incoming, the financing unit rose and so did the number of cars sold. shares surged 16.5% to $52.75. >> third time is not the charm. it's $46 billion takeover offer for ireland based shire was turned down. shire said the offer under valued the company and its growth prospect. the drug maker said the proposal would deny shareholders the benefits. shares of shirer popped more than 16% to $22 and change, abbvie fell 1.5%. kite pharma soared. they are studying a cancer solution offered up 7.5 million shares. look at where they ended today. investors snatched them up sending the stock up more than 70% to $29. >> kite flying high. there i said it. >>> shares of coors raised to $7 a sha 9 a share and they sited evaluation and improving fundamentals. that stock closed at 74.86, an increase of more than 2%. >>> it was a historic day for radioshack but not in a good way. that stock traded below $1 a share for the first time ever as investors continue to worry about the electron anything retailers struggles. the new york stock exchange can delist any stock if it c

year prime minister gets nukes been there before back in two thousand and nine he was the finance minister under units of measure shango when she and president put an agreed on roughly the same price that russia is offering today yet now he's accusing moscow of using gas as a political tool if gas is a political weapon then this political weapon is in the hands of the russian government and if gas is a good use it typically is all across the world then a trade is based on a contract and not based on whether russia likes the ukrainian government or not so ukraine wants to squeeze the price to the lowest rate despite the fact that it still owes a whopping four billion dollars gazprom chairman is far from impressed by kiev's bargaining tactics. the strategy of the ukrainian side is outright blackmail them from the start they took no constructive steps made no compromises and apparently want to be maximally aggravate our gas relationship a bust each ducati dealer and of course that leaves europe in limbo too in two thousand and six gas supplies were cut off after ukraine siphoned fuel intended for europe

mary mentioned this earlier, ge continues to sell out of its -- ge machine, the consumer finance unit to spin off here. they sold the operation in sweden, denmark and norway to the spanish giant for the best part of a billion dollars. and one more, we're still waiting for resolution on bnp paribas and the fines for tl deliberately hiding the money in sudan for so manyccording to re billion probably to be announced in july. more heads rolling according to the report. a big question for many, carl, will be whether or not they're suspended from -- there you are -- suspended from some operations and money transfers for any period of time. i think that's still up in the air. >> part of our financial discussion earlier this morning. simon, thanks. >>> when we come back, samsung getting ready to launch a new android-powered smartwatch. apple obviously targeting one big celebrity to promote their own. it brings to us the part of the show where we'd like you to vote. we're asking the question once apple and google enter the smartwatch market, would you buy one? all you have to do, head to cnbc

just a piece here because one of the people that we talked about in the piece, people of the united states has dubbed terror financersopenly in doha. then there are some of the fund-raisers that we talked about in this piece. let me just play the exchange with one of them. >> there was no mention of -- >> that's on there right now. >> he says he has no knowledge of that. >> when we asked why he used a picture of the planes hitting the world trade center on 9/11 in the tweet, he said that photo is all over the internet. >> he said that photo's all over the internet. >> the question that i have for you, one of our other guests in the piece, juan, zarate was in charge of terrorism finance. he said that money out of qatar could be used to fuel the ambition of the dream of attacks against the united states directly. do you agree? >> well, i do agree with that, because if you look at number one threat to the homeland, it's isis in syria and iraq. the biggest training ground surpassing afghanistan and pakistan, and who is funding isis? who is funding al nosra, or more importantly isis? the reason why the saudis and the uae

engagements with russia and they're not willing to take the punishing steps of sectoral sanctions on energy on finance, on arms exports that the united states are. >> it could literally be a cold winter for many european countries if they crack down on russia. >> i must say the other day i got aroused a little bit when the german business leaders, when they realized what was about to happen to them with the crackdown. we were saying, well, wait a minute. have we tried to negotiate with them? he must be a reasonable man. and i thought, these are german businessmen, you know. do they have no sense of history about negotiating? let me introduce you to someone called neville chamberlain who tried to negotiate with someone from your own country. >> in fact the former chancellor in germany, the predecessor to angela merkel immediately took a major corporate role with the official russian natural gas company and has made a fortune reportedly out of that. i mean u.s. intelligence now say that vladimir putin is the richest man in the world. i don't know if you take that to the bank but that's a lot of money, whether he's the richest or the se

