roughly the length of four football fields in length, again, without a net. joining me is the author of balance: the story of faith, family, and life on the line. nik wallenda, nice to meet you. i get sick at the thought of this. congratulations. thank you so much. do you ever get nervous? i respect what i do deeply. i get butterflies, i think any great enter taber gets butterflies. it s important to get that level of respect. you have that edge. you trained how old were you? 2 years old. by 4 i was on my own. so this was obviously an amazing task that you were able to complete here, when you are up there, do you look down? i do. absolutely. i would get seasick looking
roughly the length of four football fields in length, again, without a net. joining me is the author of balance: the story of faith, family, and life on the line. i get sick at the thought of this. do you get nervous? ever? you know i respect much. do you ever get nervous? i respect what i do deeply. i get butterflies, i think any great enter taber gets butterflies. it s important to get that level of respect. you have that edge. you trained how old were you? 2 years old. by 4 i was on my own. so this was obviously an amazing task that you were able to complete here, when you are up there, do you look down? i do. absolutely. i would get seasick looking down.
football fields, on a two-inch wire 1500 feet up, without a safety harness, without a net. there s a lot of anxiety, tension. reporter: all while fighting against mother nature. triple digit heat, potential updrops from the wind. that s where the danger sets in. the winds. you can t see it. reporter: but that danger is all a part of the wallenda way and it can be deadly. nik s great-grandfather carl fell to his death in puerto rico at the age of 73. the truth is it s life or death. reporter: nik is okay with that. it s calm and relaxed for the most part. i get into a zone where i forget about everything around me. i m in my own world. it s me and that wire and there s a goal and that goal is to make it to the other side. and in doing so nik will only add to his and the wallenda
your own groceries, you have got to buy health insurance because it is a matter of personal responsibility. if i was on the president s team, i would be telling him, sell it, sell it, sell it as an individual, personal responsibility clause for those americans who don t like the notion of an individual mandate. bring up a really great point and is a soundbite from 2006, that the american bridge 21st century group found of governor romney of massachusetts talking about this. guys, do we have that cued up? play it for everyone, as we wait for governor romney to come out. he is supposed to speak any moment with his repeal and replace obama care podium there in washington, d.c. if we have that, we can play it and remind everybody exactly what melissa is talking about. do we have that soundbite from 2006? we don t? okay. all right. never mind. melissa told us what the sound bite was. no worries. we are working here without a net so to speak. we are waiting and without commercials.
meantime, facebook boss apparently acting alone and without a net and mark zuckerberg making a billion dollar deal sigh stepping the board. if i was a shareholder i would be outraged by some of the stuff that facebook is doing. by the way cover facebook and wall street and secretive. this is a company that boasts to be open architecture and everything, and they re secretive and almost like totalitarian when it comes to dealing with this. and facebook was bailed out and citigroup bailed out. they had to issue the shares. and citigroup, reason why the shareholders had a chance to vote it down it s in the a company owned by five or six institutional investors. he s the ceo and when they vote on his pay package, this is hugely diluted because of the financial crisis and many