lew an his trip. every time a treasury secretary turns up in beijing, he talks about the strength of the currency. what the chinese government has done is gone into the markets, to make it clear that the u.n. is no longer a one-way bet for the markets. what is the direction of travel? >> so far, what u.s. secretary -- u.s. treasury secretary jack lew has been doing is really sending a cler and consistent message throughout his meetings. he is meeting with the premier. he also earlier today was meeting with other senior chinese officials. the main message is this, that he believes that china should speed up its economic reforms especially when it comes to the currency. now, for many years, as you were talking about, for many years, bay sjeng has been heavily

hunt's interview with jack lew. a roundtable discussion on the power players. ♪ >> to our viewers in the u.s. and those of us joining from around the world, welcome. we have full coverage of these stocks and stories making headlines today. alix steel with the economic power of flowers day as mother's day approaches. the numbers and the latest crop report out of washington. phil mattingly is at the white house as president obama goes to california to push for energy efficiency. phil, good afternoon. >> good afternoon. president obama capped off what has been a week of pushing against climate change at an event at a walmart in california. today, asint he made well as unveiling executive actions to combat climate change, was close ties to business. you listen. more and more companies like walmart are realizing the wasting less energy is not just good for the planet, it's good for business. it's good for the bottom line. announcedsident today a bonds with as many as 300 businesses and public entities to try and combat c

out of think lew is step.t relates with those wall street guys nearly as well as tim or paulson did. >> can't wait to see your interview. stephanie and i have waited. >> we are staying in tonight. >> i want a full report as to whether stephanie stays in tonight. >> i can watch it at 4:00 today. will be on street smart today at 4:00 pm eastern. >> political capital with al hunt. , jon hamm ison a madm talking about his role in disney's new baseball movie. that's not very don draper of him. ♪ welcome back. you know john hamm as the swaggering and executive on madman. now he is making another sort of pitch. starring in a disney movie. million dollar arm. it's about a sports agent who goes all the way to india to look for the next baseball star. n and askedwith joh how he made the transition. >> it's one of those places that decides what they think you're good at doing and try to shove you into that box for the rest of your life. it's nice to be able to do successful that makes the box bigger or expansive. >> you

we begin the program with united states treasury secretary jack lew. thank you for being with us, mr. secretary. you're taking off for china on sunday. an important trip. chinese growth slowed from 10% to 7.4% percent. how likely is it that the chinese will introduce new stimulus measures at the extent of their economic reforms? -- at the expense of their economic reforms. ? >> al, good to be with you today. it is of profound interest to the chinese and to us. they have a lot of tools that they will continue to grow but they have to make the right policy decisions. the challenge they have is the trade-offs between reform and short-term growth. i encourage them to stay on a reform agenda. there's the market determining prices between domestic and international. goods and services. obviously have to worry about their situation. we all have to balance short and long-term decisions that we make. what they cannot do is treat the long-term reforms as something they can just put off. >> property prices are falling and some experts say there is a prospect that

. >> if i could ask you about a back-and-forth you had with secretary lew. you are talking about the states that legalized marijuana. under treasury guidelines they can pay taxes, etc. do you see that as a problem? if so, secretary lew said congress needs to establish some sort of policy here. >> marijuana is illegal under federal law. it is an illegal substance. it's a scheduled drug regulated by the federal government. and yet, the toirge and the administration is turning their backs on enforcing that law and allowing states like colorado and washington state to legalize marijuana even though it is federally a criminal matter. so i have great concern. that the administration is again selectively enforcing the law. >> can you put it in the appropriations process, some sort of language to address it? >> it remains to be seen. >> it sounds like you might. >> it remains to be seen. >> do you see an upside with more revenue from taxing these businesses? >> i think the expenditures that legalization of marijuana will cause -- law enforcement problems and the lik

