work sites with paid actors pointing at things. >> could this fake political ad make real change when it comes to campaign finance reform? let's talk. live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. israel and hamas appear on the brink of war this morning, as another attempt at a cease-fire lasts only two hours. during the latest cease-fire the israeli military says three mortars and a rocket were fired from gaza. no one was hurt. it was a different story before that temporary truce. agony in gaza city over the deaths of four children, none of them older than 11. they were killed by an israeli gunship while playing on a beach wednesday. hamas is calling this a war crime. last hour i spoke with a spokesman for the israeli government about the investigation now under way. >> the preliminary results are

as such, that there was a tragic misidentification of the target. we didn't want to kill those four boys. that was not our intention. not even -- say the opposite is true. had we known the missile was aimed at four young men like that we would have not sent the missile. we don't target civilians. we do not target children. that's our policy. we don't do it. >> joining me now is yousef, the executive director of the palestine center. good morning, sir. >> good to be with you. >> yousef, you heard what the israeli spokesman said, this was a tragic accident. from your perspective what was it? >> well, i think it's very clear to anyone who saw the pictures and the videos of those four children who were struck by an israeli air strike on the beach, that this can only be described as a war crime. i understand that the israeli spokespeople are saying it was not their intention but at the end of the day, what their intentions are, are really

irrelevant when you see time and time again, a reality on the ground where there are large numbers of civilian casualties. so this talk about intention or not intention, is really irrelevant in the face of these continued acts of aggression against the civilian population. >> well, it is true, though, that hamas uses civilians as human shields. how does israel avoid hurting or killing civilians? >> what we've seen in the past several episodes of what we're seeing today, both in the israeli operation in 2008/2009 and, of course, the most recent version of this in 2012, is that the israeli decision to bombard the gaza strip or go in on the ground, has only led to really these large civilian casualty counts without changing the military dynamic and without really achieving the stated

military objective of the operation. so because one side here, the israelis, continues to retain almost a complete monopoly over the ability to inflict civilian casualties in large numbers, one really has to question the decision making of a campaign which is only going to create inevitable civilian casualties without achieving military objectives. so what is the reasoning behind all this? >> a cease-fire in place, seems like hamas violates it? >> unfortunately, that's just empirically untrue. if you look at the previous -- >> it's not untrue. >> look, i'm happy to point you to, in fact, your own reporting on cnn when in 2008, the cease-fire that was established by -- >> i'm talking about now, this latest cease-fire, was supposed to be in place for five hours and there were rockets fired into israel? >> i know we had a statement earlier from leadership in the united nations that said that

truce was more or less abided by, by both sides and there is an ongoing situation on the ground that's not really easy to control. most cease-fires that are initiated on a short notice and last for a short period of time are not going to be perfect in terms of a complete absence of fire. but it's just simply untrue that cease-fires are broken by the palestinian side. it's actually the opposite that's true. both in 2008 and 2012, we saw cease-fire agreements that were shattered by israeli strikes. and so i think it's important to place this in the proper context and realize there simply is no military solution to this. the only solution to this, as has been proven time and again, is to address the legitimate grievances of the civilian population in the gaza strip. when the rockets stop, the siege does not stop. the occupation does not stop. and the use of violence against the palestinian civilian population to perpetuate those projects does not stop either.

so if we're talking about a cease-fire, violence really has to stop on both sides, not only one. >> all right. yousef, thank you so much for joining me. i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> a palestinian mn american teenager beaten by israeli police is back home. crowds of supporters cheered tariq abu khdeir who had been in jerusalem visiting relatives following the death of his cousin. he was at a protest when he was attacked by israeli police. it was all captured on cell phone video further escalating tensions in the region. khdeir returned to america after completing his house arrest for participating in a protest against israeli authorities. alina machado is in miami covering this for us. good morning. >> good morning, carol. those who know tariq abu khdeir are relieved now that as you mentioned he is back in the u.s. where he will be able to continue to heal. his flight arrived late last

night and as you just saw, there were dozens of people at the airport to welcome him back home. israeli police brutally beat the 15-year-old earlier this month. that video sparked outrage throughout the world. last week we learned that israeli authorities suspended a police officer accused of beating the american teen. take a listen to what tariq had to say about what he's gone through. >> you only know my story because i am an american. but i hope you will also remember my cousin, a 16-year-old palestinian, named mohamm mohammed. he was just a kid like me and this whole thing started because he was killed. i know he must have been terrified like i was. i was in a new place and suddenly attacked by mass police. it was by far the scariest thing that has ever happened to pe. no child, whether they are palestinian or israeli, deserves to die that way.

