his prosecution of kim dotcom, and racketeering and conspiracy. he filed charges against edward snowden and is heading up the investigation into transparency organization wikileaks. his exit after serving four years as u.s. ga will race questions about the status of those investigations. to discuss the exit and the high-profile cases, i was joined earlier by andrew blake. i asked him if the decision to retire was as a prize. >> it came as a surprise to most people especially given the cases he is working on right now. he was in charge of filing that indictment against edward snowden. he is on the other side of the world and it is not working out too well. he is involved in the indictment against wikileaks which has been several years in the making and is an ongoing case and is involved in the case against kim dotcom and megaupload. who is going to prosecute these people for the u.s. government? i thought it was rather unexpected. he was appointed by president obama early on in that administration and he has put his nose in a lot of places during t

his office has a history of going after notable figures like cia whistle blower john kiriakou kim dotcom and wiki leaks we'll look at his work and what it means for some of the pending cases. here in the u.s. churches are tax exempt but how about a tax break for atheist groups there's a battle brewing in the courts right now over this very issue we'll tell you more later on in the show. hello there it's friday august twenty third eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm aaron aid and you're watching archie. we start our newscast tonight in yemen where the country's leaders have approached u.s. officials to request drone technology in order to increase the country's defense against al-qaeda militants yemen's president has asked for armed drones from the u.s. mere weeks after american drone strikes hit the country nine times in a two week period killing near nearly forty yemeni the drone strikes came as the united states and other western countries closed a number of embassies in the middle east as the result of an al qaeda threat. president hadi of yemen has given his public support to the am

during the dotcom bubble. they just have a completely different mind-set. completely unaffected. it's striking, they don't even know what happened it is like a historical. they might as well be reading about the civil war. >> it didn't seem to affect you. >> you know, emotional ups and downsment you go through, a roller coaster. >> tell me what the downs were. >> the downs, i mean i have come to expect it. you know, i'm a big believer there is never as-- it is always somewhere in the middle. but no, i mean look, literally onier you're being told that you are like-- the next year you're being told that you done. >> netscape, what you did at netscape was phenomenal where. is netscape today. >> it doesn't prevent the other-- it doesn't prevent the other side of the story. i just love being in the industry. so i don't have a problem with it. i plan nobody this industry for the rest of my life. >> it had no scars for you. >> i try hard to have it not. i try hard to not have lingering effects because i think compromises your ability to see clearly for what is happening now. >> rose: in

during the dotcom bubble. they just have a completely different mind-set. completely unaffected. it's striking, they don't even know what happened it is like a historical. they might as well be reading about the civil war. >> it didn't seem to affect you. >> you know, emotional ups and downsment you go through, a roller coaster. >> tell me what the downs were. >> the downs, i mean i have come to expect it. you know, i'm a big believer there is never as-- it is always somewhere in the middle. but no, i mean look, literally onier you're being told that you are like-- the next year you're being told that you done. >> netscape, what you did at netscape was phenomenal where. is netscape today. >> it doesn't prevent the other-- it doesn't prevent the other side of the story. i just love being in the industry. so i don't have a problem with it. i plan nobody this industry for the rest of my life. >> it had no scars for you. >> i try hard to have it not. i try hard to not have lingering effects because i think compromises your ability to see clearly for what is happening now. >> rose: in

this is another dotcom, a bricks and mortar type story. they're buying up physical warehouses. they want to start stocking a limited range of goods to take on the kind of costcos of the world, that's the model. amazon like. they'll start selling goods from those warehouses. they want to put the goods in the warehouses. an interesting diversion from how the coupon business started. >> pretty limited. a.m. amazon is huge though. we've talked about blackberry's struggles. what's the latest they're trying to do to get things going? >> yeah, well, the stock is down 19% year to date. maybe blackberry are getting the message and it's all about bbm. it's going to be spun off. it's strange, you know, the new handsets don't seem to have moved the needle on this business. they are looking at other ways of realizing value. perhaps spinning out bbm will do that. there are business analysts say a way also of positioning the company may be through a sale or splitup of further divisions. that vital speculation. bbm does look like it's going to get hived off, brian. >> jeff cutmore live for us

