the bse contractor, the excavation contractor doing the buttress work completed 128 buttresses through the end of august. that is, what, about 36 more than from the last time we presented. in fact, three more were completed last week, so that is actually -- one more this week, four more on top of that. they are moving along well. it was a year ago to yesterday we first started drilling the buttress shafts, first pour was september of 2011, so we on schedule. excavation continues in zones 1, 2 and now 3. we have pictures of that. other significant events, when we presented in june we talked about how successful the first street traffic bridge installation was, we did that over the weekend with fremont street. they finished nearly 30 hours ahead of schedule. they opened it late sunday instead of tuesday, the deadline. everybody did a great job. the next big change will be the below grade structural package which will be out for bid, comes in the end of the week, which is tomorrow. which is good. weeks going quick. that will be incorporating the geo thermal and grounding package. there yo

. >> this is a buttress wall and the buttresses come down in the spaces between each of the garages. an interesting, unusual design, but we see it around the city. here's another one, gigantic buttress retaining wall. here is a good wall. >> cobble stone against a rock face in russian hill. >> right, what is that, about 40 feet? >> i think that one has cyclone fencing. (speaker not understood). that's 40 feet if it's 40 feet. cyclone fencing, hold the fencing pinned to this wall so it doesn't fall off to create sort of the beginning of a failure. last line, sort of, kind of. right, sort of kind of. here is an enormous wall, russian hill, i believe. this thing is probably 50 feet. it's used as an exit. and i love this fire scape. comes down from the top, vertical ladder to a landing, down another vertical ladder to another landing and then has a ladder at the bottom. counter balance, flip down about 15 feet down to the ground below as their exit. fascinating. the city is filled with huge walls. >> because we're on a very steep hill and everyone wants their lot flat and the one down be

buttressing to what you're saying is just as a way to concentrate power correct yeah well the way i got into this kind of help me understand this from the get go i was running a newspaper. near or just outside of washington d.c. and an old guy called me up one day and said boy there's no goal left in fort knox and i just kind of roll my eyes and i developed a standard response and i said oh that's great send me something in the mail because i'm the cookie people never had anything to send but this guy wasn't kooky and he convinced me as a reporter that the federal government was hiding something that one time but the doors to fort knox were open in one nine hundred seventy three the a.p. reporter president reported that a little bit ago that was shown had a strange orange issue what this means is it's not good deposit gold if the federal government had any. good deposit gold it would certainly show it and in fact it is required by federal law to do an annual physical audit of the reserves the greatest treasure of gold ever in the history of the world and yet one on it has not been done

and you'll be way far ahead as far as three things people can do right now i think to just sort of buttress themselves for the coming future i think definitely everyone should own a little bit of gold and silver and know i'm not necessarily a quote gold bug i view it as an investment i think one day when real interest rates rise that will be time to sell but right now with all currencies in a race to the bottom it's a great thing to have in your portfolio i definitely recommend using trailing stops i didn't even know what these were when i started investing i had not a clue and coming up with a good exit strategy and then of course maintaining cash this is another myth perpetuated by wall street which is you should be you know fully invested at all times but if you're fully invested at all times when things go on sale you can't take advantage of it don't have some cash and there's many reasons to believe there could be fire sales with all of the turmoil we see across the globe so thank you so much for being on the show and really sharing your story and all this great information with us tha

we need to organize an international effort to buttress norms against the killing of civilians on any pretext. i would go for a fifth camp geneva convention. i think we need to codify the new rules of war and define terrorism as crimes against humanity. by way of taking some of the revolutionary glamour out of the jihad and putting faces on the victim's and creating a legal basis of the people who recruit suicide bombers and plan the attacks. this does not require any sophisticated theological knowledge on the part of the united states. we would simply be showing solidarity for the victims. thanks. [applause] >> i would like to thank our two commentators for their interest in remarks. i want to pick up one point that will have mentioned -- the issue of anti-americanism is important but one of the key points to keep in mind is that there is this kind of understanding that the west is inevitably hospital -- hostile so you get the claim that someone is acting in revenge against the u.s., for instance, that has to be understood in terms of an understanding of the u.s. where there is no po

