mr. roberts at comcast, comcast, they are acquiring time warner cable. it is an all stock transaction. even with that, and implied cash value and cash is cheap. this is wpp ceo sir martin sorrell yesterday. >> it goes back to cheap money. you can borrow money and 30 year bond market like we did last year, three percent net of tax. by something at 33 times early in the best of earnings at least in theory without feeling the whip. long-term cheap money, good management, and opportunities means more consolidation. in sochi.he is out maybe he is watching from the g5. when the chairman of

mr. robert mailer anderson. ms. andrea bernstein and mr. tom bernstein. [inaudible conversations] mrs. laura ross, mr. james ross. mr. medina, ms. signs. >> from the booksellers from at the white house we are going to the north portico to see president obama and the first lady greet french president hollande is her life coverage of the state visit continues. [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and so the guest of honor has arrived. french president francois hollande greeted by the president of first lady from the north entrance of the white house. this is the seventh state dinner or official visit for the obama administration the first of the second term and later we will take you to the south on pavilion. it has turned into a springlike display of french culture and flowers and arts. but first we will take a look inside the state dinner as part of our coverage here on c-span2's. we will tell you what it's like to be invited to one of these exclusives upstairs and get some background on the role of first lady's over the years and we will have a conversa

he also said to mr roberts hair and no firm matheson on the apprentice was pro with the deal. an action that was a manager at the time came to paris credit application documents that elusive in egypt and kuwait and the bank's biggest costs missed. she denies do with anything underhanded the way to document what parent asks why the documents state that customers had approached the time rather than the other way around. he said the memos had to be completed quickly. she had limited knowledge about the noise she says her team is understanding was that all matches were taken to the quinn group of unknowns with disgust. i think that the boy to the bank developer john mccabe was the fifth member of the need to attend to give evidence. he said the bank called him into a meeting to ask him to buy some shares. he had almost no experience and share exceeding the cost involved in this helps the time the city was told to deal with the gun and that the reggae she was anxious to get it done. for the dunno what to use the dublin circuit criminal court. yes it's only two days today to celebra

mr. roberts? do you remember? have you seen it? >> thinking mr. smith. >> famous movie.. >> before my time, 1955, actually. i can't say that about too many things. when i see it, that's the first thing i think of. >>> our other big story, a storm causing major power outages in the south. tom fanning, the chairman and ceo of southern company is joining us. tom, i know this caused some problems. i think you have about 120,000 customers in georgia without power right now. is that correct numbers? >> no. actually they're a bit higher than that. let me tell you, it's pretty remarkable. we predicted there would be 500,000 out with this storm. in fact across the southeast, south of atlanta to augusta we've seen the most outages. half of those, the storm continues right now, you should know, half of those have been restored. >> wow. >> we think we'll finish the rest of it most likely by friday night, perhaps into the week. >> so what is the actual number right now? >> in georgia we have 230,000 outages right now. that's where they mostly are. there's about 15,000 in alabama. >>

very serious situation in other words a dollar failure would be worse than the banks failing now mr roberts the last numbers we got on g.d.p. growth were three point two and four point one percent in real terms on an annualized basis now the u.s. unemployment rate has now dropped to six point seven percent after reaching crisis peak numbers of ten point one percent and the congressional budget office has said that twenty fourteen us federal budget deficit will fall to five hundred fourteen billion dollars that's around three percent of g.d.p. the question is is the united states in an economic recovery. that no of course not . they get those g.d.p. numbers by under estimating or under measuring the reign of inflation. so when they do flame the nominal g.d.p. with an under stated measure inflation they get positive g.d.p. but if you actually were to deflate it was numbers with a non manipulated measurement places and there would be no g.d.p. growth this probably not been with very much of any g.d. p. growth since the economy turned down at the end of two thousand and seven so no other indica

