she touched the lives of so many people in so many different ways all over the world. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening from london. day four of the 2012 summer olympics. indeed an historic day for the world and for every single american. michael phelps shows everyone he s the best of all time, swimming his way into the record books. winning not one but two medals it giving him an astonishing 19 olympic medals. quite extraordinary. it comes as a 16-year-old girl from china wins another gold and leaves yet more questions about whether her incredible achievements are more than god given. i m joined now by christine brennan from usa today and dominique dawes who was part of the dream team. the magnificent seven who last won gymnastic gold for america in 1996. let s talk michael phelps. it s the big story today. he s become officially the greatest olympic medal winner in history. what does it mean to any olympic athlete? michael phelps has definitely earned e
on his feet. this prisoner has the face of the syrian regime tattooed on his chest. portraits of of the family that has ruled syria for more than 40 years. former president haffaz assad, and on the back, a tribute to hezbollah, the shiite movement in syria, and then someone has put tattoos showing assad s face, and allah is great is all that the prisoner says. this prisoner is a member of the group that is a former member of the agricultural industry who does not want to be identified. it looked to me that somebody deliberately cut on the tattoos of the assad family. . this man was cut because he wanted to show loyalty to the rebels. it is unlikely. and now this man trembles looking at the caps or the loo g looking at his captors every time he speaks. i worked in aleppo until it was blown up. desperate to pay for his wife s cesarean section, he took money as a guard and he said he had been on the job for fife dve da when the rebels captured him. the top enforcer in the fac
firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. according to the report, agent terry s death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes starting at gun shops. quoting from the report, gun dealers were reawe sured aft was closely monitoring the transactions and interdicting the weapons. that was false. the report focuses sharply on this man. william newell. former agent in charge of the field office in phoenix. republican investigators concluding that agent newel authorized, encouraged and endorsed fast and furious and let it continue long after atf had the goods on the straw buyers. quotin
plus, a young woman who pulls a car off of her father saving his life. like a scene out of superman. you have to see this. pretty incredible. up first, the golden girls. of course, everyone still talking about the magical night for the u.s. women s gymnastics team. they routed the russians and everyone else on their way to the gold medal in the team competition. take a look, folks. michael phelps cementing his legacy. he is now the most decorated olympian of all time. winning his record breaking 19th medal and adding another gold just for fun to his all-time mark. amanda davies is live in london. amanda, the debate is raging this morning. also here, mr. john berman and i have been debating this. is michael phelps the best olympian ever? reporter: morning. i ll tell you, there s no debate about the fact it was stars and stripes all the way here at the olympics last night. but it s a really difficult question to answer that. it is the topic of conversation across breakfast
as we first reported, 46 days ago, the law called the warn act, requires that mass layoffs be announced to employees 60 days beforehand. we re talking about mass layoffs threatening the defense industry. since tt sequester cuts take effect on january 2nd. what that initially meant that announcement at the big defense contractors would go out november 3rd, as you can see that s three days before the presidential election. obviously those are not headlines that obama wants. so enter the labor department. here s the letter. oates writes, quote, the warn act notice to employees of federal contractors including in the defense industry is not required 60 days in advance of january 2, 2013 and would be inappropriate. yes. the administration is reinterpreting the law on the sly. because after all this was sent out and they declined to make anyone available to interview this tonight. of course this was a manna from heaven for the republicans. the president doesn t want people readin