that's what gabelli told me. mario told me this. they never said let's have dinner.ave lunch, coffee. let me go to your office. let's just tell you mario, you're a big shareholder, you're important, you could cause a lot of problems for this deal and i can tell you people that have been working on this deal say the shareholder lawsuits are going to come in whether he joins it or not he isn't saying yet but i'm telling you the fact they haven't reached out to him to do a personal one on one even after saying it is bizarre. they invited him on a conference call. you're mario gabelli. i mean, he tells me, he goes i was on the conference call for 10 minutes. it was late. they called me and then i hear what's that guys name? greenfield who asked the last question about something and they never called me, charlie. liz: they should let him in with ritz crackers. charlie: i would go bring egg plant parmesan, go to his house in greenwich with a bowl of spaghetti and woo him. liz: with gravy. charlie: i should say gabelli grew up in the same neighborhood as my father. huge phi

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one potential lawsuit, we should point out, could come from if mario gabelli.him a couple days ago, you know, talking about his options. he didn't mention lawsuits, but what he did say was that he's going to fight for transparency on the deal terms. he's launching something inside his company knowned as operation fish bowl -- known as operation fish bowl where he wants to see exactly how much money shari redstone made on this thing, the de facto other than of a paramount until this deal gets done. she has controlling shares through a holding company. a little complicated, but she basically was the other than. she's getting a good deal, something like $1.7 billion. he wants to know why she's getting so much money and the common share holders are getting very little. we should point out that the skydance, redbird people are saying you're getting a better balance sheet, we've got upside going forward, and gabelli could be convinced of that. at least that's what he told me. but the bigger point, liz, is this: this thing is not totally papered yet. there will be law

paramount investor mario today today -- gabelli and -- larry: hello folks, i'm you i'my kudlow.

as you know, i'm very good friends with mario gabelli, and he's out there making noises around how toor negotiating the best deal for them. >> who do you blame? the committee that's responsible for accepting the offer? >> i think old board and the old management didn't do their job in positioning this company well. they passed at the sale of b.e.t., they passed on the sale of showtime. they made so many different strategic errors along the way that made them get into this problematic phase. and i think that the process was not run smoothly. as we all know, all the leaks that happened, it's just something that was just out of this world. >> do you think it's over in terms of the ghost shop. anybody else potentially looking at it? >> i'm still hopeful. you hear rumors that different people are looking at it. it wouldn't shock me, some of these large streamers that have so much money this they could go out and why it for a rounding error. you just think about a netflix, they need sports, you know, cbs -- >> do you think a regular ltor under this current administration, under the administ

paramount investor mario today today -- gabelli and -- larry: hello folks, i'm you i'my kudlow. this is "kudlow." we have breaking news. president trump has picked senator jd vance of ohio as his running mate and also mr. trump has woken the republican nomination for president. we just heard the count here on the floor. we've got the great senator tommy tuberville on that, much more in just a few moments. but first up, fox news mark meredith standing by with the details. mark, you have got a lot of news today. what's cooking? >> reporter: [laughter]. larry, you're right the convention is just getting started but no shortage of headlines at this hour. the first one that former president trump has selected his running mate, 39-year-old junior senator of ohio jd vance. an iraq war veteran. a graduate of yale and also ohio state. he had been on the short list for this vp contender spot quite a while along with him and senator marco rubio of florida and doug burgum the governor of north dakota. what is fascinating about this, larry, how quickly this frame to fruition as we got closer