think you should be lumped into the same barrel as someone who benefits from cheap money like george soros ok let's talk about that because it's not just these guys it's not just the richest folks in america it's c.e.o. just executive compensation in general is increased as statistics have gotten worse for a lot of middle class americans so just to give an example a usa today analysis found that median c.e.o. pay jumped twenty seven percent in two thousand and ten at the same time four of the five richest counties in the country according to census data just released if we can bring those up are in the d.c. area you can see i'm right there i'm curious do you see any connection. well i mean i don't i would go to lee i'd say just i've tried to find apartments both in the c.n.n. new york and i would tell you that in d.c. the property market is much tighter that may have to do with the fact that the government has become increasingly important in terms of spending things like that so i think it's an insurance is a great you bring up i think there is a connection between government spending and

anything to complete restructuring of the system yeah i completely agree with and i think the george soros piece you mention is fairly spot on that this current simply giving asking greece to cut spending more and giving them more loans in order to complete it rolling over their debt is not working getting worse there's no growth prospects there and more fundamentally the euro does not work for greece it can't devalue its currency it can't get competitive under the current regime and so george soros says you know kind of permanent centralized treasury transfers of between the rich countries of the poor ones those kinds of things would probably be necessary and of course the problem is not obvious at all that there is the political will to do anything like this. on paper the sort of plan sounds pretty intriguing but in reality the idea of german taxpayers and french persian finnish taxpayers all paying into this centralized treasury that every year will give money to the poor countries does not seem very likely and of course that's one of the points that soros make that he had of laying out

that came up at a actual conference that without the original bretton woods establishment that george soros is thanks think tank held in spring so when are we going to see that actually happen in these institutions like the i.m.f. if there is a crush the big one which will evolve europe and the problem is if there is some economists are saying that the big one the around the corner they're seeing that knowledge single worst in two thousand and eight can you believe that i can't as i've heard a lot i've heard it a lot do you think that that crash could happen october seventeenth when i. need the cash to not disrespect that they will default but there is defect default you think you are going to get all. look if the germans don't give them three hundred million dollars dutiful it's simple as that french banks look it up a little because french banks are practically insolvent what it means and so i was going to look to an important point make you have another minute here yet so only the rich like indonesia certain cells korea argentina discourtesy are allowed to in first in your war they are c

worth grew by five billion dollars his earnings are estimated to be around fifty nine billion george soros added seven point eight billion to his piggy bank this year and he's now worth twenty two billion dollars facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has added over ten billion to his fortune in the past year making him worth about seventeen point five billion and in fact the only person in the top twenty of this forbes list who lost money is warren buffett and despite losing six billion dollars he still comes in second place on the net worth of thirty nine billion dollars so just one person out of the top twenty lost any money in the last year maybe buffett's losing is fought maybe five billion dollars to be invested in failing b. of a might have something to do with it now of course that didn't happen yet but once again maybe he's losing his touch anyway here yes these men are the richest in the country but they're not just your average joes they might be living on another planet they're going to continue having their wealth continue to grow at this time and that's kind of crazy if you compare

i can say that george soros and ted turner are not neutral parties in this debate. you know?was -- this is how they operate. i'm glad to be able to put this on the record, because i think, you know, this is sort of a, james delingpole is such a fool because he was exposed as a scientific illiterate by a nobel prize-winning scientist. well, all nurses fields is genetics. i read english literature at oxford and i'm not ashamed of that. if i were going to make a documentary about their wealth, i would not consult somebody in the virginia woolf's study department. summit in the virginia both studies department is not necessary going to be able to vouch the credentials of someone in the bear wolf department. scientists are not obscene. scientists do not all know everything. in fact, science is becoming increasingly diverse. it's about specialities. so do you think is poor nurses in a position to make pronouncements on what is happening in the field of climate science, which let this is one of the more nebulous fields of science anywhere. it's more of a social science and the hard

