scott martin, united advisors and steve hayes from the "weekl standard." you guys are still at work. everybody in washington gave up and went home. we're all here. i don't know, kimberly, what do you make of what happened today? >> you know, i don't know. they can't play fair and they can't play nicely in the sand backs, make them go home and rethink it and come back and be willing to work. life is about a plan b. if plan b doesn't work you better have a plan-cor plan d. melissa: scott, i'm surprised the markets didn't fall more. are they still holding out hope that these chuckle heads as called earlier today by something else will get something done? now it seems we're should be preparing the swan dive to go over the news call cliff? >> chuckle heads is putting it nicely, melissa. it was ahin tde. there wasn't a lot of people participating in the market move. it is not surprising when everybody sold yet. that probably comes next week. here is the interesting thing. i'm kind of surprise that we're surprised nothing got done. year-and-a-half, debt ceiling t

scott martin, chief market strategist for united advisors joins me now.n and stock market together. it is not working for me today. >> should i leave the business then and do something else, huh? melissa: i think we should talk about something else. i'm getting to talk about the santa claus rally. is there a santa claus rally? will very a true santa clauserally? >> i think it will be tough to get one, really do. there will be reposition portfolios at end of the year. people are getting nervous about the fiscal cliff. i wasn't that conceed a couple weeks ago. you got on top of me about that and you were totally correct. it is starting to hurt people. it was a good call by y. i think that hurts stocks by end of the yearnd investor spending an appetite and consumer spending as well. >> i love it wen you tell me i'm right. it often doesn't last very long. i got tohink though at some point when we get some real clarity on this, really, no matter what, whether it is good for bad f investors and taxpayers, there is going to be a little relief in the market, don'

. >>> an afghan police woman is in custody accused of killing a civilian police advisor from the united states today. pushes say he shot the advisor with a pistol. he emerge from a small shop near the police headquarters. the suspect was arrested shortly afterwards. the advisor's identity has not been released. the list in a rash of attacks by police officers against their foreign al lies. >>> the national rifle association is adamant about its idea of placing armed police officers and guards in all of the nation's schools. this comes as diane fine stein of california promises to introduce legislation. the head of the nra put the blame on violent video games. >> it hasn't worked. diane fine stein had her ban, and columbine occurred. >> hundreds of gun control advocates protested yesterday in new york and other cities. >>> some in congress on sunday on reaching a deal for the white house to avoid reaching the fiscal cliff. the president and congress on christmas vacation. it will be thursday before talks resume to try and prevent the automatic tax hikes and spending cuts from taking effe

i mean, we, the united states military has provided advisors to producers and directors for years inoing that. and that has gone on through countless administrations. i mean, the only thing that has concerned me about making films about the bin laden raid is revealing any of the tactics techniques and procedures to our enemy because we're constantly doing these operation literally every night in afghanistan. bill: is michael vickers a good man? do you know him well if at all? >> oh, yeah, i know mike, as do others and he was a cia operative, a special forces officer and policy maker in the pentagon. he provided years of valuable service to our country. i can not imagine him intentionally doing anything here that would bring harm to anyone. bill: we'll continue to follow this out of the pentagon and the department of justice but on your point on the hunt for bin laden, senator john mccain went and saw the movie monday night and came at very strongly against it. the movie portrays finding of bin laden's courier directly tied to those that were waterboarded. mccain says that is simply n

united states. officials in afghanistan say the police woman shot the advisor with a pistol as emerge from a small shop near headquarters there. the suspect was arrested shortly afterwards. the advisor's identity has not been released. the latest in a rash of attacks by police officers against their foreign al lies. >>> business news, stock futures are down as very light trading with markets set to close early for christmas eve. u.s. trading will close today 10:00 a.m. pacific time and will stay closed tomorrow for christmas. a number of markets overseas including germany and italy are closed all day today. >>> 5:06. if you haven't finished your shopping, you can do it with clear skies. >> i just finished my shopping and realized i need something else. so i've got to go back. >> i walked into target. i was completely done and still spent 80 bucks. >> i know. >> folks around the bay area going to catch a break from the stormy weather outside. what a weekend. a much needed break. some isolated showers showing up on the radar. you can see some of that moving in along the coastline and the peninsula as the

