boom, i m unkofrn us and i come to and these people are i don t know where. ted believes the men who stabbed him and left him unconscious had come to murder edmond safra, but why did they flee before finishing the job. if this is an assassination attempt as you suspect it was, why not assassinate him. he s in his bed? who could be more defenseless? i don t know. i can t answer the questions you re asking. where did they go? that s a really good question. police say their cameras blanketing the city picked up no sign of fleeing intruders. but there s something else about ted s story we thought didn t quite add up remember that weight he says he used to fight off the intruders? you d been working out? i had done some things with my arm. because it s the middle of the night and you re it s easy to fall asleep. right. but i don t understand because you know that that particular night something huge is going to happen. the valance is open.
what s more, safra employed a full staff of bodyguards, highly trained officers from the mossad, the israeli intelligence agency. israeli journalist boaz bismuth knew some of the safra security team. these are the best kind of security guards you can have. yes, they are the best. safra could have afforded to take the best and he did take the best. as the banker s parkinson s disease worsened and he prepared to cash out his business, some observers say the family affairs were increasingly controlled by his wife lily. it is fair to say that all the people around them knew not to step on the wrong side of lily. once widowed and twice divorced, lily didn t exactly fit in with the conservative safra clan. but the late 90s there was a well known rift among the safra brothers. one of the reasons why the family relation was so bad is lily the wife of mr. safra, that she drove him out of the family. whatever family turmoil was
seven hours on the lam. his sentence was extended by ten months, but he was released last summer after eight years behind bars. so what does ted now say really happened inside the safra penthouse that night? well, exactly what he told police initially. that he was stabbed fighting off two masked intruders. he admits to setting a small fire but says he did so simply to summon help in a moment of panic. we didn t have a panic alarm. we didn t have any alarm. the only alarm i thought of, my god, smoke alarm. ted says that just before he stumbled down to the penthouse lobby, he put a candle and some kleenex in a trash can and placed it under a smoke alarm in the nursing station. this was a small contained smoke signal, if you will, in a small container. why didn t you just call police? why didn t you dial the monaco equivalent of what 911 is? never even thought about it.
this is about political will. this is why i didn t put the easy one on there like corporate welfare, you know, you make a great point, stu. there s got to be some will to get this done, but i believe at this point perhaps as no other time in this country except perhaps fighting the british, sorry, no offense, that it s not been a morning, you can say what you like. and people are ready to make the tough decisions e you think we re at that point. people are more prepared to than the politicians are. stuart: how donning did it take you with your machete. didn t take long, these are the things we ve talked about and a lot of this stuff is done by think tanks before whether it s the heritage foundation and cato and others, you can get it done and in fact a lot more than this. stuart: it s extraordinary that 18 months ago when president obama first came into office we were all in favor of government, government spending, government was going to be the agent. you re telling me t
much indeed. thank you. federal agents. ruled by a sense of destiny, machete. stuart: you couldn t resist this, we just could not resist this. to the guy republicans need right now, no, not the machete, we re talking charlie. as democrats dare republican to slash 700 billion dollars from the budget to pay for an extension of the bush tax cuts for everybody, charles payne is ready to slash it all. they call me the machete man. how was that, okay? that was pretty good. a british accent. stuart: we say in a word, you say you come up with 763 billion dollars worth of cuts that you could do immediately. we re going to scroll them down the left side of the screen. absolutely, i think there was a lot more and i deliberate ily didn t put corporate welfare there, a slam-dunk easy one and defense