Threaten strengthening how the department fights terror. I strongly believe and understand that there are very, very important tools within the Treasury Department that can come pat terrorism and that many of these tools such as sanctions are extremely effective and keep our Armed Service out of harm. So i am fully committed to the maximum amount of law to both enforce the existing sanctions in a very strict way and i will work with the president elect as he sees fit on additional sanctions and there are also other programs within treasury that i believe are very, very effective in fighting terrorism. Its a very important part of the treasury. And i know that that has been done very effectively. We all agree its important. What were trying to do is assess your qualifications. You havent been willing to talk medicare, havent been willing to talk specifics on terror. Lets talk about qualifications on the committee on Foreign Investment because this is Something Else you would have respon
Heavy fighting in the suburbs of damascus as syrian fighter jets bomb rebel held areas. We will talk about what the nearly twoyear civil war means today. Youre watching msnbc. We just need to let the world know we are not okay. They need to get down here and do it quickly. We need it to happen two months ago. The victims of Hurricane Sandy call for action from congress. We will get views from new york and new jersey. What do these things have in common . Cockroaches, traffic jams and lindsay lohan. They are all more popular than congress. Can lawmakers be effective on capitol hill . President obama has gotten pushback for just about every cabinet member. Concerns about hagels nomination for defense secretary topped todays sunday talks. Overall temperment and is he suited to run a department or big agency like the pentagon. Whether he really believes that the surge was the worst blunderer since the vietnam war, that clearly is not that is not correct. In fact, it is bizarre. Why would h
Nothing about, caring for the most fearsome weapons in the United States, the United States nuclear arsenal. And there was that moment in november he could not remember Energy Department as one of the agencies he wanted to eliminate. The third agency of government i would do away with the education, the commerce and, lets see organization, my. I cant. The third one i cant. Sorry. Oops. Kasie hunt is covering Steven Mnuchins and Kelly Odonnell is covering governor perry. Reporter ive been watching governor perrys hearing. As you point out, that memorable moment from the president ial season has come back to at least haunt or perhaps challenge governor perry today. He did acknowledge that that view is no longer what he feels about the department of energy citing he has been briefed about the extensive area of responsibility that the Energy Secretary must fill. And so he is basically falling on his sword saying he was wrong then, saying that it was more than five years ago and that his vi