bob: i don't see it. i look at credit spreads, at 370 basis points over the pretty generous for the default rate that's about 1%. if you think about some of the tailwind we will see in corporate america next year with tax reform, the reduction in the the tax rate down to 21%, that is really nice for corporate profitability. i think we have a while to go. you typically see high-yield spreads come in through 300 towards 250. jonathan: you sounded less bullish. what is behind the? -- what is behind that? bob: that's a bit worrisome. we've had a good run for a number of years. the central banks are definitely taking the punch bowl away. it is a question of how much longer do i want to ride it? the next couple of quarters for sure. jonathan: 5.5% will not do it in high-yield. will they keep going down? if you look at the capital structures and you think the financials will be ok, why be at the top of the stack? lisa: i get the point on equity, but i'm a fixed-income investor. you got to be somewhere. i like hi

bob: i don't see it. because i look at credit spreads, and credit spreads at 370 basis points over look pretty generous for a default rate that's about 1%. if you think about some of the tailwind we will see in corporate america next year with tax reform, the reduction in the the tax rate down to 21%, that is really nice for corporate profitability. i think we have a while to go. you typically see high-yield spreads come in through 300 towards 250. jonathan: i spoke to you last time a couple of weeks ago and you sounded -- i won't say bearish, but less bullish. what is behind that? the credit spread level, 570, and that's a bit worrisome. we've had a good run for a number of years. the central banks are definitely taking the punch bowl away. it is a question of how much longer do i want to ride it? i think the next couple of quarters for sure. jonathan: if you think about the returns people need, 5.5% will not do it in high-yield. are they going to keep going down to equities? to bob's point, if you look

to bob packwood. it was a very nasty encounter with ted kennedy on the senate floor outside of the reach of the senate microphones. packwood was newly elected senator in 1969 when ted kennedy was involved in a fatal driving accident on the part of martha's vineyard island of chap quid ditch and escaped leaving a staffer, 28-year-old mary jo in the car where she drowned. senator kennedy pleaded guilty in a massachusetts court to leaving the scene of the accident. he was sentenced to one year probation and his driver's license was suspended for a year. there was no senate ethics committee investigation of that incident because the senate ethics committee had not yet been invented. it is hard to imagine a senator surviving an ethics investigation of a case like that today and it was hard to imagine a senator surviving an ethics investigation of the case like that in the summer of 1994 when bob packwood as the senior republican on the senate finance committee serving as the republican floor manager of a f

bob: it is the pace. right now, the developed market central banks are being overly cautious in how they normalize policy. pierre-yves: in the past two years, the fed has been hiking more thant, expectations. em has done very well. as long as central banks are telegraphing what they are doing, we need to keep in mind they have balanced the books a lot. jonathan: where do you have the most conviction around em? surprising things for a lot of people this year might have been emerging-market europe, eastern europe. latam not great, southeast asia mixed. pierre-yves: we see three big opportunities next year. we think high-yield in emerging-market. we are more or less away from the 10-year average. that is the value trade in our portfolio. we are targeting the countries where there is upgrading. re-rating. south africa is part of that, and central america as well. the second opportunity is countries that are growth related. central europe and asia. we think that carry will be more of a challenge next year. car

they changed bob corker's mind. even before republican senator bob corker got a chance to read these thousand pages. this bill made bob corker do the thing that politicians never want to do. they never want to get caught doing this. flip flop. a huge, a huge flip flop. bob corker voted against the bill in the senate before he changed his mind today and decided to vote for it. for this version of the bill. this version of the bill changed his mind. or did it? it was a pretty stunning announcement. a senator changing his mind, a complete reversal. what bob corker really announced today, though, is that he is not retiring from politics after all. senator corker had already announced he will not run for re-election in the senate next year but today he announced in effect that he continues to have hopes of reaching higher office like maybe secretary of state and definitely has hopes of reaching the presidency. he didn't put it in exactly those words. instead, he issued a written statement and that's what senators do when

