for balmer right now. yet, the other two curtains you have got there of buy a company and save cash, always alive because steve balmer told me as long as the checkbook is fat and still in the pocket you get invited to parties. >> quentin, talk about number two. buy a company. who's out there? rim? >> i think they could buy rim. they could buy nokia. they could get further in to hardware that way. that would be a good way to go. i think having 27% up in the stock buys balmer a lot of time and they're going toe to toe with apple and google and ama n amazon. they all have a lot of cash. >> save cash. what do you think, jon? all right sitting on a lot of cash. >> they are. and they're playing very conservative. i think buy a company is a last resort for them. they need nokia to succeed. i think they're prepared to invest money to make sure that happens and don't want to if they don't have to. >> thank you all. appreciate it very much. >> thank you. >>> we'll take a break and then next, peter thiel dumps the fa

so yeah, bill gates had that problem, steve balmer, you know, made that even worse with the mindset of'll be everything to everybody. and we'll buy our way into businesses, when we see what works. >> now you cited a remark of steve jobs, and the book by walter isaacs, that said there was not enough "liberal arts" at microsoft. tell me how they have determined their fate. >> microsoft has always been a -- a technology engineering company. and one of the things that steve jobs said that is not quoted in that articlele is, you know, th easy part is the engineering. the hard part is determining what customers want and need. and to a large extent, microsoft does it the other way around. ththey focus on the engineering you know, making -- i mean look at windows advi-- vista, which disaster o on the engineering a desire stage. it was so complicated, and so many of microsoft's products are so complicated. and it is because they're overloaded. they have over loaded their engineering centric. they're about getting people to put in things that they think will look good on an engineering basis. >>

the last two days defensive player antwon balmer has been a no show at practice.e shanahan didn't hear from him, went to his hotel room, found it cleared out and changed his phone number. he apparently did this two seasons ago with the 49ers as well. >>> close your eyes and ears for a few seconds if you don't want to hear the olympic alert. michael phelps won the 200- meter individual relay. teammate ryan lochte nabbed the silver and 16-year-old gymnast gabby douglas got the all around final. in six starts pitcher of month the goes 4-0 with a .97 e.r.a. accident , the first -- e.r.a., the first time in 33 years a pitcher got that honor for strasburg. the nationals reinstated jayson werth. he will start in the outfield tonight. we'll have highlights at 11:00. i'm kristen berset, back to you in the studio. >> thank you. >> game will be fine tonight at nats park, hot. all the thunderstorms are south of town in southern maryland and northern neck. some of those are hefty. other than that it's okay. >> the cbs evening news is next. >> derek is back with your area's onl

romney who do you think is going to win balmer why. because of mitt romney it doesn't appeal to. you don't like either one or i think that obama doesn't win with my point of view i think about second to me correct obama you think he's going to win if indeed ok he's done a good job because republican side and republican issue when you're going to vote for romney. no choice if that sounds elect then yes yes it is you know whatever you choose to do whatever like president you have to choose it's going to make a huge influence on the world not just on the american people but it's actually on the world so we have more responsibility absolutely no matter what the conventions do or don't do the bottom line is the media is going to try to make them seem really really important so grab your popcorn the media circus is just about to start. coming up next week on r t r's he travels to tampa for the republican national convention we'll have the latest developments from florida and reaction from some of the supporters and protesters plus he has a hardcore following among young supporters and

and some moms like carol balmer's whose daughter is dana vollmer.o you are going to get your hair done, right? >> yes. >> reporter: what is it like that you have a place like that that pampers you? >> i have never seen anything like this at all. they have had places for us to go and relax and they have never had anywhere to do our hair and nails, so this is great. >> i like it. >> reporter: there's a man cave for dads. team usa viewing party, and even birthday celebrations. >> it is your birthday. go, usa! >> reporter: some moms come here for fun like kerri walsh jennings' mom. i'm kind of new in television, but something tells me that this could be fun. i'm not sure what it is, but we could take pictures. what do you think? >> yes, let's go for it. >> reporter: okay. one, two, three, we are olympians. okay. that is hilarious. when you watch her, obviously, you as a mom, you must have driven her to 1,000 volleyball practices and millions maybe. >> yes. >> reporter: and what is it like to see her ultimate dreams come true? >> in our family, it is a p

three fund-raisers in balmer. two at the hyatt regency hotel then he pops up to philadelphia.rce i from baltimore to philadelphia. three fund-raisers this evening in philadelphia at the franklin institute and then coming back to the white house, arriving back from the white house at 11:20 p.m. man is busy, busy, busy. he won't let anybody get ahead of him in fund-raising. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] hey hey. hello everybody. monday, june 12th. great to see you today. thankful for being part of the program here, the full court press on current tv. live from our nation's capitol on your studio right here on capitol hill. we will take your calls at 866-55-press. while you may be weren't looking, guess what. republicans have launched another war. they have already launched a war against women, against students and against gaze and lesbian s. now they have launched a war against public employees led by mitt romney who said over the weekend, we ought to just fire cops and firefighters and teachers. really? mit? we will get into that and a whole lot more. but first, we get the latest. today'

. >> you know about the balmer curve that the principle of the arts, the museums and carnegie hall there to be u.s. is diezed. these are not commercial enterprises. >> they flood dollars to the restaurants and th taxi stands and the shops that service the visitors and the hotels. these are incredible drivers of the economy. entertainment is the number two export of the united states of america. am i right? >> absolutely. >> when fortune magazine asked mitt romney where he he make budget cuts? >> first he said obamacare but subsidy programs, amtrak. i don't know what would happen then. pbs, the subsidy there, the subsidy for the national endowment of the arts and humanities. they have to stand on their own rather than receive money from other countries. i think that is based on economic ignorance. these are not the kinds of things that make profits. >> you cut amtrak. if you are creating jobs how are you going to get to work? as you said, better than i could. >> are we going the hear from clint eastwood tomorrow night? >> i don't know. you tell us. >> any other big celebs? i'm trying to t