good afternoon. it's friday afternoon, march 30th. here's what's happening. lotto fever sweeps the nation. >> i got the winner. right here. went with my old standby. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. >> so place your bets. >> as long as i'm president, i'll betting on the future. >> everyone in search of that golden ticket. >> who has the best chance of defeating barack obama? >> barbara and i are very proud to support our old friend, mitt romney. time for people to all get behind this good man.

>> you can't win if you don't play. >> the jelly belly president, thank you. it's hard to say that in a political speech. jelly belly. >> so do you feel lucky? we begin with long odds and a gigantic jackpot stoking fevered dreams from coast to coast. visions of private planes, armored him scenes, traveling entourage and oh, yes, an office shaped like a beautiful oval. no, not the mega millions jackpot. now $640 million. it is the gop primary, of course. and who will get the golden ticket? the golden opportunity to face this man in november? >> i'm here -- yes. >> that's all he said. i'm here. who is going to face that guy? well, let's see. could it be sweater vest santorum? defender of social conservatives, champion of the vatican. he the beloved of the bowling

lanes. >> we have to appeal to moderates. america is a different country now. you conservatives, tea party folks. are you going to walk away from your principles? compromise. just to win. >> do you think he realizes that at this stage, it is sort of the point? winning? well, okay, what about mr. cheerful himself. newt gingrich, lover of zoos, self-professed savior of all things. >> you get the same thing at the food and drug administration whose major job is to slow down innovation. the same thing at the environmental protection agency. you have a government today dedicated to the avoidance of innovation. >> or dedicated to protecting citizens from poison and pollution to look at it one other way. so what about ron paul? the last libertarian standing,

king of the money bomb, hero to elicit drug uses everywhere. >> i think this war on drugs the last four years has been total disaster, $4 trillion they've spent. and the drug war has been more dangerous than the drugs have been. >> he does get some big applause but i don't think that's going to work. no, it's looking like the golden ticket is going to the guy who has already got his own mega millions. mitt romney. last night picking up the coveted endorsement of form he president george h.w. bush with a bit of country and western flair. >> kenny rogers said it's time when to hold them, time when to fold them. i think it's time for people to get behind this good man. >> believe it or not, things got even more awkward toward the end of that presser when george h.w. happened to ask if mitt romney had been endorsed by the other former president, his son,

george w. >> what have you been hearing? have you sought his endorsement? >> i haven't met with president george w. bush. we speak from time to time. >> that's all right, mitt. he's probably busy. the presumptive nominee has congressman paul ryan indicated this morning on fox before going out to campaign with mr. romney this afternoon. >> i think this primary has been productive. i think it has been constructive up until now. i think it has made the candidates better. but i think we're entering a phase that it will be counter productive if this continues much longer. that's why i think we need to coalesce. >> gives you goose bumps. we can only imagine the response at romney hq. >> that's just the beginning. we have to get on, we have to get on. we have so much time and so little to do. strike that. reverse it. this way, please.

>> straight to the wonka vator. that's what romney calls his elevator, i guess. we've got the friday panel. msnbc contributor jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the "washington post." and political analyst, former dnc communications director, karen finney. in minneapolis, ana marie cox. since so much of these candidates appear to have problems we have loogs, isn't this race really the survival not of the fittest but the survival of the richest? and that man is mitt romney. he doesn't appear to be winning for any other particular reason, does he? >> i suppose that's probably true. look. people keep blaming the process but you're right, he who has the most money at this point seems to be the one who has been able to make the best case in order to win. he still has this fundamental problem that i think we'll talk

about for some time in that he has not been able to really win broadly within the republican party. so i guess what question you have to ask yourself is in the general election, is money going to be enough to buy love. >> that's a good question. john, when you listen to mitt romney's latest awkward outing, this time with george h.w. bush and his wife barbara bush, it became clear that republicans are sick and tired of this fight. and the bushes are calling upon the party to rally around romney. why doesn't rick santorum listen to that. >> if you're rick santorum, why should you? you've won states. you know from primary to primary, that folks define themselves or characterize themselves as conservative or very conservative are in your corner. you are surprising this race. you are the one who is keeping mitt romney from running away with all the delegates. why should you get out of the race? >> i thought the mathematical equation was now overwhelming. >> that might be.

