you know the the concern about mitt romney has been reduced a bit because we've seen over the course of this primary that you know he's not as he's not as powerful as i think many people thought he would be you know john i get the impression sometimes that obama's not so much worried about someone like me but he's actually more worried about people that are he's disillusioned from two thousand and eight to the president a lot of i mean we know that there was a lot of enthusiasm form when it when he was elected during the campaign campaign and i've seen a lot of that enthusiasm dissipate and particularly again i have an international audience here obama's foreign policy looks very different very little difference with the bush foreign policy actually even more neo-con for again outsiders looking in. sure and one of the ironic things about the obama presidency is that people thought he might be fine on domestic policy and would be an absolute nightmare on foreign policy i think most conservatives in the country and a lot of independents would say it's been quite the reverse that they're

been as stable of a candidate as i think people had predicted you know he has made a number of verbal gaffes he was totally unprepared to release his tax returns he was called blindsided by his you know by explaining his experience at bain capital you can say what you want about that but his campaign wasn't prepared for it his campaign wasn't prepared for south carolina and the wapping in the in the defeat he took there from newt gingrich you know he lost iowa so if you look and if you look at jen and if you look at the current national polling in the republican primary. mitt romney is only up by four or five points on newt gingrich so you know the idea it's i think there is a chattering class inside of washington that wants to shut this thing down very quickly they don't think it's a they don't want to they don't want to go on much longer we are sensing that there's a lot of damage that's being done to romney but overall i mean i think if you look if you listen to katrina the grassroots doesn't want to shut it down right now let's listen to get training here because we should let me

happen and you don't count i don't think you can count newt gingrich out at any point he just kind of has you know he just keeps coming back to life ok it's interesting john if i can go to you i mean mitt romney has a lot of money he has a good war chest and newt gingrich is struggled in getting money but he's you surprised that sometimes is money going to be the be all important factor like in this election for the for the republican nomination or is there are other guys who said he could go either way still. well mitt certainly the favorite at this point partly because of the money and also partly because of the organization that he has he also has a very favorable schedule he's. you know like a football team that has a bunch of patsies waiting in front of them he's got nevada which he did very well and four years ago that has a high mormon population that we would expect him to win and he's looking at michigan this month which is a state that his father was governor of and he's got the organization to do well in some of these caucus states ron paul obviously will target the caucus states a

happen and you don't count i don't think you can count newt gingrich out at any point he just kind of has you know he just keeps coming back to life ok it's interesting john if i can go to you i mean mitt romney has a lot of money he has a good war chest and newt gingrich is struggled in getting money but he you

tavis: how much of your success, you and your brother, has to do with being the "anti"? you used the word. how much of it has to do with being "the anti"? >> tavis, i have tried to make movies that appea to me and also to make something that is different out there. i get a kick when some people criticize me, and i go," oh, my god, if they only stood -- understood the economic realities of what i do," and they think i do not go far enough, but in running a company, i try to go as far as anybody in their right mind would go, and sometimes not even in their right mind. sometimes people sit back in journalism and go, "oh, my god. could it be tougher? could it be in this? could it be that?" and i am wondering what studio is doing what we do, like a spotlight, so i take risk because i believe in the work that we do, and i also believe in movies. i am a fan, and i want to see something different. last year, we may "the king's speech." people said to me, "a movie about stuttering. are you kidding? you are grazing -- crazy." so i do not know. i might make the first super hero movi

somebody has to pay when you go to the atm and take something out. and this has automatic deposit that is free. somebody has to pay, because it is not free. for $3, you can have four cards. with those, you get free identity theft protection. you get unlimited credit reports, unlimited credit scores, all these services that normally cost people a lot of money. the main thing that comes with this card is and dignity, because you are being treated like a true human being. every time you sweat it, it does not cost you any money. every time you pay a bill, it does not cost you a thing. you get a tax that tells you how much you have left. people are going nuts about this card. tavis: into ways, being excited about it, and trying to destroy you, because you are basically giving these cards away. >> many of the credit unions are afraid i am going to take business away from them. i love credit unions. this is not hurting them. this card, if allowed to do everything it is supposed to do, will help people be able to go to a credit union and be able to open and u

