chief robert muller. >> thank you so much. >> and now to the political crisis in honduras. the ousted president trying to get back to his homeland ever so briefly. the former leader stood on the edge of his country and called on his fellow hondurans to resist the coup installed government and quickly went back to nicaragua, saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed and give negotiations another try. now more in honduras. steve, talk to us about the situation on the streets there. is it dangerous, chaotic? are there protests? >> certainly did seem chaotic yesterday along that border area when you had a former president or ousted president trying to get back into his own countries with news cameras and soldiers 25 yards away. that certainly could have gotten dangerous in a hurry. it did not. but the scene on the streets here in the capital is quite different than that. stores are open, traffic is owing. it would be hard pressed to understand by going around the capital to know this is a country whose president was ousted by the military less than one month ago. >> we were watching

director robert muller for this operation more than four hundred defendants have been charged and we have a paid one hundred seventy three convictions in crimes that accounted for more than eleven billion dollars and estimated losses the f.b.i. first warned of this fraud epidemic in two thousand and four reporting also though that their corporate crime units had been downsized to join the fight against terrorism some criminal cases are reported in the press but not all are prosecuted with companies often paying fines rather than facing a judge or a jury goldman sachs paid sixty million dollars to settle a so brian complain the massachusetts authorities said they had designed mortgages to fail and they paid sixty million dollars but they did not made any deal that standard standard when wall street firms to go. what are in effect plea bargains with regulators for them not to admit guilt according to an investigation by the center for public integrity twenty five of the sleaziest subprime lenders were backed by the biggest banks in the united states citi group wells fargo j.p. morgan c

we heard from fbi director robert muller. rep giffords was the target of the shooting. for ast one staff er congresswoman giffords was killed. john boehner spoke outside his district in cincinnati. >> good morning. the thoughts and prayers of the house and the nation are with congresswoman giffords and her family. we are also pressing for the families of judge roll and all of those who were taken from us so senselessly. among them was gabe simmerman. zimmerman. i have ordered that the flags be flown at half staff. an attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve. i want to commend the federal, state, and local officials, as well as the capitol police, for all of their efforts. i told the fbi that the house stands ready to assist in anyway possible. last night, the majority leader announced that the normal business of the house for the coming week has been postponed so that we can take necessary action regarding yesterday's events. the majority will announce a revised schedule. to the house and their staff, i ask that you keep gabby and her family in your prayer

congress is considering extending the term for robert muller -- robert mueller. this is 50 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] is back tomorrow morning, at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. have a great day. >> good morning, everybody. good morning, director mueller, i prematurely our last hearing here complimented you and said this is the last time you have to come to the hearing and put up with the senate jea, --judiciary committee. welcome back. over a month ago met with the president. he had requested congress authorize a limited extension of robert morris services, director of f.b.i., we have a law that normally limits the f.b.i. directorship to one 10-year term . a way to span presidential terms and give it the kind of independence that somebody in this position wants and needs. the president spoke of the ongoing threats facing the united states and the leadership transition at other agencies like the defense department. and central intelligence agency. he asked us to join together in extending directo

. >> the way i understood this whole controversy was that kit bond was told by robert muller to not release any of this sensitive information of what was going on, what the underwear bomber was talking about because he said, bond says, it was stressed to him that the f.b.i. director, bob muller, here it is right here, f.b.i. director bob muller personally stressed to me that keeping the fact of his cooperation quiet, the underwear bomber, was vital to preventing future attacks against the united states. well, then apparently what happened is during that hearing, they exposed it all and they said in fact he was cooperating and that made kit bond angry. i thought we weren'ted supposed to tell anyone. that got a lot of people talking about whether this is being politicized. didd d did the administrations do this on purpose? >> did the administration accuse kit bond of blabbing, gibbs wants an apology and he said so yesterday. >> the white house in conjunction with agencies involved in this interrogation gave out classified information? yes. i think an apology on that is owed because it's not t

director, robert muller, in washington that they just could not eradicate inspire magazine. once it was up on the web, it really could live on forever. you couldn't really take it down. and the concern, at least from one official i spoke to this morning, is that anwar al-awlaki is sort of immortalized on the web through his lectures, through his videos. he could become sort of a rallying point or martyr. the question becomes to what extent do we try and take down his message? i know that there has been a debate in law enforcement circles about the merits of taking down that message. is it really free speech as hateful as it is, or does it cross that line to being speech that will promote someone to commit an act of violence? in addition, from an investigative point of view, one of the benefits of the material, and inspire magazine, for that point, is that it's a little bit like bait when you're fishing. you put it out there and you see what comes to it. so by having this material, you've been able to see who exactly is attracted to that message. so it's always been a balanci

director robert muller admitting in front of congress he doesn't know how many agents cheated on one 6 the agency's policy exams. it includes how to conduct surveillance on american citizens. it dealt with whether agents understood the new rules on surveillance and filed on americans without evidence of crimes. there are widespread allegations some agents took the test together. others got a printed version ahead of time. >> the inspector general has taken over that investigation and has indicated that there are additional personnel that did not abide by the procedures. we do not have all the specifics and we're expecting a letter from the i.g. pointing out other occasions where there were abuses and the procedures were not followed. >> muller says the f.b.i. does understand the rules for surveillance and open files and is following them despite the scandal. >>> first it was anna chanman now another beauty with ties to russia. she's accused of spying. she lives here. she has three night vision rifle sights worth 15 grand. she said she bought it on line for her husband who is a hunter

