the hotel chain opened its largest property yet in macau today on the cotai strip, an area known as the vegas of the east. ruben ramirez reports: >> reporter: at 4,400 rooms, it's the largest hotel in macau, and starwood's biggest property globally. >> for the first 2,000 hotel rooms we'll have open, we'll be sold out in the first week which is virtually unheard of for any hotel, let alone 2,000 rooms. >> reporter: starwood operates more than 100 hotels in china. it plans to double that number over the next few years. >> year to date we've signed deals to open more hotels this year than we did last year. so, our sense is that if there is a slowdown in the chinese economy, which there might be, we're not really seeing it in our business, the long-term prospects from the perspective of real estate developers and investors in china is still quite positive. >> reporter: it's not just asia that's busy, starwood says occupancy rates in europe are trending above 70% in key markets, despite challenges in the eurozone. >> you have the big gateway markets that are outperforming. so in europe that

billionaires like the koch brothers and shelly ableson with his money from from chinese casinos off macau have done their very best to buy off elections across the country while corporate lobbyists try their hardest to win over politicians on capitol hill and while we all know about the republicans affection for corporate cash democrats too are backed by a flurry of corporate donors bottom line is that today corporate power has bought out the electoral and legislative process is that america leaving you and me generally speaking without a voice so what can be done to give a voice back to the american people and restore the democracy that our founding fathers intended joining me now is governor jesse ventura former governor of minnesota and author of the new book demo crips and re blood of the clintons re blood lincoln's no more gangs in government government governor ventura joins me now from our new york studio governor ventura welcome. hi tom nice to be with you great to have you with us i and my sander right re blood guns well you've got a volatile sounded out read blood yeah that's gr

>> bill: they're coming from casinos in macau.hen joe biden said look, yeah, they want to get rid of medicare and and replace it with voucher care. that's a good phrase. voucher care. don't forget, osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. richard fowler, good to you have with us my friend. >> thank you so much. >> bill: you can take a nap later in the day. don't worry about it. richard fowler, policy director for the young democrats and nationally syndicated talk radio host. i will be right back. take a look at some of the other comments about last night. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." perspective. >>i'm a slutty bob hope. the troops love me. >>only on current tv. septic disasters are disgusting and costly, but avoidable. the rid-x septic subscriber program helps prevent backups by sending you monthly doses right to your door so you will never forget to maintain your system. sign up at rid-x.com. >> announcer: taking your e-mails on any topic at any show." >> announcer: taking your e-mails on any topic at

obviously las vegas sands is a macau play.n you strip away what makes them great of being ancillary businesses, anyone who has been to the sands -- if you have been there -- i don't know if you've been there in las vegas, up want the shooting match. it's more exciting than the guys that don't have it. >> we're seeing las vegas sands right now trade to the positive on the down day of the markets. in the meantime, let's go over to courtney reagan in for bob pisani today. >> hello. the euro is sitting on a two-week low. you have merkel in a meeting but they can't agree on a timetable for when to have an oversight. the spanish prime minister meeting with mario amonte about possible strategies. perhaps we'll hear something later this week. and greece could be $26 billion short of aid. prime minister says give them time bringing it all back here domestically, it looks like the do you is down 46 points. and then take a look at steel stocks under significant pressure today. citi downgrading ak steel and u.s. steel lowering price targe