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And members of the committee to not make things personal and the remark by the attorney general, i do not think there are many people out there who believe he is a buddy of the attorney general. As a result, that was not well advised on his part. He did come in answer questions from 34 members of the committee on a wide array of issues. We have a lot of concerns about the department of justice. We thought it was a Good Opportunity to raise those concerns with the attorney general. That standpoint it was a successful hearing. Let me ask you one question more on that subject. Attorney general ho...

Reviews the 2015 budget request. Our guest on newsmakers this week is virginias bob of thete, the chairman house Judiciary Committee. Thank you for joining us. It is good to be with you and your viewers. John gramlich is the Legal Affairs reporter, Josh Gerstein is at National Security for politico. Taking the time today. I wanted to ask about the appearance before your committee this week. It was very contentious toward the end of the hearing where he was making a personal swipe at your committee. I wonder if you can talk about that and whether you think maybe he crossed the line in terms of ...

You have no basis we have no basis to prosecute them in federal court. I find these statements very difficult to accept, mr. Secretary, given the status that these particular individuals had before they were captured. It is hard to believe that these individuals in these positions within the taliban government had no role in attacks on americans. So could you, mr. Secretary, speak to this issue and explain to the people i represent and this committee and those of us who are all across this country asking these questions, why you believe the release of these men was appropriate and it does not ...

Congressman, again, i will say when we close this place down and go into the classified, well go into every one of those specifics, but i would tell you this, you may have already read the mou which we sent up here yesterday, and well be glad to take you down into the subparagraph six of each one of those to get to your question. But to go beyond my testimony here, i dont want to do that and if its okay, well wait. Let me go back historically then and look at the history of qatar and what theyve done in receiving detainees. As you know, the first transfer to qatar was in 2008, and was that one...

People, and then just looking at the past videos of him versus that video. It was pretty clear to me that his health was deteriorating. Mr. Secretary, theres been some previous questioning about the risk future risk potential future risk to American Service members if they were to have to recapture these five individuals who were swapped. In the prisoner of war exchange. Is there any evidence whatsoever that any future risk for those five is any greater than the 532 folks who have previously been released by the Bush Administration or, for that matter, the 88 that have been released from the O...