smokey robinson produced a lot of them. rdy, he has a new play that will be on broadway. i cannot wait to see it. i am very happy. i know that he worked very hard on that. i am very happy about that. motown got behind us and give us what we needed. they trained as which a lot of times people today, they make all this money, more money than we ever made. they do not have that training before hand as we did. we did a lot of workshops. when we have already professionals. tavis: i am glad you said that. when the first hit came seven records in, -- >> look who is laughing now? i am sorry. i did not mean that. tavis: when they first hit came, you are ready for it. it also said something about motown. you got today and get a record deal. you are out of there. the same thing in television. if you're not hitting in the ratings the first couple of weeks. >> i have written several books. this is not the first one but this is the second. it was a bestseller. i am very happy that i did write a lot about that. motown's early give us every

you add all that up, we have a lot better chance when we need it. with that, i'm going to bring up dejon and take over the panel and i'll talk to you shortly. >> thank you, rob. the panelists we have represent a broad group of participants, some of them participated themselves and some of them had individuals in their organizations participate. and i want them to start with an introduction of who they are, a little bit about their own background, so you understand the lens they were looking through when they were providing some of their answers today. starting with our 3 panelists that were part of our command and control exercise then we'll hear from our 3 panelists that were in our communications drill. >> lieutenant commander mike kress, operations officer at naval beach group 1, i was a coach during the exercise. we supported the exercise with 3 subject matter experts from amphibious construction battalion 1, their expertise is in route clearance, they actually played in the exercise and i was the coach for the exercise. >> good morning, i'm colo

sound like you have a lot of work in front of you. bringing it up to ada access is a lot of work. do you have any idea when you might open? >> i can optimistically tell you a date but i know i will not hit that date. i think, you know, we are going for june, but that can easily push to late summer, if not beyond, you know, our plans have all been finalized, we are in the permit process right now. we are waiting for the historic preservation society's green light, they have verbally okayed it, we're going to issue two separate permit, one for internal and one for exterior so we're not delayed. >> do you intend to memorialize the purple onion in any way. er >> we cannot use the name, it has been trademarked fwr the previous owner, he placed that in september and has taken it with him, we have not reached out to him to possibly purchase that name but legally, we're unable to use it. >> okay, thank you. >> hi, chris. >> hi. >> thank you for coming in and i've been to the purple onion, i attended a comedy festival there so i'm glad you're taking over and renovating the place. are you in

here in mexico city and as far as the mood concerned it's one of tension and security and certainly a lotof folks are bracing for what the return of the party that will next over seventy one years mean especially when the first day of this return included a fatality three very serious injuries and well over one hundred people arrested during what was a pretty lucky three rockets are listed on the problem though with the arrest. also of injuries as well that apparently none of them occurred with the folks that were actually involved instruction that one of the anarchist groups that playing this possibility for the resistance which is really trying to penetrate a perimeter fence that was about three miles away from the same place that any of that was in forming which was the mexican congress here in which the city. they were trying to penetrate the perimeter fence and they came out with a statement saying that none of our comrades none of our people are in jail or in solidarity with the people that are jail and then of course came out as well from a variety of human groups saying that actua

>> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster. it was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. in terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. so being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or settled. the sculptures are being made while i am doing the

we did a lot of work with the data. we did a lot of data, put things together. we did things like added value, added certain locations. and i would love to be able to pull that back up to a shared community portal. from what i can tell it wasn't necessarily promoted at this time, but i think there is a lot of value in that. and shannon, interrupt me if i'm speaking -- if that's -- if i'm stating anything that's incorrect. you know, i know that they went through a special process. maybe we make it a little easier, a little more seamless so that anybody is pulling down data and doing things, they can't push it back up. that was one of the things we would love to see. >> probably shouldn't have been in public, but we were very naive about the whole process and we were actually trying to feed content locations around the city. and started to do this and started to think there must be a list out there. there must be a list of every park in san francisco. i would find it in wikipedia. we stumbled into the sf data website and started looking. it was unbelievable, actual

was a lot of. black people would primarily live in the south because of slavery in the south was a rule agrarian farm economy oh there's a. way about. world war two years in a series of transformations that radically changing nature of black history in this country blacks for the first time are invited and now asked to work in america's arsenal for democracy building those tanks building those planes building those ships. one thousand forty's one thousand seventies you see over four million african-americans leave the south and ways that have never never occurred before. and for new york head first ca go ahead for los angeles. for the first time they were integrated into the american worker economy they were earning enough to be lower middle class homeowners in l.a. and to establish if not exactly a very close similarity to the american dream. choose your language call if we can with oh if you're going to kill some of. the cubans the concerns get to. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the

