i would also like to thank john and john crow for supporting this tradition, which i aspired to at some point. >> thank you. [applause] >> you will be well-hung. you are jewish? all of you who would like to, we hope that you stay and eat and sleep and -- share wonderful stories. thank you, everybody. >> thank you to lead to help steer values -- continue to buy a the city history. certainly, to mr. john and gus constant, owners of john's grill for four years. it is an honor to be here. to have my picture up there. . a lot of water under p.m. very under the bridge. the firefighter was behing me, and taking good of us. i feel good about it. thank you. i think the world of chief s uhr. thank you to my co-workers. is all about teamwork. thank you very much. i consider you part of my team. thank you so much. it is a wonderful surprise. a wonderful tribute. thank you for those songs. my younger brother dan is here. my younger sister is here. and my mom, who is 86 years old. 86 is just a number. i am sorry. of all the things i've participated in, this is the most exciting moments. is part of th

into the spin room, we go as always john boehner with candy crow lee on cnn. know, mr. speaker you have been saying some harsh things about spams lately. you even called him a lose her. isn't that maybe going over the line? here is boehner's spin. >> you don't see yourself as being tougher on him? i mean these are pretty -- i mean you said you were talking about his using the presidency to campaign. you called it pathetic. these seem like election year verbiage. >> the president has received some bad advice. somebody needs to help him out. so i thought i would. >> yeah. so i did to help him out. >> that's all john boehner says. he is just helping president obama out i think john boehner when he accuses the president of faking an issue, i think john boehner is just getting a little desperate there and that is his spin it was a big weekend for all of the white house washers and we have to carry on. the beat goes on and david jackson already at work covering the white house for u.s.a. today. good morning, david. >> good morning, bill. >> yes, sir. so it was a pre

crow anymore of creep. maurice stance, found with a briefcase holding $100,000, people thought it was shocking, you have a briefcase filled with so much. and one of the well remembered momentstapes is when john dean was quizzing the president about what it would take to buy the silence of the watergate conspirators and suggested $1 million, which today would be several million today and nixon said, well, that wouldn't be a problem. i think it was generally understood that that's because all the money they were raising was considered a kind of slush fund, it just provided a lot of money in safes that could be dragged out and given to any purpose. and i think that's the sort of thing that really put a sour taste to the campaign financing of the day. >> i agree with you. i think people weren't aware of how much money was going in and that's one of the reasons that the contribution limits were part of the federal election campaign act. it's also probably behind the idea that corporations couldn't be spending money, the prohibition on corporations had been around for a much longer time period, of course, but some stricter limits came in. i also suspect that's a lot of why some of the expenditure