this is an agreement that was reache by the obama administration. it was voted on after the fact by andctlly a majority of members of the house and senate chose to the agreement, but not enough to be able to stop it. so it went into effect and it has gotten some plays a the president has pulled out the united s involvement in that agreement. what i'm going to talk about this ening is new information that has come from the permanent subcommittee on investigations, which i chair. we began an investigation into one aspect of this agreement nearly two years ago, and it was based on information we received that despite the obama administration's claims to the contrary, there may have been some undisclosed arrangement with iran to grant them access to the u.s. financial system. the deal went like this, in exchange toran ain to certain limitatio regarding its nuclear arsenal,ncding enrisching uranium, the united nations security counsel would -- council lift some sanctionon iran. as part of that agreement, which included ongoing deadlines that need it had

this isn't trump administration. you look back at 2014 during the obama administration. they have pictures that were so bad. they had a judge that said it was inhumane the way they were treating children. take a look at some of the court rulings against the obama administration. they talked about inhumane treatment.

was on the obama administration. so it always helps if you don't just fly off like -- and it is not mainstream media but the media but covering for the obama administration trumg to make the obama -- much administration to look horppedous and they have been far more caring than the facilities that i saw during the obama administration. they have a lot better facilities. he ones i'm familiar is in southwest texas. and since president trump has been office, they are doing a lot better job for cage for people. and i heard somebody this morning say, wow, there are so many people that are getting outraged about children being ripped from their mother's arms and i believe mr. king had mentioned that nothing does that like abortion. nd somebody reminded me this morning that when children were being ripped from their mother, process called abortion, it appears that the democrats felt like it was ok, at least they didn't say anything about it, not that i heard, when those little chirp's body parts were being sold off after be

over eight years of the obama administration. pres. obama said he was going to have leverage to vladimir putin after his reelection answer are russia returned to the middle east and far russia invade ukraine and when that happened did nothing about it. it doesn't surprise me after watching eight years of russia taking more aggressive steps, when it came to medley in our election the obama administration did nothing. heather: did they think it was a given that hillary clinton would win so they didn't need to do anything? where they trying to set up the trump campaign and see what happened? >> there publicly stated excuse is they didn't want to look like they were interfering and tipping the scales on the election. it is unconscionable we could have these actions and the pres.'s response to vladimir putin is you need to knock it off. that clearly didn't scare vladimir putin because they were eight years of a pattern of behavior they knew what they could get away with and the obama administration and the clinton campaign have a lot

this shows that the obama administration flat out lied about this. the idea was that the administration seemed desperate to get a deal for iran. we know that they give them all sorts of sanctions relief and billions and billions of dollars. and then this, they give them essentially this window in which they have the opportunity to use u.s. financial institutions, basically to turn other currencies into dollars or euro euros. this is completely against what they were saying, and by the way, if donald trump ever needs to say again this was a bad deal, he has one more data point to say so. >> shannon: apparently, susan, members of the obama administration want to send u.s. banks to try to get them to go along with his plan that they had. we are told in this report that two banks said no thank you. these u.s. banks did not want to get involved with a new sanctions were in place and they were afraid of the optics of it as well. >> that's right. i think the iran deal i've been reached at this point but iran was completing that they couldn't get the benefit

administration but the obama administration had testified both before and after this granting of temporary access to the iranians to the u.s. financial system that they wouldn't do this. this was a problem republicans raised again and again saying give us assurances you won't do this and one obama administration after another testified and gave answers in interviews, what have you, saying we won't do this and then did it. what they did is clear. they lied. they said things that were not true -- they knew they washingtweren't true. going from reals to dollars to euros which is what they did what they were allowed to do -- >> sandra: we're talking billions. >> right. it made it more efficient. it didn't happen because the two u.s. institutions were so concern about blow back they decided not to be involved and you just have to take a step back. if you believe, as i do, the iran deal was conceived between arrogance and naivety what does it say when they boost the world's leading state sponsor of terror? this say -- is a scandal. president obama said we did not have scandals but this is a scan

