eliot spitzer, he rounded prostitutes, and people knew who he was. but if you are a super correct person, then you really stumble very hard. >> so megan, it sounds like how you politically brand yourself. if you brand yourself as mr. family values, and you have indiscretions opposite of that, you have a harder row to hoe coming back? >> that may be true, but it was clear that he was going on hiking trips, but they were trips to visit his mistress. and i think that the thing is don't get caught doing it a second time. and in the case of anthony weiner, don't do something reckless and embarrassing. besides the betrayal of his wife, it was very hard to get that image out of your head, and therefore, very hard to want him to be a politician. >> councilor, are some states in districts more tolerant than others? i think of bitter louisiana, who had a fairly easy go coming back, and i think of sauder, in indiana, who had a hard time coming back after an affair with one of his aids. >> a cowriter, we looked into this, to see if there was a difference in co r

youwhole allegations brought up were started by eliot spitzer. down, he knocking me then got knocked down himself. eliot spitzer and i have had this weird relationship ever since then. one thing somebody said to me at the beginning of the process that i was going through is, don't lose yourself in the moment. life is long, just continue to move forward. eliot spitzer and i have sort of become friends, 10 to 15 years later. it has been amazing to see that. quick so you started business insider, and where is it today? how has it evolved? wereen we started, there three people on the loading dock of another start up. the first day, 2000 readers came to the site. we were overjoyed him and the next week it dwindled down to 1300. now we have 35 million people a month reading the content, including lots of very loyal users or -- who are coming every day. we have about 65 people in the newsroom. it has evolved into a thriving, growing journalism business, which is wonderful to see in an era when a lot of news organizations -- >> what is your ambition? wha

the whole allegations that you brought up were started by eliot spitzer,. >> rose: right. >> and when i -- after him knocking me down, came back through slate, he got knocked down himself and he came back in slate and eliot spitzer and i have had this weird relationship ever since then and one thing that somebody said to me at the beginning of the process that i was going through is, don't husband yourself in the moment, life is long, just continue to move forward and what is remarkable is eliot spitzer and i have sort of become friends ten or fifteen years later and so it has been amazing to see that. >> rose: you start business insider and where is it today? >> today? > how has i evolved. >> we started three people in the loading dock of another publisher we started publishing the first day and first day 2000 readers came to the site and overjoyed and it sort of ginled down to 1,300 and said we are in trouble but then it began to climb and now we have 35 million people a month who are reading the content, including lots of very, very loyal users coming every day, with stress 150 peo

juniper isn't the only faltering technology name to be challenged by eliot. last week, we saw eliot strike out at river bend, which immediately took off from 17 to 20. that's a very big run. i think eliot's management moves tells you that down and out techs of which there are so many could be very undervalued if they have good balance sheets and lots of excellent customers. they just haven't been running their businesses that well. i think they haven't been hungry. nothing motivates management better than the attention of an activist hedge fund. finally, there was even good news in the health care space. remember how i said i lay out ten potential breakup plays in "get rich carefully," companies that should be restructured to bring out value. well, one of them's merck. and it seems that maybe merck read jim cramer's "get rich carefully." that's what they're doing, possibly exploring the sale of the animal health unit, which as i said in the new book, would create an immediate and substantial bump in the stock. and that's what happened today, with merck rallyi

not ten cents eliot spitzer was a disaster as the a.g. and he was obviously turned out to be a disaster as governor. but you may have a whole imprinting rainer thing where he's a pervert there's no question that you know he's a pervert i mean with wit is a crude word we well know he really is i mean he's a sick person now here's a guy that they call them and he goes and the public sort of for a gave enough that he was actually leading in a poll and close another poster right and i couldn't believe it and then he did it again he did the whole thing again. the tweeting or whatever the hell he was doing and i said can you believe it and then he went down like a rocket ship ok so but he's a sick person and a guy like he'll always do it and i can only give his wife a little bit of advice get out of their finances because it's not going to change you know these perverts when you're that way it doesn't change right to speak up the couple of other quick things avoid what i didn't like it much anyways aboard the old post office yes one of my favor

