russian political list which we'll discuss it now live with the editor in chief of the moscow news tim wall and the head of the general political science department at the high school of economics yeah but a call for. the. russians of cast their vote doesn't next president election communities across the country in the broad and on busy counting the ballots and processing the data russia's six presidential election is also the first in which a president is elected for six years instead of for the final candidates were prime minister vladimir putin believe in anything from her and also this really does of the political parties represented in the duma communist unite isn't gonna lead iraq the liberal democratic party why did you not speak and soon gave you enough ok russia on to the election was preceded by two complaining and the biggest program and the government's rallies the country has seen since the time of young what provoked a heated political debate with a result of the sometimes parliamentary vote we trundled a majority of seats in the ruling united russia. r.t. leading into friday

welcome back to spotlight time algorithm often just a reminder that my guest today here in studio is tim wall in chief of the moscow news and need probably call fed general political files the portman and the high school of economics and we know for have a special guest here are russia today reporter in the central election committee you can see with a good evening and do you have any new figures any any new preliminary results of the vote as it's being counted definitely do l. now that eighteen percent of all the ballots across the country have been counted it's. spoken favorite's prime minister blood. leading with sixty two point three percent of the vote coming second his communist candidate denied the zyuganov who had seventeen point six percent of the vote lead image in the candidate from the liberal democratic party's seven point eight percent and independent candidate billion or crocker of it is now getting seven point five percent coverage for what it's definitely every tree for a new comer to the politics he only announced that he would be running for presidency several months ago no

welcome back to spotlight our algorithm often just a reminder the my guest today here in studio is tim wall chief of the moscow news and need probably head of general political science department in the high school of economics and we also have a special view if you are russia today reporter in the central election committee you can see we're going to be good evening and do you have any new figure is there any any new preliminary results of the vote as it's being counted but definitely do now that eighteen percent of the ballots across the country have been counted the outspoken favorite prime minister vladimir putin is leading with sixty two point three percent of the boat coming second this communist candidate good night gives you gon up with seventeen point six percent of the vote but diminish it in the candidate from the liberal democratic party with seven point eight percent and independent candidate billionaire mikhail prokhorov is now getting seven point five percent of revote it's definitely have big tree for a newcomer to the politics he only announced that he would be running for

power whether it be in washington or on wall street and so here we have this clip that we played earlier for you today. from c.n.n. you see saying that you know when tim geithner writes something in the wall street journal and if the bank executives don't like it who do they go to well they call and they email and yes c m b c because they know that he's going to go out there and air their woes for them on national t.v. . well you know there's always been a deep connection between the media wall street and government there's a symbiotic relationship there i mean i think you know having worked on wall street for seventeen years i think that gives me a real unique perspective on what the media can do if it's willing to speak truth to power which is what i try to do all the time in my writing i don't have any love for wall street i know what wall street's really like i'm not going to be no one would mistake me is a mouthpiece for wall street they don't come to me after tim geithner write something like that because tim geithner even though he's wrong on some of things he's absolutely right that the whining has to stop i will i'm i thank you so much for jo

and so they talk about tim geithner's captured by wall street and christina roamer was -- dealt with a sharp elbows in the white house, and i wouldn't even say what they say about jared. we'll leave that aside for now. that stuff is the least interesting to me. what i like to look at are what are the actual policies to get through the process. why did they make those decisions. what the impact of those policy decisions were and judge it on that. but i'm not writing best-selling books, maria. >> jared, what do you make of the view by shriver of president obama coming into the office with goals of changing the world and making history and missing the reality of where we were in the economy? >> good luck of finding a president of coming into office without those aspirations. they want to be known as being the president that kept things from getting worse. he ran on a platform where achieving national health care was core. and by the way, he kind of did it. so i think that there's a lot to be said for that. look, i think that tony has a point on housing, but you've got to remember, on ho

