doing pushups to show he s ok. former treasury secretary robert rubin and former citigroup c.e.o. chuck prince get ready to take their lumps on capitol hill today. why? because they re going to talk about what they believe caused the recent financial crisis during hearings there. rubin was a director and legal counsel to citigroup when prince was running it. former fed reserve alan greenspan testified first yesterday tell the panel he did the best he could to forecast what was going to happen with the economy. if he tried to sound a warning signal, nobody probably would have believed him. he could have tried. in 90 minutes, three teenagers will be arraigned in the suicide case of phoebe prince. ashley long, mullins and sharon chan, all 16 years old will not appear in a courtroom in massachusetts. prince, a freshman at a massachusetts high school hanged herself in january after what prosecutors call an unrelenting three-month bullying campaign by nine teenagers.
let me go back to washington politics for a minute. it was widely, i don t know what the right word is, speculated that secretary of defense bob gates was not necessarily in favor of this treaty. although he was the first one to come to the microphone when they were announcing it a couple of days ago. what are you hearing about that? well, i don t think defense secretary gates in particular has any problem with this treaty because as a point of fact, it s not going to be that difficult for the united states to comply with the arms reductions in this treaty. let me give you a quick example. there is a number of there are a number of b-52 bombers at barksdale air force base in louisiana. they can each carry 20 nuclear bombs but under this treaty, those 20 nuclear bombs on that one b-52 will be counted as one warhead. let me do that again. 20 bombs, one b-52 counts as one warhead under this treaty. so because of the peculiarity of the way both sides want to count their own