her father was david conrad robertson who served? general patton's third army from normandy to berlin as a signal corps officer, a cherokee code talker. she is also descended from one of the first cherokee presbyterian circuit ministers and from a man who led on the trail of tears. mary jean is on the community relations council and she is working very hard to get a cherokee nation counselor office officially recognized by the u.s. state department here in the san francisco bay area to promote not only trade and travel, but also to promote the cherokee artists, writers, craftsmen, and products in our bay area. in the area days of the california arts council, mary jean received two of its artist in schools and communities grants. she was an oral historian for the american indian arts workshop in the 1970's and she and another historian advised and costumed the native american themed play "the loon's rays." what a wonderful background. we were so happy for you, mary jean, and now i would like to introduce you to a former kqed community

there are at least three democratic senators, conrad, bayh, and ben nelson, who said they will not vote to let the tax cuts expire even on the wealthy. that makes it procedurally more complicated. talking to them late in the week i'm not convinced that they're hungry to have this keebt -- debate in the senate. the senate democrats scared tv and may try to put it off until after the election. >> you comp the stock market if new york all the time. what's the excuse me --sumption? that the tax cuts are going to continue or to die? >> they're assuming they're going up on the top 2%. but it's a dicey thing. you get more deficit but everyone knows they're going away in a year or two? so people aren't going to spend money on creating jobs. a year or two econmiocally doesn't do much for you. chris: the weak economy, this friday, the economy seams to have stalled. does that make it easier to say no tax increase now? >> on the middle class. he's got to make this point. his biggest challenge is going to be this issue of small businesses. we all know small businesses create most of the jobs in amer

this is the guy who went after conrad black and all those charges are now in question. the supreme court reviewed that a debut. he has a bad losing streak. >> half a corrupt politicians in illinois in jail -- >> including the republican -- >> republican governor who was his predecessor. patrick fitzgerald, the son of a doorman in new york, got a scholarship and has been a distinguished public. -- distinguished public servant. what looks like it is some of the total loss of confidence in -- institute -- brought the boy -- rod blagojevich is a symptom of the total loss of confidence in institutions. >> roger clemens is charged with lying to congress. >> one is tempted to say if there is a similarity between these two people who cannot bear to admit that the public reputations have been solid terribly by private conduct. -- sullied terribly by private conduct. but roger clemens has not been tried. we have not seen witnesses against him. >> we saw one during the hearings. >> mitchell did not believe the clemons, and a grand jury did not believe roger clemens, his account. b

conrad paul sentenced this summer from frankfurt. >> a bunch of good news pushed the stock market up not only here in frankfurt but all over europe. hsbc, europe's largest bank, beat expectations with its second quarter earnings report. also, mnp paribas k-stronger earnings than expected. both said they have much less bad loans to cope with, which means that the banks, of course, have one problem left. but also, the credit customers of these banks are doing much better. also, an industrial group from germany is selling industrial gas and beat analysts' expectations. the news pushed the share price up nearly 4%. >> in frankfurt where we can stay for a closer look at monday's closing figures, and the dax finishing the session at 6292, up by two of the herd -- the euro stoxx 50 up by almost 3%. in new york, investors were encouraged by solid corporate results including hsbc in europe. the dow jones closed a short time ago, up by about 2%. in currency markets, the euro trading at a volume of -- a value of $1.3171. one of the german government's leading economic advisers is calling for a

william nobrega is founder and managing partner of the conrad group, which advises private equity and hedge funds on emerging markets. welcome. >> pleasure. >> what's been fueling this huge rebound we are seeing in brazil. >> brazil is a perfect storm. we've got a growing middle class. it's growing to 90 million people last ten years from 60 million. incredible exports fueled by china's growth. and growing domestic consumption from this middle class. so everything is in place for rapid gdp growth for brazil. >> is enough in place for this kind of speed of the growth to continue on to the 2011 and beyond? >> we're predicting that around 7 to 8% gdp growth going forward, two reasons for that. new administration and that new administration next year will definitely push through tax reform and pension reform which will also drive down interest rates which will fuel even more growth. >> yeah. >> it's one of the areas where interest rates have been higher in this world compared to in the developed country. >> extremely high, actually which is really frustrated a lot of the domestic growth.

