counterpart from texas greg abbott joins us from austin. and new jersey congressman chris smith republican from the state. college of mount saint vincent. sally cone is here the author of the new book patriot act judge katherine cryer stark. is it good enough for you the obama compromise? >> it is as slbsolutely good en. you have to go back to the very good catholic justice scalia in 1990 when he ruled in the case that as long as a law is neutral and valid and a broad application even if it requires certain behavior or prevents certain behavior by religious groups it is okay. this goes back to 1879 and the case law is absolutely clear. the president didn't need to make the compromises he did because the law according to the catholic justice pam bondi your rebuttal to judge cry ar's decision he had the conts tugs on his side from the get go and his political move is certainly covered baz the initial edict was covered. >> i think the world of katherine cryer and she knows that. let me tell you, by him meddling in matters of our religious stat

abbott had already arranged for her lodging and enrollment. she didn't know there was yet another roadblock she would have to face down. >> well, the flying school she was enrolled at was about five miles away. she walked to that flying school with her registration in hand, so excited the day after she arrived in paris to get that license, only they turned her down. they had lost one student flier in an airplane accident and refused to teach another woman to fly. she found out there was another flying school nine miles away, called the flying school of the caldron brothers. without them knowing she was coming, without them even hearing of bessie coleman she made her way to that flying school with all the courage she could muster and told them her story and they welcomed her with open arms and told her they would be proud to train the first colored woman to fly. >> on june 15, 1921, i received this certificate, making me the first colored person ever to become a licensed flier! >> there was no stopping bessie after that. she needed to make a li

abbott is vital and beating mr. abbott is achievable. he's entirely beatable. >> reporter: the prime minister was among community workers who recently gained a major pay increase under the fair work process. >> isn't that fabulous? >> reporter: kevin rudd has called for people power, for voters to urge their labor people to back them. she dismissed that with barely concealed contempt. >> this is not an episode of celebrity big brother, this is about who should be prime minister. >> reporter: later she made her pitch as the leader who was delivering hard reforms. >> talk is easy. getting things done is harder and i am the person who gets things done. >> reporter: julia gillard repeated that phrase getting things done numerous times. she had another crack at kevin rudd over undermining her government and she won't be written off as a loser. >> i am confident i can lead labor to a victory at the next election. >> reporter: julia gillard believes she will win on monday. the prime minister is holding around 70 caucus votes with 29 solid for k

will they be able to defeat tony abbott?> it's not so much a question of defeating tony abbott at the moment. he isn't as popular as opposition leaders. not as popular as gillard. the question is whether gillard can get victory and base d on te moment that's still unclear. >> what is unclear about rudd? what is his political career now? what will he do next? will he return to the politics bench, do you think? >> i'm sure he will go it to the back benches which isn't a comfortable place for him to be. he's been pasted by many colleagues over the last week. he's had his character called in question. he's asked for that to stop. it's clear some people said some nasty things about him. in the long term he said that he's going to support julia gillard if there's another leadership challenge and another election. this is kevin rudd, however, so we don't know entirely if that's true and he could resign. if he does resign, unlikely, labor wouldn't be sure to win. >> what about what's going it on here with the party? there's this fee

so we'll keep here, and we'll keep potash and buy abbott, why?company is splitting in two and breaking up is easy to do. audrey in washington. audrey? >> caller: hi. boo-yah, mr. cramer. >> boo-yah, audrey. >> caller: i just want to say you are absolutely the best. you are so generous with all of your knowledge of all of us little guys, and i read two of your books, and i listen to you every day and i'm a retired widow, and i have my what i call my stock play money account and you've made me able to double my account. >> there you go. i say ♪ hallelujah >> let's go to work. >> caller: i have aapl, apple, dis, disney, gld, gold, mcd, mcdonald's and t for at&t. >> well, first, let me say i think we have a portfolio here that is made up definitely with horse sense. we have gold, we know we want that. i put that in every portfolio and mcdonald's, the stock is still here, why? because the company is was the largest in the dow. apple, 500 about to be taken out, and at&t goes from 32 to 33, and you don't even have to think about it and disney, i love th

