The state department preventing Diplomatic Security agents who are actually on the ground during the 2012 benghazi terrorist attacks preventing them from testifying before congress. Heres a state Department Witness today at the House Select Committee benghazi hearing. We at the state department have concerns that the requested interviews will pose precisely such risks. We also want to avoid interfering with the department of justices ongoing investigations and prosecutions. Joining us now, the chairman of the select committee on benghazi, congressman trey gowdy, who also serves on the judiciary committee, the oversight and government reform committee. Mr. Chairman, good to see you and if you will, characterize that answer from the state department, the assistant deputy secretary of state, on the witnesses. Well, lou, thank you for having me on. Thats just a boilerplate response you get sometimes from the administration that if you want to talk to a witness its going to jeopardize their security or impact an ongoing prosecution, so the first thing you have to say is look, mr. State Department Official we have no interest in jeopardizing anyones security, so were not going to do that. You dont need to be concerned about security. Secondarily, i know a Little Something about criminal prosecutions. The last thing we want to do is jeopardize our chances of getting a conviction but the department of justice has been much easier to work with on this issue than the state department. So those are just two kind of boilerplate, always in the letter responses you get from the state department, neither of which can withstand scrutiny. A lot of people right now just trying to collect themselves after you said the Justice Department was easier to work with than the state department, at least in this instance. At the very same time, youre getting 15,000 documents dumped on you this week. Finally a response, or is it simply if you will a bit of a swapback from the administration . Its 15,000 documents that no committee of congress has ever had access to so when people tell you that all the questions on benghazi have been answered and theres nothing left to see, then why are we just getting access to 15000 documents that no other committee of congress has had access to and within those 15,000 documents, thats going to lead us to make additional requests which says nothing of the witnesses that we have not talked to that we need to talk to. So if you look at the House Resolution that says all policies, all decisions all activities. The word all is incredibly comprehensive. Thats what we were asked to do and you cannot do atatatat if you dont have access to every document and every witness. So i appreciate the 15000. What i cannot tell you and your viewers, lou, is 15,000 out of how many. How many more are we entitled to. And the questions go on and the answers are not forthcoming or what few answers do find their way to your committee from this administration, it usually introduces more questions. Where does this go and you have talked about reaching out even to the former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton. How far does this go, how energetic, how vigorous will the committee be in this . We have been vigilant and energetic. Its just been energetic behind closed doors, given the nature of some of the material were dealing with. But you know we are going to have to talk to all the principal witnesses. You mentioned secretary clinton. There are others. I dont want to focus on her, but clearly, you cannot have a definitive accounting of benghazi without talking to the secretary of state at the time. Before i can talk to secretary of state clinton, i need the state department to provide us with the emails of all the principals, all the documents all the papers that any halfway decent lawyer would have to have before they went in to question a witness. So we are ready to pick up the pace. The democrats ironically who didnt want to form the committee now want us to go at a quicker pace. We are more than happy to accommodate that request. So we are going even wants democrats participating, full and equal partners. Well, i know the irony of voting against a committee threatening not to participate in the committee putting up an ask and answer website, that says the committee doesnt need to do any work, now he wants to be a full partner and i welcome that. There are really good questioners on the other side. What im not going to do is conclude that all the work has been done when i know for a fact that there are documents and witnesses that have not been talked to and i owe your viewers and my fellow citizens the most definitive final accounting on benghazi. Thats what we were asked to do and thats what were going to do with or without their help. Congressman gowdy we have also watched what has transpired with the attorney general of the United States being held in contempt of congress on the issue of fast and furious. I mean there are so many of these scandals that envelop the white house that they have managed, the pejorative is stonewall, and managed to be crazily optimistic from the other side to say they preserved the integrity of the executive branch. Will we see resolution or is this a conflict that will ultimately make its way simply to the ballot box and then at that time be resolved . Well, i think in theory things would take a detour to the courthouse before they would go to the ballot box. When i say courthouse there has been civil litigation that has resulted in additional documents both in fast and furious and in benghazi. Remember, it was not congress that got the ben rhodes memo. It was someone else. What were seeing with fast and furious is the attorney general says that an email he sends to his wife is protected by executive privilege. A judge can throw that out of court but at some point our fellow citizens need to say look stop the politics. The legislative branch has the right to conduct oversight over the executive branch and when you take two and a half years to produce documents and try to just wait out the congress thats not the way this was designed. So as soon as my fellow citizens get as upset as you are about it and as upset and frustrated as i am, regardless of which political partys in power this could be a republican administration. Congress is still entitled to the documents. So my branch is going to have to stand up for itself. I hope well do that. I cant think of any analog in our history in which there was ever a question raised without resolution about what congress is entitled to but here we are now well more than two years since the death of four americans in benghazi and the burning and sacking of our consulate, the annex its really quite something. Is there a parallel in our history that has eluded us . Well, im a lot older than you are but even i cant think back to what that may have been and you are a better student of history than i am. I can just tell you that in my brief time in congress, it has always been with a Democratic Administration and its always been with a republican majority in the house trying to gain access to the information and in the old days, Congress Kind of stood up for itself and they asserted the right of the branch to have access to information. Nowadays, if your team is in power in the white house, you have no interest in forcing them to comply with congressional requests. So i hope i live long enough to see a republican president and if i do, and if im in congress i promise you i will make her or him be responsive to the peoples house when they have legitimate requests for documents. I think if its not apparent now to folks who consider them devout partisans either republican or democrat, conservative or liberal, to perhaps think about the imperial presidency as having become far too imperious and time for a modest rollback of power. We know you will be working hard in that direction. We appreciate your time and wish you luck. Thank you, lou. Up next, we will tell you why a battle i was involved in more than 12 years ago continues. Imagine that. Almost 13 years ago, a battle over language and our enemies and why both bush and obama are responsible. 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I dont think that the taliban the taliban is an armed insurgency. The idiocy of such remarks creating a furious backlash against misplaced Political Correctness at the white house and apparently in the minds of the white house required even further rationalization, explanation, if you will, by press secretary josh earnest today. It is clear that there is a difference between the ambitions that are expressed by the taliban and the ambitions that are expressed by al qaeda. The threat from the taliban is acute if you are a Service Member serving in afghanistan or if you are a u. S. Diplomat or a contractor that is working in afghanistan. In this case there is a clear difference between the aspirations that have been articulated by the taliban and the way they resort to some of their terror tactics and the terror, you know the terror attacks that are carried out by al qaeda. Bill plants expression saying all of it. 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