eliot spitzer had brought the case and he was brought down by the same gentleman through tax malfeasanceranted a pardon by the president. and then the president quickly revoked the pardon because it brought it back to his administration. host: talking about a federal investigation, we're talking about the state integrity project that's run by the center for public integrity. did you have a question on that? caller: this was a pardon that was granted through the attorney fred fielding who sat on the 9/11 commission. he had been replaced harriett meyers as the president's personal secretary. host: do you know about this? guest: i'm not familiar with the case. but i think the caller also touches on a larger point, which is new york is one of the states that has had all sorts of problems with corruption particularly in the state legislature. the state -- there have been any number of state legislators who have gotten in serious trouble in the last few years and this has become a big controversy in albany. right now, governor cuomo is proposing a stiffer ethics regime in new york. but whether

now, don't blame me for -- i will take responsibility for eliot spitzer because he worked for me as a research assistant and he was one of the best i had. one day i said to him you are working so hard. go out and have some fun. well, i don't know -- [laughter] the response of devotee is the political view and my job is not to turn the conservatives and liberals or liberals and conservatives but better and political thinkers. the same thing as true as a liberal. >> the book sets the scene worthy of a biographer is presented as a witness taking the stand, to extend the metaphor who do you see as the judge and as the jury? >> it's a great question. and america of course the ultimate the legal system is determined more by what the american people think than of what the judges think. no matter what the supreme court has said about obscenity, clearly turn on your cable television, go to any video store, go on the internet coming and we see the public has prevailed. you can see and watch anything. obviously not pornography because that exploits children and that is an ongoing crime, but when

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don't blame me for -- out take responsibility for eliot spitzer. i'll tell you why. because he worked for me as a research assistant and you vote for the best research assistants i ever had any worked so hard. one day i said, you're working so hard, go out and have fun cao something. well, i don't know whether that was -- [laughter] but i take no responsibility for ted cruz and his political views. my job as a professor is not to turn conservatives into liberals are liberals into conservatives. it's to make them better analytical thinkers. if you came into my class conservatives i want you to leave as a smart conservative. same true with a liberal. >> your introduction in the book sets the scene with the autobiography as presented as a witness taking a stand to extend this metaphor a bit, who do you see as the judge and who do see as the jury? >> it's a great question, and in america of course the ultimate jury i is a the american people. our legal system is determined more about what the american people think than what nine judges think. no matter what the supreme c

no problem on the way to splitville for eliot spitzer.keswoman says he and his wife parted ways after 26 years of marriage. >>> not running for a 12th term is representative mckeown. at this hour, there still has been no official retirement announcement. from the california republicans that is expected later this morning. >>> for his 43rd birthday, congressman thomas massie got his first lego set from a fellow congressman. scott brown has a new website and sure looks like he is running for something. many analysts expect the republican to challenge gene shaheen this year. >>> tennessee lawmakers want to ban obamacare from buying coverage for their employees through insurance exchanges. some 36,000 people in the state have enrolled in obamacare coverage. >>> you can snap chat with senator rand paul. his first toast was a short friendly video but the second was a joke directed at the nsa. you can see it right here. hey, nsa, check this out. you've been moved. kind of funny. first lady michelle obama is celebrating the big 5-0 tomorrow befor

i've taught 10,000 student, and they've ranged from ted cruz on the right to eliot spitzer. now, don't blame me for, you know -- [laughter] i'll take responsibility for eliot spitzer, i'll tell you why. was he worked -- because he worked for me as a research assistant, and he was one of the best i ever had. and he worked so hard. one day i said to him, elliott, you're working so hard, go out, have fun. well, i don't know whether that was the cause -- [laughter] but, you know, i take no responsibility for ted cruz's political views. my job as a professor is not to turn conservatives into liberals or liberals into curs, it's to make them better analytic thinkers. if the you came into my class as a conservative, i want you to leave a smarter conservative, and the same thing is through -- true as a liberal. >> your introduction sets the scene where the autobiographer is set as a witness taking the stand. to extend this metaphor, who do you see as the judge and as the juriesome. >> that's a great question. and, you know, in america, of course, the ultimate jury are the american p

