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the federal reserve is mex ing wo discussuppeey change.ex ing new worries, though, about the future of theon wob markest courd moc has the latesst >> good morning. it seems econorpc reclegaery isn track. the fed is still warn that things could change, and that means the decision that is come from these meetings could affect whe months to come. could affect >> the sig gj are there. economists are saying we could be coming out of one of the on nrst recessions in history. >> i'm convinced that we can see a light at the end of the tunnel. >> last november to this april >> last november taonthlyon wob 645,000. may and july customers shed 330, no0 a montittl whe latest figure 247,000. >> it's encouraging to hear that, ed.t therieroof is in the pudding. >> for americans now jobless stale loss and ipeopls warned unemployment could hit 10% because companies are not hirind back soon enoank ittl >> i've been going to soup kitchens, going to the t5 ton.x store, staying with a friend. i'm trying to make ends meet. >> what will it do for con'rmer confidence? >> they'll let programs intending to doon

brandon inge, takes them deep. that ends up being a two-run shot for inge.ex avila with the double to right field, bottom three. inge comes around to score. tigers up by the score of 5-0. they win it 7-3, i mentioned inge. that was his first home run since june 12. tigers improve to 24-14 in day games this season. that is the third best record during the day in the majors. his team leading by two. he puts them up three with a solo shot off john derchgs. his fifth home run of the year. angels up 6-3. top of the fifth. bobby abreu. homers to left off derchgs. it's a solo shot. this is important, because it's abreu's 250th career homer. bobby abreu becomes the fifth player in major league history to do this. 250 home runs,. listen to the other guys. barry bonds, craig biggio, joe morgan, rickey henderson, and willie mayes. angels pick up their a.l. leading 32nd road win. >> twins and indians in cleveland. nick blackburn 4-0 with a 1.63era in his career against the tribe. trevor crow does that. kind of inside out. bottom of the 7th. the double to left center. tr

i hope it's not ing to be the same. i hope they're going tdo some regulation. they are being very soft now but they hav to reigng it in. we have to depend on exrts and more on the government. i think evtually there will be anotr stimulus package, eventually there will beigher taxes. >> susie: mark? >> yes, i think we're at a point with respect to consumer ending. u.s. consumer power is growt the globaleconomy really for the past qrter century tt's evident in t declining rate and i think u.s. consumers will do tir part and no more than that going forward. but t good news is we ar seeing mh stronger and will see much strger growth from overas in many emerging economies, india, china. those consumersill spend more. their spending rates will me down and we will have the goods and service to sell to them. >> susie: et's hope they do buy thgsade in the usa. gentmen both thank you so much for cong on the progr. we really appreciate it >> thank you,hank you. >> susie: kenneth rogoff o harvard university and mark zai of moody's economy.com. >>aul: health care reform is

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the move will ing more than 1,30laid-off workers in the us and canada back to t assembly lines. a plant in ohio ll add a shift, whi another in michigan will increase overtime. paul: ford motor is chargin ahead with plans to brg electric vehicles to theasses. it's wking with a dozen utility mpanies and the partment of energy on a smar charging system that willet electric cars talk to powe grids across theountry. ford says the system wl let owners control when they crge thr vehicles and for how long. its fit battery electric vehicle, the trans connect commercial vanomes to market next and a batteryowered ford focuis due in 2011. >> susie: mewhile, chrysler creditors are suing daimr ag for billionsf dollars. they're accusing t german automaker of strping chrysler of assets before selling it

y didn't they change ts sooner and are they ing to do it now? >> well, i thnk, pete, because the didn't want to seem tbe brushing kennedy off the scene. and they wanted to wait ntil it was almost th en. a then he sent hat letter asking them, pleae make the change back. and you think that ill happen n? >> i think it's likelyo haen now. yougot a democratic legislature. and a demcratic governor. and they would li to fi at seat. karen, when kenned passes, the mmittee chairmanship opens up on the seate health committee. is chris dd going to take that? d how does that make halth care more likely a how does it me financial reform mor or lessikely? >> it's interting. chris dodd is -- s in an intereing position because he did take ver in ed kennedy's stead the health, education and labor and pensions committee. but he's also the chairman as you said of the bankin committee. and this is gog to be a big decision for him. and on top o this, he is facing wha could the most difficult re-eleion battle in the country next yr. so i think at this oint, it's impoi

