they want party who are thorns. other than i'm the thorn in the side of the president. >> not the first thing he said. begich said a couple of months in may i want to make president obama irrelevant in the state of alaska. a theme of his campaign, talking about the president of his own party. >>> let's move on here. scientists believe they may be able to detect the early onset of alzheimer's in our eyes and sense of smell. researchers are hopeful that changes to retina may indicate signs of alzheimer's. the part of our brain detects odor is vulnerable to alzheimer's and to identify smells become early on. perhaps new hope there in that research. >>> also "snl" tracy morgan is out of the hospital a month after critical injured in a car accident. he was in a luxury van when it was struck by a tractor-trailer. the driver of the walmart tractor-trailer has been charged. among announced he is suing walmart saying the company is partly responsible for the wreck. he says the driver was driving for 24 hours, was sleep depri

you went to that house of thorns thing.ght the whole thing and it's terrible. >> "house of cards." >> game of throne. >> house of thorns is a better idea. >> this is a very big important announcement that will not normally be covered on this show. the second quarter gdp expanded to 4% more than happened any time in the last decade. congratulations a little belated but the obama recovery is with us. we should be happy. everything is doing very well and will go down as one of the great economic presidents of all time. >> is this a joke. are we on "saturday night live." >> longest recovery ever. >> up guys can't handle it. >> don't forget to dvr. you'll never miss an >> it is thursday, july 31st. another flying disaster. a plane plummets out of the sky into a busy parking lot. details on the deadly crash straight ahead. >> house republicans get the green light to sue president obama over using his power. this as the president is busy spinning the soup. should he really laugh it off? we report, you decide. >> derek jeter is get

you went to that house of thorns thing.ought the whole thing and it's terrible. >> "house of cards." >> game of throne. >> house of thorns is a better idea. >> this is a very big important announcement that will not normally be covered on this show. the second quarter gdp expanded to 4% more than happened any time in the last decade. congratulations a little belated but the obama recovery is with us. we should be happy. everything is doing very well and will go down as one of the great economic presidents of all time. >> is this a joke. are we on "saturday night live." >> longest recovery ever. >> up guys can't handle it. >> don't forget to dvr. you'll never miss an episode of "the five." we'll be back tomorrow. i think. "special report." >>> for an embattled president of the united states, some good news for once on the economy. this is "special report." >>> good evening i'm bret baier. a president who makes no secret of his love for basketball is celebrating what appears to be big rebound. the u.s. economy grew at a 4% an

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. >> trade unions are a thorn in the side of georgia's government which has pursued a policy of low wagesand weak benefits in order to lure foreign investors. >> we're trying to get 24 vacation days he or and they currently want to give us 15. >> few workers dared to speak up for their rights. those that tried in the past were fired. these women agreed to appear on camera because they have union backing. people need to hundred 50 euros a month ago by the the seamstresses only earn 100 ft at most. >> they only pay for the time that the sewing machine is actually in operation. they don't pay for the time it takes to find the fabric or counting and sorting. you have to work very fast and even then, you only just scraped by. >> employees unable to keep up with peace rates take home monthly paychecks of less than 60 euros. union leaders hope greater awareness will help improve conditions. >> germany's most famous polar bear true record crowds and was loved by young and old alike. >> he could soon be drawing adoring crowds once again as an exhibit at the natural history museum in berlin. the fu

he became a thorn in the side to businesses. swanson was hired to find evidence against mo -- mooney. he said it was a time of all outwar between unions and minnesotament. >> whatever the employers or the workers could get away with -- unions and management. the los angeles times was blown up by iron workers. because harrison otis the owner of the los angeles town was very anti union. >> a union militant might also be a bomber. warren billings one of billings associate was arrested. when mooney returned he also was arrested so was his wife. at his trial for murder, witnesses against mooney told what were later exposed as lies. mcdonald testified he saw billings and mooney at the scene of the crime with a briefcase. years later he reputeuated all his testimony. he said he saw mooney and others arrive in a jitney. this is itto and others claiming to see mooney too. they said it was because they were physically present in one place but spiritually present in the other. >> we know for sure he is innocent. first there was a photograp

