use in syria. >> we don't believe the lie of chemical weapons. >> the obama administration has said they confirmed that a side used chemical weapons, but the united states has not been in there. the united nations is in there and they have not confirmed anything yet. >> they cannot produce evidence to justify the attack. they do not have international support for the attack. they do not have to mastech support for the attack. they are trying to figure out -- do not have domestic support for the attack. they are trying to figure out what to do and that is why it is important for people to be in the streets. >> as you know, a single man did it in tokyo, in the subway. >> the prospect of intervention is especially troubling for syrian americans and other americans of middle eastern dissent who still have troubling memories of past interventions. >> we know what happened in iraq. it is not fair at all. >> [indiscernible] >> this rally was among several held in the u.s. and around the world. in los angeles, rt. >> in other news, we knew the national security agency was not the only government agency ke

they're using administrative subpoenas which are not run by a judge a few years ago the justice department inspector general actually said that the f.b.i. has been abusing administrative subpoenas using them saying that they're necessary in the war on terrorism but i think the trouble with this program is a the government is paying eighteen t. to do things that the government would not lawfully be able to access itself it's relying once again on private corporations to do its intelligence but there's no oversight to the process now heidi in your legal opinion is this legal. i think that n.s.a. spying and hemisphere skirts the law and probably based on the depth of the program going back twenty six years being able to access all records of phone calls from two decades ago and doing it out without judicial warrant and oversight to me makes it very questionable legally given that the f.b.i. itself has said that the inspector general has said that it's misused i think that's cause for alarm now after the n.s.a. revelations one proposal on capitol hill was to actually have private companies rat

he didn't maybe use the word al qaeda but the us administration themselves to clear. up was al qaeda and recently as recently as today the b.b.c. reported that the offensive which are considered the moderate rebels. which are considered dull kind of rebels were jointly reading my luella the christian village near damascus so the law and between al qaida and the rebels and the line the artificial line that he's drawing is false and i could go back also in aleppo. airbase the same thing happened where the supposed moderate rebels were vetted by the cia you know they've admitted their army for alongside to put in the straw and actually declare victory alongside these foreign rebels so the logic behind a we have to strike because the chaos will create more al-qaeda wouldn't a destroying the syrian military create more chaos great point that that's what we call logical thought unfortunately obama's train as like we're children that we don't have this kind of thought process i mean we had of course responded to that speech in a new york times op ed today saying that quote i

and the fact is now the fact is due to the ok to go in two thousand and four the us administration approached a certain asked him to give up those chemical weapons and i'm sure they mean to him which may be exactly the same assurances as they made to gadhafi when he agreed to give up his chemical weapons and we all know how that turned out we all know how. you rock turned out when saddam give up his chemical weapons as well the u.s. made absolutely sure the using knew the united nations that there was no hidden chemical weapons left in his arsenal before they invaded so i don't see the how do we not deterrent or your strategic that. can actually prevent an attack might actually insurance or postpone it back in july or russia bill. to report to the u.n. blaming the rebels of course of the march sarin attack and a lot in the u.s. and said that it has undeniable evidence evidence that the august twenty first chemical attack in damascus was perpetrated by the assad regime of course the you when has has yet to assign blame either party obviously both countries have their own agenda as you just kin

. >> the us administration does not want to bring down the assad regime now. the opposition is in such a situation of disarray and islamist radicals so dominant they'll end up in power. >> delay has brought the syrian government time. some syrians join what they call a human shield campaign to protect important facilities in the capital. the opposition says the deposit is using civilians as shields. military assets and loyalist forces have been used to residential areas, using some to question the effectiveness of taking out military target especially since the army has been changing its tactics. >> for a long time they have been adapting to the resistance doctrine. so if the united states wants to bomb a fixed facility, they can, it won't be a major impact. >> the syrian army is not fighting a conventional war. generals are relying on paramilitary group, they can play a greater role in army physicians are targeted. >> syria wants military action. the obama administration administration has been seeking approval for limited action, limited or not for now what

