we're discussing china with gordon chang, james fallows and roderick mcfarqua.lled "the coming collapse of china." they say never make predictions with a specific date. you had a specific date. you said it was going to happen in 2011. . 2011 came and it didn't happen. then you doubled down and said it was going to happen in 2012. why were you wrong? is there something you've learned about it? >> i think there were a couple reasons. i focused in on their ascension to the world trade organization. i thought they were going to be tougher on compliance and they weren't because this they saw the opportunities in the china market and so they allowed china really to continue with some very predatory trade practices. >> what is the fundamental weakness you saw in china that led you to this and do you think it still exists? >> well, i think the fundamental weakness is that the communist party has lost the conversation in china. it can no longer persuade people and that's why it's become much more repressive over the last three or four years, maybe even over the last seve

. >> joining mess now to talk about this visit and the significance or insignificance of it is gordon changhrilled to be able to talk to you about this. i raetd something where you quoted -- i'm going to quet you as you describe president xi. you say it's ruthlessly pragmatic. it got me wondering, what exactly did you mean by that? >> he's like all chinese leaders. they are very tough. friendship to them isn't that important. it's important to americans. but it's not so important to chinese leaders nape look at the interest. they are going to be very pragmatic but they're going to be very tough. >> when you say friendship, is that xi? >> that's not going to be important because china has certain interests that he wants to advance. although xi jinping may like the people in iowa, he may like president obama, that really is not going to affect the way he's going to rule because, as general party secretary, he's under institutional constraints. the hard liners are governing beijing right now and if xi jinping wants to stay in power he has to who they say. >> is it true that each ruler hands of

gordon chang tells "outfront" north korea wants that aid and that's why talks have been extended.ber three, hugo chavez's health is raising serious questions. chavez announced he's heading to cuba to undergo surgery to remove a growth. he said if chavez's health were to force him from power, the regime would be weakened and added if the opposition took power, they would restore relations with the united states. and the obama administration is -- pentagon counsel jay johnson defended the united states' actions citing a 2004 supreme court decision. i had the opportunity to ask defense secretary leon panetta about killing a terrorist, the american citizen killed by a drone in yemen who was an american citizen. >> if you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist and that means that we have the ability to go after those who would threaten to atact the united states and kill americans. there's no question. that the authority and the ability to go after a terrorist is there. >> it has been 202 days since the united states lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? jobless cla

gordon chang takes on the world, tells out front north korea want that food aide and that why talks have>> hugo chavez's help is raising questions over his ability to seek re-election. he announced he's headed to cuba to underco surgery to remove a lesion. one he said himself is likely to be muligiant. they tell outfront if his health were to force him from power or if he were to die before election, the regime would be mortally weakened and if the it democratic opposition took power, they would restore relations with the united states immediately. >> the obama administration is defending the killing of american terrorists. pentagon general counsel jay johnson defending the actions citing a 2004 supreme court decision. i had a chance to ask leon panetta about killing a terrorist. the american citizen killed by a drone in yemen who was an american citizen. >> if you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist. and that means that we have to ability to go after those who would threaten to attack the united states and kill americans. there's no question that the authority and the ability to go after

here is gordon chang. >> i don't think that these talks on the 23rd are going to go anywhere. a very fragile hold on power. we saw that last week with all the rumors about his assassination. the north korean military is in charge. the generals are not going to want to give up their most destructive weapons. >> the rumor that kim jong un was assassinated last friday was never substantiated but it shows just how little we know about the regime right now under him. >> shepard: yep, jennifer griffin at the pentagon tonight. jennifer, thanks very much. there is a two-week break in the g.o.p. primary schedule but the candidates themselves are not taking a breather at all it would appear. especially as new polls show the two frontrunners in a dead heat. look at this. for the very first time candidate rick santorum leads the real clear politics national average. only by 1 percentage point over mitt romney. that's a statistical dead heat. former governor will stump in arizona tonight. one of the next states to vote. governor romney was the winner this weekend coming out on top in a str

gordon chang, the author of "nuclear showdown: north korea takes on the world" gave us some reasons whyhe threats could serve in pyongyang's interest, including the need to rally the arm under kim jong-un's leadership, and to undercut south korean conservatives in the upcoming elections. paul babeu stepped down after his ex-boyfriend says he threatened to deport him if he revealed the relationship. he spoke exclusively to our miguel marquez. >> at some point, you felt -- >> used. >> used, and then threatened? >> yes. >> why threatened? >> i got a text from him, directly, on my phone. saying that i will never have business, that my family will be contacted. >> sheriff babeu responded, telling my friend, wolf blitzer, that his ex-boyfriend was in the u.s. legally, but he stole computer passwords and photos from the sheriff. >> i said, how can you think you're going to do business? he had a business with websites. he just stole my websites and put slanderous information on my websites, and how can anybody expect to do business? >> number four, we're getting the latest fund-raising numbers

