this is what a social mixer looks like on a so-called romance tour. you can tell because the local women outnumber the american men about 10 to 1. and right in the thick of it? that's bob. he just spent 4,000 bucks and traveled 5,00000 miles, not to dance with taller, younger women, per se, though he doesn't mind that part. he says he's come here to fall in love and find a wife. bob doesn't know it yet, half of that wish will come true. but not in the way he imagined. but first, let's explain how a grandfather from pennsylvania winds one a lap full of eastern european affection. >> like high school. >> yeah. >> reporter: there are 21 men on this tour. all of them began this journey with a single mouse click. loveme.com is the internet's largest international match maker, run by a company called "a foreign affair." they sell access to thousands of women around the world and take a fee for every flirty e-mail, every interpreted phone call. but for the man who wants to move beyond pen pals, there is this. >> a foreign afay. >> reporter: the video sells a

and this is what it looked like the day the tour de france came to town. the mayor paid the tour de france around 80 thousand dollars for the right to have one of the legs of the gruelling cycling competition start in his community. >>towns like his can wait up to 20 years for the right to host the tour de france. >>it's not surprising - the windfall from tourism and media exposure can be huge. cugnaux's population more than tripled to 50,000 overnight >>all these people need to drink, to eat and sometimes spend money in shops and they have to stay. they have to go to restaurants, to pubs bars and they are looking for hotel rooms and many people of cugnaux ask their family all around france to come spend two or three days here. so in terms of economic impact its a very good return. >>reporter: unlike most mass spectator sports, fans of the tour de france will see real action for just a few seconds. in the mountains where the pace is slower it can be longer as the cyclists are spread out, but if fans turned out just for the race most would be very disappoin

then it would be an awesome bus tour. on the taxpayer dime and getting the trip for free. but he is campaigning. by the way, wouldn't you come pain if you had a dismal number in the polls? you would try to win re-election as well. >> why would you even go out on a bus tour with nothing to announce? he said when they asked about his job plan he said, i will have one in september. why not wait until september to do the bus tour. >> that whole job plan he treated it like a term paper. he has been putting it off. it is going to happen in september, but it is the night before he is drinking red bull and smoking cigarettes working on that jobs plan. have i been there. >> what do you call him, the procrastinator in chief? >> do you write your job plans the night before? >> exactly. they are never very good though. bill, you travel by bus and usually in the luggage rack. is riding by bus beneath the president? >> it is the most civilized way of traveling. i am also getting the vibe this is not the most pro obama table. they were

her bus tour like she did the iowa bus tour. should be in the bus behind trying to suck all the oxygen out. where is she? >> bus tour is derivative of sarah palin's bus tour. >> yeah. >> laura: i see the bus, i think monica is on to something. it looks like something you would see -- i don't know, around town you see people being moved from asylum to asylum or jail to jail. very gloomy. >> you two. >> laura: very gloomy bus. >> either of you people. >> laura: move on to. so things he has said. number one, alan, he talked about the fact that in september he is going to have a plan. kind of like jon huntsman it's not up on my web site yet but it will be. he does have plan coming up in september. i don't know how he went from i have a dream to i will have a plan. >> wasn't it the bush administration who said when we were talking about the iraq war you unveil stuff after labor day. >> you're not talking about bush. i'm talking about the president. >> why is bush rolled in. >> wait until after labor day. >> laura: i was a big critic

tour. our chief white house correspondent chuck todd is traveling with the president. and chuck, it looks like the president got his chance to do some listening. >> reporter: yeah, that's for sure, brian. look, this swing through the midwest comes not only at a time when the president's at a popularity low, but he is finding out that iowans have no problem expressing their displeasure to him directly. on day two of his midwest bus tour, president obama mingled with small business owners to plead his case. and later at his rural summit, he tried to convince eastern iowans he shares their frustrations. >> we will get through this moment of challenge. the only question is if, as a nation, we are going to do what it takes to grow this economy and put people back to work right now. and can we get our politics to match up with the decency of our people? >> reporter: not every exchange with iowans has been friendly. at a town hall monday night the president got into it with the head of iowa's tea

