and they took them under fire and the two reuters guys -- a.p.hat were there, i mean, if you are hanging around with bad guys who are shooting at our troops, and you get killed, you are part of it at that point. >> the guys were not shooting at our troops. you can make up whatever you want to make up. but this video is traveling around the world and people are see can it and just getting horrified by it. and if the military feels this was justified let's see their version. why do they try so hard to keep this video from the public view. why did they target wikileaks as a national security threat. megyn: it's classified. you are with code pink, you say you stand up to get the troops home. this came in from christy in arizona. who calls herself a proud marine mom. she says i'm mother of a marine who has been dough employed in iraq three times. it waltz inand fly that was there onsite. she says i'm incredibly proud of him and his fellow marines. what would these folks making this claim rather? that it be our american military that is killed first be

from reuters no immediate reports of casualties. i should tell you the bbc office has confirmed there were 12 air strikes over all. four in gaza itself, three in -- one in the north of the gaza strip, one we understand in rafa on the egyptian border. and flee in the middle of gaza. we'll bring you more on that as soon as we can confirm more. but those 12 air strikes confirmed by bbc sources there. you're watching bbc world news. very good to have you with us. still to come, a country desperate for a fix, how so much of russia became addicted to heroin. first, though, as if catholics didn't have much to argue about at the moment, now the head of the church of england and wales has hinted it may modify its line on condoms. the archbishop said he can see why arguments for using contraception to fight poverty in developing nations are attractive. >> the solemn celebration of mass, at st. peter's in rome. holy week for pope benedict, a time of humility and pen tans, acknowledging that the clergy sex scandal is a test both for the pope pe

jean landru, and health report for reuters. special adviser to the secretary and guest of the speakers. melissa progress will vice chair of our speakers committee and producer for news book media. and doris, president of editorial associate, former editor and publisher of the health report and national press club's speakers' committee member who arranged today's luncheon. merriman catheter the digital principal deputy administrator for the center for medicare and guest of the speakers. martha kramer, associate editor of the kipling your letter. luke russert, nbc news correspondent for congress and a new member of the national press club and genie friar, veteran associated press newsmen and a member of the national press club. [applause] kathleen sebelius, the and of the health of the apartment of human services lead the principal agency charged with keeping americans healthy and 80,000 employee institutions have been the focus of some of the obama administration's top priorities. as the country's highest-ranking health official

the reuters news service wanted to, you know, look into their report.ly had gotten in out. now, there's nothing particularly sensitive, as far as i can tell. it was an attack on armed people in baghdad. >> let me ask you about this afghanistan incident. we reported it yesterday, that nato said there was no cover-up, but there's major questions about this incident where three afghan women were killed. we know karzai is being very critical of the coalition in his country, blaming them for all kinds of problems. how problematic is this for the military men and women? >> i think the fact that karzai the making some really outlandish statements in public reflects both bad handling on the part of the united states diplomatic mission for how we deal with this guy. we can't be critical in public of karzai non-stop and not expect him to push back. he invited ahminedjad to come in in response to his first perceived slight by the u.s. diplomatic mission. now, another problem of course is general mcchrystal is trying to stop is killing of innocent civilians for any

tax reporter for reuters. the vice chair of the speaker's committee.tary for legislative affairs for the natural resources defense council. the bureau chief for the cch news bureau. [applause] our guest is in the second year of his five-year term as they irs commissioner. he is responsible for collecting $2.40 trillion revenues in tax. with more than 100,000 employees in the budget of $11 billion, he has a significant resources at his disposal as he and you prepare for that april 15 deadline, just 10 days away. beyond the regular challenges, the commissioner faces challenges such as the plane crashed into an irs building last february and resorts of growing violent threats against employees, particularly in light of health care reform legislation that became law last month. as representatives of the government when the government is not so popular in some quarters, his agents are in the front line of occasional public outrage. he came from the financial industry regulation authority, the private-sector regulator of all firms doing business. he served i

official was wellpointe say the report in reuters is misleading and erroneous. >>> coming up on "news4 at 6:00," severe weather. find out where there are reports of more than 30 tornadoes spotted in one region frms people at the securities and exchange commission caught surfing porn websites. >> the president slams the nation's toughest immigration law. >> we will tell you the story of buddy, the dog, and what a dog. >> it is a closeout game here at verizon for the capitals. we will have an update for you on the albert haynesworth situation. ape there redskins have made a decision. and the redskins also introducing their new top draft choice at redskins park. one-on-one with trent williams. >>> wall street closed out the week at the highest point in a year and a half. dow and the nasdaq both have had eight positive weeks in a row. that's the longest streak since january of 2004. today the dow jones average closed up nearly 70 points. ended the week at 11,204. the nasdaq closed up 11 points. it closed at 2530. the s&p 500 closed up 8 points and finished at 1217. some of those who are op

