. >> "the betrayal of the american dream." the reporting team of donald barlett and james steele publish a followup to their "america: what went wrong." we will speak to them on the assault of the middle class, the cost of free trade, the great tax heist, deregulation and the end of retirement. >> what is happening is not related to the recession. yes, it is kind of focused on it, but the downward incline in order to continue after the recession is over. >> donald barlett and james steele. we will also look, corporations took the money and jobs and ran to china. apple doesn't manufacture a single product in the united states. and head of the 2002 olympics, romney helped raise the federal treasury. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the nine nations failed to meet a deadline on friday for the first-ever global agreement regulating the arms trade. hopes had been raised for a last-minute deal, but the negotiations collapsed without the required co

. >> marji ross is the betrayal by barlett and stelle a book that regnery will publish? >> it might well be in terms of this question that people have about where the country is going, whether or not the middle class can continue to exist. i think that is an issue that crosses party lines and the solution to that problem may be quite different whether you are asking somebody from the right or the left, but i think the problem is pretty generally accepted in terms of whether or not people have the opportunity to move up with a they have the opportunity to improve their lives, their future coming into the future for their children and their grandchildren and those are issues that, you know, frankly the tea party spent a lot of time talking about so from that vantage point i think this question of the american dream and the middle class is one that's important to everyone and probably pretty important to the upcoming election. >> regnery has the number-one book right now. the amateur, ed klein. >> we are very excited. he wrote a terrific book and a very insightful. a lot of

not so easy to trace an intricate blame of betrayals and broken treaties. the enemy is not you, the enemy is not me. the enemy is muslim, christian, atheist, hindu, jew. he is our collective face, our evolution, the devolution, the ripening of long injustices. thank you. the next poet is michael palmer. >> what of that wolf hound at full stride. what of the woman that serves as fairl guide and witness to the snowy hive? what of the singer robed in red and frozen at mid-song? and the stone, its brokenness, or the voice oft seen that says note the dragon seen but asking no questions of flight, no questions of irridescence, what of that century, did you see it pass? what of that wolf hound at your back? and then a poem that is for mahmud darlish called the dream of narcissus. the dream of narcissus, that there would be a silence loud as time. the dream of the writer that there could be a silence loud as time, the dream of time that rest might come, the dream of rest, that unrest might arise. the dream of the palm, the pilgrims would enter the village. the drea

crouched, later in that state betrayal that come from learning some green things are not good. considering the law averages that a body in motion stays in motion unless faced with an equal or opposite force, peer pressure, skitology the projected near devastation of world forest should population the motdz of toilet paper consumption. germs vary. my role in the pressing the mean agent of common human hygiene i knew i never wanted to be near that state again. with extradition i was hardly away at all. when i first rolled over my parents were pleased and i left the state of never having rolled before. ditto, something on all fours to crawling. and once i could walk we all knew i was never going back. i just pulled myself up and started moving. i grabbed at everything i could reach until i learned better i put my tongue on anything. once iate papaya straight from the tree and i mourned the abject state of created fruit i living in that state in my ignorance thought i loved. i denounce such love. i married a local. i taught myself how to keep his garden. i swear i'm staying away fr

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. >> contemptible conduct, a betrayal. where are we?well, i think what we heard was a bunch of bellacose language from governor romney with nothing behind it. a bunch of bellacose bloviating. >> a guy to turn to on a national security issue. on june 10, david axelrod campaign chief said nobody in the white house had anything to do with this. be on july 25, axelrod who has been out of the white house for 18 months and has no security clearance says the president had nothing to do with it. how does axelrod know that? how does he know that the president didn't do it? who told him and why isn't he being subpoenaed by the investigators? >> also the comment that axelrod dug in about john bolton writing the speech and we know that wasn't true. charlie rose let him get away with it. >> there was no pushback from charlie rose. >> what was really amazing is that even senator feinstein who is a democrat and head of the intelligence chitee said look, these leaks some appear to be coming from the white house and then was bludgeoned into walking that

