government that is what the people half experience 5 years ago when will the umbrella of a warrant the enron for universe with how roots when this pay old after that page inc tight grip on the 50 and a motivation for people to continue know is not to let this half and make down turkey is preparing to host a summit was russia and iran next monday to discuss serious an ongoing civil war turkey has taken in millions a syrian refugees at is seeking to prevent any were nude hostilities that might drive even more people all across the border european countries are also concerned they fear anchor out will pull out of a deal with the e.u. and allow migrants to cross the sea to greece ted to streak spy warning shots in t. a casts at the border with syria they're trying to prevent syrian protesters from storming across the front here. the demonstrators are demanding protection from an offensive by the syrian government on the last rebel stronghold of. this is a warning that if nothing is done to help them we are coming to turkey and europe a lump of. this is added ones fear that the destruction and th

in the case of misconduct unrelated to the aims of the administration such as enron, the administrationas willing to sever its ties with officials but when core policies appeared to violate statutes, the administration appeared adroit -- with the assistance of congress and later administrations retrospectively rendering actions lawful though most understood them to be criminal. james: i think that is correct. susan: how is congress implicit? james: it did not hold hearings on a lot of these developments and it did not pass laws that might've prevented them and did not insist that the people be brought to justice who had committed these illegal acts. very little was done about torture. very few people were held responsible. susan: moving on to the barack obama administration. something else changed. we mentioned earlier about cable news and the internet. by the time president obama came in, he held the first twitter town hall. presidencies from president obama forward -- it was not just the internet but also social media. how does that change the office? james: it has given executive off

susan: the things covered included enron and halliburton, wiretapping,ember the valerie plame exposurech brought scooter libb e2 attention and policy towards torture. would you like to comment on any of the other issues other than torture? the one that stands out to me there is valerie plame and the exposure of her name as having been the secret cia operative abroad. that was clearly illegal and it was clearly injurious to -- america's strategic policy. debate as toht whether it did any lasting damage to american intelligence abilities. i don't know that and i don't tell that anyone does yet though it was clearly contrary to law and that was why it was in the book. susan: we have a clip of president bush from october. let us listen to the president. president bush: this government does not torture people. to u.s. law stick and our international obligations. the american people expect their toernment to take action, protect them from further attack. and that is exactly what this government is doing. and that is what we will continue to do james:. those statements do not fit together. it

and mostly clear conditions around the bay area and this is our north a camera overlooking of that enrony the fog you can make out the golden gate bridge there in the background but because it's so clear this morning. you definitely can it's just beautiful out there, and it's going to be a beautiful afternoon as well not too hot or too cold, i'm tracking 60's and 70's, especially if you're going to be in the downtown area, 70 degrees for the afternoon high today, 65 in golden gate park 63. in the sunset district, 60's if you're going to be heading towards the coast upper 60's in half moon bay. an elder not a both at 68 degrees further we're seeing some 70's on the board as we get along the peninsula like in south san francisco, 71 73 in millbrae and then some upper 70's that we're seeing through san carlos in redwood city 8 if you're going to be on one side this afternoon. here's south bay zone, upper 70's across u can see 78 degrees for los gatos and morgan hill for the high 76 in santa clara, upper 70's for inland spots like dublin in pleasanton and livermore and then it's going to be

president mike pence there's brian hook who's been the administration's special representative for enron and is close to secretary of state mike pump and there is douglas macgregor a former army colonel who's often appeared on t.v. praising the president there is some sense of satisfaction in the government that john bolton is now out of a job one senior figure tweeting that john bolton promised 3 months ago that iran would no longer exist we are still standing he wrote he has gone alan fischer al-jazeera washington. president donald trump is promising to hit the afghan taliban harder than ever he made the comments at a ceremonies marking the 18 years since the $911.00 attacks it comes just days after he canceled peace talks after the killing of a u.s. soldier public has more from washington d.c. . it's a somber day in the united states the 18th anniversary of the september 11th attacks and the president did what presidents do on this day as he gave a speech this time at the pentagon memorial and he talked about the war in afghanistan now in the past the president has raised seemed to ra

