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BLOOMBERG Bloomberg West November 6, 2014

Files did not contain passwords to my credit card numbers or other sensitive information. Thirdpartye a vendor name and password to enter the perimeter of home depots network. Access tod not get the sales devices. The amazon echo a voice controlled interactive speaker latecan do everything from music to give a weather forecast. It cost 199. Customers have to request an invitation to get one. A bigbracing digital and way, launching a 24hour news channel all stop its also supplying sony programs for a web only service. We are obviously part of the digital age and there is digital revolution going on. Cbss primarily a content company and we are producing entertainment,n news and sports and we want to make it accessible to everyone. Cbs all access, offering its programming online for six dollars a month. Another,media giant to the blockbusters keep coming from disney. In the fourth quarter, sales upe up 7 and net income was to 1. 5 billion will stop guardians of the galaxy helped the companyle and is still selling all of the frozen merchandise. Themepark revenue up 20 , but profits of profits fell thanks to higher costs for sports programming. Trish regan spoke with the disney chairman and ceo, bob iger. A phenomenonquite that has reverberated cross our businesses and also with our brand. When you make a movie that is that good, when you make a movie that is the number one animated film of all time and it resonates in many different ways, not only in the united states, but all over the world, with theeverything company and its a thrilling thing and something we are extremely proud of the top you guys are number one in ratings excluding sports. Whats driving the viewership here . We have some strong returning shows. Scandal is one of them. Shows. Added some strong that has helped abc a lot, the stability on the schedule. Of what they have accomplished this season and weve seen other networks down excludet year, when you the sports from the c three rating and we have held our own all stop we have new shows coming to the schedule that have not been put on yet and we feel good about them. Can you give us a preview . There are a bunch of them. Im not going to get into all of them now. Too many other things to think about. Lets talk about ad sales. Ad sales have been somewhat weak. We have witnesses in digital and you see a lot of companies announcing internet tv services. To thens of going direct consumer with a Disney Channel offering in the u. S. . Strong presence in digital platforms. Way. Has probably led the i dont think anyone whos done anyone has done a better job by Going Digital then espn stop in terms of taking what is a channel currently offered as part of the multichanneled on the lead going to the consumer in a singular fashion, we dont have current plans to do that all stop a lot has been written about the demise of the bundle, but if you take stock, you can conclude while there has an erosion, its been relatively small. People are getting north of a hundred channels for about 65 a month and theres a lot more variety in that package and lot more quality. It still considered a pretty good value. What we can to do to strengthen that value because it creates value for us. On the other hand, weve led the way in many respects by taking our product to julie. Theres a way to do that and not compete with yourself in a sense you can create different offerings and different timing to market and basically completely different products and that what we are doing all stop in some cases, to enhance the value of the bundle or to strengthen our engagement with our customers. Balance andd the the difficulty in terms of youve got these transmission trees that are very lucrative are you, so if you go fully digital, you are hitting the cable companies. Its a tight rope that you need to walk as you see this transition. What is it going to look like 10 or 15 years out . Has beenoned so much written about the demise of the bundled cable system, but ultimately where will we be in a decade . Ive been in the business 40 years and ive seen more change in the last five then i saw in my first dirty five years. It is an extremely dynamic marketplace, driven by tremendous advances in digital and mobile technology in particular. Theres more competition in the marketplace and in some places we are creating that competition for ourselves. But there are a lot more offerings for consumers. Side, theres never been a better time for content creators or intellectual Property Owners in the sense that there are so many more places to take your product or distributed sony more ways. Look at it, because i cant predict what its going to look like in five years or 10 years, its going to continue to weve seen more evolution in the nature of the multichanneled bundle than evolution. Theres no reason to do things that precipitated demise. Apart,nds up raking which we are not predicting, no company is going to be better positioned to take advantage than we are because people will buy disney, they will buy espn and who knows what we will create with star wars and marvel. Have multiple opportunities to create products and reach the consumer directly and we are not concerned about that world either. It might be a lucrative environment for us to him weve got a multi channel bundle creating tremendous value for us and great value for the consumer. Theres no reason to do anything thator to do anything damages it for the long term. Bikes are hbo and cbs making a mistake . I dont want to sound critical. They are to very different products. Hbo is a strong brand with great products. If anyone has an ability to go direct, it is hbo. Disney put it espn and in that category. Experiment. An it remains to be seen if they will end up with a Better Business than the one they have cbs is a completely ifferent thing will stop cant assess what they have in mind or what they are doing, but im