united states. david: president will not do it. we asked advisor gene sperling on this show. absolutely not. not going to do it. >> why haven't republicans hammered home that theme? david: why haven't they. >> good question. poor unimaginative leadership. david: they're in the beltway mentality how to out maneuver the other guy without thinking about long term implications to us. >> why didn't they define the debate. they knew after the election they knew it was coming up. they go to the sheep and the slaughterhouse and hope they're not sheared too much. david: they don't send themselves to the slaughterhouse. we're going to the slaur house. president says how much new revenue he needs. the most he will get taxing all the rich people assuming they don't move their money to the cayman islands is 100 billion a year. look what happened in 2009 when we went into recession. look what happened to revenues. put that up on the screen. revenues in 2009 went into recession. we lost $400 billion in one year and we didn't regain it until 2011. we still haven't regained the amount we had in 2007 because

instead of uniting the nation mohammed morsi is addressed seems to have divided it even further but dr counterterrorism advisor to the u.s. congress says that despite the opposition's determination to make morsi back down he has a strong chance of keeping the new powers under themself. the country is clearly split but mr morsi is strong because he has many institutions under his control the parliament the presidency the upper layer of the army now has replaced many officers in his calculations on december the fifteenth he went because the most organized force now in egypt at least for the next few months is the muslim brotherhood and their allies the salafist they've gotten a majority in parliament with allies of course they've got the president elected with allies and now some of his allies had abandoned him but they don't have the strength to organize and reach out to citizens the way the muslim brotherhood have so this looks like a recipe for a long. civil uprising against the government i am not sure that this is going to go immediately into what people think could be a civil war unless acts of violence ar

advisor and entrepreneur and best selling author. you can find him at ruleo ruleoneinvesting.com. >> and a media entrepreneur and founder of a movement, organization unitingnd latino entrepreneurs. >> i host ed venture capitalist and we spent just as much time as why they shouldn't take investors and what it takes to get these people to invest in their company. >> i was cranking notes. she's concerned about losing control. i think this is a myth, i do. i've been around he venture capital industry for 30 years and never met a single one of people putting up the money who want control of the company. nobody does. what they want is for you to hit your business plan. what happens when entrepreneurs don't, then somebody comes in and starts to try to make sense out of the whole thing. that's where you can lose control. >> i don't think she's quite ready for the money yet. i really related to her. i think she's a winner and will be very successful. when you come from, as i have, a minority background and you do work around your pain. her mother said, don't sell this! she has a little shame about it growing up, just like i did about being the kid of immigrants, w

advisor. it will concern nato officials. although there is still only a small proportion of the country's 350,000 security forces that are gradually taking over security from nato. >> if the united states and afghanistan slows down its training efforts, its joint training capabilities and capacity building up security forces then both the afghan government and the united states will be doing exactly what the enemies want. >> there has been some progress in peace efforts to the afghan government and the taliban. last month negotiators secured pakistan's coop trying help with the process. representatives of the taliban, the afghan government met face-to-face. president karzai announced plans for an office in qatar. karzai heads to the united states next month to discuss the u.s. presence here through 2014 and beyond. others will withdraw their troops more quickly than planned. the killing of an american in the heart of kabul won't boost support for an already unpopular war. >> chief editor of the kabul newspaper said that insider attacks are hampering the fight against taliban and al qaeda. >> the taliban are behind all of these attacks. it means their presence in security forces

a feeling that susan rice will be national security advisor and you don't need senate confirm ailings foation . >> her job is to represent the united states. >> did she represent the united states when she decided to go on those sunday shows and even though she had read those classified documents, she went and told the story that was not true. did she represent the united states? well, i think the american people can decide that for themselves. i would state that i don't believe she did represent the cause of justice or really give us the truth and information about what we need to know, what we knew at the time to give us some answers about the deaths of four americans. i get, you have such a great gretawire account on twitter. i'm always following you. people who are tweeting you and tweeting me, they're like what's going on with benghazi? why don't we know more about what happened to these people those are four americans dead and we're going other the fiscal cliff. there's still unresolved issues. >> what i don't get is if there are four murders in any town or city in this country, and on september 11th it was still unsolved, it