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down a new religious performance in germany has come under fire from the enron's organization calling for donkey's to be removed from the show depicting the last days of jesus christ and suggest instead an actor rides in on a nice. was . these days jesus would no longer travel by don't key he would presumably move in a nice scooter or some other electric vehicle that is kind to animals and the environment well the demand has been criticized by performers the actor playing jesus says there are they are representing a specific moment in time and a nice quote doesn't really fit the event has been held in the very since the 17th century with few changes and it's not just those on stage who have been slamming the suggestions by the animal rights campaign as jesus is supposed to ride in these couture instead of a donkey it could not be more idiotic. i was in jerusalem and there is a ban on the use of electric vehicles in the old town i understand the criticism itself but seriously jesus on on the scooter while everything around is historically correct oh. animal welfare is taking the law in

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used to be a non interventionist mike a critic of thehe iraq warar and- i justt getting involved in enron complex so even though he is. very close to saudi arabibia a t the same time especially than election coming up that i don't think donald trump would have much appetite. the sending troops into battle and old a politicacal baggagththat would that come e with that. all yes n the one hande likes to pose as a strong man of the match this figure out but- all all the all the- the america first policies often and mereka quite isolated and- not taking paulson means. conflilicts that we saw in the george w. . bush era. take this mess of the guardian newspaperer in washingtonon thank you very much indeed. thank you. next a deadlock in israel the second historic election this year you start because i it's the first timeme the thingng to o do in te same. a one year pereriod has again failed t to find a p party with a clear majority while a definitive results the still awaited there is an interesting pattern emerging. after a lieutenant in april'sslection israeli arab voters turned out in numbers

vice president mike pence there's brian who has been the administration's special representative for enron and is close to secretary of state mike pump and there is douglas macgregor a former army colonel who's often appeared on t.v. praising the president there is some sense of satisfaction in the government that john bolton is now out of a job one senior figure tweeting that john bolton promised 3 months ago that iran would no longer exist we are still standing he wrote he has gone. alan fischer al-jazeera washington the united nations secretary general has joined international condemnation of a pledge by israel's prime minister to an exporter of the occupied west bank and says it would be a serious breach of international law and would devastate jones's for future peaceful negotiations you know him has more from the jordan valley. we're standing in dawson always a village in the jordan valley this really prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he wants to annex this area he doesn't want to annex that area over there jericho and because he says he wants to complete and carry out his plan

to new york where he really should be addressing the united nations general assembly meeting by the enron hit their targets on regard to any limit i thought of that support for their cause really people it concerned. the georgian. minute because for me to send a message across that line of their why i needed on the other side their targets don stand by down no matter what happened and what's the latest situation then on the pakistan side of the of the line of control also known as the line of divide. well the situation is very tense and yesterday pakistan reported that it did you know it's one of its soldiers in a cease fire violation their stuff coming out of india also the indian military chief saying that the indian military would ready to cross that line should the government make that decision on the pakistani side the message of those surveyed that if india approach the line then pakistan will respond in a very strong way so that situation quite alarming. cease fire violations are quite common between the 2 countries each accusing the other of breaking that cease fire agreement so a

in that enron 62 in downtown san francisco right now delay hope coming in at 60 degrees but a mild afternoon in store. in fact, san francisco's going to be sunny and 74 the high 73 in downtown oakland 77 in san jose. i'll have more afternoon temperatures in your neighborhood. coming up in just a couple of minutes robin, thank you rebecca we're checking the bay bridge commute into san francisco, one of our busiest bridges and yes, it is still slow from the maze all connectors are tied and then it's pretty sluggish on the suspension to so you're looking at 12 to 15 minutes for your average for now to make it into san francisco, one one that's pretty heavy in the northbound direction it starts way back on the peninsula at sfo and that just continues off and on to a t and san francisco. so i don't see a huge improvement there. nor for 2.80 it's packed out of daly city from that highway one split through the one oh one split. so just be prepared for a lot of heavy traffic north end and north on one oh one and north on 2.80 heading to san francisco darya james thanks a lot robin, i know a lot of b

