(robert altman) we had 4 assassins incarcerated and had for years., who can sit and really tell you why any of these people did the act they did. (gunshot) so my assassination was politically inspired, but it was not a political assassination, because i'm saying it doesn't make any difference. okay, everybody, sing! somebody, sing! (screams from the crowd) (narrator) in 1968, haskell wexler used the riots surrounding the democratic national convention in chicago as a backdrop for a feature film. "medium cool" employed real and fictional elements to explore the impact of tv on the 60's traumatic event. (screams and commotion from the crowd) the title "medium cool" is derived by marshall mcluhan, who spoke of television as being a "cool" medium. (haskell wexler) what was happening was happening in the street and there were other cameras shooting. i had a camera where my actress was involved in the situation. (crowd chanting) people in the streets recognize that their validity would not be certified unless it was on television. when it was on tv it exis

earlier we had altman on.ut we're seeing some earnings that aren't great and we're wondering whether it's going to be a tough quarter in terms of earnings and yet the market is high and i was asking whether qe3 has gotten us to a point where maybe the market is ahead of itself based on whether it's not justified by fundamentals. do you care about things like that or are you just always buying stocks that you like? >> i think you've got to focus on the business and you are investing in businesses here, we're not trading stocks so the key needs to be understanding what is going on at a business level. i don't want to be ignorant to the idea that the shorter term events may indicate something about the strength of the business and how we should think about it, but no, i'm not sitting here before any earnings announcement getting excited about whether it's going to meet or beat the earnings. >> in terms of china or europe you might look at that based on the individual companies you're talking about and whether it

his name is john altman. >> i'm chris hansen with dateline nbc. >> from the get-go, altman was not happy i left the job with 15 kitchens going on to meet a customer. i can't believe you just wasted my time. >> you need to listen to something though before you get cranked up. >> you just wasted my time. >> i have a list of people who say they hired you off of craigslist. >> right. >> and they gave you money. >> right. >> you did not do the work? >> right. i have three people in the last three years that played games with me and didn't get their kitchen. that's called business. >> fair enough. >> he clearly wasn't thrilled when i told him we brought scott and daniella long. >> why don't we have a little discussion with scott and danielle. >> i said get out of my [ bleep ] now you're aggravating me and you're going to get in trouble. >> with the music playing from a nearby ice cream truck, altman made clear that he was no there softy. >> just chat with scott and danielle. >> i don't care about scott and danielle. talk to them about what? >> about their complaints you didn't do the work you

joining me now to discuss today's report from the obama administration's perspective, roger altman, chairman of evercore partner, now a supporter of the obama campaign joining us from seattle. great to see you. first of all the jobs number and the view from wall street of this, this economy kind of bumping along on the basement, but is it really a turn around at this stage? >> well, today's numbers are just good across the board. as greg gibbs said, not only did we add jobs, but the work week expanded and incomes expanded. and i think it shows that the president's economic policies are working. we've now had 31 straight months of private sector job growth, that's 5.2 million jobs. and we're moving in the right direction. and changing course now to go back to the policies that got us into this mess in the first place doesn't make any sense at all. >> you've been through a lot of presidential debates, you've watched them in the past, you were involved with the hillary clinton campaign last time around and this time, of course, with president obama. let's talk about the president obama who show

city hall and altman was one of the buildings vandalized you can see some of those windows were broken. police say it happened around 7:00 shortly after an anti-war protest they think and or kissed in masks in black clothing joined up with about 250 protesters. the also targeted restaurants we saw a car vandalized and storefronts. as well as the tribune building. they also broke about 10 windows at city hall. mark b. area baseball disappointing losses with the giants and for the athletics. they suffered the worst playoff loss in history. the skull to the top of the second at at&t park. a one nothing for it at that point they never looked back. another player striking out. he retired the first 14 giants he faced top of the fourth 2-0 reds. (car horn) paying with your smartphone instead of cash... (phone rings) that's a step forward. with chase quickpay, you can send money directly to anyone's checking account. i guess he's a kicker... oh, a step forward and chase what matters. the keepers of the loafs. the people who will never lower the bar. our world started in deep green grass and ra

