earnings from dow component pfizer came in this morning one penny ahead of estimates, and even compared to a year ago. revenue fell thanks to a drop in sales from cholesterol medicine lipitor. shares were off, falling three- quarters of a percent, the biggest loser among dow stocks. this is the past 180 sessions. tonight's low matches the low from three weeks ago. several media stocks were moving after the closing bell tonight. cbs closed down 1.6% during the regular session, but jumped 4% after hours. it blew away estimates and raised its dividend. comcast was up 1% after this closing price. earnings came in as expected. disney was off a half percent, and dish network fell 2%. disney sued dish, claiming the satellite tv provider violates its copyrights by offering the starz movie channel for free during a promotion. disney allowed starz to show disney movies only as long as starz remained a premium channel. sears, and k-mart parent sears holdings, fell hard-- off 10% on heavy volume. it warned of a wider than predicted loss. the company okayed another stock buyback, but that didn't hel

pfizer we just told you about.al company oakland based clear ox just reported some disappointing numbers. and we're waiting for the automakers to report sales for april. so a lot of things going to effect wall street as we look live to the trading floor. pretty busy. we'll get you those numbers in a moment. >>> all right. we're off and running. we'll smile and say good morning to you here on the ktvu morning news tuesday may 3rd. i'm dave clark. >> good morning. i'm pam cook. time now 6:30. >>> in the news right now we're finding out more about how the c.i.a. finally found osama bin laden's hiding place. a u.s. official says one of bin laden's personal couriers unknowingly led the c.i.a. to this walled compound in pakistan. u.s. navy seals found osama bin laden in a bedroom and shot him. reportedly there are photographs of bin laden with a gunshot wound right above his left eye. president obama and his advisors were actually able to watch the whole 40 minute mission in realtime. many watched c.i.a. director on a vi

. >> anxious moments at the white house as president obama and his pfizer's watched the operation ineal time to catch osama bin laden -- >> we were concerned about pakistan. we were watching and making sure that our aircraft was able to get out of there. there was no engagement of other forces. >> picture emerged of the compound where the biggest manhunt came to an end. navy seals took away what could of been the personal hard drive of the computer after the shooting in the bedroom. u.s. politicians are asking how bin laden was able to hide their for so long. obama gave the green light for the operation just before visiting some towns devastated by tornadoes. he is getting praise from some of his toughest opponent. >> the id administration deserves credit for the operation. >> the white house dinner, the commander in chief. >> last night, we carried out an operation that resulted in the capture and death of osama bin laden, [applause] >> a huge victory for president obama and america. steele -- still, the war on terrorism continues to go on. osama bin laden may have recorded another

on the earnings front we are looking at numbers from pfizer.uto companies report april sales this afternoon. the good times may not keep rolling. disruptions from japan are likely to be felt on dealer lots coming up in month. safety regulators are investigating complaints concerning 2010 and 2011 mercury suvs. the glass on the lift gait shattered when people tried to open or shut it. a lot of incidents happened in cold weather, we are hearing. >> cold weather? what's that? all right. thank you. >> rub it in. >>> speaking of, let's check in with christina loren. good morning. >> speaking of the finer things of life, hi there, scott. just sipping wine this morning. made a couple friends. they don't say much and that's the way i like them. good morning to you. we are on top of judd's hill in napa. i'm with bob redell out here. he's starting early. you will get to catch up with him momentarily. let's get right to the forecast this morning. we have a great looking day on tap. it's going to get better as we head into tomorrow, near 90 degree weather.