gordon chang, nice to have you. >>> senator is going to join us talking about the obama budget.ok at his plan for his budget. we'll talk about thanchts plus "get real," epic rant from high school cheerleading coach. she calls her team the high heifers. we'll tell you what happened after that as "starting point" continues. ♪[music plays] ♪[music plays] purina one beyond. food for your cat or dog. ♪ >>> you have specifically made fun of leonard cohen and how slow it is? >> you're about to get yourself banished off -- i did. really, will cain does -- because i love him. i love him so i make fun of his musical tastes. sometimes they're really bad. but joe levy is a guest in our house today so it is a little slow. you may want to work on that. >> i think people need to ease into the day. >> no. >> ease. >> no. they don't. moving on. this is my favorite story of the morning. we have heard some of the legendary koempi icoaching rant day. often nfl coaches are screaming at their grown male players. not in this case. this issed that of a high school cheerleading squad. she's talking to t

. >>> gordon gecko's change of heart saying greed isn't good after michael douglas is helping the fbi. >>> here's jen's play list this morning. we judge harshly here, by the way. dolly parton "9:00 to 5:00." more like "2:30 to 5:00." [ nadine ] buzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz, you know, typical alarm clock. i am so glad to get rid of it. just to be able to wake up in the morning on your own. that's a big accomplishment to me. i don't know how much money i need. but i know that whatever i have that's what i'm going to live within. ♪ ♪ my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ i want to fix up old houses. ♪ [ woman ] when i grow up, i want to take him on his first flight. i want to run a marathon. i'm going to own my own restaurant.

fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >>> gordon gekko is changing his tune.l insider trader made these words famous. >> greed for the lack of a better word is greed. greed is right. greed works. >> well, these days, the character made famous by michael douglas is working with the fbi. alison kosik, what is behind this unlikely pairing? >> deb, you know what? maybe greed ain't so good after all. in fact, it could land you in jail. for 25 years, gordon gekko, he's been the epitome of a sneaky crook, as you said it, he's trying to help the fbi catch criminals just like him. he put out a new 30-second psa featuring the actor michael douglas. and douglas today, and he says the movie is fiction, but the problem is real. he asks that viewers should contact the fbi if they think there's been a financial crime committed as part of an effort to crack down on insider trading. the fbi has put quite the force behind this. it's hired 250 new forensic accountants, got almost 250 convictions last year, and sometimes you know what, deb, it takes a thief to catch a thief. >> a

article have you find something in this article that indicates that if gordon is elected or russia is facing major economic changes be my guest please. well i think probably russia is on the move my feeling is that. good good things happening in russia the basically people are working hard there's a lot of interest in making russia a global economic power and it's a good thing so you know it's not only mr putin here we're talking about the russian people you know hundred forty million people who want to do something you want to book but let's talk about the article that it did you get in the question that putin is ready if he's reelected to start real change in the kind of the main point of this article is that we have no exactly how and where his other program is just a dream and he said in general i want to see a rusher in this picture but it doesn't see how yet and that is the point which criticized from many people i guess absolutely they are absolutely right and i have to tell you that. russia erosion economy has a very long history like any other country and definitely we have some negative questions in the

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gordon posts around to the garage area. >> larry: the big question with the halfway money change strategy at this point in the race. doing something to get off pit road in a hurry. >> steve: exactly right. fuel only for martin truex, jr. the leader. crew chief chad johnson saying don't slide. krista? >> krista: that is the same request for greg biffle. don't slide your tires. also driver wants the car freed up just a little bit. matt? >> matt: still debate on what to do for kyle busch. they are going to change right-side tires only. debating whether fuel only or tires. they went tires. >> dick: joey logano also told not to slide his tires. new voices in his ear. new crew chief and new spotter are and has run very well in this race so far. >> mike: the race off pit road won by greg biffle and marcos ambrose and martin truex drops two spots. there is pole sitter carl edwards. uh oh. should we be letting him p-l-a-y with our t-a-b-l-e-t? [ mom ] i think it's fine. it's the new element from at&t so it's w-a-t-e-r proof. cool. what else does it d-o? it's fast. it's 4g lte. 4-g-l-t-e? mhhmm. i think it's time to stop spe

