you need to see it to believe it. >> only with becky. >> i love that becky. >> just breaking out and dance. there you go. >> five, six, seven. >> just hang in here, dan. >> i feel like i should put my box on. >> your box on! >> one of my proudest moments. >>> we begin with you, lara, this half hour. >> i'm heading over right now. here we go. here we go. the cast of "pretty little liars" is here. it's a huge day. the most tweeted about show of 2011. i'm here now with the three stars of the abc family show.

jackie. >> thanks, becky.s now to talk more about super tuesday and crystal ball, democratic strategist, former candidate for congress in and also a cnbc contribute. romney did jeff nuft to sort of stay the front-runner but he certainly didn't clinch the nomination. at the same time we still have santorum and gingrich in the race. santorum, you said if you want to be the king, you have to kill the king. he didn't do it. >> he's had a couple shots to kill the king. he had a shot in michigan. he didn't do it. he's had a shot in ohio. he didn't do it. romney did. that h's the front-runner. all he has to do is do enough. he's got 75% more votes, one tice as many states. someone has to knock him off. santorum and gingrich are in the race. that's great for them. keep it up. >> a lot of people are hoping he would emerge as the nominee to end some of the in-fighting in the republican party but some thought it was inevitable. but then as you thought it was inevitable it turned on its face. >> yeah, it seems we're throw

jackie. >> thanks for that, becky. meantime we're watching futures in the united states as we're getting set for trade on wall street this morning. let's take a look at the board. it looks like we're seeing a little bit of positive momentum. the nasdaq, just above the flatline and the s&p 500 just above the flatline as well. this as the equities finish hider yesterday. we had a market melt-up as we're calling it. they posted their largest percentage gains this year. and, in fact, becky, i want to highlight the fact that we saw theest close. the highest close since 2008. over to you. >> and we've had -- in europe, even after yesterday's close, five days up, which sends us to fresh closing highs for the year for the ftse, the cac, and the dax, and we're continuing to add some ground today. the ftse is up by 9.4%. the dax is up by 0.9%. the cac is up. gains in italy and switzerland as well. continuing add ground there. the ftse, although it's come off of highs earlier in the session is closing closer to the 6,000 level. a

chris: becky quick. >> we're watching the markets again very closely. we are pushing at the highest levels we have seen in 4 1/2 years. the turn is going to come next week when we see if we can keep at these levels and sustain it. chris: 13,000. >> not that just that, 1350 on the s&p, too. >> everyone agrees that ohio is the big kahuna on super tuesday. there is a big sense that santorum could do very well there. however, a little footnote that the same group that was organizing the early voting and ballots for romney in florida and m.v.p. has been in ohio for a month. he may have a leg up already. >> the general election campaign, the r.n.c. moved state directors into ohio, florida, north carolina, virginia this week. they'll have four more by the end of next month. it may not sound like much, but it is three months ahead of where john mccain was in 2008 and there will be hispanic state directors in all battle ground states for the first time in its history. chris: when we come back, the big question of the week will the republicans pay a price this ye

jackie. >> thanks for that, becky.n the meantime we're seeing in the state as bit of a monthsive momentum now. if the market opened now, the dow would be up. the s&p 500 higher be i about 3.5 as well, this after stocks finished lower in trade yesterday on tuesday. we saw a little bit of a pullback on the concerns of growth in china and the headline miss in term os the housing data. we saw energy, industrials, and materials dragging the indices a little bit lower. financials, surprisingly, not surprisingly outperformed. meantime there's much more discussion on "worldwide exchange." we're going to look at the worked market. we're going to get a pulse check on the commercial property sector. who's buying and where when we come right back. lyons, ceo of savills and guest host arnab das. let's go ahead and talk about the commercial property market. we haven't been able to drill down on that much. a lot of cash on the sidelines, burning a hole in investors' pockets and they're looking to get back. where are the strongest poc

