we will speak with reporter david enders. speak with davidk a lesch, author of "the new lion of damascus: bashar al-asad and modern syria." and matt taibbi, author of, "the scam wall street learned from the mafia: how america's biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy -- until they were caught on tape." and also we will speak about libor. >> their artificially repress in libor as to not pay out as much to any investor who has a libor- based instrument. 350 trillion dollars worth of investments are based on libor. they have been gaining the game, essentially. there's really nothing these guys have not been involved with. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. intense clashes are reported across the syrian capital of damascus in one day after the bombing that killed three members of president bashar al- assad's inner circle, including his defense secretary and brother-in-law. damascus residents say some of the fighting is wi

the six -- in state funding cut if voters reject the plan to raise sales tax and tax on high income enders the poll shows 72% of all voters opposed triggered spending cuts, only 26% of californians believe the state is headed in the right direction. 64% say it is on the wrong track. >>> election officials in mexico recounting more than half of the ballot boxes used in sunday's presidential election after finding inconsistencies in the tallies. recount could be finished by today. ballots are recounted when a polling place shows irregularities. nieto of the pri party declared victory earlier the party had been in power for 71 years before it was aufted in 2000. >> this morning a world war ii battleship is now open as a museum in los angeles. members of the navy and veterans lined the rails of the uss iowa as it became the only battleship museum on the west coast yesterday. retired from active duty in 1990, the navy moved it, the ship underwent repairs before being towed to l.a. the museum is expected to be a huge attraction. >>> we are still following breaking news on the bay bridge. major c

father li >>> i'm extremely happy that the jury had the opportunity to make a difference here >>> enders any wrongdoing. >>> police arrested four people that allegedly ran the house. officers were called to the home pipe by the relative that was living there. the residents are now in protective care. and a robber busted by his own mom and it's all caught on tape. >>> how mac users are getting a taste of the nightmare that pc users have known for years >>> surprise,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, a surveillance video shows the suspect and to bison not to cheese doritos and and pulls a gun out of his pants. his moment trips nice grab the gun and ordered to your son not the store. officers wreck plastic replica. on the nation's job situation. supposedly there disappointed by the results. to waste good morning. the waste now and the jobs front this morning. that only 8000 jobs. remaining unchanged at 8.2% a economists predicted the rate to remain a plenty% to 90,000 jobs last month. which continues to slow down the economic recovery on wall street today there will cars to reacting to this report that j

commanders telling americans year after year that victory was at hand and the enemy was a handful of dead-enders without the joint committee during the civil war, we would have had i think much the same thing. i think we can thank the joint committee along with hundreds of thousands of union soldiers who were better than their generals that we -- that the war proceeded as it did. thank you. [ applause ] >> we're going to not have questions after this talk because we're running a bit late but there's going to be as i said earlier, a panel of the speakers later today and so you'll be able to ask fergus questions then. we're going to proceed now to jenny bourne, a professioner of economics at carlton college and received her bachelors from the indiana university, and her masters in economics from the university of chicago. jenny is a prolific scholar and lives in many different worlds. she writes in law reviews and been on this program before talking about various economic aspects of american history. she is also a scholar working with the minnesota department of revenue to help prepare the tax exp

for the top stories of the week and sports news is next with ender. hello there welcome to the sports and these are the headlines top seeds breezing to the last sixteen of three time finalists andy roddick suffered think. plus italy hail super striking mario balotelli ahead of their final showdown with spain at the european championships. and the ninety nine tour de france gets underway with five encounter grabbing the yellow jersey on the streets of rio. start there with more than where most of the top seeds progressed on saturday every man's draw your goal free to song the biggest lascaux from slovakia to make ran for spaniard david ferrer seven think people will find this and you've already started coming from a set down argentina find martin del potro got the better of cage courtney from japan while there was a marathon five second between sam querrey a man in chile came out on job winning this side except that seventeen games to fifteen match last thing i have a five and a half hours meanwhile lucas rissoles wouldn't dream has come to an end afte

less serious rear-enders are up because of panic stops, but fatal accidents are down nearly 25% at thetersections armed with red light cameras. new york city reported a 34% decrease in red light violations since installing their cameras. new orleans down a whopping 85%. and council bluffs, ia down 90%. the insurance institute says drivers are afraid of tickets and fines. >> the thing that really gets drivers to change their behavior is heavy enforcement of laws and that's the case with red light running. >> reporter: and the cameras have told us something about who is running these red lights most often. mostly men, with bad driving records, and often distracted by their cell phone. causing terrible crashes like this one, in which the speeder who turned out to be drunk somehow walked away. jim avila, abc news, roswell, new jersey. >> and coming up, you look out your airplane window and see this, it turns out to be safe. we'll tell you how. still get you.hose littles for you, life's about her. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for d

we have david enders. he will provide us with details about his time spent on the ground with rebels. we are delighted to welcome him here to fdd. after his report, i will turn to two of my outstanding colleagues. first, ammar abdulhamid, a senior fellow here at fdd. he writes about his perspectives. it has been vital and crucial. and finally, we hear from reuel marc gerecht, another senior fellow here at fdd. he has provided commentary on middle east affairs. he is a former operative in the cia's clandestine service. he most recently wrote a very interesting and even compelling piece in the wall street journal. after our speakers finish, i will ask questions to get the conversation going. we will happily open it up to questions from the audience. wait for me to call on you. please identify yourself. we do have cameras rolling. let me also remind everyone that the session is on the record. if you have not done so already, please silence your cell phones. now david enders. >> thank you for having me. if you

