now, if somebody had some question about his qualifications, that he's totally unqualified for this, that's a different story. that's a different story. i challenge anyone to come forward with anything remotel remotely -- remotely -- connected to his qualifications that would show him disqualified. let me read -- and i'll close shortly -- a quote from james soken, the president of the american bar association. listen up, lawyers. quote -- "a fundamental tenet of our justice system and our constitution is that anyone who faces loss of liberty has a right to legal counsel. lawyers have an ethical obligation to uphold that principle and provide zealous representation to people who otherwise would stand alone against the power and resources of the government. even to those accused or convicted of terrible crimes. i was alarmed to learn that there is some opposition to mr. adegbile's nomination based solely on his efforts to protect the fundamental rights of an unpopular client while working at the legal defense fund. his work, like the work of a.b.a. members who provide thousands of hour

. >> president obama's new ambassador nominees are lambasted with being unqualified. >> ukraine's interim leader says he's open to talks with russia. that's despite russian war ships blocking ukrainian vessels in a black sea port. there are also russian troops in other military bases in crimea. speaking ahead of a summit in brussels, the european parliamentary summit reiterates that the e.u. stands behind ukraine. >> we need to urgently tackle this problem. and we are ready to find a solution in the contact group and an offramp, together with the u.s., e.u. russia, and clearly with ukrainian participation. and we ask russia to respond. whether they are ready to preserve peace and stability in europe or they are ready to instigate another provocations and another tensions in our bilateral and multilateral relations. >> i give you a guarantee, and you know it. this parliament was always on the side of a free and democratic self-determined ukrainian nations. we cooperate in the last years and i gave you the public reassurance of our parliament. we are behind you and your government and we su

know harry reid changed the rules of the senate to try to make it easier for people like, this unqualified nominees to force them through. >> is he going to get passed? >> i'm not sure he is republicans will be united against him a number of democrats break with the president last week on one of his nominees. i know there are a number of senators who are up for re-election who are probably not going to want to vote for somebody who is this committed to taking away our second amendment rights. >> the job is sort of a peculiar one. maybe that's a inside word. there have been instances like the surgeon general in the 60's was political about cigarettes. that somehow different in your mind? >> cigarettes dealt with one of the three major causes if not all three major causes of death in the united states heart disease, cancer and stroke. >> it's education process. they didn't take the product off the market. it's education there is a role for education. not tramp fling on the constitution. a former surgeon general a democrat wrote a letter to the president and said this nominee is completely un

community itch is made of the term use from accessory to ancillary use i checked dictionaries the unqualified use of the worded nonprofit is not to take over public space for the formula retail. what constitutes a nonprofit and what's the korea criteria. many organizations set up those and general tricks. how exactly would a nonprofit sponsor retail the public space will be closed to some public events. what does limited mean. we have countless venues where people pay for venues. as i read the program process language does this foster limited outreach for the occupant and the inner sunset has proponents that have converted the plazas falsely represented to the neighborhood they don't have the support. the - does this mean that private security guards cou control the plazas in new york the parks in the obvious many folks are happy that this distinguishes us from new york. the example of new york is troubling we have the dan park that is kafrtd to a wealthy crowd and a posh restaurants and that's not intended to be temporary that leads to one major concern that leads to legislation that gets pu

. >>> ebay rejects activist investor carl icahn's two board nominees saying both are unqualified.icahn has been trying to shake up to push it to spin off the valuable paypal business and accused the company of having poor corporate governance and called the ceo incompetent. today a big investor leon cooperman, chief executive of omega advisors came out in support of ichan's spin off proposal. >> they should spin off a portion of paypal, monetize it, create a value, lower the cost of capital and give them flexibility. >> and shares of ebay today fell about 1.5% to $58.22. >>> urban outfitters beat but revenue came up short. the name sake store continues to struggle and the ceo warned about the first quarter performance. sales at other stores like free people and anthropology remained strong. >>> a private equity firm is nearing a deal to purchase the institutional shareholders services. the firm is known for guiding shareholders how to vote for things like merges, executive pay and the election of board members. iss has been on the block since october, and if the deal is done, inci

