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The Liver: Digestive Function of the Liver, Circulatory Function of the Liver, Microscopic Structure of the Liver, Microscopic Structure of the Liver, How Liver Cancer Develops: Carcinogenesis: Initiation, Promotion, Growth of Cancer, How Cancer is Detected, Treatment of Liver Cancer.
The Liver
The liver is the largest gland in the body weighing approximately 1500 grams and is located in the right hypochondrium i.e. right upper quadrant of the abdomen. It is glossy in appearance and dark red in color due to the rich supply of blood flowing through it. Approximately a quarter of the cardiac output flows to the liver. It performs diverse substantial functions:
1) The uptake, storage, and disposal of nutrients i.e. protein, carbohydrates and fat, drugs and toxins.
2) The production of synthetic proteins (critical for blood clotting).
3) Metabolism of substances produced by the body.
1- Digestive Function of the Liver
Sometimes referred to as the great chemical factory of the body, the liver creates regulates, and stores a variety of substances used by the gastrointestinal system and it serves a number of important digestive functions.
The main digestive chemical synthesized by the liver is bile. During a meal, liver cells secret the bile, which travels through the hepatic duct system into the small intestine where it is used to break down fat molecules.
Between meals, bile is stored in the gall bladder. Bile further serves as a waste disposal system for toxins removed from the blood by the liver.
The liver also plays a major role in the regulation of blood glucose. The liver synthesizes, dissolves, and stores amino acids, protein, and fat. It stores several important vitamins like B12 and Vitamin A. The liver also disposes of cellular waste and breaks down harmful substances, like alcohol.
2- Circulatory Function of the Liver
Though the liver is technically a part of the gastrointestinal system, it also plays an important role in blood circulation too. The liver has been called the antechamber of the heart because it collects and processes all of the gastrointestinal blood through the portal vein and delivers it to the right side of the heart. The liver receives blood through two vascular systems, the portal vein and hepatic artery.
Microscopic Structure of the Liver
When viewed under a microscope, the liver is seen as large network of units called hepatic lobules. The hepatic lobule is very small and looks like a six-sided cylinder.
The lobule itself is surrounded by connective tissue and has 5 to 7 clusters of vessels around its edges. These vessels include a branch of the portal vein, a branch of the hepatic artery, and a bile duct.
A central vein runs through the middle of the lobe and is surrounded by cords of liver cells that radiate out in all directions. Between these cords, there are wide thin-walled blood vessels called sinusoids. All of the blood drains into a hepatic vein, which then circulates throughout the body.
Below is a biopsy from a normal liver. The white arrows demonstrate the hepatic sinusoids and the dark arrow represents the portal pedicle. Blood flows into the liver through the portal pedicle, past the hepatic sinusoids (which contain normal liver cells called hepatocytes) into the central vein and then out of the liver.
How Liver Cancer Develops
Cancer is an uncontrolled replication of damaged cells. This condition usually produces a mass called a tumor. Cancer is the direct result of either a mutation of the cellular DNA or some sort of damage to the cellular DNA. For the cancerous cell to actually develop into a tumor, it must be able to grow and to replicate itself. A cancerous cell that cannot grow or make a copy of it will die or lie dormant for an extended period.
What actually causes genetic mutations or DNA damage is not yet completely understood, but several significant factors that encourage cancer development have been identified.
The liver is a common site of metastases from a variety of organs such as lung, breast, colon and rectum. When liver metastases occur at the time of initial diagnosis of the primary tumor, they are described as synchronous. If detected after the initial diagnosis, they are described as metachronous. The liver is frequently involved since it receives blood from the abdominal organs via the portal vein. Malignant cells detach from the primary cancer, enter the bloodstream or lymphatic channels, travel to the liver, and grow independently. Till now it is not understood the mechanism of how a tumor cell can leave the primary site and grow in specific organs. Virtually, the environment of the liver is suitable to the growth of certain tumor cells. Once a tumor begins to grow in the liver, it receives its blood supply from the hepatic artery and develops.
Carcinogenesis is a multistage process.
1- Initiation
It begins when a carcinogen causes a genetic change or damages the DNA in a normal cell. This makes the cell more defenseless to other genetic changes. This stage is called "initiation." If the process ended here, and the cancerous cell did not grow and replicate, no cancer would form.
2- Promotion
The next stage of carcinogenesis is called "promotion." This occurs when the initiated cell is exposed to an agent that enhances its growth into a larger mass.
When a tumor actually forms, it has all of the same basic needs as a normal cell. Because the tumor cells are genetically damaged, they are inefficient and deprive normal cells of important oxygen and nutrients. In addition, a malignant tumor grows uncontrollably and can eventually interfere with the function of vital organs, such as the liver.
Growth of Cancer
A small tumor no larger than 1 millimeter in diameter can sustain itself in such a manner indefinitely. But it cannot grow any larger unless the tumor itself begins to generate a network of blood vessels to help supply additional nutrients. A clinically detectable tumor is about 1 gram in weight and made up of at least 1 billion cells.
Metastatic tumors form when large progressive tumors shed off the tumor cells. These tumor cells must be able to grow and function apart from the primary tumor. Metastatic tumor cells move throughout the body, usually through the circulatory system or the lymphatic system. These cells often lodge in to a blood capillary, where they may or may not grow. The tumor cells that actually grow are somehow more suited to the new location. Metastatic tumor cells tend to mutate more quickly than normal cells, giving them a greater ability to adapt to their environment as well as a greater ability to resist therapy. These cells are more likely to infect places they can easily reach. Because the liver is close to or actually connected to several significant organs, and because the liver plays an important role in blood circulation by acting as a filter, metastatic liver cancer occurs in over 75% of all terminal cancer patients.
How Cancer is detected
Early stages of cancer can be asymptomatic and may go undetected for months or even years. When symptoms do develop, they are most pronounced as pain.
Pain associated with cancer is a result of several possibilities:
1- Invasion or destruction of normal tissue with cancer cells.
2- Stretching of internal tissue by tumor growth.
3- Pressure of tumor on an organ.
4- Blockage of a vital passageway by the tumor.
5- Infection caused by cancer.
Other symptoms may include loss of appetite, loss of weight, fever of unknown origin, limb weakness, sensory loss, or an absence of tendon reflexes in the limb.
Liver cancer, both primary and metastatic, often exhibits symptoms of general malaise as well as pain and tenderness. The discomfort is usually of a moderate degree and most often in the upper or upper right part of the abdomen. In more advanced cases, symptoms of jaundice, a yellowing of the skin and eyes, may also appear.
Treatment of Liver Cancer
There is no consensus regarding the optimal treatment of patients with liver tumors. This contributes to the pessimistic attitude that many have regarding the treatment of liver cancer. Aggressive treatment strategies can cure or significantly prolong the life of many patients with liver cancer.
1- Cholesterinum (ALLEN) – Description: – Ameke claimed to have derived great advantage from its use in cases diagnosed as cancer of the liver, or in such obstinate engorgements that malignancy was suspected. Burnett claims to have twice cured cancer of the liver with it, and "in hepatic engorgements that by reason of their intractable and slow yielding to well-sel ected remedies make one think interrogationally of cancer." In such conditions, where the diagnosis is in doubt, especially if the patient has been subjected to repeated attacks of biliary colic, Cholesterinum, he claims, is very satisfactory and at times its action even striking.
For cancer of the liver.
Cholesterinum (BOERICKE)- Obstinate hepatic engorgements. Ameke, who did much to introduce the proximate principles of the tissues as remedies, anticipating the practice now so much in vogue in the old school, recommended Cholesterine as a remedy in cancer of the liver.
Cholesterinum (CLARKE) – Characteristics: – Burnett has recently adduced conclusive evidence in support of the correctness of this assertion; and I have myself cured, mainly with this, a case described to me (I did not see the patient, a man over 50) as in the last stage of liver disease.
He had been given up by his medical attendant, who ordered him to make his will without delay.
Burnett uses the 3x or the 3 trit. and substantial doses.
He commends it in "obstinate hepatic engorgements, which by reason of their obstinacy make one think interrogatively of cancer," also in "cases in which there appears to be a semi-malignant affection, involving the left lobe of the liver and what lies between it and the pylorus and the pancreas."
In such cases Burnett gives alternately Cholest. 3x and Iodoform 3x.
Like many other "yellow" medicines, it has a marked action on the liver, causing jaundice and liver enlargement.
Cases of cancer of the liver have been reported cured by it.
Fullness, goneness, and constipation are the leading indications.
Mohr (H. R., xiii. 210) gave Nit. ac. 3x to a man who suffered from cancer of the liver with bloody diarrhoea, followed by constipation; violent pains in stomach and liver; unable to sleep; or unable to take any food without much pain, mostly vomiting. "Burning in liver region" has led to the cure of abscess and even cancer of that organ.
2- Theridion curassavicum (CLARKE) – Characteristics – The symptoms are < by touch; pressure; on ship-board; riding in carriage; closing eyes; jar; least noise.
