never extrapolate from dell to ibm. never. that's most frequently the case when one of those companies is a loser. this happens in every industry. it's not just in tech. companies hide behind others in a sector when they drop the ball. by the way, we saw this with general mills, the cereal company. it had just gotten beaten viciously by kellogg. well, it said that the whole industry was slowing down. oh, wow. we also saw it with procter & gamble, which claimed that the world was rebelling from high-priced products. what was the truth? colgate was running circles around it in almost every market around the globe where two competed against each other. you know we even saw this phenomenon play out in fast food, where burger king lamented that the consumer couldn't afford a hamburger today but apparently it could tomorrow, the same day that mcdonald's told us it was selling them by the billions. supermarkets, safeway kept complaining that the consumer was moribund. but whole foods was kicking butt and taking names. and walmart sto

. >> roger gay dell -- roger god dell -- roger goodell -- >> well, as a football fan, my heart goes out to the steeler's fans. they just don't want him and his problems. they don't want him and his problems if the perfect deal comes together. [low audio] >> now, having said that, should the steeler's trade ben roethlisberger? well, let's take an answer. i want to see what the results are. he says yes. here are both of the results. 61% of those who have responded, 21,171 said, get rid of ben roethlisberger. >> wow! >> wow is right. >> interesting, very interesting. >> wow! any way, as i said during the 5:00 hour. once the season starts, gloves off. i'll bang on you hard as i ever had. i don't want to see you in the house -- this isn't the season, having said that, i'm going to give the steeler's organization a huge round of applause. they're a sports organization that's -- [ indiscernible ] at risk of losing the season. >> they said, they would do something as a team if the nfl didn't do anything and that gave roger goodell the green light. >> and we'll look at the day part. and we have

dell has 80 branded outlets. it general rated $6.5 million sales. jetblue monitoring complaints and flight delays and demand for more flights like the flights to austin. whole foods tweets recipes, products and what is new in stock, thousands of small businesses pursue as well. there are the companies that profit by helping companies use twitter. customer relationship management fund offers tools for customers like ford and coca-cola to manage accounts and twitter is expected to get into this business paid accounts for company and special metrics to analyze the twitter buzz. it seems like companies would be willing to pay twitter for these services. we will see. >> how quickly do they have to do that? the longer companies get used to it being free, isn't it harder for them to fathom paying up for it? >> it depends how much extra twitter can offer. twitter has a huge amount of information in terms of analytics. if they can crunch these numbers that is valuable. more people get on twitter every day. it only becomes more valuable. talk to best buy and

. -- before many of you were born, -- i feel so old these days -- dell was precisely the argument. we don't want marriage, we don't want equal marriage rights, we want to destroy marriage altogether. we don't want to join the military. we'll want straight people to join the military. we want to destroy the military altogether. so, in the end, the irony of liberation this is that they seek to perpetuate the oppression of gay people. except of course, almost all of them are too humane to actually go there. instead, they take it out on day conservatives. do you see what i mean? there is something inherent about this politically. you cannot worship being in prison as the core of your identity and then ask to have the key to get out. in the end, it becomes a prison you have beautifully decorated. you make a charming home and got knows we homosexuals are good that. [laughter] the third politics of homosexuality i feel like i'm on some monty python speech. the third politics i call conservatism. i mean this not in the way conservatism as currently understood in this country. i mean classi

we can get connecticut, dell wear. we went over the states. wisconsin if tommy thompson gets in. harry reid. >> we have republicans retouring. i am sick of these honorable republicans honoring their term limits. we could lose new hampshire if judd gregory tires. don't get your hopes up on the senate. >> the house? >> we have a lot of seats to pick up. don't plan on -- work hard. don't raise expectations this is a really, really tough year. >> i am saying never underestimate the ability of republicans to blow it. >> one is they could blow it. he is by not putting up a big fight on crazy supreme court nominee. they put up a fight it will help republicans i am measurably>> how about the effort to infiltrate the tea party movement only about 30 seconds. >> shocking. the only thing that's shocking is they are stupid enough to put it on-line. i have been saying from the beginning as we know the only acts of violence any of these tea parties or town halls bad violence has been committed by liberals. a black guy beaten up in st. louis hospitalized in california conservative had his finge

