as we mentioned, our colleague david rubenstein, carlyle group cofounder, host of peer to down with alejandro mayorkas as you can see right now on bloomberg television. let's watch and listen. sec. mayorkas: the jewel thief i am, i just stole a few for our from the law firm to join us and he would be a senior counselor on matters of technology. david: let me talk about the elephant in the room because you were the second secretary in the history of our country to be impeached. what was it like living through that impeachment process and is it finally over now? sec. mayorkas: to the best of my knowledge, it is over. [laughter] quite frankly, i have said publicly a number of times that i did not allow it to distract me. that was actually sincere. i focused intensely on my work throughout. on -- in a week where it was an issue of greater prominence in the life of the department. i might have spent 20 minutes on it. i focused on my work. it had its impact on loved ones. david: it is behind us now. as will rogers once said in paraphrasing him, the country is never safe as long as the house is in s

i want to give a shout to david rubenstein because one thing he did while we were, i do not know if theyll go on but there were quarterly dinners at the library of congress that were incredible infants where he would out -- events where he would always invite a speaker to talk about their book, but it would be a presidential historian and the library of congress would bring out all these documents for us to look at related to the book. and the meal was even related to a book about kennedy, it would be a meal featuring things from that time. so you were really immersed and felt a reverence for the institution. it was bipartisan and you were sitting at a table with your colleagues for an evening where you were immersed in the institution, talking, and everyone would comment -- everyone would comeening there s really something where you were learning, listening, and engaging with your colleagues so all of these things where you are building those relationships i think are the most importance. >> i'm going to throw out a really radical idea and i know it will never be■@ voted on but the pay

i want to give a shout to david rubenstein because one thing he did while we were there, i do not know if they still go on but there were quarterly dinners at the library of congress that were incredible infants where he would out -- events where he would always invite a speaker to talk about their book, but it would be a presidential historian and the library of congress would bring out all these documents for us to look at related to the book. and the meal was even related to a book about kennedy, it would be a meal featuring things from that time. so you were really immersed and felt a reverence for the institution. it was bipartisan and you were sitting at a table with your colleagues for an evening where you were immersed in the institution, talking, and everyone would comment -- everyone would come and spend the evening there and it was really something where you were learning, listening, and engaging with your colleagues so all of these things where you are building those relationships i think are the most importance. >> i'm going to throw out a really radical idea and i know it

joining us now is david rubenstein. david, we will talk about your new episode in just a moment.the earnings of one company? >> it is very rare when that happens, but clearly this one company has an enormous amount of attention, but it is rare. jonathan: d think this market is validated being at all-time highs? or have things gotten a little bit stretched? ? talking about nvidia at the moment? nvidia has really captured everyone's attention with its ability to be a proxy for where artificial intelligence is. people who want to invest in artificial intelligence take advantage of its growth potential and profitability and assume that nvidia is a proxy for that. the moment, we do not have a better proxy for that. reasonable proxies as well, but nvidia is more of a pure ai play than the others. it is very to see a company go up this much. but for right now, it seems to be the flavor of the month on wall street, for sure. jonathan: let's talk about the new episode as well. equity market investors, you may not have participated in the rally, they are unsure of what to do. what was the