Its story yet again. Lois lerners hard drive was scratched not destroyed . That and more ahead on a jam packed sunday morning futures. Evidence is mounting that russias proxy war in ukraine is becoming a direct war. The u. S. And. Ukraine accusing moscow of moving heavy artillery across the border. Straight to the pro russian rebels there. Ukraines president is now calling on the United States to take an even tougher stance against russia. And for europe to follow americas lead. So are World Leaders ready to isolate moscow . Congressman peter king is the chairman of the subhouse committee on counterterrorism and intelligence on the Homeland Security committee. Good to see you, congressman. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, maria. Good to be with you. Will this new video, this obvious evidence that putin is behind taking that plane down be enough to get the world together in isolating him . Maria, not unless the president of the United States shows real leadership, unless he works for David Cameron who has done an outstanding job so far, Prime Minister tony abbott, they have to be the leaders and get the european allies to stand together on this. Its been said that, really, russia without its Energy Supplies going to europe, its basically its economy is its a gas station. I mean, this is not a real economy over there. So strong economic sanctions. Again, if all the allies are working together could really, really hurt russia. Also we should, of course, be sending more weapons to the ukrainians so they can resist and fight back. But, again, combined effort by the allies, that is going to take, really, aggressive leadership by the president. He cant just be traveling around the country doing fundraisers. And i would suggest, for instance, that we cut off the u. S. Banking system to stateowned russian companies. If they cant move their money towards the United States, their currency becomes worthless. A lot of important points that you are making right here. I want to get back to a number of them. But let me get a status check from you. What do we know right now in terms of russia firing at ukraine and really getting behind this and being the instigator . Well, weve known all along that it was russia which provided the rockets to the Ukrainian Forces and to me that makes them criminally culpable and liable. We also know that they are now sending in increased amounts of weaponry, really heavy duty weapons coming from russia into ukraine and also theres now evidence that theres rockets being fired from the russian side of the border. Theres no doubt that putin is behind this. Theres no doubt that putin is dramatically increasing the russian imports, you would have thought in a real world after what happened with the malaysian jet, he would back off for a while. But no, hes more aggressive than ever. As hes doing that, our president is more and more just not seen. Theres so many things we could be doing. Also, i could mention we could begin talking of a boycott of the world cup in 2018. That means a lot to the russians, to their pride, to their economy. Again, president obama is missing in action on this. I want to get to all of those things you just mentioned. Lets look at russias role in ukraine. Has the country brought its shadow war to life . Eric shawn is with us with that angle. Good morning. Good morning, maria, and good morning, everybody. It seems the russians will lie about this disaster, claiming the airliner was downed by a ukrainian war jet, not one of its sophisticated Missile Systems smuggled across the border and spirited back home to try and hide the evidence. Reports say the rebels have been placing parts of a shot down ukrainian war plane among the airliner records to try and pin the blame on kiev instead of mosc moscow. And the state department has released these photographs. It says they show the russians have been firing across the border at the Ukraine Military using rocket launches. Poroshenko has pleaded for more, calling against tougher sanctions in russia. He writes, quote, my country needs help in facing the threat from russia. Russia has tested us with its transfer of cash, weapons, and other equipment to the separatists. And its vast eye tan western antipropaganda campaign, but we will not yield to its interference. He says russia is giving Missile Systems to the rebels and doing that is like he says giving a handgun to a child. But others, like former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, defense the white house russian strategy. The reset works. It was a an effort to try to obtain russian cooperation on some key objectives. While medvedev was president. He gave medvedev a certain amount of independence to negotiate. Meanwhile, as congressman king indicated, they continue to say that russia is pouring in more military equipment to the rebels. It demands now built on capitol hill for the u. S. To provide military systems for ukraine, not just nonlethal items like mres. This morning, the New York Times says the pentagon could target the rebels missiles but has yet to do so. Eric, thanks very much. Eric shawn with the latest there. More now with conman peter king. Congressman, we were just looking at those satellite pictures. We have more