secretary jack lew is heading to china on sunday. take a listen on what he had to in an interview with al hunt washington. >> we have been moving step-by-step in a surgical way. the goal isn't to hurt the mayor and economy. it isn't to hurt the russian people. it is to the pressure on president clinton's polities -- policies. that determination is very serious. some who are calling for doing anything you can. the russian leadership understands that. it is affecting their judgment. it is part of their calculus. they need to change. likes from more of the interview i want to bring in al hunt from washington. let's start off. what else did the secretary say about russia and putin? >> he is going to be in china on monday and tuesday. he is going to talk to the chinese about how much they want to bill the russians out from the eu and u.s. sanctions. we will pressure them to do less. that will be a topic. about internal issues with the chinese on currency, economic reforms and the like. on russia, he recites the familiar line which is, we

we begin the program with united states treasury secretary jack lew.nk you for being with us, mr. secretary. you're taking off for china on sunday. an important trip. chinese growth slowed from 10% to 7.4%. how likely is it that the chinese will introduce new stimulus measures at the expense of their economic reforms?

we begin the program with united states treasury secretary jack lew.for being with us, mr. secretary. you're taking off for china on sunday. an important trip. chinese growth slowed from 10% to 7.4% percent. how likely is it that the chinese will introduce new stimulus measures at the extent of their economic reforms?

again i want to thank you, secretary lew for being here today. i'd like to turn to ranking member mr. serrano for his comments. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to join you in welcoming secretary lew before the subcommittee for the second time. you lead a department with a variety of missions important to our economy, our government, and our nation as a whole. the treasury department plays a central role in promoting economic growth, and opportunity through programs like the cvf-5 fund, ensuring financial stability through dodd-frank, enforcing our tax laws fairly and managing our nation's finances. your budget request for fiscal year 2015 promotes all of these things, most of the agency is held to pretty austere budget levels. but there are significant requests in investments at the irs, which is the largest part of your budget. and those requests and increases are much-needed. as i said at our hearing on the irs a few weeks ago, almost $1 billion has been cut from their budget over past -- the past four fiscal years. and we should not be --

i know there has been a letter, in fact i have it, sent to jack lew, treasury secretary.'t do this. it could really harm our industry. how badly could it harm your business? >> well i don't know exactly what the details of what they're thinking about. i had a very general statement which i saw last night. to me it is a bit bizarre actually they would be thinking about it. it feels like sort of nickel and diming folks. and i actually don't think tax policy is very healthy policy. it obviously won't be good. i think you will have millions and millions of folks who say, are you crazy? this is sort of part of who we are today, whether it is hotel points or airline points or credit card points. and you're going to put the government right in the middle of all that for what purpose really? liz: tough to put that genie back in the bottle and what is the point of something like that except it might all right businesses. arne, great to see you. >> thanks, liz. liz: one quick question. are you hiring? >> oh, yeah, we're hiring. we're growing. we're having a grand opening next week

we begin the program with united states treasury secretary jack lew.nk you for being with us, mr. secretary. you're taking off for china on sunday. an important trip. chinese growth slowed from 10% to 7.4%. how likely is it that the chinese will introduce new

yesterday, i directed secretary lew to follow up on the ig audit to see how this happened and who is responsible and to make sure we understand all the facts. jon: so the president was pretty fired up back then, wage. what have we learned, what has he done since then. >> well there has been an fbi investigation, in addition to the treasury probe and, and of course there have been the congressional hearings, jon wherewer saw lerner take the fifth. so there's been a lot done but in terms of actual punishment very little. i think that is why you have conservative critics where are the consequences? where is anyone who, we can point to that has been held accountable? so far what we heard from eric holder, the attorney general, even from the fbi their investigation isn't complete but clearly there are people who want blood now because they're so upset, so angry. of course the president's totally right when you say you can't have the irs being used as a political tool by either side. jon: yeah. but, nina, you know there is something that seems to be sort of related in both the irs and the

towards the house it may not make a big difference in what's going on financiallfinancially but at lew she's a work unit, part of the working unit. not just you two who can do it. has to be you, you, you anthony, your daughter, everyone needs to work together in bringing down the bills. that's when you were talking about that 900 in food this happen. they can do something together on that. >> anything more important than money is time. right? >> exactly. >> you all are older than your daughter. your daughter is 21. sheefs got allot of years to incur additional debt. you have less years to incur debt. you have to look at your less time to make sure that that debt you incur you can actually pay it down. the more used to sustain her lifestyle the less time you can pay it back and be debt free. your goal is to not working for golden arches in your golden years. >> our thanks to phil and diane, to be so financially forthcoming. we'll continue with updates, more on the show. tasted success, now she can't seem to catch a break. >> sometimes i question, you know, why is this happening to me? i

