but as i would say, every election has been, since the pri was born, it the the pri's election to losee cannot agree to get along. i think that is largely why they lost, more so than perhaps we might like to believe. so assuming the pri does win, i think we may look back and see president calderon as the man who to mexico to war against itself and lost. and as a result, lost the presidency, a man who neglected his initial promises when he took office to be the jobs of president but who instead became the war on drugs president. that said, i want to talk briefly about the secret to being an optimist and the secret to thinking about mexico as a place we would like it to be. i think the secret to being an optimist is to have low expectations and a long time horizon. mexico has and will continue to make progress in the long run. unfortunately, no idea list can ever really appreciate that or be an optimist because in the long run, we're all dead. long run, we're all dead.

because it would need support of the pri. today the pri has a majority in congress with the green party. if it wanted to, he could enact these reforms on its own, without even the support of the left or the national action party and i would argue that that is not-- that will not be the case because of the interest of the pri coalition and because the pri believes this doesn't have to barter dries itself over and ask these reforms. it is enough to position itself as a party of experience, of security, of continuity, and continue to advocate war to prop up the patronage driven machine that is leading to its electoral victories at the state and local level. so, what does this mean for mexico in the next three years? it means an electorally driven agenda. it means mexico continues to muddle through politically and economically. you are not going to see dramatic, aggressive reforms passed, and you are probably going to witness, unless something dramatic happens, the reemergence, the red-- resurrection of the pri, the party at the

there is an open debate of how good or bad was the pri as governing, as... in power but i think it is very clear there has been a lack of creative, interest-driven opposition, and, just from a foreigner point of view, as a mexican, i was appalled of the criticism against president obama, during his first year in government, saying he has not achieved anything. well, he wasn't allowed to achieve anything by the interest of the opposition. we still haven't... that reforms will happen if the government managed to have a decent opposition with a view of changing the country, but, if their position is just concerned of -- in the next election, which issues will favor their candidates, that the country will not change. >> denise? >> i think felipe calderon's legacy is going to depend on whether the national action party is capable of retaining the presidency in 2012. if he is kicked out in the election, felipe calderon will be viewed as a failed president, as one who after 12 years of rule was unable to fundamentally change the country in a way that created a broa

. >> reporter: the massive op pri land hotel and grand 'ole op pri have been flood.op pri house is save but the concert was held in another part of town. they are having a terrible situation down there. three states, so many people died. >> i know. >> from drastic floods. >> and we pretty much dodged the bullet. the front that dropped the rain and severe weather is to our south. we definitely dodged a bullet. we had a few showers with that but all in all a gorgeous day on tap for us wednesday again. and the humidity is out of here. oh, yes, we like that. show you what is going on right now. the next three days, well, we will have a chance of showers to roll in here but not for today. it will be for tomorrow. today we will reach 80 degrees, maybe a few degrees warmer than that. in to thursday, it will be warmer. temperatures coming in at 84 degrees. the chance of showers and thunderstorms and then by friday another nice day on tap with that high coming in at 78 degrees. this afternoon it will be sunny and spectacular. those winds will be out of the southeast at five t

because they would need the support of the pri.today the pri has a majority in congress that the green party. if it wanted to, he could enact these reforms on its own without even the support of the last of the national action party. and i would argue that that will not be the case because of the interest that the pri coalition is defending him because the pri believes it doesn't have your modernized itself or to enact these reforms in order to come back into power. it's enough to position itself as the party of experience, of security, of continuity and continue to advocate or to prop up what he called [speaking in spanish] the patronage dividend machine that is leading to is electoral at the state and local level. so what does this mean for mexico in the next three years? it means an electorally driven agenda. it means mexico continues to muddle through politically and economically -- you're not going to see dramatic aggressive reforms passed and you are probably -- we're probably going to witness unless something dramatic happen

the pri is positioned to win 10 out of the 12 governorships better open. is this the case after only nine years since we celebrated mexico's transition to an electoral democracy? they are celebrating these victories. why are we facing what could be a political repression? i frequently explained this in terms of the putin is nation of mexico. -- putinization of mexico. in the perception that the mexican state is failing to address those issues successfully, i think there is a nostalgia for role and order, experience, for the people who really knew how to do things. they are marketing themselves as precisely as that sort of party. the pri is building as i speak a coalition, i think a successful political coalition, that includes the oligarchs, union leaders, corporate structure that is still very strong, and the vested interest entrenched in the country's economic structure. it would like nothing more than two perpetuate the status cool web policies of extraction has been a sign of mexico's political economy. this coalition that continues in mexico is still

