to this day, west point is still the father of west point because he's the one who puts it on much sounder and more systematic and that's very important because that's the army that will produce the generals of the civil war. that institution at west point will be where all these -- most of the more generous with their initial professional experience. >> host: the titleist west pointers in the civil war. who have regarded that were generous in the civil war? >> guest: in all honesty, most of the famous. sherman, grant, lee, hood. to give you a harder number, there are a few fitness, wade hampton for example. to get the sense of the numbers, two thirds of major generals involved are veterans of the regular army. the regular army is dominated by west point. the west point is about -- it not only must officers of the regular army graduate was going, it's just a focal point of much of the army's professionalism. when they do, for example, review boards for type x, these cadets as guinea pigs and they'll be -- to go to west point and how to march around and use the library. west point has the m

what two points one point is i think we need to clarify something thomas keeps asserting about these eighty six people the way the current legal system works every single detainee at guantanamo is entitled to a devious corpus review in front of the federal courts and any one of the federal courts as ordered released has been released by the government so these individuals that thomas keeps wanting described as innocent based upon the obama administration's review have had the opportunity to go in front of a federal judge and get an order requiring their release and failed to do so so suggesting that the court has concluded there is a legal basis to hold them so i think thomas overstates his case and then with respect to what charles is saying you know you're kind of out so now because i'm trying not to engage in the spanish i don't want to engage in or if you are you are you alone or your little level i think that i think let me finish please i don't want to get in this question as a political matter but i think it's going to be very difficult for any president whether it's obama or

at this point, m.i.t. says it's worked with multiple police departments in order to ensure the safety of m.i.t. campus and they swept the campus and searched for the shooter there before they moved on to watertown and now has returned to safety. >> so many people waking up. if you're just waking up and turning on. we'll take our time and recap this as we have a breaking situation where they're searching for a suspect. a manhunt right now. one suspect is dead and these two suspects, according to local police, are consistent with the photographs of the suspects from the boston marathon bombings. as you mentioned earlier, diana, this start would ed with an inct a local convenience store and then went to the m.i.t. campus. we have new video we have for you. i believe it is pictures of the shootout. let's listen in. >> you can hear the gunshots being fired. that is courtesy of wcvb. we don't know if this is close to the m.i.t. campus or later o e in watertown. but explosive s thrn from a car, u0 gunshots fir a

points for trying. >> okay. points for trying. budwei serks er., the new symbol for same-sex marriages is the equals sign. and bud, like a bunch of other advertisers came forward. now i'm going to give them a try because they were very smart. obviously, i think a gay audience is probably a little bit more on the target. why didn't they do it with overall budweiser? >> you're going to beat him up for that? >> no, no, no. it's a great thing. one of the proudest things in my career was in the early '90s, we were the first company with first commercial, we did the first commercial that showed two gay guys shopping for furniture. there had been no gays in advertising. and at the time, i got such vicious hate mail. and we've come such a great, long way that now these huge corporations. >> i love this. i hope the supreme court comes down on the right side of history. and we know that america's 54% for this. that's up 21% from ten years ago. this is going to happen. my point is why shouldn't businesses be on the right side of the marketing. >> some people

peter i would just yeah go ahead i would point out just a couple points first of all. the notion that somehow the iranian program is a return on investment made prior to the revolution is farcical they could easily choose other methods and do other things it's not cost effective there was recently a study done by a. and it pointed out the great amount of cost of the incurred upon the iranians to pursue the program whether or not it's civilian or military so the idea that that's the motivation behind it really doesn't stand the test it's pretty clear that iran could do certain actions and reduce tensions and that's really the question that if you're going to try to talk about the israeli arsenal my question the point is right. mohamed go ahead just say it i'm sorry it's going to go back to my home again yes i was going to say that i think it's obvious if anyone even googles they would know that the iranian nuclear program began well before the revolution and billions of dollars were invested in iran also busted in companies that enrich uranium in a company that enriches

a just a point behind. now basketball where tesco wrapped up two convincing victories at home to spanish side calibur all in the yearly playoffs to go within one win of reaching the semifinals michael graf janko reports. thank god came into the playoffs off the back of six trade victories winning their group in the top sixteen and taking home advantage into the last eight the opening two games in moscow were against spanish side. and in game one last wednesday it was sunny williams and millis told us it's who led the army men ending the game with nineteen and seventeen points respectively the visitors were given little chance in the first but rallied in the match and says cost twenty three points for that quarter and also cut the deficit by four in the fourth but it was too little too late to run out eighty nine to seventy eight when as. two days later the science resumed for game two with naming to pay back the hosts and they stormed into a twenty six points to twenty lead in the first quarter but says car