guest: last night my computer crashed and i called up dell and i was talking to a guy from india for a couple of hours. i definitely think this is a trend. but i don't think it makes sense to build walls around the country. it is a tough thing, a tough lesson, but these are the adjustments. we live in a global economy. i don't think it is going away. host: i know you look at it in more of a macro sense than some of the personal cases we have been hearing. does wall street's -- and i know you write about wall street also appeared those wall street care about the sams of the world and people would get outsourced and jobs that it outsourced? do the micro case is bother them? guest: speaking for myself personally, what i like to do when i write these stories and cover the economy is i like to explain to people these things that are happening. because they see it on the ground with their friends and their loved ones being laid off and a lot of times they don't understand it. growing up in philadelphia, i saw it firsthand when in the 1970's when the economy was just decimated and a lot of

. >>> charles schumer says american, dell tax jetblue and united will not charge for carry on bags.s proposed legislation that will block the fees t. spirit airlines plans to charge $45 for bags in in the overhead department. >>> tired of going site to site to check for the best deals, check out voyij. they put the prices of multiple sites on one. put in your destination, budget and dates and they will find the best fare. i use farecompare all the time so you can see when the cheapest flights are. >> thank you. we will do that. new revelations about a delaware pediatrician accused of being a serial child molester. that story is coming. >>> heavily-armed troops try to head off political protests in thailand's main political district. >>> and here's angie goff with an update on traffic. >> a clear ride from the greenway to the beltway, traveling the dulles toll road. >>> in the news now, officials at a delaware hospital reveal they investigated a child molestation complaint against dr. bradley in 1996 but cleared him of any wrongdoing. the pediatrician now faces 471 charges for allege

now, jed, the three top leaders of maryland, virginia and the district, that's o'malley, mcdon't dell and may fenty held a press conference to say they will be calling for more accountability of the metro system at the congressional hearing. take a listen. >> we have an obligation and we would like too have more direct oversight over lamata and not less and i think that is the bomb line coming out of today's discussions. >> reporter: now again dc mayor fenty also issued a statement yesterday regarding the congressional hearings and we will let you know what he had to say at 6:30. back to you. >> thank you. >>> should you pay more at the gas pump to help metro? dc councilman graham thinks so. he wants to hike the gas tax by ten cents with money funding metro but there's a catch. maryland and virginia counties sevenned by metro would have to enact a similar tax for dc's tax to take affect. >>> from the trains to the planes, we checked with united airlines the morning flight from dulles to london should depart on schedule this morning. flights in to and out of europe are getting back to

according to court documents 54- year-old jose dell castillo picked up 26-year-old woman with down syndrome. somewhere along the 18-mile ride to her home, he pulled the bus over, tried to kiss, fondle and grope her but she pushed him away and he drove her home. >> she reported it to someone she worked with and that person reported it to us. >> reporter: metro says he was immediately taken off duty but the investigation took longer than expected. >> the reason why it took a while to make the arrest is because the victim was unclear of the exact location of the offense. therefore, we had to go back and make sure that the routes did not leave prince george's county, maryland. >> reporter: the agency also says on january 3, another metro access driver was accused of sexually assaulting a rider. that driver was fired, too, but the u.s. attorney's office declined to file charges. many of those who ride metro access have special needs and now the agency is trying to reassure families the service is safe. >> unfortunately we don't have control over every single thing that happens on the vehicle but

might have been five years off or so, up to now, hp, dell, dinovo, big laptop makers tried to make thisnone have taken off. apple made a living out of taking the computer experience and making it fun, consumer friendly. they did it with the imac, with the ipod. did it with the eye fone, turned the smartphone market on its ear and now trying to do it with the computer. edit video, rangel, large chunks of information, financial spread sheets that sort of thing, but a lot of people out there, consumers or people when they're at home instead at the workplace that just want to surf the web, communicate, maybe consume music, video or photos, and that's what apple's trying to to with ipod. take that that and using touch and using a sexy, light form factor to make it fun. >> yeah. i'm sure that everybody on the east coast is licking their lips with glee at the idea, because they can afford one, but the truth is, you can get a laptop for much less money with all the kicks. can you not? >> you can. except the one thing that apple's banking that you can't get is the experience. you know, there's a