(laughter) nation this is the worst betrayal since benedict arnold teamed up with judas to stab caesar right in the crew ton. folks i am not the only one who has had their man crush crushed. republican congressman and georgia peach phil gingrey said of roberts, i don't want to drink a beer with him today. i'm not calling for his impeachment, i'm just very, very disappointed. are you happy, justice roberts? now phil gingrey is going to have to spend another night drinking alone. (laughter) (applause) and georgia, friend of the show, georgia's jack kingston was even pore crest fallen tweeting with obamacare ruling i feel like i just lost two great friends. america and justice roberts. well, if it's any help, congressman, phil gingrey is looking for someone to drink with. (laughter) and you know what [bleep] it, i might join them. look, why not, why not. my liver's covered now. (cheers and applause) i mean if i don't get cirrhosis i'm losing money. (laughter) we were fools. roberts has always been in o billiona's pocket. think about t he's the one without single-handedly made o billiona p

betrayal of trust? sexual assaults on the rise at the nation's prestigious military academies. >> i remember him turning off the lights and me asking, what are you doing? >> women who feel betrayed by the military they committed to serve. the pentagon's battle to do something about it. revealing investigations, fascinating characters, stories with impact. this is "cnn presents" with tonight's host, drew griffin. >> tonight, a special look at some of the men and women who have served our country. >>> opening investigations into the unbelievable injustices done to them. we begin with the startling story how u.s. soldierings were used as human guinea pigs. during the cold war the military embarked on a top secret program to test chemical and biologic weapons. the researchers used animals. believe it north, they also used humans, volunteers from the army who had no idea what they were signing up for. nearly half a century later, some of these human guinea pigs are emerging from the shadows with disturbing s

other way to judge his actions because i didn't give them another way to me that was the ultimate betrayal of my trust that the public and judge ordered me to do this particular job. inside the mosque there was another man wounded kevin sites speaks with him but having in mind how he should report his story that's the mosque two years later he discovers something that haunts him still that man that i had been talking to had been shot twenty three times in the back. basically flipped over and you know just murdered so perhaps the more definitive murder that occurred that mosque was not even the one. captured on videotape but the one that i walked out of there are not many journalists that can say that in the failure of doing their job they cost a man their life i can. you know and that's a powerful powerful thing. scope . and.

other way to judge his actions because i didn't give them another way to me that was the ultimate betrayal of me of my trust that the public and judge ordered me to do this particular job. inside the mosque there was another man wounded kevin sites speaks with him but having in mind how he should report his story he exits the mosque two years later he discovers something that haunts him still that man that i had been talking to had been shot twenty three times in the back. basically flipped over and you know just murdered so perhaps the more definitive murder that occurred that mosque was not even the one. captured on videotape but the one that i walked out there are not many journalists that can say that it in the failure of doing their job they cost a man their life i can. you know and that's a powerful powerful thing. wealthy british silence on. sometimes right. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's conjure or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. souls started here before going globa

george julian wrote, it seemed like a betrayal of the country itself to allow him to hold our grand armies for weeks and months in unexplained idleness on the naked assumption of his superior wisdom. finally he struck at richmond via the peninsula between the james and happen hanknock rivers and waged an ig that min yus campaign which moved glashally slowly, to throw back pieces of mcclellan's army, piecemeal. and collectively it became another embarrassing defeat. mcclellan reem backed his troops and sailed back to washington, complaining all the way, he had been outnumbered by an army that was half its size. at any rate, the committee throughout 1862 carried out detailed investigations of the activities of the army of the potomac. laying mcclellan open to often xaj being criticism by many of his subordinate officers, to quote one, joseph hooker, whose name will come back in a minute, joe hooker, a favorite of the radicals who commanded a front line division in the campaign and later superseded mcclellan and commander army of the potomac. hooker was asked to what do you attribute the fail

i will like it's a loss, it's a betrayal. >>> but we do not need a the 7000 sq. ft. building anymore. >>> it is the beginning of the post offices move to sell buildings. >>> we also don't need the brick and mortar post offices in more. 40 percent of retail revenue comes from alternative services. >>> i hast the ballet, he says the berkeley post offices being sold why we do not have a post office downtown? >>> there will be a post office downtown but it won't be this building. >>> police action on the bay bridge had traffic at a standstill. >>> it's still pretty slow on the lower decks parade they're working to open the lanes. a chase, a crash and a shooting in the area. but go to our roof cam. it is very slow as you approached the s curve. fortunately in this note and it is going against the commutes. the traffic is only on the lower deck and they do have other lanes blocked. this is not impacting the upper deck traffic right now much better news is of the way out in dixon. there was some police activity blocking both directions of interstate 80. it is by pick school

