bob michel worked with both of them to get legislation done. they worked to get the number of 218, that's the majority in the house. they got those votes from democrats or republicans. so i hope my friend, the speaker, won't just try to get this surface transportation bill done with republicans. let the democrats voice their opinion. that's the way we should do it. passing a bipartisan transportation bill the president can sign would be a victory for both parties and our country. the senate's pressing business doesn't end with completion of this bill, though. we have a small business jobs bill that was passed overwhelmingly by the house and supported by president obama. and we are -- i had a conversation on the floor publicly here last night with the republican whip, senator kyl of arizona, and we talked about the need to get this done. and we're going to move forward with this expeditiously. there are obviously bumps in the road and i hope there will be very few bumps in the road. i haven't had an opportunity to talk to my friend, the republic

bob? >> michelle, we did it again. we got over 1400. i think the main reason is because we were quiet on the ten-year. i think the main reason we had it very quiet today, look at that, no real movement. concerns on inflation and ppi tomorrow, we'll get the cpi. if that's quiet, maybe this will quiet down a little. because of that, we had nice moves up in the main -- look at the main sectors here today. because s&p 500 topped 1400. that's the first time that's happened since june of 2008. the dow transports also hit a new high. there's the bank index moving up today aggressively. that was the big performer earlier on. and the home builders also moving. bill, we had great movement as well in some of the cloud computing stocks with demandware coming public as well. >> a good time to be coming public in this market here. you wonder, bob, how long apple can continue this run here. we've seen this before with other technology companies. we've seen with other companies that catch fire. they catch the imagination. they are in a new phase of the

he'd say, fine, i'll call bob michel and see if he has 25 votes for me. and they saw that they might have had 20 and they didn't have 25 and they had a compromise on the bill. they did it. that's why i decided i loaf legislating. i loved working on this bill with my friend senator inhofe. i loved working with my staff and his staff. our staffs became almost like family. and i would encourage speaker boehner to take a page out of this book. i see the senator from louisiana on the floor. he and i go at it on a number of issues. we worked together. we even put on this bill the restore act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that is going to make sure that the gulf can rebuild and gets paid back for the suffering that went on there. now, did california get a lot out of that? no. but the country will get a lot out of that because the gulf is a region we care about. it's where we get a lot of our energy. it's where we get a lot of our seafood. we need to work together. so senator vitter and i don't agree on a lost subject, and we -- on a lot of subjects, and we

thank you, michelle and bob, we'll be checking back with you later. bertha coombs check in now from the realtime exchange. >> bill, you use yelp anytime you're looking for a restaurant. it would get the most stars to the small caps and russell 2000. the dow right now, kind of flat, up about 24 points. s&p up a little more than half a percent. nasdaq, about a chip shot, let's call it, away from the nasdaq 3k. interesting thing today, we are bouncing back in commodities after ben bernanke's comments yesterday. the feeling that there was not going to be any more qe-3. wti, $109. and brent above $126 a barrel. in spite of the fact that we've got some strength in the dollar. and it's definitely a risk-on day with the treasury note above 2%. monster worldwide, up huge, nearly 13% with the ceo saying they're exploring at tifls. goldman sachs, leaders of the financials today on fire. goldman sachs acquiring ri holdings insurance properties. first solar, boy, this stock down 15% just this week. now disappointing earnings, taking it down another 6% today. proct

we had tip o'neill, the speaker in the house, and we had bob michel, the head, the republican leader, and the two of them, they'd get into their fights, but they were personal friends. so that at the end of the day when it was time to stop talking and get together and build consensus to get a workable solution, they could do it. we need that kind of model operating in washington, d.c. and state capitols around the country. and so i thank the senator for his presentation. madam president, i came to the floor today because i want to congratulate a floridian, rosemary armstrong, along with her husband, sandy wineberg. i want to congratulate rosemary because she's been such a longtime advocate of pro bono legal work in our state. she is a marvelous lawyer, a graduate of columbia. and why she is to be congratulated at this point is that she has received the 2012 tobias simon pro bono service award. it is the highest honor in the state of florida, florida bar for pro bono legal work in our state. this year marks the 30th anniversary of the tobias simon award, and it was named after the we