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen.w as you saw is in new orleans covering the tulane 2012 mergers and acquisition conferences. we'll hear from him in a few moments. let's get to the headlines. first up the bank of england up with the rate decision. it left rates unchanged at 0.5 percent. and we're keeping an eye on aig shares this morning, they are called lower. the treasury is selling $6 billion in aig stock. the insurer itself is planning to buy up half of that amount but it still leaves $3 billion of shares coming on market, all of which two reduce the treasury's stakes to 70% from 77%. >>> the justice department is taking legal aim at apple and five of the biggest book companies, they have accused price of e-books. they say that settlement discussions are taking place. >>> if you are watching the futures, yesterday we saw an up day for the dow this comes after the 203-point decline the day before on tuesday. futures are insidecated up by triple digits, 114 points for the dow, s&p up by 1%. joe? >>> let's get to and

joe, andrew and becky are back with a huge lineup of guests,

crowley and becky quick. president obama and prime minister netanyahu just wrapped up a meeting, did they agree on a policy toward iran. the president had a tone of caution. >> it's profounding in the united states's interest to prevent iran from gaining a nuclear weapon. we believe that there's still a window that allows for a diplomatic resolution to this issue. >> a moment later minute -- the prime minister indicated that we are in it together. >> for us we are you and you are us. israel must have the ability to defend itself by itself against any threat. great satan and little satan. we have spent a lot of time talking about the 2012 race. foreign policy is something that remains pa -- a massive question mark for the president. this seems to be a pivotal time for u.s. israel relations, we can on the edge of war here. >> this is one of the few foreign policy issues that resonated during the republican debates and the potential ripple effects before a shot is fired you see a iran premium on the price of oil

you've had warren buffet tell becky that he likes housing. bill ackman has said he likes housing. some other big names. trump, shiller has said it as well. >> it is one of the few markets, right, where it's down 40% from the peak. if you buy good properties, they're income producing. you know, household formations starting to pick up. there are a whole lot of things it has going for it. but again, you have to have the right liquidity before you venture into investments like that. and that's why i wouldn't say definitively for every person and every circumstance you need to be looking at housing. you need to have the foundations there first. >> steve, we want to thank you very much for joining us today. it's been a pleasure talking to you. >> my pleasure. >> good to see you. >> by the way, scott and steve, thank you guys for hanging out this week and spending so much time today, too. >> always a good place to be. >> great to have you guys here. >> thanks. >> that's it for us today. by the way, everyone, have a wonderful weekend and make sure jo

>> good morning, becky. it's a great point.took away from what he said or didn't say -- >> who? >> bernanke. i like to say ber-nak-ee, in chicago. i saw the rickster alluded to it yesterday by the finger. we had 35,000 combed through and it was a misclick, not a fat finger. as the viewers know as the contracts and the treasuries roll from the march to the june it was an inadvertent misclick of a spread into the futures and that set off a death charge into the market and brought the precious metal complex down to the fourth worst loss ever. >> so today, do you expect any repeat or this was simply a fat finger trade that affected and threw things off, this was not bernanke talking about the economy, maybe looking a little better and the need for qe3 getting pushed further down the line? >> well i'm in the camp it was an al gogorythmic move. we would have seen the ten-year note move 30 to 40 basis points, not eight or nine. i think yesterday was an anomaly. >> jobless claims coming out at 8:30 this morning. jeff if that number is

i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin. gary, thank you for joining us this morning. >> welcome to the asylum. >> uh-oh. >> we're losing microphones and all sorts of things. >> joe will be back tomorrow but, gary, we are glad to have you here. >>> deadly tornadoes leaving a path of destruction. dozens of people were killed. joining us right now from west liberty, kentucky, is the weather channel's mike bettes. mike? >> reporter: good morning to you. the last thing the residents here in west liberty wanted to see was a winter wonder land. that's what they have after a deadly ef-3 tornado went through. you can see behind me piles of debris still litter the city here. there is not one single building in this town untouched by a tornado that was a mile wide when it came through over the early weekend. so many people here have been devastated and now they have this to contend with. this is a remote part of eastern kentucky. it's difficult to get here. the roads are curvy, windy, and hilly. now the power crews have to contend as

with us today, the "washington post" bob woodward, cnbc becky quick, the "washington post" kathleen parker and the national journal's major garrett. while republicans are having to explain rush limbaugh's hatefulness this week, barack obama is radiating optimism these days. the president is channeling that old ronald reagan morning in america. here he is on tuesday. >> i'm not going to settle for a country where a few do really well and everybody else is struggling to get by. i promise you this. as long as you got an ounce of fight left in you, i'll have a ton of fight left in me. >> a new poll has obama losing to mitt romney by four points believe it or not, even with all of the damage that romney sustained lately. other polls have obama winning or tied. those are snapshots. obama knows history. he knows that the trend in a president's job approval is the key. this chart shows his approval and disapproval since inauguration. right now his approval is going up decidedly, this is going down. jimmy carter and george bush 41, that's the first george bush had trend lines going down during this

