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interview with nbc news. all details on that are just ahead. we'll take a look at the only poll that matters, election day, and a key block of voters often overlikes. asian americans and pacific islanders. also this hour a long wait but for many president obama's decision on the keystone xl pipeline was worth waiting for, coming up in a few minutes as well. but first, we begin this hour with donald trump's headline performance hosting "saturday night live" last night. take a look. >> a lot of people say donald you're the most amazing guy. you're brilliant, handsome, you're rich, you have everything going. the world is waiting for you to be president. why are you hosting "saturday night live," why? and the answer is i have really nothing better to do. >> during that monologue larry david playing himself, mock heckled donald trump. hispanic advocacy group offered

$5,000 to anyone who would call out trump during the broadcast. another sketch, imagine the perfect world of a trump presidency. new laws issued over twitter, victory over isis, and the washington monument covered in gold mirrored glass. it also included a visit from the mexican president. >> donald. >> enrique. >> i brought you the check for the wall. >> god, that's so welcome. this is far too much money. >> no, i insist. consider it an apology for doubting you as history shows us, nothing brings two countries together like a wall. >> latino groups protested trump's appearance on the show. they were marching from trump tower to rockefeller center. they were demonstrating against the derogatory comments trump made about mexican immigrants when he launched his campaign. in the wake of his comments the parent company nbc universal dropped coverage of the "miss

universe" pageant. nbc replaced trump on "celebrity apprentice" but he held onto his "snl" gig last night, weathering opposition from the congressional hispanic caucus. here's loretta sanchez on the house floor earlier in the week. >> i hope "saturday night live's" producers, writers and cast members will consider how donald trump hosting "snl" will compromise the integrity of their show. having mr. trump degrades the quality of "snl's" humor because racism isn't funny. it's lazy, and it's cheap. >> joining me new york times cultural reporter dave itzkoff and former congresswoman from new york nan hayworth, ana marie cox and senior political reporter amanda turkle. nice on a sunday morning to sit down and talk about something somewhat entertaining perhaps for some. dave, you are our expert in entertainment here, what's the

grade on donald trump? >> i thought larry david was an excellent host. trmp trrp i'm less won over by. people expecting something on the order of stephen colbert roasting george w. bush at the white house correspondents dinner, the show was never going to lay a glove on trump, never a roast or a sapphiis satire of h. >> safe was a win. >> you're right. the show benefited from all the attention and notoriety that he brings and makes them look like they're important in the cultural conversation, which they are, and trump gets 90 minutes of air time, whether he's the focus of the jokes or just a passing player in some of these sketches. >> congresswoman sanchez it was not all fun and games as we saw the march from trump tower, amanda, you were with them and what did you see? >> they were upset he was

getting this platform, and racism is not funny, he shouldn't be on and they marched from trump tower over to nbc studios, they stood outside for a while. there were about 12 counter protesters supporting trump, one person was supporting ted cruz, she just wanted to be there to support him being on "snl." there weren't many people supporting donald trump and said he's not funny, he shouldn't be getting this platform and there was the latino group who offered $5,000 if someone yelled out "trump is a racist" during the show, and larry david sort of took that away. >> sew gets $5,000, larry david does. >> he doesn't really need that money. >> the rich normally get richer in society and there's the proof. donald trump probably brought some added attention to this season for "snl" and i thought he, ordinarily it's sapphire but what he was saying about himself in the introductory monologue i think he means it. >> i don't think that was

prescripted. i was like that's not written down. >> that's the way he is. >> he looked very natural, i think for those who were watching the show, it was like he was a cast member the way he was working with the other cast members of "snl." >> i didn't know it was required that you had to be funny to be on "snl" that's news to me. >> right. >> i don't know, i'm not a huge fan of the show and current iterations, i'm not sure if it was especially unfunny or normally unfunny. >> maybe careful is what you're saying? >> some people have floated the idea that perhaps it was especially unfunny and this is all an elaborate attempt by the writers to torpedo trump's campaign by making him look ridiculous, although he didn't look ridiculous. the whole show looked ridiculous. i thought larry david was disappointing, saying only call him a racist if you're paid to say so. it made the whole spectacle seem like something that you were doing only for money which cheapens it. >> poor entertainment.