. >> bob: financial and moral support, love from michelle and barack obama. >> eric: it looks like dana'sillegal! >> bob: i understand you are a pices; is that right? >> eric: i am. >> bob: maybe dana could give us thoughts about what the pic -- >> eric: thank you. >> bob: you're welcome. i wrote that in the bathroom this morning. >> dana: one thing we all say if anyone has to notice us somewhere else outside of here. people say do you really get along? we thought yesterday what we'd find out what your sign was and just see if the astrologist thought we were compatible at all. it turns out that eric should be friends with gemini. he is called intuitive, compassionate, artistic, gentle, wise, and musical. your best environment is on or near the water, near the sea. >> andrea: jersey shore. >> bob: what are his negatives? >> dana: negatives are can be a victim or martyr. overly trusting. desire to escape reality. >> bob: can i just say that last one. >> andrea: we all have the last one under obama. >> bob: desire to escape reality. >> andrea: we decided to do a little eric bolling by the nu

gingrich, newt gingrich took on, defeated and was not all together that pleasant to a revered figure, bob michel for republicans who may remember that, they may not look on the speaker all that fondly. i suspect that illinois will not set up well for gingrich, but he's not getting out of this race. he made it fundamentally clear tonight he has no intention of doing that. so he, santorum and romney will claw away for votes in illinois, just as they have been for the last four weeks. >> major garrett, if you look at alabama and mississippi and you see mitt romney received about 30% of the vote, and the speaker alluded to this in his remarks, he had 2/3 of the vote. you would imagine that would be the conservative vote going against mitt romney for either rick san forum or newt gingrich. both have been saying all along they want a one-on-one, head-to-head contest with mitt romney. what do these numbers tell you about the state of the the romney campaign and the state of the conservatives within the republican party right now for rick santorum or newt gingrich? >> i wrote "national journal".com in d

michelle obama. that's it for tonight everyone. for bob and mark i'm vic carter.or watching wjz, maryland's news station. good night we'll see you tomorrow.

. >> bringing in bob pisani, and chief international correspondent michelle caruso-cabrera back at headquarters. michelle, let's talk about the yields in spain and italy, what's going on? >> the spanish minister said by the way, our deficit, it's going to be a lot bigger than we expected, 5.8% of gdp. and he blamed it on the previous government, who said, he said they didn't hit their target. we've seen this movie before. what we saw was a continued rally in italian yields. those seem to get better. so they're starting to meet spanish yields, they were higher. people are concerned about whether or not now we have yet another issue when it comes to europe. >> a great point. the markets under pressure today. i want to know really when we're fully going to start seeing this market focus on earnings. we're in march. the final month of the quarter. we're going to be able to get a great sort of window into what's going on in the corporate sector. the word out is the earnings are way too high. >> there's that talk. although lynn sanders feels earnings will be able to meet those expectations. and there

that's what's moving the markets today, tyler and michelle, back to you. >> bob pisani, perfect segue to the breaking news, $30 billion of 30-year bonds up for sale. how is it doing? >> the yield, 3.383. it's straight up 1:00, pretty much right there 3.38 that was the high-yield, low price of the day, it came in right where it was tradele. indirects 39% versus 31% ten auction average. bid to cover a little above average, 2.7 versus the ten auction average of 262. i give this auction a "b," as an aside i'm very surprised it didn't go better and price more aggressively but when you reach a yield buy a 30-year, you might be nervous of the current momentum of the selloff which might explain why it wasn't a little bit more aggressive. >> i was going to ask you about it the two-day selloff that we've seen which has been so strong, could it get even worse from here, rick, what are you thinking? >> you know, i think that it's always shortsighted to underestimate momentum when you pop through an established four-month range which is basically the entire curve beyond the two year, so you're tal

