thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, administrator pistole. dr. daniel gerstein is the acting undersecretary for science and technology at the department of homeland security. dr. gerstein gain extremes in the defense sector while surfing increase positions in civilian government, uniform and private industry. before joining dhs, he served in the office of the secretary of defense. dr. gerstein, i have to say i'm disappointed that you failed to comply with the committee rules are not submitting a written testimony, a written statement for the record. i believe it's the first, this is your first appearance as acting secretary for s. and t. i'm willing to waive this requirement in consultation with the ranking member rather than bar you from giving oral presentation here today. but again, please know that we are making a generous exception for you, and failure to submit a written statement impedes the oversight role of this committee that prevents our ability to prepare and plan ahead, and so i would just ask for your cooperation in the future getti

the chair recognizes mr. pistole to testify. >> thank you the members of the committee. let me start off by expressing by deep appreciation to you chairman and others who have expressed sympathy for hernandez and his family and the two other officers who were shot and wounded on november 1st. there was great outpouring at the memorial service held by the city of los angeles and the local police. law enforcement community pulling together and demonstr e demonstrating support for officer hernandez family and the two other officers and family. so thank you for that. the bottom line is these are challenging time for members of tsa employees especially those that lax who have been affected by this and lost a wellli-liked and well-respected colleague. i want to commend the action of those at the checkpoint for their action in helping move passenger away from the point of danger. the two officers who were injured were wounded because they probably stayed too long helping an elderly gentlemen away from the checkpoint and they were shot as the shooter went to the upper level. the

i would ask you mr. pistol, you know, if you were a young kid the baby got off the track at the earlier age you served some time. but you paid your price to society. but you have a criminal record. would you believe you exhibit stress or fear? >> it depends on the individual, yes, sir probablily. >> what if you were a staunch right-wing spiritter with strong anti-government leaning. you forecast things you probably weren't supposed to post on the internet. now you have law enforcement probing asking you questions. would you exhibit stress or fear? >> again, it depend on the individual. potentially, sure. >> if you're an immigrant whose dad and mom come here illegally. would you exhibit stress or fear if asking -- >> it's situational again. >> say you're a wife whose husband has been beaten and try to get on an airplane and get out of town. would you exhibit stress or fear if somebody was doing entire gracious? >> situational. >> i think raises question that the report has broughten and testified which is

. >> first i'm glad to get an actual response from mr. pistol. we met with him a year ago about these concerns and he was pretty dismissive about them. as far as every local law enforcement agency having a say in the agency profile, that is correct. but when you don't have an industry standard that tsa can say, we will change this and you guys either take it or leave it, so we're changing it. you have to have a complete national outcry, just to get pistol to back away from him. he was adamant that it would happen. he is over at d.c. and he believed that was -- [ inaudible ] >> yeah. >> when you talk away and the letter talking about addressing issues about cooperation and you have what they call detail with the air marshal on the ground and showing up at different local airports saying they are augmenting airport police when they have no authority to enforce any state or local law. so what we are trying to say, how about augment airport police when they are airport police. whether this is a local municipality, local police department, sheriff's d

pete's book and become mr of a threat. -- more of a threat. >> the greatest strength or weakness if you can't control it. he is unselfish and wants to get everyone else involved. sometimes that can be the downfall. >> what do you lining about the international flavour on the team. >> the interesting thing is when there's a mistake made and they are frustrated. whatever is said - many times we don't know what they are saying. we have an idea. >> it is fun to watch different things from everywhere. playing with the guys from russia, america and montenegro, spain, everywhere. it comes - the same one, but everyone has his own style. music or whatever. >> have they adopted any of your music or style yet? >> not yet. >> in minneapolis. >> if rooubo can become half the player pistol peat was, he's off to a good career. >> kevin is back with the weather after this. >>> the severe weather that's bringing the problems across the ohio river valley brought problems across texas yesterday, i want to show you video that has come out from what they saw. the video - we were looking at evacuations a

they merely had their pistols on the side. >> he had the opportunity, mr. conway did, to cooperate. >> that raid led to this 78 page report on what the mountain man must change. >> just more government overkill. >> we created this report in anticipation of litigation. >> a lot of it just crazy. they got a picture of our doghouse in there for a german shepherd, it's four feet long. they said this is intern housing. i don't know if they thought we had midgets. >> problems with his property. >> unsafe buildings resting on a piece of rock. >> like a rock solid foundation? we have been working with the health department every year for over 20 years. they're telling me i can't live this way? this is the way ily. i can't eat the way i want, drink water, can't poop the way i want, can't sleep in the building the way i want. a new bureaucrat came in every year, they permitted every year, and all of a sudden it's like completely unacceptable. >> every think there are too many rules. >> oh, yeah, i think that all the time. but we don't invent the building codes, we're

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already a ride p a pistol or five years has been high all day so this lady ashton be chief negotiator for the p six. he's also i met a week that mr is john kerry the us secretary of state and not a mystic every meeting with crystal afro and lady ashton at the moment he's meeting with top the homage of attorney the iranian foreign minister out they trying to broker the last ten percent of a package deal of interim measures what we understand ninety percent of the pp she's had been timed out and had dropped text is obama on the offering. but there are two major sticking points the cycle of iraq heavy water reactor which is not in operation get back in the fatwas that would have the plutonium making capability in other ways the option to cross check to nuclear weapon the western powers while back that facility could be kept and in exchange the radiance to make the concession of pushing told big s sanctions relief so the trade off is what did i get in return from sanctioned relief to do more on the isle to be what every act that interim six month check each and during that six month perio

first you are allowed racial profile in the system as mr. pistol explained as prohinted under our system. and they also the system is much smaller in scale. and, you know, one major international hub number of aircraft that is less than 100 international fleet. and they essential will take the time and interview ere single passenger getting on an aircraft. we can't do it under the system of 1.8 million passenger a day. the -- screeching to a halt. i think you have to be careful about drawing parallel with the valleys. also in our report we cited another country report. we're not allowed to disclose the name of the country. it's considered sensitive security information. but the phase one of the study found some error in the use of behavior indicators. but they did another followup study same country same process faced there was no changed the conclusion and concluded there was not really effective use of the resources. so there is other countries studies throughout. i think you have to be careful about citing them as evidence to support to u