mr. shapiro. thank you for joining us this afternoon.s, is 2013 -- when it comes to these laws, are we seeing this trend? >> there's a lot of states that enact this legislation will be going in the first of the next year and that is nothing new. and some of them are legislators grappling of what to do with new technologies and drones in illinois and the police use them for. and it's a mixed bag. rich: what about his illness is not disclosed by the lemon law for pets? >> well, it is creative. we would have to do a study to see which states have that and what effect that has on the treatment or the markets. but it sort of makes sense in terms of consumer protections and preventing fraud. >> there is another one out of oregon, i believe, where a woman gets to keep the placenta after giving birth. it's like, hey, be my guest. but, you know, those are kind of just -- those are a comical and anecdotal type of thing in the things that really harm the public and harms society and prevent us exercising our rights and freedoms are occupational lic

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mr. shapiro is doing, bruce ratner?aked up a lot of extra housing, so we tighten up the market and have a real market. has soaked up a lot of the extra housing. -- had tomese houses not done what he did -- we would have a lot of houses that are in a distrust. a lot of houses getting fixed up healthy neighborhood and the economy. >> do you buy 300,000 houses in detroit, $500 a piece, i assume. >> a little bit more, not much. i think you could buy houses for $30,000, $20,000, $40,000. >> we're not that far. >> is like brooklyn, right. >> $30,000 is a third bathroom. >> keep in mind what we're doing -- here is what happened -- we had a shrinking of households, and now people need help. >> we will come back, that is meant. >> tom shapiro with gtis partners. we will be back with "bloomberg surveillance." ♪ >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." i am tom keene. here is a "surveillance" exclusive -- when it fell to will be in the movie "work newts" in a betty liu's book. >> i was chasing after you to try to take

shapiro, last day at the white house. he deserves a question. >> thank you very much, mr. president. senator max bachus was widely seen as the best hope for a change to the tax code. what was your decision to nominate him to be ambassador to china -- >> it says that max bachus will be an outstanding ambassador to china, and i'd like a swift confirmation, and my expectation and hope is that if both senate democrats -- or if democrats and republicans in the house and senate are serious about tax reform, it's not going depends on one guy. it's going to depend on all of us working together, and my office is ready, willing, and eager to engage both parties in having a conversation about how to simply identify the tax code, make it fair, to make it work, create more jobs and do right by middle-class americans. jackie combs. >> thank you, mr. pratt. how do you say it in hawai'i -- >> -- looking back at the year, i'd like to ask you what your reaction was to the nonpartisan group that said the lie of the year was your statement that if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep and it relat