we are live from the aspen ideas festival. zker here with the president of the aspen institute with walter isaacson. >> nice to see you. >> this is an elite event. over the course of the past decade, the aspen institute is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ideas festival. you have attracted some extraordinary talent and extra dairy speakers. who are you most excited about this year? >> there is hillary clinton and tony blair but the most exciting thing are the people with the new ideas. a quarter of the people come here on scholarships. mitch landrieu dave the best speech so far on violence on the street, black on black violence. just after he finished the speech and showed 693 people who had been killed in the past few years, there was a shooting that night on bourbon street in new orleans. i think it refocused our minds on certain things. that's what i always like. robotics a speech on and artificial intelligence. it's the big ideas. >> where are the most fertile environments for ideas in america today? is it universiti

the closing bell." i'm kelly evans from aspen, colorado, today. ishing up the session on wall street. the quarter in fact the first half of the year. our own robert frank, our patty edwards from u.s. bank, fast money trader guy odami. guy, let me throw it to you first for some thoughts. i guess the headline despite today's mixed session is how well the major indexes have managed to do here again for the quarter. >> amazing. couple, three weeks ago or so i said there's a good chance we see 1860 in the s&p by the end of the month. clearly that was wrong. bad job by me number one. number two, what was interesting today. the comments out of the base i thought were really interesting because they're saying similar things that i've been saying to you the last few months, all that means nothing has no effect whatsoever on the broader market. the third thing that sort of dawns on me, as we get to the second half, probably jumping the gun, but i think energy is going to continue to be a theme. i know it's gotten beat up a little bit lately, but i think you

. >> coming up, we will go live to the aspen ideas festival. ik schatzker will be seeking with robin rice, right here at the bottom of the hour. we will be right back. ♪ television is "on the markets." julie, we have a wrapup on the last day of the or staff of the year? >> it is the sixth straight order of gains for u.s. stocks, we will talk about more about that in half an hour. today's session off the highs, such as they are, new home sales with manufacturing data missing estimates. in terms of individual stocks, devin energy is one of them. selling nearly 900,000 acres of oil and natural gas producing land for $2.3 billion. 80% of the land being sold as natural gas. we are also looking at the resortcompany with its outside new york city, new york is issuing a total of four licenses after approving las vegas style casino's last november. it will be interesting to see who wins the licenses. back in 30 minutes, more " online" is next. ♪ >> welcome back to the second half-hour of "autumn line." i am mark crumpton in new york. victims of accidents

larry summers is sitting down here at the aspen ideas festival this morning. h us on market eastern hour,0 9:00 mountain time this morning, so is the president of the aspen theitute. later in the day, former secretary of labor in the clinton administration now at talking toll be here me as well. i suspect we will talk about unemployment. a great day ahead of coverage here on bloomberg television live from the aspen ideas festival in aspen, colorado. back to you in new york city. >> it looks gorgeous. thank you. reportsorward to his live from aspen. keep watching for more from the ideas festival all day long. moving and shaking this hour, former ceo bob mcdonald. president obama will nominate him to run the department of veterans affairs. he is a grad who spent five years in the army. he will take over an agency the white house says has a correct -- a corrosive culture. and a lack of accountability. veterans complained they had to wait months to get appointments and officials state records to cover up those delays. in the four years he ran the country -- the com

>> he was already on the run from the police in aspen, colorado. r the theory that pam killed gary for the two million dollars in life insurance? nonsense, says her attorney. pam had wanted to let go of the insurance policy about a year prior. >> reporter: a friend of pam's testified that she took over the payments on the policy because pam was short on money. the judge would not allow us to show the friend's face. >> it was about 600 dollars a month and she felt that that was one piece that she could be rid of and stop doing. and i said, absolutely not. and if you can't pay for it now, i will. but you need to have the security for you-- for the kids. >> reporter: and the friend told the jury she actually forgot to make the last two payments on the insurance policy before gary was killed. >> which you think is significant why? >> well, because she testified at trial that pam never asked her again about the insurance policy. it never came up in any-- in any conversation with her. she just let it go. >> so if pam was killing gary for the insurance mon

i'm kelly evans coming to you live in the aspen ideas festival, all leaders from the world of business exchange ideas on the foremost issues across the finance and investment world. bill griffeth will be joining me shortly from