us officials. the current administration doesn't want to tip the balance in favour of the opposition for fear the outcome may be worse for us interest and the current stalemate", is that story accurate. >> no. on the warning issue, i don't disagree with you about warning. in fact, the general wouldn't disagree with you either. we are all... . >> the general said it would be just as easily - let's not get into that. >> all i want to say to you is there were leaks which are the bane of everybody's existence and the fact it that the newspapers began to carry stories about a strike and targetting well before any decisions were made and that began a process of moving. so now there is... . >> i got it. i would like to move on to more important questions, if you don't mind. >> all your questions are important, john. >> thank you, john. that's good. i'll try to remember that. the president said today that the purpose of the military action in syria is not just to respond to assad's use of chemical wep jobs, but to -- weapons, but to degrade his chemical weapons and allow syria to free itself." do you agree with

system and the communist ideology also attempted to instill some sort of fair and that is by using administrative means to sort of level all of those income inequality so obviously the soviet system failed and some could argue that you know this was one of the main reasons for that. income inequality in western countries in capitalist societies is now probably at its highest level is that a serious danger to the system itself it's a massive problem because number one the economy cannot continue to function without demand so we can produce way more stuff than we can consume with the given distribution of income that we have now we've been fixing the us in the short term since the one nine hundred eighty s. with credit and with government debt but both now have gotten so large that we can't use them and that's why we've deployed austerity but that's even worse than the two previous solutions that were deployed so we need something new and that new thing is the old thing it should be a return to more new deal like f.d.r. type policies and with respect to russia. and it's a view of the united states

a way that president putin and russia swept up diplomatically and have run rings around the us administration but it would never have happened if our voice hadn't gone the way that it had and how important our so-called alternative media like r.t. and other networks and media outlets that are going against corporate media and in changing the way people are thinking in the house of commons massively and everywhere you go people say we saw max we saw you we saw you on max a show on r t and other means the. youtube's and the face books and twitter and all the rest we are able now to get around i mean i get absolutely no justice from mainstream british media in fact nowadays you have to work hard even to persuade me to go on mainstream british media because i don't need it because i can reach just as many people without having to jump through the hoops and suffer the or proprium and contempt that these people have bitterly sure people whose views it's time to vote are in the majority in the country so all power to r.t. or power to max keiser in the cause or report well i'm going to be your financ

intransigent position gets from scientists powerful outsiders including certain members of the us administration now who we have got to move beyond that point to proper negotiations what needs to happen is three things chemical design and there's a process already underway hopefully that will now happen second a proper investigation of what actually happened on the twenty first of august and who's been using these weapons and third and most important of all a proper negotiation over the sort that has already been discussed many times which russia supports which mr ass out has agreed to and which the rebels should be asked to come around to ok mark a very good point there but the rebels are furious ok i can't use the kind of language on television the way they feel right now are they going to listen to mr obama or they're just going to get more arms from saudi arabian say forget washington we don't care what they think they have never played a big role anyway go ahead. to kill the mass murderer that fog assad is removed from power there will always be war in syria hundreds of thousands will die n

use. this administration shares that desire. as mentioned in the city's response. staff discusses the use of city assets on a regular basis and always looking for development opportunities. in addition the city is looking as transparency in the reports. we have two mapping systems. one for information systems map by real estate. by 2014, members of the public already integrated into a mapping system by one stop shoj presented in a geographical format. finally, the jury recommend the utilize projects, any proposal which brought in utilized properties must be balanced with the needs for affordable housing in san francisco. i'm happy to answer any questions now or after the presentation. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. another man that doesn't need an introduction. [ laughter ] >> good afternoon, chair cohen, members of the committee, director of real estate. i also want to thank the civil grand jury. it's been actually a great experience for me and my staff in taking back some of the concerns and issues they have raised and really highlighting and helping

to understanding this interpretation several of us got together and contacted the zoning administrator on a conference call. he did name examples that would be formula. he acknowledged the fact before us that the real life in asset saturday and kate spade would be in both names. i ask the zone is administrator about a hypothetical. i asked if starbucks coffee decided to start a tea store for the store used blue instead of green, starbucks has green stores, instead of the mermaid logo, it had a dragon and sold no coffee, the look would be different, the color scheme would be different. despite these differences the zoning administrator readily agree that starbucks tea would be accounted for as starbucks. that entirely independent businesses who share no common ownership structure at all could be coming together as formula even if it was zero coordination among them. if entirely independent businesses had a standardized or what could be taken as standardized ray of merchandise, the department could deny them a business. this is absurd but this is a result that was conceivable to the zoni

