. >> i'll invite my friend don carl back to the stage to ask some of the questions that the audience wrote out earlier this evening. don? >> well, we have some questions from the audience and to sort of connect with the concluding comments, we have one question. that asks if, david, you would care to speculate about how your grandfather, eisenhower, what he would think about the vast sums of money in politics today. >> well, i think it would be, geez, it's difficult. we haven't resolved that issue. actually, political contributions were not really very regulated in that era, as far as i, as far as i know. i think the idea that we have to somehow regulate and control expenditures and presidential campaigns awareness of that developed during the eisenhower years. but i think it's difficult to try to imagine what an individual 40, 50 years ago would try to make of the circumstances that he's in now. i know that, in fact, i'll paraphrase a famous or i would say paraphrase a maxim that i live by. history is never a guide to the future, but history gives us confidence in the future. i don't

. >> and committee chairman carl stokes says a vote may not happen for another one to two weeks. don, back to you. >> thank you very much, andrea. >>> some council members are telling wjz they are waiting to see what happens with the state budget in annapolis before they make a decision about the bottle tax in this city. >>> a list actor kevin bacon shares the spotlight for a charity competition at the university of maryland college park. he was on campus last night to judge a do good show down. students presenting their ideas to help charities using social media, a challenge set by the star himself. and bacon says he is blown away by the students efforts. >> it is great to see a generation here you know coming up that is interested and involved and motivated to get back. >> former basketball coach gary williams also judge the competition. the winning team came up with an idea to collect all the the unused food around the campus and donate it to homeless shelters. >>> turning to sports the orioles will wrap up their series in chicago coming off a disappointing night with the white so

carl stanley. it was very important to me because geraldine ferraro was a mentor to me to have don vaccaro and thomas occurred to me. [applause] so i'm about to tell you something henry kissinger wouldn't. where to begin with? trajectory of hillary clinton's career stunned and i am pleased to have known her and i worked with her throughout much of it. while this isn't a retirement dinner, here that hillary? or retirement dinner. tonight we honor you for the entire arch of your career from sure of the legal services corporation during the carter administration, a white house were hillary and i served to first lady of arkansas and first lady of the united states to u.s. senator from new york and of course secretary of state. i was in beijing in 1995 and part of this small delegation on when and when first lady hillary clinton had erred the iconic rally cry for eval quality. you just heard it in our film. that same year, the formation of the council and the only organization for women who had countries and that has 47 members and just last year we located where else? to the wilson center. with strong su

don will continue to drive the company forward. >> he's a friend of "squawk" but i think -- i'm worried. >> he was on "squawk on the street" last week. >> was he really? >> yeah, carle right. >> maybe we can get ronald mcdonald on here and we'll go head to head with him on that. >> or the hamburglar. >> the hamburglar? >> we have a long history with ronald mcdonald. >> someone's politics -- if someone is going to dress up as a clown, it's not going to be me, my friend. >> aren't there girl clowns? >> yeah. >> this is a running theme we've had this morning. can't do math either. >> appreciate it. >> okay, see you. >> still to come this morning, this is the two-year anniversary of the bp oil disaster in the gulf. and while a fund was set up to help pay off the victims of the disaster, many have yet to see a payout. our brian shactman is going to tell us why in just a little bit. "squawk box" will be right back. >> when you miss "squawk box," you miss market analysis from the top names on wall street. when you miss market analysis from the top names on wall street, you don't get the pore fo fo -- portfolio growth you need to retire and when you have to work way past y

carl and i were in a bubble and protected. work when you are protected and encouraged to get to the bottom of the story. don gramm and his mother was the publisher were the backbone of the institution. when she asked when we going to get to know the whole story of watergate -- this was in early 1973 when the stories we had written were not believed, when we answered that this is a big cover-up and massive criminal conspiracy, people are being paid for their silence, our answer was never. she said the very memorable, never, don't tell me never. >> can you talk about that day? do you remember it well? june 17, 1972. can you tell us about that day for each of you? >> sure. i was one of two chief virginia reporters. i came into the office working on a profile for the weekend of lt. gov. henry howell of virginia who was running for governor. i heard this commotion around the city desk that there had been a break-in at democratic headquarters at the watergate and it seemed like a more interesting story than the one i was working on at the moment. [laughter] i said can i make some phone calls and i got on the phon

carl and i were in a bubble and protected. it is nice to work when you are protected and encouraged to get to the bottom of the story. don graham is here. his mother who was the publisher really was the backbone of the institution, and as we have often said, when she asked when are we going to get to know the whole story in 1973 when the stories we had written were not believed. when we answered this is a big cover-up, a massive conspiracy, people are being paid for their silence. our answer was "never" and she said the memorable "never don't tell me nothing." >> just to bring us back, do you remember that day? june 17, 1972? can you tell us about that day for each of you? >> sure. he was one of the two chief virginia reporters. i came into the office working on a profile over the weekend of lieutenant governor henry howe from virginia who was running for governor. i heard a commotion around the city desk that there had been a break-in at the democratic head quarters at watergate. it seemed like a more interesting story than the one i was working on at the moment. so i said, can i make some phone calls. i got on the phon