guess what we called the, i'm still relevant bus tour?so driving around iowa with his common sense solutions bus tour. but with the way his campaign is going, he might make a bigger splash if he used it as the pizza delivery bus tour. rick santorum's campaign couldn't even spring enough money for an actual bus. his tour is made up of two mini vans. with record heat temperatures across the united states. tim pawlenty's bus tour turned into a sad metaphor for the campaign we the air conditioning broke. you want to move and motivate people to vote for you, well then a bus tour isn't going to be enough. remember, you got to beat this guy. >> there's no stopping the united states of america. there is no holding us back. we can strengthen this economy. and we can put our nation back to work. and we can lead the world in growing industries and we will make it through these economic storms and reach calmer waters, stronger than we were before. >> look out, president obama's own bus tour starts monday. but when the tours are over, the voters will

he toured the u.s. and europe a number of times.but he says he respects ballet, which requires not only technique but also expression. the graduation performance is only a week away. ochiro has not yet fixed his weak turns. otgonnyam, an earlier graduate from the school is helping out. he was a principal dancer with the mongolia national ballet theater. he's been performing as a soloist. ochiro admires otgonnyan. this is also the first time he's been taught by a big name hero abroad. now is your chance ochiro. he seems to be getting the knack of it. it's already april but suddenly it snows. something unexpected happened to ochiro. staying in shape is essential for a dancer. the big day is only a few days away. it seems like he's been careless. ochiro has endured the hard training for the past seven years. all to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional dancer. ♪ ♪ >> he has put in m more hours o training for the graduation performance than anyone else. ♪ ♪ >> on the day of the performance, his parents and grandparents have come.

>> i have been to other countries and i have seen a lot of their tour bus in use is -- tour buses using headphones. it would save money for those companies that don't need to have an english toward -- tour for a japanese tour. >> i agree that the large obnoxious buses needed to be reined in. i am sensitive to the issue of it. this is raised with the very small cable cars and possibly this could be phased in for a time line given to the smaller operators and it might take them longer to make a change. we were dealing with limited life performance and amplified sound. it graduated. there is a little amplified sound and big amplified sound. i don't know how you would like to do with it but that is what she just expressed. >> we are looking if there is a way to separate out smaller operators? as far as i know, there are 10 major sightseeing companies in the city that have opened their buses. >> they seem to be multiplying. i see more of those double decker buses than i ever have. >> and even the small ones, i happen to live on a tourist site. those little small things, they are so loud. the

that what this bus tour is about?to reconnect with white voters in small-town rural america? >> well, first off, john, he is not out there campaigning. he is out there as president. this is an official trip. i think it's important that he is out of washington. he'll be a better president the more time he spends outside of that city. i think it's great that he is out talking to people out here in the heartland, out here in the rural midwest. >> no disrespect. i understand he is the president of the united states and this is a listening tour. i'll let the republicans argue about who should pay for it or where the money should come from. but he is in minnesota, iowa, and illinois, in areas, maybe he is not officially campaigning. but if he is not campaign, i'm not standing. >> but he isn't campaigning. see out there talking to the american public and listening and connecting, which is something that voters want. it's interesting when you look at this. and i think i have talked about this before. when you look at from 200

and the bus tour has been criticized. we're going to hear from reince priebus and the republican party later in the program, but what about his own problem with the democratic base because he's getting a lot of push back along the way from disappointmented democrats? >> well, i think we've wanted to see him more engaged. he has tried to bring people together. some people just don't want to be brought together. i wish lyndon johnson's come let us reason together worked. these people who are elected to be disagreeable, don't want to agree. we'd like to see the president be a little more assertive. stand firmly between medicare and social security and promote an active jobs agenda. that takes money. it takes spending. it can be fully paid for without worsening the deficit by closing some international corporate tax leap holes that have led to the export of american jobs. i'm pleased to see the president talk about jobs. i'd like to see some leadership when we're back in set forcefully pushing a jobs agenda that is fully paid

