i do want to thank saab north america who are partners in this commander series, one of the most popular series, speaker series, we have at the atlanta council and board members enstedt who is president of saab north america. what we will be hearing is thoughts on the future not just of what happened but also if not the foreign remarks but also the q and a discussion of what all this means for future operations, nato partnerships, with the backdrop of fiscal constraints. after general bouchard's remarks, gary boutel, the head of the security program here, which will be launched on international security this september, will moderate a discussion with the general berry who has joined us from a long and distinguishing career in the pentagon and the white house. i just want to say a couple things about general bouchar because his career has been a long and distinguished one leading up to this operation. he was in tactical aviation within the canadian air forces command which included flying positions in several squadrons, command of 44 technical squad in germany command of one wing kingston

federal government, gm closed 14 plants, cut 12,000 jobs and shed well-known brands like pontiac, saab and hummer, eventually profits came back. thanks in part to soaring sales in china where buick is wildly popular. in the u.s., gm's business has rebounded due to a healthier economy, and a revamped lineup featuring something gm struggled to sell in the past, small and mid-size cars. >> we are beginning to see some of the benefits and impacts of a lot of the actions we are taking. this is a long-term gain. >> reporter: the challenge is to stay profitable. just three years ago, detroit's automakers lost a combined $62 billion. by 2011 after massive cuts, they rebounded to a combined profit of nearly $14 billion. >> detroit is operating much more like the rest of industrial america, much more rational about pricing production decisions. will this last forever? we'll see. >> reporter: after posting record annual profits, shares of general motors surged almost 6% today. a lot of investors moving into the stock. that's good news for the federal government which still owns 26.5% of general m

the general assembly voted to condemn the actions and calling for president bush here all of saab -- president assad to step down. on friday secretary of state hillary clinton said the u.s. is evaluating a letter from iran and staging a desire to resume talks on the nuclear program. speaking to reporters secretary clinton called the letter an important step. she also commented on the death of "the new york times" reporter in syria. the pulitzer prize winner died thursday from an apparent asthma attack. >> it is always a pleasure to welcome my friends and colleagues from the european union here to washington. we always have a lot to discuss common and -- a lot to discuss and we are always relying on each other because i said europe remains america's partner of first resort on all global challenges we are confronting together. i know kathy understands. we have a very comprehensive discussion. when you run over a few of the issues. -- let me run over a few of the issues. i will turn first to iran. we are grateful for the ashton on her leadership for p5+1. the international community has

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-- saab kept out of this summer's games. they have yet to send a female and they say that's discrimination and should no the be supported by the olympic committee. >>> seven people were arrested from tcu. these students are accused of selling drugs to undercover officers the past few months. the arrests follow a six-month investigation and it was prompted by complaints of students, parents and others. >>> we have obtained surveillance video of an accident that badly injured a pedestrian in san francisco. but we want to warn you this video is tough to watch. it shows a man in a crosswalk on tuesday e was pinned underneath that pass for 0 minutes before he was freed. the victim suffered several broken bones. any also call it an accident and don't plan to charge the driver. >>> 7:49. a possible career change for the bounty hunter in the so- called speed freak case. the reason he wants to become the next mayor of sacramento. >>> and jeremy lin's high school coach and teammates get the vip treatment from a famous new york knicks'

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then he received an inheritance from his father and decided that he should go into selling saab automobiles on the cape because he thought it was an ideal job for a writer. you just put the new cars in the showroom, people come in and buy them and you can sit in the back and write all day and he lost his shirt. so kurt was not doing well in 1965 when he went out to iowa for the iowa writers workshop now, jump ahead a few years when he swims into my view and into a view of a generation. it's 1969. and i'm a college student at the university of illinois. draft-eligible, 1a facing the war in vietnam and like so many of the young men my age, our fathers had fought in world war ii so we were facing truly a moral dilemma. would we serve? where did our duty lay? would we -- would we fight? what if we didn't -- what if we felt we couldn't, what would we do instead? and then suddenly breaking like a storm over us is slaughterhouse 5 in 1969. >> and we embraced it because here we were feeling bewildered and disoriented, not knowing what we would do and in slaughterhouse 5 is billy pilgrim, a private

no doubt the program has been slowed and hampered by external sanks and the saab tanl efforts that we've heard. such as the virus that infected the computers in iran. but they're making progress and it's outside the gaze of the nuclear watchdog, the iaea. >> what do you make of the charges that these attacks were carried out by iran or its agents? >> well, i find it wholly believable. this forms part of a pattern and practice of iranian terrorism using hezbollah and other operative around the world. the history of two decades of doing this. you look back to the attacks in argentina in 1992, 1994 attacks on the towers in saudi arabia and kuwait. there's a history and pattern to this. no doubt there is a proxy war under way. these recent attacks in georgia and india are just the latest manifestations of that. >> juan, what about the threat to the united states and to americans around the world? >> erica, i know counterterrorism officials in the u.s. are looking at precisely that. they're worried that this is the signal perhaps a harr bin jer of attacks to come. no doubt iran wants to signa

joining me is larry saab toe from the university center of virginia for politics and former pennsylvaniaendell. good to see you both. >> good sunday. >> good morning, alex. >> governor rendell, i will start with you. the latest nbc news poll shows president obama handily beating all four gop candidates in mash gan. can a gop candidate beat the president in similar key states like ohio and pennsylvania. >> i think michigan is a special case because they ought to bail out because the president acted decisively and saved the automobile industry, that won't have nearly as much effect in ohio and pennsylvania. so i think michigan is probably not a battleground state this year, but ohio and pennsylvania certainly are. >> okay. governor, how would you expect a general election race between president obama and rick santorum to fair in your home state? >> obviously rick santorum will get a little of the home-town bounce. i think president obama, if things stay as they are now, would win pennsylvania by five to ten points. senator santorum has an uphill fight with suburban pittsburgh moderate repu

rendell and presidential historian and director of the university of virginia center for politics larry saabet's talk about the unemployment numbers now. what does 8.3% unemployment feel like in pennsylvania versus 8.5%, what it was last month? do you feel a difference there in your state? >> no. there's no noticeable difference, but it's the spin, it's people like us talking about, the newspapers. and if we're headed in the right direction by november, that's the important thing. when ronald reagan ran for reelection, unemployment was still pretty high. but it had come down. it was headed in the right direction. he could say that we could see morning in america again. it's the trend lines that are almost more important than anything else. there's no appreciable difference in that drop, but there is -- 234,000 jobs when we were expecting 120,000, that's real good news. >> i take it from your trend line you talk about, governor, does this make president obama's path to reelection a lot clearer if it stay onz this trend? >> sure. that's the key, if it stays on the trend. if we keep going down