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let's ask jerome marts, director of consumer research at thompson reuters and jan niffen. if i got all that right. jerome, let me start with you. has all the good news been price under to the stock market? because this news is better, better, better than people thought. >> it's definitely better. the important thing to note is that the department stores came on top with 12.3% same-store sales followed by the apparel at 11.8%. what is this telling us? the consumers are responding very well to the new spring merchandise and just so you know, march and april are two months that are categorized by introduction of new spring merchandise that is sold at full price. this is telling us that the consumers definitely willing to spend to pay full price again and that is a trend we haven't seen in two years and that's why it's such great news. >> jan, what i thought awas significant about this is it looked like the strong shopping went just beyond the discounters. the likes of walmart where people were trying to go cheap. am i correct in saying that? >> absolutely. it was pretty amazi

thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> on this reuters story, there are now people who ares for massey, some family members of people who have worked for massey who are willing to put their names to their quotes and talk about the company being dangerous. is this new? >> it is new, because for a while, for a long time there's been a code of silence around massey energy, because they're such a big coal operator in that region, in appalachia, if you bad mouth massey, tell the truth about what's going on in the mines then you don't have a job. but i think what's happening, we're having a building, obvious anger about what's gone on here. massey plead guilty to ten criminal counts, charges in the air coma mine in 2006 where two miners were killed. there was a lot of anger about that. they were found to have falsified the mine logs in that mine. there's a lot of anger around massey's mountain top removal mining, flattening large areas of appalachia, a lot of water -- clean water act violations there. so i think what's happening, people are finally standing up in west virginia an

a baghdad street during the height of the insurgency, in 2007. 12 people were killed, including a reuters news photographer. yesterday, the pentagon released its report on that incident. >>> in pakistan this morning, security is especially tight around the u.s. consulate in peshawar. that's where militants detonated three truck bombs outside the gates. and five militants fired into the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons until they were killed. today, there is evidence of the attack everywhere, including rubble and damaged vehicles. >>> in mexico, two people have died and hundreds are injured after sunday's massive 7.2 earthquake. aftershocks continue to rattle the area. towns have been evacuated and tagged for inspection. the busy crossing between mexicali, mexico, and california, is closed because of damaged roads. >>> the republican national committee has a new chief of staff this morning. and it's lost the services of a senior adviser. those changes come as chairman michael steele dismisses criticism over how the rnc spends donors' cash. viviana hurtado is in

reuters rights that with the exception of the lens of victory of labor in 1997, the party has secured more than a 5% swing since 1950. they would require a 6.9% to secure not right when -- that is the labor party. we will have more tonight. we will simulcast that here on c-span at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow morning it will be the last questions before the election. live coverage will begin at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. today, defense secretary robert gates will brief reporters about the nuclear policy review for the next 10 years. the pentagon and other agencies have been working on it for the past year. there will be joined by an admirable in come the secretary clinton, and others. -- by admiral mullen and others. >> all this month, see the video documentary winners. middle school students from 45 states submitted videos on the restraints or challenges of our country. what should just before "washington journal." and meet the students who made them, and for a preview of all winners, this is the website. now a conference on media regulation and the first a moment. we will hear discussions

it's believed two iraqis working for the reuters news service were among the death. for two years, the pentagon has refused to release the video or the findings of its internal investigation, by wikileaks says it obtained the video from whistle-blowers and published it to prove the helicopters were not under fire or acting in self-defense. now, it appears from the tapes at least some of those hit on the ground were unarmed, but a journalist who was in the general area that same day says it's important for all of us to remember it was a hectic, violent, and uneasy day. harry? >> smith: bob orr again in washington. thanks. back in this country, so much of the presidency is about tradition and president obama kept a number of them going today, beginning with the annual easter egg roll at the white house. >> happy easter, everybody! we are thrilled that all of you could come! >> smith: some 30,000 moms, dads and kids from all 50 states crowded on to the south lawn for a day of fun and games. rutherford b. hayes was the first president to invite kids to bring their eggs t