pfizer fell short of earnings estimates following the bell followed by weak results from clorox, beezer homes and sears. crude prices dipped more than 2 bucks a barrel. today the government is expected to report a jump in u.s. supplies. metro pcs was one of the day's few bright spots. the phone carrier rose 10% after ringing up a record number of subscribers last quarter. general motors climbed 2% thanks in part to higher gas prices which are now driving sales of fuel efficient photos. for home loans, it should buy a mortgage company it bought back in 2007. in a suit filed yesterday, the u.s. demanded deutsche pay back hundreds of millions of dollars in defaulted loans. bp has agreed to pay $25 million in civil fines stemming from two alaskan oil spills back in 2006. the largest per barrel find for any oil company in a spill-related case. portugal is the latest european country to agree to an international bailout, reportedly for about $115 billion. keep an eye on comcast today. the parent company of this network weighed in with better than expected earnings after the bell. after hours,

that would include pfizer, clorox bringing the markets down. the -- the dow is down 31. the nasdaq is down 27. >>> general motors announced that its u.s. sales jumped 27% in april. the company continues to improve as rising gas prices push drivers toward more fuel- efficient cars. gm said they told about 200,000 vehicles last month. the sales of the cruise led the way. sales were strong for the equinox and terrain, both compact, crossover vehicles. >>> the san francisco zoo is getting another tiger. more than three years after an infamous attack. the new tiger will replace tatiana. that's the tiger that police shot to death after fatally mauling a san jose teenager on christmas day in 2007. the zee's director said she had no -- zoo's director said she had no plans to replace tiger but changed her mind after another zoo pleaded with her and she took martha off her hands. >>> a man wants to get new license plates now that osama bin laden is dead. >> i will trade it in and have "got osama." hopefully the dmv will approve it. >>> new information is coming out every minute ab

we'll get thefirst quarter earnings reports from pfizers well as kraft foods, visa mastercard among other first quarter reports coming out. >>> monday,ongressetur from a two-week cess. majoty leader harry reid said he plans to bring t republican debt reduction plan to a vote on the senate floor. >>> also on monday, the institute for supply and managementl relsets latest figures on activity in the manufauring sector. tuesda we get total motor vehicle sales for the month of april. and then on friday, the latest jobs report sought. we'll find out howany jobs the economy lost o gained in the last month. 8.8% of americans are currently out of wor > d finally today, the clock is ticking he in brazil for bril's double whammy in sports. the world cup is in 2014, and th olympicsthe summer olympics happens two years after at. the country that prod pele has threeears to build 12 stadiums in 12 cities r soccer's main event. construction on those venues may be a little behind with just one-third of the $20 billion in infrastructure funds spent. rio's olpic facilities are further ahead, many built for

pfizer fell short before the bell followed by weak results by clorox, homes and shears. energy shares slumped. today the government is expected to report a jump in u.s. supplies. metro pcs was one of the day's few bright spots. the discount phone carrier rose 10% after ringing up a record number of subscribers last quarter. general motors climbed 2%, thanks in part to higher gas prices which are now driving sales of fuel-efficient autos. >>> deutsche bank is in hot water where the u.s. government for home loans issued by a mortgage company it bought back in 2007. in a suit filed yesterday the u.s. demanded deutsche pay back hundreds of millions in defaulted loans. >>> bp has agreed to pay $25 million in civil fines stemming from two alaskan oil spills back in 2006, the largest per-barrel fine for any oil company in a spill-related case. >>> portugal is the latest european company to agree to an international bailout, reportedly about $115 billion. >>> keem an eye on comcast today. the parent company of this network weighed in with better-than-expected earnings after the

the golden gate bridge no special traffic in pfizer's here of wet deck our wait to but no accidents to tell you about. westbound 80 your transition to the lorry shore freeway you might have to deal with what roadways but overall lanais a nice easy ride. >> justine: bryan stow is now back home. reggie tells us how the recovery is going. >> reporter: the man who suffered a brain injury after being attacked following a dodgers game is back in the bay area recovering here is an francisco general hospital. doctors are currently evaluating the medical records in lfrom l.a.. in san francisco kron 4 news. >> justine: you can post comments to bryan stow on our facebook. there is a giants fan who is said sam francisco's hospital yesterday to welcome him home. >> brian is out there working saving people's lives and then he fights for his. all we can do is pray he gets better and pray for his family. and that his mom and dad today. i was giving my sympathies that he gets better. >> justine: leave well wishes on our facebook page and you can also leave, and for his family on our web site. >> james:

euronext and pfizer. we'll also see factory orders for march and april auto sales. and our word on the street is "defense." we'll highlight three defense- related stocks poised do well in the post-bin laden era. smartphone maker research in motion is rolling out a new blackberry, hoping to ramp up its presence in a competitive marketplace. the new edition of the blackberry bold will be the thinnest ever, include a touchscreen and a keyboard. it also will have a 1.2 gahroertz pcessor. now rim's been losing market share in north america to apple's iphone. it just unveiled a new tablet called the playbook, to lukewarm reviews. this new device will be launched this summer. >> tom: meantime, honda is delaying a new product launch. the new c.r.v. crossover won't be for sale at least one month later than anticipated, due to auto part shortages from japan.z the same problem is also hampering supplies of other hondas, including its fit and civic hybrids. honda's not alone, though. the global auto industry is having trouble getting supplies from japan, nearly two months after

with a powerful header off the thirty six minutes i was sure that if within four minutes make the pfizer win had that alone prosthetic see you one of the disappointed the home crowd with an equaliser was need but very clearly have even move in the second half which is the life they failed to play ball or phrase correctly on a lot of bullshit because of the rebound being thrown their biggest victory so far this season. elsewhere three second how goals or a stall thrash on car on home turf from one of them of getting the somewhat surprising open so i just had to hit the woodwork but he did get in alexander gets down than double the school with a pinpoint strike into the roof out of the substitute people i see him with full speed and drug and black neck sealed the deal for assault making a three nil and handing them that big three tim jeanes. else was not almost no when faced with a long awaited hill to bottom sitting pretty aside at a given right provided the online in point corresponding bottle went in and that's when i three minutes after the break. and later on sunday it says skull will

the pfizer corp works separation of powers works our constitution works we will again certain example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers and that justice is not arbitrary. we have to wonder what example the us is setting by waging a war with nato against moammar gadhafi and i say the us not just the president because it takes the congressional branch to hold the executive branch accountable so far we've really only been hearing crickets coming from capitol hill rand paul and five other republican senators have vowed to take the issue to the supreme court but in terms of a media action a call for a vote none of that has taken far so how can we be fighting a war to bring democracy to the libyan people our government ignores subverts our own here to discuss this with me as per his fine chairman of american freedom agenda and a former associate deputy attorney general and the reagan administration bruce thanks so much for being here thank you for inviting me. who do you think is more to blame here obviously there's a lot of talk about expanded execut

there are frosted pfizer is in effect an hour northwest suburbs.this area in blue is under frost advisory but that their flood warnings downstage. there's a big block still taking place up to the north, you see the way the chesstree this kind of circumvent that cool air. at least we don't get torn at thunderstorms. tornadic thunderstorms. we hit 59 degrees today but these temperatures are far from above normal from this time of year and there is a lot of cool air left over from winter up to the north. temperatures are in single digits at this hour. look how cool it is tonight it feels a little nippy but it even in madison wisconsin it was 39 tonight. but at least is suppressing the big rain and storms. the blue and purple areas are and inshore and a half or more. laval has had over 20 in. of rain in that time period. tomorrow night we could get temperatures down and the '30's and once the clubs break up late tomorrow night there might be a little better frost out into the western suburbs. we are a 11 degrees cooler than we were 24 hours ago in this

we still have strong winds and pfizer is in effect. >> police are now of searching began investigating but a double homicide. happened at eightieth avenue and international boulevard. when victor moore was transferred to the hospital with life threatening. search continues for the missing michelis which. >> she was last seen leaving her class and she is in world wheat. she told friends that she made itself on call and never returned to her car was fond of you hot blocks from hospital. they tracked down one of her friends mean, it was going to go torino with leave for the weekend >> she never contacted her and we have some tracking on her phone number and with which is not current she could be of of cellphone iii etch, we don't know why it. >> family and friends are searching for >> police said michelle is not are richly from last san jose police responded to their 24th murder in the area the latest on the homicide >> on her facebook page while. she was sitting in her car and come with a shot and she managed to drive to block storage rock before her mercedes-benz came to woodstock. ross

