From a plane and prevented from leaving the country. Host we begin this hour with the u. S. President ial race, and its been likened to throwing out captains on a sinking ship. But Donald Trumps new Campaign Team says they are fired up and ready to go. The republican nominee has brought in Stephen Bannon of the right wing news site right part inbreitbart, and has brought ulster kellyanne conway. Pollster kellyanne conway. The election is just three months away. Reporter its been a bad few weeks for donald trump. The latest polls show him not only trailing his opponent nationally, but also in key battleground states. In response, the candidate hasnt lamented a staff shuffle has implemented a staff shuffle, bringing on a new manager and chief executive will stop political analyst chief executive. Political analysts say dont expect a calm her donald trump. We have not seen him do that yet. He appears to be turning to people who like the donald trump the way he was. Winningsure if for a coalition that is the right strategy. In fact, some say the shakeup is a deliberate move on trumpetings part to sabotage his own campaign. On his blog, Filmmaker Michael Moore says trump never really wanted to be president of the united states. Instead it was part of a plan to drum up a bigger paycheck during negotiations for his tv show the apprentice. But when trump made his remarks calling mexicans rapists and drug dealers, the network distanced himself from the billionaire distance itself from the billionaire and canceled the show. But following that, trump gathered a devoted following, and out he is the republican nominee. Time is running out for trump to turn around his campaign. Ast for more, i am joined by professor of historical studies at the university of new york, and he is the author of Obamas America a transformative vision of our national identity. Stephen bannon is known to be extremely hostile not only to democrats, but to the republican establishment, people like hall ryan, john mccain, people like that. How is donald trump hoping that will help him win the election . Guest i think that is a terrific question, and i think that in his mind, but donald trump has decided, well, im going to lose, but at least im going to lose my way. Thats what bringing in steve bannon means. I said a few months ago that donald trump is 69 years old, and its unlikely that he will be able to change. His. The only thing that has changed change who he is. The only thing that has changed is that he is now 70 years old. He is who he is. Trumpannan has been in so does not have to listen to the nagging voice in the Campaign Managers office saying, can you tone it down a little bit . Now he can do what he wants and not does it want anybody in his ear, so to speak. Host donald trump has been pretty loose with the insults so far. He has insulted mexicans, women, muslims. Can we expect more of that with steve van at the helm steve bannon at the helm . Guest i dont think theres any question. You have to understand who steve bannon is. He has been running Breitbart News for the past few years, and he has already turned what was an extreme organization to something even more extreme. You can characterize it as a cross between the National Enquirer and the ku klux klan weekly. He has brought in white nationalists and racists and given an a foot in the door to the mainstream audience through breitbart. I think what you will see onledh a ban in bann Trump Campaign is outlandish stuff, like Hillary Clintons suppose it medical problems, which apparently there are none. You will see all kinds of conspiracy theories, and you will see the continued use of white racist dog whistles and language, like we have seen with his like much about Second Amendment people taking matters into their hands if Hillary Clinton is elected. Dangerous stuff. I think it will only get worse. Host do you think the turning point in this campaign was Donald Trumps dispute with the parents of the u. S. Soldier . Think he is going to speak with them. I think he is gone has gone so far out on that land that there is no going back. Host but do you think that is where things change, where Paul Manafort and people said, youve got to rein it in now . Was the dont think it point where things change, but ick in the more br wall, and i think it was the breaking point where you saw it affecting his poll numbers. After the convention, he made it into a climb, maybe even a small lead over Hillary Clinton, and once he spoke that way about the clintons ownary successful convention, the poll numbers started to the plummet, and thats where we are today. Host but can the polls be believed . They have been wrong a lot lately. Brexit comes to mind. Guest thats a great point. No one poll should be taken as an accurate production, but if you have a number of polls saying the same thing, you can then look at that average. The average is that trump is losing by 8, 9, or 10 points, but you could say the polling is off by four or five points in either direction. It is highly unlikely the polls are off by 10 points. Brexit polls showed remain winning by two or three points, and they lost by two or three points. That is within the bounds of error. Trumpings polls are outside the bounds. Host baxter and much. Moving out to turkey, where thanks very much. Moving out to turkey, where 13 were killed and hundreds were wounded during military targets in the east of the country. Officials have linked the attacks to recent attempts to overthrow the government. A Police Station in ruins. Nearby vehicles turn to chart bricks, and plumes of smoke were seen far into the distance. Authorities initially pinned the blame on pkk militants, but president erdogan suggested that Fetullah Gullen could be behind the attack. I see these attacks as reprisals. There is no difference between ,ullens organization, the pkk and the Islamic State group. These attacks show they all served the same goal, but people should be reassured, the blood of our martyrs and included has been and will be offense. Reporter turkey has again ns extradition from the united states. Also on thursday, a roadside bomb targeted a military vehicle. It has been a violent 24 hours in turkeys southeast. Late wednesday night, a Police Station was targeted when two car bombs went off in vans. Dozens of people, including 20 police officers, were wounded. The pkk andeen Kurdish Security forces have picked up since the fourth of july when a 2. 