people theng as you said they think they are funny and witty and they are not. >> they never are. it is time to take a break. more stuff when we come back. smie imagine all of the people living life as clones. michael duck, a canadian dentist is hoping to use one of john john lennon's teeth to make a clone and raise him as his own child. he bought the tooth two years ago for $33,000 and has big plans for a little lennon. he wants to sign the beatle clone up for guitar lessons and see how far he will go. he says he will be his exact duplicate, but hopefully keep him away from drugs and cigarettes. cigarettes? well keep him away from yoko yokoclono as well. that was a great joke. >> i was going to say, yeah. >> isn't the real danger having a canadian musician? bieber? celine dion? brian adams? lavril-avline. i can't say her name. it is a tongue twister. >> getty lee. the auction house where they bought the tooth, the tooth was too fragile to even do a dna test to prove it was john lennon's. on top of that a cloning expert like a year ago -- a cloning expert said the latest technique

the nbc at eleven people were killed in an attack on a courthouse and new cool situationnasingly aut theng the camp itlf. that will wrap up an antenna an attorney a stab wound in panko. two struggling with he told its citizens to whom and to proceed. he said. she will come. so don't tell them to complete. the world ukraine's interim government says authorities could forcibly remove pro russia demonstrators occupying government buildings in the eastern cities protesters in the next hand sees their regional assembly buildings they have placed old tires and sandbags around the facility and are preparing fire bombs the group is demanding a referendum by me. eleventh in the establishment of a republic but larger autonomy ukraine's interim government has sent his deputy prime minister to donetsk the minister is believed to be urging the demonstrators and the building back demonstrators in lohan's also have control of the security service office. interior minister arson of a coke told a news agency that there are two options negotiations or force. he suggested the government leaders who have demo

in theng that may be public interest is the big battles between the distributors for the cable companies, and the content companies. they have all been won by content companies. >> netflix, right? >> i mean when time warner file with cbs. >> the blackouts. >> the distributors might be able to level the lighting field. it is a little scary. all in all, i think it will get through. >> you are also a republican in hollywood, which is quite rare. you are a fish out of water. you are a long-time supporter of our special guest this morning, arizona senator john mccain. he introduced the cable bill last year that would push for À la carte cable pricing in order to level costs for consumers. what about you, where do you stand on this contest-time warner cable merger? is there anything they can do to convince you this is actually in the public interest? >> i am a bit skeptical. i am willing to look at hearings and examined the case more carefully than i have. i have seen a lot of mergers that have had a lot of promise. sometimes they have resulted in a lack of competition. i also understand that

theng of a restaurant -- >> or a pudding. >> there is no adult restaurant that has corn dogs or puddingare thinking of corn dogs and pudding right now. >> i am moving on. >> katherine heigl, if that's her real name, is suing the new york pharmacy chain duane reid which is the name of my two shower butlers. an actress is seeking $600 million in damages and says her photo was taken without consent of pop raw ski. paparazzi. the official page tweeted the picture with the caption, love a quick duane wade run. probably to get toilet paper because she has the runs. why not? it would be fun to make decisions when you don't know. i don't know what i am saying. >> like they can't resist. we need to get toilet paper. the only place that sell itself at 3:00 a.m. >> and there is one every 10 feet. >> when you get it you have to run the generic brown knees. and they are good. you are drunk and forget -- what happens is you leave with the cookies and the chack let. >> again i lost touch with reality. sam, what happened to her? >> she is in 27 dresses, the ugly truth, pretty much everything she is in

down and theng other is niche journalism. >> it is knowing your audience and serving it well.if someone likes french food -- that iserve an audience interested in criminal justice. >> that is correct and we hope to enlarge the audience paying attention to criminal justice. or mail justice is about race, class, mental illness -- criminal justice is about race, class, mental illness, immigration. >> if you guys do a great story or analysis, i would be interested in reading it even though it has nothing to do with my professional work. in our case, there is a lot of tech news. our bet is on quality and it has and we think there is an audience that want people who think hard, who do not necessarily right every piece of commodity news. different from what you do with technology than what politico does for politics? >> it is part of a whole ecosystem. i was with the washington post. and they said, your reporters are so good with social media. mean?s that supposed to of course, they are. i did not even know what to say. they thought it was some weird technique that we had. we are in