when george soros donates his millions to crew, it's a tax write off. if he and warren buffett want to write more checks to the government, great, but he gets to write off his check to crew. when you are a one see three organization as you probably very well know, you cannot engage in direct political activity. you can educate the voters about issues, but you cannot actively campaigned. and if you look at crew's top 12 worse reelects, of those 12 of 2010, they say the most horrible candidates who won reelection, eight of those 12 are republican, and of those four who are democrats, three of them are african-american. so there's a very clear agenda here. and in the very beginning of crew's existence they didn't go after democrats at all. and so people started pointing the finger at this, this obvious partisanship, this obvious political motive and then they started taking on the black caucus. and usually not with the fanfare that they go after, people like me or sarah palin or others. so they are obviously politically motivated. and melanie sloan was gui

related to that, billionaire investor george soros told cnbc... that the european debt crisis is more of a threat to the global economy than the collapse of investment bank lehmann brothers in 2008. soros also said the united states is already in a double-dip recession... blaming the republican party's opposition to president obama's jobs and tax policies for steering the economy away from recovery. meanwhile... the leaders of korea, the united kingdom, australia, canada, indonesia and mexico have sent a joint letter to the g20... that calls on euro zone countries to act swiftly to resolve the euro crisis. the letter urged all european economies to confront the debt overhang... to prevent it spreading further afield. kim nari, arirang president lee myung-bak has arrived in seattle,... on his way back to korea... from the un general assembly in new york. upon arriving,... president lee held talks with the governor of washington... and met with korean residents there. our yoo ji-hae, who's traveling with the president,... files this report... from seattle. president lee myung-bak arrive

i can tell you that george soros and ted turner are not neutral parties in the state debate. this is how they operate. i am glad to be able to put this on the record because i think that there is a sort of name on the internet that he was exposed as a scientific by the nobel prize-winning scientist. well, his field is genetics. i read english literature at oxford i am not ashamed to say. if i were going to make a documentary about dale wolf i wouldn't consult somebody in the virginia woolf department. somebody in the va will study department isn't necessarily going to be able to save the credentials of. scientists are not of the same. scientists do not all know everything, in fact science has become increasingly diverse and lobsters. it's about speciality. so why don't really think that they are not in a position to make announcements of what is happening in the field of climate science, which let me say is one of the more dotted of the sciences anywhere. it's more of a social science and hard science. thank you for that. >> i think we are running up against the deadline. ple

well, now, what is george soros' role in lightsquared. >> while other people have been getting out of a hedge fund that is essentially behind this, george soros has invested in harbinger hedge fund and also a lot of the nonprofits that george soros has backed in the past has also essentially gone to bat for lightsquared when it comes to regulations because, you know, there are some in the gps industry, particularly in the part of the gps spectrum that would be impacted -- that would impact military broadband, they say that could foul up the gps for our military satellites, maybe not a good idea to turn that thing on. >> darrell issa's committee is investigating. they're going to figure out how deep these ties go back because a lot of those e-mails going back and forth talk about how much money they'll be giving to the obama campaign come this cycle. >> they talk about campaign donations and then they talk about policy and the same thing, does that seem right? uh-uh. >> what kind of odds do you think these are? 1 in 3,200. you think probably it won't happen to me. if it does, you might

this is the guy who moves its money to the offshore to advance secrecy i totally disagree with george soros the point is that anybody and you can put your specific millionaire but we can't label a liberal yet we could already be had by all in ohio know it without a doubt soros has personal finances to it to debate it but the point is that the overall arching thing is that when is when wealthy people support democratic causes they are supporting raising their own taxes when wealthy people support republican causes they're supporting lowering their qualities it's a great sort of regulation of all about iraq is what about liberty and opportunity reducing regulation so we can have jobs you have. that if you have regulations because he knew the clean is serious question think unemployment this is a serious question this is what was not discussed last night police wealth inequality in the united states was not discussed last night when ron i wonder i disagreed last night there was no just you know he was saying we have to have freedom in america you know in july twenty sixth nine hundred thirty s

