he and sylvia have settled into the good life.eautiful monterey, their beloved walnut farm, and leon will deny it, but i hear he was growing restless, he wanted less time on the tractor, more time in the office, less time in california, more time in washington, interacting with the west wing and members of congress. who wouldn't? [laughter] so we gave him his wish. leon, i will always be grateful that you agreed to return to public service, and, sylvia, i am so grateful that you put up with him. your leadership of the cia will forever be remembered for the blows that we struck against al qaeda and perhaps the greatest intelligence success in american history, delivering justice to osama bin laden. [applause] by then, leon had every right to expect that he could return home, and i admit that when we first asked him to lead the pentagon, his answer was simple no. but i kept asking him. i am persistent. that is how michelle married me. i just kept at it, and it is a testament to his patriotism, to his sense of duty that leon agreed t

today, sylvia is the last survivor of the pioneering trio. >> the fact that we still have a bay todayis due in large part to her leadership in a time when there weren't environmental leaders and there certainly weren't women leading that kind of an effort. >> reporter: sylvia and their friends first victory was to stop their plan to double the size of the city by filling 2,000 acres of the bay. >> we just wanted to see how the thing was built from the bay, you know being filled in. >> reporter: the other landmark victory a few years later in the 1960s when governor signed into law the first coastal zone management agency to protect the bay. >> and that is the model for all the coastal zone protection agencies in this country and around the world. >> reporter: and because of sylvia and save the bay, public access increased from 6 miles to the 1960s to hundreds of miles here today. in fact an 8-mile park stretching through berkeley and four other cities were recently renamed the state park in her honor. patricia jones calls her a force of nature. >> and she has that very gentle diplomat

sylvia is in frankfurt for us. sylvia, when we're in davos, the comments from the ecb, mr. draghi, we don't care about the ecb change or comfortable with it, to paraphrase it. i wonder whether the speech this week from mr. hollande has any impact whatsoever. >> nope. we've already heard this from the ecb many, many, many times before over the past more than a decade. there is no exchange rate target. we haven't got an exchange-rate-oriented policy. the ecb doesn't in its comments care about the exchange rate as long as there are no disorderly market conditions. that's when they start getting worried, when the pendulum swings to high, when it gets erratic, when there's panic in the markets. like we had panic in the markets in the last few years. that's when the alarm bells at the ecb go off. not when there's a slow or gradual move. that's what the central bank governor earlier said this week. and i daresay something along those lines is what mario draghi is going to say. he's going to answer the question, we've had enough questions of that feeled both for trichet and draghi

he and sylvia have settled into the good life.eautiful monterey, their beloved walnut farm, and leon will deny it, but i hear he was growing restless, he wanted less time on the tractor, more time in the office, less time in california, more time in washington, interacting with the west wing and members of congress. who wouldn't? [laughter] so we gave him his wish. leon, i will always be grateful that you agreed to return to public service, and, sylvia, i am so grateful that you put up with him. your leadership of the cia will forever be remembered for the blows that we struck against al qaeda and perhaps the greatest intelligence success in american history, delivering justice to osama bin laden. [applause] by then, leon had every right to expect that he could return home, and i admit that when we first asked him to lead the pentagon, his answer was simple -- no. but i kept asking him. i am persistent. that is how michelle married me. i just kept at it, and it is a testament to his patriotism, to his sense of duty that leon agree

sylvia, how important are these talks today? >> of course, there are these clouds of the pestering scandal that could turn into fully pledged government prices. that's the last thing angela merkel needs, that's the last thing the eu or the eurozone needs right now. just when we get the signal of the panic button in the eurozone debt crisis, we have another cloud on the horizon. but that's nothing angela merkel can influence. i'm sure it's going to be a topic of discussion saying, look, is this going to be a government crisis? can you avert this? that is nothing we will hear about. the official communique will sound similar to what we heard out of paris, out of the monte meeting. don't expect a result on this budget summit yet on the table and on we go to the next rendezvous in terms of the budgets. we've got another eu summit in march, which is not -- which is not ear marked, of course, as a budget meeting, but i daresay we will trickle along nicely or unnicely until finally they reach an agreement on the next budget. in terms o