you need to see it to believe it. >> only with becky. >> i love that becky. >> just breaking out and here, dan. >> i feel like i should put my box on. >> your box on! >> one of my proudest moments. >>> we begin with you, lara, this half hour. >> i'm heading over right now. here we go. here we go. the cast of "pretty little liars" is here. it's a huge day. the most tweeted about show of 2011. i'm here now with the three stars of the abc family show. it's a huge night on the show. we want to know all about that. let me introduce everybody to you. we have lucy hale, shay mitchell, and troian bellisario. when you saw the script, had you guessed it? who "a" was? >> um -- i think all of us sort of had a different theory. we didn't though. we were right along with the audience. they didn't give us the script until the day before. >> and in that read-through, all of us had different facial expressions. oh, i knew, oh. >> we have a piece to show you. it is the question "pretty little liars" fans have been asking since day one. who is "a"? >> guys. i figured it out. >> reporter: for the past t

and becky, by the way.ter & gamble and some others and it was about a year ago, wouldn't you say? you were the one. >> yeah. >> so, my stock, in fact, i was just watching your previous guest yachtman and he had a nice record and i notice he had pepsi on his list and procter & gamble a stock i actually have and a couple of others and i'll go out and buy some. this is after doing massive research, but do you know what, if i respect somebody and somebody has a good record and i happen to see him on cnbc on your show, i will go out and buy some of that stock, so that has been -- i haven't been paying the 2 and 20. you know, the 2 and 20? i'm not a big believer in that, but i go out and i see somebody on your show who is impressive and i'll go out -- if i agree with them, i'll go out and buy some of the stock. now, my timing was better than my knowledge. >> you bought bank of america. >> i bought bank of america in the 6s. >> it sounds like a "fast money halftime report." it sounds like a perfect place for donal

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.e're continuing to watch oil prices today. those prices slipped overnight after they surged late yesterday to levels we haven't seen since 2008 this pullback comes after fears of a supply disruption from saudi arabia eased a little bit. there was an iranian media report yesterday during the trading session that said there was a pipeline fire and a top exporter. then a saudi oil official told cnbc it was untrue and we did see rapid moves, first of all, the oil markets moving up rapidly. stocks moving down on this news. it's been a reversal as we heard saudi arabia telling us that this was not the case. right now you see oil prices down by 66 cents, 108.18. >> so close to 13,000 yet so far away. up for a bit and then reversed course. >> nasdaq 3,000 is important, too. >> that is true. >> 5,000. back in the day. >> we were doing music and remember there was -- there was even a nasdaq stock, they made the catalogs that you pull out of the back seat of the airplane seat. remember the sky so

it's dangerous to predict what someone like gingrich armed with a checkbook does. >> becky, on cnbc youth newt gingrich, you said it's impossible to knockout romney because of the online campaigning. >> not mentioning the super pacs we talked about that, and admitted that he benefitted from the super pacs, one person in particular has kept him in it. he himself called it a ncaa final four without elimination. and the candidates recognize it. >> if we are talking about money and poll tib itics and super pan million dollars have been spent and half of that coming from the romney super pac, romney and the super pac s supporting him spent $40 million of the $75 million spent on the primary. it's expensive to be in the political race. >> it is a change in the campaign finance that the republicans favored, they thought it would give them the edge and it's hurt the brand in the short-term and forced them in a position where their probable front-runner that has had to move to a position that upsets the voters that he need s in november. the youth, hispanics, women, independents. who is left? >>

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becky?president lacker, if you were talking about what you've seen with oil prices, you mention it could push inflation hyper for the next month or two. what do you see happening that brings oil prices back down after that time frame? >> well, becky, as you well know, economists face this dilemma with energy markets. it's hard to argue with the futures markets. the price is built in there represent amalgamation about where oil prices are headed. when they're flat or declining, it's hard to argue there's going to be an upward trend in oil prices. having said that we've been surprised on the up side more and the down side the eight years or so. it's hard to be overconfident about oil prices. >> do you think the higher oil priceser here because of instability around the globe or political issues or is this a supply issue? that would probably determine how long up think it's going to last. >> i think it's a combination of all three. i think the long-run global trend in growth is putting pressure

