next, a conference analyzing airport security. you ll hear from new jersey representative rush hot on increasing oversight of tsa. after that, a look at body scanners and pat-down procedures in u.s. airports. this is two hours and 25 minutes. good morning, and welcome, everyone. my name is mark ruthenberg, president of the u.s. privacy information center. emic is a public research organization established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberty issues, and behalf of epic, the organizers, and speakers at this conference, it is my pleasure to welcome you this morning. i think we have without question a controversial topic, for for those here in the room following us on c-span or twitter, i encourage you go to the website epic.org/events/tsa, participate in the discussion. i think it s scan tsa. we welcome your comments and your engagement it is also my pleasure today too welcome as our opening speaker congressman rush holt. i think it s fair
far. i don t think anybody s going to miss thanksgiving because of any sort of protest. washington goes from carving turkeys to debating ducks. after the republicans stood the president up for the first day. we ve just come through a two-year period where we saw the government take over just about everything it could get its hands on. they will try again. i have the awesome responsibility of granting a presidential pardon to a pair turkeys. his meeting with republicans will take place next week. they will have to decide what to do about the expiring bush tax cuts. what s still unclear, at least to me, what position it s going to take, what is the compromise position. democrats have to decide whether to force a showdown. there s a significant disagreement that feels like they re almost waiting to see what the republicans will do. white house reaching out to big business in the middle of record profits. i have people complaining over here, i have those
heads home for thanksgiving the politics of air security haven t slowed air travel so far. i don t think anybody s going to miss thanksgiving because of any sort of protest. washington goes from carving turkeys to debating ducks. after the republicans stood the president up for the first day. we ve just come through a two-year period where we saw the government take over just about everything it could get its hands on. they will try again. i have the awesome responsibility of granting a presidential pardon to a pair turkeys. his meeting with republicans will take place next week. they will have to decide what to do about the expiring bush tax cuts. what s still unclear, at least to me, what position it s going to take, what is the compromise position. democrats have to decide whether to force a showdown. there s a significant disagreement that feels like they re almost waiting to see what the republicans will do. white house reaching out to big bus
from getting from point a to point b, we ve got details on that. and jacqui jeras stationed at our travel desk this morning. first we begin one of the most dangerous parts of the world. this morning, south korea s threatening enormous retaliation after an attack by the north. at the same time, the white house is weighing what to do next. the u.s. says george washington is on its way to the yellow sea as previously scheduled. it ll take part in exercises with south korea not far from yesterday s attack. president obama has called south korea s president to express his support. and this morning, the south reports the bodies of two civilians have been found on the island. nearly 24 hours after one of the worst attacks since the korean war. our stan grant is live in south korea with the very latest. stan, how high are the tensions there in the peninsula this morning? reporter: you know, john, this is always a volatile reg n region. you described the enormous retaliation
to slow things down because democrats need 60 votes to proceed. they ve only got 58 votes. and they would need to get some republicans. but now that republicans are invigorated certainly in the house but also in the senate, they gain six seats in this election. they re not in any hurry to do president obama s bidding. they re trying to slow things down as much as possible. and so on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, for example, you would have the votes if could you get that up for a vote on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, but john kyle, the lead republican negotiator, doesn t want that to happen. i think his colleagues will back him up. so let s talk about that. conventional political wisdom is that that is a loss for barack obama if he can t get that passed. but he s done all he can from my read of it. he wented a g ed awent a and go. isn t that a loss for the republicans if they block it? it depends who wins the communications battle. that s part of the positioning that the white house ha