but in the heyday of social media, just like with the dotcoms at the turn of the century, every firm, caught up. so there are never any assurances in an overheated market, but checking the names behind a deal remains integral to a good ipo. now, look, nothing's perfect. that's why i have a checklist. hopefully one of these will flag you. here's the bottom line. only after i've gone through that three-step vetting process would i then actually consider what the company does, or what it makes. or how it has done in the past. in part because it's so difficult to judge these issues. and i would rather use the quick filter i just went through before i even crack the books on a company. something i'll teach you how to do after the break. ve to ask yoo power down your little word game. i think your friends will understand. oh...no, it's actually my geico app...see? ...i just uh paid my bill. did you really? from the plane? yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside assistance, pretty much access geico 24/7. sounds a little too good to be true sir. i'll believe that when pigs fly. ok, did she

i think people thought it was like the dotcom era. it is up again.at company, they have a great marketing plan, but at that valuation right now, the stock has to be overpriced. stuart: $47 billion valuation on a travel company. a global marketplace, they have a chunk of it but that seems awfully high to me. it reminds me of 1999, the dotcom mania back then. >> i don't think anybody thought priceline would come down the way it did and come back like it did. it has just been phenomenal. they are getting killed on the airline part of the reservation. it is mainly hotels and rent a car. this is a commodity, cannot see this being a growth stock. even though it is a great company being overvalued here. stuart: let's see if we can keep the discussion at the federal reserve lively. i say the fed will keep on printing for the foreseeable future. they will print a whole lot more next year. fed watcher disagrees with me, what is your position on my predictions? >> i think probably the new fed chair. larry summers has a way to make everybody in the world he meet

kim dotcom says he wants to encrypt hol of the internet can you give me or are you are some quick tips on how you can actually encrypt email protect myself on life where i would say we have free software for encrypt ing e-mail and other files and you shouldn't trust any encryption program on less it's free software and the encryption is being done by your copy on your computer encryption in a server is not trustworthy. katty you know they're not saving an ink a copy before they encrypt it and giving it to the n.s.a. so you've got to encrypt it in your machine our program for doing this is called the good new privacy guard or good new p.g.p. . i see you're wearing a little sign that says done by track pay cash do you always pay cash just about always i will use my credit card to buy airline tickets also you have an integrated current system on identifying me anyway i don't lose anything by paying with a credit card then what do you make of the whole bitcoin concept. well because seems like a solution to some problems but it's not anonymous i think we need a payment system where it's a p

his office has a history of going after notable figures like cia whistle blow cured kiriakou kim dotcom and wiki leaks we'll look at his work and what it means for some of the pending cases. and here in the u.s. churches are tax exempt but how about a tax break for atheist groups there's a battle brewing in the courts right now over this very issue we'll tell you more later on in the show.

post his office has a history of going after notable figures like cia whistleblower curiosity to kim dotcom and wiki leaks we'll look at his work and what it means for some of the pending cases. and here in the u.s. churches are tax exempt but how about a tax break for atheist groups there's a battle brewing in the courts right now over the very issue we'll tell you more later on in the show.

principals of clumsy nations forbearance listening and as i said before that that helps build trust and dotcoms and there's very little chance of a diplomatic solution whether syria sudan or anything in between iran and its regional neighbors very little chance unless you can build that kind of harmony trust and that's something romney has said he seeks to do so we'll see how long it takes and we'll see how much effort he puts forward to that end and just briefly raise it what about the iranian people who clearly as i just explained about the impact of sanctions before our interview the impact the sanctions are having that on the country but the economy is not bad ways that forty percent inflation do you think perhaps the economic policies in the future now will make life a bit better for the iranian people. i think that's priority number one for mr rouhani is to take steps to improve runs that common part sanctions can be compared to a room in which the walls are slowly closing in on the entire country yeah and the first people they get hit as a result of that are the iranian people and the ir

