ge aviation with 20,000 work orders stand to benefit as russia reduces its tariffs on aircraft engines. these ge products were made in ohio, kentucky and north carolina. and it's not simply to lower tax. implement a high standard of ipr protection are critical for u.s. companies. without pntr the u.s. would have no recourse should disputes arise. if the u.s. does not grand pntr to russia, american companies and their workers will be at a significant disadvantage relative to our global competit competitors. at a time when export growth is key to the u.s. committee, we would be injecting an important opportunity while competitors -- russia will join the wto whether or not the nptr is -- about the eight of american companies to compete on a level playing field according to the same set of rules with foreign companies, all eager to do business in a fast growing economy. i urge this committee and the full congress to allow the american economy and american workers to be able to reap the benefits of these opportunities. thank you. >> thank you very much. mr. taylor? >> good morning, chairman

. >> what go you tell a midsized company, not as large as ge? >> it is more challenging, to be honest. we have a very large profile in the country. we have large profile at the government as well, and they know who we are. it is easier for us to push back, to be very honest with you. but i've been there for 13 years and seen a very dramatic improvement from what it was like in the late 1980s. >> how much will failure to grant pntr help or hinder mid-sized american companies from doing business in russia? >> i think it would help because it brings us together into the wto rules system. i think that's something very important that will help all american companies, not just the large multinationals. >> will it encourage russia to join the oecd? >> yes, it will. >> why? >> they have already signed to do that there is a real sense what i see, they do want to start doing some of the right things. they need foreign investment. they need companies to come in, and they need to be getting improving their operating environment. they recognize that as someth

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and now the big japanese makers are producing scanning machines that cost about a tenth as much as the geion, not quite as good but looking at my neck they do as well and cost a 12th as much. >> say you're in a country talking socialized medicine and everyone is insured, how much would it cost there and why is it so much more here? >> here it is more because the drug companies, the hospitals, the device makers, the makers of scanning machines have convinced congress and the government that and the insurers that we have to pay more to pay for their high tech research, and they do great research, no doubt about that, but i am not so sure about that, brooke. you take very popular pill, crestor, a pill i take, one of the five best-selling pills in the world. the same pill in the same factory i used to pay 34 cents a pill in britain. i looked it up today and in america $5.20 a pill for the same pill. in japan, 80 cents, canada, $2. the drug companies say americans have to pay a lot to pay for our fabulous research. you know what, crestor was licensed from a japanese company. that's japanese re

so at the end of the recovery oi mentioned, and as you correctly ll ge the president my best military advice. with regard to the combat power needed to finish prior to 2013 i'm not sure i'll be able to see. up to '14, it. i will be giving a similar recommendation of the nato chain to the supremed allied commander of europe, and to the secretary january. general. it will be a combined recommendation. >> the proposed budget drops financial support and training from some $11 billion to $5 billion. that a reflectio to the end of the work and need less resources or is that budget driving the train as opposed to what's happening on the ground, meaning you need less resources? >> much has already been purchased by them, so we're really fielding the equipment more so than buying the equipment at that point. >> dr. miller, can you give us some indication what the impact on the afghan economy has been from the care and feeding of izi isef forces in place and what will happen after that number's dramatically less after 2014? >> sir, yes. let me first just add to general allen's comments on the a

just as ge has to take advantage of a lot of tax exemptions that they have, we have to take advantagehat are -- the law of the land. >> they're only a 49% owner now. and, by the way, you're a contributor, so once again -- >> that's true. >> -- your hand's out and yet you are still biting it, the one that feeds you, that's not good. it's only 49% of that huge paycheck. >> i'm a stockholder in general electric, i think it's a good company. >> i love to eat, too, i love comcast, i love them all. >> howard, what do you think really happens next? you mentioned that we do have some big states that are coming up in the next week? >> i think romney has a tough week ahead, louisiana, alabama, mississippi, kansas i expect to -- i expect santorum to win kansas, so this is not going to be a nice week. i can understand why he wants to get people out now, that's not going to happen. i think he's going to win, but he's got at very rough road between here and tampa. >> all right, governor dean, thank you. and hope to see you in here in studio very soon. >> thank you. >> okay. >>> all right. let's hea

