what democrats are worried about is the fact that in arkansas, senator pryor s numbers could take a hit by bloomberg s group and other folks on the other side of the gun debate and pleading for him to back off the democrats up in 2014 worried it could cost them a seat. arkansas s one of the most competitive senate seats in 2014, it s conservative, occupied by jim, you understand, jim, mike bloomberg doesn t care if someone s a republican or democrat. that would be the message he gave to harry reid s office. if they re worried about mark prior, they need to be worried because he s going to keep pouring money it s going to kill him politically. i ve been hearing, we believe people would switch their votes if we had another vote. kelly ayotte and pryor said he was open to it if you make small changes.
you know, he s not just there as a figure head. they like him because he s a part of helping him make and the guy s a visionary, no doubt about it. there s an irony, though, generation investment management and they put something like 50 million to 100 million growth fund. it s also a dog. basically most you know, very successful, but the green tech stuff is not doing very well. not making money. he hasn t made his money in green tech. he s made his money in texas t., ba tea. al gore is romney rich. i want to be romney rich. ken wells, thank you so much. still ahead, the washington post eugene robinson, and his column addresses the call for some lawmakers to intervene in syria. in gene s words, have we learned nothing from iraq and afghanistan? we have, i think that s the
you have this debate between the establishment and the activists about hard line should you be? should you pick a philosophical principle fight on each and every issue and use every tactic you can to get your way. and cruz would say, yes, that s exactly what you do, we re principle conservatives, that s what we do. a lot of folks in washington recoiling from that approach. marco rubio has taken a much different approach, specifically on immigration, but other issues than cruz has. and you see a lot of people who control a lot of money in town saying you know what, we can t do that on each and every fight because we end up marginalizing ourselves and making it impossible to win in anything owner a deeply red state. also, of course, show boating calling out other senators in private conference meetings. it s, you know, we predicted from the very beginning, he needs to keep his head down, marco rubio s done a great job doing that and realized he s in a small boat except for the fact he
with us now, the editor in large in bloomberg news. former vice president al gore is quote romney rich, i want some of that money. of course i m, of course, fascinated by the oil side of it. but he s made a lot of money from a lot of different sources. he had $100 million payday in january. thatst that s a good january. that s oil money. some of it was apple money. he was lucky enough to join in 2003 when it was trading at $50 a share. 59,000 options in january and do the math on the share price. and he still has more to cash in. he would ve made more if he d done it a year when apple was at 700. right. well, he still has a lot of upside. i m not sure he s sold any of his options, more than 101,000
warring sides between al gore, the environmentalist and al gore the capitalist. he is a capitalist. this was a great business decision. you can argue about the price. i d want him to negotiate my next deal. but there s fair questions to the point of whether you are being a little bit hypocritical if you sell to this company. if you re going to take part of that money and invest in the things $75 million that ain t a little bit of hypocritical. but al gore, though, good businessman. people don t realize between silicon valley and hollywood, america has minted a huge number of progressive millionaires. right. and billionaires. these people love al gore. they love him. they like doing business with him. they like his politics. every step of the way, he s been able to sort of align himself with people who have a lot of money and who are very smart. he s very engaged. he earns his money in silicon valley. he does his homework.