. >> enron world com, bankruptcies. >> what trilg trying theresa pop is it a rezbleegs recession. >>clining growth decline in the export numbers. all the things we are seeing >> but last year mark wasn't the bigger issue when rates went higher process refinancing all the corporate daet at higher rates had the potential even a in you will err paulback in the economy now rates lower is that put going off. >> back where they were before my point is it's all about growth and growth is gone you see in the big growth names. the big valuation drops. you see it in ipos cancelled you see it on the streets, right. you see not as much traffic. not as much tourism plane haves room on them when growth slows debt becomes less serviceable and i think that's where it's headed it doesn't have to be the big bad ugly 2008 recession. remember 2001 first quarter was negative second quarter positive. third quarter negative didn't even have two back to back negative quarters full year was 1% but still a recession. the market fell 54% peak to trough that's the type of cycle we're in now, are we there? the p

then we went in the corporate world and had the enron scandal. rather than taking accountability and responsibility and standing up and admitting what they did and making it right, no. what did they do? they were shredding the documents as fast as ever they could shred them. it is routine in this country now for people in poxes of power and responsibility -- positions of power and responsibility to stay mistakes were made. not i messed up. mistakes were made. it is a pestilence in this country to deny accountability and responsibility. it's unacceptable. the question is what do we do to bring back accountability to the american culture? the fair act makes a big step in that direction. it invalidates forced arbitration clauses. you know, the ones that show up in the boilerplate of the contracts that consumers sign with every agreement we have with a big corporation. it shows up in the fine print. if you take the time to read it, it's not debatable. it's not negotiable. you have to sign it or else you have to not get the contract, not get the accou

president mike pence there's brian hook who's been the administration's special representative for enron and is close to secretary of state mike pump and there is douglas macgregor a former army colonel who's often appeared on t.v. praising the president there is some sense of satisfaction in the government that john bolton is now out of a job one senior figure tweeting that john bolton promised 3 months ago that iran would no longer exist we are still standing he wrote he has gone. alan fischer al-jazeera washington the united nations security general has joined the international condemnation of a pledge by israel's prime minister to annex parts of the occupied west bank and turn into terrorist says it would be a serious breach of international law and would devastate chances for a peaceful negotiation. more from jordan valley we're standing in dawson always a village in the jordan valley this israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he wants to annex this area he doesn't want to annex that area over there jericho at a low because he says he wants to complete and carry out his pla

is deciding whether to hear a case backed by former prime minister john major iran's president has enron he says his country will operate its energy program without limits its preparing to work on advanced centrifuges which would allow it to enrich uranium foster. as we didn't reach our desired result the atomic energy organization will now immediately start what are you with the technical needs of the country in the field of nuclear research and development we will put aside all commitments made in the field of research and development all kinds of new center futures and everything we need for enrichment are the number of people killed by hurrican dorian in the bahamas now stands at 20 and could rise further storms regain strength and is now a category 3 hurricane strength in the east coast of the united states wind speed when dorian made landfall in the bahamas was the highest on record the bahamian prime minister hubert minute says rescue operations are in full swing and has warned against looting. the stories on the council building are the disturbances. behavior and distrust. that a

i mentioned the enron pension plans, and actions that i took there. i worked particularly closely, actually, with some of the lawyers in that office at the labor department and know how important that that mission of the department is. i will say that labor department's mission, although very important, is focused on employment retirement savings, and one of the concerns that was raised by the fiduciary rule is that they were actually treading on the s.e.c.'s jurisdiction. so i think part of what is necessary in the government is making sure that there is the proper balance between the different regulatory authorities, and i would want to if i'm confirmed work with the sec if necessary to strike that balance correctly. sen. murray: thank you. thank you for the additional time. i would ask for unanimous consent, mr. chairman, to enter 16 letters into the record expressing concern or opposition to confirmation. sen. alexander: as so ordered. as a courtesy to the witness we are going to take a five-minute break before we proceed with a second round of qu

in 2012 and ran paul four years later but after soul-searching i realized when they voted for ran enron and me in the primaries they were not voting for libertarian ideas, they were voting for the craziest son of a in a race and donald trump one best in the class. [laughter] that is a republican congressman, mind you. >> you go through the book and you have seen after seeing of these republicans who as steve bannon one set of paul ryan was seemingly grown in a petri dish at the heritage foundation, cultivated, we thought there was this army of voters who wanted nothing more than entitlement reform and turns out they quite like their social security and they are more animated by cultural issues like attacking the media, immigration and these other things there there is an amazing scene in the book which i want you to describe it gets to this having breakfast with john boehner in the summer and you ask him whether the republican party will survive or outlive trump and what does he say, he stopped himself. >> he stopped himself. john boehner without hesitating looks up and said there is no

