with us now, financial expert and the author of "it's just money," karen lee with us right now. are so many people so, i guess, emotionally attached to their money? >> well, in my career, i try to figure out what is the single most important thing that makes people financially successful or not? and i was astounded because i saw people earning $600,000, $700,000 a year who had less to show for it than some of the people who were earning $60,000 and $70,000. i thought what is it? i realized it is how they view and value money and it is what i call the relationship that you have with money. >> how you were raised. what kind of -- what messages were or were not sent when you were a child growing up? >> it is part of it. i think there are two things that basically will impact your relationship with money. the first one is exactly what you said, what you learned in your childhood. i don't know about you, i was raised by an immigrant, and i always thought we were poor, turned out we were middle class. but it impacted how i felt about money. so i like people to take a look at what kind

here to tell us how it works, financial adviser karen lee. karen, good to talk to you. >> you, too. >> we're not just talking about writing out a check indiscriminately, you're talking about a plan, very specific reasons why people want to give. what's the why of it. >> thank you for clarifying that we're not talking about helping out kids coming back home saying i need help. you've clearly defined you have extra money and you want to give it away, you may have a financial adviser or estate attorney telling you you need to reduce your estate. but mostly you want to give it away while you're alive. that's the why people give. let's talk about what you can give. >> be strategic about it. >> of course, you can write a check. first let's go over the rules. every donor is allowed to give up to $13,000 a year to any amount of donees. if it's a married couple, that's two, so that's $26,000. the number of donees is unlimited. if you need to reduce your estate, you can do a lot. they don't have to be related to you. >> they don't? >> generally you'll s

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financial adviser karen lee tells our richelle carey how it all works for the giver. >> you've got extra you want to give it away. you might have a financial adviser or an estate attorney telling you, you need to reduce your estate. but mostly what you'd like to do is give that money while you're alive versus waiting until you die. >> okay. >> that's the why people give. now let's talk about what you can give. >> right. okay. >> be strategic about it. >> of course you can just write a check. first let's go over the rules. every donor is allowed to give up to $13,000 a year to any amount of donees. if it's a married couple that's two donors. that's $26,000. the number of donees they give to is unlimited. if you need to reduce your estate, you can do a lot there. they don't have to be related to you. but generally you're going to see grandparents gifting to grandkids and my favorite thing for them to do is look at their portfolio, and if they have stocks that they bought 20, 30, 40 years ago and they're highly apprecia appreciated, they don't want to sell them because there's all those cap

. >> maybe you'll be tuning in at 2:00, you want to hear from financial expert karen lee.t money." however, she says how you treat money as an adult as a lot to do with what you learned about money growing up from your family. so we're going to talk about that. and maybe you and your wife want to go see a movie today. maybe "cars"? >> we just saw "super 8". >> but we have gray drake with us and talk about whether it's a thumbs up or a thumbs down. and i spent some time with some real nascar drivers. yes! jason levler and joey lagano. we talk about everything from their passion to how you have to start out at 4, 5, 6 to become what they are and do what they do. take a look. oh, my gosh. that is so awesome. i so love it. man, why didn't i start out earlier. i could be a race car driver. danica patrick, look out because i am so hooked. you're going to have some competition soon. >> uh-oh. >> and you know i don't mean that, danica. there can be more than one incredible female driver out. so maybe it means i'll be joining you at some point. we're going to take on the dudes toge

karen. daniel, please. >> mayor lee, supervisor mirkarimi, the department heads, i want to say two things that stick out in my mind about this whole setting. i know the department of education is not here. we are talking about budget and money. however, our community is yearning, especially the disenfranchised community of the western addition, to be educated. when we speak about money, to really speak about money, you have to have an enlightened community. that is not so good that we are not discussing education at all tonight. in the spirit of the budget, i think a lot of times, it is so much money going toward law enforcement, we need to use a balanced approach. we have 800k coming out of the office of economic and work- force development. we have so many problems with them on how this money has been with our community. it should be a no-brainer, you would think, but you get resistance from people looking for a personal paycheck at the expense of a community that has been impacted for so long. thank you very much for coming out. i hope that can be put at the table. thank you. >> thank you.

and we have similar sentiments from karen in alexandria who says does anyone believe anthony weiner did not give sex giving lee way for how he defines that with any of his internet contacts? if he refuses to resign, can congress take any actions against him? all we can say right now, karen, they are looking into that and it cannot happen fast enough for ron from iamsville who says not again. no wonder our economy continues to go down the tubes. who knows what other secrets are impacting the decision makers of government. i ask you, when is this going to end? end ron? it's not going to end. anymore than it started with this latest round of men behaving badly. perhaps the better question might be, how many other top officials are today's scrubbing hard drives or smashing cell phone sim cards. while love may be fleeting. if it's digital, it may be for ever. mailbag@wusa9.com. that's our report. i'll be back here tonight at 11:00 iowa long with anita brikman and tonight we are working on the newest item catching crook's attention. high end hair weaves. that's tonight at 11:00. log on any time to wusa9.com. we'll s