>> poor entertainment. the best catch -- >> that's the whole idea of humor. >> the opening sketch was good and the sketch that imagined the trump presidency, i thought they could go high concept and view the entire show, a deadpan presentation of the entire trump presidency and that might have been pretty funny. your interaction with the mexican president. >> in donald trump's mind that's the way he says hello. >> no one clapped for ivanka coming out. >> she was good. >> well -- >> i think you have to look for the moments of political protest where you can find them, the audience failing to applaud for ivanka or larry david bemused expression in the closing credits giving their good nights and even he seems if you can read the body language and anybody can interpret it the way they wish but he seems to be saying even i don't know what i'm doing here. >> wouldn't you love to see an hour of larry david taking over for bernie sanders? >> it's too easy of a role for larry david and for donald

trump. dave, thank you so much for stopping by. >> certainly, my pleasure. >> entertaining evening as you watched the entire "snl" episode appreciate it. another major political headline we've been watching over the last week, the keystone xl pipeline officially rejected by president obama friday, after a heated seven-year political battle that played out in washington and out on the campaign trail. in announcing his reasons for the rejection, the president slammed the politics that fueled this debate. >> for years it occupied what i consider an overinflated role in our political discourse. it became a symbol too often used as a campaign cuddule by both parties rather than a serious policy matter and all of this absecured the fact that this pipeline would neither be a silver bullet for the economy as was promised by some nor the express lane to climate disaster proclaimed by others.

>> republicans criticize the decision. jeb bush called it an attack on the economy and jobs and the new house speaker paul ryan said the president's decision was "sickening." on the democrat side hillary clinton celebrated by calling for clean energy and bernie sappeders hailed the pipeline's demise at msnbc's democratic forum on friday. >> the issue of keystone was kind of a no brainer. it never made sense to me from day one as to why you would extract and transport some of the dirtiest fuel on this planet. so i said no to the keystone on day one. >> we're joined by senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat from rhode island and member of senate committee of environment and public works. thanks for being with us on this sunday morning. if you were watching "snl" we don't want to hear about that yet but thank you for being here. >> i'll stay away from that. >> you can stay away from that for now. the decision by the president acknowledging part of it here that the pipeline would not lead to a climate catastrophe and

republicans saying the rejection was pure politics. so when you're in the president seat here, why now and why no? >> well, i think why now is to shore up credibility and continue building momentum on the way to paris. i think there's a fair amount of optimism that something significant is going to happen at cop21 and this is a good lead in to it and why no is completely obvious, the pipeline would have had very significant environmental consequences, not a silver bullet to end climate change, but a very important win. this is something that the environmental community fought very hard for and so there's a separate piece here. >> right. >> the town of gettysburg was not the most important strategic site in the civil war, but it was where the army's clashes and it mattered who won. this is where the environmental movement from the grassroots up

first really stood up to the fossil fuel industry and it's important that we won. >> senator, as you do look though at the state department's report which you're very aware of, they're saying really in terms of the environmental impact, it is not to the degree that you just described, and so some might ask, if that is indeed true, why not go ahead and give the republicans this, if that is true, because it's dead center on environmental impact, and -- >> because the leverage is not true. >> and leverage it for something that the democratic party might want, a key wedge issue, for instance. >> no, representative waxman and i wrote a lengthy report to secretary kerry, rebutting what the state department had said, and in a very short nutshell, their problem is that they assumed $75 or more price per barrel of oil were way beleethat and at these numbers, the state department report completely falls apart. it's the state department report itself that describes the environmental harm from this project and from the tar sands

but they say it was going to happen anyway because oil prices would be so high. with oil prices low the argument disappears and what we're left with is just the environmental harm that the state department report describes. >> so we're watching that slide rule, aren't we, multifactorial, one of which the price per barrel and the issue of unemployment, we're looking at not high single digits. the cpi is also looking pretty good. if we were in a different situation, senator, what would that decision be for president obama today? would it have been yes, we've got to do this? >> i would certainly hope not so if you take any long view and see where the carbon concentration is in the atmosphere, you see how rapidly oceans are recidifying and anomaly of weather around the world people are noticing now, you got to at some point address climate change and if you're not going to do that by stopping the

dirtiest fuels on the planet from getting across our country and to market and putting that marker down, then i don't know what you're going to do. that would have been a real sign of surrender on this, and i think that would have been a terrible mistake, even in a more challenged economic environment. >> we got to go here, senator, what is the one thing you want to see come out of paris? >> i think global price on carbon would be the very best deal, and as you let me go, let's all say congratulations to new york attorney general schneiderman for his subpoena of exxon. >> appreciates the shout out. thank you, senator, i appreciate your time today. sheldonous whitehouse, thank you. >> of course. still ahead the latest on the cause of the plane crash in egypt. bill neely joins us live from sharm el sheikh. first the rise of the angry voter. new poll numbers show why folks are so upset, but is it driving how they will vote in the end? . to run this business. i'm on the move all day long... and sometimes, i just don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost to get the nutrition that i'm missing.

