it was certainly incredibly disecisive move >> ben smith of semafor.>> good to see you >> joe >>> coming up, more of that story. disney story breaking including media analyst michael nathanson. he will join us. we will first talk oil prices now below $8$80. "squawk box" is coming right back ♪♪ for skin as alive as you are... don't settle for silver. harness the power of 7 moisturizers & 3 vitamins to smooth, heal, and moisturize your dry skin. gold bond. champion your skin. ♪ >>> welcome back to "squawk box" this morning wti crude back below $80 a barrel joining us right now, energy aspects founder and director of research good morning to you. we've been watching this fall. i believe in large part because of what we're seeing out of china here do you have any other rational for it >> i think china has been a big driver and will continue to remain so big because i know there was a little bit of euphoria around the reopening. we've been warning that's a next year spring story. right now lockdowns continues and we have seen china pretty much disappear fro

ben smith as more from the liquid party headquarters in west jerusalem to baby is back after 60 months in opposition. poor thing is returned to office. it seems that netanyahu, let's pull that off. and what happened? what really mattered in this election was getting out the vote than yahoo campaign . very hard in the last couple of weeks in the run to the elections. really trying to get people out to vote because in israel you behalf preston to find any one who hasn't already formed an opinion on netanyahu. they love him or they low them. there were no votes. switching either side to what netanyahu was looking for was voters who hadn't voted last time round. and he thought maybe 852203000 boats. were that to be tapped? and it seems we have quite a high turn out. it seems he's managed to get those people out of other parties. i've done it as well. but of course if you heard earlier on, you'll be in power with jewish power. one of the far right ultra nationalist party's religious scientist parties that co. busy they will be the 3rd party in power, the king makers. he'll need them to make

ben smith and a new media organization that just launched.t's interesting, you know, except for vox, are doing these in-depth stories on sam bankman-fried, they weren't interested in doing these stories back when he was giving them money, only early this year. and this is the kind of thing. it's not exactly bribery, it's not exactly like buying them off. but certain eleven when he was an investor and the money seemed like it was coming from legit sources, his reputation actually helped them, then it was hands off. they weren't interested in finding out more information. but as soon as that a money became toxic, as soon as his reputation became bad, then let's go and explore this investor that we have. howard: all right. let me get to this. john ray, who actually was brought in after enron collapsed, now at ftx, says it was a complete and total mess at company and that bankman-fried controlled another company called alameda. the ceo was his then-girlfriend, which made more than $3 billion in loans to bankman freed and $600 million to two with

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but one of the reporters from a different reporter ben smith who works in media columnists, brave reporternd he defended us. i got attacked for his have got to that about we had other people defend us and edward snowden and freedom of the press perspective mom sorry readings we come i'm sorry this is pouring from a press freedom perspective until the department just releases evidence that project veritas was involved in a theft which we work, because if there is no income other than the fbi raids are in violation of privacy protection act and we followed up. >> hanukkah back to i don't going to get replies but o'keefe is not a journalist and read the statute it doesn't matter to don't personally like james o'keefe or veritas been imagine visiting the organization under trump, by the way trump never rated like the department of justice did most weom had other organizations comes or events, political fbi raid said veritas sparks questio aut press freedom we have the washington st and with the unintentionally ironic batman slogan democracy died in darkness pretty democracy died inarkness and

but one of their reporters a different reporter ben smith who works in the media columnist. a brave reporter. actually, i give him credit he tweeted out. i don't think journalists should be cheerleading the raid on james o'keefe. he defended us. and he got attacked for it, but after that happened we had other people defend us edward snowden trevor tim freedom of the press perspective. i'm sorry. i'm read the tweet to you. i'm sorry, but this is worrying from a press freedom perspective unless and until the department of justice releases evidence that veritas was involved in the theft which we weren't. because if there's none then these fbi raids are a violation of the privacy protection act. he followed up. i know i'm gonna get two doesn't replies ratioing my tweet, but it keeps not a journalist and he says read the statue doesn't matter. i don't personally like o'keefe for veritas, but imagine if this was a liberal organization under donald trump by the way, trump never rated a journalist home before like the biden's department of justice did also, we had other organization

ben smith made an interesting point that he argued that he needs you more than you need him. and i think one thing we're talking about this in the green room that i think people who are not journalists don't understand is that getting the access to the principal, you know, whether it's the president or someone is not all it's cracked up to be, you're right. you don't really need their quotes when do find something newsworthy contrary to some -- on on the internet. you put it in the new york times in real time when he breaks news which isn't that often. no and the the. you know, the i think the misunderstanding of. reporter subject relationship is something that i'd like you straighten out a little bit for people. sure. and and i appreciate that. and i do understand that the people don't understand it or have misconceptions of it. what you what you said about twitter. you know, think one of the worst parts about twitter is that a lot of people get not only their news from twitter days, but they get their understanding of journalism from twitter. and there are a lot of misconce

