let's go to brad in ohio, please. brad? r: boo-yah from girard, ohio. >> i got to get there. i haven't been there yet. i'll get there. i promise myself. >> caller: thanks for taking my call. as an investor interested in specialty retail, i understand that the fourth quarter is definitely the quarter with the most significant earnings. >> right. >> caller: but how should one evaluate these companies' first quarter earnings? >> you know what? i got to go back to the rules that i gave in my hedge fund. i frankly don't care about the first quarter for retail. it's only in the fourth quarter i care about. first quarter is just not meaningful enough. it doesn't move the needle. you really only have valentine's day during the quarter. i know this because my dad sells gift wrap, okay. gift wrap is one of the things where you realize what the season are and valentines doesn't move the needle like christmas. i like the holiday season, hanukkah. i say i'll make my judgments in retail on the fourth quarter. it's all that matters. i wait

host: let's go to brad in ohio. good morning. caller: good morning. i had a question for you. do you think that president obama has done well for the native americans in the d.c. school district area? thank you. caller: this is a subject outside my expertise. i wasn't aware that there was a significant native american population in the district of columbia. maybe there is. but i'll answer you more broadly if you'd like, which is that even leaving aside the obama administration, i think that for decades and possibly even centuries the united states has not handled that issue well at all. we have created these reservations that have become little government plantation force native americans where they have really -- it's like a laboratory of statism where everything is provided, their health care, their income supports and so on and so forth. and they've sort of many -- not all but many native americans have lost the zest for life, the desire to make something of themselves because they're kind of become sort of a dependent class of government. and it's very, very sad. i think th

host: last call from brad in cleveland, ohio.ood morning with shibley telhami of the university of maryland. caller: good morning. thank you, c-span. i had a question. the egyptian presidential election is important to the egyptian people. i was wondering, does your speaker think the natives of america, if they had natives within their own government across america, do you think that would be important to them? guest: as i said, i think the primary thing for the elections is really american policy in the middle east, particularly for the palestine question. most interestingly, our own public has started to see egypt now a little bit differently. i call it the beginning of a change of the 9/11 prism that was a very painful prism and negative prism for the whole region but the square model incited a lot of people and it is generally in terms of -- i've done public opinion polls in the u.s. that show most of the american public now sees the revolution in egypt to be primarily driven by public -- by people who want to improve their l

brad adams. ted, great to have you guys here. >> thank you, governor huckabee. >> governor huckabee: you had an incredible career going, the number one disc jockey in really, ohio for quite some time, several years running. and you were blowing everybody away in the marketplace, and radio is a competitive, tough business, number one in the market. >> three consecutive books... >> governor huckabee: and something happened. what started to plummet? >> i lost interest in the morals of family. i wanted to become this big celebrity. with the radio status and i believe i turned my back on god. i left one relationship to take on another and have another family. so i felt god wasn't in my life at that point. i think personally, governor the lord kind of said, i'm going to let you strike out on your own this time and see if you can come to any kind of conclusive decisions to do the right thing. >> governor huckabee: didn't drugs and alcohol get involved? what happened there. >> i was a functional alcoholic, unbeknownst to me and i had my first son after having four daughters previously and my girlfriend had a baby boy and as a congratulating offer of, hey you got a boy,