so get allstate. [ dennis ] dollar for dollar nobody protects you from mayhem like allstate. >> larry: as we come back from break, here is our control room here in los angeles. there are the folks that get me on the air every night. and i am indebted to them, always will be. okay. what do you see our job in afghanistan being? >> could be any control room, larry. could have been "american idol." they all look the same. i'm sorry r yet? afghanistan? what about it? we are -- i don't think we should be there there, i've said t >> larry: but, okay. but obama said in the camp pain he favored it right? getting the taliban out. >> this is part of the problem that i keep saying, i have said it probably many times on your show is that it's funny, people talk a lot about how polarized this country s no actually, the problem is the opposite. we are not polarized, we are homogeni homogenized, we have two parties, but one policy. we don't have enough difference between the two parties. >> larry: fight over health care. we were fighting over the supreme court nominee. we will get to that. >> both pa

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so get allstate. [ dennis ] dollar for dollar nobody protects you from mayhem like allstate. >> larry: and our special guest on what is our special night. the confirmation hearing. last night, the panel when they were not talking on each other, they said it is baloney. they go to the motions and the senators make speeches and she will be confirmed. to you share that you? >> i think she will. it is especially bologna with this nominee because she is a blank slate. it is not like she has a long history of controversial decisions. >> larry: she had the support of presidents. she is the solicitor general. >> compared to other nominees in the past to have something to go off of? she is completely qualify. she has done nothing controversial. we are in a state, and i am contradicting myself, where there is available of partisanship that is just ridiculous. whatever the blue team does, the red team will be against. >> larry: when the conservative was nominated, the blue team was that. is all the same pair>> this was started by the democrats. before they opposed, the first one where before tha

and let me tell you about allstate. they have been a huge sponsor of our organization that ad moirl james lloyd and i are co-sharing for the last five years. i'm going to tell you why. if you look not only in eastern arkansas afor earthquake insurance, if you look in california for earthquake insurance, too many people in california have earthquake insurance, less than 12%. do you know why? the policies are so high, and the deductible is so high that the people can't aaford it. and so what we have, we have a vision of creating a catastrophe fund in every state that's funded by the insurance industry, because they buy reinsurance. when reinsurance, when they have to buy reinsurance, guess where the reinsurance money goes. it doesn't stay in america t. goes to lloyd's of london. it goes overseas. so if they can take a percentage that have reinsurance money, put it in a state catastrophe fund and that grows interest over the years in a nonprofit, tax-free fund, and it builds up, then our goal is to have a fund like that th

>>no, my plan would bring poker back in the stipulation with the churches and schools for the allstateould be wide open. -- the whole state would be wide open. pochard never really left. -- poker and never really left. [unintelligible] for 12 years i have been begging them to bring in this revenue. we have a great interstate system. there was a rumor and the media about everyone playing poker and could not afford it. if you read about this, you would know that as a 45-year veteran of public service, i would never do anything to hurt people. poker is a good clean gaming industry and we need to take a bend and because the need the money. $3.5 billion shortfall means suffering by thousands and thousands of people in this state. >> a better approach to build wealth in the state is to look at what has worked already and to build on that. sutton -- small businesses create over 60% of the jobs in south carolina. i will create a division of entrepreneurship. georgia has done and it goes into smaller counties and medium-sized counties and whoever needs help and help to build a plan for small bu

for his efforts, he was selected three-time allstate. after graduating high school in 1928, jon wooden attended purdue university where he helped the boilermakers as team captain inhe 1932 national championship. he was named all big ten, all mid western conference. while at purdue, he also was the first player ever to be named three-time consensus all american guard. his nickname was the indiana rubber man, for his hard play on theasketball court. when jon wooden graduated from purdue in 1932, he began not only then as a professional basketball player but he started teaching and coach big accepting a job as athletic director and english teacher at dayton high school in dayton, kentucky. the first year at dayton was his only losing season as a high school coach. in 1934, wooden and his wife nellie moved to south bend, indiana where he accepted another coaching and teaching position as south bend high school. overall in 11 years of coaching high school, his record was an incredible 218 wins and 42 losses. in 1942 the united states entered

of course i will asked all the people from allstate and state farm to pay for my accident. this allows people to act cannot be responsible for their action by contributing to a fund that dissolves the riskiest of them. otherwise, what i think we are saying here is, you know something, next time somebody buys a homeowner's policy, maybe the kids at should hide it matches because daddy must want to burn down the house. maybe next time somebody buys car insurance, hide the key is because obviously wants to crash it. no,,we ask people to be responsible and pay into the fund and the riskier conduct and behavior, the more you pay. >> i recognize minutes. i believe there are no republican members who want to speak? when we are debating fannie mae and freddie mac, i guess i feel i am being accused of being a shape shifter. sometimes i am accused of being tom delayyin drag, except he was the one in drag when he did the dance show. what i am told is the failure of the republican party when they controlled the house and senate and presidency to pass any legislation restricting fannie