the comedian and actor sacha baron cohen can. jeanne moos just ahead. >>> cnn's jeanne moos with a most unusual look at an encounter involving the comedian sacha baron cohen and his new film. >> reporter: as gay fashionista bruno, we've seen him dressed in silver, in leopard, in wings, in hot pants. in nothing at all. so to see him walk out on "letterman" as himself was a shock. almost more shocking than to see him make matt lauer kiss his hand, strip, and end up in the lap of conan o'brien, but in trying to come up with the oddest couple of all for his movie, sacha baron cohen hit on this. >> you seem to be a comedian interviewing a terrorist. even if his character doesn't know the difference between hummus and hamas. to use an alleged terrorist as a comedic foil, that's dicey. >> it's not that easy to find an actual terrorist. in fact, your government has been looking for one for about nine years. >> reporter: cohen says his team looked for a few months before finding someone in the occupied west bank who said, there is a terro

cohen and mr.may, as i indicated when i started this hearing, i want to invite the folks that run the carriers themselves to come to that table and we had made some invitations and apparently have not had acceptance of those invitations. we'll remake them fully understanding they will be accepted and have another hearing with the airlines themselves. >> mr. chairman, you have our commitment. whoever you want, whenever up the, we will provide them. >> thank you very much. senator demint? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think we need to get a little more specific and, mr. may, i appreciate you mentioning the specifics what we can do with training, but what i'm not hearing here today are specific ideas about what do we need to change to prevent something like this from happening again. i mean, there have got to be things that come to mind that we need to change. i mean, obviously, we have some situations of violating current rules, no sterile cockpit in this particular crash and that the pilots themselv

cohen averages mean nothing to me. when i walk on that airline and i stick my head in the cockpit and say i feel so good the average salary here is what every told me, i would never say that. i want to know they are trained and ready and can handle thunderstorms, a leasing and keep me out of trouble purposely averages don't land anywhere with me and miss the mark completely. >> what is the minimum salary per year that a pilot would we hired to come on board? >> mr. chairman i do not, senator johanns i do not have the average which i believe we have provided some information i can get you that of the member airlines i can provide that. >> i want you to get that. your averages mean nothing a. >> negative a new pilot would make between 60 and $18,000 per year for a full-time job unless he or she is on reserves. >> doing that kind of commuting? >> i have travelled extensively when i was in the cabinet and i must add that i got tired. >> the poor diet, when they go through all the time changes how does that compute? if you

cohen, averages mean nothing to me. when i walk on that airplane and i stick my head in the cockpit and say, boy, i feel so good that the average salary here is whatever you told me it was. i would never say that. i want to know they are trained and ready and can handle thunderstorms and icing and keep me out of trouble. so your averages just don't land anywhere with me. they miss the mark completely. what would be the minimum salary per year that a pilot would be hired to come on board? >> mr. chairman, i don't have -- senator johanns, i don't have the minimum again. the average which is -- i believe we've provided some information to the committee. i can get you that of our member airlines. we can provide that going forward. >> i want you to get that. your averages mean nothing. >> that new pilots make 16 to $18,000 a year for a full-time job unless if he or she is on reserve. >> and doing that kind of commuting? >> yes, sir. >> okay. now, i've traveled extensively when i was in the cabinet, i must admit i got tired o

cohen, thank you very much for your testimony. next we will hear from captain prater, the president of the airlines association. >> thank u., chairman dorgan. we commend this committee for calling this hearing to take a closer look at some of the critical issues affecting airline pilots and our charges. many of these issues, pilot screening and hiring standards, training and mentoring were at the top of the agenda at the faa's call to action summit in which we participate on monday. while this meeting was a critical first step towards developing solutions to these problems, we encouraged the faa to take a more structured approach in working with the airlines and labor to establish and agree to implementation plan for all parties to adopt. in recent years, we have to look more at the system. the major airlines have come to rely heavily on code share arrangements with the so-called regional airlines to connect large, midsize and small cities in the u.s., in canada, in mexico to their international hubs. this is resulting in exponent

