the famous coat brothers, charles and david cÔte.nd again, we have seen corporate sponsored attacks against presidents before particular i found two of them franklin noted delivers about anna du pont's brothers and there were three of them at the time. they actually banded together, put their money together called the liberty league to deny ascii other a second term. and then the bill clinton of course is richard mellon skates, who funded all of the investigations that led to paula jones on and on and the articles in the american state theater. but nothing compared to the money and the organization that we have seen on charles david polk. who bar the heads of coke industries, they are at the third and fourth richest man in america and the people of america, both men. and we know about locates and warren buffett. these are number three and number four. combined wealth of $50 billion. they have put more money -- by the way, i have to say this. they do some good things, particularly david cook was the wealthiest man in new york city. he

we bring in david cote, chief executive of honeywell, and he joins me now for an exclusive interview. great to see you, dave. >> nice to see you, too. thank you for the product placement right after the midtown madam. i'm sure it will get great viewership now. >> oh, my goodness. i'm not even going to go there. let's talk about business globally today. you're traveling all over the world. you've got business operations all over the world. how would you describe the importance of the international markets and what it has meant to the bottom line of honeywell? >> it's been huge for us. if you go back ten years ago, about 41% of our sales were outside the u.s. today, about 55% of our sales, and about 50% of our employees are outside the u.s. so it's been a huge part of our growth story. sales have grown about 70% overall. that gives you a sense for how much that growth outside the u.s. has meant to us. it's a big deal. >> that's really where the growth is, in the world today. >> right now, yeah. >> even though that's where the world is seeing the growth, you're seeing slowdown in some of

particularly david cote who is the wealthiest man in new york city. michael blumberg was. he funded the metropolitan opera. metropolitan museum of art. cancer research center is around the country but most of their money goes in to political activities and they are everywhere. the heritage foundation washington d.c.. the kenna institute when it started. and a coke brothers are suing the cato institute to get it back to be a totally controlled operation. who people -- americans for prosperity -- and dick armey's organization, john k. sick in ohio, co carothers candidate, same with scott walker. and a measure, prop 23 on the ballot to repeal the new clean car standards put in by arnold schwarzenegger that measured to repeal those standards which lost prop 23. totally funded by the cote brothers. legislation in west virginia to overturn the new mining safety rules put in place after the last mine disaster. the effort to overturn mining safety regulations funded by the cote brothers. with 53 different organizations. a lot of them research centers on colle