after nine years at the helm of y combinator, paul graham is stepping away.g over is sam altman. since then with them very beginning and he joins me now in studio. you cofounded loop, one of the first companies they invested in. we were in the first batch in 2005. >> you have big shoes to fill. >> no kidding. i'm nervous. >> paul said immediately, sam is in charge. i am not in charge in any way. it is all sam. >> it is a big responsibility. is something i care about. i think it is important for startups. important to do well. >> what is your role going forward? will focus on devising the start of spirit that is what he did when y.c. was small. and i will handle running y.c., organizing our operations, hiring partners, just making the decisions it takes to run day today. it takesmuch incoming, all of your mental cycles and paul will focus on advising startups. click 630 startups you have invested in. network all in the y.c. after they are funded. they never really leave. >> because unlike under a room -- in a regular firm, where we are with them from the begin

after nine years at the helm of a company, paul graham is stepping away and his replacement is sam altmanoins me in the studio. you've got big shoes to fill. >> i'm nervous, but excited. >> i e-mailed paul about this last week. he said that sam is in charge. i'm not in charge in any way. it is all sam. >> it is a big responsibility. it is something i care about and believe in. it is an important institution for startups. >> what is your role going forward? and what is paul's role? >> paul is going to advise startups. when i was in yc, there were only eight companies in the whole batch. i was organizing our operations and hiring partners and just making the decisions it takes to run the day-to-day. there is so much incoming at yc. paul will advise startups. >> many startups you guys have invested in so far, they are in the yc network after they get funded and never really leave. >> right. unlike a regular venture capital firm, we tend to have extremely close relationships with the startups we fund. even five or nine years after the fact. >> why did paul pick you? i have the state of yc in

does i mean just last week at the state of the union address republican lawmakers like paul ryan and lindsey graham went out of their way to oppose duck dynasty star willie robertson like he was some sort of conquering hero sure you could argue the paul ryan was just excited to see a t.v. star but let's be honest this is really about making a dog whistle to all those people on the far right who thought duck dynasty star phil robertson was the victim of a liberal media conspiracy after he made a homophobic and racist remarks in an interview with g.q. and shouldn't be all that surprising it's almost a foregone conclusion that once a week or republican congressmen like louie gohmert or steve stockman will say something ridiculously intolerant about women or minorities sensible conservatives try to say that people like gomer stockman are just a few bad apples but those conservatives are ignoring their party's own history the real agenda the republican party is to serve billionaires and transnational corporations because that group represents such a small number of voters they need to expand the tent it

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paul scott reporting from sochi. now that you may fight against the nsa kentucky sen graham poll today filed a lawsuit against president obama and top security officials over the agency's surveillance program called bully is a program that gathers includes gathering citizens' phone and edit data in france is on our fourth amendment rights are to correspond am near a d that has more. on behalf of myself freedom works. and everyone in america that has a phone we're filing suit against the president of the united states. in defense of the four of them and then today senator rand paul finally did what he and been threatening to do for months it's another politician we filed a class action lawsuit against the obama administration national security agency and a host of others regarding a us surveillance program that collects information on millions of u s citizens at a press conference here today paul spoke about the magnitude of this case this we believe will be a historic lost it. we think it may well be the largest class action lawsuit ever filed on behalf of the bill of rights we've had three hundred and eighty six thous

graham in south carolina. there's a whole network being challenged by the incumbents particularly by these conservative groups. >> what you have here, paul to them as the cam qazi caucus in the senate. these are the guys that want to find on every issue. they wanted a big protracted fight on the debt ceiling and they want them to run into the obama bayonets. they have not wanted to do that. this is a fight over tactics and what they're doing is -- >> kim, is there any substantive issue here? i mean is there a real difference over policy, or is this just about how much you're willing to fight? >> no. this is all about tactics. mitch mccobble and ted cruz hold nearly identical positions on everything, debt to obama care to everything else. this is a fact they feel mitch mcconnell has gone out there. it's a concerted effort to topple him and a number of other guys and get more people like themselves who would be willing for that fight in the future. >> dan, is that a legitimate point that the leadership just hasn't fought hard enough? >> in a sense. look, the basic problem is that barack obama has sucked all the political oxygen out of wash

income 2016 on this program, rand paul raising the specter of bill clinton as a sexual predator, reviving the lewinsky scandal, the 1990s return. here's lindsey grahaming a primary fight in the south carolina, who is being challenged because of his positive comments about s secretary of state clinton and her record. here's a portion of that ad running against him. >> i think she is a good role model, one of the most effective secretaries of states, greatest ambassadors for the american people that i've known in my lifetime. secretary hillary clinton. >> isn't 20 years of lindsey graham in washington enough? >> so here it comes, right? the state department record and proximity to hillary clinton. >> that's so funny. i think what's really interesting about this, though, gets to something that the republicans should actually be worried about coming up in the midterms is that you know, they are in danger of having in their primary season ante up with candidates too far to the right even for the republicans. they need people who are more moderate if they're going to have any chance of taking the senate from the democrats in november. and so if they go to