and ctc director thinks it's fine and therefore why did we question it? as you know their difference of opinions and different agencies as to whether or not this was the right thing to do. >> i understand that and that is why i am relying on my experts who have assured me that the preservation of capability gives us what we need. as with anything it involves give-and-take on particular provisions printed be happy to talk about it further with you in a closed session where i can come at you with -- >> understand and i think we should do that mr. chairman because i think there are major questions the need to be resolved here. the remaining time that i have do your agency or somewhere in the i see community what is the appeal to the thousands of westerners that fall prey to the appeal of engaging in this depravity which is obviously we are all aware of and are so attracted to this? i'm trying to get to the source and get my head around the fact that how can someone who has the perfect capability of seeing what they're walking into think that's the thing to d

and then congress codified and ctc as part of the 2004 intelligence reform law and i think and ctc is terrific. a shout-out to the people who work there. if you're building something comparable to that is going to work as well is that my own view is you are on the right track. >> will thank you we think so. >> all right folks 18 minutes and 40 seconds. please identify yourself and ask a question. do not give a speech. right here. where is the microphone? >> thank you. pete with energy wire. can you elaborate on the second of your core action points? how can the government use all of its capabilities more effectively to disrupt serious threats to critical infrastructure before they occur? >> is a very good question. what i meant by that and the reference of the speeches using all of our tools. again the terrorism model is instructive. we get around, literally get around this situation. our diplomats are intelligence community are military or law enforcement officials and we discussed what is the best way to deter this to determine how to adjust the threat. you see us using all of those

not just eitc and ctc getting a parent some peace of mind that they can do a few things for the children that they couldn't do. it also means better performance in schools missing fewer school days, when at school they're less likely to be sick and they may be less likely to be hungry because they have all the money in their pocket. if we care about not just these families in these neighborhoods that this society so we raise children that would have higher test scores, higher graduation rates, higher college attendance rates, and more people getting cheapies, more people going to college more people finishing college means working more hours, higher salaries. it means we enable the cash poor the 44% of households that have less than three months worth of savings almost half of people in this country have less than three months of the savings. at whatever age they are. if they are in their 50s we know what that means for their retirement. half of the people, more or less half the people in this country to put on social security for more than half their income. if we're ever going to build

thought president obama's one, he laid out plans to reform the tax code by making the ei tc and the ctc permanent. if you work in this town or you live in this town and you hang around these buildings, what you hear about tax reform is almost always, we have got to lower the corporate tax rate. that is how the debate is begun. but we cannot let the debate begin that way. i thought the president emphatically began to change that debate in his state of the union. we are not going to have corporate tax reform until and unless we expand the eitc and we make those expansions permanent and we make the expansions for cdc also permanent. otherwise we don't attract broad support for any kind of tax reform. it is something we should be able to agree on. we know that the eitc and the ctc, like the minimum wage -- in 2011, the presiding officer in the senate was barack obama and i stood up, you address the chair, my first words in january 2007 were mr. president and i think he liked the sound of it. [laughter] anyway. a true story, but probably not entirely true. jason jacobs was my guest at the st

this bill works and i'm hopeful we can get a good job as we've had in the past on the eitc and the ctc is have a $500 if you will, advance on it costing the organization, you will get a $500 advance and when you get your refund it is le out $500 less and with all of that, that it means.so i w as you advocate around here tell your stories.tories. you are all in this business. pope francis said a few months ago he extorted his parish priests, go out and smell like the flock. we do public policy in this townotatio and we are supposed to understand the lives of a broad do section of people and we don't do that well enough. lincoln, when he was president, ll eno his advisors wanted him to stay pres in the white house and wip the war and he said no i have to get my public opinion bathes and hear the stories of rose and n jason and then pass on to ries o policymakers anf others. and i'll close with this.we john lewis, and a number of us including senator tim scott who i think has a representative ing se here today and tim and i are on leading the congressional celebrate to go to selma for the