. >>> and atlanta's brooks conrad hit a ninth inning home run against houston. the braves beat the astros 4-2. atlanta now leads the national league eastern division by 2 1/2 gams. >>> and in monday night's braves and astros game, watch this, a fan named bo stepped away from a foul ball, which hit his girlfriend, sara, oh, in the arm. now, he claimed he lost sight of the ball in the lights. needless to say, his girlfriend was less than pleased. she was smiling a little bit, though. i think she'll be all right. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stories. >>> and growing gap, how salaries for federal employees outpaced those from private companies. you'll never go back to your old duster. [ funny voice ] hey, duster! wanna attract dust like swiffer 360 duster? then try the magnet hat! ♪ whoa! wow! [ female announcer ] sorry, duster, but swiffer 360 dusters attract dust with over 500,000 fibers and lock it away to clean better than a feather duster. swiffer's built smarter to clean better. ♪ she blinded me with science good morning, i'm sydn

. >> chairman conrad, ranking member gregg, and other members of the committee, i thank you for inviting me here to discuss the state of the u.s. economy, and with your permission, we will talk about what policymakers can do to improve it. first, a status report on the economy. as you noted, mr. chairman, we have emerged very slowly from the worst financial crisis since the decree -- since the great depression. this is scattered across the economic landscape and you know that some of the things that are important. i would add that one in four homeowners with a mortgage owes more than their house is worth. lenders are still hesitant to lend to or refinance many borrowers. and while the process of cleaning up balance sheets is well advanced, it is incomplete. steady progress is required to archer a sustainable recovery. gdp is still below its peak of three years ago. federal, state, and local budgets are strained, as you noted. jobs and hours gains have been encouraging but a faster pace is required to generate the household income and confidence needed to sustain recovery. there is the ta

now, you can go to learn more about lauren conrad. headline news has a story about it. >> it's only one of the tv-themed camps available to kids this summer. love the show "glee," then sing and dance your heart out. about about camp "csi?" and for young fans of "celebrity rehab with dr. drew," there's rehab camp where kinds are assigned addictions, receive therapy and even learn how to relapse. don't worry. those are just pop rocks. >> jimmy: yeah, that's -- [ applause ] we've -- i don't want to alarm anyone, but some important health news. there's a massive recall of now 380 million eggs. apparently we're accelerating out of control and yolking people. salmonella has made 100 people in colorado, minnesota and california sick. which, of course they make you sick. eggs come out of a chicken's butt, they're not safe to eat. the source of the problem has been traced to a farm in iowa. here's the story from nbc news. >> an iowa egg producer is recalling 228 million eggs after being linked to an outbreak of salmonella. the federal centers

also joining us, sergeant wayne conrad, california department of corrections and rehabilitation. he's a trainer with the canine cell phone unit and his four legged partner is dracco. >> so you're going to give us a little idea how this works. i can understand finding tobacco and cigarettes and things like that. but the cell phone has me baffled. i don't know what a dog will be smelling. how do you train them to find a cell phone? >> well, like anything else it has to have a unique odor. when we first started this program, that is one thing we had to determine. once we were able to determine that a cell phone did have a unique odor, the training was basically the same as any other type of detection. >> guys, give us a sample. we set up -- i believe we set up three things you have hidden, right? marijuana, a phone and what else? >> we have marijuana, tobacco and a cell phone hidden in here. and in this particular dog, he's trained for sick scents. we just had narcotics dogs. and our contraband dogs. on the contraband dogs, we use them inside the prisons only. we can't use them for

i mean think've got a problem with the hand full of centrist democrats like ken conrad and nelson and evan bayh who are not for letting any of the tax cuts expire. that will be a problem for them. i imagine a compromise. it might be a complicated debate and it might help the democrats in the fall but they'll have to come up with some kind of compromise that could be temporary extension. >> chris: we have a minute left in this segment. you love to give -- i don't think it's ever taken, but you love to give the democrats advice. at this point, if kevin is right and all of these positions are hardened, the democrats are headed for what looks like a drubbing in november. if you are in the white house right now and you were advising barack obama, what would you say? how do you reshuffle the cards? what do you do? you're not going to be able to really change the facts of the economy. how do you change public perception of you versus the republicans? the democrats versus republicans going into november on the economy? >> don't raise taxes. accept a deal with the republicans to extend current

