our guest are malcolm nance, a retired u.s. counterterrorism intelligence officer and combat veteran. he is here with us in new york and has a piece in the intercept. and patrick cockburn is with us just back from iraq and syria middle east correspondent for the independent. he is joining us from london. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. our guests are patrick cockburn in london, just back from iraq and syria, middle east correspondent for the independent. malcolm nance, retired u.s. intelligence officer and, veteran who spent many years in iraq. juan: malcolm nance, you alluded to your experience in iraq. i want to go back to some of that experience because you are in iraq as far back as 1987, before the persian gulf war even. could you talk about your experiences, your earliest experiences there? also your assessment of the shia militias and their role in the continuing battle with isil? >> the missions in the 1980's were

nance just said two years ago, we've seen it in england. but last december 2014 we saw a similar plot where the australian federal police arrested 15 individuals by raiding 12 locations in australia, arresting a whole bunch of individuals who were accused, again, of trying to carry out public beheadings in the streets of australia. >> officials say the suspect was radicalized by isis-inspired social media. how vast is in america? >> becoming a true problem. we are very much sometimes detached from what is going on in realities in the middle east north africa. but isis utelization, sophisticated utilization whether it's centralized media or supporters has brought its propaganda permanently to our homes and schools and colleges and universities. so we have to be absolutely concerned about this kind of cancer infesting this society. and obviously we're seeing the signs of it right now. >> malcolm, how aggressive has the tracking become in the united states? >> well tracking became very aggressive after 9/11. but just look agent this particular

aren't going to inspect the building, they will be cordial and ask people to comply with the noiseord nance. >> the -- ordinance. >> it is about a block off haddock, the building is new, construction was completed in 2007. >> we looked into the company that built the complex, this is not the first time questions have been raised about the balconies, a suit alleged that breezeways and balconies were not in compliance with codes. >> construction projects many times the developer and the construction companies disagree. >> should people and troubled that balconies are mentioned in the lawsuit? >> not at all. inspectors will determine if water contributed to the collapse. >>> the season continues in oakland for a -- the search for a gunman who shot and injured a 4-year-old girl. >>> danville police need your help cracking a sand lynch -- vandalism case. >>> the commute is going to be okay in san jose. northbound 280 getting up to 217. . >>> coast and bay running with low clouds, 60s and 70s inland. we start off similar, santa rosa 48, today 48. . >>> police are searching for a gunman who opened

. >> in 1996, there was the meant nance of the parents act that came into enforcement, okay?1996. now since then, as of 2013, there have been more than 2,000 claims that have been made. now what happens is that if an elderly person finds that his or her child, you know, can help him or her and if the child is not, can he go to the tribunal. the government is still cautious about giving out too much help. because if they do, then everyone will, you know, clamor to the government and say i need help, then the government will have to become sort of a welfare state, right? singapore has to resources. we have to ensure that each individual takes care of himself. if he can't, then he's got to depend on the family. >> as the government promotes independence to reduce its burden, the society is aging. many elderly now live or die alone. so the government has begun to make use of already existing public housing units to create new communities. buildings and floors dedicated to the elderly are being built within public housing where many young families live. senior activity centers pla

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john harwood speak to house minority lea nance pelosi against her argument -- >> -- rally against his trade package but said it wasn't a betrayal of the her president. e says pelosi knives obama. >> that's not fair. i've not been a big supporter of fasttrack. i don't think it's necessary. it's a convenience for the administrati. advantage for the business community. but it is a hardship for workers because it just isn't fair. this has reached like a tipping point. but you don't trust him in his assertion that this deal is good for middle class economics. s this. i certainly trust the presidek all of our members trust the president. we disagree with the president on that because this tpp has not even been completed in terms of it. and people can reserve the right to take a look at that when we see that and make an -- >> what we're going through now wouldn't allow it to be completed. completed without it. i have great confidence in our country to negotiate. are you concerned that blocking the president on this front weakens him and could weaken u.s. leadership in the world? >> no. what