yes, the "new york times" dotcom website, down again. >> amazing.ng this more and more now, too. julia, thank you very much. >>> kelly? >> thanks, bill. >>> continuing our week-long "school days" series on the changes face of college. today's question, how to pay for college? financial aid? scholarshipsance grants or something else entirely? with us now, kim clark a senior writer in "money" magazine. and paying for college without were going broke, author, and mark cant witowits joining us shortly. >>> kim, first start with you. what should parents and students know before filing for the fafsa. >> two basic kinds of financial aid. there's loans, which you have to pay back, and there's grants, which is what everybody wants. grants or scholarships, free money. you don't have to pay back, and you can get grants and scholarships from government agencies. you can get them from colleges, and you can get them from local organizations or corporations. so there's three basic sources of grants. the single, most important thing to do fill out the fafsa. free a

it was just like the dotcom bomb that i lived through, 1999, 2000. how about the flash crash back in may of 2010 where the market briefly lost 10 trillion bucks because of a computer glitch. i was on television when it happened. i was on "street signs." one of the most embarrassing and least reassuring events that i've ever seen. who can trust that? stocks didn't seem like an asset class that day. it seemed like smoke and mirrors. latest round of huge insider trading scandals? this one the biggest one ran bills and that raj, director of goldman sachs. raj got 11 years in the slammer. gupta got two. i'm not talking about the madoff scandal. many people knew that those returns were too outrageous to be real, including people who whistle blue to the scc to no avail. or all of these little busts from satellite firms connected to sec capital. how do you protect yourself from this? first, some of it can't be stopped no matter what happens. there will always be fraud lens. if you're lucky to avoid it, great. second, there will always be down markets. i can'

but has the dotcom bubble burst? american suicide rates have been steadily declining. all a stark reminder the job issue is an economic issue but more than that, it is an issue that gets to the very soul of our culture and its people. joblessness results in either people giving up in despair or rising up in defiance. of course, both parties claim to be all about jobs. >> as you know, house republicans have been focused on economic growth and jobs since day one. >> a three letter word, jobs. j-o-b-s, jobs. >> thank you, joe. >> but the truth is, jobs aren't created so much when the government does something as they are when the government stops doing things that put an anchor instead of a life vest around the necks of entrepreneurs. we hear a lot about values, but do we value the work and the people that do it? if so, we ought to pay them as if we do value them and their work. companies ought to pay employees as generously as they can because good workers have worth. if the employer keeps too much for himself, he or she doesn't really value the worker. by the way, the r

but can the king of dotcom save print? >> we knew we could keep the "post" alive. we knew it could survive. but our aspirations for the "post" have always been higher by that. >> this is going to shake things up. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. nearly 100 u.s. government personnel flew out of yemen today on a c-17 air force cargo plane. leaving only a kel stal emergenskeletal emergency staff behind because of what the state department is calling the extremely high threat level. th all of this comes after the interception of al qaeda communications threatening major attacks on u.s. interests. joining me now from new york, nbc's ama, but richard, first to you. you just finished interviewing john mccain there in cairo. what is he saying about the situation in egypt and the threat level in neighboring yemen? >> reporter: i just left the senator a couple of minutes ago. i was afraid i wasn't going to get to your show in time. he said he is very concerned about what is going to happen in egypt. he thinks that unless there is some sort of reconciliation b

his office has a history of going after notable figures like cia whistle blower john kiriakou kim dotcom and wiki leaks we'll look at his work and what it means for some of the pending cases. here in the u.s. churches are tax exempt but how about a tax break for atheist groups there's a battle brewing in the courts right now over this very issue we'll tell you more later on in the show.

they're near dotcom era highs. we'll explain a little bit more about that.he travel website posting second quarter results that beat wall street forecast. profits up 24% in the period, the surge in summer travel booking. guys, a couple of interesting things happening here. you've got the read-through with regard to strong period for them. perhaps a little bit of mark share. gains again. i want to go back and thanks to reuters for this. priceline shares are 900, 93, 94 premarket. that is a nominal high. they did a six for one reverse stock split back when shares collapsed. the highest thing you probably saw them trading, mike, in 1999 was 160 or something in that range. that was equivalent to where we are today. on a price basis we're basically matching the previous highs. what's really interesting is if they go above 1,000, first s&p 500 listed company to do so. >> interesting. yeah. >> yeah. >> used to be actually that would preclude s&p 500 from putting -- in other words,, if you start out at 1,000 they want it in there. that might be changing. it's funny

