. >> ted turner threw to cnn and the studio inside and i think he said, cnn news. >> good evening, i and i am lois hart. now here's the news. president carter -- >> we found out we were going to be the anchors of that newscast about, what, three or four days before that? >> probably. >> it was like, wow. we swallowed hard. we were told the reason we were selected, ted just, for whatever reason -- he liked our style. >> ted was the one who made the choice. >> whatever we did on air, he thought we would best represent cnn at that time. so it was because of ted and quite an honor. >> i dedicate the news channel for america. >> ted turner is a visionary. very smart. a little crazy. brilliant businessman. brilliant, brilliant businessman. ♪ >> when he created cnn, they did research. they said, don't do it. it will not work. bad idea. you're gonna lose money. he rolled every cent -- he was a mississippi riverboat gambler -- he rolled every nickel he had into that operation. sure enough, it did work. >> skies over baghdad have been illuminated. >> first gulf war. when cnn had live reports c

lois: ted turner is a visionary. very smart. a little crazy. brilliant businessman.sinessman. ♪ >> for the american people. david: when he created cnn, they did research. and they said, don't do it. it's not going to work. it's a bad idea. you're gonna lose money. he rolled every cent -- he is a mississippi riverboat gambler -- he rolled every nickel he had into that operation. sure enough, it did work. >> skies over baghdad have been illuminated. david: first gulf war. when cnn had live reports coming out of baghdad. and the great visuals of the bombs going off and some terrific reporting going on. i think that is when the world and the nation, everyone said, that was a wow moment. ♪ lois: it is interesting that most of what people talk about when they are in the news is how fluffy and light news in general has gotten. the argument being they don't want hard news. and we are going to try softer programming. david: but that's -- i don't have a problem with that. that is part of a -- that is part of a day. say out of 10 stories, you can have one or two that is of vita

do you know that ted turner owns 51,000 bison in montana? >> i did not know that, mr. gibsonen. >> isn't that amazing? >> what an interesting fact. >> wnds weather, brought to you by febreze. friends coming over? yeah, so? it stinks in here. you've got to wash this whole room are you kidding? wash it? let's wash it with febreze. for all the things you can't wash, use... ...febreze fabric refresher whoa hey mrs. webber inhales hey, it smells nice in here and try pluggable febreze... ...to continuously eliminate odors for... ...up to 45 days of freshness pluggable febreze and fabric refresher... ...[inhale + exhale mnemonic]... ...two more ways to breathe happy today you can do everything in just one click, even keep your toilet clean and fresh. introducing lysol click gel. click it in to enjoy clean freshness with every flush. lysol. start healthing. ♪ yeah, click i'm lmy bargain detergent shift couldn't keep up.ter. so i switched to tide pods. they're super concentrated so i get a better clean. 15% cleaning ingredients or 90%. don't pay for water, pay for clean. that's

i went to the school that managed to produce both pat robertson and ted turner so we have a fit and ifcan't then i went to the university in the south south which is best understood as a combination of downtime at the end of deliverance all put together. growing up i read a lot of just loved biographies of great men. william manchester's the last land was a really important book for me and i'd and i loved politics. my grandfather was a judge in tennessee. he used to have coffee with all the local political guys every morning downtown so i would go down there go down there at a very young age which means it's why an quite as strange as i am into the district attorney would be there, senators would come by. it was kind of the courthouse in chattanooga so for me politicians were always real people and what always -- when i went into journalism after suwannee which my grandfather pointed out this kind was kind of like being the last to board a sinking ship which i thought was on kind of accurate but i always wanted to do is write about the great events but they were great events that were

i went to the mcauley school which managed to produce both pat robinson and ted turner, so we have a foot in every camp. then i went to sewanee, university in the south which is best understood as a combination of down abbey and deliverance put together. the growing up i read a lot of loved biographies of great men. william manchester was a hugely important book for me. and i love politics. my grandfather was a judge in tennessee. he used to have coffee with all of the local political guys every morning downtown. i would go down there at a young age which makes plain why am a strange as i am. the district attorney would be there, senators would come by. the courthouse group in chattanooga. for me politicians were real people. and as i went into journalism after sewanee with my grandfather pointed out, i went into print journalism which is like being the last thread abort a stick shift. which i thought was unkind but accurate. what i always wanted to do was write about these great events, but they were great events that were shaped by people and what impresses me most about politics i

