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victims of the attack even unconfirmed accounts by reported eyewitnesses are being used as solid evidence by america where the latest claims from the state department revolve around alleged samples from the war zone which they say confirm the use of chemical weapons but most of america's allies aren't buying the arguments with only france agreeing to weigh in with force to support a u.s. attack while the u.n. says it is the only one who can determine whether chemical weapons were actually used. the united nations mission is uniquely capable of establishing in an impartial and credible manner the facts of any use of chemical weapons based directly on evidence collected from the ground ok and if the u.s. share any of this evidence that is described with the u.n. well as we've said repeatedly said member states are encouraged to share information information they may have with regard to alleged incidents. well the u.s. has been accused of overlooking some fact that undermine its view of how the region should be dealt with parties and looks at claims that washington rarely lets inconsistency get in the way th

us with his thoughts. >> it's a blind alley. it's a box canyon for america. putin's led us down a here where there's just no good outcome. without the threat of force, this agreement means nothing. [ male announcer ] what's important to you? at humana, our medicare agents sit down wh you and ask. being active. and being with this guy. [ male announcer ] getting to know you is how we help you choose the humana medicare plan that works best for you. mi familia. ♪ [ male announcer ] we want to help you achieve your best health, so you can keep doing the things that are important to you. taking care of our customers. taking care of her. and the next thing on our list is bungee jumping. [ male announcer ] helping you -- now that's what's important to us. headlines. white house officials confirming president obama senior adviser dan pfeiffer returned to work. he was hospitalized twice last week after suffering stroke-like sim tsymptoms. he's just 37 years old. >>> a government watch dog, may have let more than 36,000 people collect $1.3 billion in disability payments they were not entitled to. at least one recipient collect ad

you know, even us at "america" magazine where we've read many documents from popes, we were stunned. he said, i'm a sinner. we're all sinners. rarely do you hear it said that directly and candidly, with no sugarcoating. >> an extraordinary pontiff so far, really shaking things up. reverend james martin, appreciate you being with us. >> my pleasure. >> i'll be in church to see if there's rippling effects. >>> mexico, last thing they need is more destructive weather. talking about the tropical storm pounding the pacific coast, stronger now. now considered a hurricane. >> unbelievable. after everything else. two other, separate, major storms flooding people out of their homes, causing massive mudslides and stranding tens of thousands of tourists. on the pacific coast, nobody's going anywhere. >> not until the water goes down, at least. and the hurricane winds stop blowing. shasta darlington on the road now. she's trying to get to one of the very hard-hit areas to talk about that. a little while ago she was in acapulco. let's watch. >> reporter: chaos in the beach resort of acapulco. thr

world that attitude madeline albright more recently united states if we have to use force it's because we are america where the indispensable nation we stand taller and see farther than other countries hillary clinton the same thing obama this notion of where the indispensable nation what makes us the indispensable nation but we are the most powerful nation on basis the most powerful nation we have the atomic bombs we had a monopoly on atomic bombs what right do we have to worry about talk about other countries using weapons of mass destruction we began the process of the most serious iteration with the attack on hiroshima and nagasaki and have we apologize for that have we criticize that question that right now in outside of washington d.c. in the air and space museum next we're displaying the enola gay the plane that dropped atomic bombs on hiroshima to start the modern era of weapons of mass destruction and the head of the air and space museum said we're going to display the you know the gay and all of its glory as a magnificent technological achievement i don't know where we come off being the world's

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america over there. >> where does that leave the debate? where does that take us today?> i think the united states has -- the people have turned away from the middle east. as a cause. obviously we are stimworried about the price of gasoline, and that will continue to be an influence in every american election. but in terms of -- if you go to the american public, they are worried about terrorism, they see it every time they go through the airport, and have to go through the security checks. and they hear about al quaida. but in terms of proses hetizing and bringing democracy and freedom, i think that drum beat is very very distant now. i just don't think we are going to see that. >> we recently hadron paul, former cookman on talk to al jazeera. and he is a big advocate of nonintervention, he says it is not the united states business. what is your response to that? >> well, it is, and it isn't. let's take the case of the use of chemical weapons in syria. this whole international structure was created by the united states. the first time we tried to create it was at the end

