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melissa: markets nervously holding their breath as tensions between greece and europe come to a head. europe's finance chiefs are holding an emergency meeting as greece refuses to extend the bailout package, keeping it afloat. it only has a few weeks to reach a deal before it runs out of cash all together. here are very own charlie gasparino, tom sullivan is here and mark eiglarsh. a criminal defense attorney and celebrity i would say. >> i don't think so. yes. melissa: absolutely. tom sullivan let me start with you on the greece thing. what do you think? >> dealing with somebody, a debtor who don't have any hope of getting their financial house in order. it is also, misreported about the austerity. not only in greece but also other parts of the e.u. melissa: you're saying overemphasizing -- i read in the "new york times" they have adhered to austerity for five years. it hats been so hard.

can't get it done. >> austerity means government cuts back spending right? that is not what they do? they jacked up more taxes on the rich. that is their idea of austerity so. >> i actually understand what they're doing and why they're doing it and i think usually with these bailout packages this is what the imf has done for years and european union does for years. what you do to countries, force them to raise taxes and cut spending instead of growing and stimulate the economy. that is the problem they're facing here. there is no growth plan. euro bureaucrats, these people that flood davos. i couldn't stand davos so much. these are the -- melissa: you looked like you were having fun. >> i was having fun ignoring the bs that occurred in these rooms. all they call for higher tax, more government. countries like greece have zero chance to survive this given what is going on. >> one of my favorite comedians talks about the problem here. melissa: charlie gasparino one of your favorite comedians? >> gary gold man. >> who is he?

>> he played dough, arris to the tell. gave us the owe pim beings and they -- olympics. they focused on salad. melissa: sees car or greek salad. >> greek salad. not a good economic plan. it wasn't solid for them. >> don't know what you're talking about. >> we got it. we got it. greek salad. i love the greek salad. a little oregano. >> well have to talk about austerity. liberal bureaucrats all over the year. greece needs to be austerity and cut things and raise taxes. think about what it gives you. it gives you portugal, gives you greece. melissa: have to focus on growing the economy without question. two big shake-ups in the media world. nbc taking brian williams out of the anchor chair without pay. nbc ceo steve burke saying quote, by his actions brian has

jeopardized the trust millions of americans place in nbc news. his actions are inexcusable and suspension is severe and appropriate. almost same moment comedy central losing star host of "the daily show jon stewart. he announced his retirement. listen how he broke the news on his show. >> doug of comedy central gave me an incredible opportunity 11 years ago to pilot this wonderful franchise. it is time for someone else to have that opportunity. i will have dinner on a school night with my family, who i have heard, from multiple sources are lovely people. [laughing] melissa: no secret. funny how both announcements came out previous same time? isn't that weird? >> joke going around the man who did fake news because people thought he did real news should grow to nbc and brian williams should go to comedy central.

melissa: you think that was all coincidence? i'm a conspiracy theorist? >> i don't see them as similar. this discussion about should brian williams come back, i don't think there is a discussion there. when you lose credibility as an anchor person you have lost your stock in trade. melissa: six month rehab? he can't go to credibility rehab. >> conflate anonymous. >> there is interesting sort of connection here in this sense. brian williams was hurting the nbc brand. brian williams brand was destroying the nbc brand. they had to create separation and my guess is he is upon in six months. the question, his contract, paid out 25 cents on the dollar. melissa: whoa have an attorney right here. what does he think? >> they all have the morality -- melissa: doesn't get paid at all? >> they will negotiate something. >> here is where they might. maybe his supervisors knew about this and did not take disciplinary action. he is essentially getting hit twice for the same crime, you see what i'm saying? they're basically suspended him

after they knew he was doing it for so long. they looked other way. but jon stewart thing is interesting too from a brand standpoint. is the comedy central brand, particularly at that time slot are they intrinsically linked with jon stewart's brand? can someone come in to get the ratings he gets? i don't know. melissa: interesting thing, at that moment those things hit twitter a lot of people calling their agents all around the world. comedians, news people or taxi drivers. everyone saw a lot of open chairs and money available there. all right, apple going where no company has gone before. the stock closing above $700 billion in market value first time, nearly doubled next largest company, wow, which is exxon. shares are still climbing higher today. is there a top out there for apple? >> i would say this. i know carl icahn has been in and out of the stock, i talked to carl a little bitthis. he thinks it could be a trillion dollar company.