Lying = pain deep in brain; >> flickering before eyes. < Stooping; rising; motion; exertion, going up or down stairs; walking.
Left : slight heaviness in half of forehead; half of forehead feels higher than right; pain in temple; pain in eye; cancer on side of nose; pain in half of tongue; hard lumps in hypochondrium; pain radiates to shoulder; pain in epigastrium; lobe of liver attached to tumors; fossa supraclavicularis, indurated lymphatic glands; crack in angle of mouth; tumor in breast; dull, heavy pain in scapula; pain in shoulders; tingling in fingers while writing; pimples side of nose.
Continuous vomiting and straining to vomit.
3- Kreosotum (HERING) – Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting- Sympathetic vomiting, as of phthisis, of cancer of liver or uterus, of pregnancy, and of chronic kidney disease.
Hepatic region painful to touch. Severe burning pain in cancer of liver (relieved).
Burning : in occiput; in cancer of liver; in abdomen and rectum; in palms and soles; in hypogastrium and uterus; leucorrhoea; in carbuncle on side of chest; in abscess on back of neck; in anthrax between shoulder blades; all over body, irritable spine; of skin.
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Whenever we turn on the news, we're treated to statistics about things there seem to be no way of verifying. How many people has the average person slept with? How many crimes has the average person committed? The numbers quoted are often the result of surveys. In a survey, there's nothing to keep people honest, especially about things like crimes. Scientists have found that dice can shake the truth out of people.
It's been shown that people lie on surveys. A survey of the number of sexual partners people had — in which participants believed they were hooked up to a lie detector — dramatically shrunk the gap between the numbers of partners usually reported by men and women. One way to keep people from telling a lie is to make them believe that they can't tell anything other than the truth.
Another way to get at the truth is to make people that they sometimes have to tell a lie. A toss of the dice allows people to confess things on surveys that they otherwise wouldn't. When South Africa wanted to conduct a survey about whether or not farmers had killed leopards (an illegal practice), the surveyors brought along a die.
If the farmer tossed the die and got a one, they had to respond "yes" to the surveyor's question. If they got a six, they had to say "no." The rest of the time, they were asked to answer honestly. The die was hidden from the person who was conducting the survey, so they never knew what number the farmer was responding to.
Suddenly, the number of "yes" responses to the leopard question started coming up by more than just one-sixth. This technique — called the randomized response technique — provided a blind that people could use to respond honestly to difficult questions. Depressingly, it was estimated that almost twenty percent of farmers had killed leopards within the last year. The accurate numbers, though, can help the government form more helpful responses, like compensation for livestock lost to leopards, and protect more leopards in the future.

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Creating and Managing Images with Photoshop Elements
One of the first things you'll be doing in Photoshop Elements is setting up your image. This involves creating a new file (or importing a photo or image from a digital camera, camcorder, or scanner), setting its dimensions and size, and arranging it on your desktop in a way that works best for you. Photoshop Elements can seem a little overwhelming at first, presenting you with almost too many settings choices when you first start working on an image. While you're welcome to adjust your image's resolution and print size to your heart's desire, you can also choose to skip this information for now if you just want to start correcting or retouching your photos. That's the beauty of Photoshop Elements. It offers an enormous amount of control and precision over your images, no matter how large or small the task.
Understanding Resolution and Image Size
Resolution and image size are frequently used and often misunderstood terms.
Resolution simply refers to the number of physical pixels, or picture elementstiny, square, building blocksthat are packed into a digital image.
Image size refers to both the print size and resolution of an image. Depending on whether you want to print a photograph, post it on a Web page, or e-mail it to a friend, you'll need to adjust its image size and resolution accordingly. This section explains the important relationship between image resolution and image size, and how to control these options to get the results you want.
Pixel basics
Everything you do in Photoshop Elements involves controlling and changing pixels. Pixelsindividual, tiny squares, or picture elementsmake up your entire image and are typically not visible as individual elements until you zoom in on your picture (Figure 2.1). In fact, Photoshop Elements may even have derived its name at least in part from these small but powerful image structures.
Figure 2.1 Pixels become visible as you increase the magnification of your image.
As you work in Photoshop Elements, you'll find that you need to adjust the size of your images for different projects. If you want to send a photo to a friend via e-mail, you'll want the file size to be as small as possible for easy deliveryso you'll want to create a low-resolution image, which means it contains a smaller number of pixels. If you're planning to print high-quality images on your ink-jet printer, then you'll want to maintain as high a resolution as your printer can handle (meaning a greater density of pixels), to ensure a crisp, clear print.
Images are often described using pixels as the unit of measure. For example, a common setting for many digital cameras is 1600 x 1200 pixels (the x is pronounced "by," just as in "3 x 5 photo"). Multiplying 1600 times 1200 gives us the total number of pixels in the image, which in this case is 1.92 million pixels.
Digital cameras often include preset resolution modes. These settings determine both the physical dimensions and file size of the image (Figure 2.2).
Figure 2.2 Examples of common digital camera resolutions and associated file sizes, all viewed at 100% (also referred to as actual pixels). Higher-resolution images, like the photo on top, provide a sharper, clear picture that's excellent for printing. Lower-resolution images, like the middle and bottom photos, lack sufficient pixel information for printing purposes, but work fine for posting on the Web or e-mailing to friends.
Displaying and printing images
Any discussion of resolution and output can be confusing, but you need to keep just a few basic details in mind. Image resolution is described in pixels per inch, or ppi. When you print your file, the printer resolution setting (or multiple settings) is usually described in dots per inch, or dpi.
The ideal amount of detail and level of resolution depend on how you intend to use an image. If you're going to be displaying your photos on the Web, keep in mind that large files take forever to download and view, so you'll want to stick with a lower resolution of 72 ppi (72 ppi is the most common image resolution for monitor displays).
Three factors affect the way that an image is displayed on a computer monitor: the number of pixels in the image, the screen resolution, and the screen size (Figure 2.3). The size of each pixel is determined by the resolution and size of the monitor. For example a 17-inch monitor set to a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels would have 82 pixels per inch (Figure 2.4). The same monitor set to a resolution of 640 x 480 would have fewer pixels per inch, so each pixel takes up more screen space (Figure 2.5). If you change your monitor resolution to a lower resolution setting, the images and icons become bigger on your screen. This is because fewer pixels occupy the same space, and so the size of each pixel becomes bigger.
Figure 2.3 The display of an on-screen image is based on the resolution of the image, the size of the monitor, and the monitor resolution.
Figure 2.4 A monitor set to 1024 x 768 is a much more common setting, and allows program menus to be seen more easily.
Figure 2.5 The same monitor set to 640 x 480 displays fewer pixels per inch, so less of the image appears on your screen.
Printer resolution is usually described by the number of dots per inch that the printer is capable of printing. If you want to print a high-quality flyer or photo, you may need a resolution as high as 300 ppi. Fortunately, a wide range of resolutions are available that work well for different types of situations, and Photoshop Elements includes some automatic functions (such as the Save for Web command) that take the guesswork out of the process.


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Jovan Belcher's mom says she loves son, slain girlfriend
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The days since Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend then shot himself in the head have been very difficult for his mother, who said Wednesday that the slayings have not diminished her love for the couple.
Belcher's mother, Cheryl Shepherd, had been living with the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker and 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins to help care for their 3-month-old daughter, Zoey, and was at the couple's home Saturday morning when Perkins was shot.
"That's my son, and I love him," Shepherd said in a brief telephone conversation Wednesday. "She's my daughter-in-law, just like my daughter."
Shepherd declined to say anything more about her son.
Belcher shot Perkins at their Kansas City home then drove with a handgun to Arrowhead Stadium, where he thanked Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli and coach Romeo Crennel for all they had done for him. The men tried to persuade Belcher to put the gun down, but when police arrived, Belcher moved behind a vehicle in the practice facility's parking lot, knelt down and shot himself in the head, police said.
Shepherd, 54, said she was not happy about the release Wednesday of recordings of the emergency phone call she made Saturday after Perkins was shot.
"I just got a phone call that they did that, and I don't appreciate it," she said. "Right now I don't want to talk about it."
In the emergency call, Shepherd begs Perkins to "stay with me" while frantically asking for an ambulance. She tells the dispatcher that Perkins is "still breathing but please hurry. … They were arguing, please hurry."
Shepherd also told dispatchers that Perkins was bleeding, "just barely" awake and that it looked as though she was wounded in the back. She said Perkins moved when she spoke to her.
When a police dispatcher asked about Belcher, Shepherd says only: "He left."
Police arrived at the home about 7:50 a.m. They said in an incident report that they found Perkins' body on the floor of the master bathroom. She had been shot multiple times.
Shepherd, who has temporary custody of the couple's baby, said she and Perkins were very close.
"She was a lovely, beautiful young woman. And we had a beautiful relationship," Shepherd said.
She said family members have been helping her a great deal since the shootings, but that she had trouble eating and sleeping while working on her son's funeral arrangements.
