this is a cost centric move.hey are not going to generate growth out of this move, but the two divisions share the same customers. they have the same channel partners, purchase many of the same components. so i think the thinking from hp if we put these two together, we can create some savings. are investors cheering that on? no, because i think there are broader concerns about hp's growth portfolio, ceo meg whitman has not outlined a strategic direction for the company and she became ceo six months ago. so i think investors are finding this somewhat undernourishing. >> you have an outperform on this stock, but what would you like to see management do or say to that point you just made, which is this is not a growth-oriented move. this is a cost-centric move. what would you like to see them do or say with respect to re-igniting some growth? >> right. so, look, hp is an elephant. it's $125 billion company. so stimulating growth is something that is very difficult to do. and it has to happen somewhat gradually. our

he also laid the blame on the destruction of the culture, which he claims used to be cut mer centric, and is now focused on purely making profits for goldman, even at the expense of customers at the feet of the company's ceo, lloyd blindfeen. >> how did he get an op-ed in "the new york times"? >> that's a good question. he submitted it and they accepted it, would be the short answer. >> a sexy story, an employee of goldman sachs blasting goldman sachs. >> they've been in a negative light over the last couple of years. one of the big wall street firms. it's received a lot of criticism from regulators. some of it were warranted probably. some of it unwarranted maybe. but nevertheless, it's become a bit of a lightning rod for criticism for those who have taken issue with wall street's practices. of course, we do want to note that goldman's ceo basically defended the firm's culture in a memo to employees. writing to the employees, you know, we believe everyone should have their opinion. they believe one single person's opinion has obviously been magnified because of the op-ed in a well-kn

both disciplines are core centric.e the core and you will then develop your core muscles and tighten your abs. boxing using power, agility and strength. pilates is more of a discipline where you have to do all the movements very slowly, generally, and carefully. >> you got it. >> i like the energy, the level, the pace. i like the smooth moves, the high energy especially. i love to keep moving. >> the first time doing anything like this. it was slow, but intention. it was targeting muscles i didn't think it would target. >> this combination has you focusing on balance and core. you also get the cardioin. you come away feeling powerful, you really do. you feel good about yourself. >> we are constantly changing our positions, our hand movements, we worked a lot on our glutes and thigh muscles. i felt like i was getting a strength workout as well as cardio. >> go out and kick some. >> looks like fun. find out where they are happening visit our website, www.nbcwashington.com and search, what's your workout. >> he lost his p

-centric like we used to be. we are comfortable that we have different plays to go with our products and build a great customer base to carry the load through these commodity cycles. >> it's very clear that the era where you have those -- the m&a work is being paused right here because of that -- of your capital allocations. >> we feel like we have cash to service our pipeline and growth in the eastern canadian assets that we purchased last year as well as the assets on the discovery that we had several years ago as we bring that project forward, so we feel that we've got a great organic pipeline that we can finance easily as well as secure this nice dividend for the shareholders. >> i'm not a political guy, but as among you, you have therma-coal mining in queensland, and latin american operations and canadian, united states. which is the best place to operate? i put it that way because of this 30% tax on iron ore that the australians are putting through. >> well, we really like canada. as you know, we did our la

the conditions to the american people and solved the real problems we faced as op posed to tired centric policies despite they make everything equal and end up with everyone rising. . that case, the argument for opportunity has been made by folks like paul ryan with the progressive and a week ago and more recently, just this week in mitt rom no's new stump speech on tuesday, so here we are, they become a referendum, and the promises and the american dream. that's a debate conservatives welcome and this country needs to have one and one that is the model, i think, barack obama would have. thanks. >> bill has kindly said if i wanted to reply, i could. i wanted to start by saying that if anyone frommes on watt me, kansas, is watching i want to salute jim caesar for doing such an excellent job on behalf of the party of evasion because the party of evasion claims that the biggest problem facing our nation is a budget deficit whereas the party of reality understands that the biggest problem facing our nation is the growing concentration of wealth that has afflicted us for almost 40 years. the

