surprise, surprise, there was a quote, unquote, huge correlation between the amount of dollars that were spent in the newspapers by the government and the lack of coverage of government abuse, and so, i think, we have, whatever we talk about here today has to be against that backdrop that, certainly, if you're looking to the government to fund you, or to another source of, whether it is private donor, you're not going to want to offend the source of your revenue. >> can i respond on that? >> yeah. >> "the wall street journal"'s largest advertiser by column inch is the united states government, in the back of "the wall street journal" there is all these dea forfeiture ads and, federal notices. there is some in "usa today" as well. this is largely done by bid. and, i don't think anybody can say that the "wall street journal" in either the news portion or the editorial portion pulls its punchs. >> well, i don't want to belabor the point but public notices are not government subsidy of newspapers. public notices are published so the government can take property away from individuals. only wa

but it's simply -- to say that it's not -- not every government, quote-unquote, involvement necessarily implies entanglement. and i do think it's very important to make sure that's the case. that you've structured it properly. >> quickly. >> we had a session here a freedom of information day on march 13th. and i think that manipulation of government data to make it more accessible to anybody online but also some news organizations so that we can do the kind of investigative reporting, database reporting is a great example where government on its own can do what it does, free press can do what it does. and again not to be facetious but if you look back we had 1791, we have a first amendment along with the bill of rights. eight years later, seven years later, alien sedition act. good intentions. in the broadest sense. we want to let this government survive against a hostile nation, dah, dah. for public interest we had a doctrine called the fairness doctrine. that grew. it was applied. some would say failed and drew broadcasters away from things like editorials online and a simple way of h

unquote. the pls phenomenon and the resulting consequences for our business confronted fannie mae with critical strategic questions. first, were the changes temporary or were they permanent, and second, would we best be able to deliver competitive returns to shareholders, stay relevant to customers, and meet our mission requirements by doing nothing new or by increasing our participation in these markets to some degree? these and related questions were the subject of continuous and serious discussion and in-depth analysis by the fannie mae management team and the board of directors over the last decades. we address these issues in a series of dedicated strategic planning sessions, as well as day-to-day discussions. we consider the credit risks in the new markets, our capabilities to manage the business, and the impact on our achievement of housing goals, our financial results, and our strategic positioning in the marketplace. these considerations led management to expand fannie mae's already e

beaten the teams they are quote unquote supposed to beat. the schedules, clemson plays georgia and south carolina and georgia plays tech and clemson. >> ball hit on the ground, hit by miller. here comes schilling. he will score. 2-run score. 15-4. back hand is going to be a hit. 2-run single. georgia will send up lamps martin to pinch hit. [music] hankens records rbi number 4, 5 and 6. martin with only 3 plate appearances. 0 for. struckout twice, appearing in his 8th game. pinch runner for the bulldogs this season. millton high school in georgia. there is a strike and it's 1-1. one out. 2-run single. giving fans something to cheer about. gets by the 1st baseman, heading to third base is hankens, he will stop stop there runners at 2nd and 3rd. i guess an error on the play that allows everybody to move up. initially a hit. tigers not too happy right now. clemson is going to win this game. you hope you can carry the momentum over to tomorrow night. lance martin first career hit. he has got speed, did a good job beating that ball in to the groun

very are you is as good as a word you or is what you are and they did not have a choice, but quote unquote volunteer. >> so not truly volunteers is what your research has shown? >> that's right. >> and so i went to the diaries and it was not what is going feel they should he should have do you know about the. i will. and that he very much of a catchphrase winifred kuester patriotism. then other times they said that's not my true so there's a tremendous interest in processes whether ambivalence and vacillations and all of that, but none really do are the emperor, neither did they die willingly. >> how were they trained in and how were they chosen? >> well, in the first place, they were drafted. they didn't have any choice. nosedive you do you think there is is and one of the members with me. and he is with in a hallway and from time those who do not want to go to where you want to volunteer staff. in the, in replenishment analysts. who are difficult than to say that i'm going to do in you. you can know. so many of them volunteered unwillingly. if they are to you do if you are and is defined

because he is the principal military advisor for the president of the united states, quote-unquote. in the past the joint chiefs were the adviser to the president of the united states, and it there was problems with the systems. you may surprised to know that war was being run by commanders in the field. one was mcchrystal and one was -- petraeus responds to no four-star in the military. he responds to the secretary of defense. and that's appropriate. civilian control of the military. what you may be surprised to know is the joint chiefs and the chairman have no operational oversight whatsoever of the theater. i think we have gone too far to remove them because -- for the reason that you stated, they're concerned about their service primarily by statute, but there is no statute that gives them some operational accountability for what is being done in terms of the war. and the chiefs themselves, as a result of goldwater-nichols have even less influence out of their service because the principal military advisor to the president. most of us look at this, at some point we have to readj

