i do not know a wider-lens thinker than general jim jones. i have had the opportunity and privilege to work with general jones on many occasions. he captured me out on a boat on the mediterranean for a couple of days and made me sit through a lot of marines talk about a lot of things that an old army guy has no capacity to understand. [laughter] this man, ed jones, really does stan the gamut -- this man, jones, really does span of the gamut. he is still learning from brent scowcroft, according to scowcroft. nevertheless, we talked very favorably about you today, jim, at lunch. fred had a table full of former national security advisers and, nonetheless, they made at a pretty good group. jim jones always adds a dimension to whatever he does and he is doing that now and " i think is one of the most defining times in the history of the world. what the secretary general is doing and what some many of you in this room are doing is adding how we're going to shape that world that we're all good going to have to live with for many years. i think that i

one would think that having clinton and jim jones there, but they are not getting your route. what they have in, not hard power, but soft power and smart power, it is not only afghanistan. they want the president to put his shoulder to the wheel and put real oomph behind this concept. the summit is not coming forward. it is an obama achilles heel. >> we will have full market and financial analysis in 25 minutes. >> they have a new luxury business service between london and new york. a couple of carriers have tried it, it did not get very far. really, they would argue that the executives that would normally use corporate jets in healthier times, this is it, starting price just under 2,000 pounds. at the same time they are going to take off from london city airport and refuel, the problem is all of the paper work. by the time that you get to jfk , and you are a domestic traveler. >> and then you pick up your smoked salmon. >> top class food. absolutely. >> this is "world news today." coming up, will they stay or go? could ireland possibly vote in favor of closer ties with europe

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"national security advisor jim jones, general jim jones said sunday that mcchrystal's assessment will "be analyzed as to whether it is in sync with the strategy that the president announced in march. as if the president had a strategy in march and now they're deciding whether this assessment by mcchrystal is in sync with the strategy. >> and what mcchrystal's people would sty that is, well, the first bullet point in the president's white paper that was released in march calls for an integrated civilian/military counterinsurgency campaign. and what mcchrystal was doing was following that guidance. now, admittedly, there's agreement that the goal is narrow. the goal is to deny al qaeda from coming back. but the strategy that was articulated by the white house after an interagency strategy review earlier this year was to have a comprehensive counterinsurgency effort. now that, of course, as we hear from the president, from national security advisor jones and others is being subject to a new round of examination and questioning. >> rose: the president has been involved in health care refo

is that when jim jones the communist got everybody to drink kool-aid. it was too early for van jones, who was setting up storm in san francisco. which one is it? oh, i know! maybe it was the weather underground that you guys are hanging out with now? is it that group? help me. fill me in on that. keep letting your voices be heard and learn the lesson of gandhi and martin luther king. when you have the truth and the people behind you, it is powerful, a powerful thing. let me please quote frederick douglass. "weapons of war we have cast from the battle. truth is our armor, our watch word is love. let the fringe media keep ignoring you. let them keep calling you names. you don't need them. you're making progress with no thanks to them. they need you. they need you to think the opposite of that. this whole system has been built to tell you you're not really complete without thisser certain product or certain label you're buying or certain philosophy or certain politician or certain network. it's a lie. you have everything you need. you come to earth complete

vice president biden, general jim jones and chief of staff rahm emanuel are said to be skeptical of that proposal. with biden pushing a narrower foe kur on counterterrorism, just al qaeda, with likely fewer troops. others in the room have yet to decide. among the questions they're debating -- does providing security for afghanistan against the taliban make sense if most of al qaeda is in pakistan? does the taliban pose a threat to the u.s.? if not, need they be defeated? does nation-building in afghanistan make sense if it's not clear that nation can be built? and -- >> if we take the risk of failing in afghanistan, what happens then to pakistan? >> reporter: a book being devoured right now in the west wing is "lessons in disaster," about the build-up to vietnam, written by gordon goldstein. >> the number one lesson in disaster for the president is a lesson kennedy learned in 1961, counselors advise but presidents decide. >> reporter: presidents decide meaning president obama should be prepared to say no to his commanders. the next meeting will be one week from today, charlie. >> jake ta