Mourners began arriving in the early afternoon Wednesday for a private memorial service for Belcher in Kansas City. Perkins' relatives didn't immediately return messages seeking information about plans for her funeral.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Applications for unemployment benefits fell slightly in the second week of February but the level of claims appeared to signal little improvement in the U.S. labor market.
Initial jobless claims dropped by 3,000 to a seasonally adjusted 336,000 in the seven days ended Feb. 15, the Labor Department said Thursday.
Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected claims to total 335,000. The number of people seeking benefits each week is seen as a good gauge of how many layoffs are taking place in the economy.
The average of new claims over the past month, usually a more reliable gauge than the erratic weekly number, rose by 1,750 to 338,500. That's the highest amount in six weeks, but just slightly above the six-month average.
Claims appear to have fallen into a holding pattern after a steady decline in 2013. Unusually harsh weather early in the new year may have stifled new hiring, and it's also sidelined some workers in certain industries such as construction and manufacturing.
What's unclear is whether the weather-induced weakness in the labor market is temporary or if it is masking a slowdown in job creation. The last two monthly employment reports have been soft and economists aren't expecting much improvement in February.
Meanwhile, the government said continuing jobless claims increased by 37,000 to a seasonally adjusted 2.98 million in the week ended Feb. 8. Continuing claims are reported with a one-week delay and reflect the number of people already receiving benefits.
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I use Putty because I'm primarily a Linux or Mac person using Windows to SSH in to another machine who doesn't want to set up anything heavy just to get a terminal. I've used Linux at work as my primary desktop for 10 years and I have a Mac laptop. I use Windows sometimes if I'm working from home.
So Putty works fine. However, by default Putty will copy and paste anything in your clipboard / copy buffer into the window upon a right mouse click. This means you could accidentally paste totally inappropriate stuff into IRC if you use irssi/weechat + screen.
I've done this once in 8 years, but it sucked. A lot. Here's how to avoid it:
- Right click the title bar, choose "Change settings…"
- Choose "Selection" under the "Window" sectoin.
- Under "Action of mouse buttons:" choose something besides "Compromise" (that's the "use right click to paste your super secret clipboard into public IRC channels" setting). I chose "Windows (Middle extends, Right brings up menu)" which is normal behavior on Mac/Linux too.
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Energy Efficiency Rides the Radio Airwaves
The nation's public radio airwaves are spreading the message that efficient energy use can help consumers save dollars. Energy Matters--a series of 21/2-minute drive-time modules--tells radio listeners how to conserve energy at home and offers an objective perspective on new techniques and technologies.
The series features practical, everyday energy-saving ideas like using setback thermostats, retaining heat with curtains and shades, and the proper sizing of heating systems, providing listeners with a broad range of information to help them decide to choose energy efficiency. The Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation granted funding to National Public Radio affiliate WRVO-FM 90 in Oswego, New York, for the creation and production of the series.
Energy Matters typically airs twice a day, three days a week, over public radio stations in eight states. Niagara Mohawk senior marketing specialist Chris Finkle said, We believe that the audience reached by public radio is responsive to the message of strategic value of energy resources and the environmental impacts of energy use. We also realized that our utility outreach efforts were missing this segment of our customers. The typical public-radio listener is older, middle- to upper-income, well-educated and motivated. They may not, however, have the practical information necessary. Finkle said Energy Matters helps these listeners take individual actions, and influence others to understand and make better use of energy. We know this audience tends to think more globally, and this information helps them to take action on a local level. The program gets practical information into the hands of an audience comprised of opinion leaders, educators and business professionals who are likely to pass on the information to others.
Program producer Bob Hageny said the response has been very positive. We receive a number of calls that typically either ask for more information, or praise the show for its informative ability. Niagara Mohawk has had similar experience with feedback. Also, Finkle said that reactions from our customers and employees have been overwhelmingly positive.
Announcer John Hurlbutt, along with Hageny and Jim Clark, the technical advisor for the show, interview leading professionals and proponents of energy efficiency use including representatives from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, the Conservation and Renewable Energy Inquiry and Referral Service, the Florida Solar Energy Center, and the Alliance to Save Energy. Some of the topics covered in the first season's programs included: stack effect, building envelope, active solar heating, energy surveys, electric vehicles, mobile-home skirting, radiant barriers, and home energy rating systems.
Radio's unique ability to pique the listener's interest in a non-intrusive manner fosters a desire to learn more about the entire subject of energy use and how it affects the environment, specifically the home environment. The show is intended to increase consumers' ability to control energy usage in their lives and to enhance control over their health, safety, home affordability and comfort.
Now in the second year of production, the Energy Matters team is focusing on increasing the depth and quality of this year's 156 new shows. In our first year, we focused on breadth of topics and introducing the audience to the array of information about energy use. This season we hope to present more in-depth information, providing the listeners with practical information as well as continuing to keep them abreast of the latest technological advances, Hageny says.
Niagara Mohawk has committed to a second season of funding for the program. We hope to continue the relationship to increase the value of Energy Matters to all listeners, said Finkle. Hageny and the production team are reaching out to bring a diversified selection of segments to the listeners. Future production sites include the Rocky Mountain Institute and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
-- Jim Clark
Jim Clark is technical advisor for Energy Matters, produced by WRVO-FM 90 in Oswego, New York.
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WASHINGTON, July 29, 2012— -- (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DOWD (voice-over): Good morning, and welcome to "This Week." A hundred days to go, and both candidates are on the defensive.
ROMNEY: There were a few things that were disconcerting.
DOWD: Governor Romney offends U.S. allies overseas.
JOHNSON: There's a guy called Mitt Romney. He wants to know whether we're -- whether we're ready. Are we ready?
DOWD: While here at home, President Obama struggles to clarify his comments about private business.
OBAMA: You got a business, that -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
ROMNEY: Just read the whole speech. The context is worse than the quote.
DOWD: Will the skirmishes have a lasting impact on the race? Are they just a distraction from the real issues? We'll ask our exclusive headliners, top advisers for both candidates, Robert Gibbs for Obama, Kevin Madden for Romney.
And our powerhouse roundtable, with George Will, Donna Brazile, Dana Loesch, David Chalian, and Ruth Marcus. Plus...
KARL: I'm Jonathan Karl outside Dick Cheney's home in Wyoming. We have just had the first interview with the former vice president since his heart transplant.
DOWD: And ABC News is at the Olympics, the very latest from London.
ANNOUNCER: From ABC News, "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos. It's your voice, your vote. Reporting from the Newseum in Washington, Matthew Dowd.
DOWD: Good morning, everyone. George Stephanopoulos has a well-deserved morning off.
As you just heard, it's been a rough week for both candidates, so let's get right to it with their senior advisers, Robert Gibbs with President Obama, Kevin Madden with Mitt Romney.
Welcome to both of you, and thanks for taking the time on this Sunday.
MADDEN: Thank you.
GIBBS: Thanks for having us.
DOWD: Well, I have a critical question first for two senior advisers. Who are the junior advisers?
GIBBS: I've tried to get that title before, and nobody will give it to me.
DOWD: It doesn't bear any responsibility, but...
MADDEN: I make my own coffee, so...
DOWD: I've always wondered. I haven't met one. I want to start with -- we're 100 days out, key point in the race, dead-even race. I took a look at the Gallup polls this morning. It's dead even as of this morning. Robert, what's going to break this race out? Or is this going to stay this way until the end?
GIBBS: I think this is going to be a very close race throughout it. That's what we've prepared for. That's what we're -- why we're investing in a grassroots army to win this race on Election Day.
I think what's going to break this race out ultimately is the choice between two candidates and two extremely different visions about how we build this economy and how we come out of the economic disaster that we were in and how we recover. And I think, whether or not -- you're going to have that choice of whether Barack Obama, who wants to invest in education, invest in entrepreneurs, cut taxes on small businesses, and build our economy here, or somebody in Governor Romney, whose expertise, quiet frankly, is in outsourcing and offshoring.
DOWD: Well, Kevin, I'm sure you're going to disagree with part of that.
DOWD: But, first, do you think this race basically -- it's dead-even now, we have 100 days left -- do you think that's where it basically stays until Election Day? Or do you think there's opportunities for the governor to break out of this?
MADDEN: Well, I -- I do believe that Robert's right, that this is a very close race and it will continue to be a close race. I think what's going to make a big difference is how the American public judges the last three-and-a-half years and whether or not the economy has gotten better in these last three-and-a-half years.
And I think that's where we do see this sort of crystallization between the two candidates. And I think I actually agree with Robert in that sense. I do think it is a choice, and I do think it's a choice about how we go forward.
And this is a president who sort of abandoned, really, any idea of offering the public any new ideas about getting out of the current economic stagnation. We have -- you know, we have 8.2 percent unemployment for over -- over -- and we have had unemployment over 8 percent for 41 months now. And this is a president who continues to call for new taxes. This is a president that continues to call for new regulations on small businesses, the entrepreneurs and the Americans that are trying to help grow and expand the economy.
