second challenge is to be extremely open, transparent, frank with the people and also go to them with a plan. we don't just want to go to people and say, you know, it's a very dire situation. we want to say it is a dire situation, but here's a plan, stick to us. let's work together and so on. we have a challenge of removing obstacles from local and international investments. there is no need for the kinds of bureaucratic complications that we have now. we can deal with that. and we also need to do score on a number of quick wins. we have a team in the party working on something we call the first 100 days. we're trying to make sure that the very first few months of the working of this government will mean some tangible benefits for people. things that not require necessarily a lot of money and stuff like that. we're looking at some of the basic services. has any of you ever driven a car in cairo? you know what i mean. that's a huge -- you know, thomas friedman visited cairo in the midst of the debate. we call it aura. he came in the office. an hour later he sweating and he said in a broken arabic -- [ speaking foreign language ] i think the

our can you frank with you i'm not as it is very happy with what we have but you know i had no illusions i did not expect russia to abandon with or without all the dependency on hydrocarbons in just a few years because we really we really export a lot but we had. diversify our economy and we did something in this respect them alone and that's how progress was quite good actually. in the last few years what's the. industrial production production of machinery what whitman people. grown by about fifty percent if you think about it or what it was that i do like that on the set it's. not the production route by about thirty percent that's bad actually from export on balance but if we look at our three balance seventy percent of our exports are already carbons and that's the way it was before. only five percent is machinery. for those numbers so we need to continue working on their versification and actually this is what our program is for me and it involves pfizer elements yes the b.b.c. news the three. where she was an atomic energy and was the leader areas pharmaceuticals and so forth so i

good at that i was here frank with you about a year ago when i said. former governors. and i really felt that way because i really big country like russia with many difficult situation there is this danger this threat and it is still there your duty but at a certain point i realized that people do want to elect their own officials and i said. in this way you will have left. the truth to remove this responsibility from. the federal government and now but i did so we will learn to separate what is proper of politicians from demagogues and now we will implement this model just because our society is really we have reached into use the other i said this earlier and i said the same thing if you lose a girl me but this is. progress towards democracy you will not. bring us into care because our society has changed and that. the whole not speaking about the government there is a new combination with you mr putin and i were talking about chess now ok well that's how you just usually say. since you are sort of swapping. and you know like to move. over to. the prime minister or th

lot of people killed a lot of people injured and there was a lot of destruction and so to be frank with you i think the one thing smuggling still going on yesterday was a major incident where the lebanese forces shipment of arms going into syria was a heavy weapon on it so if you look at the direction of the opposition the countries that support the opposition from turkey to. qatar to the united states those. those forces are not really looking for a peace process in syria they looking for ask elation of the violence as collation of the killing and we witnessed a lot of killing today and that issue it's correctly said by the spokesman of the u.n. that they need a process where everybody here to the principle of the healing and i think at this point. qatar is and turkey's and the united states are heading the other way and we saw that. taking place in syria so that it's a systematic killing. taking place when you mention that the shipment which was discovered you saying that actually indicates to mask is his positions because of course damascus is claiming that this is a foreign funded insur

so our worry to be frank with you, and to be practical is to find ways to give them employeeability to try to improve their skills so that it meets the demands of the job market. now, we have in tunisia in our, of course, if you make a revolution, you have to build a new society based on new values of democracy, transparency, criticism, critical thinking, that's what will make better citizens, not just better employees and we are talking about that, and that we will do just like in the constitution in the context of a consensus and general discussion because we don't want to indoctrinenate also a model of society in the educational system. we want to engage a global discussion that where islamists, secularists all components of society will come in and discuss about the kind of educational system we would like to do. so the short term programs for education almost include these technical programs and means in order to improve employeeability. the long-term programs will have to go on the basis you just described. >> nael. >> i think the actually in jordan we have a good experience in i