is there any indication the iraqi military, largely trained and equipped and financed by the united states government, american taxpayers, is there any indication that they are putting up at least some resistance, at least a little bit more than they have been over the past couple of weeks? because the resistance has been virtually nil. >> yeah, the iraqi army spokesman said they made a tactical withdraw from al anbar province. he didn't say specifically where. the facts on the ground precisely speak to that. they made a tactical withdraw to refocus their energies elsewhere. what it appears to be, the iraqi military is focusing on protecting baghdad. they're drawing a line around baghdad. the rumors are rampant, particularly in sunni communities here, that the army has given up on protecting the sunni communities, withdrawing itself to protect the shia communities. the army, you know, the army says that is not the case, but that is the impression and that is the map that's being created on the ground. the army is essentially drawing a line around baghdad to protect that, around shia shrine

don't go along with the system they're likely to be taken out one way or another after an extensive anti still go campaign regularly financed by western ralitsa the e.u. and united states that spends millions of euros in equipping opposition movements inside you to start here with the necessary resources to fight some election campaign lost the elections in september of two thousand wouldn't heel to his opponent slumped pushed on its value and decided that enough was enough. victory victory shouted the crowd swell the downslope a damn sight savvy and kill yourself cried out oh it's just you done was when you were going to shoot. you don't we will be slow both fell. but what's next. come two thousand and six after a controversial referendum montenegro became the country of the world fifty five point six zero six is it. just. going to be clever another part of the former yugoslavia still wanted that title you guessed it . in the same year negotiations began between belgrade government and the albanian minority over the status of kosovo however the so-called negotiations were a farce from the beginning as almost all the western powers were promising kosovo independ

. >>> in the yahoo finance question of the day, we asked united is joining delta by changing the frequentgram to favor dollars spent rather than miles flown. is that the right thing to do? 22% say, yes, i spend a lot, so reward me. 27% say, no, miles should be the standard. 22% say both should be equal. 29% say no frequent flier program is fair. i actually think i might go with the third one. there you go. the state of retail will likely rise or fall on the shopping habits of the mill lennial, the biggest demographic since the boomer generation. piper jaffray getting feedback on preferences at the investor conference in new york. joining us with an exclusive look at millennial retail trends, stef wiz nick, and eleanor hagen, a high school junior and joins us. good to have you here, ladies. appreciate it very much. eleanor, i'm going to start with you. one of the interesting things about this latest survey from piper jahvid ray seems to point out to me the experience of shopping, that is, going and having a meal, you know, walking the mall or wherever you happen to be and buying things, th

the elections is not surprising. recent decisions rendered by the united ace up in court, citizens united, mccutchen, our campaign finance laws were eviscerated and it opened up the floodgates. the cynics scoff at the idea of us working together on an issue as critical as good government, but it was not all that long ago campaign against reform enjoyed support from both democrats and republicans. campaign finance from arm has proposed a number of times before. even by my friend, the republican leader, senator mcconnell. senator mcconnell's his own constitutional amendment, his own sponsor, empowered congress to enact laws any person which -- from his legislation -- can be made to advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or office. navigating for the reform, senator mcconnell's head, and i quote, "we have put together a responsible campaign reform agenda that would restrict the power of special interest backs, stop the flow of all money, keep wealthy individuals from buying public office, close out -- office." that gives you the general idea. at one time, senator mcconnell agreed, without question

as the supreme court campaign finance decisions and the citizens united illustrates some of the claimsf economic discrimination are likely to fall on deaf ears now as they all have. i also fear substituting the race neutral for the race conscious strategy to remedy the discrimination is as likely to reinforce the oppression that we now live in a post-racial society where the racial minorities themselves rather then later rather than the inertia not because of minority disadvantage. i agree that in the current political climate with the current supreme court, race conscious efforts to end its termination are not likely to meet with much success. this might also have the collateral effect of giving credibility to those that favor socioeconomic affirmative-action by causing them to be viewed as proponents of a moderate approach to the racial discrimination. but for me the idea of the actual racial equality remains more appealing. [applause] >> thank you professor for the logistical moving in and out of the chair at the podium. we are going to go into a q&a session. people have questions o