mr. roberts: thank you, mr. president. i rise this evening to discuss the agriculture act of 2014, the farm bill conference report. now, this legislation has been delayed, mr. president, over two and a half years. weighing the entire time on the minds of farmers and ranchers all across the country. last tuesday, i came to the floor to explain why i was the only senator on the farm bill conference not to sign the conference report and why i cannot in good conscience support this legislation. i'm here today to go beyond my philosophical concerns with the direction of the legislation and will instead focus on how the 2000 farm will negatively impact agriculture in kansas, my home state, as well as other states. remember the farm bill is not a simple reauthorization or continuation of our nation's farm and food programs. we have already done that once with the one-year extension of the 2008 bill. instead, the legislation before us should be a wholesale rewrite of the programs and policies at the department of agriculture. when

mr. roberts, well, scarlet fu already watched the first episode of "house of cards."ical washington. in davos, adam johnson find value in -- you and me and want -- at lunchtime will be in champaign. live from our world headquarters in new york this valentine's day. i'm tom keene. joining me, scarlet fu and adam johnson. our guest hosts on winter -- the storm, the weather. burt flickinger joins us, managing director at strategic resources. >> there is a lot to talk about. overnight the euro area economy expanded more than forecast in the final quarter of 20 14, easing pressure on the ecb to take action. france, thermany, netherlands as well, they all beat the gdp forecast. they were not up a lot but they .ere are -- up ok, time, by the way? if you need to cough. >> that is what i got for valentine's day, ricola. i am of you on radio, fighting the plague like the rest of us. would you please continue? consumer prices rose 2.5% and producer prices fell 1.6%. mixed they'd obviously in china. economic data here in the u.s., at 8:30 p.m., import prices. more important, 9:15

mr. robert mailer anderson. >> ms. andrea bernstein and mr. tom bernstein. >> mr. laura ross and mr. james ross. mr. eliseo medina. mr. and mrs. irwin jacobs. mr. jason collins. mr. brunson green. >> i'm just having fun and enjoying tonight. >> the honorable patrick f kennedy and ms. m. elizabeth swope. vic torry ofble new and and dr. robert kagan. and dr.ria nuland robert kagan. mr. raymond mcguire. ms. crystal mccleary. mr. bruce mosler. i will announce you. rummlerrable kathleen and justice elena kagan. mr. and mrs. stephen colbert air -- colbert. the honorable jay carney and ms. claire shipman. the honorable gene sperling. mr. rick sperling. greet french president hollande is her life coverage of the state visit continues. [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and so the guest of honor has arrived. french president francois hollande greeted by the president of first lady from the north entrance of the white house. this is the seventh state dinner or official visit for the obama administration the first of the second term and later we will take you t

mr. roberts: it appears to me after careful inspection that a quorum call is not present. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: madam president, i ask to dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: i ask that the sneat proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. boozman: i ask unanimous consent that at a i -- mr. donnelly: i ask unanimous consent that hat a time to be determined by the majority leader with the concurrence of the republican leerkd the senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations: calendar number 629, that there be 0*e6 minutes for debate equally divided in the usual form, that upon the use or yielding back of tiernlg the sna the proceed to vote without intervening action or debate on the nomination, the motion to reconsider be made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order, that any related sta

mr. roberts as well because you're absolutely right. it becomes more of a political question when you get to the fcc and the market power is no doubt a key consideration. it is interesting to know that they are saying that they will divest million subs even though they don't have to stay below the 30% cap that no longer exists and they are also talking about net neutrality and maintaining that even though that's been tossed out potentially by the courts and they are doing a number of things that they would point to what they believe is good faith efforts to convince the fcc that it is in consumers' interests and we'll see what leslie moon vers ves. >> it basically says, look, this is -- could be about a company that is better run than another company. now, i know i work for comcast, but there are overtones of all of this that the residential numbers for time warner were coming down. coming down precipitous, $2.68 billion to $2.53 billion and the idea that this is additive and may be additive on a substantive level, too. >> yeah. this is

