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but -- >> that is nbc's pete williams. i interrupted you, rachel, just as you were saying that we don't know whether this is going to be a momentous day or not. well now we do. >> now we know. this is the most -- we will have to wait to see the details on it. but first blush from pete's reporting, this is the most consequential way they could have chosen to rule in a pro gay rights way. i defer to the experts on the panel with us. but this is a very big deal ruling and this is a very big deal way to decide it. >> on a very practical basis, what does this mean? >> as a practical matter, it means if a couple is recognized by their state, a same-sex couple is recognized by their state as married, the federal government will accept that definition. so i think the facts are best illuminated by the woman who is a plaintiff in this case, edie windsor. she was with her partner for 44 years. actually, after the oral argument, you mentioned the supreme court. they came down to 44 steps of the supreme court and one of her lawyers sai

pete is the bull. guy, kick it off. >> did you say pete? >> go right ahead.icking, guys. chop chop. >> the recent bullishness in the stock has a lot to do. obviously the barons article. what are if laggards? what is going to catch up? i think intel falls in that g. the last quarter in april, the first operating margins weren't nearly as good as the street was looking for, below 20%. the street was looking at 22. we'll see what happens in the quarter coming up. are they going to have a seamless transition to the new ceo? i'm not so sure that they will. maybe they'll get a couple of hiccups along the way. a lot of people playing catch-up. listen, i know valuation is compelling. what i think in terms of the stock. >> what they're catching up to now is intel was lakhs lagging for so long getting into the mobile space. now they're in the mobile space. they've got this deal now with samsung. they're in the tablets. once they're in the tablets and they get into the rest of the mobile space, this is an area yo where you can explode for intel. much larger, almost thre

. >> do you agree with that, pete?> we have been talking about this eem trade, may 24th is when we started seeing all this unusual activity. has included, including today. another 500,000 puts today. they continue to roll down. this is a great trade school idea when you see what they have been doing over the last month now. they have been buying puts, taking profits, rolling further to the downside, expecting more. today it was july 35 puts rolling down to the july 31 puts. when you look at the us steel, another name, the exact same trade going on, except out in october, they're rolling down. out of the 16s, taking profitles. so it tells me a lot about the materials right now. it tells me about the emerging marks. there is a huge negativity in the merging markets that started before this sell-off. it was a week before this sell-off. >> it takes two to make a market. >> to speak to that, you've had an enormous sell-off driven by flows. this is where i think emerging markets get back to the territory. i actually think we

at&t after a recent pullback, great dividend. >> pete?n edison. options being brought yet. >> all right. i'm melissa lee. thanks so much for watching. meantime, "power lunch" begins right now. >> "halftime is over" and "power lunch" and the second half of the trading day starts right now. >> melissa, thanks very much. we've heard a lot about investment money fueling the housing market. investors pouring in. now that money may be drying up, so what could it mean for your house's value? our real estate expert diana olick has the answer on that one. >>> also today on "power lunch," this man, the second richest man in the world, carlos slim on the state of the economy and his thoughts on what will happen if the fed pulls back. michelle is down there and talking to him. >>> and a worldwide travel warning. if you need to fly, you need to watch this report and then check

pete, in this ongoing story tonight. pete, thanks. >>> over the past 24 hours, we have learned a lot more about an incident that took place in the skies over new york city. two aircraft, sizable aircraft full of passengers, got way too close. one of them was a regional jet. the other was a boeing 747. faa rules call for at least 1,000 feet of separation. these two aircraft were closer than that. our report tonight from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: it happened in the nation's most congested skies served by three busy airports -- laguardia, jfk, and newark. a third of all u.s. air traffic every day flies through, into, or out of new york air space. a week ago today, a very close call. delta flight 172, a boeing 747 with more than 300 passengers on board, was at the end of a 14-hour flight from tokyo preparing to land at new york's jfk airport. but as he approached runway 4 left in rough winds, the pilot executed a missed approach, telling the tower he was going around. the tower issued instructions to climb and make a