i am so glad to be back home again. thank you. thank you. >> now khdeir as you just heard made reference to his 16-year-old cousin mohammed who was kidnapped and killed a day before his beating. that incident, as you know, carol, fueled tensions between palestinians and israelis. >> all right. alina machado reporting live from miami this morning. checking other top stories at 7 minutes past the hour. microsoft says it will cut up to 18,000 jobs over the next year in its largest round of layoffs ever. this after reporting a $7 billion first-quarter profit. more than 12,000 of the cuts are from recently acquired nokia. microsoft's president says it's part of a new strategy of focusing on mobile and cloud productivity software. russia's government is reacting to sweeping new sanctions from the united states. they predict the sanctions will complicate u.s./russia relations and promises a strong response.

the tougher sanctions target banks, energy companies and the defense industry. earlier sanctions targeted individuals and had only a moderate impact. stunning details this morning in a tragic end to a bank robbery complete with the robbers armed with ak-47s and hostages. those bank robbers took off after robbing the bank, hostages inside their car and they went on a high-speed chase through stockton. listen to the gunfire. when it was over, one of the hostages was dead, so were two of the robbers. it's not clear if one of the hostages was killed by the robbers or the fire fight with police. xwm gm ceo mary barra is making her fourth appearance on capitol hill answering questions about gm's long delayed recall of cars about ignition defects. barra is testifying alongside the auto makers top lawyer and the ceo of the company that made

the faulty ignition switches. we're joined by poppy harlow on capitol hill and alison kosick in new york. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> poppy, has the hearing gotten under way. >> we can make have live pictures for you. ken feinberg is testifying first, he will be testifying, the man that decides on compensation for all of the victims and their families. i want to give you a little what we've heard so far from senator claire mccaskill talking about where the really tough questions are going to come, it's going to be gm's top lawyer, the first time that michael -- that he is michael vili kan is speaking. he's been at the company for years and years through all of this. she said how in the world in the aftermath of this report did michael milli kin keep his job, talking about that internal investigation that turned up years of incompetence and neglect at general motors. she says the questions will be

including what did he know and why didn't he know it? why did he not know that this ignition switch detect was leading to death after death after death. so that is what i would really hone in on today, carol, is, of course, what the ceo says, but also what did the top lawyer at general motors know and what did the top of delphi the company that manufactured this switch that was designed by gm, but what did delphi know as they were making this switch? did they know that it wasn't up to standards? >> after each of these hearings, damaging testimony comes out of these hearings. i want to ask alison about this. but gm continues to do pretty well, stock price is up? >> right. i know. i know, carol. it does sound crazy, it is crazy. strangely enough these retauls can wind up -- recalls can help sales because you have more pople shuffling through the showroom, more traffic in there, as they bring their cars in for repairs, browsing at other cars. this is part of the reason you saw sales rise 1% last month. in fact, gm had its best june in

seven years. as far as wall street sees it, you're right, shares are up 7% since the recall was announced in february because what investors are doing is betting the worst is over for the company. look at gm, it's already said it's taking a $1.2 billion charge for the recalls in the second quarter. that's on top of a $1.3 billion charge it took in the first quarter, so there's a certain end to this, at least as shareholders see this. also, you've got a third part of this. you've got gm out there trying to reassure the public. gm is insisting that the cars that had been recalled are still safe to drive. gm is putting out these full-page ads in "the new york times" and "chicago tribune" with the one key saying the key to safety. it's working hard to repair the cars that have the ignition switch defect. urging people who haven't had their cars fixed yet to only use a single key, nothing else on the key ring. you're seeing them get out there schooling people on how to operate the cars. in the meantime to hopefully --

hopefully you know we don't see any accidents related to the ignition switch defect happen any time soon again. >> we hope not. thanks to both of you. let's talk a little history, shall we? i can remember that day clear as day. watching television with my dad and he was recording this awesome event off the television screen which served as a camcorder in those days, one of the big film cameras. i had to do it because it was history. >> that's one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. >> it was the rivalry back in the '60s and this sunday marks the 45th anniversary of neil armstrong becoming the first man to walk on the moon. the question today, though, where is nasa now? where is its next giant leap? could it be to send humans to mars? but that won't happen for quite some time. maybe not for 20 years. let's talk about that with

astronaut chris hatfield, former commander of the international space station, he's also the author of "the new york times" best seller "an astronaut's guide to life on earth" and if you are here and that book is coming out in october. welcome, chris. >> hey. nice to be talking with you, carol, and the anniversary is exciting. >> it is. what do you remember about that day. >> in fact, i'm sitting here at the same island where i watched that as a 9-year-old boy, all of us jammed into a living room. we weren't filming it with a camera like your dad was, but as a 9-year-old kid, to see the human species do something that had been impossible until that morning, they didn't do it because they had to, we did it because we just barely could. it was immensely inspirational and enabling and it helped me make the choices that eventually allowed me to fly in space three times and command the international space station. >> wow. when i was looking at it, i remember as a child, it didn't seem real to me.