mr. robert mailer anderson. >> ms. andrea bernstein and mr. tom bernstein. >> mr. laura ross and mr.ames ross. medina.eo >> mr. and mrs. irwin jacobs. >> mr. jason collins. mr. brunson green. >> i am just hanging out and having fun. thank you. >> the honorable patrick f kennedy and ms. elizabeth swope. >> the honorable victoria newland. and dr. robert kagan. >> mr. raymond maguire. ms. rachel mccreary. >> mr. bruce muller. -- mosler. >> the honorable kathy rummler. justice elena kagan. and mrs. stephen cole there. -- colbert. the honorable jay carney and ms. claire shipman. the honorable gene sperling. mr. rick sperling.

mr. roberts, for letting me do this for so long. you don't think it had something to do with that?oo. >> you're welcome. >> thank you, mr. roberts. >>> coming up next, he ran goldman's european business before creating his own investment bank. peter weinberg will join us to talk about mergers. >>> and at the top of the hour, why ron baron, what he thinks of the markets. we needed 30 new hires for our call center. i'm spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. [ female announcer ] need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 30 of the web's leading job boards with a single click; then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. makes my job a lot easier. [ female announcer ] over 100,000 businesses have already used zip recruiter and now you can use zip recruiter for free at a special site for tv viewers; go to ziprecruiter.com/offer2. [ car alarm chirps ] ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles. we inspect, analyze, and recon

mr. roberts: thank you, mr. president. i come to the floor today to also speak about obamacare, but before i do so, i feel the need to address some comments made on the floor of the senate yesterday that sadly, i find to be extremely distasteful. yesterday two prominent citizens were called unpatriotic merely because they have engaged legally, i must say, in their first amendment right to participate in the political process. i was saddened, i was dismayed, i was discouraged to see the floor of the senate to used as the vain ven ewe for campaign-related attacks. in order to further their own agenda, it has become commonplace for my colleagues, more especially across the aisle, to suppress the free speech rights of people, certain people and organizations. these are simply people with whom they do not agree and who have had the audacity to hold views different from this administration. make no mistake, this is all part of a coordinated plan, i call it shaping the battlefield, to tamp down -- maybe that's not the right word,

mr. roberts i suspect is doing the math on that right now. >> i bet he is. he rails is on our radar -- here is what else is on our radar. bnp is setting aside more than $1 billion in u.s. legal provisions. the cfo tells us staff will get less compensation because of a squeeze on earnings. >> there is a certain elasticity. , we will seerlier that ramification. it might be different from business-to-business. [indiscernible] >> shares in the engine maker rolls-royce are following. the company says sales won't grow for the first time in a decade. lower demand for defense equipment. we will take a closer look at rolls-royce later. u.s. treasury secretary jack lew has criticism for china in an interview with charlie rose. he says the country needs to stop stealing intellectual property if it wants more influence in the world. >> cyber security and cyber theft are somewhat different issues. the issue that we have raised with china is really the protection of intellectual property. policies where there is a theft of intellectual property -- that is unacceptable for

mr. roberts: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, the quorum call will be suspended. mr. roberts: mr. president, i started my public service career fighting for rural health. i have a state that has many rural hospitals. the rural health care delivery system is especially important to kansas. one of my first speeches was to rural hospitals, and since that time i have been beating the drum, so to speak, for our rural areas about how important it is to focus be on rural health. i have always said that people in rural towns deserve the same access to care and level of treatment as their urban counterparts. i've made it my mission to protect our rural health care system and patient access to the best and possible care. i'm honored to serve for the cochair of the center for rural health care caucus where i work with my colleagues to fight for our rural health care system every day. ununfortunately these days it feels like rural health care, all those involved face an uphill battle. over the past f

