the fraud rate is enormous and the redefault rate is enormous and this is a form of buying political -- buying voters. that is the truth. i tell no lie. thank you for joining us. bazaars, and accountable to no one. miti lawmaker -- czarass, not accountable to anyone. meet a lawmaker looking to head that off. how about beer-battered shrimp and chips... or one of our coastal soup and grilled shrimp salad combinations? eight dishes that fit into your lunch hour... starting at just $6.99. at red lobster. stuart: the senate's can treat czars light cabinet who members or take their money. her half of them are already working, aren't they? >> they are. we did not anticipate spending so much money, and along the sides they would be appointing so many different czars. no one sure how many. we counted 27 last week but it appears now there could be 34. none had been vetted or approved by the senate. stuart: these were delivered appointments to get around the requirement of appearing before senate hearings, presumably. >> yes. even though a harry reid and nancy pelosi rubber-stamp whatever comes

this is enormously complicated.ou need to look at it comprehensively, the entire package before you evaluate it. >> to a point that i think you and i agree with regard to naked cds's, some people demonize these things. would you demonize them or do you think they actually play a valuable role that we should not just be totally outlawing them? >> i'm not sure whether i would spend a huge amount of time extolling their merits. across our financial system it is important that people have the ability to hedge risks that they face. >> you want to eliminate them? >> i do not believe it is necessary or appropriate for us to ban them, but i want to underscore, as we said, we do believe there needs to be comprehensive oversight over these markets, both the standardized and customized. >> we want to get to the underlying cause of this in the first place. let's look at what is always in the front page, the a.i.g. situation. the a.i.g. situation was the derivatives involved there and the underlying problem was mortgage-backed s

the question remains as to the staying power that has given the enormous cost, the population that you mentioned. all of those things, long-term, i assume, based on what you said, you are confident that staying power will go forward for as long as it takes to defeat various areas of insurgency. it is difficult to predict, on the political will to go on, given the political, the cost involved. the last point is the drone attacks, in the u.s. extremely politically contentious until not long ago. these things still go on, we don't hear much about them as a political, contentious point. is there a degree of coordination? are these things plodded together? you predict there will be more of these? how are they received regardless of the military impact in these drone attacks? >> a first one, can we go one and maintain this initiative. i am glad that you said that the previous fears and concerns have gone. it is not only fighting, it is fighting and deliverance of results. as i said, and you said, it is a long haul. we have to sustain political results. we have to sustain public opinion. medi

enormous respect, the troops have confidence and are grateful. helping people. it has been an established institution for years and years. >> general karamat, you have a wonderful delivery, thank you so much for your painstakingly crafted, general overview which is so reassuring. unfortunately, many of us don't feel so reassured. you remind me of general jones, our national security adviser, a very good delivery. if i might ask a question about something that i think troubles of lot of us, at least i should say myself. the degree to which the courts are basically letting extremists go free. the most recent examples of this have to do with the mosque. after what appears from an awful lot of internationally available information, a rather clear connection between him personally and the organization and the events in mumbai last year. in terms of dealing with extremism, can you talk to us about how the courts, how the legal system, how the law themselves may need to be adjusted and what would be the way forward with that, and if that is not possible, why? i should

also takes enormous intelligence. the big breakthrough we had is not any particular discipline of intelligence as has been implied by certain books that have been on best-seller lists. there have been break throughs and intelligence imagery, intelligence measurement and the applications that help us put it all together with increasingly large databases and storage capabilities and pipes but that fact is the breakthrough has been in the fusion of all this and that is what we have worked to do to break down all the walls around cia, and g-8, special special locks, special ops conventional coalition, iraqi, and so forth, we have worked hard to do that as well as a proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles and other platforms that have made such a difference and i will talk about that in a moment. we had overhauled detainee operations, we had 26 or so thousand detainees at the height of this, those were breeding ground for the terrorists class of 2007. until we started to do counterinsurgency operations inside the wire as