these items unlike before we'll continue to june 24 budget and #23i nance committee meeting next wednesday, so unless there are comment i would like taentertain a motion to approve items 6-9 and continue them to next wednesdays budget and finance committee meeting >> i would like tamake a motion to that effect >> motion by supervisor tang and second by supervisor mar without objection. thank you. why don't we do the general city responsibility and after this we'll take our 30 minute lunch resess >> michele [inaudible] controllers office. i have a brief overview. now powerpoint slides. only remind you that general city responsibility, the department that contain the cost that belong to had general fund don't belong to a specific department. for example, in efiscal year 15, 16, the largest expenses in the budget are voter man date td baseline transfer including 37 omillion to the the mta 207 million of debt service, 70 million in deposit to reserve. about fifen 5mal miian for pay as you go portion of the retirey health care cost. 40 million for general fund portion of city wide audit,i t and

it's the state of prom nance that caused so much debate and contention over the past week. anna cabrera has been here following the political shifting sapd sands. >> reporter: we are seeing racism and that's what this flag controversy is to so many that believe the flag represents a racist mentality that is rooted in history. as you pointed out, the flag stands in front of the state capitol today. the fight is not over yet. >> take it down! >> reporter: hundreds of protesters demand the confederate flag be removed in the wake of the shooting at the ame church in charleston. >> to keep human beings as slaves. >> reporter: inside south carolina lawmakers allowing a debate to do just that. >> mr. bennett? >> reporter: ten did not vote. >> i think that misuse and miseducation of the flag is what pushed it to this point. >> reporter: he says we shouldn't let hate groups dictate how we feel. >> we are focusing on the wrong thing here. we need to focus on the nine families. people use the flag as a symbol of hatred. >> reporter: in mississippi where the confederate battle flag is

officials are limiting attendance to 90,000 people with more than 100,000 people last year some nances for more than three hours just to leave the race track. >>> well, we all use our trusted toothbrush every day at least we hope you do. >> right. >> but a new study finds it may not be as clean as you think. >> yeah. in fact, there's a good chance you may not even want to put the toothbrush in your mouth. fox's dan bowens with the dirty details. >> reporter: the toothbrush, it is mankind's tool for oral hygiene those tightly packed bristles polishing enamel and cleaning gums. >> would you ever let your boyfriend or girlfriend or spouse use your toothbrush? depends. >> yeah. >> why is that? >> why not? >> i think it's kind of gross. yeah. except like i've shared a toothbrush with her. >> she does. >> reporter: new study found there may be a really good reason why sharing toothbrushes or your bathroom is a bad idea. yes, we went there. to the toilet bowl because a study from the american society for micro biology found there's a good chance your toothbrush contains fecal matter and if y

but there's a cognitive dissew nance about talking about income inequality.eagan economics. don't raise the minimum wage. i mean, we're seeing the same policies, but what they have to do is begin to link their rhetoric about income inequality to actual policies. >> is that fair? we saw paul ryan, he's not running for president, he came out with what many liberals was a very serious anti-poverty plan. >> where is it? look the rhetoric doesn't match the record. i agree. look the rhetoric doesn't match the record. if you're going to address income inequality, you got to talk about some structural problems that we have in our economy right now. >> notice the conversation we're having, in the sixth year of the obama presidency, the failure palpably in places like baltimore and ferguson on racial relations. on inequality. on economic growth. i mean, at what point does hillary clinton say i'm the anti-obama democrat? i mean you can talk about us not having action. you have a president, on every one of these fronts is failing. >> mr. speaker -- >> i think income ineq