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the prosecutor telling the aspen daily news that the case against styler is getting stronger. documents, blood stains were found in nine places on his 2002 jaguar including the trunk. one motion revealing officers found a trash bag containing the murder weapon in close proximity to the couple's hotel. the documents previously sealed released after a heated courtroom battle over leaked evidence. the defense accusing prosecutors and sheriffs of potentially tainting the jury pool by revealing that after pfister was fatally beaten her body was rolled up in a carpet and stuffed into a closet. pfister's daughter can't make sense of it. >> i just want to tape a picture of mom's face on their door and make them look at it. >> reporter: just days after the stylers' arrest in march investigators arrested this woman, katherine carpenter accusing her of being a co-conspirator in the murder. carpenter had arranged for the stylers to rent pfister's home until pfister complained on her facebook page that her tenants weren't taking care of the home and weren't paying rent. >> how could someon

and i tell you on a personal level, we're sitting at the aspen ideas festival here, and when we heard about it, my wife was in the front row of a conference and just broke out crying. and i think she represents the feeling among all israelis we feel like we've lost young people. >> 19, 16 and 16. michael oren, thank you for joining me here and giving perspective on what's happened. and ben wedeman, totally switching gears here, because we've been watching and waiting for, here he is, rob ford, mayor of toronto, back from rehab after two months, reformed. let's listen. >> dealing with substance abuse, i was in complete denial. i had convinced myself that i did not have a problem. but it soon became obvious that my alcohol and drug use was having a serious, serious impact on my family and on my health and on my job as mayor. after experiencing some of the darkest moments in my life, i decided that enough was enough. i had become my own worst enemy. i knew -- i knew it was time to take action. it was time to get help. professional help. this is a decision that will change my life forever

. >> this was the aspen, bowe played with his friends, he and his friends were all over these trees.e to come up here and remember. >> i wake up each morning and my first thought is my son is still a prisoner of war in afghanistan. and i need to do something about that. >> born march 28th, 1986 in a small town here in the wood river valley, friends say bergdahl grew up loving the outdoors. he lived a simple, some may even say unkwenconventional life. bergdahl was home schooled in this area here, just outside of hailey, idaho. friends say he had a lot of books and loved to read and was fascinated with learning about the world beyond these mountains. >> i guess you could call him a seeker. he loved meeting people bho did the same things, he would go on fishing boats in alaska and meet people who finished their travels around the world. he rode his bicycle from here to california and back. >> bergdahl accomplished a lot before the age of 23. you see him here on a high seas adventure right there in the green jacket. he spent three months on that boat with his hometown buddy. dylan fulmer

i still don't know why sally and eye bothered to go to the party in the slope above aspen. the people were older and duller than us. old enough that we as 40 passed as young ladies. the house was great with a rugged luxury cabin with elk antlars and a wood burning stove. we were preparing to leave when the host said stay a little longer so i can talk to you. he made a lot of money and kept us waiting while the other guest drifted outside. and he sat down at a wooden table and said so i hear you have written a couple books and i said several. and he said the way you get the 7-year-old describe flute practice. and he said what are they about? and i said they were about different things. i began to speak about the shadows and the technology wild west. by my book on time and space and industrialization of every day life. he cut me off after mentioning my bridge. have you heard about the book this year? how many know how this ends? i hope this is like a reassuring story you hear. i was perfectly willing to entertain the idea that another book on the subject came out at the same t

also a vice president at the aspen institute. thank you for joining, sir. during 2006 in the bush administration the ava claimed it opposes to our constitutional system of separation of powers the misuse of presidential sign gs statements. has there been a significant challenge? >> you just quoted harry reid and referred to harry reid as the president's chief spokesman, he's not supposed to be, he's supposed to be a member of legislative branch of government. the fact that a president declares that he doesn't agree with this and that he doesn't feel that he's bound by it, it's the law. the president doesn't have the authority to simply disregard the law because he doesn't agree with it, no matter what he signs. it's sort of richard nixon said if the president says to do it, then it's not illegal. that's nonsense and nonsense if he does it and nonsense if obama does it. >> what is the weight of signing statements then? have they ever been tested in a court of law? how much persuasive evidence are they that there's an alternative argument here? >> the alternat

