that's the issue here, charles. we have so many different views and politicians coming out with different points of views, even to the outgoing head of the ecb that that's why the markets seem to be so jittery. >> let's get back to that later in the programming. we'll be talking to you later on. what's up, what's down in terms of european stocks? >> right. let's look at the sectors that are being affected by this. the banking sector in a number of countries like spain and italy have been affected. it's been suffering as there are ongoing concerns as the countries continue. what we're seeing is a bounce. particularly in italy. some banks are up in excess of 7.5% in the first hour of trading alone, also another huge bank over there up another 3%. the reason we're seeing such a strong bounce with these italian and french banks is because a number of them hold large amount os these italian bonds on the sheets. those are the bonds that the ecb says they're going to be buying back a portion of to try to bring down the yie

but charles was interesting. he was using his status as a driver not to further the system of slavery but to undermine it from within. he was in modern terminology the ultimate sweepers sold. as charles traveled up and down the river ostensibly on his master's business meeting with other slaves to talk about sugar harvest he was actually meeting with a group of african warriors, two men in particular. quaku was six feet tall with a living physical presence. he and quamina were sold in 1706. with the most powerful empire at the time and they were at this moment making a push for the african coast so they would have been captured and sold antislavery. those men were familiar with african military tactics because of their upbringing and as they met with charles exchange african ideas. you see the diversity of slave leadership. charles was born in louisiana to a white father speaking fresh. you have quaku and quamana and there are 11 separate leaders some of whom are haitian and some from the we vienna and others fro

charles? >> overall, a solid day of trading in the united states with the stock markets recording significant gaps by the closing bell. surprising in a way because of the impact hurricane irene and making it difficult to get to wall street even. stocks rose off the news of that greek bank deal as mentioned. also we had that improved domestic consumer spending. closing numbers, a powerful rally. up by 3 and a third percent in the case of the nasdaq. equally 2 and three quarters for the s&p 500. the blue chips up by 2.25% at the dow. however, there is a however, some of those gains may be wiped out when trading begins later on tuesday. this is where we're standing in terms of the u.s. futures and pre-market action. a little bit of that bargain hunting. people seem to be taking a bit of profits on the bargain hunting, if you like. that's what it looks like. up about a quarter of a percent, andrew. >>> okay, charles. japan's parliament has elected. yoesh schick ohno da the new prime minister much

>>> charles, let's switch now to berlin. germany is in indeed the biggest economy in europe and until very, very recently, it's also been the star performer growing strongly when other european zone economies were weakening. that's changed today. what is going on in europe's biggest economy. let's go to diane live in berlin. it was 0.1% growth, diana. expected to be at least half a percent growth. what's happened? >> well, the office has put it down to reduction in construction investment, reduction in consumption, private households, also more imports as opposed to exports. yeah, a surprising slowdown in growth for a country that as you say has been a star performer really for the last couple of years through the 2008 crisis and through the whole of the euro zone debt crisis. it is of course, going to be of huge concern to the market and to all those who fear the possibility of a double-dip recession seeing germany, europe's largest economy slowing down like this, especially after those french gdp numbers which essentially

this is all pretty tentative stuff still, charles. >> indeed. one country that's been keeping an eye on the messy goings-on is china. beijing is the largest foreign holder of the u.s. debt and sometimes they've been pretty blunt in the way america has handled its finances. with more on that is cnn grant. i can understand why china might follow this with a little bit more interest than usual. actually they've been laughing up their sleeves the way the americans with their volted democratic system can't come up with the goods in terms of what will keep the financial markets happy, right? >> you are right about that, charles. there are two sides the political and economic. certainly when it comes to the political side, china never really loses an opportunity to do a little bit of chest beating. editorials here in state-run media accusing the united states of playing a political game of chicken, saying they are politically kidnapping the world and accusing u.s. congress of being dangerously irresponsible. that of course playses to the sense of natio