they each paid $127 for the tour. after 12 hours, they arrive in ishinomaki city. the surrounding area was destroyed by the tsunami. rubble still clogs the narrow spaces between buildings. big removal vehicles can't get into the small spaces. as the bus drives through the devastated area, the passengers react. they're scheduled to work in the stor storage room of a plant that processed seafood. they get ready to work. >> translator: today's work is to pick up the dirt and mud here and put it in these bags. >> reporter: the building floor is kegged with earth, left behind by the tsunami. when the mud starts to dry, it blows around in the air and sticks in people's eyes and throats. and when the shovels disturb the dry earth, damp earth is uncovered and smells of decay. the temperature reaches 29 degrees celsius. the volunteers take a break every hour to prevent heat stroke. the owner of the plant stops by to personally thank the volunteers. >> translator: i know it's very hot. we're so happy that you all decided to come here to help uts. us. >> reporter: the volunte

ps, aerosmith wants their tour bus back. oh, touche! the aerosmith tour bus. the massachusetts republican party just nailed the obama administration for using the aerosmith tour bus, except the aerosmith tour bus was actually the one that was used by the bush administration when they sent president bush's treasury secretary and labor secretary and commerce secretary out on a six-city midwest bus tour in july 2003 to give political speeches trying to build support for bush tax cuts. they did actually rent out the aerosmith tour bus for that tax cuts tour, complete with black leather sofas and a mirrored ceiling. ew! so the massachusetts republican party while it is hilarious to mock public officials for taking the aerosmith bus out on tours, if they are calling anybody to get their bus back, they are calling elaine chow and the bush administration to get it back. the big black bus that obama was using this week in the midwest, was a purchase made by and a decision made by the united states secret service. the secret service bought two of these armored buses. on

hours will be the bus tour.where, what states it will hit up because they don't want, first of all, security detail and they don't want billboards popping up there probably with negative ads with other candidates. >> he doesn't want to be driving that bus down -- he won't be driving. sitting there looking out the bus and see certain things. >> wouldn't you like to see him drinchts i would pay to see that. >> all we know going through the midwest and folks you get to foot the bill because this is not, they say, a re-election event. this is administration event. so you are footing the bill. we are giving you the opportunity to name the president's bus tour which starts in eight days. got some good emails here is one from bird davis that should be called the economic distress express. great revenue raising road rally. >> that would be good. >> stimulus for you writes us on twitter says obama bus tour america under the bus 2012. >> i don't think that would be a very good name for it i don't know. >> motor radar one

i think the bus tour -- i would like your personal opinion on the bus tour, if you can. but i think he is doing a great job. what he is doing is trying to get people involved again. but hopefully it he can get it again. host: matt, were you a supporter of obama in 2008 or hillary clinton? caller: definitely obama. contributed to this campaign and everything. host: what is your level of improve the of some four years later? caller: i still love him. i don't care what the public says or what the republicans are trying to do. he is doing a great job. the country is in dire straits and he is doing everything he can to pull us through. host: what do you do in denver? caller: i work for planned parenthood. host: thanks for calling in. michigan, barbara, good morning. as a democrat, what is your impression of the bus tour? caller: i think the bus tour is fine. if people don't seem to realize that president obama doesn't have unilateral control over what happens in the country. he has to work with congress and the senate. i am sure it would be great if he were able to pass his o

section does not include open top tour buses. amending to clarify that noise restrictions do not apply to city agencies, adding a new section for the use of amplified sound on seeing buses in san francisco, except where sound is only audible to individual users. we have a presentation by a legislative aid to supervisor david chiu. >> good evening, i am here representing the office of supervisor david chiu, the sponsor of the legislation before you. supervisor chiu introduced this offensive coordinator nance several months ago in order to address noise concerns from open air tour buses with amplified sound. while we all recognize the importance of tourism as one of the primary economic engines for the city, supervisor chiu has been hearing from many residents across the city that their quality of life is being negatively impacted. they can destroy the peace and quiet of residential streets as

