. -- persians. all of those people. but he says as we look out the can see people as different from ourselves as other and we would rather attribute bad feelings and demonize them as he was saying. use it up -- you set up 10 or 20 constructs in this postmodern world and it's scary but you think that there is another way to look at all of this. it is not us and them or black and white. >> well, what got me going -- as you said i am and ancient historian. not a historian in the modern world. i live in the modern world but i'm not an historian of it. public on the going is that the ancients are now getting the blame for all of this. there is a book published 3-4 years ago called world war, -- worlds war the 2500 shares between east and west. it refers to the conflict between the greeks and persians in this book traces all of our ethics conflicts to antiquity -- ethnic conflicts. be to define the world in different segments, barbarians, jews and gentiles, romans and just about everybody else. so there was this kind of xenop

♪ >> so a chelo kabob wouldn't be complete without persian rice.ned with saffron, the rice in this country is like nothing you've ever had. >> tony, first you should take the butter and put it on your rice. bon appÉtit. >> bon appÉtit. >> it's good. >> it's really good, yeah. it was a hopeful time when i arrived in iran. a window had opened. there had been a slight loosening of restrictions since the election of president hassan rouhani, and there was optimism for a deal that could lead to an easing of crippling economic sanctions imposed because of iran's continued nuclear program. trade restrictions that have been very, very difficult for everyone. but there's a push happening between opposing factions in the government. on one hand iranians are the descendants of ancient persia, the empire of poetry, flowers, the highly influential culture that goes back thousands of years. but the ruling clerical and military class are at best ambivalent, at worst actively hostile to much of that tradition. severe religious-based restrictions of speech, dress,

then he increased coast guard operations in the persian gulf. in the middle east, we were getting involved. he had to deal with the exxon-valdez spill, the versatility of the coast guard. commandant william kime, admiral kime, when he is commandant, enhanced the service role in the gulf too. we have been in those wars desert storm, desert shield for , a long time. he thought liquid nitrogen tankers, natural gas tankers, were a very good target for terrorists. he engineered protocols for their protection. a lot of it is classified. commandant kramek, 1994-1998. communism collapsed in europe. the eastern satellites and the soviet union. so he reached out to that part of the world and said, how about joining us in pacific search and rescue, fishing enforcement, border control? and he had good relations with the soviets. he started the juniper class cutters, the 225-foot buoy theers that supplanted famous buoy tenders of world war ii fame. some of those are going to be in vietnam. they will have navy seals on the platform looking for viet cong sabot

after the war in vietnam, but shortly thereafter in the 80s there was a buildup, especially in the persianulf. when it comes to the economic impact of bases in the feelings of locals you see a wide range of opinions, of course. many locals are quite happy to have the bases. many work on the bases, have benefits that come from the bases, but the economic impacts are complicated and many who are very much opposed to having a foreign military presence on their soil for a variety of reasons i could talk to you about more. just to follow-up on the economic impact, research has shown that while people often fear the economic consequences, they fear that in places like florida or california, new york, texas, similar fears abroad, research shows that generally speaking the economic damage is relatively slight, and communities tend to bounce back quite quickly, and in some cases actually end up better off than they were with the base because they essentially create much more sustainable,sustainable, vibrant economies, transforming bases into schools, housing, shopping, and many other uses. >> ii th

hell, heaven, persian gulf tory, the priesthood. people often have questions about the priesthood. and then life. what is our belief in life and things of how to live out a chased life. and all of the things that are connected to the essential teachings of the church and how do we live them out and why do we stand up for example this past weekend 50,000 people walking down the street of san francisco market street standing up for life all based on one essential issue or belief in life. and so we are going to be talking about some of the details of those when we come back. my name is chris and you are watching mosaic and we'll be right back. ♪ [ music ] >>> welcome back. today is father john the administration of the ashch dice seize in san francisco and i want to go through this list we started reading before the break and the essential teachings of the church that are often sometimes confused i'm going to read through the rest of them and we are going to go back and you could say a few things about each one. the priesthood, belief in life, chasmty in one state in life, could not e