we will feature two panels hosted by ariel cohen and peter brooks. oc. hen isdr a. cohen is a senior research analyst and peter brooks serves as a senior fellow for a national security affairs as well as a fellow for policy studies in the asian studies center. their introductions will occur later in the program. opening our program as helle dale. she serves as director of eight foreign policy studies and is also deputy director of the kathryn and shelby cullom davis institute. she is in a media fellow at the hoover center hindi's serves on the board of visitors at georgetown -- and serves on the board of visitors at georgetown. she is also a member of the council on foreign relations. please join me in welcoming helle dale. [applause] >> thank you john and thank you to all of you for being here today. we will have a very interesting program. we will try this video link with moscow once before, and i think we are improving our technique. i think this morning we should have a fairly smooth run by the looks of it. we have from moscow the head of the heritage office and

form secretary of defense under president clinton william cohen joins us.ood to see you again. >> good to be with you. >> how surprised were you to hear secretary gates say that there may be an accelerated troop withdrawal given all of the continued difficulties, not only in iraq, but next door in afghanistan? >> well, not surprised, but pleased to hear him say that. it would seem to indicate that greater progress has been made than anticipated and that the iraqis are starting to really take charge of their own country, and so if that's the case, and then they can maintain stability and security, then that would warrant an earlier departure on the part of the american troops. i think it's a bit early to say we've reached that point yet, but the signs appear to be good. >> listen to what secretary -- former secretary of state colin powell had to say on iran and that i want to talk about that country and the challenges going on there. >> iranians have unique ability to take anything we do that is critical of them and turn it against us and to mobilize their p

finally, stephen cohen is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at brookings institution. he is the co-author on books are in the american involvement in south asia and a volume entitled "the idea of pakistan."

cohen. >> mr. chairman, in defense of the training programs that are regional airlines, this committee was provided with very detailed information about the training programs, which are every bit as robust. one of the things we talked about at monday's call to action was to look at all of these types of training issues that have been laid on the table. certainly today and over the last several weeks. and to look at whether it's environmental, you know, additional training and environment, additional training on whatever. and that in all my years in the airline industry, and i've been in it since 1971, i have never seen, ever seen a decision by any airline regarding safety that, you know, would jeopardize safety because of cost. i just want to lay that. >> senator johanns was making the point, and a perfectly reasonable point that if we are flying through very difficult economic conditions. if regional carriers are smaller companies having substantial difficulty, isn't it likely that you have substa

you are on with stephen cohen.caller: i would like to ask a question speaking of the issue -- history of russia. hasn't it always tried to play a dominant role in asia and europe because it cuts the two continents and they want to influence specifically: because they resent the idea of expanding nato into poland? guest: i separate the poland issue but it is rather recent. but you are absolutely right about the other. russia calls itself a eurasian country, it sets both in europe and in asia. even after the breakup of the soviet union, russia is the largest territorial country in the world. what this has created in the political class is a division. one group of very important russian political -- members of the russian political eat the leaves russia belongs with the east or at least not with the west. some placed between west and east. another group of russians believe that the feature has to deal -- do with the west. that would include democracies and the traditions we value. therefore, the way we treat russia ti

cohen, thanks for coming on. we appreciate it? >> thank you, bill. bill: here is the latest on the bill o'reilly.com poll. we asked if you respected water cronkite. 5 percent said yes. 42% do not. ahead a death scene compiled in michael jackson's home. we will give you disturbing information about that later, the culture warriors on a wedding situation that some americans are upset about. whoa. what's going on there? the warriors coming up. bill: the be with are the site tmz reporting emergency responders to michael jackson's home the day he died found the singer hooked up to iv dead. right now authorities are investigating dr. conrad murray who may have administered a powerful sedative to jackson with the death scene telling the tale. joining us now from nashville, tennessee dr. bruce levy, the chief medical examiner for the state of tennessee. ok, what i want you to do here is what you would do in your job they try to save the life whoever is in trouble. they can't. he is dead. then they describe the scene to the police first and then you get the c

