remember just this week hain celestial's irwin simon was on?said earth's best baby food has been victimized by private label and i'm sure pbm was one of the victimizers. when i was doing some work on the casey general they too have been hurt by the generic tradedown. at the same time the real value proposition with these knockoff products isn't for the consumers, isn't for you, it's for the stores that sell them. retailers across the country increasing their private label offerings because they have higher margins. that means they're more profitable to sell. than the name brands. we know walmart's expanding its private label. so is costco, a stock i own for actionalertsplus.com, my charitable trust. and so are supermarkets and pharmacies across the country. hey, look, even high-end places like whole foods and saks. i've been buying saks shirts with the 200 ply egyptian cotton. you can't tell the difference. and they love dealing with only a handful of players. hence the value of the scale of perrigo picking up a competitor and then shipping all

i can't imagine a brilliant investors like haines surveying america headed towards a debt ratio and recommended spending as a reaction to that circumstances. but i don't know. i'm not sure that free trade which appeals to so many of my conservative friends is a good idea. i'm not sure adam smith it right or retaliation for revenge which he thought thought was a nice virtue. remember, he was less interested in expanding the division of labor efficiencies in a pin factory to the world than he was in increasing the wealth of nations. which is a very different thing. i think there's a lot of wisdom in joseph's emphasis on the role of creative destruction. but i'm not certain how to treat the social cost of that special form of creativity. in fact, joseph himself worried about the social cost involve in destroying existing structures. i'm not even certain that monetarism is the panacea that margaret thatcher admirer contend as they decide how they are going to measure the money supply. m1, m2. i remember going to a lunch. she said do you use m2 or m3 to measure the money supply in [laughter] >> but

jefferson, that west point, a military academy, churning out professional warrior class was founded in hain 02. jefferson -- 1802. jefferson, who feared stand armies as much as anyone in his time. if the framers were suspicious that a powerful military would be bloodthirsty, perhaps too quick to act, history is not necessarily proved them right. of after the first guns were fired at fort sumter, abraham lincoln famously derided the parade of union generals, who as he put it, had a bad case of the slows, so reluctant were they to act. in the end, it was as -- he as much as anyone else who guided the union soldiers to victory. in our own time, we know that the decision to invade iraq , the adoption of enhanced interrogation techniques and the insistence on going to war with the army we had, rather than the army we may have needed be was guided by our civilian leaders, often in conflict with the military's advice. it is army officers who understand better than anyone else, the other familiar phrase, that fog of war and that no plan survives the first contact with the enemy. war they know, is a

it could have very easily just come up in a conversation where one lady said to haines, god, we're now dealing with, you know, a potential erasure problem with th%atvÑlelwpÑkj3Ñ0Ñ >> host: inside? >> guest: not inside though. in fact -- [laughter] it took me an hour because of the easter crowd and the cherry blossoms to get from memorial bridge to my hotel. [laughter] >> host: let me go back to the rehnquist choice. abe appointed by lyndon johnson explained why he resigned. was he forced out? were there are dirty -- there dirty tricks at play? what was going on? >> guest: yeah. i tried to explain in "the rehnquist choice" how nixon saw the potential to get appointees while he was still running for office. when, first of all, earl warren announced that he was departing, clearly seeing earl warren not being somebody who trusted richard nixon, they'd had, they'd been at it politically for years -- >> host: both from california. >> guest: both from california. and so, and earl warren a very savvy guy politically and seeing it thinking that lyndon johnson could fill the chair while he was,

it could have very easily just come up in a conversation where one lady said to haines, god, we're now dealing with, you know, a potential erasure problem with the tapes and just a passing comment because woodward doesn't seem to have much more. so i don't think it was much more. and i certainly think bob woodward's an honest person, don't think he's playing any games. i think if there's mistakes that felt gave him, he gave him those for his own reasons. maybe there are a few instances where bob because he wasn't taking contemporaneous notes but rather writing things up afterwards could have made a few minor mistakes, so that could explain some of the bad information, but i think we have the answer to that last remaining question. as far as the 18 and a half minute gap, what's on there, you know, we may someday have the computer technology to recreate that material and we'll actually find out if there's anything of substance. i don't, again, i think it's nixon botching the machine and not trying to erase something that was horrifying. >> host: where, physically, in the west wing was yo

mark haines, back to you. >> a quick check on the markets for you.he dow as indicated by the futures has opened higher. actually a little stronger than we expected, up 32 points. s&p up 7 points. which is way stronger than the dow industrials. and the nasdaq, actually the dow is lagging the other two indicators. let's get the info from the early tick, joining us david kelly, and jim paulson, chief investment strategist with wells capital management. david kelly, what is your strategy these days? >> well, i think you still have to play the trend, try to avoid the distractions. there is a lot going on, european volcanos and the financial issues last week with goldman sachs. but the basic trend is the economy strengthening here. we have numbers earlier on this morning from the international counsel of shopping centers showing very good retail sales right at the middle of april. the economy is strengthening here. and for the last year, the right play has been ignore the little corrections along the way, recognize that if the economy recovers, the stock m