i think also, if you go through this morning, they went through reuters, ipad app. to earnings reports. all of the profits, all positive, everything's looking up. >> wow! that's great. >> there are people that still don't have jobs, but again, this economy is slowly but surely stubbornly turning around. >>> now moving on with the news here, scuffles broke out in the ukranian parliament today as opposition lawmakers pelted the speaker with eggs and set off smoke bombs. look, he has an umbrella, joe. the unusual display was meant to protest a new treaty allowing russia's navy to remain in the region until the middle of the century. despite the protests, both houses of the ukranian parliament approved the deal. >> and they did that in return for some sweetheart deals on oil and other items. >>> and officials in california's santa clara county are looking to ban happy meal toys which they say lure children to eat unhealthy foods. true. >> no. >> no, true. >> they're educational. >> the proposal believed to be the first of its kind in the nation would outlaw free toys wi

according to reuters, the study in europe will follow 250,000 people for up to 30 years.es, this one will be much longer and follow people's behavior in real time. experts have consistently found that wireless phones do not cause health problems. >>> if you're looking to buy a house, a big tax credit from the government runs out just one week from today. the race to grab that credit caused home sales to rise almost 7% last month. first-time home buyers can get a credit of up to $8,000. the rest of us could get up to $65,000, but the contract has to be signed by next friday. >>> happy friday. thank goodness we made it and some of you might be on hopping on a plane or going to the airplane. bonnie with sh latest travel delays. >> always those early morning flights you do the best on in terms of the risk of delays, but you can see a lot of actevty from west to east across the country. we are anticipating delays for sure due to strong thunderstorms in the midwest and southern plains. in oklahoma city look for delays one hour and possibly thunderstorms there and also in dallas

reuters photographers were gunned down in 2007 in july after u.s. troops misstook their cameras for weapons. an earlier investigation concluded the helicopter crew believed they were engaging insurgents who had been targeting u.s. troops that afternoon. video of the encounter becomes extremely graphic after the crew gets the green light to open fire. be aware, you may find this video very disturbing. >> line them all up. >> come on. fire. >> they survived the initial attack but later shot again. while the video is shocking military analysts say it's a mistake to isolate it from the surrounding events. >> i think it's also important to talk about the context of this operation. this fight was happening in the middle of '07. the previous 90 days had been the largest number of casualties the americans had ever taken. it was the middle of the surge. this fight had been going on four hours. after this event there was another engagement where the helicopters had to fire on some insurgents. so as one takes a look at this and puts it in context it is an unne

here they are on assignment for the reuters news agency. this video shot from an attack helicopter shows them walking through a baghdad neighborhood where u.s. forces had been battling shiite militants. sold gers mistake their camera equipment for weapons. >> that's a weapon, yeah. >> reporter: and get permission to attack. the two journalists and all those around them come under fire. >> fire. >> reporter: the incident, which plays out over 40 minutes, eventually shows an suv coming to rescue the wounded. it, too, comes under fire. two children inside were wounded. here an american soldier hurries to get medical attention for one them. in all, 12 people were killed. including the two journalists. the reuters news agency which long fought for access to the video is pressing the u.s. military to conduct a full investigation. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >>> toyota is facing a record fine over safety problems. the government is proposing that the automaker be fined $16.4 million which is the largest amount allowed. toy is accused of hi

and this reuters story points it out chapter and verse today, and i have indicated several stories. so, in my view, it is time for congress to step in and fix this rate hike loophole in the health insurance reform law. we've got to put patients before profits. we've got to protect the american people from this kind of a lack of moral compass and, candidly, unchecked greed. i hate to say that but that's the way i see it. madam president, i will likely attempt to put this as an amendment on the regulatory reform bill. as i say, the matter has had a committee hearing, and in lieu -- in view of the fact that 800,000 people face these rate increases a week from saturday, i think we need to take some action. i would implore anthem to understand and to not raise these rates. they have postponed this rate increase once again. they certainly can do it again. i thank the chair. i yield the floor. mr. corker: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. corker: i rise to speak today to address the financial regulation proposal that has been -- is before us right now

reporters in january, reuters has been on this story for months.hink we're not thinking as clearly as we might be thinking as to how the united states can stick to their principles and there are certain things we cannot do. i think frafrpgly we're now with al awlaki. >> fred, i'll give you 4r5the l word. >> you still have to find him. you lack the human intelligence to be able to find him. >> thank you very much, guys. appreciate your time. we're going to take a quick break. >>> in minnesota today, a coming together of two conservative mega stars, sarah palin and michele bachmann. at sharp, our goal is to reproduce every color in the world on tv. introducing quattron quad pixel technology. it adds a fourth color, yellow, to the standard rgb color system, creating a vast array of colors you can't see with your tv's three color technology. but, you can see this. whoa! oh my. [ male announcer ] quattron from sharp. you have to see it, to see it. [ engineer laughs ] >>> we have something new for you tonight. a segment we're calling m scare squared. eac