i twittered that that is impossible. all -- that is true. if the fed will not ease anytime soon, if you want to buy market indexes, apple's probably part of all those wonderful market indexes. melissa: right. >> tell me where their competition is? who is their competition? i don't see there are a lot of tech companies out there but i don't see the kind of competition to catch them. >> as we say watch it go down 20%. melissa: president obama called out office supply chain on reports it was cutting workers hours to avoid providing health care. listen to what he said after a reporter specifically asked him about staples. >> when i hear large corporations that make billions of dollars in profits trying to blame, our interest in providing health insurance as an excuse for cutting back workers wages shame on them. melissa: shame on them. staples notes its policy regarding hours predates the affordable care act and in fact they said unfortunately the president appears to not have

all the facts. the initial story was misleading after our policy regarding hours for part-time employees is more than a decade old. >> this is bad precedent really? now the president goes in and every time a company doesn't do what he wants he will say something. they employ 85,000 people. they pay a lot of taxes. i don't know if he should have got involved even if -- >> you hear disdain. this company is make as large amount of money. he always picks on companies that make a lot of money. melissa: their legal responsibility fiduciary responsibility to shareholders or employees. >> did he say that? melissa: no, i'm saying that. >> that's what i'm saying. president obama is lawyer a constitutional lawyer. so he is supposed to be smart at figuring out what is, what guides companies do. he misses big point about fiduciary responsibility. companies in the face of high taxes, very high corporate tax rates, in the face of obamacare mandates, will cut back to maintain their profit margins.

now why does the president not know this? here is one thing i will say. melissa: yeah. >> this president on economic matters continues to show that he is one of the least least intelligent on those matters. melissa: or just talking his politics. let me bring you breaking news. just crossing the wires. i want to get it to you. the captain of the capsized costa concordia, found guilty of manslaughter in the death of 32 people. you will remember that terrible shipwreck back in 2012. cuttino says he was a scapegoat who was quote, sacrificed to serve economic interests, speaking of money. he faces is 6 years in prison. >> whatever happened to the captain goes down with the ship? melissa: not happening. >> his excuses were completely lame. he got what came to him. melissa: all right running to someone's mother isn't usually how things get done in the corporate world but proven strategy at comcast. a reporter fed up with readers complaints, about the company,

about comcast, went straight to the ceo's mother and it worked. this is pretty hysterical. this is a philly.com columnist went directly to suzanne roberts. that is brian roberts ceo. his mother who is 892 years old. on behalf of a couple who recently moved to the area and was having trouble getting their comcast internet hooked up. they were waiting since december 23rd. no one had come. this is genius. >> how do you get the number? i have a few people i want to call. melissa: she is reporter. i people who know me i go to twitter when i'm upset. >> what is that restaurant you don't like? you're blasting -- >> rub you the wrong way a little bit? melissa: went to the mother? >> think how stupid this is. this is like, i'm all for aggressive reporting. god knows that -- i would never -- >> no, no. this is what you do. you -- >> go to the guy's mother? >> you use people. you know people. you call people.

you get people -- >> a mother? >> yeah his mother, yeah. melissa: reporter did -- >> suppose it was your boss? suppose someone called up roger ailes's mom and said something about roger what would you think about that. >> it is who you know. melissa: it would be funny if it was a prank. >> if it was a prank when you do reporting, you don't call up somebody that knows nothing about what is going on. melissa: no. call the czar of customer service. that was the original plan. the reporter was going to recall, the new czar of public service for the company. that would have made sense. >> you never know, it worked. melissa: your mom gets you do things you're supposed to do. i get my boys to do what they're supposed to do. >> give me a break. 92 years old. reminds me of newt gingrich thing, remember, newt beginning glitch, what hillary clinton says about hillary clinton. i won't tell anybody. melissa: got to go.