for more on this and other issues of the day i'm joined by a democratic congressman from new york charles rangel charlie rangle congressman rangle welcome back to the program. thank you before we get to the u.s. economy what's your take on the events in libya. well i can't imagine where america is you know was in that too long ago that we would welcome in khadafi back into the civilized leadership of the middle east and now of course it appears as though even though we don't know who the rebels that we decided that anyone is better than khadafy but it's really strange that we only really get involved now when we have famines and floods in many countries but where there is oil so it's consistent when a foreign policy and i do hope that the voices that are screaming out for democracies are hurried through out there were a list specially in this part of the world you know that's that's an excellent important point particularly as right now there's tens of thousands of smaller refugees pouring into kenya and many of them dying you know on the way or when they get there and exactly will no rel

charles? >>> let's backtrack to that sudden and very unexpected dramatic encounter between our matthew chance in tripoli and the son of moammar gadhafi, saif gadhafi. has there been any reaction to the rebel leaders to this sudden reappearance? after all, he was claimed to be in rebel custody. we're join from the libyan city of benghazi, which of course is headquarters for the opposition movement. fred, this seems almost rather embarrassing for the rebels in a way. >> well, certainly seems like a reaction from people on the ground. they've been stunned that they heard that he was not in the custody of rebel fighters there in tripoli. it is something they've said at the head of the transitional council that he was in custody. there hasn't so far been any sort of reaction to this from the leadership of the transitional national council. they haven't seechb told us that they know he was ever in custody or whether they simply went ahead and said something that they had no confirmation of in the fi

charles? >>> traders are cashing out and searching for a safe haven from all the investing uncertainty. europe is trying to take the pressure off some of the biggest and most indebted economies and america's most golden credit rating is tarnished and fannie and freddie mac downgraded to aaa. the question, how bad is this situation anyway? >> let me give you the example of a mound of sand and how a few grains of sand can totally change the shape of the mound. why? because the mound is structurally weak. our economy is structurally weak. we have a problem with the housing sector, in the labor market, in the banks and the public finances. and over the last few weeks, we have put a few grains of sand that have completely changed the mound. they were first a series of weak numbers, second, the debacle in washington that raised questions about our policymakers, third, the crisis in europe, and now, to add insult to injury, the downgrade. so right now we have both an immediate problem and a structura

i agreed more with ben than charles on this. i think we're much more capitalized and you know, listen, markets overreact at stuff going on there, it's not good and people see in 2008 every time. but here is the thing if you're an investor and i guess investors watch the show, if bank stocks go down, market is, the bank stocks have not decoupled from the overall market if you look at the way the bank stocks are trading, when they go down, generally the market goes down. >> very good point. we're going to take a quick point. one of the world's richest calling for it. obama says let's do it and they must have been watching ben stein, for years he's been urging it. >> we can have much higher taxes and especially on very wealthy people, i don't want to raise taxes on dagen, don't want to raise taxes on charles. >> and are all of them missing new numbers? we're go to show you that could of motorcycles, boats, even rv's. nobody knows where he got his love for racing. all we know is, it started early. casey mears, driver of the number t

charles? >>> the big news of the day, a new prime minister in japan. noda chosen to rule the party. and the ruling party, expected to be approved by the parliament on tuesday for the nation's top job. until now serving as japan's finance minister. noda succeeds anderson coopn na khah kan announces his resignation. >> reporter: because of nada's position on the yen. he has said there should be intervention and japan's government needs to do everything possible to try to control the yen dollar exchange, and that has been a huge problem for the exporters here in japan. noda is a known kwant quantity as how he feels about the weak dollar and trying to control the yen. certainly the markets like it. certainly corporate japan, who has been struggling especially the profit sheets, struggling under the surging yen certainly appreciate his entrance. the question will be, though, charles, whether or not noda can unite all of the factions, all the political factions and try to actually get policy pushed

charles. >> okay. jennifer delgado, thanks for joining us live. >> thank you. >>> now if political analysts are correct the u.s. washington debt deal is hours away from becoming law and there are spending cuts. that's causing many americans a lot of worry. we'll hear from them straight ahead. i have astigmatism. so my old contact lenses would sometimes move out of place and blur my vision. my eye doctor said there's great news for people with astigmatism. acuvue® oasys for astigmatism. he said it's the only lens of its kind designed to realign naturally with every blink and created with hydraclear® plus. i'm seeing more clearly, crisply, comfortably, all day long. now life doesn't have to be a blur. [ male announcer ] learn more at acuvue.com. acuvue® oasys for astigmatism. announcer: when life's this hard, it's no wonder 7,000 students drop out every school day. visit boostup.org and help kids in your community stay in school. >>> from cnn london, i'm charles hodson. >> and i'm andrew stevens at cnn h

