john toner -- john baker is the speaker of the house and a major representative of the party we should be willing to call our own leadership when they're not standing up >> but would have been up with the grass roots they feel like they cannot get an inch because they are taken advantage that is why the house is obstructionist i actually like that word as a positive but they don't want to pass anything because they feel in the long run they will be taken advantage of nobody in the right believes it will secure the border. nobody that is why they will not have a good conversation and by the way i am a liberal on the issue and believe they are right or will secure the border so that is important just give in and. nothing happened in washington which is wonderful but the problem is everything is self perpetuating. with all these things on autopilot and now you have to reform taxes i don't understand not tax cuts but i don't understand why that isn't a winner for republicans. call volume put out his budget that the press doesn't talk about it. i don't know what you do because they will nev

one setback, when john baker and -- john boehner was trying to cut these deals, he was criticized for cutting on his members and to doing things behind closed doors. the process of congress is supposed to work where a bill or an idea goes to a committee, they work on it, they pass the committee, goes on the floor of the chamber, gets voted through there, go through the other chamber, they have been doing a process of their own, and then the two committees -- two houses of congress conference them and work out their differences. no matter the issue, in a matter the problem, that should be the way things work. that is supposed to empower the rank and file members of congress to be a part of these big compromises. that is not how things work right now. but that is the way it is supposed to work. so even the idea that the leadership should be cracking the deal is sort of a -- that is kind of what is wrong with congress. leadership is too involved. they need to devolve that power back to the rank and power. host: lois in tennessee. if that right -- is that right? go ahead. caller: thank yo

we're trading the markets with simon baker. john, jerry, stephanie and joe. coach, how about that. if you're rip van winkle, you've just woken up, the dow is 130 points away from 15,000. what can you buy today? >> you have to get up rather quickly. the biggest opportunity and where i'm putting my money is natural gas. i've been speaking over the last couple week about natural gas prices rising well above $4. the street does not expect that it will. i think they're going to $4.50, maybe 5 bucks. the opportunity southwestern energy, swn, buying that. bbg, a name that the street has hated the last couple years. it's beginning to see the turn. it has a nice tail wind behind it. buy natural gas. >> anyone willing to say it's too late to get in? >> i think you have to be valuation centric, though. so if you are going to look at secto sectors, look at financials. they have spent the last four years improving their balance sheets. a little help from the government, but starting to pay off. focus on the companies that are trading below book value. i lean toward a hartford, maybe an aig. on

official delegation will be led by george schultz and james baker whom served as secretaries of state during margaret thatcher's premiership. speaker john boehner is sending representatives marsha blackburn, michele bachmann and george holding. interestingly, prime minister david cameron is hosting a private dinner at this very moment in number 10 downing street, and in attendance is one former vice president dick cheney which i guess reveals where he stands in relation to his conservative counterparts over there in the united states. >> and now where was your dinner invitation, martin? why aren't you at that dinner right now? >> i haven't achieved that kind of statuses yet, thomas. i'm waiting for an invitation from you. let alone from the prime minister. >> we will do dinner when you come back. martin bashir, live in london. thanks so much, appreciate it. >>> coming up next, we go back to boston, a city the president praised for its toughness. stay with us. >> the people of boston will continue to respond in the same proud and heroic way they have thus far, and their fellow americans will be right there with them. >>> we have an updat

john sununu's frequent-flyer escapades got much more sustained attention than had jim baker's very serious conflict of interest scandal some years before. the difference clearly had partly to do with the fact that baker was friendly to the press and sununu was not. c-span: in your opinion did clarence thomas get into trouble because someone in the media felt ideologically one way or the other? >> guest: i'm not sure whether it was ideology; that is, the media are now sensationalist enough so that you don't need ideology to explain the big coverage that was given. someone involved in the hearings clearly had an ideological motive, but i'm not sure that it was the press that had it. c-span: let me ask you about how you did this book scandal. where did you write it? >> guest: at the american enterprise institute for public policy research, which is a wonderful place. c-span: how long have you been there? >> guest: three years. c-span: who owns that? >> guest: who owns it? that's an interesting question. it's a non- profit organization that is run by a board of directors and a president and th

and james baker to lead the delegation to the state funeral for former british prime minister margaret thatcher. she died last week at the age of 87. secretaries of state during her tenure. johnding three republican members of congress to london. >> around the nation, police investigating a shooting on the campus of gramling state university at northeastern louisiana. three students shot outside of the dorm after a fight broke out. they were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. so far nobody has been arrested. >> turning to coverage of the boston marathon bombings. an emotional tribute in our area for victims of the attack. >> students at george washington university held a vigil last night. one of the students is a boston native. he is devastated by what happened. >> i was sitting next to my buddy, at the end of the -- we just give each other the biggest embrace. >> several were near the site of explosions, but they were not hurt. >> the attack on to the nba and nhl to cancel game scheduled to be played in boston. the bruins game tonight against the ottawa senators has been postponed. the celtics canceled their games against the pincers. they will not ma

john donnellson. fix entitlements, says phil orlando. the sequester equals a political dysfunction equals a activist fed. tony crescenzi says that. a lot of commentary along that mien. and here's dean bakereone has to explain to them very slowly that they're just slowing growth and increasing unemployment." that was in that 35% of folks who said, maybe we shouldn't be doing quite as much of debt reduction as wall street sees these deficit cuts hitting the economy. you can read all about the survey and get the full results on cnbc.com. back to you. >> and we will do that. thank you so much, steve. >>> we are in the final stretch of trading here. we've got a market that has turned up a bit, up 15 points on the dow jones industrial average. and even though it's a fractional move on the s&p 500, we are once again in uncharted territory, bill. >> a lot of stock to be bought here, the bias definitely to the upside as we head toward the close, maria. we'll keep an eye on that. and when we come back, investor lee munson tells us why he thinks the underperforming technology sector is about to take control and lead this market even higher. stay tuned. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the