up in chicago and aside from the emotion and we've seen that here in washington, our new nbc/wall street journal" poll numbers show 50% of the country supporting tougher gun laws. those are just the numbers. washington full of emotion on gun control. senator joe manchin with families from the newtown, connecticut school shooting. >> i'm a parent. >> reporter: the first lady talking to students about the tragic shooting. hadiya pendleton. >> i used them to use their lives to give meaning to hadiya's life. >> reporter: and on capitol hill, victoria desocietdesoto, . december 14, 2012. newtown, connecticut. >> reporter: later this morning we'll see if a threatened filibuster will stop or slow down a vote on democrats gun bill but a more likely deal struck by democrat joe manchin and republican pat toomey would expand background checks to include gun shows and online sales. >> to me this isn't gun control this is common sense. >> reporter: that deal also includes ease restrictions on interstate gun sales and shielding sellers from lawsuits if the gun they sold legally if later is used in a crime. >>

host: louise radnofsky, health policy reporter for "the wall street journal." it is tax season. the "washington journal " we'll look at the iressa. and overseasdoes and what your taxpayer -- what your tax dollars -- what the and what and oversees your tax dollars pay for. ♪ anna harrison whose husband dies after a month in office. letitia tyler would become first lady as her president assumes the presidency. julia tyler becomes the president second wife. >> j is the madonna of first ladies. -- julia is the madonna of first ladies. .he posed as a model she was known as the rows of long island. she was bewitching. she bewitched john tyler. he married her. she loved being first lady. who ordered tyler the marine band to play "hail to and who greeted her just sitting on a raised that form -- raised that form. she receded to the queenly role that martha washington rejected. questionsude your and comments about the first ladies by phone, face up, and twitter each -- facebook and twitter tonight. will reducester , whichnts by about 5% equates to $22 million orders though, which will be

>> guest: at some point i joined the staff of the wall street journal editorial page. that would have been the beginning of 1977, actually. c-span: a democrat on the staff of the wall street journal editorial page? >> guest: i didn't tell them. it was something that was also done through friends. irving kristol, who was an old friend and a very dear one, knew that there was an opening on the editorial page, and i just trundled right in there not knowing what i had gotten myself into. those years were years of great activity at the editorial page, partly because supply-side economics was taking shape there. i don't know much about economics, and i was not part of that, but i sat at a desk next to this fellow jude wanniski who was always on the telephone promoting this idea of supply-side economics. but i, of course, knew this would go nowhere just like i knew richard nixon would survive watergate. c-span: and jude wanniski is credited with starting the whole thing? >> guest: he is one of those. certainly he was the chief publicist of supply-side economics during those ye

last week we saw "the wall street journal" report on a new example of this, when a political intelligence firm here in washington sent a tip to its clients that there was a change coming in the way medicare and medicaid pay out benefits. that caused a spike in health insurance stocks. take a look at this chart. and what you'll see is within about 15 minutes of that information going out to the clients, those stocks spiked. that has got senator chuck grassley upset. he says it's unfair, because the people who got the information ahead of time got an unfair advantage and he was grilling today the head of medicare and medicaid. take a listen to the exchange. >> wrong and quite possibly illegal and i hope you agree that ultimately you're responsible. what are you going to do to hold somebody accountable for this

that is "the wall street journal." here's a picture in "the financial times" of margaret thatcher who passed away monday. -- 1925-2013. this was in a beach in southeastern india yesterday. wall street journal" reporting on the details of next week's london funeral. of the body of mrs. thatcher, the longest-serving british prime minister the last century will travel to cathedral in a carriage by horses, and it will be lined with military personnel as what are expected to be huge clouds. attendees will include the queen and her husband, writes philip, as well as british prime minister david cameron and a host of other well-known figures from public life, including some who worked with mrs. thatcher and others who served in politics and also present would be friends and family, including two to be all children or grandchildren. it is not yet clear which foreign heads of state might attend. that is "the wall street journal" reporting on the funeral. ron in eagle river, wisconsin. democratic caller. what are your thoughts? s