but if we're ing to get serious about cost corol, we argoing to have to have serious discussion aboutheamount of ca and expense of care wegive at the end o life. that's just a ct. sif you want to call it a "dath panel," call it that. but it'sboutaving serious dcussions about care at the end of fe. and we're going have to have ha those discussions. inome weird way, i'm pro-dath panel. i wanto have those discusons, whether it's one on one or ju as a society. and this is a fdamental problem i think with this whole press. we haveto have serious diussions about who's goin to se in all this because we've got a runaway system,nd every time you me a minor suggestion a hi of a minor sgestion-- or ithis case not even a hit an exaggerion, people go razy. how are weoing to gethe system under contl. >> lehr: you mentioned the name "clinton." how about secreta of state clinto what do you think of he trip to africa and the outbst? >> i thought i was an absolutely legitimate ouurst. i thought it wasn important trip--. >> lehr: to refresh peoe's memors. mebody said what does president clion think about

the government is not ing to be puing people to death. that comes frm a new wrinkle in t house bill if it becomes he law that would say or the first ti medicaid -medicare would pay for - you'd hve a consuation with health pressionals about your end of life choices gw: the president found himself having t knock that down this week at tn hall meetings. >> o thing, i think that' a difficty for the administtion and its supporters is that is is a very complicated issueto begin withnd all the more complicated because 's moving rough congress slowl you have twomain bills hat are very different in the senate, an entily different bill in th house, none of which e done yet. while ty sit out therwith this confusion, it's sier for theypes of attcks that alex was talking about, t's too ch money, it's toomuch this or oo much that. ev for polling, do you support obama's ealth care plan? what is obama's ealth care plan? yoknow the general princips of it. but i think that'sone reon the proponts are doing petty well now. mae it will last. but they mit have

. >>> plus, nobody can accuse the tigers brandon inge of just phoning it in. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> and we'll be dealing with a few unsettled spots for your frimpt what will the weekend hold? that forecast coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. ifyou're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, new york giants receiver who was a hero in the super bowl two years ago is now anything but a hero. here's nbc fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> it wouldn't have mattered if but how long. how long would plaxico burress in prison for accidentally shooting himself last november. he pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a weapon and accepted a simply bargain with a two-year prison term. to baseball, red sox, after scoring 16 runs in the last two games, boston put up another eight against the blue jays. martinez hit as many in as many days. tigers and mariners, brandon inge, tiger third baseman tracked down the foul ball, went head over heels to make the grab. with total

the total is ing up to $300 billion. >> today's decision was a significant surpse. the expectatis had been that were geing toward the end ofuantitative easing. today, additional expenditures put u somewhere ove the tota that we previously expected. >> one reason for the surprise was th right now,he bank does not even know wherall of hat earlier mon has gone. the ba ofengland ha pumped all this money into the onomy and now, it is working its way through the system. it knows how mh money it has t in, but unlike the water company, it does not kn when or where that money is goingo come out. the areigns that the econy is picking up. new-car registratis rose 2.4% in july the first ris in 15 mohs. house prices rose by 1.1%. unemplment is still rising. the econy is probably still shrinking. this antitative easing is a icky business anthere could be toouchmoney in the econy in a year or so or there might be too little. by the time the bank of england knows forsure, it will probay be tooate. it is not turning off the p yet. >> one maineadline for you, the ited states seeking

seems toeshough we're more lely to be going up in termof demand anup in terms of ice than we are to be ing down. and i think the public is starting to sense that. >> so are contract cancellations less of a problem no for tol brothers? >> oh, very mh s our canceltion rate now is down to about 8.5%. a rmalized rate is about 7%. so wee almost back t the normalized rate thate've enjod since 86 as opposed to t last four years when the cancellatio rate went up as hig as -- m not exactly certa but it was something le 25% >> now y mentioned on e analyst conferen call today that you're seeing pickup in demand for highnd luxury homes. what about prices on th gh-end. are theylso holding u e've increased prices, i believe onbout 40% of our communities in the last month, month and a half. so they're not only holding up,hey're going up which is very welcome sign because tt was a rarity over the past four years til about the last fouror fi months. >> now we'veeard from som economists that ther are chances for a double dip recession. how are you adjusting your business plans for tha possibility? >> wl, wr

