julia: brian ford is funding his campaign in part with bitcoin. carol: here is reporter josh green.is a young, former senior adviser for technology in barack obama's white house who has returned to his hometown in orange county, california. he is running for an important seat there held by a republican. what is interesting about his candidacy is that almost all of the marquee donors and enthusiasts have piled in to support him because after he left the white house, he became the head of the digital currency initiative at mit's media lab. so he is currently a cryptocurrency evangelist. if you look at all that has been going on with cryptocurrencies and the fact that washington regulators are becoming increasingly important, the bitcoin community is very eager to have someone who understands their issue in congress, where most people are in their 60's, 70's, and 80's, and perhaps not up-to-date on cutting-edge technologies. carol: if you google him, a lot of videos come up and he is espousing various matters when it comes to digital currencies. koran blockchain. he's out there talking

the question what's going on with the leadership at ford now when you take a look at the leadership some are weighing in including the analyst brian leavy. he is out with a note saying that he is cutting his rating of ford to hold writing while we believe the company has a deep enough management bench to replace mr. nair with little disruption the new leader will face challenges. ford ceo, he is in the mix and he became ceo in the middle of last year he's trying to reposition this company for the future while at the same time trying to appease shareholders look at your current business where you're building and selling vehicles like the f150 like the suvs. you have to raise your profit margins in north america that's why leadership is so crucial for ford at a time when the company is trying to essentially fix what's going on right now it does not need to see more that is clearly when wall street and investors say we think mary bara and her team have a vision in the future and we don't see that before. at least not to the disease that we see it with general motors and believe me when you talk to people in detroit, this is what peop