if you're rick santorum at this appointment, if you know you're not going to mathematically get mitt romney, the least you can do is stay in the race to force him to move or stay in this very far conservative area that he's in. basically, ensuring that mitt romney hears the voices of the people who are supporting you. if mitt romney wants those people to then come out in november to vote for him. that will be very tough. the folks who are voting for santorum are voting for santorum for a reason. they don't like mitt romney themselves don't trust mitt romney. >> in one of your recent columns, you write about the fact that even though romney keeps winning in the delegate count, it is not altogether satisfying. he's not really going to own the republican nomination. is that because all the polling still suggests that republicans would prefer someone else to enter this race even now? >> it's true. your question contained the

answer. republicans just aren't excited about mitt romney. they would prefer someone else. even mark rubio who came out with an endorsement for mitt romney subtly, or not so tuttlely alluded to the fact he would have liked to have seen other people in the race. i have a theory about why santorum continues to run by the way. i think he personally dislikes mitt romney. i think he is running out of sheer spite. >> do you have any evidence to support that other than observation? >> not really. but i was you can to some consultants. i was talking to a democrat and a republican, not tame. and this is kind of the pettiness that you see on display with newt gingrich and rick santorum. it isn't something you usually see at the presidential level. it is usually reserved for city council races or school body president races. >> karen, newt gingrich appears now to be getting a hold on

onate aspect of delegate reality. the delegate math. >> i think mitt romney is clearly the front runner. i think he will probably get the 1,144 but i think he has to earn it. we've all three been with each other all during the pros he because we all three understand the number one mission is to defeat barack obama. >> karen, could it be that newt gingrich is beginning to fathom his own irrelevance? >> oh, martin, i think you're being a little too hopeful on that one. don't forget that little clip of sound from several months ago when newt gingrich said, well, i think if you look at the polls, it is clear i'll be the nominee. right? you never know. a lot could happen on a weekend will he could wake up monday morning and have a whole new theory as to why he will be the nominee. it is more likely, you're probably right. he is starting to accept the fact that this is the beginning of the process. you have the five stages of grief if you will, that he is clearly starting to move through.

>> some of us would say he's been stuck in denial for most of his life. thank you so much. coming up, my friend and colleague rachel maddow joins us. stay with us. >> hey, college boy. do you know what that is? that's bull [ bleep ]. do you know what your little daily rag newspaper is? let me tell you something, that's bull [ bleep ]. number six. corn shaped corn holders. do you have anything for a headache...like excedrin... bayer aspirin... ohh, no no no. i'm not having a heart attack, it's my head. this is made for pain. [ male announcer ] bayer advanced aspirin enters the bloodstream fast, and rushes extra strength relief to the sight of your pain. feel better? yeah...thanks for the tip! you know who you are. you can part a crowd, without saying a word.

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when you follow the rabbitings and ravings on the gop trail, youkind come to realize there are two basic

misstatements they often make about the role and the composition of the military. the first is the outright fab c fabrication about this one do you realize we have fewer ships in the navy today than any time since 1917? and our aircraft fleet and our air force is smaller and older than any time since 1947 when it was founded? >> the second is the rather nonchalant sabre rattling such as this. >> i've said it is time to issue an ultramateum to the iranians' government. that they either open up these facilities to american inspectors, shut down this capability, or we will shut them down. >> amazingly that was announced three months after the announced sanctions. what is new, is the perpetual state of war that these false assumptions can feed.

and it's that mindset that is the subject of an excellent new book entitled drift. the unmooring of american military power, written by the academic, the anchor and now the auor. rachel maddow. my esteemed colleague. >> thank you. >> as i say, the book is entitled drift. as i read it, i was almost tempted to call it war gone wild. because there is a sense that both overseas and here as you depicted in the book, there is this desire to spend vast amounts of money without very much thinking about what is going on. >> and without very much sense that we can make decisions about it. we have this feeling that the national security state does its own thing. we haven't audited the pentagon in more than 30 years. when you look at what a portion of our spending is on the pentagon, it is amazing that we would let that go. we have this reluctance to look under the hood because we don't think it is our responsibility. that disconnect between our political democratic process and what we do with a huge portion of our national power and our