democrat excuse me, the centric republicans that are, you know, they call them republican name only. the republicans to that, then you have the election in alaska where we sum rakowski the setting a senator is challenged by the tea party, jim demint, a member of her own party sitting raised money against her, the tea party candidates. she lost that primary and she said forget this and she ran up the candidate and she won. more than 50% of all voters and alaska are registered independent. so why do think that there would be more of a cleansing and more of a purity test on the republican side. i think the republicans have moved away to the right. i think the recent birth control debacle 90% of all women use birth control, catholic women and women of every other state, i think this is the kind of social right wing effort to inject religion into the public sphere independent voters don't like, and i think the economy is the big problem, you know, the deficit is the big problem, there are other issues but we have moved past issues like whether gay people should be able to get married or a

is it christian centric? >> that's a good question. the perception is the answer is yes. out there in the muslim world, the perception among some here in the united states, it's not true enough. that is a blueprint for this. it doesn't mention any religion, yet they do for all people, and of course. everybody has strong feelings about it, and christianity is proselyting michigan. it does nothing to grapple with. you have to take industry but the idea is not to make the world safe for the christian missionaries, it is to focus on the religious liberty as a constituent a limit of human dignity can societies in the politics. it is something that can be talked about and implemented your respective of the demography is to be the the reality is christians around the world as minorities are in big trouble, they are fleeing iraq and other countries in the middle east. what happens to the cop that caught the christian minority in egypt has nothing to do with -- has a great deal to. the notion of religious freedom is about christians. historical if we want to talk about where did t

i believe the american force of course is eagle centric but the sort of the response of realtors global responsibility or americans of i like to see them so was. i believe that they will take me into account such sentiments and so they're going to stand but once a withdrawal. you perhaps mean that americans won't completely leave i would have a grandstand i don't see in seoul i feel that americans want to leave behind some five six huge military bases with a certain number of personnel maybe three. fourths of the soul. perseveration not going to leave for up for group i'm gonna start a rule i would like to stay very little of base isn't what we see here isn't patrolling the country i mean well they did say that it's a different thing in the worse of course live they do have a military base in cuba they are water based in japan. i mean there are patrolling the streets and japanese cities exactly the bars in spent the better much interesting those baselessly are motion in some other states not to control law and order in the country and so something else i also thought was kind of that's

. >> host: thomas farr is -- when we do emphasize religious freedom, is it christian-centric? >> guest: that's a good question. the perception is, yes. the perception in the muslim world, perception among some here in the united states. absolutely not true. the law is the blueprint for this. it doesn't mention religion, much less christianity. of course, through people -- has strong feelings about it and christianity is a pros the let tieing'ing. but the idea here is not to make a world safe for christian missionaries. to focus on religious liberty as a constituent element of human dignity after societies and politics. it really is something that can be talked about and implemented irrespective of what the religious demography is. the reality is that christians around the world, as minorities, are in big trouble. they are freeing countries in the middle east. what happens to the christian minority in egypt has something to do with -- has a great deal to do with the future of that country. so it isn't that christians are irrelevant or christianity is relevant but the notion is

to lead the world forever i don't think so i don't think that we honestly going into or a chinese centric not so why this phobia that china folding our china is coming so small it's all because on a comparison basis compared to china for example when i first went there were nine hundred seventy when they had absolutely nothing of course it's very different china is a manufacturing country today and benefiting from manufacturing and if you look back in history in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight hundred ten of the probably the brits the english were the most prosperous nation in the world certainly per capita all on the back of manufacturing so the industrial revolution on the back of coal one hundred england was two percent of the world's population producing forty percent of the world's trade think about that america also groups hugely on the back of manufacturing so manufacturing is what really leads to prosperity and the western world has swung away from manufacturing into service industries and that is as also they have huge dollars of inflation. over the years i'm talking about

of balancing and probably reemphasizing some languages and some cultures as we move from a sentcom centric environment to a more globally balanced environment over time. >> thank you. from time to time, there are reports of iranian support to the hoothies in northern yemen. given the ongoing search by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula the matter of iran's involvement in yemen has been getting less press. general mattis, can you update me on iran's activities in north yemen? and are they continuing to provide materials, support to the hoothies. >> they are providing material support. compared to last year at this time they're providing more to include weapons. not just money. but interestingly, they are also trying to influence now the non-hoothie tribes and invite their political leadership to tehran on expense paid vacations, basically, to meet with certain leaders there. it's very interesting what you sand i have seen over years with hoothies is now expanding in yemen. frankly, i think tehran sees a lebanese hezbollah kind of mental model for where they want to go down there. >> have the