director robert muller and his experts have warned about new york's top cop says the suspect was radicalized by the teachings of u.s. born cleric anwar a lot. even thing here is that the media also left out a few very crucial details turns out that intel had help from a neighbor in upper manhattan who happened to be and why p.t. informant and the f.b.i. was aware of from intel but they chose to pass on the case now original reports assume that it was because the f.b.i. was doing a bad job but it turns out even they could tell something was fishy to pretty important elements of the story and i think that's right so while bloomberg and n.y.p.d. commissioner raymond kelly spoke at length about the danger of the suspect in custody they left out the role of its neighbor let me give you a few details here the neighbor and wife played a very central role in planning the attack he provided an area for the suspect to build bombs also serve as a companion to him and tell all the n.y.p.d. as intelligence division built their case and according to the new york times the informant smoked marijuana with t

muller who testified before the senate judiciary committee yesterday said he still had concerns so we know that the head of the f.b.i. is not happy with the language that supposedly makes the f.b.i.'s role ok and the only thing that's really left is this is and it's not just i mean i think the administration's concern is not just that they want to be able to indefinitely detain people including american citizens but the language that they use to justify the killing of anwar who remember is an american citizen all comes out of this detention language in fact they actually cited some supreme court rulings that said well the police can chase somebody down and if they kill him if they use deadly force in chasing somebody down because he wouldn't be arrested easily that's ok they use that language on detention to authorize the killing of all aki so i think that's one of the things they wanted to make sure that they left the legal structures they put in place to justify the a lackey killing was an american citizen untouched so it's not just that they wanted indefinite detention they didn't

director robert muller. this is about 2-1/2 hours. sm for the committee to ask questions of our intelligence leaders in public. today is also an opportunity to take stock of what has happened in the last year and what we can expect for 2012. before looking ahead, i want to congratulate the leaders of the intelligence community before us today. and the tens of thousands of civilian and military intelligence professionals they represent. through their efforts, 2011 was a year of numerous major intelligence successes. including first and foremost the operation that located and killed osama bin laden. this past year also saw the removal of top terrorist leaders, plotters, and recruiters including anwar alawalkie in yemen. al qaeda's lynch pin in pakistan, ralkman and numerous others resulting in the disruption of specific terrorist plots and casting into disarray al qaeda's senior leadership. closer to home since our hearing last year, there were at least 20 individuals arrested in the united states on terrorism related charges in 17 diff

director robert muller says the new york police department and its commissioner ray kelly are doing a great job. >> that's a big story. hundreds of thousands of financially strapped homeowners getting some much needed help thanks to a side deal struck between bank of america and the federal government over its foreclosure practices so under the terms, bank of america will not have to pay $850 million in penalties. this will allow the bank to help households reduce their mortgage balances, some even cutting them to their home's current market value. eric? >> call him fast feud. a police officer getting into a supersized brawl with a would-be thief inside a mcdonald's. >> kind of pushed off and threw me off of him and the fight was on! >> that was deputy kevin meyer, the florida police officer called to the scene after the thug tried robbing another customer of his backpack. as you can see, the suspect didn't go down without a fight. deputy meyer says he couldn't even call for backup because his radio was knocked off. lucky for him, three homeless men stepped in and subdued the suspect.

test with jamie he could of course he represents exactly the kind of threat there for you i direct to robert muller and his experts had warned about new york's top cop says the suspect was radicalized by the teachings of us born cleric a lot of. so the conditions are perfect he was said to have ties to al a lot he planned building a bomb and converted to islam on the surface it looks like a cut and dry terrorism incident stop before anything could happen and of course mayor michael bloomberg and y.p. chief ray kelly held a press conference praising law enforcement for stopping this attack before was carried out. you were. going to spread. the robber is that screws with one of them. now it's funny that bloomberg added f.b.i. is robert mueller interest speech because the f.b.i. was actually involved in this case at all in fact the f.b.i. was aware the n.y.p.d. had been tracking him intel for two years but the feds never felt that he was a serious threat because he was mentally unstable and they declined opportunities to take the man down so that's why the family was the defendant was arrested

muller the current director determined how deep president bush's electronic surveillance was going spawning on americans he pushed back and he told the president you get this program but inside the law side the boundaries of the law or i quit now local didn't happen to the f.b.i. director had resigned in protest bush's government were to fall ok but at the same time we then saw the congress step in and decide to just change the laws so that the wiretapping program could also neatly fit into a if we also talked about this file of work crimes what would what was the results of it i think there may have been some good intentions there but you know but has it also been expanded in many ways that haven't necessarily actually produced good results that have brought liberty back to the american people in that sense. well look back over the history of the f.b.i. which is dominated by j. edgar hoover who ran the f.b.i. for forty eight consecutive years bugging wiretapping spying on americans breaking and entering over was the law. today i think we have a better balance we've got a president who unde

director, robert muller. thank you, director. his leadership and support for local and state law enforcement are well-known and deeply appreciated. we're also very pleased to welcome the deputy attorney general, jim cole, who is also with us this year. thank you. also very pleased to welcome last year's key note speaker who is joining us again, the department of homeland security secretary, janet napolitano. and finally, it's with great honor and privilege to have with us today, the president of the united states, barack obama , who i will introduce more fully in a few minutes. mr. president. on behalf of the 333,000 members of the f.o.p., i want to welcome you all to the national peace officers memorial service. we come here today to honor members of the law enforcement family who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. president teddy roosevelt said, life brings sorrow and joyce alike. it is what a man does with them, not what they coto him, that is a true test of their medal. the fact that you are all here today to honor your loved