mr. ashley said, one week from today, the port of san francisco will mark the 150 anniversary and i could not think of a better birthday present than the new exporatorium. so it is my honor and also my thrill to be here today to not just to celebrate this grand achievement but to mark this historic moment for the port wr, we have once guinea involved ourselves both architecturally, scientifically, socially, and environmentally, and economically. and the port as you know, was the beginning of our city, just a few blocks here and it is the basic of the tell graph hill and it started as agricultural and fishing village, right there where down's offices are was the first fisherman's wharf. >> and it is just amazing to see how it has transformed. of course, the thing that really set the city on fire was the gold rush and in the words of one historian, the gold rush catapulted our little city of san francisco into a far greater world ride prestige and enviable position than the tiny population really deserved and we have been in that role ever since and our port has evolved with the city as we

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mr. ed snowden, former nsa booz allen individual. ashleyrything. >> this is equivalent of cleanup in aisle nine of the intelligence world. he is basically playing it down, that it is not an issue compared to the terrorist plots we're catching and stopping around the world. tracy: verizon basically ran a fiber-optic pipeline from here to quantico. you're saying the goveenment asks for it and they have no choice to comply. >> i didn't hear about the pipeline. i'm only reporting what the committee --. ashley: they thwarted over 50 plots through their surveillance program. that is the point. tracy: it adds validity. it is working..3 if they want to listen in on our phone calls, let them. ashley:. >> intelligence officials say when a plot goes through to the end and people hurt and killed, that is wwen the complaints come in. ashley: that's right. tracy: makes sense. ashley: makes sense. tracy: that is a great story. ashley: a little after quarter past the hour. time to check on markets. nicole petallides as always down in the thick of it on the

we will now call ashley unser, senator king. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i have to say first as a newcomer to the senate and to this committee, this is one of the most impressive discussions i've been engaged in since i've been here, and this is the way these important decisions are supposed to be made, with passionate and well conceived arguments on all sides. i find this a very tough call. i've gone back and forth, as senator gillibrand well knows, as we discussed this issue over the past several weeks. there's a natural tendency of any hierarchy, of any hierarchical organization to protect itself first. and i think that is an instinct of whether it's the army or any other similar kind of organization. and that makes this a particularly tough call. another preliminary comment i want to make is i think it's really important that we focus on the fact that this is part of a package, and that there is a long list of initiatives in this bill, in the personnel bill and india mini meds, the 10th amendments that we adopted today, and all the controversy is about

ashley: a big story. st. louis fed president saying mr. bernanke's bond announcement was poorly timed.senior economist said mccarthy will be joining s on this dissenting opinion. adam: mortgage rates currently hover around 4 percent, but that could all change given you know who. we will take a look at what happens if rates rise too quickly. ashley: speaking of up and down, we want to take a look at the dow. a lot more green on that screen then read, and that is a good thing. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] if you can't stand the heat, get off the test track. get the mcedes-benz you've been burning for the smer event, going on now at your authorized mercedes-b-benz dealer. hurry, before this opportuty cools off. how d is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. s have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but en though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed much is the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪ [ slap! ] [ slap

ashley: meaty stuff will come in nine minutes when we hear from mr. bernanke. from nicole coal at the new york stock exchange. and jeff flock. and what they would ask him given the chance, michael cox, former dallas fed chief. michael jones, riverfront investment group chief investment officer. and "the willis report" host, wills will -- gerri willis joins us here in the studio. we dropped 50 points on the dow, nicole. we're coming back a little bit. i'm sure it is in anticipation of what we hear from the fed chairman? >> the truth is, people feel like whatever he says now, they got at least the first part of the news which is much of what they expected. they kept things the same for the most part. you did see that the economy is improving some. the talk was moderate. it really did, you did get a sense from the language that ben bernanke and the team there at the federal open market committee feel like they're carrying the economy on their back because they're not getting help from fiscal policy over in washington. i thought that was key. we saw the dollar jump

prosecution doing, ashley, just a minute ago, they were certain to make sure that was stated on the record. the prosecution came out, de a rionda said did you see or hear any of this. mr. good said, no, i can't say with certainty. >> let me use more colorful language. in the words of john good, george, during his deposition that was taken, he said, i saw a black guy in a black hoodie on a white guy who i now assume to be a hispanic guy throwing down punches mma-style, that's mixed martial arts for those out there who may not know what mma is. such a significant moment in this case. hold that, i want to play one more piece from john good, critical testimony. eye and ear witness, just like yesterday, rachel jeantel an ear witness at that very moment. what is significant about this is who he thinks was on top. have a listen. >> all right. if you could, could you tell at that time in terms of describing who was on top and who was on the bottom? >> i could only see colors of clothing. >> the color of clothing on top, what could you see? >> it was dark. >> okay. how about the color of clothing at the bottom? >> i believe it was a light, white or red color. >> to mark knee j

ashley: you got to a lost topics let's start with fed. all ice on the meeting this week. we'll hear from mrn wednesday, what do you expect to hear from him? the market is a little confused right now. we don't get anything more definitive, it appears the market will continue to be confused. what do you expect with regard to the tapering of qe3? >> probably not a lot more than we've gotten already. this fed has been very, very translucent in terms of what they have been predicting and talking about what they're going to do. so they don't leave a lot of guesswork. so i think you will see, people are of the mind that the bull market in yield and bond has come to an end. south is anyone's guess exactly what is said but probably not a whole heck of a lot. will be hurry up and wait. ashley: homebuilder confidence hit seven-year high today. we look as europe being the worse of the worse. there are some signs perhaps that things stablized and we're moving in the right direction. it all seems a little more positive. what impact does that have on the tapering? what is happening here in the states. peo

mr. president, for now i just want to conclude by saying, i read in the press, including "the new york times," there's a story by ashley parker dated june 19, 2013, says "two g.o.p. senators are clees to clos closn border security." and it cites efforts by senator hoeven who has been trying to improve the border security component of the underlying bill. i applaud him for his efforts and applaud him for moving the underlying bill in a more positive direction when it comes to border security. i'm going to wait final judgment until we actually see language, because the devil is so often in the details on things like this. but i would just point outer that just before -- but i would just point out that just before their efforts, which now reportedly would include an additional 20,000 border patrol agents, i would point out that the original bill had zero additional boots on the ground. my amendment adds 5,000 border patrol agents, and now reportedly -- and again we need to see the details -- the proposal by senator corker and senator hoeve hoeven would add 0 additional border patrol agents. just to show what a dramatic ch