>> installer showed up. melissa: "anchors aweigh" at nbc. brian williams gets slapped with a six-month suspension. can they afford another flagship failure. fire up the omelette and grab a cheese urger while you're at it. u.s. changes stance on cholesterol, wiping away 40 years of warnings coming up. no music but smart money. ♪

melissa: brian williams benched for six months. he will lose his payroll of $5 million while he is in suspension. the president of mbc news wrote in a memo to employees quote, whee believe the suspension is appropriate and proportionate with the action. this has been a difficult time but nbc news is bigger than that

at the moment. here to discuss all of it bernie goldberg. author of the best-selling book "bias." a fox news contributor. thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you so much for having me on. melissa: you were on last night and you wrote an article that was really spot on about this problem. before we get to that, i want to ask you about the nbc news brand because this was the last part of it that was really intact. "the today show" has of course had very serious troubles with its turnover. we've seen problems with "meet the press." nightly was part of a the news brand that was still working. how devastating is this to the news division? >> well we'll see as the ratings, you know are taken each day. they didn't need this. forgive me for stating the obvious, but they really didn't need this at this time, not given all the other problems that they have. but they couldn't leave him on the air either. this is not an en v.able position for them to be in but it is one of their own making.

melissa: yeah. debra turness has taken over the department. she is doing what she can to try and shore up "the today show.." what does this mean for her particularly? none of these problems were of her making? they all came before her time but she is the one presiding over trying to fix them? >> i don't knowç the inner-workings of nbc management. that's a foreign country to me but when so many things go wrong and you're the person at the helm, sometimes you're the one who goes. you know in any major sport, if the team doesn't do well, they don't fire the whole team you know, they get rid of the manager. and, i'm not predicting that for her. as i say, i don't know how it works at nbc. too many bad things have happened on her watch. melissa: you made a really great point that part of the problem here is the idea of the blurring of the lines between journalism and entertainment.

>> yeah. melissa: and that brian williams had begun, we've been trying to figure out everybody is saying he is such a good guy a great journalist, a smart guy everyone likes him, how can this happen when everything he had done virtue of covering these stories is big why would you need to exaggerate? you made a great point, this is really about the blurring of lines between entertainment and news. what is your point there? >> yeah. it is a point i made, thank you for mentioning the article. it is on my website, bernard goldberg.com. i met with be who knows brian williams very well. he said brian always wanted to be walter cronkite. it also turns out he warranted to be jay leno or at least jay leno's replacement. stories in the paper are when nbc was looking for replacement for leno brian williams said i will take the job. i think brian's problem is that he didn't know which he wanted

more, to be a first tier journalist, or a first tier entertainer? and they play by very different rules. if you're an entertainer you're only obligation is to entertain. that's it. there are no other rules. you can embellish, you can exaggerate, you can make up stories when you go on letterman. there is no problem there. the only really the only rule really is, that you better be entertaining. journalist system different. you must tell the truth -- journalism. brian williams didn't. i think he was playing by entertainment rules and it is very hard to be both an entertainer and a journalist at the same time. melissa: it is. if you look at our industry there is blurring of the lines. i say too many people get their news from jon stewart. they confuse that with an actual news program. you look at them putting folks like carson daly on "the today show" or talking about ryan seacrest or somebody that could replace matt lauer.