cohen, thanks for coming on. we appreciate it? >> thank you, bill.e is the latest on the bill o'reilly.com poll. we asked if you respected water cronkite. 5 percent said yes. 42% do not. ahead a death scene compiled in michael jackson's home. we will give you disturbing information about that later, the culture warriors on a wedding situation that some americans are upset about. whoa. what's going on there? the warriors coming up. bill: the be with are the site tmz reporting emergency responders to michael jackson's home the day he died found the singer hooked up to iv dead. right now authorities are investigating dr. conrad murray who may have administered a powerful sedative to jackson with the death scene telling the tale. joining us now from nashville, tennessee dr. bruce levy, the chief medical examiner for the state of tennessee. ok, what i want you to do here is what you would do in your job they try to save the life whoever is in trouble. they can't. he is dead. then they describe the scene to the police first and then you get the case the sc

william cohen joioining us from washgton. mr. . secretar thanks so muc let't's talk aut what w was achieved. th're talking about -- welell, they're talkining i moow about just beginning to negegotiate me arms reductions, butut on of th more interestiting issues ththas brought t is th prpresiden obama seemeded to beaking a shot at vladimir putin, ththe pme minister, in an intnterview on iday. putin then s struck back over t weekend. a lot analysts are saaying this was not a aood stt foror this new u.s./russian relationshipip to ta a crack at puputin, who clearly is o one oe major pow brokers, i nothe majojor powe broker. this is what h hpened the ne conference tododayat the krlin when the p psident was asked whs in charge here. let's ask. >> mynderstanding is that president medvedev is the presidident. prime ministerer tin is the pre minister. and they alocate powow in accoance with rusa's form o of govevement ithe same way that we allocatee power i the united states. so minterest is in dealg directly with my coununterpar ththe pres

cohen, thanks for coming on. we appreciate it? >> thank you, bill. bill: here is the latest on the bill o'reilly.com poll. we asked if you respected water cronkite. 5 percent said yes. 42% do not. ahead a death scene compiled in michael jackson's home. we will give you disturbing information about that later, the culture warriors on a wedding situation that some americans are upset about. whoa. what's going on there? the warriors coming up. (announcer) before they give you the lowest price, with memberships and fees. but not walmart. they have hundreds of generic prescriptions for just $4 for up to a 30-day supply or $10 for 90 days. save money. live better. walmart. combines two powerful medicines for fast relief of your diarrhea symptoms, so you can get back out there. imodium. get back out there. it has a motion sensor. which means it goes off only when it senses movement. to give a burst of fresh glade fragrance... only when you need it. ( inhales ) but it's not wasteful, because it won't go off again for another 30 minutes. unless of course you

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. >>> trauma in the middle east, and sasha baron cohen. arch campbell has the movies. >> danger lurks in the "kirk walker," -- "hurt locker," the story of a bomb squad and iraq. 3.5 stars. sam rockwell has energy and space with only a computer for company. 3 stars. sasha baron cohen returns as an austrian fashion designer looking for fame and l.a. he gets people to do strange things. 2.5 stars. weakened best bets -- "up." have a nice weekend, i am arch campbell, abc 7 entertainment. >>> more breaking news, this time from montgomery county. firefighters are battling a large to alarm fire in rockville. it is on crabbs branch way. officials say flames broke out and they had the report of a person trapped inside. firefighters have evacuate the building and are battling the flames. we have a crew on the way to the scene and we will have the latest tomorrow morning. >>> a virginia man is recovering after fighting off a bear in his own. he said the black bear made its way into his home for a late- nigh snack. it found catood in the kitchen. the p

