and the early years of the obama administration. he told me president obama promised him there wouldn't be any significant changes in the military budget for a while. overall, did he keep to his word? >> well, i think that began to fray, fray may be too gentle a word. >> before too long, gates found himself cutting hundreds of billions from the defense budget. and that was only the start. gates was informed the president wanted to announce even more cuts. >> over the last two years, secretary bob gates has courageously taken on wasteful spending, saving $400 billion in current and future spending. i believe we can do that again. >> what was your reaction? >> well, i guess i'd have to say i felt double crossed. after all those years in washington, i was naive. >> to many, the cuts weren't about economic efficiency so much as a strategic change in the role of the military. you told president obama staffers that the defense cuts send a big strategic message abroad. the united states is going home, cut a deal with iran and china while y

and the early years of the obama administration. he told me president obama promised him there wouldn't be any significant changes in the military budget for a while. overall, did he keep to his word? >> well, i think that began to fray, fray may be too gentle a word. >> before too long, gates found himself cutting hundreds of billions from the defense budget. and that was only the start. gates was informed the president wanted to announce even more cuts. >> over the last two years, secretary bob gates has courageously taken on wasteful spending, saving $400 billion in current and future spending. i believe we can do that again. >> what was your reaction? >> well, i guess i'd have to say i felt double crossed. after all those years in washington, i was naive. >> to many, the cuts weren't about economic efficiency so much as a strategic change in the role of the military. you told president obama staffers that the defense cuts send a big strategic message abroad. the united states is going home, cut a deal with iran and china while y

and the early years of the obama administration. he told me president obama promised him there wouldn't be any significant changes in the military budget for a while. >> overall did he keep to his word? >> i think that began to fray. fray may be too gentle a word. >> before too long gates found himself cutting hundreds of billions from the defense budget. that was only the start. gates was informed the president wanted to announce even more cuts. >> over the last two years secretary bob gates has courageously taken on wasteful spending spending 400 billion in current and future spending. i believe we can do that again. >> what was your relacks? >> -- reaction? >> i guess i felt double crossed after all of those years in washington, i was naive. >> the cuts weren't about economicsy so much as a recent change. >> you told the staffers the tax cuts sent a strategic message abroad, the united states is going home to cut a deal with iran and china while you can. >> i think overall it has had that impact. you are send ago message to the r

administration where obama administration doesn't charge individuals but activity. there must be certainty that noncombatants will not be injured or killed. but the administration defines combatants as all men of military age in a strike zone unless there's explicit intelligence. five, there must be an assessment that capture is not feasible at the time of operation and i don't like the word capture, people are apprehended but we will use their terminology. it's unclear what feasibility means, the department of justice white paper seems to indicate that infeasible means inconvenient. it was feasible to capture osama bin laden who was not armed at the time military as is nateed -- assassinated, well, osama ben laden was this evil man and took him out. after world war ii, leaders of victorious, churchill said, just take them out and shoot them. if we don't provide due process even to the nazi leaders we will pas a poison which he chellies to future generations. number 6, there must be an assessment that relevant governmental authorities in the country where action is

all the obama administration has done is to acknowledge it. that acknowledgement is an affront to a lot of arab states that don't even want to see the acknowledgement. if i may -- we're getting near to the end of the panel. i want to make sure that i heed the call of actionable wisdom that congressman hamilton urged us to do. in terms of moving forward, given these shifts that have happened, how sustainable is this course, that the obama administration has embarked on? the iranians feel that that acknowledgement will evaporate even if president hillary clinton is in office because of her public remarks about the nuclear deal or luke warm reception of it anyway. or that there will be a reversion back to the old habits of having the saudis and israelis be the two pillars. on the question of isil, what might the next administration do that the obama administration, perhaps -- neither through benign negative nor through zeal failed to do? if we could sort of reflect on those and to sort of not neglect syria. if syria and iraq are, indeed, the hear