we now find out as buttressed by everything richard clark and others said that he had numerous warnings cheney did bush did and they did nothing! it was pathetic! richard clark tried to tell us about this. remember he is the counter terrorism advisor to clinton and bush telling the bush administration, you've got to do something for the love of god al-qaeda's coming, you've got to do something. we knew about this back in this report in 2000 fore. >> the victims' families have no idea what dr. rice said. they weren't in those closed hearings. >> clark argues a full review will prove his point that president bush did not make fighting terrorism a top priority before 9/11. >> there wasn't any personal performance by the president prior to september 11. >> now boy does that turn out to be true. everybody remembers that famous august 6 presidential daily briefing where it was titled obama -- i'm sorry -- president -- sorry about that "bin laden determined to strike in u.s." everybody knew this, right? it turns out it's much worse than this. the writer from new york times apparently got to lo

the values case, the character case, that michelle obama sketched out for her husband tonight is buttressed by the economic case bill clinton is going to lay out tonight in his speech during the 10:00 hour. nobody better framing a political argument than bill clinton. >> thanks very much this morning, john harwood. >>> let's get out to ken caymen in new york. we've heard from john a little of the politics. how important are the politics to you when you look ahead to the third and fourth quarter? >> well, i think the conventions are just playing to the base. i mean, the reality of it is, they're just shoring up the people that have already agreed with them on both sides. i'm not so sure the conventions are big news for anyone. it's that shrill sliver of unde voter this will swing on. both sides could talk about raising revenues or cutting spending but the reality is the two lines are moving apart from each other. the solutions are going to be a little bit of both. what we need is clarity and democr demogogary makes for good tv. >> forget about november until policies laid out closer until th

we need to organize an international effort to buttress norms against the killing of civilians on any pretext. i would go for a fifth camp geneva convention. i think we need to codify the new rules of war and define terrorism as crimes against humanity by way of taking some of the revolutionary glamour out of the jihad and putting faces on the victim's and creating a legal basis of the people who recruit suicide bombers and plan the attacks. this does not require any sophisticated theological knowledge on the part of the united states. we would simply be showing solidarity for the victims. thanks. [applause] >> i would like to thank our two commentators for their interest in remarks. i want to pick up one point that will have mentioned -- the issue of anti-americanism is important but one of the key points to keep in mind is that there is this kind of understanding that the west is inevitably hostile so you get the claim that someone is acting in revenge against the u.s., for instance, that has to be understood in terms of an understanding of the u.s. where there is no possibility for

our parents moved beyond, that our parents said, no, we're going to move forward, which we have buttressed ourselves in our own lifetimes in moving america forward to a country where we truly are all in this together. where we are not just a lottery country. where if you live -- if you win the lottery, you're okay, you've got it made. if you don't, tough luck, sucker; you're on your own. that's not the america that our parents fought for in world war ii or in korea or vietnam. they're not -- it's not the kind of america that martin luther king jr. marched for and died for. it's not the kind of america -- not the kind of america that we want to see for our kids and our grandkids. so, mr. president, we have a choice. the choice is clear. let's move forward. i yield the floor. a senator: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: i ask consent the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president, most com

our hearings, i had offered a proposal to have a new type of retirement system america that will buttresst we get a social security provide the people have a pension, a an annuity, a monthly payment every month from the time they retire until the day they die. i think it is one of the most important issues confronting us. i hope the presidential candidates will start talking about it. host: some to statistics on pensions -- you talk about the usa plans which is a specific type of retirement plans. talk about that proposal. guest: we call at the usa retirement fund because it is universal, where we combined the best of a defined benefit of what you think is a normal pension and a 41 k which is a defined contribution. we have lost a lot of the defined benefit pensions in america for a number of reasons. but it had some good benefits where did know exactly what you would get an could count on it. the other point with the 401 k is you can't take it wherever you go. i combine the two into a sort of hybrid. this would be a retirement system that no matter where you were, you have a deduction ma

. >> again, these two guys can tell you, maybe buttress this point of view, massachusetts is more than cambridge and beacon hill. it's a very moderate state once you get past 128, the outer beltway around boston. it leans very moderate leaning towards conservative when you get out in western massachusetts and she has not run a very good massachusetts campaign. she's run a terrific national campaign, but she hasn't made her campaign in massachusetts the kind of campaign that you'd have to make it in order to win. in order to win in massachusetts, she has to veer away from ideology. she has been going up and down the state, back and forth across the state, hitting financial services, mortgages, you're underwater, the middle class. to most people, a lot of people, banks now are the atm machines. and unlike government, the atm machines works. what she hasn't done is make it a choice election. you've got a choice between me and scott brown and your choice has to do with public schools, your choice has to do if your child gets sick, your choice has to do if your child needs special needs edu

