no -- insufficient evidence to pursue criminal investigations and it added, quote, at this time, unquote. >> indeed. >> and so, indeed, it appears to have left the door open for possible -- for a possible

unquote. this predicted un favorable zeitgeist is reflected already in president obama's anemic approval rating, now harboring around 41% in the latest wall street journal nbc poll showing 54% of the public do not think mr. obama is up to the challenges of the next two years. okay, more data. the latest tally of vulnerable senate incumbent, note the party affilulations. mark begch, democrat. mark pryor, democrat. mark udall, democrat. mary landrieu, democrat . cay hagen, democrat. mitch mcconnell, republican. all vulnerable. there are also five states where there are open senate seats and two long shot races with vulnerable democrats. that makes 14 potentially competitive races with democrats on the defensive in most of them. compounding democrats' problem is this, says diagnostician barack obama, quote, democrats have a congenital defect when it comes to our politics, and that is we like voting during presidential years. and during midterms, we don't vote. and so you already have lower voting

unquote. well, that was then. here's the situation now.ighting between the palestinians and the isrealis has heated up. since the murders of three isreali teenagers followed by the apparent reprisal murder of the palestinian youth, said to have been burned to death. hamas launched hundreds of rockets at israel from the gaza strip. and israel has retaliated with targeted strikes against hamas militants. >> question, are those peace talks now dead? mort zuckerman. >> no, they never will be dead. it doesn't mean they will happen or successfully at this stage of the game because all that is going on. but no, i don't believe they are dead. both parties need it and some point or another will have the proper result. what's happening now, though, is one of the most serious moments of clash between, particularly because hamas merged and that changed the whole plo. that's changed the whole role of mahmoud abas. he is dealing with the terrorist movement and that puts a whole different character to it. even having said that, i think there is going to

unquote. listen closely. >> do you want to hit this?colorado recently legalized recreational marijuana. >> question. so why is the president obama so uptight by taking a friendly toek? wasn't that rude? >> i thought he handle led that pretty well. look, the contrast between what's going on in the border and him with the pool -- and shooting pool, having beer. >> it's legal. >> relaxing and having a wonderful time. then you go to this crisis on the border with these kids, people can -- >> republican politics. >> i don't mind if he does that, but he has to show up at these kind of places; it's also republican politics, desperately trying to whip this up for november. after their party looks like it's reapologeticing the fastest growing voter like in this country. >> by the way -- >> rick perry wants to stamp out ted cruise in texas. >> if he mingles with the people, he gets hit if he doesn't mingle with the people. what is it? >> well, i think the marijuana that he was offered was grown in the united states. and it may have -- >> and lega

i am sure secretary kerry will make the same recommendation, unquote.resident obama signaled he is also on board. >>> question, what's the reaction on capitol hill to extending the deadline for the talks? mitch lowry? >> well, capitol hill's more hawkish on this than the administration is, john. but i do think we'll get an extension probably past the november election. i think it's in iran's interest to cut some sort of deal that preserves its essential capabilities. the question is whether the ayatollah is too hostile to the united states to cut that sort of deal. >> i think, i think the u.s. and iran have more in common these days, certainly they are in agreement on iraq, on afghanistan, and on syria. so i think this is certainly worth pursuing. i don't think either side has a full six months. they are really pressing on capitol hill to put on more sanctions. that comes from republicans and democrats, too, and i don't know how long his leash is. he's got to start showing benefits. these talks are worthwhile and they should be continued. >> so you thin

that is not good metrics unquote. simply the inspector general's office testified that they and i quote continue to identify a high rate of errors in regional offices processing of claims decisions. now under secretary hickey was the one that testified for the va and despite her testimony, which was refuted by the inspector general, the gal, va put out a press release the next day saying b.a. touts it as reduce the backlog by 55% reduce the number of days it takes to process claims and has improved their rate to over 90%. now listen, you said that you have got to gain the trust of the committee of the veteran of the country. let me ask you how smart was that press release? did you sign off on a press release and how can numbers that were refuted by the people that are actually doing the investigations of va facilities, how can they refute the numbers in the next apa comes up with the same numbers and tally? >> senator, i think as you have noted trust is the foundation of everything that we do and where there are quest

