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>> president obama and harry reid both engage in debates divorced from the facts and divorced from the reality. harry reid lives in the ritz-carlton in washington, d.c., and i'm sure from his perspective the border seems secure. >> charging that the senate majority leader is out of touch on immigration. immigrants are fleeing on foot, by car and train. i'm live. it is important for ham as o be reasonable and understand that you accept a cease fire. >> secretary of state john kerri appearing on all five sunday shows saying he's going to the middle east within days to try to broker a lasting cease fire. meanwhile, an intense battle is going on in the gaza strip. thousands of palestinians are
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fleeg fleeing as israeli troops expand to hamas. hello, john. >> reporter: shannon, today was the bloodiest day so far in the 13 days since operation protective edge started. in the three days since the ground offensive started, at least 84 palestinians, we're hearing some explosions in the background, by the way -- at least 84 palestinians were killed here in gaza, at least 60 in one neighborhood alone in east gaza. we went to that neighborhood just an hour or two hours after the fighting ended to get a look for ourselves. here's what we saw. this is all just gut-wrenching to see. just utter destruction. everything has been destroyed. this home, what used to be a home. people's bed sheets still there, i'm seeing clothing, shoes. what used to be probably the living room or kitchen. we saw the show, we heard the
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air strikes. we watched it from this area, and now to actually be there to smell the smoke, to see this. also the children, the dead bodies being put in the ambulances. there's still clothing hanging on the clotheslines. it's gut-wrenching. i'm just overwhelmed with emotion at this point. it's just utter destruction. everything you see here is damaged. it's been hit by either artillery fire or air strikes. this is what's left of an ambulance. rescue crews here are running out of time. there was a two-hour window cease fire for humanitarian reasons. now they have less than an hour. now, the death toll continues to climb tonight. the israeli military has targeted that area, east gaza in particular, because of the number of hamas rocket launches targeting israel that have come from there. and also as the ground offensive
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continues, uprooting all the underground tunnels that hamas uses for the storage and transport of those rockets and also to try to infiltrate getting into israel. there have been attacks on israeli soldiers. one militant was found with tranquilizers suggesting he was trying to abduct citizens. they're trying to bring about a cease fire. this as the fighting continues. 13 soldiers were killed in fighting. we're hearing explosions and artillery fire in the distance, and that is like toll increase as we go into the evening here. shannon? >> thank you, john. let's get right away to mark regev in tel aviv. else the spokesman for prime minister benjamin net net. sir, welcome. i want to start by asking you about a word the prime minister is going to address the israeli
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people sometime in the near future. can you tell us anything about that and what his message may be? >> obviously we lost a number of our fighting men today, and it's a sad day. israel is a small country, and we've all got either brothers or sisters in the military, children. it's a difficult time when we lose a group of our fighting men, but i think that there is an understanding that the mission is right, that the mission is just. our goal ultimately is defensive. our goal is to stop that hostile rocket fire from gaza into israel, and i remind you that we're close today to 2,000 rockets have been fired from gaza, and it has to stop and it will stop. >> i want to ask you about short-term and long-term goals there. we understand there's been, quote, huge resistance from hamas as israelis move forward with this ground offensive. short-term, i assume it's all about trying to quiet things down, bring some resolution.
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but long term, how do you co exist with hamas and these incoming rockets? is it possible to broker any kind of short-term or long-term deal that's acceptable to israel? >> it's possible, but we're up against a ruthless organization. i mean, hamas is ultimately a very radical islamist organization, not that different from isis in iraq or hezbollah, iran, nigeria. they have a very extreme agenda, they say, that my country israel should be wiped off the map and they say every israeli civilian is a target, including children. so hamas is very dangerous. we're hoping it will come out of this operation with their military machine significantly depleted and with hamas leaders understanding that they simply can't shoot rockets into israel with impunity.
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>> how do you deal with the criticism that obviously children and civilians are involved when you have incursions like this? >> well, obviously, we don't want to see anyone, any civilians, hurt, or worse, killed in the crossfire between us and hamas. we make a maximum effort to avoid that. what's happening today on the ground is a good example of that. we are involved in a particular neighborhood in the northern gaza strip where they've been shooting rockets at us from, where you've got the tunnels that infiltrate israel so they can cause murder and mayhem on our side of the frontier. it's a place where they build missiles, storm missiles and shoot missiles at us. we have been, for three or four days now, urging the civilian population to leave this area because it is ultimately a combat zone. what happened? what does hamas say? they tell civilians to stay.