they have area denial strategy in the persian gulf. these are serious problems an there isn't a sign that they're changing as much as we would like to see them change. i think what we are liking to see apropos is i think we're liking to see iran strengthen lynx with russia and china which may share an interest in challenging the international order which the united states and the west have -- have led for some time. obviously that challenge is playing out not just here in iran but it's playing out in places like ukraine and the south china sea and so forth. iran is much more likely to corporate with that broader effort than it is to try to draw close to the united states which is a much more difficult lift in a sense within the iranian system. so i think that at the same time also we could bear in mind aside here that iran has serious international challenges. this has been alluded to. but remember, lifting sanctions certainly is very helpful to iran. but in a sense it's not the only problem that iran faces internationally. i think the

the legendary general black jack persian. congress decreed no more monuments, but approved this down with the heels park, across from the historic hotel, a block from the white house as a suitable location. the glistening reflecting pool drained and in disrepair. >> in the design of the park, this area was an ornamental pool. it has not been used that way for several years. >> reporter: for now, it's a blank canvas inspiring more than 350 entries in a design competition this summer. five made the final cut. the forgoton wore features a grid of 1,166 markers, one more every one of deaths. a victory tower in a forest of trees - the weight of sacrifice incorporating images on the walls along the edges. park. and an american port rate with a portrait wall and photographs on the ground. >> hero's green, imagines images. all five have two things in common. there's no walls like the veterans memorial, but there are trees, lots of trees. >> wanted to be inviting to people that want to come here. to recreate, to do what they want to d

and the persians will cheat.ut on the other hand, secretary of state kerry's masterful presentation that you showed an exert of really swayed me to say to myself, even though i'm a democrat who has oppose the deal, it is perhaps the best that can be done right now. it kicks the military action down the road. we will have to take military action, we and israel and others. but for now it's okay. the iranians have even had hostages now, three or four of them -- regimes like that go back thousands of years, taking hostages to enforce various powers to agree to agreements. this is an outrageous regime and hopefully will be overthrown eventually. for now this the what we've got to go with and i support it. it's going to delay the military action. >> thank you for the call. speaker john boehner weighing in sending this tweet yesterday on his twitter page saying why should iran be trusted to do its own nuclear inspections at a military site it tried to hide from the world? well here are some of the headlines outside of w

persian gulf are criticized for resettling a small number of syrian refugee. >> approximately 200 peoplen support of country clerk in kentucky that refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. a judge found her in contempt of court. issuing licenses conflict with her religious please and davi davis's attorney says she has no intention of resigning. yesterday a deputy clerk in the county began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couple. >> well, father of 7 was shot to death and nearly four months later no one has been arrested and tonight his family is reaching out you for help. here's rick williams with tonight's crime fighter's report. >> george's voice catches when he talks about his late son jahad hudson. >> he enjoyed being around his kids a lot. >> wednesday, may 27, father of 7 went to a local bar in camde camden. >> that night, he left our house and he went to the bar. i don't know what happened at the bar. from the bar, to maybe ten minutes he gets shot. >> hudson was able to make it to a friend's house 8 and jefferson where they called for help 12:20 a.m. hudson wa

result of extreme instability in syria and our inability -- not only ours but the inability of the persian europeans and others to do anything about it. what really concerns me is that with germany announcing that they're going to take 800,000 refugees in the next couple of years without addressing the issue or talking about the issue of root causes, that is to say the instability, it's like an open invitation or a blank check to anybody who wants to come to europe. i think they have to think that through, and we have to work with them and they have to work with us and the persian gulf states to figure out the middle east. that's the root cause of this problem. >> stabilize the middle east, and we've got a president that put $4 billion forward to the united nations for the syrian refugees without so much as a mention of its causes, what policies to follow, what actions to take in the crisis. the same with angela merkel. i can't even figure out what audience she's speaking to, ambassador. it makes no sense what she's saying. widths one absurdity compounded by the next. >> it's a bit like tr