that is kind of true to be frank with you.ou go into best buy you see what you can get and then you get it on-line. >> what about boston consulting groups? >> it is a very flexible type of position you have to have the resumes. worldwide consulting firm goes into and tells companies they have 2,000 companies. working mother magazine taiz says it's all about the flexible schedule. 75 offices 42 countries headed in boston. these jobs are going to be global. again you have to have the qualifications. good job if you can get it. >> the flexible schedule is great. >> there is a huge movement right now in the organic food market. we are seeing a huge interest we were talking about wal-mart a moment ago. wall mark is trying to get organic food like whole foods. whole foods is hiring 1,000 openings across the united states right now. you make anywhere from 10-14 dollars an hour if you get stock options if you are full-time you get health benefits. john mackey only takes a dollar salary. he has had that in place since 2006. f they are

i don't know how he can explain it to be completely frank with you. extremely hurt. outraged by his statement. >> what do you think about this guy, is there any restitution? it is no capitol offense. do you take away his livelihood. sn do you say he can't management team? if people don't show up for the games, somebody in management will say, this guy is costing us money and we got get rid of him. what do you think here? >> i think they have to make a definitive statement. they suspended him for five games. i can tell you ways at the stadium during the press conference. there was a protest outside. the sentiment is that that was not sufficient. so i think they need to think long and hard about how insulting these statements were. and how can t can affect them as you mentioned in your bottom line. >> my view is this guy bought the wrong ticket in the cold war. the other side, if the communist had won that guy would be standing in central park watching the execution of anybody with any political talent in this country. so i'm with you guys, on this one.

i don't know how he can explain it to be completely frank with you. the cuban community is extremely hurt and outraged by his statement. >> what do you think about this guy? is there any restitution. it's not a capital offense. do you take away his livelihood? do you say he can't manage the team? what's an appropriate response? probably when the people don't show up in the seats. if they don't show up they will say he's costing us money. >> i think they have to make a statement with whatever they decide to do. they have suspended him. there was a protest outside. the sentiment was that was not sufficient. they need to think long and hard about how insulting the stams were. >> my view is he bought the wrong ticket to the cold war. if the communist had won he would have been standing the central park watching the execution of anybody with talent. i'm with you on this one. >> thank you. >> castro was no good. >>> how about this one, hillary clinton against rick santorum. [ degeneres ] what's more beautiful than a covergirl? two covergirls. get two miracl

i'll just be frank with you. >> he finishes with his standard but sincere offer. >> if anything comest care if it's 2:00 in the morning, if there's something you've got on your mind, don't hesitate to holler at me, okay? >> roy's parents have reconsidered. they'll wait for the medical examiner and then the funeral director to do their work before they view their son. it's time for the body to be transported to louisville where dr. lee will transfer control to the office of chief medical examiner tracey corey for autopsy. remember, the key forensic finding will be whether or not roy was buried alive. so what will the medical examiner be looking for? >> depending on the soil, the nature of the substance they were buried in, you would find that substance perhaps inhaled and/or swallowed. >> the autopsy of roy jeffries. what would they find? >> i really don't feel a projectile. i would think that i would. because it's right there. did you see it? in here, great food demands a great presentation. so at&t showed corporate caterers how to better collaborate by using a mobile solution, in a w

we don't know what it's going to look like this year to be quite frank with you, kelly. this is our challenge as we come into june twist expires. will they in response to a market swoon initiate -- and frankly i think the market swoon will be tied to disappointing second quarter earnings, will they step in with qe-3? will there be an extension of twist? what will the operations be? i think that's another question people have. and we would suggest people begin to take some risk off the table increasing cash allocations. >> david, you said something interesting in your first answer. you said in some cases it might be creativity. do you think a lot of the beats are just having to do with balance sheet -- i don't want to call them gimmicks, but earnings, you know, manipulation. if that's a better term. >> i do. in some instances it's that and other instances we've set the bar so low that meeting expectations people realize that the business franchises themselves are not making enough money. freeport is a great case in point. 85 the estimate, 96 cents the actual. low and beho

with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: always pleased to have frank langella on this program. he lasted joined us back in 2009. an oscar-nominated role for "frost/nixon," and he is out with a memoir, talking about many of the people he has met in show business. his book is called, i love this, "dropping names: famous men and women as i knew them." >> it is good to be back. tavis: you were doing the media around for the "frost/nixon," and as we do with all of our guests, when they leave, we give them this month. it has our show logo on it, "tavis smiley." he goes back to his hotel room, staying here in los angeles, one of the bungalows you were staying at. you're staying at one of the bungalows, and you go back and take the mug with you, and "the new york times" magazine comes in to do a photo shoot with you, and i had seen you and others, and leave it to one of my people who calls me at home on a sunday morning and says, "have you seen the "the new york times" magazine today? and i said no, and he said, "we are in it." i opened up the magazine. he tol

