starting with ww granger. >> sure. so they're a leading distributor of maintenance and repair and operating products. they have number one share in the united states, which is only 6%, so there's plenty of room to grow through acquisitions. it's not a capital intensive business, so they throw off a lot of free cash flow, which they've used to increase their dividend for 41 consecutive years and reduced their share count by 10% over the last five years. so we think this is a good entry point here for long-term investors for really a three to five-year hold. >> tell us about anheuser-busch. looking at the stock it's trading today at the same price it was on january 2nd. so why do you like this? >> well, look. just the opposite of granger. this is a much more defensive company. they are the leading global brewing company with multiple great brands distributed both in emerging and developed economies. this is a classic steady eddy. if you have any worry about the economy both domestically or globally, you're not going to w

. >> more than 100 people aboard the granger of the seas are back on land after they got sick on their cruise. >> we got so sick. i mean, stomach virus i never had before. >> latest voyage returned saturday morning to the port of baltimore after a seven-day trip to the bahamas. they suspect a norovirus outbreak. the crew tried to keep the virus from spreading. >> they were really sanitizing all the railings when you were done in the casino. they were wiping your machine down. they were working to control it. >> the centers for disease control and prevention says more than 100 passengers and crew got sick on the previous cruise. the cdc confirms the norovirus was the cause. this time, federal health officials met the ship at port. >> taking a look at their cleaning, sanitation and hygiene practices that are being employed on board the ship to interrupt the spread of disease. >> norovirus is common and highly contagious. royal caribbean says crews scoured and sanitized the ship and the port to prepare for the next cruise. the company is allowing people to reschedule if they wish. wendy f

in 1959, julian granger waa rt with the knoxville news-sentinel.turday night, i was coming in on the late shift at the knoxville news-sentinel. i went to my box, and i pulled out all the news releases and so forth. and there was the weekly, or bi-weekly, news release of the tennessee valley authority. and i went through it -- the rainfall in the valley. it was mundane stuff. and i got around to the second page, and lo and behold, this thing jumped out at me. "on this bidding, allis-chalmers, "general electric, and pennsylvania transformer quoted identical prices of $112,712." schoumacher: close parentheses, and that was it? so i went back to my desk, thought about it for a while, and then i called red wagner. i told him, i seem to recall telling him, "i can't believe this, red. you know, how could you have identical bids?" and he began to unload on me. he says, "the real story "is down in chattanooga, where the head of purchasing is paul fahey." so i did, i went down there. and paul fahey had a stack of -- it was on ruled paper -- but he had case a

the nobility of history, it's more granger indecency and strength in western tradition started as the word is stored in a forensic inquiry and a sense of storytelling. the first paragraph is to rescue from the oblivion of time. but it is a tough or not. he is a retired general and a great masterpiece of the peloponnesian wars is structured to move towards the catastrophic moment of hubris for the overreach of athenian power comes to britain in the expedition juicier accuse. the tradition of history, the grandeur is that it should keep you awake at night. it is again play to the powerful. cement not to make you feel a kind of cuddly gloom of pride in who you are. it doesn't have to do that, even jewish history. but it's meant to you ask hard questions about your past as well. jewish history, the bible itself. talks back with understandable bafflement and ended nation to god and jonah and moses without being chosen and so on. so they said is a tall man as a great example of jews communicate by mutually agreed interruption. that is what happens on a single page of the taliban as my lovel

granger. the company is increasing its quarterly different by 16% to 1.08 or per share, and also authorized a $10 million buyback. >>> banking bombshell today, is this the end of too big to jail? reports out there that federal prosecutors are preparing criminal charges against two major banks, sandy weil on cnbc weighing if on there the kate kelly has more on what this could mean for those big banks hi, kate. >> a very big story that that -- the issues are involved in different, alleged money launder that bnp did for rogue nations, and the use of tax shelter at credit sweet for wealthy american clients. the potential charges, which would be some of the first against major financial firms are stirring up big questions about whether large banks are too big to jail after comments the attorney general made last year suggesting that consequences of indieding big banks case sis stemmic risks. asked this morning on "squawk box", sandy weill touched on the sensitivities involved. >> i would say maybe