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"sort of, i'll be a thorn in his posterior."enator begich told the "post," "there's times when i'm a total thorn, you know, and he doesn't appreciate it." it makes a certain pure political sense for democratic politicians to steer clear of his party's president when the president is not popular in their home state especially if you're campaigning in a state that obama lost by a lot. what's interesting, though, is h who some of the democrats do think help him this year. president obama lost in kentucky last year by 22 points. he's unpopular in kentucky. last month the democratic hopeful for the senate there brought in senator elizabeth warren instead. alison lundergan-grimes campaigning. elizabeth barren brought her message to kentucky and was happy to have it. today in west virginia where barack obama remains as unpopular as ever, in west virginia where coal is king and obama is seen as the destroyer, in that state today the democratic senate hopeful called on elizabeth warren for help. you womill find her betting tha elizabeth

two, it would be an interesting contest and i don't know if i agree so much as an asset as i think a thorn in hillary's side to some degree. some of the things that -- >> right. both and -- >> force hillary if anything to go further left. i can just see the same -- the left wing of the party just like right wing of the republican party taking the party down towards nomination of elizabeth warren who has absolutely -- shrewdly no chance of winning. >> having done numerous campaigns in my life and numerous primaries one of the worst things you can have is a coronation. we saw that last time with barack obama and hillary that's why i say she's an asset. she's strong. i don't think she can beat hillary. i think she will eventually go back and support hillary. she said she's supporting her now. it's exactly why we have this pac with hillary, doesn't want to be out in front so early and being attacked. elizabeth takes away some of the attacks on hillary, some of the focus. i think she's an asset. i really do. >> can do with obama, join my administration, why don't you be my secretary of state or

padre, that's a major roadway, but it is for cross town traffic and that's closed between peralta and thornon. i just mentioned it is an offrampb and it is open. major crash is what's caused all this activity going on. we'll track that, meanwhile on the peninsula, palo alto shows you an easy drive both north and south, back to you. >> thank you mike. >>> more people were arrested for driving drunk over the holiday weekend compared to last. chp officers arrested nearly 1,200 drivers since thursday evening, up 22% from last year. in santa clara county, various authorities made 33 arrests, and daly city police report 13 dui arrests in san mateo county. san francisco parking meters want your money again after the city chose to give up extra revenue and turn the meters off on sunday. yesterday was the first time in nearly a year and a half the city did not charge for street parking. the city is hoping the free parking on sundays will be good for businesses and drivers. now there are exceptions. you're still going to pay at fishermans war of and the area around at&t when the giants are playing. >

we will say to them you shall the brow ofwn upon labor this crown of thorns. you will not crucify me on the cross of gold. well, he went on and lost the election anyway. even though he did give a great speech, and it was just an excerpt, by the way. there were still proponents about silver money into the early parts of the 20th century. in 1913, the federal reserve system was born out of the bank failures, but after its creation the decade following solve the largest failures on record. of course, global trade and economics that much to do with it. yet, here we are, 100 years later, with some metamorphosis. under and to a fiat currency after 1971. by the way, fiat means that there is basically nothing behind it. the government is telling you what it is. essentially, we are still at the same place. the average person loses value on their money through no fault of their own. under, andinesses go the u.s. population is expected to foot the bill for their demise. have we truly progressed in terms of sound money in the hands of our people? in the beginning of this

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answer their demand for a gold standard to them you shall not press down upon labor this crown of thorns. you shall not cruise if i mankind upon a cross of gold. well, he went on and lost the election anyway. even though he did give a great speech and it was famous. and after this major loss there was still proponents of silver money into the early parts of the 20th century. on december 23, 1913, the federal reserve system was born to rid the ales of bank failures. but after its creation the decade following saw the largest amount of failures on record. of course global trade and economics had much to do with the difficulties. yet here we are with a few met more fiss sis of the u.s. dollar from gold standard to gold backed under brenten woods' agreement and finally to a fiat currency after 1971. by the way that means there's nothing behind it. the government is telling us what it is and we're just accepting it. essentially we are still at the same place. the average person loses value on their money through no fault of their own if they hold it in cash. our banking businesses go under an

