had she been sold or adopted as dick had feared?o than 30 years of hope and heartbreak, dick pulsifer was no closer to findin o what really happened to michelle. at what point d you give up that hope? >> when they tell me what happened. why isn't she here? >> orange county investigators continued searching and soon new information surfaced about mike kent. theoyfriend turned husband and now ex-husband had a criminal record with convictions for attery and violating restraining orders and aistory of alcohol and drugabuse. >> we concluded michelle never left that home in huntington beach arks live. >> mike kent and donna prentiss were arrested for murder. mike reached out for jamie kent. he was only 2 the day they left california. >> he told me t day he was in custody, he called me, he said jamie, i swear, i never hurt that little girl. >> who do you think did it? >> my dad swore to me heidn't hurt that little girl. i think donna did it. >> why would he not walk out the door and go to autrities. >> he was in love. he was protecting don

it was dick cheney unleashed. it was quite substantive. i think to answer your question, we have to look back at the last time dick cheney weighed in this wholeheartedly on national- security issues. remember we had those dueling speeches by barack obama and dick cheney on the same day? most people that assessed those first round -- that first round of a standoff came away with the feeling that dick cheney had won round one. we will have to see whether he wins round two. by him bringing up these issues, i think it has a lot of people thinking whether the obama administration is continuing to take this nation of its war footing, whether it is by appointing a prosecutor or whether it is by pointing this new interagency task force out of the white house to be in charge of interrogating high- value detainee's. i think people are starting to think that is thinking -- taking us off of the war footing. bill: what he said numerous times is that president obama gave his word that he would not go here or even dare predict what changed in washington

is that possible with dick cheney?ppose it is, but there are a large segment of the american public who what i would call are authoritarian conservatives. these people, about 25% of the american people, like dick cheney. and so he will have a big audience for this book. but that's it. the rest of the people aren't going to buy into this. >> except those -- unless he reveals that he threw himself on a ticking atomic bomb as it was about to be dropped on -- and he blew up underneath him and he was already. john dean, author of "worst than watergate" and "conservatives without conscious," thanks, john. >> thank you. >>> and if you think cheney feels liberated to talk the way he wants about george bush, wait until you hear the secretary of state's remarks about the president in nigeria. >>> and we will show you the video obtained exclusively by nbc news of the helicopter plane crash over new york on saturday. >>> and when rachel joins you, she and bernie sanders will reveal who these astroturfers at the town halls actually

dick cheney's disappointment with george w.d bush's break with him has fueled cheney's willingness to write about it. all about it. new details from one of the informal gatherings, former vice president has been holding to discuss his upcoming memoir according to "the washington post," gelman who will join us in a moment. in the second term he felt bush was moving away from him and in the recent gathering. bush was shackled by the criticism he took. and it may soon be directed at bush. quoting again from the article. cheney has said without explanation that the statute of limitations has expired on many of his secrets. when the president made decisions i didn't agree with, i didn't go out and undercut him. let's bring in national reporter and author of angler of the cheney vice presidency, in paperback later this month, b t barton gellman. is there far more to it than that. >> sure. cheney's not so much about keeping score or taking credit. hay is a guy that cares about outcomes. let's assume the universe in which cheney appear

how vocal do you think dick cheney is going to be in defending karl rove?he must have known what the heck was going on, it was an attack on the judiciary, but it seems to me there will be a lot more come ing fromthese two gentlemen. >> i think that's right. if the vice president talks about this, he'll frame he answers in terms of the office, and the presidency and the release of these e-mails. but those e-mails are juicy. it's becoming a campaign issue. just tonight the new jersey governor, jon corzine is calling on his opponent to answer questions about the rove e-mail. if karl rove is becoming an issue? a bunch of states, that's quite a surprise to administration that we thought was sort of history, but karl has a book coming out, too. they all do, so he doesn't mind being on the griddle a little bit for that reason, too. >>> the president's going to go on the road tomorrow, a town hall meeting in montana, max bachus's backyard. if there was ever a time to call out a colleague and not giving the president what he wants, it would be max backus. what's the

the headline here, the dick cheney interrogations' probe -- dick cheney says that the interrogations'robe is a political act. here are some comments on his comments. >> dick cheney has shown through the years, and frankly, a disrespect for the constitution, for sharing information with congress, lack of respect for the law, and i'm not surprised he is upset about this. the obama administration -- the president himself has been unbelievably bending in the direction of trying to be careful about what happens to national security, protecting security interest, being very sensitive about the cia's program gives and needs, and i think there's a little bit of tension between the white house itself and the lawyers and the justice department as to their obligation and how they see a law. in a sense that is good and proper. it shows that we have an attorney general who is not pursuing a political agenda, but doing what he believes the law requires. host: a couple more calls here. another caller from texas, on the republican line. caller: i'm not believing what i'm hearing. i cannot believe tha