i talk to two groups in get the question most is charles and bruce. [laughter] and what is juan williams really like a? he is a fantastic guy is what i tell them. a lot of people now say you have a good deal. everything worked out. it was perfect. i was around him that we can he was not a happy camper. it was tough and a lot of pain but i saw the character throw that the entire thing and i will tell you i could not be prouder. [applause] every night sometimes it gets heated with interesting exchanges but you're respected discussion happens at our table. the. >> look at this. [laughter] >> we have a lightning round with a certain topic it is not that quick were lightening. [laughter] so i thought i would start on the lightning round with charles. >> if i knew i would have been called upon i would not have worn jeans. [laughter] first-come i want to thank juan williams because every time i give a speech he has the best line i say i am happy to be here. then i say the truth be told where juan williams can not interrupt me. [laughter] >> so he has been sa

and sindcated columnist charles krauthammer.said you know it's a big night of importance when the panel expands. >> absolutely. all of america trembles. if there is a fifth, it's the apocalypse. >> bret: your thoughts? >> i think since the boehner proposal passed in the house thursday night after all the craziness it was clear we would not have a default. we would have an agreement. we now have it no question it passes in the two houses. it gets signed in a week we worry what the insanity was about. i don't think there was a tremendously high chance of default or breaching the debt ceiling. once boehner had control of his house, it was a done deal. i expect that in an hour it will be done in the house. interesting to see how many republicans will go against the leadership, how many democrats will oppose it on the left. there will be a tradeoff. either side wants to protect its wing and we'll see how it works out. >> bret: a.b., explain it for people at home. the republicans are telling the democrats we really need you here, beca

charles krauthammer will have analysis. [explosions] >> bill: chaos in libya and now there is debate over president obama did the right thing as far as qaddafi is concerned. we'll analyze that with karl rove. >> a lot of gull libel folks in the united states actually believe what fox puts forward as facts when most of it is just complete distortions. >> and has president obama momp morphed into jimmy carter? the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. is president obama really responsible for the bad economy? that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. last night we had a very lively debate with rodgers and ben stein about president obama's role in a dismal economy. mr. stein believes the president is a positive when it comes to economic matters saying his vision of government stimulus is a good thing. i, of course, disagree and i believe the facts back me up. mr. rogers says the president is a neutral for the economy. tha

and then 25 years later as charles reason is a teacher, the same teacher. and this is what she says about 10. cultured, refined, claimed to be a little supercilious was quite intolerant of mediocrity. he instinctively shunned the ordinary and commonplace and kept himself aloof from all that was awkward and unseemly. he could and would teach, but only if alaska's right choice in the selection of his pupils. those willing and able to submit to prophecies found compensation far in excess of exaction. attack of the study, developed the study for steady-state to those mentally alert, aspiring intelligent he disclosed in shares. satisfaction in wonder, whoever could be trained to enjoy what he enjoyed in the way please tend have measureless content as complete as exception. so i don't know whether you'd like to have a master teacher, but that's what he was. so philip was according to george downing a very good student, worked very hard and did very well at the lawrence street school. so i'm graduation he needed to learn a trade. so his mother, elizabeth, with the

charles? >>> now, when we return, beyond borders. we will tease out some of the impact of the end of the gadhafi regime on financial markets, in particular, the obvious one, how will it effect oil prices around the globe in nted moisturizers with scientifically proven soy complex and natural minerals. give you sheer coverage instantly, then go on to even skin tone in four weeks. aveeno tinted moisturizers. while i took refuge from the pollen that made me sneeze. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my worst allergy symptoms. so lily and i are back on the road again. with zyrtec® i can love the air®. >>> welcome back to our coverage of the uprising in libya. >>> investors are watching the outcome in libya closely. the effects of the uprising being felt strongly, particularly on the oil markets. >> that's right. for most of the past few months the price of oil has been dictated by the events unfolding in libya as well as the rest of the middle east/africa region, and the end of gadhafi's power may mean a dr