. >>> authorities call a discuss persian -- suspicious fire. when police and fire arrived several cars were on fire and the fire was spreading. some people living in apartments were temporarily evacuated. >>> san jose will consider taking a step to raising the minimum wage. they could race the minimum wage to $15 an hour. they will vote on whether to hire a consultant. other snips that have expressed interest are sunnyvale and campbell. the berkeley city council. consider a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $19 an hour. the proposal calls for bumping the minimum wage to $13 and followed by additional increases in subsequent year. santa clara will vote on increasing the year round emergency shelter beds. right now there's 130 bed as available. they want to provide more places for homeless to sleep, especially if there's a wet winter. >>> time 4:08. we're one day away from the next big presidential debate. we'll look at who's ahead in the polls and to growing concern for hillary clinton. >> do you have what it takes to be the last "american i

they have area denial strategy in the persian gulf. these are serious

they've got to think that through and they've got to work with us and we work with them and the persian gulf states to stabilize the middle east. that's the root caught of this problem. lou: to stabilize the middle east, and we've got a president that's put 4 billion dollars forward to the united nations for the syrian refugees without so much as a mention of its causes, what policies to follow, what actions to take to end the crisis. the same with angela merkel. i can't figure out what audience she's speaking to, ambassador. it makes no sense what she's saying, and one absurdity compounded by the next. >> it's a bit like trying treat the symptoms without even mentioning the disease, and i think that's what has happened here. a holistic strategic approach is necessary to the entire problem. lou: john negroponte, always good to have you with us, thank you so much, ambassador. >> thank you. lou: does the impotence of the republican-led house and senate forcefully dispel the notion that ours is still a government checks and balances? cast your vote at loudobbs.com, we'd like to know what y

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the persian gulf war. peter pulikkan joins us now.t is pretty amazing that it is back on par with 1998 is it a short-term repricing, one-time? go throughhe markets restructuring, this kind of volatility will unfortunately be the new normal. we saw oil prices go down to 6.5 year lows to jump all the way back up, 25% in the span of three days. it is the kind of move you see in 1990 when in iraq invaded kuwait. it is the volatility you kind -- -- we relatively you see will expect this volatility going forward. vonnie: do you mean six months, a year? that was a war. peter: when you think about restructuring in the oil market, people tend to like to think in weeks and months, but the reality is these kinds of macro shifts take longer than that. they take years. we are talking about 2017 until we see some real stabilization and real stability in the oil market. brendan: what i am wondering is we have been talking about swing butucers and rig count, this is psychology of the market, ages we do not know what the market in spirit we will see v

. >> i'll be back with a final thought on pending persian problems. send us your thoughts an twitter or follow me. tell us what you think about what will happen with u.s. irani relations. we'd love to here it. stay with us. >> millions at stake. shady investments. limited oversight. >> super pacs are part of the wild wild west of campaign finance. >> could actor daniel craig be the latest super pac scam victim? an ali velshi, on target, special investigation. >>> i routinely pass what was the iranian embassy in washington. it's a modern building topped by a dome. it's been empty and unused since the late '70s. in the decade since, iran has not hesitated to commit to aims in the middle east and the western world. the former president doubted the holocaust and spoke of wiping israel off the face of the earth. reopening relations with iran and anything this these goings on would have been dismissed as crazy talk. i wondered why. in a complicated and dangerous world, it makes no sense to only talk to your friends, as if the existence of an open channel to

riley unit are shipped out to the persian gulf. >> the gulf war, for tim, was sort of the culminationg military career. the way that that mission was described to him, the mission of the u.s. was noble. >> within weeks of his arrival, mcveigh's intense focus and determination to be a model soldier pay off. >> a promotion came while he was out in the field there. he was made sergeant, and, of course, that, you know, gave him a greater sense of pride. >> during the gulf war, battles on the ground are rare. but for mcveigh and his platoon, one bloody encounter stands out from the rest. >> mcveigh looked into his pathfinder inside the turret of the bradley fighting vehicle, and saw way out in the distance a group of iraqi soldiers. >> i put the cross-hairs up there, pulled off my shot. and the next thing i saw was everything from above his shoulders disappear in red dust. it was like a red mist. and the guy next to him dropped. i did kill in self-defense. it was a single shot that got two guys. >> the fact that it was a kill shot for two in one kind of made him a legend in his unit. >> th