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you got dick armey fired and you're on "meet the press" sunday with dick armey? ladies and gentlemen, here is rachel maddow. good evening. >> well, that's putting quite a blunt point on it. >> i'm dvring it already on three different televisions. >> it's a dramatic circumstance in which to make my "meet the press" debut i admit though i'm not going to claim any credit for getting anybody fired. >> well, separated? removed? distanced? >> thanks, keith. >> good evening, rachel. >> good evening, keith. thank you very much. thank aut home for staying with us for the next hour. we do begin tonight with a dramatic and unexpected development. in politics and in health reform. former republican house majority leader dick armey did resign today from the d.c. lobbying and legal services firm dla piper. we have talked about dick armey and dla piper a number of times on this show over the past few weeks including last night after we obtained a dla piper internal memo concerning our coverage of them recently. before today, mr. armey served as senior policy advisor for dla pip

>> i don't believe dick cheney will engage in backstabbing. i do believe this, lawrence, cheney does feel, i think, that the bush administration or the president himself had sort of a lapse of faith in his earlier axis of evil policies, that he put rumsfeld over the side who was dick cheney's mentor and friend in a way that was really reduced rumsfeld to a level that cheney felt was insulting. i think he felt that the president did not move against north korea and iran as toughly as he should have in those final two years, and, of course, you have the scooter libby pardon that did not happen. but i agree with tom that cheney's not going to get personal and small here. i think he's going to defend his record as the most powerful, influential vice president in history. going to say we did the right thing. we should have been stronger at the end, and he's going to establish a separate identity from george w. bush and i think probably he's doing the right thing for himself. >> let's consider this excerpt from "the washington post" story. pat bucha

as he has dick armey's problems on the republican side.ign that he is independent, doing a good job. i'm going to vote for him. i think he's a wonderful selection. >> thank you very much for joining us today. >> speaking of bernanke, when we come back we'll talk about the fed, the economy and markets, the chairman's nomination for a second term as fed chief. less than an hour away. you are looking at a live picture of the podium where the president will make his announcement in about 36 minutes. we'll have a live report from martha's vineyard in a couple of minute when "squawk" continues. i'm racing cross country in this small sidecar, but i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops can't. i'm bill kurtis, and wherever i go, i've got plenty of room for the internet. and the nation's fastest 3g network. gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. with built-in access to the nation's fast

. >> eric: this is a "fox news alert," a warning this morning from former vice president dick cheney. he says that the prosecution of cia agents over enhanced interrogation of terror suspects is putting or nation's security at risk. in an explosive and exclusive interview with "fox news sunday" host chris wallace, mr. cheney called the investigation, quote, an outrageous political act. and he says he has serious doubts about president obama and his -- in his words, is prepared to do what needs to be done to protect the nation. saying the obama administration should be debriefing cia interrogators about keeping the country safe, not punishing them. >> we asked... sometimes people put their own lives at risk and do so at the direction of the president, they do so with the, in the case we have specific legal authority from the justice department and they are now going to be subject to being investigated an prosecuted by the next administration, nobody is going to sign up with those kinds of missions. it's a very, very devastating up thing it has on the morale inside the intelligence comm

dick cheney's -- former vice president dick cheney's interview.atherine herridge, you were listening along. robert gibbs said that the president -- former vice president did not have his facts right, and he also said that he had not been a great predictor of foreign affairs. >> there were three main headlines to me. first and foremost was the claim by the white house press secretary that the former vice president had his facts wrong on a number of issues. particularly, when it comes to the enhanced integration program carried out by the cia. secondly, he talked about the hank. this is a group that is being set up at the fbi that mildew with the interrogation of high- value detainees in the future. -- the hague. what we know in background is the higg would decide who would be the best agency to interrogate the detainees. the former vice president said that he felt this was taking us back to the same type of posture we had prior to 9/11 that led to such disasters have results. such a significant claim by the vice-president. i also found it interesti

