correct about this, i believe it was based on the magna carta, which i m pretty sure is british. and as i watched this weekend, as we all did, a thousand boats float down the thames, i only regret that i have one book to give for my country. but it s the most important one. meacham, challenge him. first of all, we should apologize correctively to gillian for having broken away and destroyed the empire. so we are sorry about that. i think we survived. yes. [ laughter ] very close. and i also apologize to those with one leg. there s a chapter where i talk about having only nine toes. and that s true. at what moment did you realize that you had a sacred calling to redo what george madison did? what i m most reassured by is that the closer we get to, say, the 2012 election, the more i realize i ve done the right thing. but i m not i m in mixed
the white house? it s things were bad, but it would have been much worse without the president s policies. that the stimulus did work. and that the bank rescues and the auto rescues were fundamental to even being as well off as we were today. there you go. thank you, steve. that s a long bumper sticker. no, it s not. i can shorten it up for you. we re not romney. you can try that one too. the celtics, man. they were down 2-0. this series is over. this series ain t over. you know what magic says? magic says no, i think it was riley that said, a series doesn t start in the nba until the home team loses. yeah. that s right. and last night, we ll just reveal it here, why not. they were down 18 points to boston, and came all the way back. lebron gets a little criticism here at end of regulation. gave it up there. lebron fouls out. they did have a chance to win. dwyane wade had a three-pointer that would have won the game, it was just off, and the celtics held o
counting on this italian bond auction early today. 6 million euros worth of debt. maximum targets reached. yields lowest levels since march. adding to relatively good news out of the sovereigns. that brings us to our road map for this morning. we start off with consumer. retail soars. avon misses. big call on barnnks by citi. war of words between banks and paul volcker. defending the volcker rule. two market darlings, apple and mcdonald s fighting back over criticism on questionable business pras. at what point does either controversy take its toll on their respective stock prices. we begin with corporate news. avon reporting weaker than expected q4 numbers. shares down 7% in the pre-market. company dealing with a short fallout from internal bribery investigation in china in 2008. if they were going add to their troubles this is one way to do it. tupperware and herbalite has had great success with this model. there s a big gap of leadership at the top. surprised tha
of americans think the country is going the wrong direction. there s more economic inequality and all that. the tea party movement, though, has had political power and they transform their discontent into real change here in washington. occupy wall street hasn t done that yet. they re more disorganized, i d say. but the tea party moment and this is to pick up on what andrea was saying and what you were saying, steve, about the outcome in iowa, what you re seeing is that all the candidates the candidates who are going to come out of this and mitt romney especially but look at some of the other moderates, they just adopted some tea party principles and moved on and i think left the tea party behind. all right, andrea, give you the final word, ma am. yeah, i absolutely adpree. agree. you look at what s happening in the house of representatives. the members that were swept in in 2010, they re driving a lot of the policies in washington. thank god they are. nobody is watching the pu
strings. even though we don t see george madison marching on capitol hill, we do see that the tea party is still there and still prominent. the members that they elected are doing their will and i think they ll be very prominent in 2010. you two certainly are prominent on the five juan and andrea, thanks for joining us live. see you later. take care, steve. straight ahead, missing for nearly two years, this teenage girl has been found safe and sound but she was never lost! she was deported by mistake. how does that happen? did we mention she s also an american? plus, no one knows what it s like to run against president obama except john mccain and he believes mitt romney is the man to do the job. why? he called him a flip-flopper four years ago and we ll ask senator john mccain about that then and now when he joins us live at 7:20. that s next on fox & friends. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up!