it is filled with water gushing from a giant some touring in spring. it is thought to be europe's largest spring of this car and. the village of deep stretches across the foothills several kilometers from the black sea shore it's called the heart cause. the backyard of nearly every house here has a distinctly as look a backyard is one of the keys symbols of the traditional way of life in abkhazia each backyard is supposed to have a cabin made of rhododendron. it is in fact a kitchen where all family members gather over meals. her idea. of. the fireplace is in the center of the cabin far is kinda long the clay full with a cauldron that hangs over it on a chain that is filled with memel ego the name given in some black sea countries to corn flour porridge just as well i think i might as well put a lead on it for a while but that's not really necessary. here people live long lives because they all eat natural food cooked over a fire. i know that's my all day dance make my mother go to. a puzzling which normally beast called. i also know that italians call

camp in the courtyard of his house he will treat a guest a homemade cheese and take them on guided tours. cheese is a form of income for us it's like our national currency like why do people always need to eat and cheese is always in demand here and up with. there is a three hour drive from the farm to see people in the abkhaz capital say the city has taken on a different look in the past several years ruined homes and hotels have been restored. the waterfront has also been transformed it's a traditional rallying point for tourists and locals alike and it has a known history. which of them is this question being merchant ships came here from greece and other places yes that there is evidence and just in there was a marketplace here in the first century b.c. it rocked you just get commercials from nearly the entire black sea coast brought their goods here at the bottom. of just a stand up a can often visit main pier. the paintings are inspired by the city and the sea it sits upon. more you this see is big in now in the both art of this land grown who don't come here just to have a good ti

one nation bus tour was a professionally produced family vacation touring historic sites in america. the "i swear this isn't for me running for president wink, wink" bus tour started back on may 29 in arlington, virginia. one of the interesting things is it petered out the week after it started. she announced today, quote, we're happy to jump on the bus for another leg of our one-nation tour. the family vacation is starting up again. and you'll never guess where the palin family is going on their vacation this week. quote, state fairs hold a special place in our nation's history and heritage so my family is honored to highlight one of them on one stop along the one-nation tour route. which state fair as the palin family going to? is it idaho? is it illinois? no, iowa. the historic iowa state fair. iowa state fair is historic. just like the state fairs in the other 49 states are historic too. but the one that sarah palin is visiting this week, coincidence, the peak of the republican debate and the ames, iowa straw poll is the state fair that this week happens to be held in iowa. i don

he'll announce all of this on his tour through the midwest.bc's jake tapper is traveling with the president in iowa. >> reporter: we're here at the second stop of president obama's bus tour of the heartland. this is just a couple of days after the republicans finished up their straw poll in iowa. the white house insists that this is not a campaign trip, it is an official trip by the president. still, you do hear, even though he is not making partisan attacks, you do hear the preview of the campaign to come. he criticizes some in congress, not naming who they are or what party they belong to, but some in congress who would rather see their opponents lose than america win. he talks about how during the republican debate last week there was not one republican candidate who was willing to go for a deal to reduce the deficit that was 10-1 spending cuts to tax increases. he said if that is your position, you are putting politics ahead of common sense. the president is in these states, these are states that he won -- minnesota, iowa, illinois. they a

the rnc calling it the dead end bus tour.opeful mitt romney's campaign dub it had the magical misery tour. >> the president has set about a bus tour today going to swing states, and frankly i think the american people would see him in washington working on getting this economy going again. he seems to be more intent on trying to save his job than to try and create jobs for the american people. >> reporter: the president had nothing new to offer on job creation. instead highlighting to a crowd of several hundred in minnesota the proposals he's been pushing for some time, extending unemployment benefits, extending a payroll tax cut, infrastructure spending, and as republicans accuse him of failing on jobs, he pointed a finger right back at them. >> there is no shortage of ideas to put people to work right now. what is needed is action on the part of congress, a willingness to put the partisan games aside and say we're going to do what's right for the country. >> reporter: so why not call congress back into session? this was the