proof that it was the murder weapon. 31-year-old sharon zachary was charged with the murder of robert rogers. >> mrgers at one point in time even told an attorney that she was the daughter he never had. >> it is ironic that robert rogers, attempting to seek sanctuary for himself, to seek protection from persons who wanted to rob and hurt him, trusted sharon zachary, and it is ironic that this person, in turn, turned on him and became the very thing that he was trying to guard against. h >>> i would never believe that something like this could ever happen. this is only the kind of stuff that you read about. but looking back, i can see that this can happen to anybody. >> sharon zachary and her family lived next door to robert rogers, and the two became friends. rogers' eyesight was failing. and sharon not only befriended him, she also helped by writing checks so he could pay his bills. but prosecutors found evidence that sharon was doing more than that. and was actually helping herself to some of rogers' money, tens of thousands of it. on the day of the murder, prosecutors believe sharon went to roge

mr. robert shafir of private banking asset both management of the credit suisse ag in new york. we appreciate you being here this morning and look forward testimony pursuant to rule number 60 witnesses to testify before the committee are required to be sworn in and at this time i would ask you to stand and raise your right hand. do you swear the testimony you will get before the committee will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? we will be using a timing system for the witnesses today. be aware that approximately one minute before the red light comes on you will see the light change from green to yellow giving you an opportunity to conclude your remarks. while the written testimony is printed in the record in its entirety we ask that you limit your oral testimony to 15 minutes and if you need additional time beyond that, i'm sure we can find a way to provide it to you. please proceed. >> good morning chairman, ranking member mccain and members of the subcommittee. my name is brady dougan and i became chief executive officer in 2007. i'm joined by the ge

mr. president, i would yield the floor to my friend from kansas, senator roberts. mr. roberts: mr. president, i would first like to thank my colleagues for working with senator flake and myself to bring this proposal forward. this is a critical issue, one that really gets to the -- straight to the heart of our american democracy. the current investigations of the i.r.s. clearly show it is not an overreaction, i don't think, to say that the internal revenue service did suppress political opposition. now, to kansans, to arizonans, to texans, to utahans all across the country and to my colleagues, this is not only a scandal but one that is egregious. there is a great deal more than a smidgen at stake here. it gets right to the heart of our system of government. the government must be held accountable for its actions and must never be permitted to travel on the -- trample on the constitutional rights of our citizens. the behavior of the i.r.s. in singling out select groups at their discretion for extra scrutiny and harassment just because they hold views that differ from the administ

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator roberts.elcome opening statements by the other members of the panel. >> thank you very much, senator schumer. i want to, again, as a member of the judiciary committee, i have looked at issues from that perspective, i want to thank our witnesses today for their good work and while you did mention minnesota with the recount, ok, and the fact that as we all remember, someone did vote for someone named lizard person in that particular election when we painfully looked at every single ballot in the state, our state has a proud tradition of high voter turnout. we were the -- we're always consistently in the top few states of voter turnout and a lot of that has to do with having same day registration. of the top six states for voter turnout, they're not necessarily democratic or republican states, iowa is usually one of the top ones, maine is one of the top states, but they tend to have something in common, most of them have same-day registration. i know that isn't necessarily part of what you looked

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator roberts.nd i welcome opening statements by other members of the panel. senator klobuchar. >> thank you very much, senator schumer. i've looked at these photo issues from that perspective and i want to thank our witnesses today for their good work. while you did mention minnesota with the recount, okay, and the fact that we all remember someone did vote for someone named lizard person in that particular election would be painfully every single ballot in the state, our state has a proud tradition. we are always consistently in the top states of voter turnout. a lot of us his same day legislation. the top six states are not democratic or republican. one of the top states. most of them have same-day registration. so i know that isn't necessarily part of what you've looked at in terms of legislation. i think he would go a long way and i have a bill with senator tester to look at rolling that out on a national level. thank you, mr. chairman. to do it fairly in a nonpartisan way. senator king. y. sen