i want to start with pete. pete, can you just go through and explain this ruling? in keeping section 5, but throwing out section 4, am i right that they've essentially made section 5 unenforceable? >> reporter: well, they're sigh saying right now the map of states where section 5 applies is gone. so it doesn't apply anywhere. it could in principle if congress redraws the map. that's what congress will have do which will be politically a very difficult thing to do. what the court said is, if you look at the most recent census data, it shows that african-american voter registration and turnout is actually higher in the states covered by -- 5 of the 6 states covered by the voting rights act in the south than they are in some places -- let me try that again. the court says that voter turnout and registration rates of african-americans are higher than whites in 5 of the 6 states covered by the law in the south. they say this is evident that times have changed and the law has to change with it and it has failed to do so and the problem, the court says, is that as a const

pete, good evening. >> brian, good evening. today's ruling says taking an arrested person's dna is just like getting fingerprints or taking a picture to compare to crime scene video. the only difference, the court says, is that dna is more accurate. today's ruling said the nation's police can take a dna sample by swabbing the cheek of anyone arrested for a serious or violent crime which can then be checked against a national database of dna taken from scenes of unsolved crimes. in a 5-4 decision anthony kennedy joined by most of the conservatives and liberal steven breyer said dna is a legitimate search helping police to confirm identity and discover whether a suspect has a violent past and should not be released on bail. >> they can match the dna to a cold case and see if the rapist that committed that case years and even decades in the past is the same person sitting before them that day. >> reporter: in a blistering dissent, conservative antonin scalia, joined by three liberals, said the supreme court is breaking ground allo

pete williams talked about the chart.t talks about the changes since 1965 to 2004 in the makeup of voters, and in one, two, three, four, five of the six states, i think they were saying or six of the seven states, i have to look back at my notes, they are now significantly more black voters. it almost seems as though they were using more blacks going to the polls as a reason to strike this down. . am i misreading that? >> no, you're not. that's exactly right, chris. justice ginsburg's decent for nour members of the court they say they use the success in order to kill it. you take a drug that works. do you then stop it? and the majority of the supreme court was persuaded that when we do have some improvement and some of these preclearance jurisdictions, particularly in the south, and congress needs to revisit the list. the dilemma is that while congress can respond to the decision, congress can create a new narrower list. the politics of these days makes that unbelievably tough. on the question of mobilization, one thing i

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pete, thanks. >>> the president announced a big personnel shift today. susan rice becomes the new national security adviser. there is a replacement for her as ambassador to the u.n. our chief white house correspondent chuck todd has the story. >> reporter: they are now among the most powerful women in the american foreign policy community. behind-the-scenes power players now front and center. >> i'm very proud to have had the privilege of working with tom. very proud that i will continue to have the privilege of working with samantha and susan. >> reporter: susan rice, ambassador to the u.n. for four years taking over as the president's national security adviser. >> i think everybody understands susan is a fierce champion for justice and human dignity, but she's also mindful that we have to exercise our power wisely and deliberately. >> reporter: samantha power, replacing rice at the u.n. has been an influential behind-the-scenes adviser in the west wing as part of the national security council. >> she knows the u.n.'s strengths, weaknesses. she knows am

pete, good evening. >> brian, good evening. the court's conservatives today followed through on a threat they made four years ago, to strike at the heart of the voting rights act unless congress updated it. congress did nothing, and today the court left that key part of the law all but dead. the ruling deals a crippling and potentially fatal blow to the law signed by president johnson in 1965, a response to widespread efforts in the south to prevent blacks from voting. >> we're marching today to dramatize to the nation -- >> reporter: civil rights veteran john lewis, now a georgia congressman, watched as the law was signed. >> without the voting rights act of 1965, there would be no barack obama as president of the united states of america. we've come too far, made too much progress to go back. >> this decision represents a serious setback for voting rights, and has the potential to negatively affect millions of americans across the country. >> reporter: in a 5-4 ruling, the court's conservatives said the areas covered by the v