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. >> lawyers celia gordon and bob gottlieb now say the witnesses who have changed their stories is proofication is the major cause of wrongful convictions. >> but it may be too little too late. >> this is an extremely difficult fight for any convicted defendant to undertake. >> steve coshean former federal prosecutor. >> once somebody goes to trial, 12 jurors say guilty, once you're in that place, it is extremely difficult to overturn a conviction. >> years ago cohen was also a defense attorney and helped in the exoneration of those two other men "dateline" profiled several years back. >> when you look at the totality of the evidence here, there's no question this is a thin case. that doesn't make it easier. in an odd way that makes it harder, and it makes it harder because without something very new, what you're really doing is attacking the same evidence that the jury based its conviction on. >> and cohen says anything new velazquez's lawyers have might not be enough. >> i don't want to suggest the recantations are nothing, but they are not down. a they are not somebody who you now bel

changes. four caution flags. three for accidents. plus the scheduled ten minute break at lap 25. >> darrell: setting up, larry, johnson and gordon up here. you got biffle and his teammate back there edwards in sixth. we got some guys setting up here that might have something to say about who is going to win this. >> mike: checked and released at the care center. martin truex, dale earnhardt, jr. and matt kenseth. the restart comes this time by with 14 laps to go a good time for our first nascar on fox crank it up of the new year. >> darrell: whoopee! [cars revving] >> mike: off turn four, 12 laps to go. they come to the line. four time leading five time. those are the number of championships for jeff gordon and jimmie johnson running one, two. three time right with them, tony stewart. >> darrell: three time sitting with them and that is a h hendrick parade right now and i thought that we might start to see teammates are going to help teammates now is the time to do it. >> mike: dick berggren? >> dick: such a wild ride. did you not know you were on fire? >> i figured it would go out. want to thank everybody on the budweiser chevy team. d

change. now, we are also asking gordon to increase graduation rates for all of our universities. 14%. it has to be a tackle. we have to be patient but we have to demand it gets done because it's not fair to our families and our students to not get graduated. the emphasis should not be on enrollment. it ought to be on graduation. now, let me also say to you -- [applause] >> i've told gordon, i see up there in university in akron, kent state they get great program there. he said i want one. you can't have them, gordon. we don't want them competing with one another we want them collaborating with each other so we don't have duplicate programs. it requires a big cultural change and we're getting there. and it's not good enough to do research if you don't commercialize and create jobs. what's the point? i can find your research on a top shelf of a building 40 years from now, commercialize, create jobs, spin off companies. we can get that done but it's going to take new and renewed focus. and so, you know, whether it's graduation, whether it is working together on this issue of the fix

changes. four caution flags. three for accidents. plus the scheduled ten minute break at lap 25. >> darrell: setting up, larry, johnson and gordon up here. you got biffle and his teammate back there edwards in sixth. we got some guys setting up here that might have something to say about who is going to win this. >> mike: checked and released at the care center. martin truex, dale earnhardt, jr. and matt kenseth. the restart comes this time by with 14 laps to go a good time for our first nascar on fox crank it up of the new year. >> darrell: whoopee! [cars revving] >> mike: off turn four, 12 laps to go. they come to the line. four time leading five time. those are the number of championships for jeff gordon and jimmie johnson running one, two. three time right with them, tony stewart. >> darrell: three time sitting with them and that is a h hendrick parade right now and i thought that we might start to see teammates are going to help teammates now is the time to do it. >> mike: dick berggren? >> dick: such a wild ride. did you not know you were on fire? >> i figured it would go out. want to thank everybody on the budweiser chevy team. d

gordon, altoona, good morning. caller: it is fine to have a change of position or epiphany, but to change your stand because it is theottest idea amongst polers, that is not good. like governor mitt romney, who has flip-flopped so much, it is hard to believe him. senator santorum has been authentic and honest and he has my vote on april 24. host: let me go back to the peace. here is a photograph of mitt romney, from saturday morning. the comments about mitt romney, reflecting his evolution from abortion advocate to abortion foe. host: david ignatius, writing about flip-floping this morning with nixon in china, and other comparisons. john, jackson, good morning. caller: yes, sir. i would like to question health care. yes, sir? host: turn the volume down on your set. there is a slight delay. please go ahead. caller: can you hear me better? host: yes. you are on the air. caller: the bill -- [no audio] host: we are going to move on to cathy. remember, there is a slight delay. if you get on the air, please turn down your television. host: -- caller: it has been quite a morning. on this flip-flop issue, the president will

change has some suggestions for mitt çromney. let's listen. >> you've been embarrassed for him on the campaign trail. bring some of mitt romney's hits recorded with costar and running mate gordonking laws ♪ >> you'll get the songs that touched your heart. ♪ should past positions be forgot and never thought about ♪ ♪ so once i was a moderate ♪ it's past and gone make sure you have your gold card and start spending. >> that's courtesy of the leading group that made a point of aligning mitt romney with the fictional wall street character gordon gekko. michele bachmann, the former presidential candidate took to the stage yesterday and talked about her days on the campaign trail. she could have used a doover. >> running for president of the united states is really one series of humiliations after another. i learned three things when i was running for president. first of all, i learned where john wayne was born. that's very important. and then second, i learned the day that elvis presley was born. these are vital issues to our republic. and third, i learned never forget the threeç things that u learned. very important when you're running for president. >> the last one was in refere