and he says tony blair hanging bankers won't help public anger over the financial crisis is wrong and must not lead britain to hang bankers at the end of the street tony blair says today we must not start thinking that society will be better off if we hang twenty bankers at the end of the street you have to parse tony blair a day here when he says it won't help we mange to say is it will help when he says twenty is not enough he means two hundred is a good way to start stacked up and go. but listen to that statement there he says that public anger over the financial crisis is wrong. it's not a financial crisis by the way it's a financial crime wave were right well tony blair as we know he's going into the banking business he setting up a new super bank for the super rich the people he made super wealthy as a result of his super violation of law to invade iraq and commit a super genocide on behalf of the supertankers and the oil business of which we are a presence blood for oil tony so he's tone deaf to what the public is saying that two million people are against the war he was tone d

lot of people thought that's a bit rash but tony blair is down around no way of thinking so well max in fact he has responded to the kaiser report and to your appearance live on channel four in the u.k. and he says tony blair hanging bankers won't help public anger over the financial crisis is wrong and must not lead britain to hang bankers at the end of the street tony blair says today we must not start thinking that society will be better off if we hang twenty bankers at the end of the story you have to parse tony blair a day when he says it won't help to say is it will when he says twenty is not enough he means two hundred is a good way to start stack them up and go. but listen to that statement there he says that public anger over the financial crisis is wrong. it's not a financial crisis by the way it's a financial crime wave we're right well tony blair as we know he's going into the banking business he setting up a new super bank for the super rich the people he made super wealthy as a result of his super violation of law to invade iraq and commit a super genocide on behalf of

because he's also in the news for blair defends p.f. i as n.h.s. trust face bankruptcy now notice that anywhere a banker is running things where ever system they touch turns to bankruptcy tony blair has defended the spread of private finance initiatives under labor a seven n.h.s. trust face administration as they struggle to repay large debts from p.f. ideals so the scheme saw private firms building hospitals leaving the n.h.s. with basically a mortgage and an annual fee to pay over thirty years the total value of the n.h.s. buildings built by labor under the scheme is eleven point four billion but the bill basically max comes down to seventy billion on its equity extraction they load the system up with debt they pay themselves a huge dividend and then expose the entire system to any fluctuation in interest rates which of course are inevitable and then it goes bankrupt is the philip green model over their t.v. if you call it pants up a billion pound dividend by loaning the. company up with debt paid to his wife in monaco and then of cou

tony blair, let's start with the london olympics. you were instrumental in bringing this back to london after so long. why is it important for a country to get it? talk about the economics of it. talk about the impact positively if you land the olympics. >> well, you are the center of attention. and so for london and for britain, this is an opportunity to be there in front of the whole world to say this is what we're about, say look at the great show we're putting on. you bring in a lot of investments. we have cited the olympic park in one of the worst parts of the east end of london has now been completely regenerated. we bring world-class facilities. still in beijing, more people are visiting the olympic site than go to the forbidden city. if you do it right, it can give you a boost and some of these things can't be quantified. the reason it's so hotly competed over today is because people realize it's a great thing for the country to have. >> be honest, when you saw that you won the bid and you saw the beijing opening ceremony, di

. >>> i met tony blair almost exactly eight years ago. he was in his second term as prime minister and i was just starting out. after our first meeting, the reporter asked if we found anything in common and i jokingly replied that we both used colgate toothpaste. the truth is, i did feel a close connection to tony blair, as i said after the first meeting, i knew that when either of us gets in a bind, there will be a friend on the other end of the phone. >> my special guest, tony blair. let's talk about american politics. nobody has a better view of this from outside of america than you. how is the special relationship in reality do you think between america and britain these days? >> i think it's still strong. it's strong because of tied history and shared values and shared purpose actually still. it's a very strong and good relationship. it always should be. people said to me, you get on with bill clinton and george bush. well, i like them both very much in different ways, but it's partly the job of the british prime minister to have tha

they are our all-access guests, blair underwood and nicole ari parker. >> you must be stanley.> yes. >> where's little woman? >> in the bathroom. >> here with the stars of the revived hit "a streetcar named desire," blair underwood and nicole ari parker. con gratelationgratulatio congratulations. that's a big deal. >> yes. >> the shows are closing out around us. it's by word of mouth. the word on the street is this is the show to come to. >> this is a huge hit. >> "a," it's a classic american play and "b," blair underwood is in it. >> like nicole said, it's a classic. many people feel as though they know it or think they know it. it's important to have a barometer, point of reference. >> one of the perceptions is that you all have radically changed the play from the original tennessee williams version or even the randall version. >> minor things. >> minor changes. >> people are basing it on the movie. a lot of people haven't read the actual play. they're going off the movie version in 1951 which was made at a time when censorship is very high. most of the stories, the key turni

