>> about 10 million. we can run away with ourselves -- >> when peter ported for the nbc nightly news on that evening , in order of magnitude of people saw that then saw it on the blog. change. interesting it is an important development, i do think. but we cannot lose sight of the fact that the way people generally consume news in the united states is going to be -- and also through john stuart. >> actually, my students do not own television sets. >> they are doomed, frankly. think tom's point is a good one. last year there were so excited we had a million people on the live blog. the next day we had another life log because the court was issuing orders and you can see when you aren't administering ve blog. it keeps you humble. >> there's a lot to be said here and one of the reasons for the success of scotus blog is not really the fact that it is digital and on your computer and you can get it through the fillings in your teeth. it is what is put into it that . >> i't lose sight of area will ask one more q

how about like this? how about like this? that's hard to tell. can you see it's an even-steven and say they both hit the ground same-same? ain't that neat? we're gonna talk more about that. you're driving a truck, you slam on the brakes. you skid to a stop. now you're driving on the same truck and you gotta load it up with 15 tons of pianos. you slam on the brakes. you skid to a stop. in which case do you skid further? the one without the pianos. you're in this roller-skating rink. in a roller-skating rink, you're skating around. all of a sudden, someone got a little piece of gum on the floor. you hit the gum, boom, you fall down. you get up, you're okay, 'cause you hit the wooden floor. okay? now you're outside, you're skating in the park, okay, on the concrete. there's an acorn on the ground, right? you're skating by it, whoop, boom, you fall down. somebody called over and they have to get a medic for you. what's the difference? why is it falling on the concrete, you get wiped out? you fall in the wooden floor, bounce a little bit, you're okay.

in september and october our office received about 270 inquiries about 85 percent of these inquiries were from the public and 15 percent from city departments. we received 8 compliants 22 curb ramp requests and 22 for accommodations. we believe it was due to a flyer that was mailed by the department of public works informing the public about the curb ramp request program. >> and the make an mayor's office on disability was also part of that. >> the majority of our complaints were about non compliant barricades and damaged curb ramp requests. and another denied entry with their service dog and pedestrian signals. most of the inquiries from people requesting information about football affordable housing and how to file reasonable accommodation requests on housing. we noticed more people dropping into our office and asking for information about financial assistance, discounted or free transportation and employment and housing opportunities. we also had a referral success story that i would like to inform you about. a couple months back we had a client who came by our office who who was

communication about intelligence well it was it was communication about operations more people have have written this is a matter of record in the. pentagon in the navy that i was somehow involved in intelligence that. i said two conspiracy theories about watergate which you know there's just no basis for but i wish i'd been telegin so it would have been much more interesting than what i did as a investigative reporter have you ever honestly or dishonest slee used wiretapping or gained information in a manner that might be considered out of order you know absolutely they do they cause member i started. the nixon case really and that was all about wiretapping and it kind of had under roma was negative and to get into something like that would be just didn't happen now people have given me transcripts of wire taps that other people did that have been used. including nixon's own wiretap in his own office stick cheney told us that he thinks that was snowden did . was treason was an enemy of the united states to reveal that when you think you know i wish he'd come to me instead of others part

we're in a wonderful conversation about communication, about language, about books in honor of november as jewish book month. we're joined by michael levine who's the novelist of a book called "the wanting." we were talking elier howard about the book clubs and the nature of them, and i'm wondering how you think about the relationship between a reader and a books a someone who lives among the stacks of books and you have people coming in all the time to get books to read, to enjoy. >> yeah, i think it's interesting. i mean at one level it's a very intimate experience. i think for those of us who read a lot, there's this relationship that's very sort of a personal relationship of the reader and the book. then you mention book clubs and it's the opposite. it's a communal experience, and i increasingly really value that communal experience. there's a tradition within judaism of actually studying our texts in partnership with others. there's a line from the book of proverbs that says as iron sharpens iron so does another -- does one person sharpen another, and there's really a quality when

that's about all we know about what he thought about the end of custer's career. perhaps it didn't work out well. be that despite the fact custer had an affair with my opinions daughters or something like that. juicy story. >> yeah, so custer kept going to be had, saying i want to get a reference letter to west point, works the same way that nasa does now. the handset authority promised a couple of people i can't do it for you. and then, custer had an affair with a daughter of a prominent republican in town and this republican kind of thing usually went to his congressman and said hey, write this guy led her to rest when you get him out of here. i don't want him to see my daughter. sipping and it appeared the war at the time as davis. there is this letter that he recommends custer. frankly enough, bigamist off on a cut or, even though he had this affair. so there was some chemistry here that we don't know about. he liked his line. so i think it's fair to say he was nonapproved. >> u.s. however all over not only as of friday the 14th amendment wasn't enough, he was

