it was the vision of greg schroeder... >> this is good stuff. >> a wealthy real estate consultant whooved collecting wines and decided to turn his hobby into a business. >> we had to drive 35 miles to find the nearest fine wine store, and i thought, "just open a store closer to home." >> today, amazing grapes sells some of the finest wines in the world, and while the business generates about $3.5 million in revenue, last year, they lost money... >> we have never seen a profit from this store in the nine years we've been open. >> and haven't even made a dent in paying down a debt that's well over $500,000. there are 17 employees at amazing grapes, but without a strategy to generate sales and increase profit margins, this business will be done before the end of the year. >> you're selling wine too cheap. >> let me stop you right there. >> i'm not done. i don't see myself walking away from amazing grapes. i'm trying everything i can to keep this alive. >> in the u.s., wine retailers generate over $9.5 billion every year. i think amazing grapes can be turned around, and i want a piece of

that's exactly how i felt. >> you get bush and schroeder and blair. he includes putin. >> we had a chance. the wrong label on the restart button. just have more repair work to do go back and try to get back to what the prime minister of italy talked about there we can do it, we had it in our hand one time. an age of lasting peace for our children, what could be better than that. >> earlier you mentioned that switching to the metric system was beneficial. does that switch require changes -- education how would you explain that? >> i think just a couple things here, a symbolic -- to the mistakes we made over the years. we're going to do something different here in the united states. and then, of course for the economy. and scientists are all working in metric because they have to deal internationally. it's just very hard. for many exporters and businesses have to deal with ways of measuring. and so economically we'll help pay for signs. how can you talk about changing signs and the costs that come with it. the economic benefit will pay. how will canada

bush and schroeder and putin and kazumi and blair -- my gosh, he includes putin. we had a chance, we made mistakes. we hit the restart button, hit the wrong label on the restart button, a big mistake in my view. d.a.p. diplomatic -- remember that incident? we have more repair work. get back, try and get back to what the prime minister of italy talked about. we can do. we had it in our hand at one time. an age of lasting peace for our children. what could be better than that? yes, sir? >> governor earlier during your speech you mentioned that switching to the metric system would be beneficial for our economy. i mean, such a switch would require change of road signs nationwide as well as speedometers. how would you explain that to an average american as well as how would it be beneficial for the economy? >> i think there's a couple of things here. one, it's a symbolic integration of ourselves into the international community after the mistakes of the last 10 14 years. the mistakes that we have made internationally. so it's symbolic that we're going to do something d

john: you are possibly embarrassed by schroeder being there, but that's not surprising given business interests. your main thing with angela merkel is patience is beginning to run out. they had an initial bond because she could speak russian. sometime around the shooting of the airliner, after that, she began to get more and more angry . merkel is one of those people you talk to, and she is very straight, and i think putin has lied to her too many times. betty: opinion polls, if you believe them or not, still show by aputin is supported majority of the people in his country. clearly, sanctions so far, which have crippled the country, have .ot worked yet what will make him pay attention? john: you are actually right -- they do not work from the point of view of immediately persuading the russian people that putin is to blame. you are beginning to hear slight mumblings from the oligarchs, although there was reputedly a meeting early on where one of the oligarchs complained about the fact that he was losing roughly $1 billion because of the sanctions and clinton -- putin immediately said

that's exactly how i felt. >> you get bush and schroeder and blair. he includes putin. >> we had a chance. the wrong label on the restart button. just have more repair work to do go back and try to get back to what the prime minister of italy talked about there, we can do it, we had it in our hand one time. an age of lasting peace for our children, what could be better than that. >> earlier you mentioned that switching to the metric system was beneficial. does that switch require changes -- education, how would you explain that? >> i think just a couple things here, a symbolic -- to the mistakes we made over the years. we're going to do something different here in the united states. and then, of course, for the economy. and scientists are all working in metric, because they have to deal internationally. it's just very hard. for many exporters and businesses have to deal with ways of measuring. and so economically, we'll help pay for signs. how can you talk about changing signs and the costs that come with it. the economic benefit will pay. how will ca