that are incorporated into the devices, created by leading electronic companies like ace eacer and dell and omega's portfolio includes over 600 different products that are incorporated into devices by leading electronic companies. the company gets 60% of its revenues from that red hot pc market, 20% from consumer electronics, and 20% from the industrial and automobile markets, which i think are about to go and explode upward. and it's market share with these power semiconductors is in the low single digits. it's got a lot of room for growth. what sets alpha and omega apart from other power semiconductor plays? first of all this is not a wet behind the ears company, the team collectively have 180 years of managerial and technical experience in the semiconductor business and its technical team consists of 250 scientists, engineers, 34 ph.d. this company has created 100 new products per year over the last three years. i'm calling that impressive. plus the semis as you know are red hot. i think the demand for alpha and omega will be almost a palable. quarter to date they have positively rev

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dell downgraded to hold from buy at standpoint research. >> and tractor supply upgraded to neutral from underweight at jp morgan. it's up 2%. taubman centers downgraded. and starwood hotels, ticker hot, upgraded to buy from hold. we both did well. we both did more quickly than -- >> well, under the limit. fortunately, we don't have that much more time anyway. okay. so the saudi arabia thing is coming up on "street signs" at 2:00. i will see you again tomorrow morning at 9:00. >> all right. we'll look forward to that. in the meantime, i'll see you with that special story. we'll be talking about an inside story of women in dubai on tomorrow. so it continues. but now it's "the call." >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "the call." i am trish regan here at the new york stock exchange. we're 90 minutes into trading on this monday morning. we see stocks getting a boost from a flurry of m and a activity. we're going to discuss whether big caps or small caps happen to be the best place for your investments right now. good morning, larry. >> i'm larry kudlow. as the senate gets ready to vote o

you look at somebody like dell outperforming them. you look at hewlett-packard outperforming them right now. so when i look at ibm, i find it a little curious, and i think there might be opportunities on the pullback. >> and you would think it would trade more along the lines of a j&j or coca-cola in terms of it being a larger safer kind of company -- >> because of the services side. >> they're a little more diversified here. let's check in with cnbc's silicon valley bureau chief jim goldman. jim, you've been on the conference call, about 33 minutes in right now. what is the latest you're hearing? >> you know, the interesting thing, you guys are hitting on some of the key points, but you wonder if the company's gross margins may have been a little squeamish because you're thinking maybe if gross margins were better the company would have been able to increase its full-year eps a little more, and that's what's going to come up in the q & a part of this conference call. did gross margins sink to a level where 11.20 could have been 11.25

dell, hp and numerous others that are primarily identified with windows computing are coming out with tablets. a few of them will actually run windows control id by ... controlled by finger touch. others will run limux and some will run android. the gamble they're taking, testify, is that they can come up with something that has a simple user interface which this does, this has the same user interface as the i-phone which has caught on very well. but underneath once you use that simple interface, you actually get more capability and sophistication than you get on a smart phone. that's one. the other gamble they're taking is that they don't cannibalize their laptop sales because paul is right that this is just the beginning but if this trend does catch on , some people are going to say i'm not going to buy that netbook by is a cheap laptop. i'm not going to buy the next laptop. i'll stay with my old laptop and go with the tablet. they have a lot of business decisions about pricing and margins and that sort of thing. >> brown: paul, real briefly. google is out there with another model w

i think that may have gone back to his republican roots, to his suspicion of people like franklin dell a nor roosevelt. >> what could-- what would you add. >> i think i would add as well his ruins in the death penalty. he did strike down the death penal for juveniles and the mentally retarded. and as was pointed out he completed his evolution from supporting the death penalty to the most recent case involving lethal injection. his conclusion that it ultimately was not worth the cost. there's one other major power he had, or inflauns that he had on the court. as the senior justice, when the chief was in the minority justice stevens had the-- and justice stevens was in the majority, he could assign opinions. and that was also how he was able to get some influence by picking certain justices like justice kennedy. he kept them on his side in those opinions . >> woodruff: and that's a skill that developed over time. >> oh, definitely. he was able to pick out what interested other justices. we saw it in the sentencing revolution that he launched in 2001. he realized that justice scalia, not

