nations during what he calls a pivotal time for the world economy -- unlike his predecessor, robert zoellick. the bank has focused on assisting newly developing and industrialized countries. >> let's turn our attention to french news now. french police have searched the homes and offices of former french president sarkozy in connection with a corruption charge. >> sarkozy himself was not present. he is reported to be visiting canada with his family. he faces potential legal action over allegations of illegal contributions to his 2007 election campaign. >> his presidential immunity expired mid-june. later on in the program, we will be taking a look at germany's attempts to use more renewable energy as an international conference on wind energy starts here. >> first, a look at stories making news around the world. >> a car bomb in southern iraq has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens more. the explosion hit a busy market. recent weeks have seen an increase in violence in iraq raising fears of a full-scale sectarian conflict. >> iran has test fired a ballistic missile in its desert. th

but if you look at robert zoellick, richard haus, richard armitage, paul wolfowitz, none of them seem centrally involved. and what these insiders tell me is that it shows. that romney does not have the kind of senior, serious people who would tell him, for example, when you're going to london, never say anything even remotely critical of them. for example, when you go to poland, don't make a polish joke. when you go to israel -- you want to be as bland as possible so that the focus just on how statesman like you are. >> let's talk about americans here. let me throw up this number. nbc "wall street journal" poll. they prefer president obama over mitt romney when it comes to foreign policy, but when you sort of look at the rest of the world, and i know that's your focus each and every sunday morning, i keep thinking back, i remember the pictures in 2008. president obama, you know, he takes his trip abroad. you see the crowds. this was berlin. so, clearly the president is popular abroad, but here's what i want to know from yo. so what? what does that overseas popularity do for our countr

robert zoellick is 59. if today is your birthday, happy birthday as well. >>> 5:45.e should have been doing in outside, howard. >> we still can. we have another 75 minutes to go in this broadcast. >> it's stunning. >> it is. it's been great out there. we'll get out there a little later this morning. i advise you to take advantage of the gorgeousness while we have it because we're going to have it today. we're not going to have it tomorrow. here's a look at the day planner. it is beautiful out there this morning. we've got some areas in the 60s. it's in the 50s in garrett county. we'll be in the low 90s by lunch time. only getting into the upper 80s today. maybe 90 in one or two spots but it's really going to be a comfortable day as the humidity levels have dropped off tremendously as opposed to the last couple of mornings. winds west, northwest most of the day 5 to 10 miles an hour. we'll really be liking that. the boundary that came in yesterday well south of us now. you see some storms into the carolinas and eastern tennessee but nothing near us. there's the cool s

people like robert zoellick, paul wolfowitz, richard haas, steven hadley. as a result he has bluster good russia being our greatest geopolitical adversary. actually it's a second-rate power. he seems willing to start a trade war with china. he's vague yetty abo y aboubell syria and iran. he's gone back and forth on withdrawal from afghanistan. romney faces a tough problem. president obama is the first democrat in nearly 50 years to enter an election with a dramatic advantage in foreign policy. the last time was lyndon johnson versus barrry goldwater. unless romney can craft a smart, strategic alternative, that gap will only get wider. for more on this, you can read my column in this week's "time" magazine and on time.com. let's get started. >>> foreign policy is the flavor of the week finally. so let's get to it. i have a great panel -- paul wolfowitz is former deputy secretary of defense under george w. bush and then president of the world bank. two former state department policy planning directors -- richard haas, president of the council on foreign relat

in an interview with robert zoellick he said he believes merkel will do everything to save the euro. >> these are people committed to europe. when they say they will do what it takes to support europe i believe them. their room for maneuver has shrunk in part because of the constitutional court, the german court which delayed a decision on one of the mechanisms, the esm and that's why draghi had to step in to assure the financing to that point or at least suggest he would. >> joining us now is chief investment advisor for asia. andrew, thanks for being with us this morning on such a big week. looking ahead to that ecb meeting on thursday have markets run ahead of them or are expectations too high? >> quite possibly because i think it is unlikely they are going to cut interest rates at this stage having cut them already twice. and also it is very unlikely that they are going to have a bond purchasing scheme announced although draghi said he did a clint eastwood, go ahead, make my day. but i can imagine that potential schemes could be laid out although given the european stabilization