centers for is the ctc and prevention and added a staggering 10 additional cases today all related to the outbreak in disneyland. then eight other new patients are from the suburban charlotte day care center and there to more unrelated cases in nevada. the cdc says most of this year's measles patients have not been vaccinated. >>pam: this coming weekend anyone who has a phone number with the area code 415 will see some big changes. it is all part of the rollout of the new 628 area code which will coexist with a the 415 charles clifford is live with details >>reporter: starting february 21st this coming saturday if you have all 415 area code phone number you will have to add a one and an area code to every phone call you make even if it is to another 415 fall number. that can meet mean going through all your contacts and speed dial numbers 10 and a one and no area code. why the change? well because the growing popularity of cell phones all of the available for 15 area code phone numbers could be used by later this year. the california poet pox saw this coming and in december of 2013 th

we can literallyly h have an exercise going on at the brigagade level inside the box at a live ctc, and then have a battalion as part of the same scenario, located in t baltics, and have the scenario and all of the exercicise control, and all of the instrumentation, link directly to the exercise in the box. above that, we can have a nato command and control headquarters participating viaimulation at the higher command post r that organization. and they can be in three different countries. inin fact, we routinely conduct exercises that use our simulation center and exportable training packages to distribute live and virtual training not just across multiple countries but back to the united states. >>nd as you exercise all of those muscles a host of worse -- muscles across the force, how easily modified are some o of the training scenarios? what wargaming role you play to st new o operational concepts and ideas i the field, toto test whetheher or not they work and all the other pieces that go into it? >> we have extreme flexibility. part of the reason is, we ha a unified training command.

obviously dhs the fbi, dod to some extent, the department of state and ctc are all important players. who is in charge? >> i would argue senator that as with most elements of our counterterrorism efforts we are approaching on the whole government efforts about a single agency of responsibility. the effort against extremists in the united states we have a very tightknit community focus particularly among the justice department fbi in and ctc along with the deputy directors of those organizations. every other month at the director or deputy director level synchronizing activities at the homegrown violent extremist phenomenon making sure we coordinate a partner with each other so when we go to community and i used them for my testimony as an example of a community we had gone to in the wake of the arrest there last year of three young somali american women we go arm in arm lockstep four of us working together hand-in-hand with the special agent in charge of the local fbi office u.s. attorney in the capital and elements in the city so we are speaking with one voice as the federal governme

. >> by what percent would the gap be narrow there was zero fraud in the ctc program? >> it might be familiarnarrowed by a percentage. >> we're very concerned about unscrupulous tax preparers. the vast majority do a good job. >> do you believe it's fraud prevention or a significant policy change that will deny this important credit to family. >> obviously, we'd love to move everybody off social security numbers. this juncture the issue of fraud is one that implies to i-10s and people are forever stealing identification information from taxpayers to generate fraud. >> i find it interesting businesses under way taxes by approximately $122 billion in 2006 alone yet we don't seem to hear the same level of out rage in that regard. wa >> thank you. >> commissioner, i have one question. i think you want to correct something for the record in a discussion you had with senator nelson. >> senator nelson focused on an important program which is our exchange of information with prisons. we're working on developing mous for states. we're able to cut down significantly on prisoner f

the manufacturer ctc says the only way that the collisions -- >> from our best -- we close the road or we have a bridge over or an underpass. >> while campbell acknowledges there's an impractical solution there, every -- requires it's only solution to be able to come up with the best possible scenario to allow drivers to get off the tracks and with 750 railroads rolling -- that's why the group operation live saver has been working on getting out the message, see tracks, see trains. they're warning that every crossing is dangerous. reminding us that all of us should look and listen before crossing tracks. >> there were more than 12,000 crossing collisions every year, and now there are about 2,000. so that's an 83% decline. but that's of course too many. >> and this message being run in movie theaters on billboards, in train stations and trains themselves, hopefully the message is getting through. >> that psa is quite convincing. >>> in the jonbenet ramsey case, a bolder police chief speaking out about the way that crime was handled. we're legalzoom, and over the last 10 years, we've hel

ctc says measles itself can lead to pneumonia, brain damage deafness and deaf. many public health officials are blaming spread of the current out break on unvaccinated children and for every parent throwing a measles party others feel safe getting the vaccine. >> i mean little kid don't scratch yourself or, just i would rather have them have the vaccination. >> public health officials warn letting your children catch the measles is a horrible idea. the infection can kill them. side effects from the measles vaccine are very mild and most children don't have any issues whatsoever. >>> i find that when i heard about this story i said what. >> bizarre. >> crazy. >>> so, a teen who was once told he would never be able to walk, just helped his high school basketball team win the game in air zone. >>> tonight he is a hometown hero. fox's jessica flores has the story. >> reporter: basketball practice at red mountain high school. >> there we go. >> reporter: once again senior kyle johnson is on the side line supporting his team. >> i'm almost a cheerleader and very good