now i just didn't get tons of posts of this big on our wall which says if you can read it this way to china accepting applications tim david posted the following on our facebook wall explaining now this is suspicious i'll three has three items on a three sided sign three three three do i need to spell it out double that you got six six six people trial in travel sounds like terrorism to me and body lotion try taking that on a plane this store is obviously a terrorist group the drop location is probably in this section for pete's sake so i really like the commentary on that one too but last but certainly not least our winner for the most suspicious looking suspicious picture is price stephen who posted this pic on our wall simply saying look out von making material so congratulations price you get a sign to show mugs will be in touch to figure out how to get that to you now moving on to more serious matters last night we interviewed the young turks and asperin about new data released by the department of education which revealed that minorities especially black boys face punishments and much harder in school than othe

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tim tebow may be headed this way. >>> stock indexes are still down on wall street after two reports suggested an economic slowdown? china. caterpillar is leading the dow lower sliding 2.9%. the to global slows are glowing more slowly. apple's stock is now up to $606, up almost 1%. the dow currently down 50. nasdaq is flat. s&p down 2. >>> members of a wildlife group are posting fliers and offering a $5,000 reward for the person who shot and killed a hawk last week near foothill road in san martin. an x-ray vee vealed it was shot in the test -- revealed it was shot in the chest. veterinarians are still deciding whether to remove the pellet or just let the bird heal. >>> it's a done deal -- peyton manning is a bronco. the mvp agreed to a five-year $96 million contract with the broncos. the star quarterback arrived in denver. this is video of him shaking hands with some officials. the team has a major news conference planned to announced the deal. the hope is they will get closer to a super bowl tighting. the broncos -- title. the broncos are looking to trade tim tebow and the 49ers are a possible -- are a possibilit

treasury secretary tim geithner writing an. ed in today's "wall calling the perils of amnesia. taking shot at critics of wall street. joining us more, neal wolin. seemed like a bit of a concerted effort. this isn't the only place we're seeing a strident defense of some of the reforms that's been put in place. was that an idea that came about because there's, you think the resolve is weakening or we view everything in the prism of an election year. is it more than that? >> the basic point here is we want to make sure everyone remembers what brought us to the place, the financial system we had in 2008 and 2009 was inadequate, toledo the destruction of enormous amounts of wealth and wrecked our economy and congress put forward and the president signed legislation that overwhelmingly strengthens our financial situation in a way that protects taxpayers and puts us on a sounder footing and those basicing thoughts get lost in the conversation as people try to push off and delay and rewrite and even repeal some of these really critical elements of making

but the big news on wall street that has everybody talking is this op-ed in the "wall street journal" by timssage that everybody's talking about is this one. "my wife occasionally looks up from the newspaper with bewilderment. while reading another story about people in the financial reform or people complaining about lobbyist reform and they didn't need t.a.r.p., she reminds me of the panicked calls she answered for me at home from the then giants of our financial system." tim geithner making a lot of news with that this morning and a lot of e-mail coming in from some of those giant bankers, not so happy, actually, about the op-ed. chuck, back to you. >> not happy that maybe he went public with it. andrew, thanks very much. "the daily rundown," the deep dive, starts in 30 seconds. >>> super tuesday isn't going to be just about presidential politics, it's already bringing us our first big set of congressional contests. and the marquis race on tuesday, it features a presidential candidate work at least an ex-presidential candidate. dennis kucinich going up against fellow democrat, 15-term con

. >> coming up next on the show, we look ahead to the trading day on wall street and ben bernanke and timuieithner get set to testify before the house oversight committee. stay with us. >>> good morning and welcome back. if you're just joining us, let's take a look at the futures. the dow looking higher right now by nearly 35 points, the nasdaq by 7 and change and the s&p 500 up by nearly 4 points. joining us to talk about the day ahead on wall street is paul schatz. thank you for coming on the program. as we look ahead, you know, we've been looking at reinvestment. we receive some money coming out of the bond market, going back into the equity market. at the same time while we're making gains we're moving in a sideways pattern. do you expect that to continue as we move forward? >> good morning to you. listen, stocks have had a pretty good run since the middle of december. so clearly anyone nebraska time you pause, you can correct two ways. you can pause and move sideways for a period of time or pull back at 4% to 8%. i agree with you. yes, stocks have gone on great run and now it's been

