well luckily mr benson came on tour to moscow with all his jazz so today ladies and gentlemen let me lay on you a great entertainer great humanitarian and i though for generations our music fans mr george benson. george benson started to see not long after he learned how to speak the prodigy from pittsburgh recorded his first song at the age of ten however at fifteen he fell in love with the guitar and became one of the best just guitarist of all time benson says he never could choose between singing and playing music he succeeded in both an amazingly bursa time musician and someone numerous awards including ten grammys for instrumental and vocal performances he plays in just about any style from swing to r. and b. to pop and beyond. and. it's a. good. laugh . hello george was with the show thank you very much for being with us today spicy by spicy with. well i want to start with a thing i just learned recently i read actually stuart held a bestselling british author said once that he started his career had the age of sixteen at a local facto

mr. benson, let me see if i have that right. you indicated that costs are stable, and as a consequence you could figure out what happens in 18 years. you are aware of the drought going on here, north dakota, down to texas, the second year for kansas. we pretty much burned up, and cattle and poultry are effected dramatically. i would expect that the consumer applications, while not immediate, over the next year could be considerable. i said could be. we do not have all of the usda figures. the chairwoman and i are very concerned about. you do not know what is going to happen in regards to your cost of production could -- >> cost of feed is one of our biggest cost, and that is a concern going forward, but we live in a very competitive marketplace, and the 5% that we are talking about, over 18 years, is a fairly low number compared to the amount of money, or the prices that have gone up and down over the past couple of weeks. these short-term fluctuations are one thing. the long-term trend has been toward better technology, efficie

mr. benson. our next guest is the president of j.s. west & companies, eric benson. welcome. i am particularly pleased to have the next witness from michigan, greg, manages herbruck's poultry ranch along with his son and two brothers. they are a third and fourth generation family farm, very respected in michigan. finally, i am going to turn to senator roberts to welcome our final witness. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. may i introduce amon baer from lake park, minn. from mendelson egg co. there has been volley of back and forth of poetic license. when you look at the number of baer family members in farming, you appreciate that amon became a family farmer out of necessity. he and his wife our family farm operators. they have nine children, all of whom are involved in the farming operation. together with two of their five sons, they own 300,000 laying hens, and the market 6 million net and eggs -- 6 million eggs per year. and believe it or not, this is not a big operation. to the south, amon and one of his sons are partners in another farm. and not to be outdone, one of his 1

mr. benson, let me see if i have that right. you indicated that costs are stable, and as a consequence you could figure out what happens in 18 years. you are aware of the drought going on here, north dakota, down to texas, the second year for kansas. we pretty much burned up, and cattle and poultry are effected dramatically. i would expect that the consumer applications, while not immediate, over the next year could be considerable. i said could be. we do not have all of the usda figures. the chairwoman and i are very concerned about. he did not know what is when you have been in regards to your cost of -- you do not know what is going to happen in regards to your cost of production could >> cost of feed is one of our biggest cost, and that is a concern going forward, but we live in a very competitive marketplace, and the 5% that we are talking about, over 18 years, is a fairly low number compared to the amount of money, or the prices that have gone up and down over the past couple of weeks. these short-term fluctuations are one

mr. obama is aware of the situation and that the officer has been moved to desk duty. reporting live to d.c. police headquarters, jackie benson, news 4. >>> new fallout from the bad investment that cost j.p. morgan chase billions of dollars. the company's ceo jamie dimon now says the bad bet cost the bank about $5.8 billion this year. that's almost three times the original estimate. dimon says the bank closed the division responsible for the trade and got rid of the managers tied to it. despite the loss, j.p. morgan chase still earned $5 billion last quarter. >>> that new report from j.p. morgan gave stocks a rally on wall street. the dow jones industrial average snapped a six-day losing streak to pick up 204 points today. the nasdaq gained 42 and the s&p 500 closed 22 points higher. >>> the penn state community is reeling today in the wake of yesterday's big report about the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. nbc's michael isikoff takes a look at the issues facing the school from state college. >> the fallout from thursday's scathing internal report from former fbi director louie freeh are rippling through penn state communit

benson spoke with d.c.'s police chief. jackie? >> reporter: doreen, the officer has not been questioned yet, but he is being investigated. traveling to virginia on air force one that mrt this officer has been moved to desk duty. the officer who has in the past been assigned to the first lady's motorcade is alleged to have said how he would, quote, take out mrs. obama and allegedly showed a photo on his phone of the gun he would use according to sources. the alleged threat was overheard by an officer who reported it by a lieutenant who immediately notified superiors. the incident, as i said

benson is a political editor for townhall.com. according to them they are sorry if it offended mrs. romney who suggested indeed they did manage to offend her by using her therapeutic horse in an ad. and said they regretted it and had no plans to invoke it any further. >> yeah, real interesting, isn't it megyn? call me old fashioned, whethe where i come from and you apologize for it you actually pull the ad, that's how i view the world. maybe the dnc doesn't quite see eye to eye. let's just stipulate this was a really stupid ad, i think it's an ineffective ad. it comes back to the point you brought up, which is that this is a horse that mrs. romney uses to treat a cruel, debilitating illness that she has been heroically fighting through much of her life. if we cast our minds back to 2008 when then candidate obama's wife michelle, she made some statements in some speeches on the campaign trail, saying for the first time in my lifetime i'm proud of my country. and there were republican groups that came after that and said, what do you mean by that mrs. obama they put them into web ads