let's assume it is ashton carter, not ashton kutcher. a tough job to fill. e pentagon has been a quagmire for the obama administration. can ashton carter succeed where chuck hagel failed in the previous secretaries of defense did not have that great of a run? >> he has worked a lot in the building. he did not serve himself, but he has a lot of respect on capitol hill and in the building, and he doesn't care about bureaucratic fighting with the white house. i think he is a very solid choice. he is kind of like panetta or gates, and because he is on the procurement side he will be very skilled at managing down the defense budget. >> the biggest thing the white house had as a legitimate gripe against hegel, and they had themselves to blame, he could not tame the pentagon, a monstrous bureaucracy. they had their own agenda and hagel could not contain them. ashton carter, he has been in this system as undersecretary of defense and deputy secretary of defense he knows the building. he is also quite close to the president. he has a real personal relationship with th

there have been so many books written about steve jobs, there has been another movie starring ashton kutchery do you think there is more of a story to tell? >> i think you could do 10 more movies about steve jobs. if you lined up ten writers and said write a movie about steve jobs you'd get 10 different movies, all of them worth going to see. >> did you meet steve jobs? >> i spoke to him on the phone three times. the first time he called me it was because i gave an interview and said that everything i have ever written i have written on a mac. he called me to thank me for saying that and asked me if he could send me -- they were coming out with a new laptop. he said, let me send you this thing and just play around with it and tell me what you think. the second time he called me, it was to invite me up to the bay area. it was to tour pixar. he wanted to know if i would be interested in writing a pixar movie. and the third time he called me was to ask for help with his commencement address at stanford. >> you helped him write that? >> honestly, i fixed a couple of typos. >> i was there that da

ashton kutcher, scarlet johan son also bring home bundles of joy. the death of robin williams, one of the many sad losses in hollywood, the actor takes his life after a struggle with depression and recent diagnosis of parkinson's. joan rivers passes away days after she went into cardiac arrest during a minor procedure. her daughter is planning a multi million dollar lawsuit against the clinic where her mother had the procedure. we also said good-bye to philip seymour hoffman, shirley temple black, casey kasem, mike nichols, and designer to the stars oscar de la renta. it seems there are always stories about stars to tell. next year we have a positive one with the birth of the second royal baby to prince william and his wife kate due april 2015. in hollywood, adam housely, fox news. >>> today is the first day of the week on holiday quanza. a professor at california state university created it in 1966 as a nonreligious celebration of african-american families and social values. each day is dedicated to a principle and each night candle is lit. thank y

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>> ashton kutcher and pharell, any others to add to the list? >> we are going to add the manager of youtube to announce the tour for next year. so we'll have tickets on the iphone here in as well. and he manages madonna and alicia keys and other big artists. and we have robert litdy who managing the chemical brothers and others. so it is fantastic. we have a few other really amazing entrepreneurs and individuals. >> very fun to watch the synergy of media and tech and how they try to meet hands. we'll leave it there. the co-founder and ceo of yplan. thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >>> and fire up the stove and cook some pasta. this record-setting truffle weighs in at a record and sold for $61,250 at sotheby's. >> and seema, you are a food and wine lover, but perhaps it's best that you stay out of the kitchen and leave the professionals to it, yes? >> why would you say that? >> here is your attempt to bake cookies over the weekend. what happened? >> i don't know, wilfred. maybe it has to do with how the ovens work here. i'll blame

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mudslides, wildfires, earthquakes, this is the price we pay for living in a place we get to run into ashton kutcherumping gas. that's just how it works. while the rain is something to celebrate for us, we are in the middle of a very severe drought and that drought has had a negative effect on the quality of our christmas trees. they say the christmas trees this year are not as big as they usually are because they didn't get as much water. they are advising people to buy smaller presents so that it looks like -- [ laughter ] so, our christmas trees are smaller and not as full because the drought, and yet somehow california still manages to the highest quality marijuana in all the world. [ cheers and applause ] we have our priorities, i guess. this is pretty great. this happened here yesterday. another high speed chase yesterday. these seem, i don't know if it's my imagination, but they seem to pick up steam around the holidays. the suspect stole a bmw and abandoned the vehicle and that is when things got exciting. >> on the 405 north. they got off the freeway at victory boulevard. and now here on sh

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other big enter tape many news ashton kutcher she would out 200,000 bucking to into space. on virgin gallon lactic with richard branson's big idea but apparently if he's staying here on earth because he did want to buy from what i understand a honeymoon present for mill la. what's going on? >>> it seems like it's the worst lay away plan ever. like he plop down $200,000 and because of that accident that took place on october 31 mila kunis is like no way. toots dangerous. i mean, a pilot actually died when the shuttle took off in mid air. no one wants to put themselves or anybody you love in that position especially considering the fact they just had a new child. i mean got to think about the kid. it's cooling to don't go first. maybe go fifth. send justin beiber first. >> justin beiber signed up for this as well. spaceship had that tragic crash. one pilot did die. they think it was cockpit air they don't know -- error. but i understand also leonardo dicapridee cap pre stilled signo go. we'll see what happens with that. head crack as usual always a pleasure. >> same here to y

it is former pentagon official, aston kutcher. no, ashton carter.ce, ashton carter is from our area, went to abington high school. >> difficult not know that. >> you see, you have learned already. went to abington high school. studied at oxford. he was a physics major. but a lot of people around here very proud of this guy. >> yes. >> he is certainly brilliant. road scholar. you say what does that have to do were being the secretary of defense? he was the chief executive of the secretary of defense under leon paneta a, highly respected in capitol hill where they cannot agree where today is friday. generally thought his many in nation will sail through. having said that as we have seen with hagel's firing, the the current secretary of defense, pretty hard to be the second of defense under this president who has real doubts about u.s. military action and role of the u.s. military. >> would you consider him a dove or a hawk. >> i would consider him up to this point a bureaucratic. i don't mean that in a negative way but somebody who makes trains run on