what was it like to be directed by robert altman? >> a huge pleasure. of the things about robert that was so fascinating was to really get to work with him, which i did. i knew him over the years. i really got to know him doing that movie. the only thing that surprised me, i knew he loved directing, but being on a set with him for ten weeks, i had no idea how joyous it was for him. the where no matter how late it was -- he was always including you and always a party and sustained and real because nothing he did was ever not real. >> also an innovator in his craft. sound was a perfect example. he really changed the way we hear conversations, now it's all we know. >> the way we hear conversations in movies, what he really did, the great kind of innovation, it wasn't just to be stylish and tricky, never going to go out of fashion. he found a way to portray on film the real conversation really sounds. that's what we're doing here and you couldn't do that until he did it and got punished several times foredoing it and didn't care. >> that is amazing and to h

you mentioned roger altman. his firm has been an advisor to hire and it's inversion transaction.a major donor. advising on aeen deal that would allow a shifting of a tax residents to the netherlands for mylan. he did not want to comment. the be the most prominent democratic example, heather , the, the ceo of mylan daughter of democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia. she donated to president obama's campaign in 2008, and joe manchin himself said it should -- we should go after these type of deals even if it involves his daughters company. the larger issue the democrats make and a lot of folks on capitol hill make say the solution here is corporate tax reform -- get rid of not just using version transactions, but clean up the tax code, lower the corporate tax rate, and you will not have these deals in the first place. >> and of course goes on to a longer topic, a longer solution, and it does not address the problem at hand right now that the inversions are happening and they continue to have it. peter, thank you so much, peter. peter cook, our washington correspondent ed ma

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problems from education to the health care tax reformers people want to see this in half and because altman the republican president as well. [applause] >> i have pay enormous respect. >> care i if the mayor called benchmarks. i did not like some parts of but they did and it was missing a lot as we put our own day 1/3 to exceeded those benchmarks. reassume to the president would choose his same he word pro his budget was set up by his executive order so we did expect him, the house republicans to do our thing and we thought like bill clinton did for the sake of 2012 to surround him is support him and the demagogue did not offer incredible fiscal a tentative and made while we still have the same problem over us. look. but my personal theory is. [laughter] ideology. at that particular vomit it is clear what decision was being made it into i think of was more than ideological interest for this is something that was more moderate and i just believe that that moment when but not to offer the credible alternative is what this industry issued. [applause] >> i agree. you might it is a personal stor

the popular sitcom "mork & mindy" when he made his big screen premier as popeye for director robert altmani yam what i yam what i yam ♪ and that's all that i yam because i yam what i yam ♪ >> popeye and the handful of films that followed were mostly disappointing. >> good morning, vietnam! >> finally, director barry levinson found the actor a role that offered the perfect fit. >> is that me or does that sound like an elvis presley movie? viva dan nang. >> his role as a road military disc jockey won him a nomination for best actor. >> too loud? >> as did his role as a quiet and inspiring boarding school english teacher in 1989's "dead poets society." >> dead poets dedicated to sucking the marrow out of life. >> i think dead poets was probably my favorite. just to get started, the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie. i once met a guy who said i gave up my job at sears and became a teacher because of you. i went i hope things are going well. >> excuse me! >> williams earned a third such oscar nod for his depiction of a man who becomes unhinged and homeless after the

talk about your involvement. >> well, i met robert altman when i was about 22 years old.at. >> i've known him ever since that. he's a god for actors, robert. when we set out to make "gosford park" it started as a vague idea and i ran to robert and said would it interest you to do a murder mystery in england. i thought it might because he never wanted to do the same thing twice and he always wanted a different city and different groups of people and yet there were similarities to his movies. so much to my surprise we got to make "gosford park" because robert sent up his tent in london, got a nice hotel room. we had a wonderful script, no money and no actors. as soon as people heard that robert was in london, every actor in london basically called and said, please, can i come in and be in the movie. >> does it strike the both of you now, we had a news item about the top-grossing movie over the weekend is a science fiction movie, it's machines. these were stories, these were movies with beginning, middle and end. does it strike you now the huge difference between altman's fi