but at isn't true for other states. >> reporte cohen says the threat of defaults in the ni market is real. the number odefaults hit a reco last year. but she sees the bigst risks mostly for small, low-quity issuers ofovernment debt. m.s. bonds analyst jay abram sees a similar picture. >> cities and statesill typilly talk about cutting programs, talk abouteducing service on train lines. they'll talk about reducinthe number of times garbage gets picked up. but i ver hear a discussion of mae we should cut back on our debt servi. they know the conseqnce would be tooreat. >> reporter: the obama administration's stimulu program also helping the market, creating a new class of mun: "build america bonds." unlike tradition munis, the income from these bondis taxable. but abrams sayhe's noticed individu investors are now buying "build amera bonds" for their i.r.a. accounts. this shelters the income from taxes, while proving some stability in portfols burned bytock market losses. >> jeff: some muni watchs see the tax-freetatus of municipal bonds as anoth long-term positi. they say if federainco

alexis cohen glitter girl was 24.hepard: astronauts from space shuttle endeavour wrapping up their fifth and final spacewalk. they didn't actually do it in the cube but we felt like that would be a good place to put it, you know? you t. was outside the international space station. cassidy and ash burn were out there for five hours today. mission control had one more task but the navy seal met metabolic rate went too high for the carbon dioxide. what did you say? his co 2 started to rise. the shuttle is expected to undock tomorrow and spend three more days in orbit before returning to earth on friday. a vote on the confirmation of the supreme court nominee judge sonia sotomayor is set for tomorrow and more republicans are announcing their last-minute decisions. tom story is coming up. it's the college ranking that has most parents well, it's not the favorite one for your school to get if you are a parent. if you are a student it's another thing. party schools. who do you think is number one this year? the new king of d

. >> rose: we continue our analysis with stephen cohen of new york university, a russian scholar, chrystia freeland of the "financial times", claire shipman of abc news and thomas pickering, the leading american diplomat and former u.s. ambassador to russia and undersecretary of state for political affairs. >> we expanded nato, we left the a.b.m. treaty, russia helped us win the ground war in afghanistan more than any other country in 2001 and 2002 and we gave them nothing, we just expanded nato and withdrew from the treaty and the political class looked at him and said "fool. weakling. we look like pushovers, we give; they take." that's why... that's the real issue of what happened and is happening in moscow. >> i think the big choice for russia still is the choice that it faced in '89, '91, '96, 2000, which is between democracy and pluralism and authoritarianism. and i absolutely do not see how appeasing, placating this sort of neo-imperialistic mood which putin has been very consciously building up in any way plays to the positive sides of russia. >> there's been a misreading for almost

cohen. i yield to mr. cohen. mr. cohen: i appreciate mr. yarmuth bringing this topic and joining dr. kagen and my colleague, mr. sarbanes, and miss tsongas who was with us. i look at the encryption over the speaker's chair here in the united states capitol, it's daniel webster. daniel webster says, let us bring the resources of our nation, our institutions together and may we do something here that is worth remembering and something worthwhile that may be remembered. i can't think of anything that would be more worthwhile than daniel webster's spirit that we could do to have people remember this 111th congress than to provide health care that's been sought for so many generations. i think back to harry truman who really had this original concept and wanted to see national health care. you think about what mr. yarmuth talked about, the only industrialized nation on the earth that does not have health care for its people. it's the greatest country on the face of the earth, but we don't provide health care. that's somehow an omission that this

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our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, is back to talk us through this story.and this is fascinating. we've got a profile, a case study, here to examine. >> that's right. because the big question is how do we insure the 46 million americans who don't have insurance, and who is going to sort of pay for that? >> yes. >> are you and i paying for that? who is paying for that? but first before we talk about who is going to pay for that, let's look at what "that" is. here's the story of a woman, you look at her and think, golly, there for the grace of god go i. she had a great job. she got laid off. and then she got breast cancer. >> reporter: in early 2008, life was going great for pamela rincech, she had a good job and was about to get married. then in march of 2008, the plant where she had worked for more than 20 years in sair society sa, florida, shut down and she lost her job and with it her employer-paid health insurance. >> i was upset, but i thought it would be all right. >> reporter: but two months later, an even bigger bombshell. >> i found out i had breast

