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ok time for happy hour and joining me this evening is sam knight producer for the show and derek thompson senior editor at the atlantic gentlemen thank you for joining me and good to be here with up. ok so we know that the reagan fanatics out there that are their desire to be one with a break and it's just never quenched and so now there is actually an auction going on p.f.c. auctions a company based in the u.k. they announced on sunday they would sell the vial of blood of reagan or a vial of blood of reagan in an auction is going to end on thursday they said the latest bid for the vial stood at nine thousand nine hundred and ten dollars. and foundations pissed. as you can imagine. so i heard this was taken from you know the assassination attempt when he was at george washington hospital so the real question here is was jodie foster and prince right now exactly and the thing is you have to think. what evidence they have this is ronald reagan's but was it cold well they say that it came the seller wrote the file came from his or her late mother who took it from her workplace at the marylan

. >> derek thompson, senior editor and daniel stone 7 ario reporter for newsweek daily beast. we going to do about all of these evil private equity people in this country? is private equity an evil business run by evil men and women? >> i don't think it's an evil business. i don't -- no know enough of the men and women to make a judgment about their goodness and evilness. i doubt they are evil. >> i don't think president obama is saying it's an evil business either. >> no. i think mitt romney's private equity experience is fair game. this is a guy who is saying, i should be president based upon the quality of my business experience. so it's totally fair game to analyze his business experience and question whether or not it makes him fit to run the country. now, i happen to think that running a private equity firm, even fabulously successfully as mitt romney did is not indicative of the -- of -- is not in and of itself indicative of whether or not someone is going to be a good president. i think it's more important to look at what he said he is going to do in the future than to