enormous respect, the troops have confidence and are grateful. helping people. it has been an established institution for years and years. >> general karamat, you have a wonderful delivery, thank you so much for your painstakingly crafted, general overview which is so reassuring. unfortunately, many of us don't feel so reassured. you remind me of general jones, our national security adviser, a very good delivery. if i might ask a question about something that i think troubles of lot of us, at least i should say myself. the degree to which the courts are basically letting extremists go free. the most recent examples of this have to do with the mosque. after what appears from an awful lot of internationally available information, a rather clear connection between him personally and the organization and the events in mumbai last year. in terms of dealing with extremism, can you talk to us about how the courts, how the legal system, how the law themselves may need to be adjusted and what would be the way forward with that, and if that is not possible, why? i should

fortunatel the new president is enormously gifted. that's impornt because it is no longer a maer ofhether tax revenues must increase b how." i continue in an e-mai exchang betweeyou and me. "t administration is just in a arly impossible situation. growth as i argued in that piece is goingo be distinctly subnorl for 2010 and 2011. at theame time, t decit outlook will emerge as much worse. at one level, you can't withdraw stimulus, e., pursue deficit reduction when the ecomy is so wk. buat another, the publicnd financial rkets will be rebelled ov o trillion llar deficits as far the eye can see. this wilbe getty brg fo ama. hopefully he's in a blueniform but who knows?" strong language. a huge problem. >> it is. it's the most serio and fascating fiscal policy challengi've ever seen and it's been 41ears since i started in finance a i served twice in the treasury, whic was a great privilege, and i've never seen a challenge like this. because, as yojust said, at one level the economy's going to be extraordinary weaknd stimulus is nessary. i

the embassy is the end -- is enormous. it might be the biggest in the world. it is enormous. it is a compound. you also have camp victory, which is an enormous u.s. military base on the outskirts of baghdad. i think eventually, they would like to turn that back to the iraqis. for now, they are still working out of there. this war is not over. you are correct. it is not over. it is still a long way to go. there could be some big fights ahead of us. we just do not know. host: this morning, "the new york times" has a report on the shifting american footprint in iraq. 59 battalions. september, 2007, the height of the surge moved up to 75 battalions. october, 2008, back to 55 battalions. in june, 2009, with growing and changing roles down to 45 battalions. they moved to bases on the outskirts of neighborhoods in baghdad and other cities. american troops are moving to an advisory role. we're talking about american involvement in this region of the world. our next call is from irvine, ky. caller: i have to organize -- helped to organize the first gulf war. i think people realize now

that is an enormous shift. they knew this in our office, the budget of $10.4 million for the entire year. we participate in 50 supreme court cases, we review every appeal decision made in united states, by the united states government. there is an enormous amount of work that is done for that amount of money and when i was doing cases last year privately i was involved in a case where one side spent $10 million on just one case. we did that in our office for the entire year. it was something quite remarkable. in your opening remarks you talked about the timing. when i was teaching here, i have the ability to think big thoughts or small thoughts and have the time to practice my arguments. i practiced 15 times. the case ended last year, i did something like eight moves or something like that. i got to the government, my dna argument which was march 2nd, i think i got able to read the brief about a week before the argument, had the customary two weeks in the office, right after i got to read the briefs. it is a ve

it was going to be enormously difficult. the adjustment process was hard. it will take time to get through this. remember, only four weeks ago, people were saying we should be walking back stimulus, we should be cutting down, we should be getting to where we run the least risk. >> warren buffett, laura tyson, adviser to the president, said you have to do a second stimulus, because clearly, rising unemployment is a big concern. there is a possibility of further deflation. do we need a second stimulus? >> i think all the congress believe, and this was inherent in the program, that the biggest thrust or force would start to take effect in the second half of this year, start to see that happen, but i don't think that is a judgment we need to make now. can't really make that now prudently, responsibly. >> a lot of people feel that by recapitalizing the banks, but not doing more in sequestering the banks, you've created a kind of fear of zombie banks that are stable but not really lending. i realize banks are only part of the credit picture, but is there a proble

