the biz were pursuing in the, you know, several years ago three or four years you see projects being prude at cost with no profit there's a return to normal market continues that are effectively pricing. and in addition to that we had completed in 2012 an update that had resulted in design criteria that were estimated to have an associated cost of $57 million on the transit center. we have any program resources that were not going to be effective to the program. on the other side the design side of the effort through the cows of the design and development we working with web core and the designers through conducive ability had identified opportunities to reduce the cost of construction through alternate materials by roughly a hundred million dollars including the alternates that were included in the passage. the scope beyond the steel we're engaged in provided limited opportunities for additional engineering so that for practical purposes to deal with the issues of the magnitude that we were looking at we essentially exhausted the cost reduction opportunities. so the recommendations were b

and she just -- >> host: she wasn't a complete sort of prude. >> guest: not a prude at all. she didn't like intruding in to people's personal behavior. she had strong moral standard. she never sort of tried to police personal life. and when some of her colleagues got in to trouble for sexual difficulties or something like that, she would not -- she realized sometimes they made the situation impossible. she didn't wag her finger. she human beings as they come. there was a point in the book where i enjoyed there was a -- [inaudible] who just had a rather difficult phone call. slammed the phone down and swore rather badly that couldn't be repeated. she was right behind him. she heard everything. >> guest: yes. she loved it. when she didn't -- he hated having too little to do. it was the trouble with her. and she would come down to the rooms where more junior people were working to see how things were going. on this particular occasion he was trying to negotiate something with the treasury. he felt that he facilitated. so he slammed the phone down and swore. suddenly he realized

now, i'm not a prude. not going to say -- >> neil: we have gone through so many leaders with mistresses. where do -- >> it's ridiculous. >> neil: where do you draw the line? >> you have to be able to not have extra anything. deal with the job. pick up your pans and do the damn job you were hired to do. this used to be a very proud country. we were proud people, and this is a democratic process that people have fought and died to defend and this is what you have been doing it. >> thomas jefferson wasn't a very nice guy and was a great statesman. >> neil: he did pick up his pants. it is what he dade when they were down that is the problem. ladies, thank you very much. that's the new clarion call for politics, pick up your pants. >> it's one thing for a saudi prince to be peeved we're getting our act together but for u.s.a. president to be peeved we're getting our energy act together? we getter bet our act together fast. >> neil: a prince and a prez on the same day. so say republicans who marvel at the saudi

they are not prudes. they are not like turning off their i pods and not listening to anything.y say, look, we have got to take responsibility for ourselves here. we have got parent kids better. we have got to choose our role models and our leaders, our community leaders in a better fashion. and so i think it's well within folks' right to say look white, black, brown, or whatever, is this really what you want your kids to listen to and professor, you can chime in here too. >> sure. >> laura: al sharpton condemns a lot of these lyrics but there always seems to be side deals going on here in the background. i think that's what o'reilly was getting at. >> yeah. i think it was and i think is he accurate. let me just go back to what was said a moment ago. white people don't tell us who our civil rights leaders are. seriously? that's your argument? that's ridiculous. this is not about whether white people are telling us what to do. the fact is that in the african-american black community there are some substantial problems that need to be addressed. this has nothing to do with -- >> -

getting in, well after a bottom is formed but they're seeing great returns and actively managing it prude dentally. i it i that is what jim's saying over the long term with balanced portfolio. i'm saying active verily manage winners as you see them coming. liz: picking winners is super tough. jim what about fixed income? is there opportunity there? how do you see it? where are you finding rubbes in the rubble? >> there is significant opportunities across the fixed income board, probably not in long-term treasurys or anything longer term duration. liz: avoided those. >> i would definitely avoided those. the emerging market debt space which certainly delivered significant gains for us over the last several years is a space we're a little bit leery of now. we like global high income, domestic high income, chicken hearted ways to play the equity markets in conservative funds. adam: when you mentioned you would like, you know, dipping your toe into europe, shouldn't we be more cautious? they're in recession over there. how are they going to pull themselves out? >> well, sure, look, not only ar

well, i'm a little bit of a prude. >> no, you are just technologically challenged. >> stephanie: i justgood morning, everyone. i loved having michael tomasky in my ear. that was really hot. >> stephanie: i know right. go ahead. >> caller: you had a couple of callers that were talking about the lawrence o'donnell show, and i would like to kiss and mary him too, but he was not referring to shows like yours. he specifically targeted the new york media with their hypocrisy. so it wasn't shows like yours or those other ones out there it was specifically targeted to the new york media. so take no offense, stephanie. >> stephanie: all right. then i won't. i know lawrence loves me. because i love him too. hum? see that was my porn. remember that promo they used to run for him about the bullets -- >> yes. >> stephanie: that was my porn. something about a magazine -- [♪ porn music ♪] >> stephanie: just when he gets mad and that vain draws, and his eyes get bluer -- >> oh my god! [ screaming ] >> stephanie: squee. >> we get such a peak into your sexual psyche -- >> stephanie: it's weird. >> you sh