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a lot of people find this a tricky question.t's not simple and they are forced to deal with it every time they fill out one of these forms. it leaves them questioning, oftentimes, does this even need to be asked and should i even answer it? soledad o'brien has a great explanation. ♪ >> if there was a word to describe me, it would most likely be -- i'm in a band and we do alternative rock kind of. at first when people meet me they don't know what i am. people will ask me, what are you? >> reporter: 17-year-old jones is a singer, talented poet, a high school senior. but that's not what people want to know. >> recently after i had one of those experiences, i was like, becca deals with the same thing. let's make this a group piece. >> what do you want to do? >> pick a book and pick a poem. >> they do spoken word poetry together. >> it starts off and it's like, girl, you are so pretty. what are you? the quintessential girl because answering human is not enough for them. they can't handle my racial ambiguous figure. >> if they can jus

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they don't have a lot of options out there. erve to the indian community, which is a huge, huge population now in san francisco. and we serve them vegetarian and vegan which is a stricter diet, i guess. and we actually prepare the food fresh. so nothing is deep fried or made that was frozen and reserved. so it will take a little more effort on our part to actually produce this food and it will take a while to deliver and take a while to sit and seat the meal as well. so it is a little bit different than the restaurants around the corner from us. so it happens and that we are in a strange situation where we actually have four 24/7 restaurants half a block away from us. i actually drew a map in the back and so you could go to slide six or seven and a map that shows that we are next to the cafe, and jack in the box at 24/7 and cafination and a diner. by, or most of the time, this restaurant is a very quiet, family, with children running around, that kind of a place. unfortunately, we are also some what have to be on the weekends be

or some major endeavor to rescue the country and bring back water generate more why not really in a lot of cases and particularly in a case like pakistan which i've looked at quite closely i know donnish as well you know you could take relatively simple measures like paying a relatively small amount of money to patch up leaks in water pipes you know it doesn't mean taking a ten second shower either you know convene investing in your a geisha in technologies that use drip forms of irrigation instead of the flood irrigation which is used more commonly in that country and in other countries across south asia and elsewhere so you know i think it's more sexy and so forth to say oh well you know this country is is increasingly water scarce we need to do something now before basically the country water situation really blows up but really there are some basic realistic solutions you know whether governments are willing to carry them out that's that's another story ok if i could stay with you michael why doesn't the pakistan government do just exactly what you said. well that's a question that

i've got a lot of freedom i've made a lot of work. >> rose: made a lot of money. >> made a lot of money. >> rose: interestingly, you and andy warhol have made that sort of acceptable. >> yeah, i think without andy warhol i wouldn't have gone so gung-ho. a lot of people say "oh, my god, you've got factory." and you think, well, factories can make dog food or they can make porsches or great cars or something like that, you know? so the process is not -- i think it doesn't matter how you get where you're going as long as where you get what you want as an artist. >> rose: and you want what? >> it's different. sometimes i go in the studio and i think look at all this stuff, this guy's insane. one minute i want to spot paint and the other minute i want a spin painting and i kind of imagine it's almost like there's a lot of crys in here. >> rose: what do you think people don't get about the spot painting? >> probably the simplicity. i think -- it's funny -- there's a big difference between art and craft as well. i get asked a lot where people go "you don't paint your own paintings." but that's

any time one twenty five go to you first in london do you like the term water wars because it's used a lot in media. it sounds good because it's a literal served want to was but in fact it misleads people into thinking that once you run out of water whatever that means you then automatically reach for a kalashnikov and go to war waters we have seen over the past forty years at least if not more is that when people are a lot of water that is they haven't got enough water to raise the food that they need at home they're not no longer self-sufficient they then reach for trade because trade is quiet and invisible it doesn't raise any politics a country all the twenty countries in the middle east and many other countries in the world and all the countries in europe except france can easily move into dependence on imported food which has huge volumes of it bet it water it without any politics or any anxiety so provided there is enough water in the global system that is not only the water we can see and drink water we can pump and move from the ground will throw from the river or the water in the