american officials bigger than you, more bullying than you, couldn't do a damn thing, let alone you, unquote president obama's new nuclear policy in which the u.s. pledges to stop developing new nuclear weapons and not to use existing weapons to attack non-nuclear states that follow non-proliferation agreements. the administration believes the greatest threat to security is no longer nuclear attacks between countries, but instead nuclear terrorism by extremists. and though to theand, they are singling out states like iran and north carolina saying if they don't play by the rules, quote, all options are on the table, unquote. which is probably the part iran was complainting to the crowds about. the u.s. could unintentionally strengthen the hard liners in those countries who say nuclear weapons are the only way they can protect themselves. meanwhile, critics, including some republicans, believe just the opposite. that the president is not applying enough pressure on the state supporters of terrorism. and the critics have a point. remember obama's deadline for iran's nuclear program that came a

is the choice of language away of communicating to the muslim world, quote, unquote, islam is not the issue even though there are extremists who are muslim? is that the purpose? >> i get this question with every appearance. i think that the best way to put it is that the issues of what constitutes true islam and what does not are best answered among muslims and by muslims. our concern is really with those who seek to use violence as a means to affect our policy and our actions in the world. i would argue that it's a sign of our seriousness we don't resort to that kind of language precisely because it has had such negative effects in the past when people have gotten themselves tangled up in issues of muslim doctrine and i think that it is counterproductive for american political officials, for officials of any kind to start holding forth in terms of doctrineal terms what a religion says or doesn't. it has not gotten us anywhere in the past and i don't think it will get us anywhere in the future. doesn't mean i as scholar didn't write about it and doesn't mean lots of other people don't

they all felt an obligation to be part of the community, and to contribute to the community, unquote. i think most observers would agree that these twin ideas of opportunity and open communities have been proven in during for justice breyer throughout his life and work. after graduating from stanford in 1959, justice breyer study philosophy and economics at oxford on a marshall scholarship. he went on to graduate from harvard law school in 1964, and after earning that degree, clerked for justice arthur goldberg on the court. justice breyer work for a brief stint as an attorney in the antitrust division of the justice department, and was later then recruited to teach at harvard law school, where he is and i'm sure you will see tonight, the most extraordinary teacher. in 1974, senator ted kennedy maintained to be special counsel to the senate judiciary committee, where he soon became the committee's chief counsel. when we go back in time president jimmy carter appointed stephen breyer to the u.s. court of appeals for the first circuit where he then became the chief judge in 1990. and he

unusual was treated during the way that clarence thomas confirmation hearings, making 1992 the quote unquote year of the woman when war with untrained more women ran for congress than ever before. went susan's book backlash was a bestseller. win the right girl movement had taken hold, talking back to male domination in the punk rock movement. when they were take back the night i was at college and university campuses all over the country. so i started at this moment, was reminded how much kind of feminist energy there was in the air. and as i moved farther along and got closer and closer to the present, i was struck by how, over time, how to effectively feminism, a social movement that has done so much for women and four men, for that matter, has been so vilified in the media that many young women regarded as the ideological equivalent of anthrax. so i wanted to trace how did that happen. i also teach and work with young women, and i've seen that we once again have been referred and famously called a problem with no name. meaning millions of young women, the girl power generation have been t

and he relies on escape hatch promises to check and get back to you, unquote. then there's this. check out the web, the white house. it all turns out to be a suite of social networking tools. youtube, white house tt gov, twitter that mixes noin vation. on the morning of march 12, gibbs broke major news in a twitter message "the president will delay leaving for indonesia in australia will now leave sunday, the first lady and the girls will not be on." is gibbs the real target of the washington press corps ire or is it the president himself who is in the cross hairs? >> i think it's three things in turn. first of all it is the president in the cross hairs. secondly, gibbs has the look of a man who's been there too long. he's not enjoying the job. thirdly, the press corps has always been unhappy and in particular getting unhappy because the press is losing stract traction, leadership and prestige. >> the press corps is mostly mainstream media and they resent the white house using all these other tools to reach the american public. the white house is 17 million followers on twitter.