So I do think that this is going to be an election that's seen through the lens of how we have a better economic future in this country. And if you look at the last three-and-a-half years, which has essentially been the president's sort of interview for rehiring, I don't think that the American public is going to agree they want to continue in that same direction.
DOWD: And we're going to talk about the economy in just -- just a moment, which I'm sure you both have completely contrasting views on that, but one thing people think that maybe this an election that a gaffe, a mistake, in such a tight election, within a point or two, could make a difference, whether somebody shows up or not.
And, Kevin, you obviously have seen what's happened when Governor Romney went to London, made his comments, took a lot of heat, especially from the British press. And is there a concern on y'all's part that it's -- first time he's on -- on the stage, on the world stage, that people sort of now are taking a step back and maybe he's not prepared after what he said about the Olympics over there?
MADDEN: Well, I think this is an election, again, that the public is viewing around big things. I don't think that a gaffe or a YouTube moment is really going to make or break this particular election. I think it's going to be about the direction of the country, how we rebuild the economy, how we continue to have a stronger national security posture around the globe.
I think that the headlines that -- that come out of London on one day are not going to be as important as the overall view that people take when it comes to our economic prosperity here at home and then our safety and security around the globe.
So I think the fact that the governor has given a -- he gave a very strong, robust speech about his national security policy at the Veterans of -- at the VFW before he left. And I think you're going to see some -- some images that are coming out of Israel, with him standing strong with our allies there, some strong statements coming out of Israel, I think that's going to be much more important as a judgment on this particular trip than anything that happened
GIBBS: Can I just say this, Matthew? I would probably give that answer, too, if I hadn't flown to London and embarrassed myself in front of our strongest ally in the world. Look, Mitt Romney wondered aloud whether London was ready for the Olympics, and I think it's clear that voters in this country wonder aloud whether Mitt Romney is ready for the world, and I think the world is not yet ready for Mitt Romney.
I think there's -- literally to go overseas, stand in the country of our strongest ally, and on Olympics that they've been preparing for years for, and question whether or not they're ready does make you wonder whether or not he's ready to be commander-in-chief.
DOWD: Well, and obviously that's the -- that was the beginning of the trip. As Kevin referenced, he's having an end of his trip, where he's in Israel today. And...
GIBBS: Let's hope the do-over goes better than the initial audition, because like I said, let's be honest, Matthew. If you can't handle smiling and talking about the Olympics...
MADDEN: ... they were very polite about how they all believe that the athletes are going to make sure that the games work. And they will. And we're all hoping for a good -- we're all hoping for a very successful...
GIBBS: Like you -- like you, I'm happy David Cameron had the last word, because I thought it was embarrassing for our country.
DOWD: And let's give everybody a break, and let's move on to Israel, where, as of this morning, a senior adviser to Governor Romney said -- he said this morning, if Israel has to take action on its own in order to stop Iran from developing the capability, the governor would respect that decision. And I don't know obviously what the governor's going to say today in his speech in Israel, but, Robert, that statement basically sort of saying what he says he would do as president in that circumstance. Where is the president's position? Is that the president's position? Or is his a little bit more subtle?
GIBBS: Well, let me say this. The president's position, which he's been clear about for more than three-and-a-half years, and that is, obviously, any country -- and Israel certainly does have the right to defend itself and defend its citizens. We have never taken any option off the table in dealing with the nuclear program in Iran.
President Obama has led the strongest international coalition ever assembled with the strongest sanctions ever levied on the country of Iran. We've made progress in -- in delaying that nuclear program. And, obviously, our goal, the world's goal is to prevent Iran from having a nuclear program, and I think we're making progress on that. Of course Israel has the right to defend itself.
DOWD: And, Kevin, you know, many have wondered if there's really a huge distinction between the two candidates' foreign policy, real substantive distinction. I know by words the governor has said that President Obama shouldn't have said this or shouldn't have done this, but real, substantive policy differences, especially on Israel. Is there a real difference substantively?
MADDEN: Well, I think words matter and I think priorities matter. I think that's something that Governor Romney feels very strongly about, and I think that's one of the reasons why he's traveled -- this is his fourth trip to Israel. That's the reason he's there now, to make sure that he sends a strong statement as a potential future president to the people of Israel, because the shared values that we have as far as national security and Israeli policy, our policy towards Israel, is sort of an American value, an American principle, of our shared values around freedom and democracy there.
So I think that's really important, a message to send. I think that there are many folks up on Capitol Hill who've worked with this administration that believe that and wish that the president had been stronger, that he had moved quicker, that he had done so with a much more collaborative fashion up on Capitol Hill. So I think that that's another problem that the -- that this president has had.
But overall, I think that -- that the president does -- that Mitt Romney has sent a strong message to the folks of Israel that not only is he visiting there to send these messages now, but also that he would visit as president.
GIBBS: Let me just respond to that, Matthew, because I do think...
DOWD: And I want to turn to the economy, because I think that's where this election stands.
GIBBS: I have no doubt that that's the most important issue, but let me be clear about several things. I walked in Israel four years ago with Barack Obama -- with Barack Obama when he went to Israel. We went to a city in Israel, Sderot, that was being bombarded by rockets from Gaza.
On that trip began the formulation of the policy that is now in place called the Iron Dome, which protects the citizens not just of that city, but throughout Israel, because this president has had the strongest commitment of any U.S. president to Israel's security.
DOWD: So we'll go to -- let's switch now to the economy. And the president got into a little hot water over his comments about you didn't build it that he made, and that many people think a gaffe is really a politician accidentally telling the truth, which (inaudible) but I also want to focus, Robert, on the 1.5 percent GDP number that came out on Friday. Many people think that is an extremely anemic number, that that's not the kind of growth that we need. do you think the president...
GIBBS: Including the president.
DOWD: Well, the president's now responsible. Is this the president's economy? Does he own this economy? And should he be held accountable for whatever happens in this economy?
GIBBS: Well, look, Matthew, the president is the president of the United States. He understand where the buck stops. We also understand what we inherited and what we can't go back to, which are the tried-and-tested ideas of four years ago which got us into this mess.
I mean, you heard -- you heard the discussion about tax cuts. This week, the Senate rightly voted to ensure that when -- at the end of the year, we extend tax cuts for middle-class families. But their economic theory is we get this economy going by giving millionaires and billionaires more and more tax cuts. That's not what's going to get this economy moving.
DOWD: Robert, I have a question, though. Is -- is this -- is your campaign about vote for us because all the great stuff we did on the economy? Or is it vote for us because he'll make the economy worse?
GIBBS: Again, this is a choice, Matthew. The president is happy to talk about the steps that we've taken in manufacturing, our auto recovery, which Mitt Romney opposed by wanting to let Detroit go bankrupt, and we're also happy to talk about Mitt Romney's record. I mean, let's be clear...
DOWD: And that's -- I want to talk about that. Governor Walker, a -- the governor, a supporter of yours from Wisconsin, sort of has talked about that Mitt Romney hasn't filled in enough of his resume, especially related to this. Let's talk a look.
WALKER: I think there's a lot of caution. I think the mistake that they've made is this feeling like it can just be a referendum on the president, and certainly a part of it for any incumbent's got to be a referendum on, do you like or dislike not just the president, but his policies? And there's got to be something more than that. People won't just vote somebody out. They want to vote somebody in.
DOWD: Is he telling the truth? And as -- I know that you have a 50-some-odd-point economic plan. Is that too much and people just don't get it, you need to have a three-point plan? Is the governor right that there is not enough about Mitt Romney and this campaign has been too much about Barack Obama?
MADDEN: Well, no, I think he's right in that -- essentially there is a strong component here about it being a referendum, but Governor Romney has been very clear about what he would do on a whole range of issues that are important to helping grow the economy. And it's not a 50-point -- 50-odd-point plan. It's a 59-point plan, 160 pages. I happen to know, because I've read it. And...
DOWD: But as -- as a political operative, do you think that's too much?
MADDEN: Right. Well, look, I remember during the primary everybody saying...
DOWD: Do you want to explain it?
MADDEN: During the primary, while we had rolled out the plan...
GIBBS: We're going to need some extra...
MADDEN: They were saying, look, this -- you know, we need to have very big, bold plans. Now we're -- in the general election, folks are saying, well, we need more details. The details are in there. Everything from industry, from health care to manufacturing to energy and to tax reform and entitlement reform, everything that we need to do to move the country forward as far as having pro-growth policies, helping people, incentivizing businesses to both grow and -- and create more jobs, all of that is in there. And the governor's talked about it in great detail about what he would do on all of those policies.
DOWD: But on both sides -- but before you get, Robert -- on both sides of this, it's -- many people have real trouble with the discourse in this country, and much of it has to do with what's gone on in the campaign. The data's that's out of the last couple of weeks, 90 percent of the ads that Barack Obama has run have been negative, 90 percent of ads that the Mitt Romney has run in the last few weeks have been negative.
And there was a poll out recently that just came out last week that showed we're at a historic place, where both candidates are viewed very negatively. Let's take a look, 32 percent Barack Obama, 24 percent Mitt Romney. Are we at a place where the -- the Mitt Romney strategy, message is fire him, and the Barack Obama -- its strategy is don't hire him, and it's been all negative with no vision for the future?
