david kessler, former fda commissioner in the first bush and clinton administrations.rall, he says, prescription drugs in this country are safe. >> if you get sick with a serious and life threatening disease, i'd rather be living here in the united states and have access to the drugs the fda has approved. >> still, kessler says essex irb's approval of a plan to test a drug identical to vioxx on humans shows a serious weakness in the safety net. >> those review board have a special responsibility. that is one of the important layers of consumer protection. any hole in any of those layers could mean disaster. >> the problem with the review board system, he says, is that there are no universal standards. >> there's voluntary certification but it is not required. >> months after we told the fda what we found, it sent a warning letter to essex saying it violating laws. it turns out two other serious warning letters from issued to essex dating back to 1998. essex resolved those problems with the fda. the fda has the power to shut down review board, but it never has. the agen

ronald kessler, congratulations on a best selling book. and thank you for being here with me. >> i appreciate it. >>> let's get another look at that important forecast from howard coming up next. >> jc, high heat and humidity today. we're going into the 90s. got the umbrella handy because we've got heavy showers nearby. in fact, check this out on doppler. areas of orange and red, heavy downpours for fairfax county, down on the west side of 95. we'll talk more about that and a change for the weekend. a good change when 9news now at noon returns. over the next four months, you have a choice to make. not just between two political parties, or even two people. it's a choice between two very different plans for our country. governor romney's plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top. roll back regulations on big banks. and he says that if we do, our economy will grow and everyone will benefit. but you know what? we tried that top down approach. it's what caused the mess in the first place. i believe the only way to create an economy bu

scott kessler, thanks a lot, equity analyst at s&p capital iq. a different kind of day for apple investors. shares rose over $5 today to a new closing high, $636.34, as apple paid out its first dividend to shareholders in 17 years. now, investors are counting on new product announcements that could help push apple shares even higher. ruben ramirez reports. >> reporter: apple stores like this one have seen unprecedented foot traffic, with people visiting one of their 363 retailers around the world. here at this store in new york city, the glass exterior might be sleek and minimalist, but it's what's inside the counts. the macbooks, the ipads, the ipods, the iphones-- anticipation is building for new products. most analysts expect apple to unveil its iphone 5 on september 12, and start selling them a few weeks later. there is also talk of a refreshed version of the ipad and an ipad mini. wedbush's scott sutherland says the tech giant may have given away some clues in its last quarterly report. >> they were a little more bullish than we would have t

kessler thinks barack obama is misunderstood as a socialist. he isn't.e ills the heir of three previous waves of political liberalism or progressivism. all of which are concentrated in his mentality. there's the first wave was launched by woodrow wilson. the second by franklin roosevelt, and the third by lyndon johnson, and there's a fourth wave, a 60 # '60s era, and obama is trying to unidentify these somewhat conflicting, and naturally is having a hard time with it. so what i like about the book in particular is that kessler reads obama's speeches, interviews, press conferences. it's based on what obama himself has said. so it's a guide from the conservative point of view to what obama thinks and believes. >> host: what else do you have coming out? >> guest: another book we're excited about, is -- called "the naked constitution." what the foundedders said and why it still matters" there has been a long-standing debate in this country about how closely, how literally one should read the constitution in the last couple of years, since the rise of the tea

we'll fact check it with "the washington post's" glen kessler. >>> entrepreneur of the week.hea founder of asa products led to company to more than $3 million in revenue in three year, but some bad decisions caused sales to plum tote a tenth of that. instead of giving up, melody got her mba and took what he learned to rebuild her company. on imy0. o mancelar aarmeanla u ow obo ou bmel t suinbns up and et. ofme mior. wi up w and [ nnwihe oanu'lesi ofme r . mior. ccpa wi up w us and [ nnwihe oanu'lesi ofme r . llst so w thde ndmd me t l thsomoe. w nc on po nrnlem anrsrp izn eo l thsomoe. w het d sahoa ofqu yodeon . >>> the romneys and the ryans on the first day of the rest of this campaign with their convention over of course the democrats begin theirs on tuesday. in the meandime, the obama campaign is swinging back this morning saying, quote, mitt romney's speech last night offered many personal attacks and gauzy platitudes, but no tangible ideas to move the country forward. one big headline from last night's speech was romney's promise to boost the job market. >> unlike the p

with more people going cashless and using cards, rider kessler created the tip jar.e dip jar is preset with tip amounts at a coffee shop. the barista gets about $10 more per week because of the dip jar. >> it's a help and any little bit helps. >> i prefer using cash. >> the dip jar uses encryption and he hopes to see the invention in more stores soon and we need one of those up here on the set with us because we need give you tips as you just keep the good times rolling. >> mother nature has the timing good too because it's not going to disresult our weekend. with we hike -- we like that with the wet weather. >> a lot going on. >> down to it charlie looking at maryland's most powerful radar. we are nice and dry this morning. this trend will continue right through today. right through tomorrow. make sure you get out there and enjoy it. look at what we have for temperature-wise, if you're heading to the airport this morning, no worries that temperature sat 66 degrees. that dew point at 63. and the sunrise at 6:34 this morning. later and later. and then check out the bu