is that the whole point?> i think that's the point of life for a lot of women is finding a husband and having a family. and that's certainly what has brought me ultimate happiness is embarking upon that journey. but, you know, we pulled a little excerpt out. but we didn't read the broader context. she was saying just that. she was at a conference, she recognized women weren't asking about her career. they were asking about her finding a husband. they recognized that's what ultimate happiness is. >> well, you've got a career and you've got engaged this weekend. show the ring. >> there you go. >> so how did you decide you're going to do this versus go hard at the career? and you didn't do it in college, obviously. >> i'm doing both. i absolutely think you can do both. but feminists want women to believe you cannot be female if you only want to be a stay-at-home mom. and i think that's -- >> uh-oh. >> i mean, we gently disagree on this. i happen to agree with the part that women have the luxury now to pick whate

let's get to the point. >>> hi, everyone, welcome to the point. we will be here all week, and you already know the headlines. there's a lot to get to tonight. alicia? >> the ap has new wording around illegal immigration, i'm wondering, is this a tipping point for america? >> my point is about college kids that can't handle rejection. are we raising a generation of winers? >> no. >> yes. >> my point is about bill o'reilly. is same sex marriage dividing the gop? >> i hope so. >> my question is, why did it take so long to fire that rutgers coach. >> my issue is jay-z, is he america's greatest businessman? >> we're going to get to the top story of the evening, mark sanford who has won his runoff. the question is, is adultery becoming okay? have we totally forgiven adultery? or does it even matter any more. >> he cheated on his wife. >> where did he go again? >> he said he was hiking the appalachian trail, but he was in buenos aires. >> he made a moral judgment about who other people should be able to have sex with, who they should be able to love. and

simpson bowles cat food plan two point zero calls for two point four trillion in new savings over the next ten years through serious tax and entitlement reforms and cutting additional spending so what are the exact devastating cuts and reforms that simpson and bowles want to make in federal government spending. first they want to reduce medicaid medicare and medicaid spending in fewer and fewer elderly americans and poor americans over access to health care and medication next simpson and bowles want to enact comprehensive pro growth tax reform which is just a fancy way of saying we want to give corporations even more corporate tax breaks while jacking up taxes on working people of the two point four trillion in new savings in the simpson bowles cat food plan two point zero calls for nearly eight hundred billion of it comes from so-called tax reform finally as washed up corporate shills want to strengthen loans on discretionary spending and reduce non health mandatory spending which means cuts to things like social security higher education and farm subsidies just to name a few in oth

people don't know the full extent at this point. we're not giving out any numbers because that's just speculation and the people here deserve more than speculation. until we have hard numbers, hard facts, we're not going to give them to you. but we want you to hear their stories. we want you to hear what people are going through and people here want you to know what they're going through and the changed reality they're now living with and they will be living with for weeks and months and years to come. also tonight we have to tell you about all of the stuff happening out of boston. two of the most wanted men in the world tonight. the fbi released these images today of the boston bombing concepts. coming up, all the new developments. >>> we are getting details on breaking details on the shooting at massachusetts institute of technology. drew griffin joins us on the phone from boston with more information. what are you able to tell us? what's happening now? >> reporter: earlier this evening in m.i.t., the university which is literally

and they're working in the city or their politicians what's the breaking point at what point do you have like a poll tax write what point to people saying you know what you've lied to me about inflation you've lied to me about your objectives in q.e. you've stolen twenty percent of the country's g.d.p. you've a fine feathers a nasty financial terrorist without any legal recourse whatsoever i've had a. i'm going to revolt at were over we are now in england i suspect the breaking point is is much later than everywhere else when you know we used to have fantastic revolts in the days when they put people in that place behind that but how assaulting is it for the government to give people one p. off a beer. while the same time giving the city of london billions and billions of but that is the headline and that's what many people will notice and they won't understand what's happening to them but isn't that a bit and then what they think they turning the public like monkeys like here's a here's a banana you fricken monkey zookeepers take it all the real money i mean isn't that insulting i mean

