let's go to roger waiting in naperville illinois on our line for independents. roger, good morning. roger are you with us? roger mika stepped away. we will will go door independent line, nick is waiting in oakland california. good morning. >> caller: hi. i was noticing in technologies you mentioned wind and solar. i've been puzzled for some time why tidal energy hasn't been exploited. it's available and most of the people in the united states live within 25 miles of the coast. it's an obvious of energy and easy to use. >> guest: it's a great question. the answer is unfortunately like in a promising sounding alternative energy that has to be economical and tidal energy is useful and could be promising but it's not yet economical. it's just not going to generate enough power to be worth installing the installations and doing what you need to do to harness the power. that's actually what's interesting about this item on our list about smart wind and solar power. the knock against solar and wind is that it is too not cost competitive with coal or natural gas power. what's interesting ab

charles is in naperville, illinois, republican caller. we are talking about housing assistance in this country, going back to president johnson's vision for a so-called great society. he passed legislation to help out with low income and middle income americans. what are your thoughts, what are your questions, charles? caller: since lbj's motivation and inspiration for the great society was to end poverty in the united states, 50 years later, after billions of dollars spent, are there more people in poverty today or less? host: kent watkins, maybe you can answer that in the scope of housing and housing situation. guest: right, because i am not a poverty economist. but certainly, again, it depends on which groups are taking the .ata and interpreting it ase groups would say, such the low income housing coalition, that there is a greater need. other groups would say that we are taking care of this and we are on the right track. host: how many different federal programs are there for housing assistance? how many different agencies are doing i

the dodge ram in naperville, illinois.he in itself is a huge feat. >> chrysler is killing it again. there is that town & country and the van. and the greatest among these is the cherokee. beating toyota, nissan come the, the only loser this month as volkswagen again who have been having a tough year. the greatest among these all is the jeep cherokee. >> they are doing fantastic this year. we can't get enough of them. let's take a look at how much this has improved over the vehicle it replaced. this time last are you sold 16 nationwide almost 15,000. that's 24000% increase. >> with the huge increase. this is appropriate been waiting for for a long time. it's here and we're doing fantastic. >> the wrangler is doing well, the bigger vehicle, that's the jeep grand cherokee. and the ones that didn't do well the chevy cruz and others were down. >> i don't know how low gas prices are, but 350 is a lot in my mind and that is the average. some places 350 and 370. david: having one on the record sales of allergy when we talk exclusi

let's go to roger waiting in naperville illinois on our line for independents. roger, good morning. roger are wi

but he had spent a senior year in high school as an exchange student in naperville, illinois, and hadica and all things american and he just thought it was a damn shame that the u.s. government didn't understand the middle east and didn't understand the palestinian question in particular. and so he took upon himself -- he took it upon himself to try to bring these parties together. and he was the man who actually had known ali hassan salameh in his cairo days, even before he joined fatah and the plo and they were personal friends. so he was intermediary between ames and ali hassan salameh. and he did this simply because he thought it was the right thing to do. so he was never, never an agent, although for 10 years he served acted as a virtual acts as agent as it's called, a man who introduces the cia clandestine officer to other sources. and even after ames' death, which devastated him, he did, he courageously went back to the middle east after the cia station chief was kidnapped in 1985, and he, in very dangerous circumstance, risked his own life and was almost killed in a car bomb a