satellite pictures that actually confirm that the russias are behind taking on that ma rashan jet. Why arent we being more aggressive with the russians again now that we see this evidence in front of us with these satellite pictures. Its a failure of will. Its a failure of leadership. And europeans believe that they depend on russia for the r for their Energy Supplies. As a result of that, theyre backing away. In addition to that, the other european nations dont want to engage russia because theyre afraid of the cutoff in their Energy Supplies which is wrong. The United States is more energy than we can provide to western allies. If we were just, again, increase our exports, increase our production, but also russia needs us more than we need them. The european allies, if we had a firm leader in this country, and i cant believe Hillary Clinton is praising the reset button. That was a failure in policy if ever, an absolute failure in american policy. It gave putin a few run. But i dont want to oversimplify this. We need leadership and were not getting it. The brits are giving it, the australians are giving it. The french is still talking about selling warships to the russians. Theyre not going to get in line unless we show that standing up to putin is more important than fundraising on the west coast. But why is obama not more aggressive here . Youre right, he was in all of those fundraisers over the last week and a half while all of this is going on. Hillary clinton just said that the reset work. Is this Administration Just unaware of who putin is 12347 . Somehow they come into this back in 2009 thinking that all the problems in the world were because of george bush, that our troubles were russia were because of george bush. And somehow if we reached out the hand of friendship, if we pressed the reset button, if we turned on other check, that somehow putin and the rest of the world arent going to respond. Weve seen what putin has done. Putin has become more and more aggressive and our allies are becoming more and more passive. If anything has been shown over the last 75 years is that the western world only acts together and only demonstrates strength when theres american leadership, whether its harry truman or eisenhower or ronald reagan. The fact is, the western world needs strong leadership in the u. S. We dont need a president who equivocates. We dont need a president who only shows moral equivalency. Whats next . You mentioned a moment ago that we should be getting the banks in the u. S. To get a lot harder on russia, as well as you mentioned the u. S. Needing to send artillery to ukraine. Are these two things youre going to be pushing for in the coming weeks . Im certainly going to be pushing for that and im sure other members of congress will, as well. We realize this administration is not getting the job done. This has been such a failure in leadership, the fact that you have the ukrainian president and the Prime Minister begging for support, and the fact that putin just impunity, the fact that business for the most part is going on as usual with russia, yes, theres some sanctions, but theyre having no real impact. And when the russians look to us and were saying we should have stronger sanctions in terms of the president , talking about more sanctions and then hes silent, he disappears, theyre content to disappear. The european philosophy, if mshg leads, theyre not going to line up. Again, what the french are doing as far as their deals with russia is absolutely shameful and disgraceful. These other countries, the same way. Again, where is the United States . President obama should be there. He should be in the forefront. This is a strong message that we should be sending and, instead, you have Hillary Clinton talking about the reset button. Congressman, well be watching your efforts. Thanks so much. Maria, thank you. Congressman peter king joining us today. Meanwhile, fighting between israel and hamas flaring up once again after a shaky humanitarian ceasefire falls through. Now, they are the ones calling for the troops. Hamas now wants a truce. Can anyone negotiate with them . Follow me on twitter, mariabartiromo and sundayfutures. Back in a moment. Starts with back pain. And a choice. Take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve. For all day relief. Start your engines thank ythank you for defendiyour sacrifice. And thank you for your bravery. Thank you colonel. Thank you daddy. Military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa Auto Insurance can be one of them. If youre a current or former military member or their family, get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. Welcome back. A shaky ceasefire allows civilians get their lives a little together. Hamas makes no bones about wanting every israeli wiped off the map. Ambassador allen rumali is with me. Sir, good to have you on the program. Thanks so much for joining us, ambassador. My pleasure. Thank you. Is it possible to negotiate with hamas . Difficult. Never say never, but i wouldnt give it good chances. Look, its hard to imagine a population that is more poorly served by its leadership than the gazans. Frankly, as long as hamas believes that violence and conflict can achieve their political