. >> that was of course tim conway, and carol burnett, to begin with, the star of the show, duck dynasty. he has been suspended after comparing same-sex marriage to bestiality. joining me now, cnn's don lemon. >> what do you make of what has happened here? if you actually read the interview, it is like one long hom homophobic long rant. >> yeah, what is upsetting is he would go on to try to represent the views of all christian people, when we know for a fact that many christians support the lgbt family members. and he does not support the true christians. no one would go on and compare the lgbt people to slanderers, or. >> don lemon, let me just read these comments, he says it seems to me, a vagina would be more desirable than an anus, that man and that man, just not right, on and on he goes, later talking about civil rights movement saying i never heard one black person, i'll tell you what, those dog gone white people, free entitlement, welfare, you say were they happy, they were godly, were they happy? no one was singing the blues, pretty outrageous, you as a high profile gay black man

. >> legendary funny man tim conway -- >> slow down. >> tim conway and the carol burnett show, what isfunny my hilarious life. how do you feel about being in the chair? you've been making my entire crew roar with laughter. >> there is only two guys here, so tough audience, yeah. >> how are you, tim? when you finished this book, what do you conclude about your extraordinary life? >> i haven't read the book, but i understand that it's very good. i never really wanted to be -- i was starting out to be a jockey, but falling off as much as i did from horses and weighing 190 pounds, even the horses said can you get off? so i gave up that career, and show biz was the next best thing. >> i wonder if this brings back memories. listen to this. >> haven't you already done enough you filthy blyther? >> filthy blyther? i don't understand. >> silence you blithering pumping j. where is this despicable bagger you -- >> absolutely ridiculous accent you're sporting there. >> you have one, too. [ laughter ] >> quite so. >> obviously, everyone associates you with carol burnett. what was it like when you w

in fact, admired the president for his policies, but with john conway of texas who was in the car withennedy, he had a long-standing grudge that had to do with the change in his military discharge, honorable and dishonorable. and he blamed conley for this because he had appealed to college to change back in 1962, and that hounded him for the next year and a half. and i believe he put the faith of conley on his frustration. so he had a rage and an anger against conley but no such an attitude towards kennedy at all. >> how did you do this research 50 years later? >> i published a biography of john connally in 1989. in fact, i was on booktv back there in 1989 on that, but this was a 680 page biography and the dallas assassination sided with the conley and center some ago lost in all of those pages about the whole life. and so i very much wanted to be part of the conversation of the 50th anniversary commemoration, and that's why i went back to this material and dug deeper into the motive of oswald. and now i think i've made a compelling case that oswald was going after connally and not aft

and yet you could afford had accidentally ignite explosives stored in the agency's mean compound in conway autos daughters otago and yet it is not a betting against the flow of the plate with what looks like a mob but if it was about. but this nutty with a lid on buses with. over the past week the eighth with them or not about to talk to who he wanted some mythic over the top to bottom with a unit that does not get it. what did john dean of the top. but that doesn't sum up it was at a mall in d c to city meets the media concerning what to look on his talent as foreign troops of planning to keep the country next and how they work if the new government has been trying to negotiate with the dotted line to join the peace process and an ultra comfy to greenpeace. i did not instruct cooperation act during a visit to present on that guy's eye to the hair on the deal comes amid tensions with the us at sky site is resisting the fighting off a long term security agreement with america. the report. this didn't come because the united kingdom done on this in the heat and mix with the onion dissident u

bill conway co-founded the carlyle group in 1987. he remains its co-key but a visionary on the markets. who better to get his take on where we stand today. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> steve liesman is reporting the fed is likely to taper ins december. there seems to be a lot more fiscal certainty in washington. is the overhang gone? what do you -- where do you go from here? >> the economy is in much better shape and has been for the last year or so healing gradually and i think the healing continues. steve liesman might know more than i do when they're going to taper or decide to do that. i think the qe has gone on long enough. >> and do you think it's been effective? it's gbeen going on four plus year, done a lot of things but the critics say it's created this divide among the haves and have nots. >> i would say the initial moves to qe were absolutely essential beginning with t.a.r.p. and the really saving of the banking system, the automotive businesses, aig, the cret is businesses as well -- credit businesses as