he'll build a coalition with the far right religious zionists, to form a government as bringing ben and smith. now he joins me live from west at jerusalem then. and you are at the could patty headquarters. it's been the highest voter turnout in decades. what's up and put down to walk the dogs of the latest to turn out. emily is 1447.5 percent. turn out. it's high because of every vote counts in israeli election in the election system that they have you be hard pressed to find in israel. you as an already formed an opinion over benjamin netanyahu for against over the many elections i. part to the part is that chasing people who haven't already cast a vote, netanyahu's people leave it. this may be between 852300000 potentially could voters who did my boat last time and they need to get them out. it's the same for the arab bars is the palestinian israeli parties that turn out is a bit low than the number overall in the country. but they need 50 percent of their supporters to turn out to give them enough seats in parliament to deprive netanyahu of the majority he seeking with his coalition that 6

steve: ben smith is still alive. i'm editor at large. thanks for the promotion. do you subscribe to "principles"? >> ok. steve: i also want to do a nice shout out to a friend, adam prish, who just unseated lauren boebert. the close -- one of the most closely watched districts in the undone area was colorado three and he came within a sliver. i don't know why he didn't wait for the recount. that's a whole other topic. jason, the question ben asked maggie, do you think there is a volume two? jason: ok. i don't think anybody in the haberman family will worry about college. of course there already another book -- will be another book. steve: two sets of gravitational planets in terms of news air. part of our task today is to look at healthy democracy, healthy media, healthy oversight of government and healthy respect of government for the media should look like. so tell us, are we going to have two ecosystems? jason: i think we're already there. if you look at folks in the center right and center left look at news different. the way the social media activity, you see

sheriff's detectives, richard lopez and ben smith, where at a california prison sitting right acrossd you in that case where that woman was killed who was pregnant? in hawthorne? later there was that other murder? >> i need a little bit more detail. >> you don't remember when we arrested you? usually people at least remember when i arrested them. >> nothing like that. >> c-styles was saying even less than he did back in 2001. so detective lopez gave it a try. he questioned a lot of gang members and he knew that sea styles had enemies in prison. >> you're 28 years old, and you're really tired looking over your back. because that's why you're in the whole. because you can't go in the main yard right? okay well, we're looking for some help in some cases. now one hand washes the other. if you tell us something that you remember, truthfully remember, and we can corroborate it. we can get you moved out of california. >> like, to wear though? >> arizona, illinois, tennessee. >> detective lopez assured c-styles that this wasn't your typical police interrogation. >> we didn't read to your mir

ben, a smith could headquarters in west jerusalem. thank you. let's bring in stephanie decker, whose at yes, did headquarters in tel aviv and stephanie yellow p to always urge the electorate to, to vote wisely. but this was always destined to be an uphill struggle for his boss . he wasn't on the message coming out of 5. let's just wait for the final result because they don't change and a couple of young, tangible change. for example, you have teams rating bella always remain in opposition. they are still inching closer to that threshold. if they get to that they need and you opt out tonight, maybe tomorrow morning, that means that message. yeah, go down to 50, so not having them guys. and so we need to take everything with the caveat. i, what is clear is that this is a major when, when you will, it's true, right? that part you lead by betting to be, are coming for an extreme turn out for that my geology, so that it's certainly a shift. but again, we're gonna have to wait and see whether national judge hold what is predicted in the polls. it does

but 1st he is a report from ben and smith on at netanyahu's push to get back into power. ah, no one in his railey politics divides the country more than benjamin netanyahu. his supporters love him as much as his opponents load him. he's on the campaign trail trying to win back the job of prime minister that it held for a total of 15 years until last year. once again, it's about nathaniel, for, and against. and it's not only a personal issue, it's an issue that have to do with her characteristic off israeli democracy more much return democracy versus more populous or momentary tarren and populist or more liberal democracy. and of course about her identity a right wing left wing, the political stalemate. this is the 5th election in 4 years. is for many israelis tied to the start of when netanyahu was indicted, a breach of trust, fraud, and accepting bribes. he says the trials are political, which hummed polls suggest netanyahu's party will be the single biggest in parliament, but just a seat or 2 short of a majority. he needs every vote, but i ask you to go to all your frie

