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Walked away with tens of millions while people lost their jobs or health care or pensions. but he said, you know, im saying it doesnt work. well, it actually did work with in south carolina for him. and the reason it didnt keep working is he backed off the argument because rush limbaugh and people like that kind of shamed him against making that argument. i think its actually going to be pretty effective. >> if you put that the pious baloney between toast with honey mustard, its probably better ...

lead analysts at morgan stanley, the main underwriter for the facebook ipo, received privileged information about the company, information that they didnt share with retail investors. finra, the financial industry regulation authority, regulatory authority, the u.s. senate banking committee, and the commonwealth of massachusetts have all announced probes into the matter, and that was quickly followed by a lawsuit filed by some investors against facebook and its ceo, mark zuckerberg, al...

The political world. >> well, one of the things that this highlights is just the shortened attention span of the public and the immediate am thesia, because it was not all that long ago that we were hailing george w. bush as the first mba president, and the first president with an mba and we see how well that played out in terms of the u.s. economy. and the other thing i think about this is in the rhetorical side of it in terms of using the term job creator implies that there should be a certain...

from investors during the ipo process. now, specifically they are talking about forecasts that revenue would be lower in 2012. facebook tells cnn, by the way, that the lawsuit is without merit. ron is a former s.e.c. investment attorney. henry blodgett, ceo of business insider, a website. back in 2003 henry settled a civil securities charge with s.e.c. he was banned from the securities industry. hes a good friend of our show. henry, i say this because its relevant to our discussion. yo...

Savings has been with the collective bargaining. i am not taking a side. i am trying to understand what the number is. has governor walker put out a number of how much he has recouped or recovered or somehow refined from this? >> i have not seen the numbers, gret a. but remember last year when you talk about cost savings, you know, you talk about the collective bargaining and cost savings, collective bargaining is about hours and working conditions and public safety. if you remember last year, t...

Last year about what was going on in wisconsin, you know, why we were having the protests. it was because we passed really big reforms, not only addressing the problems of the past but the problems of the future. when we came into office, we were facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit, coming at us from the past. you look into the future and you saw the cost drivers of pensions and also the rising costs of helt care. so we had it coming at us from both ways. but we wanted to make sure that we were...

California congressman jeff denham, good morning to you from california. >> thanks for having me back. bill: you have called for major reforms to put a stop to this kind of waste. where in the world do you begin? >> well i think the first thing youve got to do is create transparency. this is a agency that has a $10 billion slush fund that is outside of congress. it is outside of appropriations and we just want the american public to be able to see how this money is being spent so we know when th...

On in wisconsin, you know, why we were having the protests. it was because we passed really big reforms, not only addressing the problems of the past but the problems of the future. when we came into office, we were facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit, coming at us from the past. you look into the future and you saw the cost drivers of pensions and also the rising costs of helt care. so we had it coming at us from both ways. but we wanted to make sure that we were preserving taxpayers desire to...

Savings has been with the collective bargaining. i am not taking a side. i am trying to understand what the number is. has governor walker put out a number of how much he has recouped or recovered or somehow refined from this? >> i have not seen the numbers, gret a. but remember last year when you talk about cost savings, you know, you talk about the collective bargaining and cost savings, collective bargaining is about hours and working conditions and public safety. if you remember last year, t...

Wealth than ordinary working americans. that quote that corporations are people may be taken a little out of context, but it shows the mind-set of the governor. corporations are not people. profits may go back to shareholders but theyre certainly not people. and the president has every right to question the value system of bain capital. and im all for private equity, it did a good job for us here in wednesday, but reverend sharpton, you have to look at the amped case, they took $100 million out ...