our guest host is walter isakson. ch from all the books he's written so he has asset allocation as well, right, walter >> i wish i did. so thank you so much for putting me in your category. >> jason, i love talking to asset allocation when the german fund is 38 basis points because i don't want any bonds, i just don't. do i need some still just to insulate my portfolio from what happens with the equity exposure >> its always good to have bonds in your portfolio. -- >> you can get your money back. >> the thing you have to think about what's it doing to your portfolio. if something happens, you go from 2-8 or 2-5. you might lose equity. given that we're at 2.8, its not a great return, you get a little bit of money at least on your cash. it gives you that defensive protection. >> what exactly are you recommending how much cash would you say? >> it depends on the investor. we always advise clients to have essentially enough cash on hand or liquid assets to cover their expenses for three years. what is your long-term strate

joining us now is former cnn chairman walter isakson. great to have you with us. me a central question is when you get alex jones on twitter, is his twitter experience just kind of a digital representation of his speech in the world or is info wars a show on periscope that is subject to being cancelled >> you know, you have said yourself, john, that twitter has created the conditions of a supervirus and we are supposed to form our own immune system. i think twitter has become as has facebook and everything else not just a utility, but a publishing platform. and i think you should take responsibility for what you disseminate in public. in the old days if i was in a magazine like time or a letter to the editor, we could be sued and would have to take responsibility. you have to have some values about what you are disseminating. you can't just wash your hands and say we're not going to have any sense of responsibility because what has happened in social media -- this is much broader -- is that it was supposed to connect us. facebook, twitter, social networks were sup

in walter isakson's biography of albert einstein, he noted that einstein did not talk until he was four years old. [inaudible] for 3-year-old albert einstein had been brought in to the group and speculate on how he would've been diagnosed to. >> yeah, i see exactly where you're going with this. it's real not talking and not developing and hitting the prescribed milestones would be in trouble at the time. it was up to the top or to report children with disabilities and asperger claimed after the war that he did not report children who he could have reported. there is no way to prove that he might have withheld the names of some children. he may well have rescued children. i'm not here to deny that. maybe an individual, but virender protocol that einstein would've had to of been reported. >> the next row back. >> you mentioned the reason for getting rid of the term asperger -- [inaudible] >> in medical terms right now it is autism spec from disorder and that is all we have. often people say high functioning the malfunctioning yet i hate that. i don't think it describes necessarily what ch

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