. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioner and members of the public i'm jim lynch my own reside on the street we speak as a resident of noah valley in my lifetime i'll lived in the neighborhood and attended noah valley and worked in retail establishment prior to coming and resident of 31 years at the police department after the marriage we resided in noah valley we raised our children you, however, in 1985 we couldn't afford the plan and purchased a home in daily city we reasonable finally to return to noah city i've observed the transformation of the neighborhood from a thrilling and affordable middle-class neighborhood because of the good weather noah is a good city, however, we're concerned there's a trend toward building resident that are excessive in scale and mass the project on duncan is a prime example and many of us are concerned such 1r789 will be untrophy. like other community stakeholders that have spoken or will speak i'm here to urge you to order the project sponsor to remove the penalty how did it is only an entertainment venue that is excessive and

the second story that sydney tells is about her client, jim brown, a merrill lynch executive involvedn deals with the enron corporation. sydney alleges very serious sweeping prosecutorial misconduct in that case. i don't in any way question her sincerity and she lays out her argument in great detail in the book, but unlike the stevens kay where the adjudication found prosecutorial misconduct in the brown case, the adjudication found exactly the opposite. that is the federal district court judge presiding over the case rejected the argument. the fifth circuit, which i must say had, as sydney points out dismissed many of the counts, nonetheless rejected the claims of prosecutorial conduct. that judgment was then appealed to the fifth circuit where a panel of independent judges rejected it. the supreme court denied cert, and think as sydney says three separate state bar associations decline to find that these prosecutors had engaged in misconduct. i don't know what to say we have serious allegations in one side in the dispute. as i read the book, i kept wanting to ask the other side what

the second-story sidney tells us about her client jim brown was a merrill lynch executive involved indealings with enron corporation. sidney alleges very serious whipping prosecutorial misconduct in that case and i don't in any way question her since saturday and she she lays out her argument angry deep -- great detail in the book but unlike the stevens case where the adjudication found prosecutorial misconduct in the brown case, the adjudication found exactly the opposite. that is the federal district court judge presiding over the case rejected the arguments. the fifth circuit which i must say as a sidney points out dismissed many of the accounts of the indictments but not all of them. nonetheless rejected the claims of prosecutorial misconduct and that judgment was an appeal to the fifth circuit where a panel of independent judges rejected it. the supreme court denied served, denied certiorari and sidney says three separate state bar associations declined to find these prosecutors had engaged in misconduct. you know, i don't know what to say. we have serious allegations by one side

the second story is about her client, jim brown, who was a merrill lynch executive involved in dealingsthe enron corporation. sidney alleges very serious sweeping prosecutorial misconduct in the case, and don't in any way question her sincerity, and she lays out her arguments in great detail in the book. but unlike the stephens case, where the adjudication found prosecutorial misconduct in the brown case, the adjudication found exactly the opposite. that is, the federal district court judge predsing over the case rejected the argument. the fifth circuit, which i must say, as sydney points out, dismissed many of the count of the indictments but not all of them. nonetheless, rejected the claim-of-prosecutorial misconduct, and that judgment was appealed to the fifth circuit, where a panel of independent judges rejected it. denied the petition to take the case and then as sidney said the stepford do because of the bar associations that n. gage in the misconduct. i don't know what to say. we have serious allegations by one side in the dispute. as i read the book i kept wanting to ask the oth

the second story sidney tells is about her client, jim brown, who was a merrill lynch executive involved in dealings with the end on corporation. sidney alleged very serious, sweeping prosecutorial misconduct in that case, and i don't in any way question her sincerity, and he she lays out her argument were vel. but unlike the stevens case where the adjudication found prosecutorial misconduct, in the brown case, the federal district court judge presiding over the case rejected the arguments. the fifth circuit which, i must say, had as zitny points outty missed many of the counts of indictment, not all of them. none the less, rejected prosecutorial conduct. that an -- a panel of incompetent judges rejected it. a and then, as sidney says, three separate state bar associations declined to find that these prosecutors had engages in misconduct. you know, i don't know have to say. we have here is allegations by one side in a dispew. as i kept reading the book, i wanted to ask what's the other side of your story? we didn't get a lot of that. it's hard and it's complex, these white collar cases,