use. this administration shares that desire. as mentioned in the city's response. staff discusses the use of city assets on a regular basis and always looking for development opportunities. in addition the city is looking as transparency in the reports. we have two mapping systems. one for information systems map by real estate. by 2014, members of the public already integrated into a mapping system by one stop shoj presented in a geographical format. finally,

buying policies on the new health insurance exchanges on october 1 and, as ben tracy tells us, the administration is working hard to get folks to sign up. >> do you currently have health insurance? >> reporter: angelica marquez and her colleagues work for local health clinics. they've had no problems finding uninsured in this part of california. what percentage of the people are uninsured? >> i would say one out of ten are insured and 90% of people are not. >> do you currently have health insurance? >> no, not yet. >> reporter: using a mobile software program marquez told her she will qualify for subsidized insurance based on her income. the income cutoff for subsidies under the affordable care act is $46,000 for individuals or $94,000 for a family of four. if they had not come up to you and talked about what your options might be, would you have known? >> not so much. i would haven't known. i probably would be doing something last minute. >> reporter: the government's goal is to enroll seven million americans in the health care exchanges by next spring, but a new poll shows 62% of the uninsured

yet the use of force proposed by the administration states that it would allow the president to use thermed forces "as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in connection with the use of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in the conflict with syria." this is a very open-ended proposal with no specific limits on types of forces that would be used, no limit on their duration. why was a proposed in a way that it conflicts with the statements of no ground troops and what kind of language -- the precise language are you willing to back in terms of showing the american people that we really mean what we say in terms of no boots on the ground? >> senator, all good questions. i will respond to all of them. i want to address the suspicion and concern that you have which is appropriate. i think everybody understands that iraq left a lot of folks reeling for some period of time. it is appropriate to ask the questions you have asked. let me try to emphasize. this is not sending a message, per se. this is having an affect, and impact. this is taking action to achieve somet

administration to prove their allegations. >> the most important thing is, he basically says there has been no evidence that i used chemical weapons in -- against my own people, and that there is no evidence of that. and if in fact the administration has evidence, then they should show that evidence. >> nbc's peter alexander is at the white house for us. pete, what has been the white house's reaction to that assad interview? >> craig, shortly after we learned the details of that interview with bashar al assad, we did get a statement from the white house here, bernadette mayhan, a spokesperson telling me the following. it doesn't surprise us that someone who would kill thousands of his own people including hundreds of children with poisoned gas would also lie about it. the white house has heard these denials many times before. and frankly, they haven't been swayed. they feel confidently based on a variety of pieces of intelligence, including those videos, 13 of which were played for senate intelligence committee, that it was sarin gas that was used. it belonged to the assad regime, that killed so many people, more than 1,400 people

moveon.org has this ad out. >> don't lead us down this road again. >> reporter: the administration's lobbying efforts continue. while the syrian president assad denied using chemical weapons. he pledged to retaliate if the u.s. strikes. the president will talk to senate democrats in person tomorrow. senate approval seems within reach. in the house, the white house has a lot of work left to do. >> we know that hillary clinton is heading to the white house later today. will she be addressing the issue? >> reporter: she'll be at the white house for a wild life trafficking event. one of her senior aides says she'll touch on syria in brief remarks. last week, she came out in support of a limited attack on syria. >> abc's tahman bradley, live in washington for us this morning. thank you. >>> abc news will provide live coverage of the president's speech beginning at 9:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow night. >>> overseas, passengers enduring a frightening landing in thailand when their plane skidded off the runway. the neez gear failed during landed last night. the plane skidded to a stop on gra

people that's our responsibility to talk with the citizens who have been trusted all of us in the administration in the. congress with responsibility for their security you know mr secretary i agree with what you're saying but that's not what you guys are doing at all see right now support for intervention in syria is actually less popular than congress which says a lot when you consider unpopular congress actually is but i guess having one hundred percent support from the defense industry trumps that news the nine percent support from the american people and what about the syrians well sadly the bloody civil war has so far claimed over one hundred thousand lives but suddenly the time to act is after an arbitrary red line has been drawn in the sand. with our own eyes we have seen the thousands of reports from eleven separate sites in the damascus suburbs all of them show and report victims with breathing difficulties. people twitching with spasms coughing rapid heart beat spotting at the mouth i'm consciousness and death this is the indiscriminate inconceivable horror of chemical weapons this is

