matt goodman here at csis holds our william simon chair in political economy. the simon chair examines current issues in international economic policy, with a particular focus on the asia-pacific. but i should also say that matt previously served as the white house coordinator for the east asia summit, for the asia- pacific summit, but he also served as director for international economics on the nsc staff and was responsible for the g-20, g-8 and other international forums. and with that, i'd like to introduce my colleague matt goodman. >> ok, thank you, andrew. thank you, heather. so the president will be participating in the eighth g-20 summit on september 5th and 6th at the constantine palace in strelna, outside st. petersburg. when andy gets here, he can tell us how to actually pronounce strelna, and not to mention st. petersburg. the g-20, as you know, just to recap, is a gathering of leaders of 19 individual countries and the european union, which has its own seat, and then another five invited guests, including spain, singapore and a couple of african c

i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. our guests are mattzo and adam goldman, reporters for the associated press, co-authors of the brand-new book, "enemies within: inside the nypd's secret spying unit and bin laden's final plot against america." we're also joined by linda sarsour. city, here in new york leading arab-american activist yorkthe association of new and the advocacy and civic engagement court enter for the national network of error american communities. >> we were talking about larry sanchez. let's turn to a part of the 2007 hearing before the senate committee on homeland security that looked at the nypd's counterterrorism efforts. this is then senator joe lieberman questioning larry sanchez, the analyst to came to the nypd from the cia. >> i'm paraphrasing, but i think you said the aim of this investigation and of the nypd was not just to prevent rris attacks, obviously, post-9/11 in new york city, but to try to prevent -- understand and then prevent the radicalization that leads to terrorist attacks. in the end of it, what are

matt taibbi is with us of "rolling stone" on "looting the pensions." stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman juan gonzalez. we turn now to major new piece by rolling stone contribute in edit or matt taibbi called, "looting the pension funds: five years after the financial crisis, wall street is picking at the carcass of flat-broke city and state governments -- blaming public workers and making millions to 'rescue' them." >> matt taibbi joins us here in our studio. explain how the pension funds are being looted. >> the primary focus of my piece, there were a couple of things. number one, how did these funds come to be broken the first place? i think everyone realizes that states are having fiscal crisis. one of the reasons is at least 14 states have not been making their annual required contributions to the pension fund for years and years and years. so essentially, they have been illegally borrowing from these funds, sometimes going back decades. another focus of the piece was the solution that wall street funded think tanks are coming up with now is to get higher returns by putting these fu