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Optimism here and for good cause. connell: all right. governor mike huckabee, always great to talk to you. and great to talk to you from jerusalem this morning. abby: thanks, governor. >> great to be with you guys. abby: starting with an american thrown hind bars in north korea as tensions begin to rise there. south korean media reporting that the professor i can't say in the country discussing raid and relief programs. the reason for hifers arrest is still not clear. believed et communist country will use him as a bargaining ship. no the uss carl vin soon will alive off the korean peninsula a...

Look, i think we need to be a little sympathetic about the authors of this plan because they are serious trying to get the republican party away from the grip of the tea party. but what you end up with are the same things we' been hearing for years and years. talking about cutting taxes, talking about privatizing relief programs. they're talking about dismantling social security, privatizing social security. they demonize the poor. they demonize the disabled, and even disabled children. i think that's the sort of thing that's really disturbing about some of the elements of this program. >> so ...

In the in the ♪ ♪ >> i believe that both our firm and our industry is far to go to regain the trust of taxpayers, investors and public officials. >> but we understand that taxpayers are angry. they deserve to know how their funds are being used. >> we're americans first and bankers second. so we see this taxpayer inve investmeinves investment as a future investment in our country. >> 24 past the hour. more than three years ago the ceos of banks that benefited from the troubled asset relief programs, also known as tarp,

finally, the good news we've been waiting for. the value of your house going up for the first time in five years. plus this. >> don't hit your head on the dock. >> no way. >> it's called speed kayaking. or at least trying to be that. our rob marciano taking a dip while trying out this lesser known olympic sport. get your life preserver. "newsroom" starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we do begin with breaking news this morning. more security concerns for the summer olympics. with opening ceremonies set to begin in just three days. good morning to you, i'm ca...

The free fall that the financial markets were in in late 2008. the idea was to really stabilize financial markets ultimately to get banks to lend to each other again. when you look at all of the data, it looked like the market was stalled in 2008 and that would have brought down not just financial institutions but ultimately the economy. we have estimates that t.a.r.p. itself has saved about 10 million jobs and i think that's probably right on target. you got to remember the primary purpose of this was to stabilize financial markets and that's exactly what it did. >> all right. i don't have to...