theng has fallen out of pantheon of great american sports. why boxing?first of all, sports is the most important programming and television. and a television guy broadcast executive. i believe when you look at how major league baseball and the nba and nfl, at one point, boxing was far bigger than any of them. roger and i and my brother bobble is look for distress properties will stop when we picked it up wheel of fortune and jeopardy, they were distressed properties. jeopardy was on the shelf for yet 96% ofand americans watched it on three different networks. they were all pretty distress and we looked and analyzed it and answered the question why isn't it working better? we answered those questions and then decided to put the show into syndication, but then we locked both of them up for $50,000. >> what is it about that where you see the value, things are stressed for a reason. what the characteristics of rock thing that looked like other distressed properties you've looked at in broadcast? >> when you look at all the other sports, nfl, nba, major areue

theng up on "bottom line," urban institute will talk about the high fees for tax preparers.he latest company to go public. is that it wise idea? ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." i am emily chang. it has been a rough month for tech stocks with the nasdaq dropping almost 5%. that has not stopped companies from filing to go public. twitter's stakeholders said they will not be selling shares. i'm joined now by leslie picker from new york. jiu mei.rt with they have a few months to allow the markets to temper a bit, to allow tech stocks to rebound. it's a little too soon to tell how this will impact their pricing, but it is an interesting timing for them. we have seen a rush of chinese companies looking to do ipo's in the u.s.. that is a sure sign it will not stop anytime soon. >> in retrospect, is twitter's timing last year looking perfect now? >> pretty perfect. they saw i-70 3% -- 73% pop on the first date of trading. you see a lot of the momentum that benefited twitter coming down from the tech sector in particular. of what insiders have said is that they will not sell s

theng way to get back to $3.62 billion. it is a start. >> it is a start.comes to fruition, is another story. thank you so much. continuing our series about health in asia today, we are looking at china and the looming problems facing the authorities. as rosalind chin reports, it is a story of expansion, but it is waste, not the economy. and fast-growing economy easy access to good food has led to fast-growing waistlines in china over the past two decades. data from the chinese center for disease control and prevention show about 10% of over 18's were classified as obese in 2010, and that number is increasing rapidly. our obesity ratio is not as high as europe and the u.s. we have a far larger population base, and our rate of increase is very fast. we recorded an annual increase of 4% in the overweight population and 9% for the clinically obese appellation -- population. >> china has spent about $330 million on health projects, trying to get the nation moving. >> some friends of mine are getting cerebral thrombosis and hemorrhages when they are only in thei

trip to theng a region on thursday. >> it is a crazy time.re is so much happening in asia and it has become more central in the world than it has in hundreds of years. the u.s. is fighting to maintain its rules-based system we have been supporting for 70 years. china is challenging that system in fundamental ways. >> korea, what is the biggest topic therefore the president? >> the big thing in south korea, -- well, two things. one is trade. unhappyed states is with the feeling that south korea has benefited as exports to the united states have gone up. but they don't have enough. that is a big issue. also, south korea and japan are at their worst level of relations in many decades. areif south korea and japan divided, that certainly harms u.s. interests in the region and empowers china. there will be a big push to bring korea and japan together. >> what is the issue with japan and korea geico -- and korea? >> it is historical. koreawas the master of and very brutal. koreans want them to apologize? >> they wanted to apologize and the japanese

theng up, get ready for rise of the robots.mal inspired machines being created around the world, from termite bots to kangaroo bots. and we are not stopping there. we will also introduce you to the world's first legal flying car. and prince george and his royal parents joined other families at a get-together in new zealand. it was part of a royal visit to the country. format only tease -- formalities were quickly cast aside and prince george was doing what other others do. whatever that is. ♪ >> this is "lunch money" on bloomberg television, streaming live on bloomberg.com, and your tablet and smartphone come as you must know by now. i'm matt miller in for adam johnson. in innovation, going around the world, starting right here in the usa. scientists at harvard university are developing a robot inspired by nature's best builder, the termite. and best of all, it does not need humans to tell it what to do. take a look. ♪ >> meanwhile, over in germany, the world's biggest industrial fair is using a very different kind of animal fo