we haven't hit that tipping point yet. >> this is a fantastic point. i urge everybody to read this article by the way. i put it on my twitter feed today. they talked about this doctrine, this county in alabama where one in four, one in four is on disability and this doctor said, there is no definition of disabled necessarily. right? yes, if you are actually disabled you're paralyzed but he's talking about things -- mood disorders you can go on disability for these days. he said often disability now is defined by what your degree is. if you have a high school diploma and can't sit at a desk and have to work at a manufacturing job if your back hurts you can't do that but you might be able to work at a desk. so really defining this in large part according to npr by how educated you are. it's a scary subject. >> an extremely scary subject. i think that what all that we're doing right now with the u.s. economy especially is incentivizing people to take advantage of programs like this. what is the incentive to try and enter a work force that is difficult to

the s&p needs to be up seven points.'re not in record territory for the s&p right now. >> just the dow. >> and united health care, one of those dow components really pushing the dow to that record level. that after the government said it will unexpectedly increase the payment rate for medicare advantage programs. which insurer could deliver the healthiest products for your portfolio. >> also, why free-market forces may be bringing the sky-high cost of college down, just as my kids have graduated. of course, you'll want to hear this story later on the "closing bell." stay tuned. an still help you see your big picture. with the fidelity guided portfolio summary, you choose which accounts to track and use fidelity's analytics to spot trends, gain insights, and figure out what you want to do next. all in one place. i'm meredith stoddard and i helped create the fidelity guided portfolio summary. it's one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. bjorn ear

at this point. it's going to keep them in play with their easing policies and keep the juices flowing for the equity market. >> how do you see that in terms of the trend? because we have seen some pretty good data points on the economic front. but are you expecting the bad news, so to speak, to be back loaded into the second half as we are facing the headwinds from sequester? >> the impact of sequester has been pretty minimal so far. >> right. >> and i think we're all wait to see if it has much impact. but the cyclical side of the economy is behaving pretty well. the interest sensitive side -- autos, housing, quite strong at this point. and so the real issue is this enough to overcome any impact from the sequester. so far the answer is yes. but we haven't had much impact from sequester. >> david, i'm of the belief and it's a structural job change that maybe 7 1/2% unemployment is the norm. companies have had three years where balance sheets have never been better. it's a higher focus than they have

we keep pointing fingers and as we point fingers, our children die. should we take these weapons of war off our streets? of course we should. we also should wipe the faces of these cowards off our television sets. let's have courage. we should unleash the mental health people so they can do what they need. people are dying. it's time to change and time for everybody to have the courage, 1/10 of the courage my son had when he did what he had to do in the theater and stand up and say you know what, i took control of the other pieces. it's time for the senators to stop playing politics fchl they don't, what we should do is put it to national referendums and let the people decide. they can't figure it out because they are too busy worrying about their next paycheck. >> they have the financial power of the nra to unseat them from their political offices which happened in the past. what do you say to the politician who is say i would love to vote for this weapons ban and it may cost me my job. >> i say if you have to do your job by lying, you need to get an

the dow has recouped the over 100 point decline, gaining 127 points right now.e in rally mode. lpl chief market strategist jeffrey klein stop says last week was a turning point for the markets. hopefully he will address with tracy and ashley as they walk into the studio. don't miss it. @ ashley: good afternoon, everybody, i'm ashley webster. tracy: i'm tracy byrnes. big gains for stocks but the market is on edge. the dow is now up, up about 11 points. it has -- 131 points. it has since bounced back. in the last hour it lost pretty much all of that in minutes on a bogus ap report about explosion at the white house. we'll look what those jitters say about the state of the this market coming up. ashley: outrage over faa furloughs and flight deys. lawmakers demanding answers from the white house. but those delays not stopping airline stocks from soaring. they're in the green today. we'll have all of that straight ahead. tracy: everyone is talking apple expected to report its first quarterly profit drop in 10 years. can apple do anything to stop the slide? we'll

that's the news coming out of pyongyang at this point and the dow down 130 points right now. we're at the lows of the afternoon. >> a decline of almost 1% on the dow jones and s&p. >> definitely keep an eye on all of that and keep you updated. also, we've got the names of five big dividend hikes that could happen any day now. four of them are dow components, which could be a bullish sign for this market. we'll see, coming up. >> also, environmental safety concerns. the biggest roadblock to developing massive amounts of oil and gas in many states. now former treasury secretary paul o'neill speaks out. he's leading the charge to ensure this kind of drilling operation is safe. why that could spark an economic boom in the united states. [ all ] fort benning, georgia, in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy. get an auto-insurance quote. usaa. we know what it

