mobil is an interesting lolo soetoro who was president obama's stepfather went to work for exxon after he worked for the suharto regime that of course overthrew president sukarno and there was a terrible bloodbath that followed i think it's fine and president obama says these things but look at the reality of his administration's politics and we see backing for a lot of regimes around the world we even saw this kind of schizophrenia over egypt where frank wisner was sent over there biden and. all these people were saying nice things about mubarak and of course mubarak was going on. and the rhetoric doesn't match our policies toward the regime in yemen for example which is a u.s. close u.s. military ally where we can talk have this discussion without also bringing into the equation and china certainly when it comes to success on a global scale china doesn't pretend to be guided by you know principles and it's becoming more and more clear that they're making good business decisions by doing that do you think i mean i got to what extent do you think it's working for china in comparison to

china take popple in a guinea huge energy find to go to one of senator lugar's very strong points exxon mobil is producing it china is in there every day in every way earlier i spoke to investigative journalist and r.t. contributor wayne madsen he gave me his thoughts on whether clinton or obama has the dominant school of thought. i think secretary of state clinton's probably the one who is really advancing the real us agenda and hear her talk about real politic reminds me of henry kissinger and this is what is a century kissinger and i can't suit come back to life here but. it's interesting she talked about papua new guinea. we have supported regime into regime in indonesia and they have half of that island new guinea under their control. which has an independence movement freeport murrin us mining company talk about exxon mobil is an interesting lolo soetoro who was president obama's stepfather went to work for exxon after he worked for the suharto regime that of course overthrew president sukarno and there was a terrible bloodbath that followed i think it's fine that president obama

movement and is dedicated to making sure a trans national corporate tax dodgers like bank of america exxon mobil pay their fair share of taxes so we can uncut this slashing going on in benefits to the middle class or holding a national day of action this saturday urging people to show up in protest at their neighborhood bank of america branch so far bank of america in washington d.c. has been shut down twice by us on protesters and movement is getting so much publicity in the u.k. that today the government there announced they were raising taxes on the rich oil companies and banks and declaring no more cuts to social programs given that actually the daily taken just a minute but will us on the same sort of response from our government here and tell us is ryan clayton regional spokesman for the u.s. uncut movement brian welcome hey thanks for having me great to have you here with us the first of all why bank of america well big of america's and agreed is tax dodgers you know they made four point four billion dollars in two thousand and nine and zero dollars in taxes you know and if that one

billion dollars so it's another example of corporate tax evasion joining the ranks of bank of america exxonmobile and we can only guess how many other companies out there are doing the same and it's all done through various strategies including lobbying she has spent more than two hundred million dollars in the last ten years lobbying on tax reform she is also expanded its business abroad cutting one fifth of its workforce within the u.s. since two thousand and two placing their profits made here at home into offshore accounts and they also hire the best of the best including former i.r.s. and treasury officials for accounting purposes so i'd say that it's pretty clear that our system needs reform but how do we go about doing that joining me from our studio in new york is dr duncan these on a national coordinator for us and welcome thanks so much for joining us tonight now first of all how does it make you feel as a taxpayer firstly makes me really angry to know that g.e. paid absolutely zero nothing in income taxes despite making billions in profits that's right wall the rest of us are bei

you think about it this is happening on a national level if you think you know that bank of america exxon and some of the largest multi-billion dollar corporations him pay a single penny and federal income taxes last year that just seems preposterous to me to seem fair at all you know it's not fair and this is what i want your viewers to do only to open your wallet and look at what's in there if you have anything at all in there you pay more taxes the bank of america page two thousand and nine more tax than exxon mobil paid in two thousand and these corporations that bought our politicians and manipulated the tax code in a way to rip the rest of us also they don't pay their fair share and we're continually asked to pay and all i'm saying is that everyone needs to be paying their fair share everyone should be asked to sacrifice not just middle class americans have already sacrificed too much but you think that part of the problem why and we don't hear about this more often is that because they well it's not just republicans that are down to give you know corporations tax breaks but democra