. >>> plus, nobody can accuse the tigers brandon inge of just phoning it in. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> and we'll be dealing with a ew unsettled spots for your frimpt what will the weekend hold? that f aoming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning to you. i'm joe krebs. >> and i'm barbara harrison. straight ahead on "news 4 today," a travel alert for commuters using metro this weekend. the major delays planned and why you need to have a plan. >> plus, the threat of a dangerous disease as college students return to campus. what administrators and the federal government are doing to keep them safe. >> then cuddle parties are the newest rage to kickback and relax, but before >>> good morning. ifyou're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, new york giants receiver who was a hero in the super bowl two years ago is now anything but a hero. here's nbc fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> it wouldn't haveattered if but how long. how long would plaxico burress in prison for accidental

what are they ing at nih? are they not doing rearch? >> the research oftentis by the armaceuticals is suspect because it is aimed at getting a oductpproved that is one that they want to sell. and we know of many instances whe those projects have proven to be dangerous and that the pharmaceutical companies kne of that ahead of time. we need to talk about t fundental discussion ofhe role of o health-care system at we want to -- a role in our health-care system tt we what the government to ay. it is about 35% now. the real aument is over that other 65%. >> tell me someing about the world toy or america today th makes you glad. > i'm glad th the president is goio martha's neyard. i think that is justs well as can be. >> really? [inaudible] and tre he is ruing shoulders wi the bankers who t the huge bonuses when many of us feel they were notitled to bonuses bause they ran the financial systeinto the ground. >> exct you are saying that allhe bank as good a martha's vineyard they go just abo everyere. a very powful banker frid of mineas a plac

over theast few weeks, short interest has declinesharply, suggesting more bears are ing scared away. that's just one of many reass strategistike ryan thinks stocks will he higher. >> oiously, the more short interest there i the more cash there is on the sidelines, t more support for the market there . as the markecontinues to grind gher, you continue to see shorts getting squeezeout. >> reporter: the mket has surged more than 50%ince the march 9 lows, so nearly eryone agrees thereould be a pullback ofoughly 5% to 10% percent coming. but many stregists, including milton ezrati, think t long- term trends higher. >> i tnk the bias is going to be up. and the reason i say thais because we at rd abbett believe that t economy is turning to at leasa modest recovery and ashat becomes apparent, the market will haven upward bias. >> repter: for economic optimism, look no rther than today's existing home sas report, which showed aecord 7% jump last month. the ho is the housing crisis which sparked the ression may finally be easin growing investor optimisis ing reflected in the "vix"-- the market

andhat's a pretty rious ing.t's a terriblelimate in which to enact it. >> but on heah care, the reform specifally, is it the president failure to sell it or is it just bad idea toegin with that he has a lot -- lated on to. >> i think it has some serious problems, so of whici have enumeted. to me the problem icare about is costs. it dsn't control cts and i think there is a element of the american people at re objecting to that. there is a very large amou, a larger element objectin to the fact it is governme take over or at least perceiv government take over on the heels of the takeover of as ig, onhe heels of the pceived takeover of e auto industry. and the final thin and this i ink the administtion is doing the right thing, is in some of the medicare cuts. and takingenefits away from people. there are a lot of people who say i don't want my medica cut to pay for universal health covege. and so they are doing the right thingut it costs them. >> how do you see that? the health -- the way t presidt handled the healt

it's a fine ing to do but it doesn't insure me people.the senate finance commiee is really in troue." >> wl, iust disagree with that. look, have greatespect for howard dean, count him as a frnd, but the fact is our propal covers 95% of the people in th country. rember, the co-op proposals just one piece of a mh larg alth careeform bill. and the coverage expansion tt is in this bill is very significant. 95% of the people in this country would get covered under thisegislation and that's separate and art from the cooperative feature ofthe bill. number two, congressional budget ofce says in their preliminary anysis of ourlan that it is paid for and i do bend the cost curve in the right way. and rlize that isbsolutely imperave, because we're spending twice as much per personn health care as any other country in the world. on in every six dlars in th onomy. and wee headed for a circumstance in which we're going to spend one in ery three dollars in thi economy on health care if westay on the rrent course. at is utterly unstainable. there's sbili

