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mitt romney appeared in houston to formally accept his endorsement. but the endorsement was all but overshadowed by the man who many see as his future running mate. he once again affirmed his lack of interest in joining the ticket. >> i don't believe i am going to be asked to be the nominee. newt gingrich continues to cement his status as the next republican to drop out. sheldon adelson saying it is the

end for gingrich. >> mathematically he can't get anywhere near the numbers. >> a fact gingrich seems to be aware gingrich and romney secretly met saturday, but gingrich tried to assure his supporters he will not drop out. and i quote: joining me now is ryan grim washington bureau chief for "the huffington post," thank you for your time this evening. >> thank for having me. >> let me ask you this question the two endorsements. marco rubio, former president bush come from completely different pieces. you have one who is young latino, the other who is the old guard. which matters more to mitt romney? >> i mean george hw bush barely

mattered at all. most people thought, hum, i thought he already endorsed romney. this is like the yale class of 42 endorsing the class of harvard -- >> well, that is pretty significant. >> that is true. but outside of there, people were less moved. it's the marco rubio -- it's that endorsement that kind of signals to the republican party that look this is over. let's wrap this thing up and let's move forward. >> rubio is significant because he is the far right wing and latino. but is the latino vote in florida going to be help, as in arizona, and some of the other

swing states? >> well, you wonder how much some of the leading republican strategists even are aware of that. but the difference is -- the cuban immigrant experience is a unique one. you know if you've come up through mexico or south america you have a much more similar story than somebody that came from cuba because -- first of all there's direct public policy and that's the dry foot policy, where if you get here anyway possible in the last 40 years, you can stay. >> right. >> secondly the types of people that came from cuba, were people who were kind -- who were in the ruling class and they were fleeing fiddle castro, so that's exact opposite that the rest of

the population faces. >> so you are making a hugely important point here which is rubio voice may or may not translate to other pieces of the latino community. how would a marco rubio play in the traditional swing, midwest says michigan ohio, pennsylvania, two out of three of which mitt romney would have to win does rubio helps him in those states? >> i don't think he helps him or necessarily hurts him either. people will see him from up from your bootstraps kind of guy whether he is or not. he will write his story that way. so i don't think it will play that much there.

they are going to go for colorado and new mexico and florida. don't forget that florida is an important state too. so places like that he might be able to help them slightly, because notwithstanding what i said earlier, he is going to get more of the latino vote than say, vice president joe arpeo is. it's at least saying we at least care. at least we're trying here. yes, we might have all of this rhetoric and all of these horrible things -- >> no question about it. you put a joe arpeo on you might as well kiss the entire latino community good-bye. but i think he has to fight for pennsylvania, ohio michigan for this thing to be competitive from their perspective. he is still worried about florida, he is probably out of luck. we'll continue this conversation

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democrats and republicans alike think they are in the driver's seat as congress considers repealing oil

subsidies. president obama urged the senate to pass legislation that would strip billions in tax brakes for the big five oil companies only to have the republicans kill the bill. >> they can stand with the big oil companies, or they can stand with the american people. instead of taxpayer give-a ways to an industry that has never been more profitable we should be using that money to double down on investments in clean energy technologies. >> republicans insist that the measure would have driven prices up at the pump. >> that was their brilliant plan on how to deal with gas prices. raise prices on gas companies just to make sure gas prices don't go anywhere but up. >> and rand paul didn't mince

his words earlier this week. >> would think you want to say to oil companies, what obstacles are there to you making more money. >> joining me now is joe williams, white house reporter for "politico." thank for joining us. >> good to be here. >> there are three numbers that will affect the election in november. and one is the price of gas. are we now just entering the blame game? >> i think there's some of that. what the president is attempting to do is rebut against some of the republican allegations on the campaign trail from mitt romney and others that he is solely responsible for these high gas prices when statistically, empirically studies, anything you want to point to shows you this is part of what usually happens during the summer driving season, and