pulitzer prizes -- liz: okay, but then do you think that the right side of the op-ed page of the "wall street journalfects "the wall street journal" reporting? i don't know if that's the right word. >> reporter: it was always as a newspaper reporters were too liberal and the editorials were too conservative, and they never would even stare each other in the eye. liz: dennis kneale, thank you very much. we are watching this closely. the closing bell ringing in 15 minutes. is the market running out of steam, or will it keep chugging like the little engine that could? dan veru says he expects more highs on the horizon. and, by the way, he's picking three brand new stocks. his last picks were sheer winners. stay tuned, he's going the tell you some names. coming up. ♪ ♪ we went out and asked people a simple queion: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed: the official retirement age. ♪ the q

was there in >> so i said to her you should come to the "wall street journal" and i called the editor of the "wall street journal" -- >> interviewed her and said good idea. >> and nobody was covering the internet and when i got hired one of the media reporters said to me "you'll be covering c.d. radio." like it's a fad. and i thought it's not a fad. it's going to be big. the kids seem to love it. >> a few years later we would go to the same tech conferences, we thought we could do a tech conference better. so we sold it to them and we've done pretty well. we sold the yld to the "wall street journal". >> we really wanted to do the blog but they didn't know what the word meant at the time so that was hard. >> did you alternate writing the sfwlog >> i run the news part and walt contributes his reviews and stuff like that. >> how about this? jeff bezos, larry page, cook, i think probably, and -- who am i missing? >> we've had them all. >> everybody you just mentioned -- >> rose: i want them there together. >> you want them on one panel? >> we had a computeer -- >> rose: i want them going

i think it was the "wall street journal." out there looking into it say it is a big cash cow. a winner for sure. >> this is what scares me. a lot of lawyers i know who borrow money to pursue a case. say they have cases against a drug company so they borrow three, four, $5 million. the problem isn't the case is as subtle as quickly as they thought, interest rate starts racking up on the money the lawyer borrowed in the lawyer has a tendency to settle a case to cheaply to pay f the debt. and that is not fair to the client. melissa: they have more money coming into finance that. >> we don't do this at my firm. it is my money i put into the case. but if i have somebody coming in to say i will loan you all the money you want, all of a sudden i am playing with house money and i can play bigger than i can afford. melissa: we have average investors watching who want to make money, is there anywa any o get in on this yet? i know wall street hedge funds and bigger banks put tether funds to do this. anyway for the regular guy to do this

i would strongly urge her in the future to take the effort that she put into the "wall street journalp into a marketing campaign and resubmit her application. instead of just complaining about it on the pages of "the wall street journal." >> what he she complains about is how other people market themselves which is in a lot of cases a falsehood. >> colleges market themselves as -- >> we're in a hyper competitive marketing here, and you have got to market yourself in the work force, you've got to do it in college and this is an early lesson and failure that probably will go on to make her an extraordinary -- >> and for the rest of your life, always applying for a job with 1,000 other applicants. you've got to distinguish yourself. >> that's exactly why i had such a big problem with this whole thing. people are going to be googling her for the rest of her life. and even if she, you know, grows up and matures and no longer thinks that diversity is stupid, she will still have that attached to her google search results. but she'll end up with a book deal and reality show. >> but we have to

in 2008, the wall street journal published an analysis with findings that a number of banks submitted significantly lower borrowing costs for libor than other market measures such as credit default. and during that period we were estimating that it could be as high as 30 basis points. and then what we're calling the late financial crisis is between the period 2009 and '10 where libor continued but to a lesser degree. because this was after the wall street journal report where it was discussed publicly so it's been advised here that the manipulation was to a lesser degree and as a result the impact was reduced by 10 to 20 basis points. in march 2011 reports began to circulate that the u.s. department of justice, securities exchange commission, and the commodities future tradings commission had launched investigation in the libor setting banks to investigate libor. >> supervisor avalos: that is the extent of what we believe was the duration of the manipulation that -- the city or do you think we can go further than 2007? >> i think the reports have been clear that it started in 2007. i

