no u.s. casualties but a u.s. base was breached by insurgents earlier today. >> barbara, explain to our audience the difference here. you and i both understand this. a forward operating base is very different than, say, the main base where you have a lot of people here. this is a very small group and as you say security very tight. exain the significance of this. >> reporter: you bet, suzanne. a forward operating base, just as you said, is not like the big international bases we have visited in kabul or bagram, acres and acres. these are locations out in the middle of front line combat zones often simply surrounded by wire, barriers, security checkpoints, troops on patrol. usually several dozen troops at these bases not major bases like you would normally think of. look, some of the big bases have also come under attack, but at these forward locations, security is at a heightened state all the time. so for this to have happened, the key question is how did the insurgents get in. >> barbarastarr. thank you. >>> nex

no u.s. attorney would allow someone to review their own documents until doj what they think is relevant or to do this, i will just brief the attorney on what those documents might include rather than turn the documents over. no u.s. attorney would go for that deal. yesterday attorney general holder admitted that he had additional documents consistent with our subpoena request but instead of turning those documents over, he tried to use them as a bargaining chip to control this investigation. it begs the question, what is in those internal documents that the department of justice so self incriminating that the d o.j. would with not release them? why would they rather use them as a negotiating tool? prior to today we have not had a request for executive privilege. now it is asserted apparently the president is requesting executive privilege. we assume that the presidential executive privilege request only involves his kmuk deliberations so prior to today we weren't aware the president was enga

but the difference in her life from a time there wasn't any foreign assistance, no u.s. dollars or global fund dollars available for hiv. and the prospects of what she's doing now in her community because those dollars are at work in her community are tremendous. there are 5.5 million people that receive hiv treatment because of foreign assistance program funded by the united states and by other donor countries, especially the global fund. so when we asked the question getting back to the title of our panel, to aid or not to aid, do i think we should aid? yes, it is in our best interest as a country and i think it is our right and our responsibility. could it be more effective? absolutely. should we fund more? i think so. but, right now, we're living at a time in history when the world has changed more than ever before in terms of the development gains. and, yet, millions and millions o people still live in extreme poverty. we know that extreme poverty and economic injustice breed fear and hopelessness and terror. we spend billions of dollars on trying to find violence a

no mismanagement of funds or to require certain additional controls. those are things that can be done to help safeguard, prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of some of the u.s. funds. >> tell me, have you studied the reconstruction done in japan after world war ii? you haven't? >> no, sir. >> what countries have you studied reconstruction programs on that were successful? >> that were successful? my professional work at gao i focused on iraq and afghanistan, that's my -- >> so, you've never focuseded on a successful program of restoration. i doubt whether the americans after world war ii permitted japanese companies who were involved in corruption to continue to get contracts with the economy building measures that we were taking then. i doubt that. i don't know for sure, but let me just say that i could understand why the american people will be horrified if they found out how loose we've been with their money. and the fact is, is that this corruption in afghanistan, if the united states isn't willing to take it so seriously that we blacklist anybody who has been engaged in it, much less put them in jail, if we don't do that, no wonder they don't take it s

an independent third party inspection and verification system to make sure that no u.s. taxpayers dollars are used to support businesses that employ children in the worst forms of child labor. now we've had some progress in that, but as we tend now as we'll turn this over to them, we're not setting up a mandatory verification system. we were kind of doing a pretty good job. now that we're handing it over in our agreement, we're not making an agreement to make sure they adhere to the independent third party verification system there. i know it's a small thing. you have a lot on your plate, mr. secretary. talking about all of our budgets and things like that. to me, this is just, again, one of those areas where we can do a lot of good while also supporting an industry in afghanistan and again, i would ask you to look at those contracts that we have to safeguard that verification and that third party verification system in afghanistan. >> i know we're aware of your concerns in this area. let me ask bob hill to comment on that. >> senator harkin, i think you are referring in

there is no option for the u.s.n effect completely defending and protecting the brutal murderer assad. that's what they are doing. in so doing, john, they are completely protecting iran which is essentially the syrian banker, is it not? >> correct. iran and syria are linked. russia is committed to both. they are buffer states in the middle east. there are reasons for this historical. let's speak to the election. this is a severe setback for the obama administration. when and if the military exercise takes place it is clearly in the face of the obama administration's negotiations with iraq. putin played a strong card. >> thank you, john baxter. we'll leave it there. thank you for that inside diplomatic analysis. that's it for tonight. thanks for watching, everybody. i will undergo back surgery tomorrow. i will be off for the next couple of days. wish me luck. pray for me if you will. my friend joe kernan will fill in. a little back surgery and then i'm pack on the tennis court. wish me lucks and your prayers, folks.

