Extension. If the president signed that . The im not sure that anybody knows what the outcome of the situation is going to be. We saw the speaker of the house going on television over the weekend to declare that he is certainly comfortable with not funding the department of Homeland Security. I am not sure what kind of an of general mlss leads to that conclusion. And im not sure that its in the best interest of the vote tabulation that i can see. But yet he said that its on the left. And i think that does raise some questions about whether or not this new governing public and majority in congress is committed to actually being responsible in acting at the best interest to get one of the things he said at the end of last year was one of his goals was to make sure that Republican Leadership didnt appear scary to the american people. He was setting the bar really low. It looks like right now they are prepared to wiggle underneath the bar. We are going to see what should emerge as a plan f
Respond to cyberattacks, just as we do in other con texts. These are hard and very complicated issues, but im confident that working together government, industry, advocacy groups, the public, and the congress, our networks can be safer, are privacy protected and our future more secure. I look forward to tackling these threats with all of you. Thanks very much. [applause] im going ask you a few questions and then well open it to a conversation from this room and from the overflow room. I hope somebody will give me questions from outside this room. First of all, i noticed as a recovering politician your gentle pitch to congress on a bipartisan basis, and i Hope Congress is listening. It has occurred to me for years that the terrorists wont check our Party Registration before they blow us up, and this is obviously true in the cyber realm as well. The attacks on all of this infrastructure that youve listed, not just the private sector, but also the Postal Service and so forth, didnt targe
With a prepaid card. Spends like cash. Feels like membership. Good morning, im chris hayes. The country will see more extreme weather. In the east, highs in the 50s. On the west coast, temperatures near freezing and severe storms are threatening the mississippi and ohio River Valleys with flooding. And in egypt, a court has ordered a retrial for former president hosni mubarak. Im joined by msnbc contributor, joy reed, and tara mcinnis, executive director for american for progress action fun and professor of linguistics and contributing editor at the new republic and columnist at the New York Daily News and amy goodman, author and, of course, host of democracy now. This week president obama anoupsed three cabinet nominations all white men. The five departures which as of wednesday include hilda solace to our males. The appointments have called into question the president s commitment to diversity in his second term, concerns by a mick kmur in the New York Times on tuesday, showing presi
This went way beyond that. As oreilly drills down on the president s ability and his willingness to do this job and listen as secretary panetta tells the nation the real questions he thinks we ought to be asking. Have you ever heard barack obama in your conversations with him as cia chief and defense secretary say, i was wrong, i made a mistake . I heard him admit to mistakes. The real question is whether or not you learn from those lessons and then do the right thing. Obviously, in your book you dont think hes learned from the lesson. Im seeing a president , all right, from your eyes, former cia chief, former defense secretary, who is either incapable or doesnt understand the dangers that the United States faces. Thats the message im getting from you. I think this president is smart enough to understand the dangers. The real question is can he translate that into the kind of action that will help protect this country. Would i be wrong and a mean guy to say i dont believe barack obama
Around the world. But then also listed core al qaeda inside afghanistan and pakistan, the Homeland Security secretary said did not mention that they had been decimated as the president has said many times. I asked john earnest, what is going on here . Are they shifting policy . Are they shifting message . Listen. Is the administration signaling that core al qaeda is no longer decimated . That they are part of this threat matrix . Ed, we stand by what is demonstratively true, that core al qaeda, the network that previously existed along the border region between afghanistan and pakistan, has been decimated and destroyed. So they specifically say along the border theyve been decimated. Leaves open the possibility core al qaeda elsewhere around the world could be coming back. Now, the other big security issue obviously is how is the president s strategy in terms of trying to decimate isis now . And remember the president has faced criticism about why he pulled out troops from iraq. Why he