the powerful patriarch tom a lee kun hee, is answering -- isriarch, lee kun hee, entering the hospital third month. comes asble handover samsung faces increasing pressure for the company to unravel its complicated ownership structure. so who are the players in the first family? joining me is sam grobart who has visited there headquarters as well as the director of congressional affairs and trade for the korea economic institute. want to start with you. i want to know about this dynasty. what is their leadership structure as it stands today and what is the succession plan? >> samsung is controlled by lee in the hospital. he is the son of the company's founder who started the company in 1938 and of course his son lee jae yong is the heir apparent to a collection of companies, a true conglomerate comprising 74 business units that range from the electronics we talk about two life insurance, ship building, and many other businesses as well, all organized in a complex structure across holdings that allow the family to maintain control well actually not owning very much of the company. lee th

lee kun hee is entering his third month in hospital after a heart attack and the family is strugglingep control of the company. his son, lee jae yong, will be taking control. they're working on the complicated structure that is sam's son. they will also have to cover $5 billion in inheritance taxes -- they're working on a combo kit a structure that is samsung. do you feel like you have a complete understanding of the structure? this is complicated? >> does anyone really understand? there are 74 companies part of the samsung group and they are all part owners of each other in this ridiculous maze of cross holdings that the lee family controls with only 2% but they've managed to control since 1938. >> this reminds me of, dare i say, enron not that there is something sleazy or dishonest. is this about taxes? >> partially and maintaining family control. samsung is one of the largest companies in the world. it is the largest and south korea. its revenues are the equivalent of about 20% of south korea's gross domestic roderick. to hold onto all of the businesses from life insurance, amuseme

. 150,000west byte is yard that is the number of phones that were gathered together by chairman lee kun heeof 2000 samsung employees in 1995. he was disappointed with the quality of their mobile phones. he gathered the phones together and he set them on fire. when the fires burned down, he had bulldozers come in and raze the pile. and he turned to all of the employees at their major manufacturing facility outside and said, if you make poor quality products like these ever again, i will come back and do the exact same thing. and that story is known throughout the company as a legend, a part of the lore of samsung. >> quite the way to make a statement, cory. can you imagine that happening at apple? [laughter] >> sort of. atari did this with their e.t. game. they brought out millions of copies to a landfill. we should do it with our bad shows. just burn the computer we watch them on or toss the tv into the bay. >> i will keep them move in my back pocket. [laughter] cory johnson, our editor-at-large, sam grobart him a jon erlichman -- thank you. that does it for this special edition of "bloombe

there any chance during her tenure policy changed as to the enforcement of internet online gaming kun-hee lee collectivities activities, any chance any policy changed under her? >> i would have to go back and look. i don't know offhand. >> this committee is interested in knowing during her relatively short tenure, apparently, what role she played in evaluating any policy change related to going after one line gaming. follow-up with appropriate demands if that's necessary, but we would hope that you would inform us as to any policy change, as to going after internet and essentially online gaming, and any role she may have played in it. >> if you communicate your request to us -- >> we will do so. >> if the gentleman would yield? >> of course i would yield. gentleman,o join the i, too, and you mentioned my name, i am interesting in seeing the opinion. there are something else i want you to do, too. i want you to provide us with the history of how contempt has been dealt with through republican and democratic prosecutors's, u.s. attorneys. and any information you may have with regard to this. i