but, you know, in this case, to be quite frank with you, we're going to give any information we have to the d.a.'s office. >> reporter: so once again, up to the district attorney's office to make that final der determination. oftentimes when you see hate crime charges brought, it's when you have seen a lever crime occur, a misdemeanor. authorities are looking to sort of up the ante and provide more teeth by throwing on top of that hate crime charges as well. in this particular case, what you see is two people who are charged with capital offenses but having said that, when i spoke to one of the local councilman here this morning, he said if this is an issue of hate crime, he said this is something that i clearly, the councilman's words, i clearly see as being a hate crime. >> jason carroll, live in tulsa, oklahoma, this morning. >>> another story touched the nation's racial nerve the trayvon martin case in florida. a grand jury might take up the case as early as tomorrow. two prosecutors are working to determine if there is enough evidence to bring charges against george zimmerman. he

you about. i disagree with them, and they were alluded to when you were speaking with barney frank and that is swap lines and the agreement to borrow. i think it's important for people to understand, as you have said, the feds even made a little money on the swap lines. but why those two initiatives are very, very important, what it does in terms of providing liquidity to the central banks, and why we stand to be served bell by these two initiatives. >> thank you for those questions. let me first, european -- europe has a much larger banking system than the united states, larger share of the economy and european banks borrowed a lot in dollars before the crisis to lend around the world. and when the crisis hit, because of concerns about the stability of europe they lost in dollars. of course the european central bank has -- does not run a dollar-based currency. that's what we do in the united states. so faced with that loss of ability to fund, european banks had to cut lending sharply around the world. even in the u.s. so the swap lines by providing that access to fumding significantly reduced the

you are next with a question to frank newport. >> my question is a little bit more general. in presidential election years, more focus on swing states. do you guys, gallup maybe put more emphasis or extra details in predicting swing states? do you find it more difficult? i'm an ohio voter and i know, you know, we're definitely a swing state. do you find it more difficult to assess the way we're going to. >> in a presidential election year? >> yeah, another good question. yeah, in the electoral college, we know voting ut doesn't add a lot of value, they're going to vote republican. in massachusetts, they're going to vote democratic, no matter what happens, unless it is a dramatic year, like in 1972. but we like to continue to poll nationally, because we think the national poll gives us a good barometer, efficient barometer. we poll nightly. it's hard to poll in 50 states nightly, so, we poll nationally and we think the trends are representative in a swing state. so, if we are seeing, let's say, talking in september, obama is moving ahead or the gop nominee is moving way ahead

with dodd-frank. now where we are today with respect to connecting the dots between wall street, and the gas pump, is for us, very clear and i would like to illustrate that to you in the material that i've handed out to you. the wall street nymex gasoline contract has increased 86 cents a gallon in the last 90 days. since mid-december, 86 cents more per gallon means that our state of connecticut pace $3.6 million more per day every day for gasoline. that's $25 million a week that the citizens of connecticut pay more for gasoline today than they did in the middle of december. now to put that into context for the charts that we provided to you, and now we're up to 90, now we're up to 92 cents by virtue of the fact that we had a 6.6 cent increase just the other night after i prepared this for delivery here today. at 11 billion gallons a month that americans consume in gasoline, americans today are paying $10 billion, $10 billion more for gasoline than they were paying in the middle of december. so in the context of professor greenberger's statements with regard to how much we should be arguing funding an agency of the federal government for the purpose of overseei