professor, my man, pete williams, stay cool, if at all possible. thank you, pete. turning now to texas. where democratic state senator wendy davis has become an overnight sensation after single-handedly blocking an abortion bill in the state by talking and talking and talking. davis began the filibuster, a bill that would ban abortions, after 20 weeks, and require abortion procedures be done at surgical centers. she kept talking for nearly 13 hours. >> this lenggislating is being done. voted on. look around the room. primarily by men. you can imagine -- or maybe you can't how a woman feels to be told that her feelings on these issues, that no matter how difficult, no matter the circumstance that she's dealing with, if she can't fit into either would be of these little square pegs, she is not going to be able to exercise her constitutional right. and ways hat's so disturbing ist we don't seem to care. >> senator davis wore pink tennis shoes, you see them there, that have already become iconic. according to the rules of the state senate, only one person can filibuste

pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. arizona said this law was intended to cut down on voter fraud. but the court said today it violates a 20-year-old law, the motor voter law, which allows people to register by mail to vote in federal elections. and under that law, an applicant fills out a form and checks a box to indicate u.s. citizenship. but arizona went further, requiring some kind of document to prove it. civil rights groups said it was trying to make it harder for legal immigrants to vote. forcing them to clear additional hurdles. today with a vote of 7-2 with justices thomas and alito dissenting, the court said what arizona did was inconsistent with the motor voter laws to use that federal form. the constitution the court said gives congress the final word on how federal elections are conducted. still unresolved how much power the state has to say on who gets to vote. today's ruling likely dooms similar laws in georgia, alabama, and kansas. we'll get decisions again on thursday, brian, with big cases of this term

pete joins us from washington for a special spin cycle. pete? >> a couple things about this. emphasize the interview with the attorney general was before this latest story broke about the nsa data collection. and secondly, the goal was really to talk to him about how the justice department has handled the previous leak investigations. what he says is under the current laws and rules that he is not comfortable with the legal standard the justice department must meet in order to gather some of these records. >> reporter: despite intense criticism from congress over leak investigations and even some calls for him to step down, attorney general eric holder says he's not going anywhere yet. >> there are some things that i want to do, some things i want to get done that i discussed with the president. and once i have finished that i'll sit down with him and we'll determine when it's time to make a transition to a new attorney general. >> but to be clear you're not stepping down now. >> no. i have no intention of doing so now. >> reporter: but he says a round of meetings with news m

and pete williams.pete, you are such a significant news man as we like to discuss around here, that even when you get news of something significant like the ruling in the gay marriage debate, it's become a viral sensation on line. the loop seen round the world, hustling the decision to pete williams so he can inform the world. good to have all of you here. >> i was sweating, too. >> exactly. you were running just prior to that. let's begin with where this debate over gay marriage goes now. rachel maddow, the reaction has been so big, so fast, and yet what now becomes a really big question? >> the supreme court had the choice not only which way to rule pro or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. they could have ruled federalism, saying this isn't a federal issue, all states could decide it, or decide it on equal protection grounds and say gay discrimination is wrong. those are the grounds on which they decided it. i tend to side with justice scalia on this, who ten years ago in

pete williams -- >> one other quick point here if i may. so, you know, it seems highly likely this will trigger a leak investigation, which we should point out that process, the intelligence agencies have to refer it to justice and they have to decide. there is no leak investigation on this yet. we're away head of that process. it seems likely given the sensitivity of this document there will be one. >> that's right. and remember all branches of government were updated on this. judicial, congressional, legislative and congress and of course the obama administration. pete, thank you very much. finally, my final first read. this very long extended play version of it thanks to our technical difficulties, immigration. is support waning or not? we have evidence to indicate perhaps that it is. yesterday the republican senator who has been the key to getting conservatives to sign onto the bill, florida's marco rubio came out of a meeting with house conservatives with this warning. >> i can tell you that the bill is currently structured isn't going

pete williams has some breaking news on the boston marathon case. pete?federal grand jury has now returned the next step in the charge against the remaining suspect in the boston marathon case, dzhokhar tsarnaev. this follows on to the original criminal complaint on which he was arrested. he's charged now with killing three people at the boston marathon, maiming or seriously injuring several other people, and shooting and killing the m.i.t. police officer, shawn collier. some of the details in the indictment are new. for example, prosecutors say that as tsarnaev was hiding from the police, bleeding in that boat in the backyard in water ton, massachusetts, he wrote on the inside wall beams of the boat. we've known that but now we have more details of what you wrote. he wrote, among other things, "the u.s. government is killing our innocent civilians. i can't stand to see such evil go unpunished. we muslims are one body. you hurt one, you hurt us all. now i don't like killing innocent people. it is forbidden in islam, but due to said events -- it is unintel

