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>> are european -- are our european allies dropping the ball right now, mr. chairman? >> i wouldn't say dropping the ball. i was over there last april after i went to the middle east, the region, istanbul. we talked about these security gaps, the vulnerability that they have, the idea that they don't screen every passenger has a watch list, and we believe this individual was on a watch list, yet for whatever -- the eu parliament is now changing the law, they had told me, where eu citizens will nowly screened, but they haven't passed that legislation yet. i think it's desperately needed. if any...

Dealt with at the state level, but honestly, unless you protect the national grid, you're not going to really make headway, so we ought to do it on a national level, and what we ought to do is take money that's already coming into the department of energy. they have a $30 billion a year budget. 10% of that budget would permanently protect our grid. we ought to just do it and take the money we're already collecting. >> when you're talking about energy, i can reference half a billion dollars that was literally thrown away on the green energy and the mess that s salinger created for the american ...

Boxer asked the four major car rental companies to sign a simple pledge. keep recalled cars off the rental lots until they're fixed. all but one company declined to make that promise. >> until they sign the pledge, tell your families not to go to those companies. tell your families that hertz is the only one that signed. >> representatives of enterprise, avis and dollar thrifty responded saying their companies address safety recalls in a timely fashion. but would still not sign the pledge. all three companies do support legislation to ensure safety and senator boxer will hold them to that and ...

Adviser for him on women and the economy. when that happened, a group called the catholic league attacked hilary rosen they said for not having her own children, because hilary rosen's children are adopted, hilary rosen is gay. at the time, an rnc spokesman stood up to respond to that, sort of defended hilary rosen having adopted children. but of course because hilary rosen is gay, hilary rosen adopting children is against the republican party's stated position on whether or not gay people should have the right to adopt children. so when challenged on whether or not that's what his tweet meant...

>> we ask has the filibuster outlived the use? let's go to senate producer ken strickland. do the case for and against. we have been tehearing about th case against. why do people argue for getting rid of the filibuster? >> basically the people frustrated with the filibuster look at it from this perspective. say the senate democrats. they have a strong majority of voters on their side that support legislation and they may have 59, they need 60 to break the filibuster and perceived that 60 is the new 50. historically, used to 67 so things have gotten better. when the founding fathers created th...