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Overturned by the court. >> bob, let me ask you a question, maybe he can reconcile this. the left wants to basically bankrupt big tobacco, but the west also wants to legalize marijuana. you're a smoker, can you explain that to me? >> i smoke cigars, slightly different. i don't think they want to bankrupt tobacco companies, but there was a huge national verdict against the tobacco companies. i take it this 136 billion florida turns out was their share of that? >> there's a precedent established to show awards like this are disproportionate, cannot be kept, and they have to be kept as a matter o...

Overturned by the court. >> bob, let me ask you a question, maybe he can reconcile this. the left wants to basically bankrupt big tobacco, but the west also wants to legalize marijuana. you're a smoker, can you explain that to me? >> i smoke cigars, slightly different. i don't think they want to bankrupt tobacco companies, but there was a huge national verdict against the tobacco companies. i take it this 136 billion florida turns out was their share of that? >> there's a precedent established to show awards like this are disproportionate, cannot be kept, and they have to be kept as a matter o...

With a bang. bow chick a wow wow. this is my kind of 1 percenter porn. it's the annual "forbes" 400 list, which showcases the richest 1 percenters in the world and it was announced on monday. 1 percenters like cover model, big daddy warren buffett, which is part of a group that is worth a record $2.02 trillion. that amount is double from just a decade ago and is equal to the economic output of russia. and the minimum net worth for this player's club is $1.3 billion. that's right, $1 billion doesn't cut it. but the cover ain't nothing when you compare it to the centerfold. just look at those as...

Kristi walton who i believe is the richest woman in america and they're a combined $136 billion. we all shop at walmart, right? rounding out the top ten, new york city mayor michael bloomberg, $31 billion. perhaps no surprise here, chris, in terms of the young ones, facebook ceo and founder mark zuckerberg, he's the richest american who is under 30 years old at $19 billion. >> wow, unbelievable. >> if he wanted to retire today, he'd never have to work ever, ever again. his children and grandchildren will never have to work again. >> great grandchildren and great great grandchildren can live of...

So government agencies actually disbursed $136 billion on prepaid cards. card issuers collected $190 million in fees. 6 0% of card holder fees came from the atms. when i found out we were doing it too, i was like what is happening here? >> and we did not fix that in regulatory -- financial regulatory reform. >> yeah. >> i think it's outrageous. first of all, what we are doing is institutionalizing another mechanism that's going to continue to create the structural inequality. we're creating two societies here in this country. and we're really waging this terrible war on low-income workers, whi...