did mention media moguls i have a headline about a media mogul reporter bing viacom chairman sumner redstone blew five hundred thousand dollars on his younger girl group crush object this is the eighty seven year old chairman of both viacom a twenty billion dollars company and c.b.s. a ten billion dollar company sumner redstone and he contacted this journalist from the daily beast peter lauria and he's trying to force him to give him information about who is his source for a story in which they reveal that sumner redstone chasing a young girl from a girl all girl band electric barbarella is so listen to this audio clip here you know you may be rewarded for your dream recruit. but. when you are correct. we're not going to. want to. know why so little redstone in there. in the all media mafioso thing i believe i go for this how old is this guy eighty seven but max you did warn when you were campaigning against the cantor exchange box office features you warned of the sort of activity that these sort of guys could do it just to manipulate the price of their movie project to their movie contract

but i need the money and i need to face the game sumner redstone new media by i need the money going away but all these details obviously the new york fed. it was a front man it is a front man that's his role but it really ties in with this whole cantor exchange in this all these golden making a movie really martin scorsese needs to direct it's going to be his epic last film of the mafia film of all mafia. yes well we did see a preview of the new film coming out. the editor and director of wall street part one of course that would be the first over still of course he's coming out of the wall street part two money never sleeps yeah but i'm talking about whacking and killing and murdering and assassinations and it's either francis ford coppola or more martin scorsese have to direct they will ferraro let it be the movie the bad the tenet get him to make a movie about goldman sachs guys getting really well speaking of violence this isn't the next headline b.p.'s head rolls oh yes the head of b.p. tony hayward is out. he with a ten million pound pension. by the way he's another person tha

i wasn't worried about me at all. >> reporter: a viacom official confirms it's sumner redstone's voice. said the spokesman, anyone who knows sumner and his history knows he's colorful, aggressive, extremely intelligent and passionate. this was just sumner being sumner. sumner being sumner fired tom cruise, former ceo tom preston in the past and now this. >> we're not going to hurt this guy. we want to sit him down and find out why he did it. you should be willing to cooperate, give us the name, and you will be well rewarded and well protected. >> sumner redstone's message to peter lauria is not crazy in the way mel gibson's tapes were crazy but it shows that maybe he doesn't have the same judgment that he once had 10, 20 years ago. >> reporter: viacom spokesman folta would only say leaving the voice mail was not a good idea. he'll have learned his lesson. for "today," mike taibbi, nbc news, new york. >> we live in a world where nothing -- almost nothing you say just goes away. >> exactly. well, that's not going to go away. >> not for a while. >>> up next, whyxp entecta expe couples loo

, "the hollywood reporter" reveals an unusual gift from 87-year-old viacom executive chairman sumner redstone to 29-year-old heather naylor, the lead singer of a struggling female rock band, the electric barbarellas. over $100,000 worth of his viacom stock. a spokesman for redstone who ordered mtv execs to develop a reality show about the band refused to comment on the gift. >>> well, garza throws a no-no, haren flops with halos, and the twins gang up on the royals. >>> plus, if he's not careful, ichiro is going to become better known for his glove than his bat. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in your tuesday weather, the 90-degree heat is once again spreading across the country. your regional forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports last night, tampa bay's matt garza threw the first no-hitter in rays' history. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. it's been the year of the pitcher. count them. five no-hitters, two perfect