since launching her line of japanese yam-based noodles, terri rogers has served up success pretty well. her product, "the no-oodle" is now in 15-hundred stores coast-to-coast. and sales last year topped the previous year's totals by 600-thousand dollars. but rogers success has also come with valuable lessons. "to have a product that has a shelf-life of 40-days is too short. so we're going to come out with a product that is shelf-stable for two years." rogers is a self-taught chef and chicago-based entrepreneur. this week, crains small business forum honored rogers for using the 'ol noodle. meanwhile, americans are said to be struggling with a dining dilemma. data from knapp-trax shows sales at restaurants this year are the lowest since 2010. the firm says americans are eating out less as they deal with less money in pay checks from the payroll tax increase plus higher prices at the pump. still to come they go with what they know....could a new spin on classic films help generate profits. thats later in movies and money. but first... how an art heist from the 90's is making headlines on

. >> and cardinal roger what honeny of los angeles, the first american to take the individual oath. there is another question from twitter, terrywerful enough, that a superpower pope would be too much, but the church is changing in terms of its makeup and america is taking a more central position in a globalized church, a century ago there were a million catholics in africa. there are 150 million now. same kind of change in latin america. the church has moved away in terms of population from europe, the united states takes a more pivotal role there. nevertheless, the idea that there would be a superpower pope, it's like they can't win the world cup either. too much of a crushing disappointment to the rest of the world. >> and as we continue to watch these individual oaths, i want to keep the picture up so that we can see every cardinal coming by but i want to see if ron claiborne is listening because i keep thinking, what, 20 miles away from us across rome, there is someone also possibly sitting and watching and that is the pope emeritus, benedict, ron, if you can hear me, we know that he has been watching newscasts, yes? >> re

terry o'sullivan, building a better america. check out liuna liunabuildsamerica.org. there is a big media war going on in our nation's capital. "the daily caller" over the -- and rogeraying i probably only have ten years and i'm going to let it all hang out and tell you everything i know -- everything i think about everyone i know. senior media reporter for politico dylan byers joining us back in studio. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> bill: this is a lively time. a lot to write about. >> media beat is never boring. so many fascinating characters. >> bill: happy as a clam there. let's start with bob menendez. it is hard to tell. daily caller first cams out with this story that bob menendez, senator from new jersey, down in the dominican republic with prostitutes, allegedly even some of them underage. now "the washington post" says maybe they got it wrong. what's going on? who do we believe? >> it is really convoluted story. it takes a lot of time to explain but in the simplest terms -- >> you have five minutes. >> bill: five minutes? that's a filibuster! >> the "washington post" reported that on a woman came forward, said i was paid to say that menendez paid