and then they got into a bit of a scandal where they had done a fraudulent loan and the stock enron kind of a thing. ok. talk about what the automobile is. when we get to the mid-1890's, 1893. ok? so you know, again we can talk , about what is the first automobile. there's a bunch of other ones. i took out an electric car because it was, you know complicated. ,but i will just show you two of them here. also in the museum's collection, the duryea motor wagons. they had a real winning car. very lightweight, very straightforward. they won races and were very durable. they did hill climbs, long-distance runs. ok, so good car. stanley steamers those are not , the leading one, guys. those are the stanley twins. eh, aey, between 1905 -- little earlier. they sold 2000 of those vehicles . it was a very viable machine. it accelerated easily, was quiet, and all of these things. popular car. the problem is, those were not the first cars that really captured the attention of the people who could afford cars. the people who could afford cars were the rothschilds, the the toplts, the asters, 10th of 1%

this was done after the implosion of enron and their accounting firm arthur and -- firm, arthur anderson, somebody that was very painful to many in my district in houston. in the dodd-frank act that congress passed, it expanded the whistleblower program at the s.e.c. to provide individual protections from retaliation if they came forward to the commission, and made them eligible for monetary awards if their information led to enforcement action. likewise, under my bill, individuals would be eligible for a reward program upon the successful completion of a disciplinary action. whistleblowers would be incentivized to come forward when they suspect violations of the sarbanes-oxley act, the rules of the pcaob, and the s.e.c., and other rules, laws and professional standards governing audits of public companies. importantly, these whistleblowers would also be protected against retaliation from their employees. in july, this house overwhelmingly passed the whistleblower protection reform act by a vote of 410-12. this bill uses the very same whistleblower protections that the house passed in th

i'm not saying it is enron, don't get me wrong but always a warning sign if your debt is not consolidatedr mostly on the balance sheet. neil: could mean people charging a lot less, apple what is that, $4.99? >> apple has absolutely no debt. neil: yeah. >> we're talking about financial foundation, very shaky. will this now be the comeuppance for netflix? is it finally going to hit the fan? listen there, is a point where the market doesn't let you borrow anymore. rubber needs to meet the road. amazon in their growth mode, everybody talks about this, there are two stocks out there people talk about hitting the skids at some point. tesla is one, based on its foundations. declining apartments of government subsidies, you know, very erratic ceo. netflix does not have that. elon musk is, let's just say very unique. in his approach to stuff. you know, demand is all over the place. debt, they have high debt levels. that is one stock. netflix is the other one. one of these, there will be a day of reckoning for one of these soon. this might be it right now. neil: so the days of making a quick buck o

they hear about corporate fraud like wells fargo and the fraudulent accounts that were set up, or enron and the accounting scandal but more value, more pension holders and 401(k) holders investments are lost by the routine and very legal practice of ceos managing for the quarter and taking resources on a research and development for growing their companies in a way that would be good for workers. these are very clear choices that both are proud policy regulars and corporate leaders and investors are making. in some instances they are making them differently. what i think is important to point out those examples is to show that there are indeed ways to orient, even in the system toward more long-term thinking and to not have that reinforcement. that said, it's very hard for us as consumers on the subway platform in boston there's a sign from uber, good things come to those who refused to wait. you're being advertised to not wait, to indulge in the immediate. at a constant rate. as james rightly points out there's a whole profit-making machine around focusing our attention on fulfilling t

when enron defrauded and bought bankrupted the company, gene fought to recover their retirement savings of employees and pensioners. gene fat out-of-control bureaucrats who threatened to undercut america's position as an industrial power. when washington bureaucrats tried to stop boeing from building its world-class dream liner in south california, he fended off the attack. as a result, thousands of south carolinians today are employed in good-paying manufacturing jobs and the world's best airplanes tip to be made right here in -- continue to be made right here in america. gene's resume tells the story well enough. it proves that he is a top expert in labor law who has devoted his life to ensuring that workers and industry alike get a fair shake. but his resume doesn't tell the whole story. i met gene early in my short career as a lawyer. he was one of my very first bosses, so i got a window into his leadership style and legal mind and have relied on his hard-earned wisdom and counsel ever since. gene was one of the very only lawyers i knew who discouraged me from leaving the law and jo