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countries in two the persian gulf. reminded our gcc defense minister partners when i was over 35,000e military personnel stationed in the persian gulf and the middle east. we have the headquarters of the fifth fleet in bahrain. we have centcom in qatar. >> you have a military presence in the region. >> huge. persian gulf and the most advanced tactical platforms -- navy or air force -- are right there. those are sovereign nations. the united states cannot get outcomes.ctate we want to continue to try and have as much influence. elect morsi, it's up to them. we just stand by? >> we don't stand by but we cannot control a nation of 90 million people. >> i don't think anyone expect us to control. they expect us to have influence because, as you just said, we have influence in the region. nationinfluence with any has limitations to it. if a nation, as we have talked in their interest, this is the thing they have to do or enough people in that nation, we can try to influence it. we can try to do but we can to adjust based on

think of it as asia's persian gulf. the persian gulf is only important for welcome energy, the south china sea is important for energy transport, oil and natural gas under the seabed and also for all of the commercial cargo traffic that travels. >> you already said a couple of things. you compare the south china sea to central europe. dispute over borders and nationalism. are you worried about what happens? >> i think the south china sea along with the east tennessee, where china and japan have several complex will not lead to a world war one style cataclysm. world war one was about modernism, the best tanks, trenches, things like that, and it went on for years and killed 17 million soldiers and civilians. east asia and the south china sea, the demonic demons of postmodernism. warships, nuclear submarines, fighter jets, cyber warfare, ballistic missiles. >> why am i not reassured? >> i am going to reassure you. sven essentially europe was the landslide. and i claustrophobic when a client. their armies came into contact

in the middle east, specifically, you mentioned two countries in the persian gulf. i reminded our g.c.c. defense ministry partners when there, we have over 35,000 military personnel stationed in the persian gulf in the middle east. we have the headquarters of the fifth fleet in bahrain. sitcom headquarters in qatar. >> charlie: we have a military presence in the region. >> huge, plus in the persian gulf, plus the most advanced tactical platforms whether navy or air force in the area, egypt and syria. those are sovereign nations, charlie. the united states can't dictate outcomes of what the people of egypt want or decide or anywhere else. we want to continue to try to have as much influence -- >> charlie: so it's up to them if they elect morsi, if they throw him out, it's up to them, and we just stand by? >> we don't just stand by, but we can't control. you can't control a nation of 90 million people. >> charlie: i don't think anybody expects that, but they expect us to have influence because, as you just said, we have influence in the region and consequences. >> we

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. >> since only the end of the barrel had been altered, he needed a way just to examine the persian ofhe barrel that was unaltered. no one in the forensic establishment could help him. >> i contacted a number of known experts about what i was planning to do and how to do it, and they all wished me good luck. and so, you know, i hoped -- i kind was working on my own at that time. >> but he remembered using a dental casting material called mikrosil in a case where he needed to see tool marks in metal. he decided to try that by putting it down the barrel of the gun. >> it consists two of parts -- a silicone rubber base and then a catalyst or hardener. when basically -- it comes in two tubes. when one squeezes a certain amount of the rubber material out and then a corresponding amount of hardener out, you mix the two together. in this particular case, we injected the cast into the barrel and let it harden. >> it took 15 minutes for the mikrosil to solidify inside the gun. when it hardened, laskowski slowly removed the cast from the barrel. >> it literally does not adhere to the substance t

. >> yeah, i mean, the iranian persians, persian people, not half way normal, they are all the way normalresident of the country swe tweeted sympathy for the kids. it's a net plus. >> before he put them up for $300,000 bill, he was sympathetic for them. the fact they were arrested, just leads me to ask you if somehow your plane was diverted to iran, how much time would you get? >> well, i find that to be quite a lovely vacation because you know i like to be tied up. can you believe, bill, that a country would jail people based on a video that upset them? that would never ever, ever happen here. i can't imagine, a video being claimed for something. you know what, though, this is middle east earn version of foot loose but i guess you would call it foot left. a reminder that other countries, other cultures are weird and if we could, that we could lift america off this planet and take us to a normal place. >> everybody should be happy we live in america and we don't have to put up with that non-sense. >> belief that -- >> i just want to correct him, alan combs is actually an excellent dancer.