GIBBS: Well, I don't think that's been true at all in our case. We spent the first month of the campaign, for four weeks, running nothing but a positive ad about what President Obama's done. But let's be clear. Mitt Romney had a strategy during the primaries. He used negative ads to destroy Rick Perry. He used negative ads to destroy Newt Gingrich. He used negative ads to destroy Rick Santorum. We're not going to...
DOWD: Are you saying that as an asset or...
GIBBS: We're -- we're not going to let him play his tried-and-true role as prep school bully. We're going to certainly respond. And, look, the ad that you mentioned on what the president said selectively edited the sentence previous to what you heard the president say is talking about infrastructure and roads and bridges.
DOWD: Well, Kevin, is there -- is this how the politics become? Or is it -- and this is the final point -- is this the politics have become or this -- or is there a way to do something different?
MADDEN: Well, look, I think the public is reacting very negatively because the president, when he was a candidate in 2008, promised hope and change and he promised to challenge the status quo. And instead, he's been very much a conventional politician over the last three-and-a-half years.
What Governor Romney has done during this campaign is focus like a laser on the issues and the anxieties that are really driving voter sentiment right now, which is the economy, and our inability to really -- the inability of the president to get it back on track.
And if you look at our ads and you look at the president's -- or you look at Governor Romney's words on the campaign trail, they're all consistently focused on the economy. What he would do on day one as a president to help put the economy on track -- back on track, whether it's making sure that we approve the Keystone pipeline so that we have more energy resources and we can help the economy. So we're focused like a laser on the economy.
DOWD: Fast and furious, fascinating 100 days ahead, and I thank you both for coming in and talking to us. Thank you.
MADDEN: Thank you.
GIBBS: Thanks.
DOWD: And up next, our roundtable weighs in on this week's politics.
OBAMA: If you've got a business, that -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
ROMNEY: You know, it's hard to know just how well it'll turn -- will turn out. There are a few things that were disconcerting.
DOWD: Why does it seem like both candidates are their own worst enemies? Plus, the Chick-fil-A controversy, sideshow or serious stuff?
COLBERT: We have finally managed to politicize yet another part of our lives. I mean, I've got to know what positions my food has taken on all the issues. For example, I love Carl's Jr. Western burger. It must be anti-Obamacare because it is clearly trying to kill us.
DOWD: And later, Jon Karl with a first look at his interview of Dick Cheney. The former vice president has some surprising comments about John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin. You won't want to miss it.
COLBERT: Mitt really grabbed England by the crumpets when he was asked about the London games.
ROMNEY: You know, it's hard to know just how well it'll turn -- will turn out. There are a few things that were disconcerting.
COLBERT: Oh, that is the same classic Romney charm he used to woo his wife, Ann. "Roses are red, violets are blue, there are a few things that are disconcerting about your hair."
FALLON: During a speech this week, President Obama said that, thanks to him, people in the rest of the world have a new attitude toward Americans. That's true. People used to hate us. But thanks to him, now they just feel sorry for us. So -- you know, it's a difference.
DOWD: Very funny. Foreign policy taking center stage in the presidential campaign this week, and we're joined now by our powerhouse roundtable, as always, George Will, Donna Brazile, Yahoo's Washington bureau chief David Chalian, conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch, and Ruth Marcus from the Washington Post. Thank you all for being here.
George, I'd like to start with you. We're at that crucial 100-day marker. If you take a look at the last 10 presidential elections, nine of them have been won by the person that was ahead at this point in time. We're dead even, so we're in a place that we've never been before. But what have we learned so far previous to the 100 days that can tell us what we might see in the next 100 days?
WILL: Well, first, a footnote about the 100 days. The election's 100 days from now. The first voting begins in Iowa on September 27th. Five days later, on October 2nd, Ohio begins to vote, with this new phenomenon that I think's really deplorable and complicates campaigning terrible, so two states at least will have started voting before the first debate.
Now, you want to know about the future? Look at the immediate past. Look at the last month. We've had the Supreme Court decision affirming the constitutionality of Obamacare. Didn't really help Obama. We've had an onslaught of anti-Bain ads. Didn't really hurt Romney. It drove his negatives up, but may have driven Obama's up more.
We've had a terrible jobs report, and it's still tied, which suggests that as you indicated in your talk with Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Madden that maybe some blunder, some tiny thing that will cause the needle to move. So far, nothing else has.
DOWD: Donna, what's your sense of like what we've seen so far and what that might tell us about the next 100 days?
BRAZILE: Well, first of all, I'm excited, because finally, in about 101 days, I can go back to watching soap operas here in D.C. and not all of those nasty commercials that are broadcast for people in Virginia. And so I'm excited about that.
Look, first of all, I'm glad that we still have early voting, George, because that means that there won't be a lot of congestion on Election Day and we should have more accessibility. But what we know is that it's dead-locked. It's tight. And the polls are like those boats in the Venice canal, useless in rough waters, because we're looking at a very small, tiny segment of the electorate that will decide this election, less than 10 percent of the American people, 10 percent. I wish I could find them and just say, make up your mind so I can go back to watching sports.
DOWD: David, you've taken a look at a lot of elections. You're sort of an expert in all and sort of the political history and what's happened thus far. Is this a race that's basically going to not move off dead center, but for some surprise? Or can we think there's some moment along the way that's going to change the dynamic?
CHALIAN: Talking to both campaigns, they think it's going to remain close all the way through. In fact, they also think that it is a more limited universe of persuadable, truly swing voters than in recent presidential elections.
Right now, this is a two- to four-point race, maybe the slightest edge to the president at the moment. Neither campaign believes the NBC-Wall Street Journal horserace number that shows it is a six-point race. They think that's too wide.
I think what we've seen, now looking forward to the next 100 days, and what we've seen up to now, a lot of this campaign has been about the definition of Mitt Romney so far, and that's largely due to sort of a gamble, right, that the president's campaign team made by spending more money than they were bringing in -- that's never an easy decision to do -- to go heavy right now negatively on Romney, try to frame him, and muddle this -- this one major credential that he has brought into the race of his business record.
The Romney campaign has allowed that to happen to some degree, and I think what you heard from Kevin in that interview and what I think you're going to see going forward in the next 100 days, largely due to sort of the calendar and the events demand it. At the convention, they're going to start filling in a different story of Mitt Romney that right now the American people don't really have to discuss at the kitchen table.
DOWD: Dana, do you think there's any breakout thing? Or do you think the public -- we're not even at the last 100 days of this race, and the public's had two years of this. Do you think there's like just have Election Day tomorrow and let's get this thing done? Or do you think there's still something they need to find out going forward they haven't heard already?
LOESCH: I think Mitt Romney, in terms of going out (inaudible) grassroots and kind of closing that daylight between the Republican Party and grassroots, that's something that needs to be done a little bit more. Maybe we'll see that during the convention, because that's kind of the -- that's the watershed moment for things like that to occur.
But independents decide every single election. I mean, think about it. What I -- and I disagree with some of what's been said, because, granted, they're tied right now, and it -- you know, some of the -- the campaigns believe that this could be close going into November. But I think back to 2008, which was a historic election, and this president was elected in -- this was a mandate that Barack Obama received when he was elected in 2008. For this Democrat incumbent to be tied right now with Mitt Romney to me is a huge red flag, and not just looking at the national polls, going state by state, looking at these battleground states. Independents are leaning towards Mitt Romney.
You look at the latest New York Times poll. You have 70 percent of registered voters that think that he's doing better on the economy over this president. That's huge.
DOWD: And, Ruth, do you agree with Dana that -- that though this race seems tied, there are some fundamentals that may be indicative of something that may happen, that though it's tied today, that there are some environmental factors that really are at play?
MARCUS: I think that there's red flags on both sides. You could look at the red flag of what happened to the 2008 mandate and say, if you look at this lousy economy, the astonishing thing is that Mitt Romney is not further ahead of the president and that, instead, we're stuck in this dead-even race.
So what do we know? Mitt Romney is not the most adroit candidate in the world. Barack Obama is suffering from a lousy economy that doesn't seem to be getting better any time soon enough to help him. And this is an election that, unlike 2008, is not going to be about hope and change. It's going to be about fear and loathing.
And can I just -- I know this won't make a difference to the campaign, but I want to bemoan the phenomenon of campaigning by gaffe, where...
DOWD: And that's -- that's great. I'm glad you brought that up, because, Donna, I wanted to ask you that question. And George brought this up. In a race that's dead even, we've sort of focused on the gaffes. The campaigns -- each sides have hope that the other side's gaffe has made a difference, so I want to sort of turn to foreign policy in London and the gaffe or mistake or misspeak or whatever way you say that Mitt Romney did -- do you think that is telling about him on the world stage? Or do you think that's just a moment that's going to pass?