called "theng to be road to depth." it is about people. resumets with the virtues and the eulogies virtues . there are things that you put on your resume that you bring to the market. there are things that you mention in your eulogy. these are non-overlapping. like a lot of people, i think about my resume. i think about my eulogy. it is about how people have developed those virtues. >> this is part of the ted talk in 2014 that you can get online. >> hundreds of thousands of people do this. >> they do. the interesting thing about that subject -- and interests me a lot -- a long time ago, someone said, imagine your death decades from now. think about what you would like people to say about you and get on with living that life. >> it is easier said than done. sermons and books do not get you there. i was writing a column a couple of months ago -- years ago, now. it was about how hard it is to communicate in words. i got a great e-mail from david jolly. he had great sentences. what the wise person says is the smallest of what he gives all stop

my question is the teardrop, that is theng, right?hat's what people do when they murder. >> yeah, that is the sign of a victim. >> so i think that this tattoo is actually very important in the case. when did the murder happen and when did he get the tattoo? when did he get the teardrop? >> she could be the rookie assigned to us. >> she is a plucky rookie. >> i thought he was saying he was sad about murder. >> or it is a mole. >> i love the fact that they say that the tattoo is extremely prejudicial. that's because it is extremely prejudicial for a reason. >> exactly. >> nobody is responding to my shouting. how will i succeed at this network? >> i feel like this one is on the justice system for not figuring this out before he killed anyone. you can't really sit there and go, man, i never saw this coming. come on. >> shall we move on? will a museum movie upset the sunni? a new documentary that will run at the 9/11 memorial service has been paned. the language is upsetting to some. unsophisticated visitors who do not understand the diffe

>> i am alone, but not lonely or self-conscious like this front front -- restaurant thengs their dinersn until a nice gentleman or lady wants to come by and join you. >> this is ruining the pick up scene? >> yes. do you think people are talked to the stuffed animals? >> no. >> it depends on how many cocktails they have had. >> that's true. that's nice to know that you go and eat alone hoping someone will join you. >> sometimes i want to take myself out. i deserve a nice meal. i am not going to wait for a man to buy it for me. if he wants to pick up the tab he is more than welcome to. >> what are you doing later? >> i'm busy. i just want to be uh -- alone. >> you know what is interesting? the eating maze. if you ever walk down 6th avenue there are tourists and alone. if you ever see a person's face when they are eating and it is like the face of a corpse. all of the muscles go dead except for their mouth. this whole part of their body is dead except this part and they are like this -- >> you do think it is botox? >> no what happens is you turn off all of this stuff. you haven't eaten for

who was theng, district attorney in durham, was he right or wrong the way he conducted himself? as much in the first week the clarendon guilty? >> i think he will be the first to say he regrets all of the public statements he made. he was the first to tell me why he did that. it was the first night he had a chance to talk about it and people could give him for speaking out as share his point of view. problem was he was the district attorney trying to -- where theo will suspects thought he did not have any suspects. his thoughts by going public and describing what he believed happened based on the police investigation and what crystal magnum has said. somebodyould smoke out who would feel guilty about what they thought may have happened in the bathroom. unfortunately i'm a that did not work. within a weeks time, he gave it up. and then i talk to the media again. he was crucified for doing it. is "theame of the book price of silence: the duke lacrosse scandal, the power of the elite, and the corruption of our great universities." guest, author of our william cohan. thank you very

that for theng is voice actors?actor, we have to get them to record and perform the positive answer, the negative answer, the quizzical response -- it is a large range. they have to perform that in a booth, away from the audience, which is difficult and challenging, because they do not see the audience. so, you have an ipad show right now. what are your goals? >> opening up the idea of conversation as entertainment, telling stories by talking to the audience directly. >> you worked at exar for 20 years. what are your views on children watching rubies and cartoons? >> i spent a long time making things that hopefully people will enjoy. i think storytelling is an important part of it. >> it is funny, i have an 18-month-old son now and i am constantly questioning how much screen time to give him. what is your approach? >> i have three kids myself. 10, 8, five and half, that is constantly the conversation. >> is your goal here educational? is there something more than just watching television, essentially? >> i think it