objectives, its hard to see a solution to this problem. So where does this go next, then . What happens . What is next with hamas . Do you see a possible coming together of the world knowing that hamas has been very clear about its intentions regarding israel . Yeah, i think so this is much bigger than hamas. We need to put this local conflict in a bigger context. I mean, the fact of the matter is that gaza is one of the is the most densely populated territory in the world and also one of the poorest territories in the world. So what happened in 2012 when we last had a conflict twel israel and hamas . There was a ceasefire, it lasted two years, and in that time hamas got rearmed, got more rockets, built more tunneles and increased their capacity for nastiness. They didnt do that alone. They had the help of iran. They had the help of thunders in the gulf and they had other Political Support around the world. This is part of a bigger conflict between, i would say, the forces of dialogue and moderation and the forces of religious extremism and irridentism. How do you deal with that . I think you have to go to the source. Its important that we focus on the the hubs of the trouble making, which is in tehran, baghdad, and pakistan, the fatah where the al qaeda used to be. I mean, this is where the money is coming from and this is where the fighters are coming from. Who do you see as sort of the middleman . I mean, john kerry trying to set up a sevenday truce. Thats not happening. You know, you had the qatarrys brokering a u. S. Deal with the taliban for the bergdahl release, you remember. Right. Egypt was a middleman. Who should be an appropriate middleman and is it even possible to think that that is actually doable . Thats the problem. I mean, to have a negotiation, you have to have a trusted third party. Problem with egypt is that egypt and the military got rid of the muslim brotherhood. Lets remember, hamas is a part of the muslim brotherhood. Theyre not going to deal with egypt. The United States is seen as i think too partisan, too pro israel. I dont know that thats true. I dont necessarily think it is. But so for that reason, the hamas wont take the United States. Oh, by the way, the israelis think were probably too pro hamas and too pro palestinian. So weve really undercut our credibility as a trusted third party negotiator. The qatarrys, the turks, theyre on the side of hamas. The israelis arent going to deal with them. Thats why i think youve got a big gridlock. Again, what youve got to go beyond hamas, beyond gaza and deal with the root of the problem, which is frankly an International Support network for extreme iism that you see i damascus, that you see in baghdad, that you see in tehran and hezbollah. This is a much bigger problem than this tiny little part of between israel and egypt. Right. And the u. S. , i guess, is looking for International Support here. But is the u. S. Undermining israel . No. I think israel is finding itself in a very difficult situation and one that it really needs to get out of. I mean, what happens four or five days ago . You had 10,000 people on the west bank, not gaza, the west bank protesting against israel. Three of whom were killed by israeli riot police, this in my view opens up the prospect of a twofront problem for israel. It will sap israel militarily, economically and it will cost israel politically. They need to watch out for that. Well be watching. Thanks very much for joining us. Thank you. A new controversy, meanwhile, back in the United States over obamacare. Were all those incomebased sussydys legal or illegal . Two different courts ruling this week with two very different outcomes. Coming up, what it means for the future of the Health Care Law and your money as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. I bought a car, over and tells you, and youre like. A good deal or not. Thats what led up to us looking at truecar. Com. And with truecar. Com, theres no buyers remorse. Save time, save money, and never overpay. Visit truecar. Com its the yoplait greek tasteoff and we are asking the music city which 100calorie strawberry greek yogurt tastes best. This one is definitely the winner. Yoplait greek 100 you want to see which one yoplait greek beat . Chobani yes yoplait greek wins again. Take the tasteoff for yourself welcome back. Two contradictory Court Rulings this week throwing obamacare into question. One d. C. Appellate court panel calling subsidies to people on the federal exchange unconstitutional. But just hours later, a mile away, a panel of judges in virginia rule the opposite. Steven parentae is a profess over Health Finance and the director of the leadership institute. Lalem chan is director on the board of the future for medicare. Gentlemen, thank you so much for being on the program. What does this mean . Does that mean this is headed back to the Supreme Court and can obamacare survive a second push at the Supreme Court . It probably means its headed back to the Supreme Court. Its going to go through two or three different ways to go there. It probably will survive, again, but its going to get messed up along the way. And one of the biggest concerns is that this is going to be coming down probably down the pike. Ralt of pieces