this is a last video taken by a reuters cameraman on saturday.loodshed in bangkok at the time. and a top judge in moscow was shot and killed inside hi apartment building. it's not clear if that is connected to his murder, there have been no arrests. >>> investigators say the polish presidential plane that crashed had no mechanical problems. investigators appear to be focusing on why the pilot made the decision to land, refusing advice from air traffic controllers. meanwhile, forensic experts are struggling to identify the nearly 100 victim frs the crash. jim maceda is live with more. there are reports here today that the pilots may have blocked key collision aids and warning systems otherwise routinely used on most commercial flights globally. >> reporter: it's not exactly clear whether it's the plane itself that lacked those devices or the airport. it was a very small military airport and it may not have had what was needed to land that plane in those conditions. again, thick fog, 400-meter visibility, about 1300 feet. it remains unclear whether

applebaum, rick stengel, the author of a new book, editor of "time" magazine, chrystia freeland of reutersat of the "new york times." let's talk about another political actor, and another impending election, which is the british elections. you used to be the deputy editor of "the london spectator." >> i was. >> when you look at david cameron running against gordon brown. this is a labour government in power for 12 years, presiding over a great economic crisis with a lot of assorted scandals, the government still has not been able to establish a commanding lead. what's wrong? >> they are working off a very, very bad history, a very bad legacy. you know, the british story really makes an interesting parallel to the american one. you had thatcherism which was so triumphant in britain, that it changed the whole context of british politics. when tony blair came to power in 1997, he basically took the best ideases of thatcherism, kept them going and pushed them farth farther. that left the british conservatives far to the right, taking eccentric positions on issues. it left them without their bi

at reuters they say that spring merchandise is selling at full price feeling that consumers are feeling more confident about paying full-price, a trend we have not seen in two years. it is clearly return of the consumer afterall, the jobs have just turned around, but the broader retail sales confirm the upward trend, if maybe not at 9%, but adjusting for the inflation and retail sales in february up 1.4% over a year ago and we will get march numbers in a week. a new poll shows that americans are more secure about their jobs than the beginning of the year. the new poll shows that 41% of americans were less confident about their job prospects in march, and less than in january and for sure some analysts took down the numbers, but you have to start somewhere and this the indications of some signs of consumer return. >> let's go the david faber at 30 rock in new york. david? >> thank you, maria. another sign of the strength of the capital markets. hca, the largest for profit hospital chain in america, and for leveraged buyout plans to offer a public leverage between 4 and 4.5 billion worth

the euro was a little bit stronger today and then eu source was telling reuters of a possible eu agreement on the terms of emergency loans. they would be about the same, i guess, is what the imf tuerms were. it's not translating into our market but the greek market did pick up and rebound in the last 15 or 20 minutes or so. you can see that, look at the jump at the end of your screen, trish. athens composite pick up, it's up about 3%. again, not having a big impact here today. >> it is in terms of the dollar. you're seeing the euro trade higher and that has a direct impact on energy stocks. >> what that is doing is driving energy stocks higher. if you look at some of the energy names and chevron came out this morning and said it sees first quarter earnings better than the fourth and conoco phillips also getting a nice bump up on that. sets the table here on this friday to look towards next week and what the big stories are. clearly we have a kick off to earnings season and alcoa kicking that off. it was downgraded for the second time this week today and that raises concerns that earning se

contribute be editor of rollingstone and from reuter, talk about the story, guys. day we're learning more about it. how big of trouble is goldman zachs s zacs? >> goldman-sachs is not a fly-by-night operation. these were the best, the brightest, the smartest. actually goldman-sachs is a big wall street firm, the one that navigated the financial crisis best. they are the big wall street firms actually figured out subprime was going rotten. the reputational damage is more important even than the charges, and i heard from a lot of people on wall street, people saying, you know, goldman used to be historically a firm that prided itself on putting its clients first, and the tricky thing for goldman now is, are people going to believe that? are people going to say, you know what? we think goldman is too much focused on the house. >> was it last summer you wrote a scathing article in "rollingstone" about goldman-sachs, accusing them of doing all sorts of thing. is that -- is what has happened, these allegations does that sort of underscore what you wrote or is this someth

susan with reuters. ambassador burt, your statement says and i think you said that you're calling for strong commitments to be made by the 47 leaders participating in the nuclear security summit next week. i just wondered if you could be a little more specific. give us some ideas of some things that you'd like to see them do next week that would be meaningful and that people couldn't just say, well, that's all just a bunch of talk, nothing's going to happen. i'd also love to hear anything more you want to say about how some kind of multilateral forum could be set up on nukes, countries that you named earlier. you know, i immediately think, well, gee, would they come? anything more that you want to say about, you know, getting china, israel, pakistan all in one room talking about this? that would be interesting. >> i'll come back to that. but i want to ask valerie, who's really the expert on the nuclear security summit and the loose nukes issue, to address that. that. >> i'm not the expert on the summit.

with "christianity today" which is a very well respected evangelical publication, an interview with reutersh "the advocate." i really thought it was important try and share three different walks of life that many christians find themselves in. just normal everyday people, people of faith, and people who are contending with their sexual orientation in society. >> larry: we've looked at a few christian websites. my crack staff has. here is some comments people have said. jennifer must choose between her sexual orientation and her christianity. she cannot have both. jennifer does not yet have the spiritual strength to deny her sexual orientation. to say this is okay, this is who i am is not acceptable in god's sight. these people are of course speaking for the lord. >> i haven't heard this before. >> larry: and you react how? >> well, those are several different hot button topics that are issues within dealing with homosexuality and people of faith. it's amazing to me that -- i mean it's literally stunning to me that because of in some eye or some way i might be a failing or a disappointment t

his camera was returned to reuters by protesters. >>> before hosting top officials from nearly 50 nationssecurity summit, president obama is preparing for several bilateral meetings. a one-on-one meeting with chinese president hu jintao is of chief concern. president obama seeking china's support to ramp up pressure against iran over its nuclear program. joining me now, investigative journalist, author of "the secret war with iran." the sanction the united nations has put on iran because of nuclear ambitions and lack of cooperation with these investigators hasn't really done much to stop iran, it seems. >> on a tactical level, contessa, it has caused difficulties to iran to purchase equipment, issue letters of credit. but strategically, it didn't attach a significant price tag. indicated to the iranians if they continue with the project they jeopardize the existing of their regime and maybe think it over again. >> how important are the chinese for any pressure to make iran tow the line. >> the only chance of the world to prevent israel from striking iran, because israel see iran nuclear a

time they said that their march same store sales were down 7%, but that is good news, because the reuters news reported a decline of more. that is the one-time dividend and seven cent quarterly dividend. that is good news. maria, back to you. >>> well, corporate bank is raising its profile, and the banlk is operating out of the key new york and new jersey base and into florida and ohio and arizona. the chairman is joseph ficolara, and he joins me on a first cnbc interview. great to have yu on the program. welcome back. >> thank you, maria. glad to be from ohio. >> yes. let me ask you about ohio. you had arizona's desert hills as well, and can you tell me how this plays into the growth strategy and why these two acquisitions were important in ohio and arizona? >> well, this particular am trust am whicquisition was $11 billion to retain a $8 billion deposit base which was down $3 billion from the high. so obviously we have a franchise with the ability to grow, and in fact, despite the fact that this is an fdic-assisted transaction, the deposit base has been growing all through the first qua

according to reuters, sergeant major michael hall wrote on his blog earlier this year, quote, this ispark when discussing the fast food restaurants on bases. they apparently are taking up too much space. rewent on to say supplying nonessential lux uries to big bases like bagram and kandahar make it harder to get supplies to troops who are in the fight each day and need resupply. some u.s. soldiers privately are grumbling about the fast food cutbacks. burger king, pizza hut and concessions like orange julius and dairy queen could get cut. a little bit of home in the form of a burger joint you might remember from your hometown could go a long way. cutting the fast food, crossing the line? you tell me. crossing the line. go to tamron.msnbc.com. or you can actually twitter your response at twitter.msnbc.com. that wraps up this hour. i'm tamron hall. join me again tomorrow and each weekday, 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. eastern time. ed schultz picks up things right after this. be lurking, waiting . a heart attack caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix ta

including reuters cameraman and his driver.dead bastards. >> nice. [ bleep ]. >> thank you. >> later, a family and neighbors, adults and children inside a minivan pull up on the wounded to try to help. they, too, are fired upon. >> come on. >> clear. >> while the well being of the adults in the van is not reported, the two children in the van were seriously wounded. until now, the military had said it didn't know how those children were injured and that the people killed were anti-iraqi forces or insush gents. near the end of the tape, ground troops arrive on the scene and a tank drives over one of the dead

a senior democrat igic aide told reuters they plan to move thursday on the financial reform bill that came out of chairman dodd's banking committee. since democrats have 59 votes in the senate, they will need at least one republican vote to proceed. once that happens, democrats are aiming for a final vote on monday. senator richard shelby of alabama, who is representing the republicans in talking with senator dodd, told reporters that an agreement is close at hand and that a substantial number of republicans will go along with it. elsewhere in the senate, the agriculture committee, led by chair woman blanche lincoln, approved its own portion of the bill, which would limit derivatives trading and make it more transparent. it received just one republican vote in committee, but an important one. chuck grassley of iowa. those rules on derivatives will get folded into the banking bill. in an interview with cnbc's john harwood, president obama said stronger financial regulations would be good for everyone, including, especially for wall street itself. >> we have gotten into one of those pla

. >> reuters has one of the best apps so far. i'm waiting for the "new york times," they've got a chopped up app. give us the whole newspaper. >> i learned it's official we're going with the sunday morning show live from the white house 8:00 in the morning on sunday. we'll be live after the white house correspondents dinner. do we all have to be there. >> phil griffin is here. thanks for apple tv. phenomenal. if it's way too early, what time is it? >> it's "morning joe." time "the daily rundown" chuck and savannah. >> it's just politics. raw bair knuckle politics. the kind of stuff that americans are so sick of it, they want to throw up. >> ah, politics. but whose fault is it? the first wall street reform test vote goes down to defeat. >>> and washington's other favorite ritual, corporate honchos from goldman sachs called to the carpet on capitol hill today. good morning. it's april 27th, 2010. i'm savannah guthrie. chuck is traveling with the president to the midwest. we'll be back tomorrow. at the top for us that, made for wash

the revenue number and in fact, by our estimates and calculations and the good friends at thompson reuters it is the first time they have missed on the top line, maria n 11 quarters. so that would be a disappointment, and also, the fact that the lower shipments were down 15% quarter to quarter in terms of metric tons. also, if i may, a couple of headlines coming out of president obama's nuclear summit, in d.c., chinese president hu jintao saying that the u.s. and china should resolve the economic and trade friction through consultation on an equal footing. he also comments at the nuclear summit that the two countries share the same overall goal in iran as far as the nuclear issue is concerned and at the same time president obama has reaffirmed the need for china to continue to take a look at its currency. maria, back to you. >> all right. thank you, matt nesto, with the latest there. we are back talking about higher taxes on a corporate level. marty, you disagree that ta companies will always pass on the cost to the consumer, right? >> right. there is uncertainty as to who would bear the b

"reuters" just had a story out today, all members of congress have gone home. harry reid, not a single health care event planned back home in nevada for this whole recess. it means that the democrats don't want to be talking about it you've got john mccain campaigning up and down arizona on health care. republican members of congress campaigning all across the country, talking about health care. democrats who just passed this bill with some fanfare, none of them are talking about it. >> the fact that harry reid is not talking about it is telling. >> what you guys got in your barrel? you got anything to sell? or just running against this guy, just p.o. against obama every day. you got anything to sell? >> of course. >> what are your bills? >> we talked about republican proposals for health care reform that we think would lower the costs of care and not do it in a way that blows up the budget and cost jobs. but, look, we're the party out of power. so this is a referendum on barack obama and what the democrats have done. you are absolutely right that we have to ha

thai police and government protesters. 15 people were killed today including a cameraman for the reutersagency. nearly 500 were hurt. protesters had been in the streets for weeks. they want the prime minister to resign. >>> next time you fly on spirit airlines, leave the carry-on at home. all right? or i guess if you're checking it, it wouldn't be carry-on. it could cost you 45 bucks to stow it in the overhead. the discount carrier caused major turbulence this week when it became the first to impose a carry fee -- a carry-on fee which takes effect august 1st. after that, it might cost more to fly your luggage than yourself. what's next? pay toilets? don't laugh. one european airline is planning to do it. don't babies fly free on your laugh. i'll have to ask ben baldanza that, the ceo of spirit airlines. do babies fly free if they're on your lap? >> babies under 2 fly free. >> what if my luggage is under 2 years old? >> we treat luggage a little different than human beings, that's for sure. >> all right. this hasn't been the most popular move. you know that. people are going to say what w