general armstrong has ordered a retreat and jennings wrote in his memoir that altman was chaos. dolley madison that the white house treasures and jumped into her carriage but before she dashed off she turned to jennings and the other remaining behind for the moment and said save that portraits of george washington. do not allow the british to defile this important image of the father of our country. dolley madison deserves the credit for the impulse but paul jennings and two of his co-workers are actually the ones who deserve the credit for rescuing the portrait himself. rather miraculously it was carried off as a giant stretch of can this. you may have heard it was cut out with a knife and rolled up. not true. present-day conservationists prove that it was never cut out, never rolled up. with great effort this frame was broken and the large picture carried away to safety to a barn in maryland. jennings's legacy includes the authorship of the first white house memoir and a major role in rescuing of a portrait of george washington. but there are other important elements to his le

roger altman positive on housing saying the industry should see a boom by 2015. >> and he's not alone>> sounds far away though, doesn't it? >> but let's not forget that's the benchmark where the fed is going to keep rates low until that point. today, jpmorgan's jamie dimon said he believes housing has turned a corner. wells fargo's chief financial officer tim sloan joins us first on cnbc so size up the housing market and their quarter for us. tim, good to see you. welcome back. >> hi, bill. how are you? >> doing well. do you agree -- i imagine you do, but to what degree do you see a recovery in housing right now? >> we see a recovery in the housing business, and it's actually pretty strong. we started to see it in the nondistressed portion of the business last year but really beginning in the second quarter we have seen a sustained recovery. we're very optimistic in the housing business. >> can you define housing recovery? it's in the eye of the homeowner if they're very under water. recovery could be very far away if you would just like to see a transaction get done and volume spike

but then roger altman said a housing boom is coming. i'm leaning toward the laert based on supplies and demographics but with a big caveat here -- that boom is not coming any time soon. still, if you are playing the stocks, better to get in before the boom. right? we know that's been the case with home builders but more than 140 companies across about 30 sectors are already directly benefiting from the turnaround in housing. that according to john burns real estate consulting. take a look at year over year stock price appreciation for companies that make wall board. that's u.s. gypsum and eagle materials. also flooring company stocks up 124%. that's your lumber liquidators and armstrong world industries. equipment rentals are up 76%. then there is the unexpected plays like those that are big into land which are up 56%. that's the st. joe company, the howard hughes corp., for rester group. or perhaps in the mortgage category. ellie mae is already up 405% going public last year. opportunities are vast. that is of course if you believe in

. >> what was the most one thing you learned from robert altman?ank you. much success with "the master." that does it for us. we leave you this morning with a look back at what has been an incredible week with debates and much more. we hope you have a great, great weekend. i'm certainly looking forward to it. >> come back on monday. >> see you on monday. >> we're going to win florida, we're going take back the white house. >> for the queen tire country to come together. >> get us back on track. >> we'll make that happen. >> romney's got momentum but there's another thing he's got and that's enthusiasm among his supporters. >> 49% favor governor mitt romney. >> there's an opportunity for governor romney to look like a president, like a leader. >> set out a very strong approach for america being a leader. >> is he moving to the center? >> i don't think he's moving to the center. i think he's always been where he's been. >> is he someone getting into office and support anti-abortion legislation yes or no? >> you can ask mitt romney. >> will he be more

