i sometimes get a feeling of coming in to the middle of casablanca, where the french inspector says, round up the usual suspects. and it is always the same faces doing the same thing. and very frankly, i don't see anything that you do that actually improves ethical behavior in this city. and not one thing. the karine case was a fiasco, how many millions of dollars did you spend trying to get rid of an elected official when the real way is that is supposed to be done is through a recall election, you did it because your masters in city hall said that you need to do this. bottom line is, i don't see anything that you do, except fitz around with the campaign finance laws. and every six weeks, you have another memo saying rearrange the finance laws, and rearrange the finance laws, rearrange the finance laws. that seems to be the only thing that is on your agenda, in fact, later on we are going to be discussing the executive director's report and that is the only thing that has one or two items on it and so basically that is all that you do, and how does that actually improve the open gov

uh, some of them have a casablanca in it. some of them a stargazer. those flowers smell so good. you know, many people remember, like, they do--they open like the mouth, and i think they-- that's how they call them, like, a snapdragon. heh heh heh. can't you see that is like opening the mouth a little bit? you have to get up and go to work every day, 7 days a week, and make sure that all your plants have water, because you have to pay your workers, because you have to pay your bills. but it's something that i really love, that i like so much. many times, from little, tiny seeds that is hard, you know, for your eyes to see, you can grow beautiful flowers like these and--and have them year-round. >> he and his family tend to hillsides that are awash in brilliant colors. today, like any other day on the farm, is filled with work and a lot of it. it starts out with picking, sorting, and packing more than 100 varieties of flowers. from here, it's off to make deliveries to eager customers all across the county. and then it's time for one of the 14 farmers markets he does every week. cu

essentially wasting his time trying to win support from casablanca. luke johnson who has always been very skeptical about for eu membership protected. i think that's not so much because of the country and religious differences as the political one. techie them on instead of taking founded in the nineteen century is a very essential a nationalistic or the classic cotton striped and the whole ticket to become a full member of the eu would mean giving up a lot of its sovereignty really changing many essential things about the nature in the nature of the turkish state and that's a very huge offer to john mellor was holding a mass of election rally here in berlin to listen on that. will the attacks against the post in someone to elect a new president and the frontrunner in the selection will be a bit too tired and a lot. and of course he's using this visit to berlin also copy as an electioneering campaign there are some three million ethnic turks in germany and said because of a change in the electrolux and turkey many of them will be eligible to vote and

. >> i go to casablanca and i'm shocked. round up the usual suspects. shocked by your cover story? >> people should not be shocked. university of north carolina is one of our most prestigious public institutions. if you are not shocked, then you are not in tune to what is going on. >> and you share some of the most egregious examples of what is happening behind the scenes? >> there have been many scandals over the year, as we point out in our article. unc is not unique. you had tutors writing papers for football players. you had people taking tests for basketball players. what you had a unc was the corruption of an entire academic department, which was offering fake classes, classes that were supposed to be lecture classes, which in fact never met. what is really poignant here is that this was the black studies department. the department that was corrupted was the department that was devoted to the study of african-american and african culture and history. the students that were being channeled into this were disproportionately varsity basketball and fo

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this coming a day after activists investor casablanca capital called for another candidate to fill thath? >> yeah, i think this is a really exciting story. we've been talking about it here on the show for two weeks now. the stock has now back above the 50-day. the street really liked what they heard on the earnings call, which is slashing the cap x budget by 50%. they're going to stop throwing money down the sinkhole and basically cut debt in the process. i think this stock has room and probably work its way higher. there are a lot of different catalysts ahead of us. >> it could be snowy in many parts of the country but we're out whale watching anyway today at some of the world's biggest investors tell us what they're buying and selling today. returning 36% last year by focusing on big hedge fund moves. which one caught your high the most? >> international is interesting. we follow the activists. a lot of times the activists get confidential treatment but this is a lot of situationy jana has a 3% position and they have a great history of getting companies privately and amicably followin

the old line from casablanca. i'm shocked there is spying going on here. then three weeks later there's evidence their government is doing the same thing. i think this goes back to let's, over time, get comfortable with what privacy we can expect, where we can expect intrusions, how those intrusions can be overseen. and i think that's a very long conversation. one more and then we will get out of here. >> i am a legislative staffer for the students i'm interested if you would mind elaborating on what changes you think makes the patriot act that would be sufficiently necessary for the public but not necessarily hinder their ability? >> i really don't have any. i haven't looked at the act specifically enough. what i would say, this goes back to the heart methodology. let's take a look at what those instruments are. let's see, and i particularly look at the post-9/11 legislation. we wrote this legislation very -- i don't mean we but to some degree we were involved. it was done very, very quickly. when we passed -- the country pass the the prevention act, some

adam: cue the quote from casablanca, i'm shock, shocked to find gambling here.g sir. >> the story, she did what other journalists, when the story came out it, was huge news. look, goldman sachs is being so nice. lloyd blankfein saying you don't have to work on saturday. you don't have to work on saturday because you have to work extra on tuesdays. >> fantastic. crediting our production assistant. >> i never take credit for --, now if you steal my story i want to rip your head off but i never take credit for people's stuff. lori: that is really classy. adam: thanks, charlie. lori: let's go ahead to get an update on markets. mark newton of greywolf execution partners joins us from the floor of the new york stock exchange. all right, it seems, mark, we're set up beautifully or the january jobs report tomorrow. or is this a result of other trading mechanisms? is that statement on the jobs report what to expect with yields higher and stocks higher or not? >> a lot of people were surprised to see the extent of the gains today. we've had a decent three-day push, to sto

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the bottom line is, and nobody will be shocked -- this is not the line out of casablanca.wyers seek their own self-interest. and the courts have tolerated it. you see all kinds of judicial talk about what is a clear sailing agreement. you have to look more closely because maybe things are not quite right about that. sometimes they talk the talk, but they almost never walked the walk. pay will say you have to particular attention when judges say certain kinds of things, but the reality is that when push comes to shove, they favor the interest of the lawyer. lawyers, when they seek fees, generally get approval for about 90% of the fees they are seeking. it is quite a telling statistic. hope wely, the best have for changing this situation , i think, is the work that ted is doing. he has obtained some really fantastic decisions, but more importantly because we are anticipating even more in the future, he has gotten judges to actually pay attention to at least one object or -- objector. whereas in the past, the judges have disposed of these objections willy-nilly and without an

. >> they say, of course, they are still attempting to maintain a constructive dialogue with casablanca number of changes to the board and new ceo put in by them, no thank you mr. drapkin at this point whose firm owns 5.2% of the company. >> you could say they rounded up the usual suspects for their management team. >> yes, they did. let's move on to aeg. >> what do you need? all right. aeg buyback, dividend, and bullish as i've ever heard, book value $60! but bernstein research is this the pause for property casualty? that has been the problem ever since travelers lowered the boom by saying it's challenging and competitive. you are never allowed to say challenging and competitive in any release, david, because those are words like the duck comes down. challenging means sell. people are selling aig. i thif it's premature, i think the company is doing very well, but do you know what, it's gotten competitive. >> it has. i looked at the stock over a longer period of time and it does feel like it's been -- >> this is dead money. >> when those names get to be big hedge fund names, gm is anot