michelle didn't have the money to remove them, but pastor bob coy knew a surgeon who would do it probono. michael says the surgeon moved the procedure along faster than he ever could have imagined. >> he came in, and he said, so when do you want the surgery? and i'm a very facetious person, so i said tomorrow. he said, okay, how's 10:00 a.m.? and i thought he was joking back with me, but he was serious. he said, i have an opening tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. so they were removed the very next morning at 10:00 a.m. >> after several months of attending calvary, michael was fully transformed back to being a man. but almost immediately he began to spiral into emotionally unstable behavior, something the church followers were perhaps unprepared for. >> i think they had his very best interest in mind, but i think they also got in over their heads because i don't think that they were aware of the kinds of issues they were dealing with, with him. >> susan levin is a licensed clinical psychologist who worked with michael for almost eight years. she spoke to msnbc with michael's permission and says

tomorrow, michelle malkin and bob massi. >> steve: you have many choices on your tv dial. thanks for choosing us. we'll see you back here tomorrow bill: good morning, everybody. 9:00 on the east coast. where to now, republicans. 10 more states have had their say and mitt romney wassed the winner in six of them. rick santorum winning three and newt gingrich take his home state of georgia. we have a lot to talk about today. martha: here we are. bill: good morning. martha: i'm martha maccallum. there is no end game in sight. all four of these candidates say they are have much still tonight to win it. watch. >> that deep confidence in a better tomorrow is the basic promise of america. but today that promises being threatened by a faltering economy and a failed presidency. for the millions of americans who look around and season jobs they can't get and bills they cannot pay. i have a message. you have not failed. you have a president who failed you and that's going to change. >> we are in this thing not because i so badly want to be the most powerful man in this country. it's b

michelle: sure. i talk about a clinton-gore administration official bob bratt, a long-time justice department veteran who ironically enough was appointed by janet reno to clean up the citizenship u.s.a. scandal under clinton-gore. and that has been well documented over the years. in 1996, before the november 1996 election, there was a huge push to naturalize new american citizens and many procedural safeguards were trampled over in the rush to do that. in fact, at least 6300 criminal aliens convicted of felonies were granted this precious birthright of american citizenship in that rush to essentially beef up the democrat voter rolls. well, after that scandal, after a huge internal investigation, the justice department and reno appointed this guy, bob bratt to clean up. but he was busy doing other things and one of those was traveling over to moscow as this high-level official and hooking up with a russian match maker who found him two nice young women. one of whom he engaged in a sexual relationship and then later tried to get visas to bring them over to this country. brian: how do you know this? mic

tomorrow, michelle malkin and bob massi. >> steve: you have many choices on your tv dial.

michelle. mn first time i've seen your show so well done so i just want to say thank you for watching all that making fun of bob dylan is always a good time so keep coming back and spread the word and that's it my rantings and i always got with more as usual later in the week. hey guys well guess what this week is sunshine week and even though spring is in the air here in d.c. this isn't about the weather this is about shining a light on government secrecy the sunshine week was created in two thousand and five by the american society for news editors and it's designed to highlight the public's right to know what its government is doing and why and ever since the society first came up with this idea or journalism groups have expanded the concept to create sunshine week as we know it so this week we're going to be hunting scouring highlighting a few important issues on how transparency comes into play now here is the first one here is. so here's the first thing that i would like to talk about it's senate bill twenty one o five aka the cybersecurity after twenty twelve legislation it was the first attempt by capit