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they want these civilians as human shields for their own propaganda and extremist agenda. ultimately, israel is doing everything we can to safeguard the life of civilians and hamas is doing the opposite. they are deliberately bringing gaza civilians into harm's way. >> we're almost out of time, but i very quickly want to ask you your reaction to the extension of time on the iran nuclear talks now into november? >> you know, that's better than getting a bad deal. we always said no deal is better than a bad deal. and a bad deal is one that allows iran to become a threshold nuclear state and then it chooses a time when it's good for iran. they crossed that threshold and can move to nuclear weapons m. h that's not good. we say the example is actually what president obama achieved in
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iran. dismantle those elements that can make a nuclear weapon and remove them from iran. that's the formula. >> mark regev, thank you, sir, for your time today. we'll continue to monitor the situation and watch as your prime minister prepares to speak to the country there. thank you, sir. >> my pleasure. thank you for having me. well, as bodies continue to be recovered and tensions over access to the crash site heat up, they are blaming the passenger plane downing on ukraine separatists who had russian military help. john kerry appeared on five talk shows. >> he says the u.s. military has been engaged, and he also calls for tougher sanctions saying it does require russia's full cooperation as well as
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unfettered access to evidence. >> so we need full access. ask this is a moment of truth for russia. some of the leaders of the separatists are russian. russia arms the separatists, russia trains the separatists, russia supports these separatists. >> some lawmakers, such as intelligence chairwoman diane fine stein is pleased with kerry's response. she says vladimir putin needs to be held accountable. >> i think the nexxus between the nuclear and the separatists have been established very clearly. so the issue is, where is putin? and i would say putin, you have to man up. you should talk to the world. >> other lawmakers are taking it one step further. they're speaking out more aggressively describing the global response, specifically the u.s. they say it's tepid and
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cautious, and they say more needs to be done. >> i think that the west, including the united states, has to have a far more significant response than we've seen to date. it's what i thought before the shootdown, and certainly this is a despicable act that needs to resolve the west. >> one consensus, shannon, between lawmakers is that evidence does confirm the separatists obtained the missiles through russia. back to you. >> thank you very much. senator kirk is a former intelligence naval officer. he says it's time for the white house to take a tougher stance with russia. we're talking to him about that. senator, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me, shannon. >> do you have any doubts or where are you in this continuum of deciding just how culpable russia is or isn't with shooting down this malaysian airliner -- >> no doubt about russia's guilt here. >> where do we go next?
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>> we should now start the process of liquidating russian assets inside the united states to pay the american victims or victim who lost their lives in this tragedy to make sure our guys always know it's going to cost $100,000 in overseas accounts for this. we need controlled assets. >> how do you feel about these reports that there are separatists taking bodies from the scene, evidence and personal effects from the scene. there's been a big dispute about access there to international investigators and people who would oversee this. >> i would guess the russians a make sure there was nothing on the site that would induce
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afghan at this time. >> we have russia, we have delayed talks with iran over its nuclear program, the fact we need them and a gap between us and them at this point. were you surprised that there was an extension of these talks now into november? >> remember, the key thing about the extension is the united states provided a four-month extension into iran after secretary kerry testified in front of the senate that iran was only two months away from nuclear weaponry. >> there was a move on capitol hill and you got a lot of co-sponsors that would beef up sanctions for iran. the white house threatened to veto it. why would the senate majority leader bring that to a vote?
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>> with the extension of time, we ought to bring back the me n -- menendez kirk sanctions. even the president is worried about the iranians. >> what will they do with the time they have? >> they will likely make a nuclear weapon with the time they have. if the united states doesn't put into place effects of non-military sanctions to make sure americans have a strong reason to end their night, there is allying with iran. >> why are they adamant about shutting things down now? why do they think it will lead to nuclear weapons in the hands of irani leaders?
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>> one that hasn't been shown is the administration recently put $2.8 million back tigo the iranians. i would say the iranians' talks are not worth that much. they have made payments to hezbollah. >> there are a lot of folks out there across the world questioning the decision to do that and to give the iranians access to those restricted weapons. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. as you know, that problem is far from resolved. just yesterday texas officials engaged with people ferrying illegal immigrants across the rio grande by jet ski. also this weekend, protests before administration were held
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across the country. dominic is following them all. hi, dominic. >> more than 300 protests taking place this weekend and may be occurring in every single state, shannon. they happened outside state capitol buildings, they happened outside walmart, they happened outside the mexican consulate we've got across the country, and they happened on overhead highways going over highways themselves. these groups very much split on who they should be supporting. there are groups that want to see these child immigrants coming across the border being allowed to stay, and there are groups that really want the obama administration to resolve the immigration crisis that's been caused by these children illegally coming across the border. they want to say it's time to use the r word. >> why are we going to disrespect children? what fault do they have of their own? they're coming here for better opportunity, so what we ask is
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they're given refugee status. >> there was a call by one group to turn the city there into a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants. there was a big backlash to that suggestion. those that want these children sent back say the government really needs to put its citizens first. there were signs and scenes of both oppositions. listen. >> the kids are coming over, and when they get over here, they're going to get checked when they hit the ground. is that right? i don't think that's right. >> they can't bring illegals over here and we take care of them when we have men, women and children born and raised here who are doing without. >> we shouldn't have illegals rushing in.