charles mentioned, eyes on the prize, thurgood marshall. inspired by faith, my sir looks back in wander, black farmers in america, dead end movements and the undermining of black america and what we can do about it. that's a lot. you've covered washington spectacularly for decades. we are privileged to have you on our team, and i'll tell you object panel you will never be muzzled. >> well, thank you. [laughter] >> juan williams, ladies and gentlemen. [cheers and applause] >> well, thank you, all, brett, thank you to you and amy for putting this on. we really appreciate, and delisa and i are in your debt for being such a good friend. to charles, to steve, you know, i worked at the "washington post," at cnn, i worked at npr. i worked at the hill. these guys are the best, and i am truly grateful to have you as my colleagues, so thank you, very much, and i wanted to -- [applause] also i wanted to say thank you to ed rogers, to shannon green and sheldon green who are here tonight and the hill who is here tonight. you know, steve's touched on thi

. >> charles, are we headed for a double-dip recession, or are there brighter tomorrows? >> is, i have to respond. so much error, so little time. this had nothing to do with the wrangling over the debt ceiling, the stall the market. it had to do with mostly italy and spain, but mostly italy. the eighth largest economy in the world apparently going over a cliff. he is too big to it -- it is too big to bail. the interest rates on italian bonds went over 6%, and the prime minister of italy goes on television in the middle of this on wednesday and declares his economy sound. he is not going to do anything. that is what put the world markets into a swoon. europe is in big trouble. >> the unemployment rate dipped slightly to 9.1%, and the private sector added 154,000 jobs, at 37,000 government jobs because of the minnesota state shut down.owar 117,000 -- >> there is no signs of any growth, and we are cutting spending at a time when we should be adding spending to stimulate the economy and jobs. >> but there is a larger -- >> the way it worked in 2009 and 2010. >> italy's proble

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i'm charles hodson. >> and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i'm andrew stevens.elcome to "world business today." today is tuesday, august 2nd. >>> the u.s. is closer to settling the debt deal. can they handle the cuts. >>> how are the world's largest car mareks being hit. >> and eric schmidt was google's ceo from 2001 to 2011. >>> at long last washington's debt drama should end just hours from now. political observers predict the senate will vote to approve the final plan and that will allow president obama to sign it into law before tonight's debt limit deadline, thus averting a u.s. default. the house of representatives approved the 11th hour compromise by a wide margin on friday. 261 for, 161 against. consistent for both republicans and democrats. charles, this time yesterday we talked about the market having a positive reaction. it didn't seem to last long, though, did it? >> it certainly seemed to melt away pretty fast, as fast as summer snow, even here in london. actually that i thinking combined with the news out of the u.s. manufacturing sector, which we'

charles? >> in that part of the world you don't resign.e you resign and you end up on the ranch, even nixon ended up having a good retirement. you don't end up with a good retirement. you end up dead. he and the others who run syria ruthlessly are either going to win or going to die. so i don't see it happening. i think what is important that happened this week, the europeans are working on a boycott of syrian oil. that would have extremely important effect. it would be the best step we could take in the west. >> bret: often people say sanctions don't work in big picture but it depends what the sanctions are. >> it depends what they are. it works in the context of broader panoply of things. this is the first chapter of a continueed long war. in syria. the good thing about this week for the obama perspective is we don't have image of assad as a reformment. keep in mind, john kerry perpetuated this a few months ago. hillary clinton was embracing the idea this guy is a reformer. that's behind us at least and at least we isolated regime, us an

that was owen, one of john charles' children, and he -- not john charles, john, rather, olmsted's brother -- they shared the same weak constitution that his brother had died of tuberculosis. owen clearly died of tuberculosis, but olmsted insisted he died of diabetes. people frequently get diabetes, too, so owen probably had die beet, but tuberculosis killed him. i think olmsted had a lot of guilt when owen, his charge and john's son, also died of tuberculosis. you had those two children, and then you've also got charlotte, another of john's children, olmsted's stepchildren, and charlotte throughout her life was very high strung, she was very -- she'd become hysterical very quickly, and she ultimately at a young age was confine today a mental institution for the rest of his -- rest of her life. so that's some of the tragedy, and then he had all this tragedy of friends who died early and so forth. >> his mother. >> and his mother, that's right. his mother who had a very, very -- when olmsted was 3 years old, his first memory was of his mother sewing under a tree with him at her feet, and hi