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i want to bring in republican congressman mack thorn bury of texas.good morning. >> in a staple after the crash of flight 17, you said the united states needs to demonstrate decisive leadership. what does that leadership look like to you? >> well, the analogy i made was the way president raegan dealt with the downing of the korean airliner in 1983. he was very clear in his language. he call it a crime against humanity. he called it a massacre. he called the soviet union out for spinning or distorting the truth. then he laid out a series of steps that he was taking immediately to isolate the soviet union in the international community. i think that sort of decisive leadership to isolate russia, leading the europeans on sanctions, as you were talking about is a part of that. >> the united states did invoke sanctions against russia and president obama yesterday did call out russia and said it was up to them to work out this problem. isn't it really up to europe now? because europe really holds the major cards when it comes to russia. >> yeah, except euro

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of a smaller base, and all of those five countries much lower than before, with russia a particular thorn in their side. it's becoming a bit of a pariah in the international community. are the brics part of the economy economy or are they doing something to boost their sagging reputation? >> it couldn't come at a better time. we have slow growth and fragile among the brics and other emerging markets, and they have created institutions that might be able to save them from the worst possible outcomes. >> what will they be able to do that the countries can't do within the existing structure of the imf? >> well, they can have finance from the world bank, but it has steered away from the infrastructure, and we have a huge infrastructure, and we need new transportation systems that are clean and green, to keep us from climate change, and the world bank has pulled away from that. in europe alone, we need $60 billion a year in infrastructure, and the brics bank is not going to be able to it take a bite out of t it's going to be there in case the countries have exchange rate problems. like the wor

arm guards and thorn once we arrived on the scene, we have maybe two other places are we had to show press credentials. so there is tight security here, no big arment, or tanks over anything like that. but there is a heavy armed presence. so emergency servicessier this year, faa banned american air carriers from flying over the peninsula and surrounding waters due to safety. let's get to lisa stark now, lisa, what warning you thinking about what was issued at the beginning of the year, what warning is the f actiona issuing at this moment. >> so the f actiona is seeing if it needs to issue a guidance. but we have learned from euro control, and that's the agency that controlled the space over europe. euro control says the plane was flying the malaysian plane at 33,000 feet, and that the ukrainian officials had closed the air space, up to 32,000 feet. so this plane was above the closed air space. how, now as you can imagine, given what has happened given the fact that this plane may have been brought down by a missle strike, the ukrainian officials have asks euro control to close that e

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corpus and will campaign throughout the war even for the state legislature and then will remain a thornin the side of the administration and in fact, franklin pierce will give a speech on an very important day july 41863 talking about how the war is utile and cannot be one in lincoln needs to be defeated for reelection as we've known july 4th robert healey is retreating from the pennsylvania battlefield that lost the defensive capability where in the west the city of vicksburg is control of the mississippi river and very ill timed speech i call it the political bull run after the initial major conflict of the civil war. so franklin pierce is accused of treason and a series of letters that pierce at that moment because it was acting on faulty intelligence appears after jefferson davis's home is rated the secret correspondence three he says the south could leave peacefully is discovered to publish nationally and his best friend from college nathaniel hawthorne when he dedicates his latest book to president years it is the controversy i dunno if changing hands kerry said or not. [laughter]

and tony thorn saying no one eats leopard meat, so why was this animal been killed. now jones has been responding in her post she said you have to balance wildlife and funds from the hunt go to the government as an incentive to keep lines in their property. a petition was started to ask the ceo of facebook to remove her facebook page. it's signed by more than 65,000 people. now you also have another petition that was started today in support of kendall. this one has over 13,000 likes on it. >> this is a tough one. ines. good to see you. thank you for that. >>> france's biggest bank agreed to a $9 billion fine for branching u.s. sanctions laws. it began when a new jersey--th --it began when stephen questioned the death of his daughter. the investigation of that blast led him to sue iran. that lawsuit revealed some of the biggest banks in the world were illegally doing business with iran and today they reacted t reacted. >> to the bank it's only money. until we say to a bank officer you're responsible. you're going to jail. this type of money laundering will continue.

