>> let me get back to you. on the record, let me just say have i been to el paso and have worked on issues regarding both the rio grande and the colorado river systems. and under the great leadership of the bureau of reclamation commissioner mike conner, we have made huge progress on the surface water issues between the united states and mexico. we have developed a series of agreements with the states on the colorado river. we are working on some on the rio grande as well. the underground issues with respect to the transboundary aquifers, i believe that we were not able to fund those studies because the money just was not in the budget. but i recognize the importance of the issue, and let me get back to you, chairman bingaman with more specific information on what if anything we were able to do with the money that we have or hasnoou. senator murkowski? >> thank you, mr. chairman. on the discussion that you were having with senator bingaman, it sounds like there is going to be some debate back and forth in terms

>> sir, let me -- let me offer you a couple of comments here. but i would like to take the question so i can give you the level of specificity that your question deserves. >> yes. >> in january of 2011, there were 155 ratable battalion-sized units in afghanistan. 101 of those were rated at effective with advisers or effective with assistants. none of them were rated as independent at that point with advisers. a year later, there are 168 candac-sized units, battalion-sized units, and we've gone from 121 to 127 rated in the top three and 11 rated independent with advisers. so in just a year there has been significant improvement. and it's not a linear improvement. it's really an improvement that gains capability over time in a nonlinear way. there have been similar improvements with the police, as well. but let me take that question and make sure i get back to you with the level of specificity that it deserves, sir. >> secretary miller, are you satisfied that progress and improveme improvement, talking about successful and failing, but there's bee

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let me -- both of you stay with me a moment. let me bring in paul rothstein, constitutional law professor at georgetown university. professor, thanks for joining me. >> thank you for asking. >> let me ask you. you are the expert here. what does it take to remove a federal judge from office? >> well it has to be the impeachment process which they tried to do to president clinton. it requires a majority vote in the house of representatives. and then it goes over to the senate and it requires two-thirds of a vote in the senate. an actual trial in the senate. and then two-thirds vote to kick the judge out. so it's very, very difficult. and the standard is very high. this good behavior standard that's in the constitution has been interpreted to be the equivalent of the standard that applies to the president and other government officials. and that is high crimes and misdemeanors which is a very high bar. so it's probably not realistic to expect that the political will, the way the congressmen are now, would be martialed to do that. b

speaker, but let me tell them, let me tell them, their support for the health bill is digging their own burial of the next general election. i did ask him a specific question, i know, by now, he doesn't like to answer the questions but i just asked him a simple point which is who supports his bill and an answer came there none from this prime minister. let me refresh his memory as to who opposes this bill. there's no good the deputy prime minister is smirking, i don't know whether he supports the bill or opposes it. he supports it, mr. speaker! there's firm leadership for you, right. now, mr. speaker, let me refresh his memory as to those who want the bill withdrawn. the royal college of g.p.'s, the royal college of nursing, the royal college of midwives, the royal college of radiologists, the faculty of public health, the chartered society of physiotherapists, the community practitioners and health visitors association, and the patients association. mr. speaker, doesn't it ever occur to him, mr. speaker -- mr. speaker, doesn't it ever occur to him that just maybe they're right and he's

me to say. you know i wanted to let you stay here rent free... yes, i appreciate... no, please... listen. icult for me. i'm afraid... i'll need to ask you for some rent money to help pay the house expenses. i feel bad about this. i've tried everything... but if i can't pay my bills, i'll have to sell the house. that would be terrible. the cost of the retirement home is unbelievable-- much more than we expected. i understand. i wish i could help you a little more. i mean, you are my goddaughter, for heaven's sake! i understand. i want to pay my share. i want to contribute. how much are you thinking of? can you manage... $250 a month? tell me if you can't afford that much. no, it'll be fine. $250. are you sure? i'm sure. it's good to have you here. well, why don't you wash up and settle in a bit. dinner's at 6:00. o.k. narrator: now let's review and discuss the story. speaker: rebecca arrived in san francisco. speaker: then nancy shaw is waiting for rebecca. welcome to san francisco. it's good to be here. nancy is rebecca's godmother. nancy? rebecca, is that you? yes, it's me. hi, how are yo