you'd think that would make everybody get back to the table. >> everybody finds god. >> we had altmanring in his, and i don't know if awe greed with him about how long it takes to do actual tax reform. >> yeah, no, i covered some of it, yeah. so doing a real simpson-bowles is not going to happen in three months, six months, a year. >> no. >> so doing the cliff first it's going to seem like it's going to be we're going to be europe kicking the can down the road. >> and roger afterwards said don't confuse simpson-bowles with solving the fiscal cliff. >> that's what i mean. >> they are different ideas. could i play one bit of sound from alan simpson? we need to play a little bit of alan simpson every day. let's hear that sound i have from him. >> you spend a buck a second, you wouldn't hit a trillion for 32,500 years and if you spent a million a day since the birth of christ you wouldn't be at a trillion and the big bank theory of the universe happened 13 million 600 million years ago and that ain't close to a trillion and we owe 16 of those babies. >> you know, then there was the quote

i just want to ask you about what roger altman just said.or romney walked away from the tax cut. did he? >> not at all. i think he did an excellent job tonight. both of critiquing the position that we're now in under the president and presenting a choice in terms of his own plan. i agree with a lot of what was said in the panel. i think he was dynamic and in command. i think this may have changed the dynamics of the race. what he said tonight, is look, he wants to do in one package what ronald reagan did in two. he wants to cut spending and then also reform deductions and credits while protecting the middle class. and reagan did that over a period of four or five years. he wants to do it all right away. i agree with what everybody said. he did a great job explaining how he worked with bipartisanship in massachusetts. >> let me jump in here. how far does this take romney in your view? how important was this tonight? terms of actually moving the needle for the governor? >> well, this was the first time the american people have had an opportuni

and altman bell industry is backed up on its feet. -- the automobile industry is backed up on its feet. forward means that we all have to keep working so that we can create a better life for all americans. no matter where you come from or who you love, we have to keep moving forward. that is why i'm so excited to see all of you here today. the election is just 17 days away. believe me. we are counting it down, are to be? we?ren't need to get out there and take people to the polls. you are already working for us. i can not thank you enough. you have a program that is for chefs for four more years -- f our shifts for four more years. if you can get anyone from exercise group or schools come get them to save a little bit of time. my sister said she was out canvassing in pennsylvania. if everybody pulls together, that this election is between two very different choices. i want to thank you again for being here. you are the ones that are going to take us forward. thank you so much. [applause] and if people's ♪ ♪ highe love is lifting me er ♪ "your lvoe keeps higher"s lifting me by jackie wi

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that's a little different that what roger altman has written about, wrote an op.s they're looking at a brighter side in terms of the economy. >> it's hard to see where the demand is coming from where job growth is so weak and republicans are talking about trying to, you know, bring the government deficit down, trying to straighten out the economy in the long run. so i don't see final demand so things might be better four years from now and therefore the president will look very good in hindsight, but it's going to be a hell of a ride getting there. >> you say might look better four years from now. >> i don't know. are they going to do a good job? it's hard to do a good job. i would argue obama did a good job because the situation was so awful where he started out. looking with hindsight you could have done better than you did. >> what do you think has to happen most? you worry about some of the austerity but you think we need to flush the system and deal with bitter medicine? >> well, one thing, the really good things about the united states, you got to be much mo

altman, when there's a break up, you have to of profitable entities that can create capital. i will leave it there. that is the last word for right now. back to you. >> a couple quick thoughts. i think he has identified that the subsidy the key issue. do the funders of large banks have a subsidy? and will they be bailed out in the next crisis? i think a.i.g. is the test case. everyone has identified that is the most frustrating aspect of the various efforts to save the economy. the assets of the firm were collateralized against each other. there was no time to impose a hair cut on the founders of a.i.g.. every insurance regulator in every country and every county would have been obligated to destroy the firm. in the firm would have collapsed among itself. there's nothing else it can be done. the firm has exited in a different way. smaller. very different. and maybe that is a good outcome. it is certainly a frustrating one. i think now there is an authority to do it differently. going and, everyone understands that the liquidation of party will be invoked. i cannot tell you ho