first of all, who was culpable for the bloodshed at thorne -- at sand creek? the relationship between politics and violence on the american borderlands , and also on the process of continental expansion and the two wars, the plains wars and indian wars spawned by that process. when the sand creek site sponsors try to answer these questions, they learned that the a historyemained front in an ongoing cultural war. elective memory could rip scabs off just as easily as heal them. within the confines of a pluralistic society like the united states, the case of sand creek proved unusually complicated because competing stories haunted the memorial process. the first of those stories along to a methodist minister named john shillington. chivington saw creek as ae at sand noble part of preserving the union. he used the gallons of blood to depict a masterstroke. in 1864, with cheyenne and arapahoe corpses still pooling to his he bragged superiors that his men had attacked an indian village "bristling with 1000 warriors." he already at that time began a process of exagge

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busier, land prices are up, interest rates are low, driving a lot -- >> you just raised what is a thorn for a lot of people. they love the low interest rates. people say that's the new bubble, and that's what is causing some concern. >> that may be, and it may not be. we don't know. are interest rates going to stay low for a long period of time or ratchet up? >> what do you think? >> i think we're going to see interest rates on a relative basis low for the foreseeable future. >> what's foreseeable. >> five years, thee years. >> five years? >> yeah. that would be my interpretation. but that's good for the economy in general. the federal reserve is engineering this environment. >> see, that's what creeps me out, though. >> but it is good. businesses are investing. productivity is at an all-time high. >> it doesn't have an artificial feel to it? >> we are on main street, and we're in main street in a lot of places in new jersey. >> are you opening up more than you did in the past? >> we're very bullish on our local economy and we've been supporting that local economy and connect one contin

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i know they seem to be a thorn, but there's some reality in what they say. and if we mix that reality with a good effort that everybody at this table right now is making -- i'm talking about our panelists -- we'll get closer. and i would just summarize, and we'll do it through the questioning, we've changed what the ndaa called for by going to the accounts instead of the resources. understand you were allowed to do that. but if you really want financial data to be able to make good financial decisions and to control costs, you're not going to get it that way until maybe 2022, 2021. with that, i yield back. >> let me just follow up on something that dr. coburn just said. he's urged you to stay if you can for the second panel. i would ask that you do that, as well. if for some reason you can't, please, for god's sake, make sure you have somebody senior who's going to be here dutifully taking notes. jane, not so long ago, the deputy secretary of homeland security, as you may recall. and she would go meet with jean dadaro, the controller general -- not every wee

i certainly hope he does, particularly one that -- i may have been a bit of a thorn in his side through the years, but i have tried to do it in a respectful way, in a thoughtful way, and what i think is right for the state of texas. in this case, what's right for america. and i didn't want to just go show up on the ramp in austin, texas, and shake his hand and say welcome to texas, mr. president, when the fact is we have a humanitarian crisis on our hands, on the southern border, and the president needs to be engaged. the president needs -- he's coming to texas. he's 311 miles from austin to mcallen. air force one is a pretty fast ride. >> let me ask from this standpoint. you requested specific things from him, and the president responded. what did you ask for and what did he say? >> the president said all of these philosophically, he said he agreed with all these. the first was to put the national guard -- to secure the boa border. we know how to secure the border. the director of public safety, we have done enough surges. we know how to put the resources on the border to drive down th

and this morning, a member of congress that is becoming this week's thorn in the side of the white house, henry quar piled on. >> these will be 500 miles away from the border that which makes it even worse when you're so close and you can't take air force one down to the border. last night i got calls saying who are the local leaders. certainly not the local leaders from the border. >> and by the way it in about an hour, administration officials will be facing questions on the border crisis. as well as this new spending request. fema administrator, among the witness at the senate homeland security committee hearing speaking to. and speaking of that, senator coburn of oklahoma joined me a few moments ago it talk about what he wants to hear from those witnesses today.about what he wants to hear from those witnesses today. >> how long have we known this problem has existed. my intel tells me we've known it since january. thumb two, the request that the president whether ill be making about $52,000 per child per year which seems excessive. number three is what laws to we need to change so we

