moriyasu san. >> hi there, christine. tokyo stocks rebounded about the 11,000 mark gaining 189 points from the day. apple's strong earnings report and the bigger yen like mitsubishi jfg financial. a & a shares climbed 3.2% after resuming regular flights to europe. after the six-day hold caused by the volcanic ash, flights are likely to operate at full pass for several days. panasonic began sales of 3d tvs today. rival sony plans to unveil its lineup of 3d tvs in june when many workers receive their summer bonuses. toe see back is expected to join in this summer. and in a country notorious for speaking bad english, here is another big below. geos filed for bankruptcy today satellite saddled with a debt of..5 billion yen. geos will hand over 3,500 schools and the rest will be closed. it follows another major english school which went out of business in 2007 and that was the nikkei business report. back to you, christine. thank you very much for that, ken moriyasu from the nikkei. nicole. >> and christine, general motors has

i think christine, you were sort of getting into that. let's go to peter, university of maryland business professor, and douglas holtz eken, president of the american action forum. gentlemen, thanks for being with us. peter, you and i talked about thiss with christine this week. will this legislation that the president's pushing achieve what you -- what his goal is? on creating a consumer protection and a common sense updated set of regulations? >> i don't believe that they will add quickly update the regulations because they don't deal with some of the most fundamental problems. with regard to too big to fail, it isn't clear how they'll bring the institutions down to size. we already have resolution authorities for the fdic to deal with citigroup. it's just too big to sell off its pieces. when that bank fails, they basically had to bail it out. now they'll have a $50 billion bailout fund. heck. citigroup alone cost that much, and then a guarantee, $325 billion of its loan. we don't know what that really mean. never mind the other institu

christine? >> asian markets getting a nice pop today, ross, because, why? greece asking for emergency aid. also that u.s. strong data -- strong u.s. data coming out really giving confidence to investors here in the region. take a look at the nikki 225 closing above 11,000. up 2.3%. key psychological level there. kospi up 0.9%. the hang seng up 1.6%. bargain hunting and property stocks helping the market to push higher. however the shanghai market continuing to be under pressure today because of monetary tightening still weighing on the index. the sensex and bomb bay trading up 0.4%. we continue to monitor the situation over in thailand, the s.e.t. seems not to be too much affected by the political turmoil that's happening in the country right now. moving up 1.6%. 12 points higher at 766. ross? >> okay. let's turn our attention to the currency markets. worth pointing out, of course, where the euro is 1.3327. down to 1.32 flat on friday. rallied up to 1.34 in short offering. the euro has started t

kando-san. >> hi there, christine. the nikkei 225 fell 3% on thursday as investors booked profits following the previous day's surge. and renewed anxiety over greece's debt props problems pushed up the yen which obviously was negative for exporters. shares in toyota took a minor hit from a ratings downgrade by moody's. the u.s. rating firm credits credit rating by one notch matching its lowest ever level saying that the safety issues raised questions about its profitability and pricing power until 2012 at the earliest. shares in hitachi rose to fresh 11-month highs in rev trading after its u.s. subsidiary announced better than expected profits for the january-march quarter. >> in the political front, a popular foreign minister has submitted a letter of resignation to the main opposition ldp today to form his own party. five other upper house lawmakers plan to join us. an opinion po poll shows him to be one of japan's best-liked politicians. >> christine, thank you for that. ross. >> let's get a final thought from khura

i bet you know, actually, christine. tiger woods, yes, returns to professional golf, teeing off at the masters. we're going to go live to augusta. >>> tiger, i am more prone to be inquisitive, to promote discussion. i want to find out what your thinking was. i want to find out what your feelings are. and did you learn anything? >> that was tiger woods featured in the new nike ad that began airing in the united states on wednesday night. tiger officially returns to the business of professional government today as the first round of the masters tournament gets under way in augusta, georgia. that is where we find our darren rovell who joins us live bright and early this morning. daren, that is some ad. >> yeah, nicole. i mean, it's a little bit weird, given that tiger's father died in 2006 and that's his voice. who knows where it came from nike is not saying. the response has been weird, creepy, risky, and absolutely amazing. it seems like nike would be the only company that would dare to do anything like this. all i can te

christine romans and i are going to dive right into it. >>> christine romans joins me now from new york. christine, i don't tend to love congressional testimony and hearings. but particularly when they're on, you know, sort of arcane topics. there's one going on right now that's talking about the failure of lehman brothers, a very important topic if we want to learn about how to avoid these things in the future. particularly important this very week after we've seen charges -- s.e.c. charges against goldman. tell me what's going on on capitol hill. >> it's true, ali. i do love these actually. i listened to two goldman sachs conference calls today and i'll well into this house financial services hearing. i'm fascinated. this is what we're talking about here. this is one as one congressman said, autopsy for lehman brothers. that's why it's important, because you want to make sure this doesn't happen to another patient, especially when the rest of us are all picking up the tab, right if so this is what the treasury secretary said, timothy geithner. basically, this is how he described what