has been a personal friend and mentor to me and she has spend a lot of time mentoring a lot of people in this particular champ better and she is a woman that, that i respect and it's a privilege to be able to present to her colleagues here on behalf of all of us we would like to congratulate you for recently completely ago term of the charm state assembly and the frank board of supervisors in recognition of your dead carted support and helping democratic woman this is for you my friend. congratulations you have around this.. >> actually i think there are other supervisors that would like to comment. >>> supervisor kim. >> speaking as another female elected i have always appreciated that you have mentoring those of us who are entering into the field after you and not a lot of elected officials do that to give their advise and support and i appreciate the support that you have given to me and i also want to say that i have an incredible apt of respect fortitude you have and the honesty and the way you carry yourself as-woman and a woman leader and it's rare to see that type of leadershi

you also had a lot of segmentation. ne of the reasons that i was able to do, um, interviews in all the places that i talked about, i happen to speak a very neutral spanish. you can't really place my spanish geographically. kind of quirky set of reasons. and that allowed osa to use me in multiple places. i did one interview all fall, which was orlando, which has a large spanish-language media, but it's a puerto rican electorate. and you don't need somebody with my skill set or even my neutral spanish speaking to puerto ricans. you need fellow puerto ricans speaking to puerto ricans. and that's also true in other parts of the country. there was a much more deliberate effort this time to insure in ads and in media outreach and just people-to-people outreach that you were speaking to and through folks from the same subgroup. >> and different issues as well? i mean, does immigration come into -- >> interesting, the issues this time at least in my experience, and you saw this borne out a little bit in the national exit polls,

we talked a lot about supporting our small businesses and a lot of times i hear a lot of lip service to it. this is actually putting your mouth, your pocket where your mouth is and actually making that investment to make sure we support our small businesses. again, i want to thank the mayor. i want to thank all of my small businesses who have weathered the years here. * and of course to all of our departments who have been absolutely phenomenal with this effort. thank you. (applause) >> all right. thank you, supervisor. and we also know that it's so important to make sure that we get the workout on the streets and we have to -- the right kind of nonprofit partners who help us achieve the goals of a program like this one is so important to our small businesses. so i'd like to invite up to speak frank baumgartner from small business economic developer to help get the word out with supervisor chu. so, frank? >> thanks, everybody, for being here. i'm with asian neighborhood design, project coordinator over there and we're a nonprofit architecture firm that's been around 40 years, special

but you have to peel off a lot of the, the a la whites, a lot of people that have been running the country are a minority but worrie about their own skins. you have to peel them away from the ruling class by indicating to them, showing to become victims in a post-civil war retribution. we haven't seen thought about that. melissa: we haven't even thought about that. ambassador hunter, thanks so much for coming on. >> thank you. >> up next there's a feast of pork baked into the president's $60.4 billion sandy relief bill. we have all the outrage just details coming up. >>> air travelers, listen up. ar you tired of paying all the high fees at the gate? well a brand new plan from american airlines might revolutionize the way you buy tickets. it is very interesting. "piles of money", more bags, coming up. ♪ . ♪ . melissa: another week, another case of government gone wild. today the senate is hotly debating $60 billion relief bill for hurricane sandy. sounds good, right? but outraged critics say it is loaded with hundreds of millions of dollars with pork barrel projects totally unrelated to the

where pay the bills and don't spend a lot that you don't have. going to. going to bed going to money as a model when the woman lives whether or not americans are worried about the fiscal cliff the bottom line is the media is milking the crap out of the phrase while realistically nothing drastic is probably going to happen. first law enforcement officials wanted for the ability to listen in on your private phone conversations then they wanted access to your e-mail and internet activities now they're asking for access to your text messages the major cities police chiefs association which represents sixty three large police forces in the country those are the largest ones have submitted a proposal to congress that requires wireless providers to record and store information about americans private text messages for at least two years that is to say they want every text message from every user stored for at least two years now i don't know about you but i text a lot so imagine a stockpile of text messages that wireless providers would be forced to store that's t

>> right now you have to consider a lot of things. ey finally have addressed what they had not for a long time which was to compete with the dollar stores, with the neighborhood friendly stores that are about the quarter of the size. they're also a very, very friendly shareholder company. they retired a lot of stock. i think that makes them very interesting along with the dividend increases. i think the real trump card is voodoo this internet to compete with red box, netflix, all of those in the online internet world of buying, the whole industry of media. i think that really does play in their favor. i think that is an area they're exploding that was a great acquisition a couple years ago. >> what is the deal you're not buying that argument? >> i think it is voodoo. the first i've heard that. >> voodoo shop-o-nomics. >> i know a little about it. you've sean weakness in a store that has the same customer. you talk about the quality, you saw mexican allegations earlier this year shall the bangladesh disaster last week. a lot of people a

