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Have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® jared kushner and paul manafort and donald trump jr. could all car pool up to capitol hill next week as the russia investigation prepares to take another big step forward. kushner is expected to talk with the staff of the senate intel committee on monday in a closed door session. president trump's son-in-law was spotted this afternoon meeting with senator graham. and on wednesday the senate judiciary committee had invited paul manafort and donald trump jr. to testify before them. joining me now is nbc news ...

Government investment and figure out how to get a private capital match. so that it isn't a dependent continent. he was talking about that today. but that you figure out how to sort of start better farming techniques, so that you develop a middle class, so incomes rise, so it is -- you're sort of weaning the idea off so that every president in ten years -- frankly, everyone of them does, comes over here and wonders, why can't we do more? why is it so hard to get africa out of this collective poverty? >> chuck todd, the advance party for the president of the united states in south africa. thank...

Far away from the world of big business and international tourism. >> it was much smaller. it was much more intimate. businesses were all small. the shops were small. it had a wonderful scale and feeling. >> that's when bill stirling first arrived and opened up his own independent real estate business called stirling homes incorporated. >> i started it with a borrowed loan from the bank of about $5,000, and that's how it all began in 1978. >> when we started 20 years ago, we were still dealing with mls books. there was no internet. there was no -- i mean, it was a big deal. there was no e-mail...

Cmo of kodak. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> i was just in the airport in asp aspen, colorado. when you land there there is a big sign from coldwell banker and it just brought home the point to me that these small companies may, you know, they say they do better at finding the good houses, do better with customer service perhaps, but they will never have the money of a coldwell banker to buy that huge sign in the airport. and you experienced the same thing wrp you were a small baby food company competing against companies like gerber. how do you get the word out? >> i mean, i thi...

Town, we couldn't just ignore these behemoths coming into our marketplace. >> so how does a local small business compete with the deep pockets of big brands? >> did i tell you i got the price reduction? >> for bill stirling and dawnette smith and dale potvin from peak properties, the answer was to form a single four-person agency. did you guys feel like you had to merge in order to compete with some of the other stuff that was happening in aspen? >> yes. >> it was time. >> i think we need ed to figure out ways where we could operate with a critical scale that saved us money, and by merging tha...