charles koch and then his brother david koch now the interesting thing is that oh and there's george soros number seven the interesting thing is all of these guys have seen their net worth except for warren buffett you lost a few billion all rest of them have seen their net worth increase kind of a quite a bit by billions of dollars compared to last year how is this happening earlier i spoke to carolyn hellbent professor of politics at occidental college and i also asked her because it's not just these richest guys it's just executive pay but when you look at a usa today analysis for example executive pay in two thousand and ten the median pay was twenty seven percent higher than the prior year so with that and these rich richest people in the world i asked how it's possible for them to be raking in all this dough which is that. well this is happening because we have a jobless recovery where corporations are making historic profits in most industries so of course the people who had up corporations are going to be making a bigger salary as well as major investors and corporations we see tak

growing chorus every day we read we hear about of doom and gloom i mean today the legendary investor george soros said the u.s. is already facing a double dip recession do you agree with that. i think he's almost certainly right what you've got to factor in is that this is an economy in the euro it's barely recovered from from the last financial crisis to. the highest really since the second world war it's been a very very weak recovery if it's been a recovery at all so anything that now happens is already taking very very straight and stances we've got to some problems come through studio tonight that's pretty good so we're trying to interview anyway james so to speak completely finance ministers from the world's leading economies agreed that they will do whatever. it's necessary to calm the markets not that statement appears there are little effect though looking at what's going on today is it at all possible at this stage to store a burst of trust. investors aren't stupid or market traders aren't stupid. fine words from various world leaders doesn't really add up to any kind of concrete plan o

george soros has organizations, tend to 15 different names.ry time that they are on, they do not say, well, we are funded by george soros. a multi billionaire in brazil right now investing in oil. host: betty, what are you referring to? caller: he supported obama. he funded obama for his election. host: a little bit off track. we will take the first part of it. who are your sources? guest: that is an interesting question for weast talk to some government officials, members of congress, who were leaving congress and could speak freely. guest: all of the republicans. guest: in one chapter in particular, we talk to employers and ask them, what are you looking for in an employee? we talked to a white-collar law firm. we talked to an indian outsourcing firm, a call center. we talk to dupont, and to the largest green collar firm, the u.s. army. we talked to general martin dempsey, who is head of education for the u.s. army, and now is the head of the army and the chief military officer of united states. very interesting, because they all basically s

just not yet they committed to a six week deadline over the weekend to come up with a plan now george soros came out over the weekend too saying he's not convinced authorities can do what it takes but says it could lead to a real meltdown if they don't act and while banks lacking capital is part of this whole problem and we saw the c.e.o. of u.b.s. resign over the weekend over at the two point three billion dollars trading scandal guess who is still crying over regulations wall street jamie diamond c.e.o. of j.p. morgan reportedly totally lost it at the i.m.f. conference when the bank and the governor of the bank of canada argued in favor of capital requirements now meanwhile u.s. congress is on the precipice of yet another government shutdown over the federal budget lawmakers are at an impasse this time over urgency disaster funding wall a record number of americans say that the government is the disaster reportedly a record high number of people eighty one percent and a gallup poll say they are not satisfied with the governance of the u.s. that's fifteen points higher than a spike after w

of dollars and number seven is no exception we had to include him because it's such a big name george soros twenty two billion dollars up from fourteen billion dollars last year so quite a jump i don't know what these guys are doing right but more broadly when you look at executive pay in this country to kind of look at where that's gone in two thousand and ten and median pay increase substantially twenty seven percent according to usa today and now this is so that is a broad trend of the wealthy getting compensated more then there is this four of the five richest counties in the country are in the d.c. area law physics and gone worse for many middle class americans so i asked dimitri kristina's are our key contributor in economics blogger to connect the dots for me did he see any connection between the rich getting richer and the high c.e.o. pay that's going up and the rich communities surrounding the nation's capital here's what he sent. i would go to lee i'd say just i've tried to find apartments both of these see in new york and i would tell you that in d.c. the property market is much