i went to the macaulay school, which produced both pat robertson and ted turner.we have a foot in every camp. then i went to the university of the south, best understood as a combination of "downton abbey" and deliverance, all put together. but growing up, i read a lot of just loved biographies of great men. william manchester's "the last lion" was a hugely important book to me. i loved politics. my grandfather was a judge in tennessee. he used to have coffee with the local political guys every morning downtown. and so i would go down there at a very young age which may explain why i'm quite as strange as i am. and the district attorney would be there, senators would come by. kind of the courthouse group in chattanooga. and so for me, politicians were always real people. and what always -- as i went into journalism after solani, as my grandfather pointed out, i went into print, which my grandfather said was like a rat boarding a sinking ship. which was unkind but accurate, ultimately. i wanted to write about great event but great event shaped by people. what impre

is -- not expect -- what ted turner famously called evangelicals. nothing positive. au do not expect them to buy 600 page book on a german theologian. it turned out they were mis- estimated. dan rather love to the book. lots of people on the left loved the book. bonhoeffer defies political categorization. he is someone who is a christian first and you see that. for me, i would say probably the ultimate model for christians, people of faith today. he reshot everywhere. brian: you said you are not a political activist but here you are in 2013 speaking to the conservative political action conference in washington. eric: i wrote a biography about dietrich bonhoeffer. it is because -- [laughter] -- [applause] thank you. i find myself thinking about the issue of religious freedom in america. many people of said they see disturbing parallels between what was happening in germany in the 1930's and america today. i am very sorry to agree. eric: boy, am i. eric: freedom in the units -- brian: freedom in the united states to practice whatever religion, is it being impeded? eric

ted turner bought a ranch in new mexico three quarters the state of rhode island. presumably he was getting rural universal service subsidies. it's not the kind of thing we should be thinking about. i was very encouraged to hear the two commissioners talk about having more of a target that this is trying to increase penetration and eliminate it an idea of being a transfer program to people who don't need it for sure. once you have a goal, the idea is let's minimize the cost of spending. we want to target this. that's part of that. the idea of a $10 million income limit seems a little high to me. even though i am in silicon valley, that's still high. that was kind of high, but at least people can think that there are income limits on programs and also the subsidies in that. and also raising the money. what you want as an economist, you want to have a broad base. have a broad base tax. general government revenues rather than a tax in the communications sector or a tax on broadband. you want to do it as broad based as possible. >> when congress said we shouldn't tax b

my guess in new mexico's ted turner's ranch would get faster broadband from this.at you want is the capital expenditure targeted to underserved or unserved areas. >> right. >> but the other, very little evidence that the high cost rural subsidies have had any affect on penetration or rates over many, many years of research, unless there's something i haven't seen recently. in addition, blair and scott agreed that the e-rate program has been rather successful. i'm not sure brad and greg agree, but i don't knowy nf empirical evidence on them after the austan goolsbee study which said that while a marginally transferred of the coulds of communications and expanding communications in the school from the property taxpayer in local areas to the communications taxpayer at the frod level, any evidence they've had any effect on education. is there, has there been studies done to, to justify spending and even expanding this program to schools, libraries, et cetera? >> i did a little research and found the goolsby stud pi's i think i found a paper in the nbr series by ward i

i went to the macauley school which managed to produce both pat robertson and ted turner so if a footevery camp. then i went to the university of the south which is best understood as a combination of down and the and deliverance, all put together. but growing up i read a lot of just love biographies of great men. william manchester's the last line was a huge important book for me. i love politics put my grandfather was a judge in tennessee. he used to have coffee with all the local political guys every morning downtown. so i would go down there their young age which makes one why i'm quite as strange as i am. the district attorney would be there, senators would come by figures kind of the courthouscourthous e group in chattanooga. so for me politicians are always real people, and what always, as i went into journalism after college, which were ground up what i to print journalism which is collecting the last rat to board a sinking ship, which i thought was unkind but accurate. ultimately. what always wanted to do was write about these great events but they were great events that were