i believe this is a good way to balance of both sides, even dell it is more on the left -- even so its more on the left side. i think it is good to have ways of approaching a balanced way. if the process -- at think the process is more fair now. host: photographers with senator feinstein from earlier today we are asking you about today's hearing. binghamton, new york, and on our democrats line. caller: i am happy that a young, asian fellow is being considered for the post. i would have to commend barack obama for the way he includes everyone and i think it was a nice choice to have goodwin liu been there. -- in there. host: thank you for your call. we're taking your calls. just a reminder, the u.s. house will come in for a short says an -- session at 1:00 p.m.. we'll go back to the judiciary committee. we are joined by susan crabtree, a senior editor at "the hill" newspaper. his writing and his article came under close scrutiny. what were they concerned about? guest: they were concerned about his interpretation of the constitution. this issue always comes up in any kind of judicial no

wouldn't it be great for dell computer if we said everybody's got to buy a dell? wouldn't it be great for, i don't know, some tractor company to say, by the way, even if you live in an apartment you have to own a tractor? because it's in the best interest of america that the tractors do good at what point can we stop all this? but the real spin and the real buck stops with the decisions that these courageous attorneys general across the country are going forward with, many of them against the will of their governors because of political fights, to stand up for the american people and say to the united states supreme court, we need your help to tell us, are we going to impose the government's will to that extent? that's what i'm here to talk about and i'm glad i see one of my loyal friends and classmates, who, god bless him, he always comes when i'm standing down here, i'm proud to have him, my friend phil gingrey from georgia. i'll yield to mr. gingrey whatever time he may need to consume. mr. gingrey: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman from texas, judge carter, f

we are punishing gm, we are punishing apple and dell because they produce goods in china and export themuse u.s. companies take advantage of cheaper labor in china to make goods that are cheaper, a tariff would also mean u.s. consumers would pay more. wolf? >> good explanation. as i say, the stakes really are very significant for all of us. mary snow reporting. >>> the former federal reserve chairman alan greenspan testifying on the subprime housing crisis. wait until you hear how often he made the wrong move during his 21-year tenure. >>> and the government achknowledges it is trying to kill an american citizen. kill an american citizen seen as a terror suspect. we'll tell you who and why. stay with us. >>> we'll go back to lisa monitoring the top stories in "the situation room." what else is going on, lisa? >> reporter: a pregnant woman is pleading not guilty she saided aided a terrorist. the government seized evidence that were recordings. he wanted her to keep silent so prosecutors wouldn't have a sample of her voice. she is one of two american women accused of traveling to europe to

i dell gated to -- delegated to the secretary of the rshry in consultation with the secretary of state to take such actions and to employ all powers granted by the president by ieepa and the united states participation act as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the order. all agencies are directed to take all appropriate measures to carry out the provisions of the order. the order, a copy of which is enclosed, became effective at 12:01 a.m., eastern daylight time, on april 13, 2010. signed, barack obama, the white house. the speaker pro tempore: ordered to the committee of foreign affairs and ordered printed. the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> madam speaker, i stand here today to join my polish american constituents, the polish nation and the world in mourning those who perished in this weekend's tragic plane crashes. the crash that killed president-elect ka shinskey of poland, his first -- ka chinssee of -- ka

her dedication to not only the country but also to ensuring that our policy reflects our highest eye dells as well as -- ideals as well advances our course throughout the world. she has been nominated for a very critical position. international economics is no longer a secondary concern. it is a primary concern, if it ever was a secondary concern. we're now approaching a time when our relationships with the world's economies is no longer one of the strong versus the many smaller economies. we're in a very competitive global economy and we need this type of representation i treasu. we need to engage china. no someone more prepared to do that than lael. we have to stablize this global economy through this financial crisis, which we're seeing not just in terms of private markets but the situation in greece. all of these things call out for an individual in the department of treasury who is not only well-versed but also in place to do the work. and, again, i could find no higher qualified candidate than lael. we've got to expand export opportunities. the president has rightly called upon this

