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0 with more serious action. he's talked about a shield law that would protect journalists from doing their job. this isn't just journalistic whining if there is no freedom to reporters to go about their business. well, there's not free expression in this country to defend all the other rights. i think it's a very significant thing. certainly the president is saying the right words now. hopefully that is backed up with action. >> right. dana, still, the problem is they're not -- the congressional republicans actually opposed any idea of a shield law. >> well, of course, if we decided that oppos...

and you told congress a year ago i can give you assurances nothing is going on, everything is wonderful. er with not targeting conservative groups. >> that was congressman jim jordan going after former irs chief doug schulman. he is about to join us live. then the big financial story out of capitol hill. ben bernanke's initial testimony pushes stocks higher. they go sharply the other way when he seems to say something else. all those stories and more coming occupy on "the kudlow report" starting right now. good evening, everybody, i'm larry kudlow. this is "the kudlow report." lo...

And before several thousand tennesseans discovered new jobs on volkswagen drive, their cfo and our banker met for lunch. together, we worked with a team that helped finance construction of the world's first leed platinum auto manufacturing plant. that's the impact of global connections. that's bank of america. for more new on the president's remarks in syria, we're joined by peter welsh, who just returned from his sixth trip from the region. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. >> you visited i believe a refugee camp in turkey near the

Russians and europeans. is it too late, though? >> no. look, we don't know, i mean, this is a horrendous civil war in syria. and you've got -- that country is riven with tribal -- that assad has put the lid on through oppression. once the lid comes off, there's not peace and tranquility among those groups that will be at each other o's threats. anything we can do diplomatically, humanitarian, we should do. if you had the russians playing a constructive role, that would help enormously. because in the end the syrians are going to have to resolve this, and if this is part of a big power chess ga...

0 this without a single neighbor, without a single neighbor raising suspicions? >> reporter: and that's a very good question, and when you look at a map, the homes least of gina and amanda are really within a two-mile radius of here, so we're not talks about somebody taking them far away from their homes. this was right under a lot of people's noses. take a look at these homes. they're close together. you would think that somebody would see something, would hear something. they said they knew ariel castro, they saw him around. they weren't sure he actually lived in this house. there are some s...