christine, weigh in anywhere you want here. diane, here's senator dodd, chair of the senate banking committee yesterday talking about the reform effort. >> 18 months ago people broke into our home, stole everything in our house and we haven't even changed the locks on the place yet. 18 months later we are in no better position today to protect ourselves against that kind of crisis than we were 18 months ago. >> diane, that may be the case. but does the legislation passed by the house and being worked on now by the senate fix the problems that brought on the financial crisis senator dodd is referring to from 18 months ago? >> the simple answer is no. it's a first step in a long road to rethinking how we lend and manage money in the u.s. it will prevent some things from happening again, but the elephant in the room is fannie mae and freddie mac and underwriting mortgages, none of which are being address bid the legislation. >> make the argument for me here with fannie and freddi. >> one of the key elements is back in 2004 congres

christine romans in new york to talk about this. i guess we better make them sign contracts in blood on this thing. i'm not going to believe it until i see it. >> i guess usually when you have a new fee in the industry you don't have a bunch of senators saying, hey, wait a minute, we just found a way to tax you more on those fees. so you're right. after spirit airlines said it would be charging up to $45 to stow your carry-on in the overhead bin, chuck schumer, senator from new york, got five airlines to promise that they would not follow suit. among them, american airlines, delta, united, u.s. airways and jetblue. jetblue, which of course has been very, very slow to follow in the trend of adding fees to everything. they don't want to, shall we say, tick off their core customers, but spirit is sticking to its guns and says it will continue to try this new way of charging people a fee for the services they use because they say it's a free market. if you don't like it, you don't bring a bag. i guess. >> absolutely. i had an interview

with that i want to turn it over to you, christine. thanks again for agreeing to come today. >> thank s very much, ilene. i am joined by my to civil enforcement deputies. i will hope to have another one of these down the road where you will get to chair questions. at some point we will do one with scott hammond who is my criminal deputy. today's focus is on civil enforcement. i thought i would run through a laundry list of where we are on civil enforcement and then open it up for a town hall q&a curtain-raiser for the spring meeting with bill and molly participating in the conversation. what i wanted to start with was to point out to you all that at the height of the merger boom in the '90's we had about 5,000 hsr styles. that was before we raised the hsr threshold. when the threshold and up we had 3,000 filings in the '90's. last year we had 700 filings. we are on track for just about the same this year. that is to say mergers are still way down. i am hearing from friends in new york and in the investment bank community that we may se

sadly, christine could not be here. [applause] did your mother come? where is melaney? hello, melaney. [applause] how we wish that david bloom was also with us. [applause] like i am sure almost everyone in this room, i saw david reporting from iraq in 2003. i saw that bloommobile. i thought "who says journalists don't have real skills?" when i was nominated for this award, i read more about him. i thought if he was alive today, alive with all that energy and drive and passion for telling stories he would probably be going in and out of afghanistan now. all of us in this room who also go to afghanistan would have been running into him. he would greet us in his charming way, saying "hey, buddy." but then i thought if i saw david bloom in afghanistan go up and say "hey, buddy"-- he was an avid ice hockey player. i would say "too bad about the men's final in the olympics. but you know, david? we really wanted to win." his death reminds us all of the journalists who die covering the stories, the people who died fighting in those wars and the people who die just living in cou

christine r christine romans joins us now. it is so fascinate forg a country we are so linked with and yet so far away and have such a different foundation. we started asking ourselves after a lot of the talk about being on with the unsafe toys. >> it is a complicated relationship. the diplomacy on both sides has been fascinating to watch. these are two economic systems that are very, very different and completely melded together. the question then is, nine years after china was admitted to the world trade organization and officially welcomed to the world economy, has china's rise been good or bad for america? meet steve udin, husband, father of two daughters and a trade statistic. >> i felt like a baseball player that got traded from a team that he loved playing for and loved the fans. i loved my customers, my coworkers were like second family to me. >> reporter: his job as a telecom projects manager went overseas to china when his factory moved there. classified by the u.s. government as a casualty of foreign trade qualifies

. >> christine, thanks so much. we'll be talking about this throughout the morning. >> at 6:30, we're breaking it down with the managing editor for "consumer reports cars" and also neal boudette. >> securing the bomb, world leaders meeting for day two of a nuclear summit addressing the biggest single threat to global security, nuclear terrorism. one positive development, key talks between president obama and chinese prest tau that could decide how the world ends up dealing with iran. our suzanne malveaux is live at the white house with us this morning. significant development yesterday. the president hoping for more today. >> reporter: they just had the welcoming dinner last night. they haven't even had the opening session. already there are signs of optimism and positive developments coming out of this gathering of world leaders. president obama is meeting on the sidelines with some of these leaders, at least ten of them or so. he was quite optimistic when asked how things are going. heed is he does expect some con

