we have overpromised and underdelivered. >> this is the private industry and the ceo is over there. we don't know where all the money has been going to. that ceo present company accepted would be out. >> we have never had a ceo that actually paid attention -- when i found out this was the case, it's unacceptable. you were talking about official cities. that's all sounds great, but what i'm wondering is, can you really articulate, can you really document that? >> yes, i have asked the same question. >> coming from the department wide perspective, not from an individual perspective. you say in this area over here we have got it. >> we can. >> you can? >> yes, we can. >> how do you do that without a department-wide audit. >> we were supposed to do $150 billion in efficiency savings and i asked this guy next to me, what are we doing to achieve those savings and they have laid out most of the areas where they're achieving savings. >> where you spend the money, bated on what you appropriated. they are not -- they need to be, but they're not. so that's what we can't do. we do know where we

said, i think -- i want to -- i would rather underpromise and overdeliver than overpromise and underdeliver since you've had a lot of that over the years in the wto context in particular. i think we should tap into the energy that i see in geneva today. i've been very gratified on this issue by the broad bipartisan support that has been expressed in washington. i've seen no distinctions whatsoever between republicans and democrats in terms of what they think about the -- the concept of promoting services liberalization. so -- so i think we should get to work, continue the work that's going on. there's a meeting this week, the next round of discussions among the experts that are involved in this services discussion. i should mention one very positive sign. we will be joined in the friends group this week by two new additional members. costa rica and peru, two developing countries, approached the group about participating. we're very happy to welcome them into the discussion. we view them very much as being like-minded in terms of countries that have a demonstrated interest in services libera

let me just pause here to say, however, that given assad's history of overpromising and underdelivering, that commitment must now be matched by immediate actions. we will judge assad's sincerity and seriousness by what he does, not by what he says. if he is ready to bring this dark chapter in syria's history to a close, he can prove it by immediately ordering regime forces to stop firing and begin withdrawing from populated areas. >> the bbc's jonathan head in istanbul explains what is now required from the assad regime for that peace plan to work. >> it has to meet the first two or three points of the annan plan, and those require an immediate pullback of its troops from towns and villages where it's been engaged in fighting for the last few months, also release political prisoners, freedom of assembly, all things that simply haven't happened in syria's history. these promises were made before. the arab league tried a similar deal last year, and admittedly, that didn't have the support of their key ally, russia. that may be the difference here. and there's no time table for this, how f

let me pause here to say, however, that given assad's history of overpromising and underdelivering, thatommitment must now be matched by immediate actions. we will judge assad's sincerity and seriousness by what he does, not by what he says. if he is ready to bring this dark chapter in syria's history to a close, he can prove it by immediately ordering regime forces to stop firing and begin with drawing from populated areas. >> well, our correspondent has been speaking to a spokesperson for syria's main opposition coalition, the syrian national council. she says the peace plan is promising and cannot be easily dismissed by president assad. >> we very cautiously welcome the acceptance. we've seen over the last year many such false acceptances, unfortunately, so we are skeptical, we are very cautious, but we believe that mr. annan has launched an initiative that cannot be dismissed easily by the regime. so we are watching very carefully to see if there is the beginning of some compliance by the regime on the ground, and if we see concrete results on the ground, then we will believe that th

they are overpromising and underdelivering. when allscripts reported on february 16th, they were up 26% year to year but below management's previous guidance. allscripts got bullish guidance the next quarter but at this point i'm getting skeptical. much of allscripts earnings growth came from cost savings this quarter and i didn't see enough organic sales growth like i did at cerner. cerner sells at 28% earnings. allscript sells at a paltry 14% earnings. it just looks cheaper because you get what you pay for. remember it's always worth paying up for the best of breed. i think it's clear it was wrong that i backed allscripts for too long. it's never too late to come in here and admit that you're off base. so tonight i'm blessing a buy of cerner. the mantra will always stay true for you. it's not about making friends. it's about making money. after the break i'll try to save you some money. >>> coming up, drilling for tech. where's the real innovation these days? cramer's looking for a new breed of tech stocks. tonight a slick oi

. >> given assad's history of overpromising and underdelivering, that must be matched by immediate actions will judge assad's sincerity by what he does, not what he says. >> well, words are cheap and we have heard so many lies from assad's regime in the last year. in november, they said they stopped -- they agreed to stop killing people and they said they would withdraw its troops from cities. that same week videos like this revealed that promise was lie. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> video shows government forces firing on protesters. again, we can't verify the video. or the others we're about to show you because syria restricts reporter's access. in february, three months after its promise to the arab league government, bashar al assad's forces did this. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> assad's forces shown here on a rooftop launching a big assault on homs. much of it was reduced to rubble. many described it as a massacre slaughter house. can't vouch for the voracity of this video. today president al assad toured for the first time since the siege. syrian state television posted