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i'm hearing about diseases and everything coming in. it scares the crap out of me. >> well, president obama is meeting with leaders from central america this week. he will discuss the influx of the children coming across and how to contain the crisis with those leaders. in the past week we've seen the number of children coming across the border dropped by half, from 2,000 to 1,000. they say that's because the immigration campaign that they should not come into the united states is starting to work, but it's also due to the hot weather in the south. many are finding it too dangerous to cross, but they are still coming across. back to you. time is up for a brand new extension pushing back a deadline on iran's nuclear program. we'll explain what happens now coming up in a live report. plus, we take you to mh 17
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built for business. we are monitoring prime minister benjamin netanyahu's speech in tel aviv. keeping a live eye on that, and also we have author joe rosenberg who served az consus consultant to the prime minister. we have all that coming up. today was supposed to be the deadline for iran and six world powers to resolve the decades-old dispute over its nuclear program. but after failing to do so, diplomats have agreed to extend that deadline for four months. peter is live. hi, peter. >> they have another four months to negotiate the future of their nuclear program in iran. great britain, germany, france, china and russia all told the
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iranians they had until july 20 to stop enriching uranium to use for building bombs. they didn't. >> everybody said in the beginning of this, the sanctions won't work, the sanctions regime won't hold, iran won't do as it's supposed to, and they're dead wrong. everything iran was supposed to do, they've eye. >> iran is going to get access to nearly $3 billion in their sanction access, but some disagree with freeing up those frozen funds. >> i'm not a big proponent to paying to negotiate, and the $2.7 billion we've given to iran in exchange for them to negotiate is pretty preposterous
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to me. on capitol hill, they're saying the latest extension needs to be the last extension. >> i do want to see tougher sanctions put in place in the event we do not meet an agreement this go-around. but we should be clear there will be no more extensions. >> and diane feinstein said it is closing. >> we want to know what you think about iran. will the extension of iran nuk talks bring resolution or give iran more time to build weapons? we'll read your response later on in the show. icon and screen actor james garner passed away in georgia. he was "maverick" and later on served as private eye in "the
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rockford files." he was the leader in many films until garner died of natural causes. he was 86 years old. still ahead, the latest conflict between israel and hamas goes into its 13th day. hundreds killed, thousands wounded. can the international community broker a lasting cease fire? congressman elliott engle and congressman steve king. they'll join us live. plus, anti sem ticitism on ri rise? we'll talk about that.
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malaysiam -- >> shannon, it's clear the crash site is far from being secured. you can see behind me part of the flap that was once attached to the wing on that plane. even the most basic work of recovering and identifying the bodies is still far from over. these men are local miners. they're trying to help find pieces of the plane as well as body parts. we're going to have to be careful here with the images we show you. you're going to really have to take my word for it here. three days in, there is a terrible smell in this field. that's because bodies and body parts still have yet to be picked up. we're not going to show you the image, but just off here to my right, there is a piece of what looks to be bone and intestine, blood-charred, and what looks to be leg bone here to my left. here comes another body. we've been watching over the past few minutes body after body
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coming out of this wreckage. keep in mind this is day three. slow work of these bodies being taken out, some to morgues on o the ukranian side, some to the rebel side. a real source of pain for the victims' families. experts from the oce were at the site today looking around. they say it's clear that evidence from this crash site has already disappeared. shannon, back to you. >> steve, thank you so much. well, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu this morning talking about israel's widening offensive on gaza. >> i accepted a humanitarian lull proposed by the united nations. they refused. we'll stop our operations when we can bring back quiet to our people. >> we've gotten word overnight an additional 13 israeli