BRAZILE: Again, this is an opportunity for Mitt Romney to introduce himself, not only to foreign leaders and foreign countries, but also to the American people. And supposedly one of his strengths is he turned around the Olympics in 2002, and he took what should have been one of his greatest strengths, to go and talk about his Olympic experiences, and made it into his greatest weakness by pointing out his lack of foreign policy. You had two conservative politicians, Mr. Cameron and the mayor of London, criticize Mitt Romney. So this was not a good debut on the foreign stage.
LOESCH: I think -- we need to stop trying redefine gaffe, because it's not a gaffe when you go and repeat towards the British prime minister or the London mayor what's actually been in British headlines for the past several weeks. I mean, Piers Morgan even said, well, he told the truth. So what of it?
DOWD: As I said -- as I said, definition of gaffe's a politician accidentally telling the truth. But you think it makes any difference?
LOESCH: It -- I don't think it makes any difference at all. And, you know, and the London -- London's mayor obviously does not see eye to eye with Romney on politics. He's not of that political ideology. I just think that this was a gotcha moment. I can't even believe that a big deal was made about this. If they're angry at Romney for repeating what the headlines are, then they should be angry at their own British press.
CHALIAN: Here's the impact -- here's the impact it is. It set up more pressure on the Romney people to make sure the rest of the foreign trip is flawless, so that there doesn't become a whole story about a completely failed attempt for a potential president going overseas. But this one day of bad headlines, about -- the lede of every story was how he was getting hammered in the British press. That's not a story that has legs. So I think it was a distraction...
LOESCH: Unless there are electoral votes in...
DOWD: I want to get to the end of the trip. I want to get to the end of the trip, where Mitt Romney is in Israel today. He's going to give this big speech today. Some of his advisers have projected what they may say or not. Ruth, you just spent a couple of weeks in Israel.
MARCUS: Makes me an Israel expert.
DOWD: And now you're an expert on Israel. What did you -- what's your -- what's -- what does that tell you about how they feel or what's going on in the debate in this country related to that?
MARCUS: I think that the one thing that I took away understanding about Israel is that it has a little bit of a Sally Field relationship with this president, which is, does he like us? Does he really like us? And they're very nervous about that.
And that actually cuts both ways for Mitt Romney. They are interested in him. They sort -- are looking forward to hearing from him all the sort of words of support. But they are nervous about this relationship already with the president who they think they might have him to kick them around for another four years and they don't want to make that relationship worse.
And so it's very delicate from the Israeli point of view. And you see Romney saying all the right things, but what are the real differences between what he would do and what the president would do and all of the things that President Obama has done to reassure Israel in the last few days?
DOWD: George?
WILL: It's the two stops after London that matter most. And it's right to say that he's actually not courting those nations, he's courting those children of those nations who now live in the United States, the polls in southwestern Pennsylvania and Cleveland and Detroit and all the rest.
In Israel, he's courting not the Jewish vote in this country -- maybe it will make a small difference in Florida and that could make a big difference -- but the vast majority of American Jews are going to vote Democratic, always have, far as I can tell, always well. The great support for Israel right now, the energy is in the evangelical community, which is part of the Republican base, so the trip to Israel is a way of firing up this enormously important and somewhat skeptical of Mitt Romney Republican base.
DOWD: David, I want to turn to the economy, which is, I think, Mitt Romney is going to come back and as quickly as he possibly can and probably start talking about the economy again and hope that he gets some plus from the trip.
CHALIAN: He'll have a jobs report on Friday to help him talk about it.
DOWD: So a jobs report on Friday, which will come out, but we just had a GDP figure that -- 1.5 percent -- that was mediocre at best. From what you've seen over the past, is that a plus for Barack Obama or is that a minus for Barack Obama?
CHALIAN: I don't know how it can be a plus. The GDP number is a minus for Barack Obama, and to me, the single most interesting poll number in the NBC-Wall Street Journal poll that came out this week was the question -- they asked Americans, look forward 12 months, do you think the economy is going to get better or worse or stay the same? Twenty-seven percent of the country thinks that the economy is going to get better. That is the lowest all year long and actually dropped 8 points from last month. That is the weight of three bad months of jobs numbers. This GDP number is going to add to that. And if there's a not significant uptick, I think that each month of these jobs reports, it does compound.
Largely it's baked into the American people. The economy is clearly bad, right? But if we're down to only 27 percent of the people are actually optimistic that the economy will get better in (inaudible) that is a very tough...
DOWD: Donna, are Democrats worried about that? Are they concerned that that -- those sort of baked-in numbers right now are going to make it very hard for President Obama to win this election?
BRAZILE: Oh, look, no question politically it matters. I mean, a weak economy hurts the incumbent. But on the other hand, we're not sitting around on our hands, you know, looking for things to get worse before, you know, we try to help people.
Yes, the economy is tough for President Obama, but I do believe that he has a lot of credibility that he can out there and talk about the things that -- the steps he's taken, the steps that he would like to take, and the steps that the Republicans will continue to oppose, because simply they've decided there's one mission in life, and that is to defeat Barack Obama.
But, you know, back in 1980, when we had a Democratic president during hard times, Ronald Reagan had some credibility in going out there and talking to blue-collar voters, because he came from a union household, he was president of a union, he talked about his father getting laid off during Christmas. He had the narrative. Mitt Romney? He talks about firing people.
WILL: And let me give you another number to add to yours: 68 percent of Americans know someone who has lost his job. Now, the question is, is it going to get better? I think right now we're in what can be fairly called a growth recession. That sounds like an oxymoron. It isn't. We're now in the fourth year of a recovery, and we're growing but receding at the same time, because we're not growing fast enough to create enough jobs to even take account of the natural growth of the workforce.
And look what -- at the variables that have to be feared by the Obama campaign. First is Europe, which means Spain. By the way, in the last 15 months, a majority of European governments have been changed by restive electorates.
Then there's the emerging markets, Brazil, India and China, have slowed down. We have the fiscal cliff coming up with our own tax policy at the end of the year. Dodd-Frank is two years old and still there's so much uncertainty about it, because it's about half-written. Food prices are going up in part because we're putting 40 percent of our corn crop in our gas tanks because of ethanol.
WILL: And the election itself is a great source of -- of uncertainty.
DOWD: Ruth, some people have begun to get this sense that this economy has been bad for so long and that people are now having to resettle at a different point, and that basically what's going to happen is that Americans sort of shrug their shoulders and say, listen, there's not much a president can do about this, and so I'm going to pick a president that I sort of feel more in sync with, which seems to be an advantage for the president on that issue. But will the economy and those factors that have been talked about still determine it?
MARCUS: I -- I think so. And since everybody's throwing out numbers, my favorite one for the week is 53 percent of those in the NBC-Wall Street Journal poll disapprove of President Obama's handling of the economy. People do understand, I think, that there's a limited amount that a president can do. Nonetheless, I think the most powerful argument from the Republican side this week was he's -- you tried, he's tried, it's not working. Let's give somebody else a chance. That's hard to rebut, given the limp along.
And for all the fun we've had this week with Romney gaffes and Mitt the Twit headlines, I think the worst week went to President Obama because of this unspinnable 1.5 percent growth number.
DOWD: Dana?
LOESCH: And -- and you want to talk about gaffes. Here we have 41 straight months of unemployment that's been over 8 percent, which was -- the stimulus was supposed to have fixed. In terms of gaffes, it's not good to have the president get up in front of people during an election cycle and say, well, if you have a small business, you didn't built that, or as some have tried to say, oh, he took -- the Republicans took something out of context. He was talking about the Clinton tax plan, which really actually in context it's even worse, because he really was referring to his own plan, and the Clinton tax plan, we could -- we could get into...
LOESCH: ... the '97 tax cuts and everything else.
LOESCH: Yes, I did...
BRAZILE: As a small-business person, what he was saying...
LOESCH: Oh, I know...
BRAZILE: ... is that if you have a -- if you rely on roads and bridges and skilled workforce...
LOESCH: ... don't build businesses. It's the other way around, though.
BRAZILE: ... public education, that we are together, business and government, we have to have a partnership.
LOESCH: No.
BRAZILE: That was the context.
MARCUS: It was completely taken out of context.
LOESCH: It was not taken out of context.
MARCUS: It was completely taken out of context...
BRAZILE: It was.
MARCUS: ... but it matters because it falls into this pre-existing narrative, which is very powerful among people, that the president doesn't get business in general, and small business in particular. And that's why...
LOESCH: It was in context completely.
WILL: I have a question for my friend, Donna. This president is...
BRAZILE: ... when you say that, my friend.
MARCUS: ... need to be nervous.
WILL: We're told that the president is the brightest president since Madison, the best educated president since John Quincy Adams, and the most articulate president -- politician since Pericles. Why does he spend so much time explaining what he actually meant?
(UNKNOWN): Right. When you're explaining, you're losing.
BRAZILE: Well, look, I don't believe the president was wrong in saying something that has been said over and over again by so many, including Elizabeth Warren, who said...
MARCUS: Said it better.