>> i was prominently displayed in the new york post next to kim kardashian and eliot spitzer.ave arrived. i am ready. >> what about profitability? we see your aggressive moves. others in the industry are making aggressive moves because t-mobile is. what does that mean in terms of service? >> if you look -- one of the things i quietly did this year is to take money out of the cost structure. i do not have a macklemore party. i did have a suite at the super bowl. they don't have the cost or to just -- compete. with these plans, i can very profitably grow. but as i can speak to. >> in terms of ultimately how many people you could bring aboard, with all the announcements today, any idea on how many new customers you think this could bring to t-mobile? >> put it this way, the original plan was hopefully to be slightly negative in the postpaid business in 2013. i raise it to 1.8 million. we've have seen accelerated growth. the momentum continues. at&t 2.2 to one, sprint 3.6 to one. verizon, 1.3. so we are moving. >> jon erlichman with john leger. have you ever wanted to watch eight

, but i was prominently displayed in the "new york post" right next to kim kardashian's selfie and eliotoe sucking. >> t-mobile and others are making aggressive moves. what about how profitable it can be? >> one of the things i quietly did this years is took 1.5 billion dollars out of the cost structure. you do not see me having a macklemore party. these guys do not have the speed to move. they are going to have to wake up. all i can tell you is with these plans, i can very profitably grow, and that is all i can speak to. >> in terms of ultimately how many people you can bring on board, my first question, any idea on how many customers you think this could bring to t- mobile? >> put it this way. originally, the plan when i came over was hopefully it could be slightly negative in 2013 but incrementally positive in q4, and then i gave guidance of 1.1 demo 1.2 million, and i raised it, and we did 2 million, so we are seeing this accelerated growth. i will give guidance when we give earnings in february, but the momentum continues, and reporting ratios and in january 1, at&t 2.4 to one. veri

eliot spitzer and anthony wiener, and of course bill clinton and teddy kennedy was the only confirmedto be anti-women. it's not like any woman was going to vote for obama after that sign with the fat girl taking her clothes off. point out, look at the head of all these, they're always cheating. >> conservatives that see that we're bankrupting our kids and grand kids and robbing them blind. we cracked over the piggy bank years ago. why do we say if women ought to pay for their own birth control, now that is defined as a war on women. most americans don't care what other americans are doing. >> but it's also not something ha shou that should be covered by insurance. it would be like forcing auto insurers to cover oil changes. it has nothing to do with insurance unless you hear that family down the street went bankrupt because they couldn't afford birth control. it's for catastrophes. a fire, a hurricane. it's not day by day behavior. >> it's kathleen willie, paula jones. >> that's why i think it's worth mentioning among the many lies we are constantly being told, how popular bill clinto

everyone remembers eliot spitzer resigning in his prostitution scandal. let's not forget, the state comptroller who just got out of prison last september for his role in the state pension fund scheme. all that is before you get to new york's congressional delegation, which is a thing of beauty, congressman lee, who no one could pick out of the photo lineup, until he forgot to crop his head out of the selfies he posted looking for a date. christopher lee is a congress, congressman anthony weiner, the pecks on the right is a democrat. but again, in new york this really is a bipartisan kumbaya situation. in 2010, mayors got michael grimm, they also lost eric massa. that was one of the weirder exits from congress ever. >> now they're saying i groped a male staffer. yeah, i did, not did i grope him? i tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on me. it was my 50th birthday, you can take anything out of context. >> his staffers didn't just see it as being out of context, and eric massa is gone. veto basella, he had the most surprising ending ev

