got back, but that s fine. it was relaxing. it s good. take a break once in a while. you don t have to go to north korea to do it. jack, thanks. we re standing by. we ll speak with george clooney. he s got a new idea to prevent genocide in darfur and sudan. stand by. george clooney, this hour here in the situation room.
cnn correspondent mike choy who is a senior fellow at the china institute at the university of southern california and dr. jim walsh who san expert on foreign policy especially asia at m.i.t. jim, let me start with you. what is your biggest concern right now? well, my biggest concern is that someone is going to make a mistake and we almost saw it two weeks ago with the shellings. it was not widely reported in the united states, but south korea in the middle of the crisis accidentally shot an artillery shell near the dmz and had to call north kree eya it w korea that it is a mistake, and i think that governor richardson is right, that it is time that someone, even if it is not a government official begin to talk to north korea so we end up in a place that nobody wants to be out of miscalculation or misperception or error, and that is my concern, and i believe there is a danger of that right now. jack pritchard, you were just
trade deal, and the recent recovery. they feel optimistic that by working together we can get some of that cash off of the sidelines. reporter: now the big question is how quickly will that cash start to flow back into the marketplace? one expert said he cannot put a time line on it, but the bottom line is that he believes that the companies want to spend, because that is how they can boost their profits, and banks want to make more loan, because that is how they make cash and ultimately, if you can restore the confidence in the marketplace, that is when they will spend the money. suzanne. thank you, dan. i want to bring in our cnn national correspondent jessica yellin and cnn political analyst david gergen. i had a chance to speak to one of the ceos who spoke with president obama, and this is greg brown the ceo of motorola and i asked him, now in the tax deal gets passed and the top
with her handbag. our cnn s jeanne moos has the tale of this most unusual hero. reporter: ginger littleton is holding it close. waving it victoriously. pulling mundane things like tissue out of it. this is more than a purse. this is the weapon. reporter: a hand me down that ginger tried to use on the hand of a gunman. he points the gun at my head and says, you stupid [ bleep ]. reporter: she says she agree also with the stupid part. self-defense experts call what she tried to do both stupid and dangerous. still, she s getting the hero treatment. girlfriend, you are something! reporter: and so is her bag. shall i do my vana. we re going to put some bricks in it for her. reporter: when the gunman ordered all of the women out of the school board meeting you may leave, you may leave. reporter: ginger waited about 30 seconds in a hallway before creeping back and hitting him with her purse. used her purse.
confidence, and that is a difficult balancing act for china to pull off. and the fact that, mike choy, approval for me, a reporter from cnn, and also a report from the new york times to go along with bill richardson on this trip, and you have been there many times, and what does it say to you to let two journalists in? well, it is clear that the north koreans have important messages they want delivered on the trip and they want to get out to the general public and the political elite in washington. i suspect that the message going to be that we want to talk, and if we don t talk with the united states, there s going to be more trouble to come. there is one other really important point that needs to be addressed here, wolf. that is in south korea, you have a government with two episodes, the sink of the ship in march and the shelling of an island a couple of weeks ago where it did not respond militarily, and now