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panel became the latest of many on the international scene saying maybe it's time to diversify awa from the greenback. and then the up side is that we have energy and stocks are moving to the outside. kraft is lower today. and they made a bid for cadbury. and that was denied and then hershey can now take a crack at that bid. and then there is losses in the pork decision. it was hit hard after swine flu prompted import bans. the flu is not related to animals. small business owners are feeling better aut the economy according to one group. the group's optimism index rose, not great and not that high. other parts of the survey showed businesses are seeing earnings under pressure, and that leads to cutting prices. a big day tomorrow if you are in technology and music. we have the beatles' rock band debuting. you can do that tomorrow. and then steve jobs will be coming back to the public. he will unveil a new bunch of ipods in san francisco. we'll have more on that during tomorrow's update. >> we know he will be there? >> that's what we are hearin we are hearing he will be there. he took a s

in french she is simply kwn as la biche and won an awa for the "glish patient" and proven herself as dcer, poet and painter. this month in new york a contribution to the wod of art will be celebrated with dae performances, a film retrospective and the release of her new film "ris." here's a look at the trailer for that film. >> in paris aity of a thousand faces, eryone has a sry. [ speaki french ] >> watching the lives of others opens the worldround him. [ speaking french ] [ speaki french ] [ speaking french ] >> paris. >> chaie: i'm pleased to have juliette boche back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> charlie: te me what's it's about. u play elysse who comes to s her brother with your ree children. >> and finds out that he's sick. >> charlie: he's dying. >> he's dyin and so actually she sees her life a different way after thatecause he's like a mirror of life. like, you've got make your lifehappy. nobody's going to it for you. >> charlie: and he's thinking of how he'll spend the time between and underands his mortality. >> and my characr's caught up between kids, work lack o

i argue in the book because it is wea let the argument get awa.the other countries first made a moral commitment. they then found a way to do it. host: the book is selling and is high on the charts. guest: the reviews are good for once. host: your shoulder is still bothering you. where will you go? guest: i happen to be on the board of the university of colorado comedical school. i have access to great health care in america. if i did not, i would not have any trouble going to a doctor in great britain. they treated my family grade. britain's national health service is dedicated to the proposition that you should never have to pay a medical bill. in the nhl is, there is no insurance premium, note the at alter the system covers everybody. my family got very good care very often had to wait to see a doctor. the newspapers here are full of nhs are stories. i came to london to see the national health service. is it an answer for the u.s.? japanese care is excellent. host: how about french? guest: french care is terrific. host: any place that is lower

rolling road neighborhood seven years ago, he wanted to be away from the traffic and noise that comes awa with it. >> the country suburbs, you pull off a little street and you come into your home and you're done. and it's kind of nice and quiet. >> reporter: anyone the construction started right across the road from his house. what was once a wooded area he could see from his yard, is now a federal road project that will connect rolling and fullerton roads in the springfield area. there is also a plan to construct a national geospatial intelligence agency in the same air yafrjts the army is moving -- area. >> the army is moving 8500 employees to the mga facility that they're building currently on the grounds. and without these improvements, it would be a pretty heavy toll on the local roads. >> reporter: improvements include work on the interchange at the springfield parkway. a four-lane section between rolling road and fullerton road that will provide direct access to i95. and improvements at the interchanges with i95 and springfield parkway. >> in about a month or so, we're going to shu

but, you know i'm not soone will shy ever awa from admiing our ownailures. you know the authorityid not build the way ithould have given many this. i mean, theontext in which we were operating was never ideal continues to be t so. i think we shld have done bett. we should haveoneetter but the key lesn out of at exrience i unilateralism in the way that israel withdrew from ga is not the w to go. >> rose: wel, you have to respect of the raelis and so does predent abbas havethe respect of the israelis. if they could choose peoe to negotiate with they'd cose you and him. >> you kw the issuend the challenge before all of us is actually to move from saying thingso actuay doin them. >> rose:ight. >> and that's the strength of our progm. basicay what it is that we are tryingo do when we say we nee to cplete the task of state building whin the coming two ars. thiss our itiative. we need to be proacve. is is our respons to people's need for freedom and independence. >> rose: so the granti of state od will be anti-climatic. u will already have a functioning state. >> t