the elections is not surprising. recent decisions rendered by the united ace up in court, citizens united, mccutchen, our campaign finance laws were eviscerated and it opened up the floodgates. the cynics scoff at the idea of us working together on an issue as critical as good government, but it was not all that long ago campaign against reform enjoyed support from both democrats and republicans. campaign finance from arm has proposed a number of times before. even by my friend, the republican leader, senator mcconnell. senator mcconnell's his own constitutional amendment, his own sponsor, empowered congress to enact laws any person which -- from his legislation -- can be made to advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or office. navigating for the reform, senator mcconnell's head, and i quote, "we have put together a responsible campaign reform agenda that would restrict the power of special interest backs, stop the flow of all money, keep wealthy individuals from buying public office, close out -- office." that gives you the general idea. at one time, senator mcconnell agreed, without question

don't go along with the system they're likely to be taken out one way or another after an extensive and he still go campaign regularly financed by western dollars to you in the united states and spends millions of euros in equipping opposition movements inside you to start here with the necessary resources to fight some election campaign lost the elections in september of two thousand but wouldn't heal to his opponent while you slept pushed on its value and decided that enough was enough. victory victory shocked at the crowd swell the downslope a damn sight savvy and killed yourself cried out it's just you got was with you was the energy. used when we pulled it in slow both fell. but what's next. come two thousand and six after a controversial referendum montenegro became the joyous country of the world fifty five point six zero cities in. six. hundred fifty clever another part of the former yugoslavia still wanted that title you guessed it . in the same year negotiations began between belgrade government and the albanian minority over the status of kosovo however the so-called negotiations were a farce from the beginning as almost all the western powers were promi

that means the united states was financing about three quarters of jeement' egypt's military op. today egypt's military budget is around $4 billion of which the u.s. only pays about one-third. the rest of financed by the army's own business interests including factories, hotel resorts and farms. and since taking back power it's also collected more than $8 billion in aid from saudi arabia, and the uae. in a region where loin alliancee more important than ever, the united states may not have as much leverage as it once did. but the white house is still calling on president al-sisi to pardon the three. >> we call on the egyptian government to pardon these individuals so they can be released immediately. we call on president al-sisi to provide protections for free expression and assembly as well as the fair trial safeguards that are required by egypt's international obligations. >> adam may, al jazeera. >> not just free speech rights we're talking about. the cairo government face allegations of broader issues. obviously at al jazeera we are very tentativ attentive of our al jazeera c

did the government of the united states, either directly or indirectly, finance a terrorist organization that is a criminal enterprise? >> now, again, this is oliver north, oliver north, does it get anymore absurd than that, joan? >> no, it doesn't get anymore absurd than that, but it kind of underscores they will say anything. they will wipe their own slate clean in order to attack this president, and we can't let them get away with it. >> and i think that all we're saying is, let's, one, be consistent, and, two, let us not in something as serious and sensitive as this risk somebody's life without knowing the facts at least let's know the facts before we sentence someone to just perish. >> right. >> goldie taylor and joan walsh, thank you both for your time tonight. >>> coming up, republicans are using the bergdahl release to call for the president's impeachment. surprised? me neither. we look at what's really behind it. >>> also, it was a scene straight out of a hollywood movie. what are intelligence officials looking at as they examine the taliban video of bergdahl's release? >>> plus

the most important things those small business folks need is access to capital and financing. last year alone, export bank supported over 200,000 jobs, 90% of which of those jobs supported small businesses. if the united states yun ral latly disarms the export financing world and allows xm to lapse, what kind of economic impact could it have on american manufacturing on our job creators, our exporters, selling goods that are stamped proudly, made in america, all around the world. and so many of this have relied on this export-import bank. >> on the first panel, we had steve woverign with just the threat of xm bank not become here in september has already awarded the impact of a $57 million con trakt that would support a lot of jobs. this would be more with a larger transaction. >> we heard small businesses at the time of the shutdown were losing sales because of potentially not be there. it's 90% of our customers. frequently, they do not have another option. they frequently have very few options. lastly, many of the small businesses are part of the supply chain. they're part of the boeing supply chain, they're part of space x where the congressman is in her district. they don't make a hundred per cred