there is breaking news it seems that carl icahn according to sources of the wall street journal is backingf any interest in helping to acquire dell. earlier blackstone said not interested now according to "the wall street journal" and as those battles and fights backing down and the stock plan will that at 1340. and then going back down to the bottom. back from a 90 point* plus deficit. a 95 point* swing we hold on for the last few minutes. can we? we are watching every tick of the way. . .. this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day afr day... block the acid with prilosec c and don't g heartburn in the first place! [ malennouncer ] e pill eachmorning. 24 urs. zero heartbur bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage. luckily, he found someone who gave him a fresh perspective on hisortfolio. and with some plannining aneffort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it's not rocket

nbc news/wall street journal poll showing president obama's job approval rating has fallen below 50%. more than two-thirds support a pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers. >>> anthony weiner is eyeing for run for new york city. he resigned after being cut in a sexting scandal. >>> and no leftover money from his failed campaign to sarah palin. the unspent $1.3 million was put in an account for future mcclain political runs >> the official dedication ceremony will be held next month. >> rand paul delivered a speech at howard university wednesday where he was again put in the spotlight over civil rights. >> i've never waivered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act. the dispute, if there is one, has always been about how much of the remedy should come under federal or state or private purview. >> you might remember the issue dog paws ultimately successful 120 senate campaign. the group mayors against gun violence targeted florida senator marco rubio. it slams rubio saying his presidential ambitions make florida less safe. >>> and joe barton citing the old testam

according to "wall street journal" the world's largest household products company aiming to pay its billss. "wall street journal" reports that could preup -- free up as much as $2 billion in cash. that's the latest from the fox business network, giving you the power to prosper. lori: we do have more breaking news from fox 25 in boston. investors have identified a suspect believed to be responsible for the boston marathon bombing and that an arrest is imminent. so the details of this story developing rapidly. we've got a close eye on it. we'll bring you all the latest developments of course. melissa: will he or won't he cooperate? that is question being debated in hedge fund business as government officials move forward with their insider trading case against former sac capital portfolio manager matthew march toll la. charlie gasparino has the latest on this one. >> i can't say whether he will or won't, when you talk to government officials involved in the famous case involving matthew march toma, trading on information on drug stocks and allegedly involving steve cohen. there was a conver

the wall street journal is reporting that apple could release an iphone 6 as early as this summer. the journal quotes a source that says the next generation phone will be similar in shape and size to the iphone 5. the sources went on to say that apple is continuing to develop a less expensive iphone, destined for developing markets. apple declined to comment. a small airline wants passengers to "pay as they weigh." samoa air is catching flack for its pricing structure. flyers pay based on their weight per kilogram, along with the weight of luggage. the rates range from $1 to $4 per kilogram. the airline's ceo chris langton defends the structure, calling it the "concept of the future." the annual list of the best and worst states to make a living is out, and this year moneyrates.com ranks washington, virgina, and colorado as the best places to live and work, while rhode island, mississippi, and hawaii ranked last. the findings were based on wages, unemployment, cost of living, environment and state tax rate. hbo series "game of thrones" has attracted a record number of scene-stealers

and in the wall street journal editorial there is this about north korea -- that's according to the walltreet journal editorial board. ray in illinois, independent. back to our question -- what is next in gun control legislation? caller: good morning. i'm a retired history teacher. a lot of things people are talking about would not have stopped any type of shooting. you have to understand that when the second amendment -- actually, the first 10 amendments of the u.s. constitution was added to the constitution we had just finished fighting a war with the king of england. and everybody was scared of standing armies. that's why after the american revolution we had the american legion, a grand total of about 7000 men. but the thing of it is our frontiers were expanding. everybody needed a fire arm. another thing is when you are talking militia, one of the things that people have to understand is that in many of the state constitution's there is the statement as to who the militia is. i am in illinois. article 12 of the illinois constitution states that all persons residing within the state o

