just ahead of a visit to beijing secretary of state hillary clinton four nations to work together on the issue of the south china sea. we speak to a german journalist for his first hand accounts from deep inside the syrian conflict there. i. as the conflict in syria continues to unfold under the watchful gaze of the world's media there are all those that say that we aren't receiving the full picture of what's going on on the ground in the embattled middle eastern country now one of those people joins me right now manuel ox and i thank you very much for speaking to me thank you well to start off how long were you in syria and where were you what did you see i was for nine days in syria in july and i was exactly the time when the so-called bentyl of damascus was reaching and i was inside damascus all the time and i could compare every day the worldwide media coverage and with what i saw with my own eyes now what you saw while you were on the ground in syria doesn't seem to fit with what we're seeing on our t.v. screens does it well at first it is a difference everybody saw what's in da

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so he cometted to be active in national republican politics, attended four national republican conventions and raised a family, and my father grew up hearing about him and was determined to as a matter of family honor restore black people to their rightful place in politics in alabama. that was what my father was all about. >> sheryll cashin, why did you write about your family? what, what made you take it this far? >> well, i got tired of hearing my father say he was going to write a book, you know? i just wanted to say, well, excuse my french, but dammit, if you're not going to write this book -- i was terrified that this incredible lore would die with him. so in my mid 40s, early 40s i should say, i finally just got tired of hearing him talk about, and it just took out a tape recorder and started interviewing him. i wanted to know everything he knew and be sure it didn't get lost. i started interviewing him about what he knew about the family, but also about this political party and everything he did. and it took on a life of it own, and i started researching, um, you know, how much of

resolve their own disputes out of her visit to be gene secretary of state hillary clinton urged the four nations to work together on the issue of the south china sea. so they have minds here in our next hour a special report on illegal immigration on the u.s. mexican border that shines a light on human trafficking first world poverty and right wing politics. and the immigration bill goes down in the senate that is the subject of the seedings talking points memo. critics of arizona's newly signed immigration bill say it allows police to stop anyone on the street based purely on the person's appearance governor brewer's response when asked by a reporter what illegal immigrant looks like. i do not know i do not know what legal immigrant that's like but the sticking point is what to do with the millions of people who are in this country in this country illegally that the u.s. government will have no idea who they are and where they are in this very dangerous time that is a very dangerous thing as we. ran from an other country. when i ran round and round the america of the big. one but the people in

resolve their own disputes out of her visit to regimes secretary of state hillary clinton urged four nations to work together on the issue of the south china sea. and that's an r.t. will bring you our special report stay with us clegg. we had to earn it i mean we have to earn it every single day of our lives we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the laws i figure spoken like the great granddaughters when they were there they go yeah i know yes mike well we're all immigrants we're all immigrants as well that we all occasion somewhere else and there's a tolerance level where there's only so much that the united states can accept without severe economic consequence. i'm not afraid and never have been i'm not hiding that flag has been up here for a year and a half and i will stand i will die keeping that flag up there believe me thirty five feet from the mexican border and the most treacherous part of our border i'm here and will stay

the one accuses four nations of escalating the syrian conflict by supplying arms to all sides its fighting in the main cities forces thousands to flee violence has displaced more than a million inside the country with over two hundred thousand refugees now in neighboring states. and with barack obama pitching for reelection his government is trying to mend strained ties with china. has criticized washington for backing regional allies while claiming neutrality over asia pacific territorial disputes. that so brings up today for the moment i'll be back with more stories for in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime sport is next with you know. thanks for joining us this is sports today plenty head over the next ten minutes or so including these stories and great. dynamic returned kid shell champions dean on moscow edge run a shop up on guard on penalties in the opening match of the new season. five nights the countdown continues to some amazing world heavyweight title clash between w.b.c. champion to tell the kids caught on man well charged in moscow. on breaking new ground the first f.i.a