john charles is a great draftsman. i think england provided quite a bit to him because certainly in prospect park you just walked into that long meadow and it feels like any estate he might have walked through he walked through all of these wealthy people's estates after the architects and learned about it. that had a big influence on him as well. not just a public park and that is why -- >> it is very true. he visited a lot of states and there is a wonderful description of him visiting a castle in wales. one of my favorite descriptions, he wrote this letter, really a diary in which -- he had to pull some strings to visit the grounds. he had a feeling like he felt what a beautiful place. so free of the rebel and so beautiful and well manicured and he had a pendulum swing of thought. as an american this is so non egalitarian to be appreciating this landscape which has been cloistered so he had this eat tiffany and thought this is a beautiful landscape and as an american i can't conscience try to reproduce in such a land

it came from a 9-year-old boy, charles evans. >> it is so pitiful.ul and shame that all these people out here, they have over 3,000 people out here with no home, no shelter. what are they going to do? what are we going to do? >> charles is one of those i wanted to find five years after katrina, and when i caught up with him, i found a much more subdued 14-year-old young man. what's happened in the last five years? where you been? >> well, when i first moved back to new orleans, i was staying with my grandmother, and last year my grandmother moved back to texas. she moved to houston, so now i'm staying with my aunt. >> when katrina hit, what little stability this young boy from a troubled home had ever known was completely shattered. after living in the squalor of the convention center for a week, he and his grandmother who had raised him eventually evacuated to texas. they settled in mesquite, and for awhile it seemed as if the disaster may have given charles a new chance at life. his television plea got him attention. he appeared on stage at the emm

rick came on much later john charles is a great draftsman. but i think that evil and provided quite a bit to him because certainly impressed that part, you just walked into that longmeadow and it feels like an ect 9:00 through, he walked through like all of these wealthy people's estate off to the architects have learned about it. i think that had a big influence its outcome and not just the birkenhead, which was a public park and that's why i was so impressing. >> that's very true. he visited a lot of different states and there's this wonderful description of him at church council in wales. he wrote this letter -- really a diary and tree which he described the private accounts that the capsule and had to pull strings to visit the grounds. thirty-first of all first holiday feeling like he's sort of felt, what a beautiful place, so free of the rabble and so beautiful and well manicured. and then he just had a pendulum swing., which he suddenly thought as an american this is american cisalpine egalitarians to be appreciating this landscape, whi

. >> reporter: for charles, chevy is more than the heartbeat of america. it's the automaker he has depended on for years. all that changed the day this truck began making strange sounds. >> click, click, click, click. when you first start it up it would go away. >> reporter: a mechanic explained the noise was due to defective cylinder heads. >> the heads got a hole in it would leak antifreeze into the oil and then you lose your lubrication and you get lifters and rods wearing. >> reporter: needless to say it was a big deal and cost charles $4,500. but what's worse, chevy knew about the defective part four years ago and never issued a recall. instead, it sent a service bulletin to dealer ships notifying them the cylinders should be replaced. but owners like charles were never notified. >> i wish they would have said, you know, if you had this problem a long time ago so as soon as it happens you know. >> reporter: because that could have saved him a lot of money. >> it would be nice if manufacturers sent notices every time they learned there is a defect. >>

charles joins me now from washington. great to see you, charles. welcome. >> good to see you. thank you. >> so charles, in obama's blame roulette so far, we have seen him blame president bush, the tea party, a dysfunctional washington, the japanese tsunami, the arab spring, atm's, the internet, bad luck, and bigfoot. now, ok, i just made up big foot but he's pretty much blames the bad economy on everything except his own bad policies. >> well, he promises hope and change but never told us, you know, it was bring the bad luck. look, i mean, it's rather pathetic for a president. you elect a leader to deal with them and master them if she or he can but not to go around whining and complaining about events. dealing with events is what a leader does. and, you know, luck is the residue of design and obama had a very specific design for the american economy. the trillion dollar stimulus which left a trace, and this blanket of operations, sort of the burst of regulatory zeal that we have seen everywhere which is essentially shut down our energy industry that could be a source of econo