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wall street will be watching shares of apple very closely today after the latest successful product launch for the new ipad. at 9:00 a.m. apple's c.e.o. tim cook has scheduled a conference call. investors hope to hear an answer to the question wall street has been asking for years. does the company plan to share its enormous stockpile of cash and marketable securities. it's worth just under a hundred billion dollars as of the last quarterly report. some are betting the company will announce today a dividend that would reward shareholders and also open ownership of apple shares to a wider range of funds. >>> oj drinkers have been hearing for a while that prices are expected to spike but calm down, people. we can relax. our partners at "u.s.a. today" report that the fear appears to be overblown. orange juice futures hit an all time high on a health scare in brazil and other countries and cold weather in florida but those concerns have abated and there should be plenty of oranges and juice to go around. >> good to hear. i like that. what do you have for us in the next half-hour? >> starbucks is looking at juice in a really big way. we'll tal

not a lot of data happening today but fire off the op-ed pieces of "the wall street journal". >> timeithner saw a lot in his days. and i think the op-ed wanted to put forth revisionist thinking or how we forget. but i didn't forget. i didn't forget what was at the epicenter of the entire crisis, prolific derivatives, he mentioned that, what he didn't mention is that what we needed was an audit trail of derivatives over the counter. we have that as they go through regulated exchanges. i think a lot of the other issues, i'm not revising on. 2300 pages, dodd-frank, the people that write most of those bills are regulate chetors whic don't get to elect. if you look at glass stegele, the footnotes for dodd-frank are longer than glass-stegele. he says we're against reform. no, we're against overload of reform that probably wouldn't prevent the last crisis. >> he says the solutions are no more complex than the problems. and he says that as these things are written, there will be a chance to hammer -- to even them out. >> how does he know they're not written? this is the problem. it is even a

. >> the fascinating point you make, tim geithner gets this reputation, people think he worked with gold plan sacks on wallll street. career public servant. very admirable thing. you sort of say -- odd that -- odd fisher in the administration is that the people who have worked on wall street were actually more willing to put conditions on wall street than put pain on the banks and thought they could take it. lot of the folks that haven't worked on wall street were much more sort of take wren by the idea you had to treat them with kid gloves during this period. >> i think that's exactly right. in the book i talk about adviser, one guy named steve shackman who worked at the dreaded goldman sachs, willing to do some aggressive things that geithner was unwilling to do. another guy had come from the wonder kid. they both thought that bank bond holders which geithner thought you should never do. you couldn't look in that direction. they could take some losses and take losses over the taxpayers would have to. geithner looked at them and said -- in particular, you know, i stared into that abyss and we are not goin

tim tebow in green do you like it? i don't think you do. see you next off the wall is coming back >> i am not a hater though. >> no.h >>> >> those two have too much energy for me. >> today might be a nice day to head to a movie. i will have your full forecast just ahead stay with us back after the break beautiful shot of the cherry blossoms on the potomac  >>> some of the top stories we are following former vice president dick cheney continues to recover from a heart transplant the 71-year-old is still in intensive care in falls church this morning. mr. cheney waited nearly two years for his new heart. >>> republican presidential candidate rick santorum won the primary with 49% of the vote mitt romney came in a distant 2nd, with 27% newt gingrich 16 and ron paul 6%. >> tonight is the opening ceremony for the cherry blossom fest very well from 5 to -- festival from 5 to 6:30 p.m., grammy nominated singer, song writer, sarah barealis is highlighting the event reservations are required, check the festival website for information they told me initially there were 6,000 tickets available i tried

