let's talk with ted beck. he is the president and ceo of the national endowment for financial education. all right, ted, aging parents and their children and their finances, what should that talk be about? - first of all, make sure that you have a need to have the talk. so, if you see things like parents forgetting to pay bills, maybe paying bills twice, having trouble with basic math, it's probably important to sit down and have that discussion. and a couple of things you really want to do is emphasize that this discussion is meant to help them develop a plan that really will work for them going forward. we just finished a national poll, and 86% of the people we surveyed told us they really expected and hoped that the family would step in and help them and trusted the family. on the other hand, 7 out of 10 told us there were family dynamics that could get in the way. - so it's important, it sounds like, to sort of lay the groundwork, not just announce, "we're going to have the talk," but be sensitive to some o

composed of hard right figures, people like sarah palin, ted cruz, rick perry, rick santorum, ted nugent and glenn beckthis afternoon, ted cruz took an end-zone dance, if you will, for helping to defeat the background check in the senate. let's watch his dance. >> a month ago you had the president holding press conference after press conference and his package of legislation that would have undermined the second amendment in washington look like an unstoppable freight train. well, i tell you, i was proud to join with my friend senator rand paul and senator mike lee. [ applause ] >> in writing a short and simple letter to harry reid that says we will filibuster any legislation that takes away the rights to bear arms. because millions of americans spoke out, two weeks ago when the proposals came to a vote, every vote that would have undermined the second amendment to keep and bear arms was voted down. >> well, that one man kissing booth, rick santorum, also celebrated the bill's defeat. let's watch him in action. >> you stood up when freedom was under assault and you stood in the gap and you made a diffe

composed of hard right figures, people like sarah palin, ted cruz, rick perry, rick santorum, ted nugent and dpl glenn beckthis afternoon, ted cruz took an end-zone dance, if you will, for helping to defeat the background check in the senate. let's watch his dance. >> a month ago you had the president holding press conference after press conference and his package of legislation that would have undermined the second amendment in washington look like an unstoppable freight train. well, i tell you, i was proud to join with my friend senator rand paul and senator mike lee. [ applause ] >> in writing a short and simple letter to harry reid that says we will filibuster any legislation that takes away the rights to bear arms. because millions of americans spoke out, two weeks ago when the proposals came to a vote, every vote that would have undermined the second amendment to keep and bear arms was voted down. >> well, that one man kissing booth, rick santorum, also celebrated the bill's defeat. let's watch him in action. >> you stood up when freedom was under assault and you stood in the gap and you made a diffe

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>> other well known names on the schedule are radio personality, glenn beck, and rocker ted nugent. let's go where athena jones is live. what is going on there today? >> reporter: hi, victor. good morning. today is going to be about the nitty gritty, giving nra members marching orders to try to implement some measures of gun control in addition to the nationwide ones. one word for you or three words in some ways about what was going on in the first full day of the nra convention, and it's politics, politics, politics. and we heard a lot of celebration of the fact that that effort to expand background checks for gun buyers failed in the senate a couple weeks ago, and that's a big victory for the nra. we heard from political superstars in the republican party, and you just heard from sarah palin and we heard from the texas senator, and governor rick perry and louisiana governor, bobby jindal. and we also heard from one of the nra's superstars, wayne lapierre, and he is one of the big faces of the nra. listen to what he had to say. >> we know every word spoken today and throughout the

the speakers list, almost exclusively composed of people like sarah palin, ted cruz, rick perry, rick santorum, and glenn beck. looks like the roster from a cpac convention. this afternoon, ted cruz took an end zone dance, if you will for helping them defeat the background checks bill in the senate. let's watch his dance. >> a month ago, you had the president holding the press conference after press conference after press conference and his package of legislation that would've underminded the second amendment in washington looked like an unstoppable freight train. i'll tell you, i was proud to join with my friend senator rand paul and mike lee. in writing a short and simple letter to harry reid that says we will filibuster any legislation that undermines the bill of rights to the seamt right to bear arms. every vote that would've undermind the right was voted down. >> well, he was engaged in this, rick santorum also celebrated the bill's defeat. let's watch him in action. stood up when freedom was under assault. you made a difference. you can point to what you accomplished over the last few months. when the e

including sarah palin, ted cruz, rick perry, glenn beck, wayne lapierre and ted nugent. >> we're americansegotiate and compromise with the king, we defied the emperors, we are patriots, we are braveheart. we need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in november. >> of course, nugent's attendance was far from guaranteed, given his sooth-saying at last year's conference. >> if barack obama becomes the president in november again, i will either be dead or in jail. >> this year, president obama is still president, but ted nugent remains on the loose. nugent isn't the only fortune teller. nra oracle, wayne lapierre also had his predictions, at last year's big gun bash. >> we know if president obama gets a second term, america as we know it will be on its way to being lost forever. >> america may not be lost forever, but it is changing. since the last nra convention, moviegoers were gunned down in

almost exclusively composed of hard right figures like sarah palin, rick santorum, ted nugent and glenn beck. looks like the roster from a cpac convention. in fact, it's the same list. this afternoon, ted cruz, well, took an end zone dance if you will for helping defeat the background checks bill in the senate. let's watch his dance. >> a month ago, you had the president holdinging it seemed press conference after press conference -- in washington look like an unstoppable freight train. i was joined by rand paul and mike lee. in writing a short and simple letter to harry reid that said we will filibuster any legislation that undermines the right to keep an bear arms. because each of you spoke out and because u millions of americans spoke out, two weeks ago when the proposals came to a vote, every vote that would have undermined the second amendment was voted down. >> he was engaged in that one-man kissing booth, rick santorum also celebrateded the bill's defeat. >> you stood up when freedom was under assault and you stood in the gap and you made a difference. you can point to what you just a

