Economy in this fed beige book compared to the previous beige book. The survey says five of the 12 fed Bank Districts Economic Activity was moderate in june and early july. That compares to seven fed Bank Districts that reported moderate Economic Activity in the previous beige book and this time two districts reported a slower pace of growth compared to just one district reporting that in the previous beige book. Now we doubt this will have a significant enough, this is significant enough to have a change in fed policy. You can bet that the taper will likely continue at the july meeting at the end of this month as the beige book also says that labor market conditions, which is what the fed real watches, continued to improve. Melissa. Dierdre thank you so much. On to the big story of the day, time warner rejects twentyfirst century foxs 80 billion takeover bid. Time warner deciding it was not in the best interest of the company or shareholders to accept the deal. Twentyfirst century fox
Numbers that might be interesting, contributions from people, and he said see if there are particularly any from castro and cuba from mcgovern, but they were looking for anything obrien might have used to embarrass him. Heres one of the interesting things about watergate. So much credence is given to the fact that how could they be so stupid and foolish . Well, they were just that stupid and foolish. And they cant believe it z s ieekognu but 5 2 it was apparent, readily apparent, within you know, immediately. First you look at what necessary did at the ellsburg breakin. It was stupid and bungled as what happened at the watergate. It was james bond stuff, where they thought how could you walk in with an army of people to do what cat burglars normally do if youre working for a Foreign Espionage operation . When you discussed with mcgruder before his before his grand jury testimony, you talked to him. Some people used the word coached him. Did he tell you what happened . Absolutely. Absol
Israel, everyone loves israel. Why wouldnt anyone love israel . But everyone loves peace. That is the main force here. We want peace. I have a grandson in tennessee that has a wonderful friend who was a Football Player on the local High School Team who went to war in iraq and came home minus three limbs. For hussein, for a lie . I do not think so. Host mr. Dubowitz . We want peace. Guest we all agree we want peace. I oppose military strikes against iran. I have been working on almost 12 years on trying to find a way to provide the United States with a nonmilitary solution to this. A nonmilitary solution to this through diplomacy and using sanctions as an instrument of pressure. And it is to try to get the iranians to come clean with the past military dimensions of their program. Hillary would have you believe that iran is complying with all of the obligations, but the iaea actually disagrees. They have fundamental problems with the ron because iran refuses to acknowledge that they have
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Career outside the white house. Our phone lines are open for you. Republicans can call 202 7370002. Democrats can call 202 7370002. And independence can call 202 6280205. If you are outside the United States you can call 202 6280184. Asking if first ladys should walk outside the white house. This is what laura bush had to say. The first lady should not receive a salary. There are plenty of perks. That was really great. I miss the chef. I dont think so. I think the interesting question should be should they receive a salary, but should they be able to work for a salary at a job that they might have already had. That is what we will have to determine. Certainly a first gentleman mike continue to work at whatever he did if he was a law your or whatever. That is the question we should ask, should she have a career during those years that her husband as president . In addition to serving as first lady. Lady laurar first bush in an interview airing on cspan. 9 00 p. M. To air at tonight. You