. >> jon: it goes into abbott and costello territory pretty fast. >> nose dive. >> jon: now, do theyr in the movies i imagine you'd be working and you would find the file and then the music. the jaws music or whatever. they would run to the phone and then the local sheriff who is on the take would come and you would be running for your lives? what is it in reality? >> we usually have a couple of thugs that follow us in a pick- up truck for a couple days. >> jon: is that really true? >> yeah. >> jon: thugs in a pick-up truck. >> a rusty pick-up truck. >> jon: thugs in a rusty pick-up truck. >> correct. >> jon: why can't thugs beat up enough people to buy a better truck? really sad. do you only work for one... in opposition research, do researchers generally work for one party or both parties? >> one party. >> we work for the democratic party. >> jon: you do. but your counterpart then would work for the republican party. do you know them? >> no. we never see them. >> we'll walk into a courthouse and the clerk will say somebody was just here asking for that same information, kind of lik

>> it was fun except they had a scene -- he played a man in service, commander abbott, and i played aavy nurse. and there was a scene where he was supposed to be telling me good-bye. and we hadn't been married too lo long. oh, dear. i took it all very seriously. and i started to cry. and they had to keep reshooting and reshooting. >> there's a picture i want to ask you about over here. you've got president reagan here, jack benny, george burns, and you're going to have help. >> al jolson, isn't it? yes. yes. >> did you know all these folks? >> i didn't know al jolson. i knew jack benny and george burns and ronald reagan. >> what was his relationship to them? >> i don't know what this was. i don't know what this was. >> but root over height over he was a political -- >> this is a favorite picture of mine. grover cleveland and alexander. that was -- i love that picture. >> political question i want to ask you about is over here with president truman with your husband endorsing president truman right there? >> oh, yes. he was a big fan of truman's. >> are people surprised when they find

attorney general abbott joins us.ood evening. >> good evening, great to see you. >> greta: now to make it clear, this is different than the health care debate over the individual mandate that is in the supreme court. this is a different issue but tell me what it is and where it's filed? >> this is a separate lawsuit, a new lawsuit and greta to put in context, we need to understand what nancy pelosi said two years ago. we need to pass obamacare to find out what is in it. that is exactly what americans have been finding out over the past two years ever since lawsuit was passed. new mandate issued by the obama administration that is violating the freedom of religion by religious institutions across the countries and causing a great divide especially in the catholic church. what the obama administration is now trying to do is force religious institutions into providing products contrary to the religious korngs conscience to catholic institutions around the country. these without tram blink in religious organizations but o

tony abbott is less convinced. >> it's not so much a new start for this prime minister but merely a stayecution. >> reporter: julia gillard, he says, is more isolated than ever. >> one-third of the parliament colleagues and fully one-quarter of her cabinet don't have confidence in this prime minister. >> reporter: julia gillard, however, claims to have been strengthened by this experience. her first promise for all the pain it's caused her, there will be no turning back on the carbon tax. >> how can anyone seriously doubt my commitment to this policy? i got it done. >> reporter: the polls may say voters have turn her face from her but she's not going to get all lady-like to try to win them back. >> i intend to be a forceful advocate of the government's policies. any other questions? thanks very much. >> reporter: during the last hour, another bombshell, the ultimate faceless man, assistant treasure is quitting parliament. >> it was a difficult decision but it is the right decision. the decision i hope will play a part in helping the party to rebuild after the ballot, helping the party to

and then there is abbott labs trading at levels not seen since january of 2010. >>> from sesame streetpace, that wasn't awkward at all, was it? in terms of a segway. office supply stocks are really soaring. courtney reagan, what's going on here? >> it's been a strong quarter for officemax and office depot. the street is anticipating similar fate for staples when its earnings are released tomorrow. the demand for office supplies is one of those economic indicators, improving labor conditions are getting credit for office supply retailers earnings strength. office depot shares are up significantly today. but that's just a small gain. remember, this stock trades at under $4. but shares of all three of those major office suppliers are higher today as a result and some are beginning to speculate the office supply retail market has begun to bottom. office depot up 63%. officemax up 30%. and staples gaining 14%. while many domestic factors do seem to be improving, challenges remain for the office supply retailers. the biggest which, weakening economic conditions in europe. we've heard it befo

