and richard bennett, senior research fellow for the information technology and innovation foundation.he's worked for 30 years on internet network engineering and standards. thanks both for joining us. sheldon, i want to ask you. for those folks not in chattanooga and the rest of the country that are watching, give us concrete examples of an economic impact. >> yeah. well, it's very simple and it's been very recent, too. about a year ago we launched a program at the company lab called gig tank and the gig tank we basically started around the idea that we need to create these new business models around what the next generation networks are going to look like. so we brought in eight teams from around the world. 15 really highly talented students from around the world to talk about what do you do with a gig? what does the world look like when you do this? one of the teams that came out of that was a team called banyon and what banyon is trying to do is literally cure cancer and they're doing that through a software platform that helps match up researchers that are doing this kind of high

bennett had 15. on downe stretch. richard soloman crushing. 64-61. they will face syracuse on saturday. >> playing memphis, gales started strong. joe jackson, he is swinging the house down. gales are down 10 at the break, three seconds left and here is 3 that st. mary's and tigers turn it over. gales get one last chance and 3 and the win! no and the season is over for st. mary's, 54-52. >> i told them i never been more proud of the team. i never seen better leadership. these guys and especially matt have done as well as you can do. >> biggest upset of the night. new mexico and harvard, harvard led most of the game. 49-47 lead and crimson would answer, he had 17. jeremy lin university will extend their lead. chambers. first ever victory and they move on to face arizona on saturday. 68-26 was the final. >> one seed gonzaga got a scare from arizona. derek tied it at 56. gonzaga comes back-to-back 3's. very big shot. gonzaga escapes, 64-58. they will face wichita state next. abc sports brought to you by river rock casino. >> close call. seeup in one >>>

bennett had 15. cal would hold on down the stretch. richard soloman crushing. 64-61. they will face syracuse on saturday. >> playing memphis, gales started strong. joe jackson, he is swinging the house down. gales are down 10 at the break, three seconds left and here is 3 that st. mary's and tigers turn it over. gales get one last chance and 3 and the win! no and the season is over for st. mary's, 54-52. >> i told them i never been more proud of the team. i never seen better leadership. these guys and especially matt have done as well as you can do. >> biggest upset of the night. new mexico and harvard, harvard led most of the game. 49-47 lead and crimson would answer, he had 17. jeremy lin university will extend their lead. chambers. first ever victory and they move on to face arizona on saturday. 68-26 was the final. >> one seed gonzaga got a scare from arizona. derek tied it at 56. gonzaga comes back-to-back 3's. very big shot. gonzaga escapes, 64-58. they will face wichita state next. abc sports brought to you by river rock casino. >> close call. up in one seed. >

bennett had 15. cal would hold on down the stretch. richard soloman crushing. 64-61.ace syracuse on saturday. >> playing memphis, gales started strong. joe jackson, he is swinging the house down. gales are down 10 at the break, three seconds left and here is 3 that st. mary's and tigers turn it over. gales get one last chance and 3 and the win! no and the season is over for st. mary's, 54-52. >> i told them i never been more proud of the team. i never seen better leadership. these guys and especially matt have done as well as you can do. >> biggest upset of the night. new mexico and harvard, harvard led most of the game. 49-47 lead and crimson would answer, he had 17. jeremy lin university will extend their lead. chambers. first ever victory and they move on to face arizona on saturday. 68-26 was the final. >> one seed gonzaga got a scare from arizona. derek tied it at 56. gonzaga comes back-to-back 3's. very big shot.

richard lugar. i could talk about michael cassell. i could talk about bob bennett. uld go on and on of mainstream republicans who got blown up by tea party opponents like richard murdock, like todd akin, who went on to than those in the general election. there are extremists on both sides. the democrats are in the minority right now. derrik sweeney is not taking people out in primaries and therefore is not creating fear for the president. not that the president needs to run a primary again. but the president has put stuff on the table that has enraged his left-wing, but chained cpi, who flirted with increasing the medicare cost. left-wing hated the president for that and yet he did it. it's not happening on the other side. host: you have taken on a new role in the election cycle as the finance chair for the democratic campaign committee in the house. here is the editorial section of the wall street journal this morning -- how are you coordinating with the white house on this? guest: no coordination with the white house on this. i was only asked to do this two weeks a