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Battle with alzheimers. aol announced it will buy the huffington post for $315 million. aol already owns patch media, a network of 500 hyperlocal community news sites. arianna huffington is expected to lead the newly formed media group as editor and chief. wow, thats a big transaction. >> that aint nothing. dont forget, you can still submit questions for mark halperins driving the week web chat. go to joe.msnbc.com. theres mark. could muslim brotherhood take over power in egypt and what wo...

"newsweek." does that make them stronger? thats the question. >> i guess well find out, nicole. does this make sense on wall street? >> bloomberg valued this deal at 300 million todays $450 million. so $315 million, $300 million of that is cash. it seems like a sweet deal for arianna. shes selling at the top of the market. >> wow, thats something. >> thats a sweet deal. nicole, thank you so much. well see you tomorrow. time now for politico, willie? >> with us now, mr. patrick gavin. good mornin...

Waited in the lobby for him to find out what happened. you know what they did, regis asked for more money and they threw old regis out into the gutter. regis never asked for any more money! regis never had the chance. >> wow. >> never had the chance to ask for more money. >> interesting. what, are they crazy? >> regis is great. hes the best. >> what, are they crazy? seriously. lets take a look at the morning papers. aol announced it will buy the huffington post for $315 million. aol already ow...

Probably will open up by about 15 or 20 points for the dow. chuck, this comes after last week with all the concerns in egypt where the s&p actually closed higher by 2.3%. the nasdaq was up by 3%. >> there you go. >> today we havent heard a single concern out of anyone about egypt. it looks like the trend is set to continue. we have been watching the earnings coming in. have been better-than-expected numbers. l has borrow came in with better than expected earnings and deal activity to tell you ab...

For being somewhat right of center. he hired a hundred people from aol, "the new york times." what will will it be from its dna. >> reporter: the backed is rooted in newspapers. it is meant to be a journalistic enterprise. what i found fascinating about what he said on stage this is an enterprise and creative product like weve never seen before. getting you information whatever in the world you live in. you can consume it in a way that you cant get it anywhere else. if you want to touch the 360 ...

Not red or blue, not liberal or conservative. what is it? >> oh, i wouldnt listen to that too much. what it is, its a very patriotic american newspaper that believes in free thinking, free markets, and freedom for everybody, and you can read what youd like into that. i dont think thats very different than anything else. >> so. when i see journalists from the atlantic, new new yorkerk -- new yorker, aol, even "the new york times", thats a pretty unusual mix. >> they are there. you know, every jou...

Aol also delivering better than expected earnings, but shares weakened on hefty -- electronics arts soaring to the top of the s&p after raising its outlook and announcing a $600 million stock buy-back. and new corps, visa and yum brands all reporting profits after the closing bell, all three topped expectations with news corps more than doubling its quarterly earnings. thats it from cnbc. were first in business worldwide, now back to "hardball." i dont have an answer for you yet. theres a ...

>> any way you look at it, to be hospitalized in three times in as many months its not a good indication of where things are going. you think charlie sheen, if you took a vote, might have been the worst celebrity influence of 2010. you might think lindsay lohan. its miley cyrus. >> worse than charlie? >> worse than charlie. the kicker on this one, this is the second time shes gotten this undesirable honor. they took a vote of 99,000 18-year-olds. 58% of them took part in this poll done by aol ...

>> any way you look at it, to be hospitalized in three times in as many months its not a good indication of where things are going. you think charlie sheen, if you took a vote, might have been the worst celebrity influence of 2010 up. might think lindsay lohan. its miley cyrus. >> worse than charlie? >> worse than charlie. the kicker on this one, this is the second time shes gotten this undesirable honor. they took a vote of 99,000 18-year-olds. 58% of them took part in this poll done by aol a...

Lollipop, jack the whack, johnny bandanna, vinny car wash. meatball. when a story like this drops and names like that it will be trendy. derek dodge showed me why. >> this is a big story for many reasons. one of reasons is because of the nicknames of the alleged mobsters. here is a poll online from aol. which nickname is your favorite? heres some to show you. tony babe els. vinny car wash. the claw. sounds scary. backy fat larry. what happened was these nicknames surface in the indictments. ever...