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it is an suffered a violent police repression as a result. >> the fbi vs. occupied. what secret documents reveal the fbi monitored occupy wall street from its earliest days, treating the non-violent movement as a potential terrorism threat. we will speak with mara verheyden-hilliard of the partnership for civil justice. then turmoil inside the two- party. a former house majority leader dick armey is attempting a coup than his own party. he is paid $8 million to leave. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president obama and members of the senate are back in washington today after a short break with just days before the onset of the so-called fiscal cliff. obama and republican leaders remain at a crossroads on reaching a budget deal before the combination of spending cuts and tax hikes kicks in with the new year. on wednesday, treasury secretary timothy geithner told congress the u.s. will reach its federal borrowing limit on new year's eve, threatening the same default that was narrowly avoided last year. in a lett

did contact the fbi. and they're looking into it. they were very interested in the information we provided. >> that's great. hopefully they can look into her finances. we didn't have the capabilities of looking into her actual bank records, but that should be relatively easy to track down. >> that report got a whole lot of attention. turns out it got very specific attention from both the fbi and the u.s. district attorney in connecticut. today, noelle alba was arrested, charged with lying to federal agents who were investigating her for fraudulent fund-raising activity. here you see her leaving court in hartford, connecticut. she was released on $50,000 bond. if she is convicted, she could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. the fbi's criminal complaint refers to the reporting we did last week, saying quote, on or about december 19th, 2012, cnn's anderson cooper 360 program broadcast a story regarding charity scams and the sandy hook tragedy. alba was a subject of the program and allowed the cnn crew to record her audio voice in response to questions about her inv



than 48. >> fbi and marilyn monroe . was there a link between the movie star and communist party. correspondant ixplains what new documents were released and say about the late actress. >> the fbi released new information about actress marilyn monroe. they were monitoring for ties to communist. >> she had a lot of high profile friends and under media scrut ninny . some of these people were possibly connected to the communist party. they focused on the trip to mexico in 1962 and her association with frederick. and that is it the guide. and she was spending quite a bit of time. she was spending time with frederick vanderbillt hills. he had extreme leftist views and put her in a light that suggested that maybe she did have communist ideas. >> the actress died last year. her death was a probable suicide but many want to know how she died. they don't show information about the agency investigation about her death. >> it talks about how there were claims that she didn't take her own life but was possibly murdered. >> the fbi released these files after removing dozens of redactions. the


tuesday. but the breakout didn't last long. a swarm of police and fbi agents arrested banks at an apartment. the manhunt for the other escapee continues. >>> a police officer in the right place at the right time. take a look at this video. this is footage from a police car dashcam in spooner, wisconsin, capturing what police officer adam brunclick saw as he was driving along his beat. a child you see there in the yellow jacket in a shopping cart rocketing towards a busy street. the officer realized he couldn't stop the car so he stopped traffic instead. it worked and the little boy escaped unharmed. wow. >>> their job is to make people laugh, but not these days. how a connecticut radio morning show has become a way for listeners to heal. powerful words coming up. you know how painful heartburn can be. for fast, long lasting relief, use doctor recommended gaviscon®. only gaviscon® forms a protective barrier that helps block stomach acid from splashing up- relieving the pain quickly. try fast, long lasting gaviscon®. how much is your current phone bill? four sixteen seventy

to a former fbi agent to find out. >>> plus, yelp users beware! the next bad review you post could land you in court. one review has the owner suing her for 750 grand. he is here to explain. "piles of money" coming up. melissa: turning now to increasingly dangerous developments in the middle east, the situation in syria could reach catastrophic levels now that reports from bashar al-assad military's has loaded lethal chemical weapons into aerial bombs and is awaiting final orders to use them. here to tell us what it means and the economic impact is a former fbi special agent and national security and counterterrorism expert. thanks for coming on tonight. >> thank you. melissa: give us your reaction to the story. it seems like we're reaching a critical point. >> absolutely. this is extremely dangerous and probably one of the reasons secretary clinton agreed to meet with the russian foreign minister and rahim my, the u.n. ambassador for the syrian issue, the syrian dossier. if the regime uses chemical weapons or any weapons of mass destruction, the regime in syria, that is definitely an indic