her talks appear to fizzle more details on that inside "the wall street journal."usan, good morning. caller: how are you doing? host: fine, thank you. caller: we are barely out of iraq, ramping up in north korea. at this time it is time for new taxes. they need to be based on wealth. this will allow us to drop the taxes on corporations. host: ok. caller: thank you. host: thank you for the call. joe, highland park, new york. independent line. caller: i would like to correct two of subjects. you had a guest a couple of night -- a couple of days ago talking about jobs and the economy. i wanted to make the point of cause and effect. this did not happen by accident. this was not a natural disaster, this was orchestrated. it was intended to happen. wantedreet decided they cheap labor and more profits. they were not satisfied being millionaires, they wanted to be billionaires'. let's send those jobs overseas. we look around and wonder why there is no jobs. but they did not stop there. they decided to bring in an illegal immigrants. now people wonder where the jobs went? i

the wall street journal reports that the concern is with "attach pins" that may have been improperly manufactured. if the pins fail, it can cause pilots to lose control of an aircraft. the directive was not a result of any accidents caused by faulty pins. the inspections are not expected to affect flight schedules, but could spell added trouble for boeing, which is still trying to get its dreamliners back in the air. two big-name retailers are denying compensation to victims of a factory fire where workers were making garments to be sold by the retailer. the controversy involves wal-mart and sears. a fire erupted at a bangledesh clothing factory in november, killing 112 workers. according to published reports, the two companies ignored a meeting to discuss payouts to help victims and their families. bloomberg reports both companies have said the suppliers used the factory without the permission of walmart and sears, and that the retailers are not legally required to help them. hiring is up at foxconn, and it's viewed as a hint the next apple iphone is in the works. according to repor

take a look at this new nbc news/wall street journal poll. while 55% of respondents are in favor of stronger laws on firearms sales, that's actually down from 61% from just a month ago. the poll shows 82% of democrats are in favor of stricter gun laws while only 27% of republicans feel the same way. >>> turning now to the debate over immigration reform. tens of thousands of immigrants and activists turned out for a nationwide rally calling on congress to approve measures that would give 10 million immigrants a pathway to citizenship. at the same time it appears a bipartisan group of senators made progress on a bill that would do just that. but only after the nation strengthens its policies on our border. senator john mccain addressed the issue at a committee hearing yesterday. >> how many people cross the border. how many people do we apprehend or turn back? that allows us to -- >> have you developed metrics or not? >> we have, sir. >> you have? >> yes, sir. >> you have? >> yes, sir. >> and we're using them? >> we are at the tactical and the

and a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows that almost two-thirds of men and women agree. when it comes to having a career and family, most women can't have it all without making a lot of sacrifices. among women 55 and older, 68% said having it all comes at a price. among 18 to 34-year-old women, 60% agreed. >> i think my generation has created a misperception. >> reporter: deborah is the president of barnard college, an all-women school in manhattan. she says that her students will need to redefine exactly what success means. >> if you just look over the past 50 years there was certain expectations around women in terms of being good mothers, good wives. we have added a set of expectations about being good athletes and being good career women but we didn't get rid of the older expectations. >> reporter: back at home, denise jeffries says she still believes she can have it all. >> purple cat. >> reporter: -- or enough to give her children all they need. michelle franzen, nbc news, new york. >>> when we come back in a moment, a grandchild for a former president. >>> for kob

officer at pinto, joins us with a warning call in today's wail westbound lane" -- today's "wall street journal" end-ed. the dow and s&p i hitting new intra-day highs. >> record, record, that is the day we are seeing here on wall street with the dow and s&p 5 # -- 500 hitting all time record high intradays here. the dow at -- the nasdaq at a multiyear high. the nasdaq up 1%, not quitting, traded as high as 14825. we got the fed minutes. obviously, that was a big deal showing the fed is ready to continue money printing and bond buying helping to keep markets alive. that's been supporting this market, also, look here at tech joints doing well. as we said, the tech -- nasdaq up 1.8% and ibm shares on the rise, ubs raised ibm to a buy, cisco, ibm, hp, microsoft doing so well, and there they are for you. a lot of up arrows. melissa: great day for making money. nicole, thank you so much. lori: politics in play today. president obama up vails his budget taking aim at spending as well as retirement accounts. itch -- rich edson on capitol hill for us. >> democrats applauded the president's budget, and r