national resources is troubling. >> here's the thing. you make this critique in the book and i listen to someone like mitt romney who proposes a budget that would increase spending on the military. i then look at paul ryan's budget that says virtually the same thing. and i'm asking myself, are these people not aware of what has been happening for the last ten years in iraq and afghanistan? >> we have a default political position about spending on defense. which is just full speed ahead. and at a certain point. i can understand why that makes sense politically. but at a certain point, you can't just keep increasing it infinitely. since 9/11, we have long since doubled our defense budget from what it was on 9/11. and it was enormous before then. so you cannot keep infinitely doubling it if you want to do anything else besides run the military. what's interesting is the politics. the fight between pentagon and congress is that the pentagon says we don't want these tank that's you're trying to give us and the congress is insisting they must take they will. the same thing is happening with

paul ryan. the fight right now with paul ryan having called the military chiefs liars for what they requested for their military budget. he said you're liars. you need more than that and i insist that you take it. what else in government is like this? >> you also draw attention in the book to the fact that in recent years, the xlanlder in chief has not had personal experience of military service. is that, do you think, one of the contributing reasons for why money is spent without proper accountability and oversight? >> i think that in the short answer is no. i don't think that's troofl i think we have seen president who's have served and presidents who haven't served have more variability among them than can be complained by whether or not they served in uniform. i think that presidents have become military commanders and then president has an equalizing factor over people who have made

these decisions. it is a core american value that there civilian decision. i think we are unsettled by the idea the military would act autonomously. the military doesn't want to act autonomously themselves value the civilian leadership they have responded to and they know that they do. i don't think pass key issue. with 1% of the country fighting the longest wars in our history, we have a divide between the military and civilian life that most americans are very uncomfortable with. >> i think another thing that one draws from this book is both your affection for the country. you love this country. but also, your criticism of a culture that seems to believe that america must parade its military power regardless of the circumstances and needs of the world. you do that balance in a brilliantly thoughtful and sensitive way. is that your view? that there is a cultural view in an endemmic acceptance with the culture of america? we must have the biggest

military in the world. >> and that we must be, we must show strength through martial means. this is something that not just americans have grappled with through our history but all of the great, everybody who has ever written about war and done it in a smart way from the time that we wrote, from the time that humans started writing. there is this sense that if you give somebody the power to wage war. the glory that attends to military victory will encourage them to start wars that the rest population actually may not benefit from. so the founders with studied care vested the question of war in the legislature. not any one man's hands. because martial power and military vain glory is a human truth. we built this country in a smart way to avoid that so we wouldn't fight unnecessary wars. the extent to which we've drifted from that in the constitution is troubling and it is not irreversible. >> the final question. mitt romney, according to the "washington post" today on the front page is going to attack the president on foreign policy. and in particular, in relation

to these wars. if you can be brief, is that your view? that you think the president has been weak on defense? weak in foreign policy terms? >> i don't think that is a realistic critique of this president. more importantly, mitt romney doesn't know the difference between an afghan and an afghani. mitt romney has had five different positions on libya. i'm leading my show with this tonight because i find it outrageous that he would claim any foreign policy expertise when he literally doesn't know the difference between an afghan person and an afghan uchbt currency. >> book is entitled drift. it is available in stores and online now. it is right there. fabulous. and don't miss rachel on the rachel maddow show weekdays at 9:00 p.m. eastern. coming up, the president on the roefld up first, vermont. up next, the great state of maine.

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good afternoon, mike. what is the prevailing theme of the president's speeches today? i was libertying to him earlier and he was basically championing health care reform, don't ask don't tell, the revival of the industry and the cessation in iraq. >> reporter: and he concluded his remarks at the universityoff vermont. he is saying i will never be a perfect president but change will come and he asked supporters to get behind his campaign. making the phone calls, and donating. one of the prevailing themes if not the prevailing purpose here in vermont and here in maine is cash. to raise money. it is the end of the quarter. the first quarter of the year, of course. all the campaigns including president obama are going to have to report their intake for that first quarter to the fec. that will be trickling out in

the next couple weeks. it is sort of a bragging rights thing. they want to up those totals and the money is very important. there are signs the president's fundraising has been dragging a little bit. we've seen michelle obama recently in the last couple of days send out notice relating how she sees the president working late at night and asking for people to send as little as $3. you hit the nail on the head. the president in a full throated rally at the university of vermont, about the things that his administration has accomplished. all very familiar now. nothing really new in what he was saying, talk b the lily leadbetter law for women in the workplace. clean energy initiatives. he took another shot to try the talk people into revealing those oil subsidies. the republicans in the senate voted that down yesterday. and health care. he talked about all the good things by his accounting that are happening in health care right now. he did not specifically, martin, tackle the issue of the arguments or the deliberations underway at the supreme court as many of us thought he might do.