. >> tours coming up? >> not a lot. tours are different now. some are in a tv studio. >> this is my wife. >> hi, nice to meet you. >> thomas, nice to me you. >> nice to meet you. >> fellow republican. >> thanks for taking the time to come over here. >> just wanted to stop and say hi. >> do you know brent? >> yeah. >> hey, man, thank you for doing this. this is great of you to do, thank you. >> good turn out. >> yes, very good turnout, absolutely. >> well, depends how you look at it, seven or eight? >> call it eight. >> call it eight? [laughter] wait a second -- this book is really about good journal. i. you know good journalism? my man, thank you, guys. [laughter] >> congrats. >> you're welcome. >> hey, guys. >> how are you? i like the tie. so, how was china? >> it was awesome. >> when did you get back? >> middle of july, i guess. it's wonderful. we never saw any -- they've never seen any western guests, put it that way. we learned about the economy in china, the people. i was a scholar. >> that's why you were there this time? >> yeah. >> it wa

the legislation would require tour bus operators to discontinue using electronic amplification systems in their ohm air sightseeing buses. in 2010, new york city enacted similar legislation and tour bus destinations around the world have been using headphones systems for years. also notably, recently in san francisco, there's a precedent, one of the major tour bus companies switched entirely over to headphones systems. as the legislation is currently written, it goes into effect in july of 2011, so obviously we have to make that amendment. and we will be meeting with representatives from different tour bus operators in the next few weeks to come up with some ideas of when a good sound and reasonable implementation timeline, what that would look like. new york city gave their companies a five-year window to implement the changes with percentages every year of how much the fleets had to be moved over to loud speakers. but in san francisco, because we don't have a permitting system like new york city does, we sort of -- we just have to choose a date and we can't phase it in. so last week,

to do a 60 city tour. more. a lot of times with authors if they are having to drag them out of the barn but with media to kind of cool my jets because i want to get out there and talk to people and share this with people in the country i live in. >> author michael moore, "here comes trouble" out in the fall of 2011. thank you. your book is titled ranchers. what inspired you to write this book? >> when i began working for the historical study it was probably one of the topics that i got the most interest in and questions about and even still today i kind of tell what it meant to people and how important it was to people, and the timing worked out because it was undergoing a renovation that is pretty close to being done today so the interest was at a fever pitch. >> can you describe this shopping center as well as its importance to chicago and its suburbs beginning in the early 1960's? >> was definitely a big first. there was a lot of unique features and really you hadn't seen shopping centers built on such

at one point, the bus tours came within seven miles of each other. >> we have competing job tours. >> reporter: perry has only been on the race for a few days but he has keyed in on the key issues. >> how many jobs will you create? >> as many as i can. >> the shoot from the hip texan kept up the blistering attack on the president. >> one in six job-ready americans don't have a job. that's in the a recovery, mr. president. that is an economic disaster. >> some of perry's comments raised eyebrows. for now, obama said for now he will cut him some slack. >> i think everyone who runs for president it probably takes a little time before they start realizing that this isn't like running for governor or senator. >> even with perry literally breathing down his neck, president obama tried to look past the republican con -- contenders and instead blamed the republicans in congress for the gridlock. >> they are putting the partisanship in front of country. that has to stop. >> today, president obama will defend his record on the economy in an illinois town that benefitted directly from the 2009 f