starting with the book calling the philanthropy of george soros. give baying away billions of dollars through the open society foundation that is based on his principles it covers the programs around the world and includes an essay called my philanthropy where he lays out his principles and what animates >> right next to that it is poor economic. >> it is one of the big idea books we have had. they are the founders of a m.i. tea party lab to pioneer the idea of let's do experiments and observations to learn where we should put our money we are award winning acclaim economist whose work is getting attention this is the most important on microfinance of thought we had to have this book. >> does that include the contents of microlending? >> the micro finance banking to the port it does have some about micro lending in the research on the ground but a lot of other techniques how poor people really live and what they choose to spend their money on and almost like controlled experiments to see what helps in the long run and how do prevent malaria or when

koch brothers they're people too i mean they contribute a lot warren buffett you know the guy george soros yeah that's fair and there's a whole separate question and we've had rich people in this country trying to influence our politics for a long time on the right side and sometimes even on the left side and i'm not addressing that issue yes the koch brothers are obviously human beings and they can spend money to promote their ideas that is separate from what i'm saying i'm talking about corporations which are perverted the system all right well we certainly appreciate you coming on and explaining to us why especially as they play such a role which you may not imagine at first when you talk about the anniversary of nine eleven thanks frank. thank you. and coming out a silent protest during obama's jobs speech earns a lawmaker tonight's told time award then will dive into a bomb a jobs plan any of his proposals actually bring jobs to the millions out of work here in the u.s. back in a moment. i had no idea and this is coming to you live from moscow the headline. as they've been rebel stanc

occupy wall street protesters i don't think a lot of people his comments and i told him ward and george soros has a three step plan to stop the threat of a great depression at work. passed out. into it only one of the train mechanisms do not work to bring justice and accountability . i have every right to know what my government is doing and want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american it's.

when george soros donates millions it is a tax write off. iffy and warren buffett want to write more checks to the government, great. he gets the right off. when you are a 501 c crew organization as you probably very well know, you can i engage in direct political activity. you can educate the voters about issues but you cannot actively campaign. if you look at crew's top 12 worst, of those 12 of 2010, the most horrible candidates who won reelection eight of those 12 are republicans and of those four who are democrats, three of them are african americans. so there is a very clear agenda here. in the very beginning of crew's existent they didn't go against democrats at all until people started pointing the finger at this obvious political motive and started picking on the black caucus and usually not without the fanfare that they go after people like me or sarah palin or others. they are obviously politically motivated. melanie sloan was guilty of slandered in so many ways. allegedly guilty of slander in so many ways. we are fighting back. so

george soros has organizations, tend to 15 different names. every time that they are on, they do not say, well, we are funded by george soros. a multi billionaire in brazil right now investing in oil. host: betty, what are you referring to? caller: he supported obama. he funded obama for his election. host: a little bit off track. we will take the first part of it. who are your sources? guest: that is an interesting question for weast talk to some government officialsmembers of congress, who were leaving congress and could speak freely. guest: all of the republicans. guest: in one chapter in particular, we talk to employers and ask them, what are you looking for in an employee? we talked to a white-collar law firm. we talked to an indian outsourcing firm, a call center. we talk to dupont, and to the largest green collar firm, the u.s. army. we talked to general martin dempsey, who is head of education for the u.s. army, and now is the head of the army and the chief military officer of united states. very interesting, because they all basically

if we take ooh look at the top six, the hedge fund investor george soros is worth $22 billion.s where it starts for the top six. then next we have christie walton. this is the lady who is the heir to the walmart fortune. it now stands at no less than $24.5 billion. tied in fourth place are charles koch and david koch, the owners -- co-owners of american conglomerate koch industries. they have about $25 billion each. in the third spot we have man, larry ellison, founder of business software giant oracle, worth some $33 billion. in the penultimate place we have warren buffett worth an estimated $39 billion. even he is eclipsed by this man's fortune, bill gates, reportedly worth $20 billion more than buffett. his fortune stands at just shy of $60 billion. we should also point out, manisha, those last two characters on the list, buffett and gates, in spite of being some of the world's most rich people, have said they're going to be giving almost all of that to charity. >> they were recently on a tour, they went to india recently and said particularly in a country where more and mor

