mr. wells suggests. jeffrey thompson never asked me for anything. >> the primary election day for democrats in the district is april 1. just days after a fire devastated an apartment complex -- >> new trouble for the families impacted. why they were targeted by criminals. a local firefighter whose job it is to put out fires has been accused by authorities of setting one himself to cash in. >> yes, it has happened again. a new scandal for the d.c. fire department. investigators tell us in the event or an admitted to setting his own car on fire. >> marcus jackson said he did it to collect insurance money. jay korff is in northwest washington with this i-team investigation. a number of arrests over the last several months ford d.c. fire and ems employees. this firefighter worked out of this fire hall. he is now on administrative leave. 27-year-old d.c. firefighter marcus jackson, who works out of engine company for a northwest, is paid to put out fire, but he has been charged with setting his own car ablaze on this

mr. jeffreys. >> thank you, mr. chair, and thank the witnesses for their very thoughtful testimony. it seems that as it relates to the problem of overcriminallization that this task force is encountering, there are potentially three areas of exploration as it relates to the problem we seek to address. you have a tremendous explosion of the federal criminal code, as it relates to regulatory offenses, relates to drug offenses, spanning a wide spectrum. you have limitations on judicial discretion, perhaps inconsistent with the view of an independent judiciary as a third branch but coequal branch of government, and then i think a related issue that some of you have begun to mention and some of my colleagues have talked about during their time, is prosecutorial overreach. that third area, prosecutorial overreach, seems to be enhanced by -- or made more difficult by both an explosion of the federal criminal code and a limitation on judicial expression. so i'd be interested in perhaps start with mr. cline -- how do we deal with the problem of prosecutorial overreach and the imbalance or th

mr. jeffreys. >>th >> thank you mr. chairman. in an earlier exchange there was a statement made by you. you made the point that there are also have been actions reference was made to the notion that the president's economic policies have failed to create economic growth. am i correct that during the last several months jobs have been created? >> that is correct. we all recognize that there is still significant action that is needed to completely turn our economy around. but, in in order to move forward, the first thing that we could all agree that should happen is that congress needs to stop doing things that could shurt our economy. >> that is true. the adding fiscal drag needs to slow it. and allowing the sequestration to take effect. it could cost $750 thous jobs. >> that is correct. the cbo projection was that it point 0.6 off our gdp. >> the government shut down that was un-necessary, that it cost us about $24 billion in lost economic productivity. i think we can all agree that it was harmful to our economy. yes, the estimates are 0.2, to 0.6 gdp. was the ceconomy hurt in anyway cr

businessman jeffrey thompson. >> mr. mayor, your reaction to a potential plea deal for thompson? >> i actually don't know anything about it, gentlemen. i guess we could speculate but i don't know anything about it. >> reporter: thompson is expected of building an illegal shadow campaign to get mayor gray elected in 2010. now that he is in the final stages of plea negotiations with prosecutors, thompson could be the key to clearing the mayor or linking him to the corruption. i don't know what is known other than the fact that he helped elect vincent gray, and we'll let the u.s. attorney sort it out. >> reporter: you think the politicians gunning for gray's job would jump on the news. but it was obvious tonight they don't know what this potential plea deal will say and the extent to which it will or won't implicate the mayor. so as some of them campaign for an endorsement from the city's gay, lesbian and transgendered community, they played it safe. >> the residents at the district of columbia need to know the truth and they need to have the mayor level with them, or we need to hav

mr. jeffrey beady, national security studies at the university of new haven and former fbi, cia and the deltadential does not be better. now, let's test the insight as we vet information coming out of this thanks to both of you for being here. the big headlines today, first about the pilot. he has a flight simulator, not unusual. they say that he was deleting data from that simulator as opposed to from his home computer. we have an expert who is in the flight simulator business, he says he doesn't understand why would you do that. insight, mary? >> well, i mean, i certainly don't have one that's probably as sophisticated as his, but on the flight simulators that you have on your desktop, it saves lot of your plays, so you can see what you've flown before and how you're doing fanned you're a desktop pilot, getting better. there really suspect any need to have to delete that data and does look interesting why it was deleted but it was testimony leeted some time before the flight. hopefully, they can recover it and lots of times, it's very recoverab recoverable. >> say it is almost impossible to

mr. thomas. >> so jeffrey cannot quite hear you but i'm going to ask what you he is asking. saying the plane wouldn't have made to it this altitude. and you brought up the idea of a left turn. a second left turn. >> tracking northeast toward beijing, we know it turned left toward the malaysian peninsula. we can it descend down to 12, possibly even 5,000 feet. then to get here it would have to make another left turn to go due south. so you've got four or five actions that have to be human. it wasn't programmed to do this. the flight program is to go northeast to beijing. >> and you've had this theory all along that it has been human. >> it can't be anything else but human. if it was a de appreciatization, if that happened. and this has happened before. the plane would have continued to go toward beijing. it would not have turned left, descended, climbed, deskrenled, turned left again. >> jeffrey thomas, thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you very much. more with our panel and news after a quick break. so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 a month? yup. all 5