finish here i was part of the civil rights movement let me let me have my say now here for a minute i was part of the civil rights movement you know if these movements were not you know considered you know to be in some way dangerous you wouldn't have over six thousand arrests in new york city you would have the militarization of the police department the surveillance that they really the coordination of surveillance by all these cities this is a this is a movement that has freaked out other people in power it's freaked out mayor bloomberg who's a wall street guy and for good reason because of demands it's making for more economic justice and fairness is an issue that has not been raised by our mass media has not been raised by the national review and has really been given the. kind of coverage at the service charles on the road going elsewhere we writes about this. going national he writes about social mobility and inequality of income in almost every issue i suggest you pick up a copy it just doesn't come from the same saw from our conclusions that occupy wall street all right gen

let me play the tape for you senator and professor perry. let's play exactly what mr. zimmerman said. >> they always get away. >> are you following him? >> okay, we don't need you to do that. are you following him? yeah. he says they always get away. he was asked, and think said you don't need to do that, okay, after agrees not to do it, whether it was a legal command or not, it doesn't matter, he said something he agreed to and then didn't do it. where in that do you spell he was in danger or threatened and had to defend himself. he was against his own agreement pursuing somebody. >> and i think if the police did an investigation on the scene, why would they not have been able to figure that out? did he tell them a lie, do we know these things yet? i think that is the biggest part of the injustice of this. that's why people are asking for the chief to step down. they're saying the police did an investigation and came up with that we should let him go. it seems like to a blind person you should have took this man in. >> well, the fact is professor perry, maybe they did

fbi director, let me just state a couple of points. think that senator mulkiski has really outlined the big picture. there are a couple of areas of interest that i have and concern. certainly i think the southwest border has to be as much of a national security issue as any place that we have. and yet this request cuts the southwest border funding. i would question the priority of the administration in increasing the financial fraud enforcement and decreasing border security. so i'm going to say that i'll be looking carefully at that and hoping to restore the -- at least the $5 million that was included to make it look like it was even funding, but it really -- that was just required to sustain the positions that had been added in the fy-10 border supplemental appropriations bill, so i'm hoping that we can add more where you think you need it the most because that would be 13 border corruption task force members located in field offices across the border as i understand it, and these are kind of the backbone of the fbi's southwest bord

let me just ask you this. i understand that lance corporal dykhuis' killer is being held in custody by afghan security forces. what steps will you take so to ensure that the afghans do not either intentionally or unintentionally release this individual? and will your team at isaf headquarters keep me updated in writing on the latest developments on the afghan soldier's case as it makes its way through the afghan legal system? >> we will certainly do that, senator. i have been in contact with the chief of the investigation, and we have spoken on this individual, this individual personally, and he has assured me that justice will be done. and they have him in the afghan army detention facility in turkey, and they will prosecute him according to afghan law. and i have reason to believe that he'll be held accountable. but in any case, we'll be watching that case and keep you apprised, sir. >> okay. i have a follow-up question. my time is up. it deals with some more particulars on the screening process and the way

let me ask you a question. there was a lot of skepticism, i think, on the hill because the administration chose to engage in military activity without coming, honestly, to congress in any kind of formal way and asking for consent.looking forw possibility in s syria or might occur with iran, do you think the administration, under those circumstances, would come to congress or congress in order to receive authorization for the use of force in either of those two cases? >> well, sir, let me say first of all that i'm not a lawyer, nor am i the administration official responsible for those kinds of judgments or recommendations or determinations. but i will say this. what we did in libya was the right thing. we had the support of the international community, the support of the region, and we protected the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians that were at imminent risk of slaughter. the decision that the united statess security council took a year ago this week has proved its worth. gadhafi is gone. the libyan

