. >> i want to turn for a moment to my questioning of jonathan pershing. he was part of a news conference yesterday, along with other climate negotiators from around the world. i think the conference was called to meet the negotiators. this is what's the u.s. negotiator jonathan pershing responded. >> several civil society groups are extremely frustrated. president obama, in his first speech after elected, said that he did that want our children to live in an america that is threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet. yesterday, a number of groups held a news conference, and they said at that news conference, kumi naidoo of greenpeace international, said todd stern and jonathan pershing have come to doha with their needles stuck in a group of obstructing the process of art. he said that it is disrespectful of president obama to inflict on us two negative negotiators and ask -- act as if the comments he made after his election were never made. he should call his delegates and tell them to follow his lead or return to washington. jonathan pershi

climate negotiator jonathan pershing about criticism of the failure to do more to cut emissions and save the planet from catastrophic climate change. we will speak with ronny jumeau and martin khor of the south centre in malaysia, and then anjali appadurai. >> you have been negotiating my whole life, you have failed to meet targets and a broken promises. >> a year after calling on world figures to do more to save the planet, the 22-year-old american college student was banned from the climate talks here in doha for the first week. she joins us today h. then we look at how the koch brothers are influencing climate policy.politic this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the death toll from a massive typhoon in the southern philippines has doubled to more than 270 people. typhoon bopha is the most southerly typhoon ever recorded in the western pacific and the strongest to hit the philippines this year. 80,000 people have been forced to flee their homes. we will have more from doha after headlines. new clashes have erupted in egypt in the ongoing u

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pershing square launching fact about herbalwife.com in the last 20 minutes of the stock getting smacked down, so is the entire market, at one point dow jones industrials down 189 points as we wrap up "countdown to the closing bell" for the year i want to thank you all, ashley webster in for me but i'm getting ready for "after the bell" with david asman. dave: the attacks on herbal life like the attacks on overstock, you will hear from both sides. as we look at a down market, important to remember last night when news of the deal collapsed in a bell with the futures were down 3%. this is bad but it is down 1%, a lot less than it was down last

bill ackman of hedge fund pershing square called the nutrition company a pyramid scheme and presented reasons why he's shorting the stock. michael johnson, the ceo of rbalife, issued a statement denying herbalife's business model is built on a pyramid scheme. johnson is also asking the sec to investigate extraordinary put options buying the stock that expire tomorrow. puts are bets the stock is more likely to go down than up. it was a slippery second quarter for darden and scholastic. earnings disappointed at both companies. at darden, income fell by 37%. last month darden, which runs olive garden and red lobster, faced pushback after its ceo said it would hire more part- time employees due to the expense of health care reform. superstorm sandy and failed promotions also hurt profits. meanwhile, at publisher scholastic, profits are down 25% after disappointing sales of the book turned movie "the hunger games." the company said it will freeze hiring as part of an overall effort to save 20 to 30 million dollars. a picture perfect problem for popular instagram. the photo sharing tool rec

general john "blackjack" pershing to his undying credit utterly refused, insisting the americans fight as an independent army, which they did. the revival of progressivism came at the first site conference of 1990 in which ideals dominate the discussions. but not the actual final arrangements in most cases. practical british goals of eliminate the german navy come or the french objective of limiting germany as a land-based threat received wilson's support so that he could institute a league of nation. a feel-good toothless unmotivated group of international elite. but wilsonian idealism did play a central role in reshaping postwar europe map. as william ashman millions of people were moved around the continent like chess pieces and borders were changed by client on etch-a-sketch. one participant called people under discussion quote abstract lumps. another warren quote, the phrase national self-determination is simply loaded with dynamite. it will raise hopes that can never be realized. think of the misery it will cause, unquote. british diplomats walked into a study to find david lloyd

general pershing, everything has to go through a tight to diplomatic filter. there is more we can do to help the mexican authorities then what we have done. field of manpower in the united states is the time we can devote to a problem. why we cannot have two wars at once. would give south china sea view reps with the no-fly zone? we have trouble on that. if maurer decision makers with spend time on the mexico problem we may come out with more innovative ways. it is one of the most leading economies. it is not a country to categorize but incredibly dynamic and dysfunctional at the same time. >> from the west african foundation, another region we have spotted is west africa. terrorism, drug trafficking, poverty comment on and on. looked at the map what do you see? >> sub-saharan in general that after new growth and of bad news in the 1990's, african economic growth has been about six or 7%. subtract 2% of population growth that makes a difference but also no manufacturing developing the course of sahara. south africa is the exception. and it shows the country's

. >> jonathan pershing, are you following president obama's wishes, and had the response to civil society groups who say the u.s. is a lead of stricter to any kind of negotiated deal here in doha? >> i have no comment on the first part of that. >> our government must realize this failure is a betrayal of the people in the philippines and around the world that have faced climate impact now, today, and will continue in the days to come. but what is at stake here is not some the the real thing, the planet or environment, but what is at stake is selling that our children and grandchildren to futures. >> federal and new york state prosecutors have unveiled their $1.9 billion settlement with the banking giant hsbc for a massive money laundering scheme used by drug cartels and other illegal groups. >> you can do real time in jail and therefore doing ridiculous offenses, or taking it up two subway seats. people go to jail all the time in this country. for having a marijuana stem in your pocket. there are 50,000 marijuana- related cases in america alone every year. and here we have a bank money la

