governor mccrory is about to join us live to give us the real story. >>> also guess what? the markets seem to finally be getting it. good news is good news, damn it. yesterday's retail sales, today's bank of america and apple stories, plus a positive fed. as i said, good news is good news. we are joined by chris lawford and patrick kennedy who have written a new book on what it takes to solve addiction. the lives of at least 23 million americans are at stake. all those stories and much more are coming up on the kudlow report right now. >> good evening, i'm larry kudlow. this is the kudlow report. we've live today. president obama reiterated his call for congress to renew long term unemployment benefits. the president said he's going to move on without legislators wherever possible. >> more than ever now president obama needs to change the subject from obama care and to try to position his democrats in this election year as the champions of working class voters. that's why he went to north carolina, to push his plan for what he calls hubs in 45 locations. the first would be

. >> known as a fiscal conservative, pat mccrory was fairly moderate for a republican.vernor markell ray, in one of the debate before the election, was asked by someone on the panel, would you sign any measures to further restrict abortion in north carolina? he said no. >> what further restrictions on abortion would you agree to sign? >> none. >> all right. [laughter] he swungce in office, hard to the right, beginning with the casual announcement of a key appointment. >> art pope has agreed to serve deputyudget director. >> an innocuous title, masking a startling reality. the man who for years had poured money into those right wing think tanks, the republican party, and into republican campaigns, including pat mccrory's, would be the governor's man overseeing the state budget. >> his power is tremendous and frightening to me that people can buy their way into that kind of power in what is supposed to be a people's democracy. she sings in a group called the raging grannies. several years ago, she moved from new york to north carolina. husband and i retired, we were looki

joining me is governor mccrory. good morning, sir. >> chuck, thank you for having me back.we're looking forward to the president coming. >> i was going to say, what do you think of this initiative? are you in favor of it? are you going to go to the event? tell me your reaction to this initiative. >> well, i'm in favor of this initiative. we think there's a manufacturing comeback in north carolina. we're seeing a great deal of interest in manufacturing coming back from china to north carolina. we think we've got the talent to supply those jobs. and i'm supporting the president in his efforts, and i'm going to greet him at airport. i'm going to listen to his speech at n.c. state. i haven't been invited to the tour, but if the white house invites me to the tour, i'd be glad to tour the great company. >> and the state chipped in money on this, as well, right? you had federal dollars -- >> yeah, yeah, i've committed in my next -- >> yeah. >> -- i've committed in my next budget, i believe, $10 million to support this effort. it's a great cooperative between the private sector and

. >> university police say about 1:00 yesterday morning, two men tried to grope a woman near mccroryl. she was able to fend them off. >>> church goers in vacaville are standing by their pastor, accused of trying to burn husband ex-girlfriend's house down. mark lewis was investigated for arson. he has been charged with fraud for trying to use the church as collateral for his bail. yesterday, police broke down the doors of the church as they searched for drugs and paperwork. >> it's getting a point to where they're getting nitpick on little things, anything to put him in jail. >> people are making falls accusations against our church and our pastor. and good will prevail. >> police have not said yet if they ended up finding anything significant in their search. >>> a crews ship now docked in the u.s. virgin islands after hundreds of passengers and crew members got sick. it appears to be an outbreak of the norovirus on board royal caribbean's explorer of the seas. the cruise liner left new jersey thursday and was supposed to make several stops in the caribbean. u.s. health officials hav

>> mccrory started off last month and said nothing has changed fundamentally. it was the prospect about growth that got investors excited. once you look at the numbers, they>> mccrory started off last month and said nothing has changed so far do not justify te levels. the other thing is that the overhang of insider stock selling. >> that is a plague for any new ipo. >> there was not a lot of insider selling in the initial ipo and the exploration -- the expiration is one month away. sometimes there is an uproar on twitter and they totally capitulate in five or six hours which was two weeks ago when twitter changed how you can secure yourself from idiots on twitter. what did you learn from that episode? everybody has the same issues with twitter. they suffered from their own problems, essentially. think it's ok, i they lost 17%. this company will be around for a long time and they will develop new products and figure out a way to rebrand themselves and become important. and, in theme value long run, they will find it. twitter lesham, shares are trading slightly h