all right, turning now to the focus of what we're doing today, our brand-new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, the president's mini honeymoon is over. the right track number has dropped for the third straight survey, down to just 31% of the country thinking the country's headed in the right direction. the president's job rating is under 50% for the first time since october. it's dropped for the third survey in a row, down to 47%. his handling ton economy, his approval rating there, sits at 47%. on foreign policy, he's at 46%. that's the lowest approval number on that issue that we've ever recorded for him and the president's 47% positive personal rating is at a one-year low. on the sequester, most people say it hasn't impacted them at all. just 16% say the sequester cuts have had at least quite a bit of impact on their own pocketbooks. but there is fear out there, when asked if sequester would harm the economy as a whole, 47% believe that it will. we tested the country's feelings on some 2016ers and it turns out there's hillary clinton and then there's everybody else. clinton has the hi

>> my opinion is it's the certain signature i'reports, "wall street journal," abc news cnn and on thathere -- the police areking at this as a sophisticated device wnot precisely internet plans that76 magazine. if that's the case, there's a master bomber out there. if there is a master bomber is he in bag dag aastan or ishe's in the united states there's chance he could strike again. i'm waiting an fbi age thing was. >> soviewed a cabdriver. he picked up the tsarnaev brothers he department homeland security officials have interviewed him and are reportedly taking his story seriously, he picked them up the day before the in massachusetts. they had two knapsacks which he held at one point and said it was heavier than he thought and drove them close to their home in cambridge. i suspect that the and other officials, law enforcement community, are following up that clue but that might suggest that the bombs werenearby malden. what would you make of >> i thiher out there practicing with the firing devices, or they pic i heyad be carrying them to rural massachusetts,"j outside of town. it jus

the wall street journal said it may have been as high as five. joining us on the phone is ann, a reporter for wgbh boston and was there covering the marathon and the ground below her started to shake from the explosions. i'm sorry about what happened today. our thoughts and prayers to all the people in boston. tell us what happened at that moment. >> thanks very much, sean. it was a beautiful day, a great festive mood at the marathon. i had been covering it a couple hours and walking a block north when i heard a very, very loud noise like a cannon, and i felt the ground shake. i turned. a colleague of mine that was with me decided to go and investigate to see maybe if the grand stands had fallen down. but then as he walked away, a second boom happened and we saw a huge cloud of smoke. we didn't actually see bodies but we heard very, very loud screams. at that point we started running away from the finish line. >> there were so many horrible descriptions of limbs and body parts all over the place. were you there up-close to see what happened? >> t

journalismce of that, with minor editing, ought to have run in the wall street journal. journal's loss that she felt too constrained to offer it to editors like me, and it is the world's loss that her message had to be spread as if it were contraband furtively shared by insiders rather than a vivid depiction of events that deserved widespread attention and acclaim. when fassihi and i talked a few months ago, i asked her how she now views that email from baghdad, eight years later. things what she said, have changed a lot. i didn't have a direct audience as you have now with twitter, facebook and blogs. now the conversation becomes public. you're much more conscious that whatever you say is not private. there's something about technology there's an intimacy to it makes you forget it's a public domain. you mistake it for a conversation with a friend. and as for the email itself, she says this, though it was difficult, i don't regret it. as a journalist, ultimately what you try to do is have impact. you try to get people to see things in a different way. my email succeeded i

large national brands, wall street journal, "new york times", ft guardian, international brands, doing pretty well because if you're an english language paper, the second and third world, in addition to the first world, is hatching customers for you everywhere. and because you don't need a truck or a printing press to get with them, you can start accessing those people. the other part of the business doing very well is if you're the kind of paper where people will tear out a picture of your kid playing third base for the local little league team and putting it on the refrigerator, the website's never going to do that for you. the phrase i saw your kid in the paper, that's really meaningful. and the community papers that have a very close relationship with their customer agree it's a vast middle. >> it is a vast middle. >> it's where america stores its reporting horse powers. >> was any of this preventable, david? you've been writing about it for a long time. you've looked at it from almost every angle. and you probably formulated an opinion about whether some of the things that got som