resolve their own dispute out of her visit to beijing secretary of state hillary clinton urged the four nations to work together on the issue of the south china sea. while next in our team it's crosstalk which asks if barack obama can recapture a sense of hope he brought to americans four years ago. in. the low in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle after a lackluster even slightly bizarre republican convention nominating mitt romney for the presidency it is now the time for the democrats to reaffirm their faith in barack obama can obama reintroduced hope that his party is gathering and can he convince voters you're still the right guy for the job. and. to cross not the u.s. election i'm joined by rod taub in new york he's an american television news commentator and satirist in washington we have john kerry he is the founder of the ferry group and in charlotte we crossed to adam green he is co-founder of the progressive change campaign committee all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect i mean you can jump in any time when john if i go to you first does barack obama deserve another four

. >> i think the proposal of president morrissey is interesting because these four nations have an influence on the situation. >> rose: and are engaged already in one way or the other. yes. up to now, but it's recent there have not been results but when you have to find a solution you have to discuss with everybody. therefore, france and egypt are in close links because if we can be some sort aid towards a solution, it's our role. it's our international role. we are a permanent member of the security council. we have no hidden agenda. we are there to try and help people. what do they do? what do they want? they want to be free. they want to be free. to say, well, you have a lot of arab countries in which there has been a so-called arab spring, isn't it possible-- because, mr. bashar al-assad has decide it was not possible, no. it's the way it must go. >> rose: iran, and the nuclear issue. what do you believe iran wants? and to you believe they have made a decision on that? that? >> i hope not. first, so as nuclear energy is concerned, iran has a right to develop nuclear energy but for milita

this is just an example. 9/12, four national polls showing advantage for obama in one and cnn had tenbama, and six points from the abc-washington post, and dead even among the two with rasmussen, and in 2008 it was seven points for democrats and dead even in 2003. who thinks there will be 13 points more democrats voting in this election but we give all of the polls a sense of scientific precision when we read them in the newspapers. >>neil: i didn't understand what you said but it was so brilliant the take away is don't believe the polls. >>guest: take them with a grain of salt. >>neil: thank you, karl rove, the master. for governor romney, is the "sheik" about to hit the fan? [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu users chose prego. prego?! but i've bought ragu for years. [ thinking ] woer what other questionable choices i've made? i choose date number 2! whooo! [ sigh of relf ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. trick question. love everything abt this country! including prilosec otc. you know one pill each morning treats your frequent heartburn so you can en

an explosion killed four nationals who worked at the airport. a radical group said they did this in retaliation to a film used in the u.s. they claim the suicide bomber was a 22-year-old woman. if true, she was reportedly the first female suicide car bomber in afghanistan. the bombing is part of the growing outrage in the country over the anti-islam film. yesterday angry protesters clashed in the capital city with police during the riot. this morning's death toll is the highest of foreigners killed in the city since last april when an afghan air force pilot gunned down nine americans. reporting from the news 4 live desk, angie goff, news 4. >>> 13 before the hour. fbi agents now helping police investigate a vandalism at a mosque in virginia. vandals defaced the islamic center at the shenandoah valley in harrisonburg last friday. they found the building painted with vulgar images and racial slurs. the council on american-islamic relations is calling it a hate crime. police say it's not clear the vandalism was aimed as muslims. they also found gra

four national polls, cbs news, "new york times" had 13 points more democrats than republicans and a 3oint advantage for obama. cnn had 10 points more democrats than republicans. and a 6 point advantage for obama maflt "the washington post," abc six points more democrat than republic. rasmussen had it at dead even between the two parties and one point advantage for romney. in 2008, the election exit polls had 78 points more democrats than republicans. biggest in decades. 2004 even. a three point advantage for the democrats. who thinks in this election that there are going to be 13 points fewer republic turn out than democrat? >> bill: why do the poll does that? >> well, in this instance they simply take a poll, take whoever they get during the time they are taking the poll. which could be a friday or saturday night. >> whoever answers the phone, they write it down. they don't try balance it out. >> they don't try to weight it in some instances like abc "the washington post" they may weight it to the model that they saw in 2008. they fight the last war. it is going to be a different war