gates, the fellow philanthropist and owner of cnn ted turner said if if he had any advice for young peopleould say to go out the find renewable energy, and you are putting $1 billion of your own money into green innovation, and what does it take more than 28 to spending on the r&d, and doing the things that you are doing is a great investment for their the own pockets as well as for humanity? >> well, the returns will come partly through the benefits to society. and so, energy investing is risky enough, and takes long enough that it helps to have people who believe in the cause, and so they are really getting two benefits out of this. i'm optimistic because of the gigantic commitment from governments here today in these partners that we will solve the problem that we can get that premium down so that the idea of a clean energy generation doesn't require the poorer countries to slow down their development. they can go full speed ahead. >> and hem us to dream a little bit here. you have used five years as a horizon, and ten years as a horizon, and when you look into the future, what do you s

>> see myself as the steve jobs, ted turner, henry ford, ghandi. >> really? we say, john f. kennedy of boiled peanuts. >> doesn't take much to bring him out of his shell. unless try to get them to divulge his secret formula. >> would you have ever asked the founder of coca-cola what his recipe was? >> there is no official way to make boiled peanuts. >> everyone puts the salt in at a different time. the heat high at different time. >> possibilities are endless. >> i believe so. just comes right open. perfect. >> this can grow on you. >> take the word peanut, throw it away, have an expectation more of like a potato like texture. >> other people look at this say, ew. >> they aren't from the south. >> maybe it does take a true southerner to appreciate the lowellly peanut finer point. >> did you like this from the very beginning? >> yes. >> what do they taste like? >> boiled peanuts. >> silly question, wasn't it? ♪ >> osgood: still to come. celebrity chef marcus samuelson. , >> osgood: a recipe for success one top chef has perfected. recipe that features a life st

ted turner, for example, can vastly increase the peace movement. we've heard of waging war.t waging peace? what about anticipating conflict? what about not exaggerating criminal gangs and following up with massive invasions, blowing countries apart, and spreading the criminal gangs into 22 countries? al-qaeda. what about spending ourselves into penury in terms of deficits and the $3 trillion over the next 30 years that joseph stiglitz, a nobel prize laureate, said the iraq war is going to cost us? not just the immediate war and all that, but all the follow-ups of the veterans and so on. bill gates sr. and the famous trial lawyer in texas, joe jamail, could easily fund reopening our courts so ordinary people can use them, so ordinary people who are wrongfully injured can have their day in court and not be blocked by what is maliciously called tort reform by taking people's age-old rights of having a trial by jury away from them. they could open up the courts to poor people. because bill gates sr. has made that one of his missions in life. he's a corporate lawyer, but he made

and it being thanksgiving weekend and all those turkey talk, do you know that ted turner owns 51,000 bison in montana? >> i did not know that, mr. gibson. >> isn't that amazing? >> what an interesting fact. snoims "world news now" weatherer brought to you by febreze. yeah, so? it stinks in here. you've got to wash this whole room are you kidding? wash it?< "world news now" weather brought to you by febreze. "world news now" weather brought to you by febreze.for all the things you can't wash, use... ...febreze fabric refresher whoa hey mrs. webber inhales hey, it smells nice in here and try pluggable febreze... ...to continuously eliminate odors r... ...up to 45 days of freshness pluggable e breze and fabric fresher... ...[inhale + exhale mnemonic]... today yoyocan do everything in just one click, even keep your toilet clean and fresh. introducing lysol click gel. click it in to enjoy clean freshness with every flush. lysoso start healthing. yeah, click i'm lucky to get through a shift without a disaster. my bargain detergent couldn't keep up. so i switched to tide pods. they're super

