the class of 1982 was rick snyder. 1983 was me. mike duggan, we all came up in that era.aving a connection to the city and understanding what it was in its heyday, as well as having participated in other cases, the chrysler case, perhaps, made me seem like a more logical selection than someone else. brian: wxyz tv in detroit covered you a lot. we are going back to one of the first times in march of 2013, to get a sense of what they were saying before you took the job. [video clip] >> a historic day, but not the sort of history a city and its people want to make. detroit has been declared in financial emergency. cash deficit of $100 million coming up june 30. $15 billion in long-term debt. $1.5 billion of that due in the next five years. the governor has taken the next step in getting the finances under control. jim kurtzner was in the room when he made the announcement. he joins me now. relating to kevyn orr, do we know when his first day will be? >> they have to do all the paperwork. his start date is march 25. brian: what did you feel like at that point? kevyn: it is in

good buy rick snyder, mike pence, peter king, john bolton. they're all gone. start at the top, everybody else stays in. mike huckabee, in, ted cruz, rand paul, marco rubio, jeb push, chris christie, rick santorum, bobby jindal, ben carson, lindsey graham, donald trump, jim pataki -- hold on a second, we forgot one. who is that again? who is that? i totally forgot about that guy. the guy in the bottom, that is bob ehrlich. he's the only one of our original 22 as of this weekend that had not made up his mind whether or not he was going to run. but yesterday he told "the boston globe," poof he. he did not say "poof me" to "the boston globe," but he said he would try to advance the issues he talked by a action committee. but at least that's it now, right? a total of 17 candidates running for the republican nomination for president. 17, zone. except maybe not. because there's another guy who we forgot so hard, we never even put him on our initial list of 22 back in may. he was the commissioner of the irs in the george w. bush administration. he worked in the reagan

first, there was michigan governor rick snyder. he said he would not run and so we got to poof rick snyder. then it was the very stern governor of indiana, mike pence, who seemed to be rattled by the big gay rights controversy he created in his state. soon thereafter, he said he would not run for president. so mike pence was out. three, too, one, poof. then it was the bellicose new york republican congressman peter king. three, two, one, poof. then it was the even more bellicose u.n. ambassador john bolton. he's basically made a career since he left the george w. bush administration. he's made a career saying he might run for president. so it was surprising when he said he would not. but he said he would not, so we were able to say john bolton, three, two, one, poof. four guys dropped out. other than those four guys dropping out, all the rest of them stayed in. all the rest of them declaring one by one they were in fact running for president. the last one was the guy way down there on the bottom row in the middle, my friend jim gil

and let's get a little closer to home with washington, d.c., and we are joined by congressman rick snyderk you so much for joining us. rick: i am actually in recess, i am actually in arkansas, taking care of my babies. katty: so that is why you are calling from arkansas. coincidence, just about two weeks ago, i filed one of these resolutions in commemoration of the april 27 anniversary of the sinking of the sultana. i don't think that congress has really done much about this the years, as your guest knows. there wasn't much appetite at the time of the sinking for remembering these kinds of events. the nation was tired and lincoln had been assassinated. i think that, in a lot of ways, has continued. people don't realize the tremendous tragedy that occurred on the mississippi river. i just wanted to know that it is h.r. res. 329, and people will be able to find it online. it should come up when we come back from the recess. katty: government, you are calling from arkansas, but how much do people from your area know about the sultana? rick: i think it is fair to say that those people who kno

let's bring in rick snyder, senior retail analyst. rick, it's a pressure to have ow this show. doing this morning? >> doing well. thank you for having me. >> sure. the retail investor b, the consumer not spending as much as we would expect. at the same time, nordstrom jumping in sales. what is in order syndrome done right and macy's doing wrong? >> nordstrom is a little more upscale consumer. macy's is a little more promotional. and the one word we keep hearing here is promotional, promotional, promotional in the environment and the port strike actually put inventory in the stores that had to be marked down for the second quarter. so it was a bit challenging for macy's who had a lot of inventory. >> theover all sales data we got was strong. is that pointing to strength in the lower end of the market as you're suggesting with promotional stuff doing well or is it broad baited, some of the higher end items selling well, too? >> i think the higher end items and the lower end, particularly in the offprice sector, people like that value proposition and i think they are taking share