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Us Investment Firm Elliott Advisors has walked away from making a takeover bid for currys after being rejected by the retailers board in its own words multiple times. It had initially proposed an offer that valued the electricals chain at £700 million, and later raised it to 757 million. But currys rebuffed the approaches, saying they significantly undervalued the business. Currys could still receive a bid from chinasjd. Com, which said last month it was mulling an offerfor the firm. Lets speak...

Policy. they seem to care about personality. how are you going to make them care? >> well, i think the american people care and i know my role is to work for the american people and voter out there. we will make them care asking the questions that the american people care about. we have to remember why de we do these debates, right. whats the point of the debates? the point is to help the viewer and voter better understand their -- the candidates proposals on economic issues, the issues that mat...

Cruise ship bill of rights would be similar to the airline passenger bill of rights. he wants companies to adopt the new policies bill, on their own. bill: peter, thank you, peter doocy in washington on that. spared you the video on that. get the idea what theyre going you. martha: easy going travelers. bill: especially the last guy. martha: i dont know if i would be that happy. were just getting rolling this morning and we want it talk about the benghazi investigation because it is turning red ...

The 1st. the talk about raising revenue is over. time to deal with the spending problem. >> why dont both men come out and say the debt is an issue? you have to handle it right now. that is what they were implying but seems almost as if they were backing away from it. and either of these two men talk like that before. what was your take on that? >> i think in part because, you know, the house leadership i think bought into this ten-year balance idea. which a lot of conservative activists, a lot ...

That is due on april the 1st. for a little bit of background and context here, it has been four years, 1419 days to be exact since the last time that the senate passed a budget resolution. that is not a budget. just sort of a plan to come up with a budget. you have to go even than that tn actual budget. bill: meantime, speaker boehner is out again saying the goal is to balance the budget over ten years. he says that is the major issue. he was asked whether or not he can work with the account on ...

In cypress but because, they really have to tax everybody to raise the $5.8 billion euros that they need. but you raise an interesting question, martha. it is a point of principle. if you keep spending a lot of money and you say the rich will pay, well the truth is they cant pay. they cant repay this debt. what you end up with is, too much debt, and your government is in a position, how are we going to pay for this? one government at least is saying were going to take it out of peoples private b...

Proposal two years ago, didnt get into balance for something like 30 years and democrats called that wildly radical. what theyre trying to do is give themselves a little maneuvering room. meanwhile barack obama saying we have no debt crisis at all and debt is not a problem is trying to hold a slightly firmer line to bring the republicans closer to them. bill: which is the comment he made last week. one more point on this you get a sense things have turned for the serious, whether you like the se...

Deficit reduction. thats what simpson-bowles did. thats what other bipartisan groups did. we need to make some cuts and administrations budgets makes $2.50 in cuts for let me one dollar in revenue. that is balanced approach that is fair. thats what the american people want. bill: jason chaffetz a republican sits on the house budget committee. at home in salt lake city. happy presidents day. >> good morning. bill: paul ryan was on our program last week. he talked about the presidents proposal. he...

Considering. >> sounds very difficult. the flight recorders, the black boxes, have been under water since june of 2009. will they even work anymore? >> well, they are not working, no, because a black box has a battery life of 21 days. so you have that amount of time to find a signal to locate the box. so they are kind of in a situation where they are searching for a needle in a hey stack. they have to physically look for it. it could be damaged, embedded in the sand. it is like 12,800 feet under...

Finally, we recognize that the best welfare program is ultimately a job. so we reformed our job training programs. we consolidated the current complex maze of dozens of federal job training programs into a single program. a program that we can hold accountable. its a targeted scholarship program that is going to truly prepare our workers for a 21st century globally competitive economy. these are bold program, bold reforms but reasonable reforms to sort of things many of us campaigned on before w...