scooter libby and conrad black, this is a bipartisan dynamic here. there is a playbook the guys use. >> chris: if i can ask you to answer any question, sir. how damaging will this be for democrats if this whole trial, your problems, rahm emanuel, harry reid are all up involved with the blagojevich case in the fall of this year? >> if they tell the truth, they've done nothing wrong and i've done nothing wrong. we talked about political horse trading to varying degrees, depending on who i talked about. and it's not at all unlike there are unpublished reports new federal judge made because the obama administration got a congressman to vote for his healthcare plan. >> chris: wait, wait, wait. governor, i looked at that case. first of all, the brother who was appointed the federal judge had been the dean of the utah law school and the u.s. attorney. secondly, the congressman voted against healthcare reform. so that's a pretty lousy example. >> well, it was a published report that said just the opposite. mr. sestak in pennsylvania. and the talk about it gi

the senate budget committee will have a hearing under senator kent conrad talking about the status of the u.s. economy. in your opinion, what is the status of the u.s. economy, especially for african-american and other people of color? guest: banks failed us with their greed and lack of oversight. billions of dollars in bailout without any link to lending. the result is well street is celebrating. expect 1 million homes in foreclosure this yea the foreclosures are outdistancing -- when a home is lost, you lose your tax base. you cannot pay teachers, police, and firemen. the ba is so for a jobless recovery. host: 10 geithner had this op-ed in "the new york times." he says the economy has a long way to go before reaching its full potential. large parts continue to strengthen. guest: he is looking top down. i wish you would go to chicago. unemployment is like a whopping the epicenter for adults, maybe 50% for the youth. public transportation has been cut. thousands have been laid off. you cannot get the work to build the school. they are closing schools. laying off several thousand teach

conrad. he made that decision yesterday was murray in attendance, prosecutors were lives of their evidence at the hearing the judge will then decide if there is enough to send murray to trial. he pleaded not guilty to a least one count of involuntary manslaughter. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. boy is going to be a hot one today the latest and your they're coming up weather breaking sectors potentially coming up. 66 and san jose, it will be among the list as it is topping the triple digit mark this afternoon i hundred into the expected high more and amass the kron 4 morning news time now is 547, it is going to be a hot one. here's a shot of this does bay. we're going to continue to sea temperatures climbing throughout the day let's go ahead and take the lead, we did see some records yesterday. today tempters expected to be warmer than this. san fell 97. oakland 95. 93 for my view. overall did in the morning yesterday. current tem

[applause] all of the other 2012 democrats, especially kent conrad, ben nelson, they need to know that these are the first votes of the 2012 cycle, and if they do not like what happens to their 2010 friends, they cannot be part of a lame duck session. we need to sway the moderate- liberal republicans, educate voters, and put pressure on the 2012 democrats. we're going to stop the lame duck threat. we are going to stop them cold. we are going to over the congress next year and get to work rolling back all of the damage that has already been done to this country. thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome radio host and fox news contributor, herman cain. [applause] >> thank you very much. what a wonderful reception. i am thrilled to be here, but even more thrilled that you are here. let it be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching their goals. the tragedy lies in having no goals to reach for. [applause] it is not a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity to have no dreams. my father walked off of a farm, a sm

host: conrad on the independent line. caller: good morning. i do not believe illegal immigrants, especially from mexico, are coming specifically for jobs. think about the 1990's when proposition 13 was passed in california. unfortunately, it was overturned by an organization and one judge who went against the will of the people. some of these people are coming to get on our benefits, education, welfare, and possibly on the social security system, after they get pregnant. these are the benefits that they can take from us, and cost us in the long run. you may recall many years ago the chinese had this problem, too, and they build a huge wall. it is a tourist attraction, at this point. it would be a cheap way to maintain people coming over from the border. guest: in terms of where we have the offense, we put in in areas where we believe we need to delay folks progress. we do not have it in places where it does not do anything. in the areas that are very remote, where people would have to walk for days to get anywhere, any offense that would buy u

testifying before the budget committee and pointed out to judd gregg, ranking republican, and senator conrad that they were violating their own c.b.o. scoring rules because there's still a $6 trillion liability represented to the taxpayer by undercapitalized too big to fail banks. they didn't deny the amount. they didn't deny the $6 trillion. they weren't denying their own scoring rules. so my question to your guest will be, why are you pretending like this isn't a criminal enterprise, why aren't you calling for criminal investigations? thank you. guest: a number of different points on that one. moving back to the fannie and freddie issue. certainly one of the things we haven't even touched on today really wasn't touched on much in the federal overhaul bill is the next really focus for the administration coming forward on regulation. even tomorrow the administration will have its first meeting on kind of overhauling fannie and freddie, the mortgage giants that kind of collapsed in 2008, are still kind of sucking down taxpayer money on a quarterly basis. in terms of crooking the books, this w