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a lot of things changed. e moved from being a manufacturing economy where men had a natural advantage. he did not have to go to college, you could just be a guy. especially if you have a lot of skills and you can have a good existence. that became difficult over time. the economy began to value things like getting a degree and open communication and certain kinds of emotional intelligence. it valued men and women in some sense they gave the value to women. then there was the traveling sisterhood of the economy, which as women at the top started to take over her fashions that men used to dominate like lawyers, accountants, pharmacists, they open up jobs at the bottom -- things that wisest of your for free. child care, elder care, teaching and all of these things that used to be unpaid wives work. these became paid work and so you have this kind of momentum where women entered the economy more and more. over time women have become much better at earning college degrees than men. i can't explain why this is. it i

but people drive to get the deals. >> lumber's up a lot. you do fantastic supply chain analysis. are you able to get enough lumber? my understanding there is a -- there's an actual shortage of a lot of product right now. >> well, we don't find that. maybe in some of the exotic species there could be some shortage here and there, but overall, plenty of supply for us. people have always said that from day one, are you able to get enough wood. but that's never been an issue. we have literally millions and millions of square feet of hardwood in stock. >> okay. tom, tell me what your advantage is over the home depots and the lowe's because i'm sure a lot of people say, well, wait a second, those guys have wiped out a lot of companies over time. what do you have they don't? >> well, probably, the three biggest things would be, one, price. we can be up to half the price of hardwood flooring than the home depot or lowe's. sometimes even more. we have a wide variety of stock, either in the local store or at our main warehouse that we can get to the

if the number comes in lower than that i think a lot of people will say oh, it was probably the effectof the hurricane and they'll wait until the following month to see what kind of a rebound we get. >> let's talk a little bit about what we can expect from the job market going forward. i don't know if you saw alan blinder's op ed piece in "the wall street journal." the former fed governor saying if we go over the fiscal cliff the unemployment rate will jump recession and customarily when are you in a recession the unemployment rate goes up 3 percentage points. does that sound right to you. and if that is the case what does this mean for consumers and for businesses? >> well, the seriously bad news. but i think what is important is not just whether we go over the cliff but how long we stay over there. i mean if it turns out that they need a couple more days to hammer out an accord i don't think that will have a big lasting effect. but if we go over the cliff and all those spending cuts and tax hikes go into effect and stay in effect for the whole year, then you would be talking about a

neil: you know, a lot of these guys, have said, and women, have been saying, mr. president, we think a deal should be struck, and revenues should be part. we don't like some of them said, i'm paraphrasing, we donnt like this dispractic dispractice pori weighted. >> he is doing this for optics, inviting them in say, go back and sell the american people on the idea, he does not care what they have to say, he has made up his mind. the republicans and democrats going at it, tongue, claw and hatch it, he is leader into got almost 55% of the vote, he will do what he wants, he has the republicans in a box, high knows it -- >> you would think he won a landslide, yes he won but does not mean caving on every issue. >> the man will be in office 4 more years, you can't get him out of it. neil: true. >> he does not have to run for reelect, he gets to do whatever he wants, he has all the power. neil: i would love to see you at the white house chewing people out. thank you very much. all right you heard big news about jim demint tea party favorite sensation, he is leaving u.s. se

>> it's actually done quite a lot. d been uk joined the euro, the whole thing would have blown up a long time ago. but the single market, the single market is a construct where the uk has played a very, very strong leading role. as we know from draghi, we're still not finished with the single market. we don't have a proper skinl market for banking services. for example, at the moment, they need to move ahead on that. the uk is a powerful force on that. britain has commented that the uk played an extraordinarily open role in free trade negotiations and in moving the eu into a way that allowed the establishment of the wto to come about and the uk was pushing europe and europe then pushed the free trade. the euro itself actually owes a lot to the uk's expertise. the creation of the euro, a lot of people within the euro were saying, well, you know, we're going to go ahead along and do this and we're going to do this and we're going to do that. and it was the expertise of the city of london and the british civil severalants