the personalities lines have gotten blurred. this is one of the dangers, that folks out there get confused what their role really is. go ahead, final world. >> i think we live in the united states of entertainment. and i think in brian williams's particular case, he was trying to fulfill two dreams at the same time. one dream to be a top-notch tv journalist. the other dream to be a top-notch tv entertainer but oil and water don't mix. i think he is finding that out now. melissa: bernie goldberg, thank you so much for coming on. >> thanks, melissa. melissa: some breaking news we're watching really closely right now. three workers dead following an explosion at a petrobras oil platform in brazil. four workers were reported missing. another six injured. we'll bring you the latest on this story as we have it. just in time for valentine's day. untie the knot in two days. the hotel lets you check in

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melissa: from u.s. to every corner of the globe money is flying around the world. russian president vladmir putin, will sit opposite leaders from france and germany as they try to bring an end to 10-month conflict. ukraine officials say they are ready to defend their country. over to china where president xi xinping is preparing for the first state trip to the u.s. that is after president obama gave him a call, and invited him

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that's what i'd like to do. melissa: for the first time since taking office in six months after beginning airstrikes against isis president obama's asking congress today to approve us military action. the proposed new authorization for the use of military force includes no geographic limitations. and it does not rule out the possibility of limited ground forces. the approval would expire in three years, allowing a new president and congress and to decide whether it needs to be extended or expanded. the president is expected to make remarks on the topic an hour from now at the white house. the fight has saved the life of an american hostage. president obama revealing, the us made a risky attempt to rescue kayla mueller last

summer. president obama: i deployed an entire operation at significant risk to rescue not only her but the other individuals that had been held. melissa: here now is by ron from the washington contributor. chris harmer. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. a lot made in the past 24 hours of the difference from the statement the president just made and reporting from folks like catherine herridge that said about the specific information about the location of eight hostages back in may, including kayla mueller. (?) that the obama administration knew where they were, had intelligence about it in raqaa, as well as even the layout of the facility they were in, and didn't act on it for about seven weeks. chris harmer, does that sound right or credible? >> it sounds credible

and appropriate. there's a difference between knowing where a hostage and knowing the exact circumstances of the facility they're located in. and the allocation of the forces -- it's one thing to find someone who is lost. as a search-and-rescue pilot, i rescued a lot of people out at sea. that's a relatively tame operation. when you're talking about rescuing someone behind enemy lines, it goes up further intensity. when you talk about rescuing someone already taken captive by isis it takes a while for those teams to make sure they know what their game plan is. to make sure they have actual actionable intelligence. melissa: obviously this information was perish iable. by the time they got there, she had moved. biron, what's your reaction? >> i think you'll see members of congress wanting to know month about this. because the seven weeks

that catherine herridge reported is a pretty significant period of time. a lot of it will depend on the definition of confidence in the intelligence. josh earnest the white house spokesman was asked about this today. and he said, i can tell you there was no delay. and the white house is going to say there was no delay once they were confident that the intelligence was right. the republicans in congress are certainly going to want to know more about this basically to second guess the white house decision. melissa: meanwhile, an unprecedented amount of foreign fighters, 20,000 people from around the world have flocked to syria or iraq to join isis or other extremist groups. this is according to the associated press. intelligence agencies believe there may be as many as 150 americans that tried to reach the syrian war zone. some of them have been successful. i was seeing a report in the last hour about hundreds of al-qaeda

fighters who have now just recently changed their flag and come over to isis. chris harmer, this seems like it's a literally growing problem. >> it absolutely is a growing problem. i can't tell you how many fighters they have in their ranks. they have more than enough to take over the missions they have going. to me, that's the real problem. is that we don't have a credible ground force raid against them in syria. we won't have one for some time. if you look at the victory in kobani for the kurdish fighters. they only did that because the us was able to concentrate a great deal of air power. and isis was able to concentrate there. that's a one-time victory there. isis continues to grow. they continue to grow in territorial controlling and human terrain control. >> the cancer is growing. how do we stop it? >> that is the question. if you listen to democrats, the president, you'll hear

them say something like guantanamo is a huge recruiting tool. but clearly what is happening is, american airstrikes strikes against isis are being used as recruiting for more people for isis. so we're doing enough to allow at home recruit from it, but not enough to kill a lot of them. so that's -- we're kind of in a bad middle ground right now. gerri: gentlemen, thanks to both of you. breaking news this hour after a 19-month trial francesco found guilty of manslaughter. thirty-two people died you'll remember when the italian cruiseship steered too close to an island and hit the rocks. he has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. relaxing the rules on cholesterol officials now backing off from all the bad stuff that they told you about eggs and shrimp. this is a real game changer.