dick durbin is saying we need to be on the same page. this is a signal this morning of saying that. >> this plays out at a time when these guys are all home. some people have questioned who is sending all these loud people to our town halls. some say that's democracy, welcome to it. jessica, as you know, some say, no, no this is the insurance industry. this is republican critics trying to steal the debate, get flashy clips on television or youtube. >> some people i talked to who have voiced these oppositions, using the word socialism who are outraged, insist they are just americans who are upset about what they see the government doing. the problem is that this is giving voice to people who have already been dissatisfied with president obama, maybe didn't like him from the beginning and that his entire agenda smacks of socialism from the stimulus to climate change to this. the storyline is building that this government option that they are talking about is part of the broad socialist message that they think is coming from the obama white

dick cheney has been for laying it all out.of this truth and reconciliation, there's nothing to hide -- except from the terrorists who now know everything we're doing to thwart their activities. >> mary matalin, paul begala, thank you. well, the conversation continues online. let us know what you think. join the live chat now under way at ac360.com. i'm about to log on during the commercial break myself. up next, though, what randy kaye's learning about not one, not two, but seven doctors now named in the michael jackson homicide investigation. >>> later, anti-health reform anger at a congressman's town hall directed at a big-name guest, howard dean. >> howard dean is a baby killer! he's a baby killer! ( siren blaring ) special interest groups are trying to block progress on health care reform, derailing the debate with myths and scare tactics. desperately trying to stop you from discovering that reform won't ration care. you and your doctor will always decide the best treatment for you. tell congress not to let myths get in th

george mcgovern. >> thank you, dick. thank you.pplause] >> well, i want to thank everybody who is here tonight. if i had known i was going to get that kind of praise from these people who are on either side of me here tonight, i'd written that book a lot earlier. [laughter] >> but i do want to thank bernie for opening up his beautiful home here tonight for us. and to thank jim mcgovern, who along with laurie fulton were the principal instigators of this whole program. i know this is a difficult time in the life of the country with the exception of lincoln, no president ever faced a more difficult situation on assuming office than has been the case with barack obama. i guess you would have to say that lincoln inheriting the civil war, a man with peace who thought that you could solve all problems by reason and commonsense and who literally ached for peace, that he had to preside for four years over the bloodiest war in our history, if for no other reason than everybody who died in that war on each side was an american. so he was --

dick's is okay here. >> okay. all right. nice run on the stock there. >>> next trade here, what will be the next money-making revolution in technology? well, looking across my e-mail inbox, the other day, i noticed a research note that may answer that very question. it goes without saying computer technology has changed our lives forever. and the digital revolution will return for years. but the cutting-edge trade is turning old and gray. tech industry growth surged 18% annually from 1961 to 2000, but since then it's been a paltry 3% per year. so its investors either return for the long-term, the fast money has found the next revolution. clean technology. the solar panel price is falling. smart electrical grids ready to distribute power to where it's needed most. and long -lasting batteries. the trade could be ready to explode. 2 billion people enter the middle class in asia and africa in the next 20 years, the foundation for this growth has been formed. here's the street analyst who is paving the way for what's next in clea

and now for the very first time, former vice president dick cheney is speaking out about it. >> i guess the other thing that offends the hell out of me, frankly, chris, is we had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from al-qaeda. this approach of the obama administration should be to come to those people who were involved in that policy and say how did you do it? what were the keys to keeping the country stable over that period of time? instead, they're out there now threatening to disbar the lawyers who gave us the legal opinion, threatening contrary to what the president originally said. >> jamie: good morning, everybody. much more on that story. i'm jamie colby. >> eric: i'm eric shawn. the vice president giving that explosive excusive interview aired on "fox news sunday" this morning. he calls the investigation into the c.i.a. purely political and claims president obama, in his words, is not prepared to do what is needed to proect the nation. live in our washington bureau, with the latest. what else did the former vice

