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the military they committed to serve. the pentagon s battle to do something about it. revealing investigations, fascinating characters, stories with impact. this is cnn presents with tonight s host, drew griffin. tonight, a special look at some of the men and women who have served our country. opening investigations into the unbelievable injustices done to them. we begin with the startling story how u.s. soldierings were used as human guinea pigs. during the cold war the military embarked on a top secret program to test chemical and biologic weapons. the researchers used animals. believe it north, they also used humans, volunteers from the army who had no idea what they were signing up for. nearly half a century later, some of these human guinea pigs are emerging from the shadows with disturbing stories what the military did to them then and how they re being treated now. dr. sanjay gupta investigates. i enlisted. joined at 18 years of age. it was the height of the vi
totalitarian regime and a dictatorship. and all orders come from president assad. translator: in 2003 after the american invasion of iraq a toppling of the syrian regime, they had an agreement with al qaeda so keep the road open to iraq so militants started coming from all over the world to syria under the eyes of the syrian secret police who are directly responsible for the killing of thousands of iraqis and coalition forces. he trained and provided shelter and built safe havens for al qaeda to hide in. he is the second high-profile sooun official to break within the regime in a week. ivan, did he say why he defected exactly? he said that it was the litany he gave a litany of all the atrocities and massacres that have been committed and he says he had tried to convince the syrian government to change its approach to the syrian people and when he saw there was no hope of a softer approach, that he decided to end his relationship with the regime that he worked with, h
who s the best? the peek at both your parents, who would win? i d like to say, selfishly, i might beat him. his harrowing escape from an attack with the whole world watching. this is piers morgan tonight. mark spitz is a true olympic legend. spitz was swimming into the record books. he won seven gold medals. 40 years later, he remains an icon, an american hero and he s here. mark spitz, welcome. what it s like to be an icon? probably a little bit better than not being an icon. i was thrusted into that opportunity in 1972. i didn t realize i was going to be elevated to a level where people are going to be looking at it like something special. i was 7 years old. the first olympic games i ever watched on television with any kind of real interest or be old enough to understand what was going on. you were like this incredible fish. every time you went in the water, everyone else had to get out of there. and you also had the most incredible mustache that anyone had ev
outfront tonight, losing money, rewarded big time. today, jpmorgan s stock was up like a july firework. surging 6%. in fact, it brought the whole market along. for a friday the 13th surprise. it was the best day for stocks this month. and it doesn t add up. so, jpmorgan shares popped in reaction to the bank announcing that losses from that high-profile trading blunder we ve been talking so much about now top $5.8 billion. now, that $5.8 billion is about three times more than the company said it would lose on this trade just weeks ago. today, the ceo of jpmorgan, jamie dimon, took questions on an earnings conference call, and he said he s earned a lesson. we ve learned a lot. i can tell you this has shaken our company to the core. the truth is no one is sure if other banks have trades like this going on or whether it will happen again at jpmorgan. the truth is, we do not know very much about our banks. jamie dimon didn t know about the now infamous trade for so long that