that was the person named tom mayer and like i told you, jim reid had taken over control of my one time i came there and tom mayer was walking around in his bathrobe and i was wondering what's this guy doing in here walking around in his bathrobe and i asked him and he said i'm paying rent to jim reid. eventually i was trying to evict tom mayer and then he was trying to extort money from me and told me if i try to evict him that he would call every department in the city and file complaints against me and that's how that complaint got filed about doors and windows is he did it. and eventually i ended up having to pay him $15,000 to move out, cash for keys. i've already paid. thank you. >> mr. duffey. >> what mr. hansen stated is when the penalty is paid and once they paid it, the only chance they can appeal the penalty is the department. just wanted to add that. >> thank you. commissioners the matter's yours. >> i'm very sympathetic to be honest. >> do you have a motion? >> yep. i'll -- i make a motion to reduce the penalty to two times. >> and just for the record, before i vote on this

. >> it you could call jim reid anderson and activist ceo. that is him on the left.m the guy on the right. we are riding el toro at his amusement park three years ago. he brought it out of bankruptcy and revamped pricing to maximize profits. admittedly, it is still a roller coaster ride. it fell during this quarter because spring break came late this year. >> we are very early in the season. only five percent of our full-year attendance. but i tell you, that is a very good start. we have seen a 25% overall increase in our passes, our combination membership and season passes. the act of days is very strong. more importantly we have seen an average per capita increase of seven percent in the quarter, following, as you know, a string of records. our stock is up fivefold. overall profitability has doubled. fourth record year in a row. more importantly, guest satisfaction is at an all-time high. >> pricing is the key here, at six flags. customers have spent seven percent more on average each time that they go to the park. the ceo says that that pricing power has not gone

jim reid anderson talking before, he took six flags out of bankruptcy. hain today. if you're green, you're growing. if you're going to rot. >> a great conversation with irwin simon. el-erian at 9:30. bill ackman at 10:00. buffett at 3:00 p.m.. those are going to be interesting. particularly bill ackman. look for matt levine again. >> el-erian is making his first comments since he left pimco. what he thinksow about europe and disinflation. to do now? you going mohamed el-erian, he is one of the brilliant minds of the bond market. >> warren buffett on, are we going back to the 1980's? >> let's get to our agenda. president obama arriving in tokyo. he is having dinner right now with the prime minister of japan. this was the first stop of his tour of asia. that does not include china. china will be the backdrop to all of this because of the disputes over different regions in the area. >> new-home sales. >> there is the president and ambassador kennedy. cool.t is new-home sales. we will see if they are cooling. yesterday, existing home sales were slightly weak

here in the cnbc exclusive, jim reid-anderson chairman and ceo of six flags entertainment.let's talk about the new ride ps we were seeing footage of the drop of doom, which is a nride t jersey which is attached to an existing ride. talk us through that one. a lot of people will travel for that. >> it is attached to king, which is the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world, adding the tallest and fastest drop ride in the world. 415 feet. we currently hold the world record in our park at l.a. and this will be the new world record here. >> it is astounding to look at. carl? would you do it? >> yes. i love -- >> you would? >> i would ride anything you can design. my favorite are the tweets that are coming in, no thanks, i'll just watch the nasdaq chart. >> is that right. >> carl, you and i have to go together. >> i would do it. >> have you done it? >> they can't make rides that are fast enough. >> as we speak. so when it opens, i'm up there, yep. all of the ride snas rides obviously coming through across, a new water park. what about the new technology, the new admissions

granddaughter to avoid any link and everything like that, but what in essence is wrong with a harry reid or a jimmith or anybody using campaign funds which are legal to use to buy gifts from a store owned by a relative? >> well, this is for people to make up their minds, they do amazing things with these campaigns as you know some politicians will every single day they'll have a charge to their local starbucks and they say they're meeting with a donor. really? on the way to work every single day? and so there's very loose rules about how these campaigns spend the money, but here he was asked about it not just by the press and by john rolston who says that harry reid has not spoken to him for years, the best-known politician in the state not speaking to the best-known journalist in the state for years because of perceived slights in the coverage of harry reid's children. >> i can't say if it's against the law or not, but it's just bush league. i can't imagine raising money and then writing checks for $17,000 to family members to give gifts to donors. it's just bush league. >> you know, if there's