[laughter] >> christine, give us your story. >> i have been there. i think economics is opening up. very often, the top candidate are women. i think the world is changing. in my field, macro-economics, it is still a very male dominated. i am often the only woman in the room, or one of two. it is very isolating. the place i feel a disadvantage is and not professional, but much more of the casual, the forming of a relationship. there is still a barrier. it is something that is hard to get over. i think the other thing that i have definitely noticed in the the white house and elsewhere is the difference in how people communicate. i have never had to interrupt people before in my life. [laughter] there is simply an aggressiveness, you have to push your way in there. you have to speak up, even when there is not a gap in the conversation. [laughter] >> isn't it interesting that 60% of the higher degrees today are going to swim in and around the world, even in iran? 60% of women are getting higher degrees in law school, medical school and business school. and yet, after all of that trainin

our christine romans joins us from new york with more on this very timely issue. christine? >> and tom, especially coming out of a very deep and dark recession here. the question then, nine years after china was admitted to the world trade organization and officially welcomed to the world economy, many people are asking, has china's rise been good or bad for the u.s.? meet steve uden, husband, father of two daughters, and a trade statistic. >> i felt like a baseball player that got traded from a team that he loved playing for, and loved the fans. i loved my customers. my co-workers were like second family to me. >> his job as a telecom projects manager went overseas to china when his factory moved there. classified by the u.s. government as a casualty of foreign trade, qualifies him for a stipend and money for retraining. unemployment benefits and cobra health insurance fill the gap. >> we're keeping it level and steady and right now we're okay. >> he's the face of the increasingly strained relations between the u.s. and china. one think tank estimates 2.4 million manufactur

christine decided to have what's called a lotus birth. >> the cord is left uncut and the cord and the placenta stay with the baby until it naturally falls off, which tends to be 3 or 4 days. >> during the pregnancy, the cord connects the baby to the mother, delivering nutrients to the baby and taking waste away. but after delivery, dr. michelle curtis says its role is done. >> after the first three minutes or so, when the blood vessels spasmed, there is no more benefit for the child to remain attached. >> however, the web is filled with videos of people like christine who disagree. they believe the cord has a spiritual and emotional connection to the baby and that cutting it is harsh. the practice is becoming more common among home birthing advocates. >> we covered the placenta with sea salt and dried lavender flowers before we wrapped it up in cloth. >> the doctor has concerns. >> the placenta is filled with blood. it is filled with different cells and a rich environment for bacteria to grow in. there's a long bridge between the placenta and baby. the bacteria could climb up that bri

tonight, the finance minister of france, christine lagarde. >> well, the markets will keep at it and they will keep attacking the... the greek finances and the spreads which is the way by which you measure at which rate greece can borrow will rise and people who hold debt will dump what they have. so this is just not the scenario that we can envisage. we need to show solidarity to greece which which is something that which is going on at the moment and we need to support the country because there's no way greece is going to be let down. >> rose: we conclude with the british novelist ian mcewan. >> so it's really a story, i guess, of something in our nature. of being very clever monkeys who can do extraordinary things with math and architecture and art. >> rose: yet? >> yet we have a nature, too, that is tribal and self-interested. we saw it at chrop. science brought nations together. so one of those extraordinary matters where rationality assembled the world. what happens when you get? self-interest, cabals, scheming. >> rose: pride. >> yes, pride. >> rose: la l.a. guard and mcewen,

christine romans is minding her business and we're here deciding whether or not to get outraged. airlines will be charging you to put your carry-on bag into the overhead compartment, but they have the new phase of unbundling. >> this new way you buy. you pay to check the bag and you pay to sit in an aisle seat in some cases. you pay to board first in many other cases and now spirit says you can pay to put the carry on. i mean this was one of the last frontiers of things you could do was stash your carry on. >> for armrests or a seat belt. >> not yet for an oxygen mask. they're taking apart the pieces of the fare so you pay for what you use. at the gate you would pay $45 -- not to check the bag, to put it in the carry on. if you'll put things in the overhead bins. if you go online $30. and spirit members pay $9 to be a member and then you pay $20 online. so that's how it works out. there are some things that are exempt here. an umbrella, for example, if you use assistance device, like a cane. >> or a walker. >> you don't have to do that. a baby bag, for example. say you get a big

i'm christine romans. we put together a panel for you covering all angles of this debt debate. it's a big debate, a big problem and a big panel. i'll introduce you to them as we go along, but i want to start with david walker, president and ceo of the peterson foundation sponsored this film. david, last year in the isea documentary, that number was 32,000 for every man, woman and child in america. that number has grown, a lot has changed over the year. >> dramatically. the deficits have almost gone up ten times, but it's important for people to understand that the threat to our future is not the short-term deficits, it's the deficits that will exist after the economy is recovered, after unemployment is down, after the wars are over, after we pass the crises. these so-called structural deficits threaten our future, both internationally and domestically, and we need to start doing something about it. >> we'll get to everyone else in a moment, but first let's rewind just a bit and pick up where we left off. >> in 2008, the national debt was $9.6 trillion. today it's almost 12.7 tr

