and reading the book democracy in america by alexis d. toqueville and in that book, he states that those people he calls native american indians, they're doomed. and watching on getting american indians recognized for restoring the language rights and the congress which we finally got passed and working with maynard jackson and he came up and gave a speech to a large national, american indian group and they were upset that a african american was talking to them and he said don't worry, i'll tell you why it is important that i'm here. he gave his speech talking about affirmative action, political rights and then at the end of his speech, he said and by the way, i'm from a small tribe in africa. and my base has always been tribal and i'm glad to be back home. so, this process has been going on now for a while. and when i think about san francisco, i was with several of the congressional community members about a week ago and they said what makes you proud of being san francisco? i said one of the things that makes me very proud is the proce

d job with viacom? >> history says no, but the world is evolving. over the past two years they have launched into the digital platforms. they have cbs alexis, cbs digital, cbs news, a sports platform the next generation is consuming, it v digitally. >> does viacom have the assets that can do that >> they have nickelodeon the paramount library, and effectively the mtv, which is comedy central, all that content. >> if you're a cbs shareholder, you see this as a dirt cheep stock, do you want to deal with viacom or lion's gate? >> lion's gate is a higher quality asset but it's a financial deal lion's gate is trading 14, 15 times ebita, viacom 7 to 8 so depending on the synergies in place -- and there's not a lot of synergies with liolion's gat. >> the fact that cbs is entertaining this viacom deal, does that mean they looked at everything else they could buy or merge with and decided against it >> i think they're always looking. clearly they have another boss to answer to it limits their optionality. i think again, looking ahead, if this deal goes through, it's all about the price. >> we have to go, thank you. i had more -- >> the wheels are t