america. any one of you who feels cynical, just consider where we have been. >> joining us now to talk about the topic of income inequality in america is jacob kornbleuth. it's called inequality for all. to start with, explain the tit title. >> well, "inequality for all" was chosen because inequality does really affect us all. it affects the poor and middle class but the wealthy among us. they would do better with a rapidly growing economy than the larger share of the economy that is stuck and not growing at all. >> your film has a message and an opportunity to educate, but you also want to entertain and pull in your audience. how do you do both at once? >> well, that was the big question about making this film. how do you make a film about the economy entertaining? i don't come from documentary, and i felt that helped a lot. film needs to be a transformation machine. you turn off the lights, go into the cinema and come out changed. that's an experience entertaining first and foremost. we use middle class characters and personal stories to pull you along on a personally emotional journey and at

measures everything insured except that which makes life worthwhile and i can tell us everything about america and that's where we are proud that we are americans. i will end with that in thing for many people who worked on the data and the analysis i talked about, particularly david stuck her at oxford and take any questions you may have. but i saw a book review today. i have not seen the book you don't assure you think what about the hospital of new orleans. ensure you are aware of the situation. i wonder how you increase onto that in light of what you have told us. just to give some context. the hospital of new orleans -- as the number of situations going on with health care new orleans similar to detroit. a number of locations around the country are suffering from such extensive deficits and debt that hospitals are closing among the safety net groups and among some private hospitals, we see cherry-picking phenomenon, which is alluded to both during the recession and since. i didn't talk a lot about health care and health care insurance and how they suspect they carried recessionary. but i will say there we

mark strassmann will show us where high-paying jobs are on the rise. the america's cup launches tomorrow. carter evans reports it's high- tech and high-risk. and steve hartman "on the road." no adoptive family was willing to take troubled taylor-- until connie going found the perfect home. >> she knows my worst side and she still cares about me and still loves me. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, president obama is opening a new front in his battle to get congress to authorize military action against syria. he's taking his case directly to the american people. the president said today he will address the nation from the white house on tuesday. he made that announcement in st. petersburg russia at the end of the g-20 economic summit. the strike against the syrian dictatorship would be punishment for a nerve gas attack two weeks ago that the administration says left 1,400 syrian civilians dead. elizabeth palmer is the only american network reporter inside syria as the country braces for a u.s. attac

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america. putin led us down a road where there is no good out come. without the threat of force the agreement means nothing. i wanted to strike assad and punish him and change the tide of battle. mike, what happens if assad said no, you can't go there? without a chapter seven resolution which the russians are threatening to veto and allows the use of force it means nothing. this is a debacle. >> and where did this whole thing unravel? >> i think when the president came to congress. right after the redline was drawn a year ago. why would assad do it after he was told by obama not to? from benghazi forward, we have been sending a signal that we are weak and a paper tiger. they killed our ambassador and three other americans and a year later nothing happen to anyone. every radical jihaddist is on steroids and assad sized up obama and i will do what i need to to protect myself. and challenge this guy. and the russians and iranians and syrians won the contest and we lost. i worry about what is happening in iran. the only reasonable they are not dancing is

national security is at stake in syria along with the leadership where we seek to ensure that the worst weapons will never be used. america is not the world's policeman. terrible things happen across the globe and it's beyond our means to right every wrong but mod matt it fort and risk we can keep children safe, i believe we should act. that's what makes america different and exceptional. with humility but with resolve, let us never lose sight of that. thank you, god bless you and god bless the united states of america. >>> president obama spoke for about 16 minute in thes or so. the headline here came about 3 quarters of the way in when he said he's asked congress to postpone their vote on whether they would approve a limited military strike against sear y.he wants them to postpone the vote while he pursue tropical storm option whertakes control of all the weapons and eventually destroy all of the weapons. >>> only if he was assured that had been done would he pursue the diplomatic resolution. he said he would not put boots on the ground or pursue an air campaign. he's asking congress to postpone the vote. >> also talked

us unique by bad in that direction. what is it about america that makes us different than old europe, new europe, asia, a good part of africa, latin america. a country wheree're seeing now this regularity. you've got to tell me the answer to this. >> the reason we have gun murder rate 15 to 20 times higher in other countries is the way we don't regulate guns. people in the united kingdom are not more or less mentally ill than we are. but any year in united kingdom you have 40 or 50 firearm homicides and in the united states you have around 12,000. they make it harder for people who should not have guns to get guns. and we make it easy. >> you're saying if there were no gun laws in britain like we have laxed gun laws, you'd see them drive around with the guns on the back of their trucks. like here where guns are part of life. living with guns. teaching your kids guns. would immediately become part of french life or japanese lives. >> not quite -- >> no quite so much. is it the culture or the law who makes us who we are? >> i think it's a bit of both. my dad was a gun dealer in colorado. i grew up with guns, but we had a low gun murder rate. the reason that