we have an enormously talented field. led by andy roddick who won it three times and the defending champion from argentina is back. but more than that people don't realize the depth of the field, tommy will be seated about nine. he is seated one in l.a. this week. he is a great play and he got to the semis in wimbledon and willy joe from france and a tremendous depth of entry which is grit for the fans because you can come out on tuesday and wednesday and see an awfully good match. >> what have the ticket sales been like? what packages are still available for folks that want to go. >> our golden series are sold out. box seat we have 10 or to 2 left but very good seating because they are low. so i urge people to come out every day to do that. our suites are sold youth and our general admission are sold out from thursday on but we still have seats available monday, tuesday and wednesday. we did something about five years ago. we started at 4:00 and go until 11:00 at night. so it is a lot cooler for the players and for the f

for me, it has been an enormous personal change.en i did cases before coming into the government, i basically did students with -- i basically did cases with one of my students. one of them spent a long time working on hamdan with me. she was writing drafts of race and so on. it was a ragtag group of people. i was doing the table of authorities and contents myself and things like that. i then come to our office, which is amazing, their 69 attorneys and four deputies and a staff of about 20 paralegals and assistance in the print shop and so on. the quality of the work product is breathtaking. my first weekend there, i got an assignment which was very complicated. it was high sensitivity and i said to one of the assistance, can you look at this. on monday, i got a 24-space so -- a 24-page single spaced memo that was far better than anything i could have written. they do this with a budget of $10.4 million for the entire year. we participate in about 50 supreme court cases and review every decision made in the united states by the gove

las medidas de seguridad fueron enormes.ortancia del. >> en muchos puntos de convergencia entre los estados unidos y el vaticano. >> a la hora marcada, la limusina blindada del presidente obama, entrÓ en el terrorio vaticano. despuÉs de saludar a los llamados hombres gentiles del papa. participóh@tecuhgp@mkph@h@h@tÁ como la situaciÓn en medio oriente hay discrepancias como por ejemplo la postura de obama con respecto al aborto. >> sobrÉ todo cÓmo se relacionarÁobama con los crÍticos obispos catÓlicos de estados unidos que ya han sido muy insidiosas en sus seÑalamientos sobre las polÍticas de obama y asa blanca. >> las listas de los temas abordados fue enorme y abarca que va. >> el entendimiento entre las religiones, los derechos humanos, la lucha contra la trata de persona, la pobreza, la asistencia internacional obama tuvo una agotadora jornada que concluyÓ con su partida hacia ghana África. un destino especial. >> el presidente como pago viajÓ arganda en África. lo agasajarÁ con bailes folklÓricos y una ronda de tambores a

so we are sitting on an enormous issue. the fate of the plan at -- the fate of the planet, we can break our dependence on foreign oil. now is the time to be bold and go forward, and i think all of our panelists for their efforts in that direction.

. >> oh it's changed enormously. there are a whole host of players now in the space program, business. starting with the european space agency, japan, china, india. and they're all playing for the big stakes that the point. and they have pretty sophisticated, mature programs now. europe, japan, for example, and russia of course, another major player involved in the international space station, for example. a huge $100 billion project to build a giant space station. so all of these players are you know very much invested in the idea of space exploration right now. >> beyond the international space station, when we talk about say japan, china and india, what are their goals in space? when do they want to go there? >> right. well, they're all kind of interesting cases. china, for example, the country we largely pay attention to right now has a very sophisticated space program. they've now sent probes to the moon as have japan and india. so there's some sort of an asian kind of presence now in deep space exploration and