several business spokesperson's had something to say that i thought was so significant from gm and dell, about the need for an active public partnership with the private sector to develop technologies shaping our future. these two people said it could not have happened, only relying on markets themselves. and it was best that -- this that characterized program so many of you know. the battery grant that helped spark the beginning of a renaissance in michigan and elsewhere industrially. it is interesting because i talk to my colleagues, how many of my colleagues say, i come from the state that is going to be the new center of electric battery development. so many. i look at them and i say, you know, it is michigan. [laughter] no, they say, it is ohio. someone told me, it is delaware. joe biden is from delaware, so i took that somewhat seriously. [laughter] but also this public-private partnership is the underlying premise of the r&d tax credit which is at the hearts of the bill that passed both houses. these bills are being worked right now into the -- and to anticipate a question on thi

it also includes corporations alsonike, wal-mart, dell computer, and so on. of a sudden, you have propaganda. you have war criminals, for dollar guess, financial institutions being run literally -- guest: over the last five or 10 years with the advent of blocking and easier access to the internet, you see many voices in the public sphere. many more ways to get news and information. slowly, the loss on transparency will have to develop to catch up. right now loggers have more rights than they did -- bloggers have more rights than previously. host: and we will not comment on the very end of that caller's comment which is an inappropriate direction. we're talking about government transparency here. caller: i have a question about the health care reform bill. the transparency of it. i have read the first draft. one thing that was very prevalent was quality initiatives. i figure the government would determine how to initiate quality initiatives to find out why the cost of health care is so high. why was this reform bill not made public as they were going through t

they're dell mitt romney mole lishing old bridge piers and doing paving work. order to do it as quickly as possible and safely as possibility. that means they'll have to take away lanes. again, not during rush hour. that's kind of key. eun, back to you. >> best to probably avoid the wilson bridge this week. megan, thank you. >>> 6:54 is our time. news 4's kimberly suiters is live in this newsroom with the top stories. good morning. >> good morning, joe. this morning, putting back together the pieces a tornado tore apart and preparing for funerals in yazoo city mississippi. that massive tornado destroyed much of that town and killed ten people there. 12 people died in this southern storm altogether. meteorologists estimate that tornado was a mile and a half wide and hit speeds of nearly 150 miles per hour. >>> an armed man was arrest thd weekend at the same airport where president obama traveled through. officers spotted joseph mcvey with a gun and rental car in a lot in asheville, north carolina. authorities say mcvey told an officer he wanted to see president

several business spokesperson's had something to say that i thought was so significant from gm and dellthe need for an active public partnership with the private sector to develop technologies shaping our future. these two people said it could not have happened, only relying on markets themselves. and it was best that -- this that characterized program so many of you know. the battery grant that helped spark the beginning of a renaissance in michigan and elsewhere industrially. it is interesting because i talk to my colleagues, how many of my colleagues say, i come from the state that is going to be the new center of electric battery development. so many. i look at them and i say, you know, it is michigan. [laughter] no, they say, it is ohio. someone told me, it is delaware. joe biden is from delaware, so i took that somewhat seriously. [laughter] but also this public-private partnership is the underlying premise of the r&d tax credit which is at the hearts of the bill that passed both houses. these bills are being worked right now into the -- and to anticipate a question on this, i thi

legislative power is not dell gabble -- delegateble. congress cannot say, it's too much trouble to run the district of columbia. from now on, whatever the district of columbia committee says is ok. they can take care of it. forbidden. the constitution says it must be legislation by both houses of congress and the members of congress may vote -- must vote personally. and it doesn't matter whether they know what's in the bill. they can be fall down drunk when they vote for the bill but if they take the act of voting for it, that is what makes it a piece of legislation. and too see -- to say that, oh, all of the backroom conferences with staff become part of a legislation is such a distortion of what the traditional notion of legislative power has been. the staff cannot decide the meaning of legislation which is what you let them do if you -- if you use the words in the committee report. which has been drafted by staff, in s never voted on, even by the committee. >> let's look at the logical leap here. as yourself said, what the legislativ