. >> greta: christine tell me about the foundation give me a little background. everyone knows bristol. what is this foundation? why was it started? >> sure. in 2001, neil cole head of the candy's fashion brand, a teen clothing and shoe fashion line decided to start the foundation to raise awareness about teen pregnancy prevention. at the time he looked around and realized there weren't any other corporations dealing with this issue. he felt like given they already have a dialogue with teens through the fashion brand they wanted to leverage that to get the message out about in issue. >> greta: bristol i've seen you with your son. i know you absolutely an did that child. but i also know it is a lot of work isn't it? >> yeah, it is extremely difficult, definitely. >> greta: is it anything like you would have imagined before he was ? >> no i don't think anyone is quite prepared to be a teenaged mom or to be a single mom in general at all. it is extremely difficult, yeah. >> greta: why are you bristol supporting this? i understand your personal situation. what is it

today's question is from christine muncie. she wants to know the correct way to interpret the chance of rain we give in a forecast of the she writes does 60% mean 60% of the lynn listening area will receive rain or does it mean there is a 60% chance of rain. apparently christine and her husband completely dries agree -- disagree on the answer. what do you think? >> i think it is a 60% chance that somebody in our viewing area is going to see rain. >> i agree. >> you are pretty much right. as a weather forecaster, someone would has been doing this for many years, there is great misunderstanding. it means one thing in particular. i think the misunderstanding comes from when you -- if you look it up, if you go online and go to different places, there are all kind of answers out there. i went right to the national weather service. here it is. the chance of rain is based on a mathematical equation which itself is based on historical data, what happened previously when these same weather conditions existed. however, that is not what

eastern with christine and me. she is with us today. >>> let me give you a check of the top stories here on cnn. a little good news on the the economic front. home prices in february posted their first annual gain in more than three years. there is a downside. the gain actually fell short of analyst's expectations and those analysts warned that prices could fall further before they start gaining again. remember, interest rates could go up at the same time. if you're making a decision about buying a house, take that all into consideration. >>> in france, no vacation for man yeel nor aga. he left miami and arrived in paris to face money laundering charges. he laundered some $7 million in drug profits by buying luxury apartments in paris. noriega faces up to ten years in prison if convicted. >>> a solemn ceremony for three pittsburgh police officers gunned down. all three of their names are to be inscribed on the national police memorial. their deaths last year marked the single deadliest day in the history of the pit

christine roemer in just a minute. but moving on, after months of hype, the day is nearly here. apple's ipad hits the stores at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. in the grand tradition tech geekz, people have been sleeping on the street to be the first to get their hands on apple's latest gadget except i thought you already had to preorder it. >> omar wasso technology analyst with the root.com we'll ask. not only that, don't you have it with you? they selected omar. >> show it. >> oh to, try out ipad for a week and review it. tell us what you think of it, despite the unfortunate name. how is it as a gadget. >> you know, i don't mind the name. i was actually skeptical about whether a sort of a tablet computer could work because for decades people have been trying to figure this out and nobody has quite nail it had. i think apple has pulled it off. this is a very elegant, fun, easy to use, engaging computer. >> now, you call it a computer. but it was originally being billed as sort of this is going to be apple's ipod for books. have you used it to read a book? >> well, yeah. you can use it to r

christine romans "minding your business." you're here this morning and we've been talking about goldman sachs saying they are going to vigorously defend the charges against them against the sec regarding fraud. >> covering that this morning and see if the stocks go lower because there are still -- the market had been up a lot. people are rattled about that. also covering the airlines promises for no carry-on fees for bags. chuck schumer last week -- >> on thursday he said he would put legislation to stop it. >> they have a bill they introduced on wednesday that basically said they are a essential thing. when you buy a plane ticket there are things that are essential, like bringing clothes with you. spirit airlines kicked the whole thing off a couple of weeks ago when they said they would charge $45 for the carry-on. there was public outrage against this. and chuck schumer got a promise from five airlines, that they will not charge carry-on fees. american airlines delta, jetblue, jetblue which never did before, never had any i

let's move on to christine in west virginia on our line for independence pts. caller: you mentioned that he party and those set have not stepped over the edge, the effect that the people that are at risk -- de think these people are at risk of becoming members of the extreme right? >> i think we're seeing a great deal of mixing. i think it went -- i think when you look a that a party phenomenon, you cannot say that this is uniform like a radical right group. i think that is false. that said, if you look at them, and there are many streaks of conspiracy theories, racial feelings, sometimes real racist feelings, and other kinds of demonizing propaganda that have been absorbed from other groups. what i am saying is that, for instance, many people in the tea party movement have to absorb the conspiracy theory that really originated in radical anti-immigration groups that mexico was planning to invade and conquer the american southwest. another theory is that the united states is secretly building a set of concentration camps into which it plans to put in all freedo