they believe the illegal wildlife traffic is helping finance armed groups such as al-shabaab. >> a lot of it is making it's way to arab and the united states. >> some of this will end up in the repository in search. >> i think in some instances for individuals it's having something so unique, so rare that no one else on the planet has this. >> u.s. custom and wildlife officials are now alerting auction houses around the country to be on alert for illegally traded goods that may come their way. yes. >> police are looking for a convicted killer who escaped from prison over the weekend. he was serving 20 years for killing his ex-wife. he took a hostage and walked away from a prison work assignment. he is believed to be armed with a shotgun and ammunition. >>> in canada three escaped convicts were caught. they were discovered in montreal about 150 miles away. all men are awaiting trial on several charges including murder. they're due to appear in court in quÉbec city today. >>> now under a severe thunderstorm watch. parts of the area hit with floods. >>> drones have been used for a number of reasons around the world, but this is one tha

wind up launching the great war and what's interesting sort of post, you know, 2008 and despite recent tensions there's no real shift in trade or finance suggesting china or the united states is trying to divorce themselves from what they see as other security rivals, indeed what is striking despite the ratcheting up of tensions there hasn't been significant moves in the way of economic responses, the transpacific partnership has not been secret sell rated. tpp has slowed down to a crawl because of domestic issues and by the way it's also true in europe, you know, edward snowden has been more of a break on tea tip than it's been an accelerant so there are two ways to think about it. it's possible this disconnect is temporary and eventually we will start to see some sort of economic segmentation. which in some ways in and of itself is useful because it's a useful trip wire to think about when we are shifting to real great power tensions that could lead to a great power war. but, you know, you could also suggest a more heretical thought that maybe great power rivalry ain't what it used to be or operating in a case, where, yeah, there's disputes over islands and don't

finance sheet, arm capital with $117 billion assets. it makes them the eighth largest bank holding company in the united states. boeing company with $92.7 billion in assets on balance sheet, with their finance arm with $3.9 billion in total assets. caterpillar, i'm familiar with heavy equipment. i own a small sand and gravel operation. i have owned caterpillar products in the past. their assets of $89.9 billion on their balance sheet. i guess maybe the question is, you're familiar with how do you finance large companies. as you're going through will pay cash. not sure how that works, if it's up front or afterwards, but 100 -- you're purchasing 100 airplanes. how does financing of these large companies work? >> typically financing in the large companies work through public markets in the u.s. so those big firms will go to the public bond markets. the bank markets have really dried up after dodd/frank and economic reforms. so there's still some bank financing. but by and large it's both public market equity financing, public market secured financings and public market financings. i will note g-cast and the bank co

avert bankruptcy helping to rescue the new york state urban development corporation, a distressed puck big entity that had issues bonds for finance affordable housing unitsof so much to do. a memoirs that chronicles his second years working in both the private and public sectors. dick joins me now to name names about where we may see the next detroit. dick, good to see you. >> pleased to be here. >> something you said, before we got on air, struck me. and that is you were sort of commenting in some cases on how well or not well we report on fiscal crises. they are so much a part of our landscape right now. it's not clear that the audience, the american people really understand it all that well. because we tend to gloss over it. >> it doesn't sale newspapers as well as stories about sex and crime and the misdeeds of politicians do. >> yeah. >> it's at one level boring, but on the other hand, it's critically important to every family, not just those people whose livelihood is dependent on government. but to the recipients of pub puh services. >> it's closer to you than any other form of government. your local governments are the services that you use and n