5 years ceasefire between the two sides collapsed. Host Amnesty International has released a new report revealing that torture and beatings are commonplace in syria state prisons. It details the widespread human rights abuses being carried out in the name of the assad regime. It claims more than 17,000 inmates have died, and it is urging world powers to intervene. Reporter it is one of syrias most notorious resins, and servant notorious prisons, and survivors call it the worst place on earth. As we arrived, we heard the shouting of the guards. They were very happy to welcome the prisoners. Torture the subject of may be painful, but it is to let the people know the truth of the regimes hiding. No one knows the real numbers and the ugly and of torture that occurs inside. Reporter and Amnesty International says the abuses inside this jailbait back to 2011. Here, prisoners were inside this jail go back to 2011. Prisoners were tortured. When they bring out food, they bring out to the head of the cell or two others to be beaten. Your heart drops to the floor. You begin to shake. You cant control it. Over 17,000 people have been estimated to die in syrian state prisons over the last three years. The world can take action, and it can ensure that now that there are some peace negotiations, the whole issue of detention practices, the abuses occurring on a daily basis are placed at the top of the agenda, and something finally has done has been finally will be done about it. Reporter the goal of the present of the prisons is to eliminate those who opposed the assad regime. Host political deadlock gripping spain for months. The Prime Minister has reportedly reached an agreement with the probusiness party. The house has been without a government since in inconclusive election result of december of last year. One step closer to ending political deadlock. After eight months of fruitless negotiations and two negotiations, the acting Prime Minister has been given a green light to negotiate with the centrist party in a bid to win a parliamentary majority. The main reason i requested permission to negotiate is because spain needs a government. Now. Reforms put Forward Focus on several key points, which are nonnegotiable if the conservatives want their backing. They include stripping public offices of parliamentary immunity, eliminating political corruption, and creating a Parliamentary Committee to investigate the alleged corruption scandals. There has been no indication of acceptance of the proposals. He also needs to bank on socialist support. He would be seven votes short of , even with the party behind him. So far, thats not looking likely. What is clear is that the millions who voted for us on june 26 did not do so to support the government. But rather to avoid the government. Reporter the socialists could still abstain from any decision, which would automatically give the Prime Minister the majority noneeds, but if there is governor by the end of august, spain will have to call the election in less than a year. Has ledVice President his country and is reportedly in the democratic republic of congo. South sudan has been torn apart by a civil war between much ours and ther;s followers opposition. Machar seeking refuge abroad. The Vice President has reportedly fled and is believed to be on you en route to the european union. This comes a day after the new Vice President had told him to stay away with paul stay away from politics and possibly the country until the next election. Let him organize a Political Party and wait for the election of 2018. Reporter he is a former ally of machar, from the same ethnic group. Machar, however, is never in doubt. This is the second time he fled south sudan. Last february, the International Community lobbied for his return to juba, something seen as essential to maintaining a fragile peace agreement. He returned in april to support his wartime rival in a transitional government, but it was a shaky relationship, and last month clashes between supporters led to hundreds of deaths, and much of the troops went into hiding. Meanwhile, the u. N. Authorized last week that appointment of 4000 additional indeed appointment of 4000 additional troops to provide security in juba. Champion u. S. A living ryan lochte has been accused of lying about being robbed at the games in rio. Swimmerse of three to claim to have been threatened that gunpoint on the way back from a party. Lochte made it back to the u. S. , but his teammates have been pulled from the plane and are being questioned by authorities. Reporter the passports are being confiscated, and they arent allowed to leave the country. These two olympic swimming champions were escorted off their plane by police. Want to, authorities question them and their teammates for a second time about the night out. It was a little confusing. They did not understand why they could not board. There was some confusion because the police said they would be witnesses, and the Judicial Court was saying something different. The story that they were robbed at gunpoint on the way back to the elliptical village has been undermined by new evidence. Brazilianoadcast on tv shows the four swimmers stopped at a petrol station on their way home from a night out. Reports to just they broke down the door to an outside bathroom. Security guards made them sit down outside the petrol station before an agreement was reached on damage. Officials of the games are trying to downplay the situation. Lets give these kids a break. Sometimes you take actions that you later regret. A have fun, they made a mistake, its part of life, life goes on. Reporter but the brazilian Justice System may think differently. The four could be charged with being with giving false testimony. Gunnar bentz and jack conger are being held by authorities. Ryan lochte is back in the u. S. The whereabouts of the other teammate is still unknown. Battlingefighters are a fire in california. It is described as the worst in a generation. More than 82,000 people have had to leave their homes, although some are choosing to take the risk and remain. Safe, and with access to water, that precious commodity that california so desperately craves. This man is one of thousands who have evacuated their homes. He says the fire which began on tuesday started out small. Up. Guess the wind picked all of a sudden, the fire over the route 66 overpass, and then we had a wall of flames about 25 feet high, and you could feel the heat. Reporter Southern Californians are used to wildfires, but many