this will happen this saturday september 28, starting at 9:30, 350 gerard street at the middle school. the best things come when families learn from each other. the highlights of the even is i had a pleasure of introducing you to one of our many great high school students. this is valdez, she participated in the program in the science and health care partnership. each student on this program was paired with a mentor and committed scientific reach are research for eight weeks for the summer. it's a program by sfusd and i also want to recognize our director of science technology engineering and math mr. jim ryan who is here this evening to support jasmine. this program is active in 90 percent of our school district's k-12 schools and provides benefits to our teachers in more than 250 scientist role models to our student each year. a little bit about our student. she just joined the high school. in high school she developed a strong interest in science especially in biology and chose to challenge herself and chose to take ap biology as a junior. she's also been involved in numerous schoo

gerard t. dot com. right see. first street. and i think the true. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. americas a ticking bomb budget analysis of voicing a llama over the government's failure to rein in the budget deficit with the national debt now and double over two thousand and seven level at seventy three percent of g.d.p. general jesselyn to the public transit journalist says america's many foreign military commitments simply making matters worse. we're squandering our resources fighting all of these unwinnable wars that never end and so the nation is going down economically ninety seven percent of the jobs that have been created this year ninety seven percent are part time jobs you're looking at this so no one even saw the war will make a very bad situation much worse they're going to keep taxing the people just as they did as the roman empire did they tax the people more and it's not only the states by the way look what they did throughout europe they called it austerity measures you know they cut your pensions benefits they raise your taxes so it's a way of keeping it going unt

gerard baker. now managing director at the "wall street journal." welcome.here. >> thank you, larry. >> i think the -- i think the controversial one was taken b of a out and putting goldman sachs in. what did you talk about with them? >> well, it's my job to break the happy news to those entering the dow jones industrial average and to talk to the chief executives companies that are leaving. those conversations, everybody is obviously -- coming into the index is pleased because it is not only -- not only important for their financials, it helps indexes as you know that have to track the companies. actually load up on the stock. but they regard it as an important element of their prestige and i think lloyd blankfein and others think it's that's how they view it. they regard it positively. >> did he thank you? >> no, it wasn't my gift, larry, but a committee decision. we're circumscribed, you asked why bank of america is out, the simple answer is price. the price-based index, you have to try and keep the stocks in the index to within a sort of an acceptable ra