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Are you worried about your golf balls making it to you? >> i am not. i can celebrate gift receiving any day of the year. so it really doesn't matter if it happens by the 25th. >> that's big of you. >> yeah, it is. i'm a good guy that way. but the bigger issue is that people just don't have as much money to spend. and we can debate the reasons for it, but the fact is people just don't have a lot of disposable income that goes into all of this. so really, that's going to be the biggest thing that's going to put a damper on this holiday season and bring out the grinch in all of us. >> jonas, you ...

Shop. the american consumer will get there. i don't know if the internet's going to save you because you are like, i don't want to go out, it's lousey so let's go to the internet, or you go out there, but it's going to happen. the holiday travel, it's going to happen. some people look for an excuse to go to the in-laws for a week, driving their dog, they would rather play video games over talking to people about the improvement of their website, i'm not saying people do that but they are looking for an excuse. and people will use the weather to say, let's not do that drive. then maybe they won...

Rice, milk, how did it take off? >> started at local dog parks, little baggies, telling the story. we found out this is common. a lot of people find themselves in the same situation. it's a supportive community. we're sell them online, starting to get into stores. >> tell me about the collarships you do for people faced with similar situationses. >> we've helped a couple people so far, basically just people that are in need of help. they come to us, ask to pay. they are grateful. >> bruno, i understand, tore his other acl, which is common. one goes and the other goes. they compensate on the ot...

Iran. now i can tell you that there is no information to indicate that these attacks were state sponsored. >>steve: what's that all about? joining us from d.c. is the former head of the bin laden unit at the c.i.a. michael, good morning to you. >> good morning, sir. how are you? >>steve: doing okay, but i'm a little troubled by what happened up in canada where apparently these guys were receiving support from al qaeda element in iran? >> there's been a lot of al qaeda people in iran since the invasion of afghanistan. a lot of them evacuated there and then the iranians put them under house arre...

Showed up on our super computers because somebody misspelled his name. >> unfortunately that happens a lot. people, instead of putting "al" into a name, they put"el" into a name. sometimes it's very difficult. the agency at the c.i.a. has done much better with looking at variants of spellings but i don't think that is common at the community. >>steve: maybe we need spell check at the borders because it didn't work here. michael scheur, thank you for joining us from d.c. 20 # minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, strip clubs are not allowed near schools. but next to a convent, is that o...