i was lucky i had claude davis with me, and they would guide me along.t is why i had hit records. i wrote my own stuff, but claude did not even like "copacabana." >> he had some wonderful things to say about you. >> i would not even have this career without him. tavis: he said the same thing about you. >> he found me on his desk. he had this bad album cover picture, and he went to me and said, i would be the opening after dionne warwick, and i thought i was awful, but he shook my hands and said, welcome. he must have seen something in me, that i did not see. tavis: how are you enjoying the paris run in las vegas? >> i was very grateful. i could not bear it anymore. i am sure a lot of people who have been on the road will say the same thing. waiting for bed room service, and i wanted it all, so i said, i am done, and i got this offer to be the resident artist, and i said, that is where all the singers go to die, but it turns out to be one of the greatest experiences i have ever had. i love this. i was made for a group like this. now tavis: i am in: -- tav

to welcome the new era -- the ec president jean-claude trichet was among those who aligned with the then finance minister to welcome the new era. less than one decade later, it is in crisis. >> this is a national debt crisis. this is what remains. we are seeing this especially but not only in the southern countries. there is uncertainty in the banking system, and we are heading to serious trouble if we do not help greece, because we will have to bail out the banks. no one is speaking about the problem right in front of us. >> agreed that is a major challenge for the euro zone, and it is -- agree to that is just a major challenge. -- greek debt is a major challenge. some think it could even become a curse. >> the german economy grew last year at its fastest pace since reunification, with exports leading the charge. higher consumer spending has now also become a major driving force behind the recovery. >> in this germantown, business is picking up again at the restaurant. -- in this german town. the catering business is doing well, too. it has just received an order for 150 guests at

be keenly watching not only the interest rate decision, but the very important speech from jean- claude trichet post announcement. we will be talking about this live at about 12:45. >> thank you. iran's president, ahmadinejad, is engaged in a public fight with the supreme leader. the supreme leader has overruled the president's decision to fire a cabinet minister. james reynolds reports the ayatollah has gone after ahmadinejad. >> the supreme leader may rule iran, but he now faces a fight with the man he approved as president, ahmadinejad. the two have argued public. note the president's slight grimace in a ceremony in june. the arguments may have been inevitable. look what happens after ahmadinejad is sworn into office in 2005. the ayatollah leaves the stage. ahmadinejad states to enjoy the crowd. ahmadinejad now wants to try to take power away from the country's ruling clerics. >> ahmadinejad is someone who has profound illusions of grandeur. he's not content playing second fiddle to the supreme leader. he sees himself as a revolutionary and a visionary leader. i think this smack down

. >> praise for portugal from jean-claude trichet. it will privatize more state assets than stipulated by the e.u. and imf and will raise taxes. those are reasons why the european central bank is bending its own rules and will continue to lend to portugal despite its junk debt rating. >> we have decided to suspend the minimum collateral requirements for the purpose of assistance and credit operations. in the case of marketable debt instruments by the portuguese government, this extension will be maintained until further notice. >> the eurozone debt crisis cannot stop ecb from raising its key interest rates. benchmark rates go up to 1.5%. but during the financial crisis, the bank rapidly cut interest rates to historic lows to stimulate the economy. inflation tumbled as european economies contract, but most have recovered and inflation has had it back up and is now running 2.7%. the ecb is using interest rates to slow it, but critics say will only make those harder on eurozone governments that are struggling with massive debt. >>> plans

back to when george and claude were primarily responsible for moving executive park along, executive park put up the first $1 million to turn the land over to the state. recently, not just in the last month or two, when folks were talking about closing state parks, the fight was led to keep it open. may i have more than three minutes? you asked about eight questions. supervisor cohen: this is a project sponsor, so he can make. >> the transportation questions are excellent questions that need to be addressed so that if everyone -- any one is in doubt, the doubt will be removed. we have proposed a project right behind us in 2005, at a time when the joint to build out of urby and upc would not require any regional transportation improvements. we were looking strictly a project related improvements. coming along was and we were asked to step back -- coming along we were asked to step back. it has been six years and we are finally here. we will have to sit back and wait until the regional transportation plans are involved. upc made tremendous sacrifices to make sure that there is sufficie

claude came back and he said, i don't like what's going on back there.nk we better go down. >> the pilots put on their oxygen masks and prepare for an emergency landing into the closest airport, cincinnati. the crew moves passengers forward in the cabin to get away from the smoke. but there was little else they can do. >> dropping oxygen masks to the passengers in a situation like this would do absolutely no good. the masks are designed so that they will take ambient air in and supplement it with oxygen. so even if the oxygen mask had been deployed, when you took a breath in, you are going to get ambient air in. >> a flight attendant empties a fire extinguisher trying to control the smoke but can't find the source of the fire. >> when they opened the lavatory door, they could see smoke, but not point of origin. there wasn't open flame. that was behind the walls. it was in an inaccessible area. >> a fire behind the walls is the worst case scenario. it's almost impossible to put out or contain. a disaster is in progress. >> the smoke was clearing and then