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soldiers were killed, bringing the total now to 18. the associated press put the palestinian death toll at more than 400 in the last two weeks of growing tensions. joining us now, "new york times" best-selling author joe rosenberg. he's written numerous books, including "israel at war." you served as a consultant to prime minister benjamin netanyahu, so you have unique perspective into what's going on there, and i know you've been very focused on the impact from both sides of this incursion and how people are being affected there in the area. >> absolutely. i did have the privilege of working for prime minister netanyahu back in 2000. i don't work for him now and don't speak for him now in any way. yeah, i don't envy the job he's got ahead of him right now. my heart is going out grieving for the palestinians who have been lost and the israelis. but there's no question israel
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is fighting jihad. the terrorists have fired more than 1700 rockets at israeli civilians. egypt accepted a cease fire from egypt, hamas would not. so i think it's on the hamas side. >> secretary kerry is trying to work on a cease fire and a longer peace deal. is that possible in your estimation, knowing all sides here? is there a temporary lull? is there any hope for long-term peace? >> i was in israel in 2012 providing food and medical supplies and all to israelis and palestinians during the last conflict. israel maxed forces on the border with gaza and then didn't go in because hamas stood down. this is obviously not the situation this time. one thing i would encourage the prime minister of israel to do is actually call the nation to prayer and fasting. he's taken all the other right moves, immobilizing forces, calling the nation to patience,
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grieving with the families that are lost. but like king nehemiah, it's time to call the nation to prayer and fasting so israel can win this peaceful terror. it would be time for the prime minister to do that as well. >> what would you say about it being religious conflicts, that they may never resolve because of deep feelings that are often along religious lines? >> i would separate this from the palestinian people at large who may not love israel, who may wish they could have all the territory. but it's hamas and acts that are firing missiles. it is leadership in terms of terrorist leadership that are crushing the hopes and dreams of the people of gaza. they live on the mediterranean coast, they have natural gas.
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they were given their freedom from israel in 2005. there is no reason not to be able to build a functioning, calm, prosperous society, but you can't have terrorists leading you, and i think it's going to take the israelis turning to war and asking for peace as well as the military force. >> and we know it's always important to make that distinction between the palestinian people and hamas. we thank you for your insight today. i know you're traveling to the area so we will pray safety for you. >> thank you, i appreciate it. washington is in desperate need of fire relief. some that have taken over their towns, next. than a powerful ride. and you can get that in places you might not expect. like the passat. and also in the fun-to-drive jetta. in fact, volkswagen has sold more turbos than any other brand over the last ten years.
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this just in, we have a british open winner. but if you don't want to know, this is your chance to hit mute, change the channel and of course come right back. but here's what you need to know, the winner, rory mcilroy, has won by two strokes. he joins jack niklaus and tiger woods. crews are headed to washington state to help fight about 50 fires there. the biggest ones are in the central part of the state. it's charred 30 miles and burned
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about 200 homes. at least 400 palestinians have been killed during escalating tensions over the past couple weeks. there are also fresh reports this morning that 13 israeli soldiers were killed overnight, bringing the total to 18. let's talk about it with ranking member of the house and foreign affairs robert engle. thank you both for your time. congressman king, i want to start with you. are you confident that the u.s. is doing enough behind the scenes and publicly to support israel at this point? we understand secretary kerry is going to travel to the region to try to broker some peace. do you think we're doing enough? >> i think we are. i was a little concerned in the beginning when the administration was talking about restraints from both sides, but i think secretary kerry has made it clear that israel has the absolute right to defend itself. this is life and death. they're not allowed even one
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mistake or unerrone error. one bad day israel could be destroyed. to me, hamas is what al qaeda was to us in 9/11. they're an evil terrorist group and gang, and israel has the absolute right to do all it can to defend itself and take any action against hamas, and any civilian deaths are because of hamas and the way they've positioned their rockets and their forces. >> congressman engle, obviously israel is in a very tough neighborhood. they've got issues with hamas and leading now to this offensive they've got. but at the same time they're also very concerned with what's going on with iran, these talks that the deal to negotiate has now been kicked to november. i believe you had a chance to talk with secretary kerry a little bit about this this week and about the possibility of sanctions. what do you make of the situation as it now stands with iran and these nuclear talks?