being given intelligence briefings without any hard evidence to support administration's claims that the syrian leader has ordered the use of chemical weapons here's another members of congress are not allowed to discuss the classified hearings so we have no way of knowing what the administration has actually provided as evidence lawmakers are unable to discuss the evidence the classified evidence even among themselves unless they are inside an approved reading room and as congressman grayson says questioning the official account of events is quote actively discouraged is that the obama administration is doing what it calls flooding the field in other words trying to monopolize the conversation dominate the discourse and provide only information in favor of an attack to members of congress and to the public i think that's unfortunate there's always two sides to the story when you talk about war and peace the public and congress definitely here deserve to hear about both sides the president's aides are saying that he will listen to congress the president himself face hinting that. you might not listen to a pun with which

against the structural reforms, the et u kags and -- education and energy reformsment the administration tells us about the good parts. they'll only benefit politicians and big business. >> few things give mexicans pride than pemex. it provides security and gives jobs to 160,000 people. for this reason people are afraid of what opening up the oil industry to private enterprise could do. >> the government argues transformational changes are needed to reverse the declining oil production. the president says partnering with foreign countries is the best way to achieve it. and to buoy an economy, enrique pena nieto plans to restructure a tax system known for its inequalities. >> translation: with this tax reform there would be no privileges. the object of the proposal is all the taxpayers without exception will contribute to the nation according to capacity. >> it remains to be seen if enrique pena nieto will be able to steer his agenda through congress. >> with demonstrations planned for the coming weeks, the road ahead will not be easy. >> more than 20 people have been killed in two days of fightin

be the zoning administrator i believe this particular case does not warrant a two week notification. there might not other reasons why people want this but ultimately it's the type of use for the zoning administrator and is that a correct assessment >> i was going to add that the letter has a thirty day notification period so there's already been a notification and process involved. >> i will second a motion on the floor. >> commissioners there is another motion and a second to approve with conditions (calling names) so moved commissioners that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero. >> commissioners that places you under item 12 are the transit effectiveness on the draft environmental impact report. please note that the written comments will be taken until september 17, 2013. >> good afternoon president fong and vice president yu. i'm deborah planning staff. this is a hearing to receive comments on the draft environmental report the transit effectiveness project. the public comment has been extended for three weeks. in some respects this is not a complex project. however, t p is a citywide project. for environmental review we've tried to group as many things together in

administration's case specifically? very few doubt the chemical weapons it use. declared.een it seems folks are very wary about what the administration is proposing and not sure. other folks say they do not seem to trust that there is a real plan. what are you hearing that is different? >> it is just that you are assuming that there is an authorization before the house that we can vote on that you can tally votes one way or another. what is it? you cannot yet say. the house is not yet have a resolution offered. there are telling me a number of members of the house for expressing reservations about moving forward. there is definitely concerned about that. are you gauging that there is concerned that we may involve itself ourselves in a way that makes it impossible to get out? i have heard that as well. if you're telling me that there are certain number of votes for specific authorization, you do not have that. i do not have that. so long as we work hard to make sure that we craft that authorization, that it is very limited and targeted, i believe that is something

and strike hard probably is if you actually bought into the administration's so-called common sense reasoning surrounding assad's alleged use of chemical weapons which is the administration's real and has it painted itself into a red line corner she. could make it with oh if. she was going to consider. the great. truths the access to. i. was allowed and this is all she welcomed back china is ready to reform to make sure it's already spectacular a rate of economic growth continues its aiming to establish the yuan as a world currency alongside combine chain corruption and deregulating markets this is likely to be discussed in the chinese city of dollywood which is hosting the world economic forum or what's become known as this summer doubles his case of people being host of venture capital takes a look at the three day annual meeting of the new champions of the world economic forum as it's officially tied and this will feature all the devil settlements the global leaders the business heavyweights. but with the forever of valving global economy and china's increasing economic power in contrast to your stagnate growth this asia