oulds of the bruges group think tank joins us now live to talk more about plans to fix its finances mr robert oulds welcome to our team nice to see here so just tell us how badly ukraine's economy has been damaged by the unrest there. the problems of the largely created in ukraine by western european union and united states involvement a really seriously destabilize ukraine's economy and direct investment. government debt is now reduced to junk status people will not be wanting to invest in ukraine getting its economy moving again there's been serious political turmoil and that is never a good situation for encouraging investment ukraine has some very serious challenges ahead the collapse of the value of its carbon see will lead to high inflation things are not looking good at all and we know that ukraine's interim leaders say there are no funds left in the budget how can they fill the hole. while there was originally an offer form washer to provide fifteen billion towards me they would have been there three billion has already been paid or was going to reduce the cost of gas by as much as th

mr. chairman. >> thank, senator roberts. i welcome opening statements by the other members of the panel. >> thank you very much, senator schumer. i want to, again, as a member of the judiciary committee, i have looked at issues from that perspective, i want to thank our witnesses today for their good work and while you did mention minnesota with the recount, ok, and the fact that as we all remember, someone did vote for someone namedly sard person in that particular election when we painfully looked at every single ballot in the state, our state has a proud tradition of high voter turnout. we were the -- we're always consistently in the top few states of voter turnout and a lot of that has to do with having same day registration. of the top six states for voter turnout, they're not necessarily democrat or republican states, iowa is usually one of the top ones, maine is one of the top states, but they tend to have something in common, most of them have same-day registration. i know that isn't necessarily part of what you look

roberts. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to talk about the long line problem. and we often hear about long lines are the result of some kind of a real plan of some sort that certain areas are being targeted and the lines are a result of a deliberate effort to disenfranchise certain groups. my question is, did you find any evidence of that? second, are these lines resulting from management problems or deliberate schemes to disenfranchise people? >> what we saw is that almost exclusively -- >> turn the microphone towards you. >> that this was a management issue, that there are any number of solutions that we put forward in the report to deal with the specific problems of long lines. we held extensive hearings with the jurisdictions in the jurisdictions where long lines had occurred and we found that there are -- the problems are all identifiable and solvable and no plots of conspiracies that caused the lines. we spent time in florida and what we found in the polling places where there were long lines in those counties, that occurred in less than 1% of the polling

roberts. second round. > mr. acting chairman, it occurs to me coming back at this oint that as usual you have focused on the very questions and our s going to ask itnesses, with their expert knowled knowledge, have already answered them. so, the question is, do i simply questions that you have asked and have them do it or simply ask permission to put this article ornstein early voting but is toxic in large doses i would comment it to the attention of everybody. i think it still is very viable today. want to thank the witnesses and everybody concerned with this. are a ce my questions duplication of the questions i yield back. klobuchar. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have a few more questions about recommendations. first one is internet feed idea. camera on rising waters on a river and everyone in the is try tunes in to see what happening so they can see it. the time for all weather. people are constantly checking when the storm is coming in tonight and a simple that people could very, with simple technology, check

mr. roberts. and he didn't see me from the front.y. >> what's secret to 63 years of marriage? >> i don't know. two people who really -- when it happens, you know. if i really knew i would write a best seller e right? >> i can't even believe that's eva marie 90 years old? >> red carpet like no one else. >> what's her vitamin regimen. >> what's her skin care regimen? >> what's colin farrell like on the red carpet. >> he is so great, goes to everyone and talks to everyone. gives you what you need. he is a gentleman. the movie stars couple little girls in it. you could tell they had this affinity for 5 and 6. you could see he was really good with them. >> that's good. >> yeah. the movie has opened up theaters nationwide. check out all our zit interviews in the fox light.com. >> look at you. >> tell me how you are celebrating your valentine's day day at fox light michael. >> keep it dirty. thanks, michael. >> come on, clayton white house looking to boot enrollment among minorities. >> you have guys seen this? it's it barbie gracing a spec