position, because he is the principal military adviser to the president of the united states, quote unquote. in the past, the joint chiefs were the adviser to the president of the united states. and there was problems with that system as well. you may be surprised to know that war is being prosecuted by operational commanders in the theater, one of them is mcchrystal in afghanistan, the other is odierno. they respond to a military command of bonnhoffer them in the name of general petraeus who responds to no four star in the military. he responds to the secretary of defense. so -- and that's appropriate. that's civilian control of the military. what you may know, may be surprised to know is the joint chiefs and the chairman have no operational oversight whatsoever of that theater. and i think we've gone too far to reno them. because for the reason that you stated, they're concerned about their service primarily by statute, but there is no statute that gives them some operational accountability for what is being done in terms of the war. and the chiefs themselves, as a result of goldwater-nic

unquote. that is not to say that school meals should not be nutritious. but ultimately good health habits begin at home. that's late important local schools have the flexibility to work with parents to develop policies that work for their students. local schools also need the flexibility to determine what food is sold outside the cafeteria. many schools are voluntarily including healthy snacks in the vending machines are at extracurricular event. ultimately, it is the control over food policy that allows for innovation while still respond to each schools unique circumstances. we've all heard the outrageous stories in which a piece of banana bread at a bake sale does not meet nutritional standards, but a bag of chips meet the requirement. arbitrary nutritional mandates can backfire when the override common sense. i hope will keep these details in mind as we support our parents and local schools can improve children's health. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> pursuant to committee rule, all members may submit an opening statement in writing which wi

tax quote would also probably slightly decrease the availability of credit for small business, unquote. in addition the cbo said that, and here's another go, for the most part firms paying the fees would not be those that are directly responsible for the loss realize by the t.a.r.p., end of quote. on one other item from the cbo letter worth noting is the t.a.r.p. tax would not apply to firms in the automotive industry. that is really odd since cbo's march 2010 report states that the automotive industry accounts for 34% -- know, 34 billion of the programs estimated total cost of 109 billion. chairman baucus and i invited gm to testify before argument at one of the later hearings. but gm representatives said that they didn't want to testify. and i think it's pretty obvious that the gm silence is deafening. on another t.a.r.p. matter, i want to thank you, mr. barofsky, for investigating the multimillion dollar severance payment that treasury is allowing t.a.r.p. recipients, like aig, to pay their departing executives that as you know, i have communicated on several occasions with treasury

she withdrew her claim because she quote-unquote couldn't take all the scrutiny.f this were a legitimate lawsuit, stand there and fight. megyn: he came out and said i didn't pay her one dime. >> not quite. his lawyer said that. not copperfield. and by the way, her attorneys are equally as reputable in the seattle area. they wouldn't have brought a frivolous lawsuit. megyn: she went down to the bahamas with him after not knowing him very well and claims she was on the island with him several days. she could have complained to anyone. she didn't complain to anybody be only when she got back to land did she claim she had been raped. thank you so much. one final word for our lures. this woman's case was sketchy from the start. the fact that she has voluntary dropped it as have the prosecutors in the criminal probe says a lot. but it doesn't resolve his guilt or innocence. that we leave to you to decide. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your

james altucher, a lot of people say the market rally has been on, quote/unquote, low volume and somehow that's a bad thing. how do you respond? >> i've done a lot of tests using software i wrote to trade the markets based on volume. volume actually has almost no real meaning in terms of the overall market movement. >> so what is your most single number one favorite right now? >> i like, as i mentioned about a month ago, r.s., reliant steel. i think it's a great way to play the materials book that is currently happening. >> gentlemen, you're terrific. a pleasure. >>> coming up, cowboy monetarism. is ben bernanke ready to be the strong, silent shoot from the hip john wayne kind of fed-head? i want to see the fed pull the trigger. i want to see wall street worried about the fed. >>> here comes a real bad story, some breaks news. fake documents, poor lending practices and poor oversight, all part and parcel what fueled washington mutual's expansion into subprime lending and ultimately its demise. mary thompson joins us with the details. a nasty story. >> it really is, all after a year and a

we owe it to the victims, unquote not to cross this line again. we? it is as if he is asking us not to blow stuff up. people amenable to that was not planing on it anyway. and he says, it only makes me think of clinton when his face wasn't red with lipstick it was red with anger and sometimes ketchup. the worst is the current climate thing. there is no more violence than before. there are tea parties from last week. have i seen scare yes, sir office picnics. when captain busy hands talks about the vast echo chamber, he is talking about those who smear their intellectual adversaries as racists. it is happening so much it is starting to make me really, really, really mad. maybe that's the point. if you disagree you are a racist homophobe who hate tofu. >> let's go to the tele prompter. >> they are as high as i am. that was a hard-hitting greg-alogue. let's go to name dropper greg. >> hi, name dropper greg. >> hi, greg. i have to say, awesome greg-alo. i was just telling my close friend morgan free man about how amazing it was on the way to charlize ther

