mr. simon has had a distinguished career as an author, scholar, and one of washington's most insightful analysts on middle eastern terrorism and the broader regional dynamics. adl first encountered him when he served in president clinton's national security council as director for global issues and senior director for transnational threats. and during that period he advised president clinton on counterterrorism policy issues and operations, as well as security policy in the near east and south asia. during his service in the obama white house, his door has always been open to us, and he has been generous in sharing his time, his wealth of understanding, and his insights. please join me in becoming white house senior director for middle east and north africa, steve simon. [ applause ] >> thank you. steve's introduction reminds me of something i used to say before i came back into government when i was asked about the arab spring which was since i didn't see it coming, how do i know where it's go

mr. simon, welcome back to "mad money." >> like my jersey?ll, i like any jersey. >> we've got to give the rangers a little bit of energy and push tonight, so i figured in your honor i would wear my jersey. >> flyers were listless yesterday. >> we're the official snack at madison square garden, so eating healthy at sports events is healthy. >> certainly different from the way it used to be. first, almost all consumer packaged good companies had bad quarters. almost all showed a deceleration of growth. you showed a remarkable consumption increase. does this mean once again that we can put away this notion that it's not a fad? clearly not a fad. >> you know, jim, i'm on this show regularly, and thank you for having me on. you're dropping my products. >> actual recognition. >> i've always said eating healthy the not a fad. we've heard one of the best preventions of cancer is preventing obesity. and we keep reading what ingredients pesticides, par bins, we keep hearing about gluten-free products. soup season. it was a warm winter. our soup was up

mr. simons was so focused on helping us read; he'd watch our eyes to make sure we were reading smoothly.see how much teachers care... the more you know >>> time for you to stop hating and learn to love short sellers for what they do best. they lend skepticism to the market. they warn, they give you a heads up. today's actions is exhibit a. let's tick down the list. first fossil. there's no doubt this stock has been a rocket ship. however, the shorts have repeatedly warned they're an accessory business, which is always faddish and would eventually run out of steam. the stock got a 37% beheading. second there's mako surgical. bulls have tried to analogize it to intuitive surgical. the bears have been wise to this one for a while. as almost a third of the float has been sold short. mako announced a huge revenue shortfall and the stock wore 36% of value. third is rackspace, they've been trading positively along with all the cloud plays, all which turned out some pretty stellar earnings but herb greenberg has repeatedly warned that rockspace will eventually be hurt on having to spend too much

simon is 71. singer latoya jackson is 56. mrs.n beatty better known as oscar nominated actress annette benning is 54. rupert everett is 53. she played the facts of life. this country was built by working people. the economy needs manufacturing. machines, tools, people making stuff. companies have to invest in making things. infrastructure, construction, production. we need it now more than ever. chevron's putting more than $8 billion dollars back in the u.s. economy this year. in pipes, cement, steel, jobs, energy. we need to get the wheels turning. i'm proud of that. making real things... for real. ...that make a real difference. ♪ >>> good morning. welcome back to 9news now. it is 5:47 on this tuesday morning. back to work for a lot of people but no relief from the heat we endured over the weekend. >> not even 6:00 it's 76 degrees. >> it's hot. >> you'll need water. >> it's not budging at all. it's going to be a very hot, humid and sticky morning, even into the early afternoon i think we're still going to feel the effects of thi

mr. rit a wilson. >> osgood: still to come, thoughts from the mentalist, simon baker. >> it can be more complicated because in bed? do you read out loud or in your head? do you need a lamp to see? and does it leave your bedmate be? don't you wish there was a light that wouldn't keep them up all night? if so, you'll be happy to know, our newest nook now comes with glow. introducing nook simple touch with glowlight, the only e-reader made for bedtime reading. find your nook at your neighborhood barnes & noble. >> osgood: there is still no word when chinese dissident will leave china for the united states. his escape from house arrest triggered a diplomatic drama that captured the world's attention last week. national security correspondent david martin now with the sunday journal. >> reporter: in the space of two weeks, this man went from the isolation of house arrest in a village 300 miles from beijing to center stage in a diplomatic... between the world's two great powers, a journey made all the more remarkable by the fact he is blind. to escape from house arrest, he had to scale eight walls, breaking his

simon is listening to mr. draghi. no surprise on that front. the key questions that remain for the ecb are very large, how much more short-term liquidity will they need to inject? and unemployment hitting a new eurozone high, the highest it's been since 1999. we know that. a lot of things on mr. draghi's plate. >> and some of the headlines crossing right now, how we see ourselves in ten years, he also says they're better off consolidating through cutting expenses as opposed to raising tax and by investing in infrastructure, that should create jobs. all eyes on that spanish auction, the first auction of long-term debt since that country got a two notch downgrade from s&p last week. it met expectations in terms of the amount sold when you compare it to last month's number. this time around, 3.617. they did sell the amount they wanted to sell. >> and in fact they almost always do. a lot of the banks do step up. the question becomes the secondary market and what we see in those yields. oftentimes a successful auction does not necessarily auger for