but bob mueller made some mistakes here. >> what mistakes did bob mueller make? >> you have to vet the people that are going to be part of your investigation. if it's going to be such a high profile investigation, it doesn't mean that anyone is necessarily partisan or buy yia but you don't that appearance. >> did you ever prosecute -- did you ever consider recusing yourself? >> that's not the same thing. >> why not? >> because i didn't have commentary on an ongoing basis about the people i was investigating. commentary goes on between human beings, i'm not saying i know what they really believed and what they believed affected their investigation. but we spend a lot of time talking about perception and how perception can be viewed and bob mueller, i have great confidence in, and i'm not changing my view on bob mueller. bob mueller is a good man and i think will do the right thing by this investigation. but it doesn't mean he's perfect. and by allowing people into this investigation who by their own words have a bias towards hillary clinton or against president tr

i'll tell you this, if bob mueller is painting a picture. he has been doing it quietly, methodically, he feel nos need to clear in the picture at once. but there is a picture taking shape. it has alleged mercenarys, paul manafort and rick gates serving foreign powers, obscure witnesses like george papadopoulos. tonight it has new characters close to the president, a national security official cooperating with the feds and talking about already the marching orders he got from jared kushner. joining me now to dig more into these questions, chief white house correspondent, halle jackson. and a former u.s. attorney and betsy woodruff politics reporter for "the daily beast" covering the russia investigation. i will go to the prosecutors in a moment, halle, reporting all this out, i will start with you, how is this bombshell rocking washington and the white house? >> in a big way. >> reporter: i think the answer to your question, ari, this is significant. can you not understate it the. in the past the white house has been able to come out. stand a

. >> thanks, bob. eyes are on alabama for that big senate race, latest polls show it is close right now is still leading by four points, within the margin of error despite dealing with sexual misconduct profile he returns to the campaign trail, tonight, for a rally with the former trump chief strategies steve ban on,pport from the pre, himself, who recorded a robo call. >> i need alabama to go moore, o important. we're already making america great again, i'm going to make america safe and better then ever before but we need that seat. >> so democrat campaigning, corry booker went down there from new jersey went down there to help campaign. lots of big names flying in right now. the democrats have not held the senate seat in alabama for 25 years. >>> president trump has given congress a christmas deadline to merge the house and senate tax bills, given both approval republican senator susan collins may be opposed her last minute opposition to the tion in july. care bill helped one of the senator's deal b

i was struck by the fact that we've talked about bob mueller a lot. he's not someone who reads his own press clippings, unlike donald trump, but he is someone for whom the integrity of the investigation, the integrity and seriousness of what he's undertaking is sake red to him. i want to know how you felt when he had his spokesperson put out that statement over the weekend. >> i think it was important for the special counsel to make clear to the public that they are using standard investigative techniques that are used in a variety of criminal investigations. in this case, it appears that what the special counsel did is asked the government agency responsible for running the computer systems for the transition team, the government services agency, the general services administration, the gsa, to turn over the e-mails and materials in a consensual way. that's a standard investigative technique. had they not done it or had the transition team interposed some objection and didn't want these turned over, bob mueller would have gotten a grand jury subpoena

bring back sarah and bob. you were listening to what kelly was telling us with the president, how he has undertaken his success for the tax plan. bob, i want to play for you first, though, what else president trump said north dakota oval office about this legislative win. take a listen to this. >> we have, of course, the individual mandate which is a very unfair and very unpopular provision, as you know, in obamacare. essentially i think it ultimately leads to the end of obamacare. it's essentially, i think, obamacare is over. >> over. well, president trump making that comment. you both know the numbers very well. you've been watching here. sign-ups so far close to 9 million here despite a shorter sign-up time. bob, what's the calculation here? maybe there's numbers he knows about that we don't? >> yeah, obamacare is not over but at the same time taking away the mandate, which polls show was unpopular, is a big win for him. this bill, he didn't have a major legislative win all year until now. but this is big.