united states. so they owe a great deal to valerie. she is their godmother. she is now the senior advisorto both the first lady and to the president of the united states and obama himself has said, i run all my decisions through valerie and i trust her implicitly. there is no one short of the president in the first lady who has more power in the white house than valerie jarrett. >> you are so right there trying to figure out jared's mysteries hold on the president and first lady is a favorite guessing game in the parlors and dining rooms. >> it strange because what is your source of power? after all she doesn't have any foreign-policy experience but she attends national security council meetings. she's often in the most important domestic meetings regarding the economy. no one gets to see the president without first going through valerie jarrett so what is this power that she has. the only explanation i can come up with after all these interviews i did was that she had given the first lady first lady and the president the impression that she had there back and she is protecting them from

unit is agreed on closer integration in brussels french president francois hollande said there's no doubt about the integrity of the eurozone which will no longer be taken by surprise but investment advisor petro young believes the euro's continued existence is a facade all spain has simply run out of cash. the problem is that the spanish government doesn't have any money and that told me the problem the difficulty with the spanish government is that it hasn't actually wanted to to bite the bullet for the most of all areas in which it's been deficient for many many years admitting one could say that was the previous government run rather than the current government however the truth is there is no money to pay all of these nurses and doctors there is no money for this loutish government infrastructure it has to be privatized sold off and there have to be stoppage culp's because truly spain has spent the last decade living on the never never it was built on the back of a huge property bubble the bubble was unsustainable nobody managed to manage that unfortunately while we can obviously say tragedy for the poor independent health care professionals there's just no way to manage to find the

president obama morsi -- president morsi' morsis senior advisor and he told the "washington post" that they share a vision with president obama and the unitede president is doing is putting the united states in a position where our enemies are getting stronger. iranians have a nuclear weapon on the way. they're working to try to build one. you certainly don't hear very much about that any more. in the meantime, the president has stood aside. now, he in the last 24 hours was pretty strong in terms of threatening the syrians if they do use chemical weapons. let's hope that he, in fact lives up to that. it would be a fitters. >> sean: we'll look back through the history, the prism of history. when the world has to deal with the islamists, it's going to be ugly and probably on a scale of world war three. that's my sad prediction and i pray that i'm wrong. >> when people look back and say who lost the middle east, it will be pretty clear that it was barack obama. >> sean: good to see you. coming up, he's the photographer who snapped an image of a new york city man after being pushed onto the subway tracks. now there's outrage that he chose to ta

nineteen seventh one, national security advisor and president received the dispatch they had been waiting for. the chinese premier requested the presence of a unitedtive. the news could not have been bigger or more top secret. not even the vice president or the secretary of state knew about the attempts to re-open relations with china. as i continue my conversation tonight he takes us behind the scenes of the decision that changed history. >> he decides that you will go to china? >> yes. first he has to decide whom is he going to send? and he might do foolish things so the process, nixon concluded that he had worked with him. >> i'm going to finesse all actions on china. >> it would require keeping the press entirely in the dark. >> that would be the best possible position to take. >> squeal as they will. >> even the smallest leap would shut down the ambitious leap. >> you go to pakistan? >> and vietnam. go to thailand. go to india. go to pakistan. it is an excruciatingly poor program, having absolutely nothing to announce and lose in associated by the time we left india. >> by design. you were making it so boring -- >> by design, yes. >> and you

united nations. fox was reporting right is being talked up as a potential pick for national security advisor since thatould not require senate confirmation. late breaking news on the cabinet moves. gm unveiling new 2014 chevy silverado and gmc pickups hoping the new models will drive sales for the auto giant. jeff flock live in pontiac, michigan, with more. >> i'm surrounded by the team that put this together. all these folks you see are the ones who put together the gm sierra and silverado pickup. we talked to mark reuss earlier in the day talking about the fiscal cliff being introduced at a time when the country could be an economic role. telling me he think they will make money even if the nation goes forward over the fiscal cliff. >> we can make a lot of money at fiscal cliff levels, but plans in place to do all that. we don't think we need to. >> what does your internal planning say if you go over? >> we take a look at different car lines by segment and look at where the strike is a and look t the pent-up demand. >> this is a huge vehicle for gm, the best-selling of all gm vehicles. a quick look a