about the release, the leak of a video of a apache attack helicopter killing among other people some reuters employees in 2007 in iraq. has that video been circulated widely there and has there been reaction at all on the ground? >> it has circulated widely here but i think there was a somewhat muted response here even compared to other arab countries. sad to say most of the iraqis have a pretty cynical attitude toward the americans. in terms of this sort don't surprise them as much as maybe it does ourselves. >> ifill: so there is no reaction at all from the u.s. officials on the ground or from iraqi officials about this particular incident. >> the iraqi officials have been pretty pre-occupied with the bombs going off today. american officials it's one that they don't want to touch. >> ifill: there is certainly plenty enough going on there. rod nordland of the "new york times" thanks again for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> lehrer: again, the major developments of the day. a build-up of poison gases at a mine in west virginia delayed rescue attempts for 4 miners. 25 others were killed in

chris freelyin of the reuters service and cnn congressional correspondent dana bash. complicated subject. let's start by framing this as financial reform 101 and frame our conversation around three big issues in the debate. one is ending what we call too big to fail and increasing consumer protection and regulating the very complicated derivatives market. let's start on too big to fail in the sense the republican leadership is still saying that what the president and the democrats want is endless bailouts, millions of dollars in the system to protect the banks and keep the big bailouts. but you just saw bob corker. he is a republican trying to broker a deal. i asked him about this today and said, wait a minute, is that true? first he used the word over the top in the -- to describe the republican leadership language. i asked him define over the top. washington we use terms like the rhetoric is over the top. in america would we use terms like when it comes to whether it's the president's language you just mentioned or the republican leadership saying endless bailouts?

felix salmon writes a finance and economics blog for reuters. peter wallison of the american enterprise institute worked on deregulation issues during the reagan administration. he's now a member of the "financial crisis inquiry commission," but is expressing his own views tonight. let's focus, first othis issue upon of limiting bailouts or creating them. felix salmon, what do you see here that would help prevent future federal bailouts? >> there's a whole series of things which will prevent bailouts. for one thing, there's a new council charged with making sure that there are no big systemic risks to the financial system from the banking and financial sector. for another thing, the biggest banks and financial institutions are going to have much higher capital levels if they need to have a much lower leverage. they need to be inherently much less dangerous than they were before this crisis. and finally, all of those big banks are going to be paying into the $50 billion fund, which will exist in case anyone does get close to failing so wind them

thompson reuter s predicts that combined profit for s&p 500 companies will rise 38.6 percent first from a year ago. preannouncements indicate more positive outlook than average and fewer negative ones. we've had big moves in the averages and people say you get two straight months up, as much as we've been up, that there is some good news. >> -- figures? can you guys roll earnings central again? it's a fancy new -- look. look at that. >> whoa. >> and did you see what's behind your shoulder? >> no. >> a brand-new set for earnings central. this big blue thing that's back there. >> who is manning that? >> i think we are. >> some very confident -- >> we're not. are we? again? >> i think we are. i don't know. nobody's -- we've both been out for a week. >> if carl is not part of it. >> he's on assignment. >> he's on assignment. because it's not a team. >> that's a fancy new set. good to see you. you were out last week. >> good to see you. it's kind of weird to come back after being out for a week. >> a little bit weird. >> it's good to try and get back into things. >> the market waited to go o

reuters pounced the table for it again today. the stock's up over 20%. palm certainly on fire. that's a very good thing for the spreads that we put on the spre put on last week. i'm out of all my stock in palm and just left with the call spreads because you can define just how much risk you want to take. this will pay off three to one in less than a week. >> how far do you go out in terms of your spreads, dr. j? >> that is a great question, melissa. i was not in options at all because i think those are for chumps right now. >> chumps. >> i'm may and august in palm. >> do you officially pity the fool as well? >> i pity the fool. >> whenever we can bring in mr. t it is a better halftime opinion. if you don't want to take palm, what would you do? >> i don't think there are better options than palm. it is the complete casino stock. nobody knows what is happening. none of us know what schaaping. we know what the stock action. the najarians are great making money and playing it. >> you can be sure the palm brand has value to people who want tony crease presence. le novo or htc, it ha