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i'm guessing it wouldn't surprise to you learn that according to this week's nbc news/"wall street journal" poll voters are fed up. seven in ten americans agree with the following statement, "i feel angry because our political system seems to only be working for the insiders with money and power, rather than it working to help everyday people get ahead." while it's not limited to party, voters are angry with the political system in general. there is a huge difference in what exactly voters are angry about, though, with seven out of every ten republicans expressing unease about what's described as widespread illegal immigration, the shrinking role of religion in public life and gay and lesbian rights. only 12% of democrats agree with them. that helps explain why hillary

clinton has changed her thoughts. republican candidates are backing the candidates best voicing their fears, ben carson and donald trump it's clear the rise of angry voters defined the early primary contest so far. will carson or trump be able to ride the wave of dissatisfaction all the way to the republican nomination if not the white house. our angry panel joins us again. this idea of having an angry electorate and the differences according to party is pretty clear. it's dissatisfaction at least on the left on the political system overall and on the right it's specific issues politically that their party cares about. >> mostly it's the economy, richard. that fuels enormous frustration among i think everyone in our society, they may assign the origin of our ills to different entities if you will, which is why there are different sets of solutions coming out from

republican or democratic sides. i think it all stems from a feeling of frustration and betrayal in a sense by federal government that has promised far more than it can deliver and people are suffering. they don't have the jobs they should, young people are coming out of college with enormous debt, thanks so federal policy. >> is it the appearance of money and the effect it has on power? we look at the very words itself, of course there is the pocketbook issues which you bring up. >> i think a little bit off here, what we're seeing in that poll at least, yes, the economy is a problem for almost everyone except for the very, very rich, you're seeing a correct expression of that anger. it is true that our political system and our economy does not work to help the average person that it helps the very, very rich, and wages are increasing on the very rich, 90% you might know the numbers better than i do, the wage increases we've had in this country a vast majority of them upper 1% or 0.1%.

the gap is growing and growing. people are properly angry. i don't know what gay and lesbian rights has to do with that and i think where you see the gap between the voters also is who is angry. and i just want to point out that anger can turn out people to the polls. the conservatives are going to lose if the democratic party is as angry as they are because they have the demographic numbers to bring more people to the polls. >> in an absolute sense by looking at our numbers. >> this is why you see a lot of the outside candidates catching on. this is why bernie sanders has been doing a lot better than people expected him to, that message is the system is rigged as you hear from elizabeth warren is catching on. the inlugs of gay and lesbian rights is surprising. it's anger and frustration that america is changing in a way that some people who have been politically powerful can't keep up with. i don't think that's necessarily true with younger generations of republican voters for example.

it seems to be these politically powerful white conservative wealthier voters see america no longer looks like them. >> is that what you're seeing in your respective beats and everyday activity, that the voter is this angry, does it jive with those numbers that you see? >> i have many gay friends who are very angry. i'm not being facetious about this strong feeling that government is failing those who most needed to work for them and we see that evidence every day. >> are you talking about how gay and lesbian rights people can be kicked out of their jobs and homes, i would be angry. >> that is not what is animating this deep sense that something needs to change and i think one of the more emotional areas i see, the way the veterans administration has treated our veterans. it has failed on every level including in self-discipline.

people look at that and almost in our families, certainly i do and this deep sense that government has, takes much from us, but does not return value for that compulsory investment, and i think that is going to drive. >> more to the rich, really. >> it does. the bigger the government, the more it goes to the rich. they have the power. >> one of the storylines we have talked about a lot this past year is baltimore and ferguson, black lives matter, this seems to maybe fit in with that i can't believe the country is in this state. we don't see change, i'm angry at the fact that we have to talk about this today. >> all right, and right now they're not seeing change through the political system, so they're taking to the streets activism, social media, what you're seeing on college campuses for example because the political system is not the ones protecting them. they're having to look at different routes. >> my friends, stay angry, we're going to move on for a little