and the early years of the obama administration. he told me president obama promised him there wouldn't be any significant changes in the military budget for a while. >> overall, did he keep to his word? >> well, i think that began to fray, fray may be too gentle a word. >> before too long, gates found himself cutting hundreds of billions from the defense budget. and that was only the start. gates was informed the president wanted to announce even more cuts. >> over the last two years, secretary bob gates has taken on wasteful spending, saving $400 billion in current and future spending. i believe we can do that again. >> what was your reaction? >> well, i guess i'd have to say i felt double crossed. after all those years in washington, i was naive. >> to many, the cuts weren't about economic efficiency so much as a strategic change in the role of the military. you told president obama staffers that the defense cuts send a big strategic message abroad. the united states is going home, cut a deal with iran and china while you can. >>

it seems to me that a lasting legacy of the obama administration's policy in the middle east is sort of a new status. in the sense that there is, i thing, a redrawing of not of the borders necessarily -- i think the borders are going to be more resilient than some people think. but rather of spheres of influence, and i take that the the atlantic piece that you mentioned, jeffrey goldberg's series of interviews with the president, when the president says that saudi arabia is going to have to learn to share the middle east with iran, i take it that buttresses an argument i have been making for months before the atlantic interview was published, that there is in fact a new -- where at least in the president's mind, at least baghdad, notice all of iraq, at least baghdad, at least damascus, and at least parts of lebanon, are a part of the iranian sphere of influence. but i take it that the gulf -- sorry -- the arabian peninsula at the very least, including the arab part of the gulf, i won't take a position on whether it should be called the arab or the persian gulf -- at least the arabian

bergdahl, a man the obama administration labeled a p.o.w. was released by the taliban in exchange for five of their top leaders. the ceremony announcing his release was supposed to be a celebration. >> this morning, i called bob and jannie bergdahl and told them that after nearly five years in captivity, their son bowe is coming home. bret: what was your reaction when president obama hosted bergdahl's parents at the rose garden ceremony? >> i was pissed. absolutely. in my view, bergdahl should have never been labeled as a p.o.w. bret: the men you served with consider him a soldier who had been captured or a man who had deserted his platoon? >> we knew immediately that day the circumstances of his disappearance. he essentially had just deserted his post. we were mad as hell about it but didn't diminish any of our efforts to try to get him. bret: walsh was ordered to lead special forces teams to search for bergdahl. >> it was the number one priority in the entire theater of afghanistan, and the taliban immediately knew it, and they began feedi

, and the early years of the obama administration. he told me that president obama promised him that there would not be any significant changes in the military budget for a while. >> overall, did he keep to the word? >> well, i think that began to fray, fray may be too gentle a word. >> before too long, gates found himself cutting hundreds of billions from the defense budget, and that is only the start. gate gates was inle forred the president wants to announce even more cuts. >> over the last two year, secretary bob gates has courageously taken on wasteful spending and saving $400 billion in future and current spending. i believe we can do it again. >> what was your reaction? >> well, i guess that i'd have to say that i felt double crossed. after all of the years in washington, i would say. >> and to in the cuts weren't about economic efficiency so much as a strategic change in the role of the military. you told president obama's staffers that the cuts sent a strategic message abroad that the united states is going home to cut a deal

on the question of isil, what might the next administration to that the obama administration benign neither through neglect or conspiratorial deals failed to do? ande can reflect on those not neglect syria, if syria and iraq are indeed the heart of what has preoccupied american foreign policy in the region since the invasion of iraq, what does the united states and iraq and syria -- owe iraq and syria going forward? is it state building? is it something more grand in terms of the agreement? what should they look forward to? mr. fontaine: these are very small questions. [laughter] we will try to rip all of this of in teedo minutes -- wrap all of this up into two minutes. they would have given the sanctions relief to iran and then have to release iraq from their obligations. i do not think anybody would do that. on isis there are a number of steps that they should intensify in the military operation we have been doing this incrementally a year and a half now there are still areas that we could do more, particularly if the cease-fire breaks down and the geneva process does not take effect in a