tapes and telephone conversation and they had to arrest a sitting governor because he was, quote/unquoteopping a crime spree before it happened. that is a lie! >> then president elect obama was reportedly interviewed by f.b.i. agents in connection with the case. it's also been reported that members of the obama transition team, including chief of staff rahm emanuel were in communication with blagojevich about the seat and might be on the wiretap calls. defense attorneys say obama on the sta stand could sort tha out. presidents from time to time are called as witnesses. president clinton gave videotape deposition led by ken starr. other reasonses were reagan, carter and ford. judge zageal will make the call on the motion to get the president subpoenaed. the white house has no comment. >> bret: not surprising there. is the potential it could get ugly for the white house? >> it's possible. but zaigls a pretty no-nonsense judge. if there is no intent by the prosecution to bring in recording including the white house staffers or perhaps anybody on the obama transition team, it's unlikely seem

tapes and telephone conversations and they had to arrest a sitting governor because he was quote/unquotestopping a crime spree before it happened. >> a bold man. unafraid of going to the mike. unafraid of trying to subpoena the president of the united states. it's unlikely the president will actually be in court. what do you think? weigh in at my blog. go to cnn.com/fred deke kaw and have your say. we'll share comments later. >>> meantime, what our legal experts have to say about all this. richard herman, avery freeman back with us. richard, you first. the chances of the president of the united states subpoenaed and actually showing up in court for this corruption trial of rob blagojevich? >> he's not going to walk through the courthouse doors and take the witness stand in this case. however i absolutely believe he is going to be compelled to give videotaped deposition testimony that will be used at the trial. >> do you? >> i do believe that. blagojevich is speaking about relevant testimony that could be helpful for the defense in this case. his defense is, this was business as usual in

if you're somebody like a tiger woods or others who go on quote/unquote a sex addiction clinic, whatublic needs the see is somebody a bit could be try it. exhibiting a level of contrition. they're sorry for the pain they've caused so many people. in fact they weren't trying to cause pain, they were trying to get theirs themselves got caught, they got busted and they want ant explanation for the want ant explanation for the masses. introducing quattron quad pixel technology. >> larry: we're back. dr. pinsky, can we type the sexual addict? who is likely to become a sexual addict? >> an easy sort of answer that is women that were sexually abused are very likely to be -- >> larry: men? >> men, sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse. 1234. >> larry: a man sexually abused as a child -- >> i'm not saying sexual abuse leads to necessarily sexual addiction. but it is a common heritage in those people that do develop it. >> larry: my guess is would it lead away from it. >> you would think the guy who is beaten wouldn't beat his kids but that's not how it works. >> experiences that are t

make a reasonable inquiry as it's written into the law, if there's a reasonable suspicion, quote, unquote, that the person they're stopping, whether a traffic stop or any other encounter with law enforcement is an illegal immigrant. many people are angry about that provision in the law. that is the crux of any investigation that the department of justice would do, alex. >> yes. look, from a congressional perspective, mike, congress has financial reform, immigration reform and a number of other things on its plate right now. do you think this action in arizona pushes immigration reform to the top of the list? >> you know, there are plenty of democrats who would really rather not have this debate this year, because it divides the party right down the middle. as a matter of fact, it's divided the republican party right down the middle over the course of the last several years. the president has been making telephone calls to scott brown, the newly mintd senator from massachusetts to about a half dozen other senators over the course of the last two days on immigration reform, trying to gauge

what is the size of the, quote unquote, tower? >> it's not a tower at all. it looks like a wireless router you might have already in your house already. you plug it in, and it just sits there and does stuff. it blankets up to a 5,000-square-foot house in a repeated version, a copy, if you will, of your carrier's network. it is really a microtower, but it doesn't really look like that. and it connects over your broadband connection to the internet to make what's basically a viceover ip call, like a private version of skype. >> paul, what's your point of view here? are customers going to do this? >> i think it's highly unlikely. brian's point is more or less the issue here is that you're bridging people over onto their own wireless networks to solve the problems the carriers have and charging the customers for it, which doesn't make a lot of sense. i think the risk here for at&t and verizon and others trying to push this approach, if they know the customer will think this through, i'm pushing the call over my own wireless network, there are handsets that do th