versus offshore. >> thank you. >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> thank you. >> mr. neal is recognized. >> thank you. you're asking for a lower rate, but just as importantly, you're asking for greater certainty in how we go forward. i just has been reading bruce bartlett's book. and i always find how liberating it is for former staffers to leave the hill and write what they deem to be a more truthful version of events. david stockman as we all know has taken the same position, divorcing himself from what commonly happens here in terms of embracing theology as opposed to the reality of trying to administer government. you indicated the u.s. has lost 46 fortune 500 companies between 2000 and 2011. why do you think those companies specifically moved outside of the united states. and more importantly are tax considerations the only reason. >> i don't think taxes are the only driver. i think lower tax jurisdictions and the ability to produce greater returns for their shareholders have played a huge role in driving a lot of companies overseas. >> the other panelists, would

if so, how do you deal with the human martin king? >> i think everyone has his limitations. if you look at the his and hers, you talk about man. yes, you mean by man everybody, but that's not what you're saying. and martin grows up in a society where he -- remember, ours is a very social society. after a point, under circumstance, oppression is all you've got left. sociability has to follow certain forms. you look at the early malcolm x, you look at mlk. you look at a certain action that has you speaking in a certain way, speaking in a polished way and you will attract people, mostly the opposite sex. and martin did that. but i do not see that that's one people should be obsessed about. the important thing is the trajectory of growth which is demonstrated in this life. it's always not just a life, it's an interaction between the individual but also the communal, and martin obviously has very deeply embedded ideas about egolitarianism. he could have been your lawyer, he could have had a good bedside manner if he had chosen to go into medicine which he contemplated at one point

i mean you know this is this this is so completely the typical left right game you know the g.o.p. has its favorites mitt romney needed to win really bad so he would spend the day there and he was he was announced the winner i you know i think the good news is ron paul in two thousand and eight his performance wasn't even close to what we're seeing now in two thousand and twelve so you know even though even if he comes in second even if you just remains in the middle of this pack of four i think his support is growing because his message is legitimate and it's the best thing for this country and his message is certainly very different from sort of the standard line of the republican party a lot of you know kind of old school republicans are a little bit uncomfortable by the idea of ron paul not just by his message but the fact that he is unwilling to you know preach what they want him to preach i want to put up something that was on c.n.n. the other day and they were really really interesting it shows you not just how the people think but look at this this is a poll that shows ron paul

equally as important he has continued to be the target from the white house. you know, the white house has tried to play -- they consider him -- they consider him the candidate. >> they don't want to run against him. they are trying to defeat him. he has beenm. getting hit consistently. during this process one state it was one candidate getting hit and another candidate getting hit. but he has been getting hit and governor romney has been getting hit consistently. he has been a better candidate and a stronger candidate. nothing compares to who the nominee is. and they will receive from the negative campaign that is coming from the obama administration. joy are you surprised -- >> are you surprised on this vote in light of south florida? >> no. >> why? >> what is the issue that has everybody concerned more than anything else? jobs. it is the economy, right? if it is important for all-americans, imagine in the latino community in florida where unemploy meant is almost 14%. as important as jobs, the economy, the lack there of and the destruction of the economy by oba