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blanch lincoln a moderate democrat hos hopes arkansas pri voters agree when they vote in tuesday.ln faces an array of challenges from left to right. who think they can knock her off if they broaden the issues. how? shannon brame went inside the campaign and found out. >> make no mistake about it it's a national race. it has been made a national race. i have been hit from both sides. >> i spent 6 years of my life working on balancing the federal budget. unfortunately in the time that senator lincoln has been in the senate we have seen that wrecked. >> she is going to have to talk to defend herself defend her record. >> sounds like a pretty viable candidate. >> time to take everybody out and start over. >> this year is going to be a difficult campaign year. is always is when you run midterm of a new administration. >> reach out to family members and friends ask them to go to the polls on may 18th and vote for blanch lincoln. >> senator blanch lincoln is running for a third term. by the end of march her chances for reelection are not looking good. >> ray lot of the national groups de

greg, pri ncetons are not known as yalies, they are known as [bleep [. we have to dleep that. i i yo. you said you are not a buddhist now and you are not chanting every night. >> right. >> you must be were the wrong guy. >> you sly dog. >> nowhere to go from there, andy. nowhere to go. and lastly, you guys talk about this thesis which is meaning less far more rent poly lionel richie tells them about kagan. i don't know much about her, but she has a few writings you can prove there is law, that may be a better approach. >> he was alone with her alone in his mind. >> i am going with lionel richie. >> go away. i'm tired of him. she is so hot the word hot is suing her for copy write infringement. allison rosen is more adorable than two my little ponies. and if clever satire was a nasty piece. it has been ripped from the headlines. "law and order" is no more. nbc said they canceled it over 83 years. and on the verge of becoming the longest run running drama in prime time passing" wings of fierce" and" half men." they still get their new "law and order." it is about coming up with f

blanch lincoln a moderate democrat hos hopes arkansas pri voters agree when they vote in tuesday.es an array of challenges from left to right. who think they can knock her off if they broaden the issues. how? shannon brame went inside the campaign and found out. >> make no mistake about it it's a national race. it has been made a national race. i have been hit from both sides. >> i spent 6 years of my life working on balancing the federal budget. unfortunately in the time that senator lincoln has been in the senate we have seen that wrecked. >> she is going to have to talk to defend herself defend her record. >> sounds like a pretty viable candidate. >> time to take everybody out and start over. >> this year is going to be a difficult campaign year. is always is when you run midterm of a new administration. >> reach out to family members and friends ask them to go to the polls on may 18th and vote for blanch lincoln. >> senator blanch lincoln is running for a third term. by the end of march her chances for reelection are not looking good. >> ray lot of the national groups decided

you may remember that a political party called the pri and governed mexico for about 70 years.y the way, i belong to the political party. the government i work for belongs to that political party. we lost power in mexico in the year 2000. in the last 10 years, another party called the pan has been governing. one thing that has happened -- and i am not here to make political statements. i want to explain that the political transition that mexico went through, did not come necessarily -- and by the way, i believe in democratic values. i am not but we lost, but i am glad that the fact that we lost created some sort of democratic transition. but we have been so guilty with our, let's say, and democratic -- un-democratic system in the past, that in the past 10 years all we have been trying to do is make clear that we are a democracy. we have expended a lot of money, a lot of effort, a lot of negotiation, a lot of political capital and will in proving that we are democracy. what that created was that many of the institutions that make mexico or that make any country work, in mexico,

to make him speak with a more human voice i would try to give you a more examples later this evening pri realized what an advantage that was most were middle-class englishmen and women and without meaning to be it snobs they fed every american is someone is the of which will guarantee it just three to on their ears so they fervor put americans down in ways that are unjust and inappropriate one of the worst is frances trollope wrote a book denouncing america after she went home which is the famous novelist and she collected americanism she paid to them goes whole hog. keep cool mother i know a thing or two. what is so bad about that? tocqueville liked it because he did not have the in newalliance but it is of the intelligent foreigner and a lot of the british visitor stock they receive religious when it was obvious they had their legs pulled a wonderful exception deserves to re-read more than it is. talking about right teeing in a stage coach hearing about somebody is a smart fellow and said he could not see through a ladder. [laughter] but he was interested in the terminology that had no

