i'm joined here today by our founder, jim mccarthy and june mccarthy, who didn't want to get up. and also students from saint peters, which is the school you visited in the mission. we had 159 students there, and we are honored to open this door for over 18,000 students since 1998 with scholarships. we have supported 4100 students this year. we are so honored to be here today on behalf of our founder, and our cofounder, our very generous board and donors, our wonderful network of schools and most importantly the thousands of families we support each with year. we can't thank you enough for this recognition and support. >> congratulations. [applause] >> our final commendation of the afternoon goes to our district six supervisor, supervisor kim. >> thank you. i was trying to think of all the commendations we were hearing today and there's a clear theme of public service. i'm excited to end by acknowledging a type of public service, which is a partnership of our city public service and our private citizens and i wanted to thank -- please come up. thank you supervisor mar for bringin

i met with jim mccarthy yesterday to say -- we want a robust, renewable fuel standard. we want to be able to convert more of our corn and other anducts to renewable fuels be less dependent on foreign oil. that has been working well in this country and we think it would be a big mistake to cave in to big oil. that is something that iowans are united behind on a bipartisan basis. from our next call comes tom, vermont, independent line. good morning to you, sir. caller: how are you doing? host: great, thanks --guest: great, thanks. theer: alcohol belongs in glass, not the gas. we are taking our food and we are burning it, turning it into alcohol, burning it and cars. the alcohol is also causing tremendous damage to the motor vehicles, as well as -- you bought the line from big oil, hook, line, and sick -- sinker. pollutealso attended to the groundwater on the east and west coast. you ought to come to the midwest and see how this is working effectively, what it has done in creating jobs and reducing our dependency on foreign oil. you just have a lot of misinformation put ou

i met with jim mccarthy yesterday to say -- we want a robust, renewable fuel standard. we want to be able to convert more of our corn and other anducts to renewable fuels be less dependent on foreign oil. that has been working well in this country and we think it would be a big mistake to cave in to big oil. that is something that iowans are united behind on a bipartisan basis. from our next call comes tom, vermont, independent line. good morning to you, sir. caller: how are you doing? host: great, thanks --guest: great, thanks. theer: alcohol belongs in glass, not the gas. we are taking our food and we are burning it, turning it into alcohol, burning it and cars. the alcohol is also causing tremendous damage to the motor vehicles, as well as -- you bought the line from big oil, hook, line, and sick -- sinker. pollutealso attended to the groundwater on the east and west coast. you ought to come to the midwest and see how this is working effectively, what it has done in creating jobs and reducing our dependency on foreign oil. you just have a lot of misinformation put ou

i'm jim mccarthy, the owner and technical director of aoc key solutions and the host of this show. now, as our regular viewers know, government contracting weekly is all about helping contractors win or retain contracts. that's also the mission of key solutions, and i'm proud to say that to date, we have helped our clients win over $130 billion in government contracts. so while our guests are generally top contracting executives and agency procurement leaders from across the industry, in today's show i'm joined by two of my colleagues right here at key solutions. together they bring decades of successful contracting experience and expertise to a discussion we're calling "tools of the trade." now, with me this morning is richard nathan, the president and ceo of key solutions, and keith highfill, our senior vice president and chief technology officer. now, we're going to cover a lot of ground, so let's get right to it. first question is what's the key to developing a winning strategy? richard nathan: well, you know, what's interesting is that we've had 40, 50 executives on this show

i met with jim mccarthy yesterday to say -- we want a robust, renewable fuel standard.want to be able to convert more of our corn and other anducts to renewable fuels be less dependent on foreign oil. that has been working well in this country and we think it would be a big mistake to cave in to big oil. that is something that iowans are united behind on a bipartisan basis. from our next call comes tom, vermont, independent line. good morning to you, sir. caller: how are you doing? host: great, thanks --guest: great, thanks. theer: alcohol belongs in glass, not the gas. we are taking our food and we are burning it, turning it into alcohol, burning it and cars. the alcohol is also causing tremendous damage to the motor vehicles, as well as -- you bought the line from big oil, hook, line, and sick -- sinker. pollutealso attended to the groundwater on the east and west coast. you ought to come to the midwest and see how this is working effectively, what it has done in creating jobs and reducing our dependency on foreign oil. you just have a lot of misinformation put out by

familiar faces here from both political party, including house majority whip kevin mccarthy and assistant democratic leader jimlyburn. >> as for me, i'm just the lowly house majority whip. i keep things moving in a congress choked by pettiness and lassitude. >> no, the bill is going to come up this wednesday. i never make such big decisions so long after sunset and so far from dawn. it's still going to come up. >> i have no patience for useless things. >> i have zero tolerance for betrayal. >> power is a lot like real estate. location, location, location. >> well be, sure to keep an eye out for me, actually, if you're binging this weekend. i was lucky enough to have a small role this season in an episode directed by claire underwood herself, the ever gracious robin wright. there we are at the studio right here in this room. >>> up next, ted cruz's latest stunt, this guy is causing trouble for the rs. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. ♪ [ man ] i don't know if this is gonna be a first or second, but this is gonna be a medal! [ man #2 ] and it looks like we could have another one of those photo

jim thomps thompson. he's the best, really brutal, vicious, short crime novels. no, you would like it. >> i wrote it down, and you said vicious crime. you had me read the cormic mccarthy book. >> blood meridian. may be the greatest book ever. >> a beautifully written book -- >> the scalping bothered you. >> it was bad. >> dana, for you. how did you get to meet dirks bentley? >> persistence. >> you're a stalker. >> a little bit. i'm a fan. >> >> he's kind of tall -- well, everybody is, compared -- >> does he look like he's ready to exit stage left. >> i know sometimes on the tour bus they have watched us because they knew about the show, about bob. everybody loves bob. they wished i had taken bob to the concert. >> everybody loves bob. >> lynyrd skynyrd loves bob. >> the album comes out february 25th. there's 11 days left. >> can't wait for that. >> this is the last one, to eric from ron p. you don't eat red meat. i want to know, does this help you to run five miles a day. >> did you write that. >> i run five miles on saturday and sunday. i try to do some during the week, and with this weather, it's a disaster. >> why do you not eat red meat? >> my mom was having chemo