specifics about that in a minute, another important theme that emerges that we were talking about our meeting earlier is that mixtures matter, it all adds upfinger so some of the chemicals i'm going to talk about you might be exposed to -- kids might be exposed in toys and in food products and in personal care products and all of these different things, so that you get an accumulation of one kind of chemical or a set of like related chemicals from a bunch of different sources, and those might act on the same path that other chemicals from other sources do, so you have this whole mixture of an 80 thousand chemical soup that we all live in and those all combine together to have effects. we also know that those different chemicals and exposures interact with our own characteristics as people, where we were born, where we grew up, the environmental and social stressors that we may or may not have encountered as children and your genes, your diet, our lifestyle, our physical activity, also shape, how vulnerable we might be to those chemical exposures so those are some key concepts to give

change in market rates about as low as it's been, about 20%.e fantastic financial shape. american companies couldn't be better. >> but the point about the public sector having all the debt now. is that something to worry about? you saw the ecb yesterday, saying it's much worse in total leverage than it even was in 2008. >> well, you know, i think we have a debt to gdp ratio that's 70% to 75% that's double what it was before the recession. >> that doesn't count the fed. what about all the central banks and all that sort of -- you don't really -- >> no and i don't think that's a meaningful reason for concern. but 75% is not good. i'd like to get that down. but i don't think that's cataclysmic. i think we can live with it in, you know, we'll have to address it at some point. we don't have to address it now. >> we'll go to a break. kevin, will you answer what you think about that and who else -- and austan, you can eventually answer too. that's really confusing now with you guys right above -- above and below each other. our guests are going to be

but health care isn't about politics. it's about people. it's not about a website that doesn't work. it's not about poll numbers or approval ratings. it's about people. and millions of people have lost their health insurance. millions of people can't see their own doctors and millions are paying more and getting less. obama care doesn't work. it just doesn't work. tell senator hagan to stop thinking about politics and start thinking about people. >> ads just like that one are being rolled out against louisiana senator landrieu and others. i used the example of virginia slims because it weighs to women who wanted to be sexy and thin and groovy and all that. what are they saying? you don't need health care. don't sign up. >> in fairness, they are trying to dissuade everybody from participating in this program, and they see women as a vulnerable group to go after here. the idea -- they don't say it sabotage, but it's hard to describe it as anything but that. now you have this fear campaign to try to get people, the young people, the healthy pe

she wrote about it.e said this congressman with reddish brown hair i met on the train, i don't think she had ever heard of him. he had a book and a famous ambassador to england, that was not her world. >> he didn't remember. >> next up. you're on the air. >> what was her favorite hobbies? what did she like to do in her spare time? >> all right, thank you. i want sounds like we have another student watching us tonight. can you tell us about yourself? >> i'm 12 years old. >> doing wonderfully with 12-year-olds tonight. thank you for calling. >> i love history and watching channels and learning new things every time i turn on the tv. so i saw this channel and i decided to ask a question because i love history. >> i'm from chicago too. >> how perfect be 12 the same age as jaclyn bouvier when she went to the white house? >> you asked about her hobbies. >> they put her in a saddle. she loved being in equestrian competitions. her mother was a rider. she loved all things canine as well. you see her with dogs. sh

it position on this matter was not about principle, and not about what, you know, and not about what i proceed to be what was right as opposed to championing one particular organization over another, that is what i heard, now in my community, and i did not appreciate it. and i don't appreciate the organization saying that and people from our community coming back and telling me that that is how they, that is how they felt. so i don't appreciate that. and i want to make everybody, and i want to make it clear to everybody that my stance on that i took previous on this issue, was about the principle of it, and i did not want to, and i could have explained that but in explaining that i would have to go into detail of the interview and that would have been incorporate and that being said i just want to be clear with people, it was not been championing one organization over another it was about principle. >> and if i could jump out there and say that you know maybe one of us should have said that for commissioner king and because i think that the sentiments stated by the commissioner king