the obama administration is hoping other insurers don't follow suit. this would be a much bigger deal in this was many of the blue cross blue shield plans, which writes most of the individual health insurance. if they were dropping out a mass it would be a much more dramatic effect. host: senior correspondent for kaiser health news. thank you for taking the time this morning. let's go ahead and turn to our phone lines. we are your phone calls on your experience with the affordable care act. how is it working for you? what might you change? as it been successful? the first color is from sarasota, florida. thatr: i just want to say i think it works. i work for walmart. i have insurance. i see a lot of associates that -- as long as i don't get fined. i have learned that 20 million and then some. it has saved their lives or they have insurance now. 20 million never uninsured -- that were uninsured. originally from texas, the border. a lot of people go to mexico. they go to canada because medicine is cheaper. miles is ami, 90 different country where health

if you want proof of that, just ask the obama administration. in a federal court filing during the "fast and furious" very, the obama administration argued that the court should not even consider that particular case. the justice department said courts should not enforce subpoenas at all. instead, the justice department reasoned that congress should use other powers to get documents. here's exactly what that government's brief said. quote -- "among other powers, congress can withhold funds from the executive branch, override vetoes, decline to enact legislation, refuse to act on nominations, and adjourn." end of quote. later in the brief, the obama administration specifically suggested that congress can -- quote -- "tie up nominations in order to get documents." now, if the administration can say that, why would senator reid think that that's a wrong act for congress to take? it's this simple. if the minority leader doesn't like senators using holds to get documents from agencies, perhaps senator reid should talk to his friends in the obama admi

that contrasts with the obama administration who may be practice i am okay, and you are are okay foreign policy. how will that be. time to reinvigorate western values. >> i think it is something that americans need to hear. regardless of what the rest of the world needs to hear, this will be welcome here at home. not just voters but the policy establishment. and one of the biggest criticism he levied against the obama administration is their refusal to acknowledge the economy. refusing radical islam to name it. and that goes hand and glove of reasserting western values and what it means to be american and see is all of the things in the international community. >> thank you, jillian turner and ambassador john bolton. thank you for listening to the speech and giving us your expertise as well. >> we'll bring in walid pharses. >> and you liked what he had to say? let's talk specifically about the middle east and his approach to iran and libya. how would trump deal with the iranians right now? >> he just announced that he will restructure the current u.s. policy changes with iran by admittin

. >> and john layfield, these are businesses who've dealt with more than seven years of the obama administration when which ripped up health care and the financial regulations, killed the coal industry, reregulated internet and then has put on more regulations than president bush and president clinton in their eight years in office. >> yeah, and one of the best things bill clinton did was in 1996 the fair business act which took out a lot of regulations of small businesses and it really created a lot of job growth. we haven't seen anything like that since, we just seen roguelations stuck on regulations, year after year after year and bernie sanders has become the modern day waylon jennings, when we ran against mckinley for president, anybody who makes a million dollars had to do it illegal. byny looks at corporations and i think he's very sincere with this that somehow they're inherently bad or people that have money have got telephone through ill gain or bad because they have that money. and we don't do anything with the minimum wage because it's a political football. just like jonas said, demo

it would prevent the obama and his mission -- obama administration from the voting this. host: you will be inside the supreme court tomorrow. will you be looking for? guest: i will be looking for two big things. one, how much time robert ted kennedy spend on the standing question that we discussed. it roberts moves past that quickly, it will be a bad time for the white house. they want that to be a significant portion of the time that is taken up on monday. the other thing will be how those two justices frame the issues. are they asking the lawyers in this case does the administration have the authority to grant work authorization to these people? or are they asking does the administration have the authority to make changes in enforcement policy that incidentally affects because they'll will tell you whether or not they are accepting the state's frame of what this debate is about where the federal government. host: we will be at the supreme court tomorrow morning as part of c-span's washingto "washingtn journal" discussing this case. our guest is sam baker. you can send u