ted turner bought a ranch in new mexico try quarters the size of rhode island and presumably he was getting rural universal subsidies. it's not the kind of thing that we should be thinking about. so i was very encouraged this morning to hear the two commissioners talk about having more of a target that this is trying to increase penetration and trying to elim mate the idea of it being an income transfer program to people who don't need it for sure. the other, once you have a goal, let's minimize the cost of spending. the idea of a $10 million income limit seems a little high to me. just even though i am in silicon valley, that's still high. you know, the affordable care act gives subsidies for people up to h400% of the poverty leve. a lot of people were upset at that that was kind of high. at least you can think there are income limits on programs and also the subsidies in that. and then you want to minimize the cost of raising the money. so, as brad talked about, distortions from taxes. you want to have a broad based, public finance teaches you the way to minimize these distortions is to h

rural people who don't necessarily need a subsidy and, i remember when i was at the commission, ted turnerght a ranch in new mexico 3/4 size of state of rhode island, but presumably he was getting usual service subsidies. not kind of thing we should be thinking about. i was very encouraged this morning the two commissioners talk about having a more of a target that this is trying to increase penetration and trying to eliminate the idea of it being an income transfer program to people who don't need it for sure. the other, once you have a goal, the idea, let's minimize the cost of spending. we want to target this. that's part of that. the, the idea of a 10 million-dollar income limit seems a little high to me, even though i am in silicon valley that is still high. the affordable care act gives subsidies for people up to 400% of the poverty level. that might be, at least, i think a lot of people were upset that was kind of high, at least you can think there are income limits on programs and also the, subsidies, and that. and then you want to minimize the cost of raising the money. so as brad

my guess in new mexico's ted turner's ranch would get faster broadband from this. what you want is the capital expenditure targeted to underserved or unserved areas. >> right. >> but the other, very little evidence that the high cost rural subsidies have had any affect on penetration or rates over many, many years of research, unless there's something i haven't seen recently. in addition, blair and scott agreed that the e-rate program has been rather successful. i'm not sure brad and greg agree, but i don't know of any empirical evidence on them after the austan goolsbee study which said that while a marginally transfer of the communications and expanding communications in the school from the property taxpayer in local areas to the communications taxpayer at the federal level, any evidence they've had any effect on education. is there, has there been studies done to, to justify spending and even expanding this program to schools, libraries, et cetera? >> i did a little research and found the goolsby studies, i think i found a paper in the nbr series by ward i think

gates, your fellow philanthropist, ted turner, the founder of cnn, he said if he had one word of adviceit would be to go out and put money into renewable energy. what does it take to convince more than your 28 that actual spending on r & d, doing the kinds of things you're doing is really a great investment for their own pockets as well as for humanity? >> well, the returns will compartmentalcome partly through the benefits of society. energy investment is risky enough, takes long enough that it helps to have people who believe in the cause. they're getting two benefits out of this. i'm optimistic because of the gigantic commitment we're getting from these partners that we will solve the problem. we can get that premium down so the idea of a clean energy generation doesn't require the poorer countries it slow down their development. they can go full speed ahead. >> you're making a good point. i remember in the movie the graduate where this older man looks at, you know, the main character and says one word for you, plastics. now the new word is going green. for someone like you, mr. gate

i went to the mcauley school, which managed to produce pat robertson and ted turner and then i went touniversity of the south which is best understood as a combination of down abbey and deliverance. i'll put together. but growing up i read biographies of great man. william manchester was a hugely important book for me. and i love politics. my grandfather was a judge in tennessee and he used to have coffee with all the local political guys every morning downtown and so i would go down there at a very young age which could explain why am is strange as i am. the district attorney would be there, the senators would come by, it was kind of a courthouse group in chattanooga. so for me, politicians were always real people and as i went into journalism with my grandfather, i went into print journalism which is kind of like being the last rats aboard a sinking ship which i thought was unkind but after it, ultimately, what i always wanted to do was write about these great events that were shaped by people. what impresses me most about politicians and one of my many character flaws is that i like