charles lane, editorial writer for "washington post." sindcated columnist, charles krauthammer.l thoughts about the whole whatever it is we watched in the past couple of weeks. >> well, call me crazy. but i'm willing to say the cup half full. my reasoning is we have gone through a brutal debate. it did end in a compromise. the debt ceiling meltdown scenario got avoided. the debate sharpened and crystallized. it had pep traited the country's consciousness, the public is really focused on the nation's financial conditions in a really serious way. there were endless antics in washington, but the issue is squarely confronting the country in a healthy way. >> bret: steve, late today, moody's came out and reaffirmed the government triple-a credit rating but gave at it negative outlook. one of the concern was the joint committee that the bill sets up. here is a quote. while the combination of the congressional committee process and the automatic triggers provides a mechmism to induce fiscal discipline -- this is actually not the quote. "attempts at fiscal rules in the past have not alw

my name is charles himple.nd i sea food differently. >>> people have had it. they're fed up with where we are financially. the cancer has to be cut out. one of the most important powerful tools to get us there is a balanced budget amendment. >> bret: former obama ambassador to china and former utah governor jon huntsman after an interview with greta van susteren was mobbed by adoring chinese tourists in washington, d.c. he is not getting mobbed by adoring voters in polls, not yet. still in singing digits. he shook up his campaign two weeks ago. his campaign manager left. today word that another four staffers have quit over what huntsman described himself as drama over his chief strategist john weaver who may be familiar to some, running the john mccain campaigns in 2000 and 2008. before a fall-out with mccain. what about the huntsman campaign and the rest of the g.o.p. field? as we're one week away from the debate in ames iowa on fox. back with the panel. suzeen? >> i think one of the most interesting revelatio

i think it was the folks charles that said 14. a trillion dollars not okay with us anymore unemployment at more than 9% not okay. i think that's what happened here. >> i'm not sure there is a difference. in the democracy folks speak. how do they speak on election day? what's the result? they elect representatives who speak on their behalf and those representatives in the house, some of them rather small minority, prevailed over majority. why? because they have conviction and they have the argument and they have reality and truth on their side. this country is headed over a cliff economically. everybody understands that. including the ratings agencies which are rather neutral on this. objective observers and they say you don't get your house in order, we're going to make you lose your a.a.a. everybody understands that but it was these people expressed through their representatives who made the case and won the day. >> bill: all right, charles, thanks very much. here are the results of our bill o'reilly.com poll. we asked how speake

syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. steve, start with you. today the white house seemed to be trying to get its footing here after a good day on wall street yesterday. and then just got wallloped by another horrible roller coaster at the end of the day. >> i'm not sure today, i think consensus is that today's performance on wall street had much more to do with things that were happening overseas with rumors about french banks and whatnot. still, not a good day for the white house, never a good day for the white house when the dow goes down anything like it was. i found most remarkable, jay carney press briefing they are emphasizing a, quote/unquote, balanced approach, which everybody understands to be raising taxes. now the president himself has said in the past repeatedly, raising taxes in a recession is the last thing you want to do. you can't consider it. it would hurt the economy and suck demand out of the economy is the way he put it. here today, you have the president in what is an economic downturn, distressed economy. his smokesman ag