no tengo la exxon fianza completa de que estamos preparados para responder a la emergencia similar nuclears nucleares. le preocupa que no es claro koon manda en estos desastres. >> ahora mismo no tenemos a alguien que esté a cargo, muchas agencias tienen responsabilidades ninguna en particular la responsabilidad directa. cima responde que coordinar varias agencias. >> (hablando en inglés) >> si usted pregunta quién está a cargo no entiende las complejidades de hacer que todos trabajen en equipo, es sobre simplificar, otros destacan problemas como la escasez de pastilla de potasio que contra resta la radio ción. >> para... >> no es claro que una evacuación coordenada y bien hecha sería posible pero es claro que muchos de los que viven en la proximidad de reactores nnucleares en los estados unidos, no tienen estas pastillas de emergencia, se trata de una responsabilidades estatal. >> en audiencia, en el congreso el secretario de energía steven s. dijo que la administración sigue respaldo dan padre do con administración. >> el administrador nos dijo que después del terremoto en japón, cima se

the cleanup job or eight hundred twenty five million dollars this spill is ten times larger than the exxon valdez spill in alaska and is believed to be america's largest environmental disaster to date with throwing away the next generation's most valuable resource and that is water and one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of fresh water and proximity to one of the world's largest fastest growing populations. you know with all the and all the lawsuits and all the carrying on that goes on in the in the press and you know the vanity fair's in u.s. news and world reports and all at that where the authors are warning people to believe that that we're absolutely script in appalachia down to nothing. in order to get the mineral is patently untrue it's patently untrue when you look around at the forest in elton's that we have a recent environmental impact statement from the e.p.a. estimates over eight hundred square miles of mountains have already been destroyed this includes the permanent destruction of over four hundred fifty individual mountain summit

if you have the exxon valdez, you have regulatory response with a vengeance that cannot possibly be described a and how they calamitous failure could affect policy-making has been a major inspiration to rethink those projections but alas, there is a shadow the possibility seen one way and use the threat to of intervention on the part of the ftc in the form of legislation and all of those have aspired to adjustments and their taking place relatively quickly. are not one place goes by with a significant step with promising consequences being taken precaution policy makers go ahead? one approach is light handed mandatory requirements but a period of time how we sought industry inspired development take place. here is the dilemma. you are contemplating changes, i do believe the promises of the regulators that if you act we will be satisfied? or is that something like what you see in academia a process in which you never altman they satisfy the referee? they what more you never come up with what they want? with the consequence the desired destination turns out to be a mirage. you grow through the

. >>> and today marks the 22nd anniversary of the exxon "valdez" disaster. in 1989 the supertanker struck a reef off alaska's coast, spilling 11 million gallons of oil, the worst u.s. oil spill, until last year's bp disaster. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest in those developments and other stories as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." >>> and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. "today" takes you to the front lines of the war in libya as explosions rock that country's capital for a fifth day. >>> and actor bradley cooper is live on the plaza to talk about his new hit film "limitless" and what it's like working with robert de niro. >>> now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station.

exxon's c.e.o. told investors there's plenty of oil to handle global demand, and he's not now worried about supply disruptions. but rex tillerson said higher gasoline prices could be a big problem for american consumers. >> i don't know if the tip-over is at the same $4 level or not, i just know that when we went through that the last time, $4 was like a significant emotional event for a lot of people. >> tom: meanwhile, opening statements were heard in the insider trading trial of hedge fund manager raj rajaratnam. prosecutors told jurors the galleon group co-founder traded on secret information "again and again and again." still ahead tonight: if you've got to have that morning cup of joe, it's going to cost you more. how the spike in coffee prices is affecting consumers and small coffee shops. >> susie: the obama administration is taking some fire today over its policy on free trade. senators pressured the president to get tougher with china just as mr. obama named commerce secretary gary locke a

cents over the past month and almost 80 cents higher than it was this time a year ago here at this exxon station in the buckhead section of atlanta. the prices are a little higher than the state average. the pain at the pump starting to spread as well. taxi riders are being hit with a $2 fuel surcharge every time they get into a cab. that went into effect a few weeks ago. and school districts around the state starting to pay attention to those bus budgets, because especially those districts that did not lock in their gas prices. >> reporter: this is john yang in chicago where gas prices have gone up 11% in the last month alone. now an average of $3.71 a gallon. that's 20 cents higher than the national average. one reason why it's higher here is the illinois gas tax. it's a percentage of the price at the pump, so the higher the price, the higher the tax. the manager of this station here in downtown chicago says that as prices have gone up, business has gone down. fewer people filling up, more people buying just enough gas to get them to the suburbs. >> reporter: this is miguel almaguer in

