than me. i knew my ancestors came from here. i know miles romney. these are the folks that came and helped settle the west. but it s i didn t realize i was more english than you are. do you feel partly english? well, i m married to a girl from wales and i m a guy from great britain so i feel like this is home too i guess. i saw a good oman as we were driving in. the road in front the horse park where we re sitting in front of is romney road. is it really? isn t that extraordinary? i thought it was quite interesting. on the salt lake, you ve used this as an example of your business skills being able to turn things around. and that s been a theme when it comes to bain capital and that later. why do you think the particular skill set that you had to deploy at the salt lake olympics, which by common consent was a triumph fant turnaround, why would that work with america incorporateded? well, a business is very different than the country it but people who learn t
jenna: we start off this friday with some new worries about our economy. we re glad you re with us everybody. i m jenna lee. jon: i m jon scott. the concerns coming out with the release of the new gdp numbers. our commerce department says the economy grew at annual rate of 1.5% from april to june. americans spending at their slowest pace in a year. economists say growth at or below 2% is not enough to lower the unemployment rate. they do not expect growth to pick up much in the second half of the year either. let s talk about it with karl rove, former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush. he is also a fox news contributor. karl, what do you make of these numbers? well not good, not good for the country and not good politically for the president. here s a look, jon, if you will, you remember the growth here, number in the second quarter is 1.5%. for the year it is estimated to be 2% though i suspect a lot of people will be lowering their estim
january 10 of 2009, if you want to know exactly what will happen when the stimulus bill passes take a look at the report prepared by the head of his council of economic advisors. it forecast unemployment would be 6% today. last year the administration forecast for economic growth this year was 4%. that is twice the rate that at best we re going to hit this year. no wonder, joe bide, actually captures reality of it recently when he got off message and said, quote, for millions of americans americans this is a depression. it ain t working. jon: you have to hand it to the white house for looking at the silver lining for these numbers. here is a statement from alan krueger, the current chairman of the council of economic voors advisors. he says in part, the economy moves in the right direction additional growth is needed to replace the jobs lost in the deep recession that began and the end of 2007. there is never an opportunity lost to remind us that all of this started during th
get of hold of this hearing. they said there were approximately 300 hate crimes, but they refused to give the information to crs. it is public record, and they have urged us to ask congress conducting oversight to file a for-your request, which seems outrageous to me. 4-your request, which seems outrageous to me. our staff would be happy to work with your staff. it is a critically important not job. we have had many investigations. we are proud of those cases, and we would be happy to work with your staff to get the necessary information so you can get the necessary facts. thank you for coming, and i will yield to the ranking member of the committee. thank you, mr. chairman, and i am very pleased you are here, mr. assistant attorney general. i am going to yield to the ranking member of the subcommittee. i want to make a question the chairman asked a little differently. hate speech and hate crimes for very different topics. i assume the department would make a commit
finish what he started right now, you know, i just laid there and i thought, this is it, this is it. he says he felt a curtain of darkness falling and just as quickly it was as if the sun came out. tonight, he ll tell you about how dark turned to day. and in barely a heartbeat, he knew he would make it out of the theater alive. we begin with another report. an update on an important story we ve been following for months now. try to get answers keeping them honest. we told you about a number of supposed charities which have raised many of millions of dollars but when we examined their tax filings we haven t been able to find much of any of of that money going directly to the people or groups they claim be helping. people like disabled veterans. one charity called the disabled veterans national foundation we found has sent a shelter for homeless veterans thousands of bags of these. coconut m&ms. as absurd as it sounds, as insulting it is to common sense and most importantl