and i was talking about how we need to change our attitude about legality about it being something that has to be and not optional. i was talking about our attitudes towards education that is not just a piece of paper, you really have to know how to do thing. then the subject came up in the mexican family. mexican family is a very strong unit in our country. and women at home have been the keystone holding families together. now, with the entrance of mexico into the modern world, there's a pressure on women to not only be a homemaker but also a bread winner. so that puts enormous pressure on women. and frankly, i don't think we value that, all they do correctly. because it's very difficult -- >> rose: what you intended to say was and perhaps you said and it was misconstrued was that we need to value what women do because they're working not only outside the home but they work inside the home too and they're called on to do more than men are called on. >> precisely. >> rose: so maybe the an is men should take a bigger role at home some women would say. >> it comes back to valuing work. s

you know about that. basically, we have on the basis of forward 12-month basis, the valuations aren't all that rich. and this actually -- this was an interesting research insight that came out of -- and conversation with an investor would says, you know, boy, the markets have really moved up. this is what people are saying. so when you're trying to get people into new strategies and new funds, this is what you're up against. you have to come up with a rationale as to why they don't have to were. really, the question is how far have valuations come since 2008? and what was surprising is when we look at it on a sector basis, i was surprised to see that the biggest increase in valuations, the perceptions of what investors really want are in the consumer discretionary sector. doubling. you're over 32 times next year's earnings, almost 100% increase in valuation. the leading sector and not even somebody close. .you've got to wonder why is that? why are investors valuing these companies so much more than other

we talk about the technology bubble. what about housing? is there a housing bubble? >> i don't think so. i think in certain markets, prices got way ahead of themselves. >> is the west one of them, california? >> i think vegas and phoenix. not california. california never has real demand growth. there's jobs being created in california. but, for example, vegas is one of the worst areas in the nation for job creation since the drop of the housing crisis. a lot of investors were buying houses in this buy-to-rent strategy. >> the economies of the world and -- >> yeah, we did it, too, but we did it in florida. we did it in our mortgage reit as a company, we'll call starwood way point, which we spinning out in february from the parent, and owns 6,000 houses, spent $1 billion. but we did half florida, 25% texas. there's a theme. no taxes. no taxes in those states. so we focus more, we thought long-term capital, and people would move on the long run, you'll have an issue in the country, because the blue states are indebted, have more immigrants, that are poorer, and they hav

talk about not supporting black businesses but do nothing about it. i feel malcolm would call us out on it. malcolm would surely be saying that we need to go back to super but equal. >> and here's a question from james-- >> let's stay with that question. if malcolm x were alive today he probably would be in prison. the u.n. nations state would zero in on the individual or group that prison would be highly likely for truth teller like brother malcolm who loved people so intensely in same thing in terms of responding to your responder, they have to understand how--the retail giants in our communities, the gentrification going son very powerful. these multi nationals, transnational corporations. i live in harlem, and i've watched the commercial and residential gentrification eradicate displaced people, the retail giants have come in. the rent has gone up $100 per-square-foot. who can forward that? one of our leading cultural venues, the lounge up there, the man had his rent tripled. how are you going to keep up and keep a business open if somebody tripli

some people talk about the special advocate, some people talk about amicus.is it possible that you could have a hybrid of this that sometimes you would have the lawyers, the handful -- in at precleared least one case the fisa court review has invited not clear ash clear a meek -- invited non-clear amicus. is there any possibility that instance of the first impression when the application is first presented it, that the court could say all the details are secret and there -- did it have to do with the wall? you could have a hybrid of both of these. do you feel that yes or no? >> i'm trying to think -- for instance, the prison program itself rate some fourth amendment issues. the "reasonable close quote is the cause -- the clause -- "reasonable" is the clause of the fourth amendment. i am not sure you can so easily thengle the secret from "pure question of law." >> i have the same view. an actual example in the 2008 case, the question was whether the lawfulness of the constitutionality of the directive -- the court relied heavily on the target of procedures whe

to where a revolution the way we think about the environment but it is about time the other opposite areas calling is not the answer he got have to worry about protecting populations or to go into choosing is that governments can do. the history is pretty clear weather weighed know how to do it or not we will be sent in their. the other thing to highlight there is a dangerous addiction to the remote warfare. lot nsa has been doing a avoiding putting troops on the ground and it always reminds me but war is so dangerous often it is perceived from cold hearted this and i think the worst american is to minimize the danger in damage that conflict does and one of those is the reliance on remote forms of technology to compensate our willingness to put troops on the ground. one of the only things that stops human beings from fighting is they have had a tough if you outsource to robots to create a precedent we can tell anybody anytime across the planet provided it meets us it could bounce back at some point. >> host: i see that. it a related question is clap conflicts in the past are relevant