these four national polls show the president has moved ahead of mitt romney.h a poll out this afternoon showing a six-point lead for the president. also, the president's favorability rating has gone up 6 point. during the same period, romney has gone down by 5 points. ouch. nate silver says, the conventions may have changed the composition of the race and romney and say facts don't matter, his new memo says, quote, don't get too worked up about the latest polling. why some voters will feel a bit of a sugar high. the basic structure has not changed significantly. a sugar high? really? with reasoning like that, our dearly diluted romney campaign may be in for a surprise. here from the washington post and patricia murphy, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> it's great to be here. >> thank you. >> just a sugar high or is it a real bounce? >> well, it looks like it's a real bounce. if you look at all of those polls, it's consistent that the president is leading and that has been the case for much of the summer. mitt romney chose to really focus on fundraising

nations the thirty four richest nations in the world we are number we are third from the bottom in terms of the class that you were born in being the class that you die and we're the one among the least socially mobile countries in the world up until the reagan administration that was the we were the opposite we were the most socially mobile nation from the found in this country until the one nine hundred eighty s. now we're one of the least socially mobile should we do something about this well i think the problem with this is you get into this redistribution thing and this is you know carter has a higher tax but there's a there's a smaller pie reagan has reagan lowered it gave me a look carter has a higher tax rate but he spoke right now seventy four percent right it's going to reagan takes it down but it's so it's less of a it's less a slice of a much bigger pie and the idea of course is what we worry about is that it might equalize you know you can have the very rich outpacing everybody else but if the idea is that brings it with you brings it with it's a locomotive the idea. here is

national right to work. this wasn't true even four years ago.ple getting up and basically beating their chest about how th beatnions, wheerit's in new jersey, ohio, or wisconsin. you've never seen that before. i mean the rhetoric was so shrill coming out of that campaign that there's no idea there is a war on workers. they are coming after us. it's going to mobilize our members. our members feel that what's going on right now, they're out to take us out. they've said that. they have unlimited money. they're coming after us. it's going to mobilize our members to make sure we win this november. except you're here in charlotte because you support this democratic president. you believe he should be re-elected y unions are spending a lot less money this year on democratic campaigns and a lot less on this convention. how do you square those two things? when you know that if you feel that you are under attack by republicans. >> well, we have more members contributing to political action than ever before in our union's history. i think together we're al

this is a four-ticket maximum person per game. the national's kickoff of four- tonight at 7:05 against the brewers. area want toour hands on the iphone 5. they're desperate to get their hands on the new iphone. f them were there at noon yesterday. >> the arrival of a new iphone s become something of a consumer frenzy and cultural phenomenon. we have more details on the misstep -- already sharing high- five's for the iphone 5. coast-to-coast in this country, are lining up and camping out for days. but not everyone is on the get the phone. >> i sold this for a little bit than $200. >> we have a few customers, four or five. side, -- and on the advertising. they're talking about the of this being thinner and lighter. and talking about the staggering sales predictions. 10 million being shipped in the next 10 days. so what could be wrong? the new application that replaces global maps as a lot of that needs to be worked out. >> there are a lot of points of --erest that need to be off u may say that this is a accurate direction to new york city. >> a fe

our unemployment rate in ohio is lower than the national average. i think it's four points lower than the national average. as a result, people are still concerned about the competent and jobs in ohio but certainly isn't like you've seen in other states. >> patti ann: no question, is the paradox here that john kasich the republican governor is helping president obama win reelection? >> you know, paul i think i don't accept that. fact of the matter it's hard to defeat an incumbent president. two, ohio has always been a swing state and number three, in order for mitt romney to do better he has to be here more. the situation is we are doing better here. we went from 89 cents rainy day fund to loss of 400,000 jobs to up 123, so people are feeling better here, but we have the wind in our face. you know the uncertainty of threatened tax increases and big debt hanging over our head. if i want the wind at my back, mitt romney has to be elected president because the uncertainty is paralyzing businesses. >> paul: but should mitt romney associate himself with policies of succes