he says because of low voter participation rates, i can't speak, it is likely no u.s. president has been elected. mandatory voting would diminish the affect of big money groups and negative campaign ads. it doesn't sound like this guy is worried his guy could lose in november? >> it sounds like another mandate for a geek with a bad rug. >> you don't like rugs. you proudly don't wear one. >> you have to keep it real. >> that was offensive. >> gary akerman is right. mandatory voting is not a good idea. >> jedediah? >> bad idea. >> should we get rid of the electoral college and let them declare the winner? >> sure. jay yes, sure. yes, sure. >> that's a terrible idea, mandatory voting. jay what is this communist china? >> that's a serious question. >> he is asking a serious question and doesn't know where he is. >> he sounded like me there. >> bill, are you surprised that i am reading the wrong question? why can't voting be woman-datory. i don't like man do tore. the only mandatory i do like is another bar where i get free drinks. i recommend the mandates. it is half off t

can do like that one of the big arguments here is that the u.s. has no reason to go in there and shut down this site the mega upload does not have any offices in the u.s. no one that works at mega headquarters work in the us in the company was based out of hong kong kim dot com from germany living in new zealand i mean obviously it sounds like it's a bit sketchy you mean no one's going to beat that but it was a religious the lobbying from this country to pressure the government to really overstep oh my god yeah you know like the motion picture association of america the m p a them and the recording industry association of america have been lobbying against any sort of web sites are going to be able to share copyrighted material or any material sense things like the mid ninety's and we were talking last week on our t.v. about the digital millennium copyright act going back to the clinton administration and what happens underneath there is there's a safe harbor provision that says if you own a website and someone puts material on it that shouldn't be there

fwu question really becomes why is it that no u.s.s are involved in this if this is so much excitement. >> it's a good question. i have attended a couple of conferences recently. none of them yet is jumping at the material. they are not that concerned yet about long term supply yet the japanese and koreans are. >> and one quick question, john. there is one pure play company. on the smaller side of things, tlh is the ticker here. >> the rating is buy and it's a 655 target. >> all right. got to leave it there. hope to see you again soon. does this intrigue you? >> it always worries me, particularly when you hear them say we could not get the supply. >> i own the different etf. not the one you talk about and you don't see the performance. i think you will see other technology take the place of lithium where they thought it would be the home run. >> but there is tlh which is a company. that was a good point. coming up next, class is in session. one of our traders making an educated bet. you will want to stay tuned to see what that is. in

no u.s. soldiers were killed.ts might have had some help from afghan security forces. we're live at the pentagon with that story, coming up. >>> first, two pennsylvania because the person who we presumed, knows jerry sandusky better than anyone may soon take the stand in his defense. his wife is at the courthouse today. one of the very few times we have seen her since this trial began. i want to go to susan candiotti. what are the chances we hear from dottie or jerry sandusky himself? >> reporter: both are possibilities. signs point to hearing from dottie sandusky. she was seen entering the courthouse late this morning. she hasn't been here before the opening day. she hasn't heard any testimony after that. she stayed away from the courthouse. the fact that she's here indicates this might be the day she takes the stand to dedepends her husband. >> as we await that possibility, talk know about some of the witnesses we heard from thus far defense wise. >> reporter: it's been an important day for the defense. finally,

there's no federal standard, no federal u.s. law for remediation of a meth lab. it's possible meth by products can stick around if not properly cleaned. no matter if it's made in a house or a hotel. >> the damage left behind, a hotel maid will not be able to catch, if you will. >> reporter: as you saw in the story a professional cleaner did come out. in this case the person responsible for making the mess is responsible for paying for it. maryland has no disclosure about meth labs. so how can you tell if a property may have been a meth lab? we put it on our website at abc2news/meth. for instance if they're equipped with surveillance equipment. something like this might show you dangerous chemicals that are there or potential vents, problems with the vents. they have a lot of ventilation. they have a lot of strange coloring. if you click that interactive displashings you'll be able to -- display, you'll be able to take a look and you can see the raw interview. you'll find it at abc2news.com/meth. >> thank you. good report. >>> of a got to wonder what is the attract

u.s. there's no chance to make political asylum application any longer. lso, once it comes to the u.s., we hold that bradley manning as to what will happen to julian assange. underground cell, abuse, torture, no ability to communicate with anyone, facing certainly a good life sentence with the possibility of one of these charges in the death penalty charge. he was in an impossible situation. in my view, it is a situation of political persecution of gillian assange for his political activities. it fits in the asylum application procedure and of the declaration of human rights, which rafael correa is rafael korea or with the embassy in london was mentioning. his choices were terrible. not that they're so great right now. he is in the embassy in london. he has asked for political asylum. the ecuadorians will have to decide whether to give him political asylum or not. do, how does he then leave the embassy? that is a difficult question. the ecuadoran could ask the british for a safe passage to get him out of london and into ecuador. on the other hand, it is co

no u.s. soldiers were killed. there's word that the insurgents may have had help from afghan security forces. we're monitoring that for you. >>> first, i want to begin here with news that could furtherer ratchet up the tensions. the pentagon is saying t ining s getting ready to send ships to syria. i want to go straight to the pentagon to barbara starr. i was listening to your exchange there in the pentagon briefing earlier today. you were pressing them a bit. tell me about the exchange. >> reporter: there's been a bit of confusion. there's a urth vessel that turned back to russia. it was a bit of a surprise when the pentagon announced it has information that three warships from russia were headed to syria. i want you to have a listen to what they had to say. >> the russian military is preparing to dispatch some we think it has supplies and perhaps personnel to their base there. we have no indication that these vessels and that material is being sent to syria for any other puose than the russian military has ackno

u.s. officials say there is no indictment against julian assange but apparently the u.s. is going after him after all in their quest for evidence they might he watching us on this show here on our t.v. or else how would several of the shows and guests end up interrogated by u.s. officials about the week the leaks founder this week's episode features one of them that's jeremy zimmerman.

u.s. said it needs to kill the terrorists hiding in pakistan. pakistan says no more raids on our soil. now new information, the u.s. might do it anyway. the latest in minutes. but first, it's getting worse, the fast & furious scandal getting scalding hot, move from this justice department, straight to the white house. president obama invoking executive privilege, minutes before a contempt vote against attorney general eric holder. dick morris says that claim could cost president obam at election. why does he say that? he joins us. nice to see you, dick. >> good to be here. >> greta: why do you think the assertion will be fatal for the president, come november? >> fatal is going far. i think it hurts him and it's a big mistake. until he acted, first of all, nobody was covering this scandal, except us, fox news. the rest of the media largely ignored it. now they can't. secondly, it's obama assuming the scandal on himself. he is saying in effect, no, it isn't holder concealing these documents, it's me because executive privilege is the president telling the cabinet officer, i am asserting

we have no u.s. data coming out today but we get reports this week on producer and consumer prices.cks are coming off their best week of the year, the dow rising 93 to 12,554 t nasdaq rising to 2858. it could be the the most expensive steak lunch. this year's charity luncheon to dine with warren buffett raised $3.46 million. the winner who will have lunch with buffett and up to seven friends is choosing to remain anonymous. proceeds go to the bay area foundation. a nice gig if you can get it. >> a nice charity as well. thank you much. you remember last week linked in confirmed that hackers had gotten access to pass words. the company says it was able to solve the problem, it's reset the pass words for everyone affected. weirdly enough, linked in says no one's account was accessed so if this was prank. >> the hackers didn't take advantage. >> they could have spruced up a few resumes. >> thanks, scott. >> i'm going to check the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. a lot of barbecuing. >> if you will be barbecuing, only you can prevent forest fires. you want to keep a close eye

u.s. officials say there is no indictment against julian assange but apparently the u.s. is going after him after all in their quest for evidence they might hear watching the sunday shows here on our t.v. or else of how would several of the shows guests end up interrogated so about the weekly leaks founder this week's episode features one of them that's jeremy zimmerman an internet freedom advocate who's based in friends at the airport traveling from the united states to friends he will stop by self identified f.b.i. agents and questioned about julian assange and the weekly leaks website says mr zimmerman was swept and with arrest and imprisonment.