christine romans off this week. there are clear signs this economy has come out of a crisis, but we aren't out of the woods just yet. let me tell you what's happened. this week a federal reserve report found conditions improving in 11 of the 12 districts across the country. resa retail sales surged 1.6% in march, the fourth month in a row. that's a sign of improving consumer confidence. and the white house claims that the recovery act, the stimulus bill, has created or saved at least 2.2 million jobs through the first three months of this year. from when it started until the end of the first three months of this year. but the federal reserve chairman, ben bernanke, has stressed that it's going to take a long time to recoup job losses. unemployment remains at 9.7%. it was 4.9% when the recession started. so the question is, does this recovery have legs? we're going to pose that question to "wall street journal" columnist and joanne lipman. folks, thanks very much for being here. i'm going to put my bias out there rig

cnn's christine romans live in new york today. christine, help us with this. how many people and how much money are we talking about here? >> he with are talking about a couple hundred thousand people last week who rolled off the unemployment benefits and overall for the month of april, if the senate doesn't do something. you have a million people whose unemployment benefits will expire. what it really underscores is there are so many people who are long-term unemployed in this country. there are almost 6 million people who have been getting extension after extension of unemployment benefits. now, what the republicans are concerned about, this was emergency spending for the stimulus in the very beginning. now, we have a chronic long-term unemployment issue. they are saying, all right, let's address it. find a way to pay for it. find a budget offset as they say in washington. the democrats are saying, no, we need to do this quickly and get moving. some democrats want to go ahead and have an extension for this and for a cobra health insurance subsidy through the

let's move on to christine in west virginia. >> caller: hello. i have a question. you mention the tea parties earlier and some people on the extreme right that really haven't crossed over yet into the direct oppression and whatnot. do you think these people, you know, are at risk of becoming a member of the extreme right? >> guest: i think we're seeing a great deal of mixing of these groups and cross pollination. yeah, i think when you look at the tea party phenomenon, what you can't say is this is uniformly radical right-wing. i think that's false. that said, you look at them and there are many streaks or kind of veins of conspiracy theories, of racial feelings, sometimes real racist feelings and other kind of propaganda that have been absorbed from other groups. what i'm saying is for instance, the tea party, many people with absorbed the conspiracy theory that originated in radical anti-immigration that mexico is secretly planning to reinvade and conquer the american southwest. another in mesh lib sha groups, the idea the united states is secretly building a set

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christine romer. a lot of the stuff in the report is so fascinating. i think most people tend to think of flexibility as a perk, something that cost the companies something, a luxury. i have often said the way people work to work life now, managers seem to want to run screaming down the hall when you bring it up, and we should call work life balance, make more money. because that is the bottom line. that is what is surprising about flexibility and not just for businesses. i was struck by what you find in terms of the economy as a whole. it really helps the larger economy. >> absolutely. i will be shameless and show you the report. i want to take one minute to single out my colleague cecelia. she played a great role in putting this together. [applause] thank you. you know, you're absolutely right. one thing that is true is that the flexible workplace, everything from control over what hours he worked, where you work, how you organize your hours, it is part of a package of compensation, just like your health benefits, your flexibility, your wage. all of

. >> i said, you know who i am, i said, christine, my daughter? >> i would have never thought to come to work and find my mom. >> reporter: besides reunits with her mother, christina is also meeting her other siblings. >> it's the lord. he was tired of us suffering. it was time to bring the family together. >> demolition crews in detroit are restarting a program today to rip down abandoned houses in the city. the program aims to demolish nearly 3,000 dangerous structures. it failed last year. >>> in texas, police are holding a 52-year-old man without bail in connection to a number of suspicious devices found in a postal collection box. he's being questioned about 36 devices placed in 23 locations, at least five were pipe bombs. no reported injuries. police are charging larry north with possession of firearms. if convicted, he could face ten years in prison. >>> the time to hide on this one is over. we need to come clean. that's what herb miller, toyota's then group vice president told his colleagues in an e-mail referring to the safety problems ju

christine romans, part of the cnn money team, what do you think, christine? >> that's the big question if other airlines follow suit. we know you're paying to check your bags. but that's causing people to bring more and more on to the plane, kyra, so now spirit airlines wants to charge you to put it in the overhead bin. you can just have one little bag underneath the seat in front of you and to put something in the overhead bin, if you bring it to the gate, it will be $45. if you sign union line it will be $30 and for the aeroclub members it will cost them $20 to put something in the overhead bin. in the overhead bin! charging for carry-on! what things are exempt. i was thinking, wait a second, this will cost me a fortune if other airlines adopt this. a baby bag is exempt, food, a plane, a walker. you can bring a bag of food on, so there are some exemptions that you can watch out for there, but lafk lebasically, thm line is they'll charge you for the carry-on, the bag that you want to stuff in the overhead bin. your coat, they're not going to charge you for y

