all i have is merriam-hodgman, john hancock insurance and chips ahoy. >> jon: you merged with those?ee you the press release announcing our new name? >> jon: no, i have not. merry cocks ahoy. >> merry cocks ahoy. >> jon: indeed. >> not indeed just merry cocks ahoy. >> jon: have you market tested that name? >> why would i? i want to make sure it sells well so i cep my profits and run a responsible company so i don't have to run to the government for a bailout. you are the dictionary definition of --[cheers and app] >> jon: welcome back. over the years, italy has had its share of problems. centuries of occupation by foreign powers, a variety of failed governments spanning from merely corrupt to fascist and worst of all actors who don't know how floors work. no, that's what the spaces are for. now italy is faced with the spiciest problem. >> the country in political chaos after an election without a clear winner. >> it's at risk of becoming ungovernable. >> probably a big as mess as i could be. >> jon: who hold an election and can't figure out who the winner is? that would be us s 13 ye

that john hancock fund is one of our favorites in the space. liz: took a big dive in december. anything to worry about there? >> i don't think so. i think people were concerned about the fiscal cliff and what was going to happen there, so i think that was just a temporary market dip, but i don't think that investors have anything to worry about there. liz: i want your ow veers -- i want our viewers to know you have earmarked nine funds. we have put them up on our facebook.com/liz claman so you can see these tax advantage dividend funds so you know you won't be taxed away with all the profits of what you have been making. thank you for educating us in the fundamental of funds. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. liz: cara is a morningstar analyst talking to us live on president's day. president's day, you know that means time to go shopping. retailers across the country are slashing prices offering all kinds of deals to draw you inside the stores to spend. but hold on to your wallet, coming up, we have a deal for you. ddr corp. manages the shopping centers for all the b

who they represent, they represent very large insurance companies including the heartford and john hancock and the reply brief tries to create a new entity and if you start playing with those names, first of all you come up with a company in irvine california which is vocal point insurance service and if you come up, you search for vocal point financial services you come up with a group out of white bear, minnesota. so, and in terms of meeting the requirements for having an active storefront, all that you have to really do is look at where vocal point insurance agency is now. they have three different offices but the office that they have here in san francisco is in a residential building. it is at 15th and geary. and may i have the overhead, please? and it is at 15th and geary, their sign is obscured but you enter into the rear of this apartment building and it is simply an office that is maintained in the back of the apartment building and here is a different view and here it the sign and you enter from the rear of this residential structure, not an active use within the meaning of the t

men like john hancock. >> i think it is important. people don't realize there were 14 presidents in a 15 near period. >> there will have to raise between $3 million and $15 million depending on the site. >> you have to love the history. time to get to your answers to our water cooler question of the day. >>, this morning we > what is your opinion of a proposal to ban smoking in cars if a child under 7 years of age is on board? >> keep sending us those responses. >> 5:50. 34 degrees at the airport. keith mills has the latest from the orioles' training camp next up in sports. >> trains are back to a normal schedule today. everything is running on time. we have a few problems in howard county. westbound 175 at snowden river parkway. checking on some building volume at baltimore national pike. close to a delay on the outer loop at 40. up to speed on 795. volume continues to build down towards the beltway from 95 at white marsh. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> we expect some rain to comment later on. 34 at the airport -- we expe

there's john hancock. the big signature. the first man to sign at the declaration of independence with a signature so large that, as he put it, king george will be able to see it without his spectacles. smuggler, and that's okay. he is a patriot. in fact, can i say this on television, peter appears as the first smuggler in this book, going from bolivia to peru, smuggling toilet paper. don't ask. read the book. and this comes up again and again in american history. we have the story of the oklahoma land rush. it's not a national border quite so it's not in peter's book but the oklahoma land rush, 1889, they line up thousands of people on the oklahoma border and at noon sharp, on april 22, cannons sound and the military steps aside ask the settlers rush in to grab the land and discover the best lan is already taken. by whom? by people who cheated. by people who bribed the government agents, or were government agents themselves. and how does oklahoma remember this? it calls its the sooner state. for the people who snuck in, the

john hancock was a smuggler. his family was involved in smuggling, but he is a hero. brown university. when you think of brown university, being complicit in slave trading does not come to mind for most people. this is a legitimate and good institution. but his roots or maybe not so pure. how is this wrongdoing accomplished? an effort to provide a more balanced image of something here. okay, one last point, then i have to stop. it is a shepherds came thing. so how hard is the argument travel? not historically for the united states, but spatially to other countries of the world. now, people have mentioned several times which was that peter makes on charles when he comes up with the solicitous raise that smuggling make states and states make smuggling. he defines what is a legal and what is not illegal. he also argues, peter argues, that all nations are smuggling nations. i believe that that is true. i work in latin america, that is the reason that i know best. basically you make a wall, you make the loophole at the same time. however, the power to be hypocritical is no

because your john hancock is on this brief.ou're quotes as saying that the dye is cast. >> i support marriage equality for gay americans because of my conservatism, not in spite of it. when i look at my own marriage, the profound joy that it has brought me, republicans to try to disinfrance chis people from that, which has been affirmed by marriage that is just a fundamental right, that you see a group of republicans, i think, embracing historic foundations in our party of freedom, of equality and i think you will see more and more people coming out and being in support of equality. and when you look at the younger generation, that marriage believes in marriage equality. the dye is cast and gay americans will receive full and equal treatment under the law and hopefully the supreme court will assure that that happens. >> bloomberg is reports that president obama may be getting ready to show nationwide support for marriage equality as the high court gets ready to meet. however, on the flip side, we've got the national report sayi

john lee hancock wanted to show the world how quickly michael closed this vast gap.est way was through the analogy of football. and he used that. and a little bit -- people took it and made their own stories, their own conclusions. and the only conclusion was that michael learned an amazing amount in a short amount of time. and john lee used football to demonstrate that. >> also, you're 16 years old. you don't want anyone looking back at you -- how were you at 16? >> because you look like a nerd in that movie. >> i don't want people looking back at me a year ago or six months or sometimes six weeks ago. what was i doing? something you just said moments ago, you said that you can love someone who doesn't look like you. a lot has been made about, you know, same-sex marriage and you've heard what one ravens player said and what san francisco 49er player said. what do you think about gay rights this year during the super bowl? a lot has been made of it. >> well, what part of talking football confused you? i said we're going to talk the football game. there is a time and

. >> stephanie: maybe you would see me differently if i were to drop you off at the john hancock. >>re i work. we were talking about the guns. a lot of my friends around here who have a lot of guns, and you guys touched on it before with that talk about the -- people coming out of wherever, it is all fear. and how many here have ever tried to negotiate with a 2-year-old? >> stephanie: exactly. >> caller: it is a primal fear. these people, when i talk to them about guns and that, i tell them, best home defense? >> i need my ar-15 so i can defend myself. i'm not kidding. against black helicopters from the u.s. government when they come as obama's going to do it. >> stephanie: right. exactly right. >> wow. they would have to be black helicopters. >> stephanie: who other kind would they have? >> stephanie: guess what, frank. i'm going to give you a $50 pro flowers gift card so you can get your sweetums something for valentine's day. hang on. travis, get his information. if you're looking for flowers go to proflowers.com and type in stephanie. it is a $50 gift card. we're giving them away