he couldn't even give unqualified praise for capturing and killing osama bin laden. this is cheney on hugh hewitt's radio show last fall. let's listen to this. >> you don't go out and broadcast the fact that you got the guy. you want to take that intelligence and be able to exploit it over the next few nights and wrap up large parts of the network. they were in such a hurry to go out there with bin laden, such a hurry to go out and announce victory that i'm convince they'd probably did not get maximum damage out of the intel that they had captured. >> excuse me, who was it that put on a flyers uniform and declared mission accomplished a bit early about ten years prematurely. >> also, what he says doesn't make sense. there is a firefight at the compound that was covered on national tv in pakistan. i mean, people knew what had happened. it was oh, let's keep this quiet. so they exploited the intelligence as fast as they could. and so, i mean, this is what he always complained about when he was in power. secondguessing. >> we have man who covered all this. you covered.

than four years behind bars for taking financial kickbacks in return for steering contracts to unqualified friends in 2010. use not charged in the case and denies any wrongdoing. >> feel in my house speaker is proposing a tax on millionaires to help pay for education. will be grateful for this opportunity to support lower education. we've done this because we feel. that is why we have drafted this the way we have drafted this. annual incomes of over $1 million will be taxed an additional 3% over the flat income tax rate. the plan is to raise $1 billion a year for schools. the proposal needs to be approved by may 5th in order to be considered. >> bad bugs have been detected at the thompson center. they were discovered in offices used by the illinois department of financial and professional regulation. a spokeswoman says the contaminated area has been treated and their sterilizing any paper filed. the affected area is located in a part of the building restricted to state employees. the bugs were traced to a worker who brought them from home. >> there may soon be helicopter tours from chicago

audit for stop -- unqualified audit. with new leadership of jeh johnson, they are determined to lower it again. otheresson are there for deputy secretaries out of that experience with homeland security trying to get off the high-risk list? particularly with respect to dod which has been on the high-risk list forever. for a of appropriate financial management. they deny they have proper payments and are not even auditable. the marines are trying to get close, but it's a very slow process. give us some advice on a huge asked why hethey robbed banks, they said that's where the money is to give us some advice, please. >> i think you said it already. the vacancies are killers. going to see substantial change when you don't have long-term leadership that can be held accountable for the changes that need to take place. there are a lot of things that can be changed with respect to the appointment process, reduce the number of people going through the pipe, certainly around the management positions would be our number one recomme

now, if somebody had some question about his qualifications he is unqualified, that is a different story. that is a different story. i challenge anyone to come forward with anything remotely, remotely connected to his qualifications to show him disqualified. i will read a quote from the president of the american bar association. listen up lawyers quotation a fundamental tenet of our constitution anyone that faces loss of liberty has the right to legal counsel. lawyers have an ethical obligation to uphold that principle and provide zealous representation to people who otherwise would stand alone against the power and resources of the government. even those accused and convicted of terrible crimes. i was a warrant to learn there was opposition to the debo adegbile nomination solely based on the effort to protect the rights of an unpopular clients while working at the legal defense fund. his work by those who provide thousands of hours of pro bono services every year is consistent with the tradition of the legal profession and should be commended, not condemned. '' shameful. shameful move t

how much of the media kind of embraced this as an unqualified success? >> i think largely. in some corners, people actually cover this who are on this beat say actually, there's questions. they're counting bought meaning you put it into your shopping cart. you talk to the insurers and they'll say anywhere from 15% is a much higher percent, they buy it and then they forget to pay for it. in most stores, that doesn't count as buying. what really gulls me is the administration insists that they have no way of figuring out whether these are people that didn't have insurance before and are now joining the ranks of the insurers or if they have insurance have it canceled under if you like your plan, can keep your plan and then are buying replacement insurance. >> you don't think that has gotten enough -- >> oh, no. that was part of the whole point. >> i would partially disagree that newspaper coverage has been diligent in mentioning the factors such as we don't know how these people are going to pay for it. cbs, nightly news, i'm wondering what your take is because this is one of