so we have used dolphins in vietnam, in the persian gulf and not all of them returned from. >> why arehey called advanced biological systems. >> there it is. consider the obvious. they don't call them dolphins they call them advanced biological weapons systems. duh. that's should tell the story right here. >> we have navy video of you at one of the navy test sites. >> you are holding up a do you understand? ♪ >> oh, boy. rick? >> that was off of key west in a marine sanctuary actually. it's called ship, shock testing. and the float that you see me hanging on. i held on to that for like 24 hours. i swam out to it, about seven miles from the sea plane that dropped me off. and hanging below that red float is a bomb the size of this desk. and they explode these bombs to test our submarine hulls. very important work. we need to do that. we need to test these hulls for, but not there. the mouth of the mississippi river would be a better place, because it's a dead zone. there's nothing alive there anymore. so we -- but it just goes to show that activism actually works. >> you were in the sanc

they put together recently the persian version and here they go skateboarding by invitation in iran and then also end up in georgia and turkey. what's amazing you get to see parts of iran that you normally don't see. ♪ >> never been to this part of the world to go skating and they say they were invited by a guy who makes skateboards in iran. this is the guy engineer and the skateboarder that invited them over. he's the only guy that makes skateboards in iran. >> everything ended up working out with our visas or so we thought. >> they said it wasn't that easy to get into the country because they had a handler go with them everywhere. the older gentleman is their handler, handling the skateboarders. and certain guys like the americans weren't able to skate in certain places while other people who were traveling, from canada and other countries, were allowed to. >> imagine seeing skateboarding for the first time in an urban setting like this. >> now to au djerba jan and georgia. besides the travel they got to skate in some pretty spectacular places. this is my favorite part here. look at t

military personnel stationed in the persian gulf.e some of the most highly capable aircraft, aircraft carriers -- it is in our interest to have that presence there because we have real security threats that emanate from that part of the world. secretary hagel several weeks ago was in saudi arabia to help organize a meeting of defense ministers of persian gulf countries in which we talked about the common interest and common threats we all face whether it's the threat of the iranian nuclear program or the threat of the spread of violent history and is him -- violent extremism, the threat of our closest friends like jordan. we are involved in this part of the world not just because it is a gift we are giving other countries and that something they are getting for free. it's because we have an interest in being there as well. host: "the washington post" editor said -- guest: i reject that editorial as well. the president made it clear in his speech yesterday and has proven during his presidency that he is willing to use military force a

he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money. >> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city anywhere and that that was the whole reason why it was built that high and had the elevator access immediately from the beginning as part of its features. >> my fear's studio was just down the street steps. we were in a very small apartment and that was our backyard. when they were preparing the site for the coit tower, there was always a lot of harping and griping about how awful progress was and why they would choose this beautiful pristine area to do them in was a big question. as soon as the coit tower was getting finished and someone put in the idea that it should be used for art, then, all of a sudden, he was excited about the coit tower. it became almost like a daily dest

. >>> plus we'll take you to the persian gulf where three major airliners are set to become big playersdustry. >>> and comedian cian peel joins us in the studio. that's the "cbs morning news" for this monday. thanks for watching. i'm lauren lyster. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and i'm frank mallicoat time is 4-- here's >>> good morning. monday, may 19th. i'm michelle griego. >> nearly 4:30. let's start with traffic and weather. good morning. >> good morning. happy monday. we have changes coming in our direction today. a cool breeze going to be developing. lots of clouds rolling through too. there's even a slight chance of showers. we'll talk more about that coming up. >>> a busy start to the monday morning drive. reports of an accident northbound at sycamore valley road blocking two lanes but tow trucks are on the way and wind advisories this morning, bay bridge, san mateo bridge, pretty much everything but the golden gate. more coming up. >>> we begin with this story at 4:30. a hiker makes a disturbing discovery. a body i

they have the persian gulf to call it, which would witnessed a few football affiliates.return of the fence whether it really is the capability. they will develop the capability at least on paper because targeting a carrier is not a trivial matter. it is maneuvering and there's all kinds of things you need to do in terms of developing reconnaissance capabilities in order to have the ability to target. but this is something that we've traditionally focused on missile defense against land-based targets. now we have to look at the maritime arena as well. secondly, second point i want to assault the u.s. seems to do more to counter iranian committee rants rockets and missiles, i think our missile defense has to go beyond just rocket and missile defense is, beyond active defense is. i mentioned a moment ago defensive options, contact options for iran's missile at iraqi capability. that is part of it. the other part is having the ability by the adversaries. missile defense is deterrence by denial and enables deterrence by denial. you also have to have the ability to deter by pu