pausa más adelante no se mueva de su asiento porque será testigo de un hecho insólito que hace un enormeona indignada frente a eduardo santa marina. >> el líder de ilegales se reconcilia con su esposa que lo acusó de violencia doméstica. h@k >> bueno, les contamos que una vez más sorprendieron nuevamente al cantante luis miguel con la joven modelo que estaba en italia, esta vez estaba en españa y estaban tomando desayuno. con un torero y con su esposa. >> aparentemente gven >> mientras tanto luis miguel está de vacaciones, la madre de sus hijos araceli a. regresará a las novelas y aceptó un papel dónde le da vida a unas gemelas y estará con eduardo yañ la presentación será este viernes en méxico. >> rompió el silencio en puerto rico la bailarina que le vendió 2 fotos de pablo montero como dios lo trajo al mundo en venganza porque él supuestamente solicitó sus servicios y no le pagó. vamos a escuchar lo que ella dijo. >> se supone que era ilarle desde las 4 de la mañana hasta las 9 y no me pagó. cuando entró me dijo que me iba a pagar y después en ningún momia amó después. >> y ahora que

but we are spending an enormous amount of money and getting so little in return, and i do think most americans are rightly very, very concerned about the spending, the ever-growing spending. they are concerned about the debt we are taking on, and they are concerned about the enormous tax increases that will come with it. you were talking to check grassley about it. small business is going to get clobbered -- you were talking to senator grassley about it. they are going to be fined. there are good to be expenses and taxes beyond anything that they can survive. we need to create jobs, yet when you make it more expensive to employ people, what do you get? you get fewer jobs, so between the energy policy and the health care policy, the taxes, spending, and deregulation that goes with it, the huge energy tax -- and the regulation that goes with it, the huge energy tax, maybe that is what the stimulus is not working. neil: governor rick perry was leading the efforts in talking about what federal dollars are parceled out in texas, and governor palin in alaska before she steps down. what do

>> it is better, but we still face enormous challenges, and it's going to be a while before we're confident we're going to have any sustained recovery in place. but we have an economy falling at a remarkably rapid rate. we were losing jobs at 600,000, 700,000 a month. the rate of the declining economy is still dramatic and the rate of job losses still very significant. those are encouraging signs we're seeing improvement in the financial markets, more confidence by consumers, and businesses here and around the world, and that is due to the strength of the policies that this government working with the congress and countries around the world have put in place. the policies have been

like qatar and kuwait and to buy you could get that up to three or $4 trillion not only do these enormous decide where the money is invested, they also allocate the 2.5% of your portfolio that has to go to charity. it's like the muslim tire dingley it is 2.5% and they decide the charities. and they are all of the hamas and hezbollah terrorists runs. in fact the record of the designating charities subsequently blasted number of the bush administration is enormous. and if you run afoul of sharia law like you are a trucking firm and one day put pigs in your truck you have to pay 7.5% find they also decide where that money goes. now in this book in every chapter at the end we have something called the action agenda that tells you how to fight back and here is something very specific. frank gaffney, former undersecretary of defense, great guy, head of the center for security policy, the speed mine is in a book, has launched a lawsuit. all right, backing a lawsuit against aig and it's really cool. he says that aig sharia compliance fund is an act of the government which now owns 80% of aig. and

. >> let me just say, i think the president has an enormous opportunity. i concede here that you pegged this right and i was wrong last year, that his radicalism blocks him from using what he said he would like to doing. ehas enormous responsibility to take a deep step back, call on john boehner the republican leader in the house. mitch mcconnell the republican leader in the senate. ask them to join in a bipartisan drafting program over the august break and see if we could come up with a health bill that did not ration care, did not raise taxes and did not create big government. he won't do that. that's sad. i think he could, in fact, involve the republicans in a bipartisan effort that might actually succeed. sean: i agree with you he won't do it. i don't want to say that i am right, but his rad ding -- radicalism -- you said it for me. i think is he even more radical than i thought. how is that? i didn't understand quite the degree to which although i think i was pretty close. he sounds rather incoherent. it seems that the only thing he knows he wants it