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as fifty five point seven percent portugal is at a seventeen point five percent with new unemployment at thirty eight point two percent and greece is at twenty six point four percent of this is a december figure that's the latest that the country has with you know unemployment is this high is fifty eight point four percent now looking at the other end of the spectrum the lowest rate is austria with four point eight percent and germany at five point four percent of the look at just the greece that continued in face of the unemployment rate in the years on this is the twenty second fiddle role certainly that this law goes well for the future of the euro zone if you're young and also the impact of the economy the certainly be felt up consumers a lot by the sweatshop assumption has gone down and also fewer jobs indicate to tell you where the circumstances in such a certain industries a small small and medium sized enterprises and of course an increase in those claiming unemployment benefits would mean a heavier burden on government coffers when it comes to social welfare but aside from th

>> interesting point.on monday and set these markets are so vulnerable. gold prices have been plunging. oil prices on the client. then you get this added sense of fear in the marketplace. you get a lot of liquidation. we are certainly seeing that happen right now. there is a high incidence of fear on the trading floor right now. i would definitely say that. connell: thank you sandra. sandra smith in chicago for us. dagen: we go back to nicole petallides for a deeper look. you are talking about winners earlier. nicole: there are some winners on lawsuit. they are tougher to find today. we are seeing broad-based selling. more of the sensitive sectors such as energy and industrials and technology are really under pressure. there is the dow for you. down about 1%. just moments ago i checked the s&p 500487 names are selling off. the imf cutting its forecast for this year and next year. we are seeing europe selloff. once again, people are talking about this suspicious package in d.c. concerns about what is going

now down 214, 215 points. and we're watching this selloff to see whether it intensifies as we go to the close, if people want to get away from this market and not be long into the night or whether they start to see the buy on dip mentality that has been the hallmark of this market the last few months. that'll be critical to see this final hour. >> at this point it feels like it is worsening. at no doubt there will be a level investors view as a buying opportunity. we're at lows of the afternoon as we approach this final stretch about an hour before the closing bell sounds. we're looking at high quality, dividend payers, global names among the big leadership groups on the downside today. >> dow down 1.4%. nasdaq and s&p down like amounts at this hour. in fact, the nasdaq lately has been the leader to the downside. now down over 2% at this hour. and the s&p is down 1.8%. now, two key charts to follow in this final hour. the dow as we mentioned, you saw that down 216 points. but look at the price of gold now down

that day, we finished down 138 points. and now today, the economic data seems to be seeping into the story as well with the jobless claims a little higher than anticipated. we're down 109 points and a decline of 2.4% for the week so far. bob pisani, how are things shaping up right now? >> a very delicate moment. two days this week, 90% of the volume to the downside on heavy volume. right now we're sitting essentially at the lows of the day. dow just broke down below 100 points, as you can see, sitting there, and the volumes picked up a little bit. heavy volume, downside day, three days, not what you want to see. big marquee names have been mauled this week. but it's not just apple, look at a name like caterpillar. we're at the lowest levels since july on caterpillar. there's the three-month chart. that stock also sitting at the lows for the day. the big story today is going to be ibm. it is one of the reasons the dow is so weak is ibm is down so much. it's at the lows for the day. heavy volume, of course, we'll get earning

the s&p needs to be up 7.18 points and it's up 6.64 points. there's the s&p.all-time high territory a few minutes ago, and we'd heard that the bias was to the upside of the close. but those buying orders were matched by some sell orders, obviously. they were traded off and we're heading lower here into the close. so we're up 6.5 -- yeah, 6.5 points on the s&p, but it doesn't look like it's enough for an all-time high. but we will have that for the dow jones industrial average. terry dolan joining me right now. this market doesn't want to quit. >> sure doesn't. i'll tell you, it's indicative of the fact that the rally's in tact. yesterday's turnaround reversal, i figured today would be a follow-up day, which we saw. the question is, what now? i tend to think we've got to play it a little bit to the sell side here. but we've been doing that for week after week after week. it's not a question of being short, necessarily, it's more of a question of being nimble. maybe making some lightning up positions, maybe getting ready to reposition. but this market seems endl

and the whole point of the piece was about the church.here is the church when it comes to these issues. why aren't they out there fighting. there are conservative groups and christian groups who are out there fighting for the supreme court across the land. but you don't see the church as a whole in fact fighting. and that was -- what i was talking about. >> we're both catholics. and the reality is, the majority of catholics, 54-34% are actually in favor of same-saex sex marriage. so maybe the church is going where the flock are going, moving at the same speed america is moving. and it just struck me that when the republican party is trying to reposition itself as a more, i don't know -- a more tolerant party, if you like. for you to come out as ronald reagan's son, very respected man, and say what you said. and let's read it again so i can be precise about this. it's ultimately about changing the culture of the entire country. it will inevidently lead to teaching our public school kids that gay marriage is a perfectly fine alternative and

