mr. drumfield, i'd like to speak to you for a minute... >> this is where columbia's war continues... >> ...still occupied... >> police have arrived... you see the blast scars from a bomb that went off... >> welcome back to "inside story." i'm libby casey. we're looking at corporate taxes on this edition of the program. specifically the practice of inversion, when a corporation buys an entity overseas to pay lower taxes on profits. well, president obama said this practice lacks economic patriotism. and we want to talk about the politics of this issue. still with us in san francisco, steven moskowitz, senior partner and tax attorney at moskowitz llp. and in new york, liz hoffman, reporter. >> what are it's chances of the bill? >> senator leavitt's bill and his brother in the house have both introduced bills so that when an american company merge was a foreignen company, it would have to be at least 50% owned by foreign stock. that makes sense, to get the advantages of being in a foreign company. foreigners. >> right now it's 20%. >> this is one that i support but i would be very surprised i

mr. drumfield, i'd like to speak to you for a minute... >> this is where columbia's war continues... >> ...still occupied... >> police have arrived... you see the blast scars from a bomb that went off... >> a number of u.s. corporations are claiming foreign countries as their home to save money on tacks. perfectly legal and politically explosive, these tax inversions are want "inside story." >> hello, i'm libby casey. myelin, electronics,y

mr. drumfield, i'd like to speak to you for a minute... >> this is where columbia's war continues... >> ...still occupied... >> police have arrived... you see the blast scars from a bomb that went off... >>> this is "talk to "al jazeera americ america". i am tony harris speak with ken roth, the executive director of human rights watch. >> i want you talk to your father and how you came to this work. >> you know, there is never a single reason but a big part, as you mentioned a, is my father who grew up in nazi germany as a young jewish boy, and i then, in turn, grew up with stories of what it was like, you know, worrying about would he be arrested if he rode his bicycle down the sidewalk, how was the family going to get out of germany which was extremely difficult. and he finally, in july, 1938, as a 12-year-old boy was able to evening ate to new york. by pie growing up and hearing these stories, i was very aware of the ultimate evil of governments were capable of and it made me want to devote my life to try to present atrocities. you can't help but feel empathy. my father's story launche