the question is whether that can be pried apart. there have been increasing concerns in conservatives i follow and read about encroachments of the state in these kind of civil liberty situations. there is a potential for a fissure there. i don't think it is developed. >> chris, this proposal by lieberman to strip citizenship on the basis of affiliations with bad people. is this the sort of thing that joe lieberman might sort of run with with relish, not because he wants to pass it, but enjoys making liberals mad? >> if he does it speaking truly porly of his character. i hope he wakes up tomorrow and regrets what he said. it is an ode yus piece of legislation. the adjective affiliated is doing a tremendous amount of work that is a loose cry tier yan of stripping someone of their citizenship. citizenship doesn't come to play in mirandizing. this zomy argument that miranda only applies to citizens refuses do die. they didn't take that seriously. now that comes up here they want to get rid of the citizenship. >> washington editor of "th

. >> reporter: op pri land hotel and grant 'ole opry are flooded. >>> the volcano in iceland is acting up again. it sent a cloud of ash toward the continent. european leaders meet to talk about last month's chaos. charlie d'agata has the story. >> reporter: the volcano in iceland that put a freeze on air travel is at it again. 12 days after the volcano shut down virtually all european air travel. >> a northwesterly wind pushed the plume over ireland today and that was difficult for us. and the problem is the density levels are quite high. >> reporter: passengers will face problems on wednesday. air space in scotland and northern ireland was shut down. airports in england and wales may close later in the day. >> everybody wants to be safe. so better to be safe than story. the europe aviation industry complained that governments played it too safe when they shut down air space for six days. in all, more than 100,000 flights were cancelled, inconveniencing 10 million travelers, costing airlines around $3 billion. hoping to avoid another expensive shut down, european transport ministers me

ledge and distinct pri ledge of presenting to you the president of mexico. [applause] president calderon thank you. president calderon: thank you very much. >> thank you very much. madam speaker, mr. vice president, honorable members of congress, and as we say in mexico ameegas and ameegos, congusto. o stand befo you today. i would like to thank congress and the american people for this invitation. i want to express gratitude to all of you here who have supported mexico during very challenging times. i will also tell you the mexican americans and all latinos who work every day f the prosperity of this great nation. xico, a young country but very old nation. our roots go back thousands of years. however this year isspecially significant for us. we are crating the bicentennial of our independence , 200 years of being proudly. at the time mexico was the first nation to abolish slavery in all ever continental america. -- in all of continental amera. and it is exactly 100 years since the mexican revolution, a revolution against oppression, a revolution for justic

you also testified that there were a number of maintenance items that were done pri to the blp splash. do you recall that? >> that's correct. >> okay. do you have a list of the maintenance items that were done prior to the b.o.p. splash for this wall? >> do i have one with me? >> no. a list in your mind peaps. >> yes, i mean, basically, you know, it's standard procedure that when we retrieve the b.o.p.s we change out all the rubber goods, change out all the rubber goods. as far as annulars we change the rubber goods. as far as going into a piston, that depends on if, you know, we have something leaking or if we cut a window in the casing or something like that, you know. a lot of things depend on what happened in that whale. but, you know, like i say, the normal things are checking accumulator bottles. you have to adjust them for different water depth. you change out all of your filters in your pods. you check all of your precharges. you grease all of your valves. check -- grease all your operating valves. check all of your hoses. you inspect your connectors, ange out the gaskets in t

identification number that is kind of burned into the engine block even if the front one has been pried off the dash board. and that's what got the investigation under way. it's basic police work to kind of find out if the tags on the car match the car. they did not. they were off and running. and so ray kelly was the one who invoked the famous jack bauer from 24 fame. it was his job to point out that this moved along very quickly. it's our job to look at other ways when it came close to not moving along well or quickly. i.e., a guy gets on a wide body commercial aircraft on emirates airlines at jfk, leaves the gate, and is forced to turn around. you heard the secretary of homeland security saying, it could have gone further than that. we were prepared to call them and have them turn around in mid-air and come back to jfk. good luck dealing with all the ramifications of that. >> brian, we're going to have our terrorism panel talk about the fact this man paid cash for that ticket, he was placed on the no-fly list on monday. you're right. those are the hard questions. the big question i t