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. >> reporter: lew winscy spent time as a handbag design earn. pursued a career in communications. she says she stayed reclusive especially after hilly clinton ran for president for fear of becoming a political issue. but she says she will be reclusive no more. writing quote, it's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress. she promises a new media property to help victims of online harassment and humiliation. jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >>> up next tonight, real money. big cuts to your family's credit card bill with one call. tonight we save a family $1,000 and how you can do it, too, coming up. then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. . . or more. so maybe we need to approach things differently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. ♪ constipated? .yea dulcolax tablets can cause cramps but not phillips. it has magnesium and works more naturally than stimulant laxatives. for gentle cramp free relief of occasional constipation that works!

i agree with secretary lew. the sanctions that are being put in place, it is very much is a calibrateda process of escalating sanctions. you create the expectations of more sanctions, that does the most damage. there is a chinese phrase, killed the chickens to scare the monkey's. guest: i've never heard that, i love it. guest: it explains how the u.s. treasury department ruled out -- rolls out sanctions. you pick individuals and institutions, sanction them, you send a message to the international community that you are serious and you rely on the fact that most ceos, when faced with escalating sanctions, are going to make decisions in their self interests to cut ties. the power of our dollar and increasingly the power of our energy molecules, we are becoming an energy superpower, which is giving us leverage against russia and the long game against clerics and tehran. host: our guests on friday morning on the c-span "washington journal" to talk about sanctions. "foreign policy" magazine has a piece called smart s

think he is vanilla but teapartier shares spend more time on the liberal spending democrats than try to lew defeat republicans and conservatives. and then the of republican party intend then to make us a difference in to the next year. neil: but given end us lately improving budget numbers but it is what it is. then to define them to make john boehner as speaker is not there? >> it is about growth and jobs and what about the energy policy? and the deficit and the debt is still there. so the additional revenues coming in as a result of the tax increases. with cap gains and dividends also the top rate from 35 people to be taxed between 45 and 50% with state income taxes. that is why this has been a big jump. and coming out of obamacare. neil: it is always a pleasure. former republican leader of the united states. trent lott. can now to our all stars it is in a cold peace -- amicable peace. >> i agree with the former speaker. it is losing influence in this cycle is cyclical. i would also make the argument the things are getting better and the economy is improving and people are sick of the fis

says that afternoon wore on lew was got to the point of his visit. he knew all about gil reputation of lawyers who could solve just about any challenge put before him. and he asked if gil would be willing to take form the children's rescue project. other groups including several jewish organizations have been trying since 1934 within one year of hiller becoming chancellor to rescue jewish children to bring them to safety in the united states. such efforts had yielded very little success at the most, only a small handful of children. before bumping up against the strict immigration laws. no one could figure out a way to have larger numbers of children. at the time that lewis left gil law office gil knew he could not possibly turn down the challenge that others have been unable to meet. eleanor is listening patiently as wives to. [laughter] as he recounted his lengthy conversation and finally it was her turn to talk. gil, this is really crazy. no one in his right mind would go into nazi germany right now. it is not safe and especially for jews. i'm not