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are absolutely committed to every resource. >> what groups that we found were guilty of this? >> the fbi's leading the investigation and i'm sure in it different setting they can brief you on where things stand. i can tell you is the state department is supporting actively with the fbi is trying to do. i was in libya in september after the benghazi attack to push the libyan leadership to cooperate in the investigation. ambassador larry pope on the ground in tripoli every day. >> let me ask you question on this. >> tunisia also. >> it's very easy to say to government can you cooperate? of course we are going to cooperate. let me ask our own investigation. the night of the attack obviously our people aren't the only ones killed or wounded. did our intelligence investigators or intelligence operatives in that area managed to go to the local hospitals and to question those people who are coming to the hospitals with bullet lands that might? >> i don't know that they were able to do that. their preoccupation -- >> what about the next day? >> sir as you know by the next morning the american pe

of different channels, some of which can be discussed in other settings. fbi is leading an investigation. the state department is actively supporting this. i have been in libya to talk to the libyan leadership about the importance of their cooperation in the investigation. we're making some progress. i wasn't in asia last week to emphasize to the tunisian president and prime minister -- i was in tunisia last week to emphasize to the tunisian president and prime minister. we're working this relentlessly. would not have the answers yet. i think a making progress. the- we d onoo not have answers yet. i think we are making progress. >> a recurring theme seems to be stovepipe decision making. have heard the bureaucratic burbidge of what the to the sixth floor, -- verbage of what got to the sixth floor, the seventh floor. what is the state department going to do to get beyond this what goes to what floor to make sure this does not happen again? >> as someone who spent a lot of time in corporate america as well, stovepipe and goes on there as well to. we of got to learn from this. we have got t

year, the fbi conducted a record 16,450,000 background checks. this year, the total so far is over 16,800,000. and that doesn't include the month of december. future legislation could affect availability of certain semiautomatic weapons, features on the guns, and the magazines that hold large numbers of rounds. without specifics, store president tom deets says any gun owner could be vulnerable. >> would the existing rifles that are in the marketplace be legal? or would they go across the board and make everything that people have previously purchased illegal? >> the uncertainty bothers non-gun owners, as well. he's a first-time gun buyer worried about protecting his family. >> why now? why today? >> so soon after the shootings? >> because i'm worried that the government's going to put so much regulations on being able to do this, you know, come future months that it's not going to be an option for me. >> industry analysts see this as a possible peak to the sales growth that began with the election of president obama four years ago. u.s. gun sales totaled $2.5 billion in 2008, this yea

, again according to the free beacon the fbi is aware of what happened and they're looking into it but some of these attackers are notoriously difficult to track down. in fact, just a few days ago the secretary of homeland security, janet napolitano, walked, excuse me, talked about major security threats the nation faces and she focused specifically on cyber attacks. >> one of those of course is the threat of a major cyberattack. an attack that disables critical infrastructure, an attack that impacts thousands if not millions of americans. indeed we saw with hurricane sandy what happens when a major piece of critical infrastructure like your electricity grid goes down for a prolonged period. and our cyber infrastructure, our cyber networks, are ripe for those types of attacks. >> reporter: janet napolitano by the way is a member of the council on foreign relations. this attack was apparently detected relatively quickly but, jon, it may underscore the vulnerability a lot of computer networks face in this country. jon: well, so the website is working and it was, as you say, i


for ten years, we had what senator feinstein is suggesting, it was allowed to expire, the fbi, the justice department and others, the studies made no difference. if we're looking at things that are effective, let's talk about it, but first, let's talk about protecting our kids. >> you heard what david keen, who's the nra president had to say on cbs face the nation regarding gun laws, what do you think? >> well, with all due respect to the nra, and i believe in the second amendment in general, but i also believe that i won't pretend to be a gun rights lobbyist if they don't pretend to be school security experts. that way we can respect our field. one gun in the hands of a kid is one too many in a school. when we look at the firepower, i think we need to have some rational conversations on the gun issue and stop politicize. within 24 hours, we started circling the wagons on this issue. and yes, that needs to be a conversation, we also need to balance out that conversation, what are we going to do when kids come back to school in two weeks and how do we pull back all these other resources tha