change is not a good policy it's been a policy for the last ten to fifteen years coming from tony blair but it is not a policy that actually develops countries and helps countries and it was for always for the development in the region what about the consequences of the divisions we're seeing between russia and china and other un member security council members what what's the implication the impact of all of that now. well we know what it is because we did the right embassador rights and others would like to put in

mitt romney said to tony blair that he wants to take in a swimming event. they talked about mrs. romney's horse that is taking part in an olympic game here. he won't be watching that event. i should mention where we are right now, we're out in front of ten downing street, the residencest pri of the prime mi david cameron. we understand the olympic torch, that's right, the olympics are going on in the midst of all this the olympic torch will be coming down ten downing street today. >> take a picture. you were talking about the horse which has been in the horse and swimming. these are not topics of great world importance. what will mitt romney try to discuss and not discuss as he meets with the british leaders today? >> reporter: well, you know sh it, it's going to be interesting to hear what he has to say. he asked a question this morning when talking to tony blair and didn't respond to the question, what message do you want to send to the united states in the trip is about how mitt romney deals with the foreign leaders. he's trying to project an image of what a future president r

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this picture taken moments ago as he met with tony blair. romney also sitting down with some of england's top financial and foreign policy leaders. all of this before a special appearance at the olympic game. he will continue his week long trip by meeting with leaders in israel and poland. we will have more coming up in just a bit. >>> the army psychiatrist charged with murdering 13 people at fort hood now being told to shave his beard or else someone else will shave it for him. nadal hassan says it's an expression of his muslim face and says dee care if it violates military. he also says hassan is in con sem president of court and fi-- contempt of court and fined him for not doing so already. >>> in response to her son's doet stop. >> please, please, please stop the violence. it's not going to bring my son back. it's not. this is the worst thing any mother could go through. >> hundreds of demonstrators have terrorized the california city since saturday smashing windows and hurling bottles at police. police have arrested 24 people. 6 people

thank you, blair. >> all right.hank you u, suzanne. >>> sure. >>> tens of thousands of people are descending on new orleans today for a musical extravaganza call called the essence festival. we will take you to new orleans and including talking to the mayor about how he is helping the city and the new challenges up ahead. >>> getting the most out of your home is what you are asking about and that is what poppy harlow and the help desk team are talking about as well. >> hello, everyone. here at the desk we are talking about the home likely your biggest asset. joining me is ryan and carmen wong ulrich. >> if you own a home today is it making sense to sell it or try to rent it? >> where is the home? >> new jersey. >> this is going to differ from state by state and you can't say that new jersey is one way or another, but overall, what do you think in the market? >> first of all, what are the long term prospects for the home? did you plan to own it for a long time? are you ready to be a landlord, and a lot of people don'

blair left and found himself cut out of the process. that's the kind of generational disputes and tensions that have underlaid this administration since the beginning. at the ultimate of course is obama himself. what can we say about him? first, i need to dispel the idea that he was in some way fundamentally different from other presidents and so i will give you a couple of paragraphs from the book. over the years, far too much has been made of ho obama's ressa and upbringings supposedly affected his thinking about the world. political opponents, diplomats and journalists have sometimes speculated about the impact on obama of his father's roots in kenya or his childhood in indonesia. some the arise that obama had somehow with a colonial perspective and was tossed loyal order of least not sympathetic to british and european traditions. there is little if any evidence to support the theory and it represents an extremely selective interpretation of obama's youth. his post primary education included a prep school in hawaii, private colleges

tony blair, let's start with the london olympics.mental in bringing this back to london after so long. why is it important for a country to get it? talk about the economics of it. talk about the impact positively if you lapped b the olympics. >> well, you are the center of attention. and so for london and for britain, this is an opportunity to be there in front of the whole world to say this is what we're about, say look at the great show we're putting on. you bring in a lot of in

tony blair. his nose gets big. tony blair. rock, paper, scissors. velociraptor! come on! ben, can you just please...? it's paper, it's rock, or it's scissors. that's it. three things in the repertoire-- rock, paper, scissors. ...paper, scissors. nuclear bomb! right. karen wins. no! please, both of you, stop. okay, shall we play something else? so, what's this game you want to play? it's called dinosaur-teddy-robot. dad: what do we do? mum: what are the rules? well... robot kills dinosaur, dinosaur kills teddy, and teddy kills robot, because the dinosaur can eat the teddy, the teddy can deactivate the robot, and the robot can laser the dinosaur. sounds so complicated. but it's good. good, mind. you hide them under the table, and then we say, "teddy, robot, dino," and then you lift up either a teddy, a dinosaur, or a robot. quite an exciting game, isn't it? okay, dinosaur, teddy, robot! um... zambia? is the right answer. well done, jake. can i be the question-asker? please, please? mum: go ahead. how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? it's a