the pbs affiliate with the public affairs show it is on five nights a week is a forerunner of cable eliot produced by martin berndt said just extraordinary great fun. to give me the opportunity when i love every day. so to interview people since they teach 895 days a week that is 50 incitements a day a few of the interview people with half of those you have 25,000 interviews. so in the book "the happiest life" every klay major viewed more than 10,000 then made a long list of the happiest people i've met but then i wrote them down in the context of what they occurred and out of that came the happiest life and jonathan was good too rigid and has spread widely in and well-received by an extraordinary array of people. the archbishop gave it a glowing review with the msnbc columnist he is always wrong but he is a terrific guest and with these polarized times somebody like hugh hewitt who reaches across the chasm of with good cheer for go the i do but i am glad he wrote that but america's finest sports writer i got to think why are sold the people so nice about the book? i was in new york durin

wincing s eliot's the turkey is unstable. there certainly are a lot of uncertainty in terms of who will who will take a leadership unity in the islamist party and how unified it will be after that because it's it's it's certainly possible that in the hip fractures along those lines and the majority right now becomes your coalition were to give importance to the scheme is postmodern world is stuck on a male model. seems to survive a self aware we're looking at cherokee antarctic scientists believe that maybe could have a nice when you can view and decrepit concept of state with some sort of democracy in the can on the economy working well is he being read to and all that which is still weak old terry to keep its economy up. andy and now we are seeing that it's collapsing from the inside and the reasons industry and succeeds collapsing are a lot of people who are religious and a chiseled into the schools because the good schools. and yes the text and it's on the private eye sight all of these anti mormon girl annie a manhole an

tech company juniper networks beat earnings just about five days ago, also not long after eliot managementtive on it. as the "journal" points out, other companies are strengthening their poison pills, they are changing and some ways making it harder to get through the board nomination process in order to ward off activists. with the juniper example, for example, you can't just whip up a good quarter just to fight back an activist. that is obviously something that happens organically. if you look at the dividends and buy-backs, these are things we may see more of as loud-mouthed hedge fund investors start to demand better returns. >> i thought you actually had a climate developing where in this new age of activism the companies themselves were trying to have a more, you know, better relationship with the activists rather than a confrontational thing. >> i think that is happening as well around the margins. i certainly hear hedge funds talking a little more about they call it constructivism, they want a more collaborative approach with management. i do think that's going on. i think maybe at

no., i was prominently displayed in the new york post next to kim kardashian's photoshop selfie and eliotking someone's toes in a bathtub. i've arrived. >> it's working. t-mobile has done something that all carriers have been scared to do. they are lowering the average revenue per user. that's a really hard thing for a cell phone carrier to accept, getting less per month than they are so terrified to follow them that they are bribing them with $250 down on a device just to get them down to get them back into the at&t system. what he's doing is actually very challenging. >> that is what they did to grab market share. it's what they've been doing and it's why they have margins of about 0.1%. >> what is with the balding guy wearing a gold chain with the unicorn horn? only 11-year-old kids love macklemore. >> this is the most effective rebranding. >> we've talked about them more in the last week. >> they had catherine zeta jones, then they had the t- mobile girl. the gold chain guide demographic. >> he does a neat stuff. >> he did not meet to get kicked out so we walked in wearing a pink t-mo

the senate his republican colleagues him a standing ovation when he came back and on the other hand eliot spitzer not so much these guys get caught well wasn't going to bill clinton's political career but he did get impeached over over lying about anthony weiner he's gone newt gingrich on the other hand when he was prosecuting bill clinton from the floor of the house of representatives would literally leave that prosecution of bill clinton was great speeches and go back to his office and to get on with calista while he was married to somebody else so it's like. as it is there all the hypocrisy in the republican party where one minute i think the big difference so tom it's one of those those two things that it all has to do with the perpetrator and how he responds to it but doing it isn't going to run for governor of louisiana and i know david vitter though. he repented of it he has gotten you know your ability should your i'm just saying no i'm saying that there should be forgiveness i do i don't think that one incident should eliminate you from public service nuking grits you know he was