. >> reporter: we bought packages of viagra online and had them tested by pfizer.s viagra. one came back real but the other package was fake. >> last year pfizer seized approximately 8.3 million dosages of counterfeit product. of that approximately 57% was counterfeit. >> reporter: when shopping online for drugs the fda recommends consumers shop at state-licensed pharmacies in the u.s. and look for this seal of approval called vips. consumers should avoid websites with cheap prices and without a prescription. >> if the price is too good to be true that's a red flag you're not going to get the real drug. >> counterfeit drugs can be harmful, even deadly for patients. they often lack the active ingredients or contain dangerous ingredients which could lead to serious side effects. sometimes the drugs do nothing in them at all. >> especially if there's talc in them. what is the fda doing? >> the drugs are being seized globally every single day so there's a big effort to ease these drugs but the fda is working about wholesalers, manufacturers, pharmacies to put in a real

that day the intelligence of pfizer a committee chaired by the cia director that war was not imminent and postpone further room revision of intelligence estimates. the ignore the fbi report the unnamed country was considering military action against nasser. eisenhower campaigning in florida was handed a note as he boarded the plane from richman virginia saying the israeli army had attacked egypt and israel's forces are within 25 miles of the suez canal. back and the white house and angry and profane eisenhower ordered secretary dallas fire a message to the israelis to tell them we are going to apply sanctions we will do everything there is so we can stop this ike new if the pipeline was destroyed the british and french would attack. he did not know they already planned to do that. if the british intervened it may open a different -- deep rift between us with the election eight days away eisenhower declared he did not care in the slightest whether he was reelected or not. october 30th the british and french implemented the secret plan they have endorsed on the 24th and deliver the 12 h

earnings on tuesday, the federal judge will decide whether the drugmaker can make a generic version of pfizer'slipitor. the focus of the week is on the all-important april jobs report coming friday morning. we'll track it all for you on cnn money. >>> i'm "showbiz tonight's" a.j. hammer. here's what we are watching this week. actor steven baldwin is joining me in a headline making news maker. what does steven think about donald trump possibly running for president? and will kirstie alley survive another week on "dancing with the stars"? "showbiz tonight" is the most provicktive news show on at 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. >>> cnn's international best-getter of the day is joining me. this is a day catholics are celebrating the beatification of pope john paul ii. it was a beautiful ceremony to watch. >> he was one of the most popular and beloved by the catholics around the world. his supporters say he was a holy man. on monday we'll see a mass of thanksgiving take place in st. peter's square to honor his life, legacy and his work, more or less. then again, his body will be taken and will be la

pfizer was up 10% due to a smaller tax bill.up from just over 2 billion or 25 cents a share a year ago. excluding one-time items total income would have topped 1.58 billion or 60 cents a share. factory orders surging in march. new orders from manufactured goods rose 3%, according to the commerce department. it's the fifth straight monthly increase. orders total 43.60 billion, well above analysts forecasts. we're looking for sales from comcast and mastercard. barbara? >> thanks so much, hampton. have a great day. >> okay. >>> skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the united states. the most dangerous form of skin cancer, of course, is melanoma. in fact, one person dies of melanoma every hour. dr. cheryl bridges joining us again this morning to talk about screening for skin cancer and recognizing the early warning signs. we've talked in the past about the importance of using sunscreen. i know this is cancer awareness month as we go into summer months. but we don't talk so often about how you check your own skin to look

parents television council raised such strong objections to the pharmaceutical ads that companies like pfizer all agreed to a website that alerts parents to the time and show in which the ads will air. the makers of zestra say they are not even looking for prime time. >> we haven't had much success with the networks at all getting clearance and we have had a lot of struggles with cable stations, problems with radio. >> reporter: she says facebook took their ads down after three weeks. >> we were advertising on soapnet, the station. when we tried to get on soapnet.com, the online version of that show they said that they weren't comfortable with our content. >> we have been pushing the envelope. >> reporter: but the professor says the broadcast industry in particular may be struggling to figure this all out. >> the media being so self- regulatory is really looking at is it truthful, ethical and responsible. >> how many times are you getting turned down as opposed to being successful getting an ad on the air? >> i would say we are successful 5 to 10% of the time and unsuccessful 90 to 95% of the