not suggesting we are critical of it. We will take a wait and see approach. That was tom eiger. Hot button issue for immigration and president obamas promised to take executive action on reforms of necessary. How does this impact the Tech Industry and its demands for high skilled workers . Im cory johnson and this is bloomberg west. Today, we are looking out one of the most pressing issues in Technology Immigration reform. Racking upepublicans huge wins in the election, president obama is, think action on immigration by executive order if necessary. Theres the expansion of the visa Program Granted to skilled Foreign Workers will stop its currently cap at the 5,000 year. I spoke with the new executive director of ford u. S. , an Advocacy Group backed by Mark Zuckerberg and many others set up to advance reform and other issues. I asked what he thought about the president doing this on his own if he must. We are really proud of the work worse and hoping to get a senate bill done with broad bipartisan support, we think it is absolutely critical that there is a legislative solution. The permanent solution sony people need. Are things the president can do in the meantime that are meaningful but temporary. He said hes going to do those things and he said he would do it before the end of the year. Youve got your feet on the ground and theres a bill that passed the senate that could come out and house but Speaker Boehner wont allow a vote. David axelrod said the president should promise not to go by executive order. Do you think that approach has any chance in the Current Congress . I think this beaker made it clear hes not going to put that bill on the floor. We think its disappointing that the house could not get a bill done the we are encouraged by broad support around the country. Three in four americans would. Ike to see there are steps that the president can take through his Legal Authority and then it is our job to lay the foundation for the permanent legislative solution. Whether thats in the next couple of months or a year from now, we want it soon. Act, day congress doesnt its entrepreneurs who have to leave the country and create jobs elsewhere. There is an urgent need to act, so we want to see as much as we can right now. Like there is an urgent need to act because no one is acting. What do you want the president to do before the year is out . We think he can do more by doing more than one thing. We think there are things he can do to help emilys being separated. We think there are things he can do to help companies by clearing the green card back log. We want to see all that stuff. We are for a comprehensive legislative solution. Lets unpack that. Comprehensive always sounds good, but comprehensive is the problem in congress right now. There are republicans who would like to expand and help the skilled workers come here and there are people already here that are not allowed to be citizens. Finding that together in one bill seems to be the political you accept top do the approach of unpacking that and going for piecemeal reform . I would say theres a lot of problems in d. C. And i think actually an approach where you do these things together its borne out in the conversations we have had in washington and you see the polling. When you put these things together, it is a compromise and people want people to compromise. We are focused on you have this incredibly Broad Coalition and thats how this thing becomes so popular. Whether that was last year when the senate did one big bill or when the house was talking about doing three or four bills in short succession, we are agnostic on that. The reason Immigration Reform is going to be successful is that it is when on so many issues. Onwhy is h1b so important the technological issues . The things that you hear so much is when people are out there trying to create jobs, finding talent is important. This is a program creating a lot of jobs not just from people coming here but native warned americans. We think thats absolutely critical. This country has always had this amazing advantage. We accept the best and the itghtest will stop we think can be expanded to do a better job. That is absolutely critical. I have no idea what the answer is. Why is this issue so important to Technology People more than other industries . I think its a couple of things. At a moral level, there is this idea that our country should be a meritocracy. Its a country where the best and brightest can come here and a very act of immigration is entrepreneurial. 40 of the fortune 500 companies were founded immigrants or the children of immigrants. Americanl level, at an level and economic level, it hits home to 70 people. Had 300,000 different people take action in support of Immigration Reform. I think it speaks to the energy you are talking about. Its a peculiar or exaggerated point of view. Thank you very much. Is Technology Homeland Security is using to protect the borders, drones and radar systems, thats next on bloomberg west. Welcome back. Technology is playing a new vital role in the u. S. Customs and Border Protection. Drones, radar and heat sensors are all part of the operations to curb illegal immigration. Matt miller went to the border to check it out will stop military style drones, surveillance towers, night vision goggles. Miles alongrly 2000 the usmexico border is an enormous task combining infrastructure, and now technology. This is where the predator comes in handy. Weve got these truck mounted cameras that do the same thing. It is homeland securitys virtual Border Protection full groups being tracked in realtime across the open desert in southern arizona, remote and rugged terrain full top this is a group of smugglers the camera had tracked and the Border Patrol came out here. How long have you guys been in the desert . 