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♪ he knows his own ♪ 100 days ♪ 100 nights ♪ to know a man's heart ♪ . welcome back to politics. in just a few minutes but first update on the latest in the investigation into what caused a russian charter jet to crash last weekend in egypt. we're learning more about what investigators heard on the voice data recorder on the sunday and there are new questions about whether luggage was properly checked before the flight. bill neely has the latest for us from sharm el sheikh. >> good morning this investigation is now focusing on fractions of the final second of the cockpit voice recorder and that noise that points to an explosion. its sound waves may help unlock this mystery and now the fbi is

getting involved. it's not unusual for the fbi to be helped in a disaster t is unusual for the russians to ask. the fbi has said yes, though a spokesman told nbc news its role will be modest. russian teams have taken away 15 sacks of sand from the site and according to egypt human remains for analysis. they're looking for evidence of a bomb. >> the number one most important thing is testing the residue of this airliner to try to see whether there's any kind of traces of explosives. >> investigators now know the time after jake it off when disaster struck. >> 23 minutes and 14 seconds. >> at that moment on the cockpit voice recorder, the cvr, something extraordinary. >> a noise was heard in the last second of the cvr recording. >> every fraction of that sudden noise will now be analyzed and compared with the sound of other

crashes. investigators have found the plane's autopilot was on suggesting the crew felt everything was normal until that moment. some parts of the wreckage, they said, are still missing. they suggested that even a passenger's lithium batteries could have caused this. they're also examining reports that a baggage scanning machine was often broken, that baggage handlers weren't monitored and the deliveries to the airport weren't properly searched. 11,000 russian tourists have now been evacuated from the airport in one day. it will take nearly a week to get them all out, in st. petersburg where most of the victims were from, the church bells tolled once for every victim, 224 times. and here the search goes on for those missing parts of the plane, bad weather is hampering it. we're on day eight. new clues, but still no answers.

richard? >> bill, thank you so much. bill neely in sharm el sheikh, egypt, with the latest on metro jet crash. in the u.s. as a new wet season starts out west, water conservation efforts are getting a much needed boost including an infusion of cash from silicon valley as a new poll names the average californian as one of the top ten water users in the country. the home of silicon valley has just become the home of water technology, a new report from next ten shows california received more venture capital for water technology than any other state over the last five years. recent conference focused on ideas on water saving innovations, like those 36 cent shade balls, they save 300 million gallons of water a year in los angeles reservoirs. low tech solutions are just as important. >> this is my gray water system for the washing machine. >> reporter: leslie martin is an early adopter. >> all i have to do is crank

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it had a california like drought a decade ago, today the country produces 20% more water than it needs, back in california recertainer ken is not worried about running out of water any time soon. he's worried about something bigger. >> there have been very extended 100-year dry periods. we could be beginning one of those. >> according to the report the three states that are most frugal with water usage, that's wisconsin at number one, which averages 51 gallons per person per day, maine with 54 gallons and pennsylvania at 59. by comparison california averages about double, 109 gallons of water per person per day. all right, still to come, the bright and mysterious light that streaked across the southern california sky last night, panicking many residents. that's coming up. but first ben carson responds to the recent scrutiny into his life story, that interview is next.

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ben carson has received a lot of attention this week, not all of it positive. in a statement to politico on friday, his presidential campaign tried to clarify some of the candidates' past statements about his background, saying that carson did not seek to attend and therefore could not have been, could not have been offered a scholarship to west point. he wrote he was offered a full scholarship to west point, a key part of his personal narrative he has repeated since. take a listen >> i was offered a full scholarship to west point, got to go to congressional honor dinners but decided really my pathway would be medicine. >> the carson campaign is now saying that as a top are, rotce was told he could get into the service academy but that he ultimately decided not to apply. in an interview in "meet the press" he told chris jansing he

has nothing to apologize for here. >> i want to just go back to west point for one second and as i've been looking into it and i happen to have someone close to me going through the process of trying to get into west point, do you feel in some way it diminishes the cadets today to suggest that you had a scholarship or you were told you could get in, when they have gone through this rigorous process, when they have made the application, when they actually got accepted? >> i don't think so. i really don't think that at all. in fact, i've gotten some support from west point graduates. >> reporter: you don't think you owe them an apology at all, particularly the people who have gone through this rigorous process? >> there's nothing to apologize for. what i was doing was emphasizing what a great place west point is, and what an honor it would be to go there. so in no way am i trying to diminish them. >> for the rest of that