it is not chevron verses exxon. it's these small set of companies operating against the chinese national oil companies that have very different cultures, very different expectations and a incredibly different business models. that puts the company's we like to see and have our values at a distinct disadvantage in many places around world. we certainly don't want to put them at an even bigger disadvantage. >> i would not disagree with anything karen just said. i would put a different perspective on it. one of the things i found out in talking to a number of people in industry, not just the operators, but the contractors and subcontractors, in the u.s. and internationally, i talked to international regulators and people that work in different parts of the world. one of the things that is difficult in this environment when you have large companies that control cell much of the activity -- right now things are booming and companies can get jobs. the concern for a lot of these contractors is a need to be able to be calle

hundred nine million gallons of taking over fifty miles of a major river system a spill bigger than the exxon valdez we took six samples the occurrence that happened in kentucky. was simply one more you had one built over old. underground ones and they gave way in the bottom and that's what happened with the structure itself to. go county west virginia within sight of massey energy c.e.o. don blankenship home karma leader brown has been battling for clean want to. twenty some years ago. and water turned black and black grey and asked are the hollowness gray men in math has been got up and asked and asked me what was wrong take a man and he said when he looked at it he said my god he said that's close laurie. we went and looked at fifteen wells. sent the samples off to the laboratory got the testing results back and did some analysis on those results and it was pretty compelling that we needed to do more research down there i've never seen water quality that poor. pretty good compared to what it was this morning these documents from the west virginia department of natural resources researched

when you look at the giants out there relatively exxon's got a market cap of over 400 billion. so it's still a company that if somebody's looking to make an acquisition in that field, he sf s is going to be pretty attractive. >> tom: you like big blue, ibm here just off its all time highs it's moved away from the hardware focus from a generation ago looking international in software and services, is that the growth expectation. if emerging markets begin to get uncertain does that hurt big blue. >> maybe a little bit but i still think again when you look at their business, i like it a lot. i think they're going to see revenue growth that's better than people expect. the stock has pulled off the high a little bit during the downturn but it's a little better value. you get a bit of a dividend with the stock. all and all again technology, we like the group and i think it's one of the large tasks that's going to do extremely well over the 1 months. >> tom: let's review the picks from september 3rd. you were looking for dividend players. intel has worked out nicely not including the

total control of production but without damaging it or apparently to get their way it was artie's exxon avoid the reports importers might not care who supplies the oil so long as it keeps pumping. and leases of stability in the scorchingly been desert the country's all industry that's prior to the uprising was churning out around two percent of the global oil output has also fallen victim to the unrest to brokers the last major all facility leaving still maintaining its regular thracians and sending all to the world markets just last week two tankers departed from these oil terminals one carrying and million barrels of oil that was bound for china and another one with six hundred thousand barrels and board is now on its way to italy keep it deep in the east to group was one of the first cities taken over by the rebels being far from the front lines very this facility much of the damage that has befallen similar plans in the west and allowed it to operate pretty much as normal the only visible change is the rebels tricolor that replace the greenlee b. and flag of the guard corps because

saying brant crude briefly top one hundred forty dollars a barrel in the second quarter meanwhile exxon mobil c.e.o. says prices at the current level are not yet hurting the economy but some u.s. investors do not agree they are chilled by the current oil prices that we're seeing right now after especially true for the nasdaq it's down point four percent dow jones like the one. in russia wednesday's trade ended in the red that's our through our long weekend the market was correcting following a strong previous week but banking stocks were bucking the trend they were on the right supported by for the results from bank of america is burbank up one point three percent of the close bank was the video added seven point seven percent for that the second tier still lower nickel and copper futures are weighing on north nickel shares going down one percent and track yeah it's preferred shares gained eleven percent over the session the stock spiked thirty percent at one point causing an increase in spending of trading one hour but there's been no clarification so far as to the reasons behind. i th