unquote that will support of the outcome and omits evidence that will support of the outcome that will support excuse me. change the outcome a omits evidences that will not the public has a right to see documents in open or closed session not specifically prohibited from disclosure this ordinance has been in effect for a dozen years you can't tell me a person has specialized as the executive director didn't know the documents for your consideration have to be provided to the public unless there's a specific exemption. and yet we sat here that last meeting and had this ridiculous argument and there were disparaging comments saying to the public do you think we're trying to pull something over yes, we do and in particular the executive director he decides the outcome let the city employee off the hook and stick it to say the complainant who's a citizen of the city and manipulates the session and hides the dproments the public so we cannot look at that and very specific works. now does he know he's suppose to provide the documents sure and his staff gets millions of dollars to handle thos

the vacancy of the property is a detriment to the neighborhood unquote then quote the vacant lot is visual inconsistent with the surrounding private property and quotas an area that attracts a large nothing number of visitors the site is american people improvement to the neighborhood unquote so before you make a decision i wanted to show you a few pictures i apologize for the age it is your quality of them. this is the view in telegraph hill boulevard looking at up telegraph hill boulevard the approach to coit tower a pioneer park it's a beautiful vandal .1972 what that looks like with the that building are this is the view towards pioneer park you see did memorial steps they're beginning on the right behind the stop sign you see off from the left of the upper portion of the steps. this is what it would look like with the building. this is the view of pioneer park and the view across the street at pioneer park this is what it looks like with the building there. so this is the site where thousands of visitors and residents drive cars and take buses >> thank you yourself time is up. >> the

of course, quote, economic patriotism, unquote is not a new catchphrase. it was trotted out by the president during the 2012 election campaign and now it appears to be making a comeback. not surprisingly, this comeback is taking place in the midst of another election year. apparently as part of this recycled campaign theme, we're going to have to once again debate and vote on the bring jobs home act, the same bill the senate rejected during the last election cycle. if enacted, this legislation would deny the deduction for ordinary and necessary business expenses to the extent that such expenses were incurred for offshore outsourcing. that is to the extent an employer incurred costs in relocating a business unit from somewhere inside the united states to somewhere outside of the united states; the employer would be disallowed a deduction for any of the associated business is expenses. wow, how antibusiness can you be? there are other ways of solving this problem. the bill would also create a new tax credit for in-sourcing. that is, if a company relocated a

say that many in the asian culture look to the west for how to be civilized, i mean -- >> quote, unquotevilized. >> exactly. you've got to unpack that for me. speaking of unpacking stuff. because i love this country, as i'm sure you love this country. >> i do. >> there are a lot of stains on our record when it comes to being uncivilized so that a particular culture looking to us for how to be civilized, particularly in the era that your parents arrived here, there's a disconnect for me here. >> well, there's a disconnect for me, too. i think there's a disconnect for many of us. we don't -- it's hard to understand the reasons why. for example, i have a hard time with the fact -- little-known fact that the united states, when they took over the philippines from spain, got involved in a war with native filipinos who wanted independence, and that particular war resulted in the deaths of between 200 or 600,000 filipinos. entire islands were just depopulated. that was the term used. depopulated. you don't hear much of that. in fact, you don't hear it ever in history books. i bring this up to m

that it essentially ruins through intervention whereas russia is charged with one count of quote unquote bloodless annex a sham is that really fear to compare the two you well you know we haven't seen the end of ukraine yet but if you go back into history you know russian then soviet intervention in. afghanistan in hungary and even it is germany in one nine hundred fifty three not exactly very pleasant the us intervention was in afghanistan in two thousand and one and that was after nine eleven and the jury's still out on what's going to happen there the big american mistake of course was in iraq but dr friedman i think you were replying to my question is very telling here because most examples of the quote unquote soviet aggression in fact the human example that you just mentioned the invasion of afghanistan it dates back to the soviet times where is all the examples that russia can cite to its exam vantage of american aggression are very very recent isn't that actually. an instance of how americans really view russia through the prism of the soviet union you know seeing russia as these

i think you were replying to my question is very telling here because most examples of the quote unquote soviet aggression in fact he was an example that he just mentioned the invasion of afghanistan it dates back to the soviet times where is all the examples that russia can cite it's exam of american aggression a very very recent isn't that actually. an instance of how americans really view russia through the prism of the soviet union you know seeing russia as these ghost or the bogeyman are all of the. can aggression and the american policy is a very much current well i'm not sure i'd agree with you on that i mean there was an effort for cooperation between the us and russia but in two thousand and six if you remember after hamas won the elections in the palestinian legislative the said assembly mr putin said hamas is not on our terrorist list number one and it's a big blow to american foreign policy in the middle east number two that's an example which is followed after that of what i would call mr putin zero sum game diplomacy where what russia gains the u.s. loses and vice versa i h

