House Foreign Affairs committee on militant Group Alshabaab and why he feels it could become more of a global threat if the United States wont counter its influence. Alshabaab is this tamalebased group that took credit for last weeks attack at a canyon Shopping Mall. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order at this time. Today we are going to meet to assess the threat and i would ask all members to take their seats at this time. Today we are going to discuss the threat from alshabaab which is al qaedas franchise in the horn of africa. We are going to discuss the threat that it poses to somalia combat the threat to the horn of africa, to the region and the threat that it can poses to us. Alshabaab translates to the youth and that organization officially swore allegiance if you recall last year in february to al qaeda but the leadership for many years alshabaab had been working closely with
Described it as substantial, security at the consolate that day. What was the basis for that . Did anybody give her information that the consolate that day, security was significant, substantial and strong . Because there was absolutely no evidence of that. In fact, everything found in this investigation has shown that security was absolutely lax at that consolate, unacceptably so given the prior history of intelligence at the consolate, given the prior attacks that had been made not only on the british, on the red cross. And this really was unfortunately a death trap. And so why is she then, in the context of an election not only pushing the video story the president as well but also saying the consulate security is strong, it was significant when there is no evidence of that. In fact, it all goes to the contrary. Finally, you know, theres been a lot of discussion about the fact that the about the video. Ambassador rice went on the sunday shows. She talks about the video. She talks ab
Want this to end . This is a republican crisis right now. And the Republican Party is desperate to get out of the crisis of their own making. When does john boehner finally say screw you guys . Lets dive in for the very latest details on this. We have nbc capitol hill correspondent Kelly Odonnell and White House Correspondent Kristen Welker standing by. Kelly, let me start with you. It looks like there are about five possible scenarios or solutions that could come out of this. Kelly, what are you learning is likely through today . Reporter one of the things thats been so difficult, thomas, in most crises we can see the leap frog of likely steps. Even if theres some heat and fire in between, you sort of know where its headed. This has been more difficult. Part of what could happen is what has been requested but flatly denied. The whole idea of just simply republicans folding, passing funding for the government with nothing else attached. That seems less and less likely by the day. Some
0. 1 . As for the markets this morning, take a look. The dow and the s p both closed at sixweek highs yesterday. The nasdaq ended the session at a 13year high. 15,529. That was the close for the dow. If you take a look at the futures this morning, just to get a sense of this, cramer told us yesterday the market wants to get up no matter what. The futures are indicated up higher by 2. 8 for the s p. But the big question, joe, is what happens at 2 00 today. What do you think . I think theyre going to taper by 10 to 15 billion. Which . Ten or 15 . Here is the thing. The market is almost 100 set on this. Liesman wait a second was talking about it yesterday and only 48 of the experts that he polled said the taper is going to come today. I think by saying 10 or 15 today, i think im still sticking my neck out. What do you think . I love steve, but these are just putting together a bunch of the clowns that we have on all the time. I know its a composite look at that. But theres no way it was 4
Conditions have protections . Yes. Can we have a system where we equalize tax benefits, where people who are low income, above medicaid, can get access to Affordable Health insurance . Yes. And can we do that without this Big Government takeover, without the government forcing you to buy the insurance they want you to buy . Yeah. I dont know that well get that with this president , but the Republican Party will clearly offer a better system that actually gets at the problem, the cost of health care. The Health Care Inflation and access to Affordable Care, regardless of your health condition. Weve offered those before, offering some right now, and we will offer some more in the near future. Congressman ryan, thanks very much for joining us. Thanks so much. Thanks, paul. Live here on capitol hill, where the Senate Small Business committee is holding a hearing this morning on the Health Care Exchanges for Small Businesses in states that opted to set up their own marketplaces. The centers