señalamient sobre las políticas de obama y de la casa blanca. >>> la lista de los temas abordados fue enorme amplia gira, gana en africa. para el primer presidente afroamericano de estado estados unidos. el presidente obama se encuentra camino a gana. angs antes el partir a ese país africano. prometió que el próximo año estaría presente en campeonato de la copa mundial de tut bol que transmitirá univisión. no es frecuento tener un debate sobre la jueza sonia sotomayor, junto a una entrevista con el líder conservador y hablar de política con paulina rubio. lo tenemos este domingo en el programa "al punto "y este es un adelanto." >>> este lunes comienzan las audiencias para decidir saydpxk decisiones basados en la ley. la directora de asuntos intergubernamentales de la casa blanca y emanuel miranda. una organización conservadora th asuntos jurídicos. >>> además de una entrevista exclusiva con una de las voces más importantes y controverciales del partido republicano, el ex líder de la cámara de representantes. el mundo entero la ha oído cantar pero poco hablar de político. >>> es arcaico, el d

that is an enormous shift. they do that in this office with a budget of $10.4 million for the entire year. we participate in 50 supreme court cases and review every decision made in the united states by the u.s. government. there is an enormous amount of work that is done all for that amount of money. when i was doing cases last year privately, i was in a case where one area -- where one person spent $10 million on one case. we do that for the entire year. quite remarkable. in your opening remarks we talked about the timing. when i was teaching here i did have the ability to just think big thoughts were small thoughts, as they may be, and practice my arguments. i practiced hamdan 15 times. the inquests case i did 8 moots or something like that. my dna argument which was march 2, i think i got able to read the brief about one week before the argument and have the customary two weeks in the office right after i got to read the briefs. it is a very different pace in that office. it is remarkable how quickly you ar

it causes enormous problems.he reason that you have the kind of piracy challenges that we have. an extraordinary individual. he was a key figure in the dayton accord in bosnia. we are working on afghanistan and pakistan together, very important to have a regional approach. then ambassador dennis ross, a skilled diplomat focusing efforts on iran and the outreach to syria. let's talk a little bit about iraq and then we will go on to talk about afghanistan and some others. 2009 is a very significant year, it is a transition year. it is a year in which all of the non u.s. coalition members have departed or will depart. we have just completed the withdrawal of our combat elements from the cities in accordance with the u.s.-iraq security agreement. we are changing our focus, we're going from being the primary conductors of combat operations to supporting the iraqi forces. this has been ongoing for 12-18 months and recently we had the final withdrawal. it did excel rate in those cities in which we have a large presence

when given the environment to do their best, the country week's huge, enormous benefits. they stepped up to the plate with dtv, i will say more about that later this morning. they have stepped up on other issues too. they bring their intelligence and their plain good sense. it has made my job over the past eight years, but especially the last five months, very easy. in thank you for what you have done for me, and i consider myself many times blast -- blessed. from bureau chiefs to office directors to their staffs and the security forces to keep people safe, thanks for a job well done. in my office i owe a huge debt of gratitude to my chief of staff. he did double duty on dtv. he brought his experience and wisdom. the acting it senior counsel to the chairman, doing those duties, plus becoming involved in the super-important broadband planning. to jennifer schneider and paul martti -- paul murray, for everything they did to keep the trains running. keeping us all organized. betty morris, nicole -- i thank you. you are the kinds of folks to make coming to work every day a pl

steve: well, we've been telling you about the enormous influence that a few states have on textbook publishers and what that means for our kids. what happens when liberal special interest groups start lobbying the board of education in these states about what words should and should not be included in your kids' textbooks? well, that guy right there, fox news contributor tucker carlson is joining us live from washington. good morning to you, mr. t. >> good morning, steve. keep in mind that if effort to control language is always an effort to control thought. i have a book called "reflecting diversity" published by mcmillan, and it makes it very clear that the effort to control language is an effort to change the social fabric of the country, to indoctrinate kids, not to teach them, but to make this a more just and equitable country, and it shows what words would be banned. words in textbooks that kids are not allowed to read, not bad words, not profanity, but words like "founding fathers" no longer allowed. steve: it's banned? what do they want to replace it with? >> well, the founders because

