ironically, from the chase department in charge of mitigated risk. my colleague, christine romans watching this hearing from her post in new york. the department that s supposed to mitigate risks made these risky trades and now he is having to answer questions. it s obvious why congress wants to know why these stupid trades were made. yeah. he says, you know what? i m not going to defend it, because it violates common sense. it shouldn t have happened. what was, maybe should have been a legitimate, bona fide macroeconomic hedge, morphed into something else, he says, and he did not defend it. talk about, you say a grilling. a civil discussion. in part because he is so contrite here. the conversation just now turning into something more about what do you think about dodd-frank and the volcker rule and new regulations he has been vocal against. but as far as that trade, he says, no, you re right. it shouldn t have happen and we re sorry for that. in particular, let me tell you
voices the regime of bashar al assad has for 14 months tried to silence with batons and bullets and mortars and murder. these are men, women and children who 14 months ago began raising their voices, asking semifor change, reform. an end to corruption, discrimination. basic freedoms that most of us in the world take for granted. they spoke out peacefully and were with met with tear gas, tanks and torture. there s no more talk of peace were of reform. now they fight back. they ll not stop, they say, until bashar al assad and his regime of lies has fallen. just over 300 yards from where i m standing is the syrian border. you can see lights in the distance. that s syria, that s how close we are. the syrian regime does not want us here, they refused our request for visas to enter syria, as they have for many months now. we wanted to come so that you could hear the voices that they have tried so long to distance. children who have lost their parents. mothers and fathers who have s
basic freedoms that most of us in the world take for granted. they spoke out peacefully and were with met with tear gas, tanks and torture. there s no more talk of peace were of reform. now they fight back. they ll not stop, they say, until bashar al assad and his regime of lies has fallen. just over 300 yards from where i m standing is the syrian border. you can see lights in the distance. that s syria, that s how close we are. the syrian regime does not want us here, they refused our request for visas to enter syria, as they have for many months now. we wanted to come so that you could hear the voices that they have tried so long to distance. children who have lost their parents. mothers and fathers who have seen their kids shot to death in the streets in front of them. the refugee camps in turkey are well run. they re probably the cleanest refugee camps i have seen, but they re miserable places. nearly everyone here has lost a loved one. we ve been visiting the camps, spea
syrians relative to whether they are in the government or not, which is what we re seeing around the world. there isn t always a role. overpowering people to use russian weapons to kill their people in a way that is in betrayal of our basic principle as we watch this confrontation of two sets of rules ripple around the earth. sometimes the rules are different. sometimes there s huge problems with the sets of rules. action and inaction. in some ways, inaction can happen. the security council is sitting back. they are killing syrians at home. and also not just that in the city of homs, but there s reports today in the israeli press that there s a top commander helping out. but that s conjecture for this conversation. the point is
amount of fema funding in this short-term spending bill. fema announced today that it s able to basically stretch the funds that they have in this federal disaster relief fund which is helping recovery efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans want