sanctions. we will not get any sanctions because the other countries will not go with it. host: ok, we are all out of time on capitol hill right now. before the senate finance committee testimony to be had about protecting taxpayers from schemes and scams during the 2015 tax filing season. that is the topic. we will bring you live coverage on c-span. welcome. the committee meets to talk about growing criminal activity that is threatening taxpayers across the country. these criminal acts are prevented by themes hiding behind telephone lines and computers, preying on august taxpayers on august taxpayers and robbing them of tens of billions of dollars a year. we are here to hear about federal and state officials on the fight to catch these crooks and protect taxpayers. first, i would you talk about one case in particular. in one very large number, by the way. this is a hearing that is long overdue as far as i am concerned. we will get into it. i have to apologize that a sena
caribbean citizens who have joined the islamic extremist requests you made a comment people have gone from the caribbean. to syria. can you give us a little bit more where they are coming from what you think they are doing, and whether you have seen any indication they are trying to come back? like in our own country there is a small number reportedly that have gone radicalized one way or another in the west. larger numbers in western europe. i would suspect they will get good at, while they are in syria, killing. pick up job skills in terms of explosives and beheadings. everyone is concerned if they come home. one would expect they would come back at least as radicalized as they were with couldn t a job skills they picked up in the fight. we have any indication of any scheme to attack the u.s.? no. but the smaller countries, as i say, we take for granted in the u.s. that we have a functioning legal justice system and fbi. layers of clean police men and women. a lot of th
years. somebody needs to deal with that. you could take everything the 1% in america own including their dog and not come close to balancing the budget. you cannot tax your way out of this problem. you could eliminate the department of defense in every other department we have and not balance the budget. two thirds of spending his entitlement spending and interest on debt. by 2042, all of the money you pay in taxes will go to pay the bills for medicare & the security. social security. the system cannot tolerate the numbers we are retiring in. when i was born, there were 16 workers for every retiree. how many today? three. how many in 20 years? sen. graham:2. i am the problem. i m, not married no kids. you have to come up with an immigration system. design or you can have four kids after you are 67. [laughter] i have one guy races and betty did not understand the question. [laughter] we better find people to work in this country outside this country. western europe, japan i
close what is a gap and prevent a known or suspected terrorists from buying a gun or explosive in this country. in 2009 attorney general holder expressed the obama administration support for the legislation. i introduced similar legislation last year. the question comes for the law enforcement element of the administration to come forward and be supportive of this because the national rifle association, even opposes this. this is terrorists. we have people coming into this country meaning to do us harm, and they can go in and buy a weapon to carry it out. that is simply unacceptable. so i want to bring it to your attention you know. we have to come together and prevent this from happening. your biggest concern is the lone wolf. the lone wolf can come in unarmed, he can buy explosives the gun. this must be stopped. director comey: thank you senator? senator feinstein: no comment director comey: i have nothing intelligent to say about that. i m focused on the upper is a shuttle
some russian making a mistake, a loose nuke idea. do you lose sleep over that? director brennan: it has the potential for some type of cycle that was not the intention of either side. when there is a lot of violence going on that will provoke a reaction. and just a quick series of reactions to that. whether we are talking about ukraine or the situation between north and south korea, that spark has the potential. that is why it is important to call attention to these issues. this is the time to try and keep those a bay. charlie: how do you do that? director brennan: very active diplomacy. sometimes you need to bring to bear various tools of power. the u.s. has a lot available to it. there are sanctions and other types of international activities. the u.s. recognizes rightly that there are not unilateral solutions. it is important for us to work with our partners and engage in those multinational countries. charlie: can we include in our partners china? director brennan: absolu