iran has also agreed to stop .ork on a heavy reactor there have been little details about this facility and concerns from france that it could also be used for a weapon. >> there have been complaints in the past that iran hasn't cooperated with authorities. they aresatisfied doing everything to stay in line with this agreement? they say it will also double the number of infected. make sure they are continuing to comply with the agreement. there are other concerns that they want to address. there are suspicions iran may have carried out other research nuclear weapons programs. obviously, they want to get to the bottom of that. it is kind of like a confidence building measure. iran wants a civil nuclear so there will be further negotiations for there to be some kind of other agreement didn't lace. at the center of our next story as well. international peace talks for syria are in jeopardy a few days before they begin. the syrian national coalition says iran cannot be part of the peace. they all oppose a red taking part, but russia says the absence would be an unforgivable mistake. >> the

. >> loved it and it was like, ork let's try to get it going. >> malcolm called us all and said i wantke you out to dipp dinner and discuss possible story lines. and weym all went and it was fr, so i was there. and then he wrote the script and we read the script and it was strong and it just kept getting better and better. >> he brought us all to dinner for see if we would be willing to do -- >> or interested in doing it again. >> malcolm is applying for loans how because of the dinner that he took us allu!zv out to. >> the4hñÑi beginndinner was any to get in the same room again. >> i said i have an idea for a sequel to the best man. they were like let's do it. i was like let's hear the idea first. i don't know what will happen. let's just see. >> you remember back in the day we wanted booty, we had to get playboy magazine or get late night cable. >> and now porn is just on your smartphone. >> are you okay? >> it's kind of freaky, but -- between you and your mate is fun. >> the first movie, there was a camaraderie that existed amongst the actors. a reeal hunger and excitement. this tim

ork has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state.e here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if ere's something that creates more jobs, and ows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. john: gary johnson, hadley heath, and charles cook of national review are with us. and so, charles, you first. >> i think there is a soldier in the audience. lying facedown with shrapnel in her brain, we should make a virtue of what they have done. >> i agree wwth charles. and i like the wind that if you are a citizen who makes the state of our human strong, i agree with that. i don't believe the president's actions or policies reflect that philosophy. i agree with it. >> paraphrasing, we have hundreds of millions of enemies. if not for our military intervention. [applause] john: what did you hate the most? >> what i hated is that he implied that he was taking government credit for our most technological innovations. and that he was taking credit for past t

that have traditionally worked with land lines, with copper lines very well but do not necessarily .ork as well with ip technology they are going to look to see if what happened on fire island a year ago after the hurricane, the superstorm, where all the wireline technologies broke down and wireless is not a very good substitute -- they are going to look to see whether wireless and ip is a good substitute after at&t pulls the copper out in the wireline trials. he is not going to be afraid to take action if things fall apart during the trials. about the hill? is there a tech agenda on the hill? >> i would say one of the biggest issues on the hill right now for the tech world is going to be surveillance reform. 2013 is a big year for surveillance, and the leeks will keep coming. by the end of january, president obama will address his group's recommendations. they put forth 46 recommendations, some of which the white house is likely to accept, but some are going to be more contentious. on the hill, we have two battling groups -- the reform surveillance, reyna then, and -- and correction. b

i am working on industrial plan. 6000 people within all of the different business units. ,orking withagers proposals in order to exploit the value and potential of our group. the target is to -- higher than 10%. >> when will you have the details? >> the restructuring would take place -- we are best in class in europe, lower than 50%. the main target is to increase revenues. class.y, we are best in low interest rates. the future for me is quite different. .e have a lot of potential division.investment >> one of the things we have been exploring, we are -- do you focus on shareholders? do you focus on your employees? is there one thing that has to be done? we focus on the numbers, but there is how you deal with those signs. >> i am working on motivational people. -- i need to motivate people. why i involve people in the business plan. the employees have to be part of the business plan. the involvement with the proposal from the people is the way we can increase motivation within the company. a really import and italian bank -- important italian bank. it is what ceos tell us every day on

but the one thing is if you ork with the government, you have to learn how to fix things. it. so okay. were you loong for next week? >> it is january and so wise a market not up already? it supposed to be a positive month. we are down 1% and i'm looking for the market to make a turnaround. it's been a steady drip, not horrendous. but hopefully next week let the good times roll. neil: it has been a bumpy bumpy january. but what he will cannot? >> well, i am watching seers closely because of what they say about the retail landscape. target had 6% one because of the data problems anda lot of people still shop there. and so i'm watching this as a consumer. neil: we have mentioned this and it does sort of have a bumpy start. >> especially the two signs that i have seen. and i am good wit eight to 12%. neil: all right, gentlemen, thank you so much. >> the next greatest generation or a great pain in the butt. kennedy: captivating the culture like a polarizing comment. to the point of uselessness. these whippersnappe are using technology and drive. and i'm not going to speculate,