is 3 times the space your increasing rapidly and europe one of the initial partners and joined ron conwaynd others additional 6 other companies to help me not only the excitement of the growth of item but the eyes of it in everyday lives and how to improve that and, of course, creating platforms to use the information we have yet to expose to the public. i i know one of the things we're doing together is to get the data auto of the bureaucrats hands to where the data can be used. but i know that again get hub plasma is based on anorexia nervosa and in many citizens it supports the tech destroy was it has to over. i just a minute ago probably the closet i'll be to the presidential look if i walk through the oval office i was laborer for the marine guard but i'm going to take the opportunity to the next time i will see president obama i will soon tell him that there is an office it fits really well, in san francisco. i'm proud on behalf of our city and on the on behalf of san francisco i'm proud to announce we're celebrating the month of october as innovation in san francisco because of get

conway is a friend of mine and he's a leader so he helped support a lot of those companies get started. as a leader of those companies he's helped me with programs that i think are important whether it's funding for schools or ending violence. you've heard about all the gun violence he's a part of that leadership to i understand the gun violence. so we work close together and it's my privilege to introduce to you the head of the initiative that is mr. ron collins (clapping) >> we have the best mayor in the country here (laughter) (clapping). >> san francisco is very lucky to have ed lee. he could have adopted loves causes but has adopt the middle school in san francisco. i'm sure you don't know where i was 52 years ago i was eating lunch right outside here (clapping) i grew up an angelaer drive near sunset and came back as a junior high before my family move forward to the peninsula but i'm a graduate and when i find out there was an event here i thought i have not been here since 11 years old. i want to share you with you how i got involved in beyond differences. it's kind of interest

ben white, ari melber and kelly ann conway. it is the deadline for folks to sign up for health care if they want coverage by january 1st. how important is this deadline reality sti realistically and also for the obama administration. >> this is very important, this is the law. we are a nation of laws. we are moving into the period where the debate has to end and people have to follow the law. there have been some exceptions made. republicans have to find a way to respect the law of the land which is people have an obligation, most people, to get health care coverage. >> kelly, do republicans need to in 2014 shift the narrative to some extent away from the notion of repeal and start talking about their solutions or alternatives or ways to improve this? >> i'm just amazed that the republicans are blamed for the poor rollout and the fact people probably don't even know the deadline is today. they're focused on other things, like christmas. i think it's a little bit of an overstatement to say that the republicans have to respect th

. >> julie conway wound up adopting him. >> this is the happiest dog i have seen in my life.has been a blessing in my life, for sure. >> the other surviving dog has been adopted and is doing well. charges that palmer is facing are felonies. his arraignment is on tuesday. >> that massive storm system is bringing bone chilling cold to the midwest. people from dallas to st. louis brace for the worst ice storm in years. hundreds of flights have been canceled because of the weather. the question is, how will this affect us? everything is pointing, guidance wise, that sunday will be a day where we have ice and sleet and freezing rain and this will be a problem. there,ference here and it is going to take another day or two to get a firm handle on this. very warm and temperatures have not dropped all that much. at reagan national airport -- the average high is 50, we missed that by six degrees. it is still 60 degrees in fredericksburg, 32 in detroit but there is a massive amount of cold air. eight below in rapid city, 15 degrees below zero at great falls, nine degrees below and this

eustis conway lives off the land in north carolina.ple call him mountain man. >> with my own hands, built everything. when i moved here, there wasn't a clearing, there wasn't a building. >> over 20 years, his turtle island education center became popular. he taught a thousand people how to live like pioneers. but last year the county told him to shut down. >> he hadn't gotten permits. >> nathan miller heads the county board that oversees the building department. >> people said his camp was unsafe. we don't necessarily know it is unsafe or not. >> mountain man told county inspectors go away. so they came back with lots of people. >> they brought all these different departments from health department, tax people, fire marshall. all of a sudden a whole team, cars or trucks as far as you could see showed up, blocked our driveway, came in with armed guards and took over our home. >> doesn't it seem like overkill? >> not really. they just merely had their pistols in on the side. he had the opportunity, mr. conway did, to cooperate. >> that r

one escalating regional tensions he said some countries keep playing on the issue for selfish gain conway said the air defense town was established to defend china's territorial and airspace security. if it's meant to safeguard flight order and security india and us vice president biden said that china and it is unacceptable he said chris and i tend to change the status quo while tom offered a rebuttal to u s criticism age of consent for the relationship between the two countries. china and the large storage depot in mutual trust. we should manage our differences and to some of its new progress in our relations. china hopes to equip us to build a new mall for major contracts. he stressed that china wants to avoid seen this kid is an issue and their relations from wheat the year last international human rights groups and as the last five presidents into press chinese leaders to release the wind for nobel peace laureate and you shall go from house to ma's killed by minimizing china on wednesday as we've been reporting he's expected to meet the chinese president and other leaders in asia you