. >>> breaking news, bob mueller filing papers we just got in newsroom, approach signed by bob mueller is a request to cancel paul manafort's bail deal. reason, prosecutors allege as recently as thursday of last week, before the flynn came out. say paul manafort was working directly with a russian in russia with ties to russian intelligence service. just got that. manafort was trying to secretly ghost write op-ed to defend his past work in ukraine. reading this filing from mueller, says that paul manafort was working with long time russian colleague currently based in russia and assessed to have ties to a russian intelligence service. this is a breaking story. going to speak to senator sheldon whitehouse about this and other items. but former ethics chief richard painter. i just got this as i know you did. your view of what bob mueller is saying in this document, which is signed by him. not all documents are. and whether you see this as grounds to adjust paul manafort's bail agreement. >> i secertainly do see it as grounds, put him back in jail or house arrest. when judge says don't ha

bob, a final word to you. the wedding is in may, how would you like to see bbc news coverage handle this story over the next six months? well, i think it would be interesting for some people. i don't know if ok or hello magazine is going to cover it but i would have thought that would be sufficient. those that are interested will buy hello and 0k magazines, the rest of us can get on with our lives and address important things. bob davey, thank you so much, and richard burgess. finally, the bbc two comedy series wia presented a satirical, but not entirely unfamiliar, view of life at the bbc. one episode in the last series dealt with an issue we've addressed on this programme. so, it's been live for 2h hours now and basically we're looking at 93% accuracy. right. except in those one or two areas, obviously. a new version of the bbc state—of—the—art syncopatico operating system hasjust gone live, including a major upgrade of the syncopaticaption automatic live subtitling software. so, can we talk about the

we have the bob kelly latte. guess what, back here, watch your head, jared, we are coming low again, this place just keeps on coming. this is everybody from the town that has gotten up early. you know what i just found out , gang, that here in new castle, they start serving beer and wine at 9:00 a.m. >> wow. >> wow. happy hour starts at nine. 9:00 o'clock. our 9:00 o'clock hour is going to be off the rails, hang with us, we are here, trader's cove at penn's place right on delaware street and we have so much for you all morning long. cool spot. everybody raise your coffee mugs. give a cheer to the gang at home, and cheers, of course, we have been doing a very kelly christmas. i'm looking for your christmas pictures. if you decorated over weekend snap a picture and post to it facebook, twitter, instagram and use that #fox 29 lights so i can show lights and within night this week i will pick a family and weak broadcast live from your front lawn during the five and the 6:00 o'clock newscast, scott has your forecast i

bob: we passed on that. jonathan: considering where it was priced versus similar rated securities, it was wider. what did you not like? bob: this goes back to lisa's question. we are getting long in the tooth. there is tremendous normalization in the markets. you will not have that backstop of liquidity. down the roads, 12 months or 18 months of now, who are you going to be holding if you go into some sort of recession? are you confident you will be able to get your capital back from some of these? lisa: you said you have shifted. you started to get more cautious. are you ready to get underway tie yields ago neutral? are you shifting your allegations? bob: we are not. i still like it. i still think that high-yield credit spreads, we are in that last leg. we have had that last backup from 350 basis points to 400 basis points. i think now we are headed to sub 300. i think some of that rally in credit spreads and declining yield will be offset by rising government yields. to me, that is the last stage of it.in

i know bob mueller personally. i'm sure he's impervious to anything anyone says on cable news on the right or the left. but i wonder if you could speak to how perilous it may be to so malign people who are admired not from a partisan vantage point but just for the precision, the expertise and the results of their investigations and prosecutions. >> well, i think it's cancerous to the body politic because here you have a -- bob mueller, registered republican, decorated vietnam combat veteran. he's got people on his staff, yes, some of whom gave money to hillary clinton. others are republicans. and there's clearly a concerted effort to discredit these people. and we saw that in the house judiciary committee hearing where the director of the fbi had to go up and say the fbi was a good institution filled with patriots, and he was attacked all day long by different members of congress who were talking about perceived bias they see in this mueller investigation which many other independent thinkers do not see. but at the