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shirt and red tie is david wildstein, the chris christie appointee to the authority who personally ork fiezed the shutdown of the bridge lanes when the government's chief of staff ordered time for traffic problems in ft. lee, it was david wildstein who said got it and he at the port authority secretly organized the traffic engineers and maintenance department and everybody else who had to be in on it to get those lanes shut down then he swore them all to secrecy in terms of not letting anybody in ft. lee what to know what hit him. it was david wildstein calling the mayor that little serbian, david wildstein said don't feel bad for those children stuck in the traffic jams in the first day and the first week of school in ft. lee, because those are the voters, the democratic candidate running against chris christie. david wildstein ordered radio silence as the response of complaints from the mayor and ft. lee officials even when they were complaining about delayed ambulances trying to get to injured people and people who were having heart attacks. that's david child stein and that's david

i'm telling you, if people ork together -- >> repatriate the form, which the president is against. >>ll again fit from those jobs, we'll help you. >> senator, i have to go. thank you, you guys are great. now, folks, what should policies be for president obama tonight? i'm a growth guy, not a redistribution guy. as i said, i want a rising tide that lifts all boats. i don't want to penalize success. we're going to keep this debate going. next we have governor howard dean and aei's jim pethokoukis. please stay with us. [ male announcer ] the new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to bold ideas. that's why new york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and grows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. >>> welcome back to this special edition of "the kudlow report." let's talk about what the senators said, an individual mandate and abolishing the corp

are people like marty sullivan talented hard orking professionals who are motivated to do right for the country and don't make big money much publicity and won't be found at the annual correspondent's dinner. ever been to that dinner? guest: no, not at all. there are lots of people in this workinge myself who are in the weeds, a lot of a lot of public folks who write papers and write articles and are watch dogs. of many.one i happen to get a little more press attention. here.is a lot of us out there is -- i went to a going party for an old treasury economist like 20 years and he great speech. he said when i came to washington -- and that would be 1950's -- i wanted to change the law. i could do see what to make law better. he said after working at the department for 30 years, what i'm most proud of is of the law.out and that is really what we all doing. congressmen d overpromise and we have to keep pulling them back to reality on possible. there's a lot of us. working behind the scenes. i can't end this without oing back to your high school days, jesuit high school. they are often known

it's not a mork from ork character. jack, let's go back to you. does your advice or recommendations to clients change because of what you heard today? >> no. it really doesn't change. remember, this is more of a macro strategy the fed is trying to employ. i think they are just trying to get out of the center stage here with quantitative easing and go back to their traditional monetary policy. i will say my conversations with the fed over the last, say, two quarters, they do remain on notice if they have to raise quantitative easing once again, they are prepared to do it. i know they want to move to the sidelines, they are trying to move, ignore a lot of the noise, so to speak, but they are prepared to ramp it up if they have to. >> what we're in right now feels like the beginning of a global monetary policy tightening cycle. my question is if we continue to see the volatility like we have in international markets, is the u.s. economy now strong enough just as the fed is pulling away from the punch bowl, is the u.s. economy strong enough to be able

make sure these assaults on the poor and the .orking poor stop the house passed a $40 billion cut in food stamps. what is that going to do? i have legislation to cut poverty in half in 10 years. we need republicans to still inmit or even reduce poverty half. we have a strong legislative agenda. host: the senate cleared a hurdle to consider the legislation. they are saying it has to be paid for. when has emergency employment conversation been paid for? those people are living on the edge, looking for a job. why are they being used as a political plot line now? three-month extension so we can work this out. i don't believe we can consider cutting benefits to pay for unemployment compensation. this is morally wrong and economically stupid. he said he was open to offsetting the cuts if congress agreed to a larger extension. oil subsidies, farm subsidies, corporate tax loopholes, you have areas that the republicans would not touch. cutting subsidies for people who are trying to survive, who are looking for a job, i don't believe that is a good strategy. i am confident the president would