interview, you can go to "meet the press" today chris jansing that discussion with ben carson. several reports raise question about the veracity of a number of element in carson's own telling of his story. the "wall street journal" fact checked another bart of his book he claims to have been the most honest student at yale. the recent controversies have traveled with carson to puerto rico, where he's campaigning this weekend. nbc campaign embed shaquille brewster on the trail with ben carson joins us. is shaquille good to have you. >> reporter: good morning. dr. carson's helicopter just landed here. he'll speak to this convention of puerto ricans in just about an hour and in that speech he'll forcefully push for puerto rican statehood or puerto rico state hood. we were able to get some of the excerpts from the speech and in the remarks we expect him to call the thousands of puerto ricans at this rally, he'll say

that in his mind the stated issue was settled after 2012 after puerto rico had a referendum here that the issue has been settled since then and will call on congress, push congress to act immediately in supporting puerto rican statehood. now marco rubio and jeb bush have expressed their support for puerto rican statehood before but this plays into dr. carson and the carson campaigns what they call 56 jurisdictional strategy, to play not only in the 50 american states but also play in the six u.s. territories. what we should not expect to hear from carson in this speech, however, is how he would address puerto rico's fiscal crisis, an aide tells me he's not going to bring that up in the speech, but he will speak to reporters at the end of his speech, so expect that to come up then. >> all right, thanks so much, shaquille brewster for joining us in puerto rico a long with ben carson. carson's life story is a big

part of his appeal among conservative voters. it's a narrative which a troubled young man sought spiritual redemption before becoming a groundbreaking neurosurgeon and then presidential candidate and that story in a also be resonating among the independent voters. in the latest poll carson ties secretary of state hillary clinton in a hypothetical head to head matchup. will the increased scrutiny lead to more problems for the carson campaign? panel still with us today, his life story, and it does not seem to be sinking based on the fact checking that "wall street journal" has done as well as some of the reporting here. will that haunt him all the way to november 2016? >>. >> i think that it can. other analysts have said this and i repeated which is that right now theserytiques from the mainstream media are not hurting him with the base.

to go on offensive against the mainstream media will only help him with the voters that needs to win the nomination. should he get the nomination the story also matter a lot more to the general population. >> um-hum. >> i'm fascinated by this. it's incredible he'd embellish on a story which on its heart is already amazing. why would you tell the story being a thug and becoming a brain surgeon, to be a nerdy pocket protector kid in inner city detroit and never having had to become anything else to have survived that childhood. >> i don't know if he appreciates that, though. >> but to survive that childhood with his nerddom intact, never have to do anything else and become the incredible surgeon that he was, why embellish on that? >> he inspired people long before he ran for president, people who don't normally vote for republicans, and so he could have a lot of cross-party appeal, but these types of things, these sort of -- >> that's what the numbers seem to show. >> these are not helping him at all, because even if people

don't remember every little thing that he's embellishing, it puts into people's mind, i can't really trust him anymore. i don't really know about this, and that is where fine he may be getting conservatives who like bashing the media. >> how did he handle the questions from chris jansing? >> dr. carson's compelling personal story is a key part of his candidacy, so he's running because he has many ideas about better policy, but also as we know that compelling aspect of his rise is here is this man who has on it these incredible things from a background that would not have been conducive to that. i think dr. carson clearly doesn't necessarily, certainly doesn't welcome this kind of questioning. he feels it's asymmetrical compared to the treatment that then candidate obama received, but i think he's got to be prepared to withstand it. >> that's what happens when you run for president.

>> and just to the news, running for president in puerto rico he supports statehood, that is addressing the middle, something that i remember back from the last cycle was a big discussion for us when mitt romney was there. >> i was born in puerto rico actually myself. >> resident expert here. >> so i know i don't look it but i was and long time resident of d.c. so state hood is something i care about a lot. i hope this does make some difference and in the long-term campaign for puerto rican statehood. i i don't know what it will do for him specifically, does seem like something that republican nominees are starting to embrace as an issue. >> right. >> i know it goes back to karl rove to have a strategy to appeal to what the republicans see as a potential voting block in hispanic americans so you know, i hope that that works out. >> ana we'll leave it there. we have more in a little bit. i have a question for all of you, have you read a good book lately? why you're probably in good company if you have not, and

