troops without leaving chaos in its wake? next up, debt, shedding real light on our present situation in the united states and europe. we have the author of a phenomenal new book, phillip kogan. i ll explain. first, here s my take. some of you regular viewers will recall that at the start of the first show of this year i predicted hopefully that the u.s. woo economy would recover nicely in 2012. i m returning to that topic with some preliminary good news. if you look around the industrialized world, the u.s. economy is the most promising of the bunch. the american recovery is not as vigorous as one might hope, but it is remarkably broadbased. manufacturing is up, including for the first time in 30 years nontechnology manufacturing. retail sales are up. consumer confidence and spending are growing. consider sales are up. the stock market reflects this. two areas of the economy that continue to lag are jobs and housing. both critical areas. generating economic growth and prof
your dressing room and now that i have your hair products what is all this telling us about the network morning wars? what s the impact of matt lauer reupping at today? keith olbermann and current tv filing scorching suits against each other just days after his firing. in the court of public opinion, keith takes his case to david letterman. i screwed up. i screwed up really big on this. but is he. the media endorsing mitt romney wroosh. nothing will stop him from being the man. the race is effectively over. the only person that doesn t seem to understand that is rick santorum and newt gingrich. and, of course, the pundits are never wrong. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. we ll get to all that, but, first, breaking news this morning. we learned within the last 90 minutes that mike wallace has died. mike wallace, the legendary, and i don t use that word lightly legendary talk show host, correspondent for 60 minutes really a giant in the bro
three of them are dead. two are in the hospital. they are expected to survive. the tulsa police chief says it is the worst thing he has seen in more than 40 years on the force. a white man is targeting people in black neighborhoods. all the victims are black, so questions of race and hate crimes are being asked to the police right now. in a news conference a short time ago, the chief says not so fast. the whole race issue, the hate crime issue. there s a very logical theory that would say that s what it could be. i m a police officer, and i ve got to go by evidence. i m not going to make the statement at this time that that s what it is when we ve had no evidence. there s been no racial slurs, we haven t arrested anybody that may have had literature. it s not time to say that. the chief has puts together a 25-person task force, and tulsa leaders say the city is sparing no expense in tracking down the killer. we are all of one mindset to find this person, arrest him, a
somehow everybody survives. welcome to our viewers around the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. you re in the situation room. the obama administration gives in and replies to a rare order from a federal judge. the latest round there a legal and political fight over the health care reform law. things escalated this week when president obama warned the supreme court against overturning himself cherished legislation. some appeals court judges took offense and demanded a written explanation. they got one. let s begin with cnn congressional correspondent kate baldwin. kate, the administration has answered this request. so where do things stand now? to use a sport metaphor, i d say the ball may still be in play, joe. i wouldn t call this letter a bombshell but it s definitely another strange twist in this political battle that has no end in sight. three pages single spaced. that was the unusual order by a federal circuit court. attorney general eric hol
and the rest of the world. a week from tonight, negotiators will be arriving to talk with iran about the disputed nuclear program. the debate over where iran will talk to the united states, britain, france, germany, china and russia may not just be rhetoric. this could derail talks and send the world down a path towards military strike. now, iran suggested it might move the venue from istanbul to beijing. here s what william cohen told me. the iranians are not interested in reaching an agreement, thane are not interested in producing a nuclear pow e. they re interested in acquiring nuclear weapons. now iran says it s for peaceful purposes but it isn t just the united states that s frustrated. turkey s prime minister stepped said today that iran s off tore move the venue was this. the offer going around at the moment, damascus or baghdad is a waste of time. it means it won t happen. because of the lack of honesty they re continually losing their international prestige. t