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while i tracked down richard allen national security pfizer. on this day allen brought a personal tape recorder into the situation room one of the most secure prams in the government. have we all seen this iconic image in the situation room and you see how they pixelated out. if you look at if there are pictures in front of hillary clinton clearly at the compound and they exploited them so we can't see the resolution of the satellite image. this room is one of the most secure in the u.s. government. dick allen brought his personal recorder and for four foreign half-hour staffing ran and i'm the first guy outside of his small circle that got to listen to all four and a half hours of that day. i know precisely what happened, not just in the situation room but around the world because that is where anything funneled, all the reports. sometimes it helps if i set the scene on why this day is important and why i came to believe that march 30, 1981 and near assassination as is important historically as if there had been a real assassination. at first

they had a football player who was there at pfizer. and i said this is got to an.and they control who gets on, who gets pensions. firefighters i love them to death but everyone would get a disability pension. every single one of them because they get a disability pension they don't pay any taxes on it. and they get 66. if they get hurt in the job after three years they get 66 and two-thirds% of their pay and pay no taxes on it plus blue cross. now, the money, the same people who were given the benefits, i approve you for disability and all the stuff. they also control the money. and so i said this has got to stop. so it is in the book i think, yeah are going to that going to court and all the way to the supreme court. and we said these guys can't control this. this has to go to the board of investment commissioners which is a nondescript board in the city that you send us money left to us by havard university or some trust that we had. and, there was little money and it. i said these are the people who are supposed to do it. they were people appointed by the mayor

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investor adviser -- do a better job at the sec of covering investor adviser investigations. -- and pfizer examinations. this study was geared toward helping us bigger out how we could have better coppers. one of the options is extension of authority to those who are regulated and registered as broker-dealers. the third option is to find a way for the sec to have a dedicated source of funding for investor adviser examination programs. we are continuing to look at all those options. they all require legislation to move lower. that will be something -- that will not be something we can do on our own initiative. >> thank you. you mentioned when we were having coffee that you will testify for the 30th time next week in the congress. that is just during your chairmanship of the sec and that during your other opportunities previously. there have been a number of different subjects you have addressed. one that has been of great concern has to do with the adequacy of the resources the commission has to do its job, especially after dodd-frank. you have spent a lot of time and improving the manageme

s of companies like microsoft or pfizer. now, there are some who oppose the dream act and argue that we need to enhance border security first. i can certainly make the argument, as the president did yesterday, that we have done extraordinary things, more than doubling the number of people at the border, adding technical devices to detect people who are trying to cross, using drones and building fences. we have gone as far as i think i can imagine, but i am open -- i have told a republican senator this morning, i am open to any reasonable suggestion to make the border safer. but i say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, if we show good faith in border enforcement, can you join us by showing good faith in helping to pass the dream act? i don't think that's an unreasonable exchange. i am open to their ideas, i hope that they're open to the idea of the dream act. i also have to say that many of the young people who are affected by this have been dramatically positive in their contribution to america. there are restrict

you build a afghan forces, throw them out after two months without it pfizer's, without backup as green troops and watch them fall apart and then get to the problem of the policy as a failure. it makes no sense to me. second, there's a relationship between the negotiations and fighting. if the image that we convey with the afghans is that we are about to bailout, the army is going to fall apart because we are not backing it, the advisers are few, there's not a lot of incentive for anybody on the other side to negotiate seriously. so if you -- there's a difference between saying you will accept a pashtuns role -- what is the incentive for them to negotiate now? are the negotiating now? no. is there any indication about him to negotiate? >> i would have to say that the top leader should level, i'm skeptical. you've heard that from all of us. but if part of what we are seeing is you want negotiations, then to say also that you will essentially move quickly away from the military i think polls against the notion you can have a successful negotiation. i'm dubious you can have it but that's p

