one reason why that dax is thursday was pretty uninspired. the burlesque did manage to and trading slightly below record levels well you know they're up to wednesday's rally for the major markets here in europe. it was such a nice day for the german dax pulling slightly from table to the closing numbers the stalks is well. the euro stocks that is over too. you deal with the dow is sliding it is now the euro is also pulling against the us killed one u with still a thirty five ninety eight is the number alright it is high summer in australia and high season for bushfires fire fighters attacking ways of the wave of fun moving fine is intensified by i think what it is more dozens of bushfires are blazing across southeastern australia officials issued an emergency warning after two fires months in the grampians national park in the state of victoria. residents were told to leave immediately authorities are struggling to contain the blaze. no point in the situation is likely to get to the morris in adelaide temperatures soared above forty flight de

you take president obama to task for being what i would characterize as an uninspiring military leader. he didn't bring enthusiasm to his role role as commander-in-chief especially with regard to the afghanistan war and you i think had a conversation with rahm emanuel where you made that point that the soldiers needed to hear that the president was behind what you called the mission. so, that is -- and you chew that conclusion from your interactions with him and general counsels. >> yeah, and trying to weigh this and balance it, i supported every single one of the president obama's decisions on afghanistan including up to the decision to seek the strategic agreement with the afghans that would keep her residual force their act the end of the year. but there were two aspects of the war in afghanistan that troubled me. one was the presidents suspicion of the motives of the senior military, particularly when it came to their recommendations on afghanistan. and the second was what you describe. as i told from when i met with him, i don't mind that the president speaks out on exit strategie

it was an uninspiring speech generally. the only remarkable thing about it is here we are at the beginning of 2014. he was there, and he said, "let's be friends." >> that's right, it wasn't a particularly inspiring title. it was called iran in the world. that sums it up. some of the key crisis has iran at its epicentre. iran is re-emerging out of years of isolation. it is asserting itself here, among the richest and powerful people, an an economy that is open for business. what he wanted here, what he wants, and he'll meet the oil giants later is investment in the oil industry. so much of that speech was about that. i am joined by someone listening closely to it from the economic think tank. do you think he hit the mark, did what he came here to do? >> it was a vast step forward compared with his predecessor. it was a message of moderation, engagement, and as you said that we were open for business, commercial lengths. obviously whatever he's looking for is the next steps. what are the concrete steps especially in terms of

and when he gets up in front of people, he's completely uninspiring and trying to be presidential, and he was flat. >> the french do have this reputation for being -- it's not approving but accepting of the complicated love lives of their presidents. >> there's a lot of history. one had a secret family. >> the president, his wife left him for another man, and came back for the campaign, and left him again as soon as he was elected, and them he, on the rebound, married carla bruni, a super model. so it's not like we don't have help and women, but the problem with oland, he looks kind of ridiculous, and this is a country right now that needs a leader and not a lover. if you see the pictures that started the scandal, of the slightly pudgy guy, riding under a motorcycle helm. and riding number two on a motorcycle to go see his lover, you just shake your head and say, oh, please no. and that's what the people react to. >> and as chris said, france needs lip. unemployment is high, and the economy is a mess. france is europe's second highest economy, and the notion that this president has bee

when he's in front of them he's completely uninspiring. he was trying to appear 39 presidential today. he was absolutely flat. >> other than that, the french do have this reputation for being, you know, if not approving accepting of the love lives of their presidents. >> yes, there is a lot of history. >> yes, one had a secret family. >> and yes rumored to have affairs and one had a wife left for another man and came back for the campaign and left again and he on the rebound married karla, a super model. it is not like we don't have musical chairs with a lot of the women in and out of the presidential offices. he looks kind of ridiculous and this is a country that needs a leader not a lover. if you see the pictures that started the scandal, a slightly pudgy guy riding a scooter to go see his lover, you know, you just shake your head and please no. that is what the people react to. >> france needs leadership, unemployment is high, the economy is a mess. they are the second largest economy and the notion that this president has been distract