sacha baron cohen in t. he's also naked on the cover of "g.q.." my 7-year-old daughter happened to find that at the bookstore the other day, so keep kids at home, go to the movies. terry: not for little kids. john, what do we need to know? >> this could the last show i ever do. i'm running with the bulls in pamplona monday morning. a guy died friday. i think i might need a little help. pfizer has xanex, some nikes and common sense. but i'm running with them on monday morning. i don't know how that connects. i don't care. i just want to be alive monday afternoon. terry: our on an airplane to spain. you really are -- jonathan, he really is running with the bulls. what do you think? >> well, i wouldn't take the xanex before you run. drink a mountain de w or something. you need a little energy. but jonathan's in great shape, i know he'll be fine. terry: good advice. >> well, i'm looking a little bit on the other side of the world, terry. i mean, i was shocked to find out there's actually pornography available on the internet. i know, it's amazing. app

we have steve cohen back. nyu professor of russian studies and author of "soviet fake and lost alternatives." and frank gaffney, secretary of defense under president reagan and president at the center for security policy. thaw for coming back on. i'm concerned that the united states going to make too many concessions a country, russia, thatis not evenear r equal, steve. >> there's about 500 peop in moow that are telling medvedev and pun, don't ke any coessions to the united states, do not appease them. because gorbachev, yelyeltsin, the early putin gave to the united states. >> the other side is telling their leaders exactly the same thing, we are apprising here in the program. but what about freedom and american interests? what about expanding nato to include georgia and the eau ruk. what about asking for help to stop nuclear development in iran. what about protecting the democracy, perhaps even in russia itself? >> look, just because there are chauvinistic russians playing to the aspiration of not only putin

we begin here tonight with cnbcs, scott cohen. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. for all the glimmers of hope we have seen in the economy this is just the opposite. housing is so important. and the housing market is still in trouble. americans are now losing their homes in record numbers. one in every 84, at least threatened with foreclosure this year. among them, maricella and burt hichner in san diego after trying to work something out with their lender for a year they could lose their home as soon as next week. >> it is causing a lot of stress, my family, my kids, my husband. and i just -- you know, want this to be over. >> reporter: the housing market and the job market are spinning the economy in a vicious cycle. people losing their jobs, then falling behind on their mortgages, and losing their homes. sending home prices falling, hurting the economy even more. 22% of homeowners are under water on their mortgages they own more than their home is worth. so some are just walking away. all this despite the massive mortgage relief program unveiled in february. >>

elizabeth cohen joins us next to explain. limb: dude that was sick!ars? and then - wham - here i am smacking the pretty off that windshield of yours. oh, what you're looking for an apology? well, toss another coin in the wishing well, pal. it's not happenin'. limb: hey, what's up, donnie? how you been? anncr: accidents are bad. anncr:but geico's good ding! with onsite windshield replacement. >>> president obama trying to regain momentum in the push for health care reform. holds a round table discussion with health care providers this hour and scheduled to make remarks i'm assuming next hour and we'll have them for you live in the cnn newsroom. a house committee gets back to work on reform legislation. the health care overhaul and how it affects your medical care as promised. we have real world examples of the reform effort. elizabeth cohen is back. i've been anxious to see this unfold all among long. good to see you. >> we've been talking about what does health care reform mean to actual real people. all of the politicians can talk all they want. we m

larry cohen, you were wit the preside today. wht did you tell himbout the employee free choice act anwhat did he have to sy? >> well we told him that th is the way bring back the middle class in this country. no differt than 75 yearsgo when john maynardeynes the greatest economist of t time wrote to presint roosevelt and said regard the expanse of cllective bargaining as essential. we're cuttin and cutting and cuttg on a crolevel, jbs and pay and benefits the's no way we ever get out of a recession. e workers themselves can help lift us out by ging them seat at a bargaing table where they c meet with nagement, cooperate with management andork together on better future. >> suarez: mr. johnson, how wold the employee free choice act changethe landsca that yoand your members.... iknow that the union ads don't really deribe what the bl does in any detailt al i think th is one of those cases where it isimportant to read the leslation. you mentioned there are to parts. the first part is it substites this card check process for a secret