much like the obama administration's promised red line on chemical weapons and syria. the border between syria and iraq has literally been erased. it doesn't exist anymore. and as the obama administration has stood by, today the black flag of isis flies high over places like mosul and fallujah. we all know that isis has carved out a safe haven in the heart of the middle east while syria has plunged deeper and deeper into civil war and chaos and millions of people have become displaced as refugees, both internally in syria and in surrounding countries, causing further instability in the region, and now of course we're seeing them not only in refugee camps in turkey and jordan and lebanon but escaping to europe and creating huge challenges for the governments in europe. and that's not even to mention the hundreds of thousands of syrians who have lost their lives in this civil war while the world has stood back and by and large watched with negligible strategy or effort to try to change the outcome. what's the result? well, beyond this hard reality, this sends a message t

. >>> in today's money report, the decision announced by the obama administration that may have blown up a $160 billion merger. >> bill is joining us now with that and of course a look at the markets. >> yeah, david, that did definitely blow up that merger. first, a minor rally under way for the stock market right now. oil prices are up 5% at the market higher. we'll get fireworks this afternoon at 2:00. we'll maybe get clues about what they're thinking about raising interest rates in the future and that could cause some volumetity. >>> pfizer and allergan have called off their $160 billion mega merger after the obama administration released new rules designed to stop companies from using a tax inversion which is exactly what pfizer and allergan wanted to do. pfizer planned to move its headquarters to ireland where allergan is based. now with these new rules, pfizer will now pay allergan $150 million kill fee because they just can't pull this thing off. >>> if you have money in a retirement account, you want to listen up. new rules issued by the government today require financial advi

o bl blistering attack on the obama administration and critical of the bush administration policy as well. as far as the obama administration, saying it's a policy of weakness, confusion, disarray in his words, a mess. he says u.s. allies no longer respect the united states and rivals don't respect the united states either. let's get a quick reaction from all of our analysts and our reporters. fareed zakaria, you listened carefully and he spoke for almost 40 minutes. what did you think? >> i thought in the main theme, he really stuck to his guns which it was populist, nationalist, protectionist. look after america first. the trade deals at the center of it. that was all familiar. but he expanded. it was sort of rambling to the point of being incoherent. he contradicted himself several times, it struck me. he said we're going to get out of nation-building but we're going to create stability. how do you do that? you get out of nation building in afghanistan, you get more instability. more instability. the allies can rely on us but be completely unpredictable and spend what it takes to

now, the obama administration has promised three -- $3 billion to the united nations for his climate change efforts. well, it turns out that giving away this money will violate u.s. law. the money that the administration pledge was supposed to go to the green climate fund. this is the money that the united nations plans to use to company others -- really, coerce developing countries to go along with climate change of what i believe is a sideshow. president obama asked for $500 billion for this fund in his budget last year. what happened when the budget came to the united states senate where the president has a request? congress rejected the president's budget 98-1. you talk about bipartisan rejection, that's it. but the administration went ahead and transferred the money anyway, even though the money was never authorized by congre congress. now the president wants to give this green climate fund another $750 million in taxpayer money. there's a second climate change organization. it's called the united nations framework convention on climate change. this organization is the foundatio

the entire obama administration, when the annual g.d.p. growth never hit 3%. even during the great depression was only a four-year stretch. ten years starting with the bushehr are -- bush era recessi. the president is talking about the recession but that was almost eight years ago. we need to get over that and grow this economy. during the last ten years, real annual growth and g.d.p. peaked in 2006 at 2.7%. it's never been that high again. in the 25 quarters since the recession ended, real p g.d.p. growth has totaled just 14.3%. so that is' what we grew our economy by, the total growth of our economy. in comparison, other recoveries -- again, democrat, republican -- since 1960 that lasted much more than a year, real g.d.p. growth for the whole economy grew on average at 27%. you have 14% obama, 27% over the comparable period for the average -- kennedy, johnson, nixon, ford, carter, reagan. if real g.d.p. growth in the obama years had grown at that average, our g.d.p. would be $1.8 trillion higher. think about that. $1.8 trillion, almost $2 trillion higher. th

