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arming the assad regime. >> we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to syr syria. we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically. >> moscow insists any arms supplies sent to syria are not being used against anti-government protesters. the suspect in the auburn triple murder is in custody after a three day manhunt. desmonte...

Are challenging the mandate thats actually in effect now. its true, as you say, that the administration has started a new rule-making process that might tweak the mandate in some ways and perhaps that process would produce an accommodation that was satisfactory, that did protect religious freedom. but the mandate thats on the books now doesnt. and father jenkins explained in his statement yesterday why these organizations felt like they had to go to court now to vindicate their religious freedom...

Why does the media care? why arent you screaming for head of steven chu of solyndra or fisker? that is public. this is private. why do you care about the private money? >> eric: its not even steven chu. its president obama. steven chu equals drew in this case, they put the bad bets on. >> greg: why does the media obsessed with the private wealth, not about our money? about the public use. >> bob: this is a public company. >> greg: you mow what im talking about. >> bob: i do. as opposed to the go...

Pharmaceutical industry for 70 plus years but theres a glitch here. the department of labor has weighed in. in a couple of friend of the court briefs in recent cases, through the labor department, though its actually not a party to the case, they did want to have a say, so in the briefs, its tweekd the definition of outside salesmen to change it from what it has been. a number of the justices seemed uncomfortable with that scenarioo scenario asking the labor department why would it change the ru...

My prior company, when we took on more money in each round, the previous investors were offered to be bought out at the round of the financing so what will happen and what we see in the crowd funded companies is that investors will come in and say, hey, you paid 1x and we want to come in at 3x, and if you want to exit we will buy you out at 3x and there will be a lot of people who are either going to take them up on that offer. >> and the law went into effect this week and when can i as a busine...

>> volcker rule. >> just on the volcker rule. i think we saw more public letters on the volcker rule than we see in the rule making process. thats just the letters. after the letters you see the industry going in and like a -- you know, drip, drip, drip water torture almost. where the regulators, i think, no longer know -- am i thinking this? is that what the base wants me to think? they are always arguing their case and we at occupy sec we are volunteers. not paid to do this. we can go down the...

Have no transparency in the over the counter market. $700 trillion. thats going to change over time with the dodd-frank and other financial reform being put in place. were going to get to a point where we have accountability and oversight. but what has to happen is the administration is push on financial reform and the rule-making process. then they will get to an a. >> you gave them a road map and a grade. thank you, dennis. straight ahead, were going to take time out for march madness. youll...

Stop it or stymie it through the regulatory process. which brings me to the answer to your question. i find efforts to say lets go to omb, one, gratuitous, because we already do the cost benefit unless which is a piece of the regulatory rule making process and, two, i think its really puzzling, because we are an independent agency, guys, and thats really has a lot of value. and whether or not its a republican president or a democrat president, we shouldnt be whipsawed as an independent agency by...

There are now going to be additional rules for blowout preventers. the rule making process is going to start in the next few months which would seem to be an acknowledgement that the standards now are too lax an they need to get tougher. if so, why give out permits now before the new rules are in place? >> you can always improve the equipment thats being used but that doesnt mean that you bring activities to a standstill until you can enhance those rules. i understand youve used the air bag meta...

Two days ago told reporters there are now going to be additional rules for blowout preventers. the rule making process is going to start in the next few months which would seem to be an acknowledgement that the standards now are too lax an they need to get tougher. if so, why give out permits now before the new rules are in place? >> you can always improve the equipment thats being used but that doesnt mean that you bring activities to a standstill until you can enhance those rules. i understand...