tara moriarty joining us live from san francisco's embarcadaro where the americas cup will get under way again this afternoon. there's a really tough challenge facing the oracle team, tara. >> reporter: that's right. it's not really looking so good for the americans. how hard would it be for them to pull out a victory at this stage? let's just say there's no precedent for a comeback of this magnitude. behind me you can see that all is still right here. the boats are all lit up. it's pretty quiet but that's going to change at 1:15 this afternoon. the first race will be on. speck at a timors will be gathering along the -- spectators will be gathering along the embarcadaro. they pulled ahead of the oracle team yesterday to cross the finish line 15 seconds earlier. hope is fading but not lost on oracle team u.s.a. it would need to win eight consecutive races to defend the trophy it won in 2010. team new zealand has won eight races to oracle's three but because of the two-race penalty imposed on are on cal -- imposed on oracle for cheating before the match began, the official core is 8-1.

us into war. specifically with syria! where dictator and high school freshman trying to grow a mustache bashar al-assad -- (laughter). -- has used chemical weapons against his own people. now, as the world's policeman, america has a moral imperative to blow some (bleep) up! (laughter) but thanks to obama's limp leadership, that idea is going over like a turd falafel. only 29% of americans want us to attack syria. now, on the plus side, that means 29% of americans know there is a place called syria. (laughter) but that's not enough, folks. it's all because of how obama is selling it! >> i have decided that the united states should take military action against syrian regime targets. this would not be an open-ended intervention. we would not put boots on the ground. instead, our action would be designed to be limited in duration and scope. our capacity to execute this mission is not time sensitive. it will be effective tomorrow or next week or one month from now. i i translation, we don't know what they want to do, we won't do much and it doesn't matter when we do it. who's with me? (cheers and applause) i mean, how are you supposed to get behind that? i've got a crack graphics department upstairs ready to mak

world where most homes don't have loaded guns and most intrusions don't end with someone getting shot. >> 2 million times a year guns are used in defense moves. >> 2 million times a year in americales. where are they? >> if you -- >> do you know how many 2 million is. >> you don't read the "washington times" clearly. >> you tell me americans using guns fend off intruders 2 million times. but i have been sent one example every three weeks. where are all these things happening? >> obviously there is a biassed in the liberal media against showing these stories. >> every paper is a liberal media? >> i post stories about positive gun ownership. i would hope that will happen with me. they see i'm armed and will leave or surrender. >> my argument is where there are more guns there are more likelihood of a gun being used. there was a heart breaking case of an 18-year-old who for a prank in a family home hid in the closet and jumped out to surprise him. he happened to be carrying a gun and because he was startled he killed her with a gun. that would happen in countries where you are not just overrun -- >> what about the guy in england who killed a guy with a machete. accidental deaths is

this is where a lot of america's clothes come from, and it's a reality many companies don't want us toee. this is one of many many subcontracting factories at the bottom of the supply chain in bangladesh. it seems completely unregulated. it's just a shack in someone's backyard. this morning we went to a finishing house, and they had about 20 workers there, more than half of them were under 14. there were girls as young as 12 making clothes for gap. >> really? in a finishing section? oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. i mean for me -- it just -- i just can't believe. so this is the time that gap should step forward to make this correct. oh, my gosh. so see how critical is the supply chain is? how critical it is. ♪ >> gap declined to give us an oncamera interview. they did give us a statement saying the products we found were quote either counterfeit or improperly acquired, but through the bar codes we found, as well as shipping records, we were able to match the garments to ones at old navy stores in the u.s. gaap added that it, quote, strictly prohibits any company from employing underage worke

america, glenn. >> reporter: we found out today through social media what is probably a very small group of americans this is taking some gets used to. not here in south bay where american indians have already made their mark in politicses. this is already one more great achievement. there she is, miss america. nina davuluri. 24-year-old medical student from new york and the first indian american ever to wear the grown. >> it's very exciting to see an indian american win miss america which is such a long standing substance abuse in american culture. >> first indian american elected to the city council. >> i think it's one more sign that we are really part of the american fabric now. >> reporter: even before she took the title she was aware. >> as asian america. we're really proud. >> reporter: but it was her heritage that evoked a ray cyst backlash on social media. others saying several things based on her heritage. >> the negative comments it's more about the cliche of expecting a blond, blue-eyed girl. >> reporter: the backlash is mostly due to people' ignorance of indian americans. she says she heard similar comments from her recent bollly wood style commerc

