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Close your windows and mouth and dont breathe this in. steve: they have known about that for a very long time. brian: this there it goes for the people of atlanta, georgia i didnt think that other place looked too bad. i was shocked. >> its not that old that stadium is not that old. brian: are we sure we want to do this? steve: come down to the new one has more luxury sky boxes? >> exactly right. its all for money. because thats where the owners make their money is from the sky boxes. brian: you...

Little upset about this. first of all, there is $1.1 billion worth of direct subsidies from taxpayers to the nfl. steve: what do you mean by a subsidy? >> all right. how about the building of stadiums, for example. taxpayer subsidies go towards the building of stadiums. 20 new nfl stadiums since 1997. all of them have received a degree of taxpayer subsidy. steve: its a sweetheart deal. >> some of these stadiums or most of them actually are built with municipal bonds. they offer a tax advantage. ...

Lottery -- >> they dont have to pay for that. >> no, no, its not like in the cheap seats and sky boxes, no, basically new york parishes distributed tickets. in many cases they would hold a lottery or in some cases pastors would give them to people who were particularly important in the life of the parish and that kind of thing. >> all right. you see that pope mobile, jim sciutto, has now come to a halt. i want to quickly go down to jason carroll. hes on the street. hes an eyewitness to history t...

We understand they will be in an enclosed area. there will be bullet proof glass between them and the public. they will be in sky boxes at that stadium. so it wont be completely open. but yes, its a huge security challenge. were seeing a huge police presence. theres like 11,000 soldiers, police and intelligence agents scattered not just around this site but around johannesburg. parts of the city have been shutdown. they hosted the world cup soccer match back in 2010 so they have a little bit of ...

From a scalpper or you could get a ticket from one of five congressional fund-raisers that were held up there. you mentioned bieber, also taylor swift, the stones, eagles, all of these have been the sites of political fund-raisers. up in the sky boxes so the artists arent involved but its a way for politicians to show their lighter, funner, younger side and its a way to lure out people who maybe are sick of going to cocktail parties. a funny thing, a number of the older lobbyists around town say...

Most of the critics never got much closer than the nacho tand and they have watched from the comfort of the sky boxes. look, i love politics, but i will tell you this, i am glad it is over. [ applause ] >> you know? [ applause ] and the fact is, there is more to life than just elections. later on in the show, i will show you something more important to me. by the way i think you will agree that elections are important and have consequences. i will congratulate the president and hope he leads as ...

Just like in the wizard of oz. dont be fooled by the man behind the curtain. who is running the show in the dnc, gretch? >> gretchen: he said labor yunce are not spening as much money in charlotte, but they are calling the shots. author of shadow bosses explains. >> good to be here. >> gretchen: richard trumped us. and they are not going to buy sky boxes. >> not buying sky boxes but they said they will have 400,000 people out in the streets knocking on doors for obama and he said they will spend...

Not, i actually do agree with president obama every now and then. i really do. im always looking for ways in which i can find some common ground. this week he gave an interview to a sports radio program and he made a good point. here is what he said. turns out that political reporters are a the lot like sports reporters. theyve all got opinions even though they didnt play. >> mr. president ive got to agree with you. both as someone who played the game and somebody who is on this side of the came...

Two parties gear up for the convention they hope will dissuade voters they have folks gathering in charlotte north carolina. they contributed $8.548 to the 2008 democratic convention in denver many are taking a pass this time around. in a july memo afl cio president wrote this quote this year we will not be making monetary contributions to the convention or the host committee. we wont be buying sky boxes hosting events. union leaders spent millions to make their own shadow convention in philadel...

Afl, cio memo trunk can a says this year we will not be making major monetary to the the convention. wont be buying sky boxes or hosting events. union leaders did spend millions to stage their own so-called shadow convention in philadelphia this weekend. the event was apparently organized in response to the democratic partys announcement that the dnc convention would be held in september in charlotte where there are zero unionized hotels. also big labor reportedly isnt very happy the president s...