i have paid for their funerals and this needs to stop. >> well, let me ask you, charles. from the beginning of this case, and i got involved in a couple weeks ago when the attorney called me and he was on this show, we called for the arrest of mr. zimmerman. and the justice department to come in. the justice department is no, no arrest. let me show you what last tuesday, the san ford police chief, explains why zimmerman was in charge. let me show you that. >> mr. zimmerman has made the statement of self-defense. until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we don't have the grounds to arrest him. >> now, let me ask you, charles blow, if you have a dead young man, no crime, no weapon, no drugs. and you have 911 tapes that clearly has zimmerman pursuing him even after the dispatcher said, do not do it, how is that not probable cause to make an arrest? is it not that this police chief is really trying to try the case like he is the judge and jury? because clearly there's probable cause, and is only enhanced by what the girlfriend's statement is today. >> that's exac

let me go one of the i may have the the interest. we have to see that you responded to seeing the reason that he is a serial and those murderous activities have gone on for months per year if not longer now it seems to me that the united states is acting out of humanitarian desire to see this send this does not mean that we will engage in direct military intervention as i suggested despite the fact that senator mccain and others have suggested we do so so i think it's perfectly clear that we have an interest in seeing assad ousted we also have an interest in seeing stability occur after assad is rude how that stability will occur remains to be seen will it be a democratic will there be democratic impulses i doubt it the muslim brotherhood is well organized to take control of the country ok maybe. for me briefly is the leader of order here is what i need what have you here you speak of this is really what if the muslim brotherhood does come to power in syria democratically then we have to accept the outcome right herbert exactly and t

let me give you another aspect to this, it may solve campaign finance.ecomes less valuable and important when a video can go viral and hit 100 million people almost cost-free. i think so many issues will be affected by this from arab spring to taking down a dictator to political finance, i think it's amazing. >> i'm reminded of a video from iran in 2009, an image that broke hearts. no action followed. we didn't press our government to get involved. it has to connect the two. and a bush speechwriter wrote the comment on this, empathy is not a zero sum game. you know, obviously -- >> increasing the awareness. >> it's a good thing. >> awareness is a good thing. as somebody who tried and failed to get stories on air. when he sent forces to take on joseph kony. very little interest or awareness by the public. bravo to them. the question is, to what end? there are things in that video aren't factually accurate. he's not in uganda, joseph kony. there are not 30,000 soldiers. probably between 150 to 300. >> he'll probably be one of the mostst famous man in the w

flight level, let me turn off the camera light. this is how start it would to be when she was missing. perhaps i could provide new information after speaking with the parents, soon. >>darya: we are wondering if this routine was new because she's recently switched schools. she was in a new high school this year. >>reporter: she has transferred schools. we do not know i the wall ofather is -- not able to take her to school. they are not saying anything if the parents are suspects. i do not think they are. and as i mentioned, we will hopefully get more information from the public information officer on the latest of misinformation. not judging are now, just providing you an example out dark this is. >>mark: this man tried to ado-- kidnapped-a 13 year-old girl twice. she is a student at walnut creek intermediate. she was approached by this man twice in one week. a white male in his 60s with a medium build. a possible accent. he was wearing a gray beanie. >>darya: the latest in a reduced enrollment for csu with only eight of the 23 camp

me. >> let's play hardball. good evening, i'm chris matthews up in boston leading tonight to health care games. when health care passed, the government was positive that the more people who heard about it, the more popular it would become. wrong. today only 36% of americans approve of the law according to 47% who disapprove. the law was one of the main reasons for the republican landslide in 2010, and today amid crowds of supporters and opponents, the supreme court began three days of arguments. it will determine the fate of the law and to some extent the presidential election. we'll hear from both sides. plus, could it actually be better politically to lose this case? some believe that a loss would inspire their sons, either democrats or republicans, to work harder in this election. plus rick santorum was reamed for wait he asked a question and then he bragged about how he handles the "new york times." finally, let me finish with the high stakes action in the supreme court this week. we begin with the supreme c