governor mccrory said it wasn't a crucial time.t make a difference. let's take a listen to that. >> my supplying important was supported by the pages of the smart lot observe and supported by three of the african-american democratic candidates who are running for mel watt's seat. chuck, you know and i know that not much goes on in washington between july and the election. it's a sad commentary. >> reverend nelson, will you be doing something between jewuly d election? >> i think we'll be pretty busy. we are every other year. being in the district, listens to people, talking to them, holding meetings, they're doing constituent services, helping people get passports. it's all critical. this is one of the more amazing abdications of responsibility i've never seen? terms of not abdicating, mel watt's team is staying in the office to do some of that constituent service. but reverend barber, let me ask you about the other part we heard mccrory say. they're down with the november election. we checked. that does seem to be true. why would

three men on skateboards tried to grab a female student walking near mccrory hall.e investigating that case as attempted battery. and police believe those suspects were different from the man on the bike. >> i don't think it was as serious as they made it seem. i was like oh my god, but i don't theup -- think i would report it. >> he might eventually start escalating what he does. that's really the problem with it more so than hitting the girl's butts. it's more of what can become. >> reporter: any inappropriate touching can make somebody feel violated and unsafe. >>> more details on the man that police are looking for. the victim described him as caucasian, 30 to 40 years old. he has a mustache. as allie mentioned he was riding around on a bike. police aren't sure if he's a student or not. >>> san leandro police say an officer shot and killed a dog yesterday after they say it charged an officer after it bit an 11-year-old boy. it happened around 10:00 yesterday morning on darius way near vista grant drive. police arrived at the scene and found the boy injured. offi

let's ask the governor of north carolina joining us from raleigh, pat mccrory.r. >> thank you very much for having me. stuart: as i understand it, you cut jobless benefits when the unemployment rate was 8.9%. and the unemployment rate has now dropped to 6.9%. are you saying you had that whopping great, big drop in the jobless rate because you cut benefits? >> it's about the only variable that's different from other states, and north carolina since that time has had the largest drop in unemployment in the nation. and i don't know of many different variables in addition to the tax cuts we also initiated this year. but i think the decision not to have the ninth highest unemployment benefits in the nation and lowering them to what our neighboring states in south carolina and tennessee and virginia pay and then us lowering our debt that our businesses owed the federal government has had a major impact. we owed the federal government $2.5 billion in debt, and we were having to increase taxes for businesses to pay not the principal on that debt, but the interest on tha

governor mccrory is about to join us live to give us the real story. >>> also guess what?inally be getting it. good news is good news, damn it. yesterday's retail sales, today's bank of america and apple stories, plus a positive fed. as i said, good news is good news. we are joined by chris lawford and patrickne

the sense of personal grief is captured in the famous exchange when washington star columnist mary mccrory cheerfully told some dinner guests the day after assassination, we'll never watch again, to which one of her guests gently replied, oh, we'll laugh again, mary, but we'll never be young again. mrs. kennedy's dignity generated many classical illusions during those days. her nobility, one biographer wrote, represented all the hero's widows, and cbs newsman dan rather predicted kennedy's assassination will still be discussed a thousand years from now. none of us will live long enough to know whether that prediction will come true, but here we are 50 years later still discussing that dark friday afternoon, but perhaps we still have not fully grasped its ramifications. thank you. [applause] .. you have to make choice every day that the country won't like no matter what you do. whether you are no longer responsible for that, both sides can imagine he would have got us out of vietnam. he would had the race riot and watergate, all the things that happened later. that wouldn't have happened ob

