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>> reporter: that space also goes totally against a new trend of niche marketing, and there's going to be wasting there. not everyone will be drinking coke, whatever it might be. >> reporter: though for the brands, it's not about selling a specific product. it's about your brand basking in the glow of the super bowl, or the olympics, or the fifa world cup. brazil was a no-brainer for these big companies, but the next world kun is in russia in 2018, and then qatar in 2022, both hugely controversial destinations. will companies fall over themselves to be associated with the world cup after next ...

From his 8 by 7 foot prison cell on robben island where he spent decades of his life nelson mandela not only inspired people of south africa to emancipate themselves from a brutal system of apartheid his struggle inspired generations of future leaders throughout the world. in that way mandela lives on as a symbol for freedom, grace and humanity. joining me from san francisco is former president and ceo of the naacp ben jealous. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, alex. >> we're doing a lot of reminiscing. in terms of personal history how did you learn of mandela and how formative was his...

Barbara walters, she's retiring. the legendary broadcaster is expected to announce her retirement today on the show she yesated back in 1977. that would be "the view." walters began her on-air career on 1961 on nbc news' "the today show," where she would later become the first woman to co-host in 1974. two years later nbc hired her away to co-anchor abc "word news tonight" at an unprecedented salary at the time of $1 million a year him wallers, 83-years-old, has been with abc ever since. she's going to announce her retirement as i said on "the view." we expect her to announce she will retire i...

>> no doubt about it. and states made it better. they said we will discount it and spend it all at once like we won the lottery. >> yes. go ahead, rob. >> yeah, peter, i'm trying to reconcile the idea that you want to curb these behaviors, whether smoking, drinking, eating twinkies, drinking coke. all those things at the same time, that you don't actually want to make this a consumption tax it sounds like. make it a tax on producers, poison producers as dylan calls it. but i'm not sure how this works. if you have the company subsidize the bad behavior, you don't goe from 46 million to 20 milli...

>> yes, if everyone is drinking coke or dr. pepper at your party, you might know they're conservative according to the study. i'm going to have a beer, though. >> i was going to say, i don't know if there's a lot of conservatives out there this weekend that would enjoy a beer or two. >> i think so. this is the food and actual meat item. i like this. this is what liberals eat. i love how they put this, too. if you walk into a home and smell home cooked curry and lamb, you can bet that person is a liberal. although i had a conservative write on twitter and that person's twitter name was curry lo...