Schieffer it wouldnt be summer without a scandal or two and well get analysis on the latest in the Anthony Weiner saga from gather, dee dee myers, and michael gerson, columnist for the washington post. Sports columnist Bob Nightengale of usa today and bill rhoden of the New York Times are here with the latest on the baseball steroid scandal. And well have a report from seth doane, whos just winding up a visit to north korea on the 60th anniversary on the end of the korean war. Spies, scandals, and its all ahead on face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, face the nation with bob schieffer. Schieffer and good morning, again. It has been a horrendous weekend in egypt, violent confrontations between the Egyptian Military and supporters of former president Mohammed Morsi have left at least 72 dead and hundreds wounded. Secretary of state john kerry issued a statement saying, this is a Pivotal Moment for egypt, and called for egypts leaders to, act immediate
Employers can do. Its critical whatever ideas come out need to be extremely appropriate for Small Businesses. Because for hispanics, were we are more likely to work for smawses Small Businesses that have less than 100 employees. They are less likely to offer a retirement plan. Thats because the industry has not offered products that are relevant to small employers who have lowincome workers. So we need new why why the ideas. Its important make sure that businesses not be burdened financially or with liabilities and so on and so forth. They will do this. But, i mean, i think people have a moral responsibility to try to help improve the Retirement Security situation of all workers in the country. I want to point out the automatic ira also does not employers cannot provide a match. And there is a i know certainly in the president s proposal and others theres an enhanced employer startup tax credit. I think were out of time. So thank you. Thank you very much. Im going call david. You can c
The United Nations says 5000 syrians are being killed in the country every month. The u. N. Also warns it is getting to be increasingly difficult for people fleeing the conflict to find a safe refuge. This is said to show victims near the capital of damascus. Nine people, including a child, were shot dead. And there is the assistant secretary general for human rights at the u. N. , and he says growing religious intolerance is fueling the violence. Of the great problem with the situation is that we have an escalation of sectarianism, and our data speak about it. We have cases of sectarian massacres, and we have an escalation of the hate speech, but in the sermons and the mosques, on web pages, even in teachers, not only in syria but in the neighboring countries, we are hearing the hate speech, the escalation of sectarian violence. It would be extremely dangerous and would shortly be bad. At the moment, the most important is to prevent sectarian violence from further escalating. Ok, well
The worlds biggest ship set sail. The second in command of the Yemenbased Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula has been killed but a spoke been confirmed the death ofsaid alsh iri, a Saudi National who had been released from guantanamo bay. He was killed in a u. S. Led drum strike in yemen. Al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is described by washington as one of the most dangerous wings of the global al qaeda network. In the last two years the u. S. Has intensified the use of unmanned drones to target the group. Joan strikes in yemen nearly triple last year from the year before, according to the new america foundation, a washingtonbased think tank. According to the bureau of investigative journalism, there have been up to 154 strikes by u. S. Drones in yemen since 2002 and killed almost 800 people. Including keep it. Like shirhri and clerics like im one ill a lucky guess clerics like anwar alawlaki. As a report, mostly civilians being injured or killed. In yemens rugged and barren countrysi
What is being done and perhaps not being done. Here are the numbers. If not by sound, you can send aus a tweet. You can post your comment on facebook and you can send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you. Here is one of the headlines this morning in the Huffington Post theyre talking about congressman Harold Rogers, the republican of kentucky who chairs the Appropriations Committee. Writes about this as well. Russell permanent shares the byline and joins us by phone. Burman shares the by line. Guest pretty interesting day in the house yesterday. They were considering a House Appropriations bill to fund the department of transportation and housing and urban development. This has been a key bill implementing deep cuts offered by congressman paul ryan. They effectively pulled the bill from the floor, saying they did not have enough time in the week left before the august recess to complete it because of amendments. Said they hope to bring it back after the recess. Then we solv