becky's sitdown interview with brian moynihan.id i say the director -- i said he was good, didn't i? >> he is. >> i meant less bad. >> he's great. he is great and you miss him. >> i will never live this down. >> one more time. >> he's less bad. >> paul is wonderful. >> joe, thr people you need to be nice to. the director is one of them. if it if you haven't learned that by now. >> don't focus on my teeth. i just mentioned -- did they turn off my mike, too? >> if you didn't see this yesterday, a bit of college hoops. the fourth seed in the big east tournament which happens at madison square garden every year, cincinnati meeting the fifth seed but ranked georgetown 14th in the country in the garden. georgetown led 30-24 at the half and then check this out. the fast break with an alley-oop. to yancey gates. there was a steal. he look it down. unbelievable. they looked nba ready. banked one in in double overtime. look at this. unbelievable. they play syracuse tonight in the semifinals at 7:00 p.m. this was double overtime. the lead st

i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and gary komiski. america's food division. john compton who had held the job has been named pepsico president. cornell had been seen as a possible ceo candidate at walmart and reportedly approached about the ceo opening at avon and they're trying to figure out what to do in the event andrew nui would be succeeded at some point which everyone is and pepsi is setting up a management structure and stock is higher on the news. >>> volkswagen reports an annual profit of $20.1 billion for 2011, its most ever. general motors earned about $8 billion on last year but vw does say that technology development costs may limit its profits for 2012. >>> universal's "the lorax" topped the box office, earned $39.1 million in north american sikt sales. "john carter" was second, the sci-fi flick at $30.6 million and strong job growth report last friday, economists were busy over the weekend lowering growth forecast. steve liesman joins us live from common fund forum in orlando, florida, with more on the growing conflict

>> i'd make two points on that, becky.od equity market strategist, so nobody should pay a lot of attention to my views on the market. the foundation is laid for good equity market conditions. the recovery is not very strong by historical standards, but it's moving along steadily. obviously, the structure of interest ratines is going to remain where it is perhaps through 2014. you add those two together and that multiples were very lie his. the multiple in the s&p was 14 times. and that is very low, historically. so the ingredients would seem to be there for a good equity market environment. is the recovery strong? no, it's not strong in any historical sense. you know, the growth is tracking 2% or below for this quarter, which is almost already over. that's not a strong growth rate. and you have some big head winds. but it's steady. >> roger, can you just hold on one second? i want to just ask steve forbes if you agree about the banking stress test that the fed deserves praise for what they've done. >> not as much praise as

it's great to you have on set today. >> my pleasure, becky.ims and they're at the lowest levels in four years. but people have an awful lot of concerns about what's to come, especially with china and europe. >> well, jobless claims, steve and i will probably get into it here, but they didn't react the way they typically do with respect to the decline in gdp, when the crisis was happening and they're not reacting the same way on the way out. you have to be a little cautious about how you interpret that individual sign. even though it's 80 degrees out, it's been a long time since i've heard about green chutes. we've had fits and start for some period of time. i think the problem we have is people are confusing a 50-to-70 year debt cycle with the normal business psych. >> what do you mean? >> we're working through a 50 to 70-year cycle of debt. it's not what you're going to have in the five to seven to year business fluctuation. it going to take a much greater amount of time. there's still need for substantial balance sheet repair, consumers, gov

becky quick is here, gary kaminski is here, and i don't know what you do. >> that was good. it. >> sorry, andrew. >> and liesman's mad he missed it. >> sorry, guys. >> if we have a vodka segment we'll bring liesman in. our guest host is bob mcnair and he's chairman of mcnair group, and checking u.s. equity futures this morning we've had how many days up? how many it is? eight or something? >> pretty much -- >> if it's up today it will be eight days if they finish up today. >> we're indicated up about 13 points so far this morning. >>> let's get to some of our headlines this morning, treasury secretary tim geithner said the u.s. economy is growing again but he cautions it faces some tough challenges the call to action to create jobs and foster expansion. geithner spoke to the economic club of new york last night. he singled out rising oil prices as a potential stumbling block. geithner also argued the economy is now more productive than it was before the financial crisis, but he warns that confidence remains fragile. >>> and good news for apple owners, the newest version of a

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or -- somebody e-mailed in, someone said, becky, keep me in check thinking you were becky this morning. i think they were a little tired, they weren't -- >> time for some coffee. >> they just want to make sure you're kept in check. >> someone's got to keep me in check. a lot of interesting stories in papers and magazines this morning. one that caught my eye, mike dacey getting in a little bit of trouble. he put on a play about steve jobs. we've been talking about apple all morning. he put on a play but then went on npr "this american life" and told this story of going to china and foxcon and found out he was made a lot of it up, taking it from newspapers and pretending he he had experienced himself. a big artle david carr and "new york times" reporting on that. >> you have to credit the way they've handled it. >> now the question is whether that turns the narrative the other way to where people start asking thee questions about which better represents truth. obviously he misrepresented the material. >> he says it's a dramatic truth. and i went to the play. great play by the way -- >> d