that's something that the obama administration faced, a problem the bush administration faced and a problem that the clinton administration faced and bush sr. face and every administration faces. the obama administration -- and i think even the bush administration to a degree -- wrestled with those issues and i think, luke, you're right when you point to the spending on military and everything else, sometimes maybe they didn't wrestle with them to the degree to which some of us might have liked, maybe if they had a better sense of what they were going to get out of partnersh they would have known where they could drive a harder bargain and be more long-term focused. i think the danger with the trump administration is not that they're confronting the same challenges in terms of diplomacy and its importance or in terms of long-term/short-term, it's i don't see them wrestling with these issues at the highest level. even if the obama administration fell short, the first bush administration fell short, there's a connie sans of these challenges and wrestling with them as opposed to this sort of w

at the outset of the obama administration. of the president his office staff myself included sought to send messages to north korea to signal that we were interested in. pursuing or reinventing a diplomatic track so you said this message well was. the answer was a missile test in the first few months of the obama administration. it was an offensive gesture it was an act of defiance and it's also the task of. the young the on nuclear facility expanded its operations the obama administration took note but did not react to the white house so no political advantage and you don't see a preventative strike against north korea and pursued a policy of strategic patience. you know the north koreans used to say to us. your policy is for to treat patients that's what these patient is you want to register build a nuclear program and that's what they did. unfortunately. the talks between the u.s. and north korea continued in new york the participants included robert cullen an expert on north korea's nuclear program his visit to the country

secretary johnson of the obama administration stated yesterday he recognized the obama administration was unable to deal with this situation completely successfully, certainly i think it is the responsibility of those holding office now and the executive branch and the legislative branch to address this. host: "the wall street journal notes the federal government has a total of 100 shelters in 17 states. 11,700 children are living in the shelters. john in miami. caller: can you hear me ok? i have so many questions. i don't know where to start. they are pouring in through the southern border. yet they are worried about these children. they are being used as pawns. the reality is we have 10 million children in the united states starving to death and we are worried about people coming across the border. do somethingexico about it? , whatdid that to mexico they do to us? host: let's talk about mexico and their responsibility here. that is a point the president it has made as well. guest: mexico does have a responsibility. many who come here illegally crossing our southern border are from

when kids and families have come in the past and the bush administration and the obama administration those families were kept together. a day for be given their asylum hearing. that process would proceed. the zero-tolerance policy was the one that was initiated by president trump and it was intended to separate kids from their families, to send a deterrent message as he saw it to other asylum-seekers, and to put pressure on congress in negotiations for him to get his wall and border security. this is a trump administration policy that thankfully he has reversed. host: the republican speaker of the house has referred to court rulings where during the obama administration they were detaining parents and children together. the court said you cannot detain children. the obama administration decided to release the parents and the child with an ankle bracelet. you have to come back and reappear in court. with the trump administration you can't detain children. what are you to do when you want to send a deterrent message? guest: a couple of things. kids in cages. it is not something we can

and how politics drove prosecutors in the obama administration. now, this is critical to understanding what the swamp is trying to do to trump with that russia probe. so stay there. >> laura: you just heard dinesh d'souza tell us about the horrors of the obama administration, which i asked mike about a short while ago. we just heard my interview with dinesh d'souza about the horrors of the political prosecutions, what he believes, by the obama administration. and his experience certainly has some implication, i think, for the russia investigation, as we might look at this unholy alliance of the fbi director jim comey and doj prosecutors. what do you think about, for lack of a better term, this runaway prosecution that a lot of us are concerned about? >> i think that in the normal course, that sort of case would have been prosecuted with the outcome being a fine. it's not one of the brighter chapters that he participated in prosecuting this in the way that he did. we've had a couple of other dings and dents. but that was, i think, a pretty substant