finances. >> good morning, i'm gale and i am the acting chief, finance manager and our report for revenue is very similar to what we have looked at in the past, and our apartment rental units and we have collected the two payments that are done with our property tax and we have collected about 90 percent of the funds. and we will continue to get some money over the course of the next few months as the people pay their fees late but we have received the bulk of the money. and the charges for services is still the main story for revenue. and we have currently collected quite a bit of the revenue to date, and so we are at that is old and we have collected, 33.7 percent of the revenue to date. and so, 133 percent, sorry, and so we are obviously going to be over our revenue projection for the year. and quite significantly. and so, we do have more information about that in the budget, which i am going to talk about next. and then, our other income, is a little high with interest and we are collecting more money because we have more money in the bank but we have not moved the money from the fund balance that we had budgeted to move, because our actual revenue is coming in so high

finance sheet, arm capital with $117 billion assets. it makes them the eighth largest bank holding company in the united states. boeing company with $92.7 billion in assets on balance sheet, with their finance arm with $3.9 billion in total assets. caterpillar, i'm familiar with heavy equipment. i own a small sand and gravel operation. i have owned caterpillar products in the past. their assets of $89.9 billion on their balance sheet. i guess maybe the question is, you're familiar with how do you finance large companies. as you're going through will pay cash. not sure how that works, if it's up front or afterwards, but 100 -- you're purchasing 100 airplanes. how does financing of these large companies work? >> typically financing in the large companies work through public markets in the u.s. so those big firms will go to the public bond markets. the bank markets have really dried up after dodd/frank and economic reforms. so there's still some bank financing. but by and large it's both public market equity financing, public market secured financings and public market financings. i will note g-cast and the bank co

the carmax. vehicle unit sales rising nearly 10% income from the company's auto finance business rote 8.7%, the stock currently trading up about 18%. auto nation also higher, goldman sachs upgrades the car retailer based on a strong growth outlook. auto nation trading up as well about 3%. simon and sue, back to you. >> the dow and s&p hitting new intraday highs, and rebound in the small caps. sounds good if you're bullish. joining us you are two fund managers who say u.s. manufacturing is coming back. they're bullish on industrials. eric marshall is co-portfolio manage of the fire-and ron sloan is chief investment officer of invesco's global core equity team. happy friday. let me start with you, eric, if i can't. if manufacturing is coming back, that certainly does bode well. those those who say, though, that this market is fairly valued, maybe a little bit overvalued, are you still finding places to put cash to work? >> you know when the markets near a 52-week high, i think it's important to for him cuss on valuations, and we're out there talking to a lot of companies. you can still find pockets of

the attorney general of the united states and also to the chairman of the finance committee. what do you want? >> well, first, the hard drive allegedly crashed at the irs conveniently 2009 to 2011 just when all the conservative targetingas going on. but there isinformation there wl correspondence with these other agencies of government. justice department, federal election commission, treasury department, an email that they have correspondence with lois lerner, that be turned over to the committee. nip not pursuing. i realize you are in the minority in the senate. are organizations not willing to do this search from top to bottom to see whether lois lerner is doing anything inappropriate vis-a-vis emails. sharing confidential information. >> we're going to find that out o. i hope. we will see how responsive they are. the irs has not been responsive. we have had an investigation finance committee going on some time now. they're not getting back to us. it's just they are doing everything they can to kill that investigation. we are asking for a heampleght we are hoping -- we in

the funds this is condo financing. a public hearing was held on june 16th and if we move forward the construction will start in august of 2016 it will provide 20 units targeting homeless seniors. a representative if t n d c is here as well >> thank you very much. we'll open up this for. any public comment on that item on item 2 seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor cohen >> you made a motion. >> yes. i'd like to make a motion. >> yes. with positive recommendation. >> we'll take that without objection.. madam clerk case law call items three and four together >> not to exceed 4.1 million for the transit center and item 4 is to establish the transit center community facilities district. >> and i will call up ken rich from the office of economic workforce development. >> good afternoon, commissioners ken rich from worrisome we're - this will ledge fund from the region highest priority transportation projects the estimation from fourth and king to the new type 2 diabetes for the growing of this important part of the city. the city has planned for significant growth around the new terminal with the exception this will be a transportation hub a