you're not going to see hippos like this next to the tribes but you'll see orks and other animals.ion. they were trading beads and different articles we were able to buy from them. that's part of their economy. being in the travel industry, i work for marriott international, i believe in the value of travel and tourism to help these economies. worldwide. one out of ten jobs are from travel and tourism. in africa, it's almost 10% of their gdp. when you go to a country like this, you feel good taking a hot air balloon ride has benefits for the local economy as well. >> what i care about, get angry about is the killing of these animals. the seriousness of the slaughter of animals like every animal you're looking at especially the rhinos and elephants. it's terrible. tens of thousands get killed for the ivory obviously and the aft afdeziak of the elephant tusks. hillary clinton, a person of her prominence worldwide has gotten into this issue. here she is. >> we have a crisis. we have a wildlife trafficking, poaching, murdering crisis. and, you know, we can talk specifically about the e

made $18 million in investment banking in just two years, played central roles in two white houses and ork nateed a dramatic takeover at the house of representatives in the six years of congress. he clearly nowings how politicking works, but being married's different, or it should be. there's prelim adversaries, fair game for manipulation or intimidation. in congress, they represented the constituents, but there was more to do with machinations than maneuvers running a city directed to run and serve people and listen to them is supposed to be a different story, but he treated chicago like washington. perhaps that's why even in the brief tenure of mayor, he found it easy to ignore, parents, teachers, students, pastors, and others carrying out protests outside his office in city hall. they note they had not been particularly accessible, simp sympathetic in the approach, but met with people, acknowledged them, made officers to listen to the proposals and act on the concern. he can't seem to find the time for members of the public, they complain, even as he says the wants their input. students

immigration reform orks farm bill, only things that can be accomplished legislate actively.ifferent agencies and departments of the government. i think you'll hear the president talk about here's what we're going do while we try to get past the bipartisanship. >> they really need to do more with the budget deal investigation been cut in november. i think paul ryan is in january going to announce a pretty big republican set of forms that will replace obama care so they can deal with the challenge which you don't have anything to propose in obama care's place and then i think the growth agenda is the challenge for both parties. the republicans have been too obsessed. we kept the spending level for two years buchl that doesn't tell people how -- you know that doesn't improve opportunity and social ability in america. the obama administration has been worried so they've actually lost the focus on that. if you think what's the republican's agenda to help main street middle class, i would suspect most would have trouble on either side. >> and the republican party is also suffering

level, state that have enacted minimum wage increases in 2013 -- new jersey one up a dollar, new y ork up $.75. .alifornia, went up rhode island, connecticut. why does it need to happen on a federal level? should this be a state issue? guest: that is inefficient to have different minimum wages in different places. at the state level, there is a groundswell of support. it is overwhelmingly popular to raise the minimum wage so people can have a decent living. it is more efficient to have a federal minimum wage. states are stepping in because the federal government has failed to act. it is better than nothing, and where it is happening, we have seen good results. paul ryan, republican of wisconsin and chairman of the budget committee had this to say uawk box.""sq ourpeople who get hurt people who meet entry level jobs , we are praising them out of their reach. guest: that is old-fashioned thinking. a lot the folks who are earning the minimum wage are supporting a family, single moms, people who are working full-time. we have not actually seen that. instead, when people pay a decent wage,

the family moved to rye, new ork, where barbara and her siblings grew up. it was comfortable upbringing. they went to private schools. when barbara was old enough for high school, she was sent away to ashley hall, a boarding school in south carolina. ome for christmas break of her junior year, she went to a country club dance and that is when she met george h.w. bush. >> they were very young people and they got married very young. what do you know about the attraction, early courtship? >> they were attracted from the start. they developed an intimate correspondence, which was typical for the times. george bush decides to join the navy. he becomes the youngest aviator in the pacific theater. their correspondence is emotional, intimate, when they could not be together in the same spot. when they could be together, it was electric. >> she began school at smith college. >> she was there for a year and she admitted that she was not the most dedicated of students. she was more interested in her boyfriend. believe she was rather active in athletics. she went back

the past couple of days about what a tightknit staff i have an how closely every work -- everyone orks together. that is true. as i was u.s. attorney i have engendered a sense and feeling among the people closest to me that we are family and we work together and we tell each other the truth and support each other when we need to be supported and we admonish each month -- admonish each other when we need to be admonished. i am heartbroken that i permitted to be in that circle of trust for the last five euros -- years betrayed my trust. i would never have come out here for five weeks ago -- four or five weeks ago and made a joke about these link loge or's -- lane closures if i had had an inkling that anyone on my staff would have been so stupid as to be involved in and so deceitful as to not disclose the information of their involvement to me when directly asked by their superior. those questions were not asked just once. they were after beautifully. -- repeatedly -- they were asked repeatedly. i take this action today because it is my job. am responsible for what happened. i am sad to r