i think if you think back and look at what the obama administration was trying to president obama comes in, and is focusing on the fight against afghanistan and the war with al qaeda and its affiliates. he enters with the capabilities from the military and intelligence community that have been refined over the past seven years in the iraq and afghanistan theater. we have highly developed ways of identifying and tracking terrorists, and emerging technology which has developed quite a bit at that point. the theaters kind of emerge accordingly, right? we are all-in in afghanistan. in other theaters, like yemen and somalia, we are ratcheting up where we are providing training. the world ends up in many ways looking far more bipolar they -- then i think it is today. let me just unpack that a little bit. on one hand you have afghanistan and iraq. full-scale combat operations. we have u.s. forces engaged in fighting. in that context, a warlike framework, you must abide by principles of discrimination and the principle that underlies armed conflict. when you have u.s. forces in conflict with th

again in the concontext of the obama administration experience. if president obama, who got nowhere with north korea and would have had to go to war with many millions of people being killed, had gotten along with north korea and made the initial steps toward the deal that i have, the fake news would have named him a national hero. again, it's all put into the context of this obsession with doing everything and obama did. >> it is. there's a legitimate complaint, i think, a krcriticism i make o the obama administration that they didn't do enough diplomatically with north korea. they did not impose the sanctions as fully as they could. they made one diplomatic effort briefly. and it fell apart. they didn't do anything particularly bold. they focused on iran. i think the other thing that's maybe going on in president trump's mind is that everybody keeps saying -- many people write -- i have written that part of the test here is he is going to have to get far more out of the north koreans than president obama got out of the iranians. it would be a pr

david hanson on the obama administration desperate for an iran nuclear deal and lied to the american people and the senate? and raymond on the simmering war between sports figures and the president. an all-star line-up. to discuss the big story of the hour. the unmatching of jim comey has an fbi director gone rogue. the word insubordinate was used to describe the former fbi director in the doj and inspector general's report. the report refew -- reviews the doj's handle of the harmed investigation. comey defied authority on more than one occasion. and thei g is critizing comey for not consulting with loretta lynch. that's the reason president trump fired comey in may of 2017. usurping the attorney general's authority. the ig will criticize comey for ignoring the suggestions. this may force comey's defenders to reconsider a man they once called a principal defender of the fbi and doj against the president. >> i have to reciprocate what an honor it's been to serve with the likeses of john brennan and jim comey. dedicated public servients and served this country long and well. >> i do sa

administration was involved in. >> rod spent eight years there the obama administration. he also told president trump to fire james comby. he appointed special council robert mueller. then he signed off so they could wiretap carter page. should he reduce himself? is he a witness? >> he's certainly a witness to the point were both the mueller investigation if it were to result in claims that the president obstructed justice or if there were abuses of someone who signed off on the last renewal. you encapsulated this perfectly. the real question is when he's central to all of this it raises the question look, when we don't get the document we need or timely manner is that because he's just doing his job and trying to protect the department of justice or those documents may reflect negatively on senior members of the department of justice and fbi to include himself. >> yeah, this is why i bring up the point why did he just lean about the rewil -- we will stopm text three seconds ago. was someone sitting on the text. you will have him front of your committee next week, what wi

secretary johnson of the obama administration stated yesterday he recognized the obama administration was unable to deal with this situation completely successfully, certainly i think it is the responsibility of those holding office now and the executive branch and the legislative branch to address this. host: "the wall street journal notes the federal government has a total of 100 shelters in 17 states. 11,700 children are living in the shelters. john in miami. caller: can you hear me ok? i have so many questions. i don't know where to start. they are pouring in through the southern border. yet they are worried about these children. they are being used as pawns. the reality is we have 10 million children in the united states starving to death and we are worried about people coming across the border. do somethingexico about it? , whatdid that to mexico they do to us? host: let's talk about mexico and their responsibility here. that is a point the president it has made as well. guest: mexico does have a responsibility. many who come here illegally crossing our southern border are from

does this administration take into account that the obama administration had been dealing with a recession, do you think that would count when you talk about the numbers comparing apples to oranges and the economic portion? and for unemployment, the numbers have godown. historically the numbers have been 1 1/2 into times even greater than that of white america, with the administration that you love to tout numbers, target in to bring this?>> the great recession that was a targeting point as something we worked on. the great recession slowed growth in the early years of the obama administration but will we should have seen is at the end of the administration the capital spending and everything else would be going back to normal, that was not happening which was clearly in that data as per the targeting i think one of the things that we've spoken in the room about is that the president talked about, the increasing jobs and goods producing industries, manufacturers and construction. it's a pace a little under 50,000 per month. it goes double under the previous administration precisely the thi