listen to this, sylvia karlson is resting at home. but her home was in danger. dylan hughes got to the home just to check on her and he found her cold and sick but her driveway was so buried in two feet of snow the ambulance couldn't get to her. >> she's shivering, i'm afraid she has hypothermia. we are very close friends. i'm glad she's okay but i mean i don't -- i don't feel like i had much of a part in this. >> that is a special 16-year- old. it turns out that hughes and his dad frantically shoved a path for the emts to bring sylvia down and this morning she's thanking them for saving her life this morning. >> that's something you have to think about lynette when storms like this hit. we become to inundated with the snow by the feet as we saw here. self-years ago. -- several years ago. emergency crews can't get around. >> they always remind you check on the elderly neighbors. the story is reason why. >> the heat the cold check on the elderly and also protect the pets. as we check out what's going operate now. not a whole lot. that storm has exited the buildin

it is great comparing the old guard such as sylvia berlusconi and the new guard. you might be able to hear the crashing and banging going on behind me. there will be a big rally going on tonight fort bepe grillo, the leader of the five-star movement. i'm going to speak to him later on. i also managed to karch up with the mayor of milan yesterday, too. i asked him about the gains we're seeing in the link to this segment about the gains that he's been making, particularly in the last week, according to the secret poll readings. and i asked him whether he understands the sentiment surrounding these anti-austerity, anti-european parties. this is what he had to say. >> translator: yes. i understand that sentiment. i shared that sentiment long before grillo came on the scene. i, too, favor more transparency. i tripped councilmen of all the perks. we don't have expensive limo service for our officials, no more free tickets for the opera. we've made equitable choices. >> this is a vital region in terms of its proportion of growth. what are businesses here saying to you ab

the walls are adorned with their love of italy these watercolors were painted by sylvia's father thee bologna welcome you to their candle lit tables valentine's day is booked the romance of italy is always here. you can also check out their website. more and more people logging off a facebook later in sports we explain why purple will become more prominent at wrigley. this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. ac rthe long blackout during the superbowl shocked everyone newly released documents show the engineers into the local utility company expressed concerns about the reliability of electricity a full three months before the game the approval lead to $1 million in state funds for upgrades. attorneys of the superdome is managers provided the documents the blackout delayed the superbowl for 34 minutes sorelyshortly aft

i can tell my grand kids that i went diving with sylvia earl. speed. >> that's impressive. >> not just an amazing cause, she's 77 years old and still doing that work. still rolling like that. that is impressive. for many reasons. >> hey, i'll be the next one down there. the next sylvia. hey, hey, hey. >> that's what you wear in the tub, huh? [ female announcer ] going to sleep may be easy, but when you wake up in the middle of the night it can be frustrating. it's hard to turn off and go back to sleep. intermezzo is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of the night when you can't get back to sleep. it's an effective sleep medicine you don't take before bedtime. take it in bed only when you need it and have at least four hours left for sleep. do not take intermezzo if you have had an allergic reaction to drugs containing zolpidem, such as ambien. allergic reactions such as shortness of breath or swelling of your tongue or throat may occur and may be fatal. intermezzo should not be taken if you have ta

personal-finance starts in the 1930s with sylvia porter. and it's really a spinoff at of the self-help business of the 1930s to the 1930s are known for everything from hard economic times of the 1930s. easy everything from alcoholics anonymous to go in the 1930s the napoleon, giving people rich, a very socialist activist movements, fascism and communism. and there's a whole fulcrum going on. sylvia porter developed personal-finance out as over a period of years. and her goal is to educate people so that this great depression would never happen again. but it's very much in the way an idea that we can teach people certain skills. and if they learn the skills we will all be okay. but what goes on overtime is personal-finance slowly becomes severed, to a great extent from them. so it becomes less about the political backbone of it, which is always to be fair to sylvia porter for good part of her career a huge part of the things. she was a devout keynesian for example. and come simply a list of tips. it becomes in a way like any other form of se