the sense of personal greed is captured in the famous exchange with washington star columnist mary mccrory cheerfully told some dinner guests a day after the assassination, we will never laugh again. which one of the guests, daniel patrick moynihan get a report, we will laugh again, mary, but we will never be young again. mrs. kennedy's dignity generated many classical allusions during those days. our nobility represented all the heroes we does down the centuries. cbs newsman dan rather predicted kennedy's assassination was to be discussed 1000 years from now. none of us will live long enough to know whether that prediction will come true, if you we are 50 years later still discussing that dark friday afternoon, but perhaps we still have not fully grasped its ramifications. thank you. [applause] >> we would love to take some questions and answers but before we do let me remind you, we are being filled for c-span. we are going to call and you. brazier hand and get contracted to both of us are one of us. the cognizant of the microphone being a new you. yes, sir. >> for both of you. if presid

tomorrow to talk up his so-called economic agenda, but does he know that republican governor pat mccrory down there lowered unemployment benefits and get this, unemployment rates plunged. check out that chart. lot of us have been saying this, incentives matter. but back to obama, looks like a triumph of inequality over growth. here now is ben white, chief economic correspondent for politico. steve, before we get down to the nitty-gritty, i just want to know, obama had a point in his little presser today, he says we're not leaving anybody behind and everybody's getting a fair shot. okay? we're not leaving anybody behind and everybody's getting a fair shot. is obama going to go bill de blasio, mayor de blasio? is he going to go senator elizabeth warren? is obama going to go sandanista on us in this next session? what do you think? >> i was really kind of shocked by the president's words today because my kind of attitude, is this all you got, mr. president? we've heard a lot of talk about unemployment insurance and have extended that now for four or five years. there has been all sorts of t

mccrory there passed the most proactive income tax reform, personal state, made it the most competitiveen it has been the least competitive for years. watching that as a >> i'm glad you brought that up. the grassroots in north carolina -- but you know what, this thing called moral money where you see an outpouring of the grassroots in the way you haven't so they have done more to generate enthusiasm and energy than we could have done with millions of dollars in advertising. >> a poll question can test well and not be decisive in directing people's votes. they may see we should extend unemployment benefits, higher minimum wage, but are they going to go to the polls to vote on that? chances are probably not. second thing is this economy is real interesting. i think cornell is right. there are data suggesting we have some sort of recovery here. we have job growth. >> top 1% is getting recovery. >> as long as public doesn't feel that things are getting better, doesn't matter what the numbers are if they don't feel that. >> and there are numbers that show the majority of people over 50% of p

but as they waited for the worst, north carolina governor pat mccrory conceded the region is never ready such weather. >> we've got to be honest that we don't have these storms very often, so, um, the equipment needed or the equipment level of capacity isn't as great as comparison to new york or connecticut or new hampshire. >> woodruff: meanwhile, the midwest endured another day of wind chills that reached as far down as 50 below. the huge storm also forced airlines to cancel about 3,000 commercial flights nationwide. in egypt, ousted president mohammed morsi went on trial on charges of organizing mass prison breaks during the 2011 revolution. state t.v. showed morsi pacing inside of a soundproof, glass- encased cage, visibly angry and shouting at the judge. after five hours, the trial adjourned until february 22. >> woodruff: the fifth day of the syrian peace talks negotiations broke off, with little to show for the effort. syria's foreign minister charged the u.s. has sabotaged the geneva conference by resuming deliveries of non- lethal supplies to rebels. the state department said th

your governor, pat mccrory is here. the mayor of raleigh, nancy mcfarland. e mayor of chapel hill, mark klein submit. the mayor of durham, bill bell. and we've got congressman mike mcintyre doing great work. your senator, kay hagan, couldn't be here but i want to thank her publicly for the great work she's doing. i want to thank all the students for coming out, we're doing this event nice and early against n't run up the game. i've learned a few things as president and one of them is to not compete with college basketball down here on tobacco road. you don't do that. this is actually my second stop in raleigh-durham. i just took a tour of a company called vicon where workers design the drives that power everything from elevators to the giant fans that help cool buildings like this one, although i think we're kind of saving money on this one. which is a smart thing to do. so this company's making these engines and systems more efficient, saving businesses big bucks on energy costs, improving the environment, those savings get passed on to customers, puts mone