you apparently got big backing from ron conway, a prominent angel investor in the bay area and silicon valley. he's invested in companies such as google and twitter. how did all that come about? >> it all came about when ron conaway started the committee for reduction of gun violence. that's when michael and i actually met. a number of programs have spun out from that organization. michael and i literally, in san francisco fashion, went to a coffee shop and said, you know what? the complexity and variety of different challenges that are out there in american society today, it really need a number of different applications that can target specific situations. it's perfect for a hack-a-thon. the challenge is these situations are completely esoteric, so we needed to pull in experts to bond a team that develops it. that's what we do when we meet with the high ground hackers. so we get faculty members, people who are expert in situations, and they come in very tight loops and within 36 hours put together a very effective application. >> and you have another hack-a-thon coming up. when and w

david from conway, massachusetts. independent line. caller: good morning. thank you for doing your study and putting up the brave report for the different states here. a question in a statement. one, did you actually think that it would be anything different than what you discovered? that would be the question. and then the statement would be -- i remember in college at doing multiple studies on different pac's and congressmen and senators, and consistently seeing a correlation between donors and how people voted. it went hand-in-hand. so again, did you really think you would see anything different? thank you. your: thank you for question. you know, i actually did expect the states to do better. the federal standards have been out there for a long time, the federal judges build these out, other elected officials have to fill out personal financial disclosure forms, but i was that the disclosures were so minimal for so many of the states, that was surprised that three states and not have them at all. they are pretty standard for elected or appointed official

lawmakers had given insight into what may have led to the downfall of the top seed here in north conway and a disclose an intelligence report concludes in china suntec was and succeeded because he disobeyed his nephew peter can chomp on. keep london he couldn't cut the meat we believe that kim had ordered them to apprentice conflicts of interest and abuse of power by his days. jang refuse to feel the beating north korean officials to conclude that he had disobeyed the order the screen authorities also seized on plotting to overthrow the state. ii south korea's national intelligence it is says that was exaggerated to justify the execution it as a korean workers' party now faces tighter restrictions the state ck did five mins and chief of censorship in one on is becoming more powerful among can show his close aides. his wife thinking guarantee has not been seen in but sometimes i can apply says she's only recording engagements. she's the sister of the week eric and john cale. what kinda sad towns in the entourage is not enough to buy the package as is conjunct sun continues to have a firm

and joining us now ith kelly and conway and the rest of the "a-team."rnes comer welcome as well. and former member of george w. bush senior staff rat blakeman. what do you think? especially if congress takes a majority to midterm. >> maybe the democrats know something that we don't. but this is scare tactics and they have nothing positive to say, so they are going negative with their own people and it's really tragic. >> the fact that they can only raise money based on the negative but they need to do is realize that obamacare is named obamacare because the guy who gavet to uss named obamacare -- obama. lori: welcome adelle into it. i want to get fred state because it is interesting so much talk about the midterm election. this e-mail. >> well, as you point out, it is a fund-raising e-mail, and they are desperate, and this is what they have to use. democrats remember 1998 when bill clinton was impeached. bill clinton avoided it easily, and it backfired republicans to did not do well. well, bill clinton was still popular. he had a high approval ratg. oba

for at the city has to find the overnight nation having some of the modern sophisticated ministry conway in the wild. the seminar is on antiquated and data for an accounting compete assistance is even lead to a two g to pass now under war veterans being and it paid off season and that chicken investigates the pentagon is almost certainly the biggest source of waste in the us government to avoid this investigation says since nineteen ninety six the pentagon has spent eight point five billion dollars in taxpayer money that has never been accounted for. nobody can say for the coming new feelings about an hour where waste it on goods and services that would never do it but it got over payments to contractors and many other things. what does congress do about it. nothing and that secured actress eve myles he is here with me to this country. these numbers it makes it really dollars on camera for a lot of money the kind of thing that you would think would bring capitol hill to a screeching halt to be hearing this kind of almost daily to the various committees looking into that none of that just