my officers feel like it's a betrayal, like i don't trust them to find this son of a bitch.settled fast before this whole department comes unglued. look, i get it. we're only here to help and not hijack the investigation. but if our theory is correct, the unsub's already looking for another excuse to kill again. [sighs] see, this is twelve's territory. and you think they're behind this? does it matter? yes, it matters to us, lieutenant. you know this city and its gangs better than we do. we'd like to hear your theories. ok, twelves has a captain. street name playboy. vice broke up a drug ring. shot his brother, d.o.a. playboy thought he would kill us all. well, it is pretty strong motivation, but your commander said the dash cam only showed one attacker. most 'bangers will bring some back-up just in case. well, playboy runs the toughest crew in town. he's not "most 'bangers." well, you said the dash cam only showed one attacker. why show your face at all? because he had to. he wanted to take them both out at the house, but they broke protocol. rodriguez approached the house

this is the worst kind of betrayal that anyone could do to anybody." i said "this is not love." >> ifill: two weeks later, nell discovered she, too, was h.i.v.- positive. of the more than one million americans living with h.i.v., with one new diagnosis every ten minutes, government statistics show more than half are black. for a broader look at an epidemic many americans believe had faded, we're joined by phill wilson, the director of the black aids institute in los angeles. he's also featured in tonight's documentary. , phill wilson. half of these cases are black. why is there such a disproportionate impact on the black community? >> well, gwen, a number of reasons. one, aids initially was mischaracterized as a white, gay disease and as a result of that we got a slow start in the black community. h.i.v. is also the disease of sexual networks and so while we were not paying attention, if you will, the virus had a chance to take hold in our communities and we have been playing catch-up all along. the second part of it is that the resources have not been

ease, find out -- are y familiar with the betrayal of arnold rothstein on the television program "boardwalk pion h , d actety >> guest: well -- >> host: were you a consul tan, first of all, on that? >> guest: no. nesehe ss. however, i received an inquiry from the portrayer of rothstein, and ey had read the book, and ey wted discuss howhey ouo abt ts. foat st anoutru tor, consult with him whether i should be talking with the actor. so i sort of talk to him and id i b hay hveun [ltedotin bufo very little in my research on rothstein whi connected him to atlantic city. there was only one tng i tatiab-rng sha at. boon an comes from delane in granada, colorado. please, go ahead. >> calr:d afternoon. i s cine toneame adstonro t oil companies and that scandal? >> guest: yeah. >> caller: and i'll hang up and listen to you, thank yu. gue: we, ote

so this resulted in lawsuits and accusations of betrayal and the kind of bitter controversy between meyer levin and otto. so that's a whole section. then there's a whole other section about the film and how the play was turned into a film. then -- then, of course, then the book became a subject -- and i have to tell you this was the most unpleasant and difficult section for me to write. the book was taken up by holocaust deniers who -- who said it was a forgery, who said that uh-oh frank had written the book to make money and i can't begin to tell you how unpleasant it was to read their -- just vile, disgusting accusations against anne frank and her father and the book. the final part of the book is about how the book has been used in the schools and taught in the schools. it's one of the most widely taught books in the united states. it's also one of most widely censored books in the united states. so for all sorts of reasons. and finally, the last chapter, which i'll read you a little bit of, i taught the book -- i teach at bard college -- and i decided to teach the book to my class. th

shift there's a shift away from this unilateralist position to more multilateralist positions and betrayers the patriots document doctrine is all about winning hearts and minds and so on and really that's what obama takes over pretty much into in terms of his foreign policy and so he comes on the stage as someone who's going to rehabilitate the image of the united states which has been badly damaged around the world right you remember even allies were you know in europe were eliminated because they were called old europe and so on and so you obama is elected with the blessing of the ruling elite to actually rehabilitate this image and how does he do this this is where liberal islamophobia comes in there's a policy in a team actually that comes together to say reject the clash of civilization rhetoric say that there are no cultural differences we're all on the same side and so on and that's what he does in his cairo speech almost as soon as he's elected and he uses the language of liberalism of human rights and so on but in reality as you said earlier loner his policies have been really no d