this according to our partners at the wall street journal. ashley: all of the eve of.mmerce committee leaders addressing the obama administration's choice to furlough 15,000 air-traffic controllers saying it raises serious safety and operational issues my next guest says the faa's claims are a smokescreen and airlines travelling public have been needlessly targeted. joining us is michael boyd of belated group international. you follow the airlines, how are these controller furloughs impacting the industry? >> they keep going for several days they will impact the industry. think of it now as senator schumer says the bad blizzard but the blizzard will end some war will impact earnings, will impact revenues. ashley: so you say there's no reason for these cuts and it is purely an exercise by the obama administration to put pressure ultimately to raise taxes. >> absolutely. i saw jay carney pulling out a jive about when you have cuts this debate is 4% of the current budget which is up and today they have after sequestration $1 billion more than they had 5 years ago and 8% f

host: this is from "the wall street journal." t: because "the wall street journal" says the administration has flexibility does that mean the administration has flexibility on the sequestration when it comes to the faa. most of the operation's budget of the faa is for people. the sequester says we have to cut by line item. furloughs. itself on we had an opportunity to give faa more flexibility to deal with these cuts. we did not choose to do that. we have to fix the entire sequester. host: harry reid has said he would like to take another run at the sequester by using the overseas contingency fund, the money for wars in afghanistan help to lay the sequester for five months. republicans are saying you cannot count savings that were already on the book. into: this was getting arcane budgeting in congress that most of the public does not understand. they want us to solve the problem. kidsequester it is kicking out of headstart and cutting dollars the go to local school districts that are serving children and men and women in the mili

. >> let me ask you about this, in the new nbc/wall street journal poll when we ask people about their views on abortion and we compare that to january, those say it should be legal. 45% now as opposed to 54% in january. illegal 25e9% compared to -- 52o 44%. what's the political calculation why there's bean shift to make more people feel it should be snilg >> it's really hard to say. i don't know what could have happened in this very short period of time to cause such a big jump and maybe david has a good idea about that. but i don't think what paul ryan said is so crazy. it's not like people want to have abortions, they want to have the right to have an abortion and i think most people can agree that it's not something that everybody wants to go out and try to make happen. that have it be -- no one is trying to seek out -- i'm not being very articulate on this. what paul ryan is saying is not ridiculous it's pretty reasonable. >> so let me get to you retook that, david, because as we look at these numbers, we see this big switch, and i think for those that are pro life would find this

the editor of the "wall street journal" daniel hennin skwrer joins us now. the debate rages on about policy and how safe we are. what are your observation beings in the last week about how the debate has surfaced? it's fascinating, jenna. my observation in light of the fact that we just had the opening of the bush library this week is nine months into george bush's presidency 9/11 happened. the presidency had just begun. from that point forward bush's presidency basically became the war on terror. one of the thirst things he did was pass the day tree at act, it passed within a couple of days. all of us recall how for years the proceed sreugs of the patriot act especially the wiretapping conditions became a pitched battle between the democrats. the left and the bush cheney domestic spying programs and all that. what questions are being asked all this week about the boston bombing? what did we know about the tsarnaev brothers and when did we know it and how many balls were dropped? the tools to track the tsarnaev brothers were created by the patriot act, somet

>> this was in the wall street journal- you don't expect to find anything like this in the wall street journal- the title of it is, "praying is good medicine." and it's the story of a doctor who is sitting beside the bed of one of his patients and she is afraid that she's terminally ill, and so she asks him if he will pray with her, and he's so startled, he doesn't know what to do; he just- nobody has ever said that to him before. and he looks back over his career as a doctor and realizes that there were probably a lot of times people wanted to say that to him and they didn't. and so after a while, he says- the last paragraph- "certainly, i'd love to pray," and he did; it was very sweet. >> and we're seeing more of that- have you noticed that?- in the medical world? well, a couple of weeks ago we saw science and- "religion finds science," or something along those lines on the front page of the major news mags, and you get a sense of that in the medical world, too, that there's another dimension opening up. we were talking about that before the class, that there's something going on bec