economic forum hosted by vladimir putin in russia later this month, valerie jared, treasury secretary jack lew, commerce secretary penny among top obama administration officials leading charge to dissuade the ceos. they trying to persuade giants alcoa, goldman sachs, pepsi, morgan stanley, conn conoco phis and others, latest salvo from obama administration is violence and eastern ukraine, overnight clashs in city. claiming lives of at least 4 ukrainian soldiers up to 30 pro russian separatists, secretary of state kerry pronounces himself quote, nothing less than disappointed with russia. vowing to impose more sanctions against russ succeed in derails a nationwide elect schedule for may 25. in ukraine. that tactic, criticized by democratic chairman and rangeing republican senators on the foreign relations committee, today. >> if we don't use this call break on sanctions in the way to prevent further incurring to the ukraine, we will find ourselves ewing those sanctions as an aftermath as we did in crimea. >> sometimes i think only strategy that administration has is getting people who talk abou

with al hunt, treasury secretary jack lew will join him to discuss the russian sanctions and the u.s.conomy. that is friday night at 9 p.m. right here on bloomberg television. billionngton, the $40 comcast-time warner cable deal once again came under scrutiny. america's number one and number two cable providers made bigger case for thetheir merger. yang yang joins us from capitol hill with a recap. >> that afternoon. comcast executives and time warner cable executives were quite literally in the hot seat is afternoon and this morning. there were air conditioning issues in the hearing room. senator baucus, chairman of the antitrust subcommittee of the house judiciary committee, actually took a moment to's the hearing and explained that if you saw any sweat on any of the that if you saw any sweat on any of the four heads of any of the witnesses, it was because of the air-conditioning problem. that was theh, but only one. but it was not that tough of a grilling as far as hill hearings go. lawmakers made clear that they are not in the position to judge the deal. that decision rests with t

a student at gary's lew wallace high school has been suspended, for wrapping two classmates in packing tape. it happened tuesday in healththe boy tied up a girl -- a special- needs student. and when another boy tried to help her, the student tied *him up, too, and paraded him through the school. one victim's grandmother claims, teachers didn't try to help the two victims. to children who filed over an inflatable slight accident. there injured at the end of the party at a school lawsuit claims the school and slide company failed to anchor the slide properly or provide proper supervision. it tipped over when the kids overloaded it. federal prosecutors released some of the text messages sent by boston marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. the messages were sent hours after the f-b-i released photos of tsarnaev and his brother. prosecutors say dias kadyrbayev texted tsarnaev, who then texted back, "better not text me my friend." that was followed by "laugh out loud." prosecutors say tsarnaev sent another text telling his friend to take what he wanted from his dorm room. and another f

i agree with secretary lew. the sanctions that are being put in place it is very much is a calibrateda process of escalating sanctions. you create the expectations of more sanctions, that does the most damage. there is a chinese phrase, killed the chickens to scare the monkey's. guest: i've never heard that, i love it. guest: it explains how the u.s. treasury department ruled out sanctions. you pick individuals and institutions, sanction them, you send a message to the international community that you are serious and you rely on the fact that most ceos, when faced with escalating sanctions, are going to make decisions in their self interests to cut ties. the power of our dollar and increasingly the power of our energy molecules, we are becoming an energy superpower, which is giving us leverage against russia and the long game against clerics and tehran. host: our guests on friday morning on the c-span "washington journal" to talk about sanctions. "foreign policy" magazine has a piece called smart sanctions a sho

valerie charity, treasury secretary lew, commerce secretary along with the top officials meeting the charge you dissuade the see ito's. trying to persuade ocala ocala, morgan stanley, a chronicle phillips and others to boycott the state petersburg conference. with the violence in eastern ukraine build with the overnight clashes with klay being at least for ukrainian soldiers answer purchase. secretary of state carry calls itself nothing less than an russia and bows to report to impose more sanctions if bulletin's succeed to do real a nationwide elections scheduled on may 25th. that tactic was criticized by the democratic chairman and ranking republican senators today. >> if we don't use this calibration on sanctions to prevent further encouragement into the ukraine we will find ourselves using them as the aftermath as we did with crimea. >> sometimes i think the of the strategy the administration has to talk to people to talk about ukraine is they looked in the mayor to talk tough. lou: just moments ago it was announced nato made be forced to permanently stationed troops as a deterre