and sponsor terrorist attack and harass and attack ships in the persian gulf. you have to ask yourself what iran would do. you wake up and your nuclear facilities have been destroyed but your country, government and army are in tact. what do you? you would have to strike back to some degree. you would look like a wimp if you didn't. on the other hand, you would not want to pick a full scale war with the united states, the one county that makes sure it comes to an end. in the event, iran's supreme leader would calibrate a response that would strike back but not too hard. i talk about a strategy the unit could use and that is issuing a deterant threat to the leaders of iran and make it clear if it is gets to this point we are only interested in destroying the nuclear facilities and not invading the country but if they fight back to hard with things we could not live back, we would be willing to escalate the conflict. and i think we could play on the leader and trade iran's program, what president obama says is one of the leading security challenges in the country

country at war with itself nevertheless the tsunamis as it is confident it can turn by crippling persians and secure the ground to ensure that the fleet. electro process. this artist lee corporation apple according to schedule and were to ever seen posted before this appeal both the crucible will spare no effort to ensure that the markers postpone member of serene people to make their toys for him. ha site. but on the outskirts of damascus. sharing government headquarters karaoke songs very different. it is thought to require schools to become a promoter of destruction for residents. chances are these goals will not be silent when voters go to cold. in a few weeks ago the ballots in an election can be called many things. toss well normal oliver and to ctv news damascus. the law the leader of the syrian opposition coalition is in washington trying to persuade the obama administration to increase the supply of weapons that us president barack obama has been conscious about supplying heavy weaponry to the rebels that the year that it may end up in the arms of militants who oppose western int

any further down the road of sunni shiite conflict then of the whole region all across the entire persian gulf and middle east height is in grave the air is easily reach a point of no return where you find yourself in a kind of hundred years religious war within islam and that benefits nobody if that happens particularly when it would be centered in the area where the greatest volume of the world's oil and gas supplies come from. what lies behind the late as may to build a bbq at the mall. this is the hate for you on our team's national will be right back. he gave at the make up and down like that. i forgot that we all sang night and the traffic light thingy. it really calms me. guru. i don't like these. your auntie today on rover's future. ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay. i am. rules are going to get a jump in anytime you want. the stay with us down rt international nato will send twelve full flight to jazz to the baltic region on thursday which is right on russia's goal steps. the alliance has that been a stepping up its defense capabilities in the east in europe since in the present eigh

if someone wants to friend you in persian you should say no thanks. foreign-policy test of the next six months, what happens if and when these negotiations with iran do not succeed. that will be issue number one. andeware of friend requests tweets in persian. our twitter question of the day. is al qaeda still the biggest threat to america? these are the answers. "resounding yes. "no, economic problems are bigger." your point about gdp. >> a shrinking economy, people vote with their check books. rate, theoyment official rate plus people working part-time -- it is like 12.2%. >> the final answer. this is a midterm election year as well. richard haass, what do you think? >> al qaeda, if they were to get a hold of weapons of mass destruction. our domestic underperformance. watch china and japan. >> tensions seem to have used a little. >> is a false lull. >> richard haass of the council on foreign relations, thank you for joining us. "in the loop" is up next with betty liu. ♪ >> good morning. you are "in the loop here: up eightie & fitch percent in the mar

served in the persian gulf, moved on with his life. never told a soul apart from his girlfriend. then one night in 1993, six years after the incident, he told kevin. and it was one telling detail that he never forgot. those people who jumped over the fence, they weren't white kids. they were black. >> you had no idea two men went to prison? >> no. i had no clue who they were. total strangers. i said this isn't right. it involved, you know, a different race. it was not two white people. >> that piece of information, more than 20 years after the murder was what tommy and ray and their family had about lost hope they would ever find. >> when i finally got the whole story, it was like, damn, somebody seen it. somebody knew. >> this all made sense. >> it was just a matter of mistaken identity. >> absolutely. it proves everything we said and believed and for the last 25 years. >> john's story, which would have disappeared forever had it not been for mary's facebook post and kevin's steel trap memory now gave aunt jan and all those who loved and believed tommy and ray, new inspiration.

