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Want to make $12. everything comes up. >> and these companies can afford the give people a wage without creating inflation. >> i think that he can jam congress and win it. pass it to the senate, and then jam it to the house. >> and there was something subtle, but interesting that everybody knows that the rap on him is that he gives a good speech, but he cant get anything done. but the truth is that he quote cant get anything done because of the republicans in congress. and he made the point by k...

Make a little bit of extra money by being unethical. but it doesnt last. youre building a foundation on sand. and it collapsed because of that. if i would have done it just as you said, id probably be worth 10, $20 billion right now. thats for sure. >> you went down to wall street. on your very first day in 1987, literally the first day youre there, the company that youre working for goes bust in the great crash which happened that day. >> well, i went down there. it was even worse than that. i ...

There, the company that youre working for goes bust in the great crash which happened that day? >> well, not -- i went down there, its even worse than that, i went down there and i trained for six months while the market was soaring to the very top. >> youre thinking this is -- >> im thinking, this is it. my first day of being a broker, and just like that its black monday and its over. >> when you say over. didnt the firm -- >> well, yes, the thing is worse than that, if you remember back then, ...

Then, the attitude was like, people thought it was the next great depression, no one knew the economy would bounce back, people thought it was going to be 1933 all over again. on the subway ride home, the gloom and doom, i was absolutely devastated. when i was working and i was broke, and that was -- i had no money, i was working for $100 a week, and it was costing me more than that to commute into the city back then. i knew i could do the job. i would be a great salesman. i said, my futures bri...

Billion now, thats for sure. >> you went down to australia, on your very first day in 1987, literally the first day youre there, the company that youre working for goes bust in the great crash which happened that day? >> well, not -- i went down there, its even worse than that, i went down there and i trained for six months while the market was soaring to the very top. >> youre thinking this is -- >> im thinking, this is it. my first day of being a broker, and just like that its black monday and...

Okay. this is not the most important thing in the world, but for the record, this is generally believed to be the first official white house press secretary. this is fdrs press secretary, a man named steven early, he was press secretary from 1933 to 1945. he served again a few years later as press secretary for president harry truman. so what you are looking at here are fdrs press secretary and harry trumans press secretaries. this handsome fellow here was dwight eisenhowers press secretary. thi...

Heres los angeles, the city of angels. a comfortable 75 degrees under blue skies. how about san francisco? live pictures of the golden gate show a sunny day. on this very day in 1933, construction began on that bridge. our very own associate producer says aloha from the north shore of oahu. jealous? dont worry, an arctic blast will be out later this week. i will volunteer to go to every one of those cities, and report to you, in the sake of good balance. it felt like 9 below 0 at the start of ...

Mean a new workout regiment. this is day two of obamacare. it might feel like were ten years in, but this is just the beginning of a very long road ahead. were talking about a law that is more than 11 million words long. thats 11 million. to give you a little perspective. the banking act of 1933 that reformed much of our banking industry was written in about 30,000 words. lets be honest with ourselves here and say, yes, it is complicated, its 20% of our entire economy. there will be plenty more ...

1933. actor joan fontaine has died. she was just 24 years old when she won her his oscar in 19 245e7b beat o-- 1942. she beat out her older sister. they thought the reason they were estranged she won an oscar and got married before her sister. she was 96 years old. >> a very talented woman. take a look what is coming up on "new day." chris cuomo and kate bolduan join us. >> big twist in head injuries in sports. we have been talking about hockey and football but how about baseball players wit...

Final dispatch as they prepare to deploy their shoulders. >> so you hear that sort of urgency, professionalism as they prepare for the shelters. the chances of survival are typically 50-50 in that situation. martha: remarkable. amazing how calm they were and professional. what else have we learned about what went wrong? >> this is the deadliest since 1933. you have a national incident report that they tried to learn