we begin with nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, i think it's a balancing act. tell us what this new program that we're discovering about at the nsa is actually doing. >> well, the first question i guess is whether it's new, and members of congress say it's not. they say that this is what we've seen here is a little peep into what's been going on for the past at least seven years, they say. and what it is is a request or a demand to the phone companies that they turn over data to the united states, to the nsa, on all the numbers that are in america that have called any other numbers in the u.s. or overseas. that's a huge amount of data, and it's gathered every day and turned over to the national security agency in this enormous database. now, that's part one, and that's what this court order that was reported by "the guardian" newspaper talks about. it's the gathering of the data. it says nothing about part two which is what can the government do with it? now, the program is classified, so we don't know all the details, but what we've been told today by members

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nbc's pete williams joins us from the newsroom. pete? >> reporter: very odd case, andrea. to the fbi two men in new york state who were plotting to develop a device that sounds like something out of science fiction that they could use to aim x-rays at people and harm them, people that they described as enemies of israel. the fbi identified these two people arrested today as a 49-year-old engineer from g.e., glendon scott crawford of galway, new york. and eric feight of hudson. they've been charged with con sir si to provide material support to terrorists. the fbi got on to this after one of them walked into a synagogue in new york and said he was looking for people to provide them money and support so he could develop this device that he would mount in a car and drive around and aim it at people that he considered to be enemies of israel, possibly muslims and others the fbi says. but from then on it came to nothing although the two men didn't know it. the fbi had a number of people come at them posing as various kinds of organizations that would agree to help them. the two

>> pete williams, great work and thank you so much. before becoming president, senator barack obama slammed the patriot act and that provision in what he saw as a violation of citizens rights and privacy. >> if someone wants to know why their own government has decided to go on a fishing expedition through every personal record or private document through the library books that you read, the phone calls that you've made, the emails that you've sent, this legislation gives people no rights to appeal the need for such a search in a court of law. no judge will hear your plea, no jury will hear your case. this is just plain wrong. >> robert gibbs is an msnbc contributor and former press secretary to president obama and worked with then-senator obama. so things change. >> look, what always animated him was that somebody needed to watch the watchers. i think that still an mates him even as president today. i think it is very important the way we talk about this. i think the way senator feinstein discussed this the way senator gram discussed

joining me now, nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams.e, the anticipation i think at this point is indescribable. i really do. every monday, every thursday we wake up, we hear this call and we wait and then you just sigh and wait for the courts. >> and imagine what we're feeling down here. >> right. you're there. >> so here's what's happening inside the court. the justices have decided these cases. they all know the outcome of these. they know the winners and losers. what's happening is they're still working on the final wording of their decisions. the majority is circulating. the dissent is going back saying, we think you're wrong here. the majority opinion is adding an opinion to say the dissent is wrong about this. so there's a lot of back and forth still going on. and they're just not done. so it looks like last week -- or next week will be the final one for decisions. we know we'll get decisions on monday, and the big cases, of course, we're waiting on the same-sex marriage cases, prop 8 from california, the federal defense of marria

i want to get pete williams in here as well. to the extent that you have aided and abetted snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you be charged with a crime? >> i think it's pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other journalists should be charged with felonies. the assumption in your question, david, is completely without evidence. the idea that i've aided and abetted him in any way. the scandal that arose in washington before our stories began is about the fact that the obama administration is trying to criminalize journalism by going through the phone records of a.p. reporters, and co-conspirators in felonies in working with sources, that means every journalist in the united states who works with their sources, receives classified information is a criminal. it's precisely those theories and precisely that climate that has become so menacing in the united states. that's why the new yorker's day mayor said investigative reporting has com