christine brennan. and donna brazile. great profile on nancy pelosi this month. cokie was on "morning mix," with raquel welch. you're just as lucky. >> i'll take this handsome man anytime. >> we'll start with ben roethlisberger. he was suspended six games by nfl commissioner roger goodell. he was not convicted of a crime. he says that's not the point. >> when you conduct yourself in a way that brings negative reaction from our fans, from everybody involved in the league, and reflects poorly on yourself and your team and the nfl, that's what the personal conduct policy is. you don't have to be convicted of a crime. >> christine, you have a pretty tough column on big ben in "usa today" this morning. i guess you agree with goodell. >> i do. it's six games. it could be more, if ben does not abide by the rules roger goodell has set. the fact there was no crime officially, it's a privilege in the nfl. >> how will it play in pittsburgh, donna? >> well, look. george, this was a good policy. a good decision. there's a fine associated with it. about $2.8 million. that's go

they will crave it. >> reporter: christine romans, cnn, new york. ddddddddd >> it could be wonderful to see them coming out of the woods with a little girl. >>> we are grateful for words of solidarity coming from president obama, hillary clinton. i don't think we will recover for a long time. >>> i know he doesn't understand right now and i'm not doing this to hurt him in any way. >>> you're on the gold coast in san francisco. there are an awful lot of people just a stone's throw from this who could afford this house easily. >>> i'm natasha curry and it is sunday, you're watching hln news and views. >>> mourners lined the streets of warsaw here as the sound of sirens and church bells fill the air. president kaczynski and his wife were among the 96 people killed on a plane crash during a visit to russia. their daughter and kacynski's twin brother greeted the plane that returned to the bodies to poland. the crash also killed leaders of the polish parliament and top military commanders. >> i don't think we will recover for a long time because,

hypocritical, the only good thing that has come out about it was what he heard from campbell brown and christine brennan before your show came on when they said he's provoked them to talk about other issues like why women haven't been involved in agust do. he's a walking hypocrite, plain and simple. >> listen, that was probably one of the only times or two times agreed with steven. the fact he came out and talked about our children and grandchildren, are you kidding me? do you know what that guy probably did in his past? and i'm just sitting around thinking, people are talking about their kids and their grandkids, charles barkley said it best, raise your kids. tiger woods should be their hero when it comes to sports. he should be their hero when he hits the ball. everything else -- what he does in his personal life, this is ridiculous when people are sitting around saying this. you have no business talking about it, your kids, my grandkids, my grandkids grandkids. the house i had back on the -- that's ridiculous. i remember when i was -- when i was paying attention to augusta and everybody was t

on the last leg of their journey, the heathrow express train to central london, laura maaldrink and christine haffsten remembered a long and circuitous route home from italy. >> we went from bolia to milano, and from milano to geneva, and from geneva to paris. and we go tomorrow. and we were lucky enough to finally fly today. >> reporter: maaldrink said the unexpected days off were anything but relaxing. >> arranging travel plans, which change daily.so we were q. >> reporter: like many travelers we spoke to across the week, frank ropic, in southern france for business, found information and help hard to come by. >> until we find out what is going by internet and communication to your colleagues in the u.k. you get told the next flight is tomorrow, and we don't know whether we'll go or not. so there is no notice. no communication. ç >> reporter: as european airports struggled to reduce the mountainous backlog of passengers and freight, there were unexpected consequences playing out. a nissan factory was idled by a shortage of parts expected by air and wounded american soldiers from iraq and

. >> reporter: i'm christine romans in new york. here's what we're working on next week. the earnings season heats up. we'll find out if the big banks are making money again and how much after jpmorgan chase and bank of america had pretty good reports this week, many people are hoping for a good financial sector earnings next week. also, on thursday, we're going to get a key reading on the ailing housing market. that's new home sales. and for those of you who carry around $100 bills in your pocket, wednesday, a new $100 bill will be unveiled. it's expected to be more colorful and with enhanced security features. >> i'm "showbiz tonight's" a.j. hammer. so will this week be kate gosselin's last on "dancing with the stars"? she has squeaked by so far. we'll find out on tuesday. also, look for mel brooks to get his star on the hollywood walk of fame. remember, "showbiz tonight" is now live at 5:00 p.m. eastern on hln, monday through friday, and of course, we are still tv's most provocative entertainment news show seven days a week at 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. >> all rig

can christine bran ski reach across the aisle and find love? she'll join us live. >> steve: there is speculation that arizona rancher was murdered by a suspected illegal alien. that is prompting calls to step up security at the u.s.-mexican border. senator john mccain and john kyle say they have a plan to stop the violence along the border. >> brian: arizona senator john mccain joins us now. senator mccain, you, over the campaign, even when running for president, said listen, i understand. i heard the american people. secure the border first. is there even more of an urgency now? >> well, there is more of an urgency now because the violence escalated. all indications are that robert recognize was killed by a drug person, three american citizens were murdered in juarez. a step up of the increase in violence by the drug people as they come across arizona, when, by the way, there was 1.3 million pounds of marijuana intercepted last year just down in tucson, that the violence is escalating and we have broken borders and we need a guard down there,