jim jones told "the washington post" there is no deadline for a decision, but secretary gates told me it could come in a matter of weeks. the clock really does seem to be ticking again to go back to general mcchrystal's report. he says if we don't turn the tide in the next 12 months, we risk failure. so, every week that goes by puts the soldiers that are on the ground at risk, doesn't it? >> having the wrong strategy would put even more soldiers at risk. it's important to get the strategy right, and then we can make the resources and decisions. i don't expect this to be a protracted process. if the president did decide to approve additional combat forces going into afghanistan, the first forces couldn't arrive until january. >> reporter: secretary gates would not tell me where he comes down on this question, but when i asked him what success looks like this afghanistan, he gave what i thought was a revealing answer. he said it looks a great deal like what we see now in iraq, which, of course, required a surge in forces. >> it did. george stephanopoulos, thank you. >>> fascinating stor

dick lugar of the republican ranking member on the senate foreign relations committee, or general jim jones, the former supreme commander of nato. those are the people, democrats and republicans who have shaped my ideas and who will be surrounding me in the white white house. glenn: hmm. those guys really aren't surrounding him now. and really, it is not working to his advantage to continue to look who is surrounding him. we're not talking tonight about marxism, but now we're expected to believe and accept that the way to help people in the inner cities an set them on a path of growth and education is to support with tax dollars an organization that has demonstrated over and over and over and over again. currently, arrests have been made in 14 states, many of them led by state democrats -- thank you, democrats, local democrats, for still having a soul. they have nailed them on fraud, voter fraud, corruption. the tapes that we have shown you now involve tax fraud and the selling of illegal immigrants into the sex trade and for the fun of it, good old prostitution that everybody can get their

would like to think that the same concern that led -- for national security that led him to appoint jim jones to be national security advisor, that led him to take a pretty courges position on afghanistan, that that same concern for security will lead him to issue instructions to his attorney general. greta: all right. acorn. the scandal is blowing up all around us here in waushs. -- washington. interesting it took two young people to get this rolling. >> this is i think one of the most amazing stories. these two people, i guess they had watched "borat" or something and they said why don't i pretend i'm a pitch, you're a prostitute and we'll go in and say to the local acorn federal golf. paid employees how do you think we could turn part of the project -- federal housing into a house of prostitution. and she showed them how to do this. this is only the tip of is iceberg. it's suddenly focused attention on an organization which in 12 states is under investigation for breaking the law. now when you see it on tv you realize this is your tax money going to an organization which was hiring people

myself with my running mate joe biden, or with dick lugar, the ranking republican member, or general jim jones, former supreme commander of nato. those are the people, democrats and republicans who have shaped my ideas and who will be surrounding me in the white house. glenn: just so you know, because i don't want to take anything out of context, do you know why he gave that answer? that was because john mccain had said, you know, you're around jeremiah wright and bill ayers, and the president got very indignant. you want to know how my policies are and what i believe? look to the people around me. this answer was given when somebody said you have a lot of marxists around you. no, no, no. i have dick lugar. i have joe biden. really? let me go back and look at the politico article again. they say in the article that they didn't scrub van jones. what does that mean exactly? that the white house should have cleansed the internet of his prior positions? i mean, it's not a long time ago prior positions. by the way, they are doing those things now with other czars. the media didn't report any of thi

dick lugar, the republican ranking member on the senate foreign relations committee, or general jim jonesthe former supreme allied commander of nato. those are the people, democrats and republicans, who have shaped my ideas, and who will be surrounding me in the white house. glenn: i hope they have their union cards, because if warren buffett is not in seiu, i haven't seen him lately. i have been looking into is surrounding the president, and at least me, i don't like what i see. there is van jones -- oh, he keeps going on about van jones who was so radical he was forced out. there are many others who still advise the president who shouldn't be anywhere near the president, from carol browner, she was a socialist, and it's wierd, because when she was nominated, the socialist thing on the website went away. she was all of a sudden wasn't a member, what are you are talking about? cass sunstein, mark lloyd is another one. john holdren, ezekiel emanuel and the life curve thing. i love zeke. you got it going on. we can weed out this excess population in no time! then we have their own words, an

as is the national security adviser general jim jones.other side, you have vice president joe biden who is in favor of a more counterterrorism sort of approach of scaling back military effort and using drones and special forces and so on to attack al qaeda where it actually is in pakistan. but, various people who will be in this meeting tomorrow have said to me that the absolute key here, the thing that we don't know is what the afghan government is going to be like when it finally emerges from this lelectoral mess. if karzai comes out of this as, more intent on reform. if he brings some of his opponents into the government and if he kicks his brother out as the kind of shadow government in kandahar province in the south and then we might have a shot at it. if we don't havery libel partner in afghanistan, both the president is going to be a lot more skeptical about adding more troops. >> and when they sit down and have this meeting, the generals are going to lay out some scenarios, but, basically, they've got to decide on a mission. how m