as typically the case, government overpromised and is set to underdeliver on the present path. >> can i go along with the catastrophic as way to start with the preventive, but with the nags henational healthcare budget and we're the only country that doesn't do that, how do you help get past the fear that every time this is talked about, the other side screams rationing. you see the whole thing with death panels that is total phony bologna but it takes a bite on democrats for trying to do something that you think is sensible. >> other industrialized nations are way ahead of us on this issue. we ration health care now, we just don't ration it rationally. so one of the things we have to do is we have to have positions involved in helping to determine standards of practice. both for pavement purposes as well as for a safe harbor malpractice litigation if you will. we can't afford for everybody to have whatever they want, irrespective of whatever it will meaningful improve or sustain life. there are ways to do it without premium support. but the simplest way is to use premium support. wel

the government, surprise, surprise, has overpromised and underdelivered. and the time to tell me that is now, not when i'm 65 and i can't make any more choices but today. i have divided this chart up into two categories what are our proposals for current seniors, and what are our proposals for future seniors? the president's plan -- it is important that we do keep our promises here. it's no senior's fault in this country that they are dependent on medicare. they paid into it their entire life through part a, medicare taxes and promised it would be there in their time of need. they didn't ask for it, the money was taken for it and now they deserve those benefits. here's what we do. . here's what we do, program coming to the floor of the house next week has absolutely no changes, no changes, mr. speaker, no changes for today's seniors. if you're on medicare today, no changes. no disruptions in our plan, mr. speaker. that service, it's already begun for you, it is going to continue uninterrupted for as long as you need to utilize the program. but the program'

this is just the latest in a suite of housing rescue plans that, frankly, have underdelivered.so much worse than anybody thought. there was something called half, you will remember that. it was designed to help 4 million people. it helped 910,000. there was something called harp, refinancing program. that was designed to help 5 million people. it actually helped about 962,000. so some people were helped but seriously not as many people as we had thought. what dan was saying at lowering the fees for an fha-insured loan, this could help people refinance into lower rates. that's something that's really important to putting money in people's pockets. but conservatives, people who oppose the president's housing plans will say, okay, we'll see if that works, too. carol? >> interesting. christine romans, many thanks. you will probably be listening to the president's speech that comes your way at 1:15 eastern time. cnn will carry that live. the president will outline more of his housing plan and there will lots of questions from reporters about iran, israel, and, of course, nuclear wea

is that a message that ron johnson is somehow going to underdeliver on his performs?se the attention being paid to how he'll do in the early days is incredible. >> absolutely. this is a name where expectations are exceptionally high. the bulls on this story will point to the fact that ron johnson and the new management team can drive positive comp store sales growth as early as the first year. so the next number we'll get out of jcpenney will be may 14th when they report first quarter sales and earnings. and we think that could serve as a disappointment. we estimate that right now jcpenney's comp store sales are running down low double digits to low to mid teens. so we think sales are underperforming expectations are. >> there have been a lot of very strong retail performers and a couple you cited and seemed to like. macy's being one of them. seems to be fairly in line with the group, at the same time t.j. maxx could also benefit. are there some areas in the space you think are just sort of great companies, but the valuations are getting a little bit rich compared to

but we've historically overpromised and underdelivered, and this is just another example of that. >> not against the concept. but we have to be reasonable about what we can afford and sustain. i mean, for example, take our current system under medicare. we have two voluntary programs under medicare which provide universal opportunity. and for the two voluntary ones, part b and d, 95% of eligible participants get a 75% taxpayer subsidy irrespective of their income and wealth. that's middle and upper income welfare. no wonder that system is going bankrupt. >> it's going bankrupt and everybody knows it. you look all around, look at the money we're spending, $1.2 trillion additional dollars with medicare, because of this plan. bush adds $7 trillion with the medicare drug benefit plan that's not paid for it. rick santorum supports that. i'm sure mitt romney supported it. romney has his romney care in massachusetts. it doesn't seem like there's a dime's worth of difference, to quote george wallace, between republicans and democrats when it comes to spending money. they all, mike, want to s

i fear underdelivering. they are getting people to buy the stock on a day where it looks like a dicy day. maybe people should be letting that stock go up here rather than taking it up prematurely. >> yeah. >> how do you factor in -- >> i know michael kors -- i don't want to jump the gun but the numbers were extremely good, same store sales. >> a 40% grower. rather amazing. >> 39% year over year comp store sales growth? that is unbelievable! >> it is the greatest growth story right now of our era. >> the bear case of michael kors in terms of valuation is in terms of opening too many stores and oversaturating the market. when you see 39% seam store sales growth you've got to think there's room to open some stores and it won't really dent the sales there. >> in fact, kors was saying in the press release they noted they're having problems getting orders out on time zblin credible. >> they built a new distribution facility to handle all the volume and they're having some issues getting all the orders out on time.