of all in that beautiful town of kilkenny i believe to try to gather attention to this but the irish press by and large is obviously siding with the developers and the people who fraudulently paddled fraudulent mortgages and are dealing in fraudulent securities why is the irish press is it just too cozy with the establishment well address suppose if you look you go look at the big picture here the irish press in the main cheer led to the boom those of us who were earth very skeptical about the boom were warning about the boom were largely dismissed as cranks. people who didn't really understand the new dynamic i mean it's if you look back to my control you know you the same sort of carry on again what you have this if you look back just before the crushing all sorts of journalists of color mists and leading academic setting does a new era and productivity has changed as new technology in this time it's different and ultimately prices are a sustainable level not all those guys who came up with that flow during the irish who are the very same guys who are today. telling the irish people that

. >> the demand on the irish economy has pressure for the bailout possibilities. germany may be pressing the irish to increase its corporation tax rate. the government is non- negotiable. >> as the international delegation crunched numbers to decide the finance ministry of farmers, some protesters made their message clear outside. >> the eu commission and european central banks are not friends of the irish people. they are here to implement certain measures of the financial markets. >> leaders have conceded that they need help. there are expected to offer a rescue passage -- package worth $110 billion. ireland may have to raise a corporation tax which is not attractive to foreign investors. for investors, that would be unthinkable. >> we are trying to make our economy grow. we may destroy one of the great drivers of growth. we have to grow out of a recession. >> some in germany, they feel the low corporate tax rate in ireland gives them an unfair advantage. fake irish do not want to surrender this sovereignty. any agreement is unlikely to make much difference. >> that money going into th

he says he expects the irish government to accept a loan for tens of billions of dollars. the eu is pressing ireland to accept help. mark simpson reports. they have said they do not need emergency aid, but there was a sign that they would upset the help. >> it is to show ireland has sufficient firepower to deal with any concerns of the market. >> talks took place all day involving officials from the european central bank, the european commission, and the international monetary fund. >> we are looking for ireland and the area in general, and we want to be constructive with that engagement. the government at the end of the day will make decisions based on the outcome of discussions. >> ireland's closest neighbor is the u.k., and the government is ready to help. >> we have an interest in not just the euro zone. we have an interest in ireland being a success, so i do not want to rule things out. >> ireland's budget deficit is 32% of gdp. ireland is expected to arrive for a loan of between 80 billion euros and 100 million euros. some believe ireland will pay a high political price for any funding

. >> the activist in the popular press for english and irish immigrants, recent immigrants who sometimes madison and jefferson felt more comfortable dealing with through intermediaries. you didn't campaign for office. you didn't run for office. you stood for office. : >> do you have any particular reaction to any of the varied ways that jefferson in particular used -- >> well, how madison and jefferson are quoted in the press and in the senate chamber today. well, one of the things that encouraged us to write this book and to do the research deeply is that madson is generally known only as, you know, the so-called father of the constitution and a co-author of the federalist papers which nancy mentioned earlier the federalist papers didn't really become important national documents until the modern age, so when madison is oversimplified and looked upon just as the egghead of the founders who wrote the constitution and thought about in a language and perhaps spoke in a language that would be hard for us to understand you know, you miss humanity, but what we've done is to present madison as

. >> the activist in the popular press for english and irish immigrants, recent immigrants who sometimesmadison and jefferson felt more comfortable dealing with through intermediaries. you didn't campaign for office. you didn't run for office. you stood for office. : >> do you have any particular reaction to any of the varied ways that jefferson in particular used -- >> well, how madison and jefferson are quoted in the press and in the senate chamber today. well, one of the things that encouraged us to write this book and to do the research deeply is that madson is generally known only as, you know, the so-called father of the constitution and a co-author of the federalist papers which nancy mentioned earlier the federalist papers didn't really become important national documents until the modern age, so when madison is oversimplified and looked upon just as the egghead of the founders who wrote the constitution and thought about in a language and perhaps spoke in a language that would be hard for us to understand you know, you miss humanity, but what we've done is to present madison as

press club. >> on wednesday irish prime minister brian cowen releases governments for your economic recovery planhe spoke to the irish parliament before addressing the media, talking about spending cuts and new taxes. he is joined by irish finance minister and green party leader john gormley. this is just under 45 minutes. sae >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you all very much. i wish to say a few introductory remarks. jon schorle, green party leader and then brian lenihan. today we were going to announce before your plan between now and 2014. it's to bring certainty for our people, to ensure that they have hope for the future, to let them know that while we have a challenging time ahead, we can and we will pull through as we had in the past.to lethem know the crisis that has come and we're dealing with since the th sin middle 2008, and which now we need to step out in further h itil at that we do wit between now and 2014, is similar in some respects to of the crisis in other countries at other times. those countries came through that crisis. those they came through thosetime foro problems.toge

irish officials insisted they do not need a bailout. and a spokesman for the european commission dismissed talk of other nations pressing ireland to accept help. >> too say... to say that these contacts constitute in some press reports negotiations of a bailout in this kind of exaggerations, i think there is a big, big distance. no, we are in close contact and regular contact. it has to be. it's only normal. there is no news in that, but nothing beyond that. >> sreenivasan: ireland's national deficit soared after it rescued five banks from huge real estate losses. in another development, european union officials reported the greek government has much more debt than first estimated. the revised numbers mean greece will likely miss the targets set in its bailout agreement last spring. americans bought more cars in october, and that boosted overall retail sales by the most since march. the commerce department reported today that sales rose 1.2%. on wall street, stocks had a mixed day. the dow jones industrial average gained nine points to close near 11,202. the nasdaq fell four points to close at 2513. the pro-democracy leader in myanmar, a

press conference -- he's still around by the way -- like me, still around. [laughter] [applause] [inaudible] [laughter] i said gentlemen, bob mcgwire, police commissioner, and they say mayor, isn't this just part of the older irishmafia? [laughter] i turn to bonds and put my hand told me you were jewish. [laughter] he turns and puts his arm on my shoulder and says mayor, i didn't say that, i told you i look jewish, in that story. [laughter] of course but i was riding in the book i said did you know your second police commissioner was the first african-american police commissioner, grew up speaking yiddish fluently and he said no. >> he had a bad accent. [laughter] any way, the problem is as you said you took the heat. but when you fix the pavement on park avenue and you don't fix the pavement on hundred 25th street because you don't have the money and you don't have the money for year after year, people start to get angry, and it starts to meet you -- it becomes a racially divisive issue and it maintains the quality-of-life for the wealthy and garbage and the pavement, the quality of the streets declined. i'm sorry, basic city services decline in the poorer areas. you can't be accused of shrinkage because when t

. >> a live press conference the president cutting his trip short and headed to korea he is leaving because of the mound and the deadly irish plume spilling into the air. the death toll totals more than 150 people. mount moriah be spewing ash though it has not had an eruption since friday. in that blast whole villages were smothered people killed by hot gases. it has erupted several times in the past century that volcano has killed some 1400 people. >> back with more of a couple of minutes. and nice look from mount tam camera. it looks good blue skies out there we have sun and the amex. we also have rain to that comes in later today. temperatures cooled right now. new details on that cruise ship that has been adrift since an engine room fire as it was headed towards mexico. it is waiting to tugboats that will haul it back to san diego. it will take 24 hours to tell the thousand ft carnival cruise ship back to port. it is running on a generator right now there is no hot food or hot water and at this point no electricity except emergency lights. >> google has an early trip gift it will offer passengers on delta and virgin ame