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opened up professions, but a not of this needs implementation, this is where unluckily there wgerhart schroedere former chancellor of germany said we could not do austerity and payback at the same time. the creditors didn't want to deal with the deficit. it was very high. that politically was very difficult to do and have reforms at the same time. now what we need actually is at this point we need less austerity, we've reached a primary surplus and much more reform. i would have wanted to see this government say, yes, exactly what you said, let's look at the tax system, the bureaucracy, the justice system, let's have a well-running government and keep the austerity issue much less, much more -- >> one more question, is greece still in the euro six months from now? >> i would hope so. despite the many voices that say maybe it's better outside the euro. i know it would be a catastrophe for the greek family, for the greek pensioner, for the greek economy, we have made the adjustment. we have made huge adjustments, we have cut a deficit of 15.7%, reached a primary surplus. it would be terrible to h

rory eatmon, schroeder's head of equities. -- murray bateman. -- rory bateman.e heard some fiery language from alexis tsipras yesterday. give us the details. what kind of message was he trying to give? >> it is a public iteration that the greek government has gone as far as it can go. here are the outlines of what we will agree to. we are standing firm. we believe the policies of the last few years have been a catastrophic mistake. he is accusing the imf of having criminal responsibility. he is saying they are not going to go further. most people overwhelmingly agree the last few years policy has been handled very well. most people also want greece to stay in the euro. we have seen greece will accept whatever is on the table for the sake of preventing accidents. anna: what is happening in athens. just over eight minutes until equity markets start trading. jonathan with a look at trading. it was a funny morning. jonathan: it was. equities were negative for the first couple hours. then they turned positive. the nervousness has been taking place in the bond market.

and our service area which for the contra costa water district would be shell's martinez plant to schroeder nickel facility in the u s as possible industry with requested that they reduced their process water use by 5%-6 votes for some jennifer allen says that water is what used to make their product and " and the scenery and the necessity to run as efficiently will want to conserve but we understand and they may love it more difficult in order to keep the higher percentage of conservation the process' water at the refinery makes about 20 percent of the district were used with the refinery are cooperating with the district on finding ways to lower consumption meanwhile at the same time the same businesses are required to meet the same 25% and zero were used all of this of course as part of the district tried to reduce overall conservation goal of 28%. >>terisa estacio: some and for news to tell you about a local park here in san francisco bay are wrapping up all of the renovations to dolores park take a look at the presidio you perceive yourself improvement including updated tennis courts a

independent researcher and i would note that two of our working group conveners geneive abdo and chris schroeder are here with us today. these working groups have already begun to explore their topics and i'll just list what they include. security and public order, religion, identity and countering violent extremism, refugees, recovery and reconciliation. politics, governance and state society relations and economic recovery and revitalization. so you can see that we are fully covering many of the issues that we see as root causes of some of the disruptions. and looking at ways to deal with the issues. in the coming months, the working groups will analyze these topics in depth and issue reports which will then feed into a final task force report that will be drafted here at the hariri center and reviewed by a distinguished panel of senior advisers. this group of advisers some of whom are here with us today include eminent diplomats and experts from the united states, europe, and most importantly, from the region. in fact, a majority of these advisers are from outside the united states. and that'

last leader of germany before angela merkel, the current leader, was a man named schroeder, and he was a member of the social democratic party in germany. the left wing under a very, very charismatic leader, which was important, a man named oskar lafontaine, withdrew from the socialist party in order--excuse me--to found this new party the die linke. the other part of the die linke is the party that used to be the dominant party in what was east germany. you know, the east german and west german separation ended, and the two countries were unified early in the 1990s. so there's now one germany again, there aren't two, but in the east, which was a communist part of the eastern european block, that party was called the socialist unity party, sed, sozialistische einheitspartei, and that party dissolved, but large numbers of it moved also into this linke. so it's a coalition. in the eastern part--this is something americans tend not to know for reasons having to do with our newspapers and our media--in eastern europe, in eastern germany the mass of people still vote for that party. so that