the self-declared islamic state may be a thorn in their side but for now the focus is on what the sunnieaders call deliberation of baghdad, i'm with al jazeera. >>> three al jazeera journalists have spent 192 days in an egypt prison and last month fahmy and greste were sentenced 7 years in jail and mohamed was given 7 years but received additional 3 because he had a spent bullet with him picked up at a protest site and they are helping them and we demand the journalists be freed and ukraine is promising to rebuild the city after taking it back from rebels and we report on the people who stayed behind during the fighting. >> reporter: on the outskirts of the fallen separatist and stronghold it's clear the final battle was hard fought. no doubt the ukrainian army is wasting no time, the vehicles and soldiers move on after days after regaining control of the city. these are the people who live through months of shelling and attacks try to get back to normal life. the minister of internal affairs paid them a visit, the people asked them about the way forward. >> translator: it is clear that

these are live pictures of a two alarm fire that's burning this thorn in los gatos. you can see the smoke in the area. this is at manrisa's restaurant on the village lane. you may have heard of this restaurant. it's won numerous awards a very popular restaurant. no word on possible injuries or what caused the fire. but this is what it looks like -- looked like a short time ago. you can see the flames there coming out of the roof of the restaurant. and crews working on putting it out and at one point they got control of it and then it sort of broke out again. and as we saw from that live picture, smoke is still in the area. we're going to remain on the scene and bring you more information as it becomes available. >>> other news today, could be the final day of testimony in the murder trial of olympic runner oscar pistorius. he's accused of killing his girlfriend in south africa last year. right now the defense is furious over the leak of a video that shows pistorius demonstrating the events from the night of the murder while walking without his prosthetic leks. the vi

you've often pointed out that grant was failed by his subordinates, meade, hancock was a constant thorn in everyone's side. these thoughts served up on a platter that grant's subordinates don't carry the line. he put him in a tenuous situation at the beginning of the campaign. the subordinates are always blamed. once again, it's lee's fault that the artillery has been removed from the lines and that the initial union corps was so successful. lee takes was this criticism and his subordinates are culpable. but grant, and from -- brook's biography does a superb job of explaining how the chain of demand didn't work. but grant did what everybody said lee did so well. and that was give his issue board nate lat nude -- sub board nats lat tuled. so why -- i'm not suggesting -- >> i'm very hard on lee too. what i see is each of those generals, grant and lee, had issues with subordinates. as far as lee was concerned, he starts off with a fairly seasoned group with longstreet, and hill. a.p. hill is quite ill during much of this campaign. has to be replaced by early. richard steward also becomes v

oakland mayor jean quan k- 's christin aye >>> what started as a minor car accident has become a major thorn in the side for oakland mayor jean quan. as kpix 5's christin ayers reports, there's flour controversy from the fender- bender. >>> reporter: the accident on june 8 left jean quan's city leased vehicle damaged and the driver of the other car, la quiche va lovely, injured. >> i have never gotten such a runaround from someone involved in an accident and not be able to get insurance information. >> reporter: to add insult to injury, lakeisha's lawyer says his client can't fix her car either. charles kelly says mayor quan never showed lakeisha her insurance documents. and despite repeated requests by him and the insurance company, the mayor still hasn't shown proof of insurance. >> just quit playing games. just do what every other law- abiding citizen in california does when they are in an accident. give over your insurance information. >> reporter: quan told me lakisha never asked for her insurance documents when the accident happened here three weeks ago and when i pressed the mayor ton