here's the author of "confidence game," christine richard. >> going back to 2002, when he first issued this research report, questioning mbia's aaa rating, even though this was shortly after enron, shortly after worldcom and many people would have said, i don't have any more faith in the credit rating agencies, there were still very few people who were willing to be very public about -- if their criticism of a company, particularly a aaa-rated company. >> we should point out that we invited mbia to come on to "squawk," but the company did decline our invitation. let's talk about -- you gave the money away, too, anyway? >> i'm in the process of giving it away. >> the profits. >> made $150 million. i committed to give profits away. actually it wasn't until i committed to give the profits aware the stock started to decline. maybe there's correlation there. >> why in this case did you decide to do that? >> i decided to do that because while someone's long a stock and someone says you're biased, you buy the stock. somehow when you're short and express your views publicly you're viewed as a

let me also take a moment to compliment you and the assistant general for christine varney. under your and her leadership the antitrust division of the department has made it clear after many years of neglect and enforcement of antitrust law as a priority for the department and i am especially grateful for the department is focus on agriculture issues and partnership with the usda and i was pleased to hear the department will be holding a workshop in wisconsin. it means a great deal to the producers and others in the state of wisconsin senator kohl asked to about the cops program. as you know, strongly support that pergamon and other federal law enforcement assistance grant programs. i hear repeatedly from the law enforcement of wisconsin just how important a grant programs are particularly during tough economic times. the copps hiring agreed and recovery act allowed my stick to how your and rehire 58 police officers and these are certainly needed in the jurisdictions where they were provided but i do think it's important that these dollars are distributed fairly different c

reason it does, ryan, is not because of that, but because of what he said about the ad yesterday when christine brenner of "usa today" asked him point blank, what is the deal? you told us you didn't want to ask you about your personal life, and then you go to make this commercial to capitalize on it, and tiger said, i guess it is my father speaking to me from the grave and something to that effect, and i'm paraphrasing and any son who has lost a father can understand, and then we understand that it is not his father speaking to him from the grave at all, and in fact, after the press conference when he was done playing, i wanted to ask him specifically about this report and you said this yesterday and i was not called upon and none of the other reporters asked any question about that, so i have to give it to nike though, ryan, you said he wanted to promote discussion, and that is promoting a lot of discussion about this ad. >> well, it has everybody talking, and i want to play tiger's response to this ad he gave on thursday. listen to this. >> well, it is very apropos, that is what my dad would

here with us now economy and finance minister madame christine lagarde who spent the weekend at a g-20 meeting at world bank headquarters in washington. madame minister, thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you so much for being here. how far will france and the rest of the eu go to save greece's economy? >> we'll go together. that's point number one. we'll go as a majority and we will go with the imf. so it's a joint package of euro group members and the imf to support greece. >> how much pressure politically will there be at home whether we're talking about the french leaders or german leaders to take a tougher line against greece? this couldn't be very popular. i would guess in france. >> it's a give and take process, right? because we're going to help and support greece, by the same token, we're helping and supporting the euro, our common currency. on the other hand, greece has to do certainly more than it ever did before in terms of public deficit, in terms of tax collections in, terms of being really serious about numbers and statistics which clearly were not proper

let me also take a moment to compliment you and the assistant general for christine varney. under your and her leadership the antitrust division of the department has made it clear after many years of neglect and enforcement of antitrust law as a priority for the department and i am especially grateful for the department is focus on agriculture issues and partnership with the usda and i was pleased to hear the department will be holding a workshop in wisconsin. it means a great deal to the producers and others in the state of wisconsin senator kohl asked to about the cops program. as you know, strongly support that pergamon and other federal law enforcement assistance grant programs. i hear repeatedly from the law enforcement of wisconsin just how important a grant programs are particularly during tough economic times. the copps hiring agreed and recovery act allowed my stick to how your and rehire 58 police officers and these are certainly needed in the jurisdictions where they were provided but i do think it's important that these dollars are distributed fairly different c

>> christine, he did come to my house. he never gave me hgh or any peds. i have never taken any drug for that matter. i had prp, platinum enriched plasma treatments. they draw blood from your arm. spent and take the plasma out and incertain it into the injuries. in 2008 i blew out my acl. part of my reconstruction of my acl wasn't reacting properly. it was a little bit stuck. so i had the prp injection into my lcl. in december i started to train, started running again and ier to my achilles in my right leg. i then had prp injections throughout the year. i kept retearing it throughout the year and throughout the summer. i used -- i also went into hyperbaric chambers to help drive in -- help it heal faster. and did what i possibly could to heal so i could get back on the golf course through the prp injections. >> what do you anticipate today to be like for you? how nervous are you? >> sitting here i'm not that nervous. as far as getting out there, i was more nervous. that first tee, i didn't know what to expect, steve. it's one of those things i have never b