now, if somebody had some question about his qualifications, that he's totally unqualified for this, that's a different story. that's a different story. i challenge anyone to come forward with anything remotel remotely -- remotely -- connected to his qualifications that would show him disqualified. let me read -- and i'll close shortly -- a quote from james soken, the president of the american bar association. listen up, lawyers. quote -- "a fundamental tenet of our justice system and our constitution is that anyone who faces loss of liberty has a right to legal counsel. lawyers have an ethical obligation to uphold that principle and provide zealous representation to people who otherwise would stand alone against the power and resources of the government. even to those accused or convicted of terrible crimes. i was alarmed to learn that there is some opposition to mr. adegbile's nomination based solely on his efforts to protect the fundamental rights of an unpopular client while working at the legal defense fund. his work, like the work of a.b.a. members who provide thousands of hour

the president has a pattern of speaking unqualified nominees we just went through this for a guy who defended a cop killer. the guy who was going to be our ambassador to norway didn't know norway had a king and not a president they didn't even read the wikipedia entry. these are nato allies these are major countries. this is the surgeon general of the united states. america's doctor. we need qualified nonpartisan nominees. >> nra says it's a matter of trust. they don't think they or their members are going to trust this attorney general. good to see you. >> thank you. >> the mystery of the missing malaysia airlines jet deepens tonight. investigators offering details on two men who boarded the plane with stolen pass ports confirming their fingerprints are being compared against records of known terrorists and criminals this as 34 planes and 40 ships searched vast waters between malaysia ask vietnam for any sign of the jets. and the 239 people on board. two u.s. navy ships are among those helping. despite several leads crews have come up empty-handed thus far, 72 hours after getting wo

attorney in new jersey, chris christie was completely unqualified for that position. experience in criminal law and had never so much as filed a motion in federal court. no experience in federal court. and trained lawyers are very careful speakers. they don't say things like, i could make up an answer at any time that sounds convincing. a trained lawyer would never, ever say that. and the most important answers christie has given about the scandal surrounding him and his administration are not convincing. every poll shows that most people in new jersey do not believe chris christie's insistence that he knew nothing about what was happening with the george washington bridge until long after it was over. and in a new national bloomberg poll, which shows what christie would be up against if he makes the mistake of running for president, 63% do not believe him. they do not believe that christie knew nothing about the scandal at the gorge washington bridge as it was happening. 43% of republicans don't believe chris christie. 63% of independents don't believe chris christie

. >> lambasted for being unqualified. >> no love loft between these two teams as they engage in another brawl this season. details later. of america to be heard. >> our shows explore the issues that shape our lives. >> new questions are raised about the american intervention. >> from unexpected viewpoints to live changing innovations, dollars and cents to powerful storytelling. >> we are at a tipping point in america's history! >> al jazeera america. ther >> these protestors have decided that today they will be arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down a state... >> what's clear is that people don't just need protection, they need assistance. >> welcome back, a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera. backing a split from ukraine to join russia. pro russian supporters gathered as the vote we understand ahead and parliament speeded up plans for a referendum which will happen in 10 days. ukraine's interim prime minister called for a political solution to the cries in his country. he wants ukraine to be part of any decision about crimea's future. he ha