something that our chief has been talking about in this whole world we're all talking about technology people have all the technology devices they need and they're using them on muni and people aren't paying attention to their surrounds. we want to educate the people who use the technology to be a little bit more assertive and careful about their surrounds. we've launched a be careful campaign eyes up and keep fiscally on our own ridership to help us to get to zero crime on muni. i know that sounds like impossible but we need to have a goal in order to challenge everyone to pay attention when you've got your eyes up and your phones down earring to be be engaging in our surroundings and we're going to have this done. you're going to see multiple cultural senile and the inspectors will be reminding folks. you'll have officers talking to people hey can you get your eyes up and your phones down. that will help with this movement. we think we can get to zero crime on our muni railways by directing the engagement of our ridership and working with the officers and all the muni folks around us

mark will talk about how we go about doing these folks that we did set ourselves a bit of a high bar in the fact in the first book are its subtitle referred to the race of a lifetime. we have had in 2012 and people have asked how would you possibly top it. we would often say to people, there's not going to be as much drama in 2012. first of all there was a lot of drama in 2012. president obama himself said this election was more consequential. back in 2008 people were voting on a hope and a dream and kind of the historic promise of this election and in 2012 they would be voting on his record and syndicating or rejecting what he had done and a mandate to do more. he also felt he had done a lot over the course of his first two years. weather was passing health care reform deregulating wall street passing the stimulus, those are huge things he did and he felt that the republicans won in 2012 it would undo his accomplishments have you thought the stakes in this election were much higher. it's certainly the case that a lot of republicans were dispirited and by the time he got to the end o

about $800 a month for myself and my wife about four years ago. signed up on the exchange, and i think last year, my insurance and this year00, had i taken that insurance, it would have gone up to $1500 a month. , couldpt out of my group not keep my group for my small business. i had to get rid of it. an individual policy, which is actually about $350 -- a covered very little. it would just keep me from going bankrupt if i got a bad deal. now with the affordable care act and this new company, it is a co-op, and i hope maybe all the getting the end up same kind of situation we have here in kentucky. i am going to be able to get on there for somewhere in the neighborhood of $400, i think it is a gold policy, or month. which is not much more than my major medical policy. dr. co-pays and pharmacy and a lot less max out- of-pocket and a lot less individual -- >> host: but milton, have you hit the send button? are you signed up, are you enrolled? caller: no, not at this point. i've got my application and. i'm trying to make a decision on policy. at this

big ideas. >> big. >> rose: about war, about politics, about the country, about change, all of that. >> rose: i want you to go back today and write this book. but now this guy. >> yes, sir. this guy is almost as interesting. >> rose: that's not true. is it really? >> yes, yes. >> rose: okay. make the case. >> okay. he was interested in 1,000 things. if he read an article one day and it could be about bushwhacking or about birds, it could be about a syria he would have a person to lunch the next day, now wait just be quiet and then he wrote 40 books, he had manic energy, that's the one who gave maxwell good to the very last drop, he was physical extraordinary, right, he had asthma as a kid, somebody says to him at one point you are becoming an invalid you have to do manager to make your body, i know your mind is great but your body has to be there for the mind so he comes out this exercise maniac. >> rose: and he -- >> think of what happened to him. not only does he have the life threatening asthma, his father dies when he is at harvard his beloved father and his wife who is young die

this was never about tactics. it's about ideology. it's the base of the country.nd it's an ideology that wins. it's an ideology that works. >> well, that fellow agreed with her. i don't. was it the tactics of the people who shut down the government or the ideology? that almost caused the fiscal debt default or their tactics. it seems to me it is about tactics. everybody's concerned about the debt to various degrees. everybody worries about the deficits year after year to some degree. and yet the issue, should we turn the government upside down and turn this country into a laughing stock to make a point ideologically? >> if you look at the virginia governors race and pull out the exit data, there's no question that ken cuccinelli had a major problem with women. you know, his gender gap with women overall was not terrible, but if you drill down further, chris, he lost unmarried women by 42 points. and that's just not sustainable if you want to win statewide elections or certainly national elections. so he had a problem with his identity with women. so i think that t

