politicians who stumbled in the recent political history. the fact she didn t learn from those is a distinction between the obama campaign where they were very, very careful students of the bush campaigns and the kerry failures. so far, the clinton team, they don t seem to be good students of wealthy candidates. i was going to say, i agree with what nicole is saying about the message but there s a reality. in a quote from the republicans in that story, if you have a candidate who can raise $2 billion, it s not automatic if the republican nominee can raise it. not automatic at all. if you are a democrat, not just wall street, but big business around the country. if you can keep your base satisfied and raise that money, it s huge. it s a reason she may find running irresistible. fund raising for most candidates
large corporations and the financial industry. even the irs had better numbers. nicole, i wonder what you make of this story. the clintons have had a cozy relationship with call street in many ways. if she decides to run, how does it impact hillary clinton? it s not what happens to the campaign, it s how the campaign deals with it. the same goes for wealth. it s not how wealthy you are, it s how you deal with it. she s not dealing with it in a nimble way. that s the problem for her. i think that if she is incapable of sort of feeling proud about her success, her family s success and what she s done, she ll have a hard time, maybe not with the democratic nomination, but winning the election. they haven t studies the mccain slip ups or the romney slip ups. there are plenty of wealthy
whatever the most topical sports story is. today i m confident will all be about u.s. soccer and the great game and great run the team had and certainly about baseball games. so there will be baseball. last week it was about the nba draft. who went where and why. there will be some highlights and some live look-ins. the day we launched, which was a week ago today, we were fortunate having lincecum throwing his second no-no so they did a live look-in to watch that. do you have a sense of how many people were watching yesterday, soccer? yeah. we do the back end for espn. the concurrence were the millions. espn knows the total number so they ll release that when it s appropriate to release that, but in terms of concurrence it was 1.5 to 1.6 million peaking so those numbers blow away anything weather everywhere ever seen. we ve never seen those kinds of numbers. so the sense y all had about the
out of it was bottled up in the rules committee. he helped get it out of there. he worked the senate. there s a wonderful story about when he was working dirkson, the senate minority leader, the republican leader from illinois that you alluded to where he was spending johnson was spending so much time with dirkson that he called him up one afternoon and said i want you to come down and have a drink with me. dirkson said, mr. president, i can t tonight. i have to go home. before dirkson had a chance to leave his office, he heard the president s beagle barking outside. he got in the car, went up to his office before he had a chance to leave. it was a time when washington worked but we shouldn t sentimentalize it. it was a day before yesterday.
decision. the san jose mercury news is facing a backlash for the social media experiment. they admit it manipulated the news feeds of half a million random users in 2012. it did so with the users consent. the language of the policy allowed them to conduct the research. that policy was later revised months after the study. such a weird story. bizarre. we signed up for it not knowing. exactly. the new york daily news after a string of bizarre behavior, actor shia labeouf is being treated for alcohol addiction. labeouf is not in a rehab facility, but is receiving treatment. he was arrested after disrupting a broadway performance of cabaret. he was muzzled with a face mask because he wouldn t stop spitting while in custody. bizarre story. los angeles times, more