watch that streaming on dotcom if you want to watch the rest of that.you back to our top story of this hour. a new level of debate emerging over voting regulations after north carolina has enacted some of the toughest voter i.d. laws in the country now. at least three civil rights groups and the justice department are threatening lawsuits over what they claim is discrimination. but you need a photo i.d. to do so many things these days. governor pat mccrory says what's the big deal. here he is. >> photo i.d. has become a part of our every day life. you need a photo i.d. to board an airplane, cash a check or even apply for most government benefits. in fact, just recently, both democrats and republicans joined together to require a valid government issued photo i.d. to buy sudafed at your local corner drugstore. our right to vote deserves similar protection. in fact, for voters who may not even have a photo i.d. they can get one at no charge. at a nearby dmv office throughout the state. >> this bill is not about voter i.d. it is 57 pages of regressive, unc

tech wasn't doing that well after the dotcom crash so, really, wall street firms were competing withther wall street firms for the top talent. whereas now they're competing with all the top tech firms to get the best people. >> there is a slimy status to basically what he's saying slimy status to working on wall street. lot of these kids don't want to come out of college working on fat cats. bank of america said while the 40% number is exaggerated, the trend of more people failing those test is not wrong. that is occurring and it's essentially a pretty disturbing trend if you run a big investment bank. back to you. >> it sure is. you want competent people. meanwhile, that microphone you're using is a much bigger than some that we use. is that larry king's? did you borrow that from larry king? >> i will be the next larry king. the larry king of fox business. it does look weird but i use it all the time. i move markets with this microphone, so does it matter? >> no. it doesn't. i mean, mine is feeling in adequa adequate, just this thing right here. >> bigger isn't necessarily better. i

like we have the dotcom boom that saved essentially that decade in terms of job growth. we haven't seen that happen yet. >> all right, anthony mace son thanks. >>> vice president joe biden says his son will leave a houston hospital today and return to delaware. the vice president says bo biden had a successful medical period at the md anderson cancer center. the statement did not reveal what kind of procedure it was. 44-year-old bo biden is massachusetts attorney general. he was hospitalized after feeling disoriented. >>> former egyptian president mubarak is getting out of prison this morning. taking him from prison to a military hospital where he will be held under house arrest. mubarak still faces charges related to the protest that forced him out of office in 2011. his release comes in the middle of a deadly crackdown against opponents of the militarybacked government. >>> this morning the man at the center of china's biggest government scandal in 30 years went on trial. he used to be one of china's senior leaders. he is now charged with bribery, corruption and abuse

not addition there was the 1997 capital gains tax, affirmation of the north american free trade, dotcomm -- >> the budget deficits were wiped out. these were specific claims made by republicans. i bring in that because i hear the same claims now. i heard the same claims in the run if up to the fiscal cliff last year. >> don't forget defense spending. there was a one-time decrease in defense spending after the cold war and that drove reduction in clinton years. that was a big driver in deficit reduction. there was a slight revenue increase in the first term, most happened in the second term because that's where the growth, particularly on the tax side, happened. >> yes, economic growth ticked up but if you have higher rates that will bring a wind fall of revenue -- >> well, growth kicked up considerab considerably. it's one of the reasons revenues came in. but i pretty strongly disagree with my colleague, avik, on this point. it's not like the opposition was saying, if you do this, if you increase taxes and then you do a bunch of other stuff that goes the other way, somehow we'll be okay

. >>> now to another popular d dotcom that you may have heard of, something called facebook.some liking, poking, a little strange. a university of michigan study suggests that all of this connectedness may not be making us any happier. they found the more time you spend on facebook the less likely you are to feel happy because you end up comparing -- or rather the site ends up being like keeping up with the joneses. with users experiencing profile envy. that brings us to the facebook question of the day. how does your mood change after you have been using social media? if you feel up to it, logon to wnnfans.com and let us know. >> tell you what. i have phases where i enjoy facebook for a couple weeks kind of into it. then i won't bother with it for weeks and weeks. >> i think a lot of people are like that. you end up looking at other people's pictures and you think, gosh, they just post everything about their life. they end up sharing their pictures. >> that's the worst. >> i know. i don't post any pictures about my life ever. at the same time i am not into oversharing. >> i