whether it is too fast but whether social policy and shifts in structure will keep pace with this indig nance and outrage on the right. so should we believe. the magd of this injury and what this represents. and that is the place where i'm skeptical. so i don't want to discount the magnitude of removing the symbol but i want that to show up as well in the way we talk about deep structural racial inequality in this country. >> there is also the concern john this becomes -- bill crystal says this is part of the left's 21st century agenda expunging every trace of -- and contends we might get rid of -- that the sort of monuments to the war of arlington and gettysburg and ultimately the left will ban the teaching of lincoln's inaugural. >> yeah all of those are so likely. >> a long long to do list. >> there will always be people who say things like that. i don't think that what's happening is too fast. when social history happens there is a mess. there are going to be many people. many of them are going to be quite influential and articulate who will never understand but it seems we're billing tow

a former mant nance supervisor tells cnn inmates often worked on electrical issues when the maintenance department was understaffed. >> it's improper. it violates the rules and procedures of the department of corrections. it violates the penal law of official misconduct. those are issues we're going to deal with. >> reporter: palmer also tampered with physical evidence after the two convicted killers escaped by burning paintings given to him by matt and sweat and also burying pauntings at a location a few miles from his home. a source tells cnn that palmer claims in an interview with new york state police that he didn't intentionaly help the escapees. >> there is a lot of people that you know he feels he's let down and i told him he has not. everybody is with him 100%. and until they come to the bottom of it nothing we can do. >> reporter: palmer hasn't spoken publicly but talked about the prison system in a radio interview 15 years ago. >> new york state, besides california they really have the best prison systems in the united states. >> reporter: if convicted, palmer will be seeing t

look at the ren nance capital ipo etf, approaching the april historic highs, what's impressive aboutt week's crop is the breadth of the offerings, there's something for everyone. the biggest deal of the week will be transunion, $650 million offering, that's going to be one of the biggest. another interesting firm, milicron holdings. i can't remember the last time i saw an ipo for a company in the capital equipment space. three cloud computing companies, four health care firms, including two biotechs, three energy-related companies, including cnx coal, a coal company with a 10% yield. also on the docket, next week, sunguard big accounting and software firm. $2.8 billion in sales and blue buffalo, the largest make of all-natural dog and cat food, the company has nearly $1 billion in sales, they filed just nine days ago. it means they have a shot coming in the next couple of weeks. and guys, all of this of course is market-dependant. if the market starts nose-diving in the next few weeks, a lot of things on the dockets will be pulled off. as of now we're heading for the biggest june sin

it's the state of prom nance that caused so much debate and contention over the past week.>> reporter: we are seeing racism and that's what this flag controversy is to so many that believe the flag represents a racist mentality that is rooted in history. as you pointed out, the flag stands in front of the state capitol today. the fight is not over yet. >> take it down! >> reporter: hundreds of protesters demand the confederate flag be removed in the wake of the shooting at the ame church in charleston. >> to keep

captain chuck nance says get ready tore the next chapter. that's a scary chapter.s going on? >> obviously the strong horse in this fight and the fight is not just between sunni islam and shia islam, this fight is an internal civil war inside sunna islam and the old brand is al qaeda and the new brand is isis and the reason why the new brand is winning and the strong horse is because we were very successful in driving interest the al qaeda leadership into hiding and so now if you're out on the battlefield which is syria and iraq, and your leader is hiding in a cave somewhere in pakistan and the other leader is walking around with an ak-47 and talking bad stuff and preaching from the pulpits, al baghdady. you're going to follow the one in the lead. >> one of the money guys here i'm fascinated how isis got going by immediately addressing first and foremost how to get money when it was first a threat to assad in syria. it wanted to target the oil fields and capture that in the black market for the oil and instantly provided them taxes. and make it especially violent, a