an inventory of properties, just to understand the geography of what is a quote-unquote natural area. and it is -- and the rose is calling for a management plan. it doesn't specifically say what that management plan should say. it doesn't say we should cut down eucalyptus trees or create sand dunes. that's not what it says. there is an entirely separate process going on right now that is the creation of this management plan that will be much more specific about what, what the public -- publicly owned natural areas should -- what should be done with those airs az. and how, how -- what department and other agencies should treat those natural areas. the reason for the reference to private property is simply that is prioritizing potentially if those private properties are undeveloped and the rose -- in other sections of this policy, it is simply arguing those might be areas to acquire to add to natural areas if possible. it is not suggesting what we should control what people do in their back yards. it is simply a reference to privately owned undeveloped parcels that might be part of a na

-- existential threat, unquote. this general that has been overseeing our military in our southern area says that the is a to our country hreat to our very existence. our continued existence is at risk with what's going on at the southern border. this resolution goes on, whereas credible sources have reported plans for an even larger invasion, whereas between june of 2012 when the obama administration unilaterally implemented the deferred action for childhood arrivals, daca, through march of 2014, illegal tely 520,000 aliens received deferred action. whereas the department of homeland security secretary johnson admitted that daca was luring people across the border. in an opinion he wrote for spanish language newspapers, whereas a court signed on december 13, 2013 by u.s. district judge for the southern district of texas found as factual, that, quote, the d.h.s. instead of enforcing our border security laws actually assisted the criminal conspiracy in achieving its illegal goalsment the u.s. court also found that a

that it essentially ruins through intervention whereas russia is charged with one count of quote unquote bloodless an exception is that really fear to compare the two well you know we haven't seen the end of ukraine yet but if you go back into history you know russian then soviet intervention in. afghanistan in hungary and even it is germany in one nine hundred fifty three not exactly very pleasant the u.s. intervention was in afghanistan in two thousand and one and that was after nine eleven and the jury's still out on what's going to happen there the big american mistake of course was in iraq but dr friedman i think your reply to my question is very telling here because most examples of the quote unquote soviet aggression in fact the human example that you just mentioned the invasion of afghanistan it dates back to the soviet times where is all the examples that russia can cite its example . vantage of american aggression are very very recent isn't that actually. an instance of how americans really view russia through the prism of the soviet union you know seeing russia as these ghost

he put it, quote, i can just suspend deporrations of illegal immigrants through executive order, unquote. as he acknowledged back in 2011, there are laws on the books of congress, and for me to simply ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president, unquote. that was then, this is now. congress then refused to enact the dream act which affected illegal aliens under the age of 18 who had come to this country largely through no fault of their own. congress' failure to act, the obama administration then reasoned, justified adoption of the so-called deferred action policy which discuss precisely what congress refused to do when it declined to pass the dream act. it exempted from deportation up to two million illegal aliens who were children when they came to the united states. similarly, the administration has announced it will not enforce immigration laws with respect to illegal aliens who are parents or legal guardians of u.s. citizens. secondly, the obama department of education effectively amended core requirements of the no child left behind a

state but as a grand jury report says, authorities didn't do inspections for fear or be seen as quote unquote putting bears up to women choosing. so my question come with this particular piece of legislature make it easier for these types of individuals to continue to operate with impunity? >> this legislation would make it easier for them to operate. the law actually says, this legislation actually says that if a provision would single out abortion, it would be invalid, or if it would impede access to abortion. and one of the factors help determine whether or not it in peace access to abortion is allowed the abortion provider to determine, whether or not the new law, any law, would impede his ability to render services. so yes, abortion is like kermit would be able to continue to practice, to set up shop. actually we did see that many of the state health department decided after hearing about him and realizing that they as well as pennsylvania had not done any kind of inspection of the clinics, wind and started doing them in finding some horrible situations and clinics have been shut down be

unquote. but of course that claim is absurd on its face. congress expressed its purpose in enacting rfra in the text of that statute, including rfra's finding that its legal standard applies -- quote -- "in all cases where the free exercise of religion is substantially burdened." rfra's most prominent backers in congress also expressed its intent. over in the house, for example, then-representative charles sue mer said that rfra would restore the american tradition of -- quote -- "allowing maximum religious freedom." spoke glowingly about what it means on both sides of the floor. the bill before us today does the opposite requiring employers to provide insurance coverage -- quote -- "not withstanding any other provision of federal law" including specifically the religious freedom restoration act. if a bill prohibiting consideration of religious exercise is consistent with the law requiring consideration of religious exercise, such as rfra, then words have no meaning whatsoever. we are also tol

