they re doing their job. mark warner has done a very good job, i had some of differences with senator burr and in the last week some people tell me he was very upset with comey s firing and i hope it continues. they can t prosecute. a special prosecutor appointed by the justice department has the ability to actually prosecute people for violations of law. they go on in tandem. one shouldn t step on the other. i know they re talking to each other now, the fbi was with the intelligence committee to make sure no one s granted immunity. it s two separate issues. we very much need a special prosecutor, chuck, someone independent of the justice department to get to the bottom of this. i say one more thing. the silence of my republican colleagues on this issue is sort of deafening. this is not an issue of party, this is an issue of country, foreign interference in the elections is a very very serious serious thing and we should get to the bottom of it. where s the howard baker of
be done? as you know, senator ben sass indicated if you do that it is sending a message you don t trust the intel committee to do their work, a vote of no confidence there. shouldn t you let them do their job to see if they can do it without a special prosecutor? well, there are two separate lines of activity here. one is the oversight function of the intelligence committee, they re doing their job. mark warner has done a very good job. i had some differences it would senator burr and in the last week, some people tell me he was very upset with comey s firing, and i hope it continues. they can t prosecute. the special counsel of the justice department has the ability to prosecute people for violations of wall. they go on in tandem. one shouldn t step on the other. i know they re talking to each other now, the fbi was with the intelligence committee to make sure no one s granted immunity. it s two separate issues. we very much need a special prosecutor, chuck, we need
unpredictable tool in national security. we have them as a deterrent when there are others in the world that have them. but in the new star treaty with russia, a country with whom we have difficult and complicated relationships, we all agreed to build down our nuclear stockpiles, because we understood that this would ultimately make the world safer. and i give president obama a lot of credit for setting out an objective which he said he probably wouldn t see in his lifetime and i certainly won t see in mine, but this is very serious business, and as jonathan said, one shouldn t just pop off about this. this should be put forward in a poll say that is fulsome so you know where you re headed and what the stakes are. jonathan, in a normal presidency, should the president say something in the among that has worldwide import and the capacity to be misunderstood that presidency would have clarified it fairly quickly,
and retrieve the black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. investigators rely on that data to piece together exactly what happened. until that evidence is available, it s pretty pointless to speculate. having said that and bad weather alone will not only bring down a modern jet and i think the investigation team will be looking closely at possible equipment malfunction and/or the crew action but it s as we say, it s difficult to do. we have the evidence. one shouldn t speculate. absolutely t. safety record of airasia has been flawless. however, a lot of airlines in the area some have been black listed particularly in flying over the iu for example, what is the state of aviation and safety in the asia-pacific region? reporter: well, flying is extremely safe and the safest
sign of desperation, also. ben, if the housing market showing signs of life. why does the federal government need to get more involved than it is. it s showing signs of life, but probably less than half of what it was in early 2007, 2008. it s much less stronger than a year ago, six months ago, a year and a half ago, but it s flaccid, to use a word i don t like to hear, when we talk about what it should be and i don t think there s any reason why ne shouldn t get it about you the losses if the market recovers will be trivial if not nil and good that more and more people are employed in construction. sir, we already control the taxpayer and the federal government, we already control the mortgage market. why do we need to take on more risk? because we re not taking i m sorry, i thought i said sarah. ben, i ll get back to you. i m a little miffed. we want to see more people living in homes and these