it is a lot of wasted energy, don't you theng?> it is wonderful they are being innovative and creative and i wonder what they are going to do when they get to marriage. how will they top that? can you imagine being in the class with those folks and trying to figure out how to compete? i would surrender right there. >> everyone else is outdoing each other. it is never a preparation for real life. teenage love never lasts. unless you are 50 and she is a teenager. >> that's a different story. here is what it came from, bullying. they stopped bullying and this is what happened. you have school musical" to take a girl to the prom. three episodes just to take a girl out? >> all of these kids would have been beaten up. >> they would have been pounded into the earth as they should be. >> i don't condone that. >> not everyone. >> i it is a happy median between these crazy, elaborate things. >> the bullies. you have to get the bullies involved. >> go to bully island to find them. that's the great thing about bullying. everybody said they we

joanne, what do you theng? you are a feminist. >> i love when people get older and they lose their filter. this is a perfect example of that. you should have known when reading this blog and he said he is a detery old man you know what you are getting yourself into. that said, know your audience. for both parties. for him, know who is reading your blog. you may have to tone it down. for these women, they are dressing provocatively know your audience. if you want to be known for your good work maybe don't have as many distractions in the workplace. >> christina, this man is a judge and he should be showing judgment. do you trust other judgements from the bench? >> you have to dress the part. that is not elle woods from "legally blonde." it has to be the brain and not the boosom. i don't know what he considers overly sexy. i would like to see that some time. i don't know what classifies as that. you have to be professional in the courtroom. the focus has to be on the content and argument on what you are saying sa

month theng last i.r.s. confirmed that the i.r.s. implemented every single one of these changes. that would be a good thing for the american people to know more about. and to really fulfill its mandate. >> the gentle lady's time has expired. >> instead of pursuing the destruction of one single woman god givenhe her constitutional rights. >> i now recognize the gentleman from tennessee. >> mr. chairman, thank you and law professor, a at georgetown university who is liberal proery analyst said this, she risk of --ery great in that situation when you voluntarily up open the subject they want to inquire into, that would be a waiver. alan dershowitz, another very liberal legal analyst, pro this.ant usually, said he says, miss lerner opened a pandora's box, you can't make statements about a subject and then plead the fifth in about theo questions very same subject. once you open the door to an waived inquiry, you have your fifth amendment rights. you've waived yourself incrimination right on that matter. the leading legal expert at the obviously andation conservative group said we now

all of theng at things thinking that would have been tough. the bus and up to my mom sat on the little stool and started crying. is my life, this is what i went through. we are like one generation removed from this. i have to take our family to the next level. so i asked my son last night, i'm going to a lace that has three u.s. presidents, so tell me what you want to tell the president. and he said i don't have anything to say. what do you mean i don't have anything to say? these are the guys who are going to determine your future. everything about your life, you are getting ready to go to college. everything about what you are getting ready to do is determine by those people. bailre going to have to the state and country out of bankruptcy. these people need to be held accountable to what they need you. he said ok, dad, whatever. [laughter] but that's my message to the kids at school. i say you have power, you have the ability to affect change. you've been given everything you need. our school, carver academy, he was famous for saying start w

they have been on post processing theng crime scene. it covers two city blocks.he texas rangers and fbi response team are among those here helping to collect the evidence. we are not sure if all evidence has ben gathered. >> have you heard more on theories or information that suggest what might have set this guy off? >> it sounds like the kinds of things that happen every day. specialist lopez went into human resources department seeking a leave of absence request. he was denied a form according to a witness in the room. told to come back the next day. and that set him off. he stormed off, retrieved his handgun, came back in and then opened fire first on a supervisor and then randomly firing shots at others. of course, he left three dead and 16 others hurt before he ended his own life. we do expect an update at the news conference on the six people who as of the weekend were still hospitalized from their injuries. that includes major patrick miller who is being lauded for his actions that day. he was shot in the abdomen and held his wound closed with one hand whi