they think they ve backed awa from precipice. but you don't see a "mission complished" banner behind them. they kno there's a lot of job loss tha continues, that unemployment ithe lagging economic indicator, tt it's the last thi that is going to chan even after e stock market has rebounded significantly, auming that it does. job loss will continue. th do expect unemployment wil hit 10%. so there'sno brag dohester e about this. they're not... but they feel like they ateast have the tools in place tt some of the signs are there in terms of the crit markets, in tms of manufacturing, i terms of housing sales, new housing sales an consumersonfidence. they do think that things are on the mend and will continue improve. but slowly. and their message there is ver cautious but optimistic. >> rose: what do they thinof their fall in numbers, their ow.. the president's approval proouf rating. >> i think ultimately they knew that the presidens approval ting was not goingo stay at 7 20%. and i thk that theyee that this is a country tt is divid

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the defense budget, were demeaning il the sense that they trted us like ignorant people but he got awa with it and unfortunatel, fortunately or unfortunately i think it may very well be that the big increases in the defense budget which was not fanced by taxes, in other words by borrowing in retrospect may have been a good decisi because it think it was one of the key elements in bringing about the end of the cold war and the other relationships. so there were mistas. trade policy was a mistake. i have come to a rather different view of the budget deficitshan i had at the time and about the defense buildup at the time. let me just give you one little story. weinberger came to make a presentation on hi budget, defense budget to the cabinet and he brought some cardboard cutouts with sort of a six-foot maureen just being his budget and ahree foyt tony soldier as being the budget-- and this was the quality and character of the presentation he made on t defense budget before the reaga cabinet so he trted us like ignoramuses but i think it was a decision on the defense budget to finance it b

construction, in terms of security, but for those who lost loved ones on that day, the pain is never far awa it has become a national day of remembrance and renewal. memorial services at all three crash sites mark the moments of the september 11th attacks eight years ago and honor the 2,752 victims who died. in new york city, families will gather at a park adjacent to the world trade center site for a ceremony of music and the reading of victims' names. >> david joseph. >> reporter: vice president joe biden and his wife will also attend. the families will once again walk to the base of ground zero to lay flowers, a sacred makeshift memorial that also shares space with an active construction site. progress of the proposed skyscrapers and memorial has been slowed by years of legal battles between the developer, larry silverstein, and the site's owners, the new york/new jersey port authority, a delay that will continues to frustrate the developer. >> it's a national disgrace. it didn't have to be like this. it doesn't have to be like this. >> reporter: at the pentagon, a private wreath-laying c

the medals that have been awa awardawar awarded are not for any living of medal honor recipients formet a lot of medal of honor recipients family members but it's true. you don't get to meet them. boy, john finn there, this damn hero stuff is a bunch of crap stuff. that's the quote i'll take away from today. they always seem to feel that way. we appreciate all of the men and women and their service defending the country. barbara starr, thank you so much. on the blog this morning we're talking a little bit more this morning about the war in afghanistan. we asked you whether or not you support it because of the new poll that's out that shows some of the american support for the war lower than it's been in the past. we'll get to some of your responses here now. cnn.com/heidi is the blog site here. this person says -- always fresh appreciate your thoughts. thank you for responding. >>> more bad language at the u.s. open. this time the s bomb is dropped. you might be surprised at who let it fly. when we spend a billion dollars a day buying foreign oil... we don't just waste our money... w

xerox buying aw ing awaing awai computer. abot labs buying solvay. moving higher on that news. going to give it an important cholesterol drug. we're seeing something else happen. a continuing of the up performance of small-cap stocks today. it has outperformed the s&p 500 up 15.5%. outperformance on small caps accelerates in the last month and continuing today. >> we're up more than 2% here. i want to point out advances per v versus declines better than three to one. volumes aren't heavy. everyone's talking about cisco. i'd going to want to point out spillover effects positive inside that note. a couple of stocks that we're also mentioning positively. broadcom up 3.4%. we talked a lot about -- it was on the menu. apple and the 2 billion downloads at the tech store. research in motion down 2.9%. you have a situation where the iphone is going into china and the uk. you have download news. research in motion after those earnings cannot get off the mat. continuing to struggle. we do want to look at another of the big names. google sup 1.7%. intel, all the chips up more than 2%. we'