george soros has organizations, tend to 15 different names.very time that they are on, they do not say, well, we are funded by george soros. a multi billionaire in brazil right now investing in oil. host: betty, what are you referring to? caller: he supported obama. he funded obama for his election. host: a little bit off track. we will take the first part of it. who are your sources? guest: that is an interesting question for weast talk to some government officials, members of congress, who were leaving congress and could speak freely. guest: all of the republicans. guest: in one chapter in particular, we talk to employers and ask them, what are you looking for in an employee? we talked to a white-collar law firm. we talked to an indian outsourcing firm, a call center. we talk to dupont, and to the largest green collar firm, the u.s. army. we talked to general martin dempsey, who is head of education for the u.s. army, and now is the head of the army and the chief military officer of united states. very interesting, becau thing. we're looking

george soros has organizations, tend to 15 different names. every time that they are on, they do not say, well, we are funded by george soros. a multi billionaire in brazil right now investing in oil. host: betty, what are you referring to? caller: he supported obama. he funded obama for his election. host: a little bit off track. we will take the first part of it. who are your sources? guest: that is an interesting question for weast talk to some government officials, members of congress, who were leaving congress and could speak freely. guest: all of the republicans. guest: in one chapter in particular, we talk to employers and ask them, what are you looking for in an employee? we talked to a white-collar law firm. we talked to an indian outsourcing firm, a call center. we talk to dupont, and to the largest green collar firm, the u.s. army. we talked to general martin dempsey, who is head of education for the u.s. army, and now is the head of the army and the chief military officer of united states. very interesting, because they all basical

a lot of very influential people -- >> george soros thought we were back in one. >> and mohamed, one of the most influential bond managers in the country own a lot of u.s. debt at pimco and thinks we are in a financial crisis and one thing that could turn the tide and gridlock issues would be resolution of the european problem. if you had real resolution there, that would be significant and turn around people's sentiment and sentiment really and trust and confidence is what this is all about. that could prevent a recession. >> australian markets are down. >> the problem, erin, if we hit a double dip recession, i pray that would happen because american finances are just clawing out of the last financial meltdown with the housing crisis. if we had a double dip recession right now, we could see this budget deficit go from 1.3 to 1.4 to 1.8, 2 trillion dollars and put is in an even bigger hole. the problem we borrowed so much money in the last three years, we're not in any position now to deal with the double dip. it's a very scary situation, especially after the census numbers came out

a lot of very influential people -- >> george soros thought we were back in one. >> and mohamed, one of the most influential bond managers in the country own a lot of u.s. debt at pimco and thinks we are in a financial crisis and one thing that could turn the tide and gridlock issues would be resolution of the european problem. if you had real resolution there, that would be significant and turn around people's sentiment and sentiment really and trust and confidence is what this is all about. that could prevent a recession. >> australian markets are down. >> the problem, erin, if we hit a double dip recession, i pray that would happen because american finances are just clawing out of the last financial meltdown with the housing crisis. if we had a double dip recession right now, we could see this budget deficit go from 1.3 to 1.4 to 1.8, 2 trillion dollars and put is in an even bigger hole. the problem we borrowed so much money in the last three years, we're not in any position now to deal with the double dip. it's a very scary situation, especially after the census numbers came out

. >> george soros said he we were back in one. >> soros said that mohammed al arian, they own a lot of u.s. debt at people co-thinks we could have another financial crisis so i think the jury's out on that but one thing that really could turn the tide outside the u.s. and all these gridlock issues we are talking about really would be resolution of the european problem. if you had real resolution there i think that would be significant. that would turn around people's sentiment and sentiment really and trust and confidence is what this is all about that really could prevent a recession. >> australian markets are down. >> if we hit a double-dip recession, i pray that doesn't happen because american finances are just kind of claw out of the last financial melt down we had with the housing crisis. you know, if we had a double-dip recession right now quo, see this budget deficit go from $1.3, $1.4 to $1.8, $2 trillion, put us in an even bigger home the problem is we have borrowed so much money in the last three years, we are kind of not in any position right now to deal with the double dip.