. >> oman would like to see the arabian sea and persian gulf that is calm, pro-business, quite, safe and stable. any instability, whether it's in the country of the arab world, or places where business is conducted on a daily basis will be bad for imam. the ageing leaders is 74, and without an heir. dealing some to speculate whether it is a global head ache. can be painted. once he's gone. >> who knew about that. it's a year since houthi rebels took control. it's a bloody anniversary. more than 50 killed, including a family of 18 in saudi-led air strikes against the houthis, what a day indeed. >> john terrett, thank you >>> scott walker drops out of the republican presidential race. more non-traditional candidates are searching. carson sets out. after volkswagen skirted the administration rules, the obama administration looking into what other automakers are going. >> tomorrow morning on al jazeera america, china's president comes to the u.s., hoping to improve ties. with cyber security issues, will it detrail the visit. >> start with a global perspective. >> when i lost the job, i t

jews in iran are persians. they've been there for a long time and eat the same food. my cameraman decided we would do this one interview with the owner of the kosher restaurant over dinner and there are these little chicken drum finger wings on the plate and all i can think of is how i can keep this guy sitting next to me talking long enough that i can keep on eating. and i didn't know i was doing. i didn't realize it. i thought i was being so good and i was impressed with myself saying i'm eating and interviewing this guy. i subsequently saw the video. i didn't do that good a job. i heard people say that it looked like i was prepared to eat my fingers. it didn't look like there was any actual meat on the bones. that i was asking dismissive questions just so he could talk while i ate. everybody thought it was kind of funny. >> it's a restaurant. >>> iranians will tell you that there's a vibrant jewish community in iran and the thing about the jews in iran is that they don't associate with european jews. they're not of european jewish stock. delays been there a long ti

the assumption that it will have unimpeded access and control other all domains of warfare in the persian gulf. a recent study co-chaired by marine commandant james conway and former general charles waled put it this way. the jcpoa will allow iran to improve its unconventional capability, challenge the strategic position of the united states and its allies in the middle east. iran will be able to revitalize its defense and industrial base in the short-term even if it devotes nl only a fraction of the $100 billion or more that will be unfrozen as part of the agreement. more than the iranian government's entire budget for the current fiscal year on military spending. other the medium term, the removal of economic sanctions and the united states arms embargo will allow the regime to acquire other advanced technologies and weapons from ibroad. and once sanctions against its ballistic missile program sunset, iran could more easily develop weapons capable of reaching targets in the middle east and beyond, including europe and the united states, end quote. this agreement will enable iran to morn

threaten arab regimes and prevent the united states from defending allies and our interests in the persian gulf and behind >>> many will be valid. i'll discuss some later in the show. a number of president obama's democratic allies have come out against the iran nuclear deal on similar grounds. we'll discuss some concerns in a few moments. as the debate - it's as much about political prospering. the president secured enough support in the u.s. senate for the deal. 41 senator at last count, enough to keep the resolution against the deal from coming up for a vote. if the resolution disapproving the deal does go to a vote, the president has enough support to veto it, and to defeat any attempt by congress to override him. for more on the state of play, let's go to libby casey in washington. 41 senators are on board. president obama doesn't face danger of the iran deal ratified by the united states. he's not out of the woods. we don't know how this will unfold. there's a lot of procedurural questions. 41 is the magic number that the white house was eager to hit. it means democrats have enough v