. >> in brazil, one air traffic controller described by the judge as unqualified and incompetent, iscquitted. another controller is convicted of negligence. in its final report, cenipa, brazil's ntsb equivalent acknowledges the failures of the brazilian controllers as well as the legacy pilots, stating that both parties should have become aware of the loss of radio communication far sooner than they did. in an e-mail, cenipa's press office states their accident investigation does not establish responsibility or guilt but identifies the contributing factors with the primary objective being prevention. if there's a lesson to be learned from this tragedy, it's that there will always be human factors that lead to accidents. >> the lack of transponder information for a period of time from the embrere plane it caused problems for situational awareness for the air traffic controller. whether you are military or civilian, it's the human soft and the human error that starts the sequence of events. >>> when we come back, more midair collisions over two of america's biggest cities. >> i jumped

frank is showing some signs of being unqualified at being a general manager. are things that he should know that he just simply doesn't know. >> that's what we'll do from now on, not a problem. >> hi. >> hey. >> how are you? let me just close the door. so, guys, i need you to get my mind wrapped around frank being the general manager here. help me understand why you think he's the right person to be second in charge. you know, he's not necessarily the way he should be. i'm watching him argue with donna. i'm not convinced. >> he runs the show downstairs. >> yeah, here's the problem that i have. i-i have general managers all over the country. and i want them to be able to run the entire business. which means understanding things like work flow and cash flow. and i don't sense that from him. coming up... >> frank, no one knew you ordered this. you're supposed to give me the p.o.s. what are you missing? >> you look a little stressed. >> i'm tired of frank. >> that [bleep]'s gonna stop. we needed 30 new hires for our call center. i'm spending too much time hiring a

its user basin creased by -- base increased by 16% in the quarter. ebay called icon's nominee's unqualifiedso said the shareholders are better served by keeping paypal within the overall business structure. >> stock market off to a negative open this morning. not a lot on the economic calendar. a lot of nervousness about the ongoing stand off in the crimea between russia and ukraine. the dow right now dropping more than 40 points. nasdaq is down by 1. s&p lower by 2 points. ebay shares down .5% on the positive side. facebook is up 2.5%. back to you. >> jason brooks, thank you. >>> it is 6:47 now. a fight when it comes to close calls. they don't get any closer than this. take a look. small private plane in florida was doing touch and go exercises on saturday but the plane didn't get very far when it caught the cords of this parachute. the parachutist thrown back up in the air. the cessna does a nosedive and some way, amazingly, nobody was hurt. the parachutist okay and the plane ends up on its wheels. >>> elizabeth right now with a traffic alert. >> yeah, this actually just canceled a couple

i had not heard one person said he is unqualified or that he has done something that would disqualify. no. he did what he was supposed to do within his legal profession. and denied, shame, shame on this senator, us shame on every senator cranston be a lawyer, who went to law school, raise their hand and sworn into the park or shame on every lawyer who voted against mr. debo adegbilie because of what he did on the appeal, because of the fact and he has signed on the appeal. now, if somebody have some question about his qualifications that he is totally unqualified for the lead is a different story. that's a different story. i challenge anyone to come forward with anything remotely connected to his glove the patient for eight -- i will pull the sub, a quote, the president of the american bar association. listen up the lawyers from a fundamental tenet of our justice system and constitution is that anyone who faces loss of lurie has a right to legal counsel. lawyers have been ethical obligation to uphold the principle and provide zealous representation to people who otherwise would stand

: ebay rejecting activist investor carl icahn two nominees to the board saying both are, quote, unqualified. icahn owns 2% of e-commerce company. they want ebay to spin off the paypal unit. liz: use fruit firm chiquita brand and rival 5:00, reached a deal to get create the biggest banana supplier. -- fife. they will control 14% of the global banana market. david: the pizza chain, sbarro filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years. it has been struggling with too much debt and changing consumer tastes. keep it right here. "after the bell" starting right now. liz: let's take a look at all of today's biggest market action. we have michael binger, gradient investment senior portfolio manager. he will tell investors why they should keep an eye on inflation in the u.s. drew kanaly, thinks this bull market cycle would continue for, wait for it, decades. all right, drew. lincoln ellis, green scare managing director down in the pits of cme. lincoln, a lot of blame for red on the screen went to chinese data not great as expected. was a little bit fearsome when it comes to the 1