. >> reporter: the ge-2 students are delighted as well, getting a chance to see a career path they mighter have known about. >> i want to go into system engineering and look at the different systems and put them together. >> reporter: another ge-2 success? br bridging a gender gap. >> all right, i've got to give that group a hand, because that's awesome. anybody who is helping to get more women involved in math, science, or engineering. >>> well, coming up, she lost her hand in an accident while on vacation. next you're going to meet the aspiring model talking about her will to recover and make life a little better for others. >>> and the fitness class that has cyclists singing the praises of the word is swapportunity. can i have the definition? swapportunity: the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a yoplait light. can you use it in a sentence? mmm. swapping a 300 calorie donut for this 110 calorie strawberry shortcake is a good swapportunity. that's not a real word. oh haha it's real. [ female announcer ] delicious, creamy, yoplait light. over 30 flavors each around 100 calo

a lot of people think because it's centrally led, it's much easier for china to switch ge gears. as you point out, it's a difficult task facing policymakers in beijing. thank you for joining us. charles, it's interesting, this push towards sustainable growth comes back down to what happened in 2008 with the financial crisis in china realizing it did have to rebalance its economy, get the domestic consumption engine moving. it looks like we'll see quite a lot, a bigger push towards domestic consumption in china which it has to be to be sustainable. >> that's interesting. the question in my mind here from a european perspective is to what extent this whole idea and what you and stan have been talking about have been assimilated by markets in terms of their thinking. we're seeing a bit of a knee jerk reaction here. if you take the german markets, a ruffled start, off by 1.5%, gapping right down at the top. i think this is because the xetra dax is very much an export-driven index. clearly, the idea that global growth or what has become essentially the engine of global growth, i.e., chin

this case that the fall industrial production was not quite as severe, quite as fast as in the depression but you ge phenomenon that about 15 or 16 months into the episode, crisis was brought under control industrial production bottomed out and began a period of steady recoveryprsion the collapsed continued for several more years. okay. so that is a very rapid overview of the crisis of '08-'09. in lecture four we'll talk about the aftermath, the recession, how did monetary recession, why recovery been relatively sluggish, what has happened to financial regulation to try to make sure this never happens l fed taken from this experience? okay. questions? yes. [ inaudible ] >> why do you think these insti [ inaudible ] so much risk -- [ inaudible ] couple of reasons. one reason was simply the fact that firms were probably too confident about house price increase. house prices were likely to keep rising. and in a prices are rising these are not bad products because people can afford to pay for a year but then they can refinance into something more stable than might be a way to get people into housing. bu

ge had $110 million in sales. last year we had more than $1.6 billion in sales, and our industrial business as i lone saw almost $1.2 billion in u.s. origin orders from russia, up from $410 million in 2010. these orders support more than 3,000 jobs for ge and its suppliers in the united states, and we believe that our sales with pntr could triple, could triple by 2020.s to take full advantage of russia's growing market, however, congress must repeal the jackson-vannic amendment and establish pntr with russia. let me offer a few examples of what pntr will mean for ge. russia is the fourth largest electricity market in the world. ge energy, 38,000 u.s. employees will see average tariffs fall from 12 to 5% on gas turbines. these turbines are principally produced in south carolina and texas. russia is looking to double its spending on health care, with more than 22,000 u.s. employees principally in wisconsin, texas, and new jersey, ge health care will see tariffs on medical equipment fall from 15 to 4.3%. russia has the world's second largest railway system. some 10,000 locomotives will need upgrades to the tune of $10