you remember the lynchings back in the 19th century. yeah, you remember jim crow, right? well, nothing is better. this is same stuff that your grandparents had to go through. and you are going through it now you can whip people up. the demagogues have done that throughout history. that's what they're selling, grievance. and it makes me sick. that's why i'm on the phone with you tonight. >>. if had you to give a grade to the media in terms of how they have handled this situation, what would you give them? >> you know, i mean, look, it's a big story there is no, sir many goodsologied in yawdz -- there is not much going on in the united states. there is a story that the media has to cover. it's great pictures for television. i don't mind the media covering it. but i do mind the media giving unfettered access to the agitators and not -- the way i am tonight i called you from my vacation because i'm furious that these people whipping this crowd up in ferguson are going largely unchallenged. i want it to stop. i'm going to do everything i can to make that happen. >> all right.

you remember the lynchings back in the 19th century. yeah, you remember jim crow, right? well, nothing is better. this is same stuff that your grandparents had to go through. and you are going through it now you can whip people up. the demagogues have done that throughout history. that's what they're selling, grievance. and it makes me sick. that's why i'm on the phone with you tonight. >>. if had you to give a grade to the media in terms of how they have handled this situation, what would you give them? >> you know, i mean, look, it's a big story there is no, sir many goodsologied in yawdz -- there is not much going on in the united states. there is a story that the media has to cover. it's great pictures for television. i don't mind the media covering it. but i do mind the media giving unfettered access to the agitators and not -- the way i am tonight i called you from my vacation because i'm furious that these people whipping this crowd up in ferguson are going largely unchallenged. i want it to stop. i'm going to do everything i can to make that happen. >> all right.

jim, thank you so much. and let's turn now to collin lim lynch, who covers the united nations for "foreign policy" magazine. thank you so much. you have been writing recently about how much hamas' capture of that israeli soldier has complicated the process for a longer cease-fire. >> now the calculations have been changed again because it's turned out he was -- he had been killed in the operation. it's not clear how exactly he was killed, but now this puts the israelis in a position where they no longer have to negotiate for the release of one of their own. the israeli government, as soon as that operation was over, the response to that capture, prime minister netanyahu was saying we're not going to negotiate a cease-fire with these guys, we can't trust them, and we're not sending -- by the way, we're not going to send one of our officials to cairo to engage in talks on a cease-fire. if jim maceda is right and they're moving back in that direction, that would be another interesting shift. but there's a lot of confusing signals coming out of the region. >> krystal mentioned the united nations school deaths t

about his first lynching, where he bragged about how the whites in 1872% of the blacks from voting and helped from voting in help -- at the end of reconstruction and the beginning of jim crow. that kind of pride in ethnic violence, that was really surprising. i also didn't understand the power of the kook left clan in texas politics in the 1920s or that my great-grandfather was all kidnapped political movement. you know, i wasn't really surprised to find out that they were often these things, that the details were shocking. >> host: we have been knowing each other for a little bit now. and i know you not to be a racist person at all. so i am comfortable were you learning about this about their ancestors? it had to make you uncomfortable. >> guest: it did. i remember i didn't make my first trip to tomlinson hill until 2007. so this is the place you grew up on. you know, this is your childhood. and i have never seen it by the time i was 42 years old. i'm sorry, 47 years old. so i am standing on the hill of which my family donated 17 acres. he's a veteran association and they constructed a reunion crown and it's still standing today and now your family still holds reunio

lynch. >>> when we come back, you'll hear more about this company in the coming months. details on the former "squawk" breakthrough getting ready to go public. >>> can netflix make a laugh? jim jefferries joins us late other than this hour. "squawk alley" is back in two. >>> welcome back to "squawk alley." our cnbc rap it up calculated by mood moodys.com. the gdp report changed the forecast for the third quarter, and it did bring it down a bit. down 0.1% to 3.2% with a range of 2.5 to 3.6%, reminder that they upgraded the second quarter gdp and the reason is because they upgraded inventory and taken off some inventory expectations for the third quarter. here's the range. mood moodys.com, contributing to the survey. ten economists. 3.6% third quarter. deutsche bank, 3.5%. side note, deutsche bank, second quarter spot-on, 4.2%. morgan stanley, revised downward to 3.2%. credit suisse and barclays bringing up the rear at 2.5% for the third quarter. kayla, the big story is that the relative strength in the third quarter remains after that upward revision to the second quarter. kayla? >> thanks for that, steve. keep an eye on that. especially after the better than expected numbers