chip reid talked to an american who tried it and made it. >> reporter: in 1963, jim whittaker was the first american to reach the summit of mount everest. he says he was lucky to survive. >> when we were 27,500 feet, we crawled out of the tent, and the winds are 50 miles per hour and 35 below zero. >> reporter: one member of his team died on the way up. we interviewed whittaker last year on the 50th anniversary of his historic climb. do you remember how you felt that moment when you stepped on to the top of mount everest? >> there is no feeling of exhilaration, no feeling of-- "boy, we pulled it off." we were just hanging on to life. and i knew we were out of oxygen. you're in the death zone. if you don't get down, die. >> reporter: back then, climbing everest was extremely treacherous and lonely. it's still treacherous, but far from lonely. >> it is very much a commercial business. >> reporter: conrad anker has reached the summit of everest three times. >> when jim whittaker climbed everest in 1963, he was the ninth person to the summit. and this year, there's 300-plus permitted clim

reid clinically insane? [ applause ] >> i have to know. just tell me, jim demint, you, us and friends, you worked with this guy. and shut the mikes off and go back and close the door and have a drink with harry reid. you and him sit down and you say that was a good one? you sold him you are that crazy or is he thatse sercertify? >> harry reid and i are friends. we disagree on lots. he read my book. >> did he pay attention to it? >> he did. and he is smart and knows the media doesn't hold him accountable. if republicans said what he does, where no one being hurt from obamacare, and that is lies -- >> he seems like a nasty man. like a personally nasty person. >> he is a tough guy and fights for what he believes in and the republicans expect people in the house and senate who will fight for what we believe in. >> i will leave you alone. don't get me started on shoemer. >> we are not as close. >> that is about as mason dixon like as it gets. >> questions from the audience, kelly ask it is clear that blue caller conservatives stayed home on the election show. we

jim vandehei, i mean, my opinion is, i've said it clearly, that harry reid, what he is doing is beneathhe dignity of the office you he is hold. he is lying about them. he is putting lies on his website that the white house itself discredited four years ago. harry reid still has on his website today that the koch brothers may not pay corporate taxes. that was a lie that was debunked four years ago and he is still pushing that lie today. then you got the stier brothers who are giving, what, 100 million this next year? and when you guys went to one of the stier brothers and compared them to the koch brothers, they said we take that as a compliment because, yes, we are going to do the same thing on the left. why do democrats think they can connect with middle america by engaging in mccarthy tactics and calling somebody un-american and lying about them not paying corporate taxes? i want to make this bigger about harry reid too. we remember harry reid lied during the presidential campaign and said that mitt romney hadn't paid taxes in ten years. and i'm just -- are there no democrats that are

jim is absolutely right, joy. there's no evidence that bundy or any of his relatives are violent people. but they' been captured now by this movement, emboldened by it. and senator reid just said at this event i was at that he's talked to the sheriff, who is a very solid guy and tried to resolve this peacefully, was kind of caught in the middle. he's talked to the attorney general now. eric holder, and he's talked to the fbi about finding some way to resolve all of this. some of those guys are still up there. so if you go up there and try to arrest bundy, what might happen reid when he was pressed about what might happen, he doesn't want to talk about it. but certainly all these law enforcement agencies are talking about it. but as mike ford said, it's tricky. that's the word he used and it's very, very dangerous. >> scary stuff. thanks so much. >>> and up next, a once unthinkable goal now within reach. this is "hardball" a place for politics. i procrastinated on... buying a car because i knew... it would be a scary process. truecar made it very easy... for me to negotiate, because i didn't really need to do any negotiating at all. save time, save money, and never ov

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jim from new hampshire on our line for independence. -- for independents. caller: i think it is time we institutionalize harry reid. up here in new hampshire we have one company that offers the individual market. if you didn't sign up on march 31 you are out in the cold for the rest of the year until november 15. there is nothing as an individual we can buy, which really confuses me. i thought obama care was supposed to open health care to everybody all the time. now we can't even buy a policy, even though we only have one company that will offer it. they don't even offer it until november 15. if you could comment on that, i would like to know why they are shutting the market down until november 15 and. guest: the caller mentioned moran's comments about the koch brothers. republicans understand democrats are trying to make this an issue and they have to push back to a certain extent, even though a lot of the public doesn't know who these brothers are. republicans aren't you going to sit back and let harry reid has his say about the koch brothers -- harry reid have his say about the koch brothers. it could potential