my parents carry around -- when we are going through bad times as children and we need peptalks, that is when my parents say if we had to go through the crap we had to go through, you can suffer. you keep pressing forward. it is not to say that racism does not exist. but parents tell me we feel the country is more divided now in a subtle way than it was when they were sitting at lunch counters. >> let's go back to that meeting again. you had an exchange with al sharpton. [video clip] >> the supreme court is the law of the land. when the case is taken to the supreme court, they will look at what is passed in 2008 by a majority of 6-3, and they will say, that is precedence. and indiana free voter i.d. >> they did not say all of those things -- >> let me finish. you misrepresented what i said. the supreme court is the law of the land. correct, but they will look to the indiana case. [indiscernible] >> i will cut your mike off, come on. >> what does it feel like -- i do not like that question. you are sitting there and people are prejudiced against you for being a black conservative. what

this is a peptalk from a senior vice president at fannie mae. find out everyone of you must have $6.46 branded in your brains. you must be able to recite it forwards and backwards. you must have a raging fire in your belly that burns away all doubts. you must live, breathe and dream 6.46. well, then he did meet that earnings goal. the securities and exchange commission found that fannie mae had been a little off on its accounting. raynes said he nothing about any accounting shenanigans. this is raines and the cfo explaining the dubious accounting in congress. so was he to blame? well, just last month he is district judge dismissed the shareholders lawsuit against raines. the judge found no direct evidence that raines new accounting rules were being violated. though when raines was fired at the end of 2004 there was huge of people at fannie mae. a couple thousand consoles were hired to straighten out the books. a total cost including fines was more than $2 billion, but there was a bigger cost, much bigger. the executives and the regulators spent

days away, and i think there's nobody that i have talked to, maybe 1 or two, there are almost nobody peptalk do that does not want -- nobody i have talked to that does not want taxes on average working americans not to go up. nobody i have talked to. nobody wants them to go up. the dispute is about over $250,000. if you put a bill on the floor that and nobody over $250,000 would get a tax increase and not everybody would agree with that proposition, i think it would pass. >> the leader talked about what he thought was the motivation for boehner's not calling the house back in it, try to protect his speakership. you have been in a similar situation. what do you think of that assessment of boehner's motivation? >> i do not know if i have been in quite a similar situation because in the congress in the last congress, and which we were in charge, as you recall we were successful in getting 218 democrats on every major proposition. we failed on one instance. i do not think i have been in that position, but i do not want to speculate on the speaker's politics within this conference. what i want to