120 footill stop towers outfitted with sensors that allow Border Patrol agent to detect and record the movements of smugglers. Radar and cameras are mounted to detect, track and identify those crossing the border will stop the towers monitor the area lined with massive tenses. These fences like this, it can range from 18 to 26 the. 18 to 26 feet. You could have seconds or minutes to make that apprehension. Thats in addition to the fences, it allows an agent time eta isond will stop then wirelessly routed to the Central Control room. Weve got radar that will tell us if the craft is in the air. Quality longrange day cameras that have thermal imagers. Costs 19mera here million. And eyes are in the sky as predator drones fly 18,000 feet above the border. Our drones here fly strictly along the border. They can stay in the air for a long time. At the end of the day, does the Technology Work and is it worth the huge price . Are we supporting them or are they supporting us . Cost effective. That is hard to gauge because we dont know we dont know. We dont know how many folks get away. President obama is promising bold action. We will talk to a texas congressman with an Important Role on this issue, next. You are watching bloomberg west where we focus on innovation, technology, and the future of this is. President obama is promising aggressive action for Immigration Reform but republicans are not in favor of the idea. House Speaker John Boehner said the president would earn himself with Immigration Reform. I sat down with lamar smith. Hes then and out smoking outspoken critic of the president. I think it is disappointing that the president is threatening congress and the American People with these executive orders. According to opinion polls, three quarters of the American People think the president should not rewrite immigration laws by himself. He should work with congress to come up with a good erotic. These kind of threats if congress doesnt do something, the president has said he does not have the authority to do that. Hes told groups he has met with that i cannot issue these executive orders because its contrary to my oath of office. I hope you will go back and read what he said. Are you going to defund those programs or are you going to keep them from going to affect . Aheadthe president pushes and gives amnesty to millions of people and work permit to people who will obviously compete with unemployed and underemployed americans, there will be a price to be paid. We might try to defund what he does. There may be a lawsuit or actions we can take otherwise. Is wrinklywing to do poison the barrel and make it hard to work with him on other issues, particularly immigration. If you want to accomplish anything, hell have to work with congress and not just issued executive orders. Theres a bill that will come for a vote in the house. The president says hes got the vote right now. Would you vote for that bill if it comes before you . Bill fromate amnesty earlier this congress cannot be sent to the house because it is unconstitutional. It unconstitutional to include revenue increase measures in their legislation. The reason harry reid has not sent it to the houses because he knows we cannot take it up will stop it is massive amnesty and does not secure the borders. It says if the border is a your, there will be a study made. We cant have that kind of putting off secure borders which is just going to encourage war people to come into the country illegally. We need to secure the border first. Under5 of the border is full control and thats why we have hundreds of thousands people coming across the border illegally every year under this administration. Secure the border first and we can talk about his measures. Would granting amnesty hurt the American Workforce . If the president rewrite the laws i himself which i believe is unconstitutional and contrary to his oath of office, its going to hurt unemployed americans and underemployed americans. When you have that many more people getting work permits, its going to depress their wages and its going to cost jobs. Is irrefutable and im surprised and disappointed the president is not going to put the American Worker first. First. I dont know the context, but this was about the dream act that allows children who graduated from high schools and were worn overseas or people served people who served in the military some sort of conditional citizenship who are good, moral citizens. You called this a nightmare for the American People. What you mean by that . The socalled dream act is a nightmare for a couple of reasons will stop it basically gives amnesty to anyone in the country who is 30 years old who claim they came in when they were younger. The we quiz them before judiciary committee, they said theres no way to double check to try to avoid the fraudulent documents everyone would use. It is an open invitation to massive fraud and an open invitation to people to say they came when they were younger and get amnesty. Everyone in this category is , competingk permits with workers and driving down there wages. This kind of legislation should not be done in isolation and we should not be doing any kind of bill like this. Its just going to encourage more people to come into the country illegally. That was congressman lamar smith. If Immigration Reform is not passed, could u. S. Lose the next big thing in technology . We will discuss that him and asked. Discussed that, next. This is bloomberg west. Im cory johnson. Hundreds of thousands of young people come to the u. S. To get education and then go back to india and china. Next guest says the says the real loser is the united they think calls those students hostages to the political process. Hes a fellow at Stanford Law School and joins me now. Ago, john 15 years doerr saying why dont we take every stanford graduate and stably green card to their diplomas and keep them here to help them and then new companies . Fax we need to be creating jobs and boosting the economy. We are boosting the economies of other countries. Remember four years ago, you and i talked about the man w

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