>> mike, safe journey and enjoy portland. >> reporter: okay, i will. coming up, our top lines, week in review and the case that has swept the nation. i get my cancer medications through the mail. now washington, they're looking at shutting down post offices coast to coast. closing plants is not the answer. they want to cut 100,000 jobs. it's gonna cost us more, and the service is gonna be less. we could lose clientele because of increased mailing times. the ripple effect is going to be devastating. congress created the problem. and if our legislators get on the ball, they can make the right decisions.

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snaurl normally friday's top lines are more humorous. >> a moment of silence for trayvon martin. >> an innocent teenager is shot to death and his shooter is free. all of us have to do some soul searching. if i had a son he would look like trayvon. >> if the president had a son, he wouldn't look anything like marine. he would be wearing a blazer from his prep school. >> newt gingrich is, if you remember "jurassic park," the dinosaur that spits toxic poison. >> i never foresaw so much hate

coming from the president. >> some people are trying to do to him in death what george zimmerman apparently did to him in life. >> i guess he would have preferred my son being beaten to death. >> this is where zimmerman's lawyer was supposed to join me. there is his empty chair. do you have photographs of your client's broken nose? >> dramatic new video. >> the video is very grainy. >> we can all see what he look like. there is no bloodn no one else out for george zimmerman, just you? >> because they're afraid. >> what would we say if the shoe was on the other foot. >> trayvon martin said something to the effect, you're going to die now. >> just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum. >> when you focus on the facts, it's not the color of his teeth that keep coming back to haunt you. it is the color of his skin. >> so if he was banged one more time, he would be wearing diapers the rest of his life and

being spoonfed by his brother and george dead. >> why wouldn't trayvon martin have benefited from the stand your ground law having been confronted by a strange man with a gun? >> let's go to our panel in atlantic, goldie taylor. author and managing editor of the goldie taylor project. and julian epstein. good job to both of you. goldie, after a week of concentrating on this tragedy, what is it you think that dmabds the greatest attention? is it the repeal of the stand your ground laws? the issue of racial profiling? a matter of police competence in their investigation of what happened? what is it? >> i think there are a number of issues that have to be addressed here first of all. it's how we use whether it is skin color, gender, religion, creed, or any other thing about us as tools to fear one another.

i think when we begin to fear each other based on attributes like that based upon action, i think that tears at our nation's fabric in ways that are just really unfortunate. but i think the thing that i am most interested in today, after viewing the tape of the police department, of mr. zimmerman walking into the police department that night. i am concerned about who made the call that night to bring that state's attorney in to meet with that police chief over this killing. i'm concerned about who made that call. why it was made. and we know the result of that was that no charges were pressed that night. so i'm concerned about what happened. i hope the justice department gets to the bottom of it. >> okay. julian, a lot of people on the right are saying don't say anything. don't engage in conjecture. let the wheel of justice work. but that's part of the problem, isn't it?

if people had kept quiet about this case from the beginning, he with wouldn't even know the name trayvon martin, would we? >> as joe scarborough pointed out, the fact that some on the right are coming to the defense of george zimmerman is very bizarre. it is almost as if they're working on the stand your ground laws. it is first and foremost the tragedy of trayvon martin. the self-defense claim given what we know about the physical evidence, the witness accounts, and the -- >> and the apparent lack of injuries with regard to mr. zimmerman. >> the physical evidence, i think, alone, has the self-defense claim collapsing. i think the witness accounts also, i think remember, under the stand your ground law, zimmerman can't invoke a self-defense claim if he instigates the attack. so i think again, the self-defense claim seem to have collapsed based on what we learned this week. secondly what really come under

scrutiny is the actions of the police department. the fact that they gave zimmerman such white glove treatment. they allowed the evidence to be contaminated themselves didn't preserve it. and they made this decision based against what would seem to be all of the, at least, apparent evidence not to arrest and prosecute. i think that really suggests a level of kind of corruption potentially inside the police department. and that's why i think you have to federal government under 242. the federal civil rights statute. and then as goldie points out, i think this starts to become a to kill a bird moment. it reminds us that the conversation about race that we should have been having is long, long overdue. if nothing else, this will begin to spur that. >> goldie, what do you think of the week as it has progressed? and the way surrogates and family members of mr. zimmerman have seemed to adjust the story. last night his brother was on a cnn broadcast. and he said that the conflict