right in the Midterm Election cycle. Lani, lets not forget how we arrived here. The allure for the states to set up these exchanges were these subsidies, these tax benefits. And then 36 says said were not going to do it. So the federal government has to have these exchanges set up so then they decide, oh, well, everybody can get the tax subsidies. This is really about a lot more about whether its a federal or state issue. Obamacare was poorly designed and were seeing the impact ooh that now. You have all of these Conflicting Court decisions. You had the 2012, remember, when we were in the Supreme Court about. This thing is going to get uply and ugly fast. Steve, the person at home who is trying to figure out if they have Health Insurance or not, theyre confused. Am i in this state . Am i federal . What does that do to the overall economy, to the state of health care . You just give up. Yeah. It doesnt bring a lot of confidence. To lonnies point, this has not supposed to be this way. It was supposed to be a better design. It was always messed up with because of the the way it got burped politically. This is the way it comes down to roost. A senate and a house version never got reconciled and the house actually, the house version never made it anywhere. Its the Senate Version and inadequacies in the Senate Version in 2009 that have come to roost. You know, the funny thing is, this really shouldnt surprise anybody, right, that we are in this place now where theres all this confusion. Even the people who wrote obamacare disagree over whether this was intended to be state or federal administered. Then you have the irs in the story, again, saying you can do this through federal exchanges. Im glad you brought up the irs. I love this oped out of the journal about the fact that the irs is handling obamacare. We know what a mess the irs is and how they are politically motivated. Is the irs going to be deciding if i can knee replacement, if my grandmother can stay alive . Is it the irs who is deciding and are they going to decide based on my political motivation . The irs decides whether its tax deductible or not. And the irs has more to say right now in treasury about whats an improved medical device, whats an approved production or secondary prevention for drugs in the future than at any other time in history and theyre understaffed to do this. The critical problem with this is these things have been laid at the treasurys door steps without add kwanly thinking them through and thats going to slow everything down and make a mess. No one would have thought the irs was going to be the agency at the center of this scandal, as well. But indeed, it is the irs and its all of these federal agencies now that have an enormous amount of power. If you look at the d. C. Circuit decision, it did focus on what did the law say . And the law said that the subsidy ves to come through the states. Now were seeing a huge overstep of the responsibilities of the federal government all because of the way the administration interpreted the law. More oversteps. How does this play out Going Forward . Whats the next catalyst in this . I think its going to be a huge legal situation. In the d. C. Circuit, theyre going to hear the case. Chances are the Supreme Court will take it, but you never know. This is going to be a huge mess. Up next, the cat and mouse game is over. Lois lerners emails have turned up. What that means for the irs scandal. Back in a moment. Dont miss a step. Nothings missed with tenatwist dont miss a beat. Nothings missed with tenatwist oooh discover the Fearless Protection of tena. So absorbent even when you twist not a drop escapes. Nothings missed with tenatwist [ male announcer ] thats why theres ocuvite to help replenish key eye nutrients. Ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. Ocuvite. Help protect your eye health. Ocuvite. You fifteen percent or more on huh, fiftcar insurance. Uld save Everybody Knows that. Well, did you know words really can hurt you . What. . Jesse dont go jesse. No im sorry daisy, but im a loner. And a loner gotta be alone. Heee yawww geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Jesse . Welcome to americas news headquarters. Here are some of the headlines making headlines at this hour. A landmark decision, a federal judge in washington, d. C. Has overturned a controversial law that prevented the citys residents from carrying firearms outside their homes. D. C. , as you may know, was once considered the murder capital of the u. S. And the ban was put in place to try and deal with that alarming crime rate. There are plans to appeal that decision. Theres been more deadly violence in tripoli and benghazi. At least 36 people have been killed in a new round of clashes between militants and forces. The country descending into the deadliest violence into the uprighting that ousted moammar gadhafi. The u. S. Has shut down its embassy in the capital of tripoli. Many of the members have been escorted to the safety of italy. And the doomed ship the Costa Concordia hesed into port this morning where it will be scrapped. It struck a reef off tuscanys cost during 2012. The ships captain remains on trial over that sinking. Hell by back at noon eastern time for a half hour of