he couldn't even give unqualified praise for capturing and killing osama bin laden.is is cheney on hugh hewitt's radio show last fall. let's listen to this. >> you don't go out and broadcast the fact that you got the guy. you want to take that intelligence and be able to exploit it over the next few nights and wrap up large parts of the network. they were in such a hurry to go out there with bin laden, such a hurry to go out and announce victory that i'm convince they'd probably did not get maximum damage out of the intel that they had captured. >> excuse me, who was it that put on a flyers uniform and declared mission accomplished a bit early about ten years prematurely. >> also, what he says doesn't make sense there is a firefight at the compound that was covered on national tv in pakistan. i mean, people knew what had happened. it was oh, let's keep this quiet. so they exploited the intelligence as fast as they could. and so, i mean, this is what he always complained about when he was in power. secondguessing. >> we have man who covered all this. you covered. >> c

but the reliance on this narrative of this out of control, weepy, unqualified, emotional woman disaster, isles really offensive, good luck getting that women's vote if you do run in 2016, governor christie. >> and more than that, bob, is saying that somehow that relationship played into the bridges scandal, we don't know how, but we need to let you know they had this relationship, but it was wildstein that actually did it. so what are they saying? she was in such a state of duress over the relationship that when this idea of the quote unquote traffic study, that she went along with it because she was weak? i don't understand the narrative. >> you know how it is with these emotional women, you just can't trust them, actually mr. wildstein was drawn right into the it. even bill barone who has been a friend of chris christie for a long time. it could not have been done unless christie had signed off on it. it is the most ridiculous million dollar report that i think i have ever read in my career, and when i got to the part where they were trying to blame kelly and the reason they gave for

now people are unqualified. those people cannot get jobs unless they get additional training.tes this income disparity. >> let's talk about something -- going back to the possibility of interest rates. it is something i hear trish talking about a lot. people will not necessarily make fors to buy large affect which need to borrow money could be the rate so low. areou think interest rates going down, you may buy a house. >> there is no sense in jumping in before rates move. general demand moves. there is a general level of demand. sometimes it pushes activity forward or back. >> you can improve demand with a threat of money getting more expensive. i know that my shot at buying a new apartment is better today than it might be six months from now. right now, i do not feel like six months will make a difference. it is on the corporate level as well. fed does not want to have this temporary boost to activity. they are threatening to raise interest rates. we would get a weak spot in the economy after that. >> they know about it. they do not want to have it. they will have to put up w

ebay rejected the bid saying both nominees are unqualified, urging shareholders to vote against themo has been pushing ebay to spin off paypal, says john donohoe cost shareholders $4 billion by selling skype prematurely. saga continues. boy, ebay digging in its heels rejecting board positions. >> would have been a shocker if it would have been the alternative. >> if you had trouble watching the highly anticipated "true detective" this weekend you're not alone. fans stuck on pause after streaming struggled to keep up after surge of users log on at same time. the squawk on the tweet. your turn to play detective. what was the real reason for the outage? tweet us, we'll get your responses later on in the morning. sarra's given us her review, not good. >> so much mystery, so good, i wanted everything figured out and i thought, kind of wasn't. >> a tough judge. you are tough. >> on the other side, i saw the rest of "house of cards," fantastic. >> i've watched it all. but i'm -- you're recommending the other one last week and i was ready to -- it's a golden age of scriptured comment. >> qui

when you take a look at the chart of unqualified applicants for those jobs -- i mean, it -- anythingess the skills shortage, i think immigration policy would be a good start. >> david, i want to turn to this story out of china. i don't know if you had a chance to take a look at it, but it basically this solar cell maker in china failed to pay full interest on bonds. basically an onshore default. that is not unusual in the corporate world, but it is a pretty big deal in china, and mike, i know you have been looking closer into this story. it sort of just came out of nowhere. -- i want toto tell the significance of it. >> it has been building for a while. we have all been watching credit creation in china. if you bought the bonds in china, you are definitely out of luck and you had to buy them because these bonds were only sold there. more than the circumstance is the symbolism. it is the first of the government has just let a company go. did not step in. it may be a signal that is changing its practice of bailing out companies with that debt. solarmpany is chaori energy and science co