i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew sorkin. we're going to get to super tuesday and the results there, but first take a look at the markets. stocks are coming off of their biggest declines of the year. yesterday the dow industrial's down 203 points. in fact, this is the first time in 45 consecutive trading sessions that the dow has seen a triple-digit decline. right now you can see that the futures are indicated higher. they're indicated up by just over 50 points. in the meantime, the naz dax, it shed 40 points. that's the longest streak like that since 2006. at this hour, the futures do indicate that we'll see a little bit of strength this morningful the dows futures up as i mentioned by about 50 points and the s&p up by 5.5 points. >> we've got a few economic tests iffer the market today. at 8:15 a.m. eastern we're going to get the poll by reuters. they added 216. >> 216? >> that's the number. >> maybe that's the dow jones expectations. >> of course, the big question is how accurate the adp is in predicting friday. two other

>> thanks, becky.blic transsport, schools, many factories across spain peril liesed. there's tens of thousands gathered on the streets. this morning when i left my hotel there were flyers like this all over the floors, plastered in buildings. they want to finish everything, talking about the labor rights here. it's the first general strike we've had in spain since 2010 but we have seen two protests already this year that have impacted. hundreds of thousands of people were involved to give you some idea of the numbers. we'll get a better estimate later on today when the protesters are scheduled for their striking against radical labor reforms implemented by the government back in february, giving greater flexibility to fire workers if necessary. the unions are complaining this is going to raise the unemployment further in this country. 23% unemployment in spain. around 30% of the population were in favor of these strikes but the conversations that i've had with people over the last couple of days, they'

welcome to "squawk box" i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin.ng headlines on this super tuesday. president obama holds his first news conference since november. that press conference is scheduled for 1:15 eastern time. we've seen rising tensions in the middle east over iran and ear syria. >>> trading in cotton may be worth watching today. cotton trading up on monday after india announced a surprise ban on cotton exports. it wants to make sure that it has sufficient supplies for its domestic textile industry which accounts for 4% of gdp. cotton up above 92 cents a pound right now. still well below last year's peak of $2.27 a pound. >>> the group representing private greek bond holders says disorderly defaults could be a mistake. creditors have until thursday to accept the deal. the potential damage to the euro zone is $1.3 trillion. the futures are indicated weaker and you'll see the dow futures down by about 82 points, the s&p is down 10.5. and this comes after weakness in asia for the second day. >> yes. and it is definitely going to be reflect

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i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin. joe will join us tomorrow. >> i'm sitting in his chair. >> we haven't done a lot like this. we had "three's company" music. >> that's actually pretty good. blond, brunette. >> no, no, wait a second. you're going to get yourself in a whole lot of trouble. >> stop there. i always loved john ritter though. >> me too. i will agree with you on that. >> john ritter, by the way, we'll get to the news. he -- he had a colapoba, a misshaken eye. >>> in mat over weeks is what they're saying at this point. leaders are trying to thing of ways to push field prices down. global supply outages are running at more than a million barrels a day. and we even been watching what prices have been doing at the pump obviously. this is putting pressure on people. this could help justify strategic reserves. it is putting a little bit of pressure on stocks a that point. down by about 1% for those wti crude numbers. 106.28. but, guys, we've been watching what's been happening at the pump. it continues to climb. i

becky quick is here. becky, weekly jobs claims. what did we get? >> we got a pretty decent number. a surprisingly strong number. economists had been expecting 351, that's what it came in at. and i guess the surprise here is that number continues to confound people like ben bernanke who say that the jobs picture has been much better than the fed had been anticipating. this morning, looks like the futures are opening up. looks like we're up about 40 points on the dow. the numbers that came in, very positive from wall street's perspective. you continue to see some improvement coming into the jobless picture. not only are the jobless claims at the lowest level, be uh the new jobless claims, new claims that have never been reported before are sitting at a very low four-week moving average, as well. it's the best rate we've seen in four years on that number, as well. ben bernanke going back to the hill today, he'll be talking more about that and the street's going to be watching his testimony very closely. chuck? >> and it's 24 hours away from the big -- >> no, we've got a week left, it