u.s. really need it no the u.s. doesn't really need it you could cut the defense budget in half and still and still the united states would outspend most of the world probably all of the world considering the vast amount of military bases we have across the world and all of the advanced military technology that we have and i would spend you know the rest of the world we don't need this stuff it's dangerous and it represents. serious legal problems when the administration starts to use them with no accountability. you know john to kind of put it from the military's perspective can you blame them for wanting to have the biggest and the best in wanting to be the most well equipped well yes i can again that this is part of the mentality behind a foreign policy that is inherently expansive and inherently seeks to dominate the entire world and doesn't take into account stuff like civilian casualties in this drone war so yes i can blame them they should be held accountable for this kind of reckless behavior all right john

u.s. citizen, they have the right to vote. no one has lost the right to vote. no u.s. kicked off voter rolls. there's no purge going on. we're simply trying to make sure the legitimate right. think about it, this is a basic right of an american, their right is not diluted by somebody that doesn't have the right to vote because they're a noncitizen. it is a crime. >> how could it be, either the senator's statistics are wrong or in doing it the way you're doing it, you come up with 87% minorities, the overwhelming majority, registered independents and democrats. you live in a big state, visited many times. how is it if you're doing this in a fair way that's happening? >> we have been asking for the database from homeland security for nine months. >> but is the senator right in the way you're doing it? you get 87% minorities. >> we did it based on the database we had from the motor vehicle. we took 2600 names. did the process. first off, we know based on that that we have people that registered to vote that aren't entitled too, noncitizens, they voted. that impacts races.

u.s. will undertake if it joins the convention. proponents claim there are no costs whatsoever. the u.s. will only enjoy benefits for membership. if only the u.s. would join the convention, everything would work out just fine. in light of the facts, i believe it's the proponents claims that are based in methodology and blind faith. thank you again for inviting me to testify today. i look forward to any questions that you have. >> thank you very much. i really appreciate it. that's a good articulate position of the summary. i'm thrilled to be able to tell you i am very happy it's between republicans. i'm going to look to you to thrash it through. it's interesting to me that they are working hard to get something done which president nixon concede of and president reagan support and pushed president george herbert walker bush refined. i don't think that's inconsequential. >>> let's explore it. i want to explore it. i'm going to ask you to engage in a lat of this dialogue. let me follow through a bit, if i can. if your testimony, your written testimony said there's no legal barrier. i think

no u.s. agents were killed because of guns allowed to walk into mexico that we lost track of. i don't think it's unreasonable for the american people and the congress to be asking for those answers. >> greta: if you dig into it, you get way into the weeds and do the hair-splitting and why this is different. but the bottom line is that congress has asked for documents and subpoenaed them and the justice department is saying no. and the president says executive privilege. so, you know, it does nothing but raise suspicion. it is completely rational to be suspicious. even if they have an air-tight, legitimate reason, especially when you have the justice department recalling the letter for having false information, republicans say it was deceitful, they say it was a mistake. there is enough smoke for people to be suspicious. >> you would imagine they could reach an accommodation where issa could look -- >> greta: justice claims they offered that. >> issa said they wanted the log and they weren't allowed to get the log. >> greta: that's right. >> i think what might happen is that th

there's no u.s.ut today but we do get reports this week on producer and consumer prices. retail sales and consumer sentiment. stocks coming off the best week of the year. >>> it could be the most expensive steak lunch ever. this year's charity auction to dine with warren buffett raised a record $3.46 million. the winner who will have lunch with buffet and up to seven friends in new york is choosing to remain unanimous. last year's winner paid 2.6 million and was later hired by buffet as a fund manager at buffett's berkshire hathaway. not too bad. >> thank you. >>> new to a developing story this morning. firefighters in northern colorado say right now there is no hope of containing a massive wildfire that's already destroyed more than 31 square miles in just two days and it's expected to grow even bigger because of hot and dry forecasts. at least 18 homes and buildings have been destroyed. hundreds of people evacuated their homes. about 250 firefighters including some from canada are battling those fl