am monday eric will be in colorado for the aspen festival. under of a private equity firm carlyle group, david rubenstein. also drew faust. best-selling a biography of steve jobs. that is it for market makers. ♪ >> it is 56 minutes past the hour. bloomberg television is on the market. have a mixed breed in terms of the major indexes. the s&puctuating with 500 and dow on track for weekly decline. we had economic data showing consumer confidence rose in june. the backdrop is interest rates could rise sooner than traders think. optionsme for today's inside is the chief risk strategist at the chap would fund and the bloomberg guide options. good to see you again. let's talk about a volatility because the s&p 500 is down. .itting at a record high a volatility continues to come down. how do you reconcile that?, we have been talking about this all year. we started out with a little bit of fear. even just a month ago fear was building. we had the iran conflict building in more. more puts were being bought. really active in last week's meeting was a re

she also works at the aspen institute which works to build opportunities to create jobs. co-authored this well-known fractureduilding a world. she has written numerous articles on various issues dealing with the development with others. have ronaldst we neumann, the president of the american academy of diplomacy. he was former secretary of state. he served as american ambassador to afghanistan from july 2005 - april 2007. before that he served in baghdad with the coalition for authority. embassy'se u.s. national command. an important job. not very easy, i am assuming. the author of "the other war: winning and losing in afghanistan." he has been a follower of the issue for many years as was his father, former ambassador nue eumann. with that i would like to start with chris. with your experience dealing .d. in the recent announcements by president obama that the u.s. post-2014 had a two-year plan that calls for 9800 forces, a mixture of educators and maybe anti-terrorism forces, but will forcesed by some nato and whose job is to help the someans and also do counterterrorism

the second world war. very, very doubtful that anybody else would have been in such a good position to do that. >> he came back from aspenome watching on television as he landed on the south of the white house and the reporters started shouting at him. and his simple answer was -- >> this will not stand. this will not stand, this aggression against kuwait. >> and that was my order, whether i knew it or not. he made it clear. >> this will not stand. i remember when he said it it took my breath away. i thought to myself, how does he propose to effectuate that? >> when he was debating whether or not to go to war, i went in to see him. i said, i know you know that this matter has all of the elements that have brought down previous presidents. $40 oil, body bags, and the great dissatisfaction at home. and his answer to me was yes, i know all that, jimmy, but we're going to do this because this is what's right. >> it was the decision being made at the period of time where the u.s. was still suffering from what a lot of people have called the post-vietnam syndrome. where there was a reluctance in the country to use military pow

she's also the director of the aspen institute which works to create opportunities and create jobs. she coauthored this well-known book, fixing failed states, a framework for rebuilding a fractured world with one of the two leading presidential contenders and has written numerous articles on various issues dealing with development, economics, law, and others. last but not least, ambassador ronald new neumann who is currently the president of american academy of diplomacy. formerly was a former deputy secretary of state. then as the u.s. embassy's principal liaison with the multinational command. an important job. he is also the author of the other war, winning and losing in afghanistan. he visits afghanistan regularly, knows all the players and has been a follower of the issue for many years as was his father, former ambassador robert neumann who served in afghanistan in 1960s 70s, so with that, i would like to start with chris. chris, with your experience dealing with the dod and on security issues and with the recent announcement by president obama that the u.s. post 2014 has a two

the real thing or a stunt? hi, fred. greetings from beautiful aspen, colorado. e first thing to understand, what an historic, reversal of roles we're witnessing. for most adult lifetime the republican party advocate of aggressive use of executive power. democrats in the 1970s complained about the imperial presidency under nixon. remember the debates of the theory of the un tear executive under bush. the fact is democrats are more likely to win the white house and control congress. they've won the popular vote, 5 out of the last and republicans controlled the house 20 of the past 24 years. you're seeing a reversal where republicans are asserting prerogatives of congress and democrats like obama realizing he has little chance of getting his agenda through the republican congress are pushing the envelope on the use of executive power to try to advance his goals. >> but with remarkable -- ron, the president hasn't used his executive power as much as predecessors. a graphic shows the history, talk about the republican leadership, reagan, 381 times, you see george w. b