how serious i want to be let me be serious ok and then i'll go. little easier to relieve some pollution was you. really reducing the time to be clear we're getting off topic really all you me so what you're saying ok you see lindsay going here is a tree i please love it or is it what you say ok. can we stay with syria ok go ahead with the name point my hear it my point is sorry you can carry on well my point is that actually the unintended consequences of the war in iraq have been in marking in two fold want to strengthen iran which was not what the americans intended when they went to war but actually it's been the consequence of overthrowing saddam hussein secondly to the help to trigger off the arab spring and now what you're finding is that the intervention in syria is very much related to those two things it's related to trying to weaken iran in the region the wrong type directly first or whether syria is it seems to me that both of them are in the sights of of the united states and of and of their allies is also an attempt to regain control

let me buy ten cars, let me buy two boats. and you're not going to move forward in this process. you're going to backslide in this process significantly. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> first of all, let me welcome all the panelists, because i think each of you play a critical role in protecting our national security. but i do want to specifically thank mr. holmes for being here, flying across the country to testify. as i mentioned, the courts play such an important role in our national economy. understanding the difficult budgetary decisions that mr. fugate has to make, the fact remains that a terror attack on the port of l.a./long beach port would have a devastating impact on our national economy. you have heard mr. fugate's comments. i believe you were here during his testimony. could you comment on his response regarding the proposed grant program and his hope that everybody can work together to properly prioritize the needs? and then also, if time allows, and you also provide us with some suggestions on how you think that the port security grant requirements and guidance coul

let me start with you, chip. obama the winner of the gop primary right here and now? >> not so quick. and again it shocked me that you thought president obama was the big winner last night. look. i would agree. it was maybe not so super tuesday yesterday. it was just okay tuesday. this is still a tough primary. it is republican on republican action which i know you guys love to watch. but at the end of the day, i still think this is going to be a stronger, better nominee for having gone through this. but you all enjoy it now. >> the president did get more votes in ohio than the republicans did. i realize that some republicans, the most votes don't count, but he literally got more votes yesterday in ohio. >> not you add up all the candidates. he just got more votes than one of the candidates. all the other votes, more republican votes yesterday than barack obama did. if you want to talk about that, we can go to oklahoma. we lost a delegate in oklahoma. he's not going to get all the delegates in the democratic conve

but let me address medicaid. this is going back to what representative myrick addressed, but taking a step further. can you assess the impact of the provision requiring states to raise medicare primary care physician rates up to the medicare level in 2013 and '14 with federal funding for states and doctors especially in 2015 when the requirement and the funding goes away resulting in an inevitable cut to their reimbursement? have you thought about that? >> we would hope that congress would work with us to make sure that that cut does not occur in future budgets. >> mr. chairman, can i just -- mr. chairman -- >> madam secretary, thank you. i yield back. >> i just want to ask, i think that he was asking questions and then not giving the secretary the time to answer them. i know he only has five minutes but i think if she feels that she needs an opportunity to answer the questions. >> you know, i think i need to respond to him, mr. chairman. you make a statement in regard to my approach and mr. pallone, i think you

let me close with the fact that this is one of the reasons you will allow this research and development to move forward. allow the r&d leases to move forward, don't cancel them, let them do their thing, they'll prove their ability to make this -- to make it happen in an environmentally responsible and a commercially feasible way. thank you. >> senator matsch. >> thank you. i have two points i want to talk about. the aml fund from osm, office of surface mining. i see that where you all have made some changes, it's a grant fund. the hazardous sites in the states that have been most affected. the money had been distributed a little differently by tonnage. how much mining was done, how much per ton. then it was coming back in that same, where it was kind of a not related addressing the environmental needs. i think you're taking that step in the right direction from what i can see here. you estimate there'd would be great savings on that. i would like to hear. the savings, i guess, would come. and it might be, if you want mr. hayes if he's worked on that, whatever you would think about that,

