so this is scott fitzgerald, and he says on this that, well, you can see for yourself. >> so he says, no, they wrote it. and scott fitzgerald, as i understand, is a conservative republican that voted for the bill. >> yeah, but you'd have to look at the, uh, the draft of the bill that comes out comes from the legislative reference bureau. >> how important was the money spent on lobbying to getting the bill passed? >> i mean, i lobbied on the bill, i think that uh, i'd like to think that i had a, had an impact in it. >> to ensure passage of the mining bill that gtac helped write and lobby for, the company's allies spent almost $900,000 on tv spots alone to defeat jessica king, one of the mine's opponents in the state senate. >> ... mine, and 3000 high-paying jobs. >> the money spent to defeat king made it the most expensive wisconsin state senate race of 2012. it also secured the majority gtac and its allies needed to pass the bill. >> it's a wholesale effort to buy government so they can own government, and get it to do what they want. >> this company has done everything they can to at

scott fitzgerald. no, i didn't write that.ell, after a number of books, five or six, i sort of got bored with the "about the author" paragraph. there wasn't really anything more to say. hadn't been very much to say to begin with. so i just made, started making them up. [laughter] and the "about the author" paragraph in this book said that he has been an adviser to every american president since william howard taft. [laughter] why not, right? [laughter] so i was on about day ten of a book tour. book tours are, you know, instead of water waterboarding and sending seal team six -- [laughter] they ought just to send terrorists on book tours. [laughter] you know, we'd have found out where bin laden was hiding much faster. [laughter] so you get a little punchy. i was walking into, i was in boston. it was about day ten. i was walking into an am drive-time radio interview. and these are not generally occasions of socratic dialogue. [laughter] that's a greek term. [laughter] you know, there's sort of, there's a hierarchy out there in r

scott fitzgerald who famously wrote that the very rich are different from you and me and tonight hillary clinton is taking flak for what critics say is a disconnect with average americans over the subject of her perceived financial hardship. she's already trying to smooth things over. >> we came out of the white house not only dead broke but in debt. >> are. >> reporter: now fully into her book promotion tour, former first lady and one time secretary of state hillary clinton may have stumbled into her first gaffe as a potential presidential contender. >> we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for chelsea's education. it was not easy. >> reporter: but according to a december 16th, 2000 report for "the new york times," shortly before they left the white house, she wrote another book with an advanced $8 million. and property records show they purchased two homes. >> let me clarify i fully appreciate how hard life is for so many americans today. it's april issue i've work on and care about my entire adult life. >> i think it's important for hillary clinton to

scott fitzgerald, and charles bukowski, they too have learned that more alcohol first thing will oftenbread, biscuits, pulled pork off that whole hog, sweet jerk chicken and brisket. hell, i feel better already. >> the mississippi i perceived is not the mississippi that i've had in my head. i was surprised how sold i was off the bat. if you want to write, come to oxford. >> you think that's true? well, apparently, yes. >> like that line in barton fink, you can't throw a rock without hitting a writer? then he says, do me a favor, throw it hard. >> it's easy to look at mississippi and go that just happens down there, so we're good, our hands are clean. it's a totally misperceived place. when i came, i fell in love with the place. i never thought that i would. there's something to it, but you can't put your finger on what it is. >> what it is can be found in the dark spaces across the tracks and on the other side of town. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the lounge right by the cemetery and back by the river. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] whon a certified pre-ownedan unlimi

scott fitzgerald spoke to what some of you are feeling right now when he said, the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." you can pass that test. i know you can. you can be outraged by what the koch brothers do with their money in politics, and you can appreciate what they contribute to hospitals and medical research. and you can do that at the same time. and still retain the ability to function. look, i'm doing it right now. and i'm still sort of functioning. and so yes, i feel some gratitude to david koch, and i feel much more gratitude to many more people than i will ever be able to thank. the emergency medical technician who got michael out of that taxicab then got me out of that taxi scab, both of us on stretchers. i wish i knew his name. or the napes of the strong men in that neighborhood who rushed from their houses, they rushed in there to help lift our stretchers out of that taxicab. i've thanked my brilliant surgeon dr. david helfet many times and i'll never start thanking h

scott, is the level. >> all right. joining us now in our "closing bell" exchange, abigail doolittle from peak theories, gemma god freed and jack bouroudjian from index financial partners, keith fitzgerald from money map press and great to have all of you with us. gemma, i begin with you. what's this about today? more about the world bank taking down its world growth or the political shocker that all of us, wherever we are around the globe, are trying to get our hands around? >> trying to get our hands on it because volume is low and i got stuck in traffic from uber, the protest on uber to try to get here, but the interesting thing we're looking at at the moment is the world bank came out and cut global growth forecasts but only seem to be telling us half the story. they talked about the turmoil that's going on in russia and the ukraine. what they didn't mention was the 200 billion euros worth of capital going into europe out of russia, and that's propping up the euro and really meaning that europe is struggling, and secondly, they are talking about this risk of expectations for the fed to raise rates, hitting emerging market, but they are not talking about that actually affecting high