i cannot do the tour. -- i do one night shows, but not the tour.annot do the tour. >> i am glad you brought your piano, because it allows me to step aside and do what you do so well and what you have done so well for many years. i am honored. i have never had a conversation with somebody at their piano, so i am glad to have you here. >> i am glad to be here. minutesit is called "15 of fame." up next, a song by barry manilow. enjoy, and keep the faith. he comes home, and he is so excited because he got the job and cannot wait to tell her, and he goes to the bed and whispers -- sleep, loseies yesterday possible loose -- yeterday's blues ♪ harbor, ours in the streets is turning gold ♪ ♪ what ever you are dreaming, it is no longer on hold ♪ ♪ dream, baby, the dream, while you were asleep, i had mountains to climb and a promise to keep ♪ hunter and holden the prius, i am waiting to tell you when you open your eyes ♪ bring on tomorrow for me and for euyou ♪ hours, donn for dark is overdue ♪ ♪ bring on tomorrow and show me the sun ♪ ♪ we will live in it t

>> i think he could have done without the bus tour, john.robably better off if he hadn't flown from there up to martha's vineyard. the president's in deep trouble and so is the country, john. there's a deficit debt crisis which appears to call for real austerity on one side, he mentioned the employment crisis, the jobs. that seems to call for a massive stimulus of some kind, tax cuts, or spending. and the two contradict each over. and we've had the biggest stimulus package in history with three straight deficits every 1.5 trillion. we've had the lowest taxes in a long time. and nothing seems to be working for him or for the country. >> you think he knows what to do? >> no, i don't think hi knows what to do and i don't think many others know what to do earser either. >> this is a good interim for him to go up to martha's vineyard, tack a vacation and -- fine out what three think. >> he's up there with the northeastern cultural elite on martha's vineyard, which is the wrong place to be! >> eleanor? >> he does have access to communications, so

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president obama's bus tour takes him to an economic forum in iowa today. he's expected to announce new steps to boost employment in rural areas. it comes just a day after he told a crowd in decora iowa, he's sending a separate jobs package to congress next month. >> i'll be putting forward, when they come back in september, a very specific plan that boosts the economy, that creates jobs. >> reporter: he also fired back at his republican rivals for refusing to consider tax increases to deal with the deficit. >> if you're not thinking about common sense. you've got to be willing to compromise in order to move the country forward. >> reporter: the white house insists the president's trip is not a campaign event. still, it takes him through minnesota, iowa, and illinois. three states he won in 2008, and needs in 2012. >> the republicans have been making a lot of hay here in iowa the past couple of weeks. and i think it's a good thing to have the president here. >> reporter: texas governor rick perry will host an economic roundtable just 30 minutes away from th

i think the president's policy on his tour was pretty weak. some of it minor. some of it unlikely to pass when it comes to jobs. and in fact the white house essentially admitted that this week by saying oh, we're going to have new policy in september. which is an admission that the old policy wasn't really cutting it. i think the president's problem here is not just a vacation, which is easy to focus on, but the fact that he's coming up with a big jobs plan. 28 months after unemployment went over the 9% figure. which most people see as quite late. he's playing catch-up on the most important issue in american politics. >> lehrer: ruth? >> i wish i could say i disagree. but i thought the taurus very odd. because it was i'm on a tour. i'm anything to come up with a policy. wait until september. and that was problem one with it. problem two, i thought, was when he started to sort of ramp up this argument against congress. i need your help to get this congress to get off its-- get something done. well, when president truman ran against a do-nothing congress he had n

democrats do bus tours so that's what he did.dn't have much to say, and i'm glad he is going to ground and all his advisors because they are going to come back and unveil something in the early september. and supposedly there's a battle in the how, do you go big and bold or more incremental with the hope of picking up some republican support? i think that the republicans are not going to go along with anything he does, so i think it's time for him to confront the republicans, so i would be for big and bold. and put some things out there that republicans have historically liked. the infrastructure, they like payroll tax cuts. so stick that in there and so if they -- if they are the ones that block this, then at least everyone knows where the obstruction is. >> you're knocking him for going to martha's vineyard? how much -- >> no. >> how much did he pay for that house? >> $50,000 a week. >> a week? >> yes, he pays for it times? out of his own money. [everyone talking at once] >> if you want to start comparing president reagan -- >>