there's no u.s.today, but we'll get reports later this week on producer prass and retail sales and skukt sentiment. apple kicked off the annual world wide developer conference today in san francisco. apple is expected to show off the new operating software for the iphone and ipad to keep both growing in the face of challenges from samsung and amazon. ios 6 could include its own maps software replacing google maps. apple is expected to unveil a new line of macs, but we won't see inew aye phone or the long awaited apple tv. last year's worldwide development conference brought icloud and twitter integration. so there's a long history of new products. it could be the most expensive steak lunch ever this year charity auction it to dine with warren buffett raised $3.46 million. the winner who will have lunch with with buffet and up to seven friends in new york is choosing to remain anonymous. last year's winner paid $2.6 million and was hired by him as a fund manager at berkshire hathaway. back to you. >>

. >>> despite five banks receiving a downgrade after the markets close, there is no ripple effect felt in u.s. markets today. there are still troubling signs for the global economy. >> reporter: the news from credit rating agency moodies that they downgraded 15 mayor global banks, more bad news for the weekend economy. they included five of ]!i8wthe largest here at home. baipg of america, city bank, morgan stanley, goldman sachs and jp morgan chase. they have government regulated ability their downgrade matters. >> reporter: it makes it harder for the banks to borrow money from other banks. >> it makes it difficult and more expensive for customers consumers, businesses, small businesses. >> reporter: the down downgrade doesn't seem to have had a negative impact on the markets here. traders factored in the downgrade. dow jones fell 250 points after influential analysts advised clients to bet against the markets going up. concerns about the weakening economies in the u.s. and china and fears about the volatile situation in europe continues  to weigh on world markets. >> there is nothing concr

u.s. government so i mean there is no mistaking the fact the julian assange is a man he's. from his actions and from what he said is very fearful of what would happen to him in the u.s. a license that. very now every forty eight thousand one hundred thirty five if they are. made in court. you can next. time. around. the grand jury. but you can. probably. get us a report by the f.b.i. well this is julian assange just chance really to set the record straight he's just spent his third night in the ecuadorian embassy of course this is the latest dramatic twist in the ongoing saga it's been an eighteen month legal battle for him and the end of last we saw the u.k. supreme court reject his appeal against the extradition to sweden and the legal team in asuncion self running out of options really and so he took this step seeking asylum at the ecuadorian embassy he says he's hopeful that that's going to be accepted if he were to go to sweden not only is the pretrial detention in sweden extremely harsh he wouldn't have access that he does right now to the media all the same freedoms r

u.s. officials say there is no indictment against julian assange but apparently the u.s. is going after him after all in their quest for evidence they might be watching the songstress show here on our t.v. or else how would several of the shows and guests end up interrogated by u.s. officials about the week it leaks founder and this week's episode features one of them that's jeremy zimmerman an internet freedom advocate basting friends at the airport traveling from the united states to friends he will stop by so.

u.s. position was no nuclear power plant for iran. the u.s. was not ready to recognize the rights of iran for power plants. this was the reason they could not do anything in order to complete the unfinished projects. the western countries left iran with billions of dollars of unfinished projects, and they were not ready -- iran had no plan, no program for in richmond, and the revolutionaries decided even to decrease to a minimum the ambitious projects. they canceled many projects. but when the rest challenge iran with the rights, even for nuclear power plants, you left no other option for iranians. then, after iran mastered the in richmond, then the u.s. said, "ok, now, we recognize the rights of iran four nuclear power plants. after iran mastered nuclear enrichment. this was the best way in order to convince the u.s. that you should respect the rights of members for at least civilian power plants. then, again, the u.s. position was 0 in richmond. when iran mastered 10,000 -- rested fusion, the u.s. and europeans are thinking, not 20%. maybe 3

no u.s.ral for 40 years has been required to provide the kind of deliberative internal documents that the house is asking for right now. so you have eric holder say this is a political witch hunt the republicans are trying to score point and the committee saying we need to know if there was some sort of cover-up within the justice department to try to tamp down this story. here is what else is going on and not going on capitol hill. while the house government oversight commit is looking at this and looking at whether or not eric holder should be held in contempt. there is a thing called the transportation bill, transportation bill that has been sitting in front of the house now for a couple of weeks. it passed with more than 70 votes in the u.s. senate by conservative estimates text would create more than 2 million jobs. right? 2 million jobs. john boehner, the speaker of the house, refuses to even bring this bi-partisan bill up for a vote because some members of the house republican caucus r

