existence of this country and the fact that a group of very struggling, straggling colonies ended up being the dominant nation in the world. it is no accident. the subtitle of the book is divine providence on the rise of the republic. america is the product not of random evolution or a series of accidents or a series of happy accidents. america is the product of a plan. all our founders, all of our leaders, including jackson and lincoln, reagan, and even barack obama, have conceded there is some kind of higher power guiding american destiny. i love the quote by bismarck, he says, i know that god grants special protection for imbeciles, lost children, drunkards, and the united states of american. made that continue. bill: identified is good company, but it s a good quote. michael, thank you very much. watters on deck. he s roaming around times square on new year s eve. you can watch what happens next.
the fact that a group of very struggling, straggling colonies ended up being the dominant nation in the world. it is no accident. the subtitle of the book is divine providence in the risec of the republic. that america is the product not of random evolution or a series of accidents or a series of happy accidents. america is the product of a plan. all our founders, all of ourll leaders, including jackson and lincoln, reagan, and even barack obama, have conceded there is some kind of higher power guiding american destiny. i love the quote by bismarck. he says, i know that god grants special protection fori imbeciles, lost children, drunkards, and the united states of america. may that continue.re bill: i don t know if that bs good company, but it s a good quote. michael, thank you very much. watters on deck. he s roaming around times square on new year s eve. you can watch what happens next. if a denture were to be
loans and mortgages like the hot properties that they represented. everyone was buying and no one was warning. not you, hillary. not your husband, hillary. not you, barney frank, and not you, ben. or anyone on the fed, ben. in fact if i remember correctly you said you rather liked these new mortgage-backed securities. funny, i don t recall any of you talking about a bubble then. i know, hindsight is always 20/20, but you are blinding me, now thinking there s only one culpable party. you egged on banks to do what they did. you pushed more liquor on a party you knew was out of control. you made financial execs to be the rowdy drunkards when you were the ones providing the free booze. and now you have the audacity to say they should go to jail because they did your bidding? like i said these bankers love to make money, but that doesn t mean they were the only ones spreading the sheet. let s just say they had a hand so may i offer you guys a a
if we can get a straight answer on it. this sounds like cheap talk not coming from you, sir, with all due respect. but the idea that we put any pressure on russia at all seems almost laughable. they literally smile here. this self-appointed local prime minister or whatever you want to call him, when told that the u.s. and western authorities aren t happy with what goes on here, he smiles, shakes his head, like so what? for all the pictures and understanding of their training these people and your sanctions, it has done nothing. isn t that the truth? that s the truth. but also the truth is that it doesn t matter what those separatists say. those are thugs. they are self-appointed thugs, mainly criminals, thugs, drunkards as we ve seen. they are irrelevant. what s relevant is the support coming across the border from russia into southeastern ukraine. that s what has to stop. mr. putin can close off that
bismarck before. is there a special province to protect fools and drunkards in the united states of america. we have not really stumbled but we found out we had a lot more oil and a lot more natural gas underground than we thought because of american innovation. and it s going to have extraordinary impact in the next 20 years. certainly. steve you have a piece coming out in sunday s the new york times looking at manufacturing. manufacturing s mythical revival. you got charts today on the topic. show us. yeah, look. i don t disagree with america s fundamental strength but what bothers me people have talked about the renaissance of manufacturing as if it s going to save our economy and bring us back to where we were in manufacturing in the 1950s and 60s and it isn t. take a look first what is happening in manufacturing employment. from 2000 to 2009, we lost 6 million manufacturing jobs and during the so-called revival, we have gotten back about 568,000