. >> i'm talking about gordon lew willis. >> the technical expertise that he gained over the course ofking in film for over 20 years before he lended his first feature, how he worked with the director worked with the script and came up with visual solutions to problems. the scene we just sauce from all the president's men is a very great example. that's a scene where bob woodward the reporter played by robert red ford is talking to deep throat. deep throat's identity wasn't known for many, many years later. but you have to make deep throat a compelling character in this feature, without showing his face. willis gave you a strong background of blurry lights and redford's face in shadow. nonpresence even though his voice registers. >> very powerful scene. let's show another scene from one of gordon willi willis's mo, the godfather. >> i'm going omake him an offer he can't refuse. >> what's distinctive about what willis did? >> they are slowing the scenes in don corleone's study. it is very broody and they're saying, i can't see anything. when the light plays on mar plon bran doe's face,

hunt's interview with jack lew.discussion on the power players. ♪ >> to our viewers in the u.s. and those of us joining from around the world, welcome. we have full coverage of these stocks and stories making headlines today. alix steel with the economic power of flowers day a

jack lew was asking congress for more money.essional republicans say it is gross mismanagement. >> $1.2 billion request this year increase in funding. >> almost 8 percent. 8 percent more. >> in will light of all of these problems it is mismanagement. >> they called it a government and bureaucracy that has gone way too big and it has run amok. >> it is time to brew on this. a kaplan who doesn't believe in god. members of the atheist group want their own chaplain. they are preparing to have one appointed. atheist and free thinkers meeting today with the de dense department to oppose appointing a president for that position. >> more atheists are enlisting in the army. they are not providing enough outreach for those who do not believe in god. should atheists on military bases get their own chaplain? send an e-mail to us at foxfriendsfirst@foxnews.com and we will share it in the show lart. >> they may be soon linking up with direct tv. lauren simonetti here with what that means for you. >> good morning, lauren. >> active talks by sa

matter what is going on in the world use strike me as someone who is deeper or sees things differently lewluding scantily clothed women so i see some hot babes that say he is just another dumb mail. >> you strike me as us sex of assessed pig. >> we think both have issues. >> i hope you both start having cable issues. >> i like how loud and crazy you are. >> think you for all your hard work reporting the news. somebody has to do is. >> the more i watched the more i am convinced you are more liberal than you would like us to know. >> i avoid labels eyecare but i toss it out. you can be both civic sometimes you are so rude to your guests with always negative remarks. >> never good to. >> you may be a big shot at fox spee you are a lousy interviewer you stumble and mobile and stutters through. >> and flip the channel there are plenty of others. and here's hoping you never return to my channel so before you go just stuff that. i am waiting. turns the channel. you are not because you love me. have a good weekend. . kennedy: december last year we launched a show, noty to >> we launched the show n

giants and marlins and lew seal. >> dateline and grim will air at 8:00. you will see us after the game on nbc bay area as well. >> as we head out to the ball bark before we head over to jon miller and mike krukow, it's a cool night for baseball. >> it's a lot cooler than it has been for much of this week. we have 64 degrees, winds out of the west, 10 to 20 miles per hour. you get that westerly wind, sometimes, you never know. might help to push some home runs out. >> enjoy the game. we'll see you after the game. >> bye-bye. >> hello,

economic forum hosted by vladimir putin in russia later this month, valerie jared, treasury secretary jack lewe secretary penny among top obama administration officials leading charge to dissuade the ceos. they trying to persuade giants alcoa, goldman sachs, pepsi, morgan stanley, conn

at some point heside jack lew, and then what about hillary? he was just throwing names in there.on't know whether to believe it or not, but it sounds like he really wanted to resign many times since 201. >> what's interesting to me, it's no surprise to washington insiders, the circles that they people run in are extremely small. >> yeah. >> the same names keep on coming up over and over and over again, regardless of position, whether state, treasury or otherwise. so it will be interesting to see how many of those names have come up in other books. >> and hillary clinton already had the job. >>> andrew ross sorkin will sit down with mr. geithner this monday morning on "squawk box", author of requests stress test" kehl a.m., eastern time. >>> and maher relievi -- mar reese levi, love on the rocks. let's take a listen. >> one of the principles was that there would be equality in the management team. this has not been the case in the proposal to cup. i was going back and forth to try to convince them we should have equality. >> -- it works for france. >> it works for france, doesn't

