new york city is george washington plunkett, otherwise known as boss plunkett. and i ask you to read today a document that is showing how he is able to get ahead. boss plunkett, defending his honest graph oft. all right, so four times sake. can somebody just sort of summarize for me? i'm just going to skip to the to the meat of this document. can somebody sort of summarize what's going on in this auction that's about to occur? he tells the other people that would bet against him that don't bet against me. and i'll just you what you want. okay. so we've got 250,000 paving stones that the city of new york is putting up for sale for auction. and so boss plunkett goes to competitors and says, how many of these you need? and one guy said, well, i need 20,000. another guy said, 15,000. another said, i just need 10,000. and plunkett says, fine, i will give you what you want in exchange for you not bidding against me. so a deal is struck. so the auctioneer comes out says, okay, we've got 250,000 paving stones. what's my opening bid? and what does plunkett bid to 50? now

. >> i will start with the breaking news on anthony plunkett.a surprise visit we did not know about this but he is announcing a billion dollars in u.s. funding this is on top of the fact that president biden has asked for 43 billion weaponry and military aid to ukraine, you are in the house and you control the purse strings, your reaction. >> this is a clear picture of it administration that has gone amok we support ukraine to the feet russia and vladimir putin, what i don't support is unlimited spending congress authorized $113 billion, 67 billion to direct military assistance it is like a home equity line of credit. we've given the president authority to spend up to that amount. he spent less than half that what we've given him and now he's coming back asking that we give him more before we left to come back to the district it was 20.6 billion in aid to ukraine. now he wants to tie that to assistance for the folks and now we who were devastated and the folks in florida i think that is sad and sick. we need to keep the supper i'm not voting for