no u.s. agents were killed because of guns allowed to walk into mexico that we lost track of. i don't think it's unreasonable for the american people and the congress to be asking for those answers. >> greta: if you dig into it, you get way into the weeds and do the hair-splitting and why this is different. but the bottom line is that congress has asked for documents and subpoenaed them and the justice department is saying no. and the president says executive privilege. so, you know, it does nothing but raise suspicion. it is completely rational to be suspicious. even if they have an air-tight, legitimate reason, especially when you have the justice department recalling the letter for having false information, republicans say it was deceitful, they say it was a mistake. there is enough smoke for people to be suspicious. >> you would imagine they could reach an accommodation where issa could look -- >> greta: justice claims they offered that. >> issa said they wanted the log and they weren't allowed to get the log. >> greta: that's right. >> i think what might happen is that th

. >> well, you know that there's no u.s. economy. i mean, when the fed has our interest rates at absolute zero and they're doing what's called operation twist, so operation twist is they're buying long-term bonds. i mean, our federal government is buying our long-term bonds and selling short-term bonds. so they know there's no economy. bernanke is very worried. and really the problem he's having is these tools, he just did you want have many tools left. >> what tools he has left, the main one, which is interest rate policy, has severely been blunted because as you point out -- that he has in the arsenal. >> oh, they're going to be coming out with every ridiculous thing you can think of to try to help this economy. but the problem is they just don't have that many tools. the big tool, you saw it in china, you know, you cut rates. you hope to move things. but what's happening in the world is there's so much money sitting on the sidelines. so much money sitting on the sidelines. and the fact is there's a risk-off feeling in the world. p

and you know but at some point it could start to happen gradually and that that point you know the u.s. no longer has the ability to live beyond its means like you said because the dollar's dominant but but that's going to happen over the next ten fifteen years the i.m.f.'s traditionally been dominated by europe and the united states it was set up that way and he here you have this mess if that crisis in years on countries and you have the years on countries asking nine years on countries to contribute more resources to the i.m.f. to help them out do you think this current crisis could change the way the i.m.f. works to sort of shift the centers of power but it's a very good question i think to some extent it's happening already it's happening already because you know the formal voting is still very much biased as you said in favor of europe and united states but the more the more europe gets into trouble the more it will need money from the outside you know. frankly there's no border was don't have power creditors call the shots and at that stage we know europe starts weakening and it nee

no u.s. attorney would allow someone to review their own documents. i'll just brief them on what they would include. no attorney would go for that idea. attorney general holder said he had more documents, but he tried to use them as a bargaining chip. -- what the question is in the documents that the doj will not release them? we have not had a request for executive privilege. it has been asserted that they are requesting an executive privilege. we assumed the executive privilege request only embosses communication deliberation. prior to today we are not aware that he was engaged in response to the actions after the february 4. but december the 10th brian terry was killed. congress said the allegation they allowed or transferred in this. atf makes every effort to have weapons that were there illegally. we now know that multiple people were involved in the drafting of this letter. we know that their statement was false. march 22 the president spoke to univision. he said there may be a situation where serious mistakes were made. if that is the mistake we

authorize the killing of an american citizen without any recourse to law talk no due process which no other u.s. president in history has done even during the civil war the people who tried to kill lincoln or killed lincoln the conspirators were tried in a court how ever faulty it was no longer you can order someone to be killed and this attack on civil liberties is of course extreme need to stir being because it rudely affects democracy i mean do you do think these social movements are happening in latin america if you look at the sort of technological adoption in latin america it's somewhere like the us force in the nineteen seventies. and it is that is the political and social interaction that is occurring in the states as a result of the technological interactions that are occurring so perhaps it is simply not possible for more industrialized country to adopt a model of a listen country would we have to throw away the industrialisation to do it i don't think so i mean most of these western states a very happily become dean dust realized and made china into de dominant economic bar in the wo