a lot of things. >> bill: give me one. >> tattoos. know, i basically i don't like tattoos unless you are a firefighter that has a tattoo. or military guy. those are people who should have tattoos. >> bill: you don't like the spider on the neck. >> i think it sends strong. we have a lot of common ground. >> we did. >> are you will woe running down. don't you think? >> i'm asking you, man. i'm asking u. incident i can't deuse to have had back in our country, tribal trism works. we are like a come compilation f any elm pair- >> bill: everything everybody in the past done wrong we have to put it off how does it manifest itself. >> with us like excess now it's like now even years ago people used to say we left all the manufacturing jobs. left the country now moving money. now not even moving money. not even the idea of money. most people's job is talking about the future more money not in the present tense. it's not even paper. >> bill: like a hedge fund guy, nobody know what is that is. >> it doesn't exist. trading the idea of somebody els

we have a lot of projects. our water system improvement program, 80 products that span seven counties. we have a staff of about 400 city employees and about 500 consultants. puc is really embracing technology. we wanted to make sure we really had a system that would elevate all issues so we could address them in a timely manner. as you know, time is money. we have a construction management information system. it is a great tool to help us address construction and make it successful, as it is today. cmis is one of the first major tools we put in place. the next one is the san francisco online invoicing, where we are now working with the contractor and consultant to have them submit their invoices online. we are also working on electronic bidding systems. another way we can reduce the paperwork and all the other issues tied with the procurements. i live in san francisco. i am a rate-payer. i really care about the way we spend our money. systems like this that will allow transparency, clarity, accountability, and e

>> i think it's a lot of shadow boxing. i've gotten a clear impression of is that republicans are in a position to give on tax rates, if, and i keep underlining a big if, if they can get the white house to deal on entitlements. they have to get something for their members. enough public sentiment saying give up on the tax breaks to get a bigger deal. the president could muscle through the tax rates on his own. risks on his side. why not force him into a position where they can get sort of a bigger deal. here's what i thought was important. republicans saying to me that, you know, last july when we had the debt debacle, the feeling was don't give the president a success, don't give him a big victory because we want to have a prospect of our own candidate winning the white house. that's gone. so i think some of that is abated. >> and chris cizilla, john boehner seems to have more running room. you don't see eric cantor looking over his shoulder quite so much. >> i thought that one of the most fascinating things of the week, th

one big difference now than maybe a couple of weeks, three weeks ago is a lot of republicans believe eventually they really believe that the president would cave and they would cave again just like they did in 2010 that if he's so worried about a second recession would just smear his second term and he would cave. if you saw the president today in the news conference, he did not look like a guy about to cave to me. he's not going cave. this deal will go through. >> what's it going to be. >> will we be better off? i don't think so. >> 250? 400? where are you thinking in terms of where the cutoff will be on taxes? >> i see it going off to 200, and i think democrats especially from new jersey, new york, connecticut, that would be fine with them and it's just a matter of damage control. >> and will republicans have to pay in any way for something that has no spending cuts in it. >> ideally, a lot of these guys would like to wait until january so they can say we voted for a tax cut and the new status quo is where all of the taxes have gone up. i'm sure there will be primary challenges. >>

charitable deductions however, charitable deductions are critical to civil society, but to eliminate a lot of loop holes and to bring about a bipartisan effort to get the government on a sound footing. >> the principal is you've got to protect poor and vulnerable people as you find a path to fiscal sustainability. both are moral issues. >> it's hard to overestimate the importance of getting healthcare to 40 or 50 million people who did not have access to it before. that's just huge and as the wealthiest nation in the world, not to have healthcare for all was just a profound embarrassment. >> as bishops we've been working on healthcare reform for years. now there are issues about the healthcare reform that's been passed, the affordable healthcare act, that we have concerns about, one, some of the conscience issues. >> i hope he protects religious liberty. i hope he defends the right and protects the right and advocates for religious pluralism. >> the issue of marriage equality because i think he's already started to take that on in his first administration and i just feel like we're so clos