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♪ melissa: finally, you can eat your eggs without a side of guilt, after 40 years of caution, the us government moving to drop its warning against cholesterol-rich foods. our own peter barnes is in virginia. have you celebrated with a nice big omelet yet? >> i did melissa. can i make you one now? melissa: please. >> he's been training me how to cook eggs. i can do them fried. scrambled. i'll do this while i'm telling you about the story. there's this nutrition

committee that's advising the department of health and human services and the department of agriculture about its 2015 nutrition guidelines for the united states. and it -- it just makes a recommendation to these departments. but if it does do this and decide to drop eggs as a high-cholesterol foods from these dietary guidelines, it could upend 40 years of guidelines for the government for people and how they eat their food. and there was a -- we know this may be coming. they had a meeting in december. we found a document that said quote cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption. now, they don't explain why. but if this happens, it could make egg lovers like me and you very

egg-cited. melissa: let me ask you a question -- >> there is a sound bite. melissa: get that over and cook it. >> i'm cooking them all the way through. >> i might eat more eggs. but i will continue to check my cholesterol. and if the level goes up the eggs go down. >> so this committee if it makes this recommendation in the next few weeks, then it will be up to the department of agriculture and the department of homeland -- excuse me -- of health and human services to decide to adopt that regulation. and it's adopted, what this committee has recommended for the past 40 years or so, melissa. we'll see by the end of the year. >> it's so logical. my cholesterol goes up, i'll eat fewer eggs. there you go. simple as that.

peter, thank you so much. little more cooking on that. not quite done yet. >> i'll be fedexing these up. >> they're making a health conscious move. proposing a fine of up to $800 of parents of obese children. what a great idea. it would be determined by health officials and would be determined on a case-by-case basis. what could go wrong? our attorney is with us. along with jonathan hoenig. he's a fox news contributor. mike blanched when i said what a great idea. he doesn't realize how much sarcasm plays a role in my life. i mean, there are a lot of problems with this. you're going to have -- so public school teachers can flag obese children and refer them to counselors and social workers who will meet with the parents and determine whether -- and they'll determine whether the obesity is the result of bad eating habits or medical

condition. after six months, they'll figure out whether they'll fine the parents. >> i love that the parents will find out. you, olivia, you come here. come to the front. melissa: right. you're obese. >> it has nothing to do with your genetic make up. i love the component of the bill that educates parents. if you have a kid heading towards a heart attack. you can discreetly discuss with parents what choices to make different. but this concept that you'll find them, i don't know. melissa: normally, i'm all about economic punishment for things that don't make sense. then pay the fine if you don't care about. in this case it's so contrived how you'll get there. educate parents. i think you know when you're making your kids fat. >> you do. melissa: i think everyone knows. >> it's not contrived. this is totalitarianism. i'm not being hyperbolic here. these are your children.

they're your responsibility. they're not society's responsibility or the state's. and if there's an economy cost to fat kids that cost should be borne by the parent. now we have government health care. he who writes the checks makes the rule. >> how do you collect the money? most of the parents are feeding them fast food because they can't afford lettuce and greens. melissa: i don't know about that. we need to have a bigger discussion on this later. thanks, guys. let's check in with liz claman to see what she has coming up on her show. >> we have a big interview. three fascinating stories. tim armstrong of aol. stop asking him if he will merge or buy yahoo. that's not the question to ask this guy. in fact, the question to say is: are you perhaps going to take on a google of the world and do you need to partner with a netflix or amazon to do that? tim armstrong on the