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becky to tie, and maryland advances to the sweet 16, beating louisville 72-68.ies might have as much of a role in selecting his starting rotation as performance. the pitcher said his shoulder problems would keep him out of the season rotation. last year he had a good deal of attention when they got off to a 4-1 start. shoulder problems some bothered him since august. inflammation looks likely to sideline him. he says he cannot envision getting his shoulder ready by the april start of the season. ps/2 first figure out why his problems continue. -- first he has to figure out why his problems continue. the caps on the road at detroit tonight. alex ovechkin delivers. the power play goal. off to a good start, 1-0. he answers with his own shot on the rebound. this kid to a 5-3 win over the detroit red wings. -- they skate to a 5-1 win over the detroit red wings. after collapsing during a match, the european soccer star continues to draw attention. he suffered a heart attack in collapse during a match over the weekend curious if he remains in serious condition in londo

my friend becky quick is here. well -- is it going to be a bad day in the markets?t tweet that i think i read this morning from crazy jim cramer, right in the morning, he tweets before i do, 4:30 in the morning, he was in a funk. >> in a funk. it's gotten worse since then. jim cramer calmed this early this morning. right now the markets just opening. looks like the dow will open down close to 150 points. chuck, big news, because we haven't seen a triple digit loss on the dow all year long. already march, it hasn't happened. super tuesday looking like a not so super tuesday at least on wall street. right now there are a lot of different reasons that are getting thrown around. some sap the end of the bear market. the end of the bull market and you could see the bears taking over today and sending things lower. other people say it's because of what happened yesterday with netanyahu and that speech he gave last night at apec. i point out oil prices are down. i don't know if that's the best reason. the third reason, greece, again, worried what's happening there because t

becky, thank you. >>> the deep dive into the voter confidence index.t starts in 30 seconds. >>> in today's deep dive, we're looking at the voter confidence index. it's a proprietary msnbc.com that we've come to rely on quite a bit at the nbc news political unit. what is the vci? a way to measure the level of confidence voters have in not just the president but his party at any given time. think of it as a dow jones industrial style index of sorts. basically, how popular is the president's party at a time of an election. you can look at past vcis and see how it correlates with election results. not quite a predictor in how a party will do in the election, but a sense of the mood of the country during an election, and it certainly helps explain what happened. our political unit created the index by looking at three commonly asked poll questions from all of the major national surveys, not just ours, like the nbc wall street journal poll but others connected by fox, nbc, reuters, abc, politico, you get it of the just don't use robo polls. we look at what v

>> all right, becky, thanks very much. would have taken more time, could have asked about bernanke saying go shopping. >>> our deep dive into the politics of health care is coming up. we are back in 30 seconds. >>> next week may be the single most important week in the history of the obama presidency. the supreme court hears oral arguments on the president's signature issue, health care. today marks the two-year anniversary of president obama signing that health care act into law. critics like to call it something else it is is a name president obama is now embrace. >> by the way, you know what let me tell you, i have no problem with folks saying obama cares. i do care. if the other side wants to be the folks who don't care, that's fine with me. >> still, political opponent remain united and vocal in their opposition to the law. even today, they have coordinated a pr effort to put out op eds and press releases all over the country demanding repeal of the law. in fact, looking over the past two years, hundreds of tv ads hav

becky quick, i want to start with you.s nice to have you here. >> great to see you in person. >> when i read that thing, i was like, okay, i know there's an initial new york reaction, wow, what's going on inside goldman? and i saw it as, boy, this is just confirming everything the public thought about wall street. and why they were so angry and throw in the fact that goldman and the government are so interconnected so it makes the tea party mad. it just to me throws just a lot of fuel on this fire. >> i would agree with you. it throws a lot of fuel on the fire, gives conspiracy theorists something to really kind of go back to once again. but i -- i think it's been overplayed and i think it's unfortunate that this is going to get out there in this way. we can talk with these guys that little bit more about that too. i agree it feeds right into that. >> is there something to this? is goldman -- >> here's my concern about it. it sounds like a disgruntled employee. and i know that's the wall street spin on the whole thing. we

the final secs, maryland leads by 3 and becky burke with a chance to tie and that block party.on to defeat louisville, 72-68 and to earn a trip to the sweet scene and after the game, the head coach with high prize to lauren mensi. >> and you look at what she's able to do all season long for us in terms of her consistency and i told her she's taking her game to another level, which you see volumes of lauren in terms of her competitiveness and fire and the fact that she wants to continue playing in this tournament. >> and terps won nine straight. next up with texas a&m and the grizzlies sign gilbert arenas and going to make the league minimal. how the might have fallen. >>> thanks, now you have the news edge. the news is always on www.myfoxdc.com. fantastic night. go out and intoy it. be back at 10. the news edge. [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [