i also want to single out gary greg. when this program started in the early '90s i had no idea it could develop into what it has become. you are the reason for that. gary came here in 2000 and took it to a whole new level. i hope you will join me in thanking gary greg for his wonderful job. [applause] we have had a lot of interesting speakers over the years and in my view on more than interesting than our guest this morning. [laughter] chuck schumer, of course, is from brooklyn, born and raised. his dad owned an exterminator business and one of chuck's siblings remembered that we always associated the smell of triple x broker spray with love. [laughter] it was his hard work day in and day out that took this kid from brooklyn the world's greatest deliberative body the united states and. it is also my last year time magazine named him one to its distinguished list of 100 most influential people. after graduated from harvard law school he was elected to the new york state assembly at the age of 23. about the same age of the

my name is gary greg, the director of mcconnell center, and it's been a pleasure of mine to be able to work with the students of the mcconnell scholars program and many of you in the audience over the last 17 years. over those years we've had some of the most consequential leaders in america today visited with us, spoken to us here at the university of louisville and i think that today is no exception to that. we have been able to host, for instance, moments of historic importance like vice-president biden here the day that mubarak resigned in egypt. and we broke news and had some very important things happen in the louisville tarmac that morning. secretary of state colin powell delivered his first public address as secretary of state here at the mcconnell center in 2001 just after 9/11. david petraeus gave his only public speech as cia director here at the mcconnell center and many of you were here for some of those events. today, i think at this important moment in american history, we will make history again by having the two leaders of the united states senate here today on a very

greg: that would be my dream. looking at that and you remember the insert on the tonight show and that's the guy got a very high-pitched voice and it drives me crazy. you are more of a celebrity, dave, that he is. >> thank you for telling me i'm more of a celebrity in the got you never heard of. [laughter] greg: would you ever do district what is your price tag -- how much money would you do celebrity big brother for? >> i just don't think i could ever speak omarosa speaks in that inauthentic. >> i do it to have people to hang out with all the time. greg: you are lonely. the thing is if you do that show your life is over. nothing really ever happens after celebrity big brother. i have any exceptions? >> you can't get on a porn movie after that. it's a wrap. greg: and thank god for that. i don't want to see that on a porn movie. not that i watch porn, america. it's a sick, deviant practice although if you have stuff lying remember, we were amateur players. they were the best team in the world. we were about to pull