s of companies like microsoft and pfizer. every day i hear from another one of these dreamers. they come up to me sometimes very quietly and sometimes very publicly and tell me their stories. just the other day a young man came up to me as i was leaving a speech and said, here in washington, and he said, senator, i just want to let you know i'm finishing law school. i can't be licensed in america because i'm not an american citizen. i'll just pursue my education until you pass the dream act. i thought about it, this poor young man deserves a chance to use his education, not just to continue it. so that gives me more of an incentive to really work on this issue. let me tell you the story tonight in just a few minutes here about two of these dreamers. this is juan gomez. this handsome young man was brought to the united states from colombia in 1990 at the age of two. he is an academic all-star. at killian senior high school in miami, florida, he earned close to two years of college credit with high scores of 13 on advanced placement exams. he scored 1410 out of 1600 on the s.a.t.

the then national security pfizer's hair was on fire but alas, we didn't get the job done and through the bush administration and now the obama administration, with successive congresses we are doing better so i would kind of say that is in good shape. a piece of the law that has never really been implemented is the formation of a robust privacy and civil liberties board. i know both of you have written letters in my last job i wrote letters. to people of the top of now been designated by this administration but i don't think the board -- and why does this matter? it is not just to check a box of the civil liberties community which is a robust community and should be as happy. is to make certain there is full vetting of policies that affect our u.s. constitution and the implementation of the fisa limits we all work so hard on and the implementation of the patriot act and perhaps new policies to deal with something i know you are both worried about which is our vulnerability to cyberattacks. we want a group of knowledgeable people to screen these things and then to persuade an anxious

s of companies like microsoft and pfizer. every day i get facted by these students across america. they keep looking to us and won gearing if the day will -- and condering if the day will come when we give them a chance. i want to tell you two stories. this is elliott -- i'll show you his photo, a handsome young man. his parents brought him to the united states in 1994 when he was four years old. he is a computer wizard. in high school he won awards for outstanding achievement in science and information technology. he graduated in the top 5% of his high school class. he was named tech prep student of the year in cincinnati ow, o. noise a 19-year-old honor student at the university of cincinnati, majoring in nfltion technology, with a 3.8 g.p.a. here is what one of his professors said about him. "i work with thousands of students over the past 30 years and elier is one of those students that comes along every ten years or so who just makes your heart sing." elier sent me a letter. "technologies and computers, that's where i want to spend of the rest of my lievment i'm short sale a s

you build a afghan forces, throw them out after two months without it pfizer's, without backup as green troops and watch them fall apart and then get to the problem of the policy as a failure. it makes no sense to me. second, there's a relationship between the negotiations and fighting. if the image that we convey with the afghans is that we are about to bailout, the army is going to fall apart because we are not backing it, the advisers are few, there's not a lot of incentive for anybody on the other side to negotiate seriously. so if you -- there's a difference between saying you will accept a pashtuns role -- what is the incentive for them to negotiate now? are the negotiating now? no. is there any indication about him to negotiate? >> i would have to say that the top leader should level, i'm skeptical. you've heard that from all of us. but if part of what we are seeing is you want negotiations, then to say also that you will essentially move quickly away from the military i think polls against the notion you can have a successful negotiation. i'm dubious you can have it but that's p

before the patriot act the pfizer court never turned down a warrant. those people are awful. just get them on the street. i just wanted done. that has been the attitude of the majority of the people up here and the majority of americans after 9/11. people were so frightened they said do anything. i don't care. the problem with that attitude is even if you want to argue it hasn't been abused yet what happens when people elected to your government who decide they don't like your religion or you believe in a certain kind of marriage and they want to investigate you. now there is no step to stop that. no step to say your church believes in this unorthodox believe that we don't cross politically correct or is no longer acceptable. we want to investigate the banking records of the church and see if we can take away their irs number or tax exemption. if you don't have any restraint to these activities someday we will get a government who has no restraint and goes forward to say we want that church shutdown because it is saying something we disagree with or these people are reading t