presiding bishop mark hanson plead with consertives to stay in the church a keep the dialog ing. we have a profile now o bll and gloria gaither, the legendaryongwriting and pforming couple who have had enormo success in the world of christian gospel muc. bill is well knowfor his productivity, his upbeat attitude and his help to oers. gloria has often bn his songwring partner and is a successful author andpeaker in her o right. th gaithers live in a small town in indiana,here phil nes found them. >> reporter: in t 1950s, bill gaher used to turn on his radio and listeno all the gospel music stars. he was a farm y with a field of dreams. >> i kt dreaming of the day that maybe, justaybe, i could write a sonthat would catch the attention of sebody or sing a song th would catch the tention of somebody. am i blessed guy? i'm blessed. what can i sa >> reporte in 1963, his dream came true. he wrote a ht. elvis presley recordedt and won a grammy, but the rics belged to bill gaither. >> ♪ he touched me, ohhe toucd me. ♪ jimmdurante sang this and he'd go... ♪ he touched me, d all the joy tha

find out why with ing direct ceo. that's happening ahead, only on "the call." >>> welcome back, oil rising back above the $70 mark, and a very bullish inventory report this morning with stocks falling quite significantly that pushed crude oil up by 2.4% on the board. trish? >> thanks rk, mandy. the swiss and u.s. government have signed an agreement to uncover thousands of americans who are suspected of evading u.s. taxes. mary thompson has the details. >> yes, the swiss government is handing over 4,450 account names, accounts that hold billions of dollars in assets. it's a settlement the irs says gives it unprecedented information about u.s. citizens it believes who are evading taxes by hiding money off shore. irs commissioner douglas schulman saying it also should send a strong warning to anyone squirrelling away assets that should be taxed. >> as this agreement demonstrates, the world of international taxes has dramatically changed, and people hiding assets and income off shore, and from the irs need to get right wi

. >> p prorobly the most telling e looking a time wnn we g ing wot have s senator kennedy in >> reporte kennes ggesting that the governrnor be empowered appoint a tempoporary placement until a spepecial it seems directed a one siningl issu health care. >> i pledge you that i will be there, n nexex juary onn the floooor t united ststatates sete. to fight foror at the docratic coconvention last t summ, , and use for whh democrats now needry vote ey can get. >> t thi he'ss ccern most out is getting a health care plan passed. i think heants to ma sure therere's someone e there carr onhe worork thathe's been doing. >> repororr: the massachusetts law requin speal e election sassed jujust five yea ago, when demts dn't want tn rereblic governor mt romney filling a senate s seat ha john kerry encted present. washington are cryg fofoul. >> when you start mucking arod wi election laws a start changing laws too benef difft individualals and differenpolil parts, the's s a l l of uninnded >> reporter:iter t demococrarat gornor deval patrickck nor democrat leadersrs here i the statate use hahaveaid if

how is he ing to pay r it? will hejust taxillionaires' like nancy pelosi once? -- wants? how far is he willing to go to get to thehouse and senate? would he nd a filibusr? on and none of those critical points has there bn any cavity >> andhere is a good reason, i think,or it. you start t with something like health care th has been debated for 50 years. you have to know where everybody is on the sueyou have 535 members up there. you have to know where the stand. he is takintime to flush them out. y need to know wre your vote are on the publi option. you need to know where your tes are on all of these issues before you answer -- time is on his side. i don't think so. >> tim is on his side and we will talk offi next january -- talk about this next january -- >> it has been a long and costly flush if that is the case. let me ask about the letter ted kennedwrote to the governor of massachusetts asking to change in law -- a lawo that there is no vacancy in the senate seat before special election. >> w was behind thchange? edward kennedy. his letter was touching, bu his hypocris

even here it tookn hr to ing one man acrs the treatment. progress is slow and clearly many have parished. >> the damage is huge with many casualties. a lot entered but even more dead peoe. >> taiwahas now aske for international help. heavy lting aircraft and disiffect tant. 1.5,000 body bags have been broughtn for the worse ce scenario, but many may not be foun >> after aear of negive growth, two of europe's bgest commission have unpectedly pulled out of recession. figures just release show the output of france and germany gr by .3% in th second quarter of this year spite focasts they would carry on shnking. we have this from our chi economic correspondent. >> there are oe orwo bright sps in theorldconomy. and surprisingly learn today two of them are right in the heart of continenl europe. france and gmany both recorded growth of .% in the second quarter of the year. europe's industrl powerhouse was perhaps theiggest surpse. german compaes are on the move again. they have had a term tme over the last year with the slump i world trade, but i

