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watts, very nice to see you again, sir. >> mick car, thank you very much.nse of what you think the republicans are doing. the republican poll, 62% disapprove of the gop's handling on health care. do you think the republicans are perhaps letting a good opportunity go by the wayside here, given the way the other side has been handling this debate? >> i think you sure ly can't --i think in this discussion, with the american people understanding that you do need reform, that the system has some flaws, in spite of it being the best in the world, republicans can't get in a situation that democrats got themselves into with the bush administration, saying we're against this plan, we have no plan of our own. i think right now, it's kind of an opposition position, but i do think that there are -- there's room for improvement in the system. i think we have to be more forceful, i think, in telling what our plan would be or what the republican plan would be, in terms of moving us forward. i do think the administration deserves some credit in some of the things they have

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things have changed now, mick. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, alex. sho shortly after the iraqi came forward, the u.s. military, the pentagon, even then-secretary of defense dick cheney were so convinced back there on the first day of the gulf war in 1991 that scott speicher was killed when his f/a-18 hornet was shot down in western iraq that he was declared dead. but subsequently because his body was never found, and in fact the wreckage was eventually located and his flight suit was found intact. it raised the possibility he in fact survived the shootdown of his fighter jet and he may have been taken into iraqi custody. under saddam hussein in an iraqi prison. by january 2001, the pentagon changed his status from killed in action to missing. that set a whole series of events into motion. that involved several investigations. when the u.s. invaded iraq in 2003, they dedicated an entire military unit to the search for scott speicher. they didn't find him until last week when the u.s. marines were led to the grave site very near where the jet crashed.

gun it, mick.et a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. >>> last night miss universe pageant hosted by billy bush and featured a singing performance by heidi montague. there were no survivors. >> come on. billy bush. chief political correspondent mike allen here with the morning playbook. good morning, mike. >> i decided to go with pajama bottoms today because it still works on "morning joe.." >> are they gray? >> not gray. >> let's talk business. rudy giuliani running? >> making all the signs of running for governor. i got to chat with mayor giuliani and he said he would easily beat governor paterson, considered one of the worst governors at the mom, the more likely race against attorney general andrew cuomo. he seems up for it. 65. seems to overcome his health problems. he's enjoying running around the country making millions of dollars making speeches, charging hundreds of thousands for consult an fees. political supporters would love to have giuliani back. >> do you have any sense how he wo

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gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. >>> the public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. this is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was president obama on saturday just a few days ago talking about the public option. well, is it dead? meaning will there be a government option, a government alternative to private insurance for some people in this country? democratic congressman anthony wiener is from new york. he's been around for a while, and he's a powerful member of the house powerful energy and commerce committee. sir, i watched you on the "today" show -- no i think it was "morning joe" this morning. you were good. >> thank you. >> let me ask you this question. you are for single payer. >> i am. >>. you believe the government should run medicare for everybody. >> ho not run with you we should pay for it. >> but the government -- >> but she shouldn

gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. with built-in access to the nation's fastest 3g network. only from at&t. >>> welcome back to "fast money," live at the market site in new york city's time square. if the stock market rally isn't based on the hopes of an economic recovery, then the next guest would tell you it's more pain to come. peter schiff is the author of "how to profit from an economic collaps." welcome back to the program. >> thanks for having me on. >> we know that you are predictor of a correction. how much deeper will this correction be, and will you put your money behind that prediction? >> well, remember, we've been in a bear market since 2000. the rallies are the correction. the primary trend is down. now the question is, is the correction over? and are we going back down? well, there's no way to know for sure in foresight. we'd have to wait for some time. but certainly the market has been overextended, the economy is in worse shape today than it was six months or a year ago. there's no reason fundamentall

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. >> mick viqueira joins me now. here was senator cardin putting himself in front of a town meeting that is conservative. voting for mccain. he's had a lot to shout back to i suppose. >> reporter: you're right. people got here four hours in advance. that bite you played coming in was a gentleman who had a lot of facts wrong. he was talking about how this would cover illegal immigrants. it would not cover illegal immigran immigrants. he talked about come pull sor abortions. there is nothing in the bill to cover that. there are a lot of people here, a lot of people, the majority of people -- the gentleman in front of meji has a copy of the bill legitimate anxiety and it's much broader than the health care bill. many have brought up the stimulus package. there is a lot of the anxiety here. granted, this is a red area of a blue state. there are many, more angry people here. one woman set a point on the way the majority of the crowd feels. she said your government has lost the faith and trust of the american people. she w

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gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. with built-in access to the nation's fastest 3g network. only from at&t. >> are four stocks bucking the trend and obviously the dow is lower so the trend would be down and thanks, wal-mart. three that are higher. wal-mart is booted off for the time being. it is consumer is something interesting. we will touch on that in a moment. the american reinvestment act is six months old. the verdict from rank and file americans is not so hot. the front page a poll they did with gallup say the stimulus is having no impact on the economy or making it worse.e. is it really that grim? let's go to ron, the equipment maker. supposed to be building the new roads and privileges. good to have you with us. a couple of months ago we spoke and you had not seen any stimulus money from the u.s. had seen it in china. has it changed? >> not really. we are sitting with an industry? a world of hurt. many of our categories are down 70 to 80%. unemployment is increasing. we lost $25 billion among the biggest compa