did hear we came into this office i met with people in the obama administration. i think they felt there was more house.n utilize in white we tried to take that to heart. we've had many different opportunities to bring democrats here for meetings and ceremonial functions. beendemocrats say, we've to the white house more times than the trump first year than whole eight years in the obama administration. does that tell you about the previous administration? >> well, i think the previous had their own objectives. i think the sense is that president obama worked very hard first couple of years in congress. becamecans took over, he more executive than trying to work on the legislative side. >> what prepared you for this? >> i'm not sure anyone prepares you for this. you have to try to come in with this humble perspective as possible. bewing that there's going to members of congress that rupp set or members of the executive branch upset. is to help make sure that you navigate the process. >> you well know, this is a town with lot of egos. of egos ine lot washington d.c.

it is a step that the obama administration did not take that the trump administration has. i covered a lot of the family detention issues. i have spoken just this week with some of the lawyers who represented those families and while they were very concerned about obama, they were a lot more concerned about trump. in your latest piece, outlining lobbies and proposals, we have 20 seconds. what a lobbyist and why do they know what the american people don't? franco: i believe the question was to me. a lot of the lobbyists are the detention centers, groups like cca, groups that will be behind these tent cities that will be hired to man them. the health service organizations that will be there. they will -- they are the ones who will profit from these organizations. amy: thank you for being with us. ççzñvpx]

of course during the obama administration. in fact, the obama imagination, not trump administration, they are the ones that started a policy of actually detaining minors for months. but the media didn't report, barely onto. in fact, one democrat actually did admit that obama was able to somehow keep his actions at the border very quiet. wonder why. >> under the obama administration, there was, according to "the washington post" reporting, a surging number of unaccompanied minors being apprehended at the border in 2014. there were nearly 70,000, according to the post reporting. >> in many ways, i think -- i don't know what image you are using. i released some of those photos because it was kept very quiet under the obama administration. there were large numbers of people coming in. the obama administration was trying to keep this quiet. >> sean: of course no aid outrage for the media over obama but withdrawn, it's it's a totally different story. there is another factor. they want a distraction from all the lies they have been p

department of homeland security under the obama administration and joining us by scott from fort worth texas is jennifer managing attorney at the refugee and immigrant center for education and legal services thank you all for joining us mr casado attorney general jeff sessions has said if you'll smuggling a child we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law is separating these children from their parents legal no it's not. under the due process cause the supreme court has said many times that there is a fundamental liberty interest in keeping the family integrity of float i think that under the law there is only a few instances in which a child can be separated from the parent the government has to show that the parent is either on fit that the child is endangered or that it's absolutely necessary and the government can't show anything any of those here mr howard do you think the law is being upheld and if it's lost how far she's getting away with breaking it. you know it doesn't appear that. being. it's just it's the law hasn't required that you m

and we even had opportunities and efforts during the obama administration. the problem is that at every turn, the north koreans would make commitments and then break them. and we need to be mind of that that is, again, what might happen in this context. but this is a different diplomatic structure, right? it is flipped on its head, you starting with the leaders. >> starting with the leaders, yes. >> brennan: so do you give the president some creditor being willing to take this high level risk? >> well, i think, you know, it is clear that the past set of efforts have not succeeded. i am a believer in diplomacy and i am open to new methods of trying to accomplish the consistent objective that we have of full denuclearization. i think the question is, are we walking in prepared? are we a walking in with our allies behind us? are we in a position to understand that one meeting is not going to be one an done. this is the start of a serious negotiating process. >> brennan: the former director of national intelligence, jim clapper just wrote a book and he was very

administration. yet they want to call it for what it is, mr. horwitz? you can't conclude the obvious bias impacted sum at the upper echelon of the fbi and their work and their so-called investigation? because that would taint the