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. >> jon: this feels a lot like walking. where are we? this is going to be exciting. oh, my god, that's my old middle school. [speaking in a ghost voice]: that's right, jon stewart, behold. >> i have a millennium falcon for christmas. >> i got an electric guitar. i got a new bike. >> hey, jon, what did you get for hanukkah? >> i got a pomegranate. >> a what? >> a pomegranate. it's a fruit. you eat the seeds. >> what kind of dweeb eats seeds? >> it was the second night. we always get fruit. [laughter] [speaking in a ghost voice]: good times. >> jon: no, not good times. everybody made fun of me because i brought fruit in. >> it had a lot of vitamin k. >> jon: who are you? >> seriously? how long have i worked here? >> jon: new york i mean, in the bit, who are you? [speaking in a ghost voice]: i am the alternate ghost of christmas past. what if you had your wish and being a jew at christmas wasn't weird and all religions were treated the same. >> jon: i don't know, it sounds great. >> these gifts are great. but you know what would be even better? >> 5,000-year tradition co

that out of all of my colleagues here i'm the one that has served the longest with you and there is a lot of pressure to think about all of those different theabt might have happened all throughout the years and it has really been a pleasure and a joy to serve with you coming on the board when i was viers appointed i didn't know left from right or moderate from progressive it was not something that i was naturally involved with and you really helped to guide me and you really helped me to understand and think about how it is that i can seven the best that i can for my district and so there are a lot of important legsons that i have learned from you and one making sure that you takeel all of the hard issues they main be the most sexy issues but they are important and so whether it's pension reform or flay structure and planning you tackled all of those issues and the city is better off for it and in terms of knowing the rules very important to know the rules and understand that and taking a quick look we were doing a bit of research about all of the times that you stood up and fought for t

of traction on them so it's a lot, a new person would definitely be very helpful. continually, you'll see there's lots of incidents so forth and so on, not as bad as in the past, we've seen a decrease in incidents overall which is nice, but instead of going through those, i know officer mathias is here from central station, so he'll bring up his highlights but as far as i am, any good questions you have? >> has [inaudible] paid its fines. >> we have not cited them currently. >> we've warned, they've been given notices. >> okay. >> and talked to a whole bunch of times. >> and 1015's been quiet for a long time, can you tell me again what's going on there. >> 1015, we have a series, right behind the building, there is a condo building, i think it has 12 condos in it. >> across the alley? >> no. and they have been complaining and dealing with sound, it's low frequency vibration through the walls of 1015, so that's -- and it's kind of -- you know, as these things often happen, people get to a certain point and then they're done, so they're done, so they're moving forward

you're going to hear a lot more about it. is because they do need a majority of the minority shareholders, the shares not owned by sprint, to vote in favor of the transaction. now, they already have commitments from comcast, intel, they own about 13% of the voting shares. take out sprint's side of it and it ends up being 26% of that minority. so the hurdle's not that high for sprint and clearwire. they only have to get 25% of the other shareholders out there to vote in favor. judging from the conference call, the conversations i've had, the press release itself, they want the world to know, hey, this special committee did not shirk its duty. it took it quite seriously. it looked around, tried to see what else was out there in terms of value. it wants to remind you as well, this is a company with a lot of liquidity needs, a funding gap. and i think they even had blackstone listed for restructuring advice. >> restructuring meaning, we had to take this thing into the distressed situation, even potentially bankruptcy. they raised

wrong ok the key in the land is to do your homework and just avoid the trouble spots that i mean it's a lot of municipal bond in a list that analyzes many many credits at the individual level and then you have the rating agencies and all these folks you know generally feel the land is pretty strong we have weak spots california as you said they've had some structural revenue problems there and there's harrisburg pennsylvania that will probably file in the next month or so detroit is the very big one but for the most part u.s. credits are strong and the yields in the municipal market are at historic lows we have massive debt. and so generally it's a strong bright picture but there are these kind of dark spots that are isolated but it doesn't equal what meredith whitney believes was a massive wave of defaults for for the mare for the country ok so then let's parse this out a little bit so in terms of the trouble that faces cities and also states to where are the signs of weakness the factors that are the the headwinds and what are the tailwinds for one for example we keep hearing how housing

the british were actually marching on the armoring because a lot of the guns and the ammunition, i assume, were stored at the armory, a common, in effect, communal place for the guns and the ammunition, marching there, and that's what paul revere warned folks about, wasn't it? >> guest: and the minmen -- minutemen came out successfully. >> host: in my mind, the armory talks about how it's a common usage, common purpose, which i know is not necessarily -- displg it's not -- displg -- >> guest: it's not necessarily a contradiction. if you didn't have a gun, and you should have according to the requirements in the towns, the town would sometimes provide it to you. they would then bill you for it. in a sense, it was private property even if they assigned you the weapon, but, sure, the militias needed to keep a supply of firearms and ammunition for those occasions when lots of force was needed to deal with an indian attack or whatever it was, and so they did have storage facilities in armories. >> host: even back then restrictions and regulations with the usage of guns. >> guest: sure. just ta