heels of quarterly numbers that were mixed here. but he has turned that company around. we're also looking at the snowstorms, especially up in boston, the super bowl for one company, that would be generac. we have the ceo of generac. he'll be talking about what happens once the snow clears. great for hiss his business. do summer storms affect him as well? we'll talk about the brian williams situation. as to whether it impedes the timewarner comcast merger. >> i look forward to that. talk about a thrifty fine. how they nabbed vince lombardi's sweater for nothing. how one hotel is capitalizing on your heartbreak. you can never have too much money. ♪

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it's a lot of hard work and concentrated. but there's the opportunity to enjoy. >> that's $5,000. it does not include the judge's filing. 6500 bucks. not bad for a divorce. my question is: i wonder has it happened that people have decided to stick together because they're having a good time or has it ended in bloodshed. have you had to call the police? ither of the two. actually they've all reported, they get along so much better after divorce hotel. but they're still not going to get back together. they're just like laughing together, and having a good time and it's great for parents who need to co-parent. nobody has gotten back together. when you make that decision, that's it. melissa: yeah, the ship has sailed, so to speak. saratoga springs. divorce tv is a reality in europe. this is the first reincarnation in the u.s. very cool. thank you so much for

joining us. we appreciate your time. tesla, hitting the skids ahead of earnings. about the overseas failure that has elon musk all fired up. plus, forget slow and steady, this guy is ready to blow pass the competition and become a hero to tortoises everywhere. at the end of the day it's all about fast money. look at that guy.

melissa: carl icahn issuing a new letter to twitter followers. he praised tim cook for not hoarding cash. icahn says he sees apple shares -- confirming he has sold none of his shares. not sold them. now for something i had to show you. a tortoise finally showing the world his hidden talent by hopping on a skateboard to make his way across a room. he has that big old shell to act as a helmet just in case he crashes

into a wall. the electric slide taking a hit. tesla taking a hit. only 120 cars in china last month. that's according to reuters. jonathan hoenig is back. along with jolene kent. >> we are expecting they will tell us how many cars this were sold. it they hit higher deliveries, it will be a success. elon musk has a communication problem with his team potentially in china. (?) they aren't saying there are enough charging stations out there. another big reason why a lot of these chinese cars aren't selling is the fact it's very hard to get registration for your vehicle in big cities because they're trying to reduce on pollution. melissa: interesting. jonathan, what do you think? >> certainly the stock is telegraphing melissa, bad news a series of lower lows. $170 a share down to about $210 a share today.

i think more broadly however, there's a fundamental problem. it's not tesla's managers in china. it's tesla's reson debt are a. it was this whole fun car for individuals. a car that would save you money because of sky-high gas prices. gas prices have collapsed. not rising any time soon. you might see a market for tesla not unlike segue. >> i think it was a status symbol. >> exactly. >> it still is. >> they don't save money. they still like it. i don't think that's changed. >> that goes for china and the broader market. tesla a luxury symbol. elon musk is a messenger of the future. we'll see after the bell. >> thanks to both of you guys. that's all we have for now. i hope you're making money today. we've been promising you this. aid rean will be here tomorrow. 2:00 p.m. eastern right

here on money. (?) "countdown" with liz claman starts right now. liz: melissa, we're waiting on the president who is about to make a statement about asking for war abilities. at least military abilities to combat isis. we'll get to that when it happens. in the meantime, pepsi timewarner reporting earnings today. their stocks on the move. do you own them? we'll look at who killed it. and what these stocks tell us about the larger us economy because they're all crucial. the share of apple a day may keep the portfolio doctor a day. if you own apple stocks great for your health today. session highs two minutes ago showing no signs of slowing down. stock hit two new records in just two days. and european finance minister branching their heads in unison. the meeting was designed to figure out how to deal with greece's debt problems. minister says there are confusion on how to