i'm wondering what that means because you said the obama administration was lax. the obama administration also had a program that in practice separated families in some cases men would be sent back while wives and children were put in immigration detention centers. it seems what' happening is an extension of what was happening under the obama administration. you keep saying rule of law and mr. ruodriguez keeps saying we need to get back to humane treatment. >> the bottom line is it seems there are certain people and especially a lawyer should believe in the rule of law which he says he does, but then he wants us all to put on our rose-colored glasses and say this is really sad, this is really. responsibility of the people breaking the law? where is their responsibility as parents? why are they putting their chin in harms way? it's not because we are inhumane. in may we had 50,000 illegal crossings into our state. in april -- not our state, in the country. and 50,000 more illegal immigring in april. we can'ttinue to absorb the whole world. if they can find solution

>> i think the obama administration was a disaster. the policy in the middle east was a disaster answer we are paying the price today. we would not be in this situation today in syria if obama had kept his word when he said if you cross the red line. and they didn't do anything. the significance of that is it made the u.s. look weak and side that they are threatening without action. the first thing they type to not do that. if you say something, you should act on it. on egypt they sold us out. they supported the muslim brotherhood thinking it would be different from a terror organization. they were the from the office of a terror organization. they dropped mubarak and they didn't try for a reasonable transition and support the muslim brotherhood. iran, too. $150 billion and they can go back to business as usual. maria: what do they do with the $150 billion in cash? >> exactly. maria: do you think that perception has changed with president trump in place? >> except for the moving of the embassy in jerusalem, i don't think this step is g

we should change the laws so that this administration can do what i heard the obama administration wanted to do, which is to keep families together while they wait for determinations on their immigration cases. i think most americans can agree if we can build facilities that are family friendly where parents can be with their children while the immigration courts are working through their cases, that would be the ideal situation. family separation is always difficult. it's never good for anyone. we hope that we can move our legislation in part so we can solve this issue and also so we can solve all the other issues like providing a future for dreamers and securing the border and a number of other priorities that are in this legislation. >> congressman, do you have 218 votes to pass this legislation tomorrow? >> i don't say -- i wouldn't say we are at that number yet but i would say we are getting closer by the hour. and i would encourage all of my colleagues, republicans and democrats, to consider this legislation. there are a lot of people who have wade lip service to border security in

daniel held in the obama administration. will that help or harm government's efforts to make the country and especially the financial system more resilient and stronger against cyber security threats? are you concerned about that is this. >> well, yes, i am, senator. i think the reason that position was created was because as a very new policy area that we need to drive better coordination across all the different parts of the federal government that have a role in cyber security, and so i believe that having a strong leadership at the white house level is a real necessity right now. >> do you know why he eliminated it? >> i do not. i presume that they were looking for ways to streamline the bureaucracy on the nsc staff. at least that was the statement that was given, but i'm not sure of the reasoning behind it. >> okay. thank you. >> mr. seidel, you talked about workplace shortages in my office this week and then in your testimony. this is not really a question, but as evidenced by the look of this panel and frankly the loo

let's look, because you mentioned it, and how the obama administration and u.s. secretary of homeland security handle this back in 2014 when there was also a spike in children, most of them unaccompanied coming across the border. you started jailing entire families. in some cases, not a lot, but in some you separated children from their parents in these pictures that we are putting up, from 2014, show pictures of unaccompanied minors in effect jail situations. as you look back on that, did you handle it so well? >> secretary johnson: without a doubt the images and the reality from 2014 just like 2018 are not pretty so we expanded the family detention. we had then started 4,000 beds for family detention, only 95 of 34,000 equipped to deal with families. so we extended it. i freely admit it was controversial. we believed it was necessary at the time. i still believe that it's necessary to name a certain capability for families. we can't have catch and release and in my four years we departed and repatriated many people. you can deal with this on the border. you can