that's than the obama administration said was actually necessary. since 1991, congress has approved more than 110,000 earmarks outside the normal budget process, costing taxpayers $323 billion. coming up on the next "full measure" -- senator lindsey graham is just back from africa and the middle east, where he and bono, the lead singer of u2, toured camps filled with desperate syrian refugees. bono then appeared on capitol hill to testify at a hearing chaired by the senator. graham sits down to tell us what he saw and why he is pushing for an urgent plan to send more money overseas quickly. he calls it a marshall plan for the 21st century. that is all for this week. thanks for joining us. i'm sharyl attkisson. until next time, we'll be searching for more stories that hold powers accountable. >>> starting right now on "this week" with george stephanopoulos. war of words. >> the system is all rigged. >> with the convention fight looming, donald trump taking on his own party like never before. >> the system is a bad, bad system. they gotta do something

we have been working in a bipartisan way in good faith and the obama administration, by way of the white house and the treasury department, is working in a very receptive way to try to find common ground. it is not going to cost the taxpayer one dime. and it is about enabling them to meet their challenge. i think we have made some surstantial progress with the first transit of the puerto rican legislation but still have serious concerns. any bill at the end of the day must have restructuring that works, an oversight board that is respectful to the people of puerto rico and doesn't contain extraneous provisions. we have prepared and the ranking member is willing to work with the chairman and the speaker to arrive at a solution that helps the people of puerto rico. the conduct of house republicans for americans in poverty has been out of line -- they will host a discussion on the horrible impacts trickle down economics have on families trying to escape poverty. i have a special guest from the san francisco bay area. it is not a basketball player but someone named maverick. maverick tells t

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. >> it's not just the obama administration. the bush administration made a decision about the 28 pages, too. there will be a lot of embarrassing things, one would think, if they are released. here is ben on this. there may be individuals on this operating, who kind of get to do their own thing within the government talking saudi arabia and family members. you have a large royal family and they have people, bin laden contractors for that royal family. basically, there was certainly at least the contention to where the money was going from the government. it gets around. i don't know what that quote says. basically there could have been financing. >> i think everybody understands. the saudi royal family is mixed. he had numerable children with numerable wives. there's no doubt they subsidized al qaeda before 9/11 and into 9/11. after the legislation, there's a reason obama is against it and the bush administration was. one is because of the saudi relationship, always a delicate one. we need them and you do what you have to do. th

>> we looked the other way in the bush administration and the obama administration, but a nato treaty is different than a handshake deal we had with ukraine. tom: well, donald trump is questioning the cost of nato. >> he's absolutely right. i've said the same thing for years, that nato treaty as well as our treaties with japan and other countries were put in place right after world war ii. those countries were on their knees economically, we wanted them to be stable countries, we did the lion's share of the contribution. we never renegotiated the deal. tom: i'm with you on that. there's a lot of squealing about it, i'm going how about how much we're paying for that. >> 75% of it and it's a defensive treaty to protect them. you don't get rid of the treaty but redefine it and certainly renegotiate it. tom: yes, wednesday, big speech? important speech? >> hugely important. he sent the signal, giving the speech under the sponsorship of the old nixon center. this is the nixon center. this is kissinger, this is reagan. this is a break with the neocons that are interventionists. i think trum