if i'm wrong i'm sure you'll let me know it. >> let me take a second and impose a question. we talked briefly about iraqi oil production coming up. that could have a significant impact on global oil markets as the sanctions program against iran continue to have real teeth. give us your sense of how close. you mentioned encouraging numbers out of iraq. we had a start and stop. >> the potential is tremendous, the problems are tremendous. we've seen we'll progress in terms of iraqi production. they are up to 2.7 million barrels a day. the trend if it continues, it will top 3 million barrels a day. we've done a careful assessment. sent out the deputy secretary of energy, and others and we have a very good team at the

let me simplify them. one is instead of building your own data center which companies would do 10 years ago and build your own computer room at generators and air conditioning, you use an outsourced professional data center. that is one move to the court, which is one move to the crowd. the second model, which you have actually used to set up a mass of private club, where you can now provision servers on demand for your constituents within the city. in the context of a government with the compliance issues and security issues and mission critical services which you overlay, that is quite an achievement. so that is the second model which you have embarked on. the third model is clearly the public crown. he made a decision to move some of your data to a public cloud -- e-mail. if you talk about the decision process which led to selecting each of them, your concerns, your challenges, and the economics behind each of those models, i think it would be very beneficial. >> a cake, well, our decision to leverage s

let me ask you first of all, let me go to jenny beth. >> we want them to find the rule is unconstitutional the government has no businessman dating and forcing every single person to purchase a product simply because we live and breathe. >> so what they -- >> it would say we have a lot of work to do and we educate our voters as to exactly what's in this bill so when november comes they vote and realize that the government now controls our health care. >> let me go to ezekiel. the heart of the fight is tomorrow, how do you think that will stand up before five of the nine justices. >> i think they will uphold the individual mandate. there's little argument that. and let's sight two conservative experts, a professor, charles freed, who was solicitor general under president reagan, and judge silverman, both said there's no constitutional basis for the claim that it is unconstitutional and they make the very clear argument. under the commerce clause, congress can regulate interstate commerce. article one section eight says congress can do whatever is necessary and proper to implement it's regul

. >>> look, just let me put in my 2 cents on this whole oil story. it galls me that president obama keeps telling us, the u.s., has only 2% of world oil reserves. this is now flat-out wrong. here's the truth. with new technology and the shale revolution, studies now show we have 60 times recoverable oil above obama's number. yes, oil production has increased during his administration, but 99% of that increase comes from privately developed oil production in the fields in north dakota and montana to eagle ford field in texas and the marcellus in pennsylvania. this is all private entrepreneurship, had nothing to do with obama's regulatory handcuffs on oil produced offshore and on federal lands which he has basically blocked or slowed. and there's a production backlog, inadequate pipelines, refineries closing down, as sharon just said, gas prices surging, and gop candidates have been quick to point fingers at the president on the campaign trail. take a listen to mitt romney from earlier today. >> we have three people, i call them the gas-hike trio, the s

let me start with you reverend jackson. we're here and marched, what is your view of today?ample, in this case, we hear on tape that a non-police officer seeing a young black man. he chooses to pursue and kill him in cold blood. when police come they're over him with a gun. the killer walks away. they do a drug test on the murdered man, and let the killer go without a drug, alcohol, or gun test. so the blatant disregard for humanity touches in a different kind of way. we want zimmerman arrested, and the law repealed, and the third thing, it's time to -- we have become violent. we have lost 6,000 soldiers in iraq. if it's black or white killing, it's jail time. if it's white on black it's revolt time -- >> sinbad, what has touched you and celebrities so about this case that have gotten you to come out and stand up about what has happened to trayvon martin. >> it's not even about being a celebrity. it's about being a member of the life in the '60s and '70s. i could not believe this would happen. to believe that someone can shoot someone and go home for dinner, it's like a hunt