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patrick's day as thousands will, cold and showery, 51 ges, 45 degrees, cloudy and cold. winds are a factor. i'll show you are 7-day. first get you on the way to work. >> getting some of that rain you're talking about. it will be a factor for the roads. as you pass by that richmond/san rafael bridge. northbound 101 as you pass by 580, this is blocking one lane. there was slowing approaching the area but seems to have sorted out. it's possible they hooked it up the last minutes. we'll get a live look at south of this as the golden gate bridge. there is that sheen on the roadway. moisture an issue. there will be slick on and off ramps. a little water off the tires as well. we'll look at a live shot. the bay bridge. metering lights turned on to the 880 overcrossing. >> 6:39. coming up on today. we continue ipad mania. another live report coming up. >> president observe officially inpa cammoign de. campaign mode. >> 6:42. democrats strike back this morning. president obama and vice president joe biden officially begin their push this week for re-election. they are lashing out

untold billions of dollars report, named china d russia, as aggressive and persistent modern warfare is already employing cyber attacks. and ge. and unfortunately, it may only be a matter of time before we see cyber attacks thatcatastrop. whether by terrorists, or state adversaries. our enemies are constantly on the offensive. and in the cyber it is much harder for us to play defense when, than it is for them to the hard question is -- what do we do about this dangerous and growing cyber threat? i believe the comb pro hen sieve bill that has been introduced, the cyber security act of 2012, security information t of this. introduced monday and you title 7 in your legislation. e e ability of the private sector and the government to share information on cyber threats that both sides need to however, a combination of existing law, the threat of st business practices has presented or deterred private sector information about the cyber threats they face. and the losses of oney they suf. we need to change that. through better shing. in a way that companies will use thatrest and that takes advantage of classified information without

>> it's true the united states spends more total on health care as a shared gdp than other industrial countries. >> i'd like to ge on looking at that for a couple of reasons. a lot of discussion about austerity, and this kind of brings it back home a little bit. i'm an art laugher economic guy. but i think we can all understand, i knew that was good for a laugh here -- we can all understand that all economists tend to believe there's probably a sweet spot. in other words a right balance of public and private spending. a right balance and so on, as we talk about austerity in greece or in portugal, in any country, we talk about austerity here and particularly, mr. secretary, aren't we agreeing that we're trying to get to the same position, whatever that sweet spot is of promoting growth through not taking it all to the government, and that we're only debating when you talk about this, the rate of austerity, we're not debating where we need to get to. where we need to get to so that the private sector flourish is probably very similar to where we're telling the countries of europe to get to. so that the difference o

companies were going to build a modern mental clinic in port-au-prince and i seized on that as a story idea for magnum and ge--gene smith got the assignment from magnum to go and document the changes. and that's one of his strongest pictures from that story. c-span: what year did gene smith die? >> guest: gene died on the 15th of october in 1978. i happened to--i remember it so clearly because he had appointed me his executor and i--he died on a sunday. he--it was--in a way you could say his death was long overdue. he--he had not been well for the previous year. and when i got the word on sunday afternoon in new york, i flew to tucson and the next morning i was at the undertaker's and saw gene's face for the last time. c-span: gene smith had mental problems himself? >> guest: he--yes, he was a disturbed man. he was a brilliant man, a passionate photographer. in a sense, you could call gene the father of the modern photo essay and he's perhaps the most--most important photo essayist of--of our s--our time. he kind--he did kind of fall apart in the '50s but he had a great comeback in japan with an essay that h

megyn: apparently you reached out as any good reporter would to ge and a spokesman told you your reports ludicrous, the private criticisms of president obama by jeffrey immelt are ludicrous. >> that and a dollar 50. megyn: you stand by your report? >> i have more than one good source. i have several good sources. the ludicrous part is the denial. megyn: because you say -- >> everybody that knows jeff immelt knows he feels this way. megyn: i think it will come as surprise to a lot of our viewers. i am melt paraded out there with president obama as the jobs guy. i might's a good deal if you can get it. and it doesn't -- they don't look like they are partisan opponents. >> you have never seen two ceos who hate each other hug and shake hands. he's good at keeping his cards close to the vest. megyn: do you foresee him coming out between now and november, immelt, i may or may not want this job anymore. but i support mitt romney. >> i think there is a good chance he will come out and say i support mitt romney. i just know the guy. -- he's not like an adam smith type conservative but he is a sor

ge just 3.6%. >> you know, what's really remarkable as i review the data is the consistency with which you see thisnomenon. the taxes are going down. the profits are shifting offshore at an accelerated rate over the last few years. >> so now these companies have profits accumulating overseas in places like zug. oh, look at your clock tower. if they bring the money home, it's taxed at the full 35%. if they leave it overseas, the irs can't touch it. in other words, the tax law all but forces companies to keep their money out of the country indefinitely. >> we leave the money over there. i create jobs overseas. i acquire companies overseas. i build plants overseas. and i badly want to bring that money back. >> how much does your company have overseas that could be brought back here? >> almost $40 billion. $40 billion. >> cisco has $40 billion trapped over there somewhere? >> yes. >> the total amount of money u.s. companies have trapped overseas is $1.2 trillion. chambers is advocating for a one-time tax break to allow them to bring that money home at a rate of, say, 5%. he says that would stimulate th