. >> i join chairwoman granger in joining you to -- in welcoming you today. palestinian president applied for recognition for 15 u.n. conventions and treaties as reckless efforts. signals to break down the peace process in the far-reaching repercussions on the united states relationship with the u.n. and specialized agencies. we willbassador, i hope begin our remarks by discussing the administration's response to this news. distressing because the united nations placed an integral and indispensable role -- plays an integral and indispensable role in national security, alleviating hunger, championing human rights, and supporting efforts to address humanitarian prices. since the u.s. is not willing to act by members of the security council as unacceptable in the face of haunting images of victims of chemical weapons, gross violations of human rights, millions of refugees and other tragic and eminently avoidable suffering. while the u.n. is far from perfect, neglecting to refuse to pay our commitment leave the united states in a position of weakness. problems in

costs have gone down by 60% over the last five years, thanks in part to leadership of congresswoman grangerand the push we've made on audits. you now have unicef, u.n. women, a bunch of other u.n. agencies were posting their odds online. the secretary doing so as well and try to make that permanent. i think it's a turning point in human culture which has been very opaque. with great al-qaeda on waste, fraud, and abuse. and we have frozen, the regular budget growth has been growing, growing, growing. we basically, you know, frozen the budget growth, put in place a spending freeze, or -- and we're looking at staff compensation which is where 70% of the regular budget costs are a crude, and they've got to do a comprehensive review on competition. just in the last budget cycle we secured the cutting at 221 posts, which again in the human culture where everybody is once key posts or you know who and you know who, a pretty substantial achievement. >> thank you. the question is going to sit for the record i might as a%. it may not be able to stay for the answer. i the commitment i must make. the u

. >> ambassador power, it join chairwoman granger and walking in you here today. i must begin also by raising today's media reports that palestinian president obama's applied for recognition from 15 u.n. conditions -- president obama's -- a breakdown in the peace process that is far-reaching with repercussions on the united states' relationship with the u.n. and specialized agencies. madam ambassador, i hope you begin your remarks today by discussing the administration's response to this news. this is distressing because the united nations plays an integral and indispensable role in maintaining international peace and security comparable the economic and social development, alleviating congress, champion human rights and supporting efforts to address humanitarian crises. conversely instances of the u.s. negligence or unwilling us to act by some members of the security council is unacceptable in the face of haunting images of victims of chemical weapons. gross violation of human rights. millions of refugees and other tragic and eminently avoidable suffering. while

host: bob in granger, indiana. republican line. caller: that doesn't sound like an independent may. -- an independent to me. you have kathleen sebelius on the health care law and then she gets up at a important resignation meeting theirre and you have eric holder who will enforce laws they like but ignores ones they don't. host: paul ryan saw his budget passed. he is in iowa, addressing the gop fundraiser a which you may have seen on c-span earlier this point. is[video clip] >> these are timeless principles. they are not passÉ. liberal progressives have overplayed their hand. they want us to delegate our power and authority to some faceless bureaucrat who can better harmonize our lives for us. we now know that it doesn't work. we have to go back and say here's our plan to balance the budget, here's our plan to pay off the debt. here's how we would get the wins of energy jobs in this country by getting the government out of the way in stopping the government from stopping this great energy boom from happening. here's how you have a

david granger is the editor-in-chief at "esquire." >> i love that your two magazines are dating now. made the first move. >> what was the idea? you obviously have a male viewership with "esquire," female with "elle." and you thought, we should be talking to each other? >> go ahead. >> defer to the lady, right? we're learning. >> it was really the idea that we wanted to decode the opposite sex for one another. i think as forward thinking as we all are, we still have best questions about why do you do the things that you do, and we thought, we know a lot about women at "elle." so i'm so happy that "elle" is now living in "esquire." >> what did we learn? let's start with language. what do guys need to do to better understand women? >> well, it's the number one thing, and you've heard it before, need to listen. and really pay attention to the details. >> i'm sorry? >> very funny. >> sorry. >> and women will give you clues along the way of what they really love and what they really care about. and the main thing is we don't need you to fix everything. we really just want you to hear us. >