. >> let's talk about bill clinton setting the precedent, not to defend monica lew swin ski or gennifer, bill clinton is upheld by women's groups all over the country and has been for decades as a hero for the wom women's movement. >> does it all come down to abortion? >> it does. absolute by in if you support abortion you can overlook -- >> what does it come down to. >> a set of needs that women have to create opportunity in the country. >> needs? >> it is about access to contraception. >> so that transcends apus? >> it is about minimum wage. >> that transcends the visual -- >> nothing transcends it. i'm trying to separate it. >> whoa. stop. is bill clinton here a chronic abuse are of these women? do you believe he allowed these attack to go forward to protect his political career? >> what i believe is that bill clinton and all of these women were admired in scandal. >> stop. do you believe -- you're not answering my question. i'm going to ask it again. do you believe bill clinton allowed these women to be smeared so he could continue his political career? >> he has no career over the

coming up next, we'll take a look at chicago making a case for george lew cals. ♪ -- lucas. ♪ >> thising stock" on bloomberg. i'm pimm fox. the obama administration records two high profile resignations this afternoon. first the embattled veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki stepping down after revelations of widespread failings in the v.a. health care system. then white house spokesman jay carney resigned. our white house correspondent joins us now from washington with more details. >> it was what we kind of expected happening, at least on the shinseki side. on jay's side, maybe a little bit different. something that was a long time coming. look, the day started with secretary eric shinseki going to great lengths to talk about the changes he had most recently made, including firings, docking of pays and overall system restructuring in an effort to save his job. within two hours the president had accepted his resignation. deciding that after an internal report showing systemic problems throughout the v.a. related to waiting times, the secretary was simply too much of a distraction

. >> treasury secretary and georgetown alum, jack lew spoke to his alma matter. >> if the penned lump is swinging back. i believe that immigration reform the same will be true. if we need evidence that our country can still accomplish big things, one need only consider health care reform. >> well, health care reform was anything but bipartisan. the final bill passing both houses with zero republican votes. >>> finally last week, sarah blair won ta an election last week. this week, high school graduation. blair told fox and friends this morning, win or lose, they plans to -- she plans to go to college full-time. serving in the lth tour will be a part-time job. >>> another example tonight of americans fighting back against the borrowing bureaucracy, some even call it the tirn yaen of the environmental protection agency. >> andy johnson and his wife built a pond in 2011 for his cattle but now the epa is threatening a $75,000 a day fine. the johnsons say they thought they followed all the rules especially after wyoming's state engineer gave them the permit. >> i love the work that we put

discussing the situation with dennis mcdonough, joe biden and jack lew. what other pressing benghazi related questions are keeping republicans up at night? how about the gop concern with the administration giving a stand down order refusing to come to the aid of those at the. >> when the secretary of defense had assets that key have begun spinning off, doctor was there not one order given to turn on one dweepartment of against as set. i have my suspicions which is secretary clinton was on tstand down. >> never nind tmind it was conc there was no stand down order in tripoli. maybe someone, maybe even someone in their own caucus, will familiarize the republican party and the chairman they have tasked to head the house select committee on benghazi that all the questions they are seeking to answer have been addressed exhaustively in reports from the accountability review board. the senate intelligence committee. the house armed services committee. the house foreign affairs committee. and the house committee on oversight and government reform. all of these rep