planning to fast from washington down into every congressional just are in the country where we to theng to be going congressman's district and having conversations with the constituent about why this immigration reform needs to be done as fast as possible. there is no option for us. we cannot continue to allow deportations and deaths in the desert. so we will be pressing congress to act. and we will also be asking the president to also take a look and act within his authority. but at the end of the day, they will have to make a decision -- congress will have to make a decision whether they want to take a vote or not. if they decide not to, we know there's an election coming in november 2014 in which we get to vote. we, the people who care about this issue, and there are millions and millions and millions of us. we will be holding congress accountable for their actions or inactions as it pertains to immigration reform. if they won't vote for us today, why should we vote for them tomorrow? >> today we host a debate on what the next of should be in the push for humane immigration reform. i

the significance of the air with theng involved drone strikes in pakistan. >> the u.s. force has a long history of working with the central intelligence agency. you go back to the 1950's, 1960's, u.s. air force pilots cia flights over russia. what is different here is the cia and their carriers have targeted killings and has been doing so for more than a decade. what we found and what the film shows is that a conventional u.s. air force squadron, regular men and women in the air force, have actually been carrying out these targeted killings for the cia for a decade now. i think that is going to surprise quite a lot of people. >> and the implications of that in terms of the chain of command, in terms of the us possibility of the military versus the cia? well, as i said, the regular air force personnel but they're taking orders from the civilian intelligence agency, orders to kill. shown,ork and others has for example in pakistan, where many of these targeted killings are taking place, 2.5 thousand people a killed by these drone strikes, among them props 400 civilians. th

spree in theng u.s.. not aw? >> alibaba household name in the u.s.n china.iants they are listing the stock soon. preparing for an ipo in new york. >> i am wondering what the strategy is? if you break down the businesses they are investing in, messaging, ridesharing -- is there any cohesiveness here? to get a sense of why they might be doing this, it might be helpful to look at the home market in china. $.10 has been making move into e-commerce. been making aas move into e-commerce. they also recently made it possible to hail a taxi through the app. that might be a reason. >> how does investing in u.s. companies help them with competition in china? >> i think it helps them get a sense of how the markets will work. these companies have had international expansion. asia is a huge market for messaging. a huge potential market for anyone making an app these days. there are giants out there that they would want to have some stake in. >> have there been concerns among analysts or investors that they are diversifying a little too much away from the core prod

screens in theng next few weeks.l was live tv while she was giving an interview about increasing crime on a lack of police officers on the street. chainief broke her gold necklace but did not manage to make off of it. the pulse when back in a few minutes. ♪ let's talk a little bit about the currency market. ra make seen the li progress. the market is returning back to buying anything with yield. that has, overnight. maybe that rally we have seen in the turkish lira is coming to an end in the short term. >> this is look at what we're watching for the rest of the day. you.tart with angela merkel is in athens today. >> she arrives in a couple of hours. she is going to meet small business people. she is going to talk to some startups as well and get a hand of the start up situation in greece. she is going to have a news conference after meeting with them. i wonder what she might have in the suitcase. >> i think a lot of people like the answer to that question. that is a curious question. we are going from small business

awayoal, to lure business from nearby staples center, kiss, justin timberlake, and the a stop at thengn had a tour. >> the form has hosted every big musical act you can think of. and battle for attention with rival, the crosstown staples center. it reopened after a massive makeover. let's check it out. over here, you have some the eagles equipment. to give the form a proper facelift, the madison square garden company spent $1 million on renovations. >> arguably the most important music venue in the world at one time. he really saw the opportunity to return it to its original splendor and more. flex week a man, ripped everything out, basically gutted the building. -- >> we came in, ripped everything out. if there is one thing that really makes it the premier hunter venue -- maybe not in the u.s. but -- >> one thing, the sound. it is the best sounding building in the world coming from a guy who knows. >> it's no accident. they put sound baffling everywhere. >> kiss and def leppard will make a summer tour stop here in july. in august, it will be host of the mtv video music awards where mi