news. Then the doctorses will be in, dr. Siegel and samadi join us for sunday housecall at 12 30 p. M. Eastern. Now back to maria. It turns out it was just a scratch. Irs chief john coskani in this confirming to a house subcommittee that investigators found backup tapes of lois lerners emails, despite earlier testimony that her hard drive was gone forever. Now the Inspector Generals Office is reviewing those tapes to see if theres anything on them linked to the targeting scandal. Douglas eakin is with me. He was the chief economist at the council of economic advisers. And john hildenwrath, chief economics correspondent at the wall street journal. Good to see everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. Now the irs tapes were scratched, they were not destroyed forever. The obamacare part of this is also intriguing. Let me start with you, doug. Because knowing that the tax vouchers and the individual mandate of obamacare has to go through the irs is just extraordinary to me. I know this has been the case all along, but now that the irs is such a mess, its really zeroing in on it. Yeah. I think there were people that had concerns about this. We step outside their expertise. In light of this sort of we have the emails, we dont have the emails, yes, we do have the emails, it cast a lot of doubt and cynical suspicion of everybo everybody. Exactly. Judy there is not a smidgenon of in the irs. Maybe theres more efficiency, but we havent seen it yet. Im not certain about whether or not im happy about the irs making some of these calls or the Supreme Court interpreting a badly written law. Yes, enrollments are way up in obamacare beyond expectations. However, were not going to know the impact of this for a long time and the tactics of the administration are simply terrible. Is the irs has always been at the core of the inefficiencies in our health care system. Were talking now about subsidies for individuals. But its the subsidy that many of us get for our Employer Provided Health care was run through the irs. And thats the part of Health Care Reform that obama didnt touch that subsidy. And that causes inefficiency because all of our health care has to run through the company. Lets talk about the policy. This is a big part of our health care policy. The irs has never been in the centerpiece of the administration of health care before. Thats the difference now. Its really harkble to have it be the focus of what happened and because of the dysfunction in congress, it gets kicked to the irs to make these decisions and appealed to the Supreme Court. But its the wrong pique people making the call. This is the point im making is that we basically double down on an inefficient system. And lets talk about that inefficient system for a moment. Now we see that there are these tapes of lois lerner. I think the irs was always a huge stanl scandal waiting to happen. There were so many denials, now there are so many investigations. This is a terrible political problem for the president and its a terrible problem for the country. This is a Law Enforcement agency that has now been really cast into real doubt. Yes. Im glad you said that, Law Enforcement agency. This is not the department of agency. So do you think at this point, first of all, its clear that they were hiding something . What are we going to find out . They must have been hiding Something Big to go through this whole catandmouse game to or theyre just really incompetent. I think the department is not a Law Enforcement agency. Theyre a tax Enforcement Agency is now being asked to make decisions about outside groups. We have just guaranteed that this is going to fail. Theyve been doing that. In terms of how this is going to play out and what we see happening in washington is twosided debate. You see democrats on the side of the hill saying making a mountain out of a mole hill and republicans saying this is a big deal. I think theyre gliding along like that and theyre going to flare up from time to time. I dont see a boiling point, at least at this point in time where there is a consensus that something major has to change about it. And real quick on obamacare, is it inevitable that it goes to the Supreme Court now that we have these two different views . Yeah. I see no way that they dont actually have to settle what the world looks like because theyre the only ones who can settle it . Does it survive another Supreme Court ruling . As nancy pelosi said, we have to pass it in order to know whats in it. Were going to know whats in it when the Supreme Court decides whats in it. Hillary clinton said the reset worked on russia. Stay with me, panel. Lets get a look at whats coming up on media buzz. Howie kurtz is next. Hi, maria. Were going to lead with whether hamas is leading the media propaganda war while losing militarily. But were going to focus on president obama and this constant drum beat of criticism that hes going to fundraisers, hes going out for golf, at a time when we have a confrontation of russia over jets that were shot down in ukraine, at a time when the mid east is on fire. And i wonder whether you think theres a little too much media focus on that. Yeah, well, you know, i have to say, howie, this last week and a half or so, even the liberal media, the main street media has criticized the president for being at all of these fundraisers when the plane was shot down and when weve got so many hot spots around the world. Opt iblgs do matter. I wish he had gone to the border, for example. I know he tends to dismiss these things as a photoop. 