. >> you as the ceo of ge were a client of goldman sachs. back then you dealt with them since.w do you look at goldman sachs. how do you look at the culture? >> smart. quick. responsive. look, when we get mad at goldman sachs and private equity, for example, and then we come time for an ipo, we didn't get the right treatment in a deal we thought the other guy got favored status, it comes time for the ipo. we've been mad at goldman sachs for three months. we better get goldman sachs. they are the smartest guys on the street. let's go with them. so goldman sachs is a winning corporate team, that had a bad apple here or bad management above the apple. i'm not talking about lloyd, i'm talking about the person's manager. >> if you were the ceo of goldman how would you to change the narrative. there is this -- whether it's real or not that somehow goldman is not necessarily working for its clients that you necessarily believe they are. how do you change that perception out in there the public. >> you talk about it all the time. you measure your people. you really measure them and you

yoyou took off and had ge to europe and enjoyed some time with your family and three young boys. things were not looking as good in the banking indndustry. >> i asked myself at q question many times. when we came back, so o many bankers were o out there that waed to do this again. we looked at the market and said itas a perfectct time to start a communityy bank. it was security first bank and first opened u in 2006. we were growing but we could d not get o off the ground. we put t two t togetr and renamed it john marshall bank. it took off from ther >> you w were warning people do not expect th samee growth, that the fundamentals are not there this time e around. what do you think happenedo allow this bank is success in the rececession? >> when we went into the original bank and took over, wee were able to start with clean slate. we were able to go out intnto the marketplace with o our new capital and make loans to people. we knethere were good credit risks. >> what is your experience when you know someone is worth making a loan to that the bigger banks do not know of? >> we a able to look at things since

civilian had been raised as a democrat, but he came employed a general lack. do you remember the old geheater come to some of you might which is on sunday night. and they got reagan to go around and make speeches to other factories because it was a huge corporation that then, as it is today. then he spoke against communism and he suddenly realized that there was a great force out there that was against him. it was not necessary for communism, but he was conservative and liberal so his attention grew and one day he was in a lecture hall delivering a speech on the woman said to him from the back of the room, mr. reagan, when are you going to become a republican? , well, i think i probably ought to. i just never got around to do it. they sat on the registrar and i'll register you right now. and there he was. his famous statement about that was that i didn't leave the democratic party. the democratic arty left me. and so, his acting career and his speaking career can't naturally morphed into a political career and he was approached by these important people. the unimportant people don't app

as the sovereigign right to make its own decisions. >> i do not have a policy of containment. i have a policy of preventing iran from geing a nuclear weapon. i take no optionff the table and i mean, i say. >> a sample of one wat -- of what went on this week with regard to iran and israel. >> israel has every right to say -- netanyahu has every right to say that israel must be the master of its own fate.e. and president obama hasvery right to say "i wildo what i i have to do at a time and place of my choosing." the ininterests of the united states and israel are not synonymomous. as charles said a couple of wes ago the saudis, the jordananians, and the gulf statess woulbe happy tot see a s strik asas roger simon said last week, the problem goes beyond the arab countries and the muslim world. the united states' interests go beyond our shores. if you are going to strike at iran, we have to be prepared to protect interests in africa asia europe. >> mitt romney had an op-ed inn tuesday's "washington post" whwhere he called president obama "america's most feckless president since jimmy carter." >> that is it preposterous and ou

ge about one week before the expiration. there was not any real debate beyond that. we are looking to provide updates as the work starts to move forward to actually look at other ways to treat the current process. thank you. supervisor mar: anymore public comment? >> dan murphy, again, this is just to pick up where the last conversation ended. staff presented the eastern neighborhood monitoring reports to the cac a couple of months back. i took the time to review them. they are quite -- there is -- is quite a lot of information. i presume that those reports will make their way to the land use committee at some point. one of the observations that i had as a member of the cac and as someone active in the marketplace was a kind of observation on how the housing portions of the eastern neighborhood land use plans seemed to be working pretty well, actually. looking back on the deliberations that went on between 2005 to 2008 in the eastern neighborhoods, i can tell you for sure that there was an incredible constituency focused on the housing portion of the policies that ultimately made their way into the legi

