i had the privilege of introducing sally yates.s community, i will introduce susan coppage -- who studied under sally yates. i am honored and privileged to be able to does a. there are a lot of things i could say about the city. but the best thing is that she has been there and done that. in the northern district of georgia, she has prosecuted 21 high-profile human trafficking cases. a couple of my commission. the cortez mesa case which convicted 10 in the trafficking of young girls, six of them juveniles. not only did she obtain sentencing, she got restitution, which is a great part of her ability. she put away 40 and 35 years respectfully to of the most tories criminals that were coming out of mexico and he had a states of america. the northern district of georgia is probably the center post for the transit of people from latin america and central america of the eastern seaboard to new york city and new england. in terms of drugs, organized crime, human trafficking, and illicit activity. she has been lead prosecutors and has pros

what deputy attorney general sally yates said in new york, for too long, corporations have been able to write a check and cop to civil charges but not face, for their individual executives, any criminal charges and throw anybody in jail. she said that's going to change and part of the way they are going to change that over the department of justice is by beginning these investigations, going after individuals from the get-go as opposed to going after a major settlement number. so often they are going after the big check and not going after the executives. this way they say if the companies want to get any credit for cooperating at all, they are going to have to turn over the actual names of the actual human beings who committed the fraud inside these companies. >> let's turn now to that reported investigation into the treasury market. how concerned should investors be? >> reporter: well, look, the treasury market is vital both to global finance and to the united states' ability to fund itself. we run into a huge deficit and the way we finance that is by selling treasuries. there's a

john: president obama doubled down on his reform to wall street and sally yates declared war on white-collar criminals. in new directives on white-collar crimes released by yates to all attorneys offices nightwide, the focus is going to be towards corporate executives. in recent years the justice department has been criticized for not prosecuting more individuals. on thurltsmls yates stated that the justice department's new mission is "not to recover the largest amount of money from the greatest number of corporations. our job -- job is to seek accountability from those individuals who break our laws and vimmeds our citizens. it's the -- victimize our citizens. it's the only way to truly deter corporate wrongdoing." are these positive changes? eleanor: i think these are positive changes and long overdue and i credit loretta lynch, the new attorney general. she doesn't come out of the revolving door and i think she really is going to be the sheriff of wall street. they've collected tens of millions in finals from these big wall street firms but it means nothing to them and if you send the mes

sally yates that wrote a memo out lining the rules will give a speech today at law school.ates saying that companies won't be allowed to let low level employees take the blame in these criminal cases. >> s&p stripped brazil lowering the country to junk status. the agenercy could lower again the coming months. they cite a back pedaling by the cabinet over fiscal policy. >> russian forces started taking part in military operations in syria in support of the government according to media reports. this comes after john kerry spoke to his russian counter part to suggest concerns in the nation. hadley joins us with more. this sounds worrying on the face of it. is it as bad as it sounds? >> basically what you have over the last 48 hours secretary of state john kerry and lavrov have been talking on the phone. you have u.s. aircraft and turkish aircraft against assad and isis and hezbollah backing assad and now the possibility of russia backing assad as well. but these reports started surfacing last week in israeli newspapers and this was around the time that they announced this a c

about a year ago, i had the privilege of introducing sally yates to the judiciary committee. today, i'm going to introduce susan coppedge. i'm honored and privileged to be able to do so. there are lots of things i could say about this lady, but the best thing i can say is she's been there and done that. the cortez mesa case, which resulted in the conviction of ten pimps and profiteers, not only did she obtain long sentences, but she got restitution for those who were trafficked. then the u.s. versus pipken case where she put away two of the most notorious criminals coming out of mexico into the united states of america. in terms of drugs, organized crime, human trafficking, and illicit activity. she has been the lead prosecutor and has prosecuted a number of high-profile cases all of which resulted not only in conviction but recognition for outstanding u.s. service. she's a very articulate, educated individual, but i have to tell you an irony. the day secretary kerry interviewed her for this job was the day duke won the national championship in basketball. she was that was an

the deputy attorney general said -- again, that is the deputy attorney general sally yates. nader, your response? >> words, words, words. in addition of lack of will by federal prosecutors, there is anticipatory greed. carly a month goes by when the new york times or wall street journal doesn't report a top federal prosecutor leaves the job and triples or quadruples his or her salary by going to the very corporate law firms that were defending these corporations. so this merry-go-round that goes on -- if you are federal prosecutor and you know if your to check your not going to get that half a million or million dollar your job, there is and it is majority -- and inhibitory factor. it affects the justice department. some people will just google it and see a few days ago another top prosecutor in new york left to join a firm. the other thing is, a quick point, when was the last time in a reporter asked any of these presidential candidates in the last 50 years, what is your position on corporate crime. what is your position on corporate crime abuses and violence of taxpayers c

on wednesday, deputy attorney general sally yates said -- "corporations can only commit crimes through flesh-and-blood people...it's only fair that the people who are responsible for committing those crimes be held accountable. the public needs to have confidence that there is one system of justice and it applies equally regardless of whether that crime occurs on a street corner or in a boardroom," she said. the new policies are guidelines, not rules. puerto rico governor alejandro garcÍa padilla has outlined a new five-year plan to address puerto rico's debt crisis that plans on raising the tuition at university of puerto rico, cutting investment in health care and contracting for-profit companies to run public road and ports. in return, the plan calls for debt restructuring that would require hedge funds and other creditors to voluntarily accept reduced payments. on wednesday, governor alejandro garcÍa padilla called on hedge funds to come to the negotiation -- negotiating table. >> now the most important conclusion from this plan is that even if we impose all the measures in it, he