. >> by what percent would the gap be narrow there was zero fraud in the ctc program? >> it might be familiarnarrowed by a percentage. >> we're very concerned about unscrupulous tax preparers. the vast majority do a good job. >> do you believe it's fraud prevention or a significant policy change that will deny this important credit to family. >> obviously, we'd love to move everybody off social security numbers. this juncture the issue of fraud is one that implies to i-10s and people are forever stealing identification information from taxpayers to generate fraud. >> i find it interesting businesses under way taxes by approximately $122 billion in 2006 alone yet we don't seem to hear the same level of out rage in that regard. wa >> thank you. >> commissioner, i have one question. i think you want to correct something for the record in a discussion you had with senator nelson. >> senator nelson focused on an important program which is our exchange of information with prisons. we're working on developing mous for states. we're able to cut down significantly on prisoner f

given that just should -- given that the station, how would you make that the station between he and ctc -- between the ntcdt? lisa: we have the if those of if you see something say something but this goes to what we were talking about at the offset, which is that so much of our critical infrastructure and our infrastructure. is in private sector hands, we are relying in large measure and in significant measure on information about full abilities and attacks that happen to the private sector, so that has a space at least under our proposal that the president announced last month, which is to say, if you are a company and you find out you have been hacked or there has been a breach, provide information to the department of homeland security, to its national communication of cyber communication center -- national branch of its saga communications center, and engaged specifically with the private sector, give that information in in. that will then be shared appropriately with the rest of the federal government to include the new ctic. ctic can pair that private sector information with other

and i want to thank also the rank and file within the department of homeland security and ctc and the fbi for the job they do day in and day out without much recognition but they are truly the patriots of this country and on behalf of this committee we want to say thank you. the hearing will be open for ten days for additional questioning and without objection, the committee stands adjourned. >> president hassan were han wednesday the goal of iran's negotiations on its nuclear program was a win-win outcome. his remarks are next. six month after taking over as veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald testifies about his department's 2016 budget request. >> on the next "washington journal," we talk to a congresswoman, chairman of the foreign affairs emerging threats subcommittee. he will suggest the president's request for authorization of military force against isis. then representative jerry mcnerney is here to talk about combating isis the keystone oil pipeline, net neutrality and cyber security. later, our bus tour of historically black colleges and universities continues with bev

he laid out plans to reform the tax code by making eitc and ctc permanent extending credits as well. and so if you work in this town you live in this town and you hang around these buildings and you hear about tax reform, what you hear is almost always that we have to lower the corporate tax rate and that is how the debate has begun that is not how how we can let the debate begin that way the president i thought for the first time emphatically in the state of the union began to change that debate that were not when you have corporate tax reform until and unless we expand this and we make the expansions permanent and otherwise we don't attractor for any kind of tax reform. there are no tax breaks for corporations about working families. so it's something we should be able to agree upon and we know in the past that i first read on the son of 12,007 was the support of the minimum-wage bill. it was signed by president bush and was a bipartisan bill. a quick story about that for speech january 2007, just elected to the senate, senator obama was in office, he stood up and when you stand up

and i want to thank also the rank and file within the department of homeland security and ctc and the fbi for the job they do day in and day out without much recognition but they are truly the patriots of this country and on behalf of this committee we want to say thank you. the hearing will be open for ten days for additional questioning and without objection, the committee stands adjourned. >> iranian president hassan rouhani spoke today. the goal of the negotiations is a win-win outcome. the house passed a the definitive keystone pipeline bill today. we'll hear from congressional republicans later. president obama asked congress for authorization to use military force against isis. >> on the next "washington journal," we spoke to congressman dana rohrabacher of california. he will discuss the president's request for use of military force against isis. then representative jerry mcnerney of california is here to talk about combating isis the keystone pipeline, net neutrality and cyber security issues. later our tour of historically black colleges continues in atlanta. "washington jou