: they were flown 1,500 miles away to doha, the capital of qatar, which is a key u.s. ally in the persian gulf. >> we drove for about two, two and a half hours to reach the training ground. it was close to the saudi border. we didn't know where we were because it was desert all around. >> narrator: over the course of three weeks, they say the americans trained them at a base in the desert guarded by the qatari military. like many of the rebels who were sent to qatar, 21-year-old hussein had never had any previous military training. >> they trained us to ambush regime or enemy vehicles and cut off the road. they also trained us on how to attack a vehicle, raid it, retrieve information or weapons and munitions, and how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush. >> narrator: the rebels were outfitted with brand-new uniforms and boots. >> the americans were warning the fighters not to tell this story at all. and even at one point, they told them if in any case this story will be published, we will stop funding you or arming you. >> narrator: the cia and the state department declined

the americans and russians to where they were at the beginning of the process and find a way for persiansnd iranians to deal with each other's concerns so we can work on this issue. if we just have a meeting, we just had a meeting. let's talk strategically. what are their interests in the middle east? interests? russia's >> to work on that. has consolidated power? again, -- >> he has made gains. with the help of hezbollah. that is the conventional wisdom of the day. i don't think any buddy has a conclusive force or authority. >> do you fear the groups that joinedyed the rebels -- the rebels? >> i dread them. >> that they could gain control and make it a safe haven for terrorists? >> that is a part of it. the other part is they would define the state and then it would spill over and i would add seeing a part of it in libya, it does not allow us to sleep at night. theou're going to mention april 6 movement in terms of the good guys. why are they under attack? >> the tension on the street has raised questions about the motivation. we have arguments about this every day. a litigiousme, societ

and before digging -- the persian gulf, they have pop tarts are rare? >> a lot of pockets around. >> another butters, to. >> that's weird. before digging in he looks up and down the table and says to my can't believe we finally had an r.d. mission. sanchez says, it's about time we killed someone. even i chuckle. we have been there two months. one of the few artillery units actually doing artillery except so far we only shot elimination missions. some of the other guns in the battery and shot bad guys, but not us, not until today. today the whole damn battery fired and we know we hit our target. jewett to has been pretty quiet asks how many insurgents to you think we killed? what? platoon sergeant, hq i don't have platoons. why do you think we need the whole damn battery. we didn't. it's. they're one of us all to have gone time on an actual target. even one round of icn would be enough to take out a platoon in open desert. it was one. he shakes his of slowly. is heavy shoulders touching -- hunched over the table. platoon sized element, that's what it was

i was taken off and gunpoint at that point at nine o'clock and i was told that we were going to persians or first of all went to a local police station and then after that we decamped into a car where i was given a sort of god a guy that had automatic rifle it was night we were passing through checkpoints every time we did you know the guy would have his gun crossed my legs so there's no question of my sort of state that point of being in detention then we arrived at all the barracks and army base and i was put in a billet there told to get my head down get to sleep you know the guy made it clear my god you know if i were to make any move make a break in his orders were to you know to use whatever force needed to basically detain me so then it was it was a case they handcuffed pieces of my hands behind my back in the black sack cloth over my head and then was taken into the center of kiev and there was a meeting there with officials with my embassy with the british embassy with officials here and one of whom i'd met a month before in a crime a top of the airfield who drek annoys me and i

increase production by about 500 million beacials and get -- barrels and get our fleet out of the persian gulf. that would make americans happier. among other things we have one of the most inefficient hire education systems in the world. it's run by a comical group of managers that call thesms university presidents that are -- themselves university presidents. >> very quick last question for you china you brought it up. it's on the verge of surpassing us as the largest economy. any significance do that or is that something that's going to happen no matter what? >> well you know if my neighbor has six kids and i have two, they're going ohave a bigger grocery bill. we have to accept that china is going to be a bigger economy if it doesn't implode. simply because there are five times as many people there. and if we keep going on the track we're going though, we're going to have other issues with china which are going to be very unfortunate, because we are not doing the things we need to do, to grow here. i think it's not so much the size of china. it's whether china surpass he us technologi

travel editor peter greenberg looks at the controversy over the newest location in the persian gulf which pilots association are arguing against this later preclearance facility in the persian gulf. they claim the money should be spent instead to improve customs facilities and staffing at u.s. airports. and some members of congress have been questioning the security at the newest u.s. customs operation in abu dhabi. >> reporter: for 1,300 passengers flying from the united states to abu dhabi each day do not have to clear arrival. everyone is processed in abu dhabi before taking off. >> at the end of such a long flight, the last thing you want to do is stand in a queue for hours. >> reporter: precloorns alouse international passengers like philip milton to grab their bags and go just like domestic travelers. >> we were just about to walk out of the door. i didn't realize we could just hop in the cab and go. >> reporter: the government built the facility to u.s. government security specification, then brought over u.s. customs officers to train. that's when the protests started from some u.