tim duncan after the rebound. and the lack of defense. he gives it up to a guard and gets a slam dunk. tony parker took over in this stretch, with eight points while dueling with john wall-31. the caps are one point up in the jets two points on the sabres. they will play the islanders tomorrow. the lady terps are a number two seed in the ncaa tournament, playing the patriot league's navy. get to bed early. the comcast center in college park. >> our girls are ready to get back especially after the loss from last year. it will be a lot of fun to compete again in the ncaa tournament. >> in georgetown, the lady hoyas will be a five seed, matched with fresno state which will be played at unc in chapel hill. >> we didn't care who we are playing, we just want to play. >> the hoyas and terps going to the big leagues. the nats beat the world champion cardinals. zimmerman with a double and a home run. >> very exciting. >> we will be right back. don't go away. >> if you missed the ipad giveaway, you have another chance for a new ipad. go to wjla.com/facebook and sing up there. we will -- sing up there. turn left. the passat is one of nine volkswagen models named a 2012 iihs top sa

. >> 11 years ago, tim of fhi cappa decided to put a message in a bottle before he covered up a hole. fast forward to february 2012, and the brothers found the bottle in the wallecause they were patching the same hole. must be a spot where a lot of people get tackled. >> so what did the message say? [ bleep ]. >> the funny part, how do we get it open? ♪ message in a bottle >> take a hammer, smash it open, and, of course, what do you say? >> oh! >> opa. >> we're the gentleman, and this has been our house the last three years. right now george bush has just taken office as president. >> this is a letter preseptember 11th. george bush just took office. this is a completely different world. >> oh, yeah. >> he's writing from. >> our computer is locking up. >> times of napster. >> like a time capsule. >> mcdonald's and cheese burgers -- >> oh! >> mcdonald's cheeseburg engineers. >> can you believe it? they should have put how much gas cost back then. >> limp biscuit, metallica, god smack. i guess i could mention britney spears, but she sucks. if you would like to contact me, tim curry via the author of this letter, reach me at 1034 pinehurts, you can probably look m

the "wall street journal" reports the justice department is threatening to sue five of the nation's largest book publishers and apple over an alleged scheme to raise the price of ebooks. >>> ceo tim cook unveiled apple's updated ipad which is not called an ipad 3, bay the way. it is thicker and heavier due to larger batteries to display its high-tech display. >>> mexican tycoon carlos lim retained his top spot on the billionaire list. bill gates and warren buffett second and third respectively. new name on the list. sarah blakley, thanks to spanx, she is the youngest self-made female billion mayor. ladies everywhere thank her! >>> coming up, two last-second nba thrillers. the world's greatest soccer player goes goal crazy. an emotional day for peyton manning. >>> plus, last night, the woeful washington wizards slammed hollywood's heroes. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> as we head towards the weekend, a beautiful warm weather is going to come to an end. with it some rain. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports, last night, the nba's lost lakers blew a 21

their vehicle and crashed into a wall at a dead-end on sixth avenue and they fled on foot through backyards. the suspects got away. for every 23, 2011 -- 2012. i met with tim choy and we advised him on violations and continuing criminal activity. we offered solutions to him. his management staff and security team to make it a law abiding and safe venue as well as possible consequences for further this regard of the law. it should be noted in a meeting in december 2011 it was recommended he meet with sf safe to discuss solutions. he has failed to contact sf safe. numerous police units have to respond to the rockit room malley at closing time to discourage lawlessness. we do not have the resources to continue to babysit the patrons of the rockit room, so we're asking for your help. i know the capt. wanted to come up and talk to you as well. president newlin: great report. what kind of crowds, what is the number? >> it depends on the night of the week. they have certain events on certain nights. salsa monday, we never have an issue. tuesday's comedy night. we never have an issue. thursday is reggae night, it is capacity or overcapacity. there is always an iss

