>> if mike cassidy were a ballplayer, he would be batting 1,000. he's gone 4 for 4 on multimillion dollar startups making him one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country. plus, entrepreneurs not from the country. the mexican government sending business people to learn silicon valley secrets. this week's guests in conversation with our reporters from "usa today" jon swartz and maggie shiels of the bbc this week on "press: here." good morning. i'm scott mcgrew. my first guest is not the richest man in silicon valley though he is rich. the smartest? maybe. he has a degree from harvard and works at google. what we can say for sure is mike cassidy is one of the winningest entrepreneurs in the valley creating and selling companies. i first met mike about ten years ago. he was already a millionaire but working in an office with just one other employee and a dumpy office at that. our photographer lit it with red lights to make it look more interesting than it really was. mike was at the time working on a program he called xfire that helped frie

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mike cassidy just cannot lose. in fact, his second startium sold for $500 million. does it over and over. one of silicon valley's winningest entrepreneurs. he'll be on my show "press here" on sunday. and i asked him, what is it like getting the check for hundreds of millions of dollars. >> have you cashed your bank statement where it sels, you know, off the charts? >> i get the social security statement every year and it looks like this year your total salary was $11,000, this year it was -- this year it was to$6,00. every start-up i make dirt in the beginning and i have the payout. and then i make dirt again. >> he'll be on "press here" after "meet the press." he drives a beat-up old saturn still. they don't really care. >> they're smart. >> they're supersmart. >> but they don't care. they have hundreds of millions and they have the beat-up old car. >>> americans still have bill. at least they like him more than the current and the past president. a new gallup poll shows clinton has a 16-point edge over george w. bush. all men scored high with their own part, but o

karen cassidy to set up an intervention. the goal? convince janice to give up all but two dogs and one cat. >> honestly speaking, if you were looking for a home for an animal, so let's say you were running a pet shelter, would you pick your place? >> it will be all right. >> here we go. cat in the box. >> reporter: it's a painful process. humane society volunteers fill an entire tractor trailer with animals as janice learns to let go. >> felt like i was pulling on my heart. it's like i wanted to give them one more hug good-bye. >> reporter: it's been almost four months, but that moment is still tough to think about. when you walked back into the house and those trucks pulled away and you saw the empty cages, what was that like? >> it was hard. it was very hard. >> reporter: what were you feeling at that point? >> i felt good for the dogs. i knew that i did what i had to do, and, you know, but it was -- it was hard because i loved them. >> reporter: janice has moved into her daughter's home with just one cat and two dogs and says her l

cassidy's out of a hard task. in just a few days later three ethnic chechens were arrested in france and charged with conspiring with terrorists moscow says they belong to the group led by the infamous militant leader. the rest took place after a french police have been tipped off by russian security services the suspects reportedly had forearms explosives and a map of moscow with multiplications of possible targets they believe to be linked to one of the most wanted militant leaders with suspected connections with al qaeda the model for who claimed responsibility for organizing the deadly moscow metro blasts of march is also blamed for many other attacks across russia in june the u.s. also put him on a wanted list of international terrorists. and iranian nuclear scientists he claims he was kidnapped by the cia and held in the u.s. for fourteen months returned home on thursday from a maid who says he was tortured to give up information about iran's nuclear program claims he was asked to confess to being an intelli

cassidy, where do you start with someone like robin? how do you point out this has crossed a line?difficulty for all animal hoarders they have wonderful intentions. they are wonderful people and it's gone awry. and you want to help them understand that there's a big gap between their intention to love these animals and their ability to fulfill that love. and to help point out in a gentle way that actually they're harming the animals and they're harming their human relationships. >> you can't go into a home like robin's home or that gentleman in the piece and clear the pets out. you just can't say, okay, all of these animals are gone. so how do you start? is it a one step at a time program? >> well, you start one step at a time. the first thing is to help the person understand how actually they are harmful to the animals and harmful to their family relationships and it shows them the avenue to really care and love these animals is to adopt them out and to have a small reasonable number that they really can care for well. >> robin, when you hear, and you've heard about this, this cou