unquote. quote, we're receiving the numbers of serious allegations regarding mail mismanagement, manipulation of dates of claims and other data integrity issues in the baltimore, philadelphia, oakland, and houston v.a. regional offices and today, we received an additional allegation regarding the little rock v.a. regional office. we're concerned at how quickly the number of regional offices with allegations is growing, unquote. quote, vba removed all provisional rated claims from its pending inventory. v vba's process misrepresented the workload of pending claims in its progress of amending the backlog of claims. quote, an office of inspector teams sent to a regional office on june 14 said there were opportunities for offices to manipulate and input correct dates of claims in the electronic record. incorrect application of date of claim compliezs data integrity related to timeliness of claims processing, unquote. then there's this exchange that took place between congressman bilirakis and the

hot-button issue, one that has blown up in this president's face, the backlash against his quote, unquoteumanitarian crisis on the southern border which he helped to create, if he did not, in fact, create and orchestrate. this is going to have a powerful impact, rendered immigration legislation any of kind. >> and may even long-term, both republicans and democrats at one point in time, both presidents, democrats and republicans, wanted to have immigration. i think this kind of a thing is disturbing as it is on our borders is going to put it way back. enormous cost of taking care of the young people on the border. lou: $2 billion. >> the state is going to have to absorb it, it's gotten out of hand. lou: and communities going broke. heather mcdonald of the manhattan institute said this is the preview of amnesty, and that's why there is so much backlash because this is just a sample of what will happen with full-on quote, unquote comprehensive immigration reform. >> actually, you think this crisis would drive both sides to come together and find common ground to solve it, and there just does

follow the link on this page it has an article in russian which reviews all the apparently quote unquote fake fur gins and conspiracy theories that are out there that's what the article says specifically about the theory that the bodies were dead before the crash it says literally then there is information which is simply impossible to believe c.n.n. presents it and calls it the russian take it is not the russian take in the same breakdown right after this dead bodies theory c.n.n. puts russian defense officials showing evidence that ukraine had the capability to shoot down the plane moscow is now saying ukraine did it showing evidence that it had the capability to do it contrary to what kiev is now say that claim is brushed off as propaganda information is now politically charged on all airwaves it seems many journalists have already handed down their verdict in washington i'm going to check on. some cia intelligence analysts reportedly suggested the missile that brought done flight m h seventeen was fired by ukrainian troops citing u.s. satellite images but that version is being silenc

it runs against the basic nature of the senate" -- unquote. that maneuver referred to as filling the amendment tree allows the majority leader to use his right to be recognized before any other members as a means to block any and all other amendments by filling up all amendment slots with his own amendments. and thus prohibiting anybody else from having any rights of amendment. less than a year after condemning the maneuver of filling the amendment tree as a very bad track practice inconsistent with the nature of the senate, the senior senator from nevada became the majority leader. rather than take his own wise counsel from just months before he instead began a consistent pattern of procedural abuse using that very same destructive practice. the majority leader employed that tactic 21 times during the 110th congress and 23 times during the 111th congress. as the 11th congress opened, the majority leader pledged to use this tactic only -- quote -- "infrequently" -- unquote but went on to employ it a record 26 times in the following two years.

so terrified of prison, unquote. she posted a caption with it reading in part, so bleeping true. and stupid laws and rules. now, the accused high-priced hooker could face years in prison. prosecutors charged her with manslaughter after they say she left that google executive to die and even stepped over his body to finish her glass of wine. she reportedly told police she had 200 wealthy clients. so, what's the rest of this story? trace gallagher is in the west coast news hub. what else were learning about this woman's past? >> we know that high school friends say she had an eating disorder and used to cut herself and she had a number of abusive sexual encounters, and alex tickleman herself admits she began using heroin in high school, and we now know the police identified her by her distinctive tattoos-one that says, until death do us part and one that said, hell is love. her father is the ceo of a clean energy firm in northern california and apparently is a big-time poker player. he once won a tournament and nearly $500,000. in fact the father was at a poker tournament when his