uninspired leadership, a lack of management skills and a vision.y are more to be credited for the outcome. >> you know, is it possible that america has reached that point as a civilization to understand that decline isn't so bad? you know, competition is hard? you know, it's almost like gaining weight. or getting married, that's the united states, it's like you know what? maybe we don't want to be number one anymore. >> that's satisfying too. and again, one that we may have not consider ed and may be now. the idea that this list, though, i think we get hung up on lists, but we really need to pay attention to what it's really saying. because there's a loser here too. if we can just advance the graphic to 137. i love this thing. >> north korea? >> china. and we know that country cannot get its economic act together. it's going to take them another decade to overtake america. it means that it took them just about 40 years to do what we did in 250 years. >> that is scary. so i'm not sure what you do with the index. >> as a selfish person, i wonder how

that has only been reinforced by what i have heard from people around-- that there is a sense of uninspired, not thrilled, ratings not great. not being ideas. and i do think it was a misreading and reflection of misreading of the country. with a country in fear of really a decline, i do think you have to have something big. that means you probably can't have something passionable. but i do think he had the tant to really change the debate in some large way to really maybe not pass legislation but pave the way for a future president to pass legislation by introcausing ideas, creating networks by mobile identifiesing a movement for equality, for opportunity, for social mobility and can could have laid the predicate for something big that would have felt big and commensurate with the moment and i guess i don't think he did it. >> woodruff: how do you read it. >> i can't argue that it wasn't big, i don't think children in the future generations will be memorizing large chunks of this speech. and committing them to memory. but i do think that it was the word that he used that i think gwen used i

and a lot of these different fields have really gradual, uninspiring progress for a long timement and they're becoming every day reality. i got a ride in the google car last summer. it was an amazing experience and i walked away without a scratch. >> jaron lanier, is technology facilitating change to our humanity faster than it used to? >> you know, it's a little hard to say. if you look at the early part of the 20th century the waves of change from, you know, automobiles, and telephones, television, all these things are were really amazingly dram you can. and they happened in a way more rapidly than change comes to us today. so i'm a little hesitant to make these comparisons. but whatever the comparison might properly be, we can say that there are huge changes going on that could really change how people live and work. and could completely change our economic and social roles. and that's something we have to focus on. >> andrew, is the technology primarily about increasing productivity or the economy of consumption? >> sure, yeah, i think that is what's going on am but i want to put

he sees chris christie as a type a politician and finds that uninspiring. these not alone. there plenty of far left city party conservatives who have real problems with chris christie. even moderates who are concerned that he won't play as well in places like north carolina or iowa. as popular as he is and as many people like him and want him to run for president, he still has issues in the park. this is not going to help. it's not as easy as he thinks. fund-raise and speak alongside other republican governors. this is different. >> he's a popular guy. when you look at the polling, let's throw this up on the screen. he is the only candidate among registered voter who is can beat hillary clinton. you see the numbers. two percentage points ahead. final thought would be -- what if it comes out he was telling the truth. nothing to do with this. do you think this whole thing taints him as a candidate? >> for does not paint a pretty pictures of politics in trenton. his hands are not clean even if he knew nothing. he admits he is ultimately responsibility, but democrats will try t

intel okay on the numbers, uninspiring revenue guidance and that's a problem overall.the people that want to dismiss intel these days, oh, it doesn't matter, they missed the whole boat, it's a pc company, and it's qualcomm and samsung that matters they're making the chips that go into the ipads and iphones. i don't know about this at all. i think intel does matter. put up the semiconductor index versus the s&p, it's a very good indicator. last year the sox tracked the s&p 500 practically perfectly, what's the biggest component? i think it's intel, i think intel matters if for no other reason than it's a good indicator where the markets are going. i think intel does matter and the strength of the semiconductor industry matters an awful lot. meanwhile where is the growth? that's what we want to know about. i've been mentioning europe. i want to hear comments on how europe was doing because they were very cautious in the prior quarters. jeff immelt said we saw good conditions in growth markets. strength in the u.s. and a mixed environment in europe. i call that modestly b