has to go through now days. all these rules are changing and it is what you need to do. >> ok. thank you. >commissioner hyde: has mr. owens done a lot of the outr each? it seems other parties have done it for him. >> he has done some of it himself. the business he -- businesses he patronizes were willing to meet with us. stefano can address most of the outreach. i i have been -- i have been tied up with other issues as you know. i was able to go to the marina merchants meeting. there were wonderful. completely turned around. there were skeptical as well but they completely changed after hearing what had gone, what had taken place. >> it is detailed in some of the notes there. >> i understand there has been outraged done. -- outreach done. >> i was at the outreach meeting with the captain. there was some concern but the place looks beautiful. i know that place and when i walked in it was very nice. my only question, i want to make sure i understand. he is very passionate like all of us. the neighbors are tough and it does get frustrating. personally, he is passionate with his place. when i

you know you have the president who you know put forth has put forward a plan that really deals directly with the middle class and i think mitt romney there's a perception out there that you know his focus is on you know really the top one percent protecting tax breaks for them for the for corporations he had this huge gaffe yesterday where he said he didn't care about the very poor people he has you know history and i'm not casting aspersions here on the private equity world but you know he does have a history there he has accounts in the cayman islands all these things that make him seem a little bit unusual i think to most voters felt aspersions on these people and like that ok feel free to write a lot. i mean along with i think record you know he was forty seventh in job creation in massachusetts so he's going to have a really tough i think a record to explain himself but look the bottom line is we're a very divided country and this campaign is going to play out across you know eighteen twenty two battleground states and i think it's going to be very close and the president needs to

you may call it class warfare. by kalla common sense. >> i think he has to respond to that. you noted the bill clinton statement that elections are always about the future. not entirely true with racism -- with a race for incumbent presidents. the question is, who do you think has a better chance of leading us to a broader tomorrow? he has to frame what he is doing to get the economy started. you do not have enough purchasing power spread out among a enough hands. republicans want to argue that he is making an argument against success. you have to be careful with those upper middle-class voters. a lot of people making $150,000, even $250,000. there are more socially liberal and they are not as viscerally hostile to government as a lot of a working-class whites who feel the government is taking money from their pockets to give it to people who do not deserve it. if republicans successfully portray him as opposing a success, it will cut into the democrat votes he has had and will need. tavis: the occupy wall street movement in washington is up and kicking again. i have said man

it is the belief that you owe backe to a country that has helped to make you what you are. steve jobs -- we had a tough column in the last issue. it was tough not about apple labor practices in china. here you had a man of great wealth was talking about cutting taxes and never really gave of his philanthropic wealth. poor bill gates, he gets nailed for being so square. you can disagree with some things. but he is out there. >> all of them out there now came a little late to the party. they got very rich, very young. i wanted to leave some time for audience questions. i have not read more questions from the audience because they are also good. usually it is the guy with the aluminum hat on getting cia messages. [laughter] not really. if you want to line up, we have a few more minutes at the microphones. we will take a few questions. please make sure that you make them questions. >> i have been interested in americorps and other related programs. from what i can tell, you do not support it or talk about it very much. the tea party is advocating limiting national service. pres

i think he has learned from the experience with the pentagon. if you look at his decision once he started -- once he stopped listening to the pentagon, he has gotten out of iraq. the pentagon did not want to leave. in libya, a successful operation -- as these things go, successful but -- successful. he overruled secretary gates on libya. we are talking about conventional foreign-policy media. when the president goes with his gut, he has been successful. i think afghanistan will be more difficult to box and into a corner on. i think iran is where the right is going to try to push the president into war, or try to make him look bad for not starting a war. i think that is the thing to watch in terms of foreign policy. it is iran. i do not see support to escalate the war in afghanistan. you could see something in iran quickly. tavis: let me read a quote from your book, page 79. helman represents the warped logic of the war. we are there because we are there, and because we are there, we are there some more. it is the momentum. the military has a fetish for