a warm arc of yellow orange, off many the distance a wild os pri wailed through the haze i have air. the river looked the same, but there were so few fish anymore, very few fishermen could make a living just from the water. human nature is a strange thing, rick thought. we have an uncanny knack for ignoring warnings even as we are urged not to break the rules. everyone knows that nature did not intend for humans to inhale tobacco smoke, yet millions of people still do. but nature is generous with her admonitions. first comes the shortness of press, then some wheezing and a deep mematic cough, but these are brushed aside as mere annoyances from the overall pleasures of cigarette smoking. in so many cases the final alarm bell rings too late. maybe the swine flu outbreak would turn out to be nature's final alarm. the big one, as rick called it. or maybe it was just one more generous wake-up call, one more slap in the face to remind us that rules are rules. nature did not design farm animals to be confined indoors by the thousands. we broke her laws, rick thought, and she will exact her

do you think that there is going to be a correlation or is it going to be a precursor to jobs pri? >> certainly, the market will be looking at the adp numbers today for what happens to the nonfarm payroll figures for friday. i guess the underlying picture is that there is some tentative evidence of fresh hirings, certainly hours worked have the low in the u.s. economy, productivity gains have been pretty strong. there is an incentive for employers to hire people. whether it's enough to make any inroads, currently 9.7%, remains to be seen. but i think the underlying jobs picture is slowly but surely improving and hopefully the u.s. economy will continue to grow above trend rates, which is a very good chance of bringing the unemployment rate down to much more acceptable levels. >> neil, thank you very much for your insight. good talking to you, neal mckinnen and derby daley, our guest host, will continue to stay with us. >>> coming up next, we'll turn our focus to chinese banks. they've been scrambling to raise capital. we're looking at more than $60 billion in ipo plans sxp will inv

there was a political party called the pri's that governed mexico for about 70 years. by the way, i belonged to that political party. the government i work for belongs to the political party. we lost power in mexico in the year 2000. in the last 10 years, another party called the pan has been the governing agency. one thing that has happened, and i am not here to make political statements. what i am here to do is to explain that the political transition mexico went through did not come, necessarily -- and by the way, i believe in democratic the use and that democratic transition was good. i am not glad we lost, but i am glad that the fact that we lost created a democratic transition. but we have been so guilty with our, let us say, undemocratic system of the past, that in the last 10 years all we have been doing is trying to make clear that we are a democratic country. we've invested a lot of money, a lot of effort, and not a negotiation, and a lot of political capital and will into proving we are a democratic country. what that created was that many of the institution

carefully and while we're watching what is happening in the gulf, it's not having an impact here on oil pri prices, as you can tell. what is happening in europe. and as that situation ebbs and flows, we're watching the euro very carefully. we did see the euro drop to a 14-month low earlier and that's when you saw food prices fall below $80 a barrel. the fears that the greek debt crisis will spread and the fact that moody's is going to review portugal's debt rating and all that is factoring in to what is happening to oils and commodities prices. we are looking at the fact that we have another u.s. petroleum and products, as well. even though demand has picked up here in the u.s., dennis, we are not seeing that reflected in prices. those prices are lower, as well. the euro and the euro zone seems to be the biggest factor impacting oil today. >> thanks very much, sharon. >>> these guys tend to be every bit as secretive as the guys at apple and microsoft. nike is holding its first investor conference in three years. darren rovell is standing by. >> nike continues to deal with new numbers coming

pri want to thank my colleagues for getting these amendments pending. i would note that the amendment i called subpoena the one to exempt auto dealers from the consumer -- i called up is the one to exempt auto dealers center the scriewrm protectioconsumerprotections in. if the auto dealers themselves are doing the financing, then they would be covered under the consumer financial products commission. so what this amendment attempts to do is to say let's regulate -- let's regulate auto loans but let's regulate them by who's doing the loan, not just who's processing the paper. it would be my happy to we'd get a broad bipartisan support of my colleagues on this. we do have bipartisan support for this amendment. i'll look forward to a full debate on it tomorrow, but in the interest of thyme evening, s evening, won't be talking further on it. i'm happy to enter into a time agreement with the managers on this tomorrow to debate and get this amendment for a vote hopefully tomorrow. with that, mr. president, i'd yield the floor. mr. specter specter: mr. presid?