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the bark was from an aspen tree which tends to grow in cleared areas. ound needles from two coniferous tree species, the subalpine fur and the engleman spruce. subalpine furs grow in elevations above 9,000 feet. and engleman spruces grow in wet areas suggesting the body was somewhere on the mountain's north slope, which doesn't get much sun. trammell identified an area matching all these parameters just one mile from where the braided hair was discovered 15 years earlier. the necrosearch team made up entirely of volunteers moved into action. >> they have a commonality to them, is that they, i think they all wanted to be sherlock holmes at one time. >> the team marked off the area and began what's known as a grid search. each grid measuring one square meter. >> on their hands and knees, just a few feet apart and literally crawling across the forest floor, looking for any traces of something out of the ordinary. these are scientists. they're used to looking for the minute that is not in the ordinary. >> search teams thoroughly analyze one grid area before

joining the table the president and ceo of the aspen institute, walter isaacson. he host of msnbc's "hardball" chris matthews. and in normandy, france, mike barnicle, nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director be and host of "the daily rundown," chuck todd. also with us pulitzer prize winning author rick atkinson out with a new book "the guns at last light." we'll start with you, mike barnicle, and take us through the story tellers there as we look back in time. >> thank you, mika. this remains, as we spoke earlier, just a staggering experience, a humbling experience to be here. rick, you've covered in great reportorial depth the entire scope of world war ii and yet here, this beach, this coastline, from utah but especially omaha beach, but especially omaha beach in the epic of world war ii, place it within that epic. >> well, if you can imagine07 years ago today the weather is not nearly this nice. there are 156,000 soldiers, american, british and canadian, trying to get ashore. the seas are very high, the winds are high. there are lots of ger

she's moderating the great debate in aspen. >> general alexander, do you think the debate that has ensued in the one year since edward snowden's revelations have been good for our country or not? i think it's a very simple yes or no question i'm asking. >> let me -- i'll answer this. here's why i quivicate. i think we should have the debate. i do. but it has to be on the facts. >>> good day to you. i'm peter alexander. we're following that breaking news from the supreme court. the owners of hobby lobby and conostoga wood won a significant victory. but the majority opinion from the more conservative justices is a lot more narrow than some religious freedom advocates hoped. pete williams is live outside the court juggling live shots and legal decisions today. pete, can you break this down for us and give us a sense exactly what we refer to when we say this is a narrow decision? >> narrow because while the supreme court said yes, a for profit corporation can they sat it's exempt from certain laws that would violate the company's religious freedom. it's only going to work in a few situations.

the best country on earth and we are going to protect our country and the people here. >> schieffer: thank you, sir. and from aspen and senator joe manchin a democrat we go to republican john barrasso a member of the senate represent leadership with us here in washington. boy, i don't think there's anyway you can markup joe manchin as being optimistic about this thing. what is your take, senator? >> i agree with the need to make sure our am wassy is protected. i see isis as a direct threat to the united states. they have the capacity and i believe they have the intent they have stated it in terms of their opposition to the western world. they are the richest most powerful and most savage group of terrorists in the history of mankind and they have taken over an area the size of indiana bordering syria as well as iraq. it is a direct threat to the united states >> schieffer: what do we do about it and what can we do? >> there are a couple of things. maliki needs to go. number two, is i think we should be arming and should have been arming some of the opposition in syria. i would not negotiate with iran. they are not

