Head the Homeland Security department will stop department. A budget agreement and a bill something out Defense Department programs and policies for next year. We spoke this morning with a capitol hill reporter. We go to roll call. What can we expect on capitol hill this week . Thank you. This is the senate final week in session for the year. It is a preview of what we cant expect to see over the next couple of days. The senate is coming back into session today at 3 00 this afternoon. They are guest the senate is expected to work through. You will see the confirmation of and patterson to be an assistant secretary of state. That will clear the decks out to with allo move forward the important votes and the debate on the budget deal with the Defense Authorization following that later in the week. Lets talk about those bills for a second. From what youre hearing, does it have enough support of Senate Republicans to pass . It increasingly looks like it will. Just turned from ron johnson to
Issues emerging in the fraud space. Wednesday in washington, we will have our fourth quarterly talking about these issues. Please see me if you are interested. To wrapt, we are going up. I would like to think our panel, it has been a wonderful discussion. [applause] to thank all of you, again, for coming to this event. Thank you to our underwriters at google. We will see you another time, goodbye. A, next washington journal, look at u. S. Trade policy and proposed trade agreements with the European Union and russia. Our guest is sanford reback. We will speak with former , andor Blanche Lincoln robert weissman. Airs liven journal every morning at seven eastern on cspan. A couple live events today on c span. The Senate Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on the Navy Yard Shooting and security at federal buildings at 10 30. 2 00, a Senate Foreign relations subcommittee looks at the violence in Central Africa republic. Today comesoing on down to two words they are not my two wo
Answered my question. You have even my response. It is recognizing this country, there are a number of risks we face. It is a large country. Part of the conversation we have to have is with the department of Homeland Security and the administration, lawmakers, the american public, we cannot mitigate every threat. It is understanding those that will have the most significant consequences and ensuring we have a conversation about how we go about mitigating them, that we have the resources, personnel, to go about doing that. Having the conversation that we have today and over the course of time are, i think, what is critical. You have already taken steps by moving away from sequestration. That will be helpful to us as well. I think recognizing we have to that we have to manage risk and that we cannot prevent every incident, and as long as we are adapting ashen general . Protective federal services is unique that we have both state,ugh local, federal, and civilian environments. We do that
Amelia in full support of the president. The president has not succeeded in forming a consensus among the powerful chairman of the committees in the house. At least one democratic chair in the senate disagrees with the president s approach. In the house president select committee on intelligence chairman mike rogers welcomed the responsibility for the vote. The Michigan Republican said, at the end of the day, congress will rise to the occasion and approved a strike on syriaa his counterpart in the senate wants president obama to make that decision himself and tell chair senator Dianne Feinstein telling Time Magazine that there is no need for a vote. Senate Armed Services committee remains undecided on a military strike. Telling reuters he would rather see stepped up to support to what he calls vetted elements of assad opposition. The ranking republican on that committee is composed of right. I continue to oppose military action in syria because i am deeply concerned about the state of
Just reported to sign an executive order all about promoting clean coal, no amount of science guy will give us reading on that. John, former acting director along with cia, the chief of staff, theyll discuss the latest twists and turns in the devin nunes scandal, which also seems to be a paul ryan scandal. Should devin nunes recuse himself. He wont tell us what he learned. Meetings are being cancelled. We have done no business this week. He needs to step down. Its a little by izarre. We never talk about sources. Hes not willing to tell the democrats, who you met with. I never asked of you. You could well be the sacrificial lamb that this white house is looking for. What were seeing is the effective covert operation that russia has carried out. I think it would serve us all well if he recuse himself from the russia issue. Thank you. Chairman intelligence devin nunes is in the middle of publicly to cover up weve ever seen, hes not in it alone. Paul ryan is doing everything he can to help