let me just end. my time is up. and one other piece i would say is we should have a further discussion on the need for a deep water port u.s. controlled in the arctic. we can have a further discussion, i think, from the variety not only militarily, but all the other activity that's going on up there, we are just a lack of a facility up there. again, thank you all very much, and as i said, i didn't mean to get my rant about alternative renewable energy. so i'm glad you guys do, too, so thank you very much. >> thank you, senator. senator blumenthal. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you all three of you for your extraordinary and distinguished service to our nation, and particularly general amos, thank you for your endurance and tolerance with us. i know your back must be reaching a point of some pain, anyway, but glad to see you here as senator reed is looking like all of us would like to look with or without that kind of surgery. let me begin also by saying how much i admire and respect the success and i undersc

let me see here. if you could just -- this is the cbo paper that was delivered to the committee on the republican budget plan. it's based on assumptions provided by the chairman and the staff and it says on page 3 that medicare spending for new beneficiaries in 2023 would be set in amount that works out to 7,500 for each new 65-year-old beneficiary going into the new support program. and then in a footnote on page 8, cbo notes that this amount is $400 less in constant dollars than projected medicare spending for a 65-year-old in 2023, under current law, and $700 less than projected spending under scenario that makes more realistic assumptions about what will happen to medicare physician payments. could you explain how you arrived at the amount that you gave to cbo? >> i may ask to get our medicare analyst here. let me make a start and see if -- on that. as i mention with respect to the system is set up to -- policy is based on competitive bidding system. it would start 10 years out, we believe that un

let me just say that. and adjustments were made rapidly, which gave me even more security that what's going on there in the sense of our troops are doing a great job. so i just wanted to point that out. colonel didn't ask me to do this, and he'll say why did i do it, but because you did a great job. you made our trip easier and in a compressed time. >> senator, thank you. i'll extend him 18 months so he can support your next visit. >> i like it. thank you very much, colonel. let me also say that -- and i know you know this, and that is one-tenth of the force over there comes from alaska right now in the sense of their stationed capacity. about 9,000 troops. and i had a great opportunity to see the 125. i didn't have a chance to see the 425 but it was an incredible team, and all the testimony that you've given is similar to what i heard and saw in the sense of the changes that occur and have been occurring since i was there in may of '09. my first trip there. there's a lot of changes with the security force

let me take it as quickly as i can so that we can get to -- >> let's start with the debates. there have been more than 20. >> that's fine. we had nothing to do with the debates. they are negotiated with each of the states and the various campaigns and that the networks as to whether or not they want to have and participate in that debate. as we just saw the candidates decided not to participate in the cnn debate which they wanted to have this week. so that was canceled. so that's driven separate and apart from what we were doing at the rnc, although, as chairman, i did begin to have near the end of my term, conversations with fox and msnbc about setting up a schedule where i thought the rnc should declare, you know, six or seven debates that are of party importance. in other words, these will be sanctioned by and driven by the republican national committee. and you can do anything else you want on your own but these are the ones we wanted the base to focus on. that didn't work out, obviously, because i didn't complete the job. i got out. i was let go. the new chairman and the

let me start with you. david describes competing capitalism a kind of alternate capitalist competition between capitalist models. do you agree with his thesis that that is the era we are in? secondly do you agree with what he argues persuasively in his book that the anglo-saxon version, the american version which to caricature government should get out of the way and markets are always eat fish and is the one that is most underchallenge and the one most in need -- would you take those two questions? >> let me take the first part and move on to the second. we are in the midst of this year of competing capitalism. let me go through -- david describe eloquently that are competing. let me take a couple steps further. you have state capitalism which david spoke of. we have seen crony capitalism which we have seen in various parts of the world and what i call entrepreneurialism capitalism which is the silicon valley kind of capitalism. then you have small business capitalism which david spoke of which we are seei