likely to help and descanting democracies bring about the kind of economic progress that is likely to buttress the political transition and allow them to move forward? >> during my time as secretary, we always recognize that trade is more important than aid. anything we can do to enhance trade. the principal duty of our embassies was to see if they could complete trade deals between companies in american markets over there and companies there and market here in the united states. so trade is essential. i would focus as much energy as i could on trade. at the same time, there are things you have to do before you can get a solid trading relationship. do you have corporate commercial law undergirding the economic system so that investors will be comfortable and feel their capital say? you have democratic courts so there is recourse in the law? this will -- this is been a major problem in some emerging countries of europe. the russians still do not understand law with respect to trade. the trade is important. we can help organize elections, legislative bodies. educating youngsters to attend a firs

now, this is no trifling plant in a sagging economy that is buttressed by roughly 40% of working lives out earning their husbands. so why here, in the 21st century are so many people trying to reduce women's access to family-planning? it does seem as though we are going back in time. i just, it simply does not make sense. didn't you journalists just feel some professional sympathy for andrea mitchell, not to try to keep a straight face and go on with an interview when conservative funder foster friess told her towels, save on contraception if they put an aspirin between their knees? all right, all right, that was pretty silly. in fact, that was especially silly, but attacks on family-planning are not a joke. last year, seven states restricted or barred any family planning funds for going to planned parenthood, or any other health care provider that also provides abortions. when i was visiting the planned parenthood affiliate in los angeles, it happens to be a day when they were providing abortions. now, the doctor in charge of the clinic whispered to me, as we toured, that, of course,

archrival, the second generation telegraph motor, the western union, to use those claims in or to buttresswn legitimacy as a corporation. so it's quite a tangled story. but now, samuel morse did not invent the telegraph. alexander graham bell did not invent the telephone. >> how did alexander graham bell not into the telephone. >> well, alexander graham bell was a number of very talented individuals in the 1870s who became part of a competitive struggle involving western union, which was then the leading dominant telegraph network provider, and jay gould was a promoter who had behind him a very small but very effective for his purposes telegraph company. and so you have to companies that are competing with each other for inventions that they can turn into patent rights they can use a sort of chips and a competitive struggle. and bell was part of that. he wanted to invent the telephone but his primary backer, who was to become his father-in-law, wanted him to develop what we now call a broadband telegraph. and the fact it was only we need to develop such a device that is backer committed hi

likely to help and descanting democracies bring about the kind of economic progress that is likely to buttress the political transition and allow them to move forward? allow them to move forward? >> we always recognize that trade is more important than aid. at the same time, there are things you can do before you can get a solid trading relationship. you have a lot undergirding the economic systems? do you have democratic courts so that there is recourse in the law to any problems that arise in trade? this has been a major problem for some of the emerging countries of europe. the russians still don't quite understand law would affect trade. we can help a great deal if they are receptive through various institutions in the united states to help them organize courts, organize elections, organized elected bodies. we have to see if we can help them with their education system. one of the great deficiencies throughout the world, in fact in the united states as well, but in that part of the world is educating youngsters for a 21st century economy. aid still has a role to play, but i have no problem

buttress-wise an amazing rally in retail stocks. focus comes back here and people are trying to jump the gun of tomorrow's numbers. >> onite them europe not being talked about a lot is a meeting with merkel and lahoy. so much will center around spain, whether or not they ask for something wlout knowing the full terms of a bailout. >> i monitor spain through bancos san tandero. they are the real estate play because it's trades here, san, and it's going up. do bbva, not as substantive, but those stocks have definitively bottomed. he used the malcolm "x" by any means necessary. banco santander terms. >> they did not know what's going on in spain. they announced an enormous ipo in mexico this week which is a positive which shows how much the resources that they can conself-bly have at that bank. >> right. >> i don't know if it's a got reflection of the spanish -- >> it's lehman. it has to be saved. the final days offy will 00 was hideous. remember lehman was trying to sell something to korea. people at banco santander, do not take me wr

likely to help transitioning democracies bring about the kind of economic progress that is likely to buttress political transition and allow them to move forward? would you like to start? >> during my time as secretary, we always recognized that trade is more important than eight. anything we can do to enhance trade, and the principal duty of our embassies, frankly, was to see if they could conclude trade deal between companies in america and markets over and companies there and market share in the united states of america. so trade is essential, and i was focused much energy as i could on trade. at the same time, there are things you have to do before you can really get a solid trading relationship. do you have corporate commercial law and according to economic system so that it that this will become -- and the capital is safe? do you have democratic courts so that there is recourse of law, if any problems arising trade? this has been a major problem, some of the emerging countries of europe, the russians still don't quite understand the law with respect to trade. so trade is important, but