newtown. and it is a bill to stop the government from buying ammunition. to stop law enforcement from buying ammunition. so that in the shooting war, the u.s. government is about to declare on american citizens, the government side will run out of bullets sooner and then fox news can win the war or something. we re watching inexplicably without any, any voice from the department of homeland security, we are watching another purchase of 7,000 ar-15-like rifles. we are watching 2 billion rounds of ammunition, principally 40, and .9 millimeter. we are looking at the purchase of 2,700 light armored vehicles in the midst of, at least allegedly 2,700 of those vehicles. what in the world is going on as the homeland department department of homeland security seems to be arming up and the
guns. the republicans in the house of representatives passed one piece of gun-related legislation since newtown. and it is a bill to stop the government from buying ammunition. to stop law enforcement from buying ammunition. so that in the shooting war, the u.s. government is about to declare on american citizens, the government side will run out of bullets sooner and then fox news can win the war or something. we re watching inexplicably without any, any voice from the department of homeland security, we are watching another purchase of 7,000 ar-15-like rifles. we are watching 2 billion rounds of ammunition, principally .40, and .9 millimeter. we are looking at the purchase of 2,700 light armored vehicles in the midst of, at least allegedly 2,700 of those vehicles. what in the world is going on as the homeland department department of homeland security seems to be arming up and the administration s trying to disarm american citizens?
now. seemed like we were starting every year on a good note and all that fizzled away. is it different now though? you re talking both the economy and the market. we seem to pick up in the very early part of the year and by the spring we start to fade and fade into the summer. that has been the pattern of the last three, four years now. i don t know whether that s going to be repeated this january but we re certainly off to a very good start. i would advise you, bill, watch out for numbers that are coming out on wednesday. they will be the big picture on how strong or otherwise our economy is growing and it is likely to be bad news. bill: but this run too, it s come in the midst of, well, one of our highest flyers, apple, it was creamed and we re still doing okay. apple has gone from $703 a share, to $440 a share in the space of a few months. apple is enormously important as the great stock of the decade and yet it is down so much, and yet the overall market is up so much.
the midst of, and what the next couple of years were likely to hold, i said to the president, your numbers will not be nearly as good a year from now. we would have had a tough election in any case in 2010, and that would make the election tougher. this is not a big surprise. we are going through a difficult time in this country. it s not the same as we were in the 18 months ago and the six months leading up to the president s inauguration. we lost jobs in the first three months of his administration. the economy shrunk by 6.7%. now the economy is growing. we have had six straight months of private sector job growth. but that s not enough. the hole was huge and took a decade to dig it. part of the problem, and we see it talking to people, they
he says iran doesn t need to earn the trust of western nations, which he apparently has yet to do for u.s. secretary of state, hillary clinton. if iran is coming to say, we re willing to abide by the nonproliferation treaty, that would be very welcome news. i have a feeling that s not what they are coming to do. i think they are trying to divert attention and confuse the issue. there is no confusion. they have violated the terms of the n.p.t. and held under all kinds of restrictions and obligations that they have not complied with by the iaea, the international atomic energy agency. we are not going to permit trun try to change the story from their failure to comply and in any way upset the efforts we are in the midst of, which is to get the international community to adopt a strong security council resolution that further isolates them and imposes consequence for their behavior? i will continue to follow this story and bring you the