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In their kitchen, that they even want to wear. so, yeah, this is a big metric. they may not produce loads of pop stars, they may not certainly have a lot of movies but if you look at the consumer base, germany is incredible strong. very aspirational when it comes to consumer products. >> german suit right now? >> im wearing italian. who is wearing german clothes? maybe cars and coffee makers, but german clothes? >> who are -- who is wearing german clothes? the germans. >> i bet you probably peop...

Manufacturing centric economy in this country. on the "snl" skit they laughed about what america makes. does it scare you that we make little to nothing that the world wants to buy? >> the u.s. still makes a lot of great things. in fact, in surveys around the world a lot of other countries see the u.s. as a big opportunity. great consumer base, great quality rye sources and great resiliency in terms of what has to be done along the long term. theres a big debate in terms of are we setting oursel...

now weve talked about corn and grain crops, but now the drought is threatening the nations dairy supply. lets get right back to rob marciano. hes live in indiana. rob, lets talk about the livestock that supplies all of us with milk and cheese. is there enough food and water for them at this point? >> reporter: well, no. right now they have enough now but a lot of that is left over from last year which was a pretty good crop. what worries farm serious whats going to happen as we get tow...

we begin with both presidential campaigns getting down and dirty on the low road as the candidates themselves try to stick to the high road. the latest examples, killer tv ad that the obama campaign is using to welcome so-called welcome mitt romney to pennsylvania. and a top romneys surrogates complaint that the president should "learn how to be an american." lets go to our white house correspondent, dan lothian, watching all of this unfold. weve been saying its getting ugly. >> report...

decent timing and kimmel pretty good as well. s john fugelsang with us, political comedian, with the professional opinion and will cain, columnist of theblaze.com. >> good morning. >> our starting point this morning, pretty shocking and daring escape that could have an impact on the u.s. relationship with china, a blind chinese discy dent evaded layers of guards after 18 months under house arrest, he made his trek 370 miles north to beijing. secretary secretary tim gigter in are expect...

Of the ground beef available in supermarkets but folks in the meat business say there is smog wrong with it and that their industry is being unfairly attacked by the media. >> it is all nutritious including our product and thats, you know that is the frustrating thing for us and to get our word out to the consumer base because this is safe. this is what i feed to my children, okay? this is what i feel comfortable with everyone of you feeding to your children. >> reporter: last year mcdonalds sto...

Worried about the backlash that it would create if they were seen to be siding with one party or the other. that a segment of their consumer base would be put off by and this a stop buying their product. >> look, newt gingrich, is promising he is going all the way to the convention. his attacks have been vitriol lick and so have mitt romneys. if this continues all the way into the convention in tampa, we are talking about late summer, does this leave whoever is the nominee, whether its romney, g...

honors at his funeral today. we are joined live from prague with more on that, atika shubert. >> reporter: we are expecting heads of state, heads of government and personal friends of pavel to come today, many dissidents who were in prison with him when he was jailed by the communist regime here. we had an extraordinary sight here at the grounds of prague castle last night. we saw tens of thousands of people coming to pay their last respects to vaclav havel, putting flowers by his coff...

>> well, i could say that i have done some of those things. i have horsed around with kids. i have shourd after workouts. >> youre going to hear more from jerry sandusky throughout the hour. the heart of the occupy movement now wiped clean. these are shots of new yorks zuccotti park being cleared of protesters in a police sweep early this morning. over 100 people were arrested. tents were pulled up at the stakes, and now mayor michael bloomberg says the campout is over. theres not go...

Very cusp of radical change. and knowing that you have an idea, that it might be early, it might be a few minutes early, but its innovators like steve jobs and bill gates and, you know, mark zuckerberg, quite frankly, all three of them, zuckerberg and gates, both dropped out of harvard. i think harvard produced as many successful dropouts as it has graduates by now. you see that opportunity. that narrow window in which you can rush and bring something brand new. and really excite a consumer base...