the dish and icahn bids are presumably higher than that. blockbuster used to dominate the movie rental business, but it lost ground as customers shifted to netflix, video on demand and d.v.d. rental kiosks. >> tom: the disaster in japan and upheavel in the mid-east hasn't hurt investor appetite for stocks. and that includes tonight's market monitor. he's gary motyl, chief investment officer at templeton global equity. welcome back to nbr, golf course nice to see you again. >> thank you, tom. >> tom: let's talk about where we were a year ago and where wea today. a year ago when you were here you were finding value across the grob. are you still? >> that's still the case. united states, europe, asia, we continue to find bargains everywhere. >> tom: what type of bargains are you finding? what types of industries? >> it's interesting that we've been finding a pretty eclectic mix of names over the last several months, financial stocks some energy stocks. >> tom: across the board. what about emerging markets? i know you voiced concerns about emer

ambassador to afghanistan former general carl icahn barry who we know has. had a cool relationship with the obama white house and also a cool relationship with petraeus looks like president obama is basically cleaning house of anyone who might question his very aggressive foreign policy secretary defense gates has been somewhat reluctant to commit u.s. ground forces or even u.s. special forces personnel on limited bases in the libyan khan conflict so what we're seeing now is obama warning to put leon panetta who is basically a former democratic congressman he was chief of staff to president clinton he's basically a democratic party hack although he has had had served his term at the cia as a director and the other issue of course is making general david petraeus the director of the cia replace saying mr panetta and we all know that petraeus the author of the guy who came up with this whole surge in iraq in afghanistan is somebody that the neoconservative certainly like they even were talking about running in for president on the republican. ticket what this

icahn bids for blockbuster. ,it buys national semiconductor. there's itheir ss soaring today. the purchase price is $25 a share. it is up $10.12. we will bring new opening bell in 15 minutes. >> darya: president barack obama has invited to discuss budget this line sure they have yet to agree on a budget. republican and democratic leaders have signaled a stalemate in the negotiations on how much the government should cut spending for the rest of the year. friday is the deadline, if no deal is made by then part of the government will shut down. the senate is voting to retail repeal part of the health care today. they're poised to send the first rollback. it's a repeal of a tax reporting requirement that is widely unpopular with workers. republicans hope it's the first of many bills resulting in the health care lobbying scrapped. >> mark: a break now is the morning news continues until 11:00 a.m.. [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes, i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪

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ambassador to afghanistan former general carl icahn very who we know has. had a cool relationship with the obama white house and also a cool relationship with petraeus looks like president obama is basically cleaning house of anyone who might question his very aggressive foreign policy which has some people in washington here saying all obama is really he's the third term of george w. bush and some people say the fourth term of george h.w. bush do you think he just followed the goalpost could change with afghanistan there they are saying come hell or high water the americans will be out of afghanistan by twenty fourteen but do you think maybe a change in tact there a change in leadership as such would make any difference to that. i think with petraeus says the cia director we're going to see a lot more games being played in a covert way and in afghanistan and elsewhere as is known to be an arch war hawk a neoconservative and now he's going to be heading out the u.s. central intelligence agency there's a there's a dark clouds looming i'm afraid for us involv

dish network and carl icahn have submitted bids ahead of the auction. there's a casting call.eles. for people who want to be the new voice of the aflac duck. yes, indeedy. candidates have been submitting auditions online by the thousands. get your voice in the ring there, folks. i'm tyler mathison. get all your business news on cnbc. >> that's cute. you can also get your business and tech news before the bell on weekdays starting at 4:30 in the morning. "today in the bay" starts bright and early. >>> more trouble for lindsay lohan. police just released a 911 call from december when the actress was in a drug rehab at the betty ford center. an employee called 911 caming lohan hit her over an argument over telephone access. you can hear lohan asking the employee if she wants money. >> the betty ford clinic fired that employee for violating the clinic's confidentiality policy after give an interview to a celebrity news website. >>> an american boy is in an italian orphanage though his father is willing and able to care for him. here's a preview of the story you can see tonight on