recognize its control both sides are urging foreign countries to stay out of the conflict parties exxon avoid the reports from the region sporadic clashes around the town of ras lanuf still continue and pretty much the only new development that we have seen so far was i'm told so maybe i'm coming out of the opposition side that suggested that i get off we should leave the country within the next seventeen to ours if he is the opposition promises to allow him to leave the country freely and not to pursue him for his crimes bradby get off the start has already mockingly dismays this of course saying that it was just the not going to case and there are big protestors are losing ground need time are to have every. without access to get up with foreign minister was like what's that thing here surprise this thing live that big that r.p. government to go after him has been promising all along that is they surprised me has been exported to lead there from abroad oh my it's clear that it's a will prepared to plant the truth his dad peace group has contacts with great powers and is supported by t

legislation that will put a surtax on millionaires and close tax loopholes for big oil companies like exxon the most profitable country in the history of the planet senator sanders said regarding his bill the emergency deficit reduction act that quote we have a deficit problem it has to be addressed but it cannot be addressed on the backs of the most vulnerable in this country the wealthiest people are just corporation in our nation in this country have got to contribute got to talk about shared sacrifice. he poppy good work bernie. the bad mississippi governor haley barbour jumping on the bandwagon of potential republican presidential candidates who are pledging to repeal the don't ask don't tell repeal barbour explains why he thought gays shouldn't be in the military. to close is true growing on the soldier on the ground zero was the most opposed. and it's not not necessarily over homosexuality it's over the fact that when you're an under fire and people are living in. a siege and you know any camera amorous. man see it begin to fixate on people's wives and children by. yes. amorous i'm c

and exxon right well being here in beirut lebanon watching global media and watching c.n.n. b.b.c. it's amazing because they look at the price of gas and then on one chart and then they have a dead people racking up in various regions and another chart.

drove to the incentive to go several locals were in a car with us we arrived and there was nothing exxon was no longer there we even started hauling in grange their history can say a word used to be streets and houses have been turned into just awful if you. then have to go risk earthquake was russia's most destructive in one hundred years over two thousand people died the town was never a built but the sea snake station was reopened it was shut down shortly after the collapse of the soviet union and yuri was left without chop but the earthquake changed all that not only was the station reinstated dozens of new ones have been built these time small scale calls ury several times a day. we are always on high alert hopefully better than the americans stations was the first to report the earthquake was so quickly felt in so highly in as this is the closest part of russia to japan and while it's an army threat has receded there is no relief for the people here or the danger now one of the nuclear catastrophe everyone here understands that in the worst case scenario it will take a radioactive

tambiÉn luis armando dice que sufre, ya que fue Él quien lo criÓ hasta la edad de 17 aÑos, cuando el exxonn hijo, siempre lo trate como un hijo. nunca hubieron diferencias con sus hermanos de parte mÍa para Él. >> sin embargo el procurador de los derechos humanos cree que el destino de ericsson aÚn podrÍa cambiar. >> yo no estoy a favor de la opera de muerte. >> el doctor oscar luna seÑalÓ que si bien los estados unidos mantienen la pena de muerte, tambiÉn contempla los medios y las garantÍas para infundada cualquier sentencia y por eso hizo un llamado a las autoridades salvadoreÑas para que abonen por ericsson. >> eran las gestiones pertinentes para interponer en favor de los salvadoreÑos los recursos para buscar una forma de poder revocar esa sentencia. >> sus palabras fueron como una luz al final del tÚnel que iluminÓ el mujer devolviÉndole la esperanza para seguir suplicando. >> es lo que yo les pido al seÑor juez y fiscal. al seÑor gobernador de ese estado de arkansas. le pidiÓ clemencia para mi hijo. >> la defensa de ericsson apelÓ la sentencia y por el momento quedÓ aplazada en espe

exxon mobil citibank and bank of america i mean somebody is gaming the system and is gaming the system or you could add boeing wells fargo was to tax evaders as well more than one hundred u.s. uncut supporters shut down the bank of america washington d.c. on saturday so this finally the start of european type activism in america to combat the g.o.p.'s reckless austerity measures for more on this i'm joined a studio by ryan clayton washington d.c. spokesman and co-founder of us uncut and via skype johann hari the contributor to the nation magazine ryan johann welcome both you know tom thanks for having us really return to the show thanks for being here. i'm curious first to light. i was going to give your your u.r.l. in there i was going to throw it in and suddenly it occurred to me i know it's dad or is it us uncut or is it just on it's us got a larger orgy have you got it seems like somebody took the dot com and turned it into some kind of right wing something i always had a long time ago that's not a problem word top of the google it's now ok. let me start with you johann what what d