protecting yourself, not about social security, not about protecting the commons, not about protecting the environment, turns everybody into a potential enemy. i mean, we cannot mediate our relationships it seems any longer in this culture in ways in which we would suggest and adhere to the notion that justice is a matter of caring for the other, that compassion matters. >> so this is why you write that america's no longer recognizable as a democracy. >> no. look, as the social state is crippled, as the social state is in some way robbed, hollowed out and robbed of its potential and its capacities, what takes its place? the punishing state takes its place. you get this notion of incarceration, this, what we call the governing through crime complex where governance now has been ceded to corporations who largely are basically about benefiting the rich, the ultra-rich, the big corporations and allowing the state to exercise its power in enormously destructive and limited ways. and those ways are about militarizing the culture, criminalizing social -- a wide swathe of social behavior and k

it about him was in one thousand nine hundred nine and i did a performance about in a cafe at a show that i had just started and culture rats without regrets and it was a show that was about just it was like this just kind of long diatribe about scientology and it's like cults in my family and everything is the first time i really publicly said anything about it in particular and it went online and within days that they were out my house they tracked me down pretty sure that they tap my phone so i was being followed everywhere i went and so i mean they they basically come after you like some kind of pseudo crazy. mafia i think that they don't want to bring more attention to just like the whole general that side of my family and that story because it's a little embarrassed seem to have the same name sake as your general idea t. . or great founder and leader actively warring against scientology for his entire life as well i mean the story of l. ron jr is a pretty nasty and embarrassing one because he used to be a member of the cult as well actually helped write a lot of their protocols

not about the book as much but more about you.ok, how has it changed you? >> that's really an excellent question, shannon. you know, i think for me almost two years that i spen spent goio juÁrez to research this book and really seeing firsthand not reading accounts even though the many excellent accounts in the papers and so on, but seeing firsthand what can happen to a society, to the community, to a city that descends into this kind of chaos. you just can't imagine living in a city where there is no one to turn to. there is no authority. there are no police that you can turn to. you are at the mercy of the forces that are around you. some of those forces are official and some of them are organized crime forces. it doesn't matter. nobody feels protected. nobody feels that they have a voice. by seeing the day-to-day you know rs, -- juÁrez. i hung out with a lot of juÁrez a journalist. so that meant that i had the opportunity to visit a lot of crime scenes with them. because these guys all traveled with police scanners in the cars

i worry about that. >> i worry about it as well.about all of the concerns and it's almost like people become numb to the outrage. on the free-speech issue, it was only a couple of months ago that we learned that it's not just reporters were being looked at, it is the parents of reporters. james rosen, is phone information from his house was taken. you have the executives from those phone lines getting taken. >> i had every single one of my pizza orders deleted. [laughter] and you're right. i guess what i worry about is we are making a big deal of this. but i always tell them, what if it was reversed been upwards it was looked around? >> it's not just fox reporters. that's when they got nervous. and they are all clamoring about this. but the writer left, be careful, because the next that could be you. >> i think it is the bigger issue of not only government surveillance looking at reporters and their sources are, but now we have the legislation in the senate or you have senators and politicians trying to find out who qualifies as a j

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about job loss. it is very sad that a person has to keep a crappy job just because they have health care benefits for an ill relative. now they have choices. this has just happened to my nephew. he was able to move to another job because he is now going to be able to have health care, even though his wife has a pre- existing condition. secondly, we have a wonderful system in this country. the problem has been access. needs to be emphasized. access is the problem. emergency room care is the most expensive care in the world. republicans put up a plan, i romney, it covered 5 million people. they are the ones that won vouchers for medicare and so forth. people do not want to sign up for the affordable care act, they should keep whatever crappy care they have. who do you think they will blame when they get sick? the first point you made, something i have heard and to make this point a bunch to support -- i have heard nancy pelosi make this point. if you leave a job, you are no longer tethered to a bad job

it's about people in an interesting way and it's about politics and it's about coalitions. >> exactly. i would say for government office. now i am in politics in a different way. our social action program are just fantastic. we have these youth orchestra program. we have now 13,000 kids. >> rose: who is we. >> we, the grupo salinas. we have a use orchestra. it's a heart warming thing you've seen. i hope you get a chance to see one. we have kids who many of them never played an instrument and in four months they're doing a symphony. and we have 13,000 kids now on that. and this is after just three years. >> rose: here's an idea i actually talked to larry page about this recently. it is the idea of the definition of a corporation, not whether it's a person or not and all those kinds of things has legal issues. it is the power of the resources of corporations and how they can be used. >> if you organize them correctly. >> rose: exactly. >> i think a government could be run in a corporate way but with social action in my. >> rose: right, exactly. it's because you have the human resources,