how to make the 21st century the china centric was how do we turn what is looking like an american centric into a chinese into? we will have to go on the way-back machine to get a real feel for that because you've got to think back to what things were like in the year 2000. in year 2000, the office of management and budget put out a report that said by 2010 we will have paid off all federal debt. you realize we are $16 trillion in federal debt today. but in year 2000, the omb said in 10 years will pay off all federal debt. we were the kings of the world. our military budget was nine times the military budget of the chinese, and our military was far and away superior. that's why these two chinese girls were charged with how do we beat the united states. because there's no possible way, our military budget was about 10% of their entire gdp in the year 2000. it was nighttime their military budget. they couldn't compete and they knew it. they're fully aware they didn't have the technology, the capability to win a military conflict to if you read this book, unrestricted warfare, which they publ

. >> he's much more point of view centric and personality centric. >> i'll be doing this until i'm 125 a personality now off the air once again. >> good evening, i'm eliot spitzer. >> replaced by another controversial figure, former new york governor eliot spitzer who resigned in disgrace after he admitted hiring a prostitute and two years later briefly hosted a show on cnn. >> good night. >> proving in the world of television there's often room for a comeback. >> spitzer didn't mention his predecessor at all during last night's show. it is not clear where olbermann might end up, but it appears the legal battle might not be over soon. >> up next p dresses. how some schools are issuing dos and don'ts for prom dresses right after these messages. capital one is issuing a venture double miles challenge. show us how much you spent last year and we'll give you 2 miles for every dollar spent on your travel reward card. up to 100,000 miles! hawaii, here we come. claim your miles at capitalone.com today! what's in your wallet? can you play games on that? not on the runway. no. can you play game

was biased towards and euro centric. have you over come that? >> i'm no longer french, or european i'm the managing director of the international monetary fund and it makes me accountable to all of them and not loyal to one particular country. it takes a little while but i was thrown into hot water very quickly. >> rose: what will happen to the euro. where do you think it's going. >> i don't think it will split up. it's the second reserve currency in the world today and much stronger than when it was launched ten years ago and it's a regional economi economic zon reinforcing itself almost by the day. it was very much an unfinished job to begin with. ten years ago when the currency zone was built it was half done and therefore unfinished and it came very much to the surface at the time of the crisis. the lines of defense were not in place. the joined fiscal responsibility was not there. the various rules in place had been violated and the zone was weaken and the banks looked at the zone as one risk area without necessarily distinguishing -- >> ro

centric. really it's all driven by brent. we keep telling you that. it's driven by geopolitics and yes oil is down $2 today but it did not break below the level, $104.50. there's still a lot of risk premium. there's concern about what is going to happen and what we know will happen in july. keep your eye on the middle of april. april 13th and 14th when we have the tops starting again about iran's nuclear program. >> oh, boy. >> whatever comes out of there that can be natural gas in iran. >> thank you, bob. >>> let's take a look at moves and shakers. stock skyrocket, and brian shactman at the cnbc real-time exchange. >> first, i want to look at the s&p 500. we're at 1402. at one point we were below 1400. it's bounced off the lows. the bio max index is up 48, 49%. there was a report that the company rejected an offer from bristol-myers. the assumption could be a higher bid coming. a trade worth investment, lower oil and getting a boost from optimism that the euro zone and carbon max, southwest 1.5 and jetblue despite the disaster with the melt down. wea

. >> both disciplines are core centric so they use the core and you will then develop your core musclesnd tight your abs. in boxing, you think of power and agility and strength and pilates is more a discipline, where you have to do all the movements very slowly generally and carefully. >> you got it. you wiggle. >> i like the energy. i like the level, the pace. i like the smooth moves, the high energy especially. i love to keep moving. >> first time doing anything like this. it was slow but intense. it was targeting muscles i didn't think it would target. >> this combination i think has you focusing on balance, focusing on core but you also get the cardio in. >> you also come away from the boxing segments feeling powerful. you really do. you really feel very good about yourself. >> we are constantly changing our positions, our hand movements, we worked a lot on our gluts and our thigh muscles and stabilizing them, so i really felt like i was getting a strength workout on top of a cardio workout. >> go out and get some sass. >> the peanut gallery here, if you -- i wish we had the mikes o