there are signs all over this station today, in so many different languages, persian and arabic. it's just amazing to see. and the refugees that we've spoken with throughout the day have been so gratified to get that kind of treatment they feel so welcome right now. but i must add they are still concerned about the borders possibly closing again. you know there was a statement yesterday from the austrian chancellor saying austria has to go back to normality. we don't know at this stage but austrian police say they will not be closing the borders but will check to make sure human trafficking is not going on, there will be spot-checks. all that being said, there are concerns about refugees trapped on serbia's borders iraqi and syrian, they still have family members that are still tra pped itrappedin serbia, and no certan they will be r reyeund reyeunt . >> palestinian mother has died. scott heidler has the story. >> 80% of her body had third degree burns. she succumbed to these injuries, early monday morning. her body has been returned here. third member of the family died by the a

be called persians. wonderful people. i studied with them at the niversity of illinois and they they be given the duo -- should be called persians. you been to iran? caller: never. i have traveled all around the world. as a former flight attendant i met many friends at the university of illinois, and i'll bad you what, they're not people. give them a fair shake and don't don't em iranians and confuse them with the iraqi dumb allers next door and that's i have to say. point? ur last caller: i think this is a good obama will go k down on a good legacy and thank you for taking my phone call, sir. host: thank you for weighing in this. inside the "washington post", no carden on the or iran vote and available online washingtonpost.com. providing the final vote needed the he president to secure iran deal. to wrestle with the deal. support consumed him for much of the past month. cardin goes to the synagogue he hears about it and about itinner he hears and sees his grandchildren he hears about it. he's not going to be able to esc

missile defenses, including shape-based defenses that could be deployed in the mediterranean and in the persianulf areas that would be able to provide some defenses, and also land-based defenses in europe that are specific aimed at iranian defenses. so that's part of the long-range missile defense program that the u.s. has been spending billions on. >> thank you, jamie mcintyre in washington. back to you, one of the top, i suppose most strident objections that people who don't like this deal have, is it doesn't destroy all of iran's nuclear capability. that's what they want. they want it totally wiped out. it doesn't even stop iran from enriching uranium. there are limits, but it still allows iran to enrich uranium. how do you when you are talking to these people, how do you convince them that this is acceptable? >> you have to first understand that iran is part of nuclear non-proliferation treaty. under that treaty, iran has a right to a civil program. these limitations that are being placed iran's enrichment capabilities. that enrichment level is used to power its reactor, also for other nucl

we went to the persian gulf to find out. reporter: humanitarian aid is profitable, even for these migrant labourers -- sudanese contract workers in dubai are sorting through the packaging waste that suddenly accumulates when a disaster like the one in nepal strikes. we're in the world's biggest aid relief complex, 50 kilometres outside dubai, storage facilities as far as the eye can see. and inside, there are cartons as far as the eye can see. the head of logistics at the un's world food programme says supplies often have to be repacked. stefano: this is a donation from the japanese government. they have procured it from a company in the market. reporter: in an emergency, products from countless deliveries have to be packed together. a look at this showroom indicates how diverse the items are. from tents to saucepans to toys -- aid workers speak of survival kits. ideally, families in need get relief of this standard. disasters become sales outlets. stefano: in 2014/15 we had what we call an l3 emergency, which is a corporate

threaten arab regimes and prevent the united states from defending our allies and our interest in the persian gulf and beyond. with the removal of restrictions on iran's ballistic missile program, this agreement will give iran the means to launch a nuclear attack on the u.s. homeland. a week before the deal was announced, president obama's own secretary of defense, ashton carter, declared this should not happen. quote: the i in icbm, ashton carter noted, stands for intercontinental which means having the capability to fly from iran to the united states, and we don't want that. that was a week before he knew what was in the agreement. i know of no nation in history that has agreed to guarantee that the means of its own destruction will be in the hands of another nation, particularly one that is hostile. what president obama is asking the united states congress to do is unique. historically and dangerously unique. the results could well be catastrophic. the claims made by president obama, secretary kerry and other members of the obama administration about this agreement have been robust. this d