so sylvia is live there. it's like one meeting blending into another at this stage. it does seem as though all the rhetoric about currency wars is start to go come to a head. what are you hearing there? >> of course, it's always been a political issue, always been a political issue for the likes of france. we've had this famously with sarkozy and trichet. the one called for action on the currency and action on interest rates and the other one said, look, we're interpret. we make our own policy. yada, yada, yada. we've heard this many times prosecute. in terms of decisive action, i would like to put it, if you ever get the chance, to mr. hollande as to what exactly he expects the ecb to do. zero interest rates tomorrow? fine. will that make a difference at the kind of interest rate level that we are right now? it probably wouldn't. we've had the euro coming in at 118 when it was created, going down to 88. then going up to 1.56 or where we were more or less in the top. it haecht hasn't really changed the competitiveness scenario. look at germany. whether the euro was u

the second best valentines present would be to allow sylvia and i to get the hell out of town.laughter] i feel like it is groundhog day around here. as first lady, the senator from new york, and as the 67th secretary of state, hillary clinton has been an advocate for the u.s. military. that is really why we honor her today. she has been a champion for our service members and veterans. she has been a forceful voice for american leadership in the world. this morning we are honored to be able to honor her the highest award of this department. it is the highest award we can bestow. as i said, i'm extremely proud of my association with hillary over these last two decades. about 20 years ago last month when i first joined the clinton administration as director of the office of management and budget, it was a different world then. think about the political challenges we had then. health care issues, partisan gridlock, budget deficit. [laughter] on second thought, the only thing that has changed is that hillary and i are older and perhaps a little wiser and a little less patient, parti

he and sylvia have settled into the good life.eautiful monterey, their beloved walnut farm, and leon will deny it, but i hear he was growing restless, he wanted less time on the tractor, more time in the office, less time in california, more time in washington, interacting with the west wing and members of congress. who wouldn't? [laughter] so we gave him his wish. leon, i will always be grateful that you agreed to return to public service, and, sylvia, i am so grateful that you put up with him. your leadership of the cia will forever be remembered for the blows that we struck against al qaeda and perhaps the greatest intelligence success in american history, delivering justice to osama bin laden. [applause] by then, leon had every right to expect that he could return home, and i admit that when we first asked him to lead the pentagon, his answer was simple -- no. but i kept asking him. i am persistent. that is how michelle married me. i just kept at it, and it is a testament to his patriotism, to his sense of duty that leon agree

and sylvia burwell president of the walmart foundation the company's philanthropic like.sident is set to name her. but some say she shoes not be considered because the foundation she heads is just a public relations ploy by walmart in light of the damaging reports of its labor practices. for more i'm joins with lee great to have you back in the war room, as always. let's start out, is burwell going to get this nomination? >> that's not clear but all the major news outlets have made clear she's in the top of the list, so it looks very likely. >> michael: let's say she gets it. what does they do? tell us a little bit about the walmart foundation and what her role is this? >> well, mart is very well-known for pioneering union busting strategies cost-cutting measures. but they're less well-known for another field they've pioneered. that's charitable outreach in the form of lobbying and reputation building. they use that foundation in a very precise way to not only isolate activists but to co-op their opponents and opening new stores passing legislation and blocking legislatio

hello, sylvia. reporter: thanks for having me in. she originally fell in love with ocean plant life, the microscopic algae responsible for every fifth breath you take. but over the years, her wonder has been steadily replaced with worry. once vast pockets of thriving teeming life are getting increasingly hard to find. a warming planet is changing the acid levels in the sea, killing coral reefs, pesticides running down the mississippi and the deep water horizon disaster has stressed the gulf of mexico and she's determined to sound the alarm on the kind of rampart overfishing that's driven some piece is sis to the brink. >> the ecosystem is being destroyed. you can't imagine the farmer picking apples by lowering down the apple orchard. that's what we're doing in the ocean. >> reporter: she's concerned about the pesticides and mercury floating out here. one reason she says ocean study is more vital than ever. but research money is drying up. florida international university scraped together enough to s

