. >>> for now, we're joined by bob parker on set, senior adviser at credit suisse. bob, welcome. >> thank you. >> what do you make of this? is there any way that this is a positive in terms of perhaps opening the door towards mon at the monte serving in some sort of government? >>. >> i am assuming we're going to have a election probably in the second half of january. we're talking about a position of somewhere between 12 and 17% of the vote. so subsequently, i think fears that berlusconi may come back seem to be misplaced. i think if everyone looks at the last year and a half of what the monte government has achieved in italy, you have to be impressed. we have a strong budget climate surplus. the overall budget has come in dramatically. we've had well fare reform, pension reform. there's further work to be done on the competitiveness of italy. >> i can't tell you how much investors have been talking bullishly about italy. we know it's the eurozone's third biggest economy. obviously what happens in italy is important. they've been saying if anything the problem is it

bob: you do? >> eric: yeah. >> dana: my dad used to decorate our house in denver, parker, colorado. ig house in maryland. in montgomery county. the winner gets $10,000 to go to a charity. it won last year. this year i'm not sure i'm going to, because i'm not down there. >> dana: do you have to lobby for it? >> eric: stuff the ballot box? >> greg: can we point out that mr. alternative energy source has 100,000 lights. >> bob: they don't burn that much energy. my electric bill that is usually $175-$200 a month goes to almost $2,000 in december. yeah. it's very expensive. >> dana: did you get complaints? >> bob: i get complaints from the neighbor because the cars come to look at it and one-way street and block it up. on the side o the house -- i decorate it all the way around. on the side i put feliz navidad. i thought neighbors were spanish. they weren't. then i have a snowman that shoots snow out to the skiing dog. and it is so loud it blows them away. i this thing they put music on and the light goes like this. >> greg: i'm laughing. i wasn't yawning. >> dana: only kimberly does that

bob: who are you referring to? >> greg: this has an interesting parallel to the story. rob parkerg awful about rg3. called him a cornball brother. safing if he is not the right kind of black he is not really black. he apologized and got 30-day suspension. this is what he originally said on espn. >> my question, straight honest question, is he a brother or a cornball brother? >> what does that mean? >> explain that? >> he is not really. he's black. he does his thing but not really down with the cause. he is not one of us. he is kind of black. but he's not really like the guy you want to hang out with. we all know he has a white fiancee, all this talk about he is a republican. there is no information at all. we're trying to dig deeper why he has an issue. >> bob: you to admit this crazy? who wants to hang around this dude? he doesn't want to hang around the hood with people like him. first, the person he is talking about, rg3, is now dead the washington "red eye" to number one in their division. too bad, new york. i think it's just one of those things if you marry a white woman or h

bob menendez on the foreign relations committee. all those were very instrumental in dealing with this. senator durbin who has been a real champion on human rights. i want to acknowledge kyle parker, a staff person from the helsinki commission who was very instrumental in the development of this legislation, and i want to also acknowledge senator lieberman's work. i know he will be speaking in a few minutes. it was senator lieberman and senator mccain and myself that first suggested that we should pass the magnitsky bill, it's the right thing to do, but we certainly shouldn't let pntr go without attaching the magnitsky bill. i want to thank senator lieberman and thank senator mccain for raising that connection. it was the right thing to do. first of all, it allowed us to get this human rights tool enacted. secondly, i think it gave us the best chance to get the pntr bill done in the right form. so i want to thank both of them for their leadership on that. in 1974, we passed the jackson vanik law. it dealt with the failure of the soviet union to allow for the immigration of its citizens, affecting mainly soviet jews. it was controversial in its time. madam president, people said w