for me, i am loving eliot spitzer and his jamaica trip. >> it is cold outside. we have got record lows across the country today. yesterday in chicago, minus six degrees. we will struggle. >> that is not a wind chill. that is the low. and the in the midwest northeast. today in atlanta, the low is minus five in orlando. class and they cannot handle it. i cannot imagine taking my kids to disney world. orlando --in orlando, -- people in minneapolis are ready for. people had no shirts on. >> the lows yesterday, 10,000 employees. there is a huge market impact everywhere. electricity is soaring. the cost of the and materials used to make it our going way up. price, look -- spot all the way on the right-hand side. $60. per million british thermal units. usually $4.80. >> kerry, do you think it is cold? >> americans are not surprised by this. we have seen polling data in which 60% of americans say weather patterns in the country have become more unstable. say weather is becoming more extreme. weather-related disasters are becoming more serious. isple are where something

and yes, our eyes are on congressman eliot engel of new york who is coming up on the right of your screen. for years now, he has made it his business to stand on the aisle and greet the president, except when the president turns the other way. >> you see cantor right there behind the president. they're all getting together on thursday. and one of the early tests, brian, is going to be raising the debt ceiling. and they're going to be talking about how they might tie some of their wish list to raising the debt ceiling like rolling back some of his executive authorities that the president is going to be asserting tonight. >> let's listen in to some of these greetings as all is fair and everybody knows our microphones are down on the floor of the house. >> you know i won't. good, good. >> thank you. >> how are you? how are you this evening? i hope you're doing well. good. good to see you, brother. good to see you. good to see you. good to see you. john kerry, glad you could make it, man. >> threw her arms around the president. >> not all the supreme court justices go. justice alito, him shak

shows, sec rules promulgated in 2003 by the securities & exchange commission and eliot spitzer when he general, they were supposed to erect all the barriers they are not working if you can get away with this. lori: look at the fundamentals of this stock. goldman sachs pays analysts hefty bucks, right to actually make educated calls on the behalf of stock prices. i'm defending goldman sachs a little bit. 65 from 58. that is 40% upgrade. >> that is pretty big, when you think, listen, one of the things, if you noticed facebook, follow facebook's history. facebook is doing fairly well. the investors were inittally skeptical. it had to prove itself, that it could make money on mobile applications right? it did that. the it proved itself. twitter is money losing company. facebook is not a money-losing company. they have to prove themselves. i think general consensus on the street is that, they haven't yet proved themselves. now, you know goldman came out and said something totally different. they believe this is, the stock's going to run up. we should point out, just from a fundamental stand

and you will see eliot engel of new york, who has been there since the 11th of january. now we have to get the seat. >> ifill: the president in the last few days has said he will do whatever he wants toot without congress. he considers congress to be intransigent. but there are rituals you go through in the city, in this capital, and also we're going to see about 20 people in the first lady's box tonight. remember when-- all of a sudden we have a lot of american here whose are part of that box. >> woodruff: well, they do look like they're enjoying each other's company right now. >> they are politicians. we need to sleep and eat. they need other people. and they do thrive on each other's company. and let's face it, when you're in the room, it's kind of electric. it's a much smaller room than it looks like on television. it's crowded. and they just love each other's company. >> woodruff: it's interesting for all the pomp and circumstance here, essentially everybody agrees that not a whole lot changes as a result of this event. they come together. it's a formal occasion. th

especially in a tri-state area when prosecutors become politicians, eliot spitzer, rudy giuliani, that'stion that gets thrown around. sometimes it is dead-on accurate. sometimes it is just political opponents trying to find the negative spin on a core tribute that seems to be broadly popular. chris christie gives broadly popular new jersey. this is what his opponents have been gripe being. you have a very urgent smoking gun and national media attention and that's why this is such a pivotal moment in the christie administration. >> you know, dana bash brought up something interesting. she said that republicans weren't so into chris christie anyway, it wasn't because of his bullying, it was because of his politics. maybe we are jumping the gun of thinking christie would win the presidency in 2016 anyway. >> that's what i have been saying. look, i keep reading in the press that chris christie is the front-runner for the republican nomination. no, there is no front-runner. there is not a single one of the approximately eight potential candidates that even has 20% of the republican vote in th