he and sylvia had settled into the good life. their beautiful monterey, their beloved walnut farm.n will deny it, but i hear he was going restless. he wanted less time on the tractor and enjoying good weather and more time in the office. less time in california, more time in washington interacting with the west wing and members of congress. who wouldn't? and so we gave him his wish. leon, i will always be grateful that you agreed to return to public service, and, sylvia, i am so grateful that you put up with him. your leadership of the cia will forever be remembered for the blows that we struck against al qaeda and perhaps the greatest intelligence success in american history, delivering justice to osama bin laden. [ applause ] by then leon had every right to expect that he could return home, and i'll admit that when we first asked him to stay on and lead the pentagon, his answer was simple. no. but i kept asking. i am persistent. that's how michelle married me. i just kept at it, and it is a testament to leon's patriotism, to his sense of duty that he agreed to serve on this one l

sylvia berlusconi has hinted he could be open to an alliance. >>> japan's big exporters like sony and rico take it on the chin. >>> and ben bernanke heads to capitol hill today to try to provide some soothing words about fed policy and calm investors' fears about weak global growth. >> you're watching "worldwide exchange," bringing you business news from around the globe. >> welcome to today's program. we're over an hour of trade in europe. the voft majority of the dow jones 600 is down. so we're weighted heavily to the downside. stoxx 600 in europe down about 1% at the moment. translate that into individual indices. the ftse 100 down 1.4%. the xetra dax nearly 2%. the ibex is down nearly 3% and the ftse mib down nearly 24.25%. the banco bmx down 7.3%, bankintender down 5.73%. we've seen spikes rise higher in italian bond yields. up 2.6 of%. the italian ten-year, 4.73%. we have had a 4.8% yield print on that, as well. and we'll keep our eyes ahead, of course, tomorrow. we've got a fresh ten-year auction coming up. going to be a key test with this political gridlock. i'll show you the

. >> the other big issue is sylvia burlesconi picking up a lot of support in recent weeks. what should we take away from that box >> burlesconi is also a winner in this election. in only four weeks, he double its share in the popular vote. a spokesman of his party says he is back. burlesconi is back in the ring and this will not be the last election burlesconi is there, but he will now run for office. he is still pulling the strings behind the scenes. >> dan, thank you for the report. >> from rahm out of brussels where nina has more on what all this means for europe. there has been a lot of concern about the vote in italy and what it means for the eu debt crisis. what does brussels make of the vote so far? is austerity out? >> there are no official comment yet, but you can rest assured that everyone is watching very closely. brussels has been very concerned and worried about the potential return to power of silvio burlesconi. they have been working very closely together this past year to get in back on its feet. italy, like we have heard before, is a very important player i

. >> the second best valentine's president would allow sylvia and i to get the heck out of town. [laughter] >> leon panetta says he will stay on the job until the nominee is sworn in to replace them before taking a well- deserved break, republicans in the senate held up the nomination of chuck hagel to be secretary of defense. one of the issues holding it up i guess is benghazi. benghazi, like the poor and the gospel of matthew, will always be with us, colby. [laughter] >> as a political issue, but they are beating a dead horse with this. you have to consider the politics of this thing. the senator from north carolina is up for reelection next year. >> lindsey graham. >> he will go against the president on everything, everything, everything. he famously said, "i don't trust susan rice over benghazi." >> susan collins voted to move this thing forward, but she says she will vote against his nomination. susan collins -- >> that is party discipline. she did not say disciplined -- >> is she worried about a challenge? >> i don't think she is worried about a challenge. the leadership wa

the former italian prime minister sylvia berlusconi says italy needs a stable condition. in a video message, the leader of the center right said no party can ignore the value of government stability at this stage. and markets certainly aren't. aels where, premier mario monti met with jose mamuel barroso last night saying italy is undergoing an ambitious reform process that, if fully implemented, will significantly raise its growth potential. >> the ides of march, julius ceasar, right? >> yes. beware, beware, the ides of march. it's so perfect, isn't it? >> and the man hoping to become germany's next chancellor has been snubbed by the italian prime minister after he called sylvia berlusconi and beppe grillo clowns. he made the comments on tuesday at a campaign event. >> i am a35u8ed to two clowns, one professional clown who is not upset that he is called so, grillo. and another one who definitely is a clown with a certain testosterone boost. >> now, those remarks led georgeo nepolitano to cancel a dinner with steinbrook last night. napolitano said the meeting was no longer