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sex, birth control, abortion, and actually, it's also about women in politics, women in law, women orking on farms, queens, prime ministers. and my job is to break down the fear many people have. what goes on in a women's studies classroom? >> sunday, women's history, feminist movement and the anti-feminist back low pressure. women's studies professor bonnie morris will take your questions on "in depth." book tv's "in depth" on c-span2. and you still have a few days to weigh in on this month's book lub, "the liberty amendments," go to booktv to enter the chatroom. >> ahead of the next round of talks on iran's nuclear program, two house foreign affairs subcommittees held hearings. members of both parties criticized the obama administration's deal with iran, some calling for new sanctions. a former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and a former deputy from the international atomic energy agency testified at the hearing. it's two hours. >> thank you for being here. timing is everything. the joint subcommittee will come to orer. after recognizing myself, ranking member deutch and of course we'll he

and other climate issues in his ork as the director of climate strategy. our phone lines are open. democrats.80 for 202-585-3881 for republicans. 202-585-3882 for independents. f you're outside of the u.s., 202-585-3883. dan weiss, before you leave, the "60 minutes" report on sunday, " note in the report they didn't comment. do you think the obama administration is doing enough to talk about the successes that pointed out here this morning? >> you can always talk more about successes. know, what's news is scandal and failure, not success. news the fact that the media, particularly "60 minutes" what they on perceived to be failure when, in fact, they ignored all of the success.of now, it would note that the department of energy did issue a statement yesterday that of the facts that we've been talking about here today. i can't tell you why they didn't advance. do that in >> do you think this is something that the president is going to talk about in his state of the union address? if not this particular report, what do you think the say on green s to energy and climate change issues?

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we have responsibility to make with the tea ork party and republicans to try to reate a budget where we can minimize sequestration and get back to as we say the regular we can have projections bills come -- appropriations we can debate. vote john u did no ays does equality mean my income should equal yours? asuld a janitor make as much a doctor? guest: we are talking about disparitiance gaps. janitor should make a living wage. janitor or low wage worker should make enough money to take care of their family. it r regional statistics as relates to how much a living wage should be, in california it up towards from $15 to $20 an hour. e are talking about people having enough income to be able to take care of their families, their kids to school and do what they want to do. of course we have to provide the for increased job training, education and those economicto move up the ladder. those opportunities must be there. ut we are talking about huge gaps now where the top 1%, the c.e.o.'sres, corporate re making this huge compensati compensation, c.e.o. compensation and when you look workers

that we could agree to that would get our economy moving again and put the american people back to ork. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> house republican leaders after their conference meeting at the capitol this morning. the democratic caucus also met today at the capitol. and afterwards caucus leaders, including javier becerra on your screen spoke with reporters on a number of issues, including unemployment insurance and benefits. about a half-hour. >> yeah, those are pretty nice. they look newer than mine. christmas gift. there you go. start the new year in the right way. we ready? well, first, happy new year to everyone and we want to say to all of america that we hope that 2014 brings not just hope and much joy and love but an opportunity to build on a job, to keep that home, to get your kids to college and aspire to do everything that we always believe america gives us here and has for quite sometime. and so this is going to be a good 2014. we believe it and as democrats and as members of congress

make sure these assaults on the poor and the .orking poor stop the house passed a $40 billion cut inood stamps. what is that going to do? i have legislation to cut poverty in half in 10 years. we need republicans to still inmit or even reduce poverty half. we have a strong legislative agenda. host: the senate cleared a hurdle to consider the legislation. they are saying it has to be paid for. when has emergency employment conversation been paid for? those people are living on the edge, looking for a job. why are they being used as a political plot line now? three-month extension so we can work this out. i don't believe we can consider cutting benefits to pay for unemployment compensation. this is morally wrong and economically stupid. he said he was open to offsetting the cuts if congress agreed to a larger extension. oil subsidies, farm subsidies, corporate tax loopholes, you have areas that the republicans would not touch. cutting subsidies for people who are trying to survive, who are looking for a job, i don't believe that is a good strategy. i am confident the president would no