meantime, german media reports president of the european central bank, jean-claude trichet, is asking big banks for advice on dealing with a euro- zone country going bankrupt. brian wesbury is the chief economist at first trust. so brian, is europe for of a threat to american investors today compared to where we left it last week? >> i don't think so, tom. i think we got hit by obviously the employment report last friday, the debt talks in the u.s., but then obviously renewed fears in europe. and there's a lot of unknown in europe about how far this will go, about whether banks will have to take cuts and whether that can be linked back to u.s. banks. so i think the fear is just there, and remember we were on fire over the last seven or eight trading days. so i think we just gave some of it back up as these fears were renewed. >> tom: you mentioned some of the uncertainty, the latest bit of uncertainty is italy, italian dealt problems. how real is that risk of italy? >> you know, i'm sure a lot of these are real. i don't think italy is in as bad a shape as greece is. i mean greece is i

on thursday, the central bank's president jean-claude trichet told reporters there's no change in theank's view and strongly against any measures that would be considered a default. >> our position is clear in the case of portugal, we are waiving the threshold. in the case of greece, where we have psi, where we have these debate on the nature of psi we say no to selective default, full stop. >> members are considering a plan to ask private sector investors about a voluntary rollover of greek debts, this would prevent funds from flowing out of the country. this comes at a time when a leading credit rating agency has said the new bailout plan would still likely be considered as a default. >>> separately the ecb has raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to dispel concerns about the inflation in the eurozone. this move brings the key rate to 1.5%. the central bank made the decision at its board meeting held in frankfurt, germany, ona. it's the second rate hike since mid-april, when the bank terminated its extremely low interest rate policy. this measure was adopt

after the fall of communism this is from a song claude young girl chairman of the euro group of finance ministers this is my thesis this is what i've been saying this is the underlying reality of the. all the european crises is germany is rising from the rubble of world war two and we're talking about the reappearance of the imperial germany or the fourth reich you have or reunify germany who is now talking about greece as south germany they say also actually when it's becoming just don't compare in south germany or greece with east germany they're simply saying well just like in east germany we took all the assets and we merge into one super power imperial con con conch conquistador european threat as we have been in the past and the thing about the euro was supposed to eliminate the german imperial threat but they figured out a way around it is about the orchestra of the whole thing as a way to reunify germany another time when greece was being south germany so this guy let's call him junker because he's a junk bond salesman basically he's pushing junk on everybody he's taking the jun

has been a long way down claude has won a major as according to your old northern irishman holding his nerve to be the failed and the bad weather abbie's he has open championship. and also formula one champion jenson button returns to moscow for the second summer in a row and just three hours in for russia has to its first f one grand prix. i was recalled by america where the founding champions brazil are out following a sharp defeat to paraguayan on sunday and some the boys at plenty of chances to score but failed to convert any of them in regulation extra time was marked with two runs contests the referee trimmed the lineups following this incident midway through there and why though couldn't break the deadlock even forcing a shootout where brazil missed the target and unbelievable four times while pair of y. net a twice to make it through into the semi's. i had so much confidence in my teammates and how we're going to rise to the challenge and also the confidence in what mark was always doing some laundry saunders and it got starting with what i believe that today was that which was

darren claude lays the whale for three days at the british open with dustin johnson alone in second as bad weather continues to play the one hundred fortieth edition of the major. and also local man to almost but larry changed the yellow jersey two weeks into the surge of frogs while giving the band the death will jump when saturday's stage fourteen. that start with a bow where half of the copa america semifinalists have been decided you're a wild through often knocking out this style started have seen the on penalties europe why needed six minutes to take the lead for loans for a cake found the had hopes are here are marrying their area boss the bones of diego paris to open the scoring lines equalize the scene for men to their own messy sending of the size grain who headed the ball into the net for one one. ninety minutes of play didn't find the women neither did extra time for them in towns chants and penalty shootout. since the striker thomas noticed would be the key meaning europe wise because sarah's been far home the winning goal for the fourteen time women's. so you know why ups