i wasn't eating haines' donuts, because haines ate them all already. >>> and volcanic chaos taking a swipe at the airlines' bottom line. we have new numbers to share with you. and as we go to our commercials, some fresh one-year highs. hasbro continuing on that upward trend. hasbro and mattel have been on a roll lately. microsoft, southwest -- why southwest, you say? well, they only fly in the united states. we'll be back. alaska, the fishermen bring in the catch. and cargill brings in the sea salt to help them preserve it, shipped in an efficient supply chain to save the fishermen money and their catch. this is how cargill works with customers. and you have a heart attack. that's what happened to me. i'm on an aspirin regimen now. my doctor told me it's the easiest preventative thing you can do. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. see your doctor. simple. >>> welcome back. you know, something we had not mentioned, 9:40 a.m. press release from goldman sachs in which they make it clear yet again that they are coming out fighting and g

i'm mark haines. four dow components out with earnings today.em, boeing shares are taking off, up more than 3%. leading the s&p, huntington banc shares and keycorp. both up about 10%. stronger than expected earnings. and tempur-pedic, tupperware and emc hitting fresh 52-week highs. right now in kansas city, where everything is up to date, general motors about to officially declare a major victory. ceo ed whitacre to announce its loan repayment of $5.8 billion to american and canadian taxpayers. the press conference about to get under way, and of course, our phil lebeau is there. phil? >> reporter: mark, the press conference is going to be beginning in just a few minutes, but yes, this is a huge day for general motors, so big that you look around here, 3,700 workers here at the fairfax plant applauding some of the dignitaries, including kansas governor parkinson, who are here for the announcement from general motors. again, ed whitacre's going to announce that they have completely paid back the loans to the canadian and american governments, tota

to sergeant scott haines, sheriff's officer, santa rosa county, florida. thank you for being with us. sergeant, at this juncture would the cops tell a family to start planning the funeral without a body? for a funeral you've got to have some semblance of a body. you've got to have some remains for a funeral. they didn't say memorial. they said funeral. >> in any cases that we've ever worked we have never done that. that statement alone does lead me to believe that they do have believe that haleigh was in that water. that would be very odd for them to make a statement like that to a family and cruel for them to make a statement like that to a family if in fact they did not have proof that there was actually a homicide and they needed to plan a funeral for a body. >> dr. joshua perper is with us tonight, chief medical examiner broward county, author of "when to call the doctor." dr. perper, what do you make of it? telling the family to plan the baby's funeral. >> i never heard in my quite long career that the police would do such a thing or law enforcement w

it's close to haines hall.s we walk through the center of the festival you can see it is a perfect california day here and that in just a few minutes the next panel is starting and that's called "a struggle for a better tomorrow richard rainer a break and better place is his book, miriam porth and struggle and chavez farm worker movement is one of the authors and not fit for the society immigration and nativism in america. those are the three authors that will be on that panel. the next call comes from cincinnati. hello, cincinnati. >> caller: hello. i have a request, not exactly a book a few years ago you ran the once a week series on each president. >> the american presidency raise on c-span. >> the was wonderful. >> mark for farkus put that together. >> caller: i love it. right now i am reading forgotten heroes, it is 141 that got the honor and my husband was in the caribbean or mexico interested in that. but on a watch all of the c-span since i retired and i would love to hear the series from again on the p

.= our call-in set is set outside haines hall where a lot of the panelists are being held.nd now joining us is the author of this book "beyond fundamentalism" reza aslan. reza aslan, this book was originally named "how to win a cosmic war" why the original name and why did you change it? >> yeah, originally the hardcover was called "how to win a cosmic war." mostly to trick people into buying it twice, i think -- the book came out before the obama administration and it was an argument about the problem of religious extremism and the way in which the language of our wars and our conflicts have become fused with the language of religion. and ultimately the argument of that book was to put away the clash of civilization's war on terror rhetoric. well, president obama came into power and he pretty much did exactly that. release the paperback of the book, i went in and wrote a sort of a post-obama version of the book. one about -- we've gotten oneb and taken care of the rhetoric how do we deal with the nuts and bolts of religious extremism in the world. >> why is globalization i

here's the next panel from haines hall. >> okay, welcome. this panel, yeah, exactly.panel's unhelpfully called the middle east, facing the realities which is more than a little bit broad. i think we're going to try to discuss iran as much as possible, but we will entertain questions from elsewhere. before we start, there are a couple of announcements that i'm supposed to make, cell phones off, please. there will be signings following the session, the signing for this panel is located in the north signing area that'll be marked haines 39. .. followed by violence in the streets. the roots of the agreement reformist movement turned into something larger and political. all of this is superimposed upon the ongoing debate about iran's nuclear program and whether there are a temps to weapon negative the program, and if so, what the rest of the world can and should do about it. the los angeles times we are proud of our coverage there. our correspondent has spent an awful lot of time in tehran. he did a tremendous work last year and was recommended by the pulitzer prize commit