. >> the second-best valentine's present would be to allow sylvia and i to get the hell out of town. [laughter] >> leon panetta will stay on the job before a nominee is sworn in to replace him. before taking a well-deserved weeklong break, republicans in the senate put a hold on the nomination of technical as secretary of defense -- nomination of chuck hagel as secretary of defense. one of the issues holding up his benghazi. benghazi, like the poor and the gospel of matthew, will always be with us. >> as a political issue. they are beating a dead horse with this thing. you have to consider the politics of this. the senator from south carolina is up for reelection next year. >> lindsey graham. >> he will do whatever he can to head off a possible opponent from the right, and that means going after president obama on everything, everything, everything. this is the guy who famously said, "i don't trust susan rice over benghazi." >> susan collins voted to move this thing forward, but she says she will vote against his nomination. >> that is party discipline. >> is she worried about a chal

targeted by the authorities for treating injured protesters doctors say the retribution has been sylvia of the government insists it's investigating the allegations he's i'll accept a chef skillets of those at risk of just for simply trying to help not to die for was among a group of doctors who were trying to help the injured during a protest in bahrain she claims that after violently crushing the dissent the or forty's turned their attention to her and her colleagues who were providing first aid they deny. health care to the patients and protesters. the doctors did not obey the orders for such. decided to punish those doctors i was taking place for ten days that i didn't know where it was. all that time i was blindfolded and handcuffed i was in a solitary confinement for back to twenty one days. and they would just open the door of the cell and beat me up and there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my thought she she was beating me and she electrocuted me almost two dozen doctors were arrested back then this for the fuel the anger of the protesters and t

also plans to invest more in three done all this despite the fact that to run itself is subject to sylvia economic sanctions in place by the us and e.u. of its nuclear program economists and commentator can work tare told r.t. that egypt has no choice but to accept help from where it can get it but egypt has has made it quite clear that it wants to go and see where it stands but the muslim brotherhood has come to the realisation that with a cunt. as important as powerful as iran in the region. they will have to be give and take and should they decide to such a confident confrontational course with iran it would it would prove counterproductive so egypt is in dire straits and it will require assistance from any number of muslim countries to get back on its feet again. now let's have a look at some other international news in brief islamist fighters in mali say they're opening a new front in their battle against french supported government troops the new tactics will include guerrilla attacks and the use of land mines one of which apparently recently killed off or mali and soldiers the gove

sylvia is packing at home. i am ready to go. it's like, all right. a goose. >> upse that hagel can't come in and take over right now. he's got one foot out the door. >> office is packed up. house is all palked up. lives on the hill. >> what a career? incredible career. >> that resume doesn't suck. >> no. he was i think maybe 15 years in congress, budget director for the president, white house chief of staff. rears and comes back, head of the cia, head of the defense department. >> you never get board. >> we could never convince leon to run for governor of california. he would have made a great governor. still time, sylvia might say not so fast. tim mac from politico joining us a little bit later. we learned a lot about the tea party in a new study. tell you all about that but first. >> this is the full court press. >> on this friday, other headlines making news, michael bloomberg. >> your two minutes? >> 11 minutes after the hour. michael bloomberg has fault salt, smoking, sodas and the next thing he doesn't like that starts with the letter s, styrof