to use a crowbar to break into an atm at a nearby bank of america, police used a fire department ladder truck to help track him down. >> he was hiding and we weren't eventually able to detect where he was hiding and as we gave him orders to give up the roof gave way and he fell through. >> he was arrested and did not appear to be hurt. the police department is getting much needed help with dozens of new graduates from the police academy, mike nemack was at the sear ceremony and joins us now and not a lot of time to celebrate. >> that's right, not a lot of time to celebrate. this new class getting thrown right out into the streets starting next weekend, graduation wrapped up here 15 minutes ago. 36 men and women with oakland police department badges, that brings the total of sworn officers in the city to 650, they say this is a high point considering the number who departed for budget cuts, they had 836 at 1 time. a spokesperson said the chief of police ultimately would like to have 900, that is another 253. he did not give a time line but says the federal award will help. today the chief reminds these men and women of who they are and to always remember who they are working to p

america so far," he said. he took us to another warehouse where the group stores its ammunition. it was almost entirely empty. this is it? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: "yes," he told us, and this is for the whole free syrian army. all they had left were machine gun bullets and rocket propelled grenades, not enough to go into battle with. he said this wouldn't even last five minutes. a big part of the american reluctance to send weapons is the fear they will end up in the hands of extremist groups which seem to be gaining in strength. why are they so powerful on the ground? "they are strong because they are zealots," said khotoba. they love death. but for now, he said the free syrian army needs to focus on defeating its main enemy-- the syrian regime. and for that, he said, they need the u.s. to throw its might behind them. "we hope that they will strike the regime," he told us, "and stop the killing machine." do you have faith in america at this stage? "we have faith in the american people," he said. "they are the only ones who can help us." >> pelley: clarissa is out of syria now,

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us there was the obamacare tax that means congratulations america we are high year the increase. doesn't work? increase is starving and homeless they are dumpster diving is that what we want that is where obama is taking us. >> host: you served as a libertarian party vice-presidential candidates >> i endorse mitt romney on fox news and will she won the election i am sorry he did not. he is a very nice man but not a good candidate he does not have the energy or the passion i do he did not have the guts or the stomach to run for president to be the president. he would make a much better president than me but i make a much better candidate because running for president is not a rah, to know but being american en idle and obama is greatly cannot run his treasury sold mitt romney cannot run for office you have to like blue-collar middle-class people and want to get out and kiss babies battle think he likes to get down in bitter and roll it with the p.i.g.s.. i love to campaign soulfully i will join in rand paul in the senate. >> host: two of your survival tips and "the ultimate obama survival guide" is investing in farmland and agriculture and short of the government bond ponzi scheme. >> d

where does this lead us? once you start a war, you can't control all of the impacts. where is america going to end up if we initiate this war action? my constituents have that same question. we need that question answered before we can act. >> thank you so much, congresswoman, for your time. i greatly appreciate it. we'll see what tuesday brings when the president does deliver those remarks. let me bring in our "news nationatio nation" panel. thank you, both, for joining us. let me start off with you, phyllis, on your remarks here. you're saying illegal, immoral, dangerous. that seems to be in line, if not the same use of words we're hearing from some lawmakers and the american public at this point. >> i think that's absolutely right. there is massive opposition, and it's growing on a daily basis. we're hearing from offices on the hill that their calls regarding syria are coming in 600 to 2 against 1,000 to 1. >> but why is it illegal specifically? >> it's illegal because, as i think my colleague will agree, the only two ways that a country is legally allowed to use force against anot

where their next meal is coming from. what's really upsetting to us, a few years ago, feeding america conducted a national study called map the gap. >> okay. >> in maryland, you know , basically what it told us was of the food insecure nearly half of them were finding ways to feed themselves, which is very interesting. >> what does that mean? >> it means that -- you know, that's kind of feeding america asking that question as well. how do we dive into that population and find out how are you handling it? >> right. >> what we know then also is that half of the people then that we serve are people who are not eligible for any federal programs as you mentioned earlier. >> let me stop you. i hate to cut you off . >> sure. >> are they the work ing poor? >> they are. >> that seems like an amazing thing to me. you have people who are working, have jobs but these are -- many of them still don't know where their next meal is coming from. >> that's right. that's true even of people who e closer to the poverty line. >> okay. >> we assume that people are either homeless. a lot of people think hungry people are homeless or people not