a highway of conquest from persians in the sixth century to alexander the great to the muslim arabs whouy the 11th century converted the area to islam. next up 1200 then the mobile dynasty that ruled off and o onn the 16th and 17th centuries it wasn't until 1747 that the first assemblage of the afghan nation he urged the monarchy founded by the ethnic tribes. they'vthey've long held sway ine highly decentralized date populating much of the south and east inteast and tellthe east ad themselves are primarily pashtun but despite the walls the location backed up against the mountainside made it vulnerable to the gunfire. why were we there? they were a short walk away from the tribal chiefs and it was he who decided where we would stay. the tribes surrounde around thed protected us from the outside in so the security was not in the traditional military tactics but a strategy of engagement. one major outlined in his 2009 paper one tribe at a time. his research that drew upon the 2003 deployment commanding the team had convinced him sending small teams to live and kunar with the tribes could e

before digging in, the persian gulf, could have pop tarts everywhere? >> there were a lot of pop tarts. nutter butters, too. >> weird. before digging in come he looks up and down the table and says, i can play for fun had a mission. sanchez says it's about time we kill someone. sergeant said even i chuckle a little bit we've been in iraq two months, one of the few artillery units actually doing artillery except so far we've only shot elimination missions. the grunts don't want to risk the collateral damage. some others shot bad guys but not as. not until today. today the whole damn battery fired and we know we hit our target. the lieutenant told us so. how many insurgents to think we killed? sergeant -- what? platoon size, it'll have the platoon statewide you think we need the whole damn battery, said the sergeant? we didn't become a subfolder for each gun fired two rounds. i figured it would want to stall the downtime on actual target. even one round will be enough to take antipollution in open desert. no way we needed whole battery. sergeant shakes hi

alexander great did that against the persians and henry v did it and roosevelt did it when republicans overreached and attacked him for the way he looked out for a family pet. >> republican leaders are content with attacks on me or on my wife or on my sons. not content with that. they now include my little dog. >> that was the speech. ronald reagan did it to jimmy carter when carter tried to make something of reagan's opposition to medicare. >> these are the kind of elements of a national health insurance important to the american people. governor reagan typically is against such a proposal. >> governor, there you go again. >> there you go again. a killer. and tuesday night mitch mcconnell had his lunch eaten by a new competitor. hit them with everything you got. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. it's now been 17 days since we first aired our special all in america report on the smart gun and potential life saving technology and the nra's efforts to kill it. it's been 17 days

persian, a 9.7% says 2 will forego cash and take only stocks there.ing story that we continue to follow very closely. now, does the world cup have an impact on stock markets? according to a recent report by goldman sachs it actually does and here to explain and take a look at some of the e.t.f.'s that track some of the countries favored to win is eric. thanks for joining us. first of all, i want to know who you think is going to win. >> well, i mean, i got to go with brazil. that's the favorite that goldman put out there. but they basically said that in the month after a win, historically, on average you get a bump of about 3.5% in the following month. but then it fades and in fact the next year is goes down 4%. it's a shorm term kind of thing -- short-term kind of thing. i take it with a -- like a grain of salt. brazil has a 49% of chancing. so the e.t.f. for brazil, i hink c.i. brazil is the most liquid. e.w.z. is the ticker. it's the single most traded single country e.t.f. out there. if you look at the holders of this, guess who the number one hol

the persian nation is 60% anti-semitic, but the least of all the rest.ost in the area and the world coming in at 93%. a close second, iraq at 92%. as for the least anti-semitic country in the world, apparently it is laos. one programming note before we go, if you haven't had enough of me, i will be on john oliver's great new show "last week tonight" on hbo airing sunday here in out nithe united states. tune in. thank you all for being a part of my program this week. i will see you next week. >>> good morning. i'm erin mcpike and here are some of the big stories we're following this area. some of those raging fires in southern california could be completely detained by the end of the day. cooler temperatures and anti-humidity are helping firefighters make tremendous progress battling the flames and that is bringing a lot home today. firefighters say they're going to do as much as they can while conditions are good. >> we have crews still in all areas of this fire that are cleaning up areas where there is still some hot spots. we had some infrared flyovers

vietnam soldiers have different injuries than the persian gulf and afghanistan.hing that really upset me is the fact that this politicking that's going on, you know and i know and i think all of us know that i bet you that there are congressmen if they went into their files they would see letters from constituents that have complained about this over and over again. so you can't put this in the lap of the president. you can't put this in the lap of the v.a. and say we don't have any problem for boehner to stand out there and say this is a failure of the president, he should check his files and see how many veterans or family members september letters asking him to look into this. >> to that point, we have john with us. i heard you talk about this so i know it is a fact. the v.a. system and the problems with the v.a., this is not new. this is a long-term problem in terms of the bureaucracy. one of the things that is tragic on the one hand, shinseki was trying to do the right thing by adding additional veterans to be able to receive care. at the same time, the syst