. >> sylvia amaya, says yes, some of the young ones are just off-the-wall. the drama!ing on one another, of calling each other names one day and then the next day they are in love again. i just throw faster over those peaks or just take a break! >> and jessica rivers stated know. i do not get involved in the drama so facebook is mostly a good experience for me. if someone post often annoyed me, i'd is blocked a person's pulse from my news feed. >> secretary of defense leon e. panetta up delivering an address to georgetown university students and facilities on leadership and public service. defense secretary is expected to make changes in its benefits policy for same-sex couples. they agency reportedly began granting same sex balsas of service members of benefits that have been previously blocked. without violating the federal defense the marriage act. those include housing on military bases, military i.d. cards, and a consideration of same-sex bows and family in duty assignments. panetta's likely replacement shut hey jill says, that he supports the move. >> we will be

. >> i'm rather struck by the ireland sign behind you, sylvia. are they feeling good about themselves, are they? >> i'm not sure that is the right way to feel good about themselves, but this is their contribution to the ireland presidency. they will be heading out to dublin in april. >> always good, dublin. thanks, sylvia. >> bring us back some guinness. >>> americans express is expanding its presence on twitter letting products link to their twitter accounts. we want to know if you would trust twitter and am ex to make such a payment. >> well, there is no payment associated with twitter. it's a messaging service. >> it's just linked up. we'll explain that. >> sounds like someone is all over it. >>> investors cheer barclay's strategy overall. it's going to cut 3,700 jobs and trim its investment banking business after posting weaker than expected profits. >>> the g-7 is set to -- the foreign stage as finance ministers coordinate economic policy to avoid a currency war. >>> shares in mechanico plunge after a helicopter deal with india. >>> and we'r

>> guest: personal-finance starts in the 1930s with sylvia porter and it's a spinoff out of the south business at the 1930s. in 1930s are known from everything from hard economic times, everything from alcoholics anonymous to napoleon hill thinking get rich come into various social activist movements. fascism and communism both have a huge appeal. and sylvia porter develops personal finance over a period of years and her goal is to educate people so the great depression will never have it again. it's very much an idea we can teach people certain skills and if they learn the skills, we will all be okay. but what goes on over time is personal-finance slowly becomes severed to a greater extent from this. so it becomes less about the political back bone of it, which is always be fair to sylvia porter for a good part of her career. she was a devout keynesian for example and become simply a list of tips. it becomes like any other form of self-help, how to cook a perfect apricot, how to toilet train your toddler. follow these 10 steps in all be okay and if you don't follow these 10, it won't

and it was for that reason that sylvia and i thought it was really important to do something to try to let young people know how important it is to give something back to this country. it is that generation, your generation, that i'd like to try to address in my remarks today. as i leave government, and i really believe that we are at a critical crossroads in the life of this nation. we are emerging from a deep economic recession. we are emerging from major wars that occurred in the post-9/11 era, and the hope is that we can bring those wars to an end. we are facing a, as a nation, new opportunities and new possibilities. i really believe that in many ways we have an opportunity to enter a whole new renaissance in the united states, to develop an economy that is created, that is innovative, that can grow strong in the 21st century. a country that can provide world leadership, can provide the kind of security, partnership, in which we can work with other countries, to develop their capabilities, to form new alliances, to form new partnerships, with countries across the world so that we

you know all about sylvia berlusconi and the underage prostitute, etcetera, etcetera and grilliot who has done a wonderful job of profiling who has this man slaughter conviction from 1980. two out of the four are probable candidates. then you have the left center who is going to have to form a coalition with somebody. poor mario monti doesn't get any credit for lowering the country's gdp down below 5%. it looks like he's last in the polls. even his closest allies will admit he may be a very good bureau accurate, but he is not a very good politician and is they be grudgingly admit that silvio berlusconi is an incredible politician. so it's going to be a real nail biter as we go into monday, kelly. >> and, michelle, i have to wonder if the italians are nervous to see you there. the last time you popped up in greece, it wasn't the best moment for the country. michelle will be filing updates for us throughout the weekend. >>> overto milan where julia is there with an eye towards the business community. jul julia, what's the general consensus among people? do they teal as though there's a