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it's not just about comcast or ge, jpmorgan chase or coca-cola hiring people, it's small businesses asrough, yet such a tiny percentage of our population. paul reikoff says never before have so few done so much for so long. >> and so many different calm past tours. world war ii was four years. vietnam was a year over there and a lot of people went back a couple of times. a lot of these guys have gone four and five times. it's people on board ships and working there as well. so it's complex. but it's under way. >> thanks for taking up their cause. again, tom brokaw here with us. in addition to all the folks that showed up at these job fairs today, 16,000 veterans and their spouses have also participated on the web, and we urge you to go to our website for more information. >>> coming up a bit later on in tonight's broadcast, some very personal perspectives on this trayvon martin shooting that you might be interested to hear because they are from some of our friends here at nbc news. >>> but up next, where it all comes from, all the damaging stuff that gets reported and said about candid

you know, you can go back and look at ge under jack welch and jeff-- took over dimelt tooover incredibly talented ceo who is dance form-- transforming that company as we speak. but came in september 11th as a double wammy, so when the stock is flying that high, it's a deeper, more difficult challenge but i think in the case of mcdonald's there is still a lot of room for am provement. >> tom: put you down for a hamburger or cheeseburger, sydney. >> cheeseburgering hold the ketchup. >> narrator: sydney finkelstein with us from dart pout college. -- dartmouth college. >> susie: the >> susie: the u.s. supreme court is preparing to hear arguments on a case that will affect every american, not to mention an industry that accounts for almost one dollar out of every five spent in the nation. we're talking, of course, about president obama's health care reform law. the high court will decide whether or not portions of the law are unconstitutional. tonight, we continue our series on what's at stake with a look at the limits of congressional power. darren gersh reports. >> reporter: when the supreme court takes up the debate over the president's health care r

consumer discretionary stocks as well as tech stocks although recently given up some of their stronger gains. leading industrials, ge, we've been talking about it all day, the company basically providing very optimistic outlook. growth in the emerging markets should be stronger for the company than in asia in 2012. lastly, we just want to touch on the apple effect. i'm sure we'll talk about it all day. apple off its highs of the session. its suppliers as well as some of the carriers, at&t and verizon which will be the carriers for the ipad, they have been holding fairly steady throughout the session. mandy, back to you. >> thank you very much, mary. rick, what are you seeing in the equities risk-on market? what's happening in terms of risk in the bond pits? >> it's hard to get away from the relationship of what's happened to equities over the last couple of days, specifically the messiness of what's going on in greece. and, yes, it's messy. it's bureaucratic. it takes time. and in the end there's plenty of issues like spain, portugal, italy, that could be so much bigger. so the messy factor really weighing on the ps

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is in place and fukushima in effect we have 23 reactors in the united states with the same ge mop one design asfukushima but licensed extension continues without accounting for lessons learned. safety officials express concern about this design in the early 1970s and the top nrc officials said in 1986 and i quote, mock one reactors had a 90% probability of her state should the fuel rods overheat and melt in an accident end of quote and that was in 1986. a week after fukushima the nrc, timing was extraordinary relicense the mock one reactor in my own state for 20 years without taking time to examine the implications of fukushima. relicensed vermont yankee one week after fukushima. the nrc has granted 71 licensed renewals and has never rejected one. 71 and every single incident the nrc has said it's appropriate to relicense a nuclear power plant. the nrc voted 3-2 in secret in litigation against vermont's energy future. in my very short review the nrc's job is safety. that is what your job is. is not detailed the people of vermont or any other state how they go forward in terms of energy. in my s