theng in beijing is not for faint of heart, especially when $770,000 u.s.g a car.ry much younger. younger customers, we have seen potentially around 15 sports car drivers, for aris, lamborghinis, and they are attractive for the first time. qwest beautiful. it picks up so quickly. i need one of these. just the foreign brands trying to capture this section in china. local brands, check out the extended wheelbase. it keeps on going and going. great wall wine. qwest the sector has continued to surprise most. it has grown in the first quarter this year. there is such a vibrant and growth to the chinese economy. income levels are rising and so to availe wanting themselves of the brand. i have no concern about the >> all goodal area things come to an end. my time behind the wheel of the race is over and i did not put a single scratch on it. qwest bloomberg, beijing. >> you are driven around in a rolls-royce regularly. >> i do not. qwest then you should. i do not know how my neighbors would feel in new jersey. he does it in file. stephen engle. corey, thank you for cohosti

but they seem to fear more the theng i don't know, embarrassment of that, than the inarrassment of failure finding the right answer. understood for me, i very, very ear early on that asg help is the most important thing to do. finding mentors is about. for me, who should be your mentor? someone who can do something you .an't do and someone who can do something you can't do and knows how to do well so that you can learn from them, so you can take from their experience, their knowledge, and try to adopt it fill in a hole that you may have in your learning. dephene a mentor -- define a mentor. personrybody -- one doesn't have to do everything for you. a lot of people think that a only persono be the you go to to ask questions. around in every part of your life and you try to out who is doing that thing that i would like to do knows how to do it, and what can i learn from them. now, obviously when you pick a please pick somebody that you respect and like. someone whose values, whose sense of integrity, whose sense of with people are things that you think are emulate.e to if you do that, you're

>> we were looking for housing to lead the way in gdp but in theng but because of mortgage problems,ks have been laying off workers at about the same pace we have been hiring construction workers. the whole housing industry is not been much of a net positive to the labor market. >> i want to bring back danny blanchflower, economics professor at dartmouth and former member of the bank of england. the reason why i stopped you a ifent because in my view, mortgage rates are starting to rise, wouldn't that be an incentive for people to try to snatch up whatever supplies out there? the rates willk rise? obviously, maybe this is the weather, maybe we will see some pick up here. in general, when you start to see rising rates, that is generally not assign necessarily that things will pick up. ways, this may well be a function of the fact that the fed is starting to taper and people see that sometime down the road, rates will rise. he is right, we would have thought the housing market would be charging ahead. , houserast with the u.k. prices in london are rising at about 18% per year. the mort

theng is a term used by industry itself. certainly, if you go to a casino and our gaming, you are gambling. it is most specifically answered by saying that those terms are more or less synonymous. alex, good morning. aller: it just seems to be bunch of nomenclature to mask what seems to me to be drug addiction, marketing something that is as addictive -- i mean, i am not a drug user or addict, but my experience when i played roulette in las vegas 10 years ago, i won $100, i lost $100, my heart pounding, it seems to me that it is like a drug. they are marketing very clearly to the same thing that is alluring to drug addicts. this brief burst of pleasure. host: any thoughts? guest: you could say that gaming is really industry verbiage of taking the edge off a term that might have negative connotations. as far as problem gambling, that is certainly an issue. the way that we look at it is the way that we look at other vices as well. at the end of the day it comes down to self-control, to some extent. no one forces you to go into

third-party candidates speaking to the middle of those ultimately going to decide the election from the -- theng, then the true two traditional candidates cannot to the etch-a-sketch. case there is a candidate already holding the center. there are no runoffs in the senate races. also ran for congress yourself. tell us about your political campaign. in my mind the republican party moved away and i no longer felt comfortable there for environmental and social issue reasons. i went to chicago -- iran in ranago as a fiscally -- i in chicago as a fiscally conservative democrat. i couldn't get out of the primary. a lott point i felt like of americans in that i was a man without a party. we're seeing a lot of blue dog democrats become more of a rare species in capitol hill. it is kind of like an extinction save your program. we are creating a centric path and the m o is to get centrist voters from around the country to focus on a handful of races, particularly in the senate. if you get people from 50 states paying attention to key races you can use the club for growth model, funnel contributions and ch