i read an interesting interview the other day with george soros, one of the president's fans or used to be fans. he was saying as a very liberal person is that keynesian economics is struggle, the fact that the government stimulates the economy is struggling because of the extreme debt load that the effectiveness of the keynesian model has gone away because of the extreme debt load. even that side of the equation is starting to myth that the idea of government pouring money in, the bush administration pouring in 800 billion, the obama administration 700 billion, now another 500 billion. that this is where jobs come from, and so when we say that business creates jobs and then we turn around and we say, but government has a jobs program that costs $500 billion, it's a little bit disconcerting. >> well, the proof will be inpu. thank you very much. >> now back to susan candiotti on the latest terror threat against new york and d.c.

boone pickens on the right, george soros on the left, had turned politics into a sport for billionaires. and in 2010, the supreme court, in a controversial decision called citizens united gutted most remaining campaign finance restrictions, saying that corporations and unions could put unlimited sums of money directly into elections. >> the supreme court reversed a century of law that i believe will open the floodgates for special interests. including foreign corporations to spend without limit in our elections. >> and today, a new era of unlimited billions spent in secret to advocate and destroy for politicians around specific policies, to the point where each and every piece of legislation virtually has its own price tag on it, each chairmanship, each congressional seat. think of it like a big box store. this is not a democracy, this is an auction for power. the debate is shaped and controlled by well-moneyed forces that are never on the ballot. and here with us, washington insider and lobbyist turned money in politics with whistle-blower, the very courageous and very impassioned jimm

george soros has organizations, tend to 15 different names.ery time that they are on, they do not say, well, we are funded by george soros. a multi billionaire in brazil right now investing in oil. host: betty, what are you referring to? caller: he supported obama. he funded obama for his election. host: a little bit off track. we will take the first part of it. who are your sources? guest: that is an interesting question for weast talk to some government officials, members of congress, who were leaving congress and could speak freely. guest: all of the republicans. guest: in one chapter in particular, we talk to employers and ask them, what are you looking for in an employee? we talked to a white-collar law firm. we talked to an indian outsourcing firm, a call center. we talk to dupont, and to the largest green collar firm, the u.s. army. we talked to general martin dempsey, who is head of education for the u.s. army, and now is the head of the army and the chief military officer of united states. very interesting, because they all basically

george soros comes in at number 7.n. >> we have a lot of new information on soros that cracked him into the top 10 for the first time. most of his money in his fund is his money turns out. not outside investors. jon: a couple members of walton family are in there as well. jim and alice, heirs of sam walton. if he hadn't split up the family fortune if he were still alive he would number one. >> by far. jon: in all likelihood. a bunch of newcomers on this look. >> if you start a social network called facebook you would be on the list. zuckerberg has been on the list. sean parker our cover boy is on the list and savrin who is out of the company but still a billionaire. jon: i only know them from the facebook movie, the social network movie. there is the real eduardo savri. >> backers too. jim briar. jon: sean parker who founded napster and was featured in the movie is in there as well. >> yeah. $2 billion. jon: i'm curious do you ever get any calls from the guys say you got it wrong, i'm not wealthy? anybody ever complain

we have seen the economy's go boom and bust because of the george soros age fund plow in one day ande out the next. no thanks. we are very happy setting our own currency rates. what we in the u.s. would like to see so we can sell them more products is a readjustment in the rates. you can also understand the point of the of -- the point of view of the chinese. host: let's go to california where ray is on our democrats lined. good morning. caller: how much gold does america have? what is the value of one gold bar? guest: you know, always be where someone who says they have a simple question. i do not know how much gold that we have now. the value of

george soros recently opined that we were already back into a double dip recession. i do not think the figures yet show that, but there is no doubt that governments in the west are under tremendous stress right now, and politicians are not meeting the challenge. you have to ask yourself if there are people -- whether it was bill clinton, and he took challenges with his base and let them head on, or whether it was ronald reagan or bush won, you have to ask yourself, are these a group of people serious enough to understand that it can happen here, or is rinehart and rode in their book -- is this getting through, any of it getting through? a inertia orire the road?docan down it is extremely difficult for censorship to survive, unless the leadership -- the speaker pelosi, reid are willing to stand up. like cbo says, we are headed for a quick if we do not deal with those of security, medicare and medicaid now, because five years from now, 10 years from now, the changes will be extremely painful and abrupt and extremely expensive. we have to make differences. host: michael