thaddeus stevens, hubert humphrey, robert byrd, admiral dewey, general pershing, general macarthur, 10 presidents, 31 in all lay in state, only 31 in the history of the united states of america under the dome. this is an honor, to state the obvious, that very few americans, some to the great americans, never received. each american that has been granted the honor accorded to danny today, they have been given it because they possessed a particular quality that we view as uniquely american, it is thoroughly appropriate -- and is thoroughly appropriate that he is granted because he is in every sense the quintessential american. he possessed in my view every virtue that we like to describe to our country. at the dawn of danny's llife, the country -- life, the country was emerging from a war that placed america's squarely in the center of leadership for the first time in history. and yet, on the horizon was the greatest economic depression this nation has faced or has faced since. his mother, his mother, the first of regeneration in hawaii, his father emigrating from japan, at a time when t

the early steps taken to what became the double track decision, deployment of cruise missiles and pershing two, and as a reaction to those uncertainties in that area. now, interesting, the reagan administration inherited the nato double track, and it wasn't prepared to kind of think through the consequences. one big issue immediately faced that marvin talked about this unprecedented political protests going on in europe in the early '80s. it was really i think focused on a belief that the reagan administration wasn't really serious about negotiating a solution to it was only interested in rebuilding american military power. .. to adopt the famous zero option, which all of us in the state department said was just not credible to our allies. why wasn't a credible? the russians had come and i can, but they have something like two or 300 ss-20s, either deployed or under deployment to each of the ss-20s had three warheads, warheads directed at europe, and our systems were down the road. we were going to begin to point and to 83. we asked yourself how is it we can go to the russians, ask them to

bill ackman of pershing talking about the fact he thought it was a pyramid scheme. say in a negative way of herbalife. now reportedly working with a law firm on this so obviously you can see here right now is up about 7%. herbalife obviously says his whole attack is malicious and without basis. >>> we'll look at apple. apple on the move, one of the big tech movers. in this case a tech mover to the downside. tech-heavy nasdaq has been down half a percent. apple is down $4.54 at 515 and change. certainly, lori and tracy, nowhere near that $700 it was in the middle of september when we were talking about 800, a thousand. now everybody is hoping it holds the 500 mark. lori: you can't dip your toe into apple because even at 500 bucks a share it is still pretty rich. >> everybody still wants the product. it's a holiday gift. >> you hit the nail on the head nicole as always. back again in 15 with you. we were talking about this a little earlier. starbucks is urging washington to come together on the fiscal cliff literally. we have video from d.c. starbucks ceo howard schul

it's down because a very famous investor, phil ackman, per are pershing square, bad-mouthed the companyd it was pyramid and ponzi scheme. pyramid scheme he said. he says the drugs are getting to sales reps and not end-users and in turn is shorting the stock that put pressure on it. herbalife come out and of course is defending their company and saying that his analysis what is going on with herbalife is full of misstatements and mistakes. this is according to a press release from herbalife. they're going on, had our executives been there they would have been able to tear mr. ackman's premise and interpretation of our business model apart. it is certain i a he said/she said case but the stock is reflecting ackman shorting the stock. tracy: crazy stuff, nicole. we'll be back in 15 minutes. ashley: time to make money with charles payne. there he is. checking profits on a previous recommendation and giving us a new stock. charles is spoiling us for christmas. >> i have been rocking in december. i'm telling you. this feels like low-hanging fruit, right? carmax, couple weeks ago after the hur

deployment of missiles and pershing did.e to seek a solution that in the absence of the sanctions wouldn't exist. on the other hand you have the diplomatic track. what's missing here i think is it is arguable how active the diplomatic track is actually done. i am struck by, for instance, the fact that the europeans who'd been involved in this process all about is of course the p5 plus one i think have largely let the timing and the pace beset by the united states. it is going to be a think the obama administration's call, especially with the external pressure the israelis constantly hovering out there and that yahoo!'s talk about a red line is when is the united states going to get really serious about the second track? i am one of these people who believes there is an agreement out there that can be reached that would lead to a nonnuclear weapon iran. but i think the diplomacy has to be set. jack's final point about a republican conservative able to achieve agreements of this sort that are more difficult for a democrat is a

which he basically unveils how he intends to argue and in the midst of arguing through an analyst at pershing company, that the company is, in fact, a pyramid scheme. take listen to this it is not terrific quality, but it is life footage of what ackman says. >> herbalife overstates retail sales, recruiting words are substantially greater than the retail profit they generate some, this massively inflated suggested retail price number and again if you think back to the earlier slides write show that the retail price of the product was three times, four times, two and a half times the commodity competition, again this is the way the scheme has largely been concealed. >> those comments are key, guys, because ackman is essentially trying to argue that, in fact, herbalife fits the classic definition, ftc economist definition, full you of what a pyramid scheme is, which is to say the bibusiness model is based on a business opportunity essentially distributors hiring more distributors of product rather than actual retail sales. in order to be pyramid scheme that has to be the case but ackman argues a

deployment of cruise missiles and pershings did.ere is an incentive the iranians have to seek a solution that, in the absence of the sanctions -- wouldn't exist. then you have the diplomatic track. what is missing here is it is arguable how active the diplomatic track has actually been. i'm struck by, for instance, the fact that the europeans, who have been involved in this process all along -- it is the five plus one -- have largely let the timing and pace be set by the united states. it is going to be, i think, the obama administration's call especially with the external pressure of the israelis kind of constantly hovering out there and netanyahu's talk about a red line. when is the united states going to get really serious about the second track? i'm one of these people who believes there is an agreement out there that could be reached and that would lead to a non-nuclear weapons iran. but i think the diplomacy has to be stepped up. and jack's point about a republican conservative able to achieve agreements of this sort that are