>> you know what made it real for me, it was late night ofx on the east coast, was to walk outside afterwards and look up at the moon. that's what somehow really smacked it home for me, is that little grainy image on the black and white tv, there were two people walking on the moon. getting ready to go to sleep on the moon. and it inspired the entire world. it led to the six people living on the space station today and so many other things that are happening across the solar system. >> i'm just curious, why haven't we been back to the moon lately? >> part of it is just phrasing it that way, back to the moon. it's, you know, we send out probes everywhere. that's how we've always explored everywhere through all over the surface of the world, you send out probes, you find out what's going on and then eventually you start moving there. that's how we've spread over the entire planet, including antarctica and we were in the probe phase over the last 50 years in space, about a dozen or

13 years ago we started permanently living on the space station, so we've sort of moved into the settlement phase and eventually it will go from the space station to the moon and to mars. but, you know, it's just a natural explorative process and the six people up on the station right now, they're celebrating the anniversary but they're also testing the equipment that will let us go further. they're pretty proud people from all around the earth. >> we forget they're doing work up there. it seems these days, there's really nothing to inspire kids to join the space program. you know, most of the space program has been turned over to private industry, for example, so we don't really see it anymore. >> well, you know, there's a launch all the time. the commander of the space station, steve swanson, he reached out and use the huge station arm to grab an unmanned cargo rocket that was launched from virginia. a launch is exciting, but the

actual exploration of the universe is incremental and slow. it's -- you can't have a first landing on the moon every week. it's just a natural process. but i'm lucky enough as an astronaut to have spoken in schools for the last couple decades and that same interest that you had when you were with your dad watching the moon landing, the same one i had, it burns brightly. you just sort of forget as you turn into an adult, but for 20 years i've been speaking in schools and the interest from the kids, the question they ask and inspiration they get from it is palpable and real. so i wouldn't lose heart. it's an amazing part of everything that we're doing. and i was really delighted to have had a chance to be part of it for so many years also. >> chris hatfield, thanks for sharing your insight. i appreciate it. >> thanks, carol. nice to talk with you. >> nice talking with you. the space race the focus of tonight's cnn series "the '60s" tune in at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn.

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taking special actions to keep would-be migrants from getting on board. jason carroll is here to tell us more. good morning, jason. >> good morning to you, carol. customs and border protection say this is part of a broader campaign and what they're trying to do is send a humanitarian message through music. their main goal, they say, is to save lives but critics say they should call it what it really is, propaganda. >> reporter: the roar of a train. ♪ >> reporter: mixed with the melody of the marimba a musical combination creating translation, "the beast." also called the train of death, which immigrants take from central america risking robbery or murder to get to the united states border. ♪ la beasta is in on radio station rotation in countries such as honduras, el salvador and guatemala.

eddie did the vocals. >> i appreciate the song. ♪ >> reporter: carlo composed the music. >> this is a very important message. it is very dangerous to cross the border. >> reporter: neither the compo ser or singer created the message. u.s. customs and border protection did. though lobesta has no disclaimer behind it they said they wanted it unbranded. part of a u.s. government campaign to deter dangerous border crossings. >> just called me and said eddie big propaganda. i said, yeah, but there's a great message behind it. >> i don't think it's propaganda. what we're doing here, sending out a humanitarian message. >> reporter: border protection worked with an advertising agency to create the lyrics. it's not the first time. back in 2004 they launched a campaign in mexico, "no more crossings or crosses."

several songs released with the same themes as la bestia. helping to reduce crossing deaths from 492 in 2005, to 390 in 2008. >> they think it's a pop song and they're getting into the lyrics of it and it's sinking in. wheat wrong with that? >> what's wrong? some immigration groups say with so many trying to escape violence in their home countries what's not needed is propaganda disguised as pop music. what is needed is more transparency and a better immigration policy. >> i think it's absolutely misleading when a song that has been produced by the u.s. government, they don't actually spell out they are the ones responsible for it. >> we know there are some risks involved, but at the same time, we wanted the message to be heard. we want the message to be effective. >> reporter: it's music with a message, one still not powerful enough to stop many from coming.