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>> well, first let me say in terms of israel and the palestinia palestinians, i agree with everything my colleague pete king said. we should never forget hamas is a terrorist group, and you have to fight terrorist groups. i'm not particularly bothered we have a four-month extension. i think in many ways it works to our advantage because sanctions are still on iran and their economy is hurting, and it's sanctions that brought them to the table. but i think we have to be very, very tough with them. secretary kerry has said no deal is better than a bad deal, and i agree with that. the question is what do we consider a good deal and a bad deal? iran is the largest supporter of terrorism of any country in the world. when you look at hamas and gaza now and you look at where they've gotten their weaponry, most of it has come from iran. so we should be under no illusion that these are bad people. they have not been willing to talk about lowering their
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capability, and i was chagrined at the beginning, because i felt like while we were talking to them, they should have given up enrichi enriching. that has not happened. i think we need to get tough with them and look at things as they are and not as they wish they are. they are only at the negotiating table because sanctions have crippled them. if they don't behave propering, time for new sanctions. >> i want to give you both the chance to answer about russia and ukraine. i'll start with you, congressman king. are you convinced russia was behind the downing of that airliner, and if you are, what do we do next? >> there's no doubt they're criminally responsible for what happened. i think we have to take severe and very strict sanctions, get our allies behind us such as the british who have been out front the last several days. one, severe economic sanctions. second, i think he should urge that the cup taken out of moscow in 2013, and i believe we should
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cancel rights here and in the united states, and we should start exposing money that they have hidden in banks around the world, including here in the united states, and seize the assets that we can. >> congressman engle, final word to you. >> well, it was sanctions that brought iran to the negotiating table. i think severe sanctions for putin is warranted. there's no doubt that he has complicity, there's no doubt what he's trying to do, recreate the soviet union. this shooting down of a plane is an act of terror. it cannot be tolerated. >> congressman engle, congressman king, thank you both very much. it's an event that anyone who saw it will never forget. proof that the u.s. had won the space race. 45 years ago today, neal armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. all these years later, many of us are still moonstruck.
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historic moments in american history. 45 years ago today, the world watched as astronaut neil armstrong became the first astronaut to walk on the moon. we sat down with former astronaut eugene seirnan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon. >> 45 years ago, neil armstrong walked on the moon. what did that mean? >> let me take you before that. after we, via alan shepherd, had 16 years of experience.
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here we were now three weeks later and the president of the united states is saying, okay, folks. i guess we're smart enough. we're going to go to the moon. and i'm sure you remember those days because i was just a young naval aif yaviator, and i knew s asking us to do the impossible, to do what most people thought couldn't be done. there we were 45 years ago on the 20th of july, 1969, and america made the impossible possible when neil made those first steps, that one small step for man. >> when you had a chance to speak with him, did he ever talk with you and tell you about his line, one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind? was that planned? did that just happen? >> in no way did he have those words planted in his mind to say. i think they came out only as neil could say them, which is
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with sincerity and the meaning that one small step that he was taking, is the way i interpret what he said, and basically what he told me, that it was really giving credit to other people. it was really his small step but it was really a giant leap for for all of us. for all mankind. >> what went through you being in the space program to see that dream realized? >> if you look back at what's happened in modern american history, is there one thing that you can think of that i can think of more significant, something more expressive of american exceptionalism than neil's first steps on the moon? i mean, even today -- here we are 45 years later. >> other than the other 11 guys, who wurp with, how does anybody who you come across in your life
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are you able to relate to them, are they able to relate to you, having had this experience? >> you know, i've been in space before. i've been to the moon, landed on the moon. even for me, i couldn't relate to what it was going to feel like or be like. to the fact you're actually there at that moment in space and time and history, this is real. this isn't a dream. you come home with a very selfish feeling. how can i tell you or anybody else and relate to them what it is really like, what the feeling is like? you try. but i'm not sure i succeeded. >> so what's it like for you now when you go out for an evening walk where you just decide to gaze up there and look at that moon? what do you think of now when you look at the moon? >> i'm the luckiest human being in the world. but i don't go out and look at the moon and say, whoa, man, you
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landed on the moon, you're really tough. i don't do that. unless i'm with somebody that says, tell me about it. do you really believe you went up there? you get a little corny. >> do you believe 500 years from now that there will be some kid in school all across the world who will look at you and the other 11 men who went on the moon as these great pioneers, these great discoverers? >> i suppose our names will be in the history books somewhere, obviously. you know, we landed on the moon. i'm not sure anyone will be able to differentiate among us except for neil himself. i mean, that's the name that's going to stand out. that's the icon. that's a world icon. >> what's being missed by the younger generation and by all of us by not going back to the moon and not having the space program as it was? >> one of the things that's not given enough credit for in the
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space program is the impact it has on young people, the educational impact, the inspirational impact, the passion it provides for young kids to dream. i've always said the dreamers of the today are the doers of tomorrow. >> gene, in your heart, do you believe you will be the last man to ever walk on the moon? >> the last man is sort of a misnomer. i'm the last man of apollo, last man of the 20th century. i'm not the last man to walk on the moon. >> well, tech giant dell says it will now accept the internet currency bitcoin as payment for its products. but there's still many skeptics who say bitcoin is too volatile and offer consumers too little protection. fox business spoke to the ceo of a start-up in california who says his company addresses those issues. he says realcoin has produced the first digital currency backed by the u.s. dollar, meaning users can redeem real coin for actual u.s. currency.
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