view and in the sec's view, the commission also or i believe the division director announced a dozen orllf more investigations of goldman sachs were going to be closed .ecause they lead to no action they could not find any actionable conduct. sachs, andoldman goldman sachs, let's concede, is a pretty smart organization, i think i would have difficulty persuading my board of directors, if i were the chairman, to accept the $550 million settlement and not be able to give reasonable assurances that goldman sachs was no longer going to be under the sec's radar for a while or past conduct. but the division director said that the two were not related. you have to draw your own conclusions because i was not present. >> jim, do you believe the sec should have gone after john paulson? do you believe the sec should have gone after more senior executives at goldman sachs? >> i believe that the sec stopped its investigation way too early and that some of the people that you mentioned could well have been defendant had the investigation proceeded to its more natural conclusion. >> jim kidney, former

the information released by cms orl not allow patients payers to draw conclusions about the value or quality of care. the ama is disappointed that the centers for medicare and medicaid services did not include safeguards that would help the public understand the limitations of this data. that is the statement from the ama. your thoughts? guest: the ama has some legitimate concerns but it is the beginning of a conversation. without the data you have no idea what questions to ask. idea really about the practice patterns of individual physicians. i think it is a fair question to ask why this orthopedic surgeon had so many more scans or mris and his colleagues. is the data of this data. it does not tell you everything all at once. it does not give you a clean ranking of physicians or tell you that much about quality. it is a starting point. host: you write about the off the mall just say their profits are -- you write that the ophthalmologists say their profits are actually smaller than what it looks like. if you could explain that? guest: one of the things that physicians argue, and it'

richmond, orle in at least my colleagues were fair and honest. they know me. they know i am kind of quiet and pretty shy and i like to be left alone. that is under the best of circumstances. this time, i really wanted to be alone. -- the 23rdknow me year i have been in richmond and generally, my doors open and anybody that wants to visit with me have a chance to visit with me. i see constituents or different people all day long all session. this year my door was shut. i didn't visit with people. even good friends would come by and visit with me and say, are you kidding? i would say no. there were some lobbyist that continue to press me and continue to hound me. that bothered me. people didn't -- people that that respect my privacy, that bothered me a lot. most people did. most people just kind of left me alone because that is where i wanted to be. i told people -- somebody texted without i haven't visited a local group of people that are present -- that i represent. i'm here tod back, do my job, that is all i can do. frankly, what zell miller wrote, he never n

-- nonviolent, low-level drug offenders who were not leaders or had significant ties to gangs life orls who faced near licenses. my question to you is, give me an example of someone who would fall in that category, because 3f thatknow, under 18355 category would not have been subjected to mandatory minimums anyway, and that was put in law in -- and anybody at that time would have been subject to parole. notn example who would be a a leader, involved in organized answer cartels, nooks since a criminal history, who would have been facing a life or near-life sentence? >> a drug mule who would bring drugs from new york and got stopped at the bus terminal here, in washington, d.c., where there's a whole bunch of drugs in a bag to get charge, not only possession of those drugs, which would have resulted in a huge sentence, but could have been of being part of a conspiracy with all the drugs involved with that conspiracy. engaget person did not in a violent crime, he could have gotten a license. >> but he would not have had a mandatory license, with he? my final thing-- >> in 70 years -- >> [i

is this something new buyers have to deal with or is there government orl state governments can stepn and make that process easier? caller: i heard of sony people that got halfway through the process and realize they did not have enough money and lost the money they did put in. host: thank you for calling in this morning. -- ur twitter page here is another comment from facebook -- we have 10 more minutes left in this segment of "the washington journal." a special line for current buyers and sellers. we want to hear about your as we see right now some of this data and some of the polls that have been going on. -585-3882. is 202 some other headlines from around the world. we will talk about the situation in ukraine in our next segment of "the washington journal." here is a headline -- ms. merkel's comments came after president barack obama spoke to leaders of france, italy, and the united kingdom to support a new wave of sanctions against moscow. inwill hear more about that our next segment of "the washington journal" this morning." another story out of "the washington post" this morni