ing revealed that its drop in dividend for the year. the group's cfo says economic conditions are still challenging although there is some sign of recovery in future markets. and the future of continental's ceo is in the balance. the board is holding a meeting in hahnover today and will decide the fate. the move destroys an agreement that the biggest shareholder made last year to respect continental's independence. >> ross, the world's largest miner, bhp billiton report add 33% drop in annual profit marking the company's first proof fall in seven years. now, the slide in metal prices and demand calls for the profit to fall through june. bhp says demand looks to be improving, but says it's still too early to tell if that's due to fundamentals or restocking. in london, it is trading down 0.9%. stay tuned to cnbc because our colleagues in the u.s. will be speaking to the ceo of bhp billiton, marchus kloppers. you can catch that around 14:40 cetp.ius kloppers. you can catch that around 14:40 cetp. >>> the arrest of the austral n australians

. >>> an argumentean i ing. gg.mo r fo d n n agentea.- she'd been ieve poliel b aveenag wt with her killer sparked the fatal attack. so far no one has been arrested. >>> it's been three years since a d.c. attorney died under mysterious circumstances. d.c. police say robert juan was murdered inside a duh pont circle row house. he'd been stabbed, restrained an sexually assaulted. a group of bloggers who don't know anyone connected to the case are trying to solve the crime. they started a blog filled with their own research and leads they chased down. >> we're the scooby gang. >> we're trying to figure out what exactly happened that night. through whatever means we can, by cultivating sources. >> the former roommates who lived at that house now accused of coverg up evidence at the crime scene. >>> district residents may soon haveo pay more when they shop, fill up and light up. the d.c. council approved a series of tax hikes that would raise the sales, gas and cigarette taxes. they're trying to close a $660 million

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now it's not much the egyptian governmenbut still th egyptian people and the ings that they do, e new egyptian med and so forth inspir imitation elsewhe in the arab world. >> rose: >> the wayn which the uned ates hascultural hodge gemini in the world, egypt has it in the region. if you're i morocco an you're speaki egyptian arabic, they say so you're speaking must bey arabic. that's why 's important. i was in kuwait on iraq's first elections in fe the, kuwaitis said "this great for iraq but if it haened in egypt, it would shake th region." >> rose: fee venn cook, thank you. >> tha you. >> rose: i'm in washington, d.c. with zhou wenzhong. he has served a cna's ambassador to the uned states since 2005. he is a key figure in whichwhat some call the most imptant bilaterarelationship in the world. he works on a range of issues important to both countries, including trad taiw, north korea,limatehange, and the economy. as the economic cris has spread, he has said that china and the united state now share a greateresponsibility for global stability d peace. i am pleased to have the ambassador

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. >> a not the ku superintendent, this is ing to be m one and only suerintendent.so in that way ion't have to worrybout what's going to appen to my reputation o something like that. >> reporter:rom day one ree seemed unlikely leader for d.c.'s public hools. she had never been a school pncipal, let alone a superiendent. but heren washington d.c., which haseen seven surintendents in adecade, two yearsn office makes michelleee veteran, she's accomplished aot. she's closed3 schools, slashed her central office staff. pumped $0 million into school modernizaon, quadrupled spending on teacher traing, and replad about half of herchool principals. but is education improving? that's a difficult question. >> i think thejury is out. i think i takes aittle more than st scores to dece whetheor not the schools are better. >>rd union president george parker reprents about 4000 teacrs. are your tachers doing better job? >> i think we're doing a better job of measuring i don't thin it's necessarily epresentive that in some knd of way our teachers were bad an now they're good. think a

and brandon inge says thank you for the pitch.our-run second inning for the tigers. bottom of the third, tigers up 4-0. alex avila making his major league debut. he's the son of the tiger's assistant general manager. and how about that, his first major league hit and an r.b.i. to boot. team president dave saddam -- zambrowski said about the hit, "wow." as the tigers get the 7-3 victory. avila2-4 and an r.b.i. not a bad way to get your first game under your belt. rick porcello is the first pitcher in franchise history with double-digit wins at age 20 or younger. >> the angels facing the chi sox. top third, 5-3. vladimir gurrero homering to left off lefty john danks, his first homer since returning from the d.l., fifth of the year, 6-3 angels. top fifth, angels leading by two. bobby abreu homers to left off danks, the solo shot, 250th career. homer for abreu. they go on the win. jeff mathis and erick aybar also went deep for l.a. who improve to 15-5 since the all-star game. they have four jaxx and four stolen bases in the win. angel