every possible gun he has. >> you have left the city. can you give me an idea as to how many people are in the city, how many people have escaped? >> a small number of the people could escape. they have left the area because there is no trip where i am now. it is possible -- impossible for anyone with a family to leave. i left alone on my own. we are still connected with each other in the neighborhood. they supplied me with that information which i give you now. i think the number, it is around 15,000 persons. >> how many people do you fear are going to lose their lives if this continues? >> i do not know. i hope it ends soon. i think everyday a new number, a big number will be. i do not think we can know exactly because when i was there, i do not know what is happening every day. a large number are still under the rubble. we cannot reach them. another thing. >> i am sorry, i have to cut you off. we are out of time. we will continue to report the situation in homs. thank you for your time. we are turning to events in greece. it has been a

you see that? >> i think this commission has got a packet full information. i think at this point, i trust the judgment of this commission. >> thank you. >> i have a question for the applicant. >> we're in public comment. president newlin: anybody else? what is the hours you would like? >> i think with corp. and being genuine, 1:30 a.m. and being a thirty minute cutoff from staggered closing. i do not have -- i do not see high impact. people come in, -- >> we're talking weekdays. you do not have to argue your point. there is a mention that there was another club immediately adjacent. >> i believe you are talking about the republic. president newlin: 1 hours are they allowed? >> until 1:30 a.m. seven days a week. president newlin: all right, the matter is with the commission. any further questions? i do not want to get hung up on his said what and who did what and who may have mentioned this. i think this is a wonderful project. i think nobody is going to put this kind of money in and run the problems we have seen tonight in other venues. it does not make sense

noonan has five minutes. >> i give the balance of my t e time. >> thank you. one former chairman mentioned that nobody is talking about getting rid of the charitable contribution that actually in the prior three budgets, the president has capped charitable contributions to 28%. just want to remind the gentleman from new york regarding the president's last three budgets and what he proposed. obviously it wasn't adopted by the congress, but there is one person in washington who has talked about the issue in the context of reducing that charitable contribution. and i wish mr. lewis were here, because he and i as the chairmanmen have the caucus have both opposed that as co-chairmen of the philanthropy caucus. those of you who are vice presidents for companies, dealing with tax issues, can you tell me who your major competitor is and how the current tax code causes you to make decisions based upon investments? starting to my left. >> the united states postal service. they don't pay my tax. ups, their tax profile is very sloor to ours. and we have several internation

but it has to be -- sometimes you have too many rules. that's part. has to be done properly. and from our little experience now, we don't jump the subject before we know what is what. >> charlie: speaking of iran, what would happen in the israelis attack iranian nuclear facilities. >> we disagree. we object to any military action from any to iran. that's our principle and it will stay le this. of course we are watching carefully what happened and this is on the table. but we play that you know we have nothing to say to israeli or to the iranian. we cannot tell them what to do or whatnot to do. but for us we believe this option is not in use. >> charlie: you also have been supportive of hamas, you has been supportive of hezbollah as did iran and syria. >> well, you cannot support and stop. we have a relation with all the countries, all of the groups. yes we have relatns. because we believe we have to talk with everybody. also the iran and hezbollah blam us because we talked to the israelis so we have this problem. but for us, we need to hear the view rectly from every party. t

you. jeeves has a pilot's license for helicopter? >> didn't you see "batman?" ourse, he does. >> there's staff they have to maintain. there's a lot going on. >> when is he going to show? is he there yet? >> the secretary has not arrive. he should be here in a little bit. he'll be starts at 7:00. he's in town and had dinner with xijinping. it's interesting what he thinks is going on in europe and how the chinese are thinking about what's going on in europe. and as you know, paulson still gets called by people like mario draghi. we'll get a call on whether this is comparable to what happened in 2008 and he still has the ear of ben bernanke and i want to get his view on what's happening in the u.s. economy and jobs and all of that. it's hopefully going to be an exciting half hour. >> and there's news out of china about that maybe they feel a little bit more comfortable with investments in europe. we've had some of the gdp data which i'm calling pretty good. i don't know. up 0.3%, town 0.3%. that's not that bad, andrew, for all the animals speared, getting drained o

