. >>> earlier this week gayle brought us the cinnamon challenge brought to us by steven joe.ou almost lost it you laughed so hard. >> i did. >> because of that, some of our viewers sent in their own videos. >> i decided torg out and buy myself some of this cinnamon and decided that i'm going to do the cinnamon challenge. >> i'm already laughing. >> he is not going to. it's impossible. >> here it goes. [ buzzer ] [ laughing ] >> oh. >> i think he is still coughing cinnamon. >> that's the cinnamon dragon, they say. >> here's another cinnamon challenge sent in by a viewer. >> oh. >> oh. >> ah. >> it's not even a full second. >>> this is making news because recently doctors are saying and in particular one doctor from yale university is saying this can be pretty dangerous. you can end up as pir ating the cinnamon, and others are saying there's a risk of death because it could even cause some severe choking. in new haven a principal was actually placed on leave because the principal was in the cafeteria while students were trying the cinnamon challenge, and parents were pretty ups

this is one of them featuring a young man named steven joe. let's see if steven is up to the cinnamon challenge. >> try to swallow it. once you spit it out, you lose. >> a shot out to my momma for not knowing how to cook. >> oh, man, here it comes. >> hey, shout out to my girl. [ applause ] >> jimmy: it's cinnamon. it's like -- it's like a martha stewart version of "jackass." i watched a lot of these on youtube. more than i would care to admit. eventually i happened upon this one which watch this closely. there is a delightful surprise at the end. >> yo ready. >> first person in youtube history to swallow cinnamon. >> he swallowed cinnamon. >> i got it! [ applause ] >> oh, man. >> jimmy: that is entertainment right there. that's the sort of thing that can get this country back on track. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how do they not have a reality show, by the way? speaking of reality shows big news from the show "the x factor" today, simon cowell has fired the host of the show, steve jones and fired judges nicole scherzinger and paula abdul

ahead of euro two thousand and twelve his first major decision is to name a new captain with steven gerrard joe hart and james milner all being mentioned as possible candidates and places the pressure is off his new look side. mom with no expectation in. going to the going got no belts at least young men have got the ability to deliver a performance both individually and collectively as a team so of good confidence in the it's really the only thing that counts at least moment in time well another manager taking charge of his national side for the first time is chris coleman he's replaced the late gary speed as wales manager and later on wednesday they welcome costa rica in a match dedicated to the memory of speed the forty two year old was found hanged at his home in november. elsewhere the kontinental hockey league playoffs are kicking off with the western conference quarterfinal battles later on wednesday sevastopol face the biggest test in their battle with outland having fired their coach a day before the start of the post season they play the first game in their best of seven series with a

preparations ahead of the tournament his first major decision is to name a new captain with steven gerrard scott parker joe hart and james milner all being mentioned as possible candidates. well another manager taking charge of his national side for the first time this chris coleman has replaced the late gary speed as wales manager and later on wednesday they welcome costa rica in a match dedicated to the memory of speed the forty two year old was found hanged at his home in november. elsewhere the kontinental hockey league playoffs are kicking off with the western conference quarterfinals beginning later on wednesday face the biggest test in their battle with outland having fired their coach a day before the start of the postseason they play the first game in the best of seven series with alexander's none of the caretaker of the dimitri was let go. moscow are now facing a tough series of games against top seeded scarse and. torpedo take on love inside an armory in a moscow are up against a number of mates from valery. have it all to do with basketball during a play want to go beyond the top sixteen stage

joe stevens joins us. tell me what is going on with this. the answer to do what the house wants before friday or is this subpoena battle? >> that is what makes it exciting. there is a threat of subpoena battle on friday morning. we don't know what the white house is going to do. they have been cooperative and committee has not found anything that suggests anything is wrong. there is no reason to give them anymore. what we've seen before, a game of brinkmanship. this is one year this week since this committee started the solyndra investigation. repeatedly they had this battle, the white house and committee demands things and rattle sabers and they reach a compromise a couple times. they subpoenaed documents originally the could committee wasn't getting what they wanted. white house turned over some documents but not all the documents. you have to wait and watch and we'll all find out together. >> greta: is there something specific that the house is looking for from the white house? >> they want to find out how the solyndra loan was restructur

and by operating on standards, joe, that no other democracy -- >> so, steven, let's let steven actually much is this man willing to spend? >> that's the thing. he said i could give $10 million, i could give $100. the scary thing, they could give $1 billion. they could personally fund and not even notice. they'd both still be, you know, the top 10, 15 richest person in the country, wouldn't change the lifestyle a bit. $1 billion, i'm still worth $24 billion. and it's nothing. basically a u.s. politician is the cheapest investment in the market right now. you can pay $250,000, which is nothing to these guys and get a direct line to obama or who else. you can buy a senator now for $5 million. you could have your senator win, you know, it's for nothing. >> could newt gingrich be revived? >> i don't know if newt could be revived. it's not like they could give $1 billion to anybody, but it goes back and forth. you could buy all the air time, anything. we're going to have an arms race. these two sides throwing all the money. and at the end of the day, we're back at the same place. the people w