they had hundreds of thousands of names objecting to conservatives who are, quote, stoking hate, unquote we found that interesting because a few years ago move on posted this ad. of. >> bill: move on, huh? check believes that ad might be stoking hate, perhaps could be. what say you? george soros? no hypocrisy there. of course not. check two tiger woods held a press caverns conference as we mentioned at the masters today. he remains con truth. >> unfortunately what i have path years has been just terrible to my family. and the fact i have won golf tournaments i think is irrelevant. it's the pain and the damage that i have caused. my wife, my mom, my wife's family. my kids. going forward are going to have to -- i'm going to have to explain all of this to them. you know, that's my responsibility. i did it. and i take full responsibility for it and as i said, winning golf tournaments, i think through all of this is irrelevant compared to the damage i have caused. >> bill: now, can we stop this, please? just let the man play golf. eenough. they can three, last week we told but singer erica ba

but they didn't have a -- they didn't have on the books, it wasn't insolvent, quote, unquote. that's the major issue. but they couldn't pay their bills because of the repo market and their lack of confidence. what you'll start seeing now is both with listed derivatives, you'll see a lot more players in the credit default swap arena and you'll see a lot more pressure on, you know, whoever is the pan of the day. it's going to be way easier to force companies into liquidation. >> it's an interesting viewpoint. certainly going to be a whole new world out there. we appreciate you joining us. thanks, guys. >> thanks. >>> all right, thanks very much. when we come back, another big week of earnings. caterpillar gets it going for the s&p 500 companies. and we're going to head to earnings central to break down its results. >>> plus, small cap stocks posting double digit returns this year, beating big cap. we'll tell you whether small caps still have room to run. national car rental knows i'm picky. so, at national, i go right past the counter... and you get to choose any car in the aisl

there's not a single, quote-unquote, controversial story line in the book in which we based on people exclusively with people who could have been said who has an ax to grind. we always went to supporters. people more sympathetic to a candidate and a spouse and said this is what we've been told by others and what do you think? there were almost no instances where the merging of those accounts from, quote-unquote, two sides required judgment on our part. the stories lined up. >> greta, i would add one more thing. the quote -- there's an unusual consistency between barack obama's public image and the private reality. i think that's actually true. and i think one of the things that the book demonstrates is that -- i mean, in some cases there's a wide divergence between public image and private reality that the story of john edwards and elizabeth edwards is the most dramatic example in the book where the gap between what the public saw and what they wanted the public to see and how they actually were in private was -- is yawning. it's a gap. obama, his public reality and the private realit

>> i've spoken to experts that say this was known as a quote, unquote, gassy mine. you heard the governor very clearly say, look, if they stopped three times, you would have thought they would have stopped again. there's scepticism by the governor and congressional leaders that's why they are promising an investigation. >> interesting you bring that up, norah, we heard some about inspections, allegations. officials say obviously they want to rescue these miners. we know that's of the utmost importance but it is a big part of this situation how they got trapped in the first place and was there some type of negligence on behalf of this mine and the owners. >> reporter: absolutely. and according to the emsa administrator, kevin stricklin, who i pressed very hard yesterday about was this mine safe, he responded, all explosions are preventible. as lisa myers reported on "nightly news," these citations for safety had spiked in the last several years, 197 in 2008, 515 in 2009 and 154 already this year. there's a lot of focus on massey energy and violations. senator rockefe

republican party right now is largely captive to forces who are totally opposed to the kind of, quote/unquoteensive reform that obama and democratic lead worries insist on. it's an absolute loggerheads, and i don't think it can be broken before the election. >> but those -- is the party really divided or is it really dominated by the tea party people who are clearly in support of that? >> the action and the energy is dominated by the tea party movement and other conservatives. and it would require -- to get this done would require a lot of republicans in washington to stand up to that wing of the party that has all the energy and say you know what? this is in the best interests of the country, not just to pursue the kind of reform that the president wants, but to work with the president. that is something hard to do on any issue. on this issue, such an emotional issue, i just don't see it any time soon. >> miguel, should the president -- he spoke out today, but it was kind of the 11th hour. did you want to hear from him on this a lot sooner, frankly? >> absolutely. i think the president has w

but sort of a conservative constituency group inside the republican party, to go and get a quote-unquote easy scalp in the name of bob bennett. bennett had done a terrible job, he didn't go back home, he didn't visit utah enough. he didn't do sort of his own politics here and he got caught with his pants down. and you sit there, and, yes, it's hard to believe that a guy like bob bennett, not exactly the definition of a liberal republican, would somehow get pushed out by a more conservative wing of the party. but they're pushing him out because they can. it's easy to do. florida, same thing. and look, crist also had the added issue of being governor at a time when it's not easy being a governor of any state right now. and it's a pretty -- you've got to make some unpopular decisions. >> well what i'm seeing here, chris, is a series of purges. it's not that the party is moving to the right. it's an incumbents like governors, five-term senators like specter, party leaders like john mccain, conservatives like bob bennett, all being pushed out of the party. told to go away, end your political

