on business, i pick up the phone and call jim jeffrey or tom knight. >> and then we had -- we also had a question on the points of engagement that could be utilized within the country. >> in particular for human rights purposes, if i remember the question correctly, i think the vital points of engagement are in civil society, and in the opposition in parliament. frankly, i don't see that the iraqi government institutions are a strong point of engagement for human rights today. but i think we should strengthen as best we can both nongovernmental organizations and, frankly, some of the opposition in parliament, which is rather human rights oriented. >> i won't argue any of this. i'll just say what i think the levers of influence can be, on economic issues, issues of trade, issues of foreign investment in iraq, which iraq desperately needs. the united states has levers of power. iraq, at least when i was in the foreign ministry, was talking about entry into the world trade organization. that is a tremendous incentive. i agree with dan that arms supplies are an avenue. and by the way, i th

the hilarious jim jeffreys joins us live instudio. and we're going to have more details on that as well coming up. >>> they can save lives when they work the way they should. but now metro is replacing dozens of its defibrillators after one of them fails when it's needed most. >> man charged with the murder of trayvon martin back in court this morning asking to be set free. why some legal experts say george zimmerman has a real good chance at bail. >> he disappeared more than 30 years ago, walking to his school bus stop. now a new search in the case that changed the missing children's movement. good morning, everybody. i'm tony perkins. >> i'm will thomas in for alison seymour this morning. good to be with you, sir. >> good to see you. >> let's start with good news. looks like another nice friday. >> yeah. all fridays are nice, but this one will be particularly nice, as we'll have a lot of sunshine and temperatures in the 70s. >> he's got to work all weekend long. i think you're the hardest man working in weather today. >> yes, and th

moreover ambassador jim jeffrey and his staff see the prime minister, his top aides and a full spectrum of iraqi political leaders and president telefon eight, speaker in the gac, a host of others routinely. this pays for level of access is greater than our embassies typically enjoyed anywhere else in the world. so i also fear that our plans to reduce the size of a diplomat that for a minute back is also the site of opinion in a peer but the opposite in fact is the case. starting several years ago we planned conservatively and preparing for what was the biggest military civilian transition in u.s. history since the marshall plan. planning was done in the context of significant uncertainties. for the security and certainty spirits of planning was underway, both our troops and our diplomatic staff were subjected to frequent rocket fire ieds and the like could this require planning for a large complex of self sufficient diplomatic platform to manage any and all security scenarios. it also meant engaging an enormous number of contracts to the support that the county commission throughout th

baltimore sun and now with the wall street journal but if you look at the case of jeffrey sterling they have subpoenaed jim rise and bush subpoenaed him new york times columnist jim rise and twice then obama super unit him once the judge. brinkema ruled that he did have a reporter's privilege not to disclose his source. who people widely believed to be jeffrey sterling and now that's up on appeal and kiriakou scase there are journalists all over the charges have journalists aid generalist be journalists be and in the indictment journalist a journalist be journalist and be. again a high profile new york times journalist jim rise and but scott shane incurious so we're seeing a lot of examples here here at r.t. we cover this whole issue of whistle blowing a lot particularly with bradley manning you know the army private accused of blowing the whistle and sending hundreds of thousands of documents to wiki leaks and which has made his public document public meetings on his public excuse me which one do you think is the most shocking. of the cases that were of what of the cases wow i think i mean i'm most famili

jim grossman for being part of initiating this partnership. the lear center and also at usc the center for communication, leadership and policy which is headed up by my colleague jeffrey cowan. that partnership has a name. it's called historians, journalists and the challenges of getting it right. it starts with the premise that both those professions, historians and journalists are in the business of finding and assessing evidence, of analyzing events and of narrating events. they're both story tellers, both we think could enhance their work by learning from each other, by establishing networks that connect them, by sharing expertise and by sharing practical knowledge about media and methods. so we begin that collaboration here and it's also my privilege as part of that to ask you to turn off your cell phones. c-span is with us. we're glad of that. the amplification here is our own voices, not these microphones. so later on when there's time for questions from the room, please speak into the mic, but know that for the people here, your voice is not amplified. so in order to explore what these professions have in common and where they differ, to begin to understand wh

jim chanos. >> you said john. >> too much jon on the mind here. >> i called facebook ceo jeffrey zuckerberg and, of course, it's mark zuckerberg. >> good old-fashioned dvds are behind us. >> not surprising given what's been transpiring with netflix, and -- and the -- the move to streaming and yet people still want something immediate and something that they can walk away with right away. that is, of course, the red box. do it with blockbuster and so forth. i think jim chanos is right. overall it's just a matter of time before this model goes away and the streaming model takes over. >> got to wonder if shorts like jim ch ho nos have been coming in. >> yeah. if you're short of a stock, getting short google ahead of the quarter or apple or jim ch ho nos on coin star, you better have the catalyst right. >> coming up next, it could be the biggest bubble to hit the u.s. since housing. find out why city economist steven wieting is prescribing drastic changes for the health care industry, and later robots revolutionizing all sorts of places from your home to health care. we're trading the next big thing. much more "fas

jeffrey neely is currently on leave from the g.s.a. and could face criminal charges. the president of dartmouth college, jim yong kim, was elected today as president of the world bank. the bank's executive board tapped kim to serve a five-year term over candidates pushed by developing nations. president obama nominated kim last month. he's a doctor who pioneered in treating aids and tuberculosis in the developing world. previous world bank leaders were generally political or economic figures. retail sales were up nearly a full point in march, as u.s. consumers stepped up their spending. on wall street, the news helped blue chip stocks post a gain for the day. the dow jones industrial average added more than 71 points to close at 12,921. the nasdaq fell nearly 23 points to close at 2988. the tech index was pulled lower by apple, which has dropped for five trading days in a row. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to ray. >> suarez: and to two stories about internet privacy. first, the latest on a government investigation of google's collection of personal data that started with taking pictur

jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we examine the santorum exit and look ahead to the general election campaign with jim o'toole of the "pittsburgh post- gazette" and susan page of "u.s.a. today." >> brown: then, as president obama calls for higher taxes on millionaires, we get two views on the so-called "buffett" rule, from white house advisor gene sperling and leading conservative economist douglas holtz-eakin. >> woodruff: from sacramento, spencer michels reports on community colleges, facing more and more applicants but tighter budgets. >>reporter: california's mmuny lleges seve 2.6 million students. it's the largest higher education system in the entire country. but its mission may be changing. >> woodruff: and ray suarez talks with the authors of "tinderbox," a new take on the history and spread of aids. >> the roots of colonialism, it's unlikely that the epidemic we know today would have come out in the way we've seen it. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us >>