the senate budget committee will have a hearing under senator kent conrad talking about the status of the u.s. economy. in your opinion, what is the status of the u.s. economy, especially for african-american and other people of color? guest: banks failed us with their greed and lack of oversight. billions of dollars in bailout without any link to lending. the result is well street is celebrating. expect 1 million homes in foreclosure this year. the foreclosures are outdistancing -- when a home is lost, you lose your tax base. you cannot pay teachers, police, and firemen. the base is so for a jobless recovery. host: 10 geithner had this op-ed in "the new york times." he says the economy has a long way to go before reaching its full potential. large parts continue to strengthen. guest: he is looking top down. i wish you would go to chicago. unemployment is like a whopping the epicenter for adults, maybe 50% for the youth. public transportation has been cut. thousands have been laid off. you cannot get the work to build the school. they are closing schools. laying off several thousand t

. >> you are pretty much on target, senator conrad, starting with the regulation piece of tit. we had inappropriate regulation in the financial services market. we now recognize that. what we failed to understand was that the more we wanted our markets to be open and free and to allow for failures, since the failure in tinges on the financial system, leverage, that requires less leverage. into some capital, liquidity requirements, underwriting standards, the rest. as i was listening to utah, i thought to myself, the dimension of monetary policy was to lose in the regulatory front which allow the credit bubble to form excessive growth in credit. the legacy of the bubble is still with us. unless we write-off that debt against the value of real estate and other things that have gone down, we will be stuck in a slow-growth economy. the misallocation of resources is part of that legacy. >> when you talk about the misallocation of resources, what my understand that to mean is too much money in housing. >> that is right. on the macro sense, and also, the incentives that were built int

we spoke at length about this and a conrad already gave an example -- comrade already gave an example. we know someone who honors this legislation and is a member of the world council of churches. once i called her to ask that she take some steps in addressing the many challenges facing the group of five. we know she's been sending e- mails and getting in touch with so many people around the world. that is what needs to be done. what i said to the members of the commission on international relations, not just that we approve a formal document or declaration. think of new creative ways of how we can replace that machinery of misinformation generated by the empire that can use all of the cutting edge technology? . that technology is at our fingertips as well. we need to use that to the utmost effectiveness. i do not think this is the time to formulate a war plan, but it is the time to at least assume a specific commitment that we will do everything possible, just with an example, i have always said the same thing. whatever we do for the five, the group of five, it is not enough compared

host: conrad on the independent line. caller: good morning. i do not believe illegal immigrants, especially from mexico, are coming specifically for jobs. think about the 1990's when proposition 13 was passed in california. unfortunately, it was overturned by an organization and one judge who went against the will of the people. some of these people are coming to get on our benefits, education, welfare, and possibly on the social security system, after they get pregnant. these are the benefits that they can take from us, and cost us in the long run. you may recall many years ago the chinese had this problem, too, and they build a huge wall. it is a tourist attraction, at this point. it would be a cheap way to maintain people coming over from the border. guest: in terms of where we have the offense, we put in in areas where we believe we need to delay folks progress. we do not have it in places where it does not do anything. in the areas that are very remote, where people would have to walk for days to get anywhere, any offense that would buy u

. >> you are pretty much on target, senator conrad, starting with the regulation piece of tit. we had inappropriate regulation in the financial services market. we now recognize that. what we failed to understand was that the more we wanted our markets to be open and free and to allow for failures, since the failure in tinges on the financial system, leverage, that requires less leverage. into some capital, liquidity requirements, underwriting standards, the rest. as i was listening to utah, i thought to myself, the dimension of monetary policy was to lose in the regulatory front which allow the credit bubble to form excessive growth in credit. the legacy of the bubble is still with us. unless we write-off that debt against the value of real estate and other things that have gone down, we will be stuck in a slow-growth economy. the misallocation of resources is part of that legacy. >> when you talk about the misallocation of resources, what my understand that to mean is too much money in housing. >> that is right. on the macro sense, and also, the incentives that were built int