as consumer discretionary stocks. digging a little deeper into those. geay on a percentage basis. and of course, a member of that industrial group. the company's vice chairman making positive comments about the outlook basically reaffirming double-digit earnings growth expectations for their industrial as well as finance business. but more importantly, talking about the growth prospect and some of the emerging markets specifically latin america and how latin america in the middle east will be growth drivers for ge businesses in 2012. basically outpacing china, which has been an engine for ge's growth lately. on the downside, though, another dow component. this in the news but this time under pressure is kraft after being cut to hold at jeffries. not a lot of catalyst this year, but once it splits, 2013 and '14 should look better for it. financials, of course, improving today as i mentioned earlier. yesterday's session just a note on wells fargo, the company's ceo speaking at the city financial conference today saying the company continues to look at select

and ge is reopening old plants located in louisville as well. suzanne?ve jobs numbers, is it having any impact on the market today? >> kind of. you're seeing modest gains here. the dow is up 37 points. the dow did have six days of gains so far this week. the dow for the past couple of weeks, the longest winning streak in more than a year, it's difficult to see a pause after the run-up that stocks have made. certainly all eyes are on shares of apple. apple hit a record for $500 in 23 days, it's really jaw dropping, if you ask me. >> yeah, absolutely. >> alison, great to see you. >>> newt gingrich says ups can help track down illegal immigrants. we're breaking down the campaign trail. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. weight loss programs can be expensive. so to save some money, i just got the popular girls from the local middle school to follow me around. ew. seriously? so gross. ew. seriously? that is so gr

incredible story that emernl ge the, story heroism and sacrifice that came out of that huge tornado outbreak last friday night. this is about a mother who used her own body as a human shield to protect her children as their home came crashing down on top of all of them. we get her story tonight from nbc's tom costello in henryville, indiana. >> reporter: huddled in the basement with a massive tornado bearing down on their new home, stephanie decker had just seconds to protect 8-year-old domenic and 5-year-old reese, so she wrapped them in a blanket and laid on top of them just as the house started coming apart. >> everything was just slamming into my back. i had my children in the blanket and they were screaming. mommy, i can't live without you, i don't want to die, please don't let me die. i said, you're not going to die, we're going to make it. >> reporter: when the storm cleared the home had been wiped from its foundation. stephanie and the kids were buried. >> i took my phone and made a video to my husband -- telling him i love him. >> reporter: it was domenic who climbed out and ran for help. a neighbor, sheriff's deputy brian lovens came running with

as well. let's talk about how you felt, first of all, you were in our green room ge-- room getting rey to come on and the white house said we can reveal that you just got off the phone with the president? >> yes i did. >> the stakes have been raised pretty high. what did he say to you? >> he encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns of american women and what was really personal for me was that he said to tell my parents that they should be proud and that meant a lot because rush limbaugh questioned whether or not my family would be proud of me. so i appreciated that very much. >> i'm sure. this has been emotional for you. i cannot imagine. you try to testify, you are skpl excluded from testifying, we see the all male panel, which was an amazing picture and signal to the nation, the next thing you know, a man with a microphone, reaching millions people, perhaps the largest radio audience here in the country, is calling you all kinds of names. >> yes. >> and now, you have had a call from the president of the united states? >> there have been highs and low

ge the win 6-3. >> he's played eight games in december, and has not played in games since. we think it's pretty important to get him ready, as you can tell, he's pretty well built and has a new muscles. we want to make sure that all of the things are working at once, and you know, you have the fact that the guy has dropped into a new country, has a lot of variables that a lot of our guys don't have to deal with. we wanted to make sure he was comfortable and ready before we dropped him in a game. >> the giants are getting healthy, which is what the team needs right now. buster posey is expected to play four innings against the mariners tomorrow. also, closer brian wilson is expected to make his cactus league debut. all your highlights of course right here during the news tomorrow. >> the giants were in split squad action today, defeating the brewers with zito, barry zeet own the mound, 13-3, and losing to the angels 9-5. we'll have highlights of barry zito coming up in the 6:00 show. meanwhile, buster posey was back in the cage after cactus league debut yesterday. sitting out the two games today, but still getting his work in