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so yes it has you see the emergence of the new the one percent they are there they're the ones that are basically the toll booth operators between you the people the ninety nine percent and the government so they own the government behind their toll booth so that's the key point is that the life in the u.s. and around the world is being obstructed more and more by these especially these toll booths where you've got these in privileged is not a word. a privileged class that are set up by the government to basically take money from folks as are trying to get from point a to point b. so it becomes extraordinarily. going to rewrite the some of the songs like america the beautiful they're going to write it like america the prism but also like what sort of wealth do these people create a service economy is in which the service being provided is spying on the citizens that doesn't add any wealth to the economy these people obviously are very wealthy they're making income from it but it's not creating wealth for the economy and that's why you see an economy that is collapsing it's a drag on wea

as you know, u.s. congress has not reauthorized wea, which we passed in 1998. i think that's shameful. governor malloy, in your testimony you urge us to reauthorize it. what are your top -- this question is to governor malloy. what are your top three priorities that we in congress should look at to reform wea and improve the job training program for the next five years? >> well, let me say that i -- wea is an important program which i think connecticut has used quite effectively. and so i'm not here to criticize the program. what i'm saying is, is we've done the right thing. we have used the dollars to train and continue to train folks to take positions that they were formally unqualified for. we have an award winning program around the employment of veterans which is a special concern, given how many veterans are returning from the two wars that we've been engaged in. i'm sure that -- that this committee is capable of making that a stronger and better law. but i, again, will reiterate that it needs to be sustained. flexibility is okay as long as flexibility is

so i think that has, you know, energized the people, because i've been talking differently and warning about these things. >> does it help, also, that you were a child of the great depression. you know, you grew up through the depression and came out the other end. and you saw what it took, with i think, to do that. i was fascinated to read the sure volume of jobs that you did when you were a young man. you did all sorts of stuff. you worked with your father on the dairy, but you did countless jobs. you worked very, very hard. do you see that kind of hard work ethic now in america? and if the answer is no, is that one of the fundamental problems, that that work ethic has einvolved over the years? >> that's a big issue. people ask me hobbit my parents might have had influence on politics. well, they were conservative republicans, but they were more republicans than anything else. but i think where they contributed a lot to my thinking was, it was work ethic. the depression and world war ii. the depression didn't end until after world war ii, because i remember world war ii better than t

and president obama has, you know, a very good sense not just of the economic requisites for kind of financial crises fire fighting but also how you build a political support. >>> we continue this evening with a look at the energy crises and the price of gasoline with daniel yergin awe ter of the quest, energy security and the remaking of the modern world. >> if we were looking at $4.50 or $5 gasoline in the united states, that would be a pretty big set back for economic recovery. it would affect consumers, it would affect spending, it would take tens of billions of dollars out of consumers pockets. it would affect a lot of companies and it would affect something else which you can already see. it would start to affect confidence in people would pull back. >>> lael brainard and dan yergin when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: lael brairnd is here, she's a treasurer department's undersecretary for international affairs as america's top financial europe for urgent task to convince europeans to buil

you. don garabaldi's family has been growing acres and acres of flowers for 106 years. pescadero is a sleepy seaside town not far from the city. the area has a mild climate and rich earth, the perfect setting to produce vibrant flowers. a rainbow of blooms are pied here on the hour, every hour, 6 days a week. >> we love it when we first work the soil with the equipment. you turn the ground over. it's got a nice, fresh smell to it. and you work in the soil, leveling it off, making rows so you can plant your qeeds. and then 90 ys to 120 days down the road, you see the flowers come up, and your production, and we get a tremendous satisfaction out of that. >> yellow yarrow, delphinia, larkspur, stock, and dianthus pepper the landscape, and eventually make their way to bouquets around the world. >> once in a while i have tours here. we walk them through everything from bare ground to seed to the production growing to all the equipment that we use. and they're kind of amazed what it takes to grow all this stuff. it's a lot of countless hours and a lot of work. it's a lot of h