but under the obama administration, that began to chanichout anybody paying attention.n the obama administration pressured the faa to meet abstract diversity goals. nobody bothered to explain whyio diversity is a relevant criterion for air trafficty controllers. no one will explain it now. we called the faa today and we got silence when wasked that question, ich is the most basic question. but it didn't matter. starting in 2014, they added a biographical questionnaire to the application process. applicants with a lower aptitud1 in science got preference over applicants who had scored excellent in science. applicants who had been unemployed for the previous three years got more points than licensed pilots got. in other words, the faa activelr searched for unqualified air traffic controllers. that is insane and they knew it was insane when they did it but they did it anyway. today we obtained new information, an internal email written by an executive at the firm that devised then biographical questionnaire. hat email, the executive admits that the test he devised has nothing to do with finding the

they claimed the obama administration had a clean administration when he did not. brian: likes like the obama administration was advising the iranian government how to sir couple venting u.s. law. two u.s. banks saying we are not allowed to do, this they would have done this. abby: it's is a huge story unbelievable you don't see more outrage and coverage about this. ultimately this is about america first talk about $1.57 billion where is that money going to be spent. iran is the number one sponsor of terror in the world. this is a very big deal. steve: during the time when so many people were worried about the access to the money and the obama administration said don't worry, we're not going to give them access. we're not going to give them access. nope, we're not going to do it. the obama administration actually did go ahead and give them a license to do it. and had you to give the bank the license and they didn't do it. and now we know it but where is the outrage? abby: amazing though, brian, it was the two u.s. banks after the obama administration officials were

the trump administration's position, like the obama administration before it, is that congress has already had its debate on war powers 17 years ago and it is one congress, one vote, one time. on memorial day the washington post ran a story. it seems to me it is about time that we are having this debate. at least once in a generation congress should probably wait in on the multiple wars that we are fighting. this debate also presents a pretty substantial risk. congress will pass a new act giving more power to the president. today, john and i are going to make the case that the best way to avoid that danger is to wipe the slate clean. replace thed not 2001 aumf. recognize that the original authorization has run its course and sunset it. and for the president to make the case for any new authorization that he thinks is needed. if he does, he can make that case to congress the way the constitution envisions. our constitution's framers believed that war is serious business, and that going to war should involve a broad national housesus, across both and in multiple branches. james madison held

. >> the last administration, obama administration, bush administration. their rate was less than ours, but they absolutely do this. this is not new. reporter: a lot of pushback from democrat critics. she says it's time for congress to do something about it. david webb is a fox news contributor. gillian melchoir. let me start with you, robert. the last question, the idea that this is brand-new, the idea this hasn't happened before. we know this mushroomed in the public with photographs of kid in cages that ironically turned out to be from the obama administration. where do you see this going? >> six weeks ago we started a zero tolerance program. 2,000 kid have been separated. you have sessions saying it's because of the bible. you have honestly the secretary was totally disup geneous. this is cruel and -- disingenuous behavior. this feels like japanese interment centers. this should be changed immediately. this is how the white house is enforcing. there is no rule to separate children immediately. there is no rule. charles: the japanese interment camps wer

this, the obama administration is now accused of trying to give iran secret access to financial system of the united states. this is totally illegal. perhaps we can get the 13 angry democrats to divert energy to this matter, quote, unquote, as comey would call it, investigate.

navarro, these concerns go back to the obama administration. that may explain why two nights ago, 400 members of congress voted to approve the reform of our so-called system, protection against intellectual property and national security issues and investment coming into the country. 400-2. that's a lopsided vote. in the senate, the cosponsor on the democratic side was dianne feinstein. obviously silicon valley concerns. also passed the senate. so, this is a really strongly bipartisan concern that many people have and i think the publication of this report provides a single document where the concerns are listed and dr. navarro gave you a clue that just eliminating 25 of the issues, 25 of the practices, wouldn't be enough. ideally, all 50 will be dismissed with and the european union has similar concerns. so, thank you all very much for coming. on friday, the global business dialogue hosted a discussion with manufacturing leaders about u.s. steel and aluminum tariffs. we'll have live coverage starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on cspan2. >>> brad wi