amendment testifies to the degree that we have shifted from concerned for pregnant women to a fetus centric society where such an amendment is on the ballot and supported by the state's outgoing governor haley barbour, who almost ran for president. that particular amendment, if it should pass anywhere, and will be on the ballot in colorado and other states, reminds me of margaret atwood's -- does anybody know? i knew i was in the right city. [laughter] and of course we were all constantly aware with the continuing erosion of abortion rights, longer waiting times, new standards for clinics, insistent on fetal pain, nothing to do with maternal pain is ever remarked down now and now even the efforts of the republican-controlled house of representatives to d. fund planned parenthood. now, margaret sanger is very much a part of this richer grade movement. as the brand-name for birth control and the founder of family planning clinic's, she is vilified and purposeful propaganda that seeks to discredit providers of essential health services. two weeks ago, i guess i should apologize for even bringi

centric as they've been in several years. we last summer eliminated exposure to europe and japan for obvious macro reasons. our models today are 75% to 80% in u.s. equities and 20%, 25% in the emerging markets. yes, you have to be very particular and selective. you have to focus on quality. we're looking in the large cap area at stocks that have strong free cash flow and that have the potential to raise their dividends successively for a number of years. in the mid cap space looking for steady growth stories as opposed to growth story stocks where there's execution risk. >> in what sectors are you finding those values? >> one of the things you're talking about today is investing in america. when we look at the industrial and manufacturing sector in the u.s. today, it's really quite interesting. at the macro level, 31 months in a row we've seen manufacturing growth in this country. at the same time that we see it obviously weakening substantially in europe and retrenting even in parts of the emerging markets. we look at the va

but it's the campaign centric guest list that has our attention this morning. >>> and it's been 20 years since the first so-called year of the woman. this morning, how democrats are banking on woman candidates to hold control of the senate. it's thursday, march 15th, 2012, this is the "daily rundown" i'm chuck todd and the three hours tip-off to the ncaa tournament. >>> rick santorum is hoping the southern sweep finally gives him that clean shot at becoming romney's chief conservative challenger and he sure sounded like it yesterday. >> if we keep winning races, eventually people are going to figure out that governor romney isn't going to be the nominee. republican voters are overwhelmingly saying no. >> santorum has elm plambraced the candidate of evangelical voters. members of an evangelical church laid hands on him and asked him for prayers. >> one of my opponents recently said that it would take an act of god for me to win this primary. i agree with him. >> in the territory where 85% of the population shares santorum's catholic faith, he was put on the defensive about his statement t

-centric focus. think there is the potential that you could see a rise in yields. >> joe, you said buy calls and wells fargo. the stock is down today but up 4.5 since you made the call. today wells fargo said it's planning to expand into 20 international markets. >> one of the better names out there. management has not identified what the path is for 2012. on all the banks, i want to wait until i get friday's unemployment report before i do anything further. goldman sachs, which i bought last week, if it pulls back further, i'm going to add to that position. >> jb, were you going to say something? or are you just ordering a pizza on the other line? okay. i heard him like piping up in my ear. i don't know. next trade, yahoo an i had new ceo, scott thompson reportedly planning a massive restructuring of the company, includes thousands of layoffs. our next guest says he's making right move and a radical transformation is needed. ben shakter joins us now. >> a this is a company that has to do something.

it's ego-centric if that makes sense. he put duty, honor and country of the nation before his family so i almost consider that a strength and a weaknesses. i mean, as a working mother and wife, my husband works really hard too and it's hard to find balance but it's pretty clear and holly is clear the chief supported them and they have this wonderful marriage and established children. other weaknesses -- >> there may not be any. >> no, there are, there are. [laughter] >> i mean, i like to tease him that he doesn't really -- like i call him monodirectional, you know, not multifaceted and that's a joke, obviously, he's extremely well read. he reads a book a week and now he's into spy novels and it's kind of funny. but, you know, he doesn't like to do anything besides run and do p.t. and read and work and, you know, go out to dinner with holly. i don't know if that's a weaknesses but i feel like he could have more balance and learn to relax but at the end of the day it all comes down to his voice in his heads, results, boy, h