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gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. >> how is it a washington lawyer is the pay czar deciding how much fat cats can earn? i i'm calling it the art of breaking the deal. the president hired kenneth feinberg. one man on his radar screen, andrew hall. that trader for citigroup whose contract is set to pay him $100 million because his small team churned out, like, $600 million in profits for citi in the past year. and now andy hall is offering concessions just to avoid combat with ken feinberg. joining me is julia ruzinski, joe cat wince, republican strategist and erone brook. where to start. conservative or liberal. let me just go with liberal. julie, don't you think really that wall street is much better at figuring out the right pay practices than some lawyer who has no experience on wall street? >> actually, i think wall street is absolutely horrific in figuring out pay practices. especially when they're taking taxpayer dollars to fund their o

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thank you so much, mick. good to see you. thank you. >>> three americans have been detained in iran. now the u.s. is working to secure their release. officials say the two men and one woman mistakenly crossed into iranian territory while hiking in a mountainous area near the iraq border. nbc's richard engel has the latest. >> reporter: the americans who were arrested in iran originally began their journey here in turkey. it was from turkey that they crossed into curd stan in northern iraq. it's a region relatively safe in northern iraq, occasionally tourists do go there. increasingly popular with backpackers, people looking for adventure travel. the americans were staying in hotels for a few days and then decided to go camping right on the border with iran. and this was on friday, and it was during this hiking/camping trick that iranian officials say three americans crossed the border into iran. it's not clear if they knew they were crossing into iran. that border is not clearly marked. there were originally four backpackers,

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. >> congressman delahundred and mick barn , stand by if could you. it is great to have you on our special coverage this morning. and to touch on that, joe, about character and how he was kind to people, often more often when no one was looking. i think that 1 a true test of character because politics in washington is often about sucking up to people who are useful to you. >> you know washington and i know washington. >> i do. >> we have been there for a long time. worked there for a long time. for those that haven't spent much time in washington, i think that the best description of it comes -- heard somebody talking about how they hated going to receptions there because everybody who was always looking over your shoulder. waiting for the next person to come into the room who was a little more powerful than you. they would leave you and -- that happened time and time again. but you don't hear these type of stories. you don't hear the type of stories that we are hearing about ted kennedy. i can tell you i was there for seven, eight years. this just di

gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. with built-in access to the nation's fastest 3g network. only from at&t. >>> hairs shares of bank of america continuing to go up today. john paulson took a large stake in the company. take a look at this. this is citigroup after another revered investor bought shares, didn't turn out quite so well for eddie there. now investors want to know is paulson the next lampert? let's go off the reportcord wit chaz gasparino. >> how about chuck? >> i call you other things, but that's all right. go ahead. >> all right. different environment, right? remember may 2007? didn't have mark to market accounting. we don't know enough about -- the disclosure requirements are different than they were back then. and i think, you know, paulson probably has his eis dotted, ts crossed. we know that they may have some commercial real estate exposure. we know they've refenced a lot of bad assets. the fed and the treasury are saying, hey, take as much risk as you want. interest rates at zero. make some money. th

gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. >>> we have two important updates to a story we brought you earlier this week. when president obama spoke to the veterans of foreign wars convention in phoenix on monday, you'll recall he was greeted by a dozen or so regular citizens, not police officers, not secret service officers, who were openly carrying firearms. it's been revealed that a right wing online radio host organized the people with guns near the president stunt, including the man who carried an assault rifle who we pictured and talked about on this show. the second important update about this story is about the not just metaphorical ties between the open display of weaponry by protestors against the president, in other words the use of intimidation as a political tactic, and the political violence in our own country's history, even our own country's recent history. we're now learning about actual, direct links between the gun stunt this week

things have changed now, mick. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, alex. the u.s. military, the pentagon, even then-secretary of defense dick cheney were so convinced back there on the first day of the gulf war in 1991 that scott speicher was killed when his f/a-18 hornet was shot down in western iraq that he was declared dead. but subsequently because his body was never found, and in fact the wreckage was eventually located and his flight suit was found intact. it raised the possibility he in fact survived the shootdown of his fighter jet and he may have been taken into iraqi custody. that question loomed for a few years until there were rumors floating around iraq that an american fitting scott speicher's description had in fact been seen in an iraqi prison. well then after that, in january of 2001, the pentagon changed the status from killed in action to missing and possibly captured. but it was in early july that an iraqi approached american forces in iraq and said that he knows two iraqis who have firsthand knowledge of the disposition of speicher. those two i

gun it, mick.announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. >>> the markets were up across the board today. all scoring more than 1% gains, bob pisani took it all in from any new york stock exchange. >> the economic activity leveling out helped the stock market a little bit. home builders were a mover early on. look at toll brothers, they reported buying homes increased year-over-year, the first time we saw an increase in four years. financials did well although volumes on the light side. insurance companies like hartford were strong and citi was strong. applied materials and the third biggest pc maker in the world talked about improved demand in the notebook market. and the medical billing priced at $15.50. >> now, let's get the real deal with bulls and bears. first bulls, ben north, paul of heritage capital and ron shaw, is it gina or gina. >> gina. >> and lee munson. to my utter dismay he was a bull and he has lost his nerve and soul and spirit. jay thomas and nick

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