. >> for the latest on the situation in thailand, it's talk about jason zebb, from tomp sob reuters in bangkok. jason, nice to have you with us. we know the prime minister has declared a state of emergency. what's the latest? what can you tell us? >> we have about 10,000 red shirt protesters gathering in the marketplace. they've been very defiant. they have no plans to leave. they're planning what they bill is their largest protest ever. in this protest cycle tomorrow, so they're planning what they describe as a historic protest beginning on the streets at 9:00 a.m. in bangkok. they're obviously ignoring the emergency decree. >> jason, we know the prime minister has canceled his trip to vietnam. does he compromise and call for an election or does he do something more serious, which is crack down on the protesters? >> well, first of all, there's lots of families mixed in in the main area, so there's a human cost involved. he's very reluctant to do something like that. the second reason is he has a lot of support in bangkok, but he doesn't have much support in the rural areas and that's

it might all have ended there, but two employees at the reuters news agency were killed.n, which they later found had children inside. >> we need a -- to evacthis child. >> reporter: kimmit points out that insurgents have used children as shields. >> the first thing that happens we sit down and review everything that aviators did and the troops on the ground did to make sure this was not caused by either error, omission, or co-mission on the part of those troops. >> now, the first investigation found the troops did obey the rules, getting permission to fire. now, if the pentagon does more than half just a second look, if they do, in fact, reopen the entire investigation, many military officers say, wolf, it will be second-guessing troops in combat years after the fact. >> but don't they do that? isn't that -- they do that often, don't they? >> well, to go back and reopen something three years later after the first findings was -- were that basically the rules were obeyed, simply because a piece of video has come out, is pretty unusual. but even general kimmit says, look,

. >> and joining me now to discuss it is a global editor-at-large at reuters. good morning. great to have you here. and obviously this is a complex story, but on main street, it speaks to the whole question of is wall street rigged. >> absolutely. i think we have to be clear about a couple of things here. first of all, this is just an allegation and goldman was very forcefully saying this isn't true and we'll fight this. so we have to be clear being charged doesn't mean being guilty. the second thing is really what is central to this is the misrepresentation. what the sec is alleging is goldman didn't tell the full story to its eninvestors that goldman allowed john paulson to select what was going to be in these cdos and paulson actually is not accused of doing anything wrong. he says i didn't misrepresent this, i didn't sell this to anybody. >> he's within the letter of the law. >> but goldman didn't tell the people who were on the other side of the trade putting it together. and it's pretty easy to understand why if that happened that's something that the sec should be inv

>> stuart reuter.fically on the law of the sea better known as lost? because i'm concerned that some of our military, especially our navy have come out in favor of that, which seems contrary to it. >> the military lawyers have favored ratification of law of the sea treaty for a long time. i think the tree is a mistake. i think the regime it creates over seabed and sub seabed mining is a mistake. i think the authority creates a state or i think the tribunal that has been created is a mistake. that wasn't something that people really focused on during the reagan administration when president reagan opposed the law of the sea treaty, but we can see even in the early decisions of the tribunal that is already prepared to expand its jurisdiction well beyond question that directly affect the oceans and seas. the reason that the military lawyers have favored ratification is they believe that the treaty codifies existing customary international law on use of the see, sea lanes. in ways favorable to the united s

among the dead, a cameraman for the thompson reuters news agency.the government says its security forces were not to blame. >> there were no live bullets shot at the protesters, as far as we have evidence. there's no injury caused from a live bullet from the officers. >> reporter: both sides blame the other for lives lost and a nation in turmoil. and after a political stalemate that's lasted five years, neither show signs of backing down. thailand's traditional new year holiday begins tomorrow. many festivities have been canceled as the face-off continues, and some fear will intensify. >> our thanks to margaret conley. >>> federal investigators will arrive in west virginia today to look into the cause of an explosion that killed 29 coal miners. but they'll not enter the mine right away. the levels of toxic gases have risen to dangerously high levels again. all underground operations have been suspended until the mine can be ventilated. >>> republicans promise to fight if president obama picks a new supreme court justice they consider outside the mai

. >> i am susan cornwell with reuters. ambassador, your statement says and, i think you said, you are calling for strong commitments to be made by the 47 leaders at his opinion the nuclear security summit next week. i wonder if you could be more specific -- give us some ideas that would be meaningful and that people could not just say a cult that is just a bunch of talk, nothing is going to happen -- and people could not just say "that is a bunch of talks and nothing is going to happen." i immediately think, would the other countries come? anything you can think about further for getting them all in one room, talking about this. >> i will talk about that, but i want to ask valerie, who is the expert on this issue, to address that. >> i am not the expert on the summit, but i can speak to my experience as a cia covert operations officer. having looked at the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons, it is absolutely terrifying. i will speak just for myself, personally, as i said in my statement, when i worked for the cia, i th