number two the oil companies are taking very real advantage of the fact that the market is tipped in their favor. so he is calling at attention to that fact and also link it to the need for alternative energy. if we get a sound strategy things are ease. the republicans have an easy talking point. everybody feels pain at the wallet. so their strategy is to say that the president is in for it. he is trying to do things that will wreck the economy even though he thinks it will benefit the public. we the republican party know better, and that answer is more drilling. >> the interesting thing is about somewhere in the low 20 blame the president, somewhere in the low 20s, blame the republicans, and over 50% blame the oil companies. we are moving towards energy

independence bit by bit. has that fact crept into the public's psyche do you think? >> it really hasn't. and that is another goal of this meeting that the president had -- or this press conference that the president had with all of these people standing behind him to make the point that we are drilling now more than we ever have. technology has increased. we have oil leases that oil companies haven't started using yet. so an attempt to draw the line draw a clear distention between his energy strategy and a move towards independence with the republican strategy, which basically is to pump -- you know pour more holes in the ground and pump more oil out that contributes to pollution, that's where he wants to go with this. the question is if gas prices will reduce enough that this

won't be an election-year factor. >> even with the disaster on the gulf, and all of the concerns raised on that there has been an enormously drilling more. has that issue become part of the public debate or are we talking about fringe issues? >> the answer is yes. both of the above. and i say that because -- environmentalists really don't like this current energy policy that allows for frac-ing, which has been linked to water contamination, also earthquakes in certain parts of the country. they also don't like the strategy of deep-water drilling where around the world there are more oil bare racks that can drill deeper we're talking two miles down in the ocean.

that's all an enigma because one accident can cause the whole thing to fall apart like we saw two years ago. the big issue is to try to keep moving the country towards an energy strategy and mr. president obama doesn't include fossil fuels as part of the conversation prices spike, the economy tanks, and he is in very real trouble. >> i think everyone understands the decision will have an impact six months or ten years down the road. but anyway we'll continue to see this story playing out. joe williams, white house reporter for "politico," thank for being here this evening. >> t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t

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central. only on current tv. there's no doubt occupy wall street has influenced the national dialogue about in commie and corporate excess. in our number 2 story on the "countdown," more than half of the marketing executives were studied the effects of occupy wall street. the study was released a week following the movement's six-month anniversary and coincides with new wave of demonstrations and arrests. the movement is leaving its stamp where it matters most. 71% of the corporate executives surveyed think occupy wall street will continue beyond the presidential election in november. the data shows executives may

even be taking responsibility for the sector's bad reputation. 96% admitted their firms invited negative public perception by their actions or inactions. 74% believe increased regulation of the financial services industry will help their firms improve reputations and trust with customers faster. the study was conducted by a research company that specializes in the financial services sector. it interviewed 150 marketing and communications executives. joining me now, former labor secretary, professor at uc berkeley and author of "aftershock: the next economy and america' future". i include it on the syllabus in my class, professor, thank you. it is a spectacular book. >> thank you.

>> does this survey suggest there has been some sort of epiphany on wall street? >> certainly among marketing and communications people on wall street. they understand how angry the public continues to be at wall street, but whether the understanding has permeated beyond to the real power on wall street, the ceos and the major traders and hedge fund managers is a different story all together. >> is this merely an understanding that, gee, we did something that is going to hurt our reputations, or is this an understanding that this was fundamental anathama to the economy, and therefore we have to change our business. >> i don't mean to be cynical about this,el -- eliot, but these are the pr and marketing

people on wall street. they know there is a huge problem. but the kingpins see this as a public relations problem. not a fundamental problem in terms of changing their ways. they are in federal courts all over this country trying to get the rules and regulations pursuant to the dodd-frank regulatory reform bill tried to get them stayed and thrown out of court. >> we'll get to that in a moment, but you are exactly right. but you have seen some public statements -- and trust me you know me i'm not justifying these executives. you have seen public statements where they acknowledge that they understand that the inequality baked into our economy and excesses at the top create a necessary and fundamental pushback. so is that the first to changes policies. >> eliot they understand what they need to say. they understand perhaps that the country is angry.