? >> well, the process has been streamlined through the operation center with the fbi. that database has done a very, very good job from finding and prohibiting people who are criminally prohibited from purchasing and owning a firearm. so that process is a matter of you completing the form 4473. the seller of the firearm, the ffl holder. federal firearms licensee, reviews the information, either making a phone call to the operation center, acronym for national criminalistic background. >> to check it out. >> correct. >> you are very responsible when it comes to checking people out. you are more resourceful than most. >> and i think the industry as a whole, the national shooting sports foundation partnered with atf and they conduct regional seminars all over the country to train retailers to properly engage and visit with people. >> okay. >> so that they understand whether or not it's a person -- >> i get your point. hang on. i still don't understand why it takes longer to get a driver's license than it does to actually, to get an assault weapon and the ammunition to go with it? i don't u

are expected the next several weeks. an arizona missionary safe after being kidnapped in guatemala. the f.b.i. says the 22-year-old was rescued after two days with the help of local police. the story of christmas comes to life as more than 300 actors take part in the largest nativity scene in colombia. >> that is beautiful. >> new concerns that uncertainty over the fiscal cliff crisis could have a series impact on the holiday shopping. consumer confidence has tumbled to the lowest point in five months, in supposedly the biggest shopping season of the year. brenda is a senior business correspondent and anchor of bulls and bears and is back to let us know if the fiscal cliff is going to play scrooge with the christmas season. >>guest: if you look for a grinch look to washington, dc. a lot of people that were surveyed in the consumer confidence index said the higher taxes are making them pull back on spending. we are seeing record traffic in the malls. this was an amazing week end but there are signs people are not spending. they are out there but not spending. we have seen shopper traffic bring


know the fbi is leading the investigation because the department is very actively supporting this. i've been at liberty to talk to the living leadership about the importance of their cooperation and investigation but i could wear making some progress. ambassador pope works everyday on this issue in support of the fbi. i was in tunisia last week to emphasize to the tunisian president and prime minister the importance we attach to cooperation of detaining one of the suspects in the benghazi attack. and i believe where making some progress. so the answer is, to your question is we don't have all the edges yet but we're working those were little sick and i think we're making some progress. >> thank you. with regard to in the mentation of the recommendations of this report, you go through the report, senator corker referred to 18 different accountability review boards over a number of years. a recurring theme seems to be stovepipe decision-making. just earlier today i further bureaucratic verbiage of what got to the sixth floor, what got to the seventh floor. that doesn't mean anything to

weapons ban for ten years. we had what senator feinstein is suggesting. it was allowed to expire. the fbi, the justice department and others said it made no distance. >> if it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy. >> while thought of having an armed guard in every school may sound foreign, it's actually normal in some countries. one place is israel which has strict gun laws. sarah schneider joins us from jerusalem. talk about what this is about here. israel is not necessarily arming the teacher, but there is an armed guard or guards in these schools. how does it work? >> reporter: generally the armed guards are outside of schools trying to protect the schools, trying to make sure no one gets in and out that shouldn't be in the schools or may pose a danger. we should talk about some of the misinformation, because i know there was a u.s. lawmaker that said that israel arms its teachers, and that simply is not true. in fact, the gun laws here are much stricter than the united states. we need to keep in mind that here

areas of concentration. fbi investigators trying to piece together that hard drive. the computer was smashed by the shooter in this case. and they're also trying to see whether there is any imprint of the shooter at all on the internet. was he an online gamer, did he flag anyone what his intentions were. they continue to talk to family, friends, a family doctor, to see what was going on in his mind. >> susan, thank you very, very much. i know it's a very tough story to cover. hope you're doing all right. >> oh, sure. >>> overseas now, russia's foreign minister says syria has connel some dated all its whelm california weapons into one place. russia says the move is an attempt to calm fears those weapons could end up, quote, in the wrong hands. meanwhile, more violence today across syria. 30 people died, according to opposition activists. one, a car bomb exploded in a damascus neighborhood. no one claimed responsibility for the car bomb. it's been called a terrorist explosion. >>> a former u.s. marine is out of a maximum can prison today. jon hammer spent four months locked up, som

communication with socialite jill kelley. but the intermingling doesn't stop there. the fbi agent who began this entire investigation is himself accused of sending this picture to kelley. he later says it was e-mailed as a joke. yes, 2012 was the year falling for grace for many of these personalities, and in the digital world we all live in, the question for 2013 is not so much what the next scandal will be, but when will it hit and who's in the headlines. in new york, i'm arthel neville, fox news. gregg: you can always count on people to misbehave, right? heather: well, and the thing is how quickly we move from one to the next to the next to the next. gregg: lots of trysts. still love that word. >>> all right, it was not-so-merry christmas for retailers. the holiday shopping season turned out to be a bit of a bust. lower-than-expected sales, a sign that the economy is still struggling to recover, so what does this mean as we approach a fiscal cliff that threatens a double dipper? we'll be right back. ♪ constipated? yeah. mm. some laxatives like dulcolax can cause cramps. but phillips' ca


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