at georgetown university, former republican senator jim demint, and our own justice correspondent pete williams. pete, are you such a significant news man that even when you get news of something significant like the ruling and the gay marriage debate, it is becoming viral sensation. the loop seen round the world of the intern hustling the decision to pete williams so he can inform the world. good to have all of you here. >> i was sweating, too. >> exactly. so much to get into. let's begin with where this did debate over gay marriage goes now. rachel, because the reaction has been so big, so fast, and yet what now becomes a really big question. >> the supreme court has the choice not only which way to rule, but also how they were going to rule. they could have ruled just federal. this isn't a federal issue at all, state shoes decide it, or they could decide it on equal production grounds. those are the grounds on which they decided it. so i tend to side with justice scalia on this who ten years ago in the lawrence case said if the court finds that there is not a state interest in discr

pete, you have called this a second half story for the last -- >> for six months. i have been talking about this being a second half story. tim cooing is going to have to come through allotted more than he d he did at the conference. they did not deliver. tim cook didn't wow anybody and obviously there were a few updates given out there. jon has some background stair a little bit on possibly what's going on with the phone. i think they still have to compete with samsung with the bigger model phone. i think that's important because people are watching videos. they're doing everything. these are computers, they're not just phones anymore. that's a mistake and they're late to the party. they might be too late. if it doesn't happen within the next few months -- >> here is how i look at apple. it was the company that was three steps ahead. now it's the fat dog with the short legs running to keep up and it's not making it -- >> you're right. they're months behind. >> you have google coming out with the watch. google working on tv. they're late to the party and it's all a

pete, i want to start with you. we know your interview happened before the new controversy broke over nsa collecting american phone records, but will this only add to the holder problems, the troubles it he's been facing? >> well, i guess the question is will the government do an investigation of this leak? it's too soon to tell. my own guess is they probably will, just given the sensitivity of this document. it's highly classified, top secret, special intelligence, can't be shared with foreign governments. but the process is that the intelligence agencies asked the justice department to investigate this and the justice department makes a decision about whether to do that. that's -- we're a long time from how that process goes along. what he's saying about the previously investigations is that he believes some changes can be made and that his meetings with the news media executives have persuaded him that, number one, more than is done now, news media should be given the ability to contest a request for documents in

thank you very much, pete. let me bring in now nbc news counterterrorism analyst michael leiter who served as director of the national counterterrorism center in both the george w. bush and obama administration. staff attorney for the aclu, national security program. gentlemen, thanks for joining. michael, as i mentioned to pete williams, we have this big headline on politico saying bush fourth term. obviously, making the link that this is a continuation of what we saw after 9/11. what i am curious about is in this court order it's focused on april 25th and is good until july 19th. how do you explain the time line there? >> most orders for electronic surveillance are explicitly limbed in their time frame so courts have an opportunity to review them regularly to make sure that the facts haven't changed, to make sure, for example, that a suspect is still a suspect or that there's still a threat which would justify the collection. so i think in a case like this that you have a very compact window of 90 days, that

let's talk with pete kadens. he's the ceo of a solar energy company called socore energy, and you make and do installations all over the united states. - correct. - how bad is this? - it's a pretty significant issue. we're seeing significant quality control issues, not just in china, but across the board. china has the most rampant quality control issues, but as the cost curve has come down on solar, a lot of our manufacturers are trying to cut corners to identify where they can make up their gross margin deficiencies. so, it's a pretty big problem. - some of them are in negative cashflow situations, and this is one of the impetuses of this. - many, if not most, of the solar panel manufacturers in the world, at least up until last quarter, when japan came online, were in negative gross margin situations. - now, you've mentioned china. that's probably because they're the number-one solar panel manufacturer in the world. - they are the number-one solar panel manufacturer. they're also the biggest violator of qualit

we have it all covered tonight beginning with pete williams at the court. good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. the court didn't go as far as gay rights advocates had hoped. it did not order all states to allow same-sex marriage. but it will have an immediate impact on tens of thousands of gay couples nationwide. gay rights supporters crowded outside the court, cheering the historic decision. first a ruling striking down a law passed by congress in 1996, the defense of marriage act known as doma. >> doma is dead. >> reporter: it blocked the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages in the states that allow them, depriving couples of more than 1,000 benefits that other married couples have. in a 5-4 ruling written by anthony kennedy, they said doma serves no legitimate government purpose and demeans those who are in a lawful same-sex marriage declaring their marriages are less worthy and humiliating tens of thousands of children raised by same-sex couples. eddie windsor, socked with a $360,000 tax bill, when her spouse died, leaving he