we have put enormous resources into it, done an enormous amount of educational activity to try to -- virtually every soldier in the army has been exposed to training on how to recognize the symptoms of post-traumatic stress, building the but the principle of looking out to see if your buddy is demonstrating this, educating families so they can recognize the symptoms, creating capabilities for treatment for these people. we've done a lot to try to remove the stigma of recording -- reporting. i think making progress for people seeking help and i think we're making significant progress in those areas. the truth of the matter is i believe the suicides are a reflection of the stress on the force. and we will do everything in our power to try to have commanders andnco's an nco's and others recognize distress. the solution to this problem is where our soldiers have more time at home, where there's less stress and where we are not putting people through five rotations in stressful situations like iraq and afghanistan. >> there has been news of people penetrating the pentagon computer network

mantener el equilibrio. >> como cantante y figura a nivel internacional tienes una plataforma enorme,esente actuÓ correctamente? >> estaban armados. creo que no es un problema nacional sino internacional. no se sabe cÓmo reaccionar h@ante algo que pued amenazar al mundo. como mexicana me sentÍ, fuera del paÍs, estaban espaÑa. era tanta angustia y deh@h@tiknxabóckph@h@ >> la gente no sabÍa. >> no se h@sabÍa si iba a ser l nueva epidemia que va acabar con todos nosotros. no se pudo hacer mejor. es mucha responsabilidad para un gobierno y creo que ninguna naciÓn estÁ prerada para saber hasta quÉ punto se tiene que informar o no informar. era un problema a nivel mundial. >> en la pasada campaÑa presidencial apoyabas a obama. abiertamente has h@h@tiknxa@xek matrimonio homosexual. >> todo el mundo quiere que tener los mismos derechos. >> el presidente obama no estÁ de acuerdo con que dos hombres o dos mujeres puedan casarse. estÁ a favor de las uniones civiles pero no el matrimonio. hay un riesgo de apoyar a un polÍtico? ¿, se espera que como asestar aquellos no te usen? >> el tiene que ten

which is an enormous -- >> an expensive pack of gum. >> yes. an enormous interest rate charge on that. >> the interest quickly adds up for an average overdraft of $20 and the average fee is $27. >> if you took an average two weeks to reconcile your account after you overdrafted it, you'd be paying 3,500% interest. >> 3,500%? >> is it simple to you? >> most keep a cushion, by linking to another account or by arranging for the bank to alert them when their balance goes below a certain threshold. >> some of the banks charging the biggest fees are the ones that taxpayers are bailing out. >> my tax dollars along with yours and everyone else's went to bail the banks out and they're back to business as usual. and we need to put a stop to it. >> the federal reserve concerned about overdraft abuses is proposing new rules requiring banks to spell out all their fees and get customers' consent before they're enrolled in overdraft programs. >> again, i'm sorry about the check. >> but what used to be so embarrassing has now become a rich, new stream of reven

there's an enormous need for dialogue. the working on that. as far as other things are concerned, i think, if regionally this starts getting negotiated and pakistan would have no objection, very strongly conforming. i don't know about the two reactors. maybe they're connected to the [unintelligible] [laughter] >> fenty for your time. and with the department of defense. but my comments are my own. you spoke about the future of the fata and the conversation that needs to be had regarding that. but i want to get to the southern and jab and karachi. would you be willing to terrorizgive you a theory on whe areas would look like, southern and j --southern punjab and karachi? >> i have not seen the thing. but it's been on the table and people have talked about increasing the number of provinces for a long time. it has not gone anywhere as far as political institutions are concerned. but i was hopeful, optimistic on the political thing because we have an elected government now. we have a government in baluchistan with all the ministers being baluch. w