>> i'm always suspect of them, to be quite frank with you. it is a barometer nonetheless.i see the percentages of our domestic institutions and they are not that far away from some of the institutions like unicredit or some of the spanish areas with regard to cds, whether it's the federal reserve, treasury, our government, european government that we are going to be on a track where they are going to continually try to avert any type of insolvency. what do those numbers tell me? tells me we are in for a long haul of government managing and watching out for the citigroups and banks of america and unicredits. this is a big negative for the kind of growth that this global economy truly needs to erase some of these horrible debt metrics. that's my take. >> great point. this is not over the next six months, next year. this is likelihood probability when you look at premiums paid to buy insurance over the next decade -- >> you're assuming they are trading at fair value. we don't know they are trading with an accurate reflection of what might go on. >> simon, the criticism always

i will be frank with you, south korea wants to produce plutonium. south korea wants to be processed plutonium. this is their big thing. they have a lot of nuclear reactors and they would like to take those reactors and start viewing them with what they call next oxide fuel. it is plutonium fuel. in part to burn up the plutonium, but in part to reprocess the plutonium. we see the dangers in this in the japan earthquakes last year. it raises environmental concerns is that fuel -- that particular fuel, a was spread over many square kilometers over japan, adding a new and unnecessary poison from the already added degree of that plan. it is understandable that the administration is under constrained about pushing plutonium, but it is also because the administration has a very weak internal policy on plutonium. you heard sharon bring the quote up from the president's speech, talking about new fuels of the future. these are not fuels of the future. the plutonium fuel is the failed fuel of the past. but the administration is committed to building a new plut

with that, any thoughts you have? >> no. i agree with what you just said. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. franks. it's very fitting as we conclude, congressman chris gibson, who himself of new york is a distinguished veteran of service in the mideast, and central asia. congressman gibson. >> thanks, mr. chairman. i appreciate the strong leadership in the department of defense, both distinguished careers of the gentlemen with us today. and i'll talk about syria in a second. while i have the secretary. i'm curious to hear his feedback. i'm recently back from fort bragg, visiting with one of the subordinate commands of the special operations command, in previous work with general clapper in the intelligence community, and let me say up front that it's remarkable the level of teamwork that's going on out there. but yet i feel that we're lacking in terms of systemic codification of some of the very encouraging developments over the past decade, and i'm still hearing that it's not very often, but it can happen, that the intelligence community may be working a line of operation, special operations comma

you the results later on in the show. i'm joined tonight by massachusetts congressman barney frank. great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. this affects our economy and every family in this country. the president's trying to do the right thing. is giving more resources to the cftc an answer? your thoughts. >> it's part of the answer. understand that while george bush said he didn't like manipulation, he was president of the controlled congress. the regulatory bodies had no power over that. it was only when we passed the financial reform bill that we gave the commodities future trading commission and the securities exchange commission the power to act here. one of the things that the cftc did was limit the amount of oil you can buy. let's be clear. we're talking about be who buy oil that doesn't touch it. they buy it for the sole purpose of market manipulation. they buy it to keep it off the market until the price goes up. they wouldn't know a can of oil from a can of beans. what we said was, you got to stop buying up this oil and driving up the price. unfortunately, the securities industry went to

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you said. and classic frank sinatra tunes with a live band on stage with us, it's an amazing evening. >> i've read is actually about the ava gardner/frank sinatra connection. do you know anything about that, that they had this very steamy relationship that wasn't always copacetic? >> i don't know anything about that. but twyla, i'm sure she's incorporated so many different concepts and you know, things that we aren't even aware of. >> what's your favorite sinatra song thaw get to dance to in this? >> i love "my way." it's just such a great song itself and the way that she has staged it, with the movement and all, it's a moment in the show where the entire company is on stage. and it's just beautiful. i get, i still get emotional watching it. and i've been doing this for about two years. >> you've traveled all over the country doing it. >> yes. >> what do people come for, the dance or the muse snik. >> i think for either. everything combined. our show is so unique in that the dancing is the dialogue. nobody speaks. we're telling the story with our bodies. and that makes for a very unique electrifyi