. >>> mel anie oudin two wins awa from the u.s. open title and a possible matchup with serena williams. 17-year-old oudin beat four russians in a row to reach her first grand slam quarterfinals. four wins in a row. her latest victim was a 13 seed. >>> recess is over. time to get back to work for congress and they have brand new health care proposal to fight over. >>> the mild mannered approach is gone. president obama looks fired up heading into strategy talks on health care this afternoon. he has house speaker pelosi and senate majority leader harry reid coming by the white house this afternoon. cnn's brianna keilar is on capitol hill. brianna, okay, congress is back from vacation. rubber hits the road this afternoon. i don't have any more cliches. what can you tell us about what's on the schedule today on health care? >> reporter: we're keeping an eye on a meeting happening this afternoon 2:30 eastern time. that bipartisan group of six senators on the senate finance committee will be talking about a proposal that has been laid ou

when they start pulli ining awa. we're going to find out if the economy can stand on its own two feet. next week, big regulatory hearings about financial markets. so there's more talk about how we can't down speculation which might have the unintended consequence of making credit less available and more expensive. a lot of longer term big issues being dealt with in the next two weeks. >> thank you very much. good to talk to you. >> comments and questions this morning, we'd love to hear from you. our address is squawk@cnbc.com. >>> still ahead, the health pitch, new diagnosis out of washington, it seems like every day. what is this final bill going to end up looking like? we'll talk to tommy thompson who knows a thing about this or two after the break. >>> a star studded week of political power players on "squawk box." tomorrow, white house chief of staff rahm emanuel, tomorrower president bill clinton, and his former chief of staff john podeta. live in washington at the national energy summit with industry leaders an

move awa from th can't do and start the agenda and dialogue and here is what japan can do.hat would immiately be recognized long not only in the u.s. but other countries. thes are people who want to keep japan in the international i was going to say the fight, but in the problem solving business internationally. >> if i can a short while ago a few months ago the society of southern california had its 100th anniversary i went back for that, a big dinne universal studios may be some of you were there, the ambassador was there and this cleared by him to p on the record. i joked about the importance of the former prime minister being barack obama as first official guest at the white house, first official foreign leader guest and i asked how high the price was and he says tt is a decade old thinking. we are not in that amore but at the plate in my view y barack obama invited him to tt, to have that place very important is on the international economic questions. i don't believe the global heart attack is over. i believe there's significant challenges ahead on how to deal with th

at the end of the day ted's job was the long task of folding and packing the sails awa in politics an in the great progressive battles that were his life's work, ted never packed the sails away. were he here today, he would exhort us to sail into the wind as he did so many times. there is so much to do. so much that he wanted to do. and so much that he would want us to do now. not in his name, but in his spirit. when ted was 12 yrs old, he spent hours with his brother jack taking turns, reading the war poem "john brown's body." it is book length and filled with great an terrible scenes of battle and hardbreaking loss of home. it surprises me to read it now and find so much in it that, in fact, reminds me of ted. sometimes it was written -- there comes a crack in time itself. sometimes the sertsd earth is ty something. the polar srs moved united states an unfathomed force that will not have it anymore. call it god or fate, call it economic law, that force exists and moves, and wn it moves, it will emploa hard and actual stone to batter into bits an actual wall and change the actual sch

kennedy awards and i found it a common theme in the awas and the ab civil gavel award, those are for death penalty related issues, stories. so i've written extensively about the death penalty. and when i was released on parole in 2006, in ril o 2006, going to work as a paralegal for aaw firm, once again on encountered the dth penalty as a paralegal for criminal defense. so it has been a sort of life interest, and i guess it will be until the day i die. as the gentleman introducing me awhile ago said ofife without parole because i was in 72 resistance toife without parole in 1990 to the governor of louisiana commuted am i sentence to 90 years, and after six failed oral attempts i was finally paroled on a seventh attempt in april in 2006, moved to houston where jodie lived and went to school, got my skills, brought up on the texas law as a jailhouse lawyer in the system the louisianan wall, so i had to bring my skills up to learn about the texas law and the criminalists procedure to function as a paralegal and i did that and went to work in 2007 for the john floyd law firm in houston a