richard harris is on asia edge next. asia pacific stocks on the rise. set for a fourth straight daily advance. iswonder why richard harris wearing his ostrich todd with heads in the sand -- ostrich tie with heads in the sand. do we have a close-up of richards time? it also has some ostriches without their heads -- >> i also wear my elephant tie. they never forget, you see. >> is this a forgettable first quarter for japan? >> for most of the markets. , but for japan, after last ye very much is well discounted. >> shinzo abe, it is not of the omics.-- not aben >> we had the three arrows. the key one was reform of the economy. but that has not happened. it is almost impossible politically. , guess we thought that abe of anybody, would have been able to do it but he has not. >> he is addressing lawmakers today. to have stimulus on stimulus, there isn't a lot happening. it is like having a jumbo jet going around the runway and not actually taking off. >> i think olivia dese would be that generous. patient is sick and getting a placebo at the moment. there is

i'm richard harris with the san francisco public golf alliance. there is a close connection between the lawsuit to which the city is still party, which is on appeal, and this matter that is before you tonight. mr. -- the plaintiff in the lawsuit also the entity that is here before you tonight telling you to delay, to disregard the deadlines that have been set on you by the u.s. fish and wildlife service, it is based on that opinion of the fish and wildlife service that the lawsuit was denied. if your board accepts and agrees to the appeal, then delays infinitely the directions of the fish and wildlife service, you are out of compliance. you are subject to take in a resurrection of the lawsuit that [speaker not understood]. which is to say you are jeopardizing the golf course, which is why the golfers who are talking about golf [speaker not understood] on the golf course, they see that the golf course itself is being jeopardized. not just by the modest proposal that the fish and wildlife [speaker not understood] which turnout to be 3 or 4 feet whic

richard harris will be the guest. >> it is the middle of the trading day across the asia-pacific. this is "asia edge." now a look at our top stories. higher taxes in japan. australia says there is no time limit in the search for the missing malaysian airliner. sure knee over who gets hired, the latest investment that may be facing questions. >> on the eve of the failed tax hike in japan, we will look at the impact on business. we will hear from one of the country's richest men. why oneill look at chinese internet site is recruiting the help of marvel comic hero captain america. commerce or conservation? we have a special report on claims that the demand for resources threaten the reef. all that and more on "asia edge." a -- a look at the markets, a dreadful quarter. very different, a 16% this time last year. australia has seen a strong gain of two thirds of 1%. japan is up 1

jimmy said richard gear. harris, you are a big shot news person around here. >> now i can just picture richard gear at the front of the line with a big smile on his face and everything is ruined. >> i have nothing to say. what does this decision mean in a college sport? >> it is interesting the football players have such a job creation program going. every attorney and former union manager within a hundred miles is saying sign me up. just to add to what you were saying brrrr who can vote, actually only the students who are getting cash via the scholarships can vote. which means they want the money. it is not like they can just come to the team and vote. they want the ones who -- you know the scholarships are worth cash, worth money. they can't take a percentage of nothing. >> wait, if you are not a college student getting a scholarship you are not even down. >> basically it counts as payment because they are tied to the performance. they could be treated as employees. nonscholarship students can be treated as employ

richard grinell, a fox news contributor, rick, unbelievable, so we have imposed sanctions on another 11 russians. and now they have imposed sanctions on nine americans. so harry reid and john boehner can't go to russia and some of their officials can't come here. meanwhile, god knows what is happening in the ukraine. >> yes, let's remember that president putin's aggression was a military response. and so far we've just done an economic response. i think it is really important to send a message to the ukrainians and the ukrainian government to be prepared that we would supply weapons. that is an appropriate response. when we're left to do sanctions, especially unilateral sanctions what the white house is not getting is that the only way that sanctions, especially banking ones can work is if they're uniform and global. and right now they're not. so they're easily going to be kind of pushed aside by the russians. >> rather than saying that we are going to send weapons, never mind, you know, anything beyond weapons the president came out today, or yesterday and explicitly said we're not going to get into a military excursion in ukraine, we'll mobilize the diploma

richard grinell, a fox news contributor, rick, unbelievable, so we have imposed sanctions on another 11 russians. and now they have imposed sanctions on nine americans. so harryer can't go to russia and some of their officials can't come here. meanwhile, god knows what is happening in the ukraine. >> yes, let's remember that president putin's aggression was a military response. and so far we've just done an economic response. i think it is really important to send a message to the ukrainians and the ukrainian government to be prepared that we would supply weapons. that is an appropriate response. when we're left to do sanctions, especially unilateral sanctions what the white house is not getting is that the only way that sanctions, especially banking ones can work is if they're uniform and global. and right now they're not. so they're easily going to be kind of pushed aside by the russians. >> rather than saying that we are going to send weapons, never mind, you know, anything beyond weapons the president came out today, or yesterday and explicitly said we're not going to get into a military excursion in ukraine, we'll mobilize the diplomat sources. did he sa

richard nixon that resigned in disgrace prior to that lbj whose presidency went so bad that he declined to even pursue the party renomination. lbj replaced the president who was killed in office. back before eisenhower harry truman talked about the presidency like the great white jail as a prisoner. he had the highest disapproval rating of any president and tell george to view bush. back to the '20s woodrow wilson in his presidency to terms ended in despair with two or three strokes in the final 18 or 24 months. after ronald reagan and george h. w. bush was elected largely because it was the best they could do to get the third term of reagan. he got one term. that was it he lost to bill clinton. he won 43 percent of the vote because of the third-party candidate of ross perot. clinton 1986 did not get over 50 percent come the 2000 george to be bush gets in without even winning a majority then 2004 the second bush term peaveys office said in 2007 had the worst gallup approval numbers since truman. obama 2008. 2012 obama is the first president in history the first democrat since lbj to get over 50 percent but 2012 he was elected with less popular votes than electoral college votes. reagan won 49 added 50 sta

. >> richard, some of the people who are put on russia's list of who they were sanctioning, banning, included names like harryncluded mary landrieu. she's a senator who's been pushing very hard to allow americans to adopt russian orphans. i just wonder if that has brought her political implications, too. if we should look for things to come along that line. if they can't hurt us financially necessarily, if they look like other matters like that. >> of course. it is very personal for vladimir putin. they want to target individuals who are involved with russia and send a message that they know who's pushing buttons in washington, who has the russia portfolio, so to speak. for vladimir putin, all of this has a domestic factor. vladimir putin's approval ratings according to recent polls are about 72% in favor of his actions in crimea. this is not being presented as a takeover of crimea. to the russian people. this has been being portrayed as the return of a historic homeland for russia. the return of crimea to the motherland. a lot of people in the country welcome that. they don't want to -- they want to also pun

richard blumenthal somewhat forgot he was not in the vietnam war. there's a culture of corruption on the left. and i don't think you will see harryord for the senate majority leader to go down. >> harry reid spent his entire life working for government and somehow got rich in the process. i would say that's a red flag. colonel, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me, tucker. >>> ukraine now warning about more russian aggression, so what should the president's next move be? chris wallace is joining us in just a moment. >>> and you don't have to be an american soldier to get behind the wheels of a tank or the treads anyway. that's anna kooiman who took the ta tank. that's coming up. ♪ dentures are very different to real teeth. they're about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. polident kills 99.99% of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains. that's why i recommend polident. [ male announcer ] cleaner, fresher, brighter every day. still runnng in the morning? yeah. getting your vegebles every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full