. >> on tuesday, 21-year-old antolin garcia torres is scheduled to ender a plea in the kidnapping and murder case. >>> stopping traffic, how these cows got out and blocked traffic on highway 4 and why a witness says this it is no accident. >>> spraying in the south bay, the effort underway right now to save a 250-million dollar industry before it's too late. >> the sacramento international airport may become the third largest airport in the country to ditch federal screening agentses are. . >>> it looks like a cattle drive today near highway 4 in contra costa county. the livestock were found roaming the highway. a man on horseback headed up off-ramp to herd the cattle ot of danger. a witness on the scene tells us a fence had been cut, which aloud the animals to get out. >>> the lunt is on for an invasive pest that is threatening crops in the south bay. ktvu's noelle walker shows us the plan of attack to try to stop the oriental fruit fly. >> reporter: andy mariani is under the gun. the spray gun. he is putting insecticide on his fruit trees trying to keep the oriental fruit fly from t

right but there but it's still a significant i mean it's a growing piece of the american economy the ender's the embers of what you're talking about is for these for a company like pepco in this case a power company that is or is derelict on this on the job has been derelict in the way that both it treats its employees and its ability to service its users the reality is if in a state like maryland they should be jettisoned you should have a state that responds and it's in this companies in particular is controlled at the state level it's not in terms of its relationship it's not at the local level and that's even more absurd a local community should have some say if it's going to want stablish monopoly with some company to to service when i work out i was out of state ownership or even out of country ownership as is the case with from a lot of people who are employed in the united states how do you do that without. you know if you go to another company and the company has an incentive to be efficient in both how it's spent a few dollars over one other company in an economy we're there. for p

with that, let me turn it over to david enders. >> first of all, thank you for having me. if you can't hear me in the back, just, i don't know, give me a signal. i'll try to stay close to the mic. i should correct that's pulitzer center, not pulitzer prize. of course, quite an honor. [laughter] i appreciate that. so i've spent, i've been in syria four times since the middle of february. three times crossing illegally, once on a visa. um, i find it's almost easier to work going in illegally. you don't have the constraints of a ministry threatening to arrest you or running the very real risk of arrest for trying to do any real reporting, um, especially now that the united nations monitors are no longer moving. um, when they were there, journalists were sort of allowed to draft off them and move around, um, and so that made it a little easier as far as freedom of movement, and we did find there was some freedom of movement if you were prepared to take risks. but then we were also detained and nearly arrested which would have been, obviously, very bad for my syrian colleagues.

. >> on tuesday, 21-year-old antolin garcia torres is scheduled to ender a plea in the kidnapping and murder case. >>> stopping traffic, how these cows got out and blocked traffic on highway 4 and why a witness says this it is no accident. >>> spraying in the south bay, the effort underway right now to save a [ male announcer ] olympic tennis players bob and mike bryan do a lot of sending... and receiving. sending...and receiving. sending...and receiving. sending...and receiving. sending...and receiving. [ bob ] i got the tickets. [ male announcer ] and with citibank popmoney, it's even easier to keep sending...and receiving. let me get you back. no, it's on me. i insist. no way. yes way. well let me chip in. [ male announcer ] send money from one bank account to another, with citibank popmoney. easier banking. every step of the way. . >>> it looks like a cattle drive today near highway 4 in contra costa county. the livestock were found roaming the highway. a man on horseback headed up off-ramp to herd the cattle ot of danger. a witness on the scene tells us a fence had been cut, whic

president obama is on the road in iowa today pressing congress to extend tax cuts for low and mide income enders expire for the wealthy. a new poll this morning shows the presidential race is dead even. president obama and his likely republican opponent mitt romney are tied at 47%. the poll shows troubling news for the president. 63% believe the country she hadding in the wrong direction. most -- the country is heading in the wrong direction. 58% still expect him to win a second term. >>> thousands continue to look for work. abc7 wants to help. today employers, including sutter health, prudential insurance and the federal reserve bank of san francisco will take part in a job fair from noon to 4:00 at the hotel wickham on market street. go to abc7news.com. >>> wild ride all street legal -- this was a commercial shot in may for d.c. shoes the driver went crazy in ford fiesta. did circles around a cable car and judgment add intersection at taylor and have a home the california highway patrol says the crew received all the necessary permits before this wild ride. now it is all the rage on the intern