wondering whether you're aware of any public opinion polls about citizens united and what your sense is of how the public feels about the finance rules.n >> taking them in reverse order, i'm not aware any recent polls likesll say no one citizens united. then when i actually read the isl i realize the question skewed. i'd like to think i can read polls. you ask the question, should the megacorporations be u.s. elects and 80% of the people say that's a bad idea, i wonder about the other 20%. but if one were to ask the real question, should the federal government be able to ban a that talks about a politician from pay per view cable so you can't watch it in the privacy of your own home, i come out polls should the opposite of what most of the polls say. of aalways look for more conformed question and not the superficial question that bucks about the bad guy buying the election kind of thing. certainly spending has on everything in america has increased. buckley a brand new ford mustang cost about $3500. if one were to convert the todays dollars, it would be about $a4500. parties are limited to accepting 10,000 for contributions, a

purchases of financing sales and the chinese may at some point in the future c-919 aircraft is provided with chinese export credit authority financing assistance and airplanes made in the unitedates of america are not provided with export credit authority financing, that would put us at a material disadvantage to compete in the global market. in yeah. i think that's correct, and i also think that our administration supported the export-import bank has been clear. we think it's an important aspect of how not just our aircraft industry, but many large and small u.s. firms can play on a level playing field in a world where other exporters have access to credits. we can discuss a world where there were no such credits, but in a world where others engage in that, we can't unilaterally disarm. >> thank you very much. >> time of the gentleman has ebbs pyred. the chair now recognized the gentleman from new mexico,r.p mr. pearce, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. secretary, for being here today. mr. secretary, you had written in your comments on page 2 that we learned from the financial crisis, that is of 2008, that regulators should have asked more, not

the great war. post-2008, there has been no shift in trade or finance suggesting that china or the united states or any other act her is trying to divorce themselves from what they see as other security rivals. despite the ratcheting up of tensions, there have not been significant removes in economic responses. it is also true in europe. edward snowden has been for more within theon ttip annexation of crimea has been an accelerant. -- then the annexation of crimea has been an accelerant. when are we actually shifting to a world where there are great power tensions that could lead to a great power war? you could also suggest that maybe great power rivalry ain't what it used to be. yes, there are disputes over islands, but it is also possible that the great powers recognize that it is not worth going to war over these things and it is not worth destroying the global prosperity to claim a bunch of in the east china sea or south china sea. i will even at that -- leave it at that. >> our thanks to all of our sponsors. is thatge this morning too often foreign-policy debates particularly between intervent

the common good. kovler foundation, united health care and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers use their expertise in global finance to guide you throughhe business strategies and opportunities of international commerce. we put our extended global network to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. hat can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was >> "bbc world news" was gwen: how the rescue of the last soldier held in afghanistan turned into yet another fight between the white house and congress. and how a mississippi senate race could turn the mid term down.ons upside tonight, on "washington week." basic principle. we do not leave anybody wearing behind.ican uniform life it it weren't real would feel like a hollywood plot. hostage. held >> release me, please. i'm begging you. gwen: five terrorists swapped in exchange for his freedom. >> the dangerous precedent set here by this administration. a precedent negotiating with terrorists. gwen: setting off a political frenzy in washington. >> it comes with some surprise transfers that the went ahead with no

the tax system. legislation will be introduced to help make the united kingdom the most attractive place to start, financesjean a business. the bill will support small businesses by cutting bureaucracy and enabling them to access finance. >> the sequin there running through the list of legislation that will be brooched over the course of the coming session. let's get some more on that because we can speak now to rob watson who joins us from west minister. rob, we enjoyed the ceremony always. it's quite a thin old speech in certain respects this time, isn't it? too. >> it is. i have to say david, it is the pomp and ceremony. you've missed the best nonpolitical bits, the bits where they search the palace of west minister to make sure no one's plotting to blow them back up. so you've missed all that. we'll bring you right up to speed. >> we have to blame president obama for that. >> he didn't know. he's a great admirer of this kind of ceremony himself. you've missed some of those bits but it will happen next year and the year after. to get to your question, thin in some regards, yes. it's not absolutely pack