conoco phillips, johnson and johnson, abbott laughs and bemis?d. >> bemis makes toilets. >> beam up, scotty. >> what if you want to take on more risk? >> they ran another investigation, paul, love your work, the quick names give us the criteria for how you define a potential breakout stock. >> you're looking at stocks that have hit 52 week highs, unlike stocks that have gone parabolic like apple, looking for companies that have spoken above resistance, they have been trading at serl levels, pulling back and in the last week or so, broken out of the ranges, what is nice about these stocks is you have a potential exit point. if the stock falls back the prior resistance, which should act as support now you can cut your losses and get out and move on. >> tell us which stocks in particular meet that criteria and fall in the basket. >> one of the first ones is priceline, recently yesterday broke out of the 560 resistance level in 2011 approached the level four times and pulled back. yesterday, on no news, broke through the level, good volume, and when

one attorney general is greg abbott of texas. he's out front tonight. good to see you. you very much. >> great to be with you. >> polls show the country is evenly divided on whether birth control should be free. you feel you have the mandate to bring this kind of suit forward at this point? >> first, those polls really wouldn't have any consequence about whether or not a religious liberty or institutional principle has been at risk. if polls mattered, it would mean that the courts would base their decisions on polls to strike down obamacare as a whole because more americans are against it than for it. to your point, the issue that we are filing the lawsuit about is one that protects religious freedom and doesn't have anything to do with regard to whether or not government can or should offer contraceptives. very importantly, the government is perfectly fine in offering contraceptives to every single woman in the entire country. the issue is not whether or not the government offers contraceptives. it's the pathway they have chosen to get there, which is trampling the con

. >> mike: you've been joaned in the letter to the secretary from greg abbott of texas, allan wilsonf south carolina, but i understand you have other states that have now joined with you in the potential lawsuits. how many attorneys general are part of your action? >> well, just couple days, we're at 12 states. this will be very similar to obamacare lawsuit which you know will be heard in the supreme court next month. we started that lawsuit in 2010 with 13 stacey we're now at 26. this lawsuit which similar because of group of states pushing back against federal governments over reaching starting with 12 now. it could be by the time we file the lawsuit here in a week or two it could be 15 or 20 states. who knows how many by the end. >> mike: would you describe for our audience the difference between this lawsuit and original lawsuit against obamacare. some are going to say, i thought you were already suing the obama administration. what's unique? >> the obamacare lawsuit is based on congressional power under the commerce clause. can they mandate the perform of insurance, that is the

the abbott patents markets -- and a potential -- omnipotent market's got it wrong. all of a sudden, they realized that was wrong and great interest rates went to the level of germany. -- greek interest rates might to the level of germany. the united states is very happy at the moment to have low interest rates. europe and japan are so weak. the other financial markets to not attract the capital. that could turn very fast, a very viciously, as the european crisis teaches us we have to learn from that example. and not simply delighted in the fact that we have some more time, but use that time. this committee has played a major leadership role in trying to deal with that. i urge and implore you to take the time to do that. if not, we could go the way of some of the europeans. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for coming. we look forward to hearing your testimony. >> thank you, mr. chairman. there are so many lessons to learn from what has happened in europe. i would like to recapitulate what has happened. europe's crisis is not a currency crisis. the euro has mainta

i'm wondering, regardless whether julia fwil ard or kevin rudd wins, maybe the real winner is abbott who may come out from behind, be able to clinch an early election since the public is just completely disenfranchised with this tit for tat move. >> even on monday, they're not really sure who is going to win. the point is when you look at it from a broader perspective, australia has been really at the mercy of the international market so when rudd was prime minister he benefited from a cheap australian dollar and the fact that china was growing very strongly after the 2008 crisis that helped his inkcumbency. when gillard came in, it slowed the economy somewhat and there were some policy moves, the tax on energy consumption that didn't go down too well. the labor party is fighting against that perception that they haven't gotten the leadership in laplace to save tt momentum that they enjoyed in the early years of the are rudd administration. >> what will happen to the carbon tax, the mining tax, what will happen to ultimately the opposition. so many questions and how close the vote is

back to the drug companies, and then to a couple different parts of this case, you're going after abbottories that makes vicodin and hydro cordon but as they say, there are other drugs on the market. are you naming other drug companies that make those generic? >> yes. we've already put in place our lawsuit for john doe's, people whose names we don't know their names yet. we have to learn from the investigation in this case when we get discovery who they are. as soon as we know who they are, they're going to be brought into the case. they're already there in the name of john doe. that's our intention. you take dr. lee, he sold over 2520 pills for this fellow, laffer, in one six-month period, and you need to tell me with all the databases that the drug companies don't know that they're selling to people like dr. lee or to the drug companies that are actually distributing these things over the count sner they know it. and they have to take responsibility for it. there's no better way to stop people from abusing the system, and that is the drug companies and the doctors, who are overprescrib