mr. winerslav-- >> it's pronounced "weener-slave." >> okay, jeffrey.s there anything i can do to speed this process up so i can just get back to work? >> i'm afraid not. but someone who's in a rush to get back to work? that's somethin' you don't see every day. now, that is an example of a very appropriate and very, very funny joke. [laughing] >> [laughs] >> jenna i need to speak with you. >> jack, i did not hit that asian page. i was just swinging my arm and she walked into me. twice. >> jenna, it's not about that. it's about your shei

the man who sat down with the president, jeffrey goldberg. mr. goldberg, how are you, sir?> good. >> so it's interesting here. the relationship between the president and netanyahu, intellectually the two of them have enormous respect for each other. but there is just not a lot of personal chemistry. and we know if netanyahu is looking for a way to feel offended, he might look at this interview and decide he feels offended. >> yeah. i don't think the white house thought that he would necessarily be offended, because this is -- >> because he's never been offended before? >> it is a at ttumultuous relationship, i have to say. it's gone years and it's been tumultuous. these are things that president obama has communicated to him in private. >> he has said it before. [ overlapping speakers ] >> -- in a concentrated dose. you know, yeah, he's trying to help carry, the president is, in the sense of saying, all right, guys, this is it. >> i have to raetd you this one quote here, where it comes -- you feel like as if obama is frustrated with netanyahu, quotes his mother, right, whic

mr. thompson, see what you can do. -- have you ever met him? >> i have met jeffrey thompson. >> did you talk to him at all about any of this? >> i certainly tried. way before i started researching this article, i actually ran into him. i was leading a social event. there are many social events in d.c.. he was walking in and i said, oh, mr. thompson. i'm nikita stewart. you never return any of my calls. to think we can talk now? i remember he said no. >> how old is he? >> he is 58 years old. he is from jamaica. >> how did he get the united states? >> he moved here with his father and other siblings before he moved here, his mother had come here. he comes from a very large family. two of his siblings had passed away and she was very upset, according to several of her family members. she just needed to get away. she decided to come to d.c. to stay with relatives and spend the rest of her family followed years later. >> how old was he when he came to the united states? >> he was only 19 years old. education in jamaica, but nothing that would really transfer to the unite

of a military confrontation that could go thermonuclear ok jeffrey steinberg senior editor executive intelligence review live from washington mr stein that sank you very much indeed for sharing your insight with us weapons shaped it. under more wild needs to come a very short break stay with us. well paul told him a language of what i will only react to situations i have read the reports for like the pollution and no i will leave them to stay current to comment on your latter part of the month to save lives or carry out a car is all your talk is no god. no job no more weasel words when you made a direct question and the prepared for a change when you know you should be ready for a. critical speech and a little down the freedom to. dramas the truth be ignored. stories others the few still noticing. the faces changing the world light snack. food picture of today's new. zealand from around the globe. look to. your washing all seem to national life from moscow welcome bach and may never bring it's a rape and drones bank home after its miniature mission in afghanistan ends instead a u.n. route but says the one which is will be used

jeffrey when he tried to backed on them last saturday. one of the officers are wounded but it is not clear who shot him or his partner. >> and mr. juan is being blamed for this. i think the evidence will show that he did not assault anyone or shoot anyone. >> today's arraignment was delayed. police have not given him all the evidence. he's due back in court tuesday. >>> two men suspected of manufacturing more than 600 explosives in the san francisco's courtroom today. pleaded not guilty to charges. gunther also faces drug charges. investigators say they found items including explosives at the home. armodo had been charge in that county and multiple counts and including explosives and child endangerment. >>> this comes after allegations by contractors that caltrans retaliated against them when they pointed out poor equality components. those claims were first made in the state's senate committee earlier this year and were denied by caltrans. . the chp won't won firm the probe officially but it was reported several people involved in the quality assurance process saying they have been contacted by investigators. >>> a few years ag

jeffrey when he tried to backed on them last saturday. one of the officers are wounded but it is not clear who shot him or his partner. >> and mr. juan is being blamed for this. i think the evidence will show that he did not assault anyone or shoot anyone. >> today's arraignment was delayed. police have not given him all the evidence. he's due back in court tuesday. >>> two men suspected of manufacturing more than 600 explosives in the san francisco's courtroom today. pleaded not guilty to charges. gunther also faces drug charges. investigators say they found items including explosives at the home. armodo had been charge in that county and multiple counts and including explosives and child endangerment. >>> this comes after allegations by contractors that caltrans retaliated against them when they pointed out poor equality components. those claims were first made in the state's senate committee earlier this year and were denied by caltrans. . the chp won't won firm the probe officially but it was reported several people involved in the quality assurance process saying they have been contacted by investigators. >>> a few years ag