. >> do you agree, charles? >> well, global warming is somewhat problematic because a majority of scientists say it is so. i happen to believe that probably is. i am not sure i believe the models that predict what is going to hundred have been brit hume and the pumping co2 into the air does change something, but we do not know what the common aesthetic effects -- call me a static of facts, the cell- killing effects, the capacity earth has. i am perturbed when i hear republicans talk about evolution as a theory, like keynesian economics. that and a denial of the science is infinitely more troubling. >> mark? >> gov. perry takes it to a different level. instead of simply questioning science, what he does is basically charged that scientists involved are on the take, that they are in for mike, which is a pretty venal -- they're in for money, which is a pretty venal as well as unbased charge. >> colby? >> this week we have seen natural events with the earthquake and hurricane coming this way. in the case of climate

what are they saying to themselves, charles? >> well, it is complicated.hink some of them are saying to themselves we just picked the wrong candidate. maybe it should have been hillary. it isn't that liberalism is wrong but we just a lousy leader a guy who had no experience. a guy who was a flash in the pan. gave a good speech but never ran a candy store. that's one argument. the ideology is right but the leadership is wrong. the other argument that you see is obama giving times elsewhere. all the fault either of act god earthquakes. nasty terrible republicans who held america hostage. held a gun to its head, et cetera. using incidentally precisely the kind of incivil language that tucson they had said was supposed to abolish. so i think they have two stories. >> bill: all right. but none of those stories, neither of those stories washing. no one is buying either of them. >> if the election were held tomorrow, they would be destroyed. >> you would be president and i would be secretary of state and that's the way it should be, charles. thanks very much as a

thank you very much, charles.reat story. >> thanks for having me. >>> joining me now, nationally syndicated radio talk show host, michael smir connish. as far back as i can remember people have been saying it's time to start paying college athletes. that may alleviate this problem that we're having in basketball and football. year after year in these big school programs where big money is at stake and the schools are making big money. >> first of all, i've missed you and you are looking good. >> thank you very much, michael. >> i just had this debate on the radio. half the audience call and say exactly what you just said. give it up already. you'll never be able to police it. just pay them pip don't like that. you open up the flood gates. all of a sudden you're going to get the most wealthy benefactors of a particular school. whatever that school might be that will be the dominant team in the nation. some say we already have that. i really hope we don't have to go in that direction. >> it seems that's exactly what

and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. what about this action, charles?> i thought the late-day rally that we saw probably started around 3:00, when the president would not address the country, cheering and thrown in the air. general international exuberance. that is an attempt at satire. trying to get a chuckle. >> bret: i figured i'd let you go. >> you have to explain yourself, it's -- >> bret: the crickets were chirping. okay. >> i guess i wasn't cut out for that. the real story is what happened around 2:00. the man who really runs america, chairman of the federal reserve said for two years, keep interest rates low. normally, the chairman will say words like indefinitely, or for a while. they'll use the obscure words. but he was extremely specific. this is a contrast from the predecessor. he spoke in language that was so opaque and obscure you think you were listening to distinct himalayandy lecht. this ilecht -- himalayan dialect. he said two years so at a time when there is uncertainty about tax and regulation, all caused by the administration and th

we have charles payne taking us down. in chicago.rles, you were nodding your head when we were hearing herman talk about doing some of the tax cuts and that. how would the market respond to that panacea. >> i love the idea of repatriotation of tax profits. a couple trillion. i have done the math on it at the lowest end, even if the corporations gave that money to shareholders, corporations are obviously obligated to do. we would -- it would be a stimulus in this country of minimum of 60 billion but probably 240 billion that wouldn't cost anyone watching this show a nickel. it wouldn't cost anybody a nickel. it wouldn't add to the deficit. >> neil: what about any. >> nobody is watching any other show. the president has taken a lot of plans that make a lot of sense and hijacked them. the repriteddization thing they want to take and do infrastructure bank with that it's nuts, neil. >> neil: if you can't explain it to senate obviously it's getting complicated. >> corporate profits and do things with the things government tops spend corpo

>> charles sullivan, city attorney's office. as you know, i have given extensive testimony in the board -- to the board on open in closed session on this issue. part of the difficulty results from the fact that we relied on two exemptions. the first one was the exemption under the state's 10-city bonus. there is no case law on that, and that is part of what we were advising you. there is a lot of reasons why we believe we fit within that exemption. there is the second exemption that came up later that we discussed, at that we found that deals with replacement housing units built on the same property within five years. there is case law that actually supports that. at the end of the day, -- i do not know it is worth repeating, but all of these things are to make it enforceable, and also to provide that -- to require that the demolitions and relocation have been in advance before anybody -- and the unit is demolished. at the end of the day, we concluded there were strong arguments to support the enforceability of the rent control