delisted is controlled by the supreme leader khomeini. it was designated in 2013 as the known as the eiko a group of companies, includes gray investment company, a couple of banks, and their investment arm which is the investment arm on the tehran stock exchange. this eiko was listed under an executive order which was not a nuclear related sanction but it was a sanction addressing deceptive financial practices and the risk they posed to the integrity of the international financial system. in 2013, the u.s. treasury designated them, along with 37 subsidiaries, stating that they continue to generate and control massive off the books investments shielded from the view of the iranian people and international regulators. we ve also talked about the amount of money that will be freed up to iran. it s been characterize being between $100 billion to $250 billion. secretary lew spent time at the hearing last week talking about how it may be around $55 billion or so, not $100 billion
retaliatory. congress should update legislation submitted codifies caterpillar the definition of wrongdoing should include retaliation against whistleblowers. jackson should also be provided by the v.a. the government has failed in its responsibility to care for veterans. thank you. ms. halliday: thank you for the opportunity to discuss how v.a. oig interacts with whistleblowers. this is my first hearing as deputy inspector general, and i look forward to working with the congress. i testified and congressional hearing in my previous role as the assistant inspector general for audit, and i welcome the opportunity to share with you the work of all components of our i.g. i am accompanied by the counselor to the inspector general and the assistant inspector general for health care inspections. i assume the position of deputy inspector general on july 6 2015. past three weeks taken immediate steps to strengthen the oig s whistleblower program as well as our whistleblower protect
number one i was able to get a significant amount of money into providing job for young people in this country. javier: from the associated press? in latin america, what of the big trend to you see? what do you have in mind? senator sanders: i voted against nafta for a number of reasons. in my view if you look at the impact they have had on mexico that we have got to own up to his massive dislocation of small homes in mexico. drive and workers off of those forms and into the cities and that chew asian. second of all, i will tell you that i am concerned when i see how aggressive china has been in moving oil all over the world. obviously, latin america is our neighbor. i am not impressed at agree that we have been reaching out with latin america. i strongly support the president s initiative in normalizing relations with cuba. we had rather work with them in intelligent ways. i don t have to tell anyone in this room what we have seen in guatemala, honduras, the kind of violen
we appreciate your willingness to come here. your final thoughts to our spanish viewers: [speaking spanish] we want to thank doctors hospital at renaissance for this beautiful venue tonight. and also the crew that worked on the set designs. thank you so much for that. senator wendy davis and general greg abbott thank you to both of you. for everybody watching at home, have a great night. up next, the communicators features wade baker security director at verizon. then the house veterans affair committee examines the ig s report on the phoenix va health care system. no doubt you heard thuabout data breaches at places like home depot, target, sony play station. we are going to discuss data breach reports with wade baker who is the chief director with vires. what do you do? guest: we research technology and try to bring them into the our are products. host: what is the definition of a data breach? guest: an unauthorized person or group gains access to private infor
it is critical. your first 30 days on the ground, you are just trying to figure out where you are, how things are operating, where the threats are. we absolutely concur with that recommendation of taking steps to ensure that the personnel we put on the ground are there for longer periods of time. and has the department been able to achieve those requirements in its practice? yes, it has. the fact is we don t actually have any temporary facilities at the moment. i request give you an example, though, when we just entered bengi, we have mobile security agents on the ground with u.s. marines that are there. those agents are going to stay for a much longer period of time. probably up to 90 days until we re sure we have the proper security that we can then start replacing them with permanent personnel we re going to have on the ground. the 30-day rotations as the arb pointed out were not conducive to the security operation. are there any other incentives that the departmen