paul conway, i don't want you to comment on jon stewart, but i do want you to comment on the minimum wage because look, we just had the jobs report a lot of conservatives tell me if you raise the minimum wage as the president wants, we will destroy jobs. quickly, what's your take on the minimum wage hike? >> the bottom line, if you raise the minimum wage, you'll affect small business, and two out of three jobs are created by small business in america. when jon stewart talks on the schoen a the -- show about the minimum wage and the hard earned money that people are earning. if you maze the minimum wage you're going to impact job growth and job creation. stuart: you are such a scrooge, a scrooge, paul conway, last one, do you think we'll get a minimum wage hike. the president wants to go to $10, are we going to get it? >> i think it's a tough sell. i think what makes it a tough sell is the elk health care front. he's asking americans to support failed policies. stuart: and there was a stronger jobs report this friday. bottom line. thank you, paul. we've had bullish calls on apple stoc

yet you could afford had accidentally ignited explosives stored in the agency's main compound in conway. those daughters otago begging is not a betting against the flow of the plate with what looks like a model but if it was about. but this nutty with a lid on buses with. over the past week being with them on and about to talk to who he wanted santa to come over the top to bottom with a unit that does not give it. loved it donating blood. but divest some of which etymology the city meets the media concerning what sort of honest on. as for you to stop planning to keep the country next and how they work if the government has been trying to negotiate with the dotted line to join the peace process and an ultra comfy to greenpeace. i did not stop the cooperation act during a visit to present on that guy's eye to the hair on the deal comes amid tensions with the us at sky site is resisting the fighting off a long term security agreement with america. the report. this didn't come it is a nineteen day done on this in the heat and mix with the onion. this isn't a single honey. more to be designa

we have supporters like ron conway.the holiday season definitely does remind people to reach out and try to help somebody. i encourage everybody to go to our website and learn more about somebody and give them a hand. >> what is the website? >> handup.us. >> rose broome, thank you for joining us today. it is time now for on the markets, a look at what is moving on the market. julie hyman is in new york. >> if you look at stocks today, we have them rising once again. the s&p and the dow are at record again. claus rallyd santa in the final day of the trading year. and also fueling the gains today, jobless claims better than estimated although those numbers tend to be very variable in the final couple of weeks during the holidays. we want to highlight two individual movers, tesla is up again. it is expanding into china. the company said it will open more showrooms in china's cities next year. twitter, this one is up several days in a row now on optimism about the future of mobile advertising. that has been fueling the gain

. >> robert john williams, todd mckeehancan, steve willis, and conway labloom. they were heroes.or when i hear the bagpipes, i just break down. i'll take this to my grave. >>> protests in ukraine. we are live

enter connie conway. it is billed as a california resource guide and it looks like any generic health care website. it has something for everyone, if you're uninsured you can click through the ie don't have health insurance icon to find a page dominated by a calculator with the penalties imposed for not buying insurance. if you're young you can read that young adults will end up paying for much of federal health care reform by subsidizing the cost of sicker people. if you're a senior, you will find in the the handy faq accident that medicare provider wills see cuts in the next decade and it could result in the exodus of doctors from the medicare system. it looks official, but it isn't. the real california state exchange website is coveredca.com. in fact you have to scroll all the way to the bottom to find out that coveringca.com is brought to you not by the official exchange, but by the assembly caucus. the reason republicans have been reduced to online tricks is the state demonstrated what government loo

ron conway is probably the most important connection between old politics and the potential new politics of the tech world. i would guess that if the attack continues to come on block from moving employees from one spot to another and doing some of the other things, you'll find the techies coming out being as creative as they've been on producing iphones and all the other incredible gadgets they've done. they're going to be the gang gadgeteers of the world of politics. >> what does it mean for organized labor? >> organized labor is the mother's milk of traditional democratic politics here and the techies, they don't play that game. it will be a push and pull of that. there was pushback on the bart strike, for example. why is the system gone this way or these old work rules in place? why is the paper scheduled like that? there's a disconnect there and that's going to be continuing in 2014. >> i've been watching as far as the reshape of the bay area, but it's become increasingly the biggest issue is affordability. in san francisco, we have seen housing prices go up and all across the bay a

back in and this was the obama administration's philosophy goes, there is an old country song by conwayy, make the world go away, and i think that that is the obama philosophy. and i hope it goes away. lou: he was thinking of a higher purpose. thank you so much. we appreciate it. coming up next, black friday sales were disappointing, but it doesn't mean the economies and markets would move lower. we will find out. the legendary investor joins us next. >> the extreme left teaming up with amnesty advocates, the fast food industry unions and pushing for a minimum wage of $15. we will take it up with the "a-team" [ engine revs ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the merces-benz winter event is back, with the perfect vehicle that's just right r you, no matter which list you'ren. [ santa ] , ho, ho, ho! [ male announcer ] get thell-new 2014 cla250 wow...look at you. i've always tried to give it my best shot. these days i'm living with a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat, not caused by a heart valve problem. at first, i took warfarin, but i wondered, "could i up my game?" m