robert dney jr. making millions. mr. downey bringing in a cool $50 million for the film "the avengers" but "the times" is the loudest mouth in the room crying foul when a businessman is successful. jonathan, why the double standard? >> well, the double standard exists because weon't respect people's minds, we only respect their muscles, their bodies. so when we see a sports star throw a pitch or lebron james dunk a basketball or see gisele on the cover of a magazine, we think, well, you know, i can see what they're doing, they're doing something. no one can look as pretty as gisele, the ceos we don't know what they do according to obama they sit around cashing checks and playing golf all day long. wait a minute, that's obama. the point is ceos earn their money and not everyone can do it. they earn every penny and they deserve it. >> not only that, wayne, they create jobs and that doesn't seem to be highlighted in "the neyork times" piece. >> i would say jonathan is on to something in the sense that we don't see it. we th

mr. mayor. i'm going to introduce our special speakers robert and our chandler of the community college of san francisco and our board of trustee person and ted whose the president of the metabolic part >> thank you senator and thank you, mayor. clearly that bill is an extremely important bill. as we've said we've made progress towards our accreditation and we continue to work hard but clearly without the financial accreditation we faces a cliff. it's gratifying to see the support from senator leno and mayor ed lee pr the mayor has lent his support in all kinds of ways and now we're going to get support in stabilization that puts us on a road to maintain accreditation immediately. i thank all of them and especially senator leno for sponsoring this bill (clapping.) well, you truly it's a pleasure to be able to stand here and tell you that city college is still open and still extraordinary and it's my goal to sustain that for generations to come. with the help that we're being given by the city i want to thank the mayor first and foremost he's been a wonderful partner and perhaps i'd like to call him my n

roberts. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to talk about the long line problem. and we often hear about long lines are the result of some kind of a real plan of some sort that certain areas are being targeted and the lines are a result of a deliberate effort to disenfranchise certain groups. my question is, did you find any evidence of that? second, are these lines resulting from management problems or deliberate schemes to disenfranchise people? almost we saw is that exclusively -- >> turn the microphone towards you. >> that this was a management issue, that there are any number of solutions that we put forward in the report to deal with the specific problems of long lines. we held extensive hearings with the jurisdictions in the jurisdictions where long lines had occurred and we found that there are -- the problems are all identifiable and solveable and no plots of conspiracies that caused the lines. we spent time in florida and what we found in the polling places where there were long lines in those counties, that occurred in less than 1% of the polling places

mr. president. >> next speaker. >>> hello. my name is dr. robert gould. i live in the castro. and for identification purposes only, i worked as a pathologist for 31 years at kaiser in san jose and i'm currently the director of health professional outreach and education for the program on reproductive health at university -- ucsf school of medicine. i'm also, however, i'm here speaking on behalf of physicians for social responsibility. i am president of the san francisco bay area chapter since 1989 and currently the president of our national organization and representing thousands of physicians both here in the bay area and nationwide. and i'm here to represent our organization and give strong support and great thanks for the soda tax initiative that a number of you are sponsoring. i think there's been ample evidence given here today about the profound public and environmental health effects of such a measure. i also want to mention in this regard, real applause for the folks who work in the department of public health here in san francisco, for the extraordinary work in outrea

. >> 43-year-old robert andrew was pronounced dead at the scene. >> mr. andrew was shot two times, once to the right side of the body, once to the left side of the body. and they actually occurred from two different locations, so that also tells us that two shooters, it's a possibility. >> brenda andrew suffered a gunshot wound and was rushed to the hospital. >> her wound is in a fatty portion of her left upper arm. >> the bullet that hit brenda went through her arm and lodged in the wall of the garage. it was from a .22 caliber pistol. police found a spent .16-gauge shotgun shell on the roof of brenda's van, an indication there were two different weapons used in the attack. the empty cans on the garage floor indicated rob saw the gunmen and grabbed the bag of empty cans as a shield. >> as the second gunshot wound is about to be inflicted on him, he is looking up and looking at the face of his killer. >> the motive apparently wasn't robbery. >> his wallet was not taken. in fact, some of the pellets from the shotgun went through his wallet. >> the andrews'