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Tonight, the president had the white house historical society over, and i'd 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 amount of water anybody has ever seen. i guess the largest ever recorded. and in florida, you got hit...

Who get it through their cable package. the it's down from a few years ago. part of an industry trend. we don't like them in the business, but it's a real thing and what does it have to do with sports and politics? it has to do with this. if you're espn, people don't 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? they're been talking more and more about politics and events like that and a lot of republicans are looking at this. by the way, espn had to do a bunch of layoffs because of that declining number. a lot of rep...

Americans a month watch public broadcasting in this country. whether nick mulvaney pays any attention to it, i don't 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. that's why you have people, senators, republicans like susan collins, lisa murkowski from alaska taking exception to mulvaney's ...

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 can't 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 "early start" on the way here. >> we should make "early start" easier to watch. >> yes. they don't h...

This way and our experience is when you're trying to bring new product and capability to market, doing it in arm's 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. that's 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 and posting and social interaction with their content. so, these are the kind of things we w...