is that an unserious thing to do? is it an unserious thing to do after jordanian fighter pilot gets burned alive, to go out and play golf? i love golf. guilty. republican. play golf. no problem with the president playing golf. who in the white house was in charge of optics that day? what an unserious tone that sends to the world that, a soldier can be burned alive and we have a short press conference and it is 7 iron or 8 iron, mr. president? we look weak. and probably just wrapping this whole thing up is harry reid on the floor of the senate. i know, i know. it's early. you just ate. but think about this now. think about a culture that allows the majority leader of the united states senate to go to the floor of the senate and just make it up. just make it up. mitt romney did not pay his taxes. he just made it up. did you see interview a few weeks ago when they asked him, what for? did you see his answer? "we won." we won. they won. they're countercultural. it's weak. it started with an apology tour and hasn't stopped

there is unseriousness about this administration i find truly chilling. >> opportunity for serious debate and discussion with the g.o.p. contenders to say if you are not confident and certain where this is going with respect to the present administration. you might be getting more of the same with hillary here is what we do differently. >> again. it can be very specific things doing to saying we will be more serious about this and not be running around the white house with the selfie stick which do not send any kind of message of graph toss. people see that and they are not taking this seriously at all. >> first of all identifying the threat as being credible and serious and not jv. this is interesting discussion. i'm looking forward to discussing this further so don't move. greta takes to you michigan to meet the marines of the marine glald iran. heart broking moment mother first saw her son held >>> right now the emotional interview you will only see right here "on the record." greta just went to michigan to talk with the parents of a u.s. marine wrongly jailed in iran. amir hekmati's f

[laughter] stick mac is that unserious to do after jordanian fighter pilots? i'll love golf. foot in the white house was in charge of optics that day? what a mess says a soldier could be burned alive if we have a press conference and that's not on your radar? and wrapping this up is the florida senate. i know. you just a to. [laughter] but think about this a culture that allows the majority leader to make it up mitt romney did not pay his taxes he just made it up did you see his answer? me one. they one. they are counter cultural. is started with your apology to work and has not stopped the place to with an identity politics and it is not what we are about to. when you think about it at the very essence it is all about jealousy and separation. way need to be there that is why we put it could that then go door-to-door but we care about what is taking hold in this culture produced a culture war. the top three issues? domestic insecurity cultural is security and natural security. i of a governor reappraise senators and great business people and successful people. the common deno

he made a lot of -- keep in mind and i am not being completely unserious here that leo use the word well-educatedd paul went to duke. as we learned last night, a lot of americans do not like duke. matt: a lot of guys on wall street love it. doug heye thanks for joining us. leo hindery, always a pleasure to talk to you here. stay with us on bloomberg. our politics team will provide full coverage of senator rand paul's announcement on tv and online from 11:45 a.m. eastern time. tune in or type in at that point. it will be pretty awesome. now here's a look at our top stories this morning. fedex is expanding in europe. it will pay $4.8 billion for struggling dutch delivery company. ups trying to buy the company two years ago but regulators blocked that deal. fedex runs the world's largest cargo airline. and billionaires bet against the euro is paying off for a major hedge fund company. radel yo -- ray thatdalio's hedge fund is up. pollsters predict chicago's mayor will survive today's runoff election. rahm emanuel is seeking a second quarter your term. he was forced into a second round of voting by t

i guess that was not an unserious offer. nikhil: you are right. think at the end of the day what you really want to see is someone who can pay top dollar for the company. in my mind, that has to be a sovereign wealth fund. i don't think any of the other public companies can afford that. if that is the case, you can have the last ceo coming back and run the company. frankly, my own opinion is i don't think anybody has run this company as well as he did. olivia: what about the stronger dollar? we were saying perhaps starwood took the wrong turn by not suspending sufficiently internationally, but now you look at marriott and hilton and they're getting bit from the business abroad because of the strength of the greenback. matt: starwood it too much international expansion? is that the problem? nikhil: exactly. for marriott you are right. both of these companies are expanding internationally in the big way, but they are not abandoning their u.s. base. if you look at marriott, more than half of that pipeline for the future isn't the u.s. and less than h

that's an unserious way to look at a very serious issue. what happened to sovereignty?t happened to voter i dedication? -- identification? why is it racist to require a driver's license? they know i am in claritin, -- when i get claritin, have to show my id. we don't want to see that. it's racist. what?? if you want to see eric holder take your drivers license. you can't get into the department of justice without one. [applause] >> it's 50 years sensing of moynihan -- since daniel patrick moynihan had the sense to say the black families in trouble. today the white families in trouble, the brown families in trouble, the american family is in trouble. i spent more times in jails than you probably will. a lot of are bad places. but the common denominator's, when you talk to those kids -- it never changes. i didn't have a father, i started with marijuana. i'm not preaching i'm not saying anything, just telling you what my experience has been over 20 years of public office. i didn't have a father, i didn't have the male influence, and i started with marijuana. what is left f