we were down as much as 189 points. off the lows on word that progress was being made in the investigation up there, but as you can see, we're sort of moving sideways here. it looks like we're probably going to end right around this area. take a look at the key story today, which i still believe is commodities, because traders have been saying commodities are at new lows. i'm talking copper, aluminum, nickel. that's telling a global growth slowdown story. people have been wondering, who's right. for a moment, it looks the commodity market has been right. take a look at some sectors we've seen here. technology, a tough day, apple's been down, finance has been down, because bank of america has been down. so it's not just the commodity story here as well, some disappointments on the bank earnings, energy, industrials, materials also on the weak side. commodity countries, and this is another way you can look at this, there's peru, brazil, canada, australia, south africa, these are all exchange-traded funds you can buy, all

at this point. we'll see where things go. yesterday, stocks rose for a fourth straight day. yesterday, though, stocks were up for the fourth straight day. and this is a pretty key level. the nasdaq actually finished the session at a 12-year high. 31% of the s&p 500 hit new 52-week highs yesterday. all three major stock indices had their best four-day winning streak since the fall. over the last four days alone, the dow is up 2.1%. the s&p is up by 276% and the nasdaq is up by 3% and, joe, all of this comes even while we had some really lousy economic numbers, it got kick started by that jobs friday on friday that showed a disappointing gain for 88,000 jobs or the month of march. yesterday, the jobless claims number that came in was a lower number than expected, a big drop of 42,000 from last week. so when you get good news -- you get bad news, it goes up. you get good news and the stock market goes up once again. >> which is characteristic of bull markets, either bad or good. but, you know, we talke

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>> a great point, great point, good story.. >> sure. >> thank you, girl. >> thank you. a quarter til, and time for stocks as we do at this moment of the day. heading down to the new york stock exchange, we are joined with the latest on what's happening with the markets. dow down 156 points. why cowe go through this up-down, up-down, keith? >> there's a lot of gyrations in the market because there's a real war in the streets, if you will, between the bulls and bears and who seizes control based upon the latest news and data and economic data or noises out of the federal authorities or the central banks armed the world. that's what we see now. the bottom line is that we are seeing deterioration in the price action inside the market, and that's troubling here. we crossed through a couple real key technical levels. >> there the earnings we're seeing just not living up to what wail street expected? is that what's pulling it down? >> the bigger problem this quarter is everybody expected the picture was not great for the first quarte

>> that is an excellent point*. not to go so far that washington did access so we should do that today but i think the more humble approach where washington was meant to be the commander it is important to look for anyone who believes in democracy become as with the preamble of the constitution it does not say congress nor to for a more perfect union it was it was formed by the the people so it is important when we look at these provisions to see what we thought when we were enacting article ii, section ii. then fast forward to today a lot change. you mentioned how torture was used for reprisal but now we switch to more individualized system of justice. it is an important starting point* for these investigations and there is some debate how long you should wait but it is important precisely because major players believe so. look at the washington d.c. heller decision where the supreme court, both sides are using historical arguments to decide these cases. it is alive and well and important to look at this history of

>> look, the points are true except that you can't get from point a to point b.he special interest groups are groups like home owners and people with kids and people money in an ira. what makes it complicated are the variety of deductions, and that's a complexity and to remove them, especially in the short run, would probably destroy the economy, eventually. >> oh, come on, jonas. >> and couldn't allow it, but take the home mortgage deduction and imagine they took it away, in the long haul, it's a good idea and lead to 20, 30%-- >> and okay, let's think about what he's saying, too, and i'm playing devil's advocate. 40% of americans don't pay taxes and we overload the system, they're paying. >> tracy, you're right and that's actually the biggest problem of our system, i mean, you can't have a society where 20% of the people essentially pay all of the taxes and 50% pay literally zero, but we're sharing this stuff, the welfare state and everything else, this idea, the only people that are going to get hurt are the lobbyists and the tax attorneys, we're not living to