. >> alice brooks and jennifer kessler graduated from college and they are not worried about getting a job. they started a company with the help of an incubator called start x. they have a place to work, the latest equipment, and a built in network. >> something you really want to do and it's exciting and you are faster and have more access for people who can help us. >> giving companies the boost, start x got a boost of an $800,000 grant from the kaufman foundation, the timing could not be better. >> what's happening from around the country. >> start x gives them a head start of sorts. >> we need to confirm if we are having the meeting tomorrow. >> letting enterprises like high wind. >> the application. >> they also started a company and followed their dreams even while getting the degree. >> a lost us are working diverse things here. they are sharing the office space and means we are sharing a lot of private information. i trust the community and think that has given us the ability to truly learn from each other. >> the moan will be used to pay the incubators small steps and keep t

. >> rider kessler. how much do you sell out for your kids allowance?inding the average child make raking it in for chores they should have been doing it for free. we have the details next. ♪ . . . ♪ . dennis: all right. it is too i am for a little spare change. today, we have democratic strategist, julie roginsky and fox business's own sterling voice and sterling haired, ashley webster. >> thanks very much. dennis: okay. appreciate you being here. the first story kind of amazing. a low budget, anti-obama documentary, finishing number eight at the box-office this past weekend. grossed more than $9 million so far. 2016 obama's america, premiered in a small theater in texas. showing two more locations. do you guys see this movie. julie, must have. >> i believe it or not did not rush to see the movie. i spoke to dinesh about it. i saw the trailer. kind of crazy conspiracy-minded. obama is kenyan colonial apologist. he wants america to fail because his kenyan father. dennis: are you shocked it -- >> no. a lot of crazies out there. a lot of crazies out there

alice kessler-harris recounts the life of hellman. she was the author of numb numerous plays including "the children's hour" and "littlefoxes." this is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] thank you and thank you for coming. it was nice of you to be here this evening. i look to start by talking about we botder with lillian hellman and i'm doing read something from the book so you can get a sense of who she was. i start by the why bother question for the following reasons. there have been several biographies of lillian hellman, she was after all, the most famous 20th century female playwright for many years until the 1970s, when female play whrieghts began coming out of the woodwork. and as such, she was a figure to be reckoned with. she was a celebrity in her own right. in addition to being a playwright, she became the screen writer and she was responsible for films like dead end kids of the 1930s, "the chase" of the 1950s films you might have heard about. she still most famous for those plays of the "littlefoxes," "the children's

this is glen kessler from the "washington post." he says there is no basis for this.t pay his taxes the irs would have been all over him. you know what? i love when democrats do this. itch to say i actually --. bill: how come? >> i enjoy this a lot. because it makes them look ridiculous and anybody sitting at home is not wringing their hands where mitt romney's taxes are. he already released his taxes for two years. they're saying where are the jobs? maybe reid's right. maybe this has nothing to do with him. i'll tell you what does have to, harry reid has to do with. that is a senate budget. we have not seen a budget from harry reid in over 1200 days. time he shut his mouth and do his job. >> what is 365 into that? >> one, two, three, almost four. yeah. bill: four pin yoke -- pinnochios. >> last four pinnochios from mitt romney for one of his ads. good try changing subject, andrea. i back reid 100% on this. i think his source came from bain capital, an investor in bain capital is a, --. bill: where is ire source, bob? >> where is my source? harry reid. bill: you just

>> apparently there was a student, a 19-year-old jared garcia kessler graduated last year, complaineda teacher he thought it was a disrespectful event, and the photos of the event would make their way into the year book and it was all considered to be very fun, and then finally i guess this third year he complained outside of the school. >> right. >> it all brought it to a head. >> you have to figure between 80 and 95 of all teenagerare into vulgarity and bad taste and shocking adults. >> you think after year one that would be like, okay, let's not do that again. >> that's the adults saying this is okay which makes it worse. >> now they're saying it is not. everybody, let's go to diversity training they're saying now. >> a little late. >> still ahead on "starting point," the west nile virus on track for the worst year ever. who is at risk, where it is worse, we'll tell you next. >>> also, the incredibly personal story of a woman who says she was raped and then became pregnant with her rapist's child and decided to keep the baby. her ordeal did not end there. we'll tell you what happen

on the cnbc newsline, aaron kessler. senior analyst at raymond james.t this point or have they gone too far off the original business model, increasing the costs of revenue to the point where they can't return? >> i think there's clearly a lot of concern on groupon out there. gross profit, one of the biggest things that stood out to us was the gross profit decline down 1% sequentially. pretty big red flag in our book as well as even if you look at it on a 38 million active users that they have. gross billings -- gross profit per customer, active user, was actually down 22% year over year. a lot of the stats out there are not encouraging at this point. but, you know, there are some european macro headwinds the country is facing. >> oh, come on, herman. european macro headwinds? yes, that's a problem. take a look at these metrics. what is the path forward for groupon? should shareholders who've been holding this thing now down 70% over the past year or so, should they hold out for hope? >> should they hold out for hope? i think, you know, i think in the n