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such loyal democrats today. writing "in some ways, asian american voters combining personal health, entrepreneurial success, high incomes, traditional family values and a strong work ethic would seem to be ideal recruits for the more conservative political party" a point jeb bush made two years ago calling asian american voters the canary in the coal mine for republicans. this past summer bush said this when trying to clarify his use of the term anchor babies. >> what i was talking about was the specific case of fraud being committed where there's organized efforts and frankly it's more related to asian people, coming into our country, having children in that organized efforts, taking advantage of a noble concept which is birthright citizenship. >> here to help us look at this more joining us neil halhotra, professor of political economy at stanford. thanks for being with us here, neil. i want to start with data, taken shows how quickly asian americans are supporting the

democratic party today. it has grown, now almost at the same level as blacks and equal to hispanics on this chart here and that's that dark line at the 73%. why are we seeing this increase in support for the democratic party, when it would look like at least on one shade of it, one level that they would be going right instead? >> well, i mean the figures that you cited don't seem that different from jewish americans, and our research has shown that asian americans feel that the republican policy socially exclude them from the american fabric, and it sees feelings of social exclusion that drive them from the democratic party. so it could be issues like immigration that kind of make asian americans feel that republicans don't fully include them into american society. >> when we look at this, though, they've got no political power, whether they're liked by the left or the right here and are not corded as the jewish

american voters you're alluding to is courted. >> that could change in the future. jewish americans have become increasingly politically active and asian americans have put them thefz into american society over several generations of immigration you could be seeing the same thing and the other thing your figures showed the asian american voting rates are not close to 100, it could be a constituency up for grabs and therefore i think my prediction is that you'll be able to be paid more attention to in the coming years. >> is this the year, 2012 a big headline was, this is the year this key voting block, the swing vote as many have called, because you look back at 2014, and jason chung from the rnc will say look in 2014 they went right in fact we got some data on that when you look at it for the midterms, they voted in large numbers for republicans and local and congressional races. >> yes. so that's another sign that you would say maybe in 2016 the

media will focus more on this constituency and the candidates will as well. so if you find for example in 2016 that they move more towards the republican party than in future election cycles you'll see both parties trying to capture this vote as well. >> so there is going to so ther presidential town hall in las vegas, nevada in august 2016. it is with the asian-american pacific islander community. it is a presidential town hall here. will they show up? >> you mean the republican candidates? >> both candidates. >> both candidates. yeah. i mean -- yeah, i mean i think they definitely will. part of it is also not just the regular voting block which you could say that the engagement level is lower than african-americans and hispanics, but also among kind of elite donor community. if the donor community kind of says this is important to show up for, then i think the candidates will follow suit as well. >> thank you so much for joining us on this sunday morning.

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we want to take a look at some of the headlines making news this hour beginning with this story from "the hollywood reporter." that $5,000 we were talking about earlier? the newspaper's reporting that the hispanic advocacy group that offered $5,000 to anyone willing to heckle donald trump on "saturday night live" last night tweeted after the segment that -- it's going to pay up! no response from larry david. what do you think? they're going to give him the money? the specific point was -- they are supporting, therefore, a very serious issue, purely on entertainment issues. >> i'm divided on this because part of me is like it will give them more coverage for their campaign and i actually happen to be sympathetic to what they're saying so go for it. also i would be interested to see what larry david does.

i think the line between himself and his character that he plays as himself -- >> there is no line. >> if it doesn't seem to exist. maybe in character he would just keep the money. we'll see what he does with it. >> i think it is a "curb your enthusiasm" special and i can't wait. another headline we are watching, the san diego union tribune, talkinging about that mystery light in southern california. it was a missile test. a navy missile. the cause of this mysterious light appearing last night in california. navy saying it was is launched from a submarine and not armed. some of the social media -- can you imagine looking up and seeing that though? >> looks like an episode of "the x files" or something. >> maybe it is a really new stealth "x files." that's what they want you to believe, it is a missile. >> you already have earthquakes you're worrying about, now you've got missiles flying over southern california. slightly fewer americans are

reading print books. wonder what it says about us. 27% of americans have not read a book at all in the past year. >> electronic or print? >> electronic or print, i am toll. >> i'll have to look it up. >> have you? >> i have. i just finished "dream city" about marion berry's time in d.c. i love the public library system in d.c. people are busy, working one or more jobs. >> we time snap more. we're reading constantly but we don't maybe read long form as we did before. >> i read so many tweets it probably adds up to one of these book figures you're talking about. >> "time." this is the word of the year for 2015 -- "binge-watch." >> read more books. >> very good. it's great to hang out with all of you.

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