tremendous success that operation streamline has brought to that sector of the border similar to the dellexas, sector. there is virtually no illegal immigration occurring there now. part of it is because of a double and, in some cases, triple fence with border patrol agents putting even first offenders in jail for a couple of weeks and can be up p to a month or even longer depending on how many times people have crossed the border. this takes some resources from the department of justice, and i have asked with you when i met with you before your nomination hearing in 2009 about the funding for that. i discussed it again with you at your nomination hearing on january 15, 2009. we discussed this because the department of justice needs to provide the funding for certain elements of it. i asked you what resources were necessary. for the marshal service, the courthouse renovations that may or may not be necessary, criminal clerks, administrative costs, potentially additional judges, some additional detention spaces. there appear to be plenty of opportunities to rent detention services. all of

similar to the dell rio, texas sector. virtually no illegal immigration occurring there now. part of it is because of a dublin in some cases triple friends with adequate border patrol agents. part of it is a deterrent effect of operation shame on which puts even first offenders in jail for it least a couple of weeks and can be up to a month or even longer depending on how many times people across the border. this take some resources from the department of justice and i have asked you when i met with you before your nomination hearing in 2009 about the funding for that. i discussed it with the hearing on january 15, 2009. we discussed this because the department of justice needs to provide the funding for certain elements of it. i ask you what resources were necessary for the marshals service, the courthouse renovations that may or may not be necessary, certain assertive cause, criminal clerks and those kinds of things, potentially additional judges, additional places and there appeared to be plenty of opportunities to rent

went from about 300 in 1949 to 20 dells and it in 1960. the russians then raced to catch up and built 40,000 weapons during the 1960's and 1970's. it was only the process of arms control talks that began to limit, and thanks to ronald reagan, reduce these arsenals. fortunately, we now have about one-third the amount we had at the peak in the 1980's. ronald reagan is the first president who started to cut these weapons. before, under richard nixon, we had not limited -- we have limited, that you could only go so high. but ronald reagan came in and did much more. he was a passionate nuclear weapons abolitionist. he said these weapons are good for nothing. they should be made and the tent, he said. he came very close in conversations with then-head of the soviet union, miguel gorbachev, to some a treaty eliminating all weapons within 10 years. and then the start treaty and the late 1980's finally signed by president george h. w. bush that cut the arsenals in half. ever since then we have been on a steady decline in both countries. host: if ro

similar to the dell rio, texas sector.virtually no illegal immigration occurring there now. part of it is because of a dublin in some cases triple friends with adequate border patrol agents. part of it is a deterrent effect of operation shame on which puts even first offenders in jail for it least a couple of weeks and can be up to a month or even longer depending on how many times people across the border. this take some resources from the department of justice and i have asked you when i met with you before your nomination hearing in 2009 about the funding for that. i discussed it with the hearing on january 15, 2009. we discussed this because the department of justice needs to provide the funding for certain elements of it. i ask you what resources were necessary for the marshals service, the courthouse renovations that may or may not be necessary, certain assertive cause, criminal clerks and those kinds of things, potentially additional judges, additional places and there appeared to be plenty of opportunities to rent

he is turning into rick dell dempsey at the plate. >> well, you know what?ws what matt wheaters is capable of doing. he came out of the triple-a ball. he drives in 43 runs and he game to the big leagues looking like a veteran hitter. power from both sides of the plate. you go the opposite way to hit his home runs. he has not learned to look for a pitch and pull it when he wants to. right now they are making adjustments off of him and he is doing a great job adjusting off of them. very tough pitches to hit. he is keeping his hands inside the ball. going the opposite way. taking what they give him right now. sooner or later, you no, when they have to come with him with men on base, he will be waiting there with power. it's a matter of time. and everybody don't hold your breath because this guy will hit with power sooner or later. >> the catchers and pitchers leading in the league, the last 12 base hits by matt wieters have all been singles of his 14 hits on the year. kotchman beginning to used to his new home field. 4-12 average. of course, the guy you got to