that sounds contradictory, but the marketplace has changed enormously obviously. in 1993 even the chains were not nearly as dominant as they are. and as on hadn't even been invented. and price clubs and warehouse clubs and shops that sell books today sold practically non. so the number of outlets has applied geometrically for years. in terms of publishing it is still all about getting good writers to do good work and then finding media out it's for them. the media changed a lot particularly the last five years there were fewer outlets for printed previews. the classical ways of promoting books have declined but there are opportunities on the internet publishers need to learn how to use the firearm networking. it is a brave world for publishers and we are having to get used to it. >> will blocker's recognize the company today? >> that is a good question. beth walker is very alive and follows it so yes. sam passed away a number of years ago. i think he would have had trouble in this world. i just think it is a very different world than the one he inhabited but beth

remember, these are enormously expensive programs and we know from the congressional budget office in the past, often the estimates that they give even though they're large for entitlement programs for for these kind of expansion programs are way overestimated. so i think we're entering into a situation in which the president has a liberal agenda, but an economy that can't pay for it yet and i think that the timing here is all wrong for him politically because the democrats are looking at 2010 election whereby if we load the economy up with enormously expensive programs like cap and trade and health care, the economy won't have recovered and democrats may take heavy losses in the 2010 election. >> eric: getting nervous now. you mentioned his speak in africa, in ghana, a direct, blunt, honest speech which directly addressed the problems, economic issues that held a lot of them to bat, why didn't doesn't he give that speech to the american people. he says the stimulus is working as it's intended. >> i think the president is going to have a choice in the next week. chairman rangel is goi

enormous concern in the area in which central command is responsible.is these situation with the palestinians, the overall peace process, for which senator mitchell has taken the reins in washington. it is very encouraging to have a man of his experience, having done the northern ireland peace deal prior to this. i am proud to work with one of the world's great diplomats, richard holbrooke, julie force of nature, as those -- truly a force of nature, as those who know him will attest. he was the key figure in the days in a course in bosnia -- dayton accords in bosnia. again, we are working on afghanistan and pakistan together. very important to have a regional approach. and then we have a very skilled and experienced diplomat who is focusing the efforts on iran and also, the average to syria. next slide. let's talk a little bit about iraq and then we will go on to talk about afghanistan and some others and then turn to the questions. 2009 is a very significant here in iraq. it is a transition year. it is a year in which all of the non-u.s. coalition mem

i have the impression that in spite of all the restructuring that we've done there is an enormous power inside of the company and once the economy comes back we're going to really come out of it very, very nicely. >> and while the price of aluminum has recovered some in the past month, it is still down from the highs of a year ago. mr. kleinfeld also told me he's not sure whether or not we will see those prices fully recover, although he says low inventories are helping create regional spikes in both the demand as well as premium paid for aluminum. up next here on "the closing bell," find out why shares of radio shack took a hit today despite an 18% increase in second quarter profit. we'll be right back. 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 ret

despite their enormous numbers, the troops still have not brought peace to the city. bbc news, western china. >> and police have detained an australian executive from the mining group rÍo tinto. he is being held along with three other men since sunday, accused of spying and stealing state secrets. the canadian nuclear reactor that provides one-third of the medical isotopes is going to stay offline until later this year. it was to be turned back on later this month, and hospitals are scrambling to find new sources of isotopes, which are used to diagnose several conditions. the 50th anniversary of this father's death, kim jong il arrived and looked gaunt as he entered the auditorium. this is the second major state event he has attended since august. police in south korea and the united states are investigating a series of cyber attacks on government website. our bbc reporter from washington. >> all american knows for sure at the moment is that it has been attacked. it is a virtual attack. it has targeted u.s. government websites. here at the treasury and other governmen