i've spent saturdays talking to linda edder and -- and tim conway from my podcast.a voice she's got. mine is okay. all right. for everyone who has a story, we have kathy hahn from morgantown, west virginia. and her daughter, ashley. they're going to be united at our show on thursday. cathy was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007. after treatment she was told she was in remission. while she was on a celebration trip, she found a lump on her neck and it turns out she was diagnosed with leukemia. this is a story -- this daughter wrote in about this magnificent mom of hers and said that kathy maintained an incredible attitude saying she was an overachiever and got the lieu keekia -- leukemia after the ovarian. we have them on the line. how are you? >> i am great. am a lucky mother. >> is your daughter on the line with you? >> hello? >> hi, how are you? >> doing well. >> by the way, we're looking at beautiful pictures of you and your family decked out in your wvu sweatshirts and stuff in the hospital. we can't wait to see you guys on thursday. >> excited. >> thank you

i'm talking about hank williams, george jones, merle haggard, conway, loretta, ray price.e're starting to lose a lot of those legends, you know. but i can remember being 4, 5 years old learning those songs. believe it or not, i can also remember when i was about 5 years old when george jones sang a song, i could feel that song, even though i was a little kid. and i hadn't lived those stories yet. i call george the king of country soul, you know. i could just feel that natural tear in his voice. and i know a lot of singers, heard a lot of singers in my life that had that natural tear. one of them was the late merrill street. and believe it or not, ronnie van zandt had a natural tear in his voice. with the leonard skynard band. who died in a plane crash years ago. i just always thought he was a great country singer in a rock and roll band. >> those are legends. you are inspiring a lot of young artists today. >> well, i don't know about that. i hope i've done well enough to make some other young artist feel what i felt and what i got out of music when i was just a little boy,

conway did, to cooperate. >> that raid led to this 78 page report on what the mountain man must change>> just more government overkill. >> we created this report in anticipation of litigation. >> a lot of it just crazy. they got a picture of our doghouse in there for a german shepherd, it's four feet long. they said this is intern housing. i don't know if they thought we had midgets. >> problems with his property. >> unsafe buildings resting on a piece of rock. >> like a rock solid foundation? we have been working with the health department every year for over 20 years. they're telling me i can't live this way? this is the way ily. i can't eat the way i want, drink water, can't poop the way i want, can't sleep in the building the way i want. a new bureaucrat came in every year, they permitted every year, and all of a sudden it's like completely unacceptable. >> every think there are too many rules. >> oh, yeah, i think that all the time. but we don't invent the building codes, we're merely the enforcer. >> how is any human supposed to understand that or follow that? >> i don't have the

mckeehancan, steve willis, and conway labloom. they were heroes. when i hear taps or when i hear the bagpipes, i just break down. i'll take this to my grave. >>> protests in ukraine. we are live there. >> it is tuesday, december 3rd and 5:00 in the east. >> a stunning revelation in the derailment of that new york city commuter train that left four passengers killed and dozens more injured. they say the metro north train was going 82 miles an hour! >> wow. >> into a sharp curve that had a 30 miles an hour speed limit. that, folks s a bad combination. but it is still too soon, they say, to determine who or what is to blame here. a lot of questions. cnn's renee marsh is following developments for us. >> reporter: john and zoraida, we know this morning how fast that commuter train was going but still don't know why. the report shows that the train was traveling at approximately 82 miles an hour as it went into a 30-mile-an-hour curve. that is too fast for an approach that had a speed limit of 70 and way too fast for the curve's 30 miles per hour limit.

joining me our expert political panel, blake zeff, kelly ann conway, president and ceo of the pollingh rich mish kin. all right. straight politics, does the budget deal do the republicans any good? does it do ryan any good? can they patch up the difference with the tea party? >> yes to all of the above. i think the most important thing that chairman ryan said in the interview is he had to go with what he can get, that they have a majority in the house, they don't have -- they basically control one-sixth of the federal government. instead of him saying let's wait for three years until we turn the senate republican in 2014, he went ahead and did something with a very liberal democratic senator, patty murray, got it through, and by the way, larry, who can't love paul ryan? he looks like a lacrosse coach and thinks like a calculus profe professor. if you put him in the 2016 contenders -- and i take him at his word that he and john are thinking about this long and hard, but if you put him -- you put paul ryan and a couple other guys like him, and contrast him with hb and joe biden. i would

