wizard owner ted leonsis, at a wizard's game, on the d.c. sports blog. ted leonsis challenges the president rhetoric about the gap between the very rich and everyone else. >> i voted for the president, and that's out on donations to his reelection campaign. it blows my mind when i am asked for money as a donation and at the same time i am being blasted as the bad guy. his advice to the president is to rethink how to talk to business and sell to business leaders on your plan to make the president -- country great. many of us want to be part of the solution. we are not the problem. >> well, he is not all wrong in this sense rich people do pay an awful lot of taxes. but warren buffett has a -- you can't just debate the fact that rich people, really rich people, their average tax rate is about 15%. americans look at that and say how kennedy. it is because of capital gains, that is the reason. but both are right. it is true rich people pay a district -- does the poor amount of money but it is true they pay a very low tax rate. >> is he right about that? >> he

with its owner ted leonsis and basketball friend barack obama -- ted leonsis's blog, he challenges the rhetoric out the gap between the very rich and everyone else. he says -- i votedfor the president, i maxed out on donations. what blows my mind when i am asked for money as a donation at the same time i am been blasted as the bad guy. his advice toto the president is rethink how to talk to businesses and selell to business leaders on the plan to make the country great. many of us want to be the part of the solution. we are not a problem. >> well, he is not all wrong in the sense that rich people do pay an awful lot of taxes. but warren buffett has -- you can debate the fact that the rich people, really rich people, their average tax rate is like 15%. americans look at that and say, how can it be? it is because of capital gains. the reason we need to bring up capital gains. both are right. it is true rich peopl pay a disproportionate amount of money but they do pay a low tax rate. >> it is his message to business leaders the wrong one, margaret? >> he is very thin skins. they are the o

steinberg links the leader to ted leonsis's blog where he challenges the president's rhetoric. he also says "i voted for the president. i maxed out on personal donations but it blows my mind when i am asked for money as a donation at the same time i am being blasted to the bad guy." is a device to the president is rethink how to talk to business and sell the business leaders on your plan to make the country great. many of us want to be part of the solution. we are not the problem. >> he is not all wrong in the sense that rich people do pay an awful lot of taxes. but warren buffett has -- you can't debate the fact that rich people, really rich people, their average tax rate is like 15%. american look at that and go, how can it be? it is because of capital gains. we need to bring up capital gains. both are right -- it is true rich people pay a disproportionate amount of money but it is true that they pay a very low tax rate. >> is his message to business leaders the wrong one? >> he is very thin skin. they are the ones who came out of this debacle very way ahead. what is the real

it's not good when a guy like ted leonsis, the fact this is a guy who contributed and said in his blog he contributed for obama's reelection in the next year and he's basically saying i'm tired of all the class warfare talk coming out of the white house and you've got bob johnson, a committed democrat who supported hillary clinton four years ago and he's saying i'm fed up with the inaction and washington by both the white house and specifically said the white house and congress. so when you've got people that are supposedly rooting for you being that critical, it's keli there, mr. gary. >> could you feel ? cooler air coming in. >> smacked us in the face. >> it's not going to be too terribly cold this weekend if it was going to be sunny and not so breeze by, but since it's going to be cloudy and breezy and wet, it may be miserable, but it will be noticeably cooler. so don't say they didn't tell us this. this wasn't going to happen. i guess they're not repelling down the monument tonight. it's dark. that kind of gives you a sense of the wind blowing out there, the gusts this evening up o

the president's economic plan now getting pushback if some prominent pro-business democrats like ted leonsisjohnson. >> you don't get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success. i grew up in a family of 10 kids, first one to go to college and i've earned my success. i've earned my right to fly private for i choose to do so. and by attacking me is not going to convince me that i should take a bigger hit because i happen to be wealthy. >> reporter: johnson added that warring parties and people is not a strategy for success. melanie alnwick, fox 5 news. >>> herman cain criticizing fellow candidate rick perry for not asking sooner in removing a racially insensitive name from a rock outside a texas hunting camp. the perry campaign said perry's father painted the rock to erase the road. >> the name of the place was called head and that is very insensitive. i think it shows a lack of sensitivity for a long time of not taking that word off that rock and renaming the place. it is just basically a case of insensitivity. >> cape followed up his florida straw poll win with a straw p