the popular sitcom "mork & mindy" when he made his big screen premier as popeye for director robert altman popeye and the films that followed were mostly disappointing. >> good morning vietnam! >> finally, director barry levinson found the actor a role that offered the perfect fit. >> is that me or does that sound like an elvis presley movie? viva dan nang. >> his role as a disk jockey earned him an emmy for best actor. >> too loud? >> as did his role as a quiet and inspiring boarding school english teacher in 1989's "dead poets society." >> dead poets dedicated to sucking the marrow out of life. >> i think dead poets was probably my favorite. the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie. i once met a guy who said i gave up my job at sears and became a teacher because of you. i went i hope things are going well. >> williams earned a third such oscar nod for a picture of a man who becomes unhinged and homeless after the murder of his wife. >> i'll come back in the morning and i'll call you if you let me. >> then came his role as sean maguire, community professor and ps

the photographer was robert altman, architectural photographer. this was his last photograph. he died at age 85. i am very small in this picture. i have gone either side of me henry and emily folger clad in their academic gowns. emily has her king could, henry is purple and hearst could. above me is the best of william shakespeare, quill in hand. it is a model of the bust that is in the holy trinity church in strafford in avon above the barred's bones. so even though the author is very small he is in very big company in this author's photocell i have written a love story. henry and emily love each other, they both loved shakespeare. i find this the greatest man known as the plot in anglo-american literary history. the last thought that i will share with you before we go to questions and comments, i will call from a letter that henry folger wrote the library of congress in january of 1930, six months before he died. he wrote to herbert putnam these words. this is an excerpt from a longer letter. he said i have been wondering a great deal whether i will ever be able to get a vol

altman purchase isi. intellectual content of wall street. buying intellectual content firm on the " with bettythe loop liu. speaking with the republican governor of the state of south dakota, dennis daugaard is with us. i want to talk about your party. is there a moderate wing of the party? or is it vaporized at the moment? >> there is a breath of -- there opinion.dth of people with extreme views are often noticed more. there is a breadth of attitudes. go to the 2014 elections and the convention, what can be the dialog to coalesce the republican party to get the middle ground? the people they lost in the last presidential election. >> the focus on fiscal matters is important. >> back to traditional budget policies? >> i think it is an area where we need to focus. south dakota has made some hard choices along the way. we had some falloff in revenue as a consequence of the recession. we cut our expenses down to where our revenue had fallen, balanced the budget and have had surpluses for the last three years in a row. one of the things we have

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popular sit com, mork and mindy when he made his big screen premiere as pop eye for director robert altmanhe handful of films that followed were mostly disappointing. >> good morning vietnam! >> finally director barry levinson found the role that fit. his role as a rogue military disk jockey won him an oscar nomination for best actor. as did his role as a quiet and inspiring boarding school english teacher in 1989's "dead poet's society". >> dead poets are dedicated to success -- suck being the marrow out of life. >> i once met a guy who said i gave up my job at sears and became a teacher because of you and i said i hope things are going well. >> williams earned such a third such oscar nod for his depiction of a man who becomes unhinged after the murder of his wife. then came his role as shaun mcguire, community college psychology professor and therapist. >> you don't know about real loss because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. >> finally, in 1997's good will hunting, the role that brought him one and only academy award for best supporting actor. >> yo

bob altman and john urhichman, but he was giving them up to protect himself, at that point i said toreally deep trouble. >> so that april 30th speech when he addresses the nation, the first time he addresses the nation, that was the one you went, wow, if he has to give those two guys up, this is the dpining of the end. >> that's exactly right. >> it was one long dramatic thing after another. a lot of people had already gone. and he thought he would just cut it off that way, but there was no doing it that way. he also called haldeman afterwards, how did i do today. >> here he supposedly fired him and he still needed his advice. >> i love you. i love you like a son. let's say i think maybe -- he'd say, bob, would you call around and see how my speech went over and haldeman very delicately said, well, i think under the circumstances, mr. president, i might not be the person to do that. nixon said -- that was his first concern, how did my speech go over to the guy he just fired. >> so walk me through when you get the sense that nixon realizes he's not going to finish his presidency. >> w

alex altman, just back from there, thank you so much too. >> thank you. >>> coming up, we'll head to the white house, where the vacation is over for the president, but did it ever even really start? you're in "the cycle." it's the last monday of august, 2014. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. for the evert time.. she let him plan the vacation. off the beaten path: he said trust me: he implored alas, she is beginning to seriously wonder why she ever doubted the booking genius planet earth's number one accomodation site booking.com booking.yeah! my golden years will not just be gold plated. i had 3 different 401(k)s. e*trade