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The republicans have a plan that involves changing the 2008 law and allowing expedited reviews get sent back to south america. They have a chance to act, act effectively and move first and then ask the president to respond. Well see if they do it. But that will be the best outcome. I think the president has a plan and he has specific proposals, 3. 8 billion, the hon duran initiative which would let people apply as refugees from their own countries. The republicans have a nono, go away, i dont want to do anything right now, e with the situation at the border. The answer at the border is not more security because these children are coming across and embracing border guards. So i think right now the republicans are without to lunch on immigration. If all of these kids are getting in so easily, drug traffickers can be getting in, terrorists can be getting in. I agree with that. They didnt pass immigration reform. I think thats a great disappointment. But this is an opportunity to take the Border Security piece, which always has been the thing rents want to do and do it first. They have a chance here. Im not saying its a guarantee, but they have a chance three points. In terms of the politics, come on. I mean, november is coming up. Nothing is going to happen politically on this. In terms of the economics, i think this is an important economic issue. Immigration is americas trump card. Its why were not going to go the way of japan in terms of growing slowly for the next 20 years. We need to keep refreshing and growing our workforce and our population. And we can do it. So its an important economic issue. And the third point is i think its part of the american character. You know, these cannots about immigration get so heated up. We should remember where we talked about these dhirn. The statue of liberty says we welcomed huddled masses. Thats what were talking about at the border. I think people shouldnt lose perspective on that. Let me move on to gaza. Kerry says he wants a sevenday truce. Thats not happening. Can we negotiate with hamas . Hamas said they dont even want an extension of a 12hour ceasefire. Look at the numbers in terms of who is dying in this conflict. The israelis have now 44 people. 5 of them are civilians. You go to the palestinian side, 73 civilians, a hamas leader who is hiding under a hospital. According to the israeli newspaper, they are using their people as human shields. We shouldnt be negotiating with these people who are a terrorist organization. How does this play out . I think the israelis are going to do what they have to do, which is clear out the tunnel network. And if hamas wants to give them a hand, fine. But this has got to end. We cant go through this every two, three years. But we will. This one will end because they have a clear objective, which is the tunnel. They will reach that objective and that will be tend this time. But the strategic situation has changed. We now have an egypt hostile to hamas, which is not going to let the smuggling go on that used to go on. And then there is russia. Hamas seems to have no support in the middle east except what weve started to see in the last week in the west bank. I would think with so many civilians being killed here, people would turn to a more moderate authority in the west bank. But instead, theyre protesting in support of hamas. In terms of russia, we have these satellite pictures which basically show evidence that, in fact, russia supplied the artillery to the separatists to shoot down the plane in ukraine. Is the world going to get with the u. S. . Are the sanctions going to be tougher . How does this play out, doug . One can only hope because the sanctions today have been laughable. They have changed nothing about russian behavior. And lets face it, a huge chunk of the russian economy is not integrated to the economy. Were afraid to touch that. The financial sector, you could hurt some institutions, but the money flows. Peter king at the top of this show said the u. S. Bank should start shunning russia. Would we go as far as that . Ill give you two numbers that matter here. The first one is 83 and the second one is 1 . Putins popularity in russia is 83 . We doesnt care about the evidence that were putting up there. The 1 is how fast europe might grow this year. Theyre so afreud of going back into recession, they dont want to disturb an economic partner that is providing them gas. There are 28 european nations. Its hard to mobilize them all. But a Little American leadership would help. Thats the bottom line, american leadership. Weve got some big announcements coming out of the fore. Stimulus, the gdp, 2. 9 contraction in the first quarter. What will this weeks gdp show us . Can we shoot real life into this lame economy . Factors like dietn negatively impact good bacteria . Even if youre healthy and active. 