. >>> and the world remembers steve jobs, capitals owner ted low onsis weighs in on his -- leonsis weighs in on his former colleague. >> hello, i'm brian bolter. >> and i'm shawn yancy. >>> guilty of murder, a virginia jury convicted a woman of first degree purr forking to her 2-year-old granddaughter -- murder for tossing her 2-year- old granddaughter off the parking garage at tysons corner. >> reporter: there are no winners in this case. a 2-year-old girl is dead at the hands of her grandmother and that grandmother is going to jail for a long time. >> reporter: after a grueling day in court a family is left trying to pick up the pieces. inside the fairfax county courtroom it took just five hours for the jury to find carmela dela rosa guilty of throwing her 2-year-old daughter angelyn off a pedestrian walkway last november at tight sons corner mall. her defense had hearing -- at the tysons corner mall. her defense had argued dela rosa was mentally ill but the jury didn't buy it. the prosecution said she was seeking revenge angry her son- in-law got her daughter pregnant before they were

ted leonsis has been on both sides. how key of a role is he playing on this thing? >> ted is not on the nba's labor regists committee but he hassen -- relations committee but he has been an important voice. to ted's case and owners, they know the precise cost/benefit of a lost season. and so owners want exact -- they know exactly what they want and i think at the end of the day they will get pretty close to it. >> prediction, in a couple of weeks or months maybe? >> i think games around december 25th, january 1st. enough to have maybe a 55, 60 game season. >> sort of like we did in 1998/ '99 when the spurs beat the knicks in the championships. >> jeff zillgitt. appreciate your time. >> thank you dave. >> coming up, we'll show you some new high-tech gadgets for you and your pets. >>> plus, a report due out next week has some pretty disturbing news on just how much is getting past security at tsa's check points. quick check of traffic now with monika. >>> a live look at the northbound side of i-95 in springfield at route 644. just out of the camera shot a disabled vehi

president's economic plan now getting pushed back from some prominent pro business democrats like ted leonsisnd bet's robert johnson. >> you don't get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success. i group a family of 10 kids, first one to go to -- grew up in a family of 10 kids, first one to go to college and i've earned my success and to fly private if i choose to do so and attacking me will not convince me that i should take a bigger hit because i happen to be wealthy. >> reporter: johnson added that warring parties and people is not a strategy for success. melanie alnwick, fox 5 news. >> you heard about his first straw poll win, now herman cain has won a second as his campaign continues to pick up steam. this one was in kansas city, missouri, yesterday at the national federation of republican women's conference. more than 500 votes -- out of more thatch 500 votes cain got 49%. >>> the government gave a company $130 install thousands of electric car charging stations all across oregon. that was two years ago. now the deadline is approaching and it turns out the company ha

johnson, another business leader spoke out this week, ted leonsis, one of the people who helped buildol and is now the owner of two big sports teams here in washington. he wrote a blog about the president and some of his statements under the headline "class warfare: yuck "and wrote some in the democratic party are casting about foe enemies and business leaders and any one who has achieved success in terms of rank orifice cal suck cease is being cast as a bad guy in a black hat. he is a big democratic donor as are you but is the president playing class warfare? >> i think the president has to recalibrate his message. you don't get people to like you by attacking them or their success. i earned my success and my right to fly private if i choose to do so. and by attacking me is not going to convince me that i should take a bigger hit because i happen to be wealthy, you know, it is the old i think ted and fred and i both sort of take the he the ethel mercedesh to life. i tried poor and tried rich and i like rich better. i went in business to create jobs, create opportunity, create value f