>> and ultimately that spokesman from border protection says he knows if the song was branded, created by the u.s. government, for example, it probably would not have been as effective but again, critics say government, even though with well intentions, they say putting messages into songs without disclaimers is just a slippery slope. >> jason carroll, reporting live, thank you. still to come in the newsroom, a yahoo! employee accusing her female boss of sexual harassment. she's speaking out sitting down with our own lori segal with an exclusive interview. >> hey, carol. it's a she said/she said and serious allegations at play. i have the exclusive details coming up after the break. ♪

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good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you for joining me. i don't feel safe, that's what a former yahoo! employee told the human resources department when she reported her female boss was sexually harassing her. the accuser, a woman named nan, is speaking out, sitting down with cnn money tech correspondent lori segal for an exclusive interview. >> hey, look, we are friends and you are my manager. we shouldn't be doing this. >> reporter: that's what a former yahoo! engineer says she

told her boss, maria zhang, when she allegedly came on to her. >> then she hug me all over and she took my hands, you know, and put it under her. i just felt like, you know, i was being force d. >> reporter: nan shi a former microsoft engineer left to work with zahn's start-up acquired by yahoo! the company transferred the women to yahoo!'s headquarters she is suing yahoo! and zhang for wrongful termination and sexual harassment. yahoo! has defended zhang saying they will fight to clear her name and zhang is fighting back too filing a defamation suit against her accuser. >> did you tell her it made you uncomfortable? >> no. i just told her that i didn't want to do it. >> reporter: according to nan

shi, zhang joked her future hung in the bl lance. >> she said, well, if we don't have this, then, you know, you may not get your stocks and, you know, you may not even stay at a yahoo! >> reporter: in the suit, just filed against nan shi, zhang adamantly denies ever having a sexual relationship with her, claiming the engineer is looking for financial gain and she simply wasn't making the grade. nan shi tells us another story claiming after she cut off the sexual advances her work was affected. nan says she was removed from projects and separated from her teammates. >> i don't mind hard times, but please please, i'm a human being. you can not separate me from my other co-workers. >> reporter: she reported the alleged harassment to yahoo! hr. >> the help i wanted is, please, please, move me to another team. i don't feel safe.

>> reporter: as a result, nan shi says yahoo! asked her to stay home while they conducted the investigation. >> that was the hardest time i went through. you know, i -- after months i finally went to my family doctor. i told her, you know, i have depression. >> reporter: zang says her reputation has been damaged. nan shi herself claims both emotional and financial damages, as questions linger. >> i just sit here and keep asking myself, why me? >> and carol, nan shi has said that she can't even open her computer to do work because it affects her so much. and then you got to look at the other side, maria zhang saying these allegations are completely false and goes on to say they're outrageous and inhumane. obviously a lot there. a lot to wrap your head around

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a version that visits random work sites with paid actors pointing at things. a version of me that doesn't find old people loathsome or pointless. has a conventionally attractive yet curiously still family. listening to my constituents legislating, these are things i don't do. what i do is spend about 70% of my time raising funds for re-election. >> see, an honest politician. joining me josh silver the director of represent us. good morning, sir. >> good morning, carol. >> so explain what you're trying to do through this ad and through your other efforts? >> so kentucky is our distribution the target of gill fulbright because it's slated to be a $100 million senate electionp. if that turns out to be true it will be the most expensive in the history of ur country and an obscene amount of money that corrupts the policy making

process and ends up with laws that benefits donors at the expense of most americans. gill fulbright is an effort to shine a light on this corruption and show there's actually a big campaign launching across the country to fix the problem. >> so those ads will appear on television in kentucky. what other things will you do to, you know, to illustrate the hypocrisy? >> we are going to have fun. so gill fulbright as you can tell from this bite, he's a great actor and that's what he is. we went to launch a crowd funding campaign last week to raise $20,000 to get his campaign bus and send him on the road and in five days, we got 550 donors to give $20,000, now it's up to $25,000. and this thing has taken the country's imagination. it's been on all kinds of major media because it's hitting a nerve. the american people, they're

tired of being -- of having their hopes dashed, tired of not being told the truth, so we're going to get on the road, we're going to a place called fancy farm in rural kentucky on august 2nd to officially launch the campaign. gill's going to give campaign speeches, he's going to go to a bur ban dill stillry probably get drunk, talk about all the ways he's going to sell out the people of kentucky. >> of course this is partly about educating voters too, as to what's really going on, right? exposing the truth or lies that politicians tell during their campaigns. >> right. it is. and here's the interesting thing. a study by the annenberg center showed stephen colbert and his satirical show where he pretends to be a news anchor actually taught his viewers more about america's broken campaign finance system than cable news viewers. so there's something to take note of here, that people learn from satire and comedy better

than they do from actually watching the news. we thought what better idea than to run a gill fullbright, have some fun and teach the people there's a major problem that's corrupting our political system, there's a nonpartisan, cross-partisan way to fix this that's not about progressives, not about conservatives but about the american people who completely agree with each other that we have to get money out of politics and that there's a way to fix it at represent.u.s. on the web. >> thank you for explaining it to us. josh silver, we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> still to come in "the newsroom" honoring two men from the sports world, one an athlete, the other an anchor, each showing courage in the face of adversity.