you covered his father back at "the wall street journal." he is a billionaire and made major, major investments when it comes to tech and silicon valley. we're dying to know what he is looking at coming up next. we're here at the beverly hilton hotel at the milken global conference where hallways are crawling with some of the biggest around best names. we have goldman sachs abby joseph cohen. she made a very smart call a couple months ago to remain in the markets. now she is making calls about that. i asked her, surely there are concerns out there. she said, many. so what are they? got to stay tuned for that interview david. i will send it back to you. david: it will be a busy good hour. see you in a couple minutes. let's get to today's action on east coast. we have peter kenny, knight capital managing director is warning of increased volatility. he says investors have to get defensive. ron weiner, whose last stock pick is up 8% since he told you to buy. he is back with more plays how you can make money. larry shover at the pits of the cme.

oh my gosh, fishing trip, i was reading the "wall street journal" thing. trips, can you imagine that? >> again, they're a private company. they should be able to educate and take people to programs they want to. >> this is different than the gso. >> that's right. >> you were prosecuting get is there a difference here? >> yes, when you talk about public funds, of course it's different. but you are talking about a privately-held corporation who is educating people. that's their own business. >> well, i just think this is incredible. more anti-business stuff coming out of the obama administration. >>> next topic, countries in europe. they finally physical out what we have been saying all along, please, cut your competent tax rate. then companies will keep your money in their country. we'll finally get some economic growth out of this you know what, a big story today. portugal the doing it. ireland has already done it. the united kingdom is doing it. the question; when are we going to do it? jason, i want to go to you on this, it's very interesting, portugal c

and i think the "wall street journal" just got bad information. it is 24 hours. they still haven't really just now are they correcting the report about the saudi national, just this afternoon did they give up the ghost in terms of 12 dead and things like that. i think it is incredibly damaging. >> i don't think anybody looks for real, factual information. if it's not on page 6 they're not necessarily -- >> john: you don't have the same relatives i have. >> what's its bread and butter? supposed to be crime. if they can't do a crime story they're completely useless. >> john: alexis, a great deal of speculation on behalf the left yesterday. we saw chris matthews be somewhat wildly speculative about who might be behind this. is this sort of speculation ston expected? they have to go on live. they're in competition to get the most. did they have to fill it with whatever sounds dramatic that can come out of their mouths? >> apparently that's what they think they need to do? there are alternatives. they interviewed tons of people who were there getting the experience. i

i want to read you some factoids that blow my mind, this is from the "wall street journal," this isn'tisker, regarding the electric hybrids, $465 million have given to teslor. listen to this, $5.9 billion in government subsidies have been promised toed for and $1.4 billion have been promised to nissan. in other words, fisker and teslor are little drops in the oil. ed for got almost $6 billion in subsidies. what is the department of energy doing here? >> larry, it hasn't heard of a thing called fracking, it hasn't heard about free enterprise and entrepreneurs making seemingly possible things happen. they physical, electric is the way to go. it didn't work 100 years ago, there was an announcement last week oust of the university of illinois, someone's come up with there it looks like a teeny battery which they hadn't been able to do in 100 years. that didn't come out of the government. that came out of research in illinois. now in the real free market, somebody would take that and see if it could be made an electric car instead of employing billions that didn't work years ago. >> larry.

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we also have from, umass amherst and steve moore a member of "the wall street journal" editorial board. professor, let me start with you. so you take apart this study that carmen reinhardt and ken rogoff put together. first error you found was a doozy. it was mathematical. they made mistakes in their xcel spreadsheet. >> they did. i wasn't to say it wasn't just me. myself with my coauthors thomas herndon, who is a graduate student and my colleague, michael ash. that was the first problem. the problem was they simply calculated wrong off their spreadsheet scheidt. melissa: okay, so their response to that was, has been, we do, we do not believe that this regretable slip affects in any significant way the central message of the paper or in our subsequent work. what do you think about that? >> uh-huh. well, there were really three errors. that was one. three types of errors. the net effect of all three errors was to convey very different picture than the one that's in their paper. the picture in their paper is, that once an economy, the u.s. or any other economy has a public debt level in