organic or conventional which one is more nutritious >>> the next few days all about four more years the democratic national convention kicks off in charlotte. the party's chance to counter allegations made during the car and see if the country is worse off than four years ago. the main arsenal as first lady michelle obama political reporter grace lee shows us a california political party leader makes headlines. >>> a war of words from the california democratic share his wars compare republicans to the knocks in minister of propaganda as great in a fury that john burton has gone too far >>> the danger of romney ryan and the republicans >>> california democratic chairman john burden makes headlines he spoke on kcbs and compare the republican vice- presidential candidate paul ryan to let not see leader known for creating propaganda during the holocaust >>> they lied then in care that they lied to us like joseph garbles the big lie you keep repeating that was curveballs the big lion face said that care about fax they're going to lie it is not a pejorative to talk about their >>> no question he went too far >>>

poll johnson garnered four percent nationally point particularly well and he swing states the same swing states that could determine the election in fact the poll also found that his third party bid combined green party candidate jill stein they're actually gaining major traction with voters so let's just call a spade a spade what our government is doing and has been doing for way too long is holding the people hostage into a rigid two party system that doesn't represent the voice of america a system that marginalizes the voices that we need to hear the most the voices of those that are struggling not the voices that echo the one percent minority and that's why i'm breaking the set. since the recent anti west protests have sparked up across the muslim world the corporate media and political stablish men have been spending the same tired fear mongering narrative about the ubiquitous threat of terrorism. the first time a senior u.s. counterterrorism official calls the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in libya an act of terrorism on the point that it is terrorism i think that's pretty cl

who was morning at reagan national in four months. 43 in cumberland. 49 degrees in fredericksburg. 55n the nation's capital. satellite and radar boring. no storms. nothing but high pressure. that will translate into mostly clear skies. that will be the story today. sunshine throughout the day as high pressure suppresses any cloud formation. we will be around 60 degrees by 9:00. 73 at lunchtime. 76 for the high this afternoon out, caught. the next seven days looks good. temperatures a little bit warmer tomorrow. saturday partly cloudy and warm. 84. early evening we could see a few storms. cooler on sunday. meantime, of today on the thursday morning commute. -- getting up to date on the thursday morning commute. >> manasseh's through fair oaks a little bit jammed up. and eastbound 7 a little jammed up. more on that in a couple of minutes. 395, the brake lights are with us. everyone passed the pentagon starting to see that the way. one more item in the district, and down pennsylvania avenue after you cross over the bridge, exit activity in the right lane. dealing with construction barrel

warning from beijing china washington to stay out of the country's territorial disputes with four other nations in the south china sea the u.s. has been backing its regional allies on the issue which is the fueling tensions in the region. system that it's at the n.t. wardell calm things washington is only homey its own interest in a zip pacific. washington has been noticing that china's economic and military rise has led to some local superiority and washington views superiority in the geopolitical sense as its own prerogative and they don't want to allow china to get any of that prerogative so what the u.s. has been doing in the last year president obama announced a strategic shift into asia pacific so-called asia pivot which is an aggressive policy that involves surging american military presence throughout the region and this isn't just possibly laying the groundwork for a future war in asia but it's also preventing very productive international economic exchange between our two countries which is desperately needed especially in the down economy of the united states. well let's get a final

from beijing china wants washington to stay out of the country's territorial disputes with four other nations in the south china sea the u.s. has been backing its regional allies on the if scene which is fueling tension in the region let's not get some reaction and insight from john that places just ahead at antiwar dot com good to see that mystic place and now hillary clinton has said that the a zip pacific region is big enough to hold both china and the u.s. but is that really the case where they would like that to be the case i mean they actually would more prefer it to be a u.s. domain rather than a china domain but as of late washington has been noticing that china's economic and military rise has led to some local superiority and washington views superiority in the geopolitical sense as its own prerogative and they don't want to allow china to get any of that prerogative so what the u.s. has been doing in the last year president obama announced a strategic shift into asia pacific so-called asia pivot which is an aggressive policy that involves surging american military presence througho