bob will be truly missed. his untimely death sent shockwaves throughout new york state, and we just will miss him so. now, on a different subject i'd like to again warn about the danger of the smear campaign against special counsel mueller. over the weekend allies of the president in the media escalated their phony attacks on special counselor mueller to an outrageous degree. one of the assertions that arose this weekend was that special counsel mueller improperly obtained e-mails when -- from the trump transition team. this is a bald-faced lie. there's no proof behind the allegations. there's no substance behind the allegations. they can't point to any indication that mueller's team did anything improper, let alone illegal. the mueller team is allowed to request whatever they want. they are special counsel special prosecutor. they either have to get the account holder's permission or go through appropriate criminal processes. in this case, there is no indication they didn't follow the guidelines. so those com

bob, you are sticking with me. president trump wants astronauts on other planets. he signed a directive to send an american astronaut back to the moon and eventually mars. no details have been given on funding or whether nasa would rely on private industry. since retiring the space shuttle program in 2011, they have contracts with billing to send astronauts into space area coming up, we will look at possible repeal of open internet protections. here is a look at after-hours trading of comcast, disney and fox. comcast has said they are no longer reviewing 21st century fox for a possible purchase. we will continue to cover the story. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: verizon is betting on the nfl. they will be able to stream nfl games through yahoo! or go 90 apps for free with no data charges. non-verizon subscribers will only be able to use that with a subscription fee. the contract is said to be less than $2 billion. the fcc plans to hold a vote to decide on the future of net neutrality and big names are taking sides.

bob mueller is not out to get anyone. bob mueller isn't out to make an obstruction case. bob mueller is out to gather facts and apply them to the law. if that turns out to get someone or it results in an obstruction case, so be it. it but that's the way good prosecutors think and he's a good prosecutor. >> can you speak to the discrepancy, what i picked up is that the kinds of questions he's asking suggests that he's as interested in everything that went down at the white house from the moment sally yates walked in and warned them about mike flynn until the moment he left, including the firing of jim comey. so could that sort of -- could we all be right here? >> yes, the 18-day period that mike flynn remained in office after the white house was warned that there was a problem, that's figuring very large in robert mueller's investigation. the theory out there, it's just a theory. but bob bare, the former prosecutor said that -- >> if we are to accept the white house twitter feet, we have been told that the white house the quitter feed represents official presidential state

bob, what did you feel about the garbage?” editorfrom bbc news. bob, what did you feel about the garbage? ijust thought that with other events happening in the world, far more significance and importance to the —— you feel about the coverage? to waste more than half of the six o'clock news bulletin to coverage of the engagement which everyone knew about already, i thought was absolutely pointless. this is the issue, isn't it? it is the excess. it isa issue, isn't it? it is the excess. it is a simple fact, most people knew it was coming and more than half the bulletin. it was announced that morning so we didn't know it was definitely happening that day. six o'clock it was the first time we had the chance to hear from both harry and meghan in the interview they did with michelle the same. i think there were a lot of interesting issues to get into, held their relationship developed, how he proposed. all the stuff we found out that the first time in the six o'clock news bulletin. i appreciate the point that there was a bit

that now he's cooperating. >> all right, bob, don't go anywhere. i want to bring in someone else who i'm guessing their phone is lighting up as well this morning. he's on his way to the courthouse. ken delaney. ken, what's your take here? >> even though we knew this was coming and we've been reporting that it was coming, it's still a remarkable and dramatic development. to see that in black and white. the former national security adviser. longtime general, senior military official, revered intelligence officer, has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with an investigation into whether the trump campaign colluded with a foreign power to subvert our democracy. and bob's absolutely right, the white house must be incredibly rattled by this. this is not paul manafort who as important as he was, was jettisoned from the campaign will before trump took the white house. this is a man who is in every important meeting during the campaign and then every important meeting for the first three weeks of the administration and one of the biggest questions bob muelle

the second thing is that bob mueller takes lying to the fbi very seriously. we now have two people who have been prosecuted and plead guilty to lying to the fbi. the third is that jeff sessions recusal was entirely necessarily not only because bob mueller may be taking a look at jeff sessions' own statements to congress but also because all of these people who are being charged had relationships with jeff sessions during the campaign and transition. he was the head of the foreign policy team. it's not fair to say that jeff