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advisor to the israeli administration to the u.n. arafat speaking for the general assembly. very tumultuous period. i moved to israel and tried for this unit in the army. the tryouts are rather rigorous. i did 17 months of basic training. and got out just prior to the lebanon war. but in israel, we have -- you serve for a long period your regular serve and do reserve service to the age of 52. now i have a son in the army who is 19. and in a very elite unit. i am still doing reserve duty. we share uniforms. very bizarre. >> how old are you now? >> i'm 47. >> you can be called up at any time? >> i have been. i served in the latest intifada. in a combat role. >> where? >> in nablus. >> full combat uniform? >> i'm supposed to be semiretired. you stop jumping in the israeli army in the paratroopers at age 37 and cease being a combat soldier at age 42. at 42, 43, i was asked to stay on as an advisor on media relations. why not? sounds interesting. get good briefings. when the fighting broke out in the west bank, they asked any of the media advisors if they had combat experience. like a total fool, i said oh, of course, i have. we need someone to

advisors. and then finally last but not least, we have david walker, founder and c.e.o. of the comeback america initiative. david's formerly the comptroller general of the united states. he was also the head director of the -- of the u.s. government accountability office for almost 10 years. he is widely read and authored numerous articles on the debt deficit and he has a new initiative which i think makes tremendous sense and may doom it obscurity where things sometimes don't get discussed but david's new group is looking at the efficiencies, the inefficiency, the duplications in the government to try and find areas where we can save money without cutting. and i think it's a very interesting initiative and it's one that you all should look into and see about supporting and i hope that he will mention it at least briefly in some of his comments today. so with that introduction, i'm going to turn to the panel and i'm going to sit down and we're going to start discussion hopefully some of these issues. >> and i'll start with david on the right side and we'll just move right across. >> thanks for coming. first, there are challenges between the federal state and local lev

thai company can chinese company manufactures in the united states, employing good american workers. .. >> the key is having the right set of advisorsm investment bankers to accounting firms and law firms and pr firms and management consulting firms. >> we will leave it there. think you all for coming. think everyone. [applause] i was just going to thank everyone at asia society.org. thank you both for being here. it has been a great pleasure. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> if we turn away from the needs of others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about the greatest suffering. >> obesity in this country is nothing short of a public health crisis. >> i think i have intentness that went up and told me when someone had their own agenda. >> i think that they serve as a window on the path to past what was going on with american women. >> she becomes the chief confidant. >> many of the women who were first ladies were writers. journalists and they wrote books. >> they are, in many cases, more interesting as human beings and their husbands. if only because they are not first and foremost defined as limited b

advisor that doesn't require senate confirmation. >> susan is going to continue to be an outstanding u.s. ambassador to the united nations.my next secretary of state. there's no doubt that susan was qualified. there are other people that were qualified as well. her interest is in serving me and more importantly the country. >> talk about the next choice, it's interesting to watch the dominos fall down. all these same senate that opens up the senate seat in massachusetts, with scott brown come back, this opens up a whole new series of conversations. >> and you kind of wonder if it's only six weeks after a very, very resounding win in the election, you wonder what the next four years are, if there was any time he could win a fight and not have to back down and say this is a moral imperative. >> the white house was terrible defending nominees the first time around, he had someone who wasn't yet a nominee. he had no defense. there are a lot of people around susan rice who are very unhappy that there was no concerted communications effort to push back against this until very, very late last week. and by the way, sources tell m

advisors. >>> one car company says think again. the japanese player subaru is doubling down on the u.s. market and expanding its presence right here in the unitedis the executive vice president and chief operating officer of subaru america. good morning. >> good morning, simon. how are you doing? >> i'm doing good. what is the announcement here? >> well, so far we're having a great year, up almost 30% for the year, the month of november. that's allowing us to expand our manufacturing capacity at our factory in atlanta. >> how many jobs? >> well, right now probably expanding closer to 2,500 to 2,800. later this year we'll make a decision whether or not we're going to bring out another one of our car lines from japan to produce at our factory in indiana. >> that sounds like a challenge to local politicians. what are you seeking for them to help you in that decision? >> we already have the fact in indiana so i'm not so sure. the biggest thing for us is making sure we get the appropriate air rights at the factory to make sure we can produce the number of cars that we can produce out there. >> you are the epitome of the japanese nate mare. this is f