not assuming that there was going to be comity and nance consent. this senator -- unanimous consent. this senator thinks we should have done this because of the-under gentlemen send of national security. now, it's interesting that this senator from florida comes here with mixed feelings. i voted for the lay pea bill, which is identical to the house bill. but i did that because we didn't have any other choice. when i had another choice, i voted for the senator burr, the chairman of the intelligence committee's version which was to continue existing law and i did so because i clearly thought that was in the interests of our national security. but since that is not the prevailing votes of the senate, we need to get on with and it pass the house bill and then i would urge the chairman of the intelligence committee who is here on the floor -- i would urge him then, to down the line the six-months transitional period from the old law to the new law that be extended with a greater transition time to 12 or 18 months and i would further urge the chairman of

i'd like to request nance consent to submit both of these letters for the record.ow quickly some questions. received $146 million federal loans. will any of those dollars be paid back? >> with regard to that, that's a question i'll follow up on. >> okay. i appreciate that. my understanding is iowa, nbc were told they could not suspend enrollingment and have it remain a qualified health plan, yet tennessee was later allowed to do so. do you know why that policy changed? >> so per our conversation i actually did follow up with cms. we didn't have the record of that request coming in so i'd loaf for our team to follow up and understand if there whereas miscommunication. based on your comment it was something that was concerning to me, and i went and followed up. so if we can work with your staff to understand what your staff understands happened, that would be helpful. >> okay. recent reports claim only one co-op didn't have an operating loss in 2014. is that accurate? >> i would have to go co-op by co-op. >> there are any concerns about possible liquidation of any ot

actual mant nance of those in the employer-bassed market.ent after the g7 summit this week said the affordable care act is working. part of what's bizarre about this whole thing is we haven't had a lot of conversation about the horrors of obamacare because none of them come to pass. and he continued somewhat oblivious seemingly to things i'm hearing in my own district saying, quote, it hasn't had an adverse effect on people who already had health insurance. i'm frustrated, and i know many hoosiers are frustrated bir edd by some of the adverse impacts from diminished coverage options to lack of accessibility in their own communities for care. a lot of people are being squeezed when they go into it. and then the penalties. the mandate taxes that exist if they can't afford to buy health insurance. and so i just want to humanize this a little bit for you because i know you're quite conversant in the statistics and the goings on of much of this health care law. patsy from my district in jeffersonville indiana, her premium went up $135 a month. sh

. >>> the streets of downtown chicago are filled with hockey nance amid thunderstorms and lightning.khawks' win started at the top of the hour. players are riding through double-decker buses. the party then moves to soldier field, where the chicago bears play. 60,000 free tickets for that rally were available online. there are screens set up inside for those who weren't able to get the tickets. the blackhawks won the cup tuesday night. >>> nonprofit farm in san mateo county that helps hundreds of children and adults, well, they need help themselves. jasper ridge farm arranged to move their facility from gilroy to portolo valley. they raised the money, they got the needed permits and everything seemed fine. but then they found out the cost to grade and excavate the land wouldn't cost the $5,000 that they -- $25,000 that they budgeted. it would cost $200,000. >> we were stunned and horrified. but it felt just like one more hurdle. >> we feel like right now it's beyond us. we need more help. >> right now, they are in the process of transporting animals to the farm from gilroy. desperate

i also want to say a word about my friend, penny nance. penny is extraordinary. [applause] concerned women of america are an army of women on the ground in all 50 states standing up for our nation. [applause] i'll tell you, i am profoundly optimistic that we're going to turn our nation around and the reason i'm optimistic is because of the leaders gathered here today. the reason i'm optimistic is because each and every one of you standing up and leading and taking on the forces of darkness, the threats that face our nation. what i want to do this afternoon, there are many, many issues we can talk about, we could talk about jobs and the economy, we could talk about taxes and regulatory reform. but i want to talk about an issue that i think will be front and cent for the 2016 and that is religious liberty. i believe 2016 will be the religious liberty election. religious liberty has never been more threatened in america. than right now today. and let's talk about religious liberty both at home and abroad. at home, like many of the men and women in this room, i have