the customer tells you what to do and we serve them. from aspenhe wine and food festival there, you go to miami beach all the time. you are starting one in harlem. why harlem, why now? >> one thing you and i share, love for new york. i truly believe that we learn a lot about, for example, each other when that incident -- bad incidents happen. we had that with sterling and incidents on race. i want to do the same journey with good stuff. food and hospitality can bring us more together. harlem is an incredible community and the food festival we are starting, next year, it's going to be food, arts, and culture. you can go to many local restaurants and enjoy it for just like you do in aspen. >> you got president clinton to sign on as a cochair. not so bad. >> very nice, both of the mayor and mr. clinton came up. all the small businesses in harlem came out and supported. it is really their event. >> what people love about red rooster is they don't have kale. [laughter] kale is so in right now. >> i'm sick and tired of kale. >> kale this, kale that. fac

aspen. it is big in the winter, but the most popular month in the year is the summer, july.is a popular destination. coast on a the east midsize, or super mid so you can go nonstop, somewhere between $28,000 up to $37,000. >> what about the west coast? >> similar. but what do you see the demand for, midrange to jets? >> like to midrange jets. light are really good utility vehicles. are up 10%, as his leisure. at the end of the day, people are looking at that light or mid , and even the super mid. a large cabin is for international travel. theet's talk about some of destinations. obviously, it is seasonal, as you mentioned. nantucket is a big market for you right now. >> nantucket is big. almost one quarter of our cardholder base, 4000 jet card many of them have homes in nantucket. about a $5,000 trip on a light or maybe $7,000 on a man. mid.ve you seen -- on a gas saving seen features? >> we are releasing our -- seeing a resurgence in private jet demand. that is bringing newer aircraft into the charter market. becauseed out for a bit of the financial crisis. we are certainly

board of directors trying to increase the size of aspen's board from 12res of endurance are doing now. another one of the contested situations out there, and we've got quite a few of them as our viewers well know, hillshire or this deal people are not that focused on or valiant, which i'll speak about in a few moments, going after allergan. there are quite a few of them out there, whether it's pfizer and its inability to want to go fully hostile and not be able to complete astrazeneca. >> is there an insurance wave of consolidation? apparently, i hate these stories, i'm going to say something and you're going to shoot me down. daichi life is supposed to be talking to protective life. it is an expensive company. when we report on supposed to be talking, where is the value added? the only reason i'm doing it and i would not do it otherwise is protective is up $7, so i feel like going back to last week, we talked about smith and nephew, maybe it has a bid, maybe not. that's another 1980s thing, you would hear things from the late great aran greiner at drexel

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steve clemens, an msnbc contributor and washington editor at large for the atlantic magazine, joins us from beautiful downtown aspen. >> great to be with you again, lawrence. >> some people get all the nice assignments here. and we are not those people. now, as you know, i've kind of been on the disabled list and out of the news cycle for the last couple of months. and trying to follow the complexities of what now are the developing alliances involving iraq is the most difficult reentry i've had to the news. where do you think this stands now? >> lawrence, first of all, great to have you back. it great to see you -- i might be in new york next week. second, you know, coming in now versus following it all along wouldn't have really made any difference. >> oh, thank you. >> we seem to be on all sides now. we seem to be on the side of assad's government and the malaki government, which means we're on the side of iran, and we're also on the side of the people trying to topple assad in syria. we're all over the map. >> steve clemens, we've seen these kinds of things not quite as intense and quickly developing in our for

the fire is now under investigation. >>> police in south san francisco need your help solving a mysterious shooting. they received reports of gunfire thursday afternoon around aspen and cypress avenues. when officers arrived they found a loaded gun and bullet fragments on the ground. they noticed two cars with bullet holes in them. no one was hurt, and witnesses report seeing a dark green two-door gmc or chevrolet suv. model year '95 to '99. if you have any information on this case, please call sfpd. >>> it's been nine days since he vanished in the wilderness to look for his lost dog. miguel almaguer reports. >> in the dry hot hills outside los angeles, this morning, a search growing more desperate every hour. >> it's reilly been a challenge for our search and rescue teams that have come from all over california to help us in the search. >> michael was last seen in the national forest nine days ago, after a two-day hike with fellow firefighter taylor buyers. he reportedly chased after his dog duke into the hills, bear foot with no supplies. it has not been seen since. >> there's no trail, it's all big boulders going through the brush. it is kind of tricky out the

