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Was here. that makes me sad when i dwell on it most of the memories here were joyful memories. my buddies in the neighborhood i still see some of them. this was the kind of world where we would walk to school down the street here and a lot of outdoor activities and it was the 50s. >> this is actually a replica, i have been told, of the table that your mother and father and its a card table. the chairs are very modest. >> yeah, exactly. >> this refrigerator, which i love the color is actually not...

Was here. that makes me sad when i dwell on it most of the memories here were joyful memories. my buddies in the neighborhood i still see some of them. this was the kind of world where we would walk to school down the street here and a lot of outdoor activities and it was the 50s. >> this is actually a replica, i have been told, of the table that your mother and father and its a card table. the chairs are very modest. >> yeah, exactly. >> this refrigerator, which i love the color is actually not...

Anchor for him throughout his life. >> just in this world alone, i think of so many things his grandfather used to sit at a card table over here and play solitary. and i think of his mother. we had her birthday party here, and she was really older then. and one of them said mom, whats within your best birthday? and she leaned over and held his hand and said this is my best birthday. im holding the hand of my son, the president of the united states. >> my mother told me not to brag about myself a...

Jessica what she would do if money were not an issue. >> and at that point a light bulb went off, so now since i would say since about 2010 weve been working on all cylinders, because we had that realization that its much bigger than we think it is. >> they started bidding on jobs they didnt think theyd get. >> even when we didnt know what we were doing, we were talking like we did. you know, they say fake it until you make it. we faked it for a long time. and then after awhile we werent faking ...

Community in a way that you wouldnt if maybe you opened your bar in chicago? >> very possibly. when people talk politics and how they feel about things, i always say that im a social capitalist because i want the freedom to run any business i want but i need to take care of the community that allows my business to thrive. >> the concept here wasnt to make a lot of money. its a lifestyle thing. i love what im doing, the interaction with all the people and things like that. i make enough money to ...

The situation. our influence is limited. you know, even the money that we provide, the $1.3 billion in military aid, i believe that was the level that was set more than 30 years ago when we first started spending it, and its never been adjusted for inflation. its not worth what it was. its laut a lot of its value. when you compare it to the more than $10 billion egypt is getting now from regional allies like saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, its just not -- were not the biggest player a...

>> do you feel responsibility as a business owner here for the community in a way that you wouldnt if maybe you opened your bar in chicago? >> very possibly. when people talk politics and how they feel about things, i always say im a is social capitalist because i want the freedom to run any business i want, but i need to take care of the community that allows my business to thrive. >> the concept here wasnt to make a lot of money. its a lifestyle thing. i love what im doing. i love the interact...

Make is lower that is spent since 1955. >> bill: there is more money coming in to the feds than ever before. >> that is not the issue. you are complaining about people paying too much in taxes. we are paying less in taxes than we paid in decades. >> bill: because there is more individual taxes. you are doing as you always do, sleight of hand. i will pay for a little card table and you go out in front of fox news on sixth avenue and three things and take all the tourists money. >> i believe you a...

But, robert, isnt this the republican rampage against government, not through the ballot box because, of course, they lost the presidential election, but through the excuse of the sequester? >> look, i think in some ways it is. there are certainly programs that you enumerated there that they would be happy to watch any federal funding squeezed off of. i do think if you again look at their rhetoric from last fall around whats going to happen to military readiness and national security, they were ...

No matter where you live, you have surely seen and heard what happened in new england over the weekend. here is a "rachel maddow show" related sample. this is the home of massachusetts native and show producer. his folks still live there. as you can see there that is the top of the mail box. and oh, my stars, that is a stop sign, not a child-sized hip-length stop sign, a real life stop sign and the snow goes almost all the way to the top, just outside of boston yesterday. now this is summerville...