let me finish.n 2011 in terms of production, you have to look at what was happening in the gulf of mexico. about 30% roughly of all our domestic energy comes from the gulf of mexico which senator landrieu knows full well. we went through a crisis in 2010 and we are back. they're more there are more rigs working offshore and onshore in the united states of america than at any time in recent history, maybe in all of history. so whatever it dipped there was in production is because of the depth that happened in the gulf of mexico in the wake of the 2011 macondo oil well blowout. >> i guess the question, just to follow up, did that conversation, on the senate floor, was it accurate? >> senator heller i know you will appreciate this. there are lots of conversations that they take place on the floor of the senate for a political statement and at that point in time there was a political statement. the facts are that -- >> it's a bumper sticker. >> it's a dump -- umber sticker. we move forward senator helle

let me play for you what romney said last night. this was on cnn before the results came in. let's play that. >> senator santorum is at the desperate end of his campaign and is trying in some way to boost his prospects and frankly, misrepresenting the truth is not a good way of doing that. >> well, i mean, he calls him desperate, david. it does seem to me that that campaign really just messed up the whole idea of managing expectations. last couple of days, they go in hard. he actually said in alabama, i'm going to win here. why did they do that? >> chris, who won last night? mitt romney won if you look at the delegate count. he won hawaii, he won guam. these are things for him to be celebrating this morning. >> why isn't he out there doing it? >> the thing is, i mean, the argument that he would be making in that room this morning to all those 1% is i lost to the conservatives in the south. that means i'm less conservative, which actually means i have a better case of getting elected in november. do you really think that any republican nominee is going to lose mississippi or al

let me go back to something here. do you think congress rkts in 1994, should have a hotel that runs blacks instead of whites. >> no, i think that's within the bound of the constitution. >> but they're forcing someone to sell -- it doesn't require me to make a purchase simply because i'm alive and breathing. it's much different when you choose to own something. if you choose to own a car, the government says you have to have car insurance. >> why can the government force you to sell it? >> you don't have to own a hamburger just because you're alive and breathing, but this is saying just because we're alive and just because we're breathing, we must purchase health insurance. >> let me get tough with you, zeke, i was tough with her. is there anything you see under the constitution that wouldn't be permitted under the interstate commerce clause? is it as flexible as a very long rubber band that can stretch forever. what do mimd ground saying what he can do to your --s z it can make you so broadly. >> but it can't make you

kelly evans, let me bring in -- welcome, by the way. dougy cass will make the case that the economy is slowing down here in the u.s., but i just want to ask you, ism's look fine to me. chain store sales -- >> i don't know about fine. well, there were some bright spots. >> they sound fine to me. jobless claims look fine to me. >> but, larry, think about it this way. even though we have vehicle sales at a 15 year annualized growth, we're talking about a broader growth rate of 2%. >> it's got to be closer than 3%. >> it's not enough. >> ism's don't get you to 3% in the fourth quarter. >> we've had higher than 50 ism, and that hasn't gotten us anywhere. >> 52 or 53? >> we've been ut higher than that in the past couple of months. what we've seen is a slowing from where we were, and where we were wasn't enough to get that strong gdp growth rate rsh. >> you've slowed down to 2% growth. >> we're hanging in there. you want to know where the global growth cat lites is. it's not just the u.s., which is okay, but it's not going to lead the global re

now let me move to one of our roll-ins here. we went to the zen center, and most of you probably have heard of zen buddhism- it's one of the more popular ones in the united states. and so we happened to be in san francisco, went to the zen center there, and talked to paul haller, one of the leaders. and i asked him about some of these key buddhist ideas, particularly about no self and what is the practice, what's the goal that he's looking for. so if we could, let's listen to a believer, and expert on buddhism, paul haller at the san francisco zen center. [bells ringing] >> what a beautiful, peaceful oasis in the middle of a busy city. we're at the san francisco zen center, and we're going to be looking at zen buddhism today. certainly, this is a wonderful symbol of what i think we're going to find, because at the heart of the buddhist experience is that very religious, very spiritual quest for peace and interconnectedness. now the story of the buddha is something that we'll be exploring here throughout this part of the experien

