we sat down with the co-founder of petron and ceo of a successful hair product line, john paul mitchells "learning from the pros." >>> you can start a business with very little, if you think about it. if you don't have money for receptionists get an answering machine. don't put your voice on it. put somebody else's voice on it. it makes you look just a little business bitter. bigger. get a p.o. box at post office. we did that when we started paul mitchell. p.o. box, beverly hills universal city. wow? these guy, in business, it looked like. ♪ >> you could knock on 100 door, say no, slam them in your face, but you continue on, eventually you know we're not going to be in the ordering business, in the reorder business. what we have is so good, let me just let you try it, no matter what. ♪ in business you don't know when you're going to grow. always order 10% more than you think you're going to need, if you can afford it. you're eventually going to sell it anyways, and when the orders come in, you're more that in a, you don't get surprised and have a cushion when reordering. we were so fort

mitchell reports" unfriendly fire. rand paul's cia filibuster gets slammed by john mccain.cting to your government or objecting to the policy of government sympathizing with the enemy? some openly were sympathetic. no one will ever forget jane fonda swiveling around in north vietnamese armored guns, and it was despicable. it's one thing if you want to try her for treason, but are you going to just drop a drone hell fire missile on jane fonda? >> somehow to allege that the united states of america, our government, would drop a drone hell fire missile on jane fonda, that -- that is -- that brings the conversation from a serious discussion about u.s. policy to the realm of the ridiculous. >> so rand paul now let the senate confirm the cia director? stay tuned. and is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship? president obama invites paul ryan to the white house for lunch after dining with senate republicans at the jefferson hotel. swanky too. >> how did the meeting go? >> just fine. great. wonderful. >> i am more optimistic just from a personal standpoint. >> senator bob co

photographer steven crowley captures john mccain and rand paul only moments after mccain slammed paul's made for television filibuster. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live from washington. the stock market soaring to a new record high. the jobless numbers are at a four-ee low, and the washington post chris joins us now along with greg with the economist and cnbc wr this is your specialty, so let's start with you today. let's get behind the numbers, the good, the bad, and any ugly? >> most of bad. excuse me. mostly good. >> good, good, good. >> no ugly that i can see. the number of jobs created quite a bit mo expecting. if you look over the last few months, it looks like we're sustaining job growth from the 150,000 to 200,000 area. more hours means more income, more spending power, but the main thing -- the main take-away p is what's not happening. we are not seeing the economy crumple even though it was hit with big tax increases in january and higher gasoline prices. >> the headwinds may be felt in that this might have been a bigger move forward than otherwise, but you're inching forward along that 2%, 2.5% gdp level? >> you got these head winds f

john mitchell. carl also wrote a book on pope john paul ii, his holiness, so this conversation begins with talking abouton of pope benedict. >> i think his papacy has been a disaster. for the church, for the vatican, for catholics. and it was bound to be a disaster in the single great act of his papacy is his resignation and i think it goes to that which is best about his character, his recognition that he couldn't do the job, that whatever his infirmity that keeps him from physically doing the job, it might be a blessing in disguise in that the resignation has shaken up the church and focused attention on it and the future and the future in a way that it ought to be clear one hopes to the cardinals that the next papacy has got to represent great change if this institution is to be the great institution that it's capable of. other interesting thing to me is that we forget that we know about the terrible excesses as a result of reporting. this is one of the great reporting jobs in the history of journalism done by the boston globe that uncovered this systematic abuse and horrible problem in the priesthoo

mitchell reports." >>, chris. thank you for your hour. senator rand paul is on hour three of the filibuster against nomination for john brennan over the u.seric holder's refusal ruling out using drones on americans. we will have what he had to say and live from capitol hill e the rand stand is what they are calling it. while that man's storm is brewing, we are following a massive winter storm that shut down most of d.c. more than 4,000 flights cancel and 120,000 people without power in virginia. we will have the latest on the storm and we track it as it moves through new england and thousands lining the streets of venezuela for the faun rule procession for the leader hugo chavez, remembered as a man who divided the nation and a champion for the poor. all coming up next on "news nation." we loaded it with fast food, sweaty hockey gear, and a smelly dog cage. and parked it at a mall. in texas. for two days. then put a febreze car vent clip on the dash and let in real people. it smells good. like laundry fresh out of like the dryer. yeah. a man fresh out of the shower. nailed it. oh yeah. proof. febreze car vent clips keep your car fresh. an