BRAZILE: ... said it better, and it went viral. But, George, I mean, there's -- we cannot change Republican spin or Republican narrative. What we can do is talk about what the president's doing to help small businesses compete, what the president is doing to help small businesses grow and hire people. That's what we can talk about. We're not anti-small business. We're trying to help small businesses compete.
DOWD: I'm going to change up just slightly on this and go to sort of a broader topic, which is on discourse in the country. More people than anybody when I was asking what I wanted to talk about, they wanted to -- they wanted to talk about how can we change the way we talk to each other, politicians, leaders, and all of that? And if you take a look at the data in this, we're -- it's overwhelmingly negative what's gone on, David.
And I'm sort of, of the mind of that negative ads are a lot like weed-killer, which is if you don't have too -- if you have too little, then the weeds come back, if you have too much, then you kill your own lawn. In the circumstance that the president is, where 90 percent of the ads he's running, is he worried about killing the White House lawn by doing what he's doing?
CHALIAN: Well, I think there is a -- because of how tight this election is going to be, I think there's a recognition that whoever wins the presidency is probably going to win it by a more narrow margin than it was won the last time. The margins for the majority parties in both chambers are probably going to be more narrow after this.
So I don't -- I don't hear anyone on either side thinking that this election is going to somehow transform us and move us as a country to more -- a better place with better discourse. It seems to me that we're going to be actually further into this rut after this election.
DOWD: So do you think we're just -- this is something we just have to deal with and there's no way to change it, George?
WILL: I don't think it's that bad.
I mean, look at our politics in the 1790s, when the Jeffersonians said, if Adams wins, we're going to have a monarchy, and Adams' people said, if Jefferson wins, they're going to confiscate the Bibles. We had fist fights and gunfire on the floor of the Congress in the 1850s. I mean, this is mild stuff.
BRAZILE: But at least they say sir, before...
MARCUS: The difference is -- yes, and, George, you left out the canings.
LOESCH: They called each other hermaphrodites...
MARCUS: But here's -- here's the difference. The nastiness is about -- it's either misleading or it's about peripheral issues. We have a very serious set of issues facing the country, both domestically -- primarily domestically and in terms of foreign policy, and there is neither detail, nor serious engagement on the part of both campaigns about these issues, and instead we just sort of have interludes between gaffes that each side seizes on to accuse the other of saying something that he didn't really mean, instead of saying this is my view of government, this is my prescription for dealing with the fiscal cliff, this is what I'd like to do going forward, specifically, not just in broad generalities, and engaging on that. The people deserve a better conversation than they're getting from their political candidates.
BRAZILE: ... superficial, because the superficial is more sexier. It's -- people like to talk about...
MARCUS: It's easier.
WILL: What did people remember about the Roosevelts, the malefactors of great wealth, the economic royalists? This kind of rhetoric is not specific. It's colorful. It tells you what they think about sections of society and what government ought to do. I don't think this is that different.
DOWD: And I'm going to turn -- let me turn to another topic that some people say is serious and some people say is silly, which is the controversy over Chick-fil-A and what the CEO had to say about gay marriage. Let's take a look.
CATHY: We're inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, you know, we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage. And I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a -- a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we would -- the audacity to try to redefine what marriage is all about.
DOWD: This then came with pictures of Sarah Palin going to Chick-fil-A in Texas to show that she supported Chick-fil-A, and then we had politicians around the country trying to keep -- keep business -- this business from being in their cities. Is this a real issue or is this something that's just -- just, you know, something that people just want to talk about?
LOESCH: Well, it kind of surprises me, because this is an establishment that closes on Sundays. Obviously the CEO is a Christian. People are shocked that he's for traditional marriage? It just doesn't make sense to me.
The thing that bothers me, though, if an individual wants to boycott and not go to a business because of that owner's beliefs, that's fine. But when you have the mayor of -- or the councilman in Philly, when you have the mayor of Chicago, of Boston, saying they're going to ban these establishments, that's a First Amendment issue.
WILL: It's a First Amendment issue that wouldn't last 10 seconds in court, to condition a government entitlement or privilege on the content of your political thought? Second, the head of Chick-fil-A is being excoriated by these people, by Rahm Emanuel, for example, for holding a view on marriage that the president held when he was elected in 2008.
MARCUS: It's so illustrative of our politics, right? We sort ourselves ideologically by neighborhoods. We sort ourselves to some extent ideologically by what churches or houses of worship we go to. So why don't we just sort ourselves by fast food restaurants? And, you know, so if you'd -- I totally agree with George and Dana. It's idiotic and actually kind of repulsive for politicians to say -- to talk about this.
WILL: And let's note, the gay rights...
MARCUS: But if you don't want to go, don't go. If you don't want...
WILL: The gay rights isn't driving this. The gay rights movement is far too sensible. These are pandering, third-rate politicians pandering to them.
CHALIAN: And, look, Mayor Menino backed off his remarks, right? I mean, he realized pretty quickly that he had gone too far by saying sort of by fiat that he was going to be able to kick Chick-fil-A out of Boston. But he walked those back because of exactly these issues.
LOESCH: Well, and here's the difference. You know, I support -- you know, I'm a Christian. I go to church on Sundays. I believe in traditional marriage, but I eat Oreos. I don't care that Oreo came out with a rainbow Oreo. Why didn't they do it sooner? Because it's like quadruple stuffed. I would have loved to have ate that.
MARCUS: Are you ordering from Amazon?
LOESCH: I order from Amazon. I use Apple computers, because I don't want to segregate an ideology and encourage mediocrity.
DOWD: I'd like to finish -- I'm going to finish this up with a quick lightning round that we're -- but go ahead, Donna.
BRAZILE: Well, I've never been to Chick-fil-A and it has nothing to do...
DOWD: It's got good sandwiches.
BRAZILE: ... I love Popeye's. I think if you really want an alternative, love that chicken from Popeye's. Just go ahead and get the Louisiana best.
DOWD: So let's do -- let's do a lightning round, George. Lightning round on the next 100 days, a moment that may break this race loose. I'm going to start with you, George.
WILL: The jobs numbers for September, which will come out in October and be the last before people vote.
DOWD: October 5th. Donna?
BRAZILE: Presidential debates, especially the first one. That's -- Mitt Romney will be on the same stage with the president, and the American people will finally get a chance to size them up -- size them up against the incumbent.
DOWD: October 3rd is that debate right now. It's...
CHALIAN: Yes, and -- and it's in Denver, so -- but I also -- I'm with Donna. The first debate I think is the first critical event from now through Election Day. Because of the early vote issue that George pointed out earlier, I think it will have the greatest impact. It's also -- the commission released their format, and it's the domestic policy debate, so I think it will be most important on people's mind.
LOESCH: I can't wait to see that debate. But I'm -- I'm thinking the RNC and especially Mitt Romney's speech. Is he going to -- is he going to close that daylight between grassroots and the Republican Party? This is a unifying moment.
DOWD: Convention. Ruth?
MARCUS: Convention, not very relevant debates, yes.
DOWD: So the first debate, too?
MARCUS: The first debate.
DOWD: The interesting thing about those -- those -- the debates and that -- they're all within the first week of October. I've picked unknown. I think so many of these races in 2008, we had Lehman fail that we did not know was going to happen. In 2004, you had the Osama bin Laden video. We did not know it was happening. And in 2000, the DWI that President Bush in the last five days that got related. So I think the first week in October could tell us a lot about that.
Thank you all for being here. And we'll be right back with former Vice President Dick Cheney.
CHENEY: ... after you leave office, you don't critique or criticize your successor. And I'm not bound by that.
KARL: Yeah, you're not. Certainly not.
DOWD: A first look at Jon Karl's exclusive interview. Plus, the latest on Mitt Romney's search for a running mate of his own.
LENO: Mitt Romney's search for a vice president continues. As you know, one of Mitt's problems is he's never hired an American for a job before, so this is new.
DOWD: But first, ABC News is at the Olympics, and here's Bill Weir with the latest from London.
WEIR: Top of the morning, Matt. Well, after just one race, it may be a bit premature to say the king is dead, long live the king, but first round of the duel in the pool crowned, a new aquatic alpha male, as Michael Phelps finished a shocking fourth in the 400-meter individual medley after owning this event in the last two Olympiads. This is first time he's been absent from a medal stand in almost 12 years.
But the gold stays American, thanks to the near-world-record effort of Ryan Lochte, the laidback, fun-loving Floridian. He is gunning for seven golds in these games. Phelps still has six more chances to medal.
Now, China has never been much of a force in the pool, but after two surprising golds yesterday, another shooting goal this morning, they lead the medal count so far with seven total, Italy in second, five medals, two them gold, while the U.S. has five, as well, including Lochte's one gold.
And a bit of a scandal brewing here in London after a startling number of empty seats at some key venues. London officials are promising an investigation after there were 500 vacant seats reserved for Olympics officials and sponsors at Lochte's exciting gold-medal race there. We'll have much more from London as the games continue. And "This Week" will continue in 60 seconds with that exclusive interview, former Vice President Dick Cheney. Stay tuned.