. >> it's not just the obama administration. the bush administration made a decision about the 28 pages, too. there will be a lot of embarrassing things, one would think, if they are released. here is ben on this. there may be individuals on this operating, who kind of get to do their own thing within the government talking saudi arabia and family members. you have a large royal family and they have people, bin laden contractors for that royal family. basically, there was certainly at least the contention to where the money was going from the government. it gets around. i don't know what that quote says. basically there could have been financing. >> i think everybody understands. the saudi royal family is mixed. he had numerable children with numerable wives. there's no doubt they subsidized al qaeda before 9/11 and into 9/11. after the legislation, there's a reason obama is against it and the bush administration was. one is because of the saudi relationship, always a delicate one. we need them and you do what you have to do. th

administration, perhaps now that justice scalia has passed it may enable the obama administration to get through these last months without racking up too many more overrulings by the supreme court, but but it tells you the mind set of this administration. we're going to violate the constitution and even the tremendously liberal judges on the supreme court, those four, even they come back and say, you know, 11 times, really, you have gone so far beyond what the constitution allows even for us liberals, you've gone way too far. we got to bring you in. you just can't keep pushing that far. so would it be a surprise when an administration makes a in the last months, especially since the head of that administration as a senator basically supported the idea that you can't even make a nomination in the last year of your presidency. his vice president, when he was senator, senator joe biden, they were all for stopping any nomination in the last year of a president, so maybe when they were senators they prpt always wrong. -- they weren't always wrong. perhaps when they were saying it was a te

in my opinion the obama administration with open borders policy has changed uzbek we don't longer as for immigrants to assimilate to our way of life, rather schools, governments are required to accommodate to their knees other country. my mother and sister took pride in the coming americans entering the link and culture. by allowing illegal immigrants to take custody of illegal immigrants with no controls in place for a personal like eswin mejia, the man who killed my daughter, were to break our laws. sarah was a daughter, sister, granddaughter, cousin, niece and to think she was bright, smart, loving, caring, or stifle and stronger like her brother and mom she stood up for bullies. my son scott lost his best friend, confidant when sarah died. her mother lost her best friend. daughter and fellow kansas city chief, i would like to do this opportunity to walk my guard down the aisle on her wedding day and spoiled her grandchildren. she loved to fish and, the schituate to try deer hunting. in the early morning of january 31 i received no call a parent should ever have to change. my fami

then probably the most disturbing example is the aim by the obama administration that it actually has the ability to target even american citizens for extrajudicial assassination, to kill anybody a president decides without a whit of transparency is guilty of terrorism, a power that not even george bush and dick cheney attempted. you see the worsening of this trend rather than the curtailment. i think that is also unique. importation ofhe the war that i just described onto american soil progressively as we move further away from 9/11. one of the things that made the post 9/11 theories of dick cheney and george bush so extremist is there is no more limitless power that a president han the power he can exercise during a theater of war. on a battlefield, there really is no law. everybody acknowledges that. terrorist say when men take up arms, law false. more is the ultimate expression of lawlessness in limitless powerful stuff on the battlefield, people shoot each other without having trials or due process. everyone agrees that is war to nobody thinks soldiers have to give opposing soldi

again, it's not just this administration, but i think president obama, this administration, has done us a favor by bringing this to light with the 24,000 regulations that are coming out, that are crippling american economy -- the american economy, businesses, and if it's doing, that it's crushing the middle class and all americans. i'll yield back to you. mr. benishek: thank you, mr. yoho. the thing that we're talking about -- the things that we're talking about here today are examples of the federal government getting involved in things that they don't have the right to do. i think a lot of it comes from these bureaucrats that are just writing regulations that you can't comply with. that's basically the reason that coal fired power plants are going out of existence. most of these problems have been eliminated by the work that we've done on improving our environment. i applaud that america's made the investment before any other country, in making that happen. but to regulate us to the point that businesses are going overseas and polluting the planet worse because of our policies, bec

