msn and msnbc sprang from microsoft. rupert murdoch, for all the criticism he gets, is invested in the media and innovation. mike bloomberg is doing a ton of stuff through his company. they are hiring hundreds of people. i worked at bloomberg 15 years ago, and i was in europe as a foreign correspondent. there were 40 journalists, and now, there are thousands. i think it depends on the interests of certain people, but they are being tapped, and you can get them to lend to foundations and do this type of stuff. it is just creating the bridge from the journalism world into that world, and it is not as hard as you would think, in my experience. >> i would just say that a few of those individuals you had mentioned are not examples of the types of progress of journalism that i think a lot of people are here to talk about and listened of route -- was it about. these guys are kind of villains in a sense of where we want journalism to go. fox news and the daily, who knows where that is going to go, but they are not necessarily pu

jim msn. he just shared that he grew up on the peninsula. your father was a professor there. surprisingly, at 22 years old you end up with a masters degree. the war is over. now, you have some choices to make about what to do. what did you choose and why did you choose them customer. >> well, i chose the ministries because i was going in that direction anyway. i was interested in theological issues. all of the war i felt the issues between japan and the united states were really no political but ideological. it had a lot to do with concept of the divide, however, you work with that, whether you believed in god or didn't believe in god. if he did, how you believe in god. this became very interesting to me. i came to a view that we are very much determined by the perspective from which we stand and look at the world. everyone of us. you will perspective, i have a perspective. these perspectives relate to our background. that has become my thing. if i can put it that way, i spent my life trying to understand individuals perspectives. you don't have to agree with me. i want to kn

one reason i am excited about our sharpton getting a show on msn b.c. is i know al sharpton has a feeling for the people. i am hoping he will raise up the issues, talk to some of the people who have issues or problems and deserve to be heard. we all need to be clear about the way we deserve to be heard and we will create our own strategies. again, probably not the place to be as vulnerable -- this hurts me. it hurts me to see people of african descent at the periphery of our economy understanding the many ways we have been central. understanding in so many ways to work that we have to do and understanding no one is going to do it for us. there are a series of demographics that are frightening. we are not the biggest minority any more and we are now the fastest-growing. the latino population -- we are not mad at them but they are where they are and who they are and how they are and we need to figure out how to work with them. we also need to figure out how to get our fair share of this economy that we have created a foundation for. that is what part of t

to the wonders of myerson msn, citizens would be lost in previous conflicts are coming home to leopardnd fulfilling life, but they will need a lifetime of care from the va here today, we will hear from the congressional budget office, the government accountability office, the rand corporation and iraq and afghanistan veterans of america appeared in an effort to help us quantify and understand these costs and ensure we can meet future needs of our veterans and their families. and today we are so fortunate to be joined by one of those brave family members, crystal nicely, who is not only a wife, but also a caregiver to her has been, bring corporal todd nicely. todd was seriously injured by an ied in the southern helmand province of afghanistan. since then he is come home to fight every day, focus on his recovery and may even heard yesterday that he is already starting to drive again. i want to take a moment to say thank you for your service to our country. he is shown bravery not only as a marina nastiness and, but also through the courage he displayed during your recovery. i invited kry

so to the extent that they are taking an adult step in the senate, msn is taking action, well, and house we always welcome the senate when they take action, on just about anything. >> a follow-up to that. what are your thoughts on -- [inaudible] >> again, i was as long as the commission is focused and it's my understanding come again, we don't have the details, that it would function like a brack commission that unlike the constitutional amendment as chairman ben holland laid out, you know, where there's this choice we are able to cut medicare and social security, but not raised, not be able to raise taxes or make the cuts on subsidies to oil companies, that this is going to be a balanced approach. this is what we've heard pickled a balanced approach and be like a bright commission were will create again, get away from the arcane world of the senate where you require 60 votes to do something, that it would be an up or down vote that would be a balanced approach. that's our understanding to date with regard to the. i do my colleagues want to add anything to that or not. >> listen, thank y