let me walk fast, get away, whatever. he was not a confrontational kid, but he would not be accosted by someone he didn't know. they keep saying over and over that the stand your ground law -- trayvon was standing his ground. he didn't know who this guy was. it was a stranger. in today's society you have pedophiles, murders, and he didn't know what he was up against, he just wanted to get home. >> reverend sharpton, it's real important what happened yesterday. it showed that what zimmerman said was not accurate at all because trayvon was a kid like many teenagers that talk on the phone constantly. his mother and father said he always had an earpiece in his ear. >> you're talking about him talking to the young lady? >> yes, when you look at the cell phone records, it blows zimmerman's testimony out of the water. it's so logical, he was walking home, and it started raining. he ran into the complex, had to hit the code, got into the gate, went to the first building he saw to get out of the rain. stood there, let the rain sub

secretary, let me if i might visit with you about the national call center. b this is something that i think we had high hopes for. you might have had high hopes for it. but i have to tell you, it's not working well. here's what we're running into. the complaints kind of fall into two separate categories. the first category would be people that call the call center and no one answers. i mean, it just rings and rings and there's no one there. i would tell you in my own senate office my staff has run into this problem, where we can't get a live person on the other end of the line. the second area is you finally get somebody -- a live person to answer the phone, and you get connected with them. and they don't have information. you know, the veteran is -- or we're calling in or somebody is calling in, what's going on with my claim or whatever it is. and you're just not getting a responsive human being on the other end of the line. i'm guessing what it is they just don't have access to the information that we're seeking and so it seems to me that we're creating a

that is exactly what could and would happen to some degree. >> let me go to reid. you're pretty pro obama so i will assume that's your position here, sir. so tell me what you think would happen if the president picked up the newspaper and got the word from pete williams or someone else during midday report from supreme court that on thing he put everything on, pushed aside other matters to focus on this, his min may achievement, told by supreme court in 5-rule 5-4 ruling based on partisan youngs, what would he do. >> the strange, thing, chris, i don't think they will wage it on health care -- >> answer my question, please. if the thing he ran on. the thing he worked on so hard got 60 votes if senate got to his desk and he signed to proudly from everyone from caroline kennedy, everyone was there. and to have that erased from history, you say he wouldn't be focused on that? >> i don't think he would be pleased. any way you slice it, two weeks ago, one week, four days, you ask anyone on the show today, what is the election about. everyone says this is about economy. jo

let me let you hear it first before i ask you my question. >> i made a lot of money. i've been very successful. i'm not going to apologize for that. i know the dnc tries to push this out and they get it on the mainstream media networks and that's where you guys see it and everybody laughs about it, because in this country, we want someone who can help other people become successful. this is a nation which is not going to choose our president based on these little innuendos and personal attacks. >> i mean, doesn't he understand, no one begrudges him or anyone else being successful, congressman. this is about an inequality, where it seems like the rich are getting advantages and the working class and the middle class are getting disadvantages. i mean, statements like that make me feel like he doesn't even understand what the debate is about. >> he really doesn't. he doesn't understand that when he says in michigan that he would have let the auto companies go in the tank, he's saying to thousands and thousands of auto workers, i don't care about you, and the fact that yo

let me go to you right off the top.there a fourth year of this great bull market which, by the way, the first three years is one of the greatest bull markets in history. >> well, it is an election year. presumably, it serves the democrats best interest to keep going. but i think a little context is important here. entering the year. we were pretty constructive on the markets. we said they work to around s&p 1360. i'm watching the action in the commodities. it's a little dice psi. i'm taking a step back. it got a little short here for a trade and we'll see how it reacts with very tight risk parameters. >> jim mcdonned, welcome. le me just ask you one small question. profits have been driving this thing. profits have doubled, stocks have doubled. i think pa profits are more important than the federal reserve and easy money and all the rest of that stuff. but is there enough profit power to get us through 2012? a fourth year of the bull market? all right, from march to march. is there enough profit power? >> we would only