[laughter] sheila andh tom and understanding the history that the thompson family has brought to this has been so designing andus executing our strategy for americans for prosperity. when tom would call me -- tom and i talk a lot. he would say, cory, we have this thing in new hampshire called and llc tax. we have got to do something about it. i said, what you want to do? he said, let's get some people to the capital. editorial pagehe in the union leader wrote about tom thompson and his brigade of warriors to the capital to lead the fight against the llc tax. a lot of people are going to be out there and tell you that they stop the llc tax. thompson, not for tom calling and talking through the benefits of making sure small business owners don't get taxed out of this state, i certainly would have an llc tax in the state. tom's leadership, bestowed upon me, has been such a positive experience. i'm so proud to receive this award, and to call tom my frien d. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, cory. i have one more thing. speaker,uce your next -- dr.ust met today arthur brooks, p

. >> in a radio interview, mississippi congressman benny thompson called clarence thomas a uncle tom. >> now, all of a sudden government is the worst thing in the world, since a black man became president. >> monday night on the house floor, new york democrat charlie rangle dished out similar vin dicktives. >>> racist statements can ruin lives and damage reputations. recent bundy. >> i've wondered if they were better off being slaves or better off under government subsidy. >> while those men paid varying costs for their statements, thompson and rangle's statements went unnoticed. >> i think it's troubling when the only supreme court justice being called an uncle tom. we should be just as offended by that language. >> when blacks were asked what is most important to you, race is registered only 2%. it's the so-called leadership that keeps the fires of racism fanned in the public's eye. >> a poll from last july also suggested a media presents a distorted picture of racism. it found that 41% of blacks consider blacks racist. and a smaller percentage considers most whites racist. >>> firs

would tommy thompson please come up? >> thank you, bill. tom, alice, it is an absolute honor for me to be working with such a distinguished group of individuals. jason, bruce, thank you. pete, dan. as a former governor and secretary of health and human services, i have had the opportunity to look at this problem in different ways. they are all very complex, as you have heard, and it is difficult to come up with the answers. people do not realize that the states of the individuals who will be held holding the financial problem and try to come up with a solution. because medicaid, which is really more the responsibility of states, though it is funded by the federal government, is responsible for almost two of long-term cost care. one third of the medicaid budget, $400 billion. increaseis going to out of what is required in the budget to take care of the long-term care problem. state level. the >> moving to individuals who do not want to stay in their home. opportunity for health services to take care of those individuals. that is what we have to

then you also have a representative benny thompson who was on the new nation of islam radio show and he called supreme court justice clarence thomas an uncle tomt you have, greta, are these members of the congressional black caucus who have to create this strawman or this deception because they are really not dealing with the interests and the issues that are facing their constituencies. when you think about charlie rangel, he should be speaking out about mayor bill de blasio who is trying to dismantle it the charter school program in new york city. the academy right there in harlem. not talking about the 12% unemployment rate. not talking about the g.d.p. growth which obviously means that there is definitely not economic growth within our inner city and urban environments. this is politics as usual. >> why do they do that? because everybody goes into politics whether you agree with a person. i realize some politics an awful long time and lose that thought, but, i mean, why are they doing that? >> it's it's very simple. because you have a constituency that is trapped on a liberal/progressive plantation of the 21 st century. they want to make s

tom clarence thomas thrk man doesn't even like black people, he doesn't like being black because every decision where color has something to do with it, he went against it. >> so should the punishment for congressman thompson it was for donald sterling? eric. >> thanks for coming to me first, juan. here's the deal. look, i'm in the mind set now about all the stuff going on, he said, she said, they are going to take this away from him. let the free market dictate. let him vote him out -- is he still a congressman? >> yeah. >> let them vote him out. as far as donald sterling, let the free market take care of this. life has a way of giving you your comeuppance. >> and i agree with you. that's the key. in all these arguments, when the commercial people, when the advertisers flee, you are in trouble. >> i -- yol like his comments at all. he can keep his job. i think it's pretty embarrassing for him. these comments. they speak for themselves and the way he disparaged clarence thomas. he's not moving the ball forward for anybody there. >> gregory. >> you know what, i'm tired of this kind of race ping-pong. i'll throw you a bundy and smn somebody throws a sterling. what if your name really is uncle tom. >> i had a

thompson is someone i know well. he is the ceo of mcdonald's. i want you to construct a dish for him -- >> no problem. >> using the sweet-and-sour sauce at mcdonald's. >> ok. >> tomio, warren buffett is someone that i have talked to quite often. he loves cherry coke. so, i want you to construct a dish using cherry coke. >> sure, i'm the coke guy, right? yeah. great. >> you signed that deal, buddy. >> rachael, i will give you a bit of a curveball. elon musk is a billionaire, founder of tesla, the electric carmaker. >> those are really cool. they are very cute. >> he is south african. so, a south african food is biltong, which is a kind of beef jerky. i want you to construct a dish using beef jerky. mario, you've had a second to think about it. what would you make lloyd blankfein? >> first of all, i would chop one of the hot dogs -- do i get more than one hot dog? i would chop one of them up and dredge it with flour and salt and pepper and some cayenne and make it nice and crispy and hot. i would take the other one, i would butterfly it open until it was flat, dredge in flour and bread crumbs. i would make a hotdog schnitzel and serve it with a crispy hotdog salsa.

thompson. we'll talk basketball a little bit later but not right now. she's notre dame. >> i know she is. >> great lady's team. >>> joining us now is tom fanning, southern's chairman, president and ceo. you wear a lot of hats now, too, tom. talk to us about fed matters and all that stuff. but we had a discussion a little bit earlier, we all want jobs. it's jobs friday. and you know, you talk energy. my fantasy is that we lower input costs enough to where we can manufacture here again and it narrows the labor gap which is something you can't ignore if you're a multinational. if we can make it better, we can bring a lot of them back. >> that's huge. i've been talking a lot with this national energy security plan. energy security breeds, economic security. i think we can grow jobs, grow personal incomes, make american lives better. >> which is something we've been looking for a way in this century to bring back something other than service jobs and to make something again. and no one knew how it was going to work. andrew worries about it. technology is replacing a lot of jobs. it fell in our lap. geopolitically you have an entire continent which putins had

thompson will be back later this half hour with much more on the bitcoin story. >>> futures are pointing to another positive open after stocks bounced back yesterday. joining us now, jeffrey saught. andrew, tom why would you ask me. >> i went back in and changed it. we're going to have a contest on who gets this right. >> it's digenan or digenan. >> it's digenan. >> i went back and changed it. that's been hard. has it been hard your whole life? >> i've had a lot of difficulties my whole life. >> tom has the u.s. intrinsic value global management team. irish? >> it's irish. >> that a boy. >> did you get it right the first time. >> they put it in phonetically. >> i change things to your read all the time. i go in and change things. >> he changes them to his read. >> when i go in, sometimes i tha change things. >> you have to tell paul when you do it, otherwise it messes up when they do the wrong camera. >> isn't it positive when you see blue chips and dividend stocks behave much better? >> you want the mark tote follow valuation. if any area got ahead of itself over the last year it was the high flyers, big growth stocks. >> momentum stocks? >> yes. >> do you think this correction is over? we'