looks like he's got some persian in him. real fluffy. >> word travels fast to sergeant english. >> fluffy's had another kitten. one of the inmates told me he saw where she carried a kitten and hid it. i'm going over here to see if the kitten is still around there and see if she's been back. >> she's going to get with him now. she's going to go. she's gone. she hiding from sergeant english. she hiding from sergeant english. she know sergeant english ain't going in there. >> she had that kitten put out right here in a box. >> there's no telling where she carried him to. >> man, what's up? >> where's fluffy? >> why? >> 'cause it's one of my jobs. >> one of your jobs? >> yeah. >> one of my jobs is to keep you from catching her. >> you got all the ammunition. you got to give me a break, man. >> that don't play. one of us is going to fail. >> i know, it's going to be me. >> i hope it's you. >> i hope it's you. and she's got another kitten. >> yeah, it's black. can't get to her yet. she ain't going to let you get to her. >> you get

transatlantic alliance, it's also a model for merging the security of stations around the from africa to the persian gulf. i say this having just contained a form of asean defense ministers last month having called for a corporation no defense minister of this year. these institutions bring all of our people all of our interest in all of our economies closer together. serving as anchors for stability security and prosperity. strengthening these regional security institutions must be as centerpiece for america's defense policies as we continue investing in nato. as these institutions develop their own unique security arrangements they stand to benefit by learning from nato's unmatched interoperability and command-and-control systems. there can be no transatlantic asperity absent security but we must also keep in mind investing in our lives and our collective security means more than just investing in our militaries alone. it means the united states and europe must partner together over the long term to bolster europe's energy security and blunt rushes course of energy policies. by the end of the deca

it is very hard, i think -- it is very easy to oversimplify and of -- and say the rise persian influence, they own and iraq, a piece of iraq on a risk board, on a game board. it is a much more sophisticated, fluid environment in the middle east right now. sometimes it is quite deadly, but often right now you see different actors like iran, including iraq, trying to exercise influence in multiple ways. that all leads to a point of how do we end the syrian conflict. we need iraq's support in that. counterterrorism piece, but i think there needs to be a much longer, well thought out strategy to figure out how we actually help the region stabilize itself. we need what i think has been missing for years in terms of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, which is statecraft. the conception of how we not only use our military tools but also diplomacy and how do we guide the efforts of others to end the conflict in syria to reduce the threats of some terrorist in iraq. that is what i think is still missing in this region of the world. talk to people about iranian influence in iraq, do a thought

. >> uh, that's an awful big persian lime.i have any say-so in whether or not we can use the old logo? >> uh, sure, we could talk about it. >> well, just talking about it's not gonna do anything. >> well, it's right there. >> yeah, i know, it's right there. >> and so there's a little bit of history, right? >> oh, it's a lot of history. it's a lot of history. >> and a little bit of new. i want people to know we don't have keebler pie crust-- >> can--can i sit down for a minute? seriously, no, seriously. i'm looking at you and your hands are turning red on me. seriously. i really don't want to be filmed during this. i really don't. >> okay. >> i'm not feeling good right now. that's crazy, his boss said. leaving the firm? moving across the world? to join a start up. so he sent money and rented an apartment in a new land. that's crazy, his boss said. what fun is life if you're not,he said. in over 700 cities worldwide, products and services that make a citi client anywhere a citi client everywhere. that corporate trial by fire whe

the ground also include persian gardens, fountains, two levels of patios and four reflecting pools.off the desk, this boeing 727 takes first class travel to a whole new level. the old passenger jet was salvaged and then transformed into a luxury hotel suite in the costa rica rainforest. david: what? liz: the film sits among the treetops. guests shell out $3500 a week to stay in two bath, two-bedroom suite, that is cool with, a dining room, terrace and sue of the sea. david: that is cool to watch. number one thing will be april retail sales data. economists expect sales to rise 1.4% after rising 1.1% in march. liz: thank you so much for joining us. we have so much tomorrow. we'll see you then. david: "the willis report" is next. gerri: hello, everybody i'm gerri willis. right now on "the willis report," consumers getting a raw deal at walmart? the things you need to know bevies iting a bank inside the big box giant. >>> seconds from disaster, a drone and a passenger jet nearly collide. >>> whether you're buying, selling or just staying put, don't miss our special report, a user's gui