what we are talking about now is the technology behind it. >> no we are not, we are not talking about the technology. we are talking about content, we are talking what the president promised. >> okay. >> rose: and the technology part is not working but they have not had a whole range of things that are crucial for the development of this legislation. >> thank you for posing it that way, because let me say this. first of all, it is a big heavy lift to pass it. presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all americans. we passed it. it was challenged over and over again in court, it stood the test of the court, the supreme court declared it constitutional, in the first year of its implementation before the full implementation kids 18 to 26, on their parents, their children are subjected to previous condition as an obstacle to their getting insurance. seniors, medicare, stability stretched out for years, lower cost of prescription drugs, free checkups, no copay, no deductible, and so that implementation of it went very smoothly. then we come to the di

you stop thinking about -- you stop thinking about, so much about the individual character and you can see the shapes of the narrative. >> help us understand julius caesar. >> well, the first ever production of julius caesar i ever saw was at the national theatre with gill gug playing julius caesar and i was a student standing at the back of the olivia theatre and i remember not understanding a word of it. just wondering how they could kill this benign old man, because in the play, shakespeare is quite -- sort of cautious with his portrayal of cesar. you don't kind of understand what it is that he must have done without going into the history prior to the actual death, and because we set it in a women's bringable and in that there is a great deal of hierarchy and all kinds of politics that must come into play, we decided in our production, i am actually a bring guard, which isn't revealed until the very end of the play, a warden and the top dog, the butchest, the bitch, the, you know, she gets her way, so that you do understand hopefully, the audience can then understand why it is that

similarly when we talk about price and price transparency in health care, generally we're talking about describing the price service to a purchaser, not the cost it takes to deliver that product to the recipient the service. so there lies the problem. airlines do one thing, they fly people from point a to point b, but many hospitals do more than provide a unit of service such as a knee replacement. they provide emergency services to those who cannot pay. they conduct ground breaking research and they train the physicians and the health care professionals of tomorrow. these are services that have great society benefits, however they are costs. the consumers and the purchasers don't recognize when making purchasing decisions. hospital prices are also affected by the uniqueness of the communities they serve throughout california. we have micro economies, geographic differences and the patients served and the level and discount of charity care provided to the uninsured and under insured throughout the state. and hospitals have higher share of care provided by programs that have low reimburs

about.wrote a book, as jp mentioned, four years ago or three years ago called "game change." some of you may have read that book or seen the hbo movie. [applause] if you preferred the movie to the book, just keep it to yourself. [laughter] much as we love that movie, the book was our baby. this, in this book we tried to do roughly the same thing that we did in the last book which is really just to write about the high human drama of running for president and the people who put themselves forward in this extraordinary american spectacle, one of the great competitions in any sphere of life in our country or any other. mark's going to talk more about how we go about doing these books, but we did set ourselves a little bit of a high bar in the fact that the first book our subtitle referred to 2008 as the race of a lifetime. so, you know, you head into 2012 and people ask, well, how are yo probably going -- how are you possibly going to top the race of a lifetime? hillary clinton and barack obama

>> the hashtag is about ring, and tweeting about the opening bell.there was no executive on top of the podium there ringing the bell at nyse this morning. taking a look at who exactly it was, sir patrick stewart, the actor, vivian hart, an activist, a young kid, wearing a tutu and she's an activist against child slavery and included a member of the boston police. and there are questions how high will it go and how much people should buy it on-- >> it's interesting you brought that up. it's a fantastic point. do you think that twitter is saying to the world, listen, maybe somehow answering questions now they're going to make money and the impact they have on our day-to-day lives by having such an eclectic mix-up there? >> everyone can use twitter please sign up, they want people engaged. a couple of days ago they launched a twitter explainer, a discover page showing what a tweet is, what it does, how it looks, what does it do? how can you follow your friends or famous people. a lot of different dynamics in a last minute pitch by the public, we can lau

