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Tonight, the president had the white house historical society over, and id like to give this a dramatic reading because it blends what people have said tonight, a president learning on the job, an anti- -- a noninstitutionalist, with a president who also feels the need as you may know for superlatives from time to time. here is what he said about the storm damage. "you know we had very well, some of you are from texas, some from florida. you both got hit. in texas you got hit with the largest am...

Who get it through their cable package. the its down from a few years ago. part of an industry trend. we dont like them in the business, but its a real thing and what does it have to do with sports and politics? it has to do with this. if youre espn, people dont need the old highlight shows as much. you get them on your phone, anywhere now. so what do they do with all that air time? theyre been talking more and more about politics and events like that and a lot of republicans are looking at this...

Americans a month watch public broadcasting in this country. whether nick mulvaney pays any attention to it, i dont know, but clearly for him to make those statements without knowing that. 200 million people. parents who have their kids watching "sesame street" where kids learn language and to speak. these are not casual cavalier programs. these aree good quality programming with people can get real news, real intelligent discussion. we need more of that in america. thats why you have people, se...

Bros. >> harry potter and anthony bourdain. >> and it gets big bang theory. you see cartoon network and tnt and cnn and tbs. some of the brands in the mix. >> what does this mean? >> think about what we cant do today. there is something called tv everywhere. our boss has been advocating for years. tv everywhere means when you have a cable package, you can watch whenever and wherever you want. in theory, that sounds great. when i walked out of the house, i had to log in with a cable id to watch "...

This way and our experience is when youre trying to bring new product and capability to market, doing it in arms length contracts is always really, really hard. so you put these two companies together, now the two companies are working together to change how the customer experiences entertainment. how the customer experiences cnn, literally. thats what we think will change. the customer is demanding not only the entertainment, not only the content, but the ability to integrate social. doing clip...

Terms of delivering premium content and that pace of innovation is what is going to change. were all trying to inovanovate this in this way and bring new product and capability to market. doing it in arms length contracts is really, really hard. you put the two companies together and change how the customer experiences cnn, literally. thats what we think will change. the customer is demanding not only the entertainment, not only the content, but the ability to integrate social. doing clipping an...

Consumers? >> yes. more competition, usually leads to more price reductions. >> imagine if you didnt have to buy your standard cable package. i asked him about the regulatory push-back. lot of push-back in the newspapers, headlines in the newspapers were saying faces immediate scrutiny or faces obstacles. they dont seem to be concerned about that. they think this is a deal where they dont have a lot of overlap. they are vertical integration of these two companies. they think maybe it will take a...

Facebook warnings, go to my facebook page. >> glen beck, his blaze venture ran out of steam, but for a long time he made a loft mont of mon of it. there are things on tv that people pay money for. people pay for the station, not just the cable package as youre familiar with, and that can be a very lucrative business. perhaps the trump family has that in mind as a consolation prize. but the idea you would let that information out now at a time when people are deciding, do i vote absentee? do i vo...

Though not necessarily overseas. but the real problem seems to be the tv part of the business. and you have the stock down big-time this morning. this is a dow 30 stock. so thats a pretty big move. it had been the best-performing dow stock of the year. >> it was the darling of the dow. disney is still up 20% for the year. but there is clear and real fear on wall street about espn. espn is by far the most profitable part of disney. it will continue to do that. but its showing some weakness. you c...

Late. what do you think? >> i think merging is a good thing when your competitive position is eroding. from satellite and the fact that and the fact that consumers want to consume programming that was traditionally all this program over a cable wire. like you get everything. this huge amount of data. >> right. >> they want to narrow down. they dont care where they get it from. they could get it from a satellite provider. they want it on their internet. they are much more willing to say bye-bye t...