for not just ack nice introduction, but more importantly for your outstanding and youro our country service to our veterans and fellow wounded warriors. want to mention our vice president here has been alongless in his support with spouses, michelle and joe biden for military families. we are very proud of everything joe has done. this is the fifth time i've had the honor of welcoming the soldier ride to the white house and this is one of my favorite event of the year. you know it is spring or at least supposed to be spring when the soldier ride comes around. is because those who participate are such an incredible inspiration to me and to our country. lookl of the writers, you outstanding, especially after yesterday,iles another 17 today, all told, nearly 60 miles. cheer we want to come and you on and i think we have some folks from the army here, that correct? and the navy. air force. marines. that was good. coast guard. and we've got some extraordinary families here today. yay, families. theow, everybody knows story how this got started. we had a bartender in long island who came up with

time for youro dopey questions. i care about the auto industry. like i cannot believe that happens. roles are reversed. onit is switcheroo day here "market makers." >> coming up, time to break out the urban and make some meant juleps. the kentucky derby is a week from tomorrow. the ceo with us next. exciting two minutes in sports. the kentucky derby is just eight days away. this is the first leg in horseracing's crib will crown -- ple crown. short hills down as a publicly listed company. the ceo rang the opening bell this morning on the nasdaq. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> another thing people may not know about churchill downs, horseracing provides only about a third of your revenue, down from 75% five years ago. explain to people why you have transformed the company the way you have. right.numbers are it probably surprises and a lot of people when they hear churchill downs a think of horseracing. we decided we needed to diversify the business in order to find growth. we love horseracing. at the same time, there's not a lot of growth opportunity. he started to get into

me, does youro job come with perks, and is one of them a cell phone? i don't know where kids come up with these questions. the second question was, what is the best part of being governor? tonight telling you the way i answer that. the vest thing about being ivernor is every morning when get up, i know i have a chance to do something great. i don't do something great everyday. i am human. but i wake up every morning knowing the people of new jersey have blessed me twice with a job that gives me the chance to do something great everyday. if that doesn't get you out of bed, i don't know what well. -- will. despite these challenges, the challenges have molded with the opportunities. this is an enormous challenge we confront. the opportunity is to make new jersey both actually and of civiclly an example mindedness, self-sacrifice, and american greatness that can lead an example for our entire country. we have done it before. we can do it again. if we do, i suspect that many of the people in this room will be at the forefront of that fight. if you choose to