simon? >> not as hard as we should be of the president of accusing the polish having death camps. >> i think mr forced to write america 50 times on the chalkboard along with bart simpson. didn't president obama say he'd been to all 57 states. are we going to collect all the gaffes people have made so far? is this an issue? >> if you spent a day looking at the cnbcs, you might find some words that are a little misspelled. >> thank you. >> to get the debt stricken europeans up in arms, imf christine lagarde offers she pays no financial tax. lagarde gets a salary of $468,000 on top of that she gets an allowance of more than $80,000 making her total package worth more than president obama's. but unlike obama, lagarde doesn't have to pay any tax on it because of her diplomatic status. this comes on the back of her recent controversial remarks saying that the greeks are trying to escape paying taxes. sue. >> my, my, my. still ahead on cnbc, myspace co-founder on facebook's ipo fiasco and whether social network history may repeat itself. that's coming up on "street signs." back in a moment. oment. or

mr. dotcom. why henry wouldn't touch facebook with a 10-foot poll. and then steve rat ner, he says investors shouldn't buy individual stocks ever. i'm sue herera with simon hobbs down at the nyse. and tyler mathisen is at a special mutual fund conference in washington. we'll hear from ty coming up. but first, breaking news on greece. the third greek leader this week to try to form a government says he's closing in on a deal. but this greek drama is far from finished. michelle caruso-cabrera just finished speaking exclusively with greece's new most popular leader. but he would not be included in this particular government. michelle. >> no. it is confusing. the man i spoke with this morning is alexis tsipras. we care about what he has to say because now according to dow jones, there are new polls today showing he is the front-runner if there are new elections in june. tsipras caused turmoil in the financial markets this week when he said in his opinion the greek bailout program is null and void. that led market participants to believe that greece could potentially leave the eurozone and return to its own currency. when i spoke with mr. tsipras this morning

simons island. we'll keep you posted here, guys. back to you. >> thank you, jim. please do. >>> so the romney campaign rolls into sin city this week joined by newt gingrich and the donald. be mrby everyone as a super surrogate. take a look. >> the coast of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. donald trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your iq can be very low and you can still intrude into american politics. >> i want to bring in now in ch the national journal's hotline and politico deputy white house editor, isaac dovere. reid, right off the top, what are the political positives and political negatives for romney to appear with donald trump? do one outweigh the other? >> at the end of the day, i don't think donald trump is going to move any voters either to mitt romney or away from mitt romney. this is one of those side shows that we love to talk about in washington, d.c., but don't actually resonate with the average voter outside the beltway. what it does say, i think, is that these candidates are sort of slaves to the way we run our campaigns these days. they have to raise so much money, they have to be constant

simons island. we'll keep you posted here, guys. back to you. >> thank you, jim. please do. >>> so the romney campaign rolls into sin city this week joined by newt gingrich and the donald. be mrby everyone as a super surrogate. take a look. >> the coast of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. donald trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your iq can be very low and you can still intrude into american politics. >> i want to bring in now reid wilson, he's editor in chief of the national journal's hotline and politico deputy white house editor, isaac dovere. reid, right off the top, what are the political positives and political negatives for romney to appear with donald trump? do one outweigh the other? >> at the end of the day, i don't think donald trump is going to move any voters either to mitt romney or away from mitt romney. this is one of those side shows that we love to talk about in washington, d.c., but don't actually resonate with the average voter outside the beltway. what it does say, i think, is that these candidates are sort of slaves to the way we run our campaigns these days. they have to raise so much

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simon? >> i think some of the things i want to press a little bit on the two items. first, grover norquist. there's a perception that mr. norquist is opposed to anything that would involve a tax increase including adjusting the tax expenditures and in that context it is a question of which tax expenditures would you regard as being on the table for the tax reform, which ones are you going to eliminate to boost revenue if you are pushing and i think you are for the lower tax rates, that is a hard combination by the way. >> it is a hard combination and i think that ryan was speaking not for the committee but by himself probably of land the conceptual approach that makes the most sense which is to start looking at all the individual income tax deductions and means testing. i haven't done all of the math on that but you get to a point where you figure out how much revenue we can generate by means testing and charitable contributions and all that stuff you have to figure out where you are going to draw the line so you don't hurt people that can't afford it but that is what paul out light and that is a sensible starting poin