he wants to stop it. he wants to he s against the community safety act which de blasio is for and which the mayor vetoed. so he s had a hard time drawing these really clear lines. errol, you seem to know the bright lines, it s bloomberg-light, in some form of other, if quinn gets the endorse mont. they re being careful there because they think there s a problem in the primary with de blasio. where is thompson with this? he s the pro-business candidate. he s the chief financial guy. i can t figure it out. it s very interesting. thompson came close. closer than anybody imagined. partly because they misread the polls four years ago. to beating bloomberg who had outspent so he should be a shoo-in for the nominee, right? he may or may not be a shoo-in at this point. he s doing a slow and steady wins the race kind of strategy. he s got a lot of support from a lot of black ministers.
how much asked for is a very important factor in actually obtaining that money, particularly in later rounds. we have a great panel to deal with this investment issue. brad harrison is the founder and managing partner of scout ventures, venture capital firm focused on great ideas in entertainment, media and technology. and christian anderson is president of ka plus a, co-founder of gravity ventures. great to see you. good to see all of you. there were so many interesting points in that piece about getting money. one that really stuck out to me was the order of the way they present things to their investors. so that they said, first, we re going to use this for inventory, which is a shoo-in. give us your money and for sure you ll get money back. do you think that was the right order? interesting scenario, that business was already spun up and had proven out the model. people were buying the shirts.
trashed because people have a political agenda about who should or should not be chairman of the federal reserve. okay. alex, progressives do not like larry summers. yeah. they didn t like him when he worked for bill clinton. didn t like him when he worked for president obama. they didn t like him when he was at harvard university saying crazily disparaging things about women and their intelligence. looks like the president s moving towards larry summers. very telling about that meeting is, listen, i m not going to tell you who i m picking for fed chair but stop trashing larry summers. and look, there are a lot of people in the administration that say he is the person that the he has a formidable intellect, people like what he s he s close to the president. yellen doesn t have the same relationship. he s the shoo-in. we know this is an incredibly important appointment given the role of the fed in monetary policy and the lack of congress in terms of doing anything about
so i think for the two of them to get together, and at the same time while peace talks are starting in the middle east and other things that were rerelated to some. work she did i think is positive for both obama and hillary clinton. jon: so this ready for hillary organization, she was thought to be the shoo-in for the, for the 2012 elections and then all of a sudden out of nowhere comes a senator from chicago who bested her. when, you know, this organization that is being built includes i guess some of the big fund-raisers of the democratic party, people like harold ickes, long-time friend of the clintons, already on board. that s true and also on board, jeremy byrd one of the big field organizers for the obama campaign just joined. they re really putting together, that group, ready for hillary, is getting ready for hillary i think. it is a pretty dynamic group of people across the spectrum in the democratic party right now
motivated. she cities she wants to be mayor of new york s wife and willing to do that at all costs and her standing bhim is the only chance he has for staying in this race. still not a shoo-in. she s the only shot. nick richy the man you just mentioned runs the dirty.com. did he suggests there s more material forth coming. he said his website is so clogged with hits he s not exactly sure if other women have come forward. he s confident it s a strong possibility other women will be coming forward. he also said there s more specific details about the nature of their relationship. not to get too graphic he talked about the one sided nature of the phone sex relationships he had with this woman. seemed to me weiner was using and exploiting this woman and more details will come out to detail how exploitive and one sided it was. it s another part of the