you have vice president joe biden lining up with chief of staff rahm emanuel, with jim jones, with general colin powell and several democratic senators like john kerry who are saying before any kind of even to be even contemplate an increase in troops there, we must really clarify the mission and refine the strategy, so let's not even think about the number of troops until we come up with a new mission, very clarified, very clear strategy. and then we can ask general mcchrystal if he believes that with a new strategy we should increase the level of troops there. and that is -- you have on the other side of course hillary clinton, secretary of state and richard holbrooke and others obviously general mcchrystal advocating for an increase of force right away or we're going to face failure there. >> we keep hearing we have to make sure the strategy is correct, we have to make sure what our strategy is. what's unclear about our strategy right now? >> well, there is this debate about whether or not al qaeda will even return. is the goal to keep al qaeda out of pakistan which is al qaeda is thriv

have that clarity from the commanders on the ground, secretary gates, my national security advisor, jim jones say to the american public, that's not going to be driven by the politics of the moment. it's going to be driven by the fact that, a., my most important job is to keep us safe, and al qaeda is still trying to do us harm. but b., every time i sign an order, you know, i'm answerable to the parents of those young men and women who i'm sending over there, and i want to make sure it's for the right reason. >> right now, the u.s. has about 62,000 troops in afghanistan, and there are plans in the works to send at least 6,000 more by the end of the year. we would like to hear from you on this. should the united states send even more troops to afghanistan? call us. the number is 1-877-tell-hln. or you can e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. if you want to text us, text the word "views" plus your comments and name to hlntv. >> and by the way, standard text rates apply. >>> nasa's budget for 2009 is $17.5 billion. but for just 148 bucks, two students were able to send their own camera into space in a cool

he also has the advice of general jim jones, who was my senior military assistant.e is there as a national security adviser. he also has secretary gates, whom he has a lot of confidence in. he has the chairman of the joint chiefs and others. i think that general mcchrystal has been doing his job. he has made an assessment. he has forwarded that assessment to the president. i think it is going to accelerate decision making. hopefully, that will take place soon. host: he was asked what would happen if he did not get the troops he requested. >> are you confident that you will get what you ask for? >> i am confident that i will have an absolute chance to provide my assessment and make my recommendations. >> you are already under pressure not to ask for more. how does that affect what you do? >> it does not affect me at all. i take this extraordinarily seriously. i am responsible to give my best assessment. >> how often do you talk to the president? >> once. >> once in 70 days? >> that is correct. >> can you imagine say to the president, we just can't do it. >> yes, i ca

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jim, you were just talk about the orioles lack of big, big home run hitting guys. i think floor two guys in the line-up now that can some day produce that many home runs. adam jones mora scores, wiggington to third. and jeff fiorentino has a base hit and an rbi, and the orioles have a 3-0 lead. >> rick: we talked earlier about his veteran presence and approach to hitting. this left-hander does not make him pull off. he just hangs in there. fastball away. he goes away. you see he's very solid, sees it, stays inside the ball, drives it to left cent are field. this a huge run for the orioles in this situation. that's going to save to the orioles an at bat. that's huge for them. >> jim: wiggington moves to third. fiorentino to on at first. and here is chad moeller. moeller got the orioles the lied with a 2-out double to drive in two in the second inning. pops it foul out of play. back in the second inning, going the opposite way. >> rick: fastball out over, gets the extension, drives to itsty wall. two runs score. you see right there fiorentino, who had walked, he ends up scoring all the way from first base. >> jim: 0-1 the count on moeller, takes a strike at the bel

. >> let's start with the tipty top of the dow jones industrials ind index. thank you, jim cramer, for a long segment on boeing and value he sees in that company, particular lit pent-up demand and the fact that when the 787 does get airborne it will lead to years of growth. citigroup higher today after dick bove rises the price target. it's a new company thanks to all the structural changes. cit, only $1.80 per share but percentage wise a big mover in the russell 1,000. note of saying john paulson may merge it with his indymac bank which he acquired from the fdic earlier in the year. guy, back to you. >> all right. thank you, matt. >>> in the wake of a financial crisis many have called for greater transparency in the investment community and some of the most targeted anger has been pointed at the ratings agencies. well s&p, one of the people people point their fingers at says they're going to be part of the solution and start rating mutual funds rather than just looking at past performance which is supposedly no indicator of the future, bit it's all you get to look at. with