occurred not because of a huge physical fight but because trayvon martin went for mr. zimmerman's concealed gun. that was news to me. >> the story from various spokesperson's attorneys, and even from the family just seemed to keep. and that's bothersome to me. on the one hand, if it were my brother, my father, one of my own children, i'm certain that i would want to do whatever i could in my power to protect them. short of lie. that i won't do. my children understand. if they do wrong, if they stole a twinky from kroger, i would be the first to march them into the police station to give it back. so i think that is, you know, part of problem here. what i saw last evening with mr. zimmerman's brother. about this case. was so incredulous. so twisted the irons of common

sense. looking at the tape, listening to those statements frgs he was being, have his head being bashed on the concrete repeatedly, you know, to the point of near unconsciousness, where are the scars? where is the gash? where are the stitches and where are the bandages? we saw none of that on the tape. >> julian, if i can finish with you. i might take some of these flame throwers on the right more seriously if it weren't for the fact that their first reaction when they heard about the case was, finally, another opportunity to attack the president. that was what newt gingrich saw as an opportunity. it's nothing to do with trayvon marine. it's another opportunity to drag out a totally unrelated issue and attack the president who after all, as you and i know, simply offered his could not dole engss to this family. >> yes. i think that's right. i think the president was exactly right to do what he did. the kind of the venom that has come from the right on this, i think, fortunately, you see

people like joe scarborough standing up and saying that's just wrong. enough people of conscious fortunately. it's bizarre to me that people would try to turn this into a partisan issue given as goldie and everyone else has pointed out, that the evidence here. the physical evidence is contradicted all the claims zimmerman has made. the witness accounts have contradicted all the defense claims that zimmerman and his cohorts has made. it just seems to me inexplicable the right would seem to make this a political issue when all the evidence points in the other direction. >> indeed. thank you so much. and you both have a great weekend. thank you. coming up, it's back to politics and the dnc calls bromance. >> who is the best person to be president? who has the best chance at defeating barack obama? in my opinion -- ♪

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note when they meet to prepare medicare ♪ >> we've got some coordination. ♪ they're in love >> paul ryan is one of the brilliant visionaries in our party. >> the dnc communications director brad woodhouse joins us from washington. you were to that music. our audience saw that. do you have some kind of telepathic relationship with mitt romney? even as that ad hit the airways, paul ryan appeared alongside the front-runner at lawrence university today office his unadultated endorsement. >> it couldn't be more appropriate. the two of them share a bromance or have a bromance. they both want to end medicare as we know it. the fund tax cuts for the

wealthy. we had a little fun with that. as you know, and you've discussed it, it is a really serious issue. a fundamental shift from where america has been. where we've pledged to take care of our seniors. make sure they have access to affordable health care. they think it's more important to provide big tax cuts. >> but brad, you may not like his policies but you know that paul ryan is a respected congressman. many people actually quite like his ideas about cutting the deficit. do you risk alienating independent voters. >> in a serious air about him. but his policy, particularly his budget. the one he produced last year that was lambasted coast to coast and the one he produced and the house passed this year is the same old republican

tripe. the same things that they have been trying for years. it goes back to newt gingrich famously saying, you know, let medicare wither on the vine. paul ryan and mitt romney don't want it to wither on the vine them just want to end it as we know it and put so many more burdens on top of seniors. and marine, they're not doing it because they just fundamentally disagree with the notion of medicare. they're doing it to fund tax cuts with the rich. it's a shift, a fundamental shift in the wealth in this country. to give the wealthy, you know, more wealth at the expense of seniors. >> dnc aren't the only ones who are clever. i was not to have a look at a new add from the conservative group, american cross roads. here it is. >> your mission is simple, mr. obama. to gain unchecked flexibility.