flag and ships in the persian golf.we need to have the military budget that correlates without vital interest and not with fascinations, with misadventures. lastly, corporations must pay their share of taxes. the wealthy must pay their share of taxes. they have the cushion. they owe it to america to keep america strong. lastly, we must put america back to work. the alternative to welfare and despair is work. people got a job, revenue goes up, they pay their taxes, the deficit goes down, and the self-respect goes up. put america back to work, is the surist way in the debt crisis. >> mr. dukakis? >> i think i'm the only person at this table today who has to balance a budget, i've balanced nine budgets in three years. first, you have to make the hard choices on spending. and a number of us have already talked about it. you have to improve your economic performances if unemployment were just a drop, the federal guj et deaf sit would be $36 billion less. if you do those who things the interest will come down. finally, we hav

friends and partners, they're thinking centuries they're thinking the glory of the preislammic of persian empire. so we gave an empties that 15 years from now iranians will be only weeks with the capacity t@ enrich uranium on unpress deputied levels, weeks from the japanese of the dutch, but iranians ladies and gentlemen, are not the japanese of the dutch. so what are the results of this agreement? the result of the nuclear race of the middle east was turkey, saudi arabia, egypt, and possibly others buying reactors. the saudis are buying french react force and a the korean and turks from france and korea, and russia, all of these building the nuclear know how, and skillset that will go into building the u nuclear arsenals of the future middle east multipolar nuclear environment. turkish general told me ten years ago in a private conversation that if iranians go nuclear we go nuclear. and i believe him. that turkish industrial base is stronger, bigger than the iranian. just to wrap up my 14 points i'll try to bring it in the q and a hopfully what do we need to do? we need to show that we m

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. >> the battleship built in 1942, 19 campaign stars for combat during world war ii, korean war, persian gulf war. neat idea. >> i wonder if it's gally type food. -- galley >> dylan: [ sighs ] >> mariah: hey, what's going on? is it sharon? >> dylan: sharon gave me a call this morning and said she's looking forward to her next therapy session. >> mariah: who looks forward to therapy? >> kevin: somebody who wants to get out of fairview, fast. what? it's a psychiatric hospital, not turks and caicos. >> dylan: i'm just proud that sharon's doing what she has to do. aren't you, mariah? >> mariah: yeah. yes. yeah. y-- very, very proud of sharon. yay, sharon. uh, noah and i are actually going to visit her today. >> kevin: wasn't he supposed to meet you here? >> mariah: yeah, and that boy is usually as punctual as the 6:00 news. something must be keeping him. >> marisa: looks like you've already prepped for the first shift. >> noah: yeah, it's all set. uh, i'm on my way out, so

the persians have been great negotiators. they are laughing in iran right now at how stupid we are. >> let's move on to a different topic. ben carson, he's also making a lot of traction. he's feeling good about himself, enough that he's coming at you. he is a man of faith, everybody knows that, it's a cornerstone of his existence and certainly is motivation to run. >> i don't know that. i had not heard that. i have known of ben carson for a long time and never heard faith was a big thing until just recently when he started running. so i don't know about that and ben carson's faith. of all of a sudden he becomes the great religious figure. i saw him yesterday quoting on humility and it looked like he memorized it two minutes before he made the quote. don't tell me about ben carson. >> he's coming at you, too. >> he's starting to hit me so i hit back. i only hit back when i get hit. ben carson, you're talking about his faith, excuse me, chris, go back to look at his past. go back to look at his views on abortion and see where h

assembly i think are very speed --ng because the speeds of a persian that has great moral authority and is a -- is able to interpret the questions that come from the global mankind. and to try to give orientation and answers to the people of the entire world. this occasion in particular here ,n washington and in new york there are two important speeches in the expectation of every one of us. theial in this way of service of the hoped-for the peace in the world and orientation and solidarity with mankind, addressing the most urgent and crucial question of today. the hope is here for the first time, as you know. and this gives him i think an attitude of humility, of hepect, of interest because will speak and also learn. the cultureaks of of encounter. greatm, this is a occasion of a new encounter. think this is also in the attitude of someone that comes to receive and not only to give. veryis i think interesting. we expect three much from him. what hes always open to sees in the attitude of the dialogue. mind towhat i had in say. the problem of the visit is already in your hands create i