and there was a reference to a sugar sweetened beverage as quote/unquote as unsafe products and we've heard don't tax it put a warning label on that it was one in the state legislation and the american beverage legislator killed it so we hear don't tax it only give people information but at the same time they're trying to prevent the information through a basic warning label. we have heard about choice that's an important discussion to have one of the last public condemners really addressed that we're not banning anything there are people saying we should band it we're not banning it we're saying this artifical cheap beverage should not be cheap when people make a purchasing decision it's not a choice for the corner syrup those drinks are artificially chapel it's not a choice when money is spent toward lawyers toward kids and protecting communities their drizzle marketing to get kids hooked and to make sure those are lifetime drinkers and people really don't know how many teaspoons of sugar in the drinks when i tell people they have 10 teaspoons of sugar in it but the bench industry h

social reform distribution of wealth and the nonaligned pro global sell or pro at the time quote quote unquote thought well policy. still to come how to make death threats to a state department agent and get away with it that's what the head of america's notorious mercenary group blackwater did to block an official investigation into the company. also scotland has played a story role in the british in britain's royal navy but what will happen if the scots opt for independence day with this to find out more on these stories later in the pride. in their side to think twice before using anonymous services on the internet that you may be branded an extremist for simply searching for information about. now another crisis is looming for ukraine it's decreasing natural gas reserves kiev has already resorted to tapping its long term storage tanks after russia cut off supplies over unpaid bills and this is creating unease in the u. of this as the blokes energy chief here gunther says a domino effect is inevitable even for europe's powerhouse germany and the fear is that unless you crane starts filling

reform social reform distribution of wealth and the nonaligned pro global sell or pro time quote quote unquote thought well policy. another crisis is looming for ukraine creasing natural gas reserves kiev has already resorted to tapping its long term storage tanks after russia cut off supplies over unpaid bills and this is creating unease in the u. this as the block's energy chief here gunther says a domino effect is inevitable even for europe's powerhouse germany and the fear is that unless she craned starts filling up its storage facilities it may start siphoning gas destined for europe that warning has already been voiced by gazprom and echoing those concerns russia's prime minister believes ukraine's troubles could balloon into a full scale gas crisis as soon as this autumn to reach medvedev making the claim on his facebook page so why is there so much concern about a wider gas crisis in europe well a map over here might help explain the situation a bit better because e.u. countries receive gas from russia via multiple pipelines in the lion's share of these go right through ukraine moscow

unquote. u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power, after a briefing to the u.n. security council members, stated, and i quote -- "the gruesome images of corpses bearing marks of starvation, stragulation and beatings and today's chilling briefing indicate that the assad regime has carried out systematic, widespread and industrial killing. despite the statements from these and other senior officials, the administration has yet to finish its investigation. perhaps when the administration does complete its forensic analysis of the evidence provided by caesar, president obama will decide that it's finally time to take action in syria and prevent the continuation of mass atrocities that according to his presidential study directive on mass atrocities is, quote -- "a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the united states." i have to tell my colleagues i'm not hopeful. in the time of the investigation to prove what we all know to be true has been under way, ap

who are the quote, unquote investors in hamas? how does it impact the pursuit of peace?onathan schanzer, defense of democracies and since worked with our treasury department as well as far as terror funding. john, who are the main players here? who are supporting hamas financially? >> sure. well, i mean the support for hamas has gone through a significant evolution. it started with the saudis. that ended in roughly 2004 when they realized they had their own terror problems within the country they needed to stop. it was at that point the iranians came in. they began to provide significant amount of funding and training to hamas. that ended roughly 2011, when there was a rupture between hamas and iran over the civil war in syria. and it was at that point that we began, prominent role of turkey and qatar in particular, in support and backing of this organization. these are two allies of the united states. they are better termed frenemies in light of kinds of activity we've seen them do over last couple of years. we have got for example, turkey, is nato ally. we have missile

again we've never and we made the 11 stores deal that was a compromise to then is you're not quote/unquote compromising above that is an unacceptable session and the subsidys up to 20 store theirs crucial we need therefore to support supervisor mar's protective and noted put forward our staff legislation one reason it's crucial not to allow subsidyries large subsidy subries are to out compete their competitors and to increase cut their prices that's crucial to the formula retail restrictions and now i want to get to what has turned me extremely troubled with staffs proposal now being opposed to it that's the non sever ability clause it 38 they threw in they know if and when this went through we're going to sue on little 20 stores and as soon as that goes out supervisor mar's proposal go out out good instead of proposing tests taken the gauntlet and they've struck us across the face we can in the morning compromise on staffs legislation because of the accuse so i'm here in strong support of supervisor mar's legislation >> i'm a board member of the arab association as well as a third-generat