and all those ings that really areoing into what is going to comeut in this health-care bill.and what we haven't had is a lot of reportag that explains really what is in those bills or likely to be in tho bills. because some of it - is fairly hard to do. >> go ahd, roge, yo want to jump in. >> wl, the process of verage also is a little bitlike hurting cats right now. you essentlly have a large herd cats, you have a largnumber of people focus on somethi that isn't clearl defined right now so what you're sothing you are trying to ver something and are you getting reaction to something. wheryou can have my people saying what they think it is when, in fact, we d't really know what it is. >> roger i know -go ahead, trudy. >> okay, i think in some ways we reay do kind of kw at theutlines are. and there s a story i was reading th morning that said that there was lot of agreement alrey in the coress on some isss. and there's major digreement on other issues. so some ofs have been coveri this more many, many months now ally do sort of know what those outlines are. for example, we know

th say i he ing to run again. would th be the last term for presidenmubarak. u say? >> i'm not looking for, if i'm gog to renew another term or something le this. i'm busy. still i hav two ars. i have the problems that came with elections. now i' trying r again or not run ain. effort is to complete the program for theeople and i made the program younow in t campaign. anall thetems thathe present wants. this is main concern. not to renew or not to renew. i'm not thinking about that now. >> charlie: when will you decide? >> i would like ask a question. when can you deci when the esident is now? yocan? you c't. we have to see. >> charlie: but they have books now called egypt aft mubara books. >> it is a large country and w havetability here. we enjoy stability. we have a peanent cotitution. it has been amend for a numr of times. i recall that once you asked in onef your intviews, is th the president being elected only by e parliamenteans some sort of incomple democracy. at the se moment, that momt i was ready t propose amendments to the constition de amended4 articlehat

clinton saying "we're not ing to pay any attention to them. although a couplweeks later ere's bill clinton over ther >> rose: tre much tal at the white house out how thismay indite a new role f bill clinton? >> i ink that there's not a lot of talk about that. i think present obama said today that he wants to talk to bi clinton at some point and see what happenedver there and what they talked about. but it certainly does pubill inton backn the spotlight. it was a rl taleof two clintons today and ovethe past couple weeks. >> rose: thank youmartha, great to see you. >> you, two. >> rose: thank you,evans. we'll be rightack. stay with us. >> rose: j scarborgh is he. he is the host of "morning joe" the m nbcprogram that attracting a gwing following. "newsweek" magazincompared the brdcast to something like a serious mindedvening show still wearing its bathrobe and slippers. >> (laughs) >> don: you like at. here's aook at "morng joe." >> david gergen who's been around aew presidents, republic and democrat alike, hahad positive this to say about presid

the colonel piece memo se concern over the past month as to whether there are too many constraints ing put on american mitary operatis. and then commanders like genera odierno have come forth and said no we're working is out. wehink we can make it work. i think at's the date amonthe forces in iraq. but i think everydy recognes that the way to the effort is -- weighof the effort is shifting understandabl to afghanistan which promises to be a very difficu figh >> rose: what ishe new strategy that isemerging from general mcchrtal. >> okay, i thi that michael phrased this very well. the siation, i had last been in afghanistan in february f ten days. and thene came back r this exercis the situation isorse than i thought it was wn hi come backn fruary. ihink thate are in serious danger in kandahar province in particular ere the enemy s made signicant gains. and we have not reacted properly. i think that hav underestated the nviolent oronlethal part of the enemy's strategy which is really a very sophisticated mpaign of intimidation a also attrtion that the enemy engages in. and think that we'

band putting out albums doing all of the thing rock and rollers do and when i finally arrived at the f-ing rock and rollers do best, making money after i made some money i published a book basically as an experiment, and i found that i really enjoyed publishing the book. it was quite successful. i published the second book, and was a hobby, and after publishing three or four books i had the publishing dog and i started transitioning away from rock and roll and into book publishing and there was no looking back. >> the publisher is based in brooklyn brooklyn book festival. t want to tell about that? >> dad, the brooklyn book festival is held by -- new york city has one major but it has five burrows and each has an elected president and brooklyn's very popular burrows president is markowitz, and when he came into office five, six years ago or maybe seven years ago he always wanted to start a big book festival because brooklyn is the home of creators and it has a literary tradition dating back to walt whitman, richard wright, and these days we have many best sellers living in brooklyn so it w