should not just be collected on a vast scale the way the government had been doing without a warrant. , theng accountable administration has said repeatedly it has not found any willful abuse of the authorities by the intelligence community, by the nsa. and they made mistakes there have been compliance violations, those have been reported and corrected. that is one level of accountability. i guess the question is how accountable they are to the balancing the overall of the intrusiveness versus the benefits to national security. ist level of transparency key to accountability. we have not had that. we are only starting to see a little bit now, which has led to efforts by the administration to rein in a little. besides obama saying he wants to and bill collections, he has also ordered there be public advocates before the surveillance court which traditionally only hears from the government on surveillance issues. towants to have advocates give the public interest side of surveillance. he has ordered they be stronger privacy protections for foreigners whose data is incidentally collected. by col

reduce theng to increase in programs which we think are vital to america. we care about the debt just as much as anybody else. you are not going to scare people in america simply because of doomsday just around the corner. your guys want to privatize it. blockuys want to medicare. who knows what they really want to do with it. we need to change both of the programs and we have in the past , under republican and democratic presidents. we can do this together. it is not the one side has all the answers, it is that america needs to come together and resolve its problems. we always do better in a kind of a situation, don't you think? host: steve is next. jersey shore, pennsylvania. caller: i am calling about this unemployment problem. i have a job. i work on construction roadwork. i have worked there for 10 years. i have not got any unemployment this year because pennsylvania started some 49.5% and you take her highest quarter and the other two quarters you work in the year and it has to equal up to your highest quarter. if you don't, you do not get unemploymen

social security and medicare, of theng these because constitution, giving the women are the right to vote. it is because the united states congress's willingness to work on landmark initiatives and that is not happening with the affordable care act. it should have been a process in which everybody was engaged on both sides. to make a difference. i won't get into the why it didn't, but unfortunately it didn't. ultimately, people are paying the price today. that's why i think so many people are saying, you know what? we prefer gridlock. with so many problems of the implementation, they say. not that there wouldn't be as your problems with an initiative of this kind, but it would be less of them, because you have more interest to make sure it works when you have both sides working on a major proposition of this kind. >> i know i have already spoken but i can't -- i have to tell you this story. [laughter] senator wyden and i in the previous congress put together a bipartisan health-care bill. we called it the healthy americans act. and mary landrieu called it the noah's ark bill because

theng is a term used by industry itself.ainly, if you go to a casino and our gaming, you are gambling. it is most specifically answered by saying that those terms are more or less synonymous. alex, good morning. aller: it just seems to be bunch of nomenclature to mask what seems to me to be drug addiction, marketing something that is as addictive -- i mean, i am not a drug user or addict, but my experience when i played roulette in las vegas 10 years ago, i won $100, i lost $100, my heart pounding, it seems to me that it is like a drug. they are marketing very clearly to the same thing that is alluring to drug addicts. this brief burst of pleasure. host: any thoughts? guest: you could say that gaming is really industry verbiage of taking the edge off a term that might have negative connotations. as far as problem gambling, that is certainly an issue. the way that we look at it is the way that we look at other vices as well. at the end of the day it comes down to self-control, to some extent. no one forces you to go into a ba

third-party candidates speaking to the middle of those ultimately going to decide the election from the -- thengthen the true two traditional candidates cannot to the etch-a-sketch. case there is a candidate already holding the center. there are no runoffs in the senate races. also ran for congress yourself. tell us about your political campaign. in my mind the republican party moved away and i no longer felt comfortable there for environmental and social issue reasons. i went to chicago -- iran in ranago as a fiscally -- i in chicago as a fiscally conservative democrat. i couldn't get out of the primary. a lott point i felt like of americans in that i was a man without a party. we're seeing a lot of blue dog democrats become more of a rare species in capitol hill. it is kind of like an extinction save your program. we are creating a centric path and the m o is to get centrist voters from around the country to focus on a handful of races, particularly in the senate. if you get people from 50 states paying attention to key races you can use the club for growth model, funnel contributions and chan