I expect mr. Simas to face the consequences i unnecessarily not coming. This will be an issue for him should he ever think a Position Requiring Senate Confirmation or to run for elected office. Not only does the administration feel it is above the law and claiming inherent immunity, but arrogantly believes that it should be held to a lesser standard than the Bush Administration. Last night i wrote to the right House Counsel white House Counsel, and offered him an extraordinary combination. After he complained yesterday that our request for mr. Simass public testimony differed from the ocean ministrations deposition, i offered him the option for committing to a transcribed interview rather than appearing here today. They do not accept the offer, nor recant their claim of inherent community. The white house argues that senior officials who salaries who paid for by taxpayers are immune from testifying before congress if the president deems it so. The District Court of the District Of Colu
Sides of culture and commerce that enrich all of us and make our countries stronger. Translation] we have a wide range of issues that we share and have discussed in the past in various forms. But, today our focus was on what has been a significant challenge and for families that have been at risk as a of children leaving the homes in Central America and making the journey that poses great dangers to themselves. [spanish translator] all of us recognize that we have a shared responsibility to correct this problem. President molina hosted Vice President biden to look at steps that could be taken to alleviate this challenge. And, today, what i did was share with my counterparts the efforts the United States has in our containing response, including resources at the border, more facilities to care for these children that have more resources for immigration courts to process the claims of these children in a way that is orderly and timely, that protects due process and expedites the length o
Censorship we have seen by the United States since the 1950s, since the mccarthy era. Are you surprised . I am surprised, actually. But you are screwing with the forces of nature. [ticking] [blows whistle] you might not think of sugar, corn, or metal as material that can cause a catastrophic explosion in a factory. But when theyre ground into dust and suspended in the air, all it takes is a small spark to set off a disaster. If this material were gasoline, there would be no doubt in any owners or operators mind what needed to be done. That would be an emergency. Absolutely. Is dust functionally the same thing . It has the same power. Hundreds of industries create huge amounts of lethal dust and arent even aware of the risk. [ticking] welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im steve kroft. In this edition, we talk with Julian Assange, the mysterious and eccentric founder of wikileaks, whose website made public thousands of u. S. Secrets. And we examine the secret danger behind a type of dust tha
An alternate standard, obviously there are a number of alternate standards that can be applied. But the important thing to remember is that this program is a discovery program. The whole idea of the program is to identify avenues that warrant investigation into rollout avenues that do not warrant investigation. And the more that you require of the more that you add on to the standard that is required before you can even investigate less useful tool becomes. For example, if you talk about reason to believe the number me lead to contact in the United States, that is exactly what we are trying to find out here. We have got a number. If we have a terrorist phone number, what exactly we are trying to find out is do we have information to think that this may lead to the drooping investigation in the United States . One quick thing, raj, if i could. On the question of followup, there is a very close review of the ras determination itself. What is your review of how the fbi uses the informatio
It is completely outrageous. It is the worst form of censorship we have seen by the United States since the 1950s, since the mccarthy era. Are you surprised . I am surprised, actually. But you are screwing with the forces of nature. [ticking] [blows whistle] you might not think of sugar, corn, or metal as material that can cause a catastrophic explosion in a factory. But when theyre ground into dust and suspended in the air, all it takes is a small spark to set off a disaster. If this material were gasoline, there would be no doubt in any owners or operators mind what needed to be done. That would be an emergency. Absolutely. Is dust functionally the same thing . It has the same power. Hundreds of industries create huge amounts of lethal dust and arent even aware of the risk. [ticking] welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im steve kroft. In this edition, we talk with Julian Assange, the mysterious and eccentric founder of wikileaks, whose website made public thousands of u. S. Secrets. And w