story "the secrets of the creative brain", the neuroscientist that wrote the story, joins us from colorado, where she's attending an aspen ideas forum. good of you to join us, it's an incredible piece in "the atlantic", you studied some of the amazing minds of the last century. part of the the trouble i am sure you face as you study the brain is coming to a clearer definition of what is. >> yes. i mean, there is a consensus among people who work in the area that creativity is a capacity to do something that is useful in a broad sense. the arts are useful, not in an obvious way, but they are useful because they uplift the human spirit and the science are useful because they give us things like electric lighting and the wonderers of chemistry and things like that. >> let's work through some points you raise. you go into the relationship between iq and creativity, and you found there's not a cause and effect relationship. scoring at genius levels doesn't mean it will lead to being a creative genius. >> that's correct. one of the problems is the word genius. genius is used as equivalent to a high iq. yet jeepius is -- genius

the human body. >> where does this specifically come from? >> it comes from a little spring in colorado that is between vail and aspen. called suite water -- sweetwater lake resort and the -- it is bottled at the source. >> what kind of volume do you plan to do, what kind of scale? >> this would be 71 million bottles. >> as far as your own experience and you always want to get into the bottled water business? >> i have been involved in oil and gas, land development, manufacturing over the years. goldwater is another extraction of natural resources. this is for a healthy purpose and good benefit. this is something we have been interested in. >> you mentioned oil and gas exploration. you make the point that the land on which this spring has been located is untouched by such kinds of activity. >> exactly. we are at the base of the flat tops national wilderness so there is 240,000 acres of wilderness are pretty that is federally -- property that is protected federally. you cannot have oil and gas drilling and no motorized vehicles. >> a lot of the popularity of bottled water comes from the way that it is bottled. the mark

. >> the president got on a plane and flew to aspen, colorado, to meet with margaret thatcher. that session with the two of them. and mrs. thatcher said i believe saddam hussein is going on into saudi arabia, that he is not gong to stop at kuwait. he wants the oil fields and it's going to be one country after the other. and president bush said i agree, and i think he must be stopped. he said let's go around the world and see who's with us and who's against us. >> one of the extraordinary things about george bush is when he became president, he knew most of the other leaders around the world. >> it's only with friends that you can take off the gloves and talk with the heart. >> and he cultivated those friendships. they weren't just akwapt tanss for him. >> he was absolutely the pion r pioneer. his capacity more than anyone i knew simply to pick up the phone and talk to people, there suddenly out of blue was a leader of the free world. >> he called when there was no purpose to the call. when he wasn't asking for anything. and well before the gulf war, he built a web of relationshi

. >> the western slope of the rockies is well known for its fruit orchards and amazing vineyards. two hours from aspennd there's a vineyard we love called hermosa vineyard. they have 15 varieties of grapes and also 15 varieties of cherries. >> beautiful. >> yeah. >> that's beautiful, by the way. >> it does look beautiful. >> stuff for the kids too? >> western colorado is dinosaur country. a dinosaur journey museum with the life-sized robotic dinosaurs. the kids love them. then the hotel we love, five out of five trip adviser rating only $100 a night, victor yan style b and b called divine time. >> that's adorable. >> pretty. >> really cute. >> only three rooms. >> love it. >> take us to wisconsin. >> wisconsin. >> lake wisconsin area is about 45 minutes from madison and the winery is 150 years old. it's a beautiful hillside vineyard. they make brandy too. >> gorgeous. >> and nearby is wisconsin dell, which is, you know, the land of amusement parks and water parks. >> for kids. >> golf. it's a child's nirvana. >> oh, my gosh. that looks fun. >> doesn't it? >> we're going to virginia and we do know va i