tim tebow traded to the jets. >> big trades. >> dave ross and wisdom martin debate the moves in off the wall. >> off the wall, dave ross, wisdom martin. it may be march but we're always talking about -- march mad innocence. >> and not even talking about college hoops. >> march mad innocence the nfl. >> peyton manning landing in denver. were you surprised by that? >> not surprised at all. i figured he would end up in denver. >> not arizona, not miami. >> here is why. john fox will let him do whatever he wants to do offensively. >> that's true. >> anybody is going to let him do that. but john fox will take his hands off and let him deal with that while he deals with the defense. john elway -- it is kind of a kindred spirit kind of of thing, hall of fame quarterback way few you are hall of fame quarterback. >> look at the pose there. nice jersey. >> so there is a connection there. so that -- >> the connection is greatness. >> he is in a weak division. oakland, kansas city, san diego, all weaker teams. so that means that the odds of winning a division even better. >> i didn't ehim going to denver initially. i understand what you'r

tim tebow's move to the jets. number 15, baby. that's next on "the five." ♪ ♪ [ donovan ] i hit a wall. moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team. ♪ ♪ >> eric: so everyone's favorite talk show host having problems lately. oprah, we learned this week, a couple of things. last year, oprah win friday network own lost $107 million. this year, expected it might lose up to $143 million. this week, oprah had to throw rosy o'donnell out on her very expansive ass because it wasn't rating. >> dana: do it right now. >> kimberly: sorry. sorry. >> eric: it's not small. >> kimberly: your file exceeded bob's. freddie i'll take, i look at oprah, if that is failure, i will take her failure any day. president obama should bail her out. because she provides more jobs than solyndra. i will say that hiring rosy o'donnell i

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but jonathan wall who used to run cnbc. tim pawlenty. he was not skiing. in fact, he was if his skivvies coming out of the spa. not skivvies, but t-shirt and gym shorts and i was like governor, governor. and he looked scared as i approached him. because it was like who is this stalker. >> in this squawk ward moment has been brought to you by joe kernen. >> and one of the old faber five in a white outfit that was so embarrassing, but i guess they make it in a man he's size. but i wouldn't have thought that they did. but anyway, we'll head to break and then -- and your cousin. who said that you threw up at emory university when you went down to visit him. >> that was in high school. >> you're not supposed to drink in high school. i think it's final seconds, ohh, down by two, shoots a three, game over. so two seconds ago... hey mr. and mrs. harris, where's kevin? say hi kevin. hi. mom, put me down. put...the phone...down. hey guys. did you hear... the choys had their baby? so 29 seconds ago. well we should get them a gift. [ choys ] thanks for the gift! [ amy

the "wall street journal" reports the justice department is threatening to sue five of the nation's largest book publishers and apple over an alleged scheme to raise the price of ebooks. >>> ceo tim cook unveiled apple's updated ipad which is not called an ipad 3, by the way. the new ipad is thick he and heavier due to a larger battery. and its retina display. it goes on sale for $499 or more for a 4g combatable model. >>> mexican tycoon carlos lim retained his top spot on the forbes list annual billionaire list. bill gates and warren buffett second and third respectively. there was one new face on the list, 41-year-old sarah blakely, thanks to all of us ladies know that, spanx. her slimming undergarments company, she is the world's youngest self-made female billionaire and ladies thank her for it. >>> in health news a new treatment for deadly skin cancer might be a new turning point in cancer medicine. it involves a drug that triggers the body's immune system to take on melanoma. when doctors added radiation treatment all the tumor treatment disappeared. test will see if it can work on patients with kidney, and lung cancers. check out the health page at msnbc.com. >>> two last-s

wall, they can call you. >> especially if your name only has two letters. >> thank you very much. >> that's interesting. thank you very much. thank you very much. >> i'm tim, buying this juicer online was unbelievable. what a bargain! [ female announcer ] sometimes a good deal turns out to be not such a good deal. but new bounty gives you value you can see. in this lab demo, one sheet of new bounty leaves this surface cleaner than two sheets of the leading ordinary brand. so you can clean this mess with half as many sheets. bounty has trap and lock technology to soak up big spills and lock them in. why use more when you can use less? bring it with new bounty.