we reached a major milestone last year with the department achieve the first unqualified or audit opinion on financial reporting. these are important steps to ensure that management and oversight functions but there is more to reduce. as part of the agenda we tackle the budget structure and the da jazz has 76 appropriations over 120 projects or activities with the structural inconsistencies to make mission based budget planning and analysis difficult. making changes as i have discussed to the budget process to better focus the efforts on a mission. i with the deputy secretary m. personally engaged with the necessary leadership and direction to this process. as part of the management reform agenda doing a top to bottom review governance process how we develop our strategy is to the development of our requirements how to sustain our platforms. parts of this will include the necessary consolidation of functions to provide the department proper oversight management responsibilities to carry out this task. this allows teeeight just to fully ensure the solutions we pursue our responsive for our

that is why she is ideally suited unqualified to be in charge of an agency like cms. the intent part of the divide may be the new normal in washington. but maryland is an allied air, highly admired and respected on both sides of the aisle. last year the senate approved turn nomination overwhelmingly by a vote of 91-7, and she became the first senate confirmed cms administrator since 2006. today marks her third consecutive appearance at our annual meeting. for me it is a distinct honor because it is the first time i can introduce her as the cn as administrator. we are grateful she is here today and look forward to our remarks. please join me in giving a warm welcome to cnn as administrator. [applause] >> good morning. i don't see the piggy bank that is supposedly appeared. you tried to hide it. i got it. first of all. let me say thank you. it is always a pleasure to be here. i have so many friends, but most importantly let me say, you have a great leader. he takes me to breakfast on their regular basis. part of that opportunity is, he is smart. he knows if he gets the

we reached a major milestone last year when the department achieved its first unqualified or clean audit opinion on its financial reporting. these are important steps in maturing the department's management and oversight functions. but there is more to do. as part of the agenda, we are tackling our budget structure and process. dhs currently has 76 appropriations over 120 projects, programs or activities. and there are significant structural inconsistencies across components, making mission-based budget planning and budget execution analysis difficult. we are making changes, as i have discussed with members of the committee, to our budget process to better focus our efforts on a mission and cross component view. i along with the deputy secretary am personally engaged to provide the necessary leadership and direction to this process. as part of a management reform agenda, i am also doing a top to bottom review of our acquisition governance process from how we develop our strategies to the development of our requirements to how we sustain our platforms, equipment and people and everything

we reached a major milestone last year when the department achieved its first unqualified or clean audit opinion on its financial reporting. these are important steps in ensuring that management and oversight functions. there is more to do. of the agenda, we are tackling the budget. we have appropriations over 120 projects. there are significant structural inconsistencies across components. that makes mission-based budget planning and budget execution analysis difficult. we're making changes as i have discussed with members of the committee, to the budget process to better focus our efforts. i, along with the deputy secretary, and personally engaged in finding the necessary leadership and direction for this process. management reform agenda, i am also doing a top to bottom review of our acquisition and governance project, from how we develop our strategies to the development of our requirements on how we sustain our platforms, equipment, and people, and everything in between. this will include the thoughtful, but necessary, consolidation of functions to provide the department with the pr

and reggi has been, frankly an unqualified success. our carbon reducing plan in new england has prevented the release of 2.3 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. that's the equivalent of taking 435,000 cars off the road for a year the program will offset 8.5 million megawatt hours of electricity generation, and avoid the release of eight until million tons of co2. the program will generate $1.6 billion in net economic benefit regionwide, and it's putting $1.1 billion in electricity bill savings into the pockets of consumers in the region over the next decade. that's maybe the most important number. in addition to preventing the release of 2.3 million tons of co2 pollution it's reducing the energy bills for new england consumers by over a billion dollars. wow. how does that happen? how do you restrict emissions and then reduce pollution? why? because we take all of that money that we glean in people buying the credits necessary to pollute and we put it right back into energy efficiency. we put it right back into programs