and you can also e-mail us -- host: the headline in "the new .ork times" this morning leaders on the sunday shows saying edward snowden may have gotten help from the spy services while he at the national security agency building -- excuse me, facility is the word i am looking for -- in hawaii before he leaked the document. i want to show you what my grog -- mike rogers had to say, republican who sits on the house intelligence committee. chairman of the committee. he was on "mid-the press -- "meet the press." was ast of all, if it privacy concern he had, he did not look for information on the privacy side for americans, he was feeling information with pat -- that had to do with how we operated overseas to collect information to keep americans safe. that begs a question. and some of the things he did were beyond his technical capabilities. it raises more questions. how we arrange travel before he left. how he was ready to go. he had a go bag, if you will. >> how high level, do you think? >> let me say this. i believe there is a reason he ended up in the loving arms of a fsb agent and m

onse do you >> one time they said they don't ork for anybody except themselves and david sreuter, i my him to do something for iance couldn't get her unemployment for six weeks. she just got laid off and i raised cane and i got it. done today hing about this. she was about to lose her house. ou know what, next morning the unemployment office down here in louisiana was calling her to get unemployment straight. she had do some sort of appeal. it takes calling your senators representatives. >> that's bruce from loose lou. greensboro, from north carolina. >> yes. to out lawe for them jerry manner reason. start negotiatingthem to out l reason. i want them to start negotiating them to work on tax reform what?gotiating on >> well, all the issues and problems we have. have several obviously. >> there is a specific one you'd start with? well, we could start with tax reform. negotiate a tax code that a high can understand. oh boy, how simple is that? it's ridiculous. there's probably a book that who pages-tax stuff. not even the accountant can it.rstand it's ridiculous. >> we'll take one more ca

level, state that have enacted minimum wage increases in 2013 -- new jersey one up a dollar, new y ork$.75. .alifornia, went up rhode island, connecticut. why does it need to happen on a federal level? should this be a state issue? guest: that is inefficient to have different minimum wages in different places. at the state level, there is a groundswell of support. it is overwhelmingly popular to raise the minimum wage so people can have a decent living. it is more efficient to have a federal minimum wage. states are stepping in because the federal government has failed to act. it is better than nothing, and where it is happening, we have seen good results. paul ryan, republican of wisconsin and chairman of the budget committee had this to say uawk box.""sq ourpeople who get hurt people who meet entry level jobs , we are praising them out of their reach. guest: that is old-fashioned thinking. a lot the folks who are earning the minimum wage are supporting a family, single moms, people who are working full-time. we have not actually seen that. instead, when people pay a decent wage, work

it's well orkes straighted play be that we have all this competition, how great is that.e have all these worries that you have about money, forget it. we don't need to raise any cash. we've got new programming. we are to quote our old friend -- this is my own extrapolation, howard schultz, the third way to entertain, you can watch tv or movies. a charming call so to speak and a charmed company. >> a charmed company. and putting out their growth targets that would seem to meet even the best of cases for the bulls in terms of continued subscriber additions. >> yes. there are so many. the letter itself which is just -- remember, there's a letter. they do things very differently. this is kind of like when you were growing up you always felt there will be this company one day and send me a nice letter about how i'm doing and have a folksy conference call, kind of an fdr fireside chat here and every single metric is better than expected. and they do things like -- i absolutely love this. it's kind of a tv guide, they got turbo fast. horseman epic series based on the adventures

. -- had a immediate oric immediate ork rise in the house. he's known as a strategic thinker and is largely known for his involvement in health care issues and budget issues heretofore. but he has become a very active voice for education reform. i -- my attention was drawn to what he's been doing by his offering a floor amendment to the e.s.a. re-authorization in the house that offered the title 1 portable funding that i talked about previously. really federal funding is an impediment to choice because it's delivered through a mechanism through central districts that doesn't allow funding to transparently follow kids. and so a change in federal legislation that let money follow kids would be great. he has recently been visiting schools of choice around the country. denver, philadelphia, new orleans, d.c., to get a sense on the ground of what's happening and what people think. so leader cantor, we're very honored with your presence and look forward very much to your comments. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. ross, thank you very much f

so the resources necessary for is something ork that you are all doing and i applaud you for it. of the more e interesting discussions on this the bin laden documents from the compound senior al qaeda leaders noted two things i would highlight on the subject. one is trust at the closed and progress the united states had made in making it inside, ficult to get actually hearing it from senior leaders themselves. but also the commitment of exploiting ways to get inside of the homeland. as her it was individuals bin laden had said trying to get visa dy with a mexican that they could smuggle through the southern border or elsewhere. e have had people leave the united states and go to train ith militant groups overseas, senior levels of syrians, pakistan.n and we have had people come back and been involved in plots and we discovered them. they were all back in the united when they were involved in plots. bombers.oston >> exactly. so this will remain a problem. i think the issue with our has to be border security is good up until the that it has useful intelligence. one of the aspects a