one of them is a scientist named inr ressa, who studies communication and cognitive process and animals, a stretch after saying is their anything harder than knowing whether red is the same to you as it is to me? yes, there is one thing that is harder, that is knowing what is in the annals mind that they think so she has done a marvelous work with mirrors and the dolphins and things like that. i should be honest about it and tell you that she is my wife as well. [laughter] but she wasn't just a visitor at the class. but i thought that her work was so marvelous was worth highlighting. i highlight the three physicists that work and experimental and theoretical physics to compare the two of those and i highlighted a couple of years scientists who work in various areas of and is where there are new questions we haven't thought of even a few years ago and i use myself as a case history. that happened because we had a speaker that had terminally ill at the last moment and couldn't make it and i knew what to do and my wife said why don't you fill in and be the speaker and i will interview

question of whether or not the mainstream media is failing to give syria proper coverage i was joined by ressa baker founder and editor in chief of who what why dot com and author of the buck family of secrets he also recently wrote an article for business insider and titled syria what we can learn we can learn a lot from the small stuff take a look. i do one of the things we pointed out at who. is a little known speech given by general wesley clark which he reveals that he was told back in two thousand and one that the pentagon had a plan for the united states to invade seven countries in five years and that story we put it out it did go around the internet but all of the mainstream news organizations ignored it this is very important because it puts syria on a list that was it was a priority to get rid of the assad regime long before there was any kind of uprising and i think that's very very important and it tells us a lot about the propaganda effort that is going on to sway americans to support what is being presented as a simply a domestic uprising very against a regime that is we are tol

we're not going to ignore other news as well including our own ressa sayah now in iran, in tehran where. important news coming up. good to have you, brooke, here at this republican convention. >> wolf blitzer, thank you. i'll come find you a little later. we'll watch for you and the a team reporting from the convention center. in the meantime as you mentioned we're not ignoring other stories either. hundreds of earthquakes have been rattling folks in southern california in something scientists actually call a swarm, this earthquake swarm. it's the most seismic activity in southern california since the '70s. they're expecting thousands, you heard me, thousands more quakes over the next couple of days. casey wian is in california in the city that's apparently closest to this swarm. how strong are these earthquakes, casey? >> reporter: they're ranging in magnitude, brooke. we felt one not long ago 3.8 magnitude. it was a good, sharp jolt that you could really feel. some of them have been as strong as 5.3, even 5.5 magnitude. those are the ones that have actually done some damage. but by ou

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