peggy noonan, who used to work for president reagan, is now a columnist for the "wall street journal., who worked for both presidents reagan and clinton, and is now at harvard. they must be studying you, david, nobody's ever done that before. "cbs this morning" cohost norah o'donnell is back with us for a weekend work day and last but not least, our long-suffering and hardworking political director john dickerson. clarissa, i want to start with you, because you probably have been in syria more than any other correspondent. >> just a few weeks ago. >> schieffer: you were the first one to get in there. you went in under cover, got pictures and got this story and got it out and brought us the first really eyewitness reports and photyos of what was going on there. so what do you make of these reports now that the syrians did use this nerve gas on their own people? the president says it's a game changer. what does that mean? >> well, if you ask ordinary syrians they're not surprised at all. they have absolute no doubt that the regime has been using chemical weapons against them. but i thin

one thing i wanted to point out though that we got from our new "wall street journal" poll about guns and firearm sales, it's from february it was at 61%. people thinking it needs to be more strict. now it's only at 55%. the further that we get away from something like newtown, is that going to take the pressure off of our elected leaders in washington, d.c., to act and do something concrete? >> well, i think that's what the nra and, frankly, some of those who are going to try to slow walk this process are absolutely hoping for, and i think that's one of the many reasons that the newtown families, my god, deserve so much credit and so muched ed admiration for their courage. they are sharing their pain so publicly to keep the pressure on. one of the things that's so different this time than in previous times that i hope will mean we don't lose the momentum is that you do have more of a counterweight to the nra. you do have groups like the moms. you do have gabby giffords organization and the newtown moms and you have veterans coming out and saying, hey, the weapons i carry in afghanist

. >> we have our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll and i want to show you the results of that. support for gun laws is dropping. 6% since february. although 55% still want more strict gun laws. 61 pfe 61% was the number in february. how do you keep this feeling alive across the country. >> first of all, those polls are asking questions about, you know, gun control and words that don't necessarily sit well with the public, but when you talk to them about a specific proposal like background checks that's receiving over 90% of support across the country and, for instance, in snoenator toomey's state of pennsylvania 95% of those asked say they would support an expanded background check system. we don't feel we have to work to keep this issue on the table. the unfortunate thing is this is going to happen again. no one would have ever thought tucson, arizona, would be on the list of place that is have become sort of famous for a tragedy. i'm sure people in aurora thought that same thing and for sure sandy hook. we're not having to do much except continue to talk to the public about w

according to a report in "the wall street journal" the irs is now considering whether to tax free mealompanies like google and facebook. the lead's erin mcpike is here with more. erin, i can understand both sides in this argument. i can understand why it shouldn't be taxed and yet clearly it is why some people go there. >> plenty of the so-called fringe benefits are considered totally acceptable like gyms, gym classes, reference, that kind of thing. the big concern is that when it comes to meals the irs isn't particularly clear. the cushy life out in the expansive offices of silicon valley. it comes with lots of bonuses but not all of them are cash. >> we have yoga. we have pilates. >> sushi is great. >> reporter: but free lunch, you know there is no such thing. >> there is any type of amazing cuisine even better than some restaurants in new york. >> reporter: big tech companies out west are in fierce competition to attract top talent so aren't the least bit shy about publicizing their perks. as the april 15th tax deadline nears "the wall street journal" reports there is a debate loomi

know, jocelyn, when you look at the pay walls and get away from the bigger papers like "the wall street journalew york times" and even some of the gannet papers and get to the local papers, the big question is how are those pay walls doing? >> both management teams, for both gannet and "new york times" claim that their subscriber base is growing hand over fist. and you can see this in the circulation numbers. you get the print subscription, complimentary -- you get the digital subscription, rather, complimentary with your print subscription. so we saw an 8% increase in circulation trends yesterday. i'm sure we'll see a pretty decent growth in circulation from "new york times" tomorrow, but, really, what i'm focused on is that this is a very small portion of overall revenue. two-thirds of print media revenue at both these firms still comes from the actual advertising, which that portion is down year over year. it was down 3% in 2012 while advertising overall was up by 3%. most of that increase was driven by broadcasting, television advertising, which was up 10%. >> do you think there will be a t