>>neil: i am the business nerd here, low and behold they are picking up my business week and you are on the cover of it, young man. did you see this story? you are "king karl." >>guest: i heard one or two things. >>neil: the $1 billion man? >>guest: who writes these tag lines? we have said that the budget for cross roads is $300 million. by my math that is .3 of $1 billion. not $1 billion. don't ask we they came up. that just sounded better than $1 billion. >>neil: the idea you could be the next c.e.o. of the republican party, that you, you are controlling a lot more influential with the money and the connections and the people have given you credit for, what do you thing of that? does it bother you? >>guest: well, it is in the right. and it is an exaggeration. and there is nothing i can do about it the i'm part of a team. led by our c.e.o. at crossroads and haley barbour and i are fundraisers. we am just a laborer. i thought the article while i appreciate some of the nation things but there were exaggerations. >>neil: i hope the genius thing was not an exaggeration. >>guest: i made a comment about you and they attributeed to me because they were real