you are going to stick around. and after the break why are the super wealthy so intent on taking over the political system. thomas frank is going to join us withake on that. you are in "the war room" in washington, d.c., with a very robust discussion right and left. and we'll be right back. ♪ >>> we're back inside "the war room." i'm jennifer grandholm coming to you tonight from our nation's capitol. this is real, we are on the roof of a building, and we have the white house right behind us. i want to share a quote i recently came across, here is the quote: i mean who would say something like that? well, his name is harold simmons, he's an 80-year-old billionaire from texas. you can only imagine how much he'll send now that the general election is approaching. simmons is one of at least 25 billionaires spending bucue bucks to ensure that president obama is a one termer. here to discuss it is thomas frank author of "pity the billionaire," and back with us current tv's own bill press. thank you both for joining us inside "the war room." thomas i need to know do you know simmons? >> this is the guy in the republic. >> yes. >> i had never heard of

i mean, we send a lot of direction your way, certainly with dodd-frank and other proba you spinning a lot of plates in the air. we spent time talking with entrepreneur, folk whose create the jobs that make the country go and ultimately create the type of prosperity they everyone in this room, in this country, wants to see for their kids and grandkids. with that mutual stated goal in mi mind, there's a twin set of challenges that really can be faect affected by agencies like yourself. first of all, the regulatory uncertainty in this country, many business owners, many folks throughout country, many investors express concern with the regulatory uncertainty and its impact on the economy, and certainly when the rules of engagement through dodd-frank, the volcker role, whatever we're working on remain up in the air, many folks express a concern how that impacts investment risktaking when the rules of engagement aren't fully known by the folks expected to take risks and invest and make our economy go. second, a huge budget crisis in washington that is pertinent to this conversation as we tr

with you and i think we do both. i know many members agree on that. let me talk about the amendment that we were responsible for including in the dodd frank legislation from extractive industries in which you were helpful in supporting that effort and having it included in the dodd/frank provisions. i would ask if you could perhaps share with us how you see that playing internationally. that is important for investors to have transparency, but it also leads to stability of governments that are critically important to u.s. interest. the international community is looking at the united states and sees the leadership here and wondering if you can share how you think this will be effective internationally. the leadership on transparency of the mineral companies so that the wealth goes to the people rather than to fund corruption. >> first, i want to commend you and the senator for including the principals and the disclosure requirements in dodd frank. we know and see it every day how development of natural resources has fuelled corruption and mismanagement and the so-called oil curse or resource curse and it impedes broad-based economic growth. you set a

candidate out of all the more than you know a dozen faces which are on the roster at this point really close with a live in cairo thank you paula meantime a list of frank salvato sort of washington shouldn't be teaming up with undemocratic arab political gramps. the white house you know we would hope that they're looking at the best case scenario but they need to be a little bit more cautious about the worst case scenario and that includes arming rebels in syria the arming over and aiding of rebels in libya when in fact i mean we knew that they had ties to radical islamist groups and especially and specifically al qaeda a when you're talking about trying to divide the the islamic world in the arab world it's a very hard thing to do that you won't see ready allies for the west especially in some of the. i'm going to use the road for lack of a better word regimes that have taken over in some of these countries that have experienced the arab spring they're not friendly to to western culture or western ideals although they might like financial backing but we're from there you see a lot of these the spec sions leaning towards the installation of shari'a law

one of them is frank siller, he is still with us. frank, what do you steven would think of this? >> he'd be happy to see that the steel going in there, seeing that number 1271 go in there. it's a significant day. he's proud of new york city, for sure. he's proud of america, but new york stood tall after 9/11, and with the help of americans all over and still standing tall. greatest fire department in the world, paid a big price that day losing 343 firefighters in which steven was one of them. every one of us, every one of the firefighters, every family member wants to see it finished and to be a glowing beacon of the freedom that america represents, you know, the statue of liberty is one of them, but this building will be just as significant as far as the 9/11 family member is concerned. so it's a good day. it's emotional seeing it. i didn't think i was going to get so emotional. i see the steel,ers there. they were doing so much after 9/11, it was a great, sad time. it was the best time, if you know what i mean. it just brought everyone together. megy

