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That will help recon figure the image of our party. let s get right to our panel. joining us now is jackie kucinich of the washington post and sam seeda host of the majority report. sam, the republican governors are wrapping up their two-day strategy session out in arizona expressing lots and lots of love for themselves. but where does this leave poor paul ryan? because, you know, a man who was the vice presidential pick now dismissed because he wasn t a governor. yeah. i mean, i think it shows just how much this sort of national republican brand is incredibly toxic for these governors. you know, they re worried about their own re-elections. i think 22 of the 36 up for re-election in this round are going to be republicans. they re concerned that they re going to be tainted by the republican brand and i think it is a legitimate concern. right. jackie, here is paul ryan speaking to the wall street journa journal . take a listen. there is a lot of discussion among republicans ....
the new york times with new higher standards in place the number of new york city students passing state reading and math exams is plummeting. the new standards emphasize deep analysis and creative problem solving. last year 47% of new york students were proficient in the english tests, 60% in math, those rates have practically been cut in half. from the wall street journa journal , the justice department issued subpoenas to organizations including on-line payday lenders. this is a shift in strategy for the d.o.j. which is now going after the infrastructure that allows companies to withdraw money from private bank accounts. usa today, federal investigators are looking into jpmorgan chase for its sail of mortgage backed securities between 2005 and 2007. jpmorgan says the justice department has preliminary concluded they have broken the law. both the d.o.j. and bank have ....
For a popular ceo, a big number. a lot to get to this morning. want to turn to greece, the front page of the wall street journa journal , grooek depositors pulling 700 million euro out of the banks, greece teeters as talks fail. again, we asked the question yesterday, we ll ask it again, greece s chances of staying in the eurozone, geoff, different today than yesterday ? irdon t think the odds have change any great deal. this hollowing out, though, as capital continues to exit the banking system is a bad niz story obviously for the greek economy. but we ve just spoken to angela merkel the german chancellor. she reaffirmed her commitment to keeping greece in the single currency bloc. the markets don t believe it, and that s the problem. are the politicians going to come up with something that changes the nair tiff on this story? because right now everybody is betting that greece will leave. willie? and really interesting story on facebook. of course, the ipo is friday. ....
before. at last slow down in that trend. private sector is carrying things here, no question. but the private sector slowing down a bit too, ali. christine, something that you and i study very carefully, this is a consumer-driven economy, so we study retail sales. the retail sales for the last month came out this week, and they were exceptionally strong. much stronger than economists were expecting. so why did we see losses in retail jobs? it s so interesting, because you saw 33,800 retail jobs lost in the month, and that was a little bit of surprise to people. the only place you saw strength in retail was home and garden centers, surprise, surprise, because of all of the great weather. so even though you ve seen some strength from the consumer lately, this is something, overall, that might be a little bit of a concern. we did see some strength, quickly, i want to show you in manufacturing, ali. 37,000 jobs created in manufacturing. that s a trend we ve seen kind of ....
Lifetime federal appointment is qualified in using the process of advise and consent to make sure that when i send a nomination to the committee that i am backing that nomination saying it s worthy of being supported is a process that is petty. i think it is the very essence of what the constitution calls for when it says that the senate has the responsibility to advise on the nomination and to consent to it, and you spent a lot of time, but the one thing is, i have, in fact, after a second round of questions with judge schwartz, have sent my blue slip in, in fact am supporting her and look forward to her confirmation, but i don t take the position, regardless, of who the president might be, that it is a rubber stamp of nominees. senator menendez, thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate it. thank you. we ll get a preview of the day on wall street in the market ....