the people who keep pounding this theme, they're the outliers, the dead enders, to steal a term from our former vice president. they're on the wrong side of history on this issue. and i think that that is the wrong tactic for the gop to take in this election. i could be proved wrong, but i hope and i think that i'm correct. >> do you think that there's a bright connecting line between the obama as other idea -- i mean, seeing mitt romney repeatedly all of a sudden starting to use this word foreign with his top advisers -- >> i see him in front of the mirror, foreign. >> making sure he gets the foreign line in there so it gets repeated. and going back to it again and again. is there a bright connecting line between the idea of foreignness and race? >> no question about it. lee atwater explained it. he said that in the early days of the southern strategy, you could come out and use the bigoted term, you could say the "n" word over and over again and pound it and get, you know, the segregationist bloc to come out and you would win those votes. he said, but after a while, and this goes t

owners are trying to reopen the msg nightclub in capital heights but ender a new name, cherry's lounge. it shut down last august after 20-year-old banks was shot and killed. another man was hurt. no arrests have been made and n. banks' murder and this morning's meeting is set to begin at 11:00 a.m. >>> speaking of time, right now it's 6:36. computer woes, metro is trying to get to the bottom of a malfunction that brought trains to a halt. what's being done to keep things moving this morning. >>> plus, baseball manager who is used to stirring up controversy is starting one involving the national's star briyce harper. >>> the heat is on. the 90 rz back. the very steamy forecast coming up. >>> next, a moving moment caught by an unsuspecting tourist. >>> this morning a nevada photographer is asking grour help. look at this. sorry about that. that is my -- angela took these pictures at the world war i memorial on july 2nd. it shows a member of the air force kiss his new fiance, the moment after they got engaged. she took the pictures using a zoom lens. she wants to find the couple so she ca

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looking at the breakdown, hitting on all sill enders. the different segments doing well.ks, movies, great things going on here. they trade at a slightly higher multiple than the peers but they have earned it. >> thanks very much. let's go down to simon. >> thank you, ty. >>> down here at the new york stock exchange, we have rallied back 100 points with now 2 1/2 hours to trade, bob. >> and really read by the staples and walmart, home depot. merck, procter and gamble doing really well here and here's the move to the dow. down about 3 points a few moments ago. thinking of going to europe? i just got back. a great time to go getting a lot for the money. euro's at a two-year low. when i went at the end of june, didly. it's $1.26. leaves yesterday, $1.22. below $1.22. that's a huge move. almost five cents in two weeks in currency land. that's an enormous move here. gold and silver just had a horrible five or six days and concerns about inflation quietly go away. brazil said inflation is not a worry. this is an inflation worrying country of the world. if they say it's not a pro

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. >> ethar makes an important point with the pleasure talliur issue of ender and gender equity.president within the muslim brotherhood, versus what this new position is needing to govern, more from the center? >>> when i look at the history of muslim brotherhood on the history of women's rights, i am very concerned. weçó have seen them ju[thfy feme genital mutilation, and we have the wom them saying that it is undignified for women to protest, conveniently forgetting if it wasn't for the fact that egyptian women were front and center of the revolution, morsi wouldn't be president çótoday. based on rhetoric of the past, i am concerned. morsi said, i salute the women of egypt, who were sexually assaulted, who paid with their lives, who paid such a high price, i might have said this could be the turning a new page. and also remember, the muslim brotherhood said in the past, women and christians could not be president. but wait i want to be proven wrong. i want to seeççççççzzçç expression and freedom of religion. and i think those are the freedoms that the democratic party h

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enders mentioned refugee camps in syria,, sorry in turkey are being used as a staging ground for rupp of groups and i'm wondering if the panel had any recommendations as to how we could protect the integrity of those camps as the basis for humanitarian aid rather than active variables of conflict? >> in the back here, this gentleman. >> i have heard some concerns -- >> louder. >> i have heard concerns about the command-and-control capabilities of the rebel groups and trying to coordinate through youtube and starting up radio and television students in the past couple of weeks it seems they have been remarkably coordinated especially with the assaults on damascus. has something changed and what is your impression of their command-and-control capability of this point? >> david, do you want to start off? >> do you want me to take all three of those? >> at least the first in the last one. >> as far as hezbollah, in the border areas when you are crossing from lebanon into syria there is talk about hezbollah fighters patrolling those areas, but inside beirut, inside tripoli and inside leban

the agency solely created to proeffect bo borrow others from abusive enders and the first time an agency has been dedicated to this purpose. then past it was regulated to bank regulator and now there is one agency so they are look at everything from the credit bureaus who produce the credit scores to looking at mortgage lending, credit cards, overdraft fees on the bank accounts, student loans and the rest. that would be the most easily thing to eye department pie for the average household. >> and that board that got set up has been around for about a year now even though ththe wall street reform act is now two years old. this is the first birthday of the consumer financial protection board. >> exactly. they prn the treasury department for the first year. now they have been an independent agency and celebrate their birthday today, the 21st. >> they actually recently came down with the first major action, if i am correct, that is right? >> that is correct. >> who was this son in it was against capital one, a joint action with the bank regulator. basically, the occ and this consumer agency,