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Close your windows and mouth and don't 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 didn't think that other place looked too bad. i was shocked. >> it's 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. it's all for money. because that's where the owners make their money is from the sky boxes. brian: you just wonder, too, how much the state had to kick in. arthur blanket the owner of that team has...

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: it's a sweetheart deal. >> some of these stadiums or most of them actually are built with municipal bonds. they offer a tax advantage. that's another taxpayer subsidy of the nfl teams. you know, beautiful sky boxes? 1.5 billion to $2 ...

Lottery -- >> they don't have to pay for that. >> no, no, it's 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. he's on the street. he's an eyewitness to history that's been unfolding. jason, what are you seeing? >> you know, wolf, this is the moment that so ...

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 won't be completely open. but yes, it's a huge security challenge. we're seeing a huge police presence. there's 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 a feel for how to do logistics, but security, according to one government spokesman yesterday th...

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 aren't involved but it's a way for politicians to show their lighter, funner, younger side and it's 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 they don't like this setting. at the cocktail party at charlie palmers or the traditional ve e v...