of them are saying this is one of the worst in a generation. Since 1968, here and ive seen this mountain on fire, these mountains on fire, thing, im afraid of it now. It was terrible, because i was having to help shove everything in my dads car. I had my dad on the phone because hes a truck driver, and he was gone. I asked, what do you need . I brought everything i could find. Reporter hundreds of firefighters are still attempting to control the brook control the blaze, so when the Evacuation Order remains in many areas, but up to half are choosing to ignore this order and remain in their homes. Im not leaving, because we are surrounded by greenery, and once the fire gets down to the bottom, it should be able to put it out right there, because its all green. Weve got all kinds of people up there and all kinds of water pressure, so we are going to be safe. Reporter government forecasters say the hot and dry conditions means that the region faces a potential threat from major wildfires for the rest of the year. Host lets get an update on the newss this top business. Some good news on the french economy. Exactly. The Unemployment Rate has dropped double digits in the First Time Since 2012. 9. 9 of the French Public was without a job in the Second Quarter of the year, compared to 12. 2 of the previous three months. That figure has hovered around the 10 mark for most of france while lawns present frances ois hollandesc presidency. There has been a downward trend in recent months. This would be a much needed boost for the socialist it continues to fall. The new k has also gotten better than expected Economic Data this week. That asday, it was said weaker pound and warm weather boosted retail sales compared to the same month last year. July is the first all months since the brexit vote first full month since the brexit vote. Boost europeand markets. 1 ,dac had two thirds of the cac 40 just under half. It is said u. S. Interest rates wont be rising just yet. Fairly flat trading on wall street. The Major Industries just major indices just above the flat line. We had a margin crude oil prices as well. They had hit a sixweek high, rising to 48. 22 per barrel, thats u. S. Wti crude. Brent also crossing over the 50 per barrel mark for the first time in several weeks. Shares in the u. S. Can indications giant cisco are recovering u. S. Communications giant cisco are down 1. 5 after the Company Confirms it will be cutting 5500 jobs, but not nearly as many as have been reported. The company is facing stiff competition through Cloud Services offered by google and amazon. Reporter it started with the leak of misinformation. Cisco systems confirmed employees fears on wednesday that they would be cutting jobs, but nothing near the amount rumored. Even so, from the First Quarter of 2017, the Company Announced that 5500 positions would be cut. Restructuringnd cisco would have gone through in three years. They let go 6000 people in 2014. Cisco employs more than 72,000 people in the world, including 1200 and france, and has a turnover of almost 50 billion a year. However, this has recently been sledding. Cisco management lanes the rise of client Services Offered by giants like amazon and google. In order to made to in order to remain profitable, they say they need to restructure. The plan is to pour savings in startups working on cyber security, connected objects, and data analysis. Cisco is not the only Multinational Force to adapt to market changes. Intel cut their workforce by 12,000. At somets take a look other business headlines. Down,. Com will be shut the announcement coming just a day after its bankrupt parent county was bought in auction. Spanish broadcaster univision, which paid 135 Million Dollars to gawker media on wednesday, says it will not run the flagship site, but it will maintain its other properties spin ebel and dead deadspin. Nearly at lenovo jumped 2 3 in the three months of june. The worlds biggest pc maker is still struggling to make money through its mobile division. It recently acquired motorola. Walmart surpassed Market Expectations in revenue, topping 120 billion in the Second Quarter. The retailer roosted its for your guidance, showing the boosted its fouryear guidance, showing that digital was paying off. How would you feel about a taxi without a driver . That is what uber has announced it is aiming for as it has announced testing Driverless Cars in the city of pittsburgh. Start developing selfdriving suvs, part of a growing trend in the Auto Industry. , request open the app a driver, and wait for him or her to roll up. Thats the way uber works will stop at the right helix thats the way uber works. But the right Healing Service wants to change things up. In pittsburgh, people who use the work may be picked up by autonomous ford fusions, with a backup driver for security. Uber also signed a deal with automaker volvo. Provideany will driverless suvs for research purposes, which will eventually be part of ubers fleet in pittsburgh. And the San Francisco company otto, a company specializing in making autonomous trucks. Uber is not alone. Everyone in the Auto Industry is advising their driverless strategy. We are announcing intent to , level four,olume fully Autonomous Vehicle in commercial operation in 2021, in a right healing or Ridesharing Service will stop Ridesharing Service. Reporter ford is not the only manufacturer thinking about teaming up with a Ridesharing Service either. Host it is rumored they will tie up with uber. Their main rival, general motors, is in discussions with lyft, which is also a Ridesharing Service, so that is obviously the way things are going. Reporter by 2035, some believe the driverless car market could be worth 5 billion euros. Host airbus is considering launching selfflying taxis to get through traffic jams in busy cities. I dont think im quite ready for that yet. Host we are sharing our age, kate. Not quite ready for that. Stay with us. Headlines right after this. 08 18 16 08 18 16 [captioning made possible by democracy now ] amy from pacifica, this is democracy now peoplple are very hungry fora real discussion in this election, which is otherwise not happening. If we are not in the debates, we will not be talking about the crisis of climate, of war, of racece, and the crisisis of thee entire generation that has basically been thrown under the bus. Amy with the first president ial debate just a month away, the republican and democratic co
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