senate, it would have been natural for him to be the most constant voice on black issues, quote, unquote, structural inequality, affirmative action, poverty, drug laws, but he was determined to be a politician with a broad outlook and purpose. >> that maintains even now. i had an interview with him in the oval office right before he was going to deliver his inaugural address. we finished our interview. then he came out in the hallway and wanted to add something very specific because we had been talking about race quite a lot. he said it's not worth it to me to talk about race when i have to improvise as he did with henry lewis gates junior with that arrest drama. when he's in control of the subject, can give a whole speech as he did in philadelphia during the campaign and he can get to all the nuances, he will talk about it. but basically he believes, look, i'm the president of the united states, i'm not president of black america, and i have to lift all votes, in kennedy's terms, in terms of economic improvement. i can't just focus my rhetoric or focus my policies on any one ethnic grou

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you know, they've all made a very big point of saying that conan absolutely would not have quote/unquoteenoed another comedian. george lopez called him to say he thinks it was a great idea. everybody thinks it's a great requested. >> don't unique that's just spin? >> i think it could be pr spin, but i think what conan really gained from that whole situation that happened was real authenticity. and i think that he's brought that here. joe adlai said something that was very intelligent. he said that talent at the end of the day wants to go where it's loved and wanted. and, you know, jay leno said through wthis whole thing, hey, it's just a business. well, people of that caliber talent, they want to go where they can love their work and work with people that appreciate them. >> and that's the big advantage that cable tv has never network. network, at the end of the day, still with its lower audience numbers, has to please a much bigger crowd than cable ever has to. look at what conan is coming into. he's going to follow "family guy" and "the office." you couldn't ask for a better audience t

princess victoria took heat for getting engaged to a quote-unquote commoner but the story is about thearried and she is not. >>> former rock star turned reality tv star bret michaels is reportedly conscious today but he is still ind.oux+áráical condition in the hospital after suffering from a brain hemorrhage. courtney hazlett is off. we're getting our scoop today from the author of pop goes the week.com. what's happening with bret michaels here? some people are saying this may be related to an accident he had on stage during a performance. >> well, as you said earlier he is still under 24-hour surveillance and intensive care at an undisclosed hospital. some are saying this may link back to the 2009 tony awards where he was hit by a piece of scenery and it knocked him down onto the stage floor. there's really no proof of that right now. his publicist is not saying that is the case. donald trump, you'll probably recall he is on the apprentice right now, donald trump checked in and apparently he is quoted on tmz as saying that bret is, quote, in big, big trouble and the prognosis is not

he's the, quote-unquote, old white male. that's what the republican party was seen as. he did a great job hammering that message in and saying at the same time that, well, i am the new guy, the fresh face, good night who's only been in the senate for less than two years and i'm going to come in and change washington for the better. and he didn't say for the better. he always said a change you can believe in. change can be interpreted as progress or it can be it could be change for the worse. and he used the word "change." which he has really changed a lot of things. and he's changed his own views on a lot of things such as national defense. he thought he could take everybody out of afghanistan and iraq. and he was not able to do that because bob gates and others said you know what? that's so naive. you're not going to be able to take people out of those countries without winning the war first. so the reason he was a better candidate is because -- he was a better speaker. much better charisma. and he really was able to appeal to people's emotions on how washington is. ev

isn't out for retribution, but when you sit and listen to these people who were supposed to be quote/unquoteasters of the universe and able to perceive and therefore make great amounts of money, they pointed the finger at everything under the sun: rating agencies, state mortgage regulators because they produced a lousy product that they couldn't turn into a source of money for themselves. it went on and on and on and it has with virtually every group that we've talked to, including some of those very famous people. it was always someone else. at some point, you'd like to have them say-- and you heard it, yes-- "it was my fault and i'm sorry." >> brown: i was just going to say... >> that works for a three-year-old. >> brown: these are people who are... have been lionized in the past. alan greenspan... just in the last two days you've heard from robert rubin, alan greenspan, we all probably remember that "time" magazine cover of the committee to save the world. that's two-thirds of the committee. you're suggesting now what? >> we were created by congress to do the very thing that congress has

the quote unquote run on his fund i think is potentially very exaggerated. >> the fact he's held twoonference calls this week alone, doesn't that create this fear spiral where people might not be initially afraid and then they hear he's having two conference calls so then the thinking is people must be knocking at the door for that redemption so, therefore they want to redeem? >> or he's got a very good crisis management team and a very good pr team. again, the best thing you can do when you're a publicly known enterprise is communicate with people. tiger woods, ostrich, head in the sand, didn't work for him. goldman sachs. goldman sachs, lloyd says we're doing god's work, it was probably a joke. no real response from goldman sachs. after that was quoted in the paper. communication when you're a public enterprise and a publicly nobody enterprise. paulson is a private company, but he's an internationally known figure. and i think he's getting very good advice here to communicate with these people. >> we showed a list of some of paulson's top holdings, some of which have seen some liqu

