thompson reuters acting like, yeah, it's out there. everybody knows that's the case.ion? >> you've got to be kidding me. you really think you can get away with. this one of the things that eamon said it's not illegal. you know what, having done a lot of work with prosecution, you know what? what's legal or illegal is up po to the prosecutor not up to thompson reuters, not up to us. the prosecutor doesn't like this, he brings the case. prosecutor bring that case. >> should it be made illegal, jared bernstein? >> i don't think it is illegal, and i doubt it should be made illegal, but i think it's wrong. i think it's unfair, and i think eamon is doing some dogged and very important intrepid work here. my litmus test was about what you guys just did. i was about to ask brian and then jim cramer, have you ever heard about this, because i haven't, and i'd be darned surprise federal anybody else has, so there's something very wrong here, this kind of tiered release business. it's not at all what folks expect. >> and if they are doing, it surely there must be others who are d

here is what thomson reuters told us.ls are provided openly to thomson reuters customers and the wider public and anyone wishing to trade on this data can pay for the services that best meet their data needs. thompson reuters also said it fully discloses the two-second lead time on its website. this is extremely valuable data. the contract show that is thomson reuters pays the university of michigan at least $1 million per year for the exclusive right to distribute it. scott, back to you? >> thanks. doc, you're shaking your head. pay to play. >> shame on reuters, shame on the ftc. this isn't anything that makes it fair. it disrupts the markets obviously as eric over at nanex has cited on eamon's report. this is just terrible. this is not something that will help markets. it will be something that destroyed markets, and i'm just -- this is almost like that nsa spying, judge, because basically it destroyed confidence by the general public. so i'm outraged. this is terrible. >> steve weiss? >> all that being said i will spli

thompson reuters would not say how much they charged. >> more than the $1 million thompson reuters pays michigan. >> we have to put this in the context. this just reinforces i think a belief among the average and small investor that it's rigged against, rigged for the highest bidder. >> absolutely. >> that the democracy of the markets is more an illusion than a reality. >> thank you, gentlemen. hewlett-packard's ceo meg whitman speaking on cnbc's "squawk box" struck a positive tone about that company's business prospects. >> we still think growth is still possible in 2014, our next fiscal year. i think the biggest wild card is what happens to the pc market as a whole. we define that% now at personal systems, but the vast majority of our personal systems are pcs, and so i think that will largely depend on the market. >> hewlett-packard sales hitting a 52-week high on those comments, currently trading up 3.66%. >> a blowout for cooper tire, maybe a questionable word choice but nonetheless, india's apollo tire to buy the tire-maker for $2.5 billion. that is a 43% premium from cooper tire's

now thompson reuters said it fully discloses the 2-second lead time on their website this is extremely valuable data. the contract shows they pay the university of michigan at least $1 million per year for the exclusive year to distribute it. >> you talked to tompsoner routers. what about the university of michigan? >> they told me they believe this is carefully vetted, this contract and it applies -- follows all regulations and rules in this area and that the person who actually puts this data together told me because it's privately financed by thompson reuters thinks they wouldn't have it other wise. >> how much do they charge for this early access? >> they wouldn't tell us. they pay $1 million a year to the university of michigan but thompson reuters wouldn't tell us what they charge their clients for access to that information. presumably they are making more than a million dollars a year on it or it's not a good business. >> thank you very much. >> what do you think? >>> still ahead on the program, not only is amazon moving into the grocery business, but it's also competing for a

for $1 million a year and thomson reuters puts it out on what they call a tiered release.those ultra high elite clients get it two seconds before everybody else. they know it's going to be a market pop or drop based on that number because traditionally it is and they're trading with two seconds, that's an ocean of time for high frequency traders. they're doing the market moves way before that number becomes public on our air or for other wire services or on the website of the university of michigan or of thomson reuters. >> look, i know it's allegedly legal. but if a prosecutor wanted to build a case and called you up, could you give them the stuff so that they -- i mean, i think this is such a scandal that it may look legal, but a case could be made this is wrong. >> i wouldn't go into the legalities of it but i would say if you look at what individual investors know about this and even some really smart people on wall street that we talked to had no idea this practice was going on. and the question in my mind it comes down to is what is wall street, these elite high freq

here's what thompson-reuters told us about the early data release.ase of the data are provided openly to the customers and wider public and anyone wishing to trade on this data can pay for the service that best meets their data needs. thompson reuters also said it fully discloses the two-second lead time on its website. guys, this is extremely valuable data. the contract shows that thompson reuters pays the university of michigan at least $1 million a year for the exclusive right to distribute it. bill, back to you. >> how long have they been doing this? how long have these elite traders been able to buy those precious two seconds? do you know? >> yeah, the university of michigan told me that this contract -- these contract terms date back to 2007. the contract that cnbc obtained was dated in september 2009 and applied to the year 2010. but in both university of michigan and thompson reuters, they told us this is an ongoing practice as of right now. >> aemon, stay with us. we want to take a closer look at the story from all angles. we have various pe

trade whose got that data the high speed subdescribesers to thomson reuters premium service were ablere the rest of the market realized that was even out there as data in the market. just that 15 milliseconds in this day and age means a lot. what the s.e.c. has done here we're told by the ceo of ism has asked is m and tampson thomson reuters for a company of the contract. i'm told they turned over a redacted version of that contract and we'll try to get more information from the s.e.c. they've declined to comment to us officially. thomson reuters not immediately responding for a request for comment. >> another development in a story he's been out in front of. our next trade, the markets are in rally mode. what are the technicals saying. let's go off the charts with chris varone. good to have you here. >> nice to be here. maybe the technicals are more important than ever before given what we've done over the last week in the stock market. what can you see? >> first and foremost and most importantly, the trend of the market is still up and still healthy. now, very curious thing happened

it is not on thomson reuters or anyone else.you want the -- if you want the best service, if this is what you do for a living then you ought to pay for that service. that's all. >> kenny, what about that? you are out there with in the trefr trenches everyday, trading. you are always looking for an edge. is this the way wall street works? >> i hate when they say and make a blanket statement. i think it is completely unfair. it is quasi public piece of information that should be released at the same time to everybody. i can't believe -- >> what does quasi public mean? >> they paid for it. they have paid for it and sell it to their customers. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. they didn't hire university of michigan for themselves to create this report. this report is quasi public -- >> university of michigan said that this is privately funded research. >> they get to do whatever they want with it. >> privately funded but the whole world is public quasi piece of data that every month people wait on the edge of their seats to get. not like you we

meaning the reuters journalists.the statement, before the apaches opened fire, american troops were conducting a raid nearby when they were hit with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. reuters conducts its own investigation and can find no one in the area who saw any clashes that day. one week later the news organization demands an official u.s. investigation. it also specifically requests access to the apache on board cameras and voice communications. all their requests are denied. the government makes no further comment on the incident until three years later when wikileaks, which had received a leaked copy of the classified video, releases it under the provocative title "collateral murder." >> the video is important in a number of ways. one of them is better scrutiny of how pilots behave when they fire on people. >> they released it in a couple different forms. they released it both in a long form, then a more concise form where the high points, if you will, were highlighted regarding the incident. the

you're a paying customer for thomson reuters. >> absolutely, you know?or the information. is it right? i guess not but, you know, we have it even with trading, nicole. you know, we have people that have, that have access to the markets milliseconds before other people because they're willing to pay for it. i think it's absolutely terrible, but these systems were created, and people take advantage of it. and as far as i know, it's not illegaa. >> reporter: right. and it is not illegal and, actually, some of the politicians were actually talking about not from the comme department or the labor department, these are individual surveys such as university of michigan survey, and then they get released. could be good news or bad news. and it does move the markets. and so some of the customers who pay, let's say, $5,000 to have that thomson reuters terminal pay an additional thousand to have that connectivity in order to get that kind of stuff a little bit early. and you can make some money on it, right? >> i mean, in a perfect world, it stinks. but in the real

earlier this month, cnbc reported that thomson reuters inadvertently released by 15 milliseconds thatacturing data to high paying high speed data client. what we are told by the ceo of ism, thomas derry, is that sec responded to the report by asking for a copy of the contact between the two organizations and the two organizations sent over a redacteded copy retailing their business arrangement. sent that copy to the sec. we know sec is looking into this. thomson reuters did not immediately respond to my question of comment. >> you said redacteded, what is redacteded? do we know the numbers involved in the contract? >> we don't know what was redacted. but we do know they sent over a redacted version of the contract. clearly the sec is taking an interest in the issue. this issue has been in the media a lot lately. is market moving. how they are released. who gets the information. exactly when and whether or not this is all technologically fair. and how closely calibrated are they to keep their clock synchronization spot on so no one is getting this information before is supposed to be o

i tried to find this two-second disclosure on the reuters website.ome of the comments that economists gave to me were that this is unfair and it's disingenuous. >> wait a minute, wait a minute. what is unfair -- disingenuous, fine, maybe they were trying to keep it under wraps that some people were getting this data early, but, steve, the guys you talked to, we're lucky if they're looking at data week to week let alone carrying out if it's out two millie seconds. >> the guy i'm talking about are looking at it when it comes out, they're on the squawk box with the firms trying to tell them what they think of the data. i don't think these folks have a problem, kelly, if this information is disclosed that it's out earlier. they just didn't know it and it doesn't seem to have been widely known on the street that there was this two-second heads up. and i think the context is interesting. there's a lot of talk about whether or not we should be using more and more private sector data. government funding for data has been waning and it's been a tough thing to

now of course we still have to confirm whether it is indeed a cheat but reuters they saying that ecuador has certainly gone ahead and accepted that asylum now this is the truth is whether we all started we were here this morning this all waiting for him to board that plane bound for cuba which he checked into yesterday on sunday when he arrived but oh no reports that inside of that airline you got he paints a different picture. there's so much media on the screen but for the last three minutes i'm sure that the plane expecting which told him to show up there will be increased security. for the police when we move the passengers sort of away from the teacher to leave it up to continue west point even important issues themselves understand. that we're not sure whether or not it was entering the plane or not. right to say the whereabouts of edward snowden inside of their plane away no way to be found in fact my colleague you got to be sort of also tweeted and said that the seeds that he was meant to be sitting on. and to the seat of the representative who's traveling with him we're all empt

helicopter attack in iraq that killed two reuters employees. manning could face life in prison for the leaks. his trial is expected to run all summer. we will have more on the bradley manning trial after the headlines with attorney michael ratner. one of turkey's largest union confederations has launched a two-day strike in solidarity with anti-government protests that have ignited the country. the union accused the turkish government of carrying out state terror and its brutal crackdown against demonstrators. on monday, a 22-year-old protester was shot and killed in the southern city. he is a second person killed in the protests. first was reportedly hit by a car the day before. on monday, white house press secretary jay carney said the obama administration trusts the turkish government will "to properly work through this situation." >> we believe the vast majority of the protesters have been peaceful, law-abiding ordinary citizens exercising their rights. the u.s. has serious concerns about the reports of excessive use of force by police and

we learned that thompson reuters has a high speed data transmission line. sent this admission out early to the high frequency traders who were able to take advantage and trade ahead of the official release time. they say we have identified that there was a minor clock synchronization issue monday causing this data to be released 15 milliseconds early. we are taking measures to synchronize clock issues to insure the release of the data is as close as possible to thefessional release time of 10:00 a.m. larry, 15 milliseconds might not sound like a whom lot of time. fact, it's less time to blink your eyes, that takes 3 to 400 milliseconds for a human eye blink. naenex found about $28 million changed hands during that interval and the downward moves that were spotted there in 369 different stocks just in that little blink of an eye. so larry, what we are talking about here is this era of high frequency trading. it's very hard to determine when information has gone public. it looks like some people are getting access to the information before the rest of the mar

that really angered this ministration when he revealed the collateral damage video that showed a reuters reporter was killed by our helicopters and that they were flippant about how they had just killed a bunch of people and there were children and in this in this vehicle this is this was wrong we needed to see we need to see more of these things so we can understand what's going on in the theater of war when we go into places like iraq and afghanistan and other places around the world this is a very chilling. take away so i mean you have been here who are going to let me jump in here david the gentleman the people the soldiers that were involved in that video conducting it are they on trial for committing war crimes and if not why is bradley manning on trial i don't see. the fortunate bradley manning the well i think there is always disproportionate within the justice system i think that this administration as press administration has tried to hold soldiers and marines and sailors accountable for their actions. that's what happened yesterday at fort lewis mccord in washington state when

there was dispute about how hostile the situation was and reuters asked the military if they could seeideo that the troops might have taken of the incident. they said no and they filed the act request and still no. another years went by and in april 2010, the video of that air strike which killed that reuters driver and photographer and ten other people. this taken from the perspective of the gun site on the helicopter. after having the military tell them no, they were able to see it and the world was able to see it three years down the road because it was posted on line by wikileaks. it is a short version and a 40 minute long version. they added written narration what they believe was happening in the video. they called it unprovoked even though some seemed to have weapons. the ak-47s and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. they said they have the video from a source and would not name who it was. the video was released about a month later and the criminal investigation arrested a 22-year-old army intelligence analyst on active duty in iraq. the private first class was suspected of l

again, that's according to a moscow airport source via reuters, so some conflicting news coming throughal whereabouts of snowden. >>> now, u.s. treasury yields have come off yesterday's multimonth highs, but could there be renewed selling? one man who might know is richard clarida, global strategic advisor for pimco, and he joins us after the break. you can get your e-mail comments or questions to us. find us on twitter twitter, @louisabojesen. we'll leave you with a look at how the futures are opening ahead of the opening on wall street. >>> hi, everybody. welcome back. you're still watching "worldwide exchange." i'm louisa bojesen. these are your headlines from around the world. china stock markets on a roller coaster ride. the pboc promising to manage liquidity in a flexible manner, also helping an early rebound in european stocks. >>> it's an all-star lineup of guests on this show. they disagree about whether or not beijing has volatility under control, but they agree that it could impact growth. >>> and amid warnings of feral hogs roaming the markets, the former ecb president, jean

reuters is reporting that. the two cincinnati workers saying that yes, the i.r.s.as telling them in d.c. what to do. at do you think? >> i think that we will see more evidence coming out. this is not about the rule of law. this is about the obama administration trying to control the flow of informion. i am sensing a pattern here between the i.r.s. scanl, the media tracking scandal, the n.s. now, you k spying onthe average americans. this is, this is an administration that wants to control the flow of infomation. it's suddenly coming to head here with the i.r.s. scandal. i couldn't agree with steve more about this. >> you know, morgan, here is the deal. conservative groups,f course they have to be questions like everybody else. but they were in question like everybody else. they were basically asked about their book they were reading. meetings, donors. ten democrats had pressure the i.r.s. to do re. senators levin said basically why is the i.r.s. being so passive? al franken and schumer threatened e i.r.s. with legislation if theyidn't act. go ahead. >> yeah, this i

reuters writed that apple's radio service is expected to closely resemble pandora's strategy. the music wars heat up. shares down 2% on the day. back to you. >> guys, we are doing our show live from the worldwide developers conference in san francisco on monday. this is a stock that's going to get a lot of play over the next three, four, five days as a result of the lead up to that and the post reaction, right, steve? >> this is probably one of the most exciting developer conferences they've had yet because everybody's expecting new product to come out, new product to be announced. i don't know if they'll do it at that forum but i guarantee you, the stock's going to gyrate many ways baseed on what's said and what's rumor. >> dow, s&p at session lows. dow hasn't had a three-day losing streak all year. we're at the lows of the session now. we eat some lunch and market the markets fall. >>> coming up next -- following the money trail with the ceo of tv ameritrade, handles more online trades for individual investors than any other. plus, home depot build on success. could rising m

and at some point in 2010 he leaked a video about the apache gunship which killed a reuters journalistand also some war logs from iraq and afghanistan and about 250,000 state department cables. >> stephen: okay. >> these were leaked to wikileaks then wikileaks partnered with "the new york times" and the guardian and a german smaing to publish these all over the world. >> stephen: are you arguing that he should not be on trial for what he did? >> he pled guilty to leaking these secrets. it is what i would call an act of civil disobedience. he may have been somewhat naive about the extent to which these secrets would be leaked all over the world. but i do think that he had a sense that some very bad stuff was going on in iraq an afghanistan and the american public needed to know about. and he felt that somebody should publish them. >> stephen: so he thought he was doing the right thing. >> indeed. >> stephen: even though it might be against the law for him to do it, he had to do that thing because it was the right thing to do. >> that's right. >> stephen: and he should pay a price for th

two of the people are reuters employees that are killed.up-and-coming videographer and his driver, a loved by the reuters crew and journalists who covered iraq. he would be the person who navigated them through this country. they had tried to get this footage, but here's what happened to their reporter, what happened to their driver. they cannot get it military. when wikileaks released it, it was the first time they got to see it. it shows the last moments of their life. i daresay if we had gotten the wikileaks document six months before -- a little before -- six months before, there were iraqis that put up the surrender side to the apache helicopter unit above, and they called back saying what should we do, they're trying to surrender, and they say you cannot surrender to a helicopter, and they blew them away. if we do that six was before when it happened, i daresay there would have been an investigation and an outcry. as -- that is why it is important to know what is done in our name. you get the book by julian assange. you get the dvd of

instead we have jack sheriff hero is a media critic for reuters who attacks james rosen, she sloppy journalist that got caught. that is not what we need with journalists. we need a free press that are going to stand up and call this what it is. >> on mission one, let the chips and jodie yager at the hill, it does appear to be a discrepancy a what holder testified under oath and what let the readers figure out for themselves. >> jon: then to say we were going to charge him as a co-conspirator and tell the judge he is a co-conspirator but never intended to charge him criminally. >> to lie to the judge to get a search warrant to look at his records -- pardon me? >> i say multiple judges. >> well, that is a separate issue whether or not the warrant ought to be made public. but the seizing of the records and perhaps we still don't know whether fox news was informed or not informed, there is a dispute over whose records were compromised. we have so many questions that journalists have stopped asking. >> jon: you alluded to the off the record meeting that eric holder held this week with many includin

>> yoeng i don't know anything post-thompson reuters. thompson reuters is really the story.hen the fed and manientties were sponsors -- many entities were sponsors. country clubs don't let me on the i don't have a sponsor. the issue is pry frequency trade, i think. >> don't move. i want to talk to steve and get the number. >> a good number. >> a couple different ways to read it. >> it's up because of residential gasoline up 4%, food stuff, consumer foods up 06. food and energy rose, take out food and energy up 0.1%. when we look at this survey what we do, an drou the report is we go back in the production process. we look at goods with less amount of production or work put into them. intermediate goods and crude goods is all the way up the pipeline so wheat would be a crude good, flour would be a finished good. if you look at less food and energ energy-2.3%. be careful from going to consumer inflation. a lot stands in between, this is a potential mark of company margins. when their input prices rise and fall, they have higher costs. >> you are sitting in ben bernanke's seat,

how much thompson reuters is paying for the manufacturing number in advance. >> all right.s a big story. >> yeah. you have a problem with this, jim, don't you? >> well, i do. and the government does, too, because the spirit of the government is fair and full disclosure and this is not. if i were the lawyer for thompson reuters i would be saying, look, we make a lot of money on this, and we don't want the s.e.c. to be the enemy, because it can hurt us in a competitive situation. they are going to reverse this. they are going to reverse the way they do this. >> and with that in mind, we will go the rick santelli to see if the number is just as weak as we think. >> 51.6 coincidentally, it seems to be. >> i dwhaesz we all kind of used to it. jerry next to me, every number, it must be good or bad and he is no soothsayer. we do see that the market is moving a bit here as it should, but i should say that moved with the e.d., and this is an important level. keep in mind it was not that many months ago that it was actually the april read that was under 50 and that is the first time

he says organizations like cnn, reuters, bbc are all lying, they are provoking the situation, and he is trying to paint a picture in which the government is still popular, it is still strong, but it is chasing down a few rebels and troublemakers. but what we are seeing now across istanbul also is starting to spread to other cities, not just a fringe movement that is throwing stones and rising up against the government authorities. what we are seeing now is a protest movement that is spreading both with intensity and across this country. richard angle, nbc news, istanbul. >>> thanks to rain authorities say they've made progress against the massive wildfire in colorado. but the area is still not safe. nearly 500 homes in colorado, colorado springs, have been destroyed by the 2,200 square mile plats. the sheriff understands residents' anxieties but they'll not be allowed home. all emergency access will be halted. the sheriff asked people for their cooperation and patience to allow crews to make repairs. >> we have a crime scene in there, we have fire in there we have downed power lines

reuters reports the u.s. has nearly doubled the search team efforts in oregon this week to get to the source of the genetically modified wheat. auto sales are picking up the pace. major u.s. automakers reported in strong numbers for may. the driving force was a continued climb in truck sales. ford and chrysler reported in double-digit gains, while gm sales rose 3.1%, with help from caddilacs, followed by toyota, with 2.5% gain. jim farley, ford's executive vice president of global marketing, tells us the demand for trucks is ramping up ford's business on the east and west coast. "the full-size truck market is expanding; ford is expanding in it. but we're also really growing on the car and crossover side, especially on the coasts. and we expect the full-size truck industry to continue that growth, given the rebound in construction on new homes." farley adds the next several months are critical for the industry, as automakers become more competitive with new models. trouble at oil refineries is trickling down a

and joan biskupic with reuters. award-winning reporting and itlysis, covering history as happens. live from our nation's capital, week" withshington gwen ifill. corporate funding for is providedweek" by -- we're here, to connect our forces to what they need it. they >> to help troops see danger sees them. >> to answer the call of the and bring them safely home. >> around the globe, the people of boeing are working together to support and protect all who serve. >> that's why we're here. fundingional corporate for "washington week" is provided by prudential. is providedunding by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. live from, washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. from all sides, allies and critics alike, the white house has announced it will intervene in the bleed syrian civil war. how far is the obama administration willing to go? >> people have to understand that this is a very fluid and dynamic situation and the situation on the ground will its own twists and t

this morning a russian lawmaker telling reuters those reports are made up. according to the united nations, it's been a blood bath over there. nearly 93,000 syrians have been killed since the conflict started back in march of 2011. >>> in the meantime, the u.s. government is still looking for the man who says he blew the whistle on the nsa's surveillance program. edward snowden is in hong kong though he's in hiding. the chinese government has not said if it will expedite him if he is caught. this morning a newspaper backed by the communist party is urging china to allow snowden to stay, citing his recent revelations about the american surveillance program against china. the nsa says they have 61,000 hacking targets worldwide including hundreds in hong kong and china. >>> the british government is saying not to aloe snowden not to board flights headed for the united kingdom. he's highly likely to be refused entry into the uk. no word if other allies of the u.s. have issued similar alerts. >>> a few hours from now people in knewtown, connecticut, pausing to re

instead, though, we have jack schaefer, who is a media critic for reuters, who decides this week to attack james rosen and say, you know, he's a sloppy journalist who got caught. that's not what we need with journalists right now. we need a free press who are going to stand up and call this what it is. >> i mentioned one who let the chips fall where they may, jordy yeager at the hill who said look, there does appear to be a discrepancy between what holder testified and what is the truth. and what the readers figure out. >> jon: then to say, well, we're going to charge him as a co-conspirator, we're going to tell the judge he's a co-conspirator, but we never intended to charge him criminally. >> right. we're just going to lie to the judge in order to get the search warrant that we want to seize his records. but we wouldn't think of prosecuting him. i mean, how is it that every journalist in the country -- >> don't forget that. >> pardon me? >> i'm saying multiple judges. >> well, it was a separate issue over whether or not the warrant ought to be made public. but the seizing of the records

greenwich village and many tech gadgets that were donated by his supporters right now while corning to reuters a smartphone an i pod that chen received upon arriving to new york was loaded with it in the spine software allegedly used to spy on the self-taught lawyer and why you technicians inspected the electronics reportedly finding software that allowed a third party to secretly connect to a g.p.s. that was able to track him according to reports also there's been published reports indicating that there was a hit in password protected software that backed up all the contents on his i pad and or i phone and that allowed the contents to be remotely access to buy a server according to reports at least three other electronic devices given to china also included suspicious software but it is not clear who was responsible for the allegedly spying software however what chen supporters say is clear is that a man who gained international recognition for standing up for human rights in china comes to america where he allegedly finds himself living under a veil of surveillance reporting from new york. r

walmart tells reuters it's about having enough workers on staff. retail analysts say hiring temps lowers the company's insurance costs under the new healthcare laws. the retailer says some temps will eventually be hired full- or part-time. a pop in father's day spending: the national retail federation says americans are shelling out more for dear ol' dad this year. the average person will spend $120, up slightly from last year. while tech gadgets or outdoor equipment are popular gifts, john faith of retailmenot.com found out what dads really want, and it comes with no price tag at all. "for the top of our polls, 26% of fathers just really want to spend time with their families. i know that i don't get to spend a lot of time with my family except on the weekend, so just to have a down day where you are having a bbq and hanging out in the backyard sounds great to me, and was at the top of our polls." fyi, in a poll of what dads want the least, neckties topped the list. the co-founder of ben & jerry's ice cream is giving away money. tuesday in dc, ben