. >> pri to splashing?s, sir. >> on a normal rig move, we change out all the rubber goods and the b.o.p.s. we check the precharge on all the bottles. you know, youave to adjust them for different water depths. we make the ets, they make the cables, make up the electronic cables and make sure we're not getting any water in it. this rig movehere, we changed out all the half inch hoses on the bop stack. last rig move, we made all new hoses and tested them. you know, we changed o all t gaskets, all the filters and the conduit manifold. we -- i mean, you just want to know everything? >> well, i understand what u're -- >> that's the biggest part of it. >> is there any type of documentation or checklist done by you or anybody you work with onhat testing, or whatever you prepare preventive maintenance? >> yes. >> okay. are you familiar with the logic of the eds system, the logic that was referred to earlier, the electronic system, that once you hit certain buttons on the control panel, what happens? >> yes. >> is t

the first facebook fans to woaft thpostthe word, could win a pri. join in the conversation. we have a lot to talk about right now. we are going to talk to meteorologist steve fertig about the sunshine coming in right now. >>> it's going to come up. and most areas reporting cloudy skies but not bad there. >> let's see what we got temperature wise. not bad there, here. 64 degrees, a mild start. 60 degrees in hagerstown, boo -- 52 is in salisbury. and these temperatures:climbing nicely and even warmer than yesterday. a thin veil of clouds. that is why we're seeing cloudsn through the. it's a chance we have showers on the way. we will talk more later on that. and we see a frontal boundary pushing through. here is what we're looking at, warm and nice today. thunderstorms possibly around this weekend. it won't be an all day event just an afternoon chance more saturday and more so on sunday and warming again on monday and tuesday after cooling back into the 80s. here is what is happening on the roadways. here is candace dold with the traffic edge. good morning. >> reporter: good mo

there are again it is forcing members in their pries to vote in favor or votegainst these kinds of legislation and the same may happen on the democratic side. we'l see whether or not lance lincoln in a democratic primary is forced to be more in favor of climate llation than she might otherwise be. on t china side, climate change is not a huge area of public opinion concern such that it exists inhina though it is owing. what you have is very,ery high understanding of the issue among policymakers thoug they themselves are divided on the issue. and that division broke most openly in the run-up to copenhagen actually at copenhagen itself if you are interested in that exchan go ken on our websitehere is a terrific exchange of what happened there. it was a critical as a moment for u.s. china cooperation on climate change because we saw literally the two heads of state negotiates with one another and turning and. >> what that ans, i th there is violent agreement on what that means for the next set of years. both the u. and china are not particularly wild about binding treaties right now. the reason i

the economist has an article cover called housing pris after the fall, which is sent 2005, the lead of the story says the day of reckoning is closer at hand. it's not going to be pretty. how the current housing boom could decide the course of the entire world economy over the next few years. housing prices are moving up in 2003 at 11% or 2004, 15%. 2005, 15%. you note in your testimony the subprime lending has exploded to be 20% of the market. and by 2006, mortgage debt between 2,002,006 has doubled in this country. we are part more in the six years in mortgage debt than the whole 225 years on this country's history. the assault of the opaque natures are are delivered for this. there's knowledge of a lot of the events in the markets prefigures my fundamental question, what didn't you another policy make her snow when you came into office, guess my question is what was the missing information that would've allowed both policymakers and corporate leaders to begin to mitigate risk? >> well, mr. chairman, i think with all due respect, i began immediately to work to mitigate risk, that with

the pri -- the proposed something that would limit of these that banks can charge businesses -- limit the fees that banks can charge businesses to process transactions easing credit and debit cards. banks collected about $50 billion in such a fees -- in such fees last year. the plan to limit card fees, jump and by senator durbin -- championed by senator durbin, author particularly poignant example of how unfriendly the atmosphere has been on capitol hill this year. good idea or gimmick? to reset in columbus, indiana -- teresa in columbus, indiana. caller: it is just to make them look good. this is a total gimmick. they do not want anything to be done. when they get in there -- they have never tried to live like those that have benefits. they have never tried to live like that. that is going to be really different. if they all switched places with others in the cost would like us to be in and label as for needing help, social security -- label us for needing help -- social security and disability -- i do not like how indiana has done it. it is ruled by republicans. that is not a good p

much broader and i think more dangerous constellation of forces than simply what was happing with sub-pri. >> what would, beyond that list and that constellation. >> you had people taking huge leveraged bets on the possibility, on a world which is -- falling sharply or growth falling ofthe cliff or go. bad was the unifying mistake that so many people in a fore management investors, borrowers made. >> were you surprised by the concentration of mortgage exposures on the balance sheet sheets of for example the regulated tanks, city matt? >> no. i think that banks lend money. banks always hold exposure to real estate risks as you have seen across the country. the story of community bank failures across the country is concentrated to the commercial real estate relative to capital. capital. what was surprising was that a huge part of that risk was held in these financing vehicles that came with very high ratings. the instructions came with very high ratings and as they said the capital requirements were that they were not-- they were designed in a way that made them much more while mobile to th