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Ultimately going to be the way it works out for the country as republicans everywhere figure out how bad the math is for them. joining us is wayne. hes had the pleasure of covering the republican state convention this week. great to have you here. >> great to be with you, rachel, as always. >> let me ask you about this convention versus texas republican conventions past. theyre always kind of amazing and always huge. is it more contentious than it usually is on this immigration issue specificall...

Consumer financial protection bureau tweaking rules they set with the qualified mortgage rules, fha is coming back, and credit scores are 20 points less than last year, and the private sector is seeing the opportunity. dr horton just announced a new division of affordable homes theyre going to be building, wells and city are both going after loosening their credit standards to get some people into credit, which is the most controversial aspect of this. >> very good point. hope youre right. i app...

Reporter: thats right. these targets, seven russian government officials, 17 russian companies that have ties to vladimir putin. so-called cronies of the russian president. a news conference here today, president obama said these sanctions do not target putin personally, necessarily, but that the goal instead is to change putins calculus there on the ground in ukraine. but as you noted, republican critics like bob corker saying the president has been doubling here, and it may simply be too late ...

Morning shows, but its errors. you hit sinleds, you hit doubles every once in a while. we may be able to hit a home run. >> republicans like senator bob corker fire back the president has mostly been striking out and charges announcement today of another round of sanctions targeting crohn anies of russian president vladimir putin are too little, too late. >> what were doing is tweaking as weve seen from this administration their policies are always late after the point in time when we could have...

The united states would love to have ukraine out of russias orbit but the united states is not going to do anything by itself. its going to try to be with its european allies but the european allies are not interested in tweaking russia because they depend so heavily on russian natural gas, russian oil and other russian products and the western europeans, particularly france and germany have already said that theyre not going to sign on and america is going to have to do something by itself. >> ...

He thinks they have the necessary information to find the wreckage and black box. if this doesnt work out f. the estimates, tweaking of the data, revisions and fine tuning turn out not to be correct, we are in for a long, difficult search way beyond anything we are talking about now. >> strange. rob, if i could give you the power to take over the search tomorrow, would you do anything different? >> no, i wouldnt. i would focus on the pingers. thats the best hope we have got but i would be consid...

To conduct the search and i think they are going to be successful. >> andy, youve done some reporting on this plane that presumably it was on autopilot when it disappeared and went into the indian ocean? tell us precisely what youre hearing. >> reporter: martin dolan, the head of the australian investigation bureau told one of my colleagues that in fact they believe the plane may have been on autopilot and actually may have been headed for perth but this was talked about in a general way. they h...

Question you can answer before the accident occurred, then theres no reason to keep, you know, keep it away from the families. >> good rule. but theyre not obeying that rule, unfortunately. thanks very much, rene. dont go too far away. lets go live to the staging ground right now for flight 370. cnns michael holmes is joining us from perth, australia, with the very latest from there. what is the very latest, michael? >> reporter: yeah, wolf, bluefin-21 still done. we understand on its third ru...

Bluefin-21. too early to say its been a failure? >> i dont think its been a failure. as ive said before, working in the ocean is a very difficult task and almost always things go wrong. you have technical glitches, weather problems. i think this is really par for the course. i dont see this as a failure, needs some tweaking. >> if the third mission comes back and say, it didnt work exactly the way that we wanted it to work, were going to try it again, you still wouldnt think its a failure. you s...

>> reporter: bryce says its not about being rich. >> its not something thats exclusive to higher incomes, either. as long as can you a descent credit score and can manage that and stay on top of it, anyone can do it. >> reporter: his secret, credit cards and lots of them. >> i currently have 23 credit cards. >> reporter: 23? >> 23, yes. >> reporter: what financial effect do all those credit cards have? bryce said his score increased after signing up for those cards. >> its not that having 50 cre...