. >> the obama administration hah been thtening the beltlt of the military. is this being dodone to match a slimmed downwn veron of american foreign policy? we'll l look at that when we we'll l look at that when we return. when they thoughthey should westart savingor retirement. then we asked sosomelder people when they actually distart saving. this g between when we should art saving and when we actually doone of the reasons why o many of us aren'tepared f. just start as earlas you can. it's going to y off in the future. ife all start ving a little more e today, we'll all be betteter prepared tomorrow. prudential. brbrinyour challenges. >>> our diminisheded military didn't c come about simply due cost cutting measures. some see it as part and parcele of this administration's particular view ofof america's ple e in the world. >> the nexext first family of t united states of america.. >> on the night he was electcte barack obama p promised a differenent sort of foreign policy. >> the new d dawn of american leaderership is at hand. >> i ididn't take long to see

and this is mostly a story of the obama administration which is really the first administration to use them on a truly large scale. the bush administration possessed them but did not use them in anywhere near the frequency of the obama administration. but it is worth looking a little bit at what the bush administration did to provide some context for what follows. the bush administration certainly had the ability to use the armed drones. you've seen early on that capability was present. but in pakistan, which was the most likely place to use them where we couldn't go in on the ground, they were used very intermittently in the early years of the bush administration. it wasn't really until 2008 that the bush administration decided it's going to step up the drone campaign because there's a rising al-qaeda threat perceived in that country. so in the second half of 2008, president bush authorizes large scale use of drone missiles for the first time in pakistan. and we know that at least nine senior al-qaeda figures were killed in pakistan during that time period. is so pretty effective in t

and it's also telling that the obama administration recognized early on. moving forward, just using a pause, a time oreflect, being careful what you say can help you think through ways you can tackle big problems. without being too narrowly hemmed in by your own doing. >> that's terrific. >> we have more than 12 minutes. i have a question for you. we have until 5:15, is that right? super. when you talked about succession and the eagerness to distance onesself from one's predecessor, i'm curious in your search whether that's consistent, even if the transition is is a friendly one. >> yeah, very much so. when george h.w. bush came into office, he was vice president with the reagan administration. they were obviously very close. jim baker culled it a hostile takeover in trying to separate the h.w. bush administration from the predecessors in the reagan administration. they wanted to kick out all the reagan appointees and put together their own new team as well. and that was part of this larger strategy of saying look, we are going to come in, run our own ship

the saudis believe the obama administration has abandoned them because of the nuclear deal with iran. they believe that the obama administration has sacrificed the strategic relationship with saudi arabia -- you have a context, a poisonous context. that's why the president has been trying to meet with saudi leaders and reassure. this question, the congress bill, for american viewers, the obama administration finds itself to be between a rock and hard place. the rock, the pressure of the families that lost loved ones on 9/11, and the harder place that this is a strategic relationship with saudi arabia that american diplomats and soldiers could also be taken to legal, in legal cases if congress passes the bill. that's why the obama administration is trying very hard to reassure the saudis and lobby congress so that the bill does not really go all the way in the u.s. policy in the next few days and weeks. >> thank you so much for coming on, share your perspective. >> thank you. >>> coming up on this saturday, another state makes their choice for republican presidential nominee without a

the obama administration changed the standards to just preponderance of the evidence to basically get yourself booted off campus. you just have to prove by 51% that that you were raped or in this case somebody you know on campus was raped. and accused has very few rights. he is not allow to do confront his accuser. he can't have a lawyer in a lot of these proceedings, arthur. >> you are right. that's what's been going on for quite some time now. this is not a brand new thing. i have represented people. i'm not allow to do thereby. i am allow to do write a letter but not allow to do be there with my client. >> you can get a guy labeled a sex offender. he wants to be a doctor. 3.768. you are done. good luck getting into another college with that on your record. i have to move on because we have two other friends to get to. mark, our old friend neurology resident young woman made a stupid decision. here she is. let's watch it. attacking the uber driver. [shouting] get the [bleep] in the car. get the [bleep] in the car. yeah. >> she was angry. she is throwing things. and well, she is angr