>> i would tell that person that an ctc -- nct strives everyday to bec a part of gravity to these terrorists attacks. a center of gravity that provides information, and analysis, strategic landing and provide our counterterrorism efforts. they asked, i would say they have a large number of officers to come to work every day to assess and analyze to provide information in educating our terrorist adversaries. guys but i would say. >> why should i care? >> you should care because as we talked about in my opening statement and your opening statement, the thread -- the threat to the environment we face right now is the most multifaceted and a verse that we have ever faced and could manifest communities all around this country and is not just in one place around the world. the potentially low-level attacks that are terrorist group inspired individuals are the kinds of attacks that could literally happen in any of our 50 states. >> he said to me when we first met, i believe america needs to know something about what we do and the intelligence community cannot be this black hole forever. i just want

they make the expansions for ctc and eitc permanent otherwise we don't attract support for any tax reform. think the president no tax breaks for corporations without tax breaks for working families. it's something we should be able to agree on pier we know in the past that the eitc nctc minimum wage is my first speech for a minimum-wage bill signed by president bush. it was a bipartisan bill for a speech in january 2007. the presiding officer was barack obama and i stood up and when you stand up in the senate to address the chair and my first words in january 20002 him were mr. president i think you like the sound of it. [laughter] is a true story but probably not entirely true. one of my guests with jacob -- jason jacobs, growth is a middle-class working class kid. got a degree to teach at loyola university. he hasn't been able to find a job as a teacher and he's now working as a paraprofessional in a school district east of hamilton county where cincinnati is. he made only $16,000 last year and because he doesn't have children he will miss out on critical tax credits that could put more

and i want to thank also the rank and file within the department of homeland security and ctc and the fbi for the job they do day in and day out without much recognition but they are truly the patriots of this country and on behalf of this committee we want to say thank you. the hearing will be open for ten days for additional questioning and with without -- without objection, the committee stands adjourned. >>> if you missed any of today's homeland security hearing it will be on our website at cspan.org. >>> president obama today sent congress draft legislation authorizing the use of military force against isis. the authorization i propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations and other more limited circumstances such as rescue operations involving u.s. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces. obama said in a letter transmitted to congress along with the legislative proposal. the white house bill limits the use of military force against isis to three years unless congress reauthorizes the resolution. and the legislation would repeal

guest has been a consultant at the fbi, national security staff and at west point, he was part of the ctc the west point combating terrorism center. let's go to tom in san jose, california. good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to ask, what do you think about fox news trying to get us into war by bill o'reilly saying we need to start a holy war? what does that mean to the muslims, particularly? host: there is a related tweet on that. saying, is entire media saturation of isis helping to fuel its fear? your reaction? guest: let me frame the question a little bit. thank you for those comments and questions. terrorism is meant to be very polarizing phenomenon. it is the application of violence on these issues that force people to react. they try to force people to take a side in some binary sourceful way. as to the issue of freedom of speech, we saw in the paris attacks on the satirical magazine, charlie hebdo attacking these institutions of freedom of speech should we be muffled? should we not talk about these things? should we not bring in diverse opinions to discuss how to handle t

and ctc compiles information on the noting suspected terrorists that traveled to c-reactive and we house the data in the data environment. that effort has created a valuable forum for@identifying with the information on the node or suspected terrorists and that includes the law-enforcement community, counterterrorism community, screening and watch listing communities. also this effort has directly helped result in conclusive identity information. enhanced records with more information and most importantly upgrade the watchlist status for the several hundred node or suspected terrorists. nctc also works to fully identify foreign fighters who potentially have access or connections to individuals in the homeland so that they can be watchlist did. to do all this might officers are moving the nctc access to a wide range of law enforcement information wider than anywhere else in the ic. this includes includes a room and a doubling as doubling stuff as well as our embedded officers from ten other intelligence organizations. to prevent individuals from traveling to c-reactive the first place mig