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among those today, ken jacobs, suntrust ceo williams rogers and carlyle group's co-ceo william conway> texas instruments is expecting to earn between 44 and 48 cents a share on revenue of 2.9 to $2.$2.9 to $2.04 billion. it's roughly in line with forecasts. ti is among those giving forward guidance hoping for a stronger recovery. the stock is down marginally, around 0.4%. >>> and corn prices have tumbled since their record levels during the 2012 drought. the fall has farmers hoarding corn in the hopes of a rebounding of the crop. it might help if south american price producers see more harvest. let's get more insight, as well. joining us is joseph, founder of admin grain. how brutal hates been for corn traders? >> well, you know, prices year over year have declined drastically. and the corn market, for example, we saw a nearly 50% drop. corn and prices per bushel traded as high as $8.49 at the peak of the drought last year. we're trading around $4.35 this morning. so essentially what happened here was high prices cured high prices. the high prices we saw last year encouraged producers

she was last seen in october on her way home from school in the town of conway. a letter a month ago. police won't talk about details in the letter, but say they are concerned for abigail's safety. adding that it is possible that she is being held against her will. >>> and while you were sleeping, u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel was on a military transport headed for an unannounced trip to afghanistan. he landed in kabul earlier this morning. is he there to thank the u.s. troops for their service and training afghan training forces, and he'll meet with his afghan counterpart to see if afghan troops are able to defend their own country. >>> as the world mourns the death of nelson mandela, tributes to south africa's first black president are pouring in that could fill volumes. but poet and author maya angelou says one word really sums up his character and influence. we'll hear from her next. [ dr. ronit ] there's a lot of foods and drinks that have acids in them. raspberries, strawberries, working at your enamel, once it's gone, you can't get it back. i would re

david from conway, massachusetts. independent line. caller: good morning.k you for doing your study and putting up the brave report for the different states here. a question in a statement. one, did you actually think that it would be anything different than what you discovered? that would be the question. and then the statement would be -- i remember in college at doing multiple studies on different pac's and congressmen and senators, and consistently seeing a correlation between donors and how people voted. it went hand-in-hand. so again, did you really think you would see anything different? thank you. your: thank you for question. you know, i actually did expect the states to do better. the federal standards have been out there for a long time, the federal judges build these out, other elected officials have to fill out personal financial disclosure forms, but i was that the disclosures were so minimal for so many of the states, that was surprised that three states and not have them at all. they are pretty standard for elected or appointed officials to

that's why i love this conway buy poorly timed. that doesn't help anyone.ember, the way it is supposed to be is brokerage firms are supposed to help out, supposed to do good things for the institutions. so you see cessation of down grades and a lot of reits with price target rates. >> we are going to get some key select earnings, fedex, nike, oracle, blackberry on friday. >> here is barclay saying fedex is further up side. deutsche bank raised target. this is the biggest day of shipping of the year, ups tells us. there is so much love for fedex, almost like a twitter thing. it is really well-run and been around for a long time. >> it is the busiest day of the year for shipping, biggest pick-up day. tens of millions of packages are going to get picked up. >> lexington realty trust celebrating the company's 20th anniversary. over at the nasdaq, looks like society general doing the honors. you wouldn't know that from the promptor. >> i am worried about sock gen. >> their exposure to a lot of other companies in europe, italy. was it two years ago? remember, ita

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i've spent saturdays talking to linda edder and -- and tim conway from my podcast.ission. they went away to celebrate like ain't life great moment. while on the celebration trip, she -- she found a lump on her neck. it turns out that she was diagnosed then with leukemia. this is a story -- this daughter wrote in about this magnificent mom of hers and said that kathy maintained an incredible attitude saying she was an overachiever and got the leukemia so soon after the on, voi va -- the ovarian so she could get it over with. they'll object thursday. we have them on the line. how are you? >> i am great. am a lucky mother. >> is your daughter on the line with you? >> hello? >> hi, how are you? >> doing well. >> by the way, we're looking at beautiful pictures of you and your family decked out in your wvu sweatshirts and stuff in the hospital. we can't wait to see you guys on thursday. >> excited. >> thank you very much. >> all righty. we'll catch up with you then. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> what were your favorite celebs up it this holiday weekend? >> we'll