leavitt was one of the greatest s.e.c. chairman ever because his mantra was to give the little guy a break, to level the playing field, make the market safe for the individual investor. leavitt favored regular retail investors over home gamers like you over the big institutions, particularly the hedge funds because he knew the big boys didn't need protection. they got all kinds of money. but under the reckless laissez-faire anything goes bush s.e.c., that all changed. you know what i think, the obama administration has hardly done anything to roll back the damage. making the market less legitimate and less safe for you. all the changes that made the market faster, allowed the machines to ping each other for quick, tiny gains, allowing many managers to evade the margin rules bring double or triple etfs selling power or buying power through appeal of the original uptick rule, great depression which protected us from endless short selling. the s.e.c. either approved or enacted all of these things that made the market more dan

various political parties are all united in their stance against military action in syria as well leavitt is foreign minister or has joined the chorus by saying using its airspace to attack syria is no go these countries home to president assad's our time as a body group which says it will retaliate and if syria is attacked our middle east correspondent policy reports now from beirut. the street is angry apprehensive and fearful the media in the region is that the winds of war are blowing in syria both sides are vowing to fight for the country many are afraid that if america launches military intervention this will only result in a bloodbath here in lebanon hizbullah has said it will not stand idly by if assad is fired on this is the clearest indication from the military group that it plans to get involved and any kind of his bill involvement will see rockets fired at israel already in israel thousands of residents have been going to post offices to collect gas mosques the country is in a state of high alert and army reserve soldiers have been called up there is clearly the sense that som

. >> reporter: healthcare policy expert larry leavitt says for obamacare to succeed it is critical young adults obey the new law requiring they have coverage starting in 2014. >> we don't reach these young people and get them into the insurance system, it means that their premiums are going to start to rise so everyone will pay more. >> we're not going to force them to sign up. >> reporter: dana howard of the state run insurance marketplace "covered california" admits it will be challenging to get young healthy people on board but hopes a massive advertising push costing tens of millions of dollars and scheduled to start this fall will help. >> what we are going to do is tried and try practices of effective marketing. >> reporter: that includes using sports teams, celebrities, social media and moms to spread the word. and it will include scenarios intended to resonate with those in their 20s and 30s. >> if i go out snowboarding and bust a knee i'm going to have a real hospital and real coverage. >> reporter: there will also be the message that a large percentage of young people who buy a

secondly, the subject has been studied by the university of chicago, and the study by professor leavitt indicates that a quarter or more of the reduction in crime during that time has come about because of the increase in incarceration. >> but the human cost of incarceration is just extreme, as well as the financial cost. in 1984 -- in 1980, rather, we had about 20,000 people in the federal prison system for drug offenses. and now we have 500,000 people. and you can't tell me that the difference in the rate of drug use justifies such an extreme growth in our federal prison population. and putting people in prison destroys their lives. they can't vote. it's hard for them to find housing. it's hard for them to get college loans. it's just a terrible pox on our society. >> professor otis, allow me to ask you, do you believe the congress should be taking this initiative, given it was congress that put on the books the mandatory minimums, as opposed to the justice department through the attorney general taking this path? >> it seems to me that present law is what we continue -- is what we sh

. >> reporter: healthcare policy expert larry leavitt says for obamacare to succeed it is critical younglts obey the new law requiring they have coverage starting in 2014. >> we don't reach these young people and get them into the insurance system, it means that their premiums are going to start to rise so everyone will pay more. >> we're not going to force them to sign up. >> reporter: dana howard of the state run insurance marketplace "covered california" admits it will be challenging to get young healthy people on board but hopes a massive advertising push costing tens of millions of dollars and scheduled to start this fall will help. >> what we are going to do is tried and true practices of effective marketing. >> reporter: that includes using sports teams, celebrities, social media and moms to spread the word. and it will include scenarios intended to resonate with those in their 20s and 30s. >> if i go out snowboarding and bust a knee i'm going to have a real hospital and real coverage. >> reporter: there will also be the message that a large percentage of young people who buy insu

they are ready to go at a moment's notice but maybe haven't leavitt just yet.here sheriff's deputies told people it is time to go, a lot of those people have left. we were on one street yesterday where there was just one man left and he said, i'm not league until my house is on fire. but then he looked around and said, well, all my neighbors have left. so a lot of people in the evacuation order zone are heeding the warnings and they are leaving as this fire, boy, it is really something. just a sense of perspective here, the plume of smoke is 40,000 feet high. i have had reports that people in san francisco have been able to see it some 100 miles away and the flames themselves 600 feet high. so just an amazingly terrible fire right now for firefighters to deal with. >> the video is incredible. stay safe up there, nick janes, live at the rim fire in yosemite. thanks, nick. >>> this cute little guy is one tough kitty. he somehow crawled underneath a georgia woman's car hood and rode all the way to tallahassee, florida. that's a good 50-mile trip. the woman said sh

brian leavitt is ginning us from new york. we got about a minute-and-a-half, brian.ber, maybe. is gdp later. what are the big numbers this week? what are you expecting? >> of course the big numbers will be gdp. obviously, we will be focusing on payrolls as we head in september. a lot of people are thinking baaed news would be good news at this point in the economic cycle. essentially saying the economy is not showing a big acceleration, maybe concerns about fed tapering. durable goods numbers, we've had three months in a row where orders have been close to over 1%. which is god. leaves a lot of people to think second half economic activity will be a little bit bit better. will is a lot of uncertainty coming into the fall. you see it in the survey data of business leaders. so i wouldn't expect a breakout in non-defense capital goods extransportation. >> is the fed's mind already made up? or do numbers still matter? >> i think the numbers still matter. the fed will move ahead with a taper in september. it probably will be lighter than people had initially expected. of

>> joseph gordon leavitt who goes to the bat cave at the very end.e over as batman based on that. that's how they could link it back to the original batman. >> aha. >> but i think they're moving away from that entire franchise. >> good idea. >> why can't we get a black ba do they all have to be ld be kind of ill. p. diddy? >> but you could never tell because he's got aon. >> his mouth is uncovered. it would make him harder to see. it would actually make it awesome. >> that would wear me out. >> what? >>> well, despite being married for 15 years, sarah jessica parker has just come out and told harper's bazaar magazine that she loves her husband. >> you're kidding. >> yeah. >> still? >> why do you have to say that you love your husband? >> why are you so surprised? >> after 15 years, no one believes you do. >> that's the truth. >> i don't think you can stay married for 15 years if you don't love the person ywith. >> oh, yes, you can. >> it's weird that you have to come out and say you love your husband. despite being married for 15 years, i love our li

. >> do we read that as a possible leavitt if you couldn't get that bilateral agreement you might be able to live with this zero option? >> that's for sure we have said that we need the bilateral security. does not having a bilateral security agreement and therefore not having a joint plan between the afghan government and the coalition after the end of 2014 not a good thing? no, it's not a good thing because it will disrupt the stability to achieve this result. as i said, it was in reach. but that isn't entirely within the president's purview. we need afghanistan as a partner and we need our coalition partners. so there is a whole issue in afghanistan that we haven't talked about. >> what about the audience here and ask you to ask your questions quickly and we will start with jane. there is a microphone coming to you. >> thank you for sharing your enormous talent. first a question to you. marrec who is the chief of staff of the air force didn't say last night that we couldn't do the mission if asked the no-fly zone over syria. he said with less resources he would have to figure out