republicans attack bob mueller in an fbi hearing today. >> did bob mueller recruit people to his probe had had a bias against the president? >> you are taking an fbi department that was weakened by mueller's time. >> we do not know the magnitude of this insider bias on mr. mueller's team. >> if he kicked everybody off who was anti-trump, i don't think there would be anybody left. >> this comes several months when many public officials avoided attacking mueller directly. but the mood has begun shifting in conservative media. >> robert mueller's entire team should be replaced. mueller himself should be canned. >> the person to be investigated is barack obama. >> the special impeachment counsel from the beginning. >> the mueller investigation. we've been talking about how that's corrupt to the core. >> mueller is corrupt. the senior fbi is correct. >> like the owed kgb that comes for you in the dark of the night. >> this is the biggest corruption we have ever seen in terms of of our justice system i believe in our lifetime. >> hmmm. that's what's happening over there. so you have the cons

he defended bob mueller. does not abide by the thinking of some on the far right that he should be fired or even maligned and smeared because of the appearance of political bias. i don't even know if you can call it bias, but political opinions among some fbi agents. i don't know if you can speak behind closed doors there's more support for mueller than we see in public? >> i don't see that. i was hoping i would see more of that, but i don't see that right now. and that's where mr. schiff, i think, is so effectively sounding this alarm because we're fearful that our investigation in the house is winding down and the tone here in washington is to set up and give a permissive environment for the president to fire bob mueller and have no recourse. >> congressman swalwell, thank you for spending some time with us. >> my pleasure. >> didn't know it would be such an important day but it was and we're grateful to have you. >>> john heilemann, pretty extraordinary to see a democratic senator take to the floor, clearl

did that motive bob corker? we can't get into bob corker's head. but what we do know is the fact pattern i just laid out. and we also know there are 13 republican senators who also have those kinds of investments that will benefit. and i think what this shows is that we need more reporting in this country where we actually contextualize what people are voting on, what bills are being voted on, both parties big, the way, what they are voting on, what their financials are, who their campaign donors are, and how those campaign donors and how those lawmakers and their personal finances benefit from public policy that is spending the public's money. >> and gene sperling, david sirota has found other corporate provisions that benefit other members of the republican senate who are voting for this. i've never seen this kind of thing happening so openly, so wantonly on the senate floor. >> well, lawrence, let's just remember. this is part of the dna of this entire tax bill. we're a country right now where americans are struggling. people are worried about t

because while flake has been a consistent trump critic, bob corker was not. he appeared at campaign rallies when no other members of the establishment would. he was even in the running to be mr. trump's running mate or secretary of state. that's not just sort of after the fact spin. as chairman of the powerful formulations committee, he worked closely with the administration or at least he tried to. after nine months he's clearly seen enough and had enough. the president decided to respond to corker via twitter, and it was nasty, calling corker a lightweight, calling him little bob corker saying he couldn't be nominated dog catcher in tennessee. both corker and flake are the latest republican to sound the alarm over the president. last week, john mccain and president bush warned about the trumpism. but steve bannon has declared war on the republican establishment, that mccain, bush, and corker represent, and bannon's side looks like they're winning. because corker, mccain and bush all have one thing in common, none of them are running in 2018, and many of the

they are cooperating with bob mueller's investigation. the threads for me are really beginning to unravel. this began in january for me when i published a column when mike flynn, on december 29, had spoken with the russian ambassador, sergio kislyak, and did they discuss sanctions and did they do that the very day when president trump dismissed 37 hacking fz. flynn said today in his guilty plea pe lied about. he told the fbi on january 24, no, he had not discussed sanctions with kislyak, he now says that was false. from there we move to flynn's resignation. the next day the president speaks to comey and says, i want you to let this investigation of mike flynn go. the president was deeply concerned about it. this whole story begins to accelerate. we're now at the point where we have this crucial, in effect, plea agreement, and i think we've been focusing on the right question. who did mike flynn talk to about the conversations he was having with kislyak in the trump transition team? >> david, you wrote that column. we all followed up on it