general armstrong has ordered a retreat and jennings wrote in his memoir that altman was chaos. dolley madison that the white house treasures and jumped into her carriage but before she dashed off she turned to jennings and the other remaining behind for the moment and said save that portraits of george washington. do not allow the british to defile this important image of the father of our country. dolley madison deserves the credit for the impulse but paul jennings and two of his co-workers are actually the ones who deserve the credit for rescuing the portrait himself. rather miraculously it was carried off as a giant stretch of can this. you may have heard it was cut out with a knife and rolled up. not true. present-day conservationists prove that it was never cut out, never rolled up. with great effort this frame was broken and the large picture carried away to safety to a barn in maryland. jennings's legacy includes the authorship of the first white house memoir and a major role in rescuing of a portrait of george washington. but there are other important elements to his le

it's by alex altman and michael scheerer. we had a poll yesterday which got a lot of attention.rucible of america. it represents america. it has all the diversity of america. so all in this one state, it's like a microcosm of all of america. and that -- it's a fascinating story. >> it really is. i traveled around a lot as a young kid. and i remember ed rellits in columbus. i was 18 or 19, and i just looked around, and it really -- it's where america all sort of collides. that state is -- >> even how the eastern part of the state which has been more affected by the auto bailout compared to the western part of the state. so people in that state, you know, have the range of opinions about the race that the whole country does. so that's why it's so pivotal. >> and i was born there. >> were you really? >> yeah. >> what part? >> cincinnati. >> that explains a lot. >> i guess it does. >> how long did you live in cincinnati? >> only till i was 3 or 4. >> 3 or 4. it explains a little less now. >> steven spielberg and rick stengel, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> the new "time" cover

general armstrong has ordered a retreat and jennings wrote in his memoir that altman was chaos. dolley madison that the white house treasures and jumped into her carriage but before she dashed off she turned to jennings and the other remaining behind for the moment and said save that portraits of george washington. do not allow the british to defile this important image of the father of our country. dolley madison deserves the credit for the impulse but paul jennings and two of his co-workers are actually the ones who deserve the credit for rescuing the portrait himself. rather miraculously it was carried off as a giant stretch of can this. you may have heard it was cut out with a knife and rolled up. not true. present-day conservationists prove that it was never cut out, never rolled up. with great effort this frame was broken and the large picture carried away to safety to a barn in maryland. jennings's legacy includes the authorship of the first white house memoir and a major role in rescuing of a portrait of george washington. but there are other important elements to his le

. >>> tomorrow on "squawk box," our guest host is roger altman. >> we'll also be talking to the head tweet this morning. in an annual letter to shareholders yesterday, microsoft ceo steve ballmer suggested he sees the company becomes a little bit more like apple. we're asking you to complete the sentence. if microsoft wants to be a little bit more like the fruit, it at first needs to do what? chris writes, microsoft trying to be more like apple is like your grandparents trying to be more like your parents. james writes, create one good product like a phone and then steadily decrease that product's quality over the years. and it first needs to do nothing, neither shows any innovation as of late. >> wow. >> the harsh words -- >> insults to apple. >> that's a good point. i mean -- and pointed out on twitter, if we do get an ipad mini invite, it would usually happen in the next couple of hours. meantime, i know you're watching starbucks, as people say starbucks is spinning a web around this company and they don't even know it. >> specifically for green mountain. there was a note up from

paters patrick altman looks at the change it will have on cuba. >> outside havana, you can almost always been complicated and expensive, many turn to black humor. few people call this park by its real name. instead, they refer to it as the the park between life and death. on one side is a funeral parlor and the other, the united states interaction. the government of fidel's brother, raul, just announced changes to cuban laws that could mean a greater freedom to travel. the laws would mean cubans would no longer need a government exit visa each time they leave the island or an invitation from someone in that country. sports stars, doctors and government officials still face restrictions, but most cubans now will be able to stay abroad for up to two years and for the first time, can take young children with them. reforms that were welcomed outside this havana immigration office. >> translator: this is good. they should have done it years ago, but at least now, things will be easier. >> translator: i sincerely think raul is doing things better. but they left him a lot of problems to fix. >>