i also to want say a word about my friend penny nance. penny is extraordinary. concerned women of america are an army of women on the ground in all 50 states standing up for our nation. i'll tell you, i am profoundly optimistic we're going to turn our nation around. and the reason i'm optimistic is because of our leaders here today. the reason i'm optimistic is because each and every one of you standing up and leaving and taking on the forces of darkness the threats that face our nation. what i want to do this afternoon, there are many, many issues we could talk about. we could talk about jobs and the economy, we could talk about taxes and regulatory reform but i want to talk about an issue that i think will be front and center in 2016 and that is religious liberty. i believe 2016 will be the religious liberty election. religious liberty has never been more threatened in america than right now today. let's talk about religious liberty both at home and abroad. at home like many of the men and women in this room i've spent decades fighting to defend religious libe

but first, outrage from nearly 200 passenger on a united flight from chicago to london after a mint nanceue forced an emergency landing in canada. passengers say they were forced to stay the night in a near freezing military barrack while the crew stayed at hotel. >> no united representative ever reached out to anybody, no phone calls, no human beings, nothing. nobody had any idea what was going on. >> our replacement plane showed up more than 20 hours later. shuttling passengers to newark new jersey, before they finally resumed their flight. united is promising a full refund for all. i think she tried to kill us. are you kidding me? no, it's only 15 calories. with reddi wip fruit never sounded more delicious with 15 calories per serving and real cream the sound of reddi wip is the sound of joy. you are looking at two airplane fuel gauges. can you spot the difference? no? you can't see that? alright, let's take a look. the one on the right just used 1% less fuel than the one on the left. now, to an airline a 1% difference could save enough fuel to power hundreds of flights around the worl

with significant infrastructure needs including roads and bridges maints nance, now is not the time to spend $500 million on a new discretionary bus transit program. the obama administration actually proposed two new programs this year that sought funding from the highway trust fund, both of which asked for $500 million each. the committee made clear in the committee report that they choose -- chose to fund the new $500 million fixing and accelerating surface transportation or the fast program n. this bill. if i had to fund one of these programs that is the one i would have funded. so i applaud the chairman, ranking member, and committee for the choice and also apparently choosing not to fund the proposed rapid growth area transit program once again in this legislation. having said that there are no detailed summaries of the particular program accounts because authorizing language has not yet been passed. in addition, nothing is said about the proposed $500 million new discretionary bus transit program in the bill or the committee report. my amendment is also necessary to prevent funds

billion including $28.7 billion for research and development $1.4 billion for operations and mains nance and $18 billion for department of energy. the missile defense agency. in the area of missile defense the bill fully funds the president's request of $8.2 billion for the missile defense agency. i think we agree with that. it recommends an increase of $330 million for cooperative missile programs including david sling arrow systems of israel and recommends an increase of $50 million for the interceptor use of u.s. ground-based midcourse systems that would protect the homeland. so this is -- this needs to be done. we've got to get our interceptor systems at the highest level and there's some difficulties we face now in that system. i think some of the criticism or concerns are overstated, but it's not where we want it to be, and we need to be moving in that direction. it can be fixed. we know that. and there are just some things that we need to work on there. it recommends an increase to facilitate the ongoing development of laser programs, which is a new system. it's different from wha

speaker i ask nance consent to speak out of order for the purpose of an announcement. >> the membersardiced to proceed on the remaining two motions. [applause] >> i would advice the members that the world is watching and i encourage every member of the house to vote yes. i yield back. >> without objection five minute voting will continue pursuant to house resolution 305. the third possession of the divided question is, will the house concur in the matter preceding title 2 of the senate made. those in favor say aye. >> those opposed no. gentleman from michigan. >> reported vote. >> recorded vote is ordered. members record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. >> again live look at the floor of the u.s. house where the taa or trade adjustment assistance bill just failed, and the -- the thought was and was reported in the hill that if that failed, there would not be a vote on fast track. the whole package would collapse however you just heard from the majority leader that the house will go forward with the tpa vote and that is now starting. you can watch the house l