bush and tony blair. and it's a special relationship that david cameron and barack obama, again, not ideological soul mates have, managed to continue taking to a fresh level. what is so troubling about the events of the last couple of days is that mitt romney, the man who hopes to be president, hopes to be doing business with david cameron, perhaps even with boris johnson, a man who has national political ambitions in the uk, this has put a strain in that relationship and made it difficult on the basis of what we have seen to imagine how they can go forward and establish a productive working relationship, unless there is some kind of do-over further down the line. >> you know, chris, churchill, again, my hero, said we are two peoples divided by a common language. in the case of mitt romney, no one speaks the language he speaks. so how do we explain this? we've been covering his strange use of the language for months now saying i read the newspaper when i was on the aircraft. and everybody in america says

speaking out of both sides of your mouth you're a horrible leader you subsidize terrorism just like tony blair subsidize terrorism but saudi prince bandar if you recall a court of the subsidize them in saudi prince said to tony blair in his office if you don't stop this a serious fraud investigation on me there can't guarantee another seven seven bus bombing well again max here it is the government of the u.k. david cameron's government is calling these poor people he's telling them you little poor people you on food stamps you're living in public housing you have dreadful backgrounds and because of this we're sending you to this camp where we're teaching you how to have respect for other people what has he done what is he doing to save the people from the dreadful backgrounds of bob diamond the dreadful backgrounds of jamie diamond jamie diamond has bankrupted montgomery county alabama he has destroyed several cities in italy he has destroyed the municipal bond market across america what about his dreadful background. sixty years ago david cameron would call for ethnic cleansing now he is cal

janet blair let's loose. you killed the bear. ring someone's neck. >> i was very upset and i stamped my foot and i said a bad word. [ bleep ] very loudly. i am a journalist. and i'm supposed to be dispassionate. but that doesn't mean i don't have really strong feels about every story i do. and in this case, i had very strong feelings for that bear. i thought, she was a goner. you know, if she didn't die from that fall, she must have died from the electrocution. >> but story turns out very differently. >> we went up to the bear and the bear was still breathing, still had a heart beat. it was like, amazing. we were just, amazed. >> she survived it. and she survived the burns on her paws and everything. >> lucky for the bear, the fur doesn't conduct electricity well lucky as well her body is equipped for a high fall. she needs urgent care, but her condition isn't critical. >> she seems stable. she is breathing regularly. her heart rate is regular. and i can't really find any injuries on her other than a little burn on the inside of

tomorrow morning he plans to meet with tony blair, david cameron.at you heard earlier this week. it will send a message that he disagrees with the president's method. andrea? >> one suggests that in contrast to what barack obama did when he was a candidate in 2008 when i was on that trip with him, why isn't mitt romney going to afghanistan? not to iraq, not to afghanistan, to either war zones or the scene of the former war? >> reporter: it's a good question we posted to the campaign as well and they've given us very few reasons why that was the case except logistically, it wasn't an option. going to afghanistan, it reminds the audience at home of president obama's greatest success story. even as you and some of your guests already in this broadcast were discussing, one of the images is even in the speak a couple days ago, he appears to address it with the timetable of 2014 for removing troops from afghanistan. >> thanks so much, peter. good travels. and in our daily piks today, the mud slinging is sticking. according to the nbc news/wall street jour

tony blair, let's start with the london olympics.ringing this back to london after so long. why is it important for a country to get it? talk about the economics of it. talk about the impact positively if you land the olympics. >> well, you are the center of attention. and so for london and for britain, this is an opportunity to be there in front of the whole world to say this is what we're about, say look at the great show we're putting on. you bring in a lot of investments. we have cited the olympic park in one of the worst parts of the

it appear that gordon brown and tony blair had deliberate strategy of what's called a race to the bottom and right in the regulatory sense i will not join the there was obviously regulation the world loads and loads of regulation but which whether they were actually applied or not that mattered but that the overall policy was not to properly apply the regulation that existed right now what's interesting in the last couple of weeks is that this live or scandal at barclays bank and including other banks around the world is now entered into the bank of england so it's gone into the inner sanctum of the world central banks over in the us of course there is this audit the fed movement that's been active for quite some time especially that the federal reserve bank of ben bernanke has been committing acts of interest rate manipulation and fraud but now mervyn king is a player in this do you think this will have as some are speculating a kind of a ratcheting up of the post two thousand crisis leading to what some are calling the industry's tobacco moment where that you know it's back when histor