that the climate is changing, that it is caused by human activity in the kind of policies that have orked with pollution are probably the things we should do. about two thirds of americans agree. when they are asked to rate how important that question is to them, they do not read it very highly. if you said to me how much would i be willing to spend to make this what i believe it is, the most important issue in the minds of americans, then i think 100 million bucks would be very low. >> would you go to half a million? can you put a cap on it? >> you tend to think about this in the specific way. my experience of political campaigns is the kind of budgeting you're talking about is pretty unrealistic. the way that things happen in politics, and i am no professional. in my limited experience of olitics if you think you can script what is going to happen, your kind of nuts. if you cannot accept that you ill be pretty unrealistic. >> thanks. the obama administration recently announced that it is putting off a decision on the keystone xl pipeline until after the midterm elections. how does this

bot -- when those shares hit the trading floor of the new ,ork stock exchange the morning they beganding right away at $40 apiece. a dayme, and becomes just after british competitor just eat started trading over in london. those shares have read about 12% over there first two days on the public market. not doing nearly as well as grubhub. i think a lot of people feel it is very important to be able to order their food over the internet. do you ever do that? [laughter] >> i cannot honestly say that i do. ordered lunch for you on seamless a lot. >> you're a good man. thank you. bottom line will continue in just a moment. ♪ >> welcome back to the second half-hour of autumn line on bloomberg television. i'm mark crumpton, thank you for staying with us. let's check on some of the top stories we're following this hour. investigators say the iraq veteran in the forefront shooting may have argued with another soldier before the attack. officials say they have a strong indication that army specialist yvonne lopez clashed with at least one fellow resmed before killing three people and then tak

your ipod orked on smart phone or however you listen to music, what kind of musical library would weon't really get a chance to listen to other people's music that much. i know with the hits are but i have a tendency when i have time to go back and play some of my old favorite records from years ago for my favorite artists like otis redding or cat stevens and some of those things that i always love that back then. they inspire me and restore me more than listening to what is going on at the time. comes out may 13 and it is dolly parton's 42nd album. today's mystery meat, the new shape for gillette is not have more blades but it is a swivel and starts at $11 49 cents, one of the market. ♪ >> it is 56 past the hour and then means bloomberg television is "on the markets." stocks are about halfway through the trading day and we are seeing a rally as how to profile company's like mark came out of the estimates with their earnings. about eight/10p of one percent. in the treasury market, the today federal reserve meeting is going on. the expectation widely is that the fed will reduce its bo

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shown,ork and others has for example in pakistan, where many of these targeted killings are taking place5 thousand people a killed by these drone strikes, among them props 400 civilians. there have been some really problematic kinds of bombings. for example, the deliberate targeting of the skewers and funerals, which is still under investigation as possible war crimes by u.s. investigation teams. where does this leave conventional air force answering to a zillion children's agency, where is the chain of command? we don't know. the cia and the pentagon all decided they were not going to talk on this occasion. and they -- >> let's go to another clip from the film about how the cia's pakistan drones are carried out by regular u.s. air force personnel. we hear from two former drone operators, former air force pilot brandon bryant and michael haas. it begins with chris woods followed by ben emmerson. >> the majority of the secret drone strikes that have taken place, we've always understood, been carried out by the central intelligence agency. the most egregious of u.s. intelligence -- the mos

your job is ork on the schedule and work on driving revenue and work on getting out of the lease. >>but-- >> i'm worried that you're not antsy about it, because if we don't get out of the lease, we got a problem. >> [sighs] marcus, with all due respect, i'm gonna take care of it. i got it. >> all right. why don't we head to the back? michael, if you'll have a seat-- >> why am i going to the corner? >> well, 'cause it doesn't involve you. i'm really getting annoyed that michael continues to focus on the food side of the business. i've been very clear with him that i want him focusing on his part of the deal, which is the gym, not tina's deal. this routine is getting very old. sonya, this is tina. >> hi, sonya, how are you? tina sena. nice to meet you. >> sonya. >> sonya's my head baker. she's the brains behind all these products that you see here. so what i wanted to do today is we want to market tina's products, and the goal is we want them to taste good, and we want them to look good. >> okay. >> when we finish making this, from a business standpoint, we'll know how much went in in