let me start with you, pete. my understanding was that the u.s. government had carefully crafted the language in this extradition request to withstand any challenges. yet hong kong government says it wasn't good enough. what happened? >> justice officials say they have been in touch with hong kong since june 10th and ever since then hong kong authorities haven't raised any problem. they say the charges were filed june 14th, hong kong was asked to arrest him. the very next day. they say eric holder called his counterpart, the attorney in hong kong, and they asked them to speed it up. and they said they were looking at it, that it was under review. and then last friday night, they say the hong kong authorities sent new questions. they said the u.s. was in the process of responding when they were told he had left. >> and let me turn to andrea. you've got the hong kong government, chinese government, russian government. ecuador government. what's the diplomat fallout from all of this so far? >> it's considerable. there's no great mystery here. beijing

pete, can you tell us first how this system works? how the process to access so-called metadata about our cell phone usage actually works in practice. >> i'll do my best, martin, with the understanding that, of course, it's classified, so our understanding of it is based on people we've talked to. >> i trust what you say, pete. so go ahead. >> okay. here's what happens. the government goes to the phone companies and says, we want to attach a hose to your data and we want you to pump your records of telephone calls every day into our big tank. and that will give us for as long as we want to keep the data records of all the phone calls that your subscribers make. phone calls in and out of the country and within the united states as well. so that the government now has this enormous, really, just staggering hugely enormous amount of data. then the question is, what are the rules to access that data? and our understanding is that the government goes to the fisa court and says, the foreign intelligence surveillance act court, and says thes

justice correspondent pete williams, thanks, pete. >>.erdict surprised court watchers in part because of justice kagan's recusal which left the court with one less vote on the left. also because some of the tough questions that the defense took from conservatives during oral arguments. >> what that is number? what is the critical mass of african-americans and hispanics at the university that you are working toward? >> we don't have one. and this court. >> how are we supposed to tell whether this plan is narrowly tarlted to that goal? >> for analysis, let's bring innial malik cag henderson, a national reporter for the "washington post" and marc morial, ceo of the national urban league which filed an ammy cuss brief in the case. welcome to you both. mark, willet me start with you. justice thomas concurred with the majority. however, he said he would be willing to end affirmative action entirely going so far as to compare it to slave holding. here are a few selections from his concurring opinion. slave holders argued that slavery was a posit

pete, great reporting. know it's interesting to everybody in the way we're still learning about where we're headed as well. pete, thank you for joining us. up with of the plaintiffs in the prop 8 case. here's what she said today. >> today is a great day for american children and families. sandy and i want to say how happy we are, not only to be able to return to california and timely get married, but to be able to say to the children in california no matter where you live, no matter what your parents are, no matter what family you're in, you are equal. you are as good as your friends' parents. and as your friends. >> translator: the -- >> she sued after her partner died and she was forced to pay taxes a married straight couple would have to. today she won. and here's what she had to say. >> we won everything we asked and hoped for. wow. i'm honored and humbled and overjoyed to be here today to represent not only the thousands of americans whose lives have been adversely impacted by the defense of marriage a

pete? >> reporter: the supreme court has decided that it cannot take up the challenge to california's proposition 8. it's another 5-4 vote. what this means the same-sex marriage is now once again legal in the state of california. it's probably the same lineup, i'm assuming, from the dissenters, that in the doma case. once again the court's liberals justice kennedy on one side -- >> go ahead. >> reporter: justice kennedy joined in the dissenters in the case. that was -- the chief justice in the majority? so the chief justice in the majority on this one. so what this -- what the supreme court says here is that the people who tried to appeal this case didn't have the proper legal standing to be before the supreme court. this may strike you as an odd way to decide this case. but this issue of legal standing is a big deal in the federal court. and the courts are very reluctant to say you have right to come into court and shake your fist at a law unless it personally damages you in some way and t

