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Lets look through some other top stories. authorities in tehran say they believe they arrest aed a n who was the main person in the bombing in bangkok. the august 17 bombing killed 20 people. right now in downtown baltimore, protesters have gathered outside the courthouse where the first hearing is now under way for the six police officers indicted in the death of freddie gray. they will discuss whether the trial should be moved out of baltimore. freddie gray suffered a spinal cord injury wh...

Death of a black north carolina teen. in august 17-year-old lennon lacey was found hanging from a swingset in a trailer park a quarter mile away from his home. the state medical examiner ruled his death a suicide but based on reports from law enforcement and a county coroner. the coroner now says he questions if it was a suicide because there are so many unanswered questions. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, ...

Illegal campfire that erupted beyond his control august 17. because of high fire danger at the time the forest service had banned camp fires more than a week earlier. as a result, 111 structures have been destroyed including 11 homes. >> i have a hard time feeling like blaming someone or being real angry about that. whats done is done. cant take it back. i hope that everybody just learns that they, they put campfire restrictions out there for a reason. >> the forest service says nearly nine out ...

If you want to have a job growth. >> give bill a chance. >> get beyond the petty partisan debate here. look, the president has a couple of choices to make over the next two months, they are pushing the quantitative easing next week, printing more money and they seem to be toying with the idea, treasury has a meet on august 17, toying with the idea of forgiving mortgages to those who owe more than their house is worth, an attempt at stimulus, and very much like the mortgage proposal, a year-and-a...

The second trial is supposed to take place in washington, d.c. and was supposed to start on august 17. but today the judge delayed opening statements by a week when manaforts attorneys said they needed more time to prepare. manafort is charged with conspiracy and money laundering. hes pleaded not guilty. the news of the delay came one day after manafort held talks with prosecutors to try to resolve charges in that case. were also getting new word on the extent of muellers team. muellers team con...

Shot down of the government? >> the president is committed to making sure this happens and were going to push forward. matthew? >> about a week ago on august 17, the president again referenced the fictitious story about general pershing committing a mass execution in the philippines. a couple questions. does the president know that the story is false and if so, why does he keep repeating it? why does the white house think its appropriate for the president to perpetuate this false story if he has...

Not until september 18 when the cia received the libyan governments assessment of video footage that showed the front of the facility with no sign of protesters that it became clear we needed to revisit our analysis and then after they looked at the video footage and fbi reporting from interviews of personnel on the ground in benghazi during the attacks the cia changed its assessment. and that was explained thoroughly in the bipartisan report issued on the committee on intelligence which did a v...

Cgi to cms. now, cms is the group that was charged with bringing the obama care website up and running. the group within obama care, the center for medicaid and medicare services. bear with me, one second. look, they told them that there -- this is august 17, six weeks before the launch, there were only 55% ready. they werent even close for that thing to start. >> how do you find that in all those thingses that are wiped out? >> they just redacted napes. but its cgi federal. this is going right ...

Bankruptcy. and i think if the bankruptcy is transparent, we should be able to find that information. but we are thinking about asking solyndra themselves for a copy of t. obviously, they could turned it down. whether its relevant to our investigation, i am not sure. but i think it goes to the larger message that they wasted so much money, they spent $2.5 million in a very short period of time to a law firm whose counsel was related to mr. stephen spinner who was pushing solyndra in the departme...

Bankruptcy. i think if the bankruptcy is transparent, we should be able to find that information. but we are thinking about asking solyndra themselves for a copy of it. obviously, they could turn it down. whether its -- shall we say, relevant to our investigation, im not sure. but i think it goes to the larger message that they wasted so much money, they spent $2.5 million in a very short period of time, to a law firm whose counsel was related to mr. stephen spinner, who was pushing solyndra in ...