people were wondering where that money came from, if it came from george soros. we got attacks on that part. there is a well-defined fire wall in the newsroom. you tell your public you have to drop us on this, and that is what news organizations have dollars all along. i can tell you that fire wall is certainly there. >> it is important note also that may be the most successful for-profit new journalism organization of the past 15, 20 years is fox news, which, despite its fair and balanced slogan, has a pretty transparent agenda. and a transparent agenda that was launched in response to an alleged agenda with varying levels of tree behind allegation of the liberal media. it is interesting that going back to the firewall issue, most of the organizations in the so- called liberal media are organizations of journalists who might tend to be liberal, working for companies that are very big corporations and quite conservative. those fire walls -- if the liberal media really is liberal, then that is some evidence of a fire wall is working, even if journalists sometimes

it came from george soros, so it got attack on that. there is a well defined firewall in the newsroom. you tell the public you have got to trust us on this. that is what news organizations have done all along. in my experience,that firewall is certainly there. >> it is important to know that may be the most successful for profit, new journalism organization of the past 15-20 years is fox news. despite its fair and balanced slogan, it has a pretty transparent agenda. a transparent agenda the was launched in response to an alleged agenda with varying levels of tree behind the allegations of the liberal media. going back to the firewall issue, most of the organizations in the liberal media are organizations of journalists who might tend to be liberal working for companies that are big corporations and quite conservative. those firewalls -- if the liberal media really is liberal, there is evidence that the firewall is working even if journalists have their own agendas. >> also, i think so many people forget the nonprofit models are falling

host: and finally did you see george soros' comments how to stave off another great de legislation? the sworled being driven towards another great depression. the authorities in europe have lost control of the situation and he proposes three steps including common treasury for the euro zone. guest: i agree with him that the situation is serious and a crisis and needs to be addressed. when he stays authority has lost control, i don't think that's the case. on the contrary. if it's sometimes when you need to be ambitious, and this is a moment in which you need to be ambitious if you want to deepen economic integration, some of these measures may require a change in our treaties which are sort of a constitution in europe. it's not exclusive. it's a it's a matter for the banks today. host: the european union ambassador to the united states, joao vale de almeida thank you for being on the "washington journal." one more segment it's our america by the number segment. today we'll be looking at what we produce. we'll be right back. >> always start with the assumption that when a politician

george soros opined, and he is rich in of to opine what everyone's, that we are back in a double dip recession trade i don't think the figures yet show that, but there's no doubt governments in the west are under tremendous stress right now. the politicians are not meeting the challenge. you have to ask yourself, whether was bill clinton on -- remember, he took some challenges with his base and met them head-on. whether it was ronald reagan or bush number one, you have to ask yourself, are these a group of people serious enough to understand that it can happen here or are a day -- is any of this getting through, or is there an inertia, let's kick the can down the road attitude? i think there is such a split ideologically in our government right now that it's extremely difficult for centrists to survive unless the leadership -- john boehner, nancy pelosi, much mcconnell, harry reid, are willing to stand up and say this has gone on long enough. we really do need to do something. like the congressional budget office says, we are headed toward a cliff. if we don't deal with social securi

it came from george soros. so it got some attacks on that part. but there is a well-defined fire wall in the newsroom. you tell your public you have to trust us on this. and i think that is what news organizations have done all along. in my experience, fire wall is certainly there. >> fox news has a pretty transparent agenda. a transparent agenda that was launched in response to an alleged agenda with varying levels of truth behind the allegation of the liberal media. it is interesting that going back to the firewall issue, most of the organizations in the so- called liberal media are organizations of journalists who might tend to be liberal working for companies that are very -- quite conservative. so those fire walls, if the liberal media really is liberal, that is some evidence of the fire walls working, even if journalists sometimes have their own agendas or their own bias. >> something people forget is the non-profit models are evolving very quickly. you are seeing more and more successful nonprofits having grass-roots efforts. they are tryin