Frankly, how do you see al qaeda today . I would like to begin with something that i think is underlying some of our different views of al qaeda. Your vision of the africa and so on and so forth. But in fact, al qaeda has always had a second that has taken up funding time and effort from the 1990s. In 99 of the funding was going to creating what they call guerrilla fighters. The longterm insurgency rather than the 1 that is being spent on external attacks, that is, terrorist attacks. If an organization spends 99 of its money on one effort and only 1 on the other effort, on what basis do we focus on that 1 versus the 99 . That 1 was aimed at us. And isnt that the important thing and it certainly is for americans. We dont Pay Attention to that or that messy stuff going on out there. Al qaeda said was their real objective. And that would replace them with people with the extremist version of sharia law. That is their underlying objective. Attacking america was in a means because they saw
Of operating them at the highest possible level. Mrs. Burwell violated the medicare trigger, for example. Trustees of medicare issue a report that is heading to insolvency. Its a critical matter. The administration by law is required within two weeks to submit a plan to fix medicare, and they have been submitting this report for years. As the president s director on the 31usc1105, ms. Burwell was the person responsible for submitting medicare legislation to congress. We asked her about that before she was confirmed. During her hearing, she said she would do everything in her power to comply with the federal law. Yet, despite this assurance, she refused to comply with the law and never submitted a plan. Dont we need a plan to fix medicare . Dont we need the chief executive of america through the budget director to submit a plan to fix it . She also violated the law and denied Congress Needed transparency with respect to the health care law, the obamacare law. So the omnibus appropriatio