but ken starr very recently undermined what he's saying today with this praise for bob mueller. >> bob mueller is a great man and a terrific lawyer. honest as the day is long. bob mueller has the integrity and the ability to make judgments to call them as he sees them. he will be a very fair umpire. >> that was july. now ken starr again, during this week where everyone seems to be coming out to attack bob mueller, ken starr is in on it. he writes in the "washington post" that there are cascading revelations of anltd trump bias in the investigation, including at d.o.j., and he says honor needs to be restored. which to him means a reset where bob mueller will stop working and instead, congress will have a committee investigation and write a report. i want to be clear about the facts here. what ken starr is saying, what he is advocating, is an end to the criminal investigation of what happened and what russia did and instead, he is suggesting that something no serious prosecutor would ever suggest. that congress should do what prosecutors do. they are very different branches. the big ques

and i think that's what the bob mueller is going after here. he is going after the connective tissue between putin and his circle and trump and his circle. what contacts there were and what was attempted some and he is looking the fill it in as he looks for the question of motive and possible collusion. and i covered hope hicks during the campaign. i dealt with her. she is not only very smart. it is impossible to overstate how plugged in with donald trump's world she is. there's no doubt if the fbi came and took her to the situation room, and briefed her on these approaches by the russians, there is no doubt that she immediately went and told the boss because she talked to the boss all day long. he probably wondered where she was for the hour she was in the situation room. so that's an fbi warning to trump as well. >> you make such an important point. we can all tell our campaign war stories. i didn't hear from hope all the time as a journalist but did i file a couple stories about whether or not trump would actually pay for the original loans

bob iger has been an absolute monster in media. while not necessarily the innovator that people like steve jobs were, iger has the potential to really pick great people, surround himself with smart people, inspire them, give them the tools they need to innovate and get out of their way. he's been really good at that. the types of deals he's bitten off, whether it was pixar for $8 billion, then lucas or marchv vil- marvel, everybody has talked about him overpaying. but when you look at how much he's made for those, at the end of the he probably underpaid for those. there's a lot of skeptics surrounding this deal, saying he's overpaying, that he's late to the party because of cord cutting. but i think he's going to make them eat their words here probably in another year or two when we see this play out. >> he's relatively young, he's in great shape, he's going to extend his contract, which must give investors like you some comfort. we characterize this acquisition as an offensive/defensive play. do you see it that way? >> yeah, i thi

corker. >> bob corker is so interesting. he was rumored to be a candidate for donald trump's running mate. >> came to trump tower, we saw him in trump tower. >> came to trump tower, was an ally. lent his credibility as a figure with a good deal of respect on the world stage to trump's candidacy when he endorsed him during the general election. and he's had a very public breakup with donald trump. >> the president has not yet -- has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. >> so during a time these last few months when profiles in courage have been rare, even though i know you said on the air this year that he had the truth serum of not running for reelection, i think we would still list bob corker, as i always call him, a workhorse and not a show horse in the senate, as one of those profiles, perhaps. >> it's a shame the white house has become an adult day-care center. someone obviously missed their shift this morning. this was not the f

i'm bob massi. i'll see you next week. [ woman vocalizing ] >> from box on my fox business headquarters in new york city, the new "wall street week." >> welcome to wall street we, the program that analyzes the week that was an helps position position you for the week ahead. i maria bartiromo. coming up in just a few moments, former home depot and chrysler ceo, my special because this we can. some of the big headlines infecting every thing from wall street to main street. tax form once again dominating wall street conversations with the house and senate both voting to take their respective plans to conference. a process that will attempt to combine the two bills and hammer out their differences. some of the few key differences lawmakers are dealing with right now. the senate's version has seven tax brackets compared to the houses four brackets. the house individual tax cuts are permanent while the senate's version sees him ending in eight years. if the tax cut starts in '19, not 18. if in the hospita