now, dot org is important and not dotcom and when you get there, a legal site that will send you to theey and this is for things like maybe an insurance policy you didn't know, a safe-deposit box, maybe a comcast. >> this doesn't mean something you messed up. something unaware of. this money is waiting for you. easy to find. unclaimed.org. be careful not to go to a site that is trying to ask you for money. >> that website is going to crash. >> five, four, three, two. >> 10% finder's fee, please. >>> here is your finder's fee. we'll let you stay for the good stuff. here's today's edition. a soldier comes home. waited in a milwaukee airport. they made signs, stickers, the whole deal. take a look. >> some stickers on for the army and i did welcome. and, yeah. >> i think he's such a good guy that he was able to be in the army for that long and get to serve the country for a while. >> that's great. we love when soldiers come home and the troops make it back to their families, right? that's the good stuff. no, here's the clue. that young woman you just heard from that's not his daughter, his

this has been reported by cnbc's dotcom's john carney. ray dalio's hedge fund wants to build a new headquarters in stanford, connecticut. but bridge water associates is running into serious opposition from boat people. that's because the piece of land that bridge water selected for new headquarters is a 14-acre strip gutting into the long island sound and until recently a boat yard called brewer yacht haven. a couple of years ago a development company closed it down and tore down the buildings on the property. they were outraged. earlier this month, bridge water's opponents crowded into a planning board meeting to voice their concerns. john carney described this as the 1% versus the 5%. >> those are different kind of boat people. >> the boat people aren't exactly the commoners here, but the carney piece has an interesting interview with mr. cutler, the architect of this building. he walks through some of the arguments for building this. one argument for interestingly is that it would have less pollution than what is there now. not sure ho

espn did a series on him on their dotcom page and they find an old folded up wheelchair in the garage >> awesome. every step he takes. >> what a kid. >> he's fast, too. >> thanks for doing that. >>> let's get to indra petersons and find out what's going on with the weather today. >> an inch of rain and eventually the stationary front will dissipate. the new story is rather going to be right around the great lakes. watching a new front that could produce severe weather from michigan stretching down through iowa and big portions of wisconsin today looking for heavier thunderstorms and strong winds and maybe large hail out of that. beach day, as this makes its way farther to the east and eventually into the mid-atlantic, talking about not only more storms and rain, but on everyone's mind the temperature change. beautif beautiful weather. a lot of 8 os will shift to the 70s. the warm tempertures are returning. look at this right as we set up for the weekend. pittsburgh looking 71 and new york 80s but eventually seeing some 70s as we go through the weekend. so, good news there. unfortunate

>> you made your fortune, though, in dotcom, correct?tra mentrepreneur >> you show up in a suit, i like this guy. double breasted suits are coming back. that is what i like to see. what's old is new again. especially with papers. >> yeah, and me. >> but intensely local is the way to go, i mean, not writing about duffy boats in orange county. >> we also added a bureau if washington, d.c. the reason we added a bureau in washington, d.c., i think we maybe the first one in who knows how long to to that, is because we believe that our congress people who are in d.c. are doing things that are really important. darrell issa is from orange county. there are a lot of issues in d.c. that affect what happen in orange county and we want to report on them. i think in terms of how we make money, the good old-fashioned way. we charge subscriber, a reasonable rate. advertising both print and digitally happens to work very well. we build our base. >> if it's a national -- you can pick up national news on the internet. i can tell you, growing up, playing

but i'm telling you what, we're going to put you on dotcom at some point next week and have a ten-minutes for taking the time today, sir. >> you're welcome. >> carl, back to you. >> rick, thank you so much for that. dow was trying to repair some of the losses in the middle of the session right around 10:00 a.m. eastern time. we got as high as minus say 20-plus points or so. now down almost 60 points. again, as the market sort of wrestles with what the jobs number told us today, what factory orders told us. that was also a miss. >> some of the real moves have been in the ten-year, which is interesting as well because we're having this discussion about whether the fed in introducing forward guidance might try to talk markets and defend inflation from the lower end. >> dow needs to hold 15558 to stay positive for the sixth week. if you're just joining us -- we were going to go to tape, instead we'll go straight to the 11. we'll talk some europe. we are live at post 9 at the new york stock exchange. let's get a check on the markets. dow down some 54 points. s&p is back to 1702. still holding