that include the sir francis drake, the prescott hotel, the serano, the monaco, and the tuscan inn. to reward people for doing this, we're making a nice offer available from our restaurants in the city as well. little cards right there. pick one up. with that, i'd like to thank car are of kara's cupcakes who's helping us celebrate today by taking her caravan around to all of our certified hotels in the city and giving out free cupcakes. you might catch her before she leaves for the next destination, which i think is the prescott hotel on post street. so just chatting with kara and want to acknowledge the earth care commitment, the commitment to the environment that kara's cupcakes has made also is pretty substantial. now i'd like to introduce you michelle perrault, who is with us today. michelle served on the better of drook or thes for green seal in san francisco and we're very happy to have her here. thank you so so much, michelle. [applause] >> i'm very pleased to be here representing green seal and also say that green seal is so proud to be able to be working with the kempton ho

lee cowan, nbc news, prescott, arizona. >>> this week's jobs report is not helping president obama make his case that we are in a recovery summer. nbc's chief white house correspondent chuck todd joins us now. chuck, any indication the president might reassess his economic strategy? >> right now, lester, there is no indication they're reassessing anything. in many cases you have the president pleading for patience, though he did make a pitch for a small business bill today in reaction to the jobs numbers. take a listen. >> sometimes you need some help in terms of cutting your tax burden, that's what this bill does, and yet, a minority in the senate is standing in the way of giving our small business people an up-or-down vote on this bill. and that's a shame. >> reporter: well right now this is something that might only help on the margins, an attempt to try to see if they can get small businesses to start hiring again. i can tell you this, lester, there is a huge debate inside the administration. there are some that want a shiny, silver bullet of sorts, something new, maybe a second sti

i still live in prescott. i wake up in prescott, arkansas, just as many mornings a week as i do in washington, d.c. in fact, i was at home in prescott mowing my yard last evening. i thought instead of boring y'all with a long speech, i thought we would spend this hour just taking questions and comments. that's why i'm here is to listen, and i'll do my best to answer any questions you might have. one housekeeping note. if you'll fill out the postcard. if you have an email address and will share it with us, we'll send you a weekly update. a lot of you already get it. we'll send you a weekly update of what's going on. we have a poll question where we want to get your input each week. and we will shot share your email address with anyone else. then it's yours to keep. it has my contact information on it and let me know any time i can have of any help. they're not expensive pens. if they stop writing, shake them a few times and they'll normally start writing again. [laughter] with that, i'll just throw it open for

i still live in prescott. i wake up in prescott, arkansas, just as many mornings a week as i do in washington, d.c. in fact, i was at home in prescott mowing my yard last evening. i thought instead of boring y'all with a long speech, i thought we would spend this hour just taking questions and comments. that's why i'm here is to listen, and i'll do my best to answer any questions you might have. one housekeeping note. if you'll fill out the postcard. if you have an email address and will share it with us, we'll send you a weekly update. a lot of you already get it. we'll send you a weekly update of what's going on. we have a poll question where we want to get your input each week. and we will shot share your email address with anyone else. then it's yours to keep. it has my contact information on it and let me know any time i can have of any help. they're not expensive pens. if they stop writing, shake them a few times and they'll normally start writing again. [laughter] with that, i'll just throw it open for

i still live in prescott. i wake up in prescott, arkansas, just as many mornings a week as i do in washington, d.c. in fact, i was at home in prescott mowing my yard last evening. i thought instead of boring y'all with a long speech, i thought we would spend this hour just taking questions and comments. that's why i'm here is to listen, and i'll do my best to answer any questions you might have. one housekeeping note. if you'll fill out the postcard. if you have an email address and will share it with us, we'll send you a weekly update. a lot of you already get it. we'll send you a weekly update of what's going on. we have a poll question where we want to get your input each week. and we will shot share your email address with anyone else. then it's yours to keep. it has my contact information on it and let me know any time i can have of any help. they're not expensive pens. if they stop writing, shake them a few times and they'll normally start writing again. [laughter] with that, i'll just throw it open for

found that you can stand back and thank him because that's men with two nil up thanks to my god miss prescott strike against the want to play and how a mess couple sounds we need seventy six to go that's the danes quickly pull to go back to us rahmatullah capitalized on a mistake by the german defense. and easily found the net. three minutes ago it was now their own this time chinese people not so you can stumble. to see. it out again she crane managed to want to draw with welcome promise up the netherlands boss we can come to beat the skullbone three no argentina a defeat. i learned by a single goal steven gerrard scored twice as england came back to be hungary two one. and following that victory at wembley it seems midfielder david beckham won't have the chance to become england's most capped player as coach fabio capello says he won't call up the thirty five year old former skipper for another competitive game italian manager wants to build a young england team ruled out the experience midfielder just hours after he returned to training with his side the l.a. galaxy but capello said it bac

problem you for driving gains off the price of life we haven't just picked out of the barrel prescott's guys put on my school percent as the culture reveals the largest mine expenditure. now for a closer look at what's happening on the markets i'm joined live from london by david buick g c partners hello dave thank you very much for joining us today now there seems to be some instability in the markets today with russia trying to hire on ages range now the global markets seem to be so how would you describe the sentiment today. i think basically this is all good studies very very western europe the volumes in all markets around europe are absolutely derisory and frankly the deal is such as are in london frankfurt and paris are running around like headless chickens responding to good and bad news as it so falls out. we are in. neutral mode at the moment because we've had. this is really boy the markets because the level of economic data that we've had this friendship is very disappointing we headed into negative territory after a bright headline this morning then had to spike upgrade of

i wake up in prescott as many mornings of the week as i do in d.c. and i can tell you, i totally agree with you. i used to own a small business. i understand what you're saying. we've got to level the playing field. now, do we want a clean environment? sure, we do. >> you bet. i'm all for it. >> we all do. we want to have workplace safety. we all want that. i don't think we want to turn this country into another china. i don't. and i don't think anyone does. but we can do these things with common sense, as you and i both refer to, and that's what we need to do. we've got to level the playing field and we've got to make it -- instead of providing disincentives to small and large businesses to locate in america, we need to be providing incentives for that and streamline some of these things. that's why i voted against cap and trade and that's why i'm co-sponsoring the bill to stop the e.p.a. from doing it on their own without a vote from congress. [inaudible] >> why aren't we charging for he can porting our goods? -- exporting our goods? if we make goo

and i would like to let everybody know that prescott bush, jr., was chairman of the u.s. chinese chamber of commerce. so the bush company basically owns the company, booz allen, jonathan bush, he funneled to the 9/11 terrorists -- the line host: the front page of "the washington post" about ben bernanke's speech tomorrow. fed policy foggy as the economic picture clouds. many voices compete. market looks for speech -- that is "the washington post" this morning. minneapolis, abraham. what would talking about do caller: what are we talking about today? host: the next call is from maryland. kathleen, independent line. caller: i am not a rational optimist. my question would be how far would america be if the democrats and republicans were together with the president. until we learn that we are all americans, regardless of what party and the elections, we will not survive if we do not work together. and that is why i am not an optimist. host: joe tweets -- i guess he is making the case for some optimism. elizabeth, new jersey. this is a call on our democrats line. is it khalid?