people in ukraine, even some of the ethnic russian community, they may be connected socially or politically to russia but they want to maintain their citizenship in an integrated ukraine. now, putin s strategy is very transparent. his extraordinary call-in talk show today, the comes he made, he said he has authority from the russian parliament to use military force in ukraine. the support russia s giving these armed, ethnic russians who have barricaded themselves in ukrainian government buildings since last weekend, all of this is designed by putin to hollow out the kiev government to delegitimize it, to weaken it and set up these conversations in geneva today with secretarier can rained lavrov, the russian foreign minister, are going to be talking with the ukrainians in the eu about the future of the ukraine. the russians want a federation proposal to weaken the central government in kiev, give more problems to the regions. that is problemic for the united
recommendations to the secretary in september. and i think i indicated that. and then she d. she unilaterally make that decision to delay it or did she inform the white house of any indication. so i informed white house staff, i informed the secretarier. perfect, so who in the white house staff did you inform. i will be glad to give that you information. why can t you give me that information. i m saying it was staff within the white house. i m happy to get you that information i don t know. you you don t know the name of the staff member? as you sit here today you don t know the staff member? i was talking with several staff. i m happy to get you that list. why can t you tell me that name here today. because i would want to give you the entire list. i would want to give you the date. i would want to give you correct information. i think that s appropriate. she says mr. president i have heard i could lose the health insurance i have currently the president says to
do we expect any big push from the president on jobs aside from his push to raise the minimum wage to9? no. i think he is going to say one of the things has heartened job creation is the stalemate in washington. i think you re going to see him use that as a way to jump-start the budget talks but this all goes back to the budget conversation and you talk to a lot of folks in the private sector and they say that stalemate has some impact. whether it s sequester, whether it s the fact that they can t get a long-term deal. however you want to interpret it that it does have an impact on the private secretarier in their own planning and own decision making. quickly, chuck. i know they do i feel like i m on a firing line here. i know they do a lot of polling daily in the white house but do they have a real sense of the anger/annoyance that is out there among the public who see the dow shooting through 15,000 briefly last week and, get, there are millions of people in this country wh
businesses and our own communities. and that doesn t include some of the big ones. there is a rule call that would take 8% of american power generations to pass off line overnight, power generation. that would, i was talking with a business guy in northeast ohio told me this will cause rates in his company to go up overnight, 30% to 40% because this is going to cost his job and prosperity. we ve got to be regulations and put a camera on every car and truck. there are rules out of the financial secretarier, we ve got department of labor regulations to drive up the cost of planning for retirement. we ve got obama qair a slew of regulations that are statutory. behind deadlines we ve got epa. epa. america is a getting the
india, ford s allen moulally. caution has crept in before the week is out. european markets are marginally out, asian markets are marginally down. futures are flat. the predicted number of new jobs is around about 150,000. many say that is better but charles still not good enough. no. i think that s very much going to be what is dominating investor thought really all way around the globe. we are seeing this slight rebound here in europe. there was a bit of a sell-off, i think perhaps in anticipation of a strong nonfarm payroll. maybe as many as 90,000 jobs being created. that s the whisper number on wall street. as that number goes down to more than 150,000, which seems to be the consensus, there s less prospect of u.s. interest rates being moved up soon and perhaps there s pressure on the euro. there is a lot of worry out here behind all of this. we re still worrying about banks. .only credit rights issue a couple of days ago is still being talked about in the markets be