a departure from the avalanche of affection he once bestowed on katherine in aspen, colorado. >> what were your first impressions that first meeting of him? >> i wasn't really that fond of him. he was nice, just not necessarily like any of my other friends. >> reporter: first impressions on that snowy night back in 1994 may not have been memorable. but his name certainly was. budimir drakulic. and his middle name was persistence. >> he had found out where i worked, and came walkin' into the restaurant, and just appeared. >> he wanted to know what i was doing when i got finished, and i met with him. >> reporter: it is the textbook definition of "opposites attract" as the ucla professor of biomedical engineering falls for the coat check girl. how did he begin to win you over? because you weren't interested at first. >> he was just so determined to get to know me, and i was so determined that i wasn't interested. and i think i was just taken by his determination. >> reporter: the professor professes his love for katherine. >> he told me he loved me on the first night. >> on the first nig

the world, for me, it's still about helping one family or business at a time. at belfor, we're restoring more than property. >>> a couple's wedding has an aspen colorado community at odds. >> this is the structure, some people, are still worked up about it is a dance floor. 27,000 square foot tent and temporary chapel all being constructed for this wedding. it is built on a private lot but environmentally conscious neighbors say it has a negative impact. they say construction will leave behind a real mess and scar landscape. neighbors are complaining about the traffic from the service trucks. they are known to be environmentally conscious and they say, the project is better then i hope and i have to impress my wife and that is why she's with me so i can put on a lavish wedding day. >> yes. >> can you imagine, they possibly have that money to do something like that. they took out entire monday mountain with the chapel and tent. >> i'm surprised to think that it is okay to tweak the mother nature like that. >> county commissioners there, they have some, something to say about this one. they will discuss zoning and permitting changes to better handle similar situa

so many political figures weighed in about this including hillary clinton while on the decision while at an event in aspenears what she said. >>. >> it's very troubling that a sales clerk at hobby lobby who needs contraception which is pretty expensive is not going to get that service through her employer's health care plan because her employer doesn't think she should be using contraception. >> there are companies ha may be closely held by employers who don't believe in blood transfusions. that's a religious belief that certain people hold. does that mean if you have need for i blood transfusion, your insurance policy doesn't have to cover it? i mean, this is a really bad slippery slope. >> she's saying it's a slippery slope. everyone is weighing in on this. ryan, do you think, is this something that threatens the core of obamacare or is this a lot about politics? >> look, i don't think it threatens the core of obamacare. obamacare defines very clearly what should be covered by companies. this takes away certain kinds you have contraception for certain kinds of companies. this is not about gutting obamac

right at fire regard avenue as part of the, lane shuffles that i have been talking about that will occur all week long. this is southbound i-95 down to one lane here aspen dot overnight putting down some new white lines, as you head southbound between betsy ross bridge and center city. right now only this one lane is opened, coming into center city. leaving house be ready to hit the brakes downtown. 309, live look here at the the pennsylvania turnpike and roads are dry, and we are off to a good start. construction delays, pennsy turnpike they are working both directions right here near fort washington interchange. they are working both directions on the northeast extension right here near lansdale interchange and for the gang down the shore east on the atlantic city expressway right near the atlantic city airport watch for delays due to construction. for gang in delaware we have 495 close another between exit two and three but i-95 looking good and mass transit running with no delays. erika, back to you. >>> waking up to this story this morning a house in camden, new jersey caught fire just after 11:00 last night. the it happened on the 600 block of cai

one of the things they said is in the absence of a better construct to plan america's forces we should be using les aspen's bottom up review. something about that is it was designed as a time when the only real threat we were worried about was rogue strags proliferation. rogue state revisionism. generally speak. we weren't worried ant global terrorism and certainly not worried about the return of the great power rivalry. in terms of joust numbers, capacity we are barely at level t but we have a threat environment far more challenging than what was contemplated at the time of the bottom review. we have a threat environment again. global terrorism. and game changers. and what's worse is we're on a trajectory to get out of the business as much as we can out of sort of very proactive global counterterrorism. we're -- we are sort of getting out of the business. we don't want to be in the business of dealing with great powers and the prospect of the serious great power rivalry. we're at least ambivalent. and last, we are still not very sober about what is going on with other rogue state regimes. and a last point

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