let's turn now to elizabeth cohen, as always, she's here with me in atlanta.joining us from new york is cnnmoney.com jean sahadi. it's clear, this health care reform has to be paid for through savings and revenue streams and the folks at home listened to linda douglass, the communication director for the white house office of health reform. she was talking to us yesterday about what the president has put on the table on the savings side and just a reminder here to everyone. as we listen to this, the number that has to be covered is $1 trillion, just $1 trillion over ten years. let's listen. >> the president has already put $950 billion on the table. the $600 billion of which is savings that he's talking about reducing waste and fraud and all of the reasons that health care costs in the public sector are rising so much. in addition, he's proposing to return it to the wealthiest americans back to where they were when ronald reagan was president. that's an idea he likes. >> so, jeanne, let's start with you. congress needs to come up with more than $300 billion in

elizabeth cohen, so much more to talk about. glad we are able to talk about this here on this show. so, dana, we appreciate you. we'll continue to talk right here. tony harris will be back next week. and, again, all next week we'll be talking about health care, so we'll see plenty more of you when tony gets back. thank you both so much. >>> the tear gas returns to the streets of iran. look at the scenes from the new pictures we are getting in. >>> well, the bank that's raising eyebrows on wall street again. this time for all the right reasons. >>> and california in a state of disarray. budget talks going nowhere. all the details. >>> back to our international desk which has turned in to our iran desk the past couple of weeks since the election and the protests and the turmoil going on there. reza sayah is our point man on this. we're getting new stuff that we haven't seen for a while. >> the iran desk is working hard and so are our i-reporters. i want to show you some of the most important pictures coming in the past couple of h

ariel cohen, great to have you as well.we so appreciate your time on this really amazing story, which is obviously global. ariel cohen, nouriel roubini, thank you. we'll see you soon. the fight for health care reform is up next. president obama making another push for overhauling in the face of waning public support. we'll see if there's any real change and how that can take place before the end of next month. today there's a way to save more for retirement, with annuities from fidelity. turn your savings into income -- guaranteed, and get a retirement "paycheck" for life -- guaranteed. call... to get started, and learn how to secure retirement income that won't go down -- guaranteed. call fidelity at... for details about guaranteed income for life, and change the way you think about your retirement savings. >>> welcome back. credit markets showing signs of life. the latest positive is that the troubled lender cit has reached a $3 billion emergency financing with bondholders. is it too early to calling a turning point? join

larry cohen, you were with the president today. what did you tell him about the employee free choice act and what did he have to say? >> well, we told him that this is the way to bring back the middle class in this country. no different than 75 years ago when john maynard keynes the greatest economist of the time wrote to president roosevelt and said i regard the expanse of collective bargaining as essential. we're cutting and cutting and cutting on a microlevel, jobs and pay and benefits. there's no way we ever get out of a recession. the workers themselves can help lift us out by giving them a seat at a bargaining table where they can meet with management, cooperate with management and work together on a better future. >> suarez: mr. johnson, how would the employee free choice act change the landscape that you and your members.... >> i know that the union ads don't really describe what the bill does in any detail at all. i think this is one of those cases where it is important to read the legislation. you mentioned there are two

cohen appeared on the season 8 audition shows. known for her colorful language to describe the judges. . >> raven's training camp is about to get underway. but the team is extremely thin at the receiver position. hear from quarterback joe flacco in that situation, coming up in "sports unlimited". . >> here is a final look at the seven-day forecast. looks like tomorrow, hot day ahead. hot and sticky. humidity levels are up. 90 degrees with 20 percent chance for a stray pop-up shower. watch the sky. looking at 90 wednesday. and thursday. wednesday is the day to watch for maybe severe storms and evening. then thursday, 40 percent chance for some showers. and friday, saturday, sunday, front will have pushed through. dropping the temperatures down to the mid 80s. and nonetheless, hot next couple of days. and we will see more showers and thunderstorm activity pretty much through the rest of the week. back to you. >> thank you. hills were a life with the sound of music this weekend. >> sounds of horns, filled the air during the tradition