DOWD: We're joined now by Jonathan Karl, who has a preview of an ABC News exclusive for us. Good morning, Jon.
KARL: Good morning, Matthew. I just got back from Jackson Hole, where I sat down with former Vice President Dick Cheney for his first interview since he underwent heart transplant surgery in March. And take a look right here. That's Cheney before the surgery on the left and during our interview on the right. You can see what a difference a new heart has made for the former vice president's health.
In our interview, Cheney opened up about the surgery and about life after politics, but his comments about selecting a vice president and John McCain giving the nod to Sarah Palin four years ago were particularly enlightening. Take a look.
KARL: How important is it for him to do this in a way that is different than the way John McCain handled his vice presidential search?
CHENEY: Pretty important. That one, I don't think, was well-handled. And I sort of think of it as there are -- there are two lists. There's the big list that's got a lot of folks on it. I actually -- when I was doing it for -- well, I did it for Ford in '76, but then again for George W. Bush in 2000, I had a couple of calls from prominent politicians who'd say, you know, it'd really help me in my race back home, Dick, if I was on the list, down here on the list, that then somebody could go leak the fact that they were on the list.
But that was the big list. It was easy to get on the big list. The tough part is the small list, the one that's really under active consideration. And the test to get on that small list has to be, is this person capable of being president of the United States? And that's usually a very, very short list.
KARL: What about the other considerations? Can you bring a state? You know, can you, you know, reach out to a specific demographic, woman, Hispanic?
CHENEY: Those are important issues, but they should never be allowed to override that first proposition. And I think that -- that that was one of the problems McCain had. I like Governor Palin. I've met her. I know her. She -- attractive candidate. But based on her background, she had only been governor for, what, two years? I don't think she passed that test...
KARL: Of being ready?
CHENEY: ... of being ready to take over. And I think that was a -- a mistake.
KARL: For more from my interview with former Vice President Cheney, tune in to "GMA" and "World News" and "Nightline" tomorrow. Matthew?
DOWD: Jon, fascinating interview. He's going to probably take some heat for the Sarah Palin comments. Rather frank throughout to you. Is this what we can expect from him going forward?
KARL: No question: Cheney is back. He feels much better. He says he hasn't felt this good for years. And he is certainly not holding back. You'll hear what he said about Obama -- some of his harshest criticism yet tomorrow.
DOWD: Well, down to the wire now for Mitt Romney's selection or needed selection of a vice presidential running mate. Where do we stand? Have we learned anything new?
KARL: Well, it's hard to say exactly where we are, but here's my top tier, and I think this is likely where you're going to see the pick from, coming from. You have Rob Portman of Ohio, of course, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, but take a look at my third person on that list, Paul Ryan. I believe that most people looking at this have been underestimating the chance that Paul Ryan could be the pick. You know, the Ryan budget will be attacked immediately by Democrats, of course, but the attitude up in Boston -- and I am told within Romney's inner circle -- is they believe that they're going to get attacked for that anyway and that Paul Ryan is the person who could best fight against those attacks. Romney really likes Ryan. I think there's a good chance he's the pick.
DOWD: They've kept their cards exceeding close to the vest, with a few leaks or no leaks at all. What do we think the timing is going to be? There was some sense it was going to be before the Olympics. Obviously, now we've moved forward. Where are the timing?
KARL: Well, I can tell you this, Matthew, that some of people on the list, some of the people under consideration have been told to be ready as soon as Romney comes back from this international trip. It doesn't mean that the pick would come immediately when he comes back, but they are in standby mode. I think this is going to come considerably before the convention.
DOWD: So we'll see this before the convention. Do you they've already sort of got staff in place, so that whenever that pick's made, it's going to be -- they're going to hit the ground running?
KARL: They have -- they -- they certainly have staff in place, and they are ready to go. And I can tell you that those that think that they have a chance of being, you know, picked are ready to go, as well. And, you know, look, we could have somewhat of a surprise. You know, Marco Rubio is still out there. Kelly Ayotte is still out there. But whoever it is, they are ready.
DOWD: More of the Cheney interview tomorrow with Jon. Thanks, Jon, so much.
We'll be back in a moment. But first, three moments from "This Week" history. What year was it?
(UNKNOWN): The ayes are 77. The joint resolution is passed.
DOWD: Congress authorized the use of force in Iraq.
RICE: The idea that you have to wait to be hit in order to deal with a threat is on the face of it not common sense.
LOTT: I thought the words were totally unacceptable.
DOWD: Trent Lott's remarks about Strom Thurmond set off a firestorm.
MCCONNELL: He's apologized, as I said, on four different occasion. I think we ought to accept the apology and move on.
DOWD: Then led to his resignation as Senate majority leader.
(UNKNOWN): More than 15 million people phoned in to choose 20-year-old Kelly Clarkson.
DOWD: "American Idol's" first season took the nation by storm.
CLARKSON: A moment like this...
DOWD: Was it 2001, 2002 or 2003? We'll be right back with the answer.
DOWD: And now we honor our fellow Americans who serve and sacrifice. This week, the Pentagon released the names of 11 servicemembers killed in Afghanistan.
And what year was it? When did Congress authorize the use of force in Iraq? And when was Kelly Clarkson crowned the first "American Idol"? It was 10 years ago, 2002.
That's all for us today. Thanks for sharing part of your Sunday with us. Check out "World News" with David Muir tonight. George Stephanopoulos will see you back here next week.


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Share buy-backs in Telia Company during week 19 2018
During the period May 7, 2018 – May 11, 2018, Telia Company AB (publ) (LEI code 213800FSR9RNDUOTXO25) has repurchased in total 1 710 000 own shares (ISIN: SE0000667925). The share buy-backs form part of the SEK 5 billion share buy-back programme that Telia Company announced on April 20, 2018. The share buy-back programme, which runs between April 23, 2018 and March 22, 2019, is being carried out in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 ("MAR") and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2016/1052 (the "Safe Harbour Regulation").
During the period May 7, 2018 – May 11, 2018, shares in Telia Company have been repurchased as follows.
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May 08 2018|
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May 09 2018|
250 000|
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May 10 2018|
May 11 2018|
710 000|
30 901 259|
All acquisitions have been carried out on Nasdaq Stockholm by Danske Bank A/S, Danmark, Sverige Filial on behalf of Telia Company. Following the above acquisitions, Telia Company's holding of own shares amounts to 6 972 515 shares as of May 11, 2018 including shares to cover commitments under the "Long Term Incentive Program 2015/2018. The total number of shares in Telia Company is 4 330 084 781.
A full breakdown of the transactions pursuant to article 5.3 of MAR and article 2.3 of the Safe Harbour Regulation is attached to this announcement. The total volume of Telia Company shares which have been bought back within the share buy-back programme from April 23, 2018 until and including May 11, 2018 amounts to 6 860 000 shares. In total a maximum of 433 008 478 shares may be repurchased. For information about all transactions in the buy-back programme see the following link to Nasdaq Stockholm's website: http://www.nasdaqomx.com/transactions/markets/nordic/corporate-actions/stockholm/repurchases-of-own-shares]
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Today's News: Our Take - Exclusive Sneak Peek at Fox's Enlisted: Feel the Brotherly Love (and Dysfunction!)
Are you ready to get Enlisted? No, we're not talking about joining the army. We're talking about Fox's new comedy about the army.
Premiering Friday, Jan. 10 at 9:30/8:30c, Enlisted follows three brothers working together on a military base in Fort McGee, Fla. It's "a workplace comedy, but our workplace happens to be military," star Geoff Stults says.
Stults plays the oldest brother, Pete, who is sent back to Florida from serving in Afghanistan because of an authority issue. Pete is put in charge of a rear detachment unit that also includes middle brother Derrick (Private Practice's Chris Lowell), the "most cynical, miserable" member of the team, and enthusiastic youngest brother Randy (Suburgatory's Parker Young) who has the will, "but not necessarily the training," according to Young.
Although Enlisted is a workplace comedy, it's also a comedy about the bond between three brothers, no matter how different they may be. "I think it's all of us in this cast that are really going to help showcase just how dysfunctional three brothers can be," Lowell says.
Check out this exclusive sneak peek at Enlisted to meet the entire cast and go behind the scenes:
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Linear Scripts
Linear Scripts, forms of Minoan writing. The earliest Minoan writing consisted of pictographs, called Cretan hieroglyphs, which date from about 2000 BC The first linear script, Linear A, dates from about 1700 BC and was also partly pictorial in nature. It appears on clay tablets written between 1750 BC and 1400 BC and has been classified as a West Semitic script. Linear A was replaced by Linear B, a new script, about 1450 BC Since Linear B also appeared on the Greek mainland, many scholars believed it to be an early form of Greek. This hypothesis was verified in 1952 when Linear B was finally deciphered by Michael Ventris, a British architect. The content of the Minoan texts that have been unearthed is predominantly economic and religious.
See D. W. Packard, Minoan Linear A (1974); J. Chadwick, Decipherment of Linear B (1970) and, with others, Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos (4 vol., 1987–99).
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