michelle. ca captain clayton osbon remains in a texas hospital tonight. he's he's been there since tuesday when husband midair mental breakdown terrified passengers aboard a jetblue flight. bob orr has been learning more today about the copilot who took over. >> reporter: raymond dower was the man in the man in the copilot's seat of jetblue 191 when it took off orom new york tuesday bound for las vegas. when the flight made an emergency landi emergency landing three and a half hours later in amarillo, texas, dowd was being hailed as a hero. the cool-thinking first officer, who seized command when captain clayton osbon suffered a midair meltdown. dowd's father-in-law, said the family was proud but not surprised. >> he's a great guy. i think he's probably one of the best son-in-laws i could have. i mean, give you the shirt off his back if you want it. >> reporter: dowd managed to get osbon out of the cockpit after the captain began talking incoherently and turning off the jet's radios. once osbon left the flight deck, dowd called an off-duty pilot to help in the cockpit, lock the door, and urged passengers to restrain the troubled captain. then dowd and the offduty pilot both

bob, he was smart. he had a sister soldier moment. here the president lectured on civility and tone and talks about his daughters and there's michelle obamaere's bill mahr, attacking the children of governor palin, using the c word against palin, and he takes a of $1 million from him. why did he do that? >> i think it will be a great moment for a supposed unifier. saying this isn't about politics or republicans area democrats, this is about everyone. the things being said are unacceptable. >> and bob like biting his cheek. >> i was curious. they talked to me about how the arrange american doesn't have much after voice. go a ahead and let me hear what you have to say about that, mr. harden. >> overall we watched the political pundits and politicians and we hear all kinds of stories about every subject you can think of, similar to the ones you are talking about. but at the end of the day the afternoon american person is frustrated with the fact that their voice is not being heard. >> i agree with that. but the president of the united states lectures us on tone and civility and takes $1 million of super pac from bill mahr, wouldn't it be a s

bob pisani. greece officially in default as expected. the isda reporting today greece triggered the payment on default contracts that forced losses on all private creditors. michelle caruso-cabrera on the telephone now to make sense of all the headlines today. michelle, what's the latest? >> the latest is that the market reaction has been to sell on the news. as you said, maria, they've come out and ruled that greece's default restructuring is going to be a credit event. there was a lot of nervousness about this, because in the wake of lehman brothers' failure, there was so much turmoil in the market because of the credit default swaps of the but they saw this coming, and as you can see, not nearly as big a reaction. a lot of the expectation was built in. we'll see if there are hedge funds that some banks in some ways had bigger exposure or made very wrong bets. but that will come out in the next couple of days. right now, we're not seeing a huge reaction. that may actually be good news. you interviewed the ceo of isda less than an hour ago. he made a point back in october when the european union was insisting that they've won this voluntary event that would not t

bob pisani. the greek debt swap deadline has come and gone. we're just hours away from finding out the results. we'll know 1:00 a.m. tonight what the participation rate was. michelle caruso-cabrera is in athens. and michelle, i know you're hearing lots of commentary about the speculation of what the participation rate was. what do you think it was? >> so reuters is reporting that 85% at least of the greek debt bonds has been tendered. there's two kinds of greek debt, maria, greek jurisdiction debt and noninjurjurisdiction. 86% of the outstanding debt is under greek jurisdiction. what reuters is reporting is that they've gotten nearly every single one of those greek bonds to be tendered if reuters is correct. we have one more question we need answered, what percentage of the non-greek jurisdiction debt has been tendered. if they get 4% to 5% of that debt, you hit 90%, and then in theory, we see no triggering of credit default swaps. that's what we're waiting to see. if that's what happens, that was unexpected. and it will show that greece's advisers played a masterful manipulation game when it comes to the markets. so we wait to see. we find out maybe at 1:00 a.m.