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great moments in sports not on the playing field but on the stage. the espys handed out with michael sam receiving the arthur ashe courage award, given to those who have shown strength in the face of adversity and stood up for their beliefs. sam revealed he was gay before the football draft and for some has become a role model. >> to anyone out there, especially young people, they don't -- feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please note this, great things -- sorry. great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself. thank you and god bless. >> the night also belonged to espn anchor stuart scott honored for his battle against cancer. we will talk about scott and sam with former nfl player and cnn

sports star -- i always like to call you that, andy scholes. >> thank you, carol. >> welcome to both of you. sarah is the author of -- you're a star too. the author of "alone in the trenches, my life as a gay man in the nfl." i appreciate you being here. >> thank you very much, carol. >> you're welcome. >> we talked with you after the rams drafted michael sam. in the two months since then how do you think he's handled himself? >> i think he's handled himself amazingly. for me what's so great is that, you know, we have people that come out an just want to live their lives and that's great, that's all good. it's so encouraging to see this young individual, this young man, come out and want to make a difference especially for our younger generation. for me that is absolutely great. >> of course he has yet to play in a pro football game, so i get a little nervous with all the attention he's getting, right? >> well, no, not really.

i mean if you just google the young man, you'll see that he definitely can play. he's a great athlete. you know, so yeah, i think a lot of people are excited to see him play and perform. i mean i think yesterday, i've never watched the espy awards. that was the first time i ever watched the espy awards. i'm glad i did. his acceptance speech was not only powerful, encouraging, but very humble and there's going to be a lot of our younger generation that saw that and is going to be encouraged to come out or be proud of themselves. >> i know. made me cry. >> right. other than being proud of my children, i've never been more proud of an individual like i am with michael sam. he did a great job. >> we have to talk about stuart scott and i want to talk about that with andy. his speech also brought people to tears. >> for those that don't know, stuart scott was diagnosed with cancer in 2007. he's been battling it, coming back on and off, didn't know if he was going to make it to last night's show, he's revealed he

has had four surgeries in seven days recently. it's incredible the fight he's going through and still fighting and he delivered one powerful message to all the cancer patients out there. >> when you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. you beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live. >> and carol, he said his two daughters are the reasons he's still fighting. they're the reason he was able to get on the stage. you see his daughter sydney came on the stage and gave him a bear hug. we remember jimmy v. for his moment when he said don't give up, don't ever give up. i'm pretty sure we'll remember the stuart scott moment. the speech he gave on the stage. it got me when i watched it again. >> i know. >> it's a touching moment. >> esera, andy, thanks so much. i'll be right back. uinta.com, he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can prep for his presentation.

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remember newspapers? they were the preferred way to read news in 1969, but nasa decided to tweet the re-enactment of the moon launch to celebrate its 45th anniversary. >> we are go for "apollo 11". >> reporter: at the same time of the morning corresponding to real events, nasa sent out tweets, the astronauts are breakfasting on steak and eggs, suiting up, waving good-bye. >> all three astronauts now aboard the spacecraft. >> reporter: that's jack king nicknameded the voice of "apollo". >> t minus three minutes and counting. >> reporter: jack was 38 then. 83 now. >> the atmosphere in the control center was electric. >> astronaut reports it feels good. t minus 25 seconds. >> reporter: jack says he wasn't nervous. >> 10, 9. ignition sequence starts. >> reporter: jack did make one tiny flub right at the end of the countdown. >> i did get a little bit

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bart is most famous for hounding astronaut buzz aldrin. >> why don't you swear on the bible that you walked on the moon. >> reporter: buzz finally punched him. >> you're a coward and a liar and a thief. >> reporter: the next time we have another one of those super moons like we had the other day, imagine the voice of "apollo" gazing up. >> i looked at the moon and said, we did it. >> you can call that mission a perfect. >> ten. >> reporter: jeanne moos. >> cnn. >> liftoff. >> reporter: new york. >> that was awesome. tonight on cnn's emmy nominated series "the sixties" the space race from the mercury rockets to the "apollo" landing the pioneers that became heros and fight to reach the moon before the soviets. set your dvd for "the sixties" at 9:00 p.m. on cnn. >> one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind.

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