. >> david cassidy. >> reporter: celebrity autobiography relys on a road leading to cash many of themhenderson playing who else? >> pamela anderson. >> reporter: last minute coaching spills into the stairwell. look there's brook shields. >> who is this? >> elizabeth. >> reporter: one night brook channels elizabeth tailor. >> eddie. >> reporter: another night liz speaks through sherry sheppard. >> i want us to be together again. it turns out that star love is often star crossed. >> there are in the story of relationship gone wrong at least two versions. >> reporter: who could forget the saga of bert and lonnie told ear in dueling autobiographys. that's kristin johnson and ryan reynolds. no relations. >> he was sweet and tentative and gentle almost as if he he thought i was going to break. >> during the non-stop animal passion. >> reporter: the. >> the whole show is structured around celebrity's lapse in judgment. >> i'm falling in love with you. i don't want you to see anyone else. we belong together. >> okay. >> reporter: would you call the actual writing of the autobiography a lapse

cassidy says not to worry, the fall will probably kill you. the idea is that you are worrying about a smaller problem down the road when you have on more immediate problem that might do you in. i am hopeful that when the fiscal commission reports, we can start getting serious about entitlement reform to make the tough choices. the problem is we spend a year and half of discussion and political effort attacking a problem that is not the biggest one we are facing over the next couple of decades. my second question is how much of the long-term deficit is due to tax cuts? some like to argue that the big problem is that tax cuts are starving the government of revenue. obama says the tax cuts will cost three times as much as it will cost to fix social security of the next 75 years. this is like the comedian who was asked about his wife's and he replied "compared to what." it really matters what you are comparing things to. i would argue that the baseline by which the tax cuts are seen as a budgetary problem is one that does not match up with the com

karen cassidy to set up an intervention.vince janice to give up all but two dogs and one cat. >> honestly speaking, if you were looking for a home for any animals, say you were running a peer, u ck place? >> reporter: it's a painful process. humane society volunteers fill an entire tractor-trailer with animals. as janice learns to let go. >> felt like i was pulling out my heart. like i wanted to be giving one more hug good-bye. >> reporter: it's been almost four months but that moment is still tough to think about. when you walked back into the house and those trucks pulled away and you saw all those empty cages, what was that like? >> it was hard. it was very hard. >> what were you feeling at that point? >> i felt good for the dogs. i knew that i did what i had to do. and, you know -- but it was -- it was hard. just one cat and two dogs and says her life is better. but she still misses those dogs. today, janice is focusing on lifewithndchn. but she's stodeei therapist. >> janice would be likely to start rescuing more animal

cassidy: a blanket moratorium is no the answer. it will not measureably reduce risk. it will have a lasting impact upon the nation's economy which may be greater than that of the oil spill. we do not believe in punishing the innocent, overcome emotion with logic. these are quotes from five engineers from the national academy of engineering who object to the president's moratorium. this is not a drilling moratorium. it is a jobs moratorium. it is an assault on those most injured by the gulf oil spill. by some estimates over 100,000 americans, welders, pipe fitters, engineers, will and others will lose their jobs because of this moratorium. decent, hart working americans. 11,000 people filled the cajun dome in lafayette, louisiana, to object the moratorium. the president needs to listen to the scientists and let the workers return to work supplying our nation's energy needs. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? mr. butterfield: i ask permission to address t

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>> first, congressman cassidy, their job was to help us with the safety report and they did. we will continue to get their input as well as input from others. secondly, the question on the moratorium was policy. do we have the oil spill response capability? can we ensure that we can move forward without the possibility of creating this kind of disaster again? >> let me ask you. in your report, you state that the permit to drill -- this is page 6 of your brief. these fellows, on their very first page, it believed the blowouts was caused by human error and equipment failures. they say it was preventable. they say that this is not a black box. they say that it is defined and it produced at this paper that i am sure you are familiar with. per your brief, you decide whether they meet the best practices. why not reserve -- preserve these 20,000 jobs? >> let me answer this in the broadest sense because the committee and others have a great interest and where we are on the issue of the moratorium. we had three choices in front of us. we could simply move forward and pretend that noth