"starting point" begins right now. >>> in our "starting point" this morning outrage over the video showingrs university basketball coach mike rice physically and verbally abusing players at practice. he's seen grabbing, shoving, even kicking players. he's hurling basketballs at them from point-blank range, including really at their heads. he's shouting obscenities, including gay slurs. >> here's the thing, this coach was suspended for three games after the school's athletic director looked at this tape. this was last fall. coach wasn't fired, suspended three games. now flash forward four months, rutgers is reconsidering that decision and cnn's pamela brown is following these developments for us. the video tells the story here. >> no matter how many times you see that story it makes you shake your head in absolute shock. rutgers university officials are facing some tough questions this morning, on why they didn't fire rice after learning of the allegations last summer, and then seeing the video several months ago, as pressure mounts for further action, many people including some nba stars a

dow jones lower by, not much, 2 points, call it flat. s&p down 6 points. a decline of 0.4%. nasdaq down by 20 points. 3269. we'll talk about amazon. it's one of the reason yes. here's what we're following on "halftime." saving face. facebook may be down 30% from its ipo but one annual cyst out with a bold, bullish call today. find out why he says the stock is a strong buy and heading back to its issuing price. finally. >>> takeover targets. a five-star fund manager reveals the names of three big consumer stocks he says are prime for some good old m&a. first our top story, the earnings letdown. bottom lines continue to disappoint this quarter with amazon the latest victim. look at all these guys who just didn't make the numbers when it comes to top line revenue. this trend turning into a bigger problem for the overall markets. we're trading all the big movers today. let's get the trades you need to know. pete, what do you think? is this an opportunity today or does this make you nervous? >> every time we sell off, i think at it as an opportunity. i looked into the housing sec

i might add this is the same point. there is also an extraordinary amount of humility displayed as to the law of nations. so even when he would be delegated discretion by the continental congress, there's a wonderful treatment and the caricature we all have of plunder is in 18th century armies did. and please correct me, i'm more than one with executing people to engage. in other words, taking food, property, et cetera, et cetera. this is not only where he was authorized by the continental congress and did not, but in deference to what he considered what the law of war should be. so i think that is very remarkable in the first remarkable thing about his account, which i think i'll just understand the original meaning of the commander-in-chief clause the country has changed, more has changed. second point, which i also think it's interesting that if you are the commander-in-chief, washington provides the first example and it will be followed by subsequent commanders of the inherent dynamism that comes with being the comm

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little over 4 points. let's talk earnings news. just a moment ago, we got news on dow component united health. it was helped by strong enrollment growth as well as higher profit margins at its optum pharmacy unit. >>> nokia reporting smaller than expected loss. the revenues fell short. shares there falling sharply on that news this morning. you're seeing that trading up -- up almost -- more than 10% now this morning. and that's the benefit of a roller coaster. >>> auto nation announcing first quarter results. earnings results. that's the exact same thing. earnings or results, take your pick. joining us, the owner and owe, mike jackson. mike, how are you? >> joe, good morning. i'm happy to say we had the first quarter ever. earnings per share of 68 cents, a 21% increase year over year driven by a 12% improvement in revenue. up to 4.1 billion. and every part of our business improved with customer care up 6%. vehicle sales up 9%. a very satisfying result. also what i liked is some of the bright spots that we

to point. but all you see are happy people, brian. until today. >> and of course, mike, now they've shut down the t which is the boston subway system. now you have all these visitors, some, a lot from overseas i, bu many from all over the country. this man in the still picture from the "boston globe" staff, think of just his story. by nature this means he finished just an hour off the elite finishers and think how hard and the meaning of this in his life. he ends up being a wounded victim of an explosion at the finish line of the boston marathon. >> brian, you never had to be there to see the winners finish. it didn't matter what time you got to copley square. all you saw were happy people crossing the finish line. and then in the outlying parts of that, you see them with, you know, some kind of cover on, happy, tired people. not running away from this finish line like they did today, but walking and trying to find friends and family. on this day when everybody was trying to find friends and fa

at no point it time. when i say jack abramoff dupe me, i'm referring to one thing, when jack abramoff told indian tribe that ney wanted to take the trip. i didn't have to do this. that part of it i have issues with jack abramoff. that's where i use the part about duping. >> i want to be carol how i -- careful how i say this, when i read your book and you go into so much more detail on what we've been able to cover here. i thought may be a shower might be useful. not thinking about you but thinking about this town. how much of this goes on to this day? more than anything that we haven't talked are all the staff abusing their privileges behind the scene. >> jack abramoff and i will agree on one thing if he was sitting here today. everything we did is on steroids now. may be the trips are stopped but everything is on steroids. they can do all kinds of things up here. the power games, the money games. everybody on hill knows what i say is true. you want to be a chairman, you have to raise that money. you have