yet this condition, this agony, this betrayal and disgusting show are not the end of things. principles are eternal. they stem not from our resolution or lack of it, but from elsewhere, where impatient and infinite ranks they simply wait to be called. they can be read in history. they'll rise as if of their own accord when in the face of danger natural courage comes into play and honor and defiance are born. things such as courage and honor are the moral equifflent of certain laws, did -- equivalent of certain laws written throughout the une force. the rules -- universe. the rules of simtry and proportion, the laws -- symmetry and proportion, the laws of physics, the perfection of mathematics, human will, that not overwhelm natural but our own best aspirations have a life of their own. they lasted through far greater abuse tab them now. they can be neglected, but they cannot be lost. they can be thrown down, but they cannot be broke wren. -- broken. each of them is different expression of a single quality from which each arises in its hour of need. some come to the floor as o

through a roller coaster of emotionals from tears to laughter and she described feelings of panic and betrayal. eliana lopez was all smiles at she greeted supporters when she arrived at city hall about a half hour before the hearing started. but lopez had plenty to say on the stand and became emotional when she spoke about leaving venezuela to come to the bay area four years ago to be with mirkarimi. >> i met him and i want to have a family with him. and it was very hard to me to leave my home -- hard for me to leave my hometown, my career. >> reporter: eliana says she was crying because she was fareful of losing custody of her son theo. she said the new year's i -- incident is the second time they argued about the same issue. >> the moment i cry is when i talk about theo. that is the point where i cried on the video. >> reporter: eliana describes himself as the strong one when mirkarimi was arrested. >> i said, you won the election, be strong. >> reporter: right now lopez and mirkarimi are not allowed to speak to each other because of a protective order. tomorrow morning lopez and her attorne

through a roller coaster of emotionals from tears to laughter and she described feelings of panic and betrayal. eliana lopez was all smiles at she greeted supporters when she arrived at city hall about a half hour before the hearing started. but lopez had plenty to say on the stand and became emotional when she spoke about leaving venezuela to come to the bay area four years ago to be with mirkarimi. >> i met him and i want to have a family with him. and it was very hard to me to leave my home -- hard for me to leave my hometown, my career. >> reporter: eliana says she was crying because she was fareful of losing custody of her son theo. she said the new year's i -- incident is the second time they argued about the same issue. >> the moment i cry is when i talk about theo. that is the point where i cried on the video. >> reporter: eliana describes himself as the strong one when mirkarimi was arrested. >> i said, you won the election, be strong. >> reporter: right now lopez and mirkarimi are not allowed to speak to each other because of a protective order. tomorrow morning lopez and her attorne

the people on the left and right have different stories about what the betrayal of trust is and who has done the beach rain, but the united -- who has betrayed. the united feeling after this failed decade, which has been disastrous in many respects, is a sense of alienation from the center of power, and a violation of the social contract they thought everyone was adhering to. host: christopher hayes, one final question, why you use the word "twilight" in your title? guest: the argument is that it will inevitably produce crises because it is creating this social distance and that is a recipe for institutional failure. so, i mean twilight to suggest that we are toward the end of this as the consensus social model. we are nearing a end because i think it is proving itself to produce crisis is reliably, and we are about to enter a new era and it is not clear what that era looks like. i want to initiate what america looks like after meritocracy. host: christopher hayes is our guest. you have seen him on msnbc. greg. erie, pa., democrats line. caller: christopher, it is wonderful to talk to y

it's really an ultimate betrayal of our country and the middle class. >> you think mitt romney betrayedthe american economy? >> i think he's part of a group of business people who saw the best way to do business was shut down production here and move i abroad, make it there and sell back to the united states. you can avoid labor laws, you can evade environmental and worker safety rules, and the bottom line, gets better. and back to this olympic committee thing, i think, my guess is i don't know the people of the u.s. olympic committee, but my guess is they are a bunch of business people who think nothing of outsourcing because it pads their bolt tom line. why not do it with the olympic committee? >> you're talking about the uniforms for the olympic team. >> yeah, this company in cleveland, a company with, i think 300 workers. i've been to this the plant several times. in it's in the brooklyn section of cleveland, old brooklyn. >> why didn't they get them done here? >> i don't know. i think again because the u.s. olympic committee thinks like much of the elite ceos of the big, big compan