i don't think dick cheney grew up wanting to torture people. in fact, there's ample evidence he grew up wanting to avoid conflict. he got five draft deferments in vietnam, my goodness. my own suspicion is something happened. he was given responsibility for america's security. he was asked to chair a task force on terrorism. the task force never met. they plainly ignored the warnings before 9/11, whether it was richard clark, the expert. whether it was the cia briefing that was later released that said bin laden determined to attack america. from that point on, all of a sudden, dick cheney wanted to play tough and be a cross between jack nicholson in "a few good men" or jack bauer on "24," or something, but none of that is what makes america safer. >> paul, what about the argument these interrogations were examined in 2004 by career justice department? people who were not political appointees? why not just leave it at that and move forward as president obama, himself, wants to do? >> i think that's a legitimate point. there's always this worry a

he says, dick, i'm so fortunate i'm in medicare. said, bless you, my friend, that you get to be in it if you choose to be. but if you give a government program and let me choose to be in or choose to be out that's generosity. if you force me in irrespective of my desires that's tyranny. now, if medicare's $46 trillion in the red with no idea how we're going to pay for it why do they not let people who don't want to be in out? >> this is a really important point. the antihealth care reform lobby thinks that medicare is tyranny. okay? i mean, you said in 1995 that medicare is a program i would have no part of in a free world. >> absolutely right. >> you said in 2002 we have to bite the bullet on social security and phase it out. over a period of time. >> and medicare -- >> this is your position. >> the medicare law that was written -- >> this is very important to understand. >> the antireform lobby, antimedicare, antisocial security. of course direct confrontation is not the only means for exposing the right's radical agenda. there is

this is dick cheney unplugged.nce he has left the vice presidency and official office that he feels some what liberated. he just feels that it weakens the country and thinks job one after 9/11 for any president that came, protecting the country and that the enhanced interrogation worked and got top cia operatives who weren't going to cooperate to give up information and that information stopped plots that would have killed more people in this country and around the world and he thinks the pontiliousness of the obama administration is going to weaken the country and demoralize the cia. he feels people signed up to for war on terror and we are now turning on people that protected the country for the last eight years styl. >> does he feel this is the president going back. even though the attorney general is supposed to be independent in these kind of investigations. >> he feels that the president and blames it on the president. he says look, under the constitution the president is the chief law enforcement officer. th

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if he can turn this into a fight with dick cheney, that's fine with him.to have a fight with someone that's 28% or 30% in the polls, that's good for president obama. but as to the larger, more serious issue, i mean, i think there's a real sense that the white house knows that this could ultimately backfire on them. because most of the american public agrees with you. and doesn't want to go back there -- for once, right. and doesn't want to go back there and relitigate the question of bush administration interrogation policies, particularly as it pertains to the cia agents. not to the folks who wrote the legal men memorandum, but the people out there in the field. >> the attorney general did say monday, he's not interested in prosecuting anybody who, in good faith, acted within the guidelines, as they existed at that time. >> and that would be the agents. >> and did the president respond, clarence? real quick. >> should he respond? i think he should, i don't think he will. >> thank you so much for joining us. >>> jack cafferty joining us again. >> question

let's start with steve. >> well, i thought what you just saw was dick cheney very animated for dick cheney. he clearly is fired up about this issue. one of the things that was most interesting that he talked about yesterday was the effectiveness of the techniques. we have seen, i think, a shift in public opinion, and certainly a leap in public opinion about whether they were effective because of the inspector general's report which is fascinating. you have a report that the left wing held up to be the critique of these techniques and in fact, we learned, inescapably have to conclude that the techniques were effective. there was an interesting story the night before the cheney interview in "the washington post" about how effective these techniques were. he made that case again sunday morning and made some news doing so. >> well, i don't know about the effectiveness, because in the same "washington post" story, khalid mohammed says to the red kos that he lied to the people who were torturing him just to get them to stop torturing him. that's what we know from that kind of technique. without

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dick morris joins us from stamford, conn. these numbers in a holding pattern, they are half empty or half full. they are not sinking. how do you read these numbers? >> he got 52% of the vote and he is getting 43% of the health care package, his signature piece of legislation. a quarter of the people that voted for him are jumping ship. that is bad news for him. there are two 0.7 more important. the first is that among the elderly that are affected by this. -- there are two points that are more important. i think that to the elderly are 20% of our population and they consume 45% of their health care spending. -- of our health care spending. the strong disapproval is overwhelmingly there. they are the core of the democratic base in this country. the democratic party cannot win without the support of senior citizens. they have given it to them ever since medicare was passed and social security. the second thing i think is that there has been a new front opened in opposition to this bill which is not only within the health-care i

