levin. mr. levin: i yield myself such time as i shall consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: i hope everybody's been listening to this. what has become clear is this -- the republicans have a three-act play. first, repeal ipab. next, repeal the rest of health care reform. and finally, repeal medicare. it is so hypocritical to come forth and say that the efforts of republicans is to protect medicare when the purpose of it is to destroy it. that's what would happen if they had prevailed before. that's what would happen if they prevail today with their voucher plan. and so the third act really came forth before the first act. so they wrote out yesterday their budget plan that essentially would repeal medicare, would destroy it. . it would be a voucher and in time, the end of medicare. essential commitment to the seniors of this country and we democrats are determined to thwart every effort. now as to the first act, repeal ipab. you know, it's interesting that medicare is a majo

. >> at the 92nd street y in new york, vanderbilt divinity school professor amy-jill levine is making the case that jews and christians alike need to pay more attention to the jewishness of jesus. and the best way to do that, she believes, is by reading the new testament from a jewish perspective. >> if i want to understand jewish history, the new testament is one of the best sources that i've got. >> levine, who is an observant jew, is co-editor of the "jewish annotated new testament," a version of the christian scripture with footnotes and commentaries written entirely by jewish scholars. >> the new testament does have extraordinarily beautiful and profound material in it. paul's hymn to love in first corinthians or the parables of the good samaritan or the prodigal son, or comments such as "god is love," which is first john. this is magnificent material and everybody ought to appreciate it. i find for myself the more i read the new testament, in fact the better jew i become. >> the "jewish annotated new testament" is one of several new projects urging jews especially to take a new

chairman levin and ranking member mccain appear before you. because of the active and reserve sailors and civilians and families, the navy and the marine corps remain a vital part of our national security. i'm honored to serve and lead the navy in these challenging times. i thank you for your continued support. i would like to address three points. the navy's response to the nation's security, our enduring tennets and security decisions and how these shaped the budget submission. today, our navy is the force. our global fleet operates from u.s. basis and places around the world to deter aggression and respond to crises and when needed and called upon, to win our nation's wars. if you refer to a chart that i provided in front of you, you can see that on any given day, we have about 50,000 sailors and 145 ships under way with about 100 of the ships deployed overseas. these ships and sailors allow us to influence events abroad because they ensure access to what i refer to the maritime crossroads. these are areas where shipping lanes and our secur

levin. mr. levin: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: this bill will send a clear signal especially with an overwhelming vote, the signal there are clear consequences when a nation violates the rules. china is indeed tilting the field of competition by not playing by the rules. this bill restores a key instrument for our nation to hold china and other nations accountable. failure to pass it would be an enormous step backwards. at a time when indeed we need to fast forward our efforts to rein in china's abusive trade practices that in part led to a record $295 billion trade deficit with china. this legislation ensures the tools remain available under u.s. trade laws so that manufacturers can fight back against china's unfair trade subsidies. countervailing duties have been a part of u.s. trade law for nearly 120 years. and today almost one half, 23 of 50, of all countervailing duty orders in place involve china

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a schwartz fellow at the new america foundation and public policy institute and think tank mr levine thank you for being with us. now if looking at the results so far do you think the russian opposition lost because they don't really have one clear leader and you think it might be better to have a two party system like in the u.s. . the your. premise is correct i think that the opposition needed to coalesce around one person it was handicapped for some time and the ways that the way the laws are are handled in russia work against the rise of a candidate who might. more seriously challenge. and. i do think that that. if one wanted a more robust system then we would then then one would allow the rise of a stronger and more independent opposition. well it can be said that putin has conducted a western style campaign clearly outlining his agenda in fact some people have said that he's campaigned harder than he ever has before do you think he will follow through with his promises. she did at the end just to be clear i think at the end of the last couple of months he did. even maybe the la

i see my friend, senator levin, on the floor. he most certainly understands this issue better in many ways than i do on the technical side of it. he's helped write this bill. i'm hoping that he will give even a better explanation than i've been able to give. but i think i've covered it pretty broadly and he can go into a lot more detail about the possibility of fraud in here if it's not locked down. and i'm going to end with just a word to my community banks, because i have tried to become a champion nora champion for them. i think they can appreciate it. i'm not 100% sure. i really believe in independent banks. the independent community bankers of america sent a letter supporting the house bill. i'm going to call them over the weekends and talk with them specifically about my concerns and ask them to reconsider their position. our compromise i think is very good for our community bankers. i don't know whether they will or not. i know that they want to get rid of some of the onerous requirements that were placed on them in the sa