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boeing concerned about the engines in its mer premier plans did and it is not just about the jobs. one of blackrock's top money men says there is something else we should be looking at when it comes to economic recovery. and while what we are calling thanksnado. already a mess out west, it is heading east. that and more this hour on "markets now." ♪ good to have you with us. dagen is off today, should be back tomorrow. as we start off, one of these days you look and want to make sure you are in the right year. nasdaq 4000, nicole petallides loving the round numbers. nicole: that is a great reference. 5000 way back when. absolutely a day of round numbers, impressive ones at that. vanessa nasdaq at the level of 4000 like we did earlier since the year 2000. it is somewhat a monumental day. new highs for the dow and the s&p 500 above the 1800 mark so new highs as we continue to watch the market gaining that momentum and they will not quit. other names on the move, let's take a look at sears. a great performer on the s&p 500. stocks hitting a new high. rewarding loyal customers but they

lot to talk about about history. i wish you could tell us why -- you can go on youtube and you have more disclosure, more accountability, and a lot more knowledge in any of the public outcries, radio, whatever. what i would like to ask -- do you think there was a conspiracy with john f. kennedy and the corruption between j edgar hoover and a cia cabinet member going on at the same time. president kennedy was trying to break down the secret organization and all the secrecy going on in the background. he was set up -- the next thing you know, the man was assassinated. it becomes history. guest: it may be that you have been watching oliver stone's movie, too often. my personal opinion is there was no conspiracy. that is not propped miller -- that is not a popular opinion with some people. that is just my personal opinion. we may never know the truth, but on the face of it, it appears it is what the majority of people think that there was a lone assassin. host: back to your piece in the "smithsonian." how did you come ac

>> about $300 million.. >> lars, let me ask you, do you think -- i heard the argument before about average investors not being able to do it. do you think it's a good deal? or do you think people are better off? >> well, what i want to do in this book is turn the argument on its head. it's not so much whether i come to you and claim, what is the ability to distinguish between me and 10 other lars that come and ask for your money? to say to you, i can pick the one out of maybe 1 to 1 1/2 out of 10 that perform in a ten-year period. that's a tall order. if you can't do that, you probably don't have edge and you'd be better off in an index fund. >> where do you stand on etfs? >> i think they're a great vehicle. when i studied this from a theoretical perspective in school, etfs were not a great alternative. now there are quite a bit and much cheaper than they were. >> would you ever invest in a hedge fund? >> yeah. i sit on boards with several hedge funds. >> okay. >> keep in mind, i'm not -- >> you have edge?

we talked to the nacs about that.present about 80% of the fueling stations earn the country and said when you see auto a trend like this, often gas stations will cut prices over the weekend just to deep up with the competition. so that's good news and a reason to keep on shopping around for your gas. back to you. >> i'm going to drive out to santa barbara to fill up. thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> secretary of state john kerry is in geneva switzerland for talks with his european counterparts. on the table potential deal with iran over its nuclear program in exchange for some easing of sanctions including, this is important, oil sanctions. joining us from barclay's, nine months crude nearly hit -- talking brepts, european and middle east, nearly hit $120 a barrel, now about 105. how big could this iranian deal be if it happens? >> if you had a deal that was a comprehensive deal that could bring back 1 million barrels of lost iranian exports it would be huge. but we remain really concerned if we look at congres

lot of debate about it.we know lee harvey oswald, as we all know he was arrested. he was the man in custody for killing john f. kennedy but he was murdered himself while in police hands. that happened just two days later after the kennedy assassination. our guests coming up recently reenacted how oswald might have done it. >> i am one floor above where lee harvey oswald was positioned that fateful day to take his three shots. there it is. this is essentially the vantage point for oswald that day. you have clear point as the motorcade rolls through and you acquire the target, bam, bam, bam. >> quite a view from the book depository. that was mike baker who is with us here now, cia officer and oft an guest and joins us now from boise, idaho. mike, you've got your own special on the kennedy assassination coming up on the travel channel. tell us about it. >> right. well, it's a new series called "america declassified" on sundays at 10:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. every episode we take two or three stories. the id

we talk about redistribution. it's not that people who earn -- who have a good job and earn a living don't want to pay taxes. you want to pay taxes for systems that work. when you talk about reform, it's actually to make things better to see if you can reduce costs. we knew -- we were called all sorts of names for saying this experiment was not going to work. now that it's not working, not only were you -- right to where you were before, now you're also accused of being selfish because you don't want to pay into a system that's not working. they're masters at pitting americans against each other. very unfortunate ball iternrtun not going to solve a single problem. >> i think it's time to stop talking. it's my piece of advice. try to come out every day and -- then something else goes wrong. the progressive tax system is redistribution. >> absolutely. >> you live under a progressive tax system, what -- and you accept it, i mean, i happen to be for a flat tax. if you believe in a progressive tax system, then you beli

