for many yea, the persol savings rate in this country bumpedalong around ze. zero and 2%. no society is going to continue to increas its standard of living with no savings. it'sxiomatic, you can. sangs equal investment, investment eals productivity, productivity equals standards of living. no savings, no investment, so foh. now, becausef the cris, the personal savin rate has sho up. it's 7% n which we haven't seen in years. and clearly because the average american houhold has lo so much here at a time wn it was so leverage the savings rate is going totay up for quit a while. on optimistic scenario i think s a real shot. it's that we return to a period of better sings. maybe we'reot at 10%, but we're... our society turns back to a point wher it rlize it is virtu of som savings. in the short term, tha constrainsur recovery, as we just discusd. in the medium and longer term it's positive for getting incomes risi again in this countr i think that y be a very good meum and longerterm result of this csis. >>ose: well, and man people make that point. i mean, the oblem ise've en a

coander in iraq, said the mem "reflects one person's persol view," not thaof the u.s. miliry. troop deaths are up 50% sie june-- roadsi bombs are the ggest killer. most of t deaths occurred in the east, and in the south w here the bulk of new u.s troops were depled this year. they're mounting a major offensive againsthe taliban in heand province. the top allied commder, general stanley mccystal elained recently why it was s deadly in the soh. >> you have a combinationof factors there, ther's the orinal home of the taliban, there's the narcoticproduction which mps a lot of money into thaand breeds corruption, and then there's the fat there's proxity to pakistan, where a tremends amount of the leaders and whatnot can seek se haven. >> warner: he assum his post mid-june after secretaryf defense gates red his predecesr, general david kiernan. gates id it was time for a new commander to come up wh a new strategy president obama had alread announced a majotroop increase foafghanistan. the new troops started arrivg in late spring and now sta at 62,000. his senate confirmation, genera

u'll recall with the he of hehusband todd accused of using her persol office to carry out a personal vendetta sheired the public safety coissioner because he rfused to fire the brother-in-law trooper michael wooten in october three weeksefore the general election, the council, alaska sta legislature, found goveor palin abused the power of her office according tohe ethics act. turnw toaaret carlson washington editor and columnist. margaret, good evening. >> good evening,keith. >> for the bridge tonowhere, then ast it. lied t stephen schmidt, t campaign maner in e-mail. denied her husba was a part of an independence party. ed when she said firing the publ safety commissioner hadn't got ahing to do wi his refusa to re her ex-brother-in-law. should we even be surprised at this point thistated reason ittings governor also proved to be a lie? >>well, in the statement, in r backyard, i surprised you found, know,he hea of it, whichas the -- theegal fees, because there was the lame duck. she doesn't want to milk it. don't want to go in junket. everybody doesn't. remember, countlessothers have

saitoday it's preparing to launch its own operatin system for persol computers a direct assault on riva microsoft. as sco gurvey reports, the bold move is latest in a sies of srmishes between the google and microsoft. reporter: the way google ha been attacking mrosoft, you'd almost tnk it was personal. maybe it is. google's announcement th it will delivern operating system to compete wh microsoft's windows cos just weeks before microst sends a final version of windows 7, to computer makers. "7" is thencarnation of its bread-and-butter product. t while google's announcemen certaiy stirs the competitive pot, its chromo/s is targeted netbooks. thsmall lightweight computers which exoded on the market last year. scott ssler of standard and poor's says google is no meeting microsofhead on. >>on't get me wrong that's a very kind of excitinand compelng area with a lot of growth potential but it really not aajor part of microsoft's venue and profit se a this point. >> reporter: the google operatinsystem is just one of a mber of areas where the moter of mountain view is attacking the dominator of redmond. google is so competing with

the words are. >> it's a persolity disorder. it is -- the woman is not mentally ill. she's not delusional.know what she was doing. she actually knows exactly what she's doing because she -- she has the personality disorder called psychopathy. that means she thinks she's entitled to what she wants. she's going to get what she wants. she has no empathy for anybody else in her life. this little child for her is something she wanted at that time. that other woman shouldn't get it. >> you said the lack of empathy. so there is -- are there certain sort of factors that would -- that a woman or i suppose even a possibility of a man, i guess, i mean, has a man ever been charged with this kind of a crime? >> well, only in helping his girlfriend, usually. men usually get their attention -- they're sickcopaths, too, but they get their attention in other ways. we'll see more men killing women to get rid of the babies because the baby is in the way. >> what kind of factors, to interrupt that, would need to be in a woman's life that might lead her to this kind of behavior? what what would be the cause of

. >> and word fm the other palin mage of convenienceetor cain remarking he was surprised butot shocked by news of palin quitng. >> you have fd persal torture, persolcks, political attacks, investigations. you have ner rigned from anything. is it consistent with yo qualities of leadership to resign an elected post like there? >> sure if you -- theuestion is how can you serve most ffectively? >> what about not seing at all? joining us now the white house porter for "the washington post." good evening. can we have a giggle at the image of so democrat somewhere lling governor n for an endorsement? but obviously she was chosen by jo mccain for this express rpose of runding up stray hillary clinton supporters. is it possible even afterwhat happenedo that theo in reality lastear maybe she is still thinking that way this year, thathe is some so of multi-y transcendent fire? >> let me brief. no. yoknow, i don'tthink so, keith. i thinkhat she is trying to do, remember, her appl is a reform appe, an indendent appeal. shwas elected in 2006 as governorrunning against the guy named fnk mer cowsky who was the alaska tablishment. she wa elected as someone who fou

persol totoure, psonal attack, popotical tack, investstigation. you have never r resigned from anytything. is it consiststentith your alities of leaeadershi to reresign anlected post like this? >> sur >> it t ? >> i you can bee -- the queion is how can you sererveost effectely? sarah an todd and herer famil made a decision that she c be st effective by stetepping down, and she did. i respect thatt positioio andndt decision, andd c cannot tell yo the apprpriation have for her. >> you think she's qualified to seekekighest office in the land? >> know she's qualified. >> had he is qualied? >> re. >>o doubt about it? >>>> she has all t right ininstincts. she has allll the right prininciples. she was a yor. she was governor. she undersrstands t c cllenge that families face. shsh has a greatat background, i am confidedent that she wl contue to play, as i say, a a importanant role. >> if she s sks t presidency in 2012,ouould endorsese her? i thihit's way too early for th kind of thingecause e obvisly has not made tha decision yet, and traditionanal, those of us who are t nominees have waited at leastt -- l long riod otime before we got into that. we g aot of good, strong, young, attractive,rticule spokespersons s r ourarty