of thugs and that's an important point to commend them when you see that this is something entirely different to what and how i'll be frank withthis coffee she often makes restocking with trucks you think of what he didn't feel like this nearly as often under mubarak i'm. afraid that all this is simply amazing how could him. defeat. mohammed bouazizi self-immolation into his ears sidi bouzid took place eighteen months ago since then the economic situation in the town where the chinese ian revolution started has taken a turn for the worst. the young vendor was driven to despair by joblessness unemployment rates have gone up but local use of found a way to spend all their free time almost every wall is covered in graffiti. we do have liberties but otherwise. i see no changes if. people are free to talk with them any journalist to come here. there is no pressure from the government or the police stop it if you get what but during the revolution would be people who are more united than they are now. a he sent is with some of the first local bloggers to post news of the young vendor setting themselves on fire you tube and facebook

she was having a conversation with him as you well know right around the moments, the minutes before he was killed. also we're told that they've had conversations with frank details of what's come out of those conversations that she said now on the record with the law enforcement? >> we have talked to her, our team. however, we've talked to her with the investigator. but she -- what she says is what she's always said so, you know, that's really up to the prosecutor to follow up with her. so, no, our team tries to just, you know, monitor what's going on, just to ensure the family, who has been told the family who have been told a lot of stuff, that things are progressing as they should. >> thanks, ms. jackson, for talking with us. >> still ahead, an eye opener. little kid who already have rules in their head about their interracial friendship. i asked one child's parent where he heard these things. it's part of an "ac 360" study. you're watching "starting point." back in just a moment. cream... a touch of sugar... and pure natural flavors. coffee-mate natural bliss. from nestle. add your flavor naturally. >>> and we're back with our conversation. we were t

frank, want to start with you. they lost last night. got a little offense going. is there anything positive that we can take out of this loss? >> the fact that the capitals do not give up. never say -- they were down 3- 2. backstrom hits light for the break away goal to tie things up. that's what i take from it. they are not going to give up until the final horn. >> jo mentioned backstrom. he could be facing suspension for what happened at the end of the game. was that the right call by them? >> i think it was the right call. a lot of fans are going to disagree, but that's only because we've seen other calls, maybe not leave suspensions, but i got a bad grade, but so did everyone educational. you cross check somebody in the game, it's inexcusable. in the playoffs, you'll have to put the team before yourself. it's been a tough series. they are gunning for his head. but that was a moment where nicklas backstrom needed to do something and he didn't. it's going to hurt this team for the rest of the series. >> since coming back, he's been playing well. frank, how much

first, so you write about the sub head here on the piece is the "the g.o.p.'s woman problem is that it has a furious problem with women." franknc does not agree with you. the chairman gave an interview with al hunt to be broadcast on bloomberg t.v. and here is what he said about this idea that there is a war on women. dan, do you have the cut here? >> yeah. for one thing, the democrats said we had a war on caterpillars every mainstream media outfit talked about republicans have a war on caterpillars we would have problems with caterpillars. the fact is it's a fiction and it started as a war against the vatican that this president pursued. he hasn't answered arch bishop dolen's questions about obama world and intarmz care. >> i don't understand why the president of the united states has to answer to any arch bishop or any religious leader. the preparation of his defense is ludicrous, and obama, in any case, backed away it and found a compromise acceptable to mainstream catholics about the rule of health care by contraception. but what this war on women is about is not about what happened in the past couple of months. it's been

you ever had sex with a prostitute? >> never. >> never. no. >> have you ever had sex with a prostitute? >> no. no. >> you swear on uncle frank? >> no. no. >> jimmy: good thing you put the baby away, little guillermo. good night for his wife to be here. one more thing. it's thursday night, and it's time for our weekly tribute to the fcc where we bleep and blur things whether they need it or not. it is "this week in unnecessary censorship." >> there hisn't that interestin? >> she's going to [ bleep ] this morning. >> try [ bleep ] on a freeway. >> this america is fundamentally [ bleep ]. >> i promise you, the president has a big [ bleep ]. i promise you. >> understand you [ bleep ] elizabeth hurley's son? >> i did, yes. >> how did he like it? >> i forced him to like it. >> i think meta world peace should change his name to holy [ bleep ] elbow. >> clock runs out, our judges will critique your [ bleep ] on presentation, taste, and also, kraeivety. >> one of my favorite things to do, can you guess? >> ah -- >> no, no, not this early, i don't trust myself. >> yeah. [ bleep ] inside people's [ bleep ]. only when i'm invited. >> oh my god! don