sacha baron cohen hit on this.ference between hamus and hamas. but to use an alleged terrorist as a comedic foily that, is dicey. >> it's not that easy to find an extra terrorist [ laughter ] >> in fact, your government has been looking for one for about nine years cohen says his team looked for a few months before finding someone in the occupied west bank that said. >> there's a terrorist that lives in my town. >> reporter: and then what bruno needed was to find someone to protect him, a job who nobody wanted. he settled for a guy who did security for enrique iglesias. >> his main job was to protect enricenrique from flying underw. >> reporter: his cup runneth over when he finally sat down with the man of the hamas brigade. >> i want to be famous. i want the best guys in the business to kidnap. quaid assault 200 2001. i don't like it. >> reporter: that wasn't the most awkward part. >> can i give you guys a word of advice? lose the beards, because your king osama looks like a kind of a dirty wizard or a homeless --

. >>> in our political theater over the past few years, and going back over a decade, randy cohen joins the meeting. nice to see you back. and chris jansing back. and i think we visited briefly once in california, and now you are here for the next couple hours. >> yeah, something more significant than michael jackson. >> and jonathan is still here. and i want to bring eric, a crisis management expert, and author of the book "damage control." and the beginning of this conversation is mark sanford, and where it ends, i have no idea. eric, i will begin with you, though. adapting the title of your book, what, in a nutshell, is your point? >> well, i think that a lot of damage control is characterized by the silly mother goose where if you say you're sorry, the problem goes away, and you need to apologize and show concern. there is not a lot of data that show the mother goose chestnuts is what really works. and what happens with sanford, he seems to believe that there is some correlation between how many times you apologize and whether the problem goes away. and what i would tell you is what

compared to traditional hearing aids, no one would even know you're wearing it. 59-year-old claudia cohenrock music and likes nothing better than rocking out at the gym. ♪ but a youth spent at rock concerts left her with moderate hearing loss and even though doctors diagnosed her problem 15 years ago, she refused to get hearing aids. >> i would constantly embarrass myself, for instance, one day my sister said do you have any depends and i said depends, why would i have depends and finally she came up and said to me face to face, do you have two tens? i kept waiting and hoping that i would just become a better lip-reader but that wasn't really happening. >> say the word doorbell. >> doorbell. >> reporter: when cohen finally did get hearing aids in 2008 she said she immediately felt withdrawn and self-conscious. >> oh, i was totally embarrassed because i know when i see somebody with a hearing aid, i tend to enunciate and tend to speak loudly. i tend to deal with them as though they are impaired in some way and for me to be wearing that hearing aid, i thought for sure, you know, the days an

. >>> and sad news on the american idol front, alexa cohen has died. police say the 25-year-old was hit by a car in new jersey yesterday. cohen was known as glitter girl after using colorful language to describe the judges. she auditioned for the show twice. >>> pop star justin timberlake has a country club in tennessee. the course polls 18 holes of challenging golf but it was designed with the environment in mind. >> i was able topose the question, is it possible for a golf course to actually be green? and i'm sure you all know what i mean, which is eco friendly. >> but what makes itco friendly is the state-of-the- art drainage system and the construction helped restore habitat. >>> no sneakers on this basketball court. walter reed played host to a wheelchair basketball tournament this week. the wounded warriors battled teams from the national rehabilitation hospital and d.c. parks and recreation. we go court side. >> this is our first annual wheelchair basketball tournament. >> we have walter reed in bethesda versus the local wheelchair basketball te

i'm scott cohen. >>> i'm melissa francis for erin burnett. thank got it's friday. unless you are the fdic, most of us look forward to friday and not the fdic. on 20 of 28 fridays of this year, the fdic seized banks and which could be the winners. finally a few hedge funds have figured out how to make money on twitter. >> lance armstrong is within seconds of leading the tour and if he wins, so does one of the world's most corrupt governs. you can't make that stuff up. that's our show and it starts now. >> see how stocks are shaking out. a big friday here in the summertime. trading down by about 45 points and a half percentage point and the nasdaq is broad on the session. the s&p is down by a little bit more than three points. looking at oil, not a lot of time and the nymex is trading down 72 cents. it's about 1.2%. what is the thing you need to know. let's go to bertha who is down to the new york stock exchange. what's the mood like? >> continuing and waiting for the big news next week. one that is interesting is chevron. it's a warning and not with numbers about ea

