. >> reporter: the 1954 gibson prototype black beauty played here by tom doyle, paul's right-hand man for years. >> i'm working with one of the greatest geniuses. >> reporter: les paul was frugal and tom worked long hours for little or no money. when he was given the black beauty in lieu of a pay check, tom said thanks. >> i said thanks. he said "it's yours, tom." tom is selling the black beauty at access with all of paul's pioneering tropics, stuff he wouldn't show anyone but tom. february's guitar playing magazine has it. this is ted playing it in a 1950s tv show sponsored by mouth watch. >> the point is this guitar was the beginning of what les wanted in an trick guitar. >> which is why it is seen by some as the mother of all models that followed. >> where will you find iconic history like this. >> some rock stars say it wasn't the gibson black beauty that paved the way, many played by rock legends, but earlier models like those made up to two years earlier. is the black beauty the grail of guitars. tom says the problem is while the frames from the 1950s, the tropics are from a dif

will tom doyle be standing there at the auction playing and the bids come in. is that it? of it. stuart: it's a regular auction. people on the phone from all over the world, that kind of thing. >> for sure. stuart: 1.2, 1.3 million? >> at guernsey's. stuart: you'll blow them out of water. play it into the break. >> okay, i'll do it. ♪ ♪ ♪ the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. ♪ approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. keep in mind medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's where aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company come in. like all st

. ♪ the 1954 gibson prototype black beauty once owned by the legend less paul played by tom doyle hisand man for years. >> i'm working with less paul one of the greatest geniuss of the electric guitar. >> reporter: less paul was famous and frugal and worked long hours with no money and he gave him the black beauty in lieu of a paycheck and tom said thanks. >> that is how it happened. would you consider it, it's yours tom, it's yours. >> reporter: he is selling the black beauty in new york complete with the pioneering electronics that would go with it and not things he would show be tom and they call the black beauty the grail and he is playing it in the early 50s t.v. show sponsored by listerine mouth wash. ♪ word the street is the instrument could fetch up to $2 million. >> the point is this guitar was the beginning of what less always wanted in electric guitar. >> reporter: which is why it is seen by some as the mother of all less paul's that followed. ♪ where are you going to find iconic history like this guitar? it's just not going to happen. >> reporter: here is where the story h

tom doyle played it for us, as you saw. who bought it, you ask?ou. $335,000 for that to tarp. that was way below estimate. >> yes. stuart: -- >> the creator of that qatar. i have a long history. i took three years of lessons. i wanted to meet girls. not attracted to a clarinet play. stuart: how do i segued from that to this. listen to this. >> he apologizes for america. he criticizes america. it is my opinion and i am entitled to it. the same love of america that i detect it. i think it is a lot of the things that he says and does. stuart: do you agree with what rudy giuliani said about the president? >> i do not think that the president is anti-american. he is patriotic. over 50% of the country elected him twice. they want to be able to look forward. go on twitter or facebook. everybody is weighing in. they want the distraction of was he born here? is he a patriot. each one of those candidates has two common about rudy. stuart: thank you very much, indeed. >> that 2 yards. america came from the people being self reliant. now we are crossing over

i want to offer my thanks to don doyle and tom brown for inviting me and being such wonderful hosts. i'm honored to be in columbia for this anniversary. who burned columbia? if we knew the definitive answer, i am not sure we would be sitting here today. we know who started many significant fires in history. we blame mrs. o'leary's cow for the great chicago fire, or now we blame hey leg sullivan. the great fire of london began in a bakery on putting lane. we blame the british for burning washington, d.c. in 1814, and the earthquakes in san francisco in 1906. maybe we don't know because this fire happened in the middle of the civil war. but we know that the union army burned atlanta. who burned columbia? sherman and his fiendish hell hounds sherman and his demons wrote a poet, sherman and his army of villains, wrote grace brown elmore. what did sherman say in reply to these charges? in his official report, sherman blamed confederate general wade hampton. as he explains, hampton had ordered that all cotton should be moved into the streets and fired, to prevent us from making use of it.