exercise of one particular aspect of what you do, which is the financing of these wide body aircraft that puts our airline industry in the united states at a competitive disadvantage with foreign airlines who are able to get these wide bodied aircraft, flying these international routes that are very, very profitable. so if -- you can see the concerns that delta airlines has and the pilot and airline industry has because quite honestly unless we do something to address this, and if xm bank is being used in an unfair way to subsidize for example, the airlines in india, the other airlines that have been brought up, when they get subsidized by their government and turn around and get subsidized by you. they are able to get the planes cheaper and they can reduce their ticket prices and that makes it very uncompetitive. so what i want to do is -- as i mentioned was find a way that perhaps we can come up with some language as we move forward with this within the 90 days that we have that can address that concern. that doesn't seem that this is mutually exclusive. can you help us with that and give me a little guidance on how we'll be

the amount of shadowy money being pumped into elections isn't surprising. recent decisions rendered by the united states supreme court, i mentioned it, citizens united, mccutcheon viscerated campaign finance laws. critics scoff as critics of do government. it wasn't that long ago the issue of campaign finance reform enjoyed support from both democrats and republicans. campaign finance reform has been proposed a number of times before. even by my friend the republican leader senator mcconnell. senator mcconnell's own constitutional amendment, his own, sponsored it. empowered congress to enact laws to regulate amounts of expenditures which, quote from his legislation can be made to expressly advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate for federal office, close quote. advocating for this perform, senator mcconnell said, and i quote, "we republicans have put together a responsible and constitutional campaign reform agenda. it would restrict the power of a special interest backs, stop the flow of all soft money, keep wealthy individuals from buying public office." there's a lot more that he said. that gives you the general idea at one time senator mcconnell agreed, withou

. >>> later in the program we're going to talk to united nations in nairobi about the illegal poaching that may be financingocal groups. stay with us. >>> let's bring you up to date with other news. a court in western china has sentenced trhree to death for their roles on the attack last year. one received life sentence in jail. 40 were injured when a car fl plowed into the crowd. people in the car also died. >>> the army announced over the weekend it would launch a full scale military operation against insurgents in the region. a growing number of people are fleeing to neighboring provinces. today's air strikes were aimed at three hideouts of suspected militants in the area. 27 were killed in the raid. >>> researchers claim to have developed a way to treat tooth decay without the need of fillings. scientists in london say their technique encouraging teeth to repair themselves by using electric current to accelerate the phosphate minerals. they say treatment is kinder to patients and much better for their teeth. >>> the number of cambodians leaving thailand soared to 120,000 in recent days according to the

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the cult, and its finances. former cult members told of plans to assassinate several local politicians, rival cult members, a unitedrney, and journalist les zaits in retaliation for some investigative pieces he had written about the group in the local newspaper. >> to be told that you're on a hit list for a group that i believed at the time they were capable of it, that they were just purely evil folks by that time, is really kind of a chilling way to start the day. >> one year after the salmonella outbreak, without warning, sheela and the head of the rajneesh medical clinic, a nurse named puja, fled to europe. rajneesh disowned them. >> they had turned it into a fascist concentration camp. >> prosecutors heard that puja had been experimenting with biological poisons at the clinic, including salmonella. but there was no hard evidence. with the increasing scrutiny the bhagwan stepped up the level of personal security. >> there were times when he would move from one end of the town to the other where he would be in a bulletproof limousine, he would have a lead suv with armed guards in it, he would have a trailing suv

this haul, they believe the illegal wildlife traffic is helping to finance groups such as al shabaab. >> a lot of it is make its way around the world into asia and into the united states. >> some of this haul may eventually end up at the repository in denver to be held as evidence in upcoming trials. >> i think in instances for individuals it is having something so unique or so rare that no one else on the planet has that in their possession. >> as part of the crack down custom and wildlife officials are now alerted businesses and auction houses around the country to be on the alert for illegally traded goods that may come their way. jim hig high hoolie, al jazeera. >>> interfering in the investigation he is also accused of lying to investigators and deleting computer files. montanov is charged with participating in the bombing, or not credit charged with participating in the bombing but knowing about it in advance. >>> for the first time ever a transgender priest was welcomed with open arms in washington. not what he said but where he said it. johnmenary smith, has the story. >> like huge moment, like hearing martin luther king preach. >> for the first time, a