you have sarah palin there, ted nugent, glenn beck, pro gun groups says 70,000 people will be there baskinghat glow of the recent defeat in the senate of a bill that would have subjected more gun sales to background checks. that said, the gun lobby is going to have to reload pretty quickly here because gun control supporters are planning a second vote on that bill and they are already fighting. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash reports. >> hello. >> hi. >> is the senator in today? >> karen's son was killed in the colorado massacre. >> let him know karen was here again. >> reporter: she's been trying unsuccessfulfully to see her senator ted flake since he voted to suspend background checks last month. to capture her frustration, mayors against illegal guns sent her to see him again, this time inviting cameras. i want him to look a mother in the eye who's lost her child. i want him to see the pain. >> reporter: it's just one part of a coordinated effort to use this week's senate recess to keep the gun control issue alive despite losing the pivotal background check vote. earlier

>> addressing the nra today, sarah palin, tex at governor, rick perry and senator ted cruz, rick santorum and glenn beck are also scheduled to speak. >> this is, in essence, a family gathering for believers in the second amendment. >> reporter: protesters plan demonstrations outside the convention. most americans, including 78% of texans, support background checks. >> guns aren't going away. they are going to be here. we have to figure out a way to make gun owners a little more responsible. >> reporter: the convention is part rally, part gun show, with more than 600 dealers participating. some argue they are the real power behind the nra. >> they are fighting for gun owners. it is fighting for the gun makers. >> that fight on full display in gun friendly texas this weekend. >> and this weekend, in addition to that nra conference, we will hear from those protesters not only demonstrating outside but also on the air waves. they are saturating houston with tv ads about background checks. >> tracie potts, thank you very much for the update. >> new this morning at 6:32. governor jerry brown warning that a pl

governor bobby jindal, rick santorum, oliver north, ted nugent and, of course, the one and only glenn beck. his saturday night stand and fight rally is already sold out, offering up overflow seating with discounts for multi-seat purchases. if you want to see where right wing culture and gun culture overlap, it would look just about like this. right now, the right wing gun culture is sitting in the ballroom of the houston oil hotel maybe sipping champagne. we don't know what they're talking about. they have a lot to celebrate. they have good cause to be really psyched right now. they just beat back massively popular but tiny expansion of background checks for gun buyers. democrat joe manchin says he'll bring that bill back and convinced he'll ultimately get it through the senate and president obama says we'll keep trying and the handful of those have suffered since denying the background checks. that's part of the game. the folks in the grand ballroom right now, it's not their phone numbers. they're going to keep selling and enjoying their guns, something they've gotten very good at. case i

beck. and to close the convention sunday night, ted nugent will speak about, quote, repaying our debt to here owes, end quote. apparently the nra could not get an actual military veteran to speak about, quote, the ultimate sacrifices of the u.s. military warriors and their families. so they got ted nugent. joining me now are nra enemies list ej deion, columnist for the "washington post" and "huffington post" sam stein. ej, i want to start with you, because you are the only one among us who is actually on the nra's enemies list. you've earned it. others of us have tried to earn it. and apparently -- >> you don't get there -- more than earned it. >> but ej, this really is not over. when you watch what's happening to kelly ayotte up there, i found the most striking thing in that town meeting for me, as someone who is looking at the way this stuff works on the inside, was that voter saying, "i received your four-page letter regarding guns and background checks." ej, i think you know how much trouble a senator has to be in to send a four-page letter to her constituents about a vote that she just c

rick perry, and texas senator ted cruz who really led the fight here on capitol hill against gun control, a fight that he won 54-46 just a few weeks ago. rick santorum, glenn beck among those who will be speaking at that convention over the weekend, not to mention the protesters outside and the ads on the airwaves are being saturated down there in houston. meantime, outside of texas, lawmakers are being hammered for their votes on gun control. most notably new hampshire senator kelly ayotte who in town hall meetings back home has just been questioned repeatedly about why she did not support these background checks. dara? >> thank you, tracie. >>> investigators say the marathon was not the original target of the tsarnaev brothers. suspect dzhokhar say he and older brother tamerlan originally planned the attack for the fourth of july but they moved it up after finishing their bombs early. then they decided on the marathon as their target. dzhokhar also reportedly confirmed the explosives were built in cambridge where authorities found bombmaking residue. >>> thursday family members claimed tamerlan's body transferring to a funeral home outside boston. >>> meanwhi

deployed a brand of glenn beck like tentherism, warning that the united nations was going to crack down on golf courses in the name of sustainability. karen, i ask you, is it only teds golf courses? >> yes. we could have ted cruz be the republican -- as you know, the republican party, in the aftermath of 2012, they're all convinced that the problem is not with their policies and their ideas like the one you just mentioned, but rather with their message and messenger. i think that's part of the appeal of someone like a ted cruz. that being said, again, if we just look at the demographics of the country, what he's talking about in that kind of extremism is not where the majority of americans are. but once again, i think i think the it's likely that the republican party can convince themselves that you know what? the facts doebt matter and the math doesn't matter and hey, we just like this guy. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> next, the white house rethinks its position on arming rebels in syria. the conflict in that tattered country intensifies, but first, jackie has the cnbc market wrap. good afternoon. >> well, a big day on wall street with the dow and s&p 50

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