let's get right over to bob kelly or steve keeley on the breaking news then to bob to explain how to get around it. we have a mess, steve. >> reporter: well, we initially thought, once they get this sign off the overhead area, that they would leave it on the median, trying to get 95 open. but look. this is the last of at at least half dozen huge flatbed tractor-trailers moving into place, with that second crane. so, as they cut this away, with haak saws, the reason you're seeing sparks flying, hearing that noise, it seems like they're going to load the heavy several-ton sign that you pass under, and probably without notice every day, and now, get it out of here to complete this job. and just make it one bad night , rather than maybe two bad nights. but, this is a bad night, turning into a bad rush hour morning, bob kelly, when you have 95 shutdown, you've got the local people who are frustrated, having to take to the local roads, like we're seeing, and we've got these people over here asking us how do i get around this point, over to us, asking us for detours, then you've got the peo

accurately reporting the alarming bias within essential counsel bob mueller's investigation. despite the fact that mueller and his team have unearthed no evidence of so-called collusion between trump and russia, the left considers it basically it's crime to even raise legitimate questions about the staffing and the tactics of the mueller investigation. iand they are now going into full on appear plexy. >> this has been a month long's orchestrated frankly pathetic and also dangerous attack. >> it's a real example of the divide in the country and how conservative media is fueling that divide right now. >> they are fomenting a constitutional crisis. what they are doing could lead to violence. >> laura: oh, really, joe? come on, even you don't believe that let's get this straight. the democrat smear machine can run 24/7 maligning president trump they use innuendo and anonymous leaks. but the special counsel is beyond reproach? they had their billionaires like tom steyer launching these absurd impeachment efforts on tv. they have hollywood infecting their programming with tedious

tom: with this is bob iger. my history of bob iger, he ended food abc, went up the chain. if disney does this, it will fail. no. what is disney going to do, for example, with the simpsons? what is the pixie dust that bob iger has with content? pays about company $4 billion of cap x, ok? they are taking on $5.5 billion, the way i look at it and with growth, they are talking $6 billion, but the capex is $100 billion -- yet, they go global, they go direct to consumer with sports and entertainment. that got content. what would be able to have all of the big six? what happens next? and do you assume in 2018 coming years, further consolidation into the business, how do people you know respond to this? .et's talk about cbs what do they do when they see all of these other players in action? challenge, of the tom, is you have out the bet, google, these behemoths. forget about alibaba and tencent. you are talking about just u.s. these companies like fox, $70 billion. share is less than $6.5 billion. that is the challenge. meanwhile, the tax cut helps. the net neutrality rules are in

>> bob! >> bob, bob, bob, bob! >> what? okay, you know what? let's do it. common! bring it on! bring it on! let's go, hit me. somewhere mark summers? you ready? oh, no! >> we're going to keep the school open. go ahead! hit me with it uncle! >> move the mining! >> hit me, hit me, hit me! >> three, two, one! >> ewwwww! >> takes one for the team! >> bob kelly, you're a great sport. >> where is our buddy mark summers from double dare when we need him, right? >> oh, my goodness. >> i say we keep the school open, yes! >> tell him don't run! they have to clean that up. >> he's a mess. i love it. bob you're awesome. love it is green slime. get us inspired for the eagles you. >> know the kids love that! >> oh, i love their smocks, too, nicely done. oh, look, the pageant. oh! >> so cute. >> so happy l can you ever have slime at school and then slime someone? >> we love you! hope john paul two. all right, so, this guy, so excited to meet this guy. been hearing him to his practices, amazing. >> sound checks are amazing, that's one of the songs you try to sing yourself. >> ♪ i know, i can

bob corker knows that. can you talk about whether there's anyone, not the public facing folks but your other sources who acknowledge this is a real concern? >> no one has really expressed it with a whole lot of seriousness about the president's physical health. when you talk about mental health, as a lot of his critics do publicly. when you talk to people who work around him, this is a guy. we've known his personality. it's been on display since the outset and from the american public for decades as long as donald trump has been a public media figure. people have seen the erratic behavior. most of the folks working for this administration, they kind of shrug off those questions about mental health because they just say, look, this is a different guy. he's a little erratic, yeah. he sort of flies by the seat of his pants but they don't ever talk about mental health in the way a lot more people that were disturbed by his actions do. >> let me show you the side by side, it's pretty startling, and i saw our col