but dick fuld is looking for work.son he's looking for work, bob-s because he lost a lot of money in the implosion of lehman. what friends are telling me is while i guess he's still rich we shouldn't be crying for him-e feels he has to work. >> and what about joe gregory? >> that's an interesting question because joe gregory lost a lot of money, too, as we've been reading lately. he's been selling assets. from what i understand he's not working. he's spending a lot of time at his home outside new york. but as you know, recent reports today, he's looking to recoup some of his salary from lehman. i think $233 million tied up into bankruptcy. so he's not working. he's selling assets. by the way, fuld is selling assets as well. they're all selling assets. but unlike fuld he's not working and he's filed this lawsuit trying to get the bankruptcy judge to pay him some of those back wages. >> and cfo aaron callen was sort of a bit of a superstar for a while, got a lot of attention, and she too has sort of quietly fade add way

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dick bove, you're the banking expert here.e've got two guys that won't go near the regionals, what do you think? >> i think the stocks are ahead of themselves, you've got to take some profits. i think people are buying, you know, on fumes because over the next couple of quarters all of these banks are going to lose money. and therefore to put money into companies that are losing money under the theory that over the next 12 to 18 months they're going to turn their earnings around i think is a little bit silly at this point. we've gone too far when there's nothing fundamental behind them at the moment. >> when you say there's nothing fundamental, what about the recovery we keep talking about? what about the steep yield curve? >> well, the steep yield curve doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot. i know larry likes it, but the fact is, the key is what is going to happen to their loans that aren't paying interest. and i think that we're seeing a continued increase in that we're not seeing any real recovery. i know that many people exp

that's what former vice president dick cheney says about the obama administration's investigation of the cia. he also says his relationship with president bush wasn't always chummy. >>> late-term takeover. an abortion doctor targeted by protesters is promising to pick up where his murdered colleague left off. he tells us why live. >>> lost at sea. for a week searchers even gave up and the coast guard as well when suddenly a sight for sore eyes. three weary fishermen saved by sheer luck. you'll hear their incredible odyssey tonight. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm don lemon. our top story, thousands of people fleeing their homes ahead of wildfires raging in southern california. especially hard hit los angeles county prompting governor arnold schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency. for the latest we turn to cnn's kara finnstrom live in la canada flintridge, california. >> reporter: you can see this fire is continuing to burn in the hillsides behind me. we are expecting a news briefing any minute now with the latest numbers from this fire, but at last report more than 35,000 acr

dick cheney using some strong language. listen to this. >> i guess the other thing that offends the hell out of me frankly, chris, is we had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from al qaeda. the approach of the obama administration should be to come to those who were involved in that policy and say "how did you do it? what were the keys to keeping this country safe over that period of time?" shepard: well the justice department says whether the tactics worked, it's their job to decide whether they were legal. and the white house is firing back at dick cheney today. listen to this. >> i'm not entirely sure that dick cheney's predictions on foreign policy have born a whole lot of fruit over the last eight years in a way that have been either positive or, best of my recollection, very correct. >> well, still, there is at least one top democrat who says the interrogation investigation may not be a good idea. catherine herridge is live in washington. and on this on

here is dick cheney a couple days after 9/11. actually here he is today. president obama's decision to allow the justice department to investigate and possibly prosecute cia personnel is his decision to remove authority for interrogation from the cia to the white house serves as a reminder, if any were needed, of why so many americans have doubts about this administration's ability to be responsible for our nation's security. ron reagan, your witness. that's what cheney says. >> yeah, well, it's rich that dick cheney should be talking about obama not protecting the united states. after all, it was on his watch that 9/11 happened, despite repeated warnings from the intelligence community that osama bin laden was determined to strike in the u.s. he also accused the obama administration of politicizing the justice department by doing this investigation. that's rich, too, since we're finding out a lot about how the bush administration politicized the justice department in terms of state's attorney firings and that sort of thing. you know, we've had a long trad