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obviously our bilateral relationship with china and japan in particular have enormous evidence across a range of global and regional issues from climate change to the financial crisis to the situation on the korean peninsula. in the years ahead those relationships are only going to become more pivotal perrin president obama's choice of utah governor john huntsman as ambassador to china honors the best traditions of bipartisan foreign policy making. in the previous era when i have said that nominating the governor of utah to serve as ambassador to china and sending him from one wednesday to another. [laughter] one red states to another but there would have been very the rich shades of red. [laughter] today's china is a very different china. governor huntsman selection it is a great sign that the u.s.-china relationship is above politics. and i applaud this appointment. governor huntsman is an impressive a public servant with a new set of credentials for this latest task, he is fluent in both manner in taiwanese, his time as deputy u.s. trade representative and had been assistant secret

but the fact is that i know she will make an enormous contribution to the country in the future. neil: thank you very much. meanwhile, the stocks go out, and i see it enormously close to lehman brothers not being rescued. you would think the market would not be happy, but think again, because the dow was up again today, 95 points. it surged more than 500 this week. my next guest says the markets are finally cyclical. he is the editor of real most is clearmarkets.com. -- realclearmarkets.com. >> and they said that markets would cheer the bailout, and once it came in that once they come without strings attached, they would sell off. this is very positive. neil: i am wondering if they create their own problems and said, "if you do not like us, there will be held to pay a." -- help to pay -- hell to pay." >> is little of that. it is also politically difficult to bail out another finance firm. it has not worked, and it has been a major disaster. look at that bailout fund. it will send more good money after bad, particularly in a bad economic. with a lasting you want to do is find the

and just moving the market lower with the enormous sum of supply. a couple of good bids on the way down but the supply has been meeting demand in a big way at a high energy trade is on the downside. when you talk about supply, lots of folks looking to sell, what is it your sense perhaps that they're getting short or just profit-taking after the rally? i think we're seeing some new shorts coming into the market right now. ever since we broke 900, we've been seeing this high energy trade on the down side, now that we are in the 880's, i think there's a little bit of room to open up the door right now for some more downside potential here. the fundamentals are very remain very negative at this point for high-energy trade. you mentioned 880, these matched the lows that we saw back on may 15th, your expectations sounds like it's not gonna hold. no i don't actually. i think were going to test quite a bit lower as well. i think the market has a lot of pent-up energy in it right now. we've had really subdued trading session for a while now, most of the rall

the human and financial costs are enormous. there is an emerges evidence-base on how to address obesity both from a public health standpoint and from a policy standpoint. i do not think that we can wait for perfect evidence. in fact, i think that the existence of evidence will be facilitated by action with programs which are implemented and then rigorously evaluated. the question i think before us and what we have to weigh as a group as we consider the weight of the nation is whether we as a society are willing to take the actions necessary to reverse the epidemic of obesity. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, dr. friedan, for your remarks. i know you will all understand when i say we are truly blessed at cdc to have such a bold and visionary leader. thank you. [applause] >> our next speaker is dr. jim marks, senior vice president at the robert wood johnson foundation. and as you know, he has been a national leader in public health for more than 25 years. currently, he directs the program activities of the robert woo

she's got enormous charm, and she's feisty. she is attractive. lord knows. she has to have a coherent world view to be the republican nominee, and the reason why she was so ram belling in that iday statement and didn't really fix it in her interviews with many of us is that she doesn't -- she's not deeply read. she hasn't thought through a lot of these things, and you have to do that as a national candidate. >> can a leader of the republican party chart a new course without real new ideas and a new direction for the party? in other words, does the republican party to get back to power need a fundamental overhaul in terms of core position? >> i think, obviously, any time a party is out of power, there's a lot of talk about the crisis in the party and new leaders and new voices will emerge, but i think the next -- as we move to the 2010 elections, as we move to 2012 that the leaders who emerge will have to have a vision. it will have to be an optimistic vision, and i think they have to make the case that ours is an inviting party, a welcoming party, that we wa

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