. >> james:the others arrested were kena marshall, peter maynard, david kuniansky- altman , william gilmore, and alexa beason. >> james:police say victim-- eric johnson was gunned down at the shoreline amphitheatre during the concert. >> james:he was taken to a nearby hospital where he later >> james:no one has been arrested in connection with johnson's death. said thethere's both good and bad news on crime in san jose. and >> james:police say while violent crimes are up slightly this year. the total number of serious crimes in the city were down nine percent compared to last year. that's according to san jose police. >> james:the biggest drop was in homicides. they fell by nearly 21 percent in the first six months of the year. 19 murders versus 24 >> james:vehicle thefts and >> james:however, rapes spiked by nearly 18 percent, and governor jerry brown just signed a bill into law-- that should make smartphones a lot less vulnerable to prospective thieves in the bay area/ >>:authored by state senator mark leno, senate bill 9-62 requires all smartphones sold in the state to come equipped with

international paper was a huge win for the hedge fund community, for dan himself, larry's brother, jeff altman that many, many years. that's a great win there. cabot oil and gas, noticed he existed that stake. that's interesting to me on the energy side that he's out of that. >> doc. >> a name on the list one of our stocks today that has unusual activity, judge. i'll hold off on that. a dan loeb pick. >> like the tease. okay. >>> back to today's market with a look at three things that might not be on your radar. that's right now. who's up first? joe? >> health care. 100%. i myself, i'll be the first to raise my hand. >> health scare sector year to date, leading up 11%. >> raise my hand. under invested in the space. a favorite of pete. i'm looking at it in terms of that little portfolio we have, my own personal portfolios. names i like, abbott labs, amgen. mckesson. pki. clearly health care gives you a little bit of the insulation against a lot of these global geopolitical events we're experiencing. it's a place i think you've got to be looking now. >> doc? >> plug power is one for me, judge. t

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tomorrow, roger altman will discuss a deal. that is tomorrow starting at 8:00 a.m. 56 past the meaning bloomberg television is on the markets. i'm scarlet fu. we have a decline on our hands are it for the dow, it is the sixth drop in seven days. the dow is almost 5% down since its peak on july 16. halfway to a correction, which means a 10% drop. the euro has fallen to a nine-month low versus the 133.48. -- 1.3348. gold futures moving up by almost 2% to 13.09. that is a safe haven trade. tensions in the ukraine are not helping pushing people toward the safety of gold. you are seeing a similar play in treasuries, the 10-year at 2.5%, the lowest in may -- the lowest since may. investors are wondering what exactly is causing a selloff, and is it time to buy? lisa, this is a downturn that has left many questions in its wake. is it possible to come up with a clean answer as to what is the trigger for the selling? >> not at all. people are scratching their heads because last year in may and june when junk bonds lost 3% , there was a clear catalyst. ben bernanke whispered t

his methodology used what is called the altman's z score.cated but here's what it looks that, efficiency, process -- profit, asset turnover, working capital as well as debt level. he studied companies with $1.5 trillion in market cap. that is about one third of combined market cap in that combines the largest chinese companies. and propertyties stocks face the biggest challenges. that is consistent with recent warning by the imf on the property market area and here's what he is a warning against buying. , the water supplier to the metropolis of challenging. of chong ching. two major utilities. these stocks have had to train 9% and 11% negative returns this year. where can you find some upside? financials are favored. they like china construction bank and citic securities. banksr among the chinese outperforming their rivals. energy shares, we've been talking about them a moment ago. rating highly for its positive fundamentals and return on equity. space,healthcare shanghai farkas -- pharmaceutical has a 9% return on equity. .he expressway ope

roger altman wrote an article in "time" magazine that i agree with. be actually optimistic about. you look at the energy revolution that's not only going to change how things go on domestically in our economy, it's going to also recalibrate our foreign policy to make us more positive, less interventionists. we're in the age of technology and the age of -- you know, the chinese say eight of the top ten universities on the planet are here in this country. we've got a lot of things to be excited about. i do think, though, the gloom over washington, d.c., has an impact on people, how people answer a lot of these questions. i still am stupid enough to be optimistic. i've heard this before, we hear this all the time. the last time we heard it, 1989. it was going to be japan and america was going to be japan's granery in 20, 30 years. how did that work out? i'm feeling pretty good right now. >> our thanks to ezra klein as well. >> i'm the 2%. i'm the 2% that feels good. >> i'm with you. >> no, i like it. >>> coming up on "morning joe" senator mark begich sai