patricia, kathleen keating, claude boeing and danielle hackney were 4 of the 12 jurors in the trial.ia says i know how we can prove conclusively who's telling the truth. >> one of the officers in his testimony said -- not one of them, several of them, many of them, most of them, rocks and bottles, rocks and bottles, fearing for their lives. and he called in to the dispatch. >> get more units over here. we're taking rocks and bottles. >> the radio transmissions were blaring out from squad car radios and picked up on the videotape. the transmission are coded with the exact time of day. the jurors realize they can match the time of the radio calls with the videotape. they discovered that the video started rolling just a minute and a half after the frantic radio calls for help. the deputies say the rock and bottle barrage lasted as long as 20 minutes. the jurors say they saw no evidence of that on the videotape. >> we're hearing over the police airwaves, this officer yelling, screaming, saying they're being assaulted and they need backup because they're taking rocks and bottles and not a

that was asked of jean-claude trichet. this is what he had to say. >> what is important in our view is the condition that greece is an absolutely exceptional situation and that for that reason it requires exceptional and unique solutions. >> who will decide whether this is a game-changener the euro-zone as many of the leaders were saying, that will be the markets. we'll see how the markets react come friday. jim boulden, cnn, brussels. >>> and we have indeed seen how those markets have reacted. they're broadly speaking as manisha was showing up two minutes ago speaking up. the bond markets reacting, yields coming down on that. some of the euro bonds being slightly less risky. i spoke with an analyst earlier today and he said for the moment some seem relieved by the decisions made in brussels. let's go to david jones. he joins us live from london. good to see you again, david. how relieved are you over what was said in brussels overnight? >> i think it's very fair. we've seen a good recovery yesterday ahead of the announcem

bill: how would it be applied, claud claudia?er: it would get rid of the box on application forms, that asks whether the person has a criminal record. landlords and employers would have to consider factors like credit and work history, before they can ask about arrests and convictions. >> all we're saying is get a chance to know them and see if they are qualified, before you use that as a criteria for taking them out. >> reporter: the protections would not extend to sex offenders or those who committed violent crimes like murder, but, most other felons would benefit and here in san francisco, bill, the proposal is getting a lot of support from many city leaders, and, will likely be adopted. bill: claudia cowan, thank you. san francisco, 21 minutes before the hour, jamie. jamie: thanks, new developments in the search for a missing mom of triplets, her parents blame her estranged husband and say they know he did it and now they say there is new evidence that proves it. that is next. >> she wouldn't walk away. she has three beautifu

the state budget conversations the last several months is teachers' benefits and salaries are being claudethank you for having me. >>> coming up ahead on "american morning," he says he was called to run. texas governor rick perry, could he be the gop's savior in 2012 if he jumps into the race? we are going to show you why rick perry, the man in front of you, could be a game-changer. right now. >>> a lot of republicans, especially those on the powerful christian right are now saying texas governor rick perry is really their best shot to beat president obama in 2012. >> the decision is going to be made pretty soon he says. in a "the wall street journal" poll, perry is running third behind mitt romney and michele bachmann. the interesting thing is perry is not even in the race. >> is there a whole name recognition factor. you said he hasn't declared. jim acosta is live for us in austin. what is the appeal of rick pe y perry? >> reporter: i talked to texas represent leaders down here yesterday. they point out rick perry has never lost an election. when you look at that poll you just threw up t

"there will be blood there, there will not be blood among us -- claude." there will not be blood among us, unfortunately. two or three months ago the chinese government passed a law that formally prohibits in public meteor -- press, books, comics, television, movies -- horror stories that deal with time travel or ultimate realities, literally. i checked with my friends in china. the official justification is that history should not be let [unintelligible] it is clear to what they are afraid of -- for people to a mention of alternate possibilities -- again, i think it is a good sign. they at least the april edition. with us, we do not need prohibition -- a pro edition most of the time -- who they need prohibition. with us, we do not need prohibition. it would mean loss of competition and so on. i totally agree with you. in the persons that you mentioned, newt gingrich is for me, sorry to use this strong word, kind of a storm of the earth. [laughter] [applause] >> i do not have any great sympathy for bill clinton, but i remember when there was this campaign

. >> i am thinking of claude rains in his portrayal of a police chief. i am baffled as to what this is all about. elizabeth warren is an able and thoughtful expert in the field. apparently, she made some suggestions that were not binding or coercive. instead of talking about the merits of the issues, we are in this panic or out rains that she did do that. this is the silliest thing i have never heard of. were you the attorney general in february of this year? the you feel coerced by elizabeth warren? did she bred new in anyway? -- did she threaten you in any way? >> i believe i have met her once. she did not seem threatening. >> i hope my colleagues will be curse is by your ability- -- colleagues will be incurred reached -- encouraged by your ability to stand up to her. she had the temerity to suggest that financial institutions that made loans they should not have made and package them into securities that should not be sold, that they should pay some penalties. that is consistent because my colleagues on the other side have been protective of the finan