similar to the dell rio, texas sector.virtually no illegal immigration occurring there now. part of it is because of a dublin in some cases triple friends with adequate border patrol agents. part of it is a deterrent effect of operation shame on which puts even first offenders in jail for it least a couple of weeks and can be up to a month or even longer depending on how many times people across the border. this take some resources from the department of justice and i have asked you when i met with you before your nomination hearing in 2009 about the funding for that. i discussed it with the hearing on january 15, 2009. we discussed this because the department of justice needs to provide the funding for certain elements of it. i ask you what resources were necessary for the marshals service, the courthouse renovations that may or may not be necessary, certain assertive cause, criminal clerks and those kinds of things, potentially additional judges, additional places and there appeared to be plenty of opportunities to rent

and one of the reasons, as i have, is you shouldn't, in very dell countries where you really need somexperience and a german wood, sort of a feeling of touchdown. you don't want somebody who's a amateur who's just a friend of whomever, friend of bill, friend of george. but but how you came to the center is not going to drop the time-outs. host: chandler on the line. you're on the air, go ahead. caller: i remember doing one of the diplomats attending the conference, pulled a gun on protesters. i just topped point out that that sometimes does -- i mean, it could disrupt the democratic process. guest: i would say so. caller: but my question is, has there been examples of countries waving immunities for their diplomats? guest: there have been, particular until traffic cases. nobody wants their own employee to think they can cruise around at 80 while they're intoxicated on an urban road so. there have been instances where the u.s. has requested a country to wave dim may not, and they do. i think it's probably underutilized, because there are so particular reason that somebody blood case. >>

. >>> the president of the colorado rockies was found dell in a hotel room it morning.e him. the cause of death is not known, but police say at this point there are no signs of foul play. the colorado rockies released a statement saying it's in shock, the tragic loss of a wonderful man. he leaves behind a wife and four children. >>> pittsburgh steelers' quarterback ben roethlisberger is taking part in team workouts as if nothing has happened, but that may not last long here. nfl commissioner roger goodell is making it clear the star player is in serious trouble with the league. goodell is dropping serious hints he will suspend roethlisberger over allegations he sexually saassaulted a colle student in a nightclub. he wasn't charged with a crime, but the commissioner said roethlisberger violated the league's rules on conduct. >> you do not have to be convicted or charged with a crime to be able to demonstrate that you violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves but their entire teammates, all of their teammates, every nfl player in the le

several business spokesperson's had something to say that i thought was so significant from gm and dell, about the need for an active public partnership with the private sector to develop technologies shaping our future. these two people said it could not have happened, only relying on markets themselves. and it was best that -- this that characterized program so many of you know. the battery grant that helped spark the beginning of a renaissance in michigan and elsewhere industrially. it is interesting because i talk to my colleagues, how many of my colleagues say, i come from the state that is going to be the new center of electric battery development. so many. i look at them and i say, you know, it is michigan. [laughter] no, they say, it is ohio. someone told me, it is delaware. joe biden is from delaware, so i took that somewhat seriously. [laughter] but also this public-private partnership is the underlying premise of the r&d tax credit which is at the hearts of the bill that passed both houses. these bills are being worked right now into the -- and to anticipate a question on thi

new host families had to pick them up after their connecting flights through dell less was canceled.ors suspect that lucy baines johnson has a rare autoimmune disorder that affects the ner nervous system. doctors expect a syndrome that affects the nerve that control movement and can cause paralysis. most patients recover completely from the condition. >> police in oakland california are increasing patrols since an a man and his adult son were attacked in broad daylight. they think the two men approached the father and son at random and started beating them up. the son is expected to survive. the father is in critical condition. a woman who witnessed the attack called 911. >> he was down. his face was bloody. he was having tremors. i knew it was bad. the tall guy who i later found out was his son, he had been hit, he had been punched in the face too. his nose was bleeding. >> we have constant presence of the oakland security people, the ones in the orange shirts. they are constantly around. they are really trying. it is just not enough. >> the attack happened in an area that has been