the senate rules allow a senator to place a quote/unquote hold on somebody. it's always an issue.ou see pictures of there senator mccaskill on the floor. reading some of the names saying why can't we get the people approved by the committee in? this happens in both democratic and republican administrations. >> my cousin works for tsa and i'm sure he'd love a promotion. the system is completely broken and broken both administrations and gets worse. the senate needs to fix this because people need to get these jobs. the government needs to run. >> yeah. well, you know, this is where partisanship becomes dangerous because these people are important jobs. tsa is an important part of our security. this is where partisanship perhaps gets a little dangerous and we need to pull back. >> this one is right up your lane. more proof language matters. how you ask a poll question can have a big difference in the results. recent gallup poll asked should the government regulate large banks and major financial institutions. 46% were in favor. 43% opposed. but when the question changes should the g

human beings and let's go on a journey with them and try to care about him without making him quote/unquotele. >> rose: did you see that character as something different if your previous work? as you suggested earlier? >> i saw it first of all just as a very well written character. and a character that had a lot of specifics and all the characters in noah's movies are written that way. i think his characters are specific and character oriented. as an actor, it's exciting because you don't get script likes that very often, at least i don't get scripts like that very often where there's all these clue who-to-who the guy is that are written more in the way you read it, the more you explore it, the more you see how well thought out it is. and so in the rehearsal process, you know, i think there was a lot of time where we just talked to each other and we'd read the scenes just me and noah and i would have questions about why he was saying something and his answers really help med to understand what the guy was there were places where i connected with him and places where i saw people i know the

america would rely upon -- quote -- "the sun, the winds and the soil" -- unquote -- for energy. there was no mention of nuclear power. windmills would produce 20% of our electricity. to achieve this goal, the federal government would commit another $30 billion in subsidies and tax breaks. to date, almost all the subsidies for renewable energy have gone to windmill developers, many of whom are large banks, corporations, and wealthy individuals. according to the energy information administration, big wind receives an $18.82 subsidy per megawatt hour. 20 times as much -- 25 times as much per megawatt hour as subsidies for our electricity production combined. last year's stimulus bill alone contained $2 billion in windmill subsidies. unfortunately, most of the jobs are being created in spain and china. according to an american university study, nearly 80% of that $2 billion of american taxpayer money went to overseas manufacturers. and despite the billions in subsidies, not much energy is being produced. wind accounts for just 1.3% of america's electricity available only when the wi

and they were almost no instances where the merging of those accounts from quote unquote two sides require judgment on our part. the stories wind up. >> i would add one thing i'm the quota something like perhaps unusual consistency twin prop obama's public image and the private reality. i think that's too. i think one of the things in the book demonstrates its that, in some cases there's a wide divergence between public image and private reality. the story of john edwards and elizabeth edwards is the most dramatic example in the book with the gap between what the public saw and what they want the public to see and how to add were in private is yawning. is a catholic kind of gap. obama's, the gap between his public image and private reality is of all the major candidates was the narrowest. i think it's part of the reason why he turned out to be such a strong candidate, part of the reason he wanted they spent very little time in the obama campaign having to manage the problem of here's what we're trying to go public but here's what's going on. for all these other campaigns do and, you know,

i think the quote-unquote culture wars should be understood in a different light in part because they are within the context of a kind of carpe diem agreement about the basic cultural values or which nobody, no american really disagrees. >> uh-huh. >> kind of foundational values that we all share. the question is, even accepting that, can't there be important battles within baseball, so to speak, within that parameter and, indeed, aren't many of the things people point to as being the shell casings of the culture war exactly that? i'll give you two quick examples. there could be disagreements about how two liberal values clash or should be reconciled and, arguably, this happens in the context of, say, abortion where you have a side arguing that the autonomy of a mother needs to be recognizing and the other said saying, well, no, you're misunderstanding, it's really about the rights or the liberties of the developing child. alternatively, you could have argument about a particular value and how it's interpreted, and those arguments could be deep-seeded, virulent and consequential. here