. >> who is next, abbott and costello?xcited to be here. >> as i say to my children, home is all about what's inside it. >> number one priority. >> what's most important, the portraits of my girls here who are the cutest little things in the whole world. >> they are so cute. do they like posing for pictures? >> they're girls. >> you've got them all over the house. >> particularly my 8 1/2-year-old. you give her a microphone, it's all over. i don't know where she got that from. i know you've interviewed mort zooker man. you compare me to brian williams, tom brokaw, mort -- >> are you about to get me fired? >> i'm so much cooler than all of them. this is like a breath of fresh air for you guys, right. you were probably like this the whole time. >> my apologies, brian, tom, mort, all of you. he said it, so, what can you do? >> facts are facts. i'm a faux journalist. i'll say it like it is. >> any better way to end this "office politics." hi five. that was fun, thank you. >> thank you. >> he's the coolest. he said it. what can

abbott and costello meet someone. all right.what? "sudden impact ." >> gretchen: you are never going to be president of the united states 'cause you can not read the teleprompter. you are not using it, fred. we've never been able to use our cards. >> steve: who came up with the questions? >> actually the publishers did. then they contacted -- >> steve: did you put your name on it? >> they asked me for some up put and i put a little input. but they came up with all the -- one thing that's good about it, not only gives the inworks it also a little trivia, hike on the set, so and so did this. >> eric: which preliminaried earned julia roberts an oscar nomination? >> gretchen: i know ha -- that. "pretty woman." right? >> it's kind of tricky, if you turn the page. "pretty woman." >> gretchen: all right. i got one right. talk about the shows that you're doing right now. >> i just did a show in london called "trust us with your life," which is fantastic. i was the interviewer. i first interviewed jerry springer. at any point in his life

as expected the abbott test from these influences faded in the second half of the year the inflation to decline from the annual rate of three and a half percent in the first half to teeeleven to one and a half%, close to its average pace the proceeding two years. in an environment of well anchored inflation expectations, still will commodity prices as substantial slack in labor and product markets we expect inflation to remain subdued. the fomc decided to maintain its highly coveted stance of monetary policy, and particularly the committee decided to continue its program to extend the average maturity of the security holdings to maintain its existing policy of reinvesting bendable payments on its portfolio securities and to keep the target rate for the federal funds and zero. the committee now anticipates that economic conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels, at least three late 2014. as part of our ongoing effort to increase transparency and predictability of monetary policy calling this meeting the fomc released a statement intended to provide greater clarity of t

as i like abbott the top five recipients of u.s. foreign assistance, number two on that less, the headlines, the last several weeks because of concerns about trust between the united states and afghanistan's, certainly on the military side. there have been concerns raised about whether our strategy of being able to turnover security to the afghan forces has been an effective london. and i wonder if you could talk about what you are seeing on the economic forces inside and whether you see those same kinds of strains and what concerns you have about how our efforts there are working. >> well, senator, thank you for the kind comments about the work of the embassy in india, and i well remember, you know, how difficult it was for you have a plan such an excellent chip and then being kept because of senate business, and able to go. but that is what we like to do, to try to promote that kind of interaction, and we think it pays off. with respect to afghanistan, you know, we do see progress on the civilian side in terms of our investment in

as it stands, greg abbott, the attorney general of texas, never even asked the board justice to approves justice department would not view -- thinking that barack obama's department would not view it favorably, given the civil rights objections that have been raised from the beginning. that prediction was correct and the justice department has raised a number of quite serious objections to the plan. the texas dispute provides a mirror image to one of the major redistricting battles of the last decade only with the republican and democratic roles reversed. you saw a democratic attorney general thinking that the justice department of george bush would not look highly it on a democratically gerrymandered plan, and george bush's department of justice indeed raised objections in court. i don't want to explore the statutory questions at issue. one of the things that is clear about the case is that the the part of justice's position mapped on to the strategic interest of the republican party, and just as certain, had there been democrats in control at the time, the democratic doj would have ap