tom rogers simply told the truth. >> fox com, what's that story? >> the federal government wanted to indict me for fox com so bad that pretty alice was salivating to do this. at the end of the day fox com was one of the weird contracts that the actual providers were the ones who decided. members of congress their time is extremely valuable. when they go to vote, they go underground or above ground. when you go underground the cell phones literally would not work. chairman thomas, there was a contract to wire under the capital on the house side the devices that will repeat signals so members of congress can use their cell phones. there were two company, l.g.c. and fox com. two members of congress were supporting each one. fox com was a tel aviv based company. it was originally from tel aviv in israel. bill thomas did not want to get between the two members of congress. when i got in there, sergeant of arms did such a wonderful job. jack abram av represented fox com. haley barbour were the two lobbyist. of course those companies contacted us and as j

tom rogers was waiting for a moment like this to use his brand new generator, only it's not working. >> i've been waiting and excited for a chance to have a weather outage. the thing is acting up and the weather is too bad. the generator people are ready to come fix it but they can't get down here. >> reporter: across the road, patience is growing thin. this man, his wife and three kids have shipped to the in-laws. no water because no electricity for the pump. >> that's right. no electricity for the well. >> reporter: he'd like to use his chainsaw to give dominion power a head start. >> they told us don't touch the tree, don't touch it. we'll be more than happy to cut them up. we cut them up between here and the main road. if we can't do it and they're not going to do it, we don't have a lot of choices. >> reporter: as for the rogers family, they say they can hang in a little longer. >> i love dominion power. i've watch these guys work. earlier this evening the treys called me back to say the dominion contractor just rolled up chimney lane to start work. it may be a few hours yet. th

>> he is much less conservative than the most strident voices on fox news and less conservative tom roger ails and the wall street journal editorial page prior those acquiring the journal. reporters at the journal say we got a break on this whole mainstreet miami ya is left wing bus the page is so conservative it gives us cover. he, for example in 2007, announced he would make news corp carbon neutral and he would have a five-year deadline to do that and they beat the deadline. on the other hand on twitter he makes clear he has no patience for government intervention to force certain kinds of taxation or other policies that would mandate reductions, but he believes in it. violent swing necessary climate in australia you can't simply ascribe to chance. and yet his news organizations, if you read his australian papers, they absolutely bludgeoned the centrist but left of center labor government for taking some steps to do more than just sort of embrace corporate volunteer tear action. there were car been emission policies that were sense as sensible, taxation, similar to how we dealt with ac

tom keene. fu and alixscarlet steel. our guest host is james rogers.kesman for energy and coal and we will talk to him about the future. we assume electricity. >> so far it has happened. energy, i think the lights went out in 1942. the morning brief. >> we want to update you on what happened overnight. u.k. employment fell. it is the lowest since april 2009. officialsy has said will consider raising interest rates. japan is reporting the biggest november trade deficit on record. imports climb over 21%. u.s.,ic data here in the we got mortgage applications out and we are down over 5%. at 2:00 p.m., the fomc rate decision. after the bell, we have oracle. there were two big winners in the second biggest lottery jack pot in u.s. history. the winning tickets were sold in california and georgia. the winners will split the $636 million jackpot. stood a chance. >> assuming your husband went to california to buy the ticket, what would you do with the winning? charity, we're going to buy a house in paris and i am going to do direct feed for free. we have it all

tom keene. what are we looking at today? >> good morning. it is a monday morning. rogerwill stop by and we will look at the linkage of politics. former deputy treasury secretary. and wall street, the way forward in 2014 for roger altman's wall street. he is with evercore partners. he what time to touch him he volcker rule -- touch on the volcker rule. and kevin roberts will join us, saatchi andondon's saatchi. the controversial theme, the death of marketing. surprisedr beyoncÉ the world with the release of her album friday and over the a huge, it has been success for her, almost anti- marketing. >> you market yourself, right? social media. she believes that her self. the marketing becomes the power --it used to be the person market. deal.uge she sold well over 300,000 units -- albums and not singles. beyoncÉ really taking over the direction of the columbia records effort. be about, my hero, peter o'toole, dip it cannot convey what it was like hearing my parents argue whether i could go see "lawrence of arabia" a few years ago. >> i wish i could have heard that debate. [l

tom keene is off, with me is michael mckee and trish regan. us, josh roger. to our guest hosts, we want to kick things off with the morning brief. >> we have been talking about japan. inflation seems to be working. ais is good news for mr. rob -- mr. abe. it threatens household spending power, less employers, and reduced wages. tell mikey can take the rest of the day off. there is no economic data. what do you do on days like today? >> sit here. president is busy, even though he is on vacation. he signed bills into law last night. one is the budget deal that was crafted by paul ryan and patty murray and the other cracks down on sexual assault in the military. joe biden is leaving for his vacation today. >> where's he going? >> isn't he going to the bahamas? >> and the president is -- nobody is home in washington. >> the president is on u.s. soil. >> it is not exactly close. >> he doesn't need to be close. he is close in spirit. >> maybe the white house will be the same. >> company neustar for the twitter story you talked about. company news starts with the tw

roger clemens' wife. >> i have to see a picture. the former president of madison square garden joining us. we will be back. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am scarlet fu with tomteel. let's get you some company news now. sac capital strikes a deal for its reassurance. the reinsurance unit they founded last year. this comes as they transition to a failing office. group is buying sac. restructuring over at ea ds. the defense contractor is slashing jobs. this lead will move to what it calls substantial consolidation at a number of sites in europe. the company is hit by a drop in government dispense -- defense spending. will hire about 20 bankers in the u.s. as it tries to regain market share. of anhirings are part effort to be involved in japan cross-border deals. you wonder if abenomics is helping drive this push. single best chart is one of our most popular segments. they have one of the best charts i have ever seen. request byby special a surveillance follower on twitter. it compared bitcoin with another bubble in the past. there it is from july to december. at that point, it had gone up about 6000% in about five mins. -- five months. what about dutch tulip? w

march 2, 2011, jean clawed roger of cameroon was arrested for, and i quote, home sexuality and attempted homosexuality. jean claude is one of the individual cases of the tom lantos human rights commission which seeks members of congress work for their rights and freedom. sadly, cases such as these are far too common in areas of the world where people can be imprisoned for simply exercising their basic human rights. i call upon the cameroonian authority to live up to their obligation, to respect and protect the rights of jean claude and all cameroonians. i pledge to follow his story and do what i can to secure his safety. i hope my colleagues will take up cases from the defending freedoms project and ensure justice for wrongly imprisoned individuals all across the world. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas rise? >> i ask unanimous cop sent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> the number of americans who support updating our electronic com