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and i feel like that is a loss that is a betrayal of those values. >> we will not vacate the area, westill need to provide retail services. but we do not need a 57,000 sq. ft. building anymore. >> this is just the beginning of the postal service moved to sell off valuable real estate. the postal service plans to consolidate operations here, moving it to the eighth street location to continue mail delivery. >> we do not need that many more a brick and mortar post offices. approximately 40 percent of retail revenue comes from alternative services, like the website. >> the business male customers at his branch got this letter giving them 120 days notice that the building will be sold. >> i asked the guy what was the story with a camera and she said " the berkeley post office is being sold ". i cannot believe it. this is hist, why would you not have a post office downtown? >> there will be a post office downtown but it will not be this building. it will be a least storefront like this one here. in berkeley, cbs 5. >> one of the best ways to understand history is to be able to have a tacti

judas made the ultimate betrayal when he gave information to the romans that led to the capture of jesus, 20 piece of gold. b, a government position, c, a farm. d, 30 piece of silver. what did judas take? roll the tape. >> bill: all right. 30 piece of silver. uma got it wrong. >> i was thinking goldline. >> bill: you both got it wrong. two to go. 1977 tv series "roots" reminded the country of the horrific conditions the slaves endured in the 1700s. >> come on! get out of there! move! >> there is no riverbank. where is the earth? >> bill: in addition to fighting the evils of slavery, frederick douglas became the first african-american to do what? be nominated for vice president, publish a best selling book, become mayor of a city. cards up please? the answer is a. all right. now you both got that wrong of the but uma got the judas iscariot right. she's up by one. one to go. >> hitler will forever be remembered as the most evil man in history. >> bill: he's speak gibberish. hitler's book written while he was serving time in prison, what was he arrested for? a, treason. b, theft, c, tax eva

it's unhealthy for our country and a betrayal of that state senator that talked about us not being redand blue stateses and all of this unity talk. hope and change has become hopeless. >> let's have an honest discussion about race and that's what i am saying. i don't want people who criticize romney to be put down as anti-mormon or anti-white. let's have an honest discussion about jobs and the economy. >> as long as it's a two-way dialogue, not a monologue. >> sean: he does not live by the courage of the words he reads from his teleprompter. that's problematic. and the american people see all of these opportunities pass. i think he is showing great weakness and lack of leadership. we will let the american people decide. and juan, that was a great book. >> thank you, gentlemen. >> sean: president obam ain his own words, what he said in 2003. it's sure to cause problems on the campaign trail. the deficit. and campaign ad that one republican operative believes is, quote, devastating for democrats. what is it? we'll play that, straight ahead on happy birthday! thank you, nana send money to

. >> while a second transfer results in betrayal. >> i've been flirting a lot. >> and painful consequences. >> i just snapped. everybody has a breaking point and i just got really upset. focus lolo, focus let's do this i am from baltimore south carolina... bloomington, california... austin, texas... we are all here to represent the country we love this is for everyone back home it's go time. across america, we're all committed to team usa. >>> for the female inmates inside maricopa county jail's g dorm, change is measured in a variety of ways. new hair styles, different make-up, new tattoos and new girlfriends. but now the dorm itself is experiencing a major change. a magnetic personality is leaving. >> we recently rolled up mcnaughton. she's had a lot of issues over here in g dorm. we rolled her up to bravo tower. >> kelley mcnaughton has been moved from the dorm where she could roam even from freely to a small pod of cells where the inmates can only see each other in a cramped day room. >> i'm in a pod. i can't do this. you know i can't do this. this is too small for me. >> jail official

betrayal of trust?ion's prestigious military academies. >> i remember him turning off the lights and me asking what are you doing? >> women who feel betrayed by the military they committed to serve. the pentagon's battle to do something about it. revealing investigations. fascinating characters. stories with impact. this is cnn presents. tonight's host, drew griffin. >> reporter: a special look at the men and women who have served our country and eye-opening investigations into the unbelievable injustices done to them. we begin with the startling story of how u.s. soldiers were used as human guinea pigs. during the cold war, the military embarked on a top secret program to test chemical and biological weapons but researchers used animals but believe it or not they also used humans. volunteers from the army who had no idea what they were signing up for. well, nearly half a century later, some of these human guinea pigs are emerging from the shadows with disturbing stories about what the military did to t