bob, you are sticking with me. all right. another top story is the debut of bitcoin futures on the global markets exchange. this topsge move as market cap. we were joined earlier by a ceo to talk about the appetite of the purchase of prince so far. guest: it is meeting dedicatedns and our liquidity providers are getting comfortable with this commodity, in this case. ais is not unusual, from launch perspective. we have a lot of people scaling and i expect to see a little change in transaction over time. >> i am curious who the purchase of prince really are. you talk -- who the participants are and whether they ations they arec going into the markets. >> there are well-known representts and they many end-users, but we won't see that clarity for some time. i think you will see that build over the days to come. commentators say that you have priced from gemini. any plans to expand? >> we are pleased with the partnership with gemini and the transparency into their auction price. they know their users and the information sharing an

don't believe bob mueller. peter strzok was removed from the investigation last summer -- >> hold on, willie. are you telling me that the inspector general conducted an investigation, found these texts -- by the way, i'd love to see these guys' text messages during their hearings. you guys want to play that game, show your text messages during benghazi. why don't you reveal your text messages and what you were texting each other while you were conducting an i'm parable investigati imperil /* /- impartial investigation of benghazi. >> so the process works. >> he found the texts and they're bad. they go after donald trump. they say f trump. they call him an idiot, this and that. when those were revealed and discovered, they were removed. >> andrew mccarthy of the national review said, hey, fbi agents -- a conservative who has been very skeptical on the whole russia probe said these people are professionals. they're allowed to have their own professional opinion. the texts look like a big nothing. lots of people,

everybody give a wave. >> merry christmas. >> bob, just a quick question, bob. real quick. >> yes. >> i'm guessing that they're real happy you're there not just because of your exuberance and wonderful personality that suit that you're wearing must raise the degrees at least ten, right 10 degrees suit right there. >> exactly. >> it is -- you know, it's cold standing still. that's why we got to keep moving, right, gang, keep moving. keep moving. to stay warm. >> you keep on moving. you keep on moving. bob kelly check back with you a little bit later. love it. >> let's go to pennsauken, new jersey, right now. this great. goodwill holding its annual holiday party. about 95 clients who have disabilities attended the event this morning. not only did they get to enjoy a holiday feast, but santa himself handed out presents, took the time to come down from the north pole. that's so cool. goodwill says since most of its clients have to struggle to make ends meet or they live in group home many of their supporter as adopt clients for the day. >>> a family seeking safety f

bob mentioned it, not whole lot of snow just coating here. scott mentioned it, as well, but certainly those side roads can make for very messy morning commute. >> let's go to delco right now, upper darby good morning to you, looking at some of the parking lots, some of the busy intersections right there. people obviously taking precautions, i was taking my own, as well, people filling up on gas, always good advice. >> taking it slow this morning, as for jersey commuters, snow plows were working the roadways all across the sidewalks. this arctic blast, it is expected to stick around a bit. so keep the hats and gloves nearby. >> all right, move over. the cow was sick of being in the nativity scene, made a run for it, and wound up on the highway on i-95. can you imagine, driving down and like hey, bob, look at that, no it is a cow. no, it is a cow. no bull, yep, i59 near callowhill, they obviously coraled at cow and brought it back to one of my favorite locations, united church of old christ where they have the nativity scene. >> so what's the p

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. >> bob corker is so interesting. he was rumored to be a candidate for donald trump's running mate. >> came to trump tower. we saw him in trump tower. >> was an ally. lent his credibility as a figure with a good deal of respect on the world stage to trump's candidacy when he endorsed him during the general election. he's had a very public breakup with donald trump. >> the president has not yet -- has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of e competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. >> during a time these last few months when profiles in courage have been rare, even though i know you said on the air this year that he had the truth serum of not running for re-election, i think we would still list bob corker, as i always call him a workhorse and not a show horse in the senate, as one of those profiles, perhaps. >> it's a shame the white house has become an adult day care center. someone obviously missed their shift this morning. this was not the first time corker expressed gra