for this wednesday, august 3. we have just gotten confirmation that bomb squad officers in australia have secured the safety of an 18-year-old girl who was in a house with a suspicious device attached to her. the operation to free her lasted three hours, they say her life was potentially at risk. nearby houses were evacuated and neighboring streets closed off. i ll talk to a reporter there in just a few minutes. stocks across the board are lower today, investors are worried about the weak economy and the debt deal that has done very little to reassure the markets. the dow has been down for eight sessions in a row now and has falling for the last eight sk t consecutive days. now the dow is down 70 points. so far u.s. rating agencies have not downgraded the country s credit rating. moody s and fitch both confirm the country s aaa status for now. but standard & poors has not announced it s decision yet. hosni mubarak was wheeled into court on a gurney and put into a cage
there is huge momentum right now. we need to use this motivation to increase our voting potential and increase our voice and within the state and also within the country to make sure we elect politicians that represent our community here in the state. reporter: they say there are up to 400,000 latinos eligible to vote here in arizona who don t, suzanne, and they re trying to drive up those numbers to change the state s policies. jessica, those numbers are quite extraordinary when you talk about the statistics and the potential voting pool. who do you think this is hurting more, republicans or democrats? who favors to gain and who is losing? reporter: well, we actually have a new cnn poll that shows overwhelmingly, largely hispanics tend now to support democrats. we can look at some of these numbers. hispanics say that on the topic of who cares more about people like you on that issue,
outgoing first lady? very well. she gave me a tour of the white house, after the election was finally decided, which you remember was 36 days after election day. larry: what was that like? that was wild. she gave me a tour, and she was very forthcoming with advice which i appreciated a lot. we walked all over the white house and saw everything. and one of the things she pointed out was the window from the upstairs dressing room, the first lady s dressing room that looks down on to the rose garden. and she said that barbara bush had pointed that window out to her, and that bar had said if there is an event in the rose garden where the president was speaking, she would look out that window or look over in the office. and hillary told me that. so when i gave michelle obama the tour, i passed on this is the window to look out. larry: what is it like to live there? it s really unbelievable to live there. it s such a magnificent house. so many reminders of all the
larry: one week from tonight we have mick jagger. first, we welcome back laura bush. her new book is spoken from the heart. a terrific read published by scriptners. you were such a private first lady. wasn t this hard for you to do? it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted it to be very candid. i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a lot of gaps that what reporters asked me about, all those eight years we were there, you know, didn t cover some of the things that were in this book. so i had a great time writing it. i went back home to midland when i started it. my mother still lives there, and went by all those houses my dad built. and the houses george and i lived in, and the schools we went to. larry: lived your life over. that s right. and i really did there is something cathartic about it. i saw things really for the first time with my vantage point, now, at my ag
one week from tonight we ve got mick jagger here for the hour. right now we welcome back former first lady laura bush to larry king live. we spent many hours together. her new book is spoken from the heart. a terrific read published by scriptners. you see its cover. you were such a private first lady. wasn t this hard for you to do? it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted to be very candid, i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a lot of gaps that what reporters asked me about, all those eight years we were there, you know, didn t cover some of the things that were in this book. so i had a great time writing it. i went back home to midland when i started it. my mother still lives there, and went by all those houses my dad built. and the houses george and i lived in, and the schools we went to. larry: lived your life over. that s right. and i really did and there s something really cathartic about it. i saw things re