good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm laurin lether here in washington d.c. here headlines for april thirtieth two thousand and twelve new g.d.p. numbers confirmed that spain figure rose for the.

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm laurin lister here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for may eleventh two thousand and twelve after hearing about his action on wall street since april we have finally seen this animal rear its head and tail take a look. at the london whale capsizes the j.p. morgan see i ope profit boat jamie dimon announces a two billion dollar trading loss saying more could be on the way saying big mistakes were made but hey this doesn't make the case for more regulation or for the volcker rule we'll talk about why this is exhibit a for why the volcker rule is needed that said we'll ask if the rule in its current form would have even stopped the london whale market places heidi moore joins us plus we will look at how the federal reserve may be in a blink and incentivizing this kind of risky behavior in too big to fail firms also president obama's mortgage financial fraud task force was touted in his state of the union address but some allege it's been starved of staffing and momentum since then some members of occupy wall stre

i'm laurin mr. some for show intelligence and its program earlier this week we told you about the case of steven staley a mentally ill inmate who was going to be forcibly medicated just so that he could then be executed luckily his execution has been stated there's still a question about the constitutionality of forcibly medicating a person before he's put to death so we asked you why these horrific cases go under the radar of the overall approval for the death penalty has reached a historic low in the u.s. let's go to producer in a sense and to find out what you want to say. i'm on the streets of d.c. to tell people the nation's capital what our viewers had to say on twitter facebook and you tube and he was comments we should keep. so i'm going to read your response from stars and stripes on you tube he wrote in to say we as people aren't speaking loud enough to end the death penalty what do you think about that like a lot of other cases to the enemy like attention and they don't get it i don't kno

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm laurin the star here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for may second two thousand and twelve nicolas sarkozy and challenger francois alone face off today in the live french election t.v. debate and what's reportedly seen as the climax of the campaigns with elections in france and greece this weekend the results have the potential to send shock waves across the european debt landscape was speak with former diplomat and investment banker edward harrison about how politics in single countries could impact the global economy meanwhile what an outspoken and famed fund manager you henry tell a panel about europe at the milken institute global conference yesterday about his concerns take a listen but the thing that always fear is for scottish confiscation of my also it's. lawsuits. he also thinks we're a year away from the french nationalizing their entire banking system we will discuss and speaking of confiscation foreign financial institutions are reportedly frantically preparing and shelling out serious money to comp

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm laurin the star here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday may twenty fifth two thousand and twelve it has been a week since facebook's disaster day view we've now seen shareholder lawsuits subpoenas not to mention a whole lot of mind numbing news coverage and what was an over the valued i.p.o. price that's at the core of it but why did so many people miss this in the first place even though there was plenty of evidence to indicate it. could that be to blame reggie middleton will be on the show to talk about it remember he laid out all of the problems with facebook's valuation on this show long before the i.p.o. and mother aside this facebook case may illustrate some problems with this. very very. you know. i'm talking not about fighting actually i'm talking about the chinese wall the one that's supposed to exist and wall street firms separating research analysts from investment bankers and i want you to remember washington tore down this wall entirely in some cases it appears going forward with the misname

to the capital account i'm laurin mr. to tonight's fireside with your. cops. today then secretary leon panetta give a speech to troops at fort benning now the focus of this speech was discipline after the numerous incidents this year in afghanistan the military has launched a new campaign to remind u.s. forces there representing the american people need to behave to military standards now what incidents my talking about well there was a video of troops you're an aging on taliban corpses the photos the release to the l a times of troops posing with an insurgent corpse the burning of korans at parwan the lead to protests all across afghanistan and of course the massacre of seventeen civilians allegedly by staff sergeant robert bales and that only leaves incidents affected public perception of the war here at home but they clearly affect the perception of the war in afghanistan itself and some of these events are horrifying the massacre of women and children is an excusable and nobody would argue otherwise and the young soldier that gave photos over the l a times

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looking to get filled in on the real story is not going to want to miss it looking forward to it laurin thanks a lot well that does it for now for more on the stories we cover to go to youtube dot com slash our to america or check out our website our to dot com slash usa and you can also follow me on twitter at abby martin. it was. with the be. more news today violence has once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are rooted a. place. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. download the official ante up location to your i phone on called touch from the still. one life on the go. video on on demand.

to the counseling i'm laurin lister. our guys it's time for show and tell on tonight's program last week we discussed the national day of reason a secular answer to the national day of prayer but we asked if you think that the power of that group is strong enough to influence public debate rival the religious right so let's go to producer patrice innocency to find out what she had to say. i'm of the streets of d.c. to tell people the nation's capital what our viewers had to say on twitter facebook and you tube and see which comments we should keep or delete. but. do you think that the power of atheists to influence public policy and the public debate will ever be able to rival the religious right i'm going to read your spawn's from sure rog on facebook he wrote in to say perhaps eventually but definitely not at least for a decade or two so do you believe that will take that long do you want to keep it or delete it i would i would agree with shrug i would say at least twenty years i'm going to read your spawn's from gill'

thanks laurin. might be good day to take a third of friday and everything is on time this morning cell after yesterday's partial day strike in effect in the morning commute the ferry service is back on time this morning. by the way golden gate bus transit on may 10th if the deal is not reached the right now you're good to go there is between iran and san francisco are scheduled for on-time snow delays the same thing of party and union. source of poland's police activity in san francisco this is the story of been showing you a police a moving in right now in a church building that was taken over by occupy yesterday evening so attached to shut down look both directions between franklin. is that this is the general area in san francisco again you want to avoided in the meantime. so the freeways are major lines in the east bay 589 coming down the shore freeway everything is reported this morning so overall were offered a pretty nice art and 30 spare roadways is a live look at the minutes up and down nor

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