ben and smith allow for us in west jerusalem and on that very issue, we spoke to her sam zum lights and the palestinian ambassador to the u kang is as things are only going to get worse for palestinians both inside the occupied territories and out. it's a sense of this and for ties, ma'am by our, by the palestinians because they have been voting for decades and it gets worse and worse because they vote and assist them got as inherently racist, inherently built against them. and only a couple of years ago, the nation state low past in the connective was specifically deprived the palestinians inside as well. the right for collective self determination, specifically, are all them out of any sort of cultural political rights. and therefore, growing numbers of palestinians inside as well, see no value in this because, you know, is really politicians and parties when elections and palestinians right across the board all was lose. because what we need to visit is the inherent apartheid and racism and segregation and discrimination in the belt in the system of the state of israel built and. and

m out ben glare, who have gained momentum in recent months. bernard smith has more from west tucson . so far turn out is about 28 percent of the highest. it's been in 23 years in israel, but to turn out across the whole country. but we also now know the turn out just in palestinian israeli communities, is only a 12 percent. now it's been a fairly truncated campaign period because we have a series of holidays in the run up to the elections. i think the only really got going in the last couple of weeks and the general view was that people will fairly apathetic because they've already had 4 election to go through. and this is the 5th one in less than 4 years. but nevertheless, the outcome of this election will be really consequential for the future of israel . you have the support of benjamin netanyahu, who wants him to win because a win for him and the right will sure up they say the jewish nature of the state of israel. that is what the far right believes they want to do. they believe that having an hour, a party in the coalition that lasted just about a year with dangerous, but then d

i take economics going all the way back to adam smith as being partly a moral discipline. my teacher, your colleague ben friedman, wrote a very powerful book on the moral consequences of economic growth, going societies are healthy societies the personal journey has always stuck with me and forced me to put pen to paper. >> host: if i could pick up on some of the interesting things you said. i would make an observation about walls that you said. there are very few things that like just really all economists agree on but one of them is that free trade is basically good. you need to protect the losers, we'll come back to that. and president trump put up remarkable barriers to trade. china is an interesting question we might come back to but he was doing it to canada, doing it to france. and some of these barriers to trade are the things president biden has not taken down. i mean, i think a lot of people viewed this as president trump taking a page out of the democratic party playbook because the republican party always stood for free trade. i wonder what you think about that. but also i think a lot of peo

and michelle and her father, robert smith that allen help do these library's i said you got to do benranklin and here's why. our country is becoming more fractured. who was the person who tried to find the common ground? it was at that dinner that restaurant inow georgetown that michelle and i convinced them to do it. but it was an easy sell. because ken had a feel for ben franklin. he was the founder. two things that made him good for this, first all he was the only middle-class founder. most of them were land owning aristocracies for the adams and john hancock families and whatever. we did not really have a middle class. nowhere in england was there a middle class. and ben franklin's greatest invention is inventing the concept of that middle-class shopkeeper and that being the backbone of american values. >> 's whole idea of >> america really came out of that. all of what came after that. >> tocqueville was very contentious to me too say this. first of all democracy in america is a book most quoted and least read everett. [laughter] only about seven of us had read becausehat's mr. p

smith, bbc news, washington. cricket and england have beaten pakistan by five wickets to win the t20 world cup. benondentjoe wilson. a world cup final staged where 100,000 could come. melbourne's cricket ground. but if pakistan play anywhere on earth, theirfans follow. all they need is a flick of the wrists, like this from mohammad harris, and some celebrations begin. this is what england were taking on. but control matters. harris hit, and hoped, and waiting beneath it, ben stokes. and you know what, there were england supporters around, too. england bowled and caught and pakistan stumbled. babar azam gone for 32. the total, 137. enough? well, now pakistan bowled and they can bowl. shaheen shah afridi a star. jos buttler caught and gone for 26. the game was alive. but when afridi got injured, ben stokes attacked the other bowlers decisively. england have built a squad to succeed anywhere, but it was stokes, who else, to end this final. this trophy to go with the 50—over world cup. england are true world champions. joe wilson, bbc news. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news cha

smith, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich.o 5—6. further south and west, highs of 10—11. into the night, low pressure centre here taking rain further northwards, it will stall, tend to peter out. this area of low pressure swings in from the south—west, isobars squeezing together, a swathe of strong wind, gales around a time in exposed coasts in the south—west and the channel islands. some rain moving into the east of scotland. blue pockets here on the map, frost, not quite as cold as last night. murky start across central parts of england and east wales, areas of cloud will clear to give sunny spells. rain drifting across northern and eastern parts of scotland, showers into wales, south—west of england, windy for the channel islands, broadly speaking a drier, brighter, slightly calmer day tomorrow, temperatures at best 7—11. only a brief calm interlude because another area of the pressure swings in from the west on wednesday, outbreaks of quite heavy rain driving north—eastwards once again. some quite brisk winds, particularly