Rights. And i remember when president bush signed that law, he uttered these words. He said, let the shameful walls of discrimination come tumbling down. A wonderful day. And looking back over those 24 years, can anyone deny that our country has made great progress in expanding our concepts of the rights of people with disabilities, the right to be educated and welleducated, the right of people with disabilities to have independent living, to live on their own, not to be institutionalized, the right of people with disabilities to associate freely with others, the right of people with disabilities, children with disabilities, to go to school with other kids who are not disabled, the right of people with disabilities to travel freely with barriers broken do down, ramps, not stairs, buses that are fully accessible now, trains, everything accessible, every building designed in america think about that every building designinged and built in America Today is fully accessible. And we have go
This House Committee on the benghazi attack hearing about to get under way. While we have a second were going to take a chance and give you some background on todays hearing from a capitol hill reporter. Welcome for purposes of taking testimony pursuant to house rules. Chair will recognize himself and Ranking Member for purposes of making Opening Statement. Without objection the Opening Statement of any other member of the committee who wishes to provide one will be included in the record. A little over two years ago, four americans serving our country in benghazi, libya, were killed. Two of them were killed when a facility emblematic of our country was set on fire. And two of them were killed when they dared to fight back and defend themselves. And others. Sean smith, Chris Stevens, ty woods and glen doherty represented us. They represented our country, and our values. We ask them to go. We sent them, and they were killed because some people hold a deepseated animus toward us simply b
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] today the House Oversight Committee Examining the ghazi attacks. Then the Foreign Relation Committee holding a confrontation confirmation hearing and a look at schedule changes due to go into effect october 1. Hearinge Oversight Committee hearing testimony. Reviewountability chairman and admiral mike mullen both testified. Hours. Just over two the committee will come to order. The Oversight Committee exists to secure two fundamentals. Americans have the right to know the money washington takes from them is well spent. Americans deserve an effective government that works for them. Our duty is to protect these rights. Our responsibility is to hold government accountable to for what they know is important for how they decide. Our job is to work in partnership with watchdogs to deliver the facts to the American People and bring reform to the bureaucracy. This is our mission. Con
Reporter those are serious allegations and we expect the committee to fully investigate them. Well hear how they will prevent future benghazi attacks. I think our fellow citizens have a good sense of who is trying to be fair and who is not, and i think they have a sense of the gravity of what we have been asked to do, which is what happened to these four great americans. Anyone who tries to polite sizeo politicize the investigation runs a risk with their fellow citizens. Reporter . That sets the stage for todays first public hearing. Martha everybody wondering the answer to this question. Whats going happen when this hearing gets underway. Well speak with one of the members of this select committee. Then at 10 00 a. M. The hearing gets underway. Well speak with Chris Stirewalt and tucker carlson. An american accused of trying to aid the enemy. This new york man is facing charges of recruiting for isis here in the United States. It seems to have come to fruition in this case as we are g
Raiding properties. Them say their plot was to kidnap random people off the street and behead them. They do not hate us for what we do, they hate us for who we are and how we live. Thats what makes us a target. Bill peter, good morning. The threat, was it imminent . Reporter the raid had to be today, because if police waited be australian attorney general believes the attacks would have been successfully executed. A phone call worried authorities so much they believed these isis affiliated australians were ready to carry out their plan, and that plan laid out by prosecuteors was to pick random people walking down the streets of sydney and brisbane, kidnap them, behead them, then release the video recordings of those awful acts. Police have published pictures of a large sword apparently taken out of one of the suspects home in an evidence bag. This was the largest Law Enforcement raid in australian history. 800 officers assisted in the 15 arrests made so far. Officials are trying to con