but they don't get it in terms of fundamental change and reform. the federal reserve board just came out with its annual report saying that the biggest banks on wall street have to be broken up. can you imagine the dallas fed actually saying that. wall street doesn't want to be broken up. those same executives you say to them should you be broken up support a strong vocal rule? should you resurrect the glass spiegel act? they are going to say no. >> there was a spectacular story about that report. and just last week you allewded to this a bit earlier, something called the jobs bill was passed by both houses that permits them to go back to some of the very practices that created this in the first place. so what is your take away to all

of this. >> they see this as a public relations problem, and they are lobbying like mad and in court, trying to eviscerate dodd-frank. they have not got it and they will not get it. there's huge amounts of money in it for them keeping things the way they were. fighting every step of the way, trying to make this into a public relations problem, and i don't think we're going to see real change on wall street until wall street is forced to change its ways. >> why did so many democrats and why did the white house support this so-called jobs bill last week? why didn't anybody have the gumption to stand up and say, enough this is bad policy. >> first they want to show some bipartisanship. everybody is looking at the november elections and saying we don't want to appear as partisan as we really are, so anything

that gets any bipartisan support is probably a good thing. secondly let's face it there is a lot of competition from democrats and republicans for money from wall street for this election. still a lot of wall street money is going into democratic secretary, professor at uc berkeley and author of "aftershock: the next economy and america' future." thank you for being here. next time try to be a bit more optimistic. >> there is but it is on the occupiers not on wall street. attack on women that perhaps the majority of the population woke up? >> idaho is not known as approaching act i.v. you had hundreds of women show up, thousands signed petitions. they made their voices heard. what happens is that now, the legislators are running scared.

very similar laws have passed quietly in other states for the past 10 years, really in the past two years have intensified. pennsylvania a similar law was shelved, idaho this proved to be political poison. women are paying attention and having their voices heard. >> thanks for coming in. >> the aclu considers a demand that to get a job you have to let an employer open your private mail, the senate wants to make it illegal to hand over a password to your facebook account. the newest voice in cable news is on the new news network.

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astronomer estimate there would be billions of life sustainable planets right here in our galaxy. it is now being predicted that there could be billions of what are called super earths. it's a term used to describe planets outside of our solar system with one to ten times the mass of earth. but of course, now i'm just telling you things we all already new. the team of astronomers have been able to determine that about 40% of allred dwarf stars have the possibility of liquid life to exist. and i quote:

>> and about 100 of these planets could be less than 30 light years away, or about 180 trillion miles. as for whether life as we know it can be sustained on these planets, astronomers say they will need to do more research. joining me now chief astronomer at the franklin institute of science museum and countdown contributor derrick pitts. he is going to explain all of this. okay. for those of us who couldn't even make it through 9th grade biology, derrick what does this mean? >> what it really means is that the chance that we're going to find earth-like planets, and maybe with life has gone up tremendously. the thing we have to remember about this is that about -- maybe ten years ago we were speculating on the possible

that planets were orbiting other stars. now we have actually been able to confirm quite a number of planets orbiting other stars. now the question comes in are we talking about planets about the size of earth or maybe a little bit larger. and i thought it was a stable economy that made it possible for life to exist on these other planets. >> we'll give up on the stable economy if they have got water. >> right. we'll take the water. >> why is water so essential? is this the biological necessity from which all other things spring? >> for what we know of as life eliot, yes. it could be possible that there are other forms of life based on other elements if you will. but for our studies, we have to start someplace where we really know what things are. and that's life like we fine on

this planet. so we're really looking for water. it's a key for what we're doing on mars and what we are doing looks for these planets also. >> it sounds like this is still kind of far away. even richard branson isn't selling tickets. so what is the next step here? >> yeah we're going to observe to see what we can fine out, but it is relatively close. 30 light years is nothing when you look at the size of the galaxy and the universe. and the other interesting thing is, 20 years ago we were looking all over the universe for life and it turns out it could be right here in our backyard. and the next steps is the study

of the atmospheres of these planets. we'll refine what we know so far, identify the ones that are closer to being like earth and then start to look at their atmospheres if they have them. >> so we can take the next steps without actually having to visit these planets. we don't need to get there. we can do these through the telescopes and all of the cool toys you have. >> absolutely. the engineers who work with the telescopes and bill the tools that we use on the telescopes are really geniuses at crafting instruments that can pick out this information and get it very close to accurate. we can do a lot of this work remotely. and besides the gas prices are too high to get us that far out there anyway. >> don't be so cynical, pretty soon