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pittsburgh talking about his life in the court. his political views, and how they have evolved. that is at 9:00. we follow that with chairman dempsey. he was speaking in washington, covering some of the same ground the president did, including talking about the effects of sequestration in the military, his thoughts on syria. it is coming up at about 10:00 eastern. up next, we will take you to the 50 minute news conference, president obama talking to the news reporters in the press room. president obama: hello, everybody. hello. good afternoon -- or good morning, everybody. i am here ...

of the state of sudan as an area through which they could send equipment through sudan to egypt to the gaza strip. as i said, the case itself is a case it shows the audacity of certain iranians and i think it shows the iranians are -- in addition to talking to them, must be told in no uncertain terms by actions taken by like the action of the u.s. government that the certain times of conduct will never be tolerated. >> dianne from -- [inaudible] wants to know what your assessment is of prime minister netanyahu's public announcement or desire for redlines respect to iraq? i was hoping...

First of all, bad things happen to snitches. they're sent into dangerous situations and sometimes they don't come out. bad things happen to the police who work with them, because they are tempted to cut their snitches some slack, to let them get away with illegal activities when they shouldn't. and then ultimately an unsupervised snitch can corrupt the whole law enforcement cycle, because you've got somebody with a stake in something other than justice. they have self-interest, they want to make money, they're not in it for altruistic reasons, they're in it to get ahead in one way. >> ted cono...

There's a through the looking glass economy, where big fish snitch on little fish, and where scenes happen like the one described by ted conover in his cover story, "a snitch's dilemma," where his snitch is in a police car, functionally kidnapped. "he escaped from the police car, dashed across the street and ran inside the varsity. the police, leaving their car in the middle of the road, jumped out in pursuit. white exited the restaurant, recrossed the street, and did what any frightened citizen might do. he dialed 911. she responds, so you're calling the police and the police are chasing you?...

>> all i can say, silly white people. >> well, we'll pick up the chicken talk later, but we're going to start now with those june jobs numbers, and any way sliced, those numbers are not good. in june, only a net gain of 80,000 jobs. for april, may, and june, the numbers hit a two-year low. there are two aspects to this, the economic and the political, and it's hard to separate the two if you subscribe to the notion that the worse the job numbers are, the better off the republicans are and the worse the democrats are. but the spin cycle today went like this. >> that's a step in the ri...