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On the one hand, the economy is producing jobs, employment growth of 200,000 plus every month. On the other hand, it barely is growing. And its very hard to understand how that could be happening. The only answer, really, is that the our workforce isnt very productive so companies arent hiring a lot of people. But we get two important pieces of information this week. We get information on how fast the economy grew in the Second Quarter and how many jobs got produced in july. So we could put more pieces of this puzzle together, but its hard to figure out. After a 279 contraction, so many people ive spoken with are saying were going to grow 3 , 4 . How do you get to that for 2014 . We better have huge numbers next week. Were not going to get 3 next year. So maybe well get 3 or higher for the Second Quarter, but that doesnt mean 2014 is going to be a good year. And john has his finger on exactly the issue, which is productivity growth has disappeared. And i think the troubling characteristic of this recovery has been the lack of income growth, weve seen the Median Income fall, weve seen real wages stag nate. You dont see those pick up unless productivity picks up. So even with the jobs, the economy is not performing well and thats the issue. Thats interesting. Why would you be protecti produ go to work when you can not go to work and get free stuff . They still see real growth at 2 , and that does depend on a little help once again from our oorpan friends. They simply are so terrified of inflation that they wont do the stimulus that really needs to get their economies going because theyre much worse off than we are. What about the geopolitical uncertain ity . So the European Central bank is now just starting to talk about doing things that the fed has been doing for four years now. In fact, were coming closer to a milestone. The fed is talking about ending a Bond Buying Program, which has been a huge support to the financial markets, to the stock markets. Theyre planning on ending that in october and thats where we get another headline this week. Theyre pulling back that program by another 10 billion. So theyll go to 25 billion a month, john . Theyre going to 25 billion a month. So far, the markets are handling it pretty well. Interest rates are going down. People thought Interest Rates would go up when the well, the market is handling everything. The market is not even focused on the geopolitical events. Nothing matters. The reality is well have higher Interest Rates when we have higher growth. Pedestrian policy is one thing, but it is telling that someone says theyre bullish if they can bet at 2 . That is called bearish. There is a global interest in in what is happening in the middle east and ukraine. People are going out and buying Treasury Bonds because it looks like a safe asset. They want to hold some kind of safety, and thats pushing our Interest Rates down. Its interestingly pushing up real estate prices in places like london and sydney and van could you haver and miami. I think people are trying to get their money out of dangerous places, literally, and put them in safe havens. Lets take a short break. Still to come, the one thing to watch for in the week ahead, weeks ahead on sunday morning futures. Our panel will weigh in. Stay with us. Were back with our panel. What is the one thing to watch . Wednesday, we have a lot of things happening. The government is putting out new numbers on how fast the economy grew in the Second Quarter and revising old numbers. Our whole story could change. Later in the day, the fed is pulling back on that Bond Buying Program were talking about. Gdp and the fed . Im watching obama to see if hes going to continue going to fundraisers and im watching europe to see if theyre going to do the right thing and just be quiet on israel and do some sanctions on russia. Europe is critical to russia, no doubt. What do you think . Im watching the Administration Politics over substance on tax inversions and these are great weapons on an election. Theyre not going to fix problems, theyre going to fan them. Lets pu punish companies for doing what theyre supposed to be doing to make expenses look good rather than getting to the real issue which is tax reform. Buy your red, white and blue suit. Everybody wants to know what the gdp numbers are going to show. Well see what the number brings on wednesday and ill be covering it on the fox business hours. Media buzz with howard kurtz is up next and we all wish you a happy sunday. On the buzz beater this sunday, with casualties mounting in the middle east, the media become a major battlefield. Are they playing into the hands of hamas by blaming israel for civilian deaths or tilting too far in favor of israel . The palestinians are experts at the pr fight. They specifically put little kids in front of weapons. So when israel strikes back, they can put those images on the cover of the newspaper and say look at how bad israel is. I think the image that most experience are seeing from this conflict, by and large, are images of the construction in gaza. Theres all these people talking about how the israelis are losing the media war for the first time. And are social media changing the landscape by spreading gruesome images of war that news