>> it's one more thorn in the the side of the united states.n can claim to have the upper hand on human rights issues. but it is a way that they can claim leadership on this and the other thing is it creates a positive incentive for anyone who wants to go to russia with this kind of intelligence. it would send the wrong signal for their interests to try to collect this kind of data, to say, okay, now you're out. >> you wrote a piece in the guardian outlining what you believe is the real concern, you say quote, by keeping too many secrets, america has created fertile ground for government distrust. how do you maintain acceptable transparency? >> the scandal did reveal a broken system with too many secrets, it being too easy to classify things. i know this from my own time in government. you classify everything, evening if it's full of open source material that shouldn't be. there is actually legislation on the hill, the usa freedom act is one of the pieces of legislation that would allow us to see more of the legal rationale behind how surveilla

you tell some of your normal allies on some of these things, where you guys are a little bit of a thorneaker's side. you are with him on this. granted for a lesser number than what he wanted. what do you tell some of your colleagues on this who say, you know what, $659 million is too much. >> what i'm actually telling them is tell us something in the bill that you think is the wrong policy. putting the national guard on the border, making sure that our border patrol have unfettered access to federal lands, ending catch and release policies of the obama administration and getting those children back to their countries. tell me what you disagree with that policy. it all sounds pretty good to me. >> gotcha. matt salmon, republican from arizona who does support this new house bill, we'll see if it can go anywhere beyond the house. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thanks for coming on. >>> time to now to wrestle with a little bit of our first data bank number. it's $1.8 million. that's how much jesse ventura has won in a lawsuit over a best-selling book. the former governor of minnesota

ge has a french government as a stakeholder, that will be a big thorn in their side. olivia.s, ukraine and russia are moving closer to a truce. this comes after ukraine -- brand chocolate -- ryan chilcote has the details. good morning. >> good morning. we have a total number of the calories that is well over 400. a month ago when you and i spoke, we were talking about a couple of incidents per day. now we're talking about more than two dozen. the german foreign minister says this is not acceptable. we have to do something about this. they're hosting talks in berlin. they have got the french there. the russians and ukrainians. the markets, the global markets, are largely ignoring this. but this is good. let's not get ahead of ourselves . they have given themselves two days to establish some kind of comprehensive truth. if they do not do that, there can say that they still have their stake and that is more sanctions. >> where are we with that? >> get it to go after multilateral lenders. you have got that european banks with reconstruction and development. it was establi

i'm going to be a thorn in his ass. that is the word he used.se alaska feels itself out there by itself and you better play that culture to your advantage or you're going to lose. i think begich can win because of sticking it to the president on the butt. >> okay. that's one way of putting it. joe, jump in. >> that's his way of putting it. not mine. >> i was just going to say -- no! if you want to cut through with alaska voters, that's a good way to do it or voters anywhere. chris, really quickly. joy was talking about how democrats have been trying for sometime to get white working class americans back on their side in larger numbers. is hillary clinton the candidate that can do that in 2016? can she do that in central pennsylvania and in west virginia? i mean, especially the book tour, i know a lot of people say it's great that she has gotten all of the bad stuff out there. but so much of it was about money. she makes more money in a speech than a lot of people in west virginia make in four years. if she is making $200,000. >> look. it's not g

mark carney is dealing with a lot of healthy tail winds with the economy but one thorn in his side hashat wage growth doesn't seem to be picking up. it is still 1.5%. why do you think wage growth hasn't picked up more given the fact that the labor force is bigger than ever? jobs are back to where they were before the crisis. >> i think the figures are slightly misleading in that respect in that there is a change in the composition of the workforce as more people take on jobs. so i think within that total, which is growing very slowly, the people who have been in jobs all the time have on the whole seen their wages grow faster than the headlines would suggest. but on the whole, i think this is a positive. because the alternative is perhaps that we would have higher unemployment and faster wage growth. that is what happened in previous recoveries. that is not necessarily a good thing. you want in the whole in the start of a recovery to absorb the excess labor as quickly as possible. i'm comfortable about that. the real question and this is i think what the bank of england is trying to as

she's an interesting person, a workaholic, and been a thorn in the clintons' side. >> is this northernnia, jim? >> yeah. frank wolf's district not far from d.c. relatively a swing district. it's one that mitt romney won. it's one republicans should win, but it's close enough if you have terry mcauliffe and others pouring money into it, given her name it makes it one of the few competitive house races. >> jim vandehei, thank you very much. >>> coming up, round two of the tony dungy explanation tour. the former coach's message to michael sam next in "morning joe" sports. he doesn't stop. ♪ you make a great team. it's been that way since the day you met. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough

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