>> starring barack obama as president flexible. >> it's hard to beat that kind of thing. it's not a bad ad and i rather like if i may say, the english accent of the vocalist. >> far be it from me to judge cross roads. the republicans are known for some of their overthe top ads. they're the party of demon sheep, you know? if you remember that ad. but look. they conveniently forget that mitt romney in a rush to try to take advantage of this, declared that russia was our number one foe in the world. as if we were still stucco over. >> the geo political foe indeed. as if we were still stuck in the cold war. i'll match president obama's foreign policy chop against mitt romney's any day of the week. >> i'm sure you box as ever, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, martin. >> coming up, the filmmaker that has taken dead aim at the koch

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charles and david koch are two of the most successful businessmen. they also own industrial plants that spew uncontrolled pollution, support efforts to resegregate schools, and are sevenly involved in suppressing voting rights across the country. >> koch is one of the top ten

polluters across the country. responsible for up to 300 oil spills. >> they have also a very strong libber a lib libertarian agenda. it affects elections and policies at all levels of government. you make some pretty incredible claims. why are they not in jail? >> unfortunately, what they do is legal. and part of the problem is they buy the legal system. they buy legislators. and it is really a horrific example of the value of money and politics to their personal ideological and economic needs but not to democracy. not to the country we believe in. they are leveraging their wealth. there are people on the left and

the right who do exactly that. >> well, no, it is very different. they're using their billions of dollars and hundreds of million of dollars to further their own selfish economic interests. people on the left who were doing this are using it against their economic self-interests. that's a very, very important fundamental difference. they're also doing it in ways that are, have a horrible effect on the country. and one would hope they would put patriotism, love of country, beyond greed. but they're not doing that. and a year and a half of researching this has come up with incident after incident of what and how they're using their money, using their 1% status against the 99. >> it is a remarkable litany. the documentary is full of cases. they decline our invitation to appear on this broadcast. they did issue a statement. it reads, mr. greenwald as

you're clearly not on the brothers' christmas card list. what is your response of them accusing you of being maliciously false and deliberately misleading? >> i'd like to see one fact of any kind that is not accurate. what they're doing is character assassination. they're attacking me. i'm from new york, i can take the attacks. but i offer them to come on your show, any show, debate and discuss and deal with the facts, the facts of resegregating schools, of buying justices, of the fact that their plans of causing cancer to people in small towns. it goes on and on, but they won't do it. they hide behind cold facts. they won't come before committees. >> indeed. to what extent do you feel they're going to be influential,

and negatively influential, come the election? >> well, if you have 200, 300, how many millions of dollars, you would think they have some level of influence. it's a disgusting way of doing it. it's buying up democracy illegally. hopefully they'll burn up the tv because of the ads that are on. but they're going to do everything they can do to influence this election negatively. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> we'll be back to clear the air. [ male announcer ] this one goes out to all the allergy muddlers. you know who you are. you can part a crowd, without saying a word. you have yet to master the quiet sneeze. you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts.

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the scuffle that provoked george zimmerman to ultimately kill trayvon martin, oh, no. the reason he fired at this defenseless teenager is he believed his gun was about to be taken from him. this according to the shooter's brother. >> he has taken control of his firearm. he prevented his firearm from being taken from him and used against him. george was out of breath, he was barely conscious, his last thing he remembers doing was moving his head from the concrete to the grass. >> it's hard not to assume that after seeing the surveillance tape of a perfectly healthy george zimmerman, no blood, no signs of an acutely broken nose, not even disheveled clothing, perhaps the family realized that claiming george was in a fight for his life would be to strain at acredulity. so after trying one line that different work, they opted for

the much safer scenario, that trayvon martin tried to grab for his gun. given the only other alleged individual involved in the fight for this firearm is now dead, that makes sense. this is why this police investigation has drawn such bitter criticism. it serves nobody we have yet to hear if crime scene photographs were taken to defend the claims zimmerman is giving. it doesn't let us actually know if zimmerman was taken to an emergency room immediately after the incident and whether x-rays were taken to assess the exact extent of his facial injuries. we just don't know. the confusion surrounding this case is neither down to the family of george zimmerman nor the family of trayvon martin but lands squarely at the feet of the police. so it's now down to them to be the bearers of truth in this

terrible tragedy, because have no doubt, everybody, everybody is now watching. thank you so much for wauchtchi. dylan ratigan is here to take us forward. dylan, as a man of economic theory and understanding of the economy, i'm assuming you bought a number of lotto pictures. >> should we discuss this briefly? >> please. >> again, i obviously don't hold the level of social prestige or economic status or even, really, compensation of a man -- >> you always come back to that, don't you? you always come back to that. >> -- of your nature. i'm okay with that. i'm younger than you -- >> and i always buy you the drinks. >> you buy the drinks, and last time i teased you, i got smote, or whatever it is. here's the thing. i don't mind