the postalw ork with service to come up with ways in which we get at that problem. it is shocking to see the amount get pumped into communities all around this country who are -- through out mail system. . it is major. we need to talk further about this. i have got some ideas that we need to get on it yesterday. mr. attorney general, as you know, i continue to seek further answers in the visible prosecution that brought senator ted stevens down. fbi director before the committee last week. he indicated at that time to me brought agent who had about this whole issue, that he had been severely disciplined. the investigation came under scrutiny. he didn't indicate what that was, and i think we all know there may be varying degrees of what may be severe discipline to one as a slap on the wrist to the other. can you shed any light on the status of that individual, whether he is still working for the fbi, and in what capacity? i have requested a copy of the report to be submitted here to the subcommittee so we can further review it. but it is important that we understand

capital, the facility,orking the bakers, the raw materials, the systems, the distribution, the processingyou're asking for 50%. >> you're arguing with me over 50% when i'm providing all the resources. >> i'm not arguing. i'm letting her--my wife and life partner know what decision you're... >> well, she--i mean-- >> asking her to make right now. >> but she knows. she can interpret, right? >> okay, can i think about it, or do we--do i have to-- >> no, you have to decide right now. >> you should ask for my two cents now. >> you're gonna offer it, so go ahead. what do you want? your name on her brownies just like pro-fit? >> i have no problem not having my name on them. >> well, why would your identity be on it? >> yeah. >> well, because we're partners. that's why. >> her identity's not on yours, on your place that you're partners. >> oh, come on. stop. >> but it's not. >> i'm not gonna get into that. i'm not gonna get in a pissing match with you. >> yes or no, tina? [dramatic music] ♪ coming up... >> why you after me? >> this is not about me or you or who--this is about marketing and making

i want to thank everybody that .orked so hard i want to make sure that everybody understands it willitional challenge to implement the law. there are days when the website stumbles. press, i want you to anticipate there will be some moment when the website is down and i know it will be on all of your front pages. it's going to happen. it won't be news. will be parts of the law that still need to be improved. and we will make the law work better for everybody. we are game to do it. but today should remind us that the goal we set for ourselves, that no american should go without the health care that they need. no family should be bankrupt because somebody in that family gets sick. no parent should have to be worried about whether they can afford treatment because they wouldn'ted that they have to burden their children. the idea that everybody can get decent health care, that is achievable. we are on our way. if all of us have the courage and the wisdom to keep working against one another, not to scare each other, but for one they remain to get an opportunity for those that everyone liv

working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning to value the culture of ork --" caller: i think he was absolutely correct. he was mimicking something someone else said that i like to quote back in 1978. i quote, "our children are living in depressed neighborhoods and on the verge of economic collapse. people finally contribute to the politics of decadence, a generation of people lacking the moral and physical stamina necessary to fight a protracted civilizational crisis is a danger to itself, its neighbors, and to future generations.

families of orking this country, this is a very, very difficult moment. so let me just talk a little bit now about some of the problems. where should we go? let me touch on some of the areas that i've been working hard along with other members of the senate and other members of the house. when you ask people what the most serious problem facing this country is they rattle off a whole lot but at the top of every list is the issue of jobs. jobs. and they understand as i mentioned a moment ago that real unemployment is a lot higher than official unemployment and they understand that we need to create millions of decent paying jobs in this country. and let me give a few ideas as to how we can do it and do it quickly and do it in a way that economists tell us can be very effective. i don't know about new hampshire but i do know that the roads and bridges and waste water plants and water systems in the state of vermont have serious serious problems. in fact, the society of sil engineers talks about trillions of dollars in infrastructure deficits. we need a mass

love to have your support as we ork to get this bill done. be glad to do it. but i want to make it clear, it's not going to be the american health act. is not going to be your bill. i am here to to tell you that i want you to support our bill. but there are some things in this bill i really believe in. well, we are going to write the bill. i said, do you mind if i tell ron wyden? and he said, that is why i'm ere. ok, so i picked up the phone and i called senator wyden and said i've just been told i x that our bill is dead on arrival. yeah, they have been working on me to get me to abandon it and i won't so he figures, if you works on you and you will tell me to abandon it, i will abandon it. we had 19 cosponsors, including 10 republicans, including two members of leadership who were willing to work on a bipartisan solution because we believed that the current health care structure was impossible, terrible, bad for americans, needed to be changed. and we were frozen out of the conversation and told to go away. and it was passed with 60 democratic votes and not

brown through the hand that you have when your see the first -- and all these can be found on atr doubt ork. so don't forget our hands tied on twitter. the first is the list of all of the tax protection signers. these are people who have committed to their constituents that they will not vote for any net tax increase as long as they are elected to congress. the next is in op an average of about why the ira should not be comparing people's taxes. we also have a packet of information for the ways and means committee. finally we have a map of state control. so with that i will turn over grover norquist. >> we have a number of congressional house and senate leaders. i should just point out that we hold an event like this every april 15th. don't worry if you're not. taxes and did you doing this ahead of time. members will be back in the district's. this year 2014 as a little different than of a past years. in the middle of discussion of extenders, the middle of a conversation about what is fundamental tax reform. what year exactly is going to kick off. the shape will be formed. lastly every apri

working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning to value the culture of ork --" caller: i think he was absolutely correct. he was mimicking something someone else said that i like to quote back in 1978. i quote, "our children are living in depressed neighborhoods and on the verge of economic collapse. people finally contribute to the politics of decadence, a generation of people lacking the moral and physical stamina necessary to fight a protracted civilizational crisis is a danger to itself, its neighbors, and to future generations. " that was reverend jeb -- jesse jackson in ebony magazine. the crisis we're facing today in terms of poverty, you cannot generalize about poverty. people who just -- there are three categories. there are those who are characters in place intact, but a factory is moved out, the death of a breadwinner, and people like that, if they are given an opportunity they use welfare the way they are supposed to as a surface and not a transportation systeservice ad then you have category number two of people like the single mom in milwaukee

especially chairman thornberry for orking and putting together this very important hearing. i hope today's discussion will be both productive and constructive as we continue to exercise this subcommittee's new oversight spoments relating to the intelligence portfolio for which the armed services committee has responsibilities for. first and unfortunately foremost, of course, i continue to be concerned about the implications and ramifications to the department from the leaks of the n.s.a. contractor. i have read the information review task force report. it was an essential assessment and very sobering one indeed. however, i would like to get a better idea of what we know now and what we don't know and what we're going to do about it. after all, as d.n.i. clapper testified before the intelligence committee, the vast majority of the information comprised has nothing to do with n.s.a. surveillance and collection but instead has dire impacts directly on dod. i'm very concerned about the damage assessment and practical effects of these leaks on our men and women in uniform who are

and i do believe that much of political ork in a environment. but it takes a person who has that ability to help people understand not only who you are but help them to understand who they are. too many in congress don't understand who they are. and what they think who they are is not ultimately gives them the power or the sense of who they really are in working in an environment where you learn how to make the deal work, how to pull people in so that together you can make something greater than it would be if you tried to do it by yourself. >> does the president make much difference talking about congressional function and dysfunction. how much difference with a president make? >> the president's role is paramount. you can't have the legislative and executive branches operating in parallel universe. unfortunately it has been diminished. and that's unfortunate because ultimately it requires that kind of communication, collaboration, and build stronger relationships when they get to know one other irrespective of the differences. in the past, and

from the opportunity to access quality affordable health care, a right now guaranteed to those who orked hard for that privilege. 122,380 constituents from the 12th district of illinois participate in the medicare program. that's one out of every seven citizens in my district. many of these skits are disabled. almost tissue many of these constituents are disabled, almost all are on a fixed or limited income. medicare gives these citizens the opportunity to receive essential medical care and to take part in preventive care programs designed to maintain good health. which lowers the cost of health care. lowers the cost of health care. of those 122,000 southern illinoisans, over 28,000 also participate in medicare advantage. that's one in four of those medicare participants, taking part in a program specifically designed for those seniors who have high rates of chronic disease. . medicare advantage focuses on prevention and disease management which -- which reduces the need of unnecessary hospitalizations. keeping our most vulnerable populations healthier and out of the hospital waiting roo

caller pointed out, if you're going to pit an american is er against someone who orking like 14 hours a day for miserable wages then this is no competition. that e of the statistics came out yesterday takes a look t the actual weekly earning as workers. $838.38.h it was talk about offall about increases in pay. re they get more hours of week of work? > the latest figures were that an increase in hours but decrease in wages. it'sverall picture is that really been relatively steady. generally you see an increase in an increase you see look at thatpeople as a positive incentive. at one point they won't have to any harder and take on more workers. a long are flat for time. the description that your caller said he's making a dollar more with a you maybing thy yea the ago and that has been trajectory of american salaries point about nother inequality about ceo pay. daily etting almost headlines about what wall street making, $10 million a strike a blow's a n the head because they're unfathomable. michigan, neil, joins us from there. good morning, neil. caller: good morning. was just wonderi

right now,ork times" my colleague is in an excruciating position where in one of the seven leak investigation, criminal leak investigations that the obama administration has pursued, there is a subpoena involving he developedial for a book he wrote. unless the u.s. supreme court decides to intervene in that case, he is facing the very real to choosehaving between going to jail or giving information that leads to the disclosure of his source. made the pledge to protect his confidentiality. there you are. jim has said to me we have worked very closely together for years. inas very happy to join him boston a few weeks ago where he was given a major first amendment award, and showing support for him at this time is very important, but he has told me he has been doing national security reporting in washington for decades. that the climate has never been like this or more difficult that it is right now. >> that eggs the question, and it was the theme of several the -- that begs question that was the theme of several other questions, national security reporters -- >> i do not see concrete evidence o

easier for you to support a family at the basic level your dad did it, at least, on the same kind of .ork and maybe you are 55 years old and you're not going to go back e anollege and becom electrical engineer. that ship has sailed. but we are going to make it possible to maintain a minimum provided you are doing 40 hours a week, 50 hours a week. >> we being the federal government. andts tax rebates subsidies. there are ways to structure this so that it works. right now, you can work for a very small percentage of the year and get quite large subsidies for that. to raise a couple of points related to your original question. increasingly wealthy society can have more expensive .ocieties a starbucks paris stood does better than her counterpart did 50 years ago. the millworker though, that job is gone and not coming back. i don't think either party has a particularly good solution. there is one thing we have ignored. we have talked a lot about income inequality, but we don't talk about the importance of cost of living well it if -- living relative to income inequality. if you live in a low-c

yang, soad of that she could stay in massachusetts and continue to ,ork in fixing the website however, upon hearing about the changing witnesses, the chairman of the full committee threatened to issue a subpoena. i'd like to apologize on behalf of this committee to you, ms. chang. what this committee should be focusing on is what we have to do in the future to contain costs. how he can share the best practices by successful states are california, connecticut, kentucky, and new york with the states that are still struggling. a truly balanced hearing would've looked at more than just one story of state this exchange success. if someone from kentucky's exchange had been invited to testify, i'm sure they would've wanted to tell the committee that a preliminary analysis found that approximately 75% of the enrollees were previously uninsured before signing up through the exchange. are under enrollees the age of 35. ordered by the end of enrollment. , over 370,000 kentucky citizens now have health insurance that did not have before. to that end, i'm so glad to have testify as minority witnes

working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning to value the culture of ork-" caller: i think he was absolutely correct. he was mimicking something someone else said that i like to quote back in 1978. i quote, "our children are living in depressed neighborhoods and on the verge of economic collapse. people finally contribute to the politics of decadence, a generation of people lacking the moral and physical stamina necessary to fight a protracted civilizational crisis is a danger to itself, its neighbors, and to future generations. " that was reverend jeb -- jesse jackson in ebony magazine. the crisis we're facing today in terms of poverty, you cannot generalize about poverty. some people who are just broke. there are three categories of poor people. there are those who are aaracters in place, intact, factor is moved out, a death a breadwinner. people like that, if they are given an opportunity, they use welfare as they're supposed to come as an ambulance service and not a transportation system. they have category to, of people a single mother who saved $5,00

opportunity, i know well the struggles our unemployed veterans face on a daily basis to re-enter the ork force. in my home district of ventura county, where i'm proud oto represent naval base ventura county, we have a large group of veterans who have sacrificed for our country around deserve every effort we can to ensure they receive the training they need to find the jobs they deserve, especially after the recent resession. it is deeply disappointing that the 113th congress has allowed this critical job training program to expire. vrap helps veterans who are no longer eligible for the fwmplet i. bill to get the training they need at community colleges and technical schools in high demand occupations. one such veteran who is being helped by vrap is my constituent, jonathan. jonathan is a first generation filipino american from oxnard who served in the united states marine corps from 1995 to 2013. as an active duty marine he, handled telecommunications on a vessel in theater during the iraq war supporting his brothers and sisters who landed ashore. when jonathan was preparing to retire fr

if you look at tech secretary ork the value of ipos is higher than it was at this point last year.are fewer ipos, which is also showing that the amount of hype that we've seen has been concentrated, particularly in the large-cam names and also to try to have the shakeouts and become more realistic on profit growth going forward. >> you getting interested in some of the small caps because that has been an area that's taken it on the chin? >> that's an area where you can potentially get interesting levels of growth but without the hype. companies are still cash rich and also have a strategy for profits, and that's in a lot of tech companies that's what's been missing. >> you know what happens 24 hours from today? alcoa reports, okay, so kind of the unofficial way of kicking off the earnings season which by depending on whose gauge you use is anything from slightly negative to perhaps a gain of 1% for the quarter, that's from a year earlier, so we're certainly not talking about the potential necessarily for some big catalyst. if anything, i wonder the extent to which some concerns abo

supposed to be a little bit better than the earnings gains and rather than break it into secretary ork pouring through for the first time. we saw this sort of being qued up, third quarter into fourth quarter of last year. productivity data started to slow. unit labor cost started to go up and the reason for that is the labor market is starting to improve. bringing new workers in. you'll lose some of your pro --tivity and costs will go up. that will hurt profitability, and at least based upon the expectations, that trend is supposed to continue into the first quarter. >> let me ask you this. sharon, wouldn't it be a good thing, if you wanted to see, for example, pressure on profit margins, if you saw earnings because companies were paying higher wages or because they were doing more cap-x, is this the right kind of pressure or the wrong kind? >> back to me. >> oh, sure. >> we, i think you're better to answer this, but i don't think it's because of higher earnings or higher wages, necessarily, thatty we are seeing this pressure. when you look at particularly what struck me is the numbers

speaker, i yield to i believe our next speaker, our representative from new ork, john patrick maloney. mrs. maloney: mr. speaker, -- mr. maloney: mr. speaker, president franklin delano roosevelt once said, all my life i dreamed of going back to my home on the hudson river. it was the center of the world. he was referring to his habit late at night of remembering being a child before he was stricken with polio, before he was president, before he was burdened with the awesome responsibility of his office during a time of war. because being a child on the hudson river meant sledding down the hill behind hyde park and feeling totally free and he as a president, to forget the burdens of his office and to remember the miracle and dream of his youth. those of us who are blessed to represent the hudson valley understand that the hudson valley writes its beauty on our personalities and on our very ouls, it inscribes us with its timeless beauty and as it flows on endlessly by, we're reminded of the fleeting nature of our service and of our very lives. , such as p of artists frederick edwin chur

are now the next step for those people the prison and then the incinerator that's the way fascism orks capitalism and it's and game and that's what we see in the united states these people are going to be sent out to the privately owned leveraged buyout auschwitz like conditions in america thanks to goldman sachs j.p. morgan and the rest of wall street but we got to go thanks ok i'm going to waffle all right states over the second half a whole lot more. but we're going to do. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked by handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once i'm john mark and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america to find read

but orks. if this is the only way -- but, ok. if this is the only way you can fix the three components of immigration reform, let's see if we can reach an agreement. we warn if obama does anything, even a clarification of the current deportation policy, republicans say obama will be poisoning the well for reform. this from a party that seems to hardly need an excuse to scream about mass amnesty, mexicans rushing across the border and obama's plot to undermine and sabotage america. but sadly, even some important democrats don't think any form of presidential action would be prudent at this time when it comes to deportation. they seem to be saying, let's just ride out the pain of deportations in the immigrant and latino community as we scorch the do-nothing republicans. maybe we can try again when democrats are in charge guinean though we didn't do the last time we were in charge. yes, democrats had 257 votes and we didn't call a single vote for four years on comprehensive immigration reform. one by one, deportations are driving fa