cap new members including treasury secretary jack lew and commerce secretary penny pritzker have been reportedly been personally calling executives, urging them not to attend. in nigeria, the leader of the group boko haram has claimed responsibility for the mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls and has threatened to sell them. there are reports some of the girls have already been sold. hundreds have taken to the streets to call for the nigerian government to intensify its search. on monday, two women were arrested who helped organize the protests. we will have more after headlines. an occupy wall street activist has been found guilty of second-degree assault and could face seven years in prison for elbowing a police officer. cecily mcmillan was arrested in march of 2012 as protesters park.to reoccupy zuccotti she says she struck out instinctively after her breast was grabbed from behind, then suffered a seizure as officers pinned her down. days later, she appeared on democracy now! covered in , at least one in the hand of a handprint over her right breast. she is being held without

the first numbers you hear with something like this hard lew are ever the complete stories.e crunch the numbers. about 614 people have documented inspection. 180 have died. about 29% mortality. scary number. those are the people who got tested because they were sick and they were of concern. if there's a lot more people out there, anderson, who have been exposed to the mers virus, but only had mild symptoms or no symptom at all maybe the denominator isn't 614, maybe it's 76,000 or 600,000. if that's the case the mortality comes way down. we've seen it with other viruses that we thought were far more deadly but then realized it's affecting a lot more people many of whom didn't get sick or just mildly sick. >> how can people protect themselves. what you're saying you don't want to give the sense this is something everybody will come in to contact with and therefore needs to protect themselves from. what should people do if anything? >> the basic rule still applies with regard to -- you hear about this particular case, a sick person shook hands with somebody, and maybe as a res

but one of her opponents has more experience in the district, and that's ted lew. yesterday he got the endorsement of the guy who beat gruel, edwin garcetti. of the three republicans, carr could do well tuesday. carr is an iraq war veteran. former district attorney steve cooley and sheldon adelson. but a relatively unknown is using the internet to bankroll his campaign. he's not expected to win or come close to the top two tuesday but he also has celebrity endorsements. he's got l.l. coolj, mini driver, former catcher mike piazza, rick pitino. and then there's a spiritual author and lecturer backed by nicole richie, jane lynch, ava longoria and deepok chopra. and she even has alaniz morriset. ♪ unless we start demanding of our union today ♪ >> but a big endorsement recently went to my next guest, the "l.a. times." "what miller does bring to the john is a keen, analytical mind for bringing down health care costs and reforming campaign finance laws and disclosure." he's a familiar face on this network as a guest and former guest host. he's a columnist for "the washin

the petersburg economic forum is coming up, and secretary jack lew and valerie jarrett at the white house have been calling american ceos, and asking them not to attend that event, so who is going and who is not going? that's all been confirmed now from white house spokesman jay carney. here's carney yesterday addressing a question about whether or not the white house in fact requesting ceos not to attend. >> we don't think it's appropriate, given the flagrant violations of the sovereign nation's territorial integrity and the consistent effort to further destabilize ukraine, that it's the appropriate thing to do. >> let me run a list of who's going. we're seeing a lot of ceos peeling off. michael corbett. citi, klaus kleinfeld of alcoa, carl thomas newman. and james gorman of morgan assistantly, all not attending at this point, unlikely to attend, put lloyd blankfein in that category. still attending is dennis mulen berg of boeing. also attending local cnbc representatives will be at that conference in petersburg, so a very interesting dilemma for companies when the white house calls and

. >> that is in fact what jack lew suggested in my interview last week. they wanted to hold something back, these big broad sanctions in case there is a military move. one question that comes to mind is hasn't russia taken effective control over eastern ukraine already? they've already acknowledged to the kiev document they no longer control the donetsk region. >> but they are apparently trying to move in an assertive degree of control. the bright line would be sending troops in. the crimea was a historical action because krugs chef gave it and suddenly you have crimea and i was there with karl rove of all people. and we walked down -- >> and bob, russian flags everywhere. >> on that note we see angela merkel and the president walking to the microphones, she'll be speaking in german. we will have a translation from the white house. the president. >> good morning, everybody. it is always a great pleasure to welcome my friend chancellor merkel to the white house. germany is one of our strongest allies and angela is one my closest partners. i want to make tw