it appears the nation is reporting that he will be picking sylvia matthew burwell who is going to beector of office of management and budget an enormously important position that handles many of the financial issues in the administration. now where has she been in the past? well she was white house chief of staff back in 1990s. she was president of the global development program for the bill and melinda gates foundation, but recently president of the walmart foundation. that's interesting. let's take a look at what walmart has been up to. she has didn't run walmart. she ran the foundation. understand that. walmart hasser had $15.7 billion in profits recently, and they only pay $8.84 on average per hour in wages. a lot of profits for not paying a lot to your employees. all right, that's fine, but where does some of their money go? well lobbying. of course! $27,520,000 in lobbying. that's a tremendous amount of money to spend on lobbying for good reason. this is something that seems positive. they spend a lot of money on charity, and that's part of what burwell run. $175 million goes t

to my wife, sylvia, three sons, six grandchildren, and to the panetta institute for public policy which is an institute that my wife and i established whose mission is to try to prepare the next generation for a life in public service. we were concerned when we returned after my stint in the first four years of the clinton administration going back to california, my sense was that the students that i saw, the students that i was talking to and taught, my sense was that they didn't really appreciate the importance of public service. and that they were looking at other areas to be able to explore in their career and it was for that reason that sylvia and i thought it was really important to do something to try to let young people know how important it is. to give something back to this country. it is that generation, your generation to i'd like to try to address in my remarks today. as i leave government, i really believe that we are at a critical crossroads in the life of this nation. we're emerging from a deep economic recession. we're emerging from major wars that occurred in the post-

the inner workings of the consumer credit agencies comes out of lawsuits filed by len bennett and sylviasmith, who have subpoenaed company records and deposed employees and executives. they say, under the current system, there is no way for people like judy thomas to get their problems solved. so all these people who take the time to meticulously document a case that the bill isn't theirs or the bill has been paid-- that is never seen by anybody? >> len bennett: it's not seen by anyone who considers it in determining whether or not information will be removed from a credit report. >> kroft: it's not forwarded on to the person who has the complaint with you? >> bennett: no. it is never forwarded on, never forwarded on to the creditor. >> goldsmith: we can get a jury verdict for $1 million. that's chump change to some of these bureaus. they would rather pay a verdict in $1 million than to actually go in and change the policies and procedures that they have, because that's much more expensive to them. >> bennett: i can say this. without qualification, the dispute procedures used by the cred

then he went off with his wife sylvia for a valentine's dinner and was hoping that he wouldn't have to come back. but now he will come back because the senate is in recess. you know, when these things happen, they don't change their plans for recess. and so he, leon panetta, is going to have to leave the delegation and represent the united states at nato for the big meeting of the nato defense ministers. this was to be the debut performance of chuck hagel on the world stage. that is only the first impediment to hagel by this delay and what they claim -- the republicans claim is not a filibuster but by any stretch of the imagination when you have a cloture vote and they go into recess, that smells like a filibuster. >> have you heard anything about how people inside the defense department and even the state department, the other national security major agencies, how they're reacting tonight? is there any concern that this oldup is going to project weakness or otherwise be bad for the country? >> i think there's a lot of embarrassment, annoyance, anger. we have leon panetta and the secre

. >> the second best valentine's present would be to allow sylvia and i to get the hell out of town. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell life in washington. the national rifle association has now launched a counter offensive against the president's emotional appeal at the state of the union. to put an end to gun violence. in a column published yesterday on a conservative web blog wayne lapierre from the nra announced a four-year communications and resistance movement, his words, to block what he calls a siege from the enemies of the second amendment. in washington to hear the president's appeal we'll be talking to mark kelly moments from now, but, first, to that breaking muse out of south africa rsh olympic sprinter oscar pistorius made sporting history by becoming the first track athlete double amputee to compete in the games, but today the blade runner as he is known, is charged with murder after his girlfriend was fatally shot in his home in pretoria, south africa. joining me -- for rock center. mary, this is -- this could not be more shocking. tell us what we know about the events a