attacking students of color, arguing against affirmative action and saying students of color are unqualified most brilliant students in the nation and in the world. and the fact that people question that and that all of last year, most of this affirmative action debate that blew up on campus was really voices attacking and speaking against students of color. i wanted to do this project and create this campaign to really raise up the voices of students of color to speak back against this. because there really was no strong voice for students of color on harvard's campus. and the most powerful thing about this project, as alexis said, is that it's actual words from black harvard students. that these are people's real experiences. and they resonated with people across america. >> yeah, it has. and i have to say, i watched the video. and it hurt me, because i know what these kids -- i'm just going to say, my son is a student on campus with you and i know what it took for him to get there. it's a long, hard slog. and i want to ask you alexis, is there anything unique about the situation to harvar

said on the show, when we typically go through normal advertising methods, we're getting a lot of unqualifiedtainly a wonderful place to search for applicants to be in the financial services industry. >> who knew? >> i thought linkedin, this was right in linkedin's wheelhouse. i'm surprised you haven't been able to find these people on linkedin. >> we do advertise on linkedin and we do get high quality people from linkedin but not as many at the same time, and i think that's the big difference was having the power of television to get our message out brought us a lot of really good candidates. >> and to be clear, ross, as much as we're thrilled to hear that here at cnbc, what this really is about is revealing things in the labor market right now that need to be overcome, right? if i'm janet yellen and i'm thinking what do i have to do to get people hired, this is actually not what i would expect or what i would think is happening out there. it's very interesting. >> there's a couple things i think we could do. number one, i think there's a lot of people who are getting out of college that are

charter, thecity result is an undereducated and unqualified department of minority officers. i would think this would cause concern, in addition to the public things that are out there about mr. fumo. i would encourage you to look at the public record. my time has expired. about this. chat i was disappointed when i was try to come and talk to you about this. >> i was told you wanted to talk to me. i said yes i'm happy to talk to the congressman. for some reason you were unavailable. thisappy to talk to about further. >> i have concerns about this. congressman, i am focused on trying to make the department of, security and more efficient and effective place for the benefit of the public, the taxpayers. works mr. morone when he for robert gates. secretary gates held them in the highest regard. i hired him as our chief of staff because of his administration skills of the last five years demonstrated to a lot of people. since he is come to the department of homeland security, my expectations for him have been exceeded. this is a man who has three young children. he is married. he

one witness was dismissed by the judge as unqualified and they ruled it's too early to make decisions nurses that want to adopt each other's kids. >>> a new study suggests kids are getting better nutrition at school thanks to better nutrition standards. harvard study show what had items students chose and which they threw away. students ate more fruits and vegetables. the school participation during lunch has dropped by more than a million students. >> thanks so much. let's take another break. for the first time since sending troops to ukraine, russian president vladimir putin is speaking out defending the occupation of crimea and saying military force is possible. we're going to talk about putin's next move with chief international correspondent. [ male announcer ] if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] you may be an allergy muddler. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. love the air. [ sneezes ] where their electricity comes from. t

but burlington northern will be the primary beneficiary so i thought he was unconflicted and also unqualifiedts let's get to bob pisani on the floor. good morning. >> good morning. we started in positive territory on the s&p but we just turned negative and, of course, we were at historic highs not just there but the midcap and small cap indices. europe sort of mixed this morning. a lot quieter than the last few days. the euro zone pmi services index revised upward. that was kind of a surprise right now. let's move on and talk about the ukraine. they were raising worries about emerging markets and we've had a tough time. the ems down 5% this year got a lot of questions about that overall. china's been weak and brazil's been weak. but if you go outside, look at the frontier countries because there was a big debate about it should people get outside of the old eems and look at frontier companies, all of them are up rather noticeably. so far the advocates of going out and buying frontier countries over the old emergeing markets like china and brazil so far they are winning the argue. the chinese