michelle, thank you so much. working a long day in athens today. luckily, she is in athens which is still gorgeous as you saw from that shot. >>> bob pisani, you were>> elephant on your head, a terrific interview with that fellow of how difficult it is to start a business. an elephant on the head here. but nonetheless, traders are betting that the deal will go through, maybe not -- maybe the cap will get kicked in or not. 86% on the greek law side. that's ambitious. >> sure. >> maybe they can get it, i hope so. regardless. remember when's happening, the markets are betting that the greek deal will go through that the psi will get done. with the cap or without the cap. and next ber two, u.s. economy will continue to improve. looking for numbers up of 200,000. what's changed? why is this stock market holding up so well? why doesn't it keep going down? get a tight shot on the assumptions under which the stock market is going up. u.s. economy slowly improve and outperform. most of the world including europe, europe is in a mild recession, everybody knows that but not a massive breakdown of the euro. china, they talk about 7.5% growth and likely too low

michelle obama have gone on letterman's show a week after he lectures us about his children where letterman attacked governor palin's daughter and attacked governor palin. >> i'm not sure. >> i've sensed that bob chance to watch that. he thinks they didn't. jay leno is somebody who does not do that. he does not take sides. david letterman has. he went after mccain on a separate note every single day during the election. >> it's like letterman making fun of chris christie's weight. why is that ok? why is that funny? personal attack. >> meanwhile, of course, a couple of weeks ago, the president of the united states reached out to that georgetown law student, sandra fluke and said that he supported her given what rush limbaugh had said. well, a lot of bad things have been said about the palins and in fact, bristol palin wrote yesterday on the internet, wanted to know when the president was going to call her. she wrote in part "dear president obama, you don't know my telephone number but i hope your staff is busy trying to find it. ever since you called sandra fluke after rush limbaugh called her an inappropriate word, i figured i might be next." so far, he has not called. >> but she's sitting by

bob, thanks a lot. talk to you later. as we mentioned, greece completing that successful debt swap with an overwhelming 83.5% participation. the euro zone is far from being stable. we want to go out to michelle michelle. >> thank you very much. joining us is charles dallara. he represented the private sector when it came to the negotiations with the greek government for this big debt reduction deal. thanks so much for joining us. because the transmission delays i'll go straight into the first question. you heard carl say successful, all the headlines say successful. is that the right word right now? how do you characterize? how do you feel about what happens happened here in the last 24 hours as we look at the largest debt restructuring in history? >> well, first let me say it's good to be with you, michelle. i do think the right word is successful. i feel quite pleased with the outcome. this has been an extraordinarily difficult, arduous, and at times sinuous negotiating process. to see so many bondholders voluntarily deliver bonds into this exchange is quite remarkable, and i think it speaks to not only the quality of the deal that we were finally able to strike, but for the desire of inve

bob michel worked with both of them to get legislation done. they worked to get the number of 218, that's the majority in the house. they got those votes from democrats or republicans. so i hope my friend, the speaker, won't just try to get this surface transportation bill done with republicans. let the democrats voice their opinion. that's the way we should do it. passing a bipartisan transportation bill the president can sign would be a victory for both parties and our country. the senate's pressing business doesn't end with completion of this bill, though. we have a small business jobs bill that was passed overwhelmingly by the house and supported by president obama. and we are -- i had a conversation on the floor publicly here last night with the republican whip, senator kyl of arizona, and we talked about the need to get this done. and we're going to move forward with this expeditiously. there are obviously bumps in the road and i hope there will be very few bumps in the road. i haven't had an opportunity to talk to my friend, the republic

he'd go to his friend, bob michel, on the other side, like i went to jim inhofe, and they worked together, just like we did. speaker boehner, reach your hand out to leader pelosi. she's ready to go. she'll work with you. here's one from ohio. this is the state of speaker boehner. "akron beacon editorial." "the road to compromise." "on wednesday, 74 12340r senato, republicans and the democrats, join together in a real accomplishment. they approved a two-year $109 billion transportation bill. the timing couldn't have been better. authorization for federal highway spending ends on march 31. without action, construction, repair, and maintenance will halt across the country ..." "what will the house do? it should take the cue of the senate and quickly approve the legislation that won bipartisan support ..." this is speaker boehner. you know, in speaker boehner's state, at a minimum, 55,000 jobs are at stake. at a minimum. that's without our new program that leverages funds. that could be double. but right now there's 5 5,000 jobs we protect, and we could -- but right now there's 55,000 jobs we