of the usip and pfizer will be in charge of the panel discussion but part of the study group that put this together we think it's a very good report and we think will be very interesting panel and we look forward to your active participation under the ground rules set forth. right now like to turn this over to my colleague and counterpart from the asia society who will give you the second look for the day and then straight on to the panel. suzanne, vice president for global policy programs and the asia society. >> thank you in good morning everyone and thank you, michael, for the introduction first let me begin by saying how thrilled we are me and my colleague to be part of one of the inaugural events here this fabulous building. we will never partnership with usip and we look for to continuing our work together. let me begin by thanking the members of the group who put this report together. several of them are here for our discussion in addition to our director abbas i will introduce momentarily. we if christopher can and our special guest is najam sethi who traveled to visit us toda

the then national security pfizer's hair was on fire but alas, we didn't get the job done and through the bush administration and now the obama administration, with successive congresses we are doing better so i would kind ofay that is in good shape. a piece of the law that has never really been implemented is the formation of a robust privacy and civil liberties ard. i know both of you have written letters in my last job i wrote leers. to people of the top of now been designated by this administration but i don't think the board -- and why does this matter? it is not just to check a box of the civil liberties community which is a robust community and should be as happy. is to make certain there is full vetting of policies that affect our u. constitution and the implementation of the fisa limits we all work so hard on and the implementation of the patriot act and perhaps new policies to deal with something i know you are both worried about which is our vulnerability to cyberattacks. we want a group of knowledgeable people tscreen these things and then o persuade an anxious public that

you build a afghan forces, throw them out after two months without it pfizer's, without backup as green troops and watch them fall apart and then get to the problem of the policy as a failure. it makes no sense to me. second, there's a relationship between the negotiations and fighting. if the image that we convey with the afghans is that we are about to bailout, the army is going to fall apart because we are not backing it, the advisers are few, there's not a lot of incentive for anybody on the other side to negotiate seriously. so if you -- there's a difference between saying you will accept a pashtuns role -- what is the incentive for them to negotiate now? are the negotiating now? no. is there any indication about him to negotiate? >> i would have to say that the top leader should level, i'm skeptical. you've heard that from all of us. but if part of what we are seeing is you want negotiations, then to say also that you will essentially move quickly away from the military i think polls against the notion you can have a successful negotiation. i'm dubious you can have it but that's p

the then national security pfizer's hair was on fire but alas, we didn't get the job done and throughthe bush administration and now the obama administration, with successive congresses we are doing better so i would kind of say that is in good shape. a piece of the law that has never really been implemented is the formation of a robust privacy and civil liberties board. i know both of you have written letters in my last job i wrote letters. to people of the top of now been designated by this administration but i don't think the board -- and why does this matter? it is not just to check a box of the civil liberties community which is a robust community and should be as happy. is to make certain there is full vetting of policies that affect our u.s. constitution and the implementation of the fisa limits we all work so hard on and the implementation of the patriot act and perhaps new policies to deal with something i know you are both worried about which is our vulnerability to cyberattacks. we want a group of knowledgeable people to screen these things and then to persuade an anxious p

out because under the presidential document assassination papers released act a few years ago, a pfizer releasing papers on the kennedy assassination. and in those papers were detailed descriptions of operation -- operation am world. [inaudible] >> no, this happened after the bay of pigs. but it was a clerk plan by kennedy's with individuals in cuba. in fact, individuals high up in the cuban government to carry out this assassination. and bolden would have exposed that if he had started talking about these other plots and move to the investigation in that direction. [inaudible] >> bolden wrote a book. it has a long title. he's been trying to basically get vindication. and again, with these news -- these new papers have come out a basically support his story now. he's not going to get the three years that he would to jail, and he was literally railroaded. we went to trial, the judges instruction to the jury was that basically this guy is guilty. you guys go deliberate. in the first father came back and said no. they had a second trial, the same judge, and they found him guilty. didn't ha