centric as far as an american perspective and as qaeda from the strategic, where peter's book is a 1000-foot level where we focus on a particular area i am at the 30,000 levels taking a look at everything that's happening and then kind of drilling down on why americans should care, meaning that cartels are operating more than 1000 u.s. cities either directly operating there. 90% of the illegal drugs consumed in the indymac are coming from mexico. even where i live, live just outside the st. louis area and you'd think okay st. louis has nothing to do with mexico but we are seeing a huge spike in overdoses of heroin. not in urban and bad neighborhoods. these are 19-year-old caucasian kids who are middle class, upper middle class who are smoking this black tar heroin in their own homes and it's coming from mexico. hub cities like denver and detroit and atlanta, the largest methamphetamine lab ever busted in united states was run by one of the larger drug cartels in mexico and they have a huge problem in gwinnett county. again, not just along the border. i take a look at the challenges pose

google from afar is my read is it's much more developer centric which has done amaze things for them. you look at the franchise they've created. and i don't have as good a read on facebook other than i think mark has done an unbelievably good job about the hacker mentality and i mean that as a complement. think about what needs to be done and just do it. that is unbelieve tblea valuable and that's one the on reasons facebook is today. those three companies have very different cultures. >> rose: what does it mean to have a billion users? >> that's a large number of people. i think when you, at that moment. >> rose: it's a big country, isn't. >> it's a big number. i think i can tell you what it means from an advertising service perspective which ultimately facebook is, which is it allows you to have the potential to talk to a lot of people at once. >> rose: especially when you know a lot about them. >> exactly. it's hard by the way to deliver highly effective advertising services. it's very few people have done it. but to have a billion users ultimately in the journey, that would be a v

. >> keith olbermann has made it much more point of view centric.s until i'm 125 years old. >> reporter: a personality now off the air once again. >> good evening. >> reporter: and replaced by another controversial figure, former new york governor eliot spitzer who resigned in december grace after admitting to hiring a prostitute. proving that in the world of television, there's often room for a caughtback. spi -- comeback. spitzer didn't meant his pr predecessor at all in his show. it's clear the legal battle won't be soon over. >> thanking. >>> prom dresses, how schools are issues new dos and don'ts of prom dresses right after these messages. tyranny of meager travel cards. battle speech right? may i? capital one is issuing a venture double miles challenge. show us how much you spent last year and we'll give you 2 miles for every dollar spent on your travel reward card. up to 100,000 miles! hawaii, here we come. claim your miles at capitalone.com today! what's in your wallet? can you play games on that? not on the runway. no. can you play games on

. >> obviously the app centric world has -- you look at mountain lion, the new operating system, apps are on the desktop. they already are but it's the way we interface. how much room for growth do you believe apple still has? >> i never think about it and i don't judge it. apple is on such a winning course because it has encapsulated all of its big products that i mentioned. they all work together so well that you are in -- if you buy a product from another company it doesn't do as much as the one from apple does. they have large room for growth. people talk about $1,000 stock price. i absolutely -- at first you want to doubt it but i actually believe that and i don't follow stock markets. >> reporter: $1,000, do you think it's possible? >> they have that much growth left. talking apple tv that works with these other great companies and produc products. it's not like a project we're going to start a company, we're going to start tv within the whole apple world assuming that we are going to. i don't know. >> that was brian sullivan speaking, of course, to exclusively with apple co-fou

the obama campaign and the white house have been romney centric. megyn: democrats are taking out ads against him. in florida they had a million dollar ad buy. >> reporter: they are romney folks. they are afraid he can take moderate voters away from him in suburbs of swing states. the president is maybe too smart on this. he's having a press conference today, yeah he may seal the line from romney. remember one that president obama does he often shoots himself in the foot by talking about henry louis gates and the cambridge police. megyn: we see him usually with a teleprompter. that was a shift from george w. bush. he wasn't so wetted to the teleprompter. there was a thought that this president got married to the teleprompter. you don't even remember the gaffes because it's been a longtime because he does use the teleprompter so often. the news conference he doesn't have a teleprompter. it's back and forth with the members of the media. the members of the media not eve enamored with the president as they once were before about. >> reporter: thatted h