the former senator from nebraska, bob kerrey is with us and ezekiel emanuel. tensions in europe. we will look at that through the morning on bloomberg television. adam has top headlines this morning. >> we will start in venezuela ande h a soldier civilian are killed in protests. the violence brings the death toll to 19 in just three weeks of protests in that country. turkey may banned facebook as well as youtube. the prime minister tries to stop damaging audio and video clips. he saidterview, the mov the move could come as early as march. here we go. johnny football makes a deal with nike. the former texas and am order quarterbacks and am signed a contract with the company. nike beats out adidas, under armour and new balance which made bids for his marketing rights. he's projected to be one of the topics in the nfl draft in may. those are your top headlines. we have a former senator and .overnor from nebraska what do you think? >> it exciting. -- it exciting. it's exciting. he is a real player. >> people worry that he is too small. i'm small, too. i hope he do

again while wallowing in the mountains of cash barack obama received, bob kerrey said they would forevers, ron? they do it equally, except democrats do it better than republicans, and now they're whining about the koch brothers. >> so we agree that both sides are hypocritical. we agree that it's un-american to call somebody un-american. [ laughter ] let's talk about the real issue here. is it un-american to -- or is it unethical, is it wrong, is it corrupting to have all this money in politics? >> yes. >> well, i don't know -- you know, i don't know. it's a subtle issue. the supreme court has said money is a free speech. it's a pretty settled issue. let's get to the problem. if the money will be there, i don't have as much problem with the money the fact that it's not transparent. i don't know who's buying which elections and for what reasons. i've started a move from the mccain-feingold campaign finance paradigm to maybe we should get to the idea of, okay, if you want to be the senator of tobacco, fine, as soon as you get the check, it immediately gets -- immediately gets posted on the