. >>> and later, "the new york times's" nick kristoff joins us to talk about his column. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. it's 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. on the west. a lot to tell you about this morning so let's get you straight to the news. we start with a look ahead. tomorrow former presidential candidate john edwards heads to federal court. prosecutors say edwards used nearly $1 million in campaign contributions to deceive the public. they say he was hiding an affair and a child. the mistress, rielle hunter, is expected to be the star witness at the trial. she has immunity. edwards and his attorneys say he did nothing wrong. we'll have much more on the case later this hour. >>> and to syria now. the united nations security council has decided to increase their involvement from 30 observers to 300. now, you may think that sending in 300 unarmed monitors doesn't seem like much, but listen to the reaction in homs syria when the first monitors arrived there yesterday. >> today is the first day since two months without shooting, without killing, without fire. it's very im

at this discussion of restaurant kristoff people guessing and betting and government policy and its impact how similar or different is this from when you were coming up as an investor for example during the stagflation of the seventies when you're asking a very important question because. well the bailouts were necessary. if you look at the origin of the crisis and the cozy they were actually in conventions by the government know to be. keeping interest rates artificially low create bubbles in the first place and don't forget what of the big policy mistakes that was the. policy made. including. freddie mac. two for all the organizations that so called government sponsored. most of them went. bankrupt like no other company before it was expect whatever the government does. it's much worse than the private sector so it sounds like you are saying that it's gotten worse my question is we live under the assumption that the us is a free market economy where do you think we are do you think it's fair to say that we live in a market economy anymore or a mostly market driven or is it worse than tha

back page dot com website now in an op ed in the new york times over the weekend columnist nicholas kristoff says this site is the biggest forum for trafficking of underage girls in the u.s. so indirectly now goldman sachs was linked to the child sex trafficking allegation so what happened then. and over the relationship goldman was in years since his cell industry. goldman just like we're out we're done we can handle another p.r. scandal right while goldman can't help themselves because they're so corrupt. they're so perverse in their very nature their culture is so malignant they really can't open it was no amount of p.r. could actually help goldman that's why the best p.r. was one hundred shut up and he just stopped talking because he knew that if anything he said was going to be corrupt the corrupt it was at its core corrupt so we know that we trust now been accused of being goldman sachs is pimping out women it's just it's the nature of the business which shouldn't surprise you know i actually in this case i don't really think it's fair do you think that craigslist is in essence people

kristoff, good to have you with us. so it's a concept. to go into production. but what led you to this part of the market? what is the market telling you about a reception of this vehicle? >> we are saying that our customers, a lot of them have an suv in their portfolio. they've been asking us for a long time to think about it. of course, we couldn't do everything at the same time. but they love this concept. we believe it would be a great extension to the bentley value in terms of engineering, craftsmanship, a luxury into a new territory. >> we're looking at some pictures of it now. definitely looks like a bentley. pricing -- >> it is a concept which has not been approved yet. we expect a decision this year, so we are gauging market reaction. we are mixing with our customers and fine tuning the concept. and later this year, we will be able to tell you a little bit more. >> looks a lot like a bentley. also looks a little bit like the pore cha cayenne. when you look at porsche telling suvs to the tradition roadster, what is that correlatio