pete, thanks very much. the u.s. is scrambling to save talks with the taliban after afghanistan's president hamid karzai broke off critical security talks there. this news companiy as the talit killed four american troops in an attack in eastern afghanistan, an attack that it says was designed to show the continuing fight. live for us today in kabul. give us a better sense of the latest on these talking,talks. are they still going to happen as planned? >> good morning. it doesn't seem like they're going to happen today. in the last 24 hours, secretary of state kerry has made a number of calls to the afghan president hamid karzai trying to reassure him about afghanistan's role in the talks because that was the president's first point of anger when this announcement was made on tuesday. primarily it looked like the talks are going to be between the taliban and the united states. that was his first point. the second thing that angered him is the way the taliban opened their first overseas office in qatar. behind them, t

the great pete williams. how are you, pete? >> good day. >> pete, can you explain to us, those who don't understand, the technical ruling in prop 8. we get that doma was struck down meaning that the federal government will recognize marriages in those 12 states but explain the prop 8 ruling. >> reporter: let's not blow past the doma one first because i think it's an important point to make. what the court said is it's not saying whether states have to allow same-sex marriage. it expresses no opinion. it says when the states choose to allow same-sex marriage, the federal government can't deny those marriages because it makes them second class citizens. it's a law that appears to be based on primarily disapproval and it denies them equal protecti protection. it's the federal government discriminating. as justice kennedy says, doma writes discrimination into the u.s. code. it doesn't say what the other states have to do. as far as california, the simplest way to put this is the court says, you know what, it turns out that the peop

pete terseberg in september as well. i thought mark made an impressive comment, maybe if we don't see the economic growth, not only will there not be a cut in stimulus, you may see stimulus picking up as well. that's something the market is not picking about. >> big onus that the fed has that right. there's necessary volatility. the other thing, steve, we're seeing quite clearly this morning is the selloff in merging market currency and more pressure on the brick as well. i'm wondering what people are saying and the response they're getting in russia? >> here's an absolutely extraordinary thing. we have at the moment full blown quantitative easing. we have the full blown moments and how are the brick evaluations looking? well, let's just go through it. the s&p 20, broader emerging trading just over 10 times pe. russia, 4.8 forward pe. they're telling me that -- they're telling me that the full blown qe is in place. we're trading five times the russian equities. i can't help thinking there are other factors at play here a

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pete williams referred to the possibility of investigations.dianne feinstein said today she believes this leak -- the first leak we're talking about, the verizon phone calls leak, should be investigated and it's pretty clear that that investigation would have to include you. >> look, let them go and investigate. there's this document called the constitution, and what one of the things that it guarantees is the right of a free press. which means that as a citizen and journalist, i have the absolute constitutional right to go and report on what it is that my government is doing in the dark, and inform my fellow citizens about that action. there is this massive surveillance state that the united states government has built up that has extraordinary implications for how we live as human beings on the earth and as americans in our country and we have the right to know what it is that that government and that agency is doing. and i intend to continue to shine light on that and dianne feinstein can beat her chest all she wants and call for investigati

calmar los animos. >>> ordenado a partir de hoy que se retome el control total de la zona de este petede las zonas mÁs peligrosa de las capital mexicana, los vecinos tienen temor por las represalias de esta ejecuciÓn. ya les vale a los que matan, ya les vale que estÉ la policÍa. >>> y conociendo el manejo del barrio, cuenta sus propias teorÍas. >>> las personas debe haber sido otra cosa llegan a la zona no se puede ni hablar. >>> hay dos detenidos como presuntos responsables del ataque las indagatorias continÚan y las autoridades no han encontrado vÍnculos entre este ataque y el secuestro de la zona rosa. 400 policÍas resguardan el barrio" ese nÚmero puede duplicarse en las prÓxima horas. >>> quien controla tepito controla 10% de la economÍa en la ciudad de mÉxico el comercio ilegal y las bandas de narco menudistas. de la ciudad de mÉxico univisiÓn. >>> en venezuela los pe zois de los alimentos se han incrementado un 50% en el Último aÑo el problema es mÁs agudo, porque aunque los venezuela tienen dinero para comprar, no hay suficiente abastecimiento en los supermercados. y como nos ex