the bottom line is they say that they produce or dick cheney says that a lot of good information cameut of this, do you buy that argument? >> i don't really buy that argument. one of the things dick cheney had claimed before the documents came out was that when some of these documents were released that they would show that these enhanced interrogation techniques are effective. when in fact when those documents came out, they showed nothing of the kind. and dick cheney's response was to sort of spin that and they did back him up when in reality they didn't. >> and diblg cheney says measuring the effectiveness of these enhanced interrogation techniques is not without concern. he says it's difficult to measure how successful it was because it was combined with traditional interrogation tactics. but let's look at some of what has not been redacted out of this. that some of the threats here that they held handguns to terror suspects, power drills, they threatened to kill suspects families, there was threatened sexual assaults of family members. what do you think at this point should happe

dick morris has some thoughts. >> i won't have to listen to this mindless crap anymore. bill: and dennis miller on the clinton rescue. and paula abdul leaving "american idol." >> she should leave. sonia sotomayor should take over "american idol." bill: caution, you are about to enter the no-spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- bill: i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. president obama and corporate corruption. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. as you may know, the vicious recession we have now is largely driven by irresponsible corporations selling and buying bad mortgages and big oil raising gas prices because of speculation. the bush administration failed to oversee the chaos and now most of us are suffering. president obama campaigned on cleaning up corporate corruption. that was one of the changes we can believe in. now the president has a major problem with the general electric corporation. yesterday g.e. agreed

dick's has said no to vick. dick's sporting goods won't stock michael vick's jersey until company officials "evaluate the reaction of eagles fans." dick's says right now we don't know how much of a demand there is for it. if there is a demand for it we will sell it. translation, gurglegoop-goop. the nfl shop is already selling vick's eagle jersey clouding one custom made ironically for dogs and i'm not joking, people. the league spokesman says they don't see a problem because vick is working for the humane society and then speaking for the proper treatment of animals. of course, then he bit the head off a chicken. i think we have a reaction from peta. that is the most sensible thing peta has said in a long time. i have to go to you professor even though i'm mad at you for the last thing you said. you are a massive eagles fan. >> i am. >> greg: where do you stand on the fact that they got him on the team or the jerseys? >> i don't care about the jerseys, i don't want him on the team. quarterbacking is for white p

from dick cheney.ve you been. >> no we have heard and will hear more. >>> thousands of fire fighters are pouring into southern california to battle the massive fires out of control. >> many schools have classes canceled. officials are worried about the flames spreading to the mount wilson observe tory . their then there is the tragic loss of life. we have more from our station kabc. >> the tragic news came late this evening. >> two of our fire fighters were in a vehicle, and went over the side. both of them suffered fatality life ending injuries. >> it's believed the two fire fighters were killed south of acton near mount gleason where one hundred inmate ground crews were evacuated during a intense fire fight this afternoon. now they're getting a handle on the blaze that has tripled in size. >> we understand there are ation al structures -- >> one of the biggest concerns the antennas on mount wilson. the flames are slowly approaching the media to youers and could over run the mountain top. threufrpblts

there seems to be evidence that when you pay dick armey's firm, you get what dick armey's grassroots organization freedomworks does. take the american council of life insurers, for example. according to government records, they hired dla piper in february 2007. within six months, they paid the lobbying firm $100,000. what else happened in that six months? you guessed it! dick armey's group freedomworks, grassroots, remember, began lobbying congress to deregulate the life insurance industry. you know, that all just happened to happen within the same six months. and perhaps it is just mere coincidence that freedomworks happened to have a newfound, ideological, purist grassroots commitment to life insurance deregulation at the same time the american council of life insurers hired dick armey's lobbying firm. it could just be a coincidence. could be, right? want one more? in 2006, dla piper began lobbying for the senado de republicia, the mexican senate. purpose of the lobbying, quote, encouraging mexico relations. coincidentally arrange the same time, freedomworks began promoting itself

dick's sporting goods soaring and raising the full year outlook.e smathering of retail news, can we draw conclusions as to what might make good plays going forward? >> we have to look for the best operators out there. not in that camp. what we are seeing is the hard line portion is joining the softer side. they have not been the best operators out there. beyond that, you look at dick's and we have seen fabulous sales on things like fleece. people are unemployed and still doing sports. it's a way to bring yourself back to your roots. believe it or not, i believe dick's and things like that are expanding. sears i would stay away from. what i want to focus on is things like buckle. i love the revenue and the earnings and they are right not sweet spot and running about 70%. the research is name brand and they are supplementing the private label and that's the type you want on here. >> we're have a quick programming note. time for the fast and furious. let's go around the horn. home builders are higher. >> on the home builder space, you lay back and let