and strike a hard problem is if you actually bought into the administration's so-called commonsense reasoning surrounding assad's alleged use of chemical weapons what is the administration's real aim and has it painted itself into a red line corner. right on the scene. first street. and i think picture. on our reporters later. instagram. d m o o o. there's a media lead us so we leave the media. by the sea motions to tour the play your party years ago. their shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only on our t.v. . this is coming to life are most welcome bach so use caps you know how successful they were tons three crewmembers from the international space station landing in they can steps as randolph journey from orbit wraps up the mission but lost it for almost half a year elsie's told boston hospital tales for. one u.s. astronaut chris cassidy and two russian cosmonauts pawel the no grad off and alexander missouri kin are back safely on earth after their five months in space they seem well having been fished out of their soyuz capsule which parachuted down on to the step

us all. the administration only tells us about the good parts but the reality is they benefit politicians andiness. >> reporter: few things get mexicans pride than the national oil company, and provides a major source of revenue for the country and gives jobs to about 160,000 people and it's for this reason that people are afraid of what opening up the oil industry to private enterprise could do. the government argues that transforaminal changes are needed for declining oil production and the president says partnering with foreign countries is the best way to achieve this. and to further bring an economy which risks sliding into recession, they plan to restructure a tax system known for its inequalities. >> translator: with the tax reform there is no privileges, the object of this proposal is that all the taxpayers without exception will contribute to the nation according to the capacity. >> reporter: it remains to be seen if the president will be able to steer his ambitious agenda through mexico's congress. but with more, demonstrations planned in the coming weeks the road ahead will not be

is the administration confident going into the meet ings it has today? >> i don't know if confident is the word i would use. the administration faced an uphill battle in convincing them to support this military action. they are well aware of oh how much they need folks like john mccain and lindsey graham. people who support action against bashar al assad and support going further than what the white house is proposing. they want to see any military action, have a clear plan and a strategy. they want the action to strike assad's significant military targets, air defenses, ballistic missiles, command and control. they want to shift the balance of power against bashar al assad on the battlefield. the white house made clear that the goal of any action here isn't are regime change. it's to punish assad for using chemical weapons. this meeting with mccain and graham will be important. the white house hopes they can get mccain and graham on board to convince colleagues on capitol hill to support the resolution. as you know it's very much up in the air with folks on both sides having doubts and questions about how

use of coal. the administration is embarking on a new global initiative exporting uncertainty. the president is not going to allow lower interest fund loans to be made to developing nations around world. struggling nations come out of poverty will continue to suffer, lives will be lost, and the support of this policy, of the biggest moral responsibilities the united states should be to help imaginations must have access to energy for refrigeration. to give you an example in the sub-saharan of africa, the total energy they can generate is a 60 watt light bulb per person for three hours a day. a 60 watt light bulb for three hours a day. why should they be denied access to affordable energy to come out of poverty? take this message to the president. this president must not prevent people around the globe from obtaining affordable, dependable energy. and threatening american jobs over 0.2% of the co2 emissions is not an acceptable energy policy. crushing america's economy to reduce co2 levels by 0.2% is an abuse of his presidential authority. i am just curious, both of you, the iss

using weapons of mass destruction. yet, the draft authorization of force proposed by the administration states that it would allow the president to use the armed forces and i quote here, as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in connection with the use of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in the conflict with syria. now, this is a very open-ended proposal with no specific limits on types of forces that would be uses, with no limit on their duration. why was it proposed in a way that it conflicts with these statements of no ground troops and what kind of language, secretary kerry, are the precise language are you willing to back in terms of showing the american people that we really mean what we say in terms of no boots on the ground? >> senator, all good questions. and i will respond to all of them. but i want to address sort of the suspicion and concern that you have which is appropriate. i think everybody understands that iraq left a lot of folks reeling for some period of time. so it's appropriate to ask the questions you've asked, but please let me try to emphasize, this is not sending a messa

one of the big things is the administration has admitted they would use ground troops if the chemicalns are threatened to be moved. they have admitted it would take 75,000 american troops to secure chemical weapons. my question to is it administration is if you bomb assad, is it more likely or less likely that the chemical weapons will become unsecured and they could go into rogue elements such as al qaeda which is fighting with the rebels against the assad government. >> senator, i want to get into one issue with you. there is a split inside the republican party now between the so-called interventionists like john mccain, lindsey graham and on the other side, people like you who they call isolationists. where is the future of the party? >> you know, i think name-calling isn't the future. it'm not an isolationist. i believe in intervening when american interests or national security is threatened. when you talk about who is winning the battle, talk to any american. i was in the airport yesterday. i talked to the father of a son who is on an aircraft carrier and whose nephew was burned