today wrote on the first of this month, quote, helps irresponsible lenders, barbers, unquote. "the wall street journal" the same day wrote, quote, instead we're heading toward your five -- year five of the crisis, to prolong the agony, one senior bank trader calls it quote pretending -- excuse me, extending and pretending. the question i have, i spent part of the congressional recess over easter speaking to a number of private equity funds, banks, within the dallas metropolitan area, which i have the opportunity to represent, a section of the citi of dollars in congress. and there is great concern that the government is artificially propping up values in a market place that create uncertainty and leave private pools of capital on the sideline. now, i have met most of my evidence is anecdotal but i hear it over and over. that people are afraid to invest in pools of residential mortgages, because number one, they don't know that the market has reached its true value. and second of all, they don't know what the next public-policy shoe to drop may be. and so at least in my mind, i

unquote. today the threat of a nuclear strike is more likely to come from terrorist actors, not state. these groups are harder to deter because they may not have a geographical base. moreover they're not threatened by the concept of mutually assured distruction. president obama noted that we're paracoxicly more more vulnerable today to a nuclear attack than we were during the cold war. today this hangs by the slenderest of threads, but we have the ability to prevent this threat by minimizing the access that such groups -- such terrorist groups would have to nuclear material. so what did the united states accomplish at the nuclear security summit? first, i believe it was important for the president to elevate this threat in the minds of international leaders. particularly among the so-called nonaligned movement, those nations across the world who are not aligned on these issues. many leaders around the world do not see nuclear terrorism as an extensional threat. this summit was an important fir

tax, quote, would also probably slightly decrease the availability of credit for small business, unquotein addition, the c.b.o. said that, and here's another quote, for the most part, the firms paying the fees would not be those that are directly responsible for the loss realized by the tarp, end quote. on one other item from the c.b.o. letter worth noting is that the tarp tax would not apply to firms in the automotive industry. that is really odd, since c.b.o.'s march, 2010, tarp report states that the automotive industry accounts for 34% of -- no $34 billion of the program's estimated total cost of $109 billion. chairman baucus and i invited g.m. to testify before our committee at one of the later hearings but g.m. representatives said they didn't want to testify and i think it's pretty obvious that the g.m. silence is deafening. on another tarp-related matter, i want to thank you, mr. barofsky, for investigating the multibillion dollar severance payment -- multimillion dollar severance payment treasury is allowing tarp recipients to pay leaving executives. i have asked before about th

and a black school quote unquote. and what happened was through this transfer policy the segregation of the schools was furthered again and to make matters worse in the predominantly african american school classrooms were then being segregated by race. so that the remaining nonminority students in the "black school" were being segregated by classroom this was wrong. this was illegal. we attempted to set tell case -- settle the case with the school district. they rejected the settlement and we were forced to go to court and the court ordered the relief that's noted in today's "washington post". i wish i could say that was the only case of this nature. in monroe county louisiana we had a case involving a school district 87% african-american. they have two high schools. one is 100% african-american. one is 57% african-american. 43% white. in the school district that has 100% african-american students there were no a.p. classes offered and five gifted and talented or honors courses. in the other school that was 43% white

in their letter they say thed -- stated, we intend to maintain, quote-unquote, business as usual and after a rejection, we want to work with you in the resist of the redistribution of new vehicles and parts to ease the burden on you. they did nothing except lie to congress. chrysler went out of their way to make sure i could not stay in business. the week of may 18 they sent letters to all my customers informing them that this could not be a chrysler dealer as of june 10, 2009, and they need service work to take their vehicles to another dealership. at that time i was terminated, my dealership was in the top 5% of sales, my customer satisfaction was one of the highest chrysler had. in 2006 my parts and service managers both were awarded chrysler manager of the year and i was runner-up for dealer of the year. i could not believe i was being terminated. when i tried to call and inquire as to why i was terminated, no one would answer my call. to this day, no one has explained why i lost my franchise. by the close of business on june 9, the dealership had sold all by 186 vehicles at reta

demonstrated his ability or proven superiority or even equivalence is unwise and probably not yet, unquote in other words, an alternative to project constellation will take years of additional time and cost billions of dollars more. some opponents argue project constellation is a troubled endeavor. the truth is quite to the contrary. just saw the world witnessed the want of one ex-rocket from kennedy space center in a stunning and successful test. in addition the heavy lifters five is designed to leverage the engineering and technologies used in areas one. therefore, one can surmise in the end there'll be overall savings using this comprehensive approach versus the piecemeal approach proposed by the administration. together the area system of rockets provides a nation and our astronauts with the most reliable, most affordable and safest means of reaching low earth orbit and beyond. let me emphasize that point. aries is a safer system. nothing else comes close. the 2005 nasa exploration systems architecture study of which administrator goldin was a member of the studies independent he obtai