people in this country to also contribute to deficit reduction you've got to ask corporations like exxon mobil which a couple years ago made nineteen billion in profits and ended up paying nothing and a getting a refund from the i.r.s. you've got to start asking those large corporations to slaughter paying taxes as well senator you've proposed legislation to tax millionaires and congresswoman jan schakowsky broke the news of her proposed tax for millionaires sitting right here next to me on this show a few weeks ago do you think either of your proposals years in the senate has in the house will gather steam as more and more average working people realize how badly they're being screwed well i can tell you this there was a wall street n.b.c. poll couple of weeks ago and this is what the polls. what do you think the best way is to move toward deficit reduction eighty one percent of the people thought that a surtax on families earning a million dollars a year or more was a good idea eighty one percent then they said people what do you think is the worst way to go toward deficit reduction an

and exxon right well being here in beirut lebanon watching global media and watching c n b c it's amazing because they look at the price of gas and then on one chart and then they have a dead people racking up in various regions in another chart and they're trying to figure out how many dead people it takes to keep the price of gas down a penny and this is how they see the world it's all about dead people versus the price of gas how many dead people per penny and of course if they needed kill more people to keep the price of gas down another penny then they're all for it so they have these you know cheerleaders on c. and b. c. these overly quater only make a woman kind of bouncing around saying yeah they kill people as long as gas prices are down another penny and people think this is the cage fight of america is that they've created a global cage fight to keep that but going forward stacey the fact is that price of gas is going to continue to go higher for a lot of different reasons so america is going to get into some other business other than the exportation of mayhem and murder i woul

to weren't kara and the oil companies had been rather the order of fields and been turned over to exxon and co town and mobil and to any end to rust cannot be rewarded with five percent of the shares of theone richard perle the prince of darkness one of his principal advisors khadafi is part of the us imperial hedge omonia he had capitulated to imperialism in the late one nine hundred ninety s. they are making a noriega out of him today because they want to have troops on the ground to dictate the outcome of the struggle in libya and in the surrounding countries it is a naked undertaking and a country selling regimes of the arab league with. muso who is after all a colleague of mubarak giving their approval even as the saudis and the us direction are slaughtering the population in buck rein in yemen humanitarian concerns are granted to me riddle to do with the role i put it saying that i thought may doesn't the fight like it does phase broken i was saying that justify that intervention. there is no we know just the case and for imperial forces to intervene in libya and is nonsense about

lavish praise on tax cheats when asked why think progress reporter leaf on it he thought it was ok that exxon mobil the most profitable company in the history of planet earth paid zero us federal income taxes last year at this response that's on hold was a very fine with obama because nothing corporate income taxes to us are if you think that's too much well i think it would be freer if the corporations get it right. and then we can go bankrupt as a nation and let the super rich you don't need governmental services take control of course they'd have to take out the trash but they could probably pay for. and the very very ugly the georgia state legislature the mostly republican state house is on the verge. passing a bill to address their budget deficit it would raise or place new taxes on food and gasoline taxes that mostly if a lower income people one industry that will be affected by the tax hike the girl scouts their cookies will now be taxed taking away money from their support programs and here's the kicker that very same bill lowers taxes on major foreign corporations doing business in t

lot of oil companies would want to look at we've had several deals in the last couple of months with exxon with rosneft in other areas i think there would be other international oil majors that would be interested in looking at. the deal but you know b.p. is the most experienced western oil company in russia it's closest obviously to the deal they're the obvious candidates to to make this happen so if it's not b.p. i think it's going to take a lot longer to get to some sort of deal all right so what pressure can the russian government bring to ensure that this deal goes through it what do you think. i think that the russian government could talk to the russian shareholders in t n k b p i'd be really surprised if somebody as the. friedman. v.p. had already not spoken to the to the russian government so i imagine that dialogue is going to continue you know i don't see this is a particular shock this deal that the the judgment the court judgment i think this is sort of the next step. in a game plan that we will see the result of over the next several months i don't think this is the last step