. >> jim: that's where they really missed adam jones. the home run, and he hit over .300 with runners in scoring position all year long. here is the 2-2 delivery. >> jim: well, it is spreadity embarrassing to call a ball that far off the corner a strike. >> gary: four strikeouts leaves the runner at third and it remain as #-0 rays' lead. your bags? at southwest airlines, bags fly free. grab your bag. it's on! ( ding ) get it fast. sarah! you're home! (announcer)ú on the nation's fastest 3g network. at&t.  >> jim: let's take a look a our geico same summary. he started up at fenway. the first out, great slider, a strikeout of mora and then kapler safes the day for the rays with a nice play. he will score on an eventual ball on a triple. crawford with a base hit and that is the first run of the safed squeeze. so not a lot of offense tonight. brian roberts and he'll get it there in time to get willy aybar. he knocked it down, knew who was running and got him by a step. >> jim: it is difficult to back hand the ball because it comes up at

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cramer goes one on one with jones apparel ceo wes card to see if his stock could be the right fit for your portfolio. and later, jim goes fast and furious as he faces a non-stop barrage of calls, giving stock after stock their final verdict on the "lightning round." all coming up on "mad money." >>> ladies and gents week, got a genuine up side earnings surprise. and if you have been listening to my endless promotion of the mobile internet tsunami, you might be benefiting tomorrow morning from the news that skyworks solutions sees business as much better than expected, which is pretty darn good considering that we've been expecting a lot from this company. skyworks, you see, is ground zero for the smartphone tsunami. this is why i've been -- let's call me a broken record. i don't mind. about the mobile internet revolution. the creation of game-changing device that's can connect to the web anywhere, giving you voice, data, video, storage, all in one nifty little device like apple's iphone, research in motion's blackberries. i've said this is the biggest product cycle, the biggest sector of growth trend in technology

jones apparel. wes carr. that is tonight 6:00 p.m. eastern with jim cramer. time for the final trade.im. >> short trade in these guys. >> guy. >> s.a.p. >> that's it? >> yeah, that's it. i haven't got much to say. >> carnival cruise lines, we've been playing it back and forth. up against 32. sell it here. >> don't tell me what to do. pete. >> gie titanium metals a lot of activity out there today. giddy-up. >> i'm melissa lee thanks so much for watching see see you back here 5:00 p.m. eastern for more "fast money" here on cnbc first in business worldwide. >>> tomorrow, cashing in on casinos. jon najarian tells he you if you're about to hit the jackpot. plus when the chips are down this semiconductor insider has your fall forecast. "fast money" 5:00 eastern tomorrow on cnbc. first in business worldwide. there are side mirrors... and then there are the indicator-light warning, radar-sensor-linking, blind-spot-penetrating side mirrors of the all-new ford taurus so what doesn't show up in your mirror, can still show up on your mirror. we speak car. we speak innovation. introducing the all-

jim, let me go to you first on this one. 170 will have point turnaround from up to down on the dow jones. in brief, mr. paulson what do you make of it? why did happen? >> well, larry, i think the fed left a statement today that i think sounds pretty good for the stock market. i think they bassically said they see the return of real growth without really inflation or interest rate pressure for the foreseeable future. i think the market initially did react positively to that and went up to 9900 on the dow. i don't really know why it sold off except sellers took advantage of that quick run to raise some profits. and then momentum took over for the rest of the day. i really don't know a reason. >> did the market give the fed a bronx cheer, you know, a little one of those. you know the old story from chicago. they got it out there, too. and why? i mean, was this a helicopter ben easy money, we're going to keep printing money, we're going to keep buying bonds forever. is that what's going on here? the market is getting sick and tired? no defense of the dollar, which seems to be a pornographic

jim rogers is chairman, president and ceo of duke energy. >>> this market has turned negative. and down better than 45 points on the dow jones industrial average. we'll take a short break and then take a look at technology, matt? >> yes. research in motion, rimm red hot over the past six months. shares up over 90%. but is this a time to buy ahead of those earnings out tomorrow? we'll have some answers on that we'll have some answers on that when "closing bell" returns. >>> time for the "fast money" "final call." rirks, mm research in motion, after the close, the stock has been rallying for several months now. so do you buy or chase it fworks with the big momentum? let's talk to jerry for thoughts on rimm. what do the history books tell you here? is this one of the momentum stocks you buy in the earnings, or wait for it to hit its numbers and then you pick it up afterwards? >> you've got to look at it as a probability trade. i realize nothing is absolute. rimm, up 90% from the lows. it's up 19% in three weeks. here's the deal. they control 55% of the phone market. that's great. if they want to break into the other segments, t