cohen, and i apologize if you addressed this, but could you extrapolate on the plan "b," that u.s. and allies take if obama should be buffed. >> first plan "b" is a series of paper and special report and three conferences. but seriously, be prepared to share. and steve will contribute to that too. seriously i think that there are -- there is a debate in town about whether u.s. has any leverage over russia. so for plan "b," we have to undertake an assessment. what is our leverage? bakers spring

cnn's medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining us with what we all need to know in this business. let's start with how big a deal this is, really. >> the reason i was scratching my head, i was doing a bit of math, because health care reform will cost about a trillion. i don't know about you, but i can't get my head around trillion. i've never had a trillion dollars in my wallet. however, i have needed to eat dinner and spend, let's say $10 for you dinner. >> smaller portions. >> it's a lot easier. so let's say health care reform were a $10 dinner. what the american hospital association has done has said, we will contribute $1.50 to that $10 dinner. that's not bad, but i still need more money to get that dinner. >> exactly. and factor this announcement in with what big pharma announced a few weeks ago, and are we getting closer -- how much close are are we getting to the $10 we need? >> we have $1.50 from the hospitals, about 80 cents from the pharmaceutical companies. that's not bad, you're getting there, but still that's a huge gap to close. >> so what does this really mean? wha

elizabeth cohen joining me now.ing about tom watson here, a little over middle age. 59 years old. what an incredible showing in the british open yesterday. >> he came in second, but barely to someone 23 years younger than him. and he is not the only athlete who is doing incredible things in his middle years. i guess we can all define middle years how we want to. it changes as you yourself get older. but, for example, lance armstrong won the tour de france seven times. he's now ranked third in that competition, even though he's 37 years old. and there are many competitors much younger than him. dara torres, 41, three silver medals. people are doing incredible things. >> how are they able to do it? it's got to be a case by case basis. >> it's a combination of three things. obviously, they have incredible genes. you've got to have the lung capacity and the muscles and all that stuff. and some of that is just sort of god given. second of all, they have the kind of mental acumen that comes with getting older. i don't kno

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bruno, starring sacha baron cohen as an outgoing fashionista went straight to the top. with $34.5 million. they're not sure if this can match what borat made. now, in just two weeks, this animated family film has earned $120 million. and transformers, revenge of the fallen, still has some gas in the tank. robots in the skies came in third with a little over $24 million. and finally, according to tmz, if charlie sheen asks you to clip his toe nails, you better do it. the two men star reportedly left a $100 tip after getting a $50 pedicure. >> you're telling me you would do it for 100 bucks. >> hey, listen. >> you would? >> you know where i work. no, just kidding. what do you leave for a tip nor your pedicurist. >> i've never had one but i would not pay $100 or i wouldn't take $100 to give one. >> i think if someone is daring enough to touch my feet, i would give them 100 bucks. i think it's worth it. >> don't go knocking on my door. >> from king 5 news in seattle where a string of vintage vehicles completed a historic 4,000-mile journey. 55 model t cars reenacted the 190

elizabeth cohen joins us now. who is talking about these cooperatives?democrats are talking about it, republicans are talking about it. it seems to be the new thing. they're not a government run program, they're not a health insurance company with stockholders. what they are is a cooperative owned by their members and let's take a listen to what senator kent conrad had to say about them recently. >> so that is not government run, government controlled. it's membership run, membership controlled and very effective in terms of dealing with their membership. >> elizabeth, so that is kent conrad and he is, as you mentioned, he is the senator who really put forward this plan. but how does it work? how does a co-op even work? >> well, let's talk about them because there aren't very many of them. so it's sort of important to know exactly how the whole thing functions. there are a couple of key ingredients to a co-op, so let's go over what they are. first of all, it has to be a nonprofit organization. nobody is making money off of them. the patients elect a gove