christine yablonski and phil biegler. and also, an expert on homeschooling and unschooling. and i have to start off, phil, with a mea culpa. i confessed and said this was a crazy idea. one of your friends wanted you to come in and punch me. you're smiling. thank you for that. we did get so much reaction to this on our message boards. and i want to get right to some of the questions that came in. this one was very representative. it comes from a woman in california. and the question was, who is going to hire these kids without a high school diploma or g.e.d.? what are they going to do for income when they're adults? >> there are unschoolers in college or have graduated college, who are in the working world. there are unschoolers who are raising familiefamilies. so, this might be a new concept for a lot of people. but the unschooling movement, if you want to call it that, have been in existence for a while. >> kids have been successful? >> yes. and kids have absolutely been successful. they are holding jobs. they're raising their families. they're productive, positive influenc

let me read this comment from christine. the potential problem is that we have all made choices that we regret at a young age. sterilization is not to be taken lightly especially while under the influence. what may seem like a great idea and a quick $300 at age 19 could be devastating at age 30 when you realize that because of poor choices you will never be a mother. and janeane is in sacramento. janeane is on the phone. i think we have enough time for janeane. janeane is all for the plan. janeane, why is that? >> caller: i am so for it. if you really listen to the person before that just called in. let's break the cycle of addiction and if somebody really does want to better themselves, they'll do that for the next -- you know, stop the cycle because they're going to go into jail or prison and why not -- i think that that would be a great way to do it also is pay those people that are going into jail because they're going to end up having sex in jail. they have conjugal visits and -- >> do you have any concerns about it bei

christine romans of our money team is here. the reality is states are just running out of money to pay for unemployment benefits. >> many of them already ran out. they're simply broke in their funds for jobless benefits and they've been forced to go to the federal government and borrow money from the feds to make sure that they're still paying it out. 33 states, tony are insolvent, four are on the brink. they borrowed over $38 billion from uncle sam. to make sure your unemployment benefits are warranted. >> who are the states in the most trouble? it's the usual suspects. it's the states that have had terrible, terrible budget problems, tony, and awfully high unemployment. michigan, ohio, new york, pennsylvania, california. the people who follow this point out some states are doing better than others. there are more than a dozen states that are fine at the moment either because they have very low unemployment or because during the good times they were socking the money away and they always had a reserve equal to the worst period

i need that christine hightower. my mother, rebecca anderson. >> remember our friends and family from the u.s. secret service ninth floor. kathy sidle. linda mckinney. my grandfather, mickey baroney. donald leonard. cynthia brown. >> we remember our friends and family in the drug enforcement administration. tennis mccullough. -- kenneth mccullough. caroled june put chip field. -- carol june. chip field. >> remember that our friends and family in the department of housing and urban development. clarence wilson. francis williams. michael weaver. david walker. jewels valdez. lany david. antonio reyes. dr. george michael howard. >> we remember our friends and family on the eighth floor. our daughter, susan farro. kimberly clark. donald burns. david berkett. ted allen. >> we remember our friends and family on the seventh floor. joanne woodenburg. john van ness. john stuart. terry smith. patricia nickes. james mccarthy. mary renty. to reset lauderdale -- theresa lauderdale. linda florence. judy fischer. >> we remember our

., christine on the democrats line. caller: that is shindell. -- shannondale. host: thank you. caller: i am under the impression of president obama is way too far to the right. we do not get enough news and of other countries. 10 years ago, germany felfelt tt by now to have the energy needs they wanted to, two new nuclear plants were necessary. the electric co. was ordered to repay citizens seven times more than the amount due for excess energy for those systems created. duprey much equaled the mortgage on the equipment. -- that pretty much equal to the mortgage on the equipment. today, no new power plants were made in germany has more solar pommells than any other country in the world. -- more solar panels than any other country in the world. therwhy are these things are reported? where are we hearing the same thing over and over again? guest: there are several points here, one is perhaps the decline of foreign news in media in general, part because of the economy and cutbacks. it is very possible that she is seeing less foreign coverage by reporters working for those new to e

i need that christine hightower. my mother, rebecca anderson. >> remember our friends and family from the u.s. secret service ninth floor. kathy sidle. linda mckinney. my grandfather, mickey baroney. donald leonard. cynthia brown. >> we remember our friends and family in the drug enforcement administration. tennis mccullough. -- kenneth mccullough. caroled june put chip field. -- carol june. chip field. >> remember that our friends and family in the department of housing and urban development. clarence wilson. francis williams. michael weaver. david walker. jewels valdez. lany david. antonio reyes. dr. george michael howard. >> we remember our friends and family on the eighth floor. our daughter, susan farro. kimberly clark. donald burns. david berkett. ted allen. >> we remember our friends and family on the seventh floor. joanne woodenburg. john van ness. john stuart. terry smith. patricia nickes. james mccarthy. mary renty. to reset lauderdale -- theresa lauderdale. linda florence. judy fischer. >> we remember our