in negotiations and working together in a bipartisan way in the house, but our team in the house, eliot engel and myself, have been working with the senate and they have an identical bill to this. this bill re-authorizes the national poison control center's toll free number, the poison center's nationwide media campaign, and the grant program which provides funds for over 50 poison centers nationwide, including the one in omaha, nebraska, that i recently visited. currently 56 poison centers its all 50 states and territories, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. yes, even christmas. these centers provide professional advice from doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and toxicology specialists, people calling in questions or concerns regarding potential exposure to harmful toxins. nebraska's poison control center has a direct relationship with our medical center and you'll find that very common in many communities and states. in 2010 alone, the annual report of the poison control centers reported over three million calls received and served by the centers. in 2012, more than 3.9 million calls were

slaughter: madam speaker, for the purpose of unanimous consent request, i yield to congressman eliot engel of new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. engel: i ask unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record in support of extending unemployment insurance for 1.6 million americans. we really have to have compassion for people. people are starving. we need to help them. that's what congress needs to be about. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. slaughter: madam speaker, i yield for unanimous consent request to congressman alcee hastings of florida. mr. hastings: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record of supporting extending unemployment insurance to 1.6 million americans instead of this radical republican assault on women's health care rights. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. slaughter: madam speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the time of embellishment by the gentleman from new york will be charged against the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: th

members of numbers -- of commerce on the delegation -- eliot engel, debbie wasserman schultz. -- service has been ongoing time difference. we are getting some other material today and we will show you that in our program schedule. timothy from montgomery, alabama. caller: thank you for taking my call so much. just to let you know, i am in the final year of law school, and this issue is very intriguing to me. i have 2 quick points and then i will leave y'all be. first of all, the level of racism that i personally have experienced with regards to president obama is just astounding. host: what do you mean? caller: growing up in the south, particularly alabama, you learn so much more about civil rights struggle that in other places, i would be willing to that. even here in montgomery, this is the heart of the civil rights movement in many respects, the cradle of the confederacy. and there is lingering hatred that simmers under the surface. people use terminology that overtas hot button or as because it isn't socially acceptable -- host: so if that is what you see and hear, link it to the top

and there had been a class action lawsuit brought by eliot spitzer as well as a few others who just bayicovernmental fraud. i believe he invoked the law against these gentlemen as well as at the time it was the county executive out on the eastern end of long island. by 9/11 they had stated that the files were lost in the world trade center and so that they threw out the whole case, the $30 million suit was defeated and the judge put it aside. elyt spitzer had brought the case and he was brought down by the same gentleman through tax malfeasance. and then ultimately the gentleman involved was granted a pardon by the president. and then the president quickly revoked the pardon because it brought it back to his administration. host: talking about a federal investigation, we're talking about the state integrity project that's run by the center for public integrity. did you have a question on that? caller: this was a pardon that was granted through the attorney fred fielding who sat on the 9/11 commission. he had been replaced haretyt meyers as the president's personal secretary. host: do you

be that you can hold these institutions up -- >> whoa, whoa, whoa, did you miss the entire reign of elioti saw it. so what. it's just another example. >> why forgo the money? >> what are you saying. >> if you can shake people down, why not do it? >> because it's wrong. >> oh! >> because it's wrong. i'm going to sit on my high moralistic -- >> okay. look at how many settlements there have been. how many have gone to conclusion? how many? zero. >> very few. >> how much money has been raised. >> billions and billions and billions. >> that's the problem. go after the individual or change the law so you can go after the individual. where are you on this? >> this is one of the reasons bank stocks are cheap by historical standards. they don't know what the liability will be. whether that goes on you'll have a discount. >>> record cold hitting as many as 187 million americans. meteorologists are calling it a polar vortex. joe, do you buy into the whole polar vortex thing? >> that's weather. yes. that's what's happening. not hard to understand. >> flight aware -- >> i don't know how global warming