about. it is going to come back to bite the democrats. i do not see that happening. we do not have the courts packs. what they will do is take it to the courts. when the republicans take over, of course the democrats will find -- the courts will find in the democrats favor. it will not hurt the democrats. host: ok. derek from tampa, florida. caller: hello. i want to say that, what the democrats did was not breaking the law. the constitution gives the senate and the house power. they set their own rules. why can't people understand that? democrats have the power. they set their own precendents. they can change them at any time. also, this idea that obama is an illegitimate president. i am from florida. how could they get -- he won the election, overwhelmingly. he is the american people's president. i do not believe that everyone is racist against obama. the spirit in washington is so foul, that no matter which democrat is in office, republicans have decided that they will tear them down. i do

and the revelations about u.s. government and other governments surveillance practices over the past few months have sparked a serious debate about the laws governing surveillance of private education by the intelligence community. the democratic countries undermine the freedom and the trust votes on 10 of citizens cherish for a and it has an impact on her economic growth and security in government have been considering proposals that can limit the free flow of information and this could have severe unintended consequences, such as a reduction in data security and increased costs and decreased competitiveness and this poses a significant threat to the internet and what we will face is the effect of creation of this and this would allow the u.s. to take a first step towards rebuilding the trust that is necessary. transparent transparency and national security are not always exclusive. we have published a report where we share information about the law enforcement of user data from governments around the world in the

about the affordable care act. if you could imagine yourself in that room, what do you think was being said? you've been around democratic senators. >> i've been around a few of these myself. well, i'm not so sure i can say much on the air, because i'll probably get into swear words, but i'm sure they were expressing the frustration that they were hearing from their constituents and from the american people about what exactly -- where exactly the white house is going and what does it intend to do to get this website up and running. but like i said, i'm not surprised that this meeting occurred. i would have been shocked if it had occurred a couple of weeks ago. but the fact of the matter is, it was, i believe, just a desire to try and hear the senators out, reassure them, and pledge that they were going to get this done and up and running as quickly as possible. >> i would like to hear both of you gentleman respond to this question. there's two ways of thinking about the politics of the affordable care act as it pla

what about the gups -- the guns debate we were having about ammo?r me, the humor opportunity there is i don't think -- i think there is enough guns around. you want my -- too many. gun violence, as we know, has been trending downwards. but then there are these horrible, cataclysmic spikes and these horrible things. so with them firing that editor who said a thing that -- can't be argued. that to me is just like -- it just shows the nra puppet string pullers, oh, got to get this guy. it's so silly to me that people -- why don't you want to have your point of view challenged? >> absolutely. in your world, there is a lot of figurative death. like the media has to die over and over before you get good. can you talk about how long did you die out there before you're like, well, now i'm actually good? >> well, there's a thing. you have to -- you have to be sensitive, but you also have to be like blind to the fact that a lot of people are like you're not funny at all. you should quit. and you have to keep going. you know? and so it's -- so a while, you kno

about 26% i think are african american, and about 20% are latino. but most of the people on food stamps are african-americans -- >> you meant to say whites. >> excuse me? >> that most are white. >> most are white. but besides that if you look at the demographics, whether they are liberal, conservative, or middle of the road, it's right even, and just as many conservative political people get snap payments as do liberals, and a lot of those people are caucasians, and there are a lot of areas that have forever. >> there is talk about having work requirements or josh training requirements for people who receive snap, but there is the argument that almost half of snap recipients do have jobs -- >> children. >> -- and i want to show you something. >> was looking matthew 26:11, the poor will always be with us. and seconds the loanians 3:10, for even when we were with you, the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat. >> there seems to be very little movement to cut subsidies to wealthy farmers. he is one of them. and he has pulled in $3.5 million in fed

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about.t: let's talk about how we fix that divide. what are your suggestions for narrowing the divide? guest: i wrote a piece back near memorial day, with "u.s. news and world report," and there is a conflation of things, like veterans day today, which is supposed to be a celebration of veterans for their service and patriotism and their sacrifices. and memorial day which is about those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, and they are very different days. if you have known anybody who has passed away, memorial day is a very somber event. it is not about going out to the beach for the weekend. so there are a few ways that you can narrow this gap a bit. one of them would be for the military and others to accept that there are other points of service out there. things like teachers and municipal workers and others, who are actually serving their communities. in certain cases, the police and firemen do, but we need to expand the concept of service and we need to accept that not everybody needs