congress. people against this is calling this is a job kill. stuart varney is here. what is going on? the president wants to look for good for the united nations which is forming a climate change treaty and the president wants to look good. if he can say i am beating up on coal so china better do it as well. the president said we will work on climate change and he is. he is going beyond congress and working without him to shore up his political base which is the environmental movement. there will be job losses if they go through and a slightly slower economy because you will take money out and you will have a
labeled a terrorists organization. bush and obama knew we would have to negotiate with them. the second thing is i think we made a lousy deal. our terms and conditions with these five should have been tied to the fact with making sure cannot get back to the conflict while we are there. international observers, house arrest, let them be with family but no internet or phones. we made a very bad deal and we should have discussed this with congress because they would have gotten feedback about the deal. let s listen to susan rice:
with this group as you would be with a state, you know, with germany in the past, don t you, of necessity, have to negotiate a prisoner exchange? no. here is where i disagree completely. we have other means to use. and remember, they came to congress about a year ago and we re thinking about doing these negotiations. by the way, they didn t get a very warm reception from either party in the national security committees. they said this is fraught with trouble. well so this all of a sudden comes a year later. they didn t notify congress. i think they violated the law in two different places here. why is because this is a this is morphing into different places. so an al qaeda affiliate in now africa looks a lot and functions a lot like the al qaeda affiliates operating out of the tribal areas in pakistan. you can t if you negotiate here, you ve sent a message to every al qaeda group in the
deal was in the making. here is what she said. is there no one in congress you can trust to call the chairman of the intelligence committee or the chairwoman on the other side and say i want you to know this is happening. we did do that. we briefed congress in the past about this potential. in the past. but when you knew you were going. when the deal was done and sergeant bergdahl was in u.s. custody is when we began making notifications to congress. but the deal had already been made and the prisoners in guantanamo bay were already en route to a plane to go to qatar? no. actually, congress began to be note need when sergeant bergdahl was in american hands which was before the prisoners left guantanamo. she said, look, the dod, the pentagon went to the justice department, asked if it was okay given the laws surrounding who needs to be consulted about the release of these gitmo prisoners and the justice department said fine. there s a reason congress is involved by law,
information or that someone didn t check back? did you ever feel like you were put out there with bad information? candy, no, we ve been through all of this. and i ve had the opportunity to discuss this at great length. the fact of the matter is i m now serving as the president s national security adviser. i have all of the issues that you can imagine on the world stage on our plate. my primary responsibility and sole interest of that and that of the president, to ensure americans serving around the world in dangerous places are safe. we have embassies, diplomats, we have servicemen and women, as we ve just been discussing, who are doing the business of the united states at great risk. my hope is that congress will focus on how we can assure we have the resources and ability to keep them safe. if asked, will you to testify? i m not going to speculate on something that hasn t happened or what congress might do or don t do. i m focused every day on doing my job on behalf of the ame