mr. thompson's admissions today re -- >>> it is after 6:30 now, and you are listening to district attorney ron machen outline the case against jeffreyson involving the mayor vincent gray's last campaign effort in 2010. we will listen in. >> and well into the campaigns of candidates who had the ability to control his financial future. by owning up to what he did today, jeff thompson gives us an opportunity to turn the page from this sad chapter in district politics. significantly jeff thompson also admitted today that the finance crimes extended beyond the district to texas, pennsylvania, indiana, north carolina, and puerto rico. as part of today's plea, mr. thompson accepted responsibilities for his federal crimes. subverting federal campaign finance laws and making false statement statements to the irs in the process. first in the d.c. elections t m thompson was prolific in the conduit contributions for the federal campaigns, and he acknowledged making illegal conduit contributions to 13 federal candidates and one federal pac in excess of $250,000. and in addition he supplied $600,000 in corporate funds to off of the books money to

mr. frisco's testimony this afternoon. >> reporter: robyn kurnow, cnn at the pistorius trial in pray tore yeah, south africa. >> let's dig deeper now with a forensic scientist, also with us senior legal analyst jeffreyobin. jeff did the prosecution score points today talking about the contents of her stomach, amount of urine in her bladder? >> i think they scored points every day. this has been a case that has gone very well for the prosecution. the prosecution has a story that this was a fight that this couple had, and he shot her in the bathroom in a fit of rage. that story fits with virtually every piece of evidence. the idea that he made a mistake and shot what he thought was an intruder, there really is not much evidence to support his view at this point. now, it's still relatively early in the trial. but i think by and large, pistorius is in a lot of trouble here. >> dr. kobalinski, contents of her stomach how significant is that? >> it is significant. because what the state has to do through the use of forensics is to determine whether his story makes sense or not. the fact of the matter is, when food is eaten it transits through the digestive tract in a certain time course. in about two hour

jeffrey thompson admitted to giving $678 million for a political candidate for president of the united states in 2008. that candidate was hillary clinton. thompson is now cooperating with prosecutors. >> with the cooperation of mrpson and many others who have pled guilty in the inquiry, we'll now enter a new phase of the investigation seeking to hold accountable all those who conspired with him to hide the truth from the public. >> federal prosecutors say a trusted clinton staffer whom the washington post has identified as minion moore first approached thompson in 2008 asking for contributions to fund the urban street teams in texas, indiana, north carolina, pennsylvania, and puerto rico. >> these street teams and canvercanva canvassers bwould put up campain signs in support of the campaign in states. >> there's no indication that the presidential candidate was personally aware of thompson's illicit activities, but they say it raises red flags for a presumpative presidential candidate. >> the fact that hillary clinton's campaign approached thompson, knew he was a source of large sums of money. knew he could be counted on like most of the democrats he was supporting, he could be counted on to give large sums of

jeffrey katzenberger recently but we talked about that. i didn't think that movie would do very well. who remembers mr. peabody and sherman except me?> i said, what's peabody? >> makes me better about not understanding a reference. i take it you didn't see the movie. >> no. >> we are approaching the close and the question is whether the s&p will turn positive here. we'll keep a close eye on it for you. it's down less than a point. the dow is off 28 after being down more than 100 at the lows. >> we could be positive on the close here. might get an all-time high on the s&p. stay tuned for that. jim cramer has been skeptical about this market lately. coming up, jim tells us where he sees stocks heading next as this bull market rally celebrates its fifth anniversary. plus y is he on an oil rig right now? we'll tell us because he's coming to us live from said oil rig. back in a moment. weekdays are for rising to the challenge. they're the days to take care of business. when possibilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matt

getting worse for more on this let's cross live to jeffrey summers who is a professional player of political science at the university of wisconsin milwaukee mr summers thanks for joining us now at the end of the day who do you think would actually be willing to foot that bill of thirty five billion dollars that ukraine needs to stay afloat. well i think it's certainly unlikely that either the e.u. or the united states will come up with that level of funding especially given the tendency towards cutting budgets and austerity in either country now of course the i.m.f. could very much would like to come forward with a stabilization program and of course this would result in austerity being imposed on the ukrainian economy and people. it's just difficult to say whether they're going to be able to muster the political will to come up with that level of funding and it doesn't really do anything to solve the medium to long run problems of the ukrainian economy anyway. well let's talk about the legitimacy of the government many within a country consider the current government to be illegitimate in your opinion well international organizations like s

believe mr thompson and what has been reported in terms of the court proceedings dinner was held where he met with at the time council member vincent gray and they came to an understanding that jeffrey thompson would provide. thousands of dollars to vince a great campaign and. for for benefits to be named later and what if you believe now mayor gray then he says that he had no idea that any of this was going on which the election i think now becomes a matter of who you believe right and the voters will make that determination in very short order i mean what do you think he is saying right now that you know he had no idea although it seems a little i'll let you weigh in now just that six hundred sixty thousand dollars was funneled into i mean what do you think about that i mean well you might argument i mean the issue is that we need to i think we need to approach it this way there's been a culture in washington d.c. politics you pay to play that it's not just been with this administration but it's been with previous administrations so forth and so on i was just commenting to some folks today that when when when when abba big business comes to town they want to live. that has access