jones: madam speaker, on june 25, 2009, i joined congressman jim mcgovern and offered an amendment to the national defense authorization act. the amendment would have required are the secretary of defense to submit a report to congress which outlines an exit strategy for our armed forces in afghanistan. during the floor debate that day, i along with other members, talked about the history of afghanistan and the difficulties that other nations have had from alexander the great to england and russia. as just one measure of the hazardous conditions facing our troops in afghanistan, 99 american service members have been killed in afghanistan since june 25 of 2009, the day we debated the amendment. while i regret that the amendment was not approved, i still believe it is critical for the current administration to clearly articulate benchmarks for success and an end point to its war strategy in afghanistan. last week on september 1, 2009, conservative columnist george will wrote an op-ed titled, time to get out of afghanistan. in it he shares his insights on how our nation's current strateg

jones. >> hay, rachel. the conservative protest knees leadership. fortunately a man has stepped forward. a texas ranger named walker. actor, martial artist, total jim spokesman, killer conservatism. chuck norris is a man of forceful opinions. so obviously when chuck norris proposes a new idea, my job is to shut my pay hole. to keep the glorious 9/12 revolutionary movement charging forward, norris urges his fellow patriots to abandon the american flag in favor of the far more mavericky betsy ross flag. don't tread on me. that means you, affordable health care. >> it's over. >> hears the kicker. if you insist on posting a modern usa flag, too, then get one that is tea-stained to show your solidarity with our founders. he didn't specify whether the tea stain should be earl gray, oolong, just probably not english breakfast. far be it from me to disagree with lone wolf mcquaid, but i want to take his alternative flag idea one step further. how about old chucky? or the rattle chuck or the united states of chuck? final score? chuck norris, 1. tyranny, 0. >> so weird. thank you. i have a weird update for out a story we've been covering the last couple days

jim: that's what this month is for him. he'll take vac. i would have liked to have seen adam jonesthe rest of the season, maybe hit 25 home runs and, you know, we know how good he is in center field, but this is a great opportunity. not only for him, but pie. >> gary: nolan reimold had the achilles tendon problem that kicked up on him the other night. did he go? yes a 1-2-3 inning for balfour. he gets a couple of strikeouts. fiorentino didn't think he went around orlando that, ch but en. he'll lose the battle.  >> jim: the geico game summ 10-5 last night. tonight, without the clutch hitting, who makes the plays, who doesn't? does your starting pitcher pitch well? does your catcher throw out runners? wieters does it a couple of times against the always sleek carl crawford. tillman leads with a -- leaves with a 2-1 lead. he comes out to try to stop him. melvin mora early on for the first rub and now it comes up to the bullpen. danys baez very good last night. he came in and the ball was sinking, 94 miles per hour. i said, boy, whatever that felt like, just -- he said it was rec

jim: the rangers beat the orioles 5-1. the lineup by dave trembley othersing -- using pie has the lead off batter. jonesown, he's experimenting. what did you think of roberts batting third. it's a good way to get more offense out of this lineup. i like brian roberts. you know he will take his walk. he's one of the better trough strike hits in the game. he can hit in the middle. he has pop. maybe not home run guy you would like to see. but brian roberts is an excellent hitter hitting over .300 as of tonight. you can use brian anywhere you want in that order because we're just too hurt. we're too banged up. it's a great experiment. >> i noticed we put up a stat on brian roberts for his career. it's been longer than markakis, they have the same amount of home runs in their careers. >> roberts hits the long ball once in a while. nick is a guy who has more power and a power swing. brian roberts what as good power swing, as that, you don't see him worry about bunting or hitting the ball down, because he drives the ball when the gap and he's one guy i would allow to swing the way he swings in the number one sh

. >> jim: there is nobody on the active roster that has ever hit a home run, not from andy sonnanstine. the guy who has done the damage is adam jonescouple of home runs, 5- 7 with four extra-base hits. remember when adam started swinging hard? i said adam, you don't usually try to hit a home run. he said, well, i do off of this guy. >> gary: he just missed on take one as he got out in front of it and crawford in foul territory will make the nice catch so a run in on one hit, no errors and nobody left on base. after two, the orioles have the 1-0 lead.   >> orioles baseball on masn brought by southwest airlines. book your next trip on southwest.com and by pnc, pnc leading the way. gary thorne, jim palmer, amber theoharis on an early fall night at camden yards, 1-0 orioles as we go to the third inning. upton has had it 2-9 in the first two games. b.j. upton hitting at .235 on the year. the bottom third of the opt -- inning is on. the pitch is outside. a light rain off and on. not enough to affect play to this point. >> jim: that shouldn't bother him. that's the way he pitched friday night in yankee stadium.