that's why senator jack reed, senator carl levin, senator merkley and others have been down here now for days encouraging you, review the bill, go back and talk with your staff, please allow us some time to make some serious changes. now, even if you can't believe me on these issues, i most certainly hope that you can believe bloomberg report. the bloomberg comments that have been made -- bloomberg is a very widely read, very reputable wire service and newspaper now, and of course they have other interests as well. they comment daily on the financial markets of the world. one of the most respected sources, they have basically editorialized against the house bill. why would they do that? let me read you what the bloomberg editorial said last -- a few days ago. they said, "the jobs act simply goes too far. it would gut many of the investor protections established just a decade ago in sarbanes-oxley. a wave of accounting scandals -- think enron and worldcom -- have destroyed the nest egg of millions of americans and upi understanded investor -- and upended inkvestor confidence on wall s

pretty much everything that greg smith said in this letter was also in the levin report. >> the leviner the hearings on capitol hill. >> two years ago. >> the subpoenas fabulous five and lloyd blankfein to the senate very heated hearings and they wrote a report. >> and those hearings and that report were entirely what smith was talking about, that gold man was selling out its own clients and den grated them behind their backs and sometimes broke the law in their attempts to unload these toxic instruments on their own clients. you know when, smith talked about muppets, in the levin report there was an instance where they were trying to unload timberwolf, which was a bad deal, and they found somebody to take a piece of the deal. they said we found a flying pig, a white elephant and you know corn all at once. >> the idea that goldman internally would make fun of clients that they felt they had taken advantage of. >> none of this stuff is new. what's different about the smith thing is this is somebody who was from the company coming out with this information. >> goldman has a huge settlem

senator levin? >> mr. chairman and ranking member for taking the finiinitie on this with other colleagues, thank you, madam secretary, for all the work the white house did on a similar bill you had worked on which i understand is basically part of now thischs o calendar. i'm trying to understand what the objections are to the bill because it seems is there are a whole bunch of protections in here for the private sector. as i have read at least a summary of the bill, i haven't read the bill yet, there's a self-certification or a third party assessment of compliance with the performance requirement. i understand there's an appeal of those requirements if there's objection to it. i understand owners have covered critical infrastructure that are in substantial compliance with thet liable for punitive damage which arise from an incident of cyber security risk. so you have here something i ber the private sector which is a waiver of punitive damages and i think that's fairly -- i don't know that it is unique but

and sunday night at 10:00, mark levin and his thoughts on the current state of politics in "ameritopia." book tv every weekend on c-span 2. >>> this senate arms services committee heard testimony thursday on the president's 2013 navy budget. navy secretary ray mabus was joined by the chief of naval operations at the hearing. the navy budget request is for $155.9 billion. a decrease of $1.4 billion from last year. this is just under three hours. >> good morning, everybody. we want to welcome secretary mabus and admiral and general to the committee this morning to testify on the plans and programs of the department of the navy and our review of the fiscal year 2013 annual budget and overseas contingency operations request. we greet admiral as he makes his first appearance before the committee as chief of naval operations. we want to wish general amos good health as he returns from the flight surgeon. you look terrific. you really do. we all know about what you have come through with flying colors. we greet you. we are delighted you are here and looking so fit. we are grateful to each of

no further response required but i wanted to restress what chairman mccain and sprnt levin were saying. >> thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman, thank you both for being here this morning. hopefully i'm the last person that you have to hear from. i figure on thiscommtee, we save the best for last p i want to begin where some of my colleagues left off and particularly on the issue of energy. and i want to thank you very specifically secretary mabis, for coming to testify on monday, the water and power sub committee of the energy committee in the senate which i chair, held a field hearing down in norfolk on the usskersarge, i want to commend them for find ago name to hold the ship for us to hold the hearing on. it was a nice benefit to the hearing. but it's an excellent hearing and i wish everyone on this economy could have gone to , to see that moving towards alternatives and energy efficiency is making for the efficiency and the capacity of our fighting and women out in the field to do their jobs. secretaries, mabis, you made the point that national security in today's day and age is a

>>. >> even the levin reports talked about other deals. >> all right. hang on all of you. and they are so awful, why do so many people still use them? why do so many clients still go to them? they are not some blinded children walking into the garden of eden. >> so oh then back to matt on this. basically you appointed that goldman could be creepy and unethical and as richard points out and we know sometimes their clients can be creepy and unethical. should the rest of us care? >> i think we should care. if that's the defense of the bank, everybody knows that they are creepy and unethical, if that's as good as it gets, that speaks very poorly. >> even in the letter i felt like it was legalese. >> he said, i'm not saying anything illegal happened here. i'm just saying it was toxic. >> it is going to be a six month to six year to ten-year job to turn around a perception like that. if they started, you and i will be talking about the results of that. >> do you think they've started? do you think they care? >> i think what the smith resignation points to is they haven't changed

days earlier the chairman armed service committee carl levin said the same thing.sures are ugly business. past closures have been rife with poor decisions and little consideration for the small communities that grow up around military installations and depend on them for jobs and commerce. more base closings are not only small, but inef- tabl. indeed as more than 100,000 troops are cut from the force as well as the units, installations will need to be cut as well. the secretary of defense already has the authority to close and realign military bases, but the current brac or base realignment and closure process was made to make it more politically palatable in the wake of the cold war when deep cuts were needed. swearing off future closures is disingenuous, especially to the communities that over the next few years will see their bases change or go away entirely. thanks for joining us for "this week in defense news." i'm vago muradian. you can watch this program online at defensenewstv.com or you can e-mail me at vago@defensenewstv.com. i'll be back next week at the

. >> susan levin is a licensed clinical psychologist who worked with michael for almost eight years.she spoke to msnbc with michael's permission and says he is dealing with more than just gender identity issues. she has diagnosed him with borderline personality disorder. >> people with borderline personality disorder often have very intense and very unstable relationships with people. they have very much thinking of black and white and with no gray area. very extreme types of behaviors. >> levin says michael's borderline personality disorder complicates his gender identity issue. >> can i say with the utmost certainty that if he didn't have borderline personality disorder that he may not have done this? i can't say because we can't separate those two things in one person. >> but she still differentiates between michael's mental health diagnosis and his desire for womanhood. >> he lived for a year as a woman before making drastic changes and not one day felt a moment of regret. his decision to go back to being a man was much more impulsive and much less thought out. >> this coming fri

general, senator levin and i have the same absolute opinion on this. what's the difference in cost between 230,000 and 330,000 a year to maintain afghan soldiers? an army of 330 versus 230? $1 billion, $2 billion? $3 billion? do we know the difference? >> it's between it's 2ds and $3 billion, sir. >> i would suggest to this committee after all we've done, take a view those $2 billion ors 3ds billion for a period of time is the best investment we could of make to make sure we don't she to go out again. general allen is it your goal to leave afghanistan, withdraw with security and honor for the united states? >> of course it is, sir. >> now, do you agree with me the strategic partnership agreement, if entered into and executed properly is the turning point in the war? >> i believe it is, sir. >> do you agree with me that if we maintain the night raids as a military tactic, the enemy will suffer greatly? >> he will. >> do you agree with moo the thu will never allow that program terminated? you will always strive for afghan sovereignty in terms of its impl

i think senator levin has indicated his strength, i believe his -- and support. general allen, he said our soldiers deserve our support and they have it in the plans that i believe you're working on. senator mccain has likewise said that. secretary miller, dr. miller, you said that afghanistan will meet the challenge, i believe, in your opening statements. that expressed a confidence that we can be successful. you quoted again president obama's statement, we will build an enduring relationship with afghanistan. senator mccain talked about the vision that we had for the success in afghanistan. we've had bipartisan support for that. and we're having some difficulties now, at least certainly in the press if not on the ground. we had the problem with the koran. we've had the problem with afghan soldiers killing our own soldiers. we've had the problem of our -- appears one of our soldiers has killed unjustifiably men, women, and children. and president karzai has been making a series of very odd statements as far as i'm concerned that reflect perhaps frustration but a

certainly senator levin said so. the justice department hasn't done anything. we've got to move on it. >> woodruff: michael greenberger james angel, thank you both very much. >> brown: and speaking of the markets: we turn to a very different, fictional take on wall street in the form of thriller with a plot line drawn from real life. that's the subject of newshour economics correspondent paul solman's conversation. part of his ongoing reporting: "making sense of financial news." >> reporter: not every novel gets its own trailer, especially not novels about the world economy. but then again, few novelists have a track record like robert harris'. >> this is what it's like being on the campaign trail with the prime minister in 1983. >> reporter: after years as a british journalist, robert harris turned to speculative thrillers, so popular, they've consistently reached a mass audience. "fatherland," an hbo movie; "archangel," a bbc mini series; and "the ghost"-- renamed "the ghost writer" when filmed by roman polanski. but harris latest book, "the fear index," star

care of men. >> breaking news tonight, the chairman of the senate armed for forces committee, carl levin of michigan saying he thinks rush limbaugh's program should be taken off armed forces radio network krystal ball and nina turner great to have you. >> share your thoughts on twitter at ed show. >>> the romney campaign says only an act of god can stop mitt romney from winning the nomination. but the primary election is far from over, bob shrum and sam stein will weigh in. sarah palin still thinks she has a chance to be the nominee, i hope she is right, stay with us. we're right back. [ male announcer ] that. right there -- reminds you why you fell in love with her in the first place. and why you still feel the same. but your erectile dysfunction -- that could be a question of blood flow. cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditi

levin thank you for coming in some people may know your name from the series books you have written,.>> susies chooseies series. >> there are three books i know there is a new one out the second in the series, olympic dreams deals with bullying. >> in each of the books, i present a common social issue, children today are having to face within the scope of an exciting fun mysterious time travel adventure to make it more palatable and the response has been terrific because young children in the book teaching young readers how to cope with moral dilemmas. >> and provides an opportunity for parents to talk to their parents about some of these issues as well. >> you are right their parents teachers and principals. >> let's talk about you know you feel strongly about how parents, teachers, many in the community can help prevent bullying, aggressive and hopefully eliminate it you have a variety of tips i want to go through those i want to jump in you have tips for parents and first, tips for parents of a child who is being bullied talk us through a little bit of this. >> well, whether you ar

levin: mr. president, the next item on the unanimous consent agreement is my amendment number 1818. and it's my understanding now that this amendment can be adopted by a voice vote, that it's been cleared for that. i will. and i ask concept to set aside the pending amendment to call up that amendment number 1818. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from michigan, mr. levin for himself and mr. conrad proposes an amendment numbered 1818. mr. levin: mr. president, let me see if there is anyone else -- it's been on the list for unanimous consent, so i'll just let the chair rule on this, see if anyone else has something else. if not, i want to speak for a few minutes afterwards. the presiding officer: without objection. is there further debate on the motion -- on the amendment? if not, all in favor say aye. opposed. the ayes have it. ayes appear to have it, the ayes do have it, motion passes. the amendment is agreed to. mr. be levin: i ask that the motion to, mr. levi

care of men. >> breaking news tonight, the chairman of the senate armed for forces committee, carl levin of michigan saying he thinks rush limbaugh's program should be taken off armed forces radio network krystal ball and nina turner great to have you. >> share your thoughts on twitter at ed show. >>> the romney campaign says only an act of god can stop mitt romney from winning the nomination. but the primary election is far from over, bob shrum and sam stein will weigh in. sarah palin still thinks she has a chance to be the nominee, i hope she is right, stay with us. we're right back. ♪ oh! [ baby crying ] ♪ what started as a whisper ♪ every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. ♪ slowly turned to a scream ♪ there's an insurance company that does that, too. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? ♪ amen, omen >>> coming up mitt romney was last night's big winner but is newt playing the spoiler for rick santorum bid for the nomination? bob shrum and sam stein coming up next. >>> president obama goes on offense. taking on the gop's criticism of his fo

care of men. >> breaking news tonight, the chairman of the senate armed for forces committee, carl levin of michigan saying he thinks rush limbaugh's program should be taken off armed forces radio network krystal ball and nina turner great to have you. >> share your thoughts on twitter at ed show. >>> the romney campaign says only an act of god can stop mitt romney from winning the nomination. but the primary election is far from over, bob shrum and sam stein will weigh in. sarah palin still thinks she has a chance to be the nominee, i hope she is right, stay with us. we're right back. [ male announcer ] fighting pepperoni heartburn and pepperoni breath? fight both fast with new tums freshers! concentrated relief that goes to work in seconds and freshens breath. new tums freshers. ♪ tum...tum...tum...tum... tums! ♪ [ male announcer ] fast relief, fresh breath, all in a pocket sized pack. brad needs car insurance, but, uh, brad doesn't want to spend too much. who's brad? this is brad. ahh! well, progressive has lots of discounts for a guy like brad. brad's intrigued. paid in full, safe dr

levin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: mr. president, before the senator from louisiana leaves the floor, i just want to commend her for the passion that she has brought to this debate as well as the reason and the wisdom that she's brought to this debate. this is a bill that is extremely complex. the house bill comes over here. it has almost zero attention that it deserves because of the complexity that is in this bill. but senator landrieu has just been a voice just appealing to us to do what the senate should do, which is deliberate. i say if there's ever been a bill which cried out for deliberation, it is this bill. the way it stands now, amendments are not going to be in order. and it's not the way we should proceed in this body and we are all grateful -- i hope everyone is grateful to senator landrieu for kind of blowing the whifl on th --blowing the whistle on the 100-mile-an-hour train that is moving through this senate unless we stop it tomorrow and say, slow this down and let us look at the details of the provisions

chairman levin, senator mccain, thank you for inviting me to testify today. i am pleased and honored to be here with the outstanding commander in afghanistan, general john allen. united states vital objectives in afghanistan remain to deny safe haven to al qaeda and the 90 taliban the ability to overthrow the afghan government. this administration is committed to meeting these 4 objectives and while we have faith and will face serious challenges our strategy is -- counterterrorism efforts against al qaeda have been extremely successful although the job is not finished. there is no doubt we will severely degraded al qaeda's capacity. as a result of the surge in 2009 we have broken it reverse the taliban's momentum. the afghan national security forces are increasingly capable and increasingly in the lead. mr. chairman, our forces are performing extremely well as i saw firsthand in a trip to afghanistan i took me 2 weeks ago. we are well into a process of transition to a n s f leadership. the fact today almost 50% of afghans live in areas that began a transition

carl levin challenged them on the senate.watch. >> july 1, 2007, tells the sales course the top priority timber wolf. your top priority is to sell [bleep] deal. >> i don't recall the sales. trying to sell. >> okay, you're trying to sell [bleep] deal. and it's your top priority. come on, should the goldman sachs should be trying to sell--by the way it sold it, and a lot of it after that day. should goldman sachs be trying to [bleep] deal. can you answer that one yes or no. >> he's saying, look, it's in your own internal e-mails bragging how you sell crappy deals to your own clients. we know it's true. goldman sachs paid a $550 million fine to the sec for all the problems they've done. that sounds like a big number but it's comically low. their profits were $13.39 billion. you know what that means? now the fine that they paid was a comically low 3.4% of their bonus pool. 3.4% of their bonus pool. you need a fine? here you go, sec. now let's go to our clients and rip their eyeballs out. now i want to talk to william cohen, he's

harvey levin joins us live from l.a. where was he spotted and what is he doing? >> reporter: in chicago, this was the fiftyth party in the making and everyone wants to have the cancellation of the show and layoffs at oprah, which seem to have a connection and she would not talk about it or the fact that a lot of people are saying that working on that she was the worst experience they had in show business and there are a lot of people saying that. on top of everything else, christel bowersox from "american idol" was supposed to perform. show bailed and they ended up getting a house band. maybe not the greatest week. >> not a great ending to her fiftyth birthday party. do you have anymore insight. was there a fallout between her and oprah? >> it did not go well at the end. obviously, the she was not working. >> uh-huh. >> and i want to tell you one thing i know about oprah, you know, we broke the story on the site yesterday that 30 people got laid off. we found out that afterwards, there was a town hall meeting where oprah and the president of "own" got in and said

however, four improvements are made in the reed-landrieu-levin amendment.with the mini offering statement so that investors truly know what the financial situation of the company is before they invest. let me make a point here. the house proposal would allow statements, accounting statements that are unaudited to be used to solicit up to $2 million from the general public. i would think as a basic premise that if you're using accounting statements for an offering of this nature, that they would at least be audited. our legislation requires that. we require periodic disclosures of material information to investors. for example, perhaps the inventor of a certain high-tech product that a company is making leaves the company or passes away or something else happens. investors deserve to know about that type of information. we limit the amount that can be raised through the mini offering process to $50 million every three years. the house bill would allow investors to raise $50 million every 12 months, potentially allowing many companies to avoid fully going pub

levin. mr. levin: i yield two midgets to the gentlelady from new york, our ranking member on the rules committee, ms. slaughter. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york is recognized for two minutes. ms. slaughter: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. this is very important legislation we are doing here today because in december federal court of appeals wrongly determined that the commerce department does not have the authority to respond to illegal chinese subsidies with countervailing duties. the court said despite legal action from the chinese, we as a nation are unable to respond as we wish to stop the loss of thousands of american jobs. this court decision will immediately reverse 23 import duties that protect 80,000 american workers and subsidized goods into our meaveraget it would have halted six pending u.s. investigation noose unfair trade practices while costing the taxpayers billions of dollars each year. quite simply allowing this decision to st

. >> this is a levin and sports. >-- is 11 sports. >> two big losses. jerry johnston goes to san diego. korey redding goes to indi. the team plans to meet with the philadelphia eagles' free agent guard tonight. jerry johnston signed a four- year deal was san diego. huge loss for the ravens. he had 129 consecutive games. started the last 80 games in a row. that is dependable. a lot of the little things you do not always see in the highlights but make a big difference for the great run defense. korey redding, 93, has reunited with the indianapolis head coach. he did a lot of the no-glory things you need on a great defense, along with providing great locker room leadership. he gets a deal worth more than $10 million. looks like the most likely replacement is arthur jones next season. to marmite, 13 sized glass slippers and the opening round of the n.c.a.a. tournament. tomorrow night they will play for the first time since beating fairfield in the championship last week. no disrespect to fairfield, but i think everyone would agree to the hounds face a consi

to the people at the levin center. one of the things that he says is let whomever sits around recollecting, i'm looking up the line. that is redistricting partisanship of the voting rights act. i want to start with the past of the voting rights act. it situates many of the debates today. the year the voting rights act was passed, a poem was published called "long view negro." through the telescope of dreams, emancipation loomed large. turn the telescope around and look through the larger end. wonder why what was so large becomes so small again. we are roughly a half century away from the second reconstruction voting rights act was the crown jewel. and in many ways, the voting rights act has been amazingly successful. we forget what prompted the voting rights act to be passed in the future. but when we ask why the first reconstruction which was roughly twice as far from the voting rights act as we are from the voting rights act in the opposite direction. that was it is 100 years first instructi reconstruction to the act

levin is another hundred fifty billion dollars that's larger than many country's entire military budgets when all things becomes the best for the feds. the presidential election ease underway in russia with voters in the eastern half of the country already casting their ballots a record number of observers are also at polling stations with almost two hundred thousand web cameras set up to monitor the voting process online. seven people are killed in iraq the southern syria in southern syria when a suicide bomber targeted government supporters this as the opposition syrian national council vows to escalate the fight. plus tension over a possible military strike on iran mounts in washington ahead of president obama's meeting with a pro israel lobby group and a visit by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. next the story of the czech village mayor who's taking on the might of nato and the u.s. in trying to disrupt american plans to build a military base on its doorstep. you know. he shoots huge huge. you're not going to. be but i can gain strike against against. a month so if you're a

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no, maroon 5, adam levine. wiz coming in. it's going to be spectacular. really, really is going to be great. and you know you got a lot of criticism of kegasus and unicarl. from like 57, 58-year-old sports writers, who they don't care -- if they like kegasus or unicarl at all. college students do. and they're the ones that want to come and see maroon 5 and wiz. >> play to the audience. >> exactly 100% correct and around that event in the infield, we have the second jewel of the triple crown. it's become such a classy multilayered event. huge round of applause for the maryland jockey club. don't kid yourself. [ applause ] , we were on such thin ice for the longest time. i mean really given what was going on out there. >> uh-huh. >> if you're the company that owns pimlico but you also own gulf stream in florida or delmar in california, where do you want to have the second jewel of the triple crown? by sheer guts and testifies insy the folks at -- tenacity, the folks at pimlico made it happen again. don't kid yourself. very, very big deal. >> it's good of th

>> when you get senator levin, a portly guy, dignified guy, a senator of the exalted grand chamber of. government, to start cursing on camera during testimony, you have people pretty upset. yet, during the financial regulation, you are talking about that fuse -- so easily. it never got lit during the regulation. financial regulation, i would say both parties worked hard to keep it from being punitive. it was supposed to be nonpunitive. supposed to be updating the world but not about paying the banks back for what happened. >> correct me if i am wrong, but i seem to remember that basically this legislation was clearly almost